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Oct 5, 2018 4:20:20 GMT
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Post by Séamus on Oct 5, 2018 4:20:20 GMT
I'm not familiar with the Overtones or Timmy Matley of Cork, but very heartbreaking to hear of the death
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Nov 4, 2018 1:33:59 GMT
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Post by Séamus on Nov 4, 2018 1:33:59 GMT
I suppose a lot of people wouldn't have given the Republic of Palau much thought since it was mentioned thirty years ago in ORONOCO FLOW. Now they've become perhaps the first country to plan a ban on certain sunscreens that may damage coral reefs. Hopefully the people there have resilient skin, although possibly non-chemical concoctions are superior anyway. Perhaps the future will allow for 'Bissau to Palau in the shade of Avalon' or 'Bali to Cali far beyond the Coral Sea',but not both!? Are all these places as romantic as she made them sound? Tripoli certainly wasn't then and probably isn't now. The amount of Australians that seriously damage their health in Bali every year, largely through the poor quality of food and alcohol or on the roads, is far from funny. A friend once queried someone vending 'fish from Australia' about his sourcing. "waters in Australia get cold in winter so fish swim-swim-swim-swim all the way here- and we catch them" Then again,a young adventurer-autobiographer,Jesse Martin, mentioned that, sailing solo as a teenager near Africa, it was Enya that kept going through the head(STORMS IN AFRICA). But he wasn't actually IN Africa FOR any storms, which lets the dreamier aspect stay undefiled.
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Jan 23, 2019 12:31:11 GMT
Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 23, 2019 12:31:11 GMT
Does anyone know any good upbeat songs, with positive and optimistic lyrics?
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Post by assisi on Jan 23, 2019 14:13:38 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 23, 2019 14:54:03 GMT
Thanks Assisi. It takes some courage to recommend Ob Li Di Ob Li Dah!
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Post by Séamus on Jan 25, 2019 12:08:24 GMT
Does anyone know any good upbeat songs, with positive and optimistic lyrics? I generally find that the darker the music more uplifted I feel, but I can't speak for everyone. Capercaillie's COISICH A RUÍN is upbeat and traditional at the same time. The Fureys RED ROSE CAFE is all about being uplifted, and is not overly traditional-Irish-sounding for people who don't care for this. The Gypsy Kings are almost optimism-on-steroids, perhaps a knowledge of the Spanish lyrics would make the songs a bit more serious?, LA RUMBA DE NICOLAS always catches me. For something pop-ier, Katrina's WALKING ON SUNSHINE was always hard to beat As an aside, Scott Morrison has cited Tears For Fears and New Order as favourite groups...causing left-wing Australians and journalists, now angry at his plan to commemorate James Cook's upcoming anniversary, to say that he's still living in the 80s... Anne Wintour is the latest to lash out at him after her condemnation of Margaret Court's stand on natural marriage. Nice coming from a woman who had spent less than 24 hours in Australia, on her first-ever visit to the country. Well actually, Scott's generationally the youngest PM Australia has had, which begs the question of what era his predecessors were living in, and what, if any, naughty music sins they committed. He also cited the less memorable 'Sunglasses at Night',a forgettable song, which nevertheless goes through my head sometimes, largely from having a friend who wears prescription-sunnies indoors, even at Mass, something I'm always getting comments about.
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Post by Séamus on Mar 11, 2019 11:43:25 GMT
Somehow it came to me this afternoon that this month is the 30th anniversary of BELFAST CHILD becoming the only track by Simple Minds to reach #1 in the British charts. An amazing piece of music that possibly helped lead the way for a lot of mainstream fusion of world- and contemporary-music that followed, even if folk bands were doing this for years before. The song still causes confusion among Australians as to what nationality Simple Minds and Jim Kerr actually are. (People have said to me,"remember that big stadium band from Ireland who used to sing 'Don't Your Forget About Me'?")
One knows the fetishes of an era become respectable when you read, as I did today, that breakdancing is being proposed as a sport for the 2024 Paris Olympics. And just as the Duke of Cambridge batted for the mental health of professional sportsmen in an address in Belfast. (Is he too young to have referenced Simple Minds while there?) Heaven knows what long-term effect spinning on one's head has on mental health (granted, someone made a point that for damage to the head nothing beats boxing; for ridiculousness little beats the art of drowning gracefully, otherwise known as synchronised swimming.)
