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FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

"Too Much Heaven" is a song by the Bee Gees, which was the band's contribution to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. They performed it at the Music for UNICEF Concert on 9 January 1979.

[youtu.be] Green Day. - American Idiot. One of the best US Rock bands imho!

FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

"American Idiot" contends that mass media has orchestrated paranoia and idiocy among the public. Citing cable news coverage of the Iraq War, Billie Joe Armstrong recalled, "They had all these Geraldo-like journalists in the tanks with the soldiers, getting the play-by-play."

10cc - I'm Not In Love [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

Written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. It is known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

The song Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry's Song) was written by Brian Burke and Michael Coleman.

JOHN LEE HOOKER. HARD TIMES. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.

Recently discovered this song - I really like both versions. [youtube.com] [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

Spain are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1993, and led by singer/bassist Josh Haden. Their syncretic music contains elements of country, blues, folk, jazz, and slowcore.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" is a song first recorded in 1958 by Priscilla Bowman, vocal backing by The Spaniels.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 27, 2020:

Mick Fleetwood – drums John McVie – bass guitar Christine McVie – keyboards Lindsey Buckingham – acoustic guitars, electric guitars, lead and backing vocals Stevie Nicks – backing vocals

Sweet Georgia Brown Mark O’Connor/Winston Marsalis [m.youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

(from learnjazzstandards.com) Sweet Georgia Brown, though, is known by EVERYONE, mainly because the Harlem Globetrotters have been using the tune as their theme song since 1952. Even fiddlers love this song, and it’s a popular bluegrass tune in addition to being a great jazz tune.

Just came upon this performance from 1971 Proud Mary Tina & Ike Turner [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

"Proud Mary" is a rock ’n’ roll song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Ike and Tina's version was substantially rearranged by Ike Turner and Soko Richardson.

Creedence Clearwater Revival long as i can see the light [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

"Long As I Can See the Light" was included on practically every Creedence Clearwater Revival compilation album. While never played live by CCR, the song became a concert staple for John Fogerty as a solo artist.

Wow, Kobe Bryant dead in helicopter crash.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-survivors-los-angeles-area-helicopter-crash-n1123406

Love her voice [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

Upon release, Tones and I said the song is about the expectations that are placed on musical performers.

What a beautiful song, what a beautiful voice! Hayley Westenra - Ennio Morricone’s Cinema ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

The first of two beautiful pieces from 'Cinema Paradiso', the lyrics tell of a sweet lemon scent which provokes memories of home.

I have just had occassion to be reminded of a man who wrote songs about Australia's greatest ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

The Settlers comprised of Ulick O'Boyle, Anne Rutherford, Peter Barry and Paul Davey

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

Although it was rumoured that future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page had performed the song's guitar solo, the myth has since been proven false.

Andy Mckee playing his song called Drifting using the finger tapping method. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

In 2012, McKee played alongside Prince on his Welcome 2 Australia tour. He played with Prince's band during the concert on Purple Rain, Sometimes It Snows in April, Mountains, Dance Electric, and Love, Thy Will Be Done. He also kicked off the Melbourne concert with Ebon Coast, Drifting, and The Friend I Never met.

THIS is the sort of Sunday morning I am having (“feel good” music; the dancers are a free ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

"Java" is an instrumental adaptation from a 1958 LP of piano compositions, The Wild Sounds of New Orleans, by Tousan, also known as New Orleans producer/songwriter Allen Toussaint. In 1963, trumpet player Al Hirt recorded the instrumental, and the track was the first single from his album Honey in the Horn.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

Like the customary ritual of a Last meal when a condemned prisoner knows there's no after, no way out, no hope, the song "Last Request" (Last Request Lyrics) is about a last goodbye to a love gone wrong.

Today is Angela Davis's birthday.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

. . . just posted this in the Documentaries group : "Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012) [imdb.com] [youtube.com]"

Today is Angela Davis's birthday.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Sweet Black Angel” is one of the few outright political songs written by the Rolling Stones. A country-blues ballad, it is about civil rights activist Angela Davis, who was facing murder charges at the time.

Released in 1927, Frank Crumit with Abdul Abulbul Amir [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

"Abdul Abulbul Amir" is the most common name for a music-hall song written in 1877 (during the Russo-Turkish War) under the title "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" by Percy French, and subsequently altered and popularized by a variety of other writers and performers.

Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien, awesome guitar and drums. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 26, 2020:

To save money, the album heavily used drum machines, programmed by Bongo Bob Smith, with Jeff Campitelli recording overdubs of hi-hats, cymbals, toms and snares.

