Favorite Song/Music Convo

Hi there @JimWildman

I’m really pleased to hear how much you’ve enjoyed that Nina Simone song.

I can find it difficult to place any of her songs as best, but I’ve enjoyed looking through my CDs and narrowing it down to a selection for your listening pleasure. Some of the ones I’ve selected I feel have some pertinence to the situation we sadly find ourselves to be in here, others are just damned fine tunes, including some beautiful torch songs.

So, without further ado, and as you say, we’ll ignore those birds flying high…

For Myself

I Don’t Want Him

Images

I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl

Ne Me Quitte Pas

Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out

Save Me

The Other Woman

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Trouble In Mind

22nd Century

Whatever I Am ‘You Made Me’

What Have They Done to My Song, Ma?

Who Am I?

And I have to thank you Jim, as thanks to tracking down the above on Youtube I discovered a few I’d never heard before:

Isn’t It A Pity

Stars - including Nina chastising someone in the audience

You Don’t Know What Love Is

Thanks also for giving me an excuse to indulge in some classic Nina. I hope that you enjoy listening to them.

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Its not really that positive or uplifting, but this song translates my feelings over all this mess.

I am a Portuguese speaker (and musician), and it’s sang in Portuguese. Anyways take a look, it’s beautiful melodically and harmony (and you will surely relate)

Translation:

My World And Nothing Else

When I got hurt

I saw everything change

Of all the truths

That I knew

Now there are only traces left

Of what I didn’t forget

All that peace

That I used to have

I had everything

But now I’m speechless

I have changed

At midnight, in the mid-light

Thinking

I’d give everything to have a way

Of forgetting

I want to be

In the darkness of my bedroom so badly

At midnight, in the mid-light

Dreaming

I’d give everything to have my world

And nothing else

I’m not really sure

If I’ll ever smile again

Without any traces of bitterness

How to be free?

How to be capable

Of seeing a new day?

I had everything

But now I’m speechless

I have changed

At midnight, in the mid-light

Thinking

I’d give everything to have a way

Of forgetting

I want to be

In the darkness of my bedroom so badly

At midnight, in the mid-light

Dreaming

I’d give everything to have my world

And nothing else

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@gomesemog
Yes, the lyrics hit home, don’t they? I looked for an English version to no avail; you’d think that over nearly 50 years someone would have recorded it!

Did PFS affect your appreciation of music at all? I went nearly two years with no desire for music, but recently that passed and I’m immersing myself in all the tunes of my past. Thanks for your song, Jim

Surely did. I have emotional bluntness, it got a little better but definitely still have it. I used to fckn L O V E music and now it’s kinda meh.

Anyways, happy that you can appreciate it again now.

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It has been nearly two weeks since my latest selection. Today I return to the great Pink Floyd for their tune, “Lost for Words”…

Sample of lyrics:

  • Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
    Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
    Stuck in a world of isolation
    While the ivy grows over the door
    So I open my door to my enemies
    And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
    But they tell me to please go f^ck myself
    You know you just can’t win…*
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@eveningwatcher
One of my top King Crimson joys has been Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, their fifth album.

I especially enjoy the title tune, over 20 minutes of Crimson instrumentals at their best (part 1 and 2.) For your consideration:

Edit: I forgot to add part 2! This section is heavier than the first, and @Devolution2 and @Wintermoon may like it!

Https://youtu.be/CVb2tnFN5AA

https://youtu.be/jX0caf1HvNs

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No reaction to last week’s selection. Has this discussion already run out of steam? I look forward to your song selections, brothers!

Today I offer the tune “I Guess I Just Feel Like” as performed by John Mayer. He has a great guitar solo in the tail end, and the lyrics hit home. Example:

I guess I just feel like
Good things are gone
And the weight of my worries
Is too much to take on
I think I remember
This dream that I had
This love’s gonna save us
From a world that’s gone mad
I guess I just feel like
What happened to that?
I guess I just feel like
The joke’s getting old
The future is fading
And the past is on hold
But I know that I’m open
And I know that I’m free
And I’ll always let hope in
Wherever I’ll be
And if I go blind I’ll still find my way
I guess I just felt like
Giving up today…

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The tyranny of deterioration
It worries me that it’s all just a waste of time
Taking one step forward, two steps back
Still I believe there’s a thread through the thorns
And I believe that somewhere it’s warm
And I believe that it’s ever bright beyond this black

So keep holding on
To hope without assurance
Holding on
To a memory of light
But will the morning come?
For all I know
We’ll never see the sun
But together we’ll fight the long defeat

The suffering that I see all around
It’s enough to keep me crashing down till I
I lie wrecked and reeling from these falls
Still I believe there’s a word in the wire
And I believe there’s a way through the fire
And I believe there’s a joy that blooms beyond these walls

So keep holding on
To hope without assurance
Holding on
To a memory of light
But will the morning come?
For all I know
We’ll never see the sun
But together we’ll fight the long defeat

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@Sawproblemo
A good addition! The lyrics could have been penned by a PFS victim! Thanks, Jim

This describes my experience with PSSD perfectly.

“There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in times gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed, that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he’ll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream
I dreamed”

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@Gavia
I’d heard that song many times before, but now I see it in a new light!

