this song always makes me cry...

[Dis]

Originally posted by alva
Clapton

Metalica

well, what do you like? so we can make fun of it

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher
In the 80s John Williams was the conductor of the Boston Pops and revitalized classical music... even it was in a Bernstein fashion

Eh? That's a bizarre thesis.

[alva]

From the 80'ties ( or there about)

Hmm, let's see:

XTC -
Human League - Being boiled
U2
Simple Minds
Ann Clarke
Transvision Vamp - I want your love
Tears fro Fears
Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
Talking Heads -
Supertramp -
Suzanne Vega
Stranglers -
The Police
The Specials -
Sonic youth -
Smiths -
Siouxie and the Banshees -
ShriekBack
Dead Can dance
Severed Heads
Kissing the Pink
Primitives - Crash
Pixies
PIL
OMD
No more - Suicide commando
Nitzerr Ebb
Neon judgement
Gary Newman
Kraftwerk
Killing Joke
Joy division
Art of nosie
Departement S - Is Vic there?
Dead Kennedys
DAF
Cure
Cabaret Voltaire ( though partly 70'ties, if not most)
Big Black
Belgian Assosiality
Bauhaus
Arno/TC Matic
Arbeid Adelt
Red Zebra - I can't lice in a living room
Jah Wobble - How much are they?
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Patti Smith

That should be enough for now.

[Agathon]

You girly emo losers!!!

Your Feline Beauty Is Physical Proof That
Love Is Woman Baby, Love Is The Truth
Well I Ain't A Woman That's For Sure
I'll Say Anything To Get You On The Floor
You Look So Fine Pure And Good
I Wanna Throw You On The Ground Babe
And Cover You In Mud
Silver Tongued But I Ain't No Liar
Baby Baby Baby Set My Bed On Fire

I'm The Tattooed Beat Messiah
Baby Nobody Can Take You Higher

I'm The Reverb Saint I'm The King Of Flies
I Think You Guessed I Ain't Like Other Guys
Lay Down, Lie Back, Shut Up, Submit
Peel It Off Baby This Is It.
I Got A Six Shooting Schizo Psycho Rod
Kiss The Barrel Baby Meet Your God
Sparkle Dust At My Finger Tips
Gonna Burn Your Butt, Bruise Your Lips

I'm The Tattooed Beat Messiah
I Said Nobody Can Take You Higher

This Gun Never Waits This Gun Devestates
Crystal Clear I Got A Diamond Shot
Gonna Kill You Twice Baby I'm Red Hot
Lots Of Girls Tried They Lied And Died
Got To Close To The Starry Host
Grease Baby Dirt Trash Sex Appeal
Zip Fly Pop I Feel Too Real Kill
Me Tattooed Beat Messiah.

[Japher]

Eh? That's a bizarre thesis.

It is, and I can make it work. Bernstein and Williams both worked for the movie industry,

Want me to write a paper about?

[Straybow]

How many times have you listened to an album and discovered that the one they released as a single is tripe because that's what gets airplay?

It galls me that producers don't want to risk releasing something with a little bit of depth to it.

[Dis]

Originally posted by alva
From the 80'ties ( or there about)

Hmm, let's see:

XTC -
Human League - Being boiled
U2
Simple Minds
Ann Clarke
Transvision Vamp - I want your love
Tears fro Fears
Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
Talking Heads -
Supertramp -
Suzanne Vega
Stranglers -
The Police
The Specials -
Sonic youth -
Smiths -
Siouxie and the Banshees -
ShriekBack
Dead Can dance
Severed Heads
Kissing the Pink
Primitives - Crash
Pixies
PIL
OMD
No more - Suicide commando
Nitzerr Ebb
Neon judgement
Gary Newman
Kraftwerk
Killing Joke
Joy division
Art of nosie
Departement S - Is Vic there?
Dead Kennedys
DAF
Cure
Cabaret Voltaire ( though partly 70'ties, if not most)
Big Black
Belgian Assosiality
Bauhaus
Arno/TC Matic
Arbeid Adelt
Red Zebra - I can't lice in a living room
Jah Wobble - How much are they?
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Patti Smith

That should be enough for now.

some good stuff in there. Some other stuff I've never heard of.

I also liked the Eurythmics and the Pretenders. At least the stuff I heard on the radio I liked. I don't have any of their albums or anything.

[Mr. Harley]

Samual Barber's Adagio for Strings, when played right, can get me choked up. It can be a very melancholy but beautiful piece, the version I believe by one of the Canadian Symphony Orchestras is my favorite, I'd need to yank the disc out of the changer and I'm not up to fighting with it.