This is Eric Mongrain playing a song called Air Tap ! [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

. . . reminiscent of a 6-string version of Leo Kottke.

Up on Cripple Creek The Band What a fun song! [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

"Up on Cripple Creek" was written by Band guitarist Robbie Robertson, with drummer Levon Helm singing lead vocal. he song is sung from the point of view of a truck driver who goes to Lake Charles, Louisiana, to stay with a local girl, Bessie, with whom he has a history. In the song, he gambles, drinks, listens to music, and spends time with "little Bessie," who takes an active role in the goings-on, while expressing her opinions, further endearing herself to the narrator.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Cinammon Girl (live 1991) [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

Young wrote "Cinnamon Girl" while he was suffering from the flu with a high fever at his home in Topanga, California. According to his autobiography, "Cinnamon Girl" was the first record played by the now-legendary British DJ "Whispering Bob" Harris on his BBC Radio 1 debut (August 19, 1970).

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

The Wall is a concept album about Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star. In "Comfortably Numb", Pink is medicated by a doctor so he can perform for a show.

I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME - GEORGE MICHAEL A very touching version of this beautiful song written by...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album Luck of the Draw (1991). English singer George Michael covered "I Can't Make You Love Me" and released as a B-side of his single, "Older"

Mighty Sam McClain - When the Hurt is Over [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

He was born in Monroe, Louisiana. As a five-year-old, he began singing in his mother's Gospel Church. McClain left home when he was thirteen and followed local R&B guitarist, Little Melvin Underwood through the Chitlin' Circuit, first as his valet and then as lead vocalist himself at 15.

This is not a music video, but it s a documentary about some kids growing up in Canada, and one of ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

(from criterion,com) What emerges in front of Allan King’s cameras are the fears, hopes, and alienation of a disillusioned generation. Come On Children is a swift, vivid rendering of the growing pains of a counterculture.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

When Andy Gibb was going to record it, Barry reworked on the song adding the middle eight that was not on the original Bee Gees' version, as Blue Weaver recalls, "When Andy actually went to record it, Barry listened to it [the original version] again and thought, 'Oh, it's not finished', so Barry wrote the whole of the middle-eight.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

Lyrics written by Bill Haley, Rusty Keefer, Milt Gabler, Catherine Cafra

It is the first day of the Chinese year of the rat so here is Al Stewart with "The year of the Cat" ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

The acoustic lead is played by Peter White with Tim Renwick then taking the electric lead and Bruce Thomas on bass. Parsons had Phil Kenzie add the saxophone part of the song—and by doing so transformed the original folk concept into the jazz-influenced ballad that put Al Stewart onto the charts.

1995 and the Britpop battle Blur just nip Oasis Country House [m.youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

In an interview for the South Bank Show, Damon Albarn explained that it was inspired by former Blur manager Dave Balfe, who left Blur's label Food Records and bought a house in the country.

David Bowie, The Jean Genie [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

According to Bowie, it was "a smorgasbord of imagined Americana", with a protagonist inspired by Iggy Pop, and the title being an allusion to author Jean Genet.

Tears For Fears put me in mind of Johnny Hstes Jazz from about 88.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

The song was written by the band's lead singer and main songwriter, Clark Datchler. It has a strong anti-war sentiment and is written from the perspective of a soldier who is questioning their participation in what they consider an unjust war.

Let's start the day by wishing Etta James a happy birthday. I 'd rather go blind [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

"I'd Rather Go Blind" is a blues song written by Ellington Jordan and co-credited to Billy Foster and Etta James.

[youtu.be] Queen. - Radio Ga Ga. My favourite by them...I think?

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

The band performed the song at every concert from 1984 to their last concert with lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1986, including their performance at Live Aid in 1985.

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain [youtu.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 25, 2020:

Reportedly, "Maggot Brain" was Eddie Hazel's nickname. Other sources say the title is a reference to band leader George Clinton finding his brother's "decomposed dead body, skull cracked, in a Chicago apartment."

European Space Agency releasing photo's showing ice on Mars [esa.int]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Nice pix. Article says it can't be carbon dioxide, but doesn't explicitly say how it is known to be water ice.

A brief history lesson. [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

https://www.thepiano.sg/piano/read/mozart-and-his-infamous-letters-scatalogical-humour https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/305/6868/1563.full.pdf https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mozart-dirty-letters_n_1651332

Waylon Jennings - I Ain't Lining Long Like This. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"I Ain't Living Long Like This" is a song written by Rodney Crowell that was first recorded by Gary Stewart on his 1977 album Your Place or Mine (with Rodney Crowell and Nicolette Larson on backing vocals). Emmylou Harris then recorded the song for her 1978 album, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town. Crowell released his version as well in 1978 on his debut album Ain't Living Long Like This.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

Love Changes Everything is a song from the musical Aspects of Love, composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with a lyric written by Charles Hart and Don Black.

Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"Show Me the Way" is a song by English-American rock musician Peter Frampton. Originally released in June 1975 as the lead single from his fourth studio album Frampton, it gained popularity after being recorded live and released in February 1976 as the lead single from his live album Frampton Comes Alive! The song reached

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"Play Me" is an audience favorite, especially, it seems, among women, who carry signs that read "Neil, Play Me" to his performances and scream "me, me, me" when he plays the tune, described as "an entreaty to romance".

Happy birthday, John Lee Hooker Crawling king snake [youtu.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"Crawling King Snake" (alternatively "Crawlin' King Snake" or "Crawling/Crawlin' Kingsnake") is a blues song that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists. It is believed to have originated as a Delta blues in the 1920s and be related to earlier songs, such as "Black Snake Blues" by Victoria Spivey and "Black Snake Moan" by Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Happy birthday, Neil Diamond Solitary Man [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"Solitary Man" was Diamond's debut single as a recording artist, having already had moderate (but accidental) success as a songwriter for other artists; their versions of the songs he had already written and composed were released before his own versions of them were.

Bon Jovi - what do you got ? [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"What Do You Got?" was written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Brett James. Lyrically, the song is about the aesthetics of love. Richie Sambora explained: "It's a worldly thing and it doesn't have to be exactly about romance. It could be about with your family, daughter or son. What do you got if you ain't got love.

Deep Purple. - Highway Star. Live. [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

This song was born on a tour bus going to Portsmouth in 1971 when a reporter asked the band how they wrote songs. To demonstrate, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore grabbed an acoustic guitar and began playing a riff consisting of a single "G" repeated over and over, while vocalist Ian Gillan improvised lyrics over the top. The song was refined and was performed that same night.

A beautiful song for a beautiful morning....Dido. - This Land Is Mine. [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 24, 2020:

"This Land Is Mine" is a reflective piece that according to PopMatters, "could have Travis or Coldplay recording it with big grins on their faces. Simplistic and sparse, the song sounds just a bit like Olivia Newton-John in the early seventies, according to them.

What a beautiful version of a great love song Meet me in the morning Bob Dylan and his people...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Dylan played the song live in concert for the first time during a show in Nashville. He was joined onstage for the performance by Jack White of The White Stripes.

Van Halen - You Really Got Me [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

"You Really Got Me" is a song written by Ray Davies for English rock band the Kinks. The song, originally performed in a more blues-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

Eva Cassidy - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars Chris Biondo - bass guitar Raice McLeod - drums Lenny Williams - piano

[youtu.be] Catch the wind Donovan Leitch

FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

The single was backed with "Why Do You Treat Me Like You Do?" on both the United Kingdom and United States releases. "Catch the Wind" was the first release by Donovan.

[youtu.be] This one just popped up on my iTunes feed....Foreigner. - Cold As Ice.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

"Cold as Ice" was used as the soundtrack for a skit on the March 25, 1978 broadcast of Saturday Night Live that showed a man being attacked by a woman in a number of grisly ways. Host Christopher Lee introduced the segment as being "not for the squeamish".

[youtu.be] Smokie. - Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 23, 2020:

"Lay Back in the Arms of Someone" is a song co-written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman

[youtu.be] Moby : Extreme Ways

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

The track is notably used at the conclusion of all five of the Bourne films. New versions of the song were each recorded for the third, fourth, and fifth films of the series: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, and Jason Bourne respectively.

George Harrison - Devils Radio [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

"Devil's Radio" was inspired by a church billboard Harrison had seen stating "Gossip: The Devil's Radio...Don't Be a Broadcaster." The song's theme is an attack on gossip, trivia and cynical talk radio which spreads inaccuracies and falsehoods

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

The song was written by Gibb and Albhy Galuten.

Swlabr cream live

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuySB_j-lbo

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

"Sweet Jane" is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground; it appears on their fourth studio album Loaded. The song was written by Lou Reed, the band's leader, who continued to incorporate the piece into live performances as a solo artist.

Lou Reed & David Bowie - Waiting For The Man [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

"I'm Waiting for the Man" (sometimes titled "I'm Waiting for My Man") is a song by the American rock band the Velvet Underground, written by Lou Reed. The song is about waiting on a streetcorner in Harlem, near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, in New York City and purchasing $26 worth of heroin (equivalent to $211 in 2019)

[youtu.be] Simply Red. - Fairground. Love it!

