The What Song Are You Listening To Thread

[Skul]

I Am All Of Me (Shadow the Hedgehog Theme) - Crush 40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpYfMxIoR4

Lyrics

I see no, hear no evil
Black writings on the wall
Unleash a million faces
And one by one they fall

Black hearted evil
Brave hearted hero
I am all... I am all... I am

I... I... I... I am

Here we go buddy... Here we go buddy... Here we go
Here we go buddy... Here we go

Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)

Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it...

Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life

Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all... I am all of me
(I am... I am all of me)

I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me

Here we go...
All of me

I see and feel the evil
My hands will crush 'em all
You think you have the answer
Well I laugh and watch you fall

Black hearted evil
Brave hearted hero
I am all... I am all... I am

I... I... I... I am

Here we go buddy... Here we go buddy... Here we go
Here we go buddy... Here we go

Go ahead and try to see through me
Do it if you dare
One step forward, two steps back
I'm here (One step forward, two steps back)

Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it...

Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life

Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all... I am all of me
(I am... I am all of me)

I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me

Here we go...

I am, I am everyone, everywhere, anyhow, any way, any will, any day
I am, I am everyone, everywhere, anyhow, any way, any will, any day
I am... I am... I am...
I am... I am... I am...

I am...

Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it...

Can you see all of me?
Walk into my mystery
Step inside and hold on for dear life

Do you remember me?
Capture you or set you free
I am all, I am all of me
(I am... I am all of me)

I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me
I am... I am... I'm all of me

Here we go... Here we go
I am... I am... I'm all of me
Here we go...
I am... I am all of me

[Lewis]

Electric Light Orchestra- Evil Woman

[Fat Man]

There is a Rock song titled "Enola Gay" that came out back in 1985 during the 40th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan.

First a little history.

The first atomic bombs were named Fat Man and Little Boy which were produced as a result of the Manhattan Project.



First, Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM. The plane, a B-29 bomber, that delivered Little Boy was the Enola Gay. It was flown by Paul Tibbets, the pilot and commander who named the plane after his mother.

Then Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The plane was a second B-29 that was piloted by Major Charles Sweeney. Commander Paul Tibbets was not involved in the second bombing mission over Japan.

Anyway . . . . .

Here is a You Tube link to the song, Enola Gay.

Enola Gay - OMD - Performed by Yikkity (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1laqLia ... re=related

And here are the lyrics to the song Enola Gay.

I created the image below with the lyrics in bright blue text on a black background.



OK, here is another You Tube music video. This one has a really heavy beat that is almost intimidating! I have some very high quality stereo speakers, and the heavy beat in this one is almost frightening!
Enola Gay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZJBNLpMtU

Here's another version. Same heavy frightening beat!

Enola Gay-OMD Sash Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqsG6Dai ... re=related

Another version with the video showing only the airplane in flight without the graphic scenes of the destruction caused by the bomb. But the music still has the same intimidating beat.

OMD Enola Gay Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-4ad563K8&NR=1

Here is another version. This one is mild, not so frightening as the other versions. A much softer beat.

ENOLA GAY DIGITISED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_X43zc ... re=related

Another version of Elola Gay.

Hiroshima Bomb - Music OMD feat. Sash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1J6MPsUYwM

Well, the music is pretty cool, but some of the videos have rather frightening depictions of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with film clips from WWII, and the heavy beat in and of itself is rather intimidating.

I'll probably have nightmares tonight and I can't seam to get that heavy beat out of my head.

Yeah! I'll just bet Mama is really proud of Little Boy!

And the kiss Little Boy gave one morning at 8:15 AM after all these years still hasn't faded away.

Yeah! Little boy gave the kiss of death. Cute kid! Eh?

And then, his Papa, Fat Man showed Little Boy how it's really done!

Hey Mama! Ain't ya proud of your Little Boy???

[Lewis]

Pink Floyd - Money

I am thinking that I should give Dark Side of the Moon a go.

[Lewis]

Halo-Beyoncé

[Katrin]

Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

By the way, Enola Gay by OMD came out in 1980. It's quite a good song.

[Lewis]

Don't Look Back In Anger-Oasis.

[Fat Man]

Before The Deluge By Jackson Browne

Here is a You Tube link to the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CHRHo35Bk

Here are the lyrics to the song.

Before The Deluge

Some of them were dreamers
And some of them were fools
Who were making plans and thinking of the future
With the energy of the innocent
They were gathering the tools

They would need to make their journey back to nature
While the sand slipped through the opening
And their hands reached for the golden ring
With their hearts they turned to each other's heart for refuge
In the troubled years that came before the deluge

Some of them knew pleasure
And some of them knew pain
And for some of them it was only the moment that mattered
And on the brave and crazy wings of youth
They went flying around in the rain

And their feathers, once so fine, grew torn and tattered
And in the end they traded their tired wings
For the resignation that living brings
And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow
For the glitter and the rouge
And in the moment they were swept before the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
By and by--
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky

Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge

Now let the music keep our spirits high
And let the buildings keep our children dry
Let creation reveal it's secrets by and by
By and by--

We must learn to live together
When the light that's lost within us reaches the sky


I once had a Commodore 64 version of this song, instruments only, and it sounded like a giant cathedral organ playing the music.

It was awesome!!!

[Fat Man]

I'm watching some You Tube music videos of the song, Waltzing Matilda.

I love this one!

Slim Dusty - Waltzing Matilda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwvazMc5EfE

Waltzing Matilda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoCu46otw8

Waltzing Matilda through Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_iwMnzpiww

AUSSIES IN IRAQ ~ WALTZING MATILDA SUNG BY THE SEEKERS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV5nbOGRu3Y

Waltzing Matilda With Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1HlG4ZqAuk

John Williamson Waltzing Matilda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu5byI6pZY0

The Waltzing Matilda in Maplestory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz8uBORRkQ

And here are the lyrics to the song.