Seeing the singer stripped bare, debased, humiliated, hopeless…isn’t that what this despicable PFS disease does to us? Thank you for the suggestion, Jim

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For my latest contribution I have a song for the soul. Not all readers believe, but for those that do I offer up “Oh, What a Saviour.”

Once I was straying, in sin’s dark valley,
No hope within could I see.
They searched through Heaven and found a Savior,
To save a poor, lost soul like me.
Oh, what a Savior, oh hallelujah!
His heart was broken on calvary
His hands were nail scarred, His side was riven,
He gave His life’s blood for even me.
Death’s chilly water I’ll soon be crossing,
But His hand will lead me safe oe’r.
Then I’ll join the chorus, in that bright city,
And I’ll sing up there forevermore!
Oh, what a Savior, oh hallelujah!
His heart was broken on calvary
His hands were nail scarred, His side was riven,
He gave His life’s blood for even me.

I have two versions I love and must include them both. First is from “The Gatlin Bros.”

A more traditional Christian group comprised of four “Old Friends” next:

I hope you’ll listen and enjoy. Jim

Music to soothe the troubled soul doesn’t elicit much interest here. With that in mind, I offer up one last song.

“Will you Miss Me (When I’m Gone),” performed here by the Walkabouts.

… When death shall close these eye lids
And this heart shall cease to beat
And they lay me down to rest
In some flowery bound retreat
… Will you miss me?
(Miss me when I’m gone)
Will you miss me?
(Miss me when I’m gone)
… Will you miss me?
(Miss me when I’m gone)
Will you miss me when I’m gone?
… Perhaps you’ll plant a flower
On my poor unworthy grave
Come and sit along beside me
When the roses nod and wave
… Will you miss me?
(Miss me when I’m gone)
Will you miss me?
(Miss me when I’m gone)…

I haven’t been listening to music lately, don’t know why but lately i’ve been having music stuck in my head all the time, it’s nausiating and frustrating because I can’t stop it voluntarially (probably a PFS mental effect).
That being said, I feel like I should share this song here, not only it is beautiful in its own right, its name suggests a situation alike to ours, which is an interesting duality to say the least. I’ve yet to figure out how the lyrics are related to to the name of the song though.

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Music is ALWAYS stuck in my head dude

Fuckin annoying

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Interesting, I knew other user had this, but maybe it’s more common that I though.
I think I should make a thread about it.

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Still?

Whatsoever I’ve feared has come to life
And whatsoever I’ve fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded, now I’m doing time
Now I’m doing time

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

Whomsoever I’ve cured, I’ve sickened now
And whomsoever I’ve cradled, I’ve put you down
I’m a search light soul they say
But I can’t see it in the night

I’m only faking when I get it right
When I get it right

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate? Yeah

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

So what you wanted to see good
Has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours
Has made it mine

So don’t you lock up something
That you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
No, not tying, no, not tying

I sure don’t mind a change
I sure don’t mind a change
Yeah, I sure don’t mind, sure don’t mind a change
I sure don’t mind a change

'Cause I fell on black days
I fell on black days

How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate?

How would I know
That this could be my fate?
How would I know
That this could be my fate?

I sure don’t mind a change

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Another Chris Cornell fan here. “Shadow on the Sun” is a favorite of mine:

Shapes of every size
Move behind my eyes
Doors inside my head
Bolted from within
Every drop of flame
Lights a candle in
Memory of the one
Who lived inside my skin

And I can tell you why
People go insane
I can show you how
You could do the same
I can tell you why
The end will never come
I can tell you I’m
A shadow on the sun

Hits pretty hard for anyone who has experienced a major loss.

Full lyrics are available here.

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Your body may be gone, I’m gonna carry you in
In my head, in my heart, in my soul
And maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both live again
Well, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, don’t think so

Well, that is that and this is this
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get
You get away from me, you get away from me
Collected my belongings and I left the jail
Well, thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell
I had to think awhile, I had to think awhile

The ocean breathes salty, won’t you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul
And maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both grow old
Well, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I hope so

Well, that is that and this is this
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get
You get away from me (you get away from me)
You get away from me
Collected my belongings and I left the jail
Well, thanks for the time, I needed to think a spell
I had to think awhile (I had to think awhile)
I had to think awhile

Well, that is that and this is this
Will you tell me what you saw and I’ll tell you what you missed
When the ocean met the sky (you missed)
You missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye (you missed)
When the earth folded in on itself (you missed)
And said "good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell
(You missed, you missed) are really there
But I wouldn’t hold my breath" (you missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death? (You missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste death?

The ocean breathes salty, won’t you carry it in?
In your head, in your mouth, in your soul
The more we move ahead the more we’re stuck in rewind
Well, I don’t mind I don’t mind
How the hell could I mind? Huh

Well, that is that and this is this
You tell me what you want and I’ll tell you what you get
You get away from me (you get away from me), you get away from me

Well, that is that and this is this
Will you tell me what you saw and I’ll tell you what you missed
When the ocean met the sky (you missed, you missed)
You wasted life, why wouldn’t you waste the afterlife?

Im a big Modest Mouse fan and can relate to a lot of their songs.