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

The song makes extensive use of a sample of The Goodmen's "Give It Up".

Today is Sam Cooke's birthday.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

The song was inspired by various personal events in Cooke's life, most prominently an event in which he and his entourage were turned away from a whites-only motel in Louisiana.

Hello to all group members! I joined this group early last year not knowing a great deal about the ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

I have the expectation that, having thought about the supernatural and found reasons to reject it all, nonbelievers should use 'reason' above-all. Although that is usually the case, I encounter logical fallacies from nonbelievers regularly (admittedly less so in this group). I'm not an expert, and there are **lots** of them, but even some of the common ones (ad hominem, false dichotomy, red herring, straw man) are violated on this website :(

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 22, 2020:

The song, particularly its original lyrics, has been criticized as racist and reminiscent and glorifying of the slavery period in American history. The original lyrics contained the racial slur "nigger" multiple times. One of the verses, according to John Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs, goes like this: ("Dat nigger from Shiloh / Kin pick a bale o' cotton / Dat nigger from Shiloh / Kin pick a bale a day"

Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds - Don't Pull Your Love Irritating ear worm for a couple days.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

"Don't Pull Your Love" is a classic song written by Brian Potter and Dennis Lambert. The song was originally released in 1971 by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. "Don't Pull Your Love" became a gold record. The song utilized session musicians later referred to as the Wrecking Crew

The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

The basic track "Start Me Up" was recorded during the January and March 1978 sessions for the Rolling Stones' album Some Girls. The song began as a reggae-rock track named "Never Stop", but after dozens of takes it was abandoned.

The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away (TV 1964) The music begins at about 3:00, if you don't care to ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets.

Colder by CHARON [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Last line-up Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto - Vocals Lauri Tuohimaa - Guitar Antti Karihtala - Drums Teemu Hautamäki - Bass Former members Jasse von Hast - Guitar Pasi Sipilä - Guitar

Led Zeppelin - Rock an Roll [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page explained that the song developed from a spontaneous jam session, whilst the band were trying (and failing) to finish the track "Four Sticks", at the Headley Grange mansion they had rented in Hampshire, England to record the track. John Bonham began by playing the drum introduction from the Little Richard song "Keep A-Knockin'" to which Page added a Chuck Berry-style guitar riff, The tapes were rolling and fifteen minutes later the basis of the song was completed

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

It was written by Michael and David Austin, and produced by Michael. Michael wrote "You Have Been Loved" about his lover, Anselmo Feleppa, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1993

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook Singer-guitarist Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook performed together as members of "Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band" in Battle Creek, Michigan, before their group won a recording contract in 1960. Westover took the new stage name "Del Shannon", and Crook, who had invented his own clavioline-based electric keyboard called a Musitron, became "Maximilian"

From 1971 Duane Allman with Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett Only you know and I ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

"Only You Know and I Know" is a song written and originally recorded by Dave Mason in 1970.

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 21, 2020:

The person in the song has an encounter with a kind of doppelgänger, as suggested in the second chorus where "I never lost control" is replaced with "We never lost control".

Some of their performances keep me giggling. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

I have posted about two dozen of their songs in the Music Fans group :)

fROM Austin, TX 49 years of Not fade Away [youtu.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Bridges, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Jimmie Vaughan, and Gary Clark Jr. perform Buddy Holly's classic "Not Fade Away."

fROM Austin, TX 49 years of Not fade Away [youtu.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

"Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly (originally under his first and middle names, Charles Hardin) and Norman Petty (although Petty's co-writing credit is likely to have been a formality) and first recorded by Holly and his band, the Crickets. "Not Fade Away" was originally released as the B-side of the hit single "Oh, Boy!" and was included on the album The "Chirping" Crickets (1957).

Thievery Corporation - Sweet Tides [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Radio Retaliation is the fifth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on September 23, 2008 by ESL Music. Intended to be a political album, it was recorded in the band's hometown of Washington, D.C. from April 2007 to August 2008.

Kellyanne Conway Melts Down Under Grilling by Fox News

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

I'm no fan of Conway or Fox, but calling that interview a "meltdown" is the epitome of fake news/clickbait.

Not bot, not beast: scientists create first ever living, programmable organism The scariest ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

. . . this is kind-of-a dupe : " Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots Researchers foresee myriad ..."

99% of Women Say They Feel Relief 5 Years After Abortion

FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

. . . some from a different outlook : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6161227/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/abortion-turnaway-study-flaws-jama-psychiatry/

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

Small excerpts also appear throughout the promotional video series The Collaborators

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FearlessFly comments on Jan 20, 2020:

A mimed promotional film (precursor to the modern music video) was produced for the song in late 1966. It was filmed on Little Green Street, a diminutive eighteenth century lane in North London, located off Highgate Road in Kentish Town

Well this was humiliating! QUIZ: 99% Of Adults Fail This Elementary School Test, Will You?

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

38 out of 40 :)

MANNISH BOYS. TOO TIRED. [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

The Mannish Boys are an American blues band based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play classic blues in West Coast, Texas and Chicago styles.

The 69 Cats - Bela Lugosi's Dead [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

"Bela Lugosi's Dead" is a song by the English post-punk band Bauhaus. It is often considered the first gothic rock record.

This is a song that remains my ultimate love song.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

According to Melua, the inspiration for the song came during a visit to Beijing with her manager Mike Batt. Their interpreter showed them around the city and told that there are supposedly nine million bicycles in the city.

Ram Jam - Black Betty [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

"Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material

RON CARTER - The Shadow of Your Smile [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

from the album The Bass and I : Ron Carter - bass Stephen Scott – piano Lewis Nash – drums Steve Kroon – percussion

Disney Drops ‘Fox’ From Studio Name, Avoids Connection To Right-Wing Fox News – Breaking News ...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

This is a dupe : '"Disney Drops Fox Name, Will Rebrand as 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures [variety.com]"

I notice that people on this site still have some archaic ideas about money and politics and budgets...

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

Governments can't go broke ? I don't thing so : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimpowell/2011/11/29/rich-nations-that-went-broke-by-spending-too-much/#15b1e1342f88 https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/10/10/actually-sovereigns-do-go-broke-debt/ https://www.slideshare.net/HenrikJensen4/10-governments-that-went-bankrupt

Court Documents Allege Donald Trump Raped A 13-Year-Old With Jeffrey Epstein | Deep Left Field

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/donald-trump-teenage-rape-accusations-lawsuit-dropped https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/left/

Disturbed - The Sound of Silence [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

O'Brien broke the news of DISTURBED's feat on Twitter, writing: "@Disturbed's cover of "The Sound of Silence" is the first clip to crack 100 million views on my YouTube channel. I always knew that heavy metal band covers of Simon & Garfunkel songs would be my legacy."

The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964) [youtu.be]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

The song was written by Paul Simon over several months in 1963 and 1964. Having performed together previously under the name Tom and Jerry in the late 1950s, their partnership had since dissolved when they began attending college. In 1963, they regrouped and began performing Simon's original compositions locally in Queens. They billed themselves "Kane & Garr", after old recording pseudonyms

I downloaded this album by Weezer titled TEAL(2019).

FearlessFly comments on Jan 19, 2020:

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote the song after the Tourists had broken up and they formed Eurythmics. Although the two of them also broke up as a couple, they continued to work together. According to Stewart, he managed to produce the beat and riff of the song on one of their new synthesisers, and Lennox, on hearing it, said: "What the hell is that?" and started playing on another synthesiser, and beginnings of the song came out of the two duelling synths.

Here's another great song that is a celebration of music.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 18, 2020:

Written by Conley and Otis Redding, it is based on the Sam Cooke song "Yeah Man" from his posthumous album Shake

Remember Joan Baez?

FearlessFly comments on Jan 18, 2020:

In 2010, when she was invited to perform at a White House celebration of music from the civil-rights era, Baez refused a request, from Michelle Obama, to sing “If I Had a Hammer.” “That is the most annoying song,” Baez says. “I told them, ‘If I had a hammer – I’d hit myself on the head. Ain’t gonna do it.’ ”

This is my second post in the category of music that praises music.

FearlessFly comments on Jan 17, 2020:

Written by Paul Stookey, James Mason and Dave Dixon. Tthe song's lyrics reference contemporary rock artists including the Mamas & the Papas, Donovan, and the Beatles. The song parodies and satirizes the vocal style of the Mamas & the Papas in the first verse, Donovan in the second verse and the Beatles in the third verse.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Willie the Wimp and His Cadillac Coffin [youtube.com]

FearlessFly comments on Jan 17, 2020:

Stokes immortalized himself in Chicago by throwing a US$200,000 party on his 30th wedding anniversary in 1985 and for the decadent funeral he arranged for his murdered 28-year-old son, Willie "the Wimp" Stokes, Jr. in February 1984. Song was written by the Austin-based songwriter Bill Carter and his wife/songwriting partner Ruth Ellsworth.