What are you listening to?

Wolfwatching

Wolfwatching

Lv. 1 Adventurer
Nandemoyasan said:
I just get this nagging feeling that there's a Zennial behind me going "OK boomer"
I mean I was born in '81 but you know how recalcitrant teenagers are
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As a cynical Doomer, I sympathise. Still, on music and George Harrison; I remember this was rereleased with a new music video:


I actually think if this song came out today, it would fit right in to the current trends, it almost sounds like it could be a Tame Impala song and the video went really well. It was ahead of it's time, or else influenced a lot of current music like Mac Demarco or Mikail Cronin.

That is... until... I realise... even this video... was released... 7... years ago...

And the creeping sense of dread returns...

Who am I? What is life?
 
Dawnbreaker

Dawnbreaker

~The Other Side of Fear~
World, I want to leave you better
I want my life to matter
I am afraid I have no purpose here
I watch the news on TV
Abandon myself daily
I am afraid to let you see the real me

Rain it falls, rain it falls
Pouring on me
And the rain it falls, rain it falls
Sowing the seeds of love and hope, love and hope
We don't have to stay here, stuck in the weeds

Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change today? (Oh)
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change today? (Oh)

You're not alone in all this
You're not alone, I promise
Standing together we can do anything
You're not alone in all this
You're not alone, I promise
Standing together we can do anything

World, you're not alone in all this
You're not alone, I promise
Standing together we can do anything
I want to leave you better
I want my life to matter
I am afraid I have no purpose here

The rain it falls, rain it falls
Pouring on me
And the rain it falls, rain it falls
Sowing the seeds of love and hope, love and hope
You don't have to stay here, stuck in the weeds

Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change today? (Oh)
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change?
Have I the courage to change today? (Oh)

You're not alone in all this
You're not alone, I promise
Standing together we can do anything
You're not alone in all this
You're not alone, I promise
Standing together we can do anything

[Courage to Change]
 
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Mr. Thou
AKA
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For whatever reason, Sia to me is one of those defining voices of the mid-2000s. Even if that wasn't her prime. Kind of like Coldplay and Radiohead. She just seemed to play in the background all the time.

Her song playing in the greatest TV ending of all time (in my super humble opinion) probably helped

 
Nandemoyasan

Nandemoyasan

Standing guard
AKA
Johnny

Oh yeah...can you see them out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave...
I see them, 'round the front way, yeah!
And I know, and I know,

I don't wanna stay.
 
Leafonthebreeze

Leafonthebreeze

Any/All
AKA
Leaf
null said:
For whatever reason, Sia to me is one of those defining voices of the mid-2000s. Even if that wasn't her prime. Kind of like Coldplay and Radiohead. She just seemed to play in the background all the time.

Her song playing in the greatest TV ending of all time (in my super humble opinion) probably helped

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Oh man I first heard that song on a fucking Skins AMV about Cassie. You just transported me back to being 17. Which was 15 years ago. Damn.
 
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Mr. Thou
AKA
null
Nandemoyasan said:

Oh yeah...can you see them out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave...
I see them, 'round the front way, yeah!
And I know, and I know,

I don't wanna stay.
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To this day I still have no idea what the hell Eddie's saying here lol. I make up lyrics when singing along in the car.
 
Nandemoyasan

Nandemoyasan

Standing guard
AKA
Johnny
null said:
To this day I still have no idea what the hell Eddie's saying here lol. I make up lyrics when singing along in the car.
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The song is actually really sad, and also kind of relevant even today in the US.

Vedder took a question from the audience requesting that he explain the meaning of "Yellow Ledbetter". At first, Vedder joked, "Wait...you mean there's lyrics?" He went on to talk about how the song took as its subject a friend of his from Seattle whose brother served in the first Gulf War. His friend received a "yellow letter" in the mail informing him that his brother had died in the war. Vedder and his friend then went for a walk. On this walk, the friend, whom Vedder described as "alternative looking", happened by a house with an American flag flying and people on the porch. He stopped and gestured to the flag, as if to salute it, but the people on the porch glared at him disapprovingly due to his appearance.[12]
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Mr. Thou
AKA
null
Yeah PJ lyrics tend to be pretty interesting once you get inside Eddie's head or he explains them. Like the meaning of Alive which turned out to be incest of all things:

While she walks slowly
Across a young man's room
She said I'm ready, for you
Why I can't remember anything
To this very day
'Cept the look, the look
Oh, you know where
Now I can't see, I just stare
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That was most certainly NOT how I interpreted the lyrics!

@ thread

Might as well keep with the theme!

 
Nandemoyasan

Nandemoyasan

Standing guard
AKA
Johnny



And I feel that time's a wasted go
So where ya going 'til tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
So would you even care?

And I feel it
And I feel it

Where ya going for tomorrow?
Where ya going with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

And I feel, so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom?
And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?

And I feel it
And she feels it

Where ya going for tomorrow?
Where ya going with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

When the dogs do find her
Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it

Where ya going for tomorrow?
Where ya going with the mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?

When the dogs do find her
Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow
To find it, to find it, to find it
To find it
To find it
To find it​
 
Dawnbreaker

Dawnbreaker

~The Other Side of Fear~
[This Is Me]

I am not a stranger to the dark
"Hide away, " they say
"'Cause we don't want your broken parts"
I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars
"Run away, " they say
"No one'll love you as you are"

But I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in
We are bursting through the barricades and
Reaching for the sun (we are warriors)
Yeah, that's what we've become (yeah, that's what we've become)

I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

This is me
and I know that I deserve your love
(Oh-oh-oh-oh) there's nothing I'm not worthy of
(Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown 'em out
This is brave, this is bruised
This is who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come (look out 'cause here I come)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (marching on, marching, marching on)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

Whenever the words wanna cut me down (oh-oh-oh-oh)
I'll send a flood to drown 'em out (oh, oh-oh, oh-oh)
I'm gonna send a flood (oh-oh-oh-oh)
Gonna drown them 'em out (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh)

Oh
This is me
 
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