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AlexSpl
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted October 13, 2016 01:51 AM |
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blizzardman
Known Hero
Gay as an Easter Basket
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posted October 15, 2016 05:17 AM |
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted October 17, 2016 01:38 AM |
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Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet ?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise she's all right she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
Oh, how can I explain ?
It's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn.
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower frieze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees."
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel.
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Saying, "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him."
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man."
As she, herself prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes everything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
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Are you pretty? This is my occasion. - Ghost
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 17, 2016 02:07 AM |
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted October 17, 2016 03:12 AM |
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted October 17, 2016 03:22 AM |
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted October 17, 2016 03:53 AM |
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Edited by artu at 06:11, 17 Oct 2016.
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JollyJoker
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 18, 2016 06:57 PM |
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 18, 2016 07:32 PM |
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JollyJoker
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 18, 2016 07:53 PM |
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fuChris
Promising
Supreme Hero
Master to the Speed of Light
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posted October 18, 2016 08:12 PM |
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Tymono - My heart
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"Now I am become Chris, the destroyer of worlds." - Robert Oppenheimer.
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 18, 2016 08:16 PM |
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veco
Legendary Hero
who am I?
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posted October 18, 2016 08:43 PM |
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JollyJoker
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 18, 2016 09:49 PM |
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Stevie said:
JollyJoker said: What do you mean?
Just my thoughts after giving your link a try. Strange music I can't relate to.
The interesting thing is, being "strange" music, the simple CD track has over 30 million clicks.
This lyrics part
Quote: oh well the devil makes us sin
but we like it when we're spinning in his grip.
is a sublime line, imo.
Massive Attack I adore since I heard Protection some 20 years ago. Their Mezzanine album is most probably in all all-time best-of lists - and the guys who picked that song for the Luther show did know what they were doing.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted October 19, 2016 01:50 AM |
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Massive Attack is certainly much more creative in their field than a lot of the electronic junk out there. I mean, even the fact that they can get the attention of people like you and me, who are not mainstream electronic music fans says a lot. If you can reach beyond your genre's fan base, you are doing something right.
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Are you pretty? This is my occasion. - Ghost
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JollyJoker
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 19, 2016 10:52 AM |
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Yup. In their best moments, you can absolutely drift away on their music and immerse in the beauty of it. I don't think so much in terms of songs with them, but more in terms of pictures. They PAINT songs, if you know what I mean.
Paradise Circus is such a powerful painting of struggling with the bliss of a forbidden love, absolutely craving and reveling in it, but knowing it's going to end "badly" and INEVITABLY so.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 19, 2016 04:45 PM |
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 19, 2016 05:47 PM |
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Galaad
Hero of Order
Li mort as morz, li vif as vis
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posted October 21, 2016 12:27 PM |
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Stevie
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 23, 2016 02:37 AM |
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JollyJoker said: The interesting thing is, being "strange" music, the simple CD track has over 30 million clicks.
This lyrics part
Quote: oh well the devil makes us sin
but we like it when we're spinning in his grip.
is a sublime line, imo.
Not that sublime over here, quite the contrary actually. But I could see why it would appeal, it has some sort of "catch".
I believe my tastes are really wide but also pretty specific, so although strange music can appeal to me it doesn't mean it happens all the time. Sometimes it just really doesn't click and it seems to be the case with Massive Attack, I checked some more from them and I just couldn't bring myself to like their songs.
And I'll leave this here, an example of strange music I appreciate, not something I usually link for probably understandable reasons.
K. RONALDO - COCO JAMBO (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (PROD. DOGPATROL)
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Guide to a Great Heroes Game
The Young Traveler
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