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Post by Tomas on Mar 11, 2019 15:54:30 GMT
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Mar 31, 2019 8:08:04 GMT
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Post by Séamus on Mar 31, 2019 8:08:04 GMT
I was struck by a concert reviewer's account of Bryan Adams' performance in Perth last week (alongside advertising Luka Bloom performing songs against climate change in North Perth this weekend!). After recounting how youthful and vigorous Adams seemed on stage he went on to say how he noticed that he hardly sang his flagship HEAVEN at all- because everybody sang it for him. All he had to do was play, as everyone knew the words. Couples apparently sang to each other. A lot should be said for a singer and songwriter (also the co-writer) who produced something so engraved on minds and hearts for decades. Well done.
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Post by Séamus on Aug 18, 2019 8:44:46 GMT
I've been reading a recent reprint of David Attenborough's early travel-stories and been a bit surprised how much interest the young David had in everything else he saw and heard besides the animals that the BBC and London Zoo were paying him to find. 1950s Bali he noted for it's love of traditional music,every village able to make up the equivalent of an orchestra on it's own. The native instruments of Borneo are described also,but the ensemble seemed vastly inferior. Nobody coming back from modern Bali seems to mention this;I wonder how much of it is lost ?
( I hadn't been aware that Secret Garden were still recording until I chanced upon STORYTELLER(cd) for sale yesterday...Fantasia was one composition on this that reveals how Mr Rolf still has his unique, ethereal composer's touch. As well as Fionnuala, several Irish musicians were involved,as they usually are,including a Harold's Cross-based choir.)
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 19, 2019 14:35:24 GMT
I've been reading a recent reprint of David Attenborough's early travel-stories and been a bit surprised how much interest the young David had in everything else he saw and heard besides the animals that the BBC and London Zoo were paying him to find. 1950s Bali he noted for it's love of traditional music,every village able to make up the equivalent of an orchestra on it's own. The native instruments of Borneo are described also,but the ensemble seemed vastly inferior. Nobody coming back from modern Bali seems to mention this;I wonder how much of it is lost ? ( I hadn't been aware that Secret Garden were still recording until I chanced upon STORYTELLER(cd) for sale yesterday...Fantasia was one composition on this that reveals how Mr Rolf still has his unique, ethereal composer's touch. As well as Fionnuala, several Irish musicians were involved,as they usually are,including a Harold's Cross-based choir.) Sílim gur bfhuil an cosúlacht seo ag baint le morán des na athrú sosialta a dheanann coimeadaithe clamhsan orthu: go bfhuil gluaiseacht ón gníomh a dheanann tú fhein (scéal a insint, amhrán a canadh, geansaí a cniteál, srl.) go dtí an cás ina bfhuil tú ag glacadh le rud eigin a thagann ón taobh amuigh, gan aon fíor-caidreamh agat leis. I think that the social changes conservatives lament often have this in common: a movement from doing things yourself (telling a story, singing a song, knitting a sweater, etc.) to a situation where you are accepting things from outside, without any meaningful relationship to that thing.
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Aug 21, 2019 11:58:12 GMT
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Post by Séamus on Aug 21, 2019 11:58:12 GMT
I've been reading a recent reprint of David Attenborough's early travel-stories and been a bit surprised how much interest the young David had in everything else he saw and heard besides the animals that the BBC and London Zoo were paying him to find. 1950s Bali he noted for it's love of traditional music,every village able to make up the equivalent of an orchestra on it's own. The native instruments of Borneo are described also,but the ensemble seemed vastly inferior. Nobody coming back from modern Bali seems to mention this;I wonder how much of it is lost ? ( I hadn't been aware that Secret Garden were still recording until I chanced upon STORYTELLER(cd) for sale yesterday...Fantasia was one composition on this that reveals how Mr Rolf still has his unique, ethereal composer's touch. As well as Fionnuala, several Irish musicians were involved,as they usually are,including a Harold's Cross-based choir.) Sílim gur bfhuil an cosúlacht seo ag baint le morán des na athrú sosialta a dheanann coimeadaithe clamhsan orthu: go bfhuil gluaiseacht ón gníomh a dheanann tú fhein (scéal a insint, amhrán a canadh, geansaí a cniteál, srl.) go dtí an cás ina bfhuil tú ag glacadh le rud eigin a thagann ón taobh amuigh, gan aon fíor-caidreamh agat leis. I think that the social changes conservatives lament often have this in common: a movement from doing things yourself (telling a story, singing a song, knitting a sweater, etc.) to a situation where you are accepting things from outside, without any meaningful relationship to that thing. Brian Kennedy collaborates again in one love song (although it's actually written by Løvland) but,as well as there being no particular same-sex reference in it,it's directed at a dead person,which would make it seem rather chaste anyway. A bit of an AS SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR. Similar to how (while nobody would deny how MTVculture has sexed-up music) the original 'clip' of HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN uncharacteristically turns a sensual lyric 'I want to talk like lovers do,want to dive into your ocean,is it raining with you?so baby talk to me like lovers do...' into something quite different by suggesting,against beautiful (persumedly Scottish) wilderness, that one or both protagonists are actually now deceased. (I was never a Eurythmics fan,but decades after this song came out I was struck by the beauty I felt from it when someone tuned into the car-radio on an overcast day. One of those moments.)
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Post by assisi on Aug 21, 2019 17:00:49 GMT
Sílim gur bfhuil an cosúlacht seo ag baint le morán des na athrú sosialta a dheanann coimeadaithe clamhsan orthu: go bfhuil gluaiseacht ón gníomh a dheanann tú fhein (scéal a insint, amhrán a canadh, geansaí a cniteál, srl.) go dtí an cás ina bfhuil tú ag glacadh le rud eigin a thagann ón taobh amuigh, gan aon fíor-caidreamh agat leis. I think that the social changes conservatives lament often have this in common: a movement from doing things yourself (telling a story, singing a song, knitting a sweater, etc.) to a situation where you are accepting things from outside, without any meaningful relationship to that thing. Brian Kennedy collaborates again in one love song (although it's actually written by Løvland) but,as well as there being no particular same-sex reference in it,it's directed at a dead person,which would make it seem rather chaste anyway. A bit of an AS SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR. Similar to how (while nobody would deny how MTVculture has sexed-up music) the original 'clip' of HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN uncharacteristically turns a sensual lyric 'I want to talk like lovers do,want to dive into your ocean,is it raining with you?so baby talk to me like lovers do...' into something quite different by suggesting,against beautiful (persumedly Scottish) wilderness, that one or both protagonists are actually now deceased. (I was never a Eurythmics fan,but decades after this song came out I was struck by the beauty I felt from it when someone tuned into the car-radio on an overcast day. One of those moments.) John Waters lauds the ability of people to work with their hands, build things, fix things, work on the land. This happened more in the past than it does now. The pity is that people now understand the need to do physical exercise as an antidote to modern passive and sedentary life. However the exercise isn't usually constructive, it might be cycling on a static machine or running for the sake of running. The end product of something mended, built or harvested is not there. As someone who ran and cycled I think these attempts, however sterile in one way, are better than sitting at a computer all evening or in front of a TV (which I do as well). Annie Lennox, the Scottish singer from Eurythmics brought out a Christmas carol collection quite a few years ago which I often play during December.
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Post by cato on Aug 21, 2019 17:51:42 GMT
John Waters lauds the ability of people to work with their hands, build things, fix things, work on the land. This happened more in the past than it does now. The pity is that people now understand the need to do physical exercise as an antidote to modern passive and sedentary life. However the exercise isn't usually constructive, it might be cycling on a static machine or running for the sake of running. The end product of something mended, built or harvested is not there. As someone who ran and cycled I think these attempts, however sterile in one way, are better than sitting at a computer all evening or in front of a TV (which I do as well).
Annie Lennox, the Scottish singer from Eurythmics brought out a Christmas carol collection quite a few years ago which I often play during December.
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The traditional Benedictine mixture of prayer , study and manual work is a great example of the necessity for balance in our lifestyles. I sometimes recommend it to non believers or former Catholics and and then let them know it comes from a catholic saint of the dark ages. Another hidden treasure of Catholic civilisation.
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Aug 22, 2019 9:49:24 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 22, 2019 9:49:24 GMT
I think one area where conservatives and liberals agree is that our modern lifestyle is far too passive, shallow, distracted, and concerned with ephemera and novelty. I think pretty much everyone agrees with this. Everybody accepts that mobile phones, social media, etc. are taking a toll on our intellectual, cultural and spiritual health. And even before mobile phones and the internet, they were similar anxieties about television and other new media-- anxieties which I believe were entirely justified. (I am currently reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian novel about a future where all books are burnt).
This seems to be why there is such a phenomenal interest in "mindfulness" right now.
I think this is one possible "hook" where our contemporaries might be drawn to a more conservative outlook.
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