Waltzing Matilda

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
He sang and he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
He sang and he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Well, down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong;
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.
And he sang as he stowed the jumbuck in his tucker-bag,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
And he sang as he stowed the jumbuck in his tucker-bag,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Well, up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred;
Up rode the troopers -- one, two, three.
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
"Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Well, up jumped the swagman and jumped into the billabong;
"You'll never take me alive," said he.
His ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.
His ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong,
"You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me."

The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker making a crude cup of tea at a bush camp and capturing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's ostensible owner arrives with three policemen to arrest the worker, he drowns himself in a small lake and goes on to haunt the site. The lyrics contain many distinctively Australian English words, some now rarely used outside this song.

Here are the definitions of some words in the song.

Swagman: A man who traveled the country looking for work. The swagman's "swag" was a bed roll that bundled his belongings.

waltzing: Derived from the German term auf der Walz, which means to travel while working as a craftsman and learn new techniques from other masters before returning home after three years and one day, a custom which is still in use today among carpenters.

Matilda: A romantic term for a swagman's bundle. See below, "Waltzing Matilda."

Waltzing Matilda: From the above terms, "to waltz Matilda" is to travel with a swag, that is, with all one's belongings on one's back wrapped in a blanket or cloth. The exact origins of the term "Matilda" are disputed; one fanciful derivation states that when swagmen met each other at their gatherings, there were rarely women to dance with. Nonetheless, they enjoyed a dance, and so they danced with their swags, which was given a woman's name. However, this appears to be influenced by the word "waltz", hence the introduction of dancing. It seems more likely that, as a swagman's only companion, the swag came to be personified as a woman. Another explanation is that the term also derives from German immigrants. German soldiers commonly referred to their greatcoats as "Matilda", supposedly because the coat kept them as warm as a woman would. Early German immigrants who "went on the waltz" would wrap their belongings in their coat, and took to calling it by the same name their soldiers had used.

Billabong: An oxbow lake (a cut-off river bend) found alongside a meandering river.

Coolibah tree: A kind of eucalyptus tree which grows near billabongs.

Jumbuck: A large difficult to shear sheep, not a tame sheep. Implies that the sheep was not 'owned' by the squatter or regularly shorn, thus not able to be stolen by the swagman.

Billy: A can for boiling water in, usually 2â??3 pints.

Tucker bag: A bag for carrying food ("tucker").

Troopers: Policemen.

Squatter: Australian squatters started as early farmers who raised livestock on land which they did not legally have the right to use; in many cases they later gained legal use of the land even though they did not have full possession, and became wealthy thanks to these large land holdings.

Now here is a modern 21st Century version of the lyrics.

Waltzing Bundle Of Possessions

Once a jolly hobo camped by a pond,
Under the shade of a gum tree,
And he sang as he watched and
waited until his camp kettle boiled,
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Waltzing bundle of possessions,
Waltzing bundle of possessions,
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me,
And he sang as he watched and
waited until his camp kettle boiled
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Down came a sheep to drink at that pond
Up jumped the hobo and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that sheep
in his Gondwana Day Pack
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Waltzing bundle of possessions,
Waltzing bundle of possessions,
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me,
And he sang as he shoved that sheep
in his Gondwana Day Pack
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Up rode a farmer mounted on his horse
Down came the cops One Two Three
Whose that jolly sheep you've got in
your Gondwana Day Pack
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Waltzing bundle of possessions,
Waltzing bundle of possessions,
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me,
Whose that jolly sheep you've got in
your Gondwana Day Pack
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Up jumped the hobo and
sprang into the pond
"You'll never catch me alive!" said he,
And his ghost may be heard
as you pas by that pond
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Waltzing bundle of possessions,
Waltzing bundle of possessions,
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me,
And his ghost may be heard
as you pass by that pond
You'll come a Waltzing bundle
of possessions with me.

Yeah right! I think the new translation sucks!

I prefer the old version much better.

[Fat Man]

Here's a You Tube link to another Australian classic.

Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport (Rolf Harris)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDX-xMTP ... re=related

Here are the lyrics.

Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
[Spoken:]
"There's an old Australian stockman, lying, dying,
and he gets himself up on one elbow,
and he turns to his mates,
who are gathered 'round him and he says:"

Watch me wallabys feed mate.
Watch me wallabys feed.
They're a dangerous breed mate.
So watch me wallabys feed.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
keep me cockatoo cool.
Don't go acting the fool, Curl,
just keep me cockatoo cool.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Take me koala back, Jack,
take me koala back.
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac,
so take me koala back.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Let me Abos go loose, Bruce,
let me Abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Bruce,
so let me Abos go loose.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Mind me platypus duck, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Don't let him go running amok, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Play your digeridoo, Blue,
play your digeridoo.
Keep playing 'til I shoot thro' Blue,
play your digeridoo.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred,
tan me hide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
(Spoken) And that's it hanging on the shed.
Altogether now!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
One more time!

Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.
Tie me kangaroo down sport,
tie me kangaroo down.

Yeah, I know it's not exactly rock, but it is cute!

Besides, I like it!

[Earl]

Ah, another classic from my childhood. Thanks, Fat Man.

[Skul]

Fat Man's got the right idea -- a link to the music, plus lyrics. I've went back and edited all two of my posts relating to music (one on the first page and one at the top of this page).

[Lewis]

Elbow - Grounds For Divorce: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g-imjcBQ9Y

[The1982Channel]

Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love

if it's me, it's got to be 80's !

[Lewis]

Here's To You (Ennio Morricone & Joan Baez): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgYwTnBIIQ