John Coltrane - Consequences (1966)
Sometimes when I listen to a local band, I can’t tell if they’re geniuses in disguise or schizophrenics on speed.
Romeo, save me!
...and all that bebop.
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A few people who actually had a message to send
“Strange Fruit”- Billie Holiday (Abel Meeropol)
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
“Spear & Magic Helmet”- The Gits
You said, “You’ve been a bad girl,”
Then you slapped her right across the face
What could be going through your mind
This does no one good
I suggest you buy a cage
Cause I’m full of rage
Then you raped her
You left her in the alleyway
“Each generation must find its mission, fulfill or betray it.”
I know that ours is more than just being killers or players
Or making millions of papers
Our blood is spilling
They hate us
Too much injustice among us to sit still ‘n’ complacent
Frank Gambale & Tom Coster - Europa (Carlos Santana)
“Come Rain or Come Shine”- Chet Baker
I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain and deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But don’t ever bet me cause I’m gonna be true if you let me
You’re gonna love me like nobody’s loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and won’t it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
We’re in or we’re out of the money
But I’m with you always, I’m with you rain or shine
I’m gonna love you like nobody’s loved you come rain or come shine
High as a mountain deep as a river come rain or come shine
I guess when you met me it was just one of those things
But don’t ever bet me cause I’m gonna be true if you let me
You’re gonna love me like nobody’s loved me come rain or come shine
Happy together unhappy together and won’t it be fine?
Days may be cloudy or sunny
We’re in or we’re out of the money.
But I’ll love you always, I’m with you rain or shine
Rain or shine.
“They All Laughed”- Chet Baker
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony
It’s the same old cry
They laughed at me wanting you
Said I was reaching for the moon
But oh, you came through
Now they’ll have to change their tune
They all said we never could be happy
They laughed at us and how!
But ho, ho, ho!
Who’s got the last laugh now?
They all laughed at Rockefeller Center
Now they’re fighting to get in
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat
Hershey and his chocolate bar
Ford and his Lizzie
Kept the laughers busy
That’s how people are
They laughed at me wanting you
Said it would be, “Hello, Goodbye.”
And oh, you came through
Now they’re eating humble pie
They all said we’d never get together
Darling, let’s take a bow
For ho, ho, ho!
Who’s got the last laugh?
Hee, hee, hee!
Let’s at the past laugh
Ha, ha, ha!
Who’s got the last laugh now?”
Behold… The Arctopus- Alcoholocaust
“The harmonic minor arpeggio at the pick up of measure 59 makes the ending crescendo so ironic and almost funny. It’s like the minor7 chord that the guitarist plays when that phrygian lick comes in is to massive in a metaphoric sence, I don’t know some may call it sympathetic but I think it’s rude to end the series with a E major sus2 (add 9). Then again I’m just making up a bunch of bullshit.”
-blankbrian
Alex Skolnick Trio - Fade To Black (Metallica cover)
Eva Cassidy - Time After Time
Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scott’s - Full show
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