Five for Fighting - 100 years. It was playing on the radio as I drove into work for the graveyard shift right after I found out my sister's husband had been shot and killed in Iraq. I already liked the song, and when it gets to the "I'm thirty-three for a moment..." I lose it.

FIVE FOR FIGHTING LYRICS

100 Years


I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

I'm 33 for a moment
Still the man, but you see I'm a they
A kid on the way
A family on my mind

I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy, Time to lose yourself
Within a morning star

15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

Half time goes by
Suddenly you're wise
Another blink of an eye
67 is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on...

I'm 99 for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are

15 there's still time for you
22 I feel her too
33 you're on your way
Every day's a new day...

15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by JohnT
Ganger - that was hilarious!

Oh that was Turbonegro - Just flesh, by the way.
Quite emotional stuff.

[Theben]

Most of the good stuff was underground, Asher. Even some of the earlier New Wave was pretty good, but by '86 anything on the radio was garbage.

The arrival of grunge on the scene changed that for a too short span of time; the late 90's was just as bad as the late 80's.

[Saras]

Originally posted by Japher
totally lame jokes

Ashers taste in music

[Ben Kenobi]

All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could die

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now, they don't mean a thing
Every place I go, I'll think of you
Every song I sing, I'll sing for you
When I come back, I'll bring your wedding ring

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Close your eyes I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the times, I won't have to say

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold me like you'll never let me go
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by alva
From the 80'ties ( or there about)

Hmm, let's see:

XTC -
Human League - Being boiled
U2
Simple Minds
Ann Clarke
Transvision Vamp - I want your love
Tears fro Fears
Tenpole Tudor - Wunderbar
Talking Heads -
Supertramp -
Suzanne Vega
Stranglers -
The Police
The Specials -
Sonic youth -
Smiths -
Siouxie and the Banshees -
ShriekBack
Dead Can dance
Severed Heads
Kissing the Pink
Primitives - Crash
Pixies
PIL
OMD
No more - Suicide commando
Nitzerr Ebb
Neon judgement
Gary Newman
Kraftwerk
Killing Joke
Joy division
Art of nosie
Departement S - Is Vic there?
Dead Kennedys
DAF
Cure
Cabaret Voltaire ( though partly 70'ties, if not most)
Big Black
Belgian Assosiality
Bauhaus
Arno/TC Matic
Arbeid Adelt
Red Zebra - I can't lice in a living room
Jah Wobble - How much are they?
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Patti Smith

That should be enough for now.

Not forgetting The Birthday Party, Einsturzende Neubauten, Grace Jones, Marianne Faithfull, Brian Eno, Byrne/Eno's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts', Fad Gadget, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, John Cale, Christina, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson, The Cocteau Twins, The Associates, The B52s..... and that's without even touching on the folk and roots releases.

Yes there's plenty to be grateful to the 80s for. No Pop Idol, American Idol, Big Brother, Paris Hilton, No Talent Osborne Daughter, etc, etc.....

[JohnT]

And both of y'all forgot REM.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by JohnT
And both of y'all forgot REM.

I did mean to mention 'Green', honest.....

[alva]

..or Luc van Acker
http://houbi.com/belpop/groups/vanacker.htm

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Japher


It is, and I can make it work. Bernstein and Williams both worked for the movie industry,

Want me to write a paper about?

Aside from transporting West Side Story to the screen, Bernstein had little if anything to do with the movie industry. Where did you get that from?

But I'm more curious as to your assertion that Williams "revitalized" interest in classical music. I don't see this as true at all. The 1960s and 1970s were great decades in terms of recordings and great performances by legendary conductors. Especially since the decades preceding the 80s were the height of Bernstein's career!

Don't forget that Arthur Fiedler was leading the Boston Pops long before Williams, and to great popularity. I would say he is more fondly remembered as the conductor of that ensemble than Williams is thought of today.

Williams made a great contribution to symphonic cinematic scores, but that's wholly seperate from the realm of classical music performances.

[Verres]

Back to the original topic (sorry) a song that has made me cry since I was about 6, before I knew what half the lyrics meant. Heard it last night at an xmas party and it would appear it still has the same effect:

It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won’t see another one
And then he sang a song
The rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I’ve got a feeling
This year’s for me and you
So happy christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They’ve got cars big as bars
They’ve got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It’s no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold christmas eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of new york city
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the nypd choir
Were singing galway bay
And the bells were ringing out
For christmas day

You’re a bum
You’re a punk
You’re an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy christmas your arse
I pray God it’s our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can’t make it all alone
I’ve built my dreams around you

Merry xmas