Pickled Egg Jukebox-Your Selections

[mickthemaverick]

I came across this by accident and I think it is well worth an airing if only for the guitar!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

Treated myself to a double dose of that

Regards Neil

[Paul-R]

Fabulous. I always considered Prince to be overrated but I may have to reconsider that.

[myglaren]

I have never been comfortable with Prince. Seems to be lots of flash and glitz but otherwise uninspired.
Any of his creations always seem better when covered by someone else.
Like Purple Rain covered by Holly Coal.

[mickthemaverick]

Feels good to get something right on the music front!!

[myglaren]

Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) no longer with us

This from "The Year Of Living Dangerously"
Took me years to locate a copy as it was mistakenly credited to Maurice Jarre.



Wonderful film and my first sight of Sigourney Weaver and Mel Gibson.

[myglaren]

Have you ever used a bit of fluffy white cloud on purpose to act as a contrast to silhouette a swallow which has flown all the way from Africa to perch momentarily on a Northumberland telegraph wire...



British swallows spend their winter in South Africa - they travel through western France, across the Pyrenees, down eastern Spain into Morocco and across the Sahara. Some birds follow the west coast of Africa avoiding the Sahara.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

A spinoff from that:-


Sumptuous Sax

[myglaren]

And an odd thing that came from the list,
Villanelle For Our Time.

Intrigued as I liked Villanelle the TV series recently but never considered the name, just a name, I presumed.

I have the CD, as well as every other Cohen CD but had never reacted to the title, and it seems that:-

Villanelle (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.

But also:-

“From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.”

From Villanelle For Our Time by Leonard Cohen

The words of Leonard Cohen’s song Villanelle For Our Time are actually from a poem by F.R. Scott a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert.
While Scott was at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar he became influenced by the R.H. Tawney a Christian Socialist. That makes a lot of sense as we look at these lyrics. There is a deep sense of personal spirituality and social transformation and where those two things connect. Cohen or Scott, or both actually, are saying that the social coming together of people will find its spark in the personal searching of the heart. That in itself comes from a personal faith that finds its way into the world in humanity finding their vocational places. We play our part, as one of my many mantras goes, when “our deepest gladness meets the world’s deepest need” (Frederick Buechner). Our work coming out of faith is what will bring Commonwealth or God’s Kingdom or however you want to describe a new world order.

“Social holiness” is a new Wesleyan phrase that I learned recently that rather caught my attention. In evangelical Christianity we have been rather over focused on personal piety and have neglected our social holiness. Indeed, John Stott said that our neglect of social justice issues was the great evangelical heresy of the Twentieth Century. So, Cohen and Scott’s poetry is an inspiration to live holy lives in both spheres. Indeed, they go together and should be separated.

From: https://stocki.typepad.com/soulsurmise/ ... -time.html

[myglaren]

I bought a new song by Jackie Evancho, only available as a digital download from Amazon.
I played it, of course, then it went on and is playing all the music that I have bought from Amazon.

There was an horrendous racket came up. Didn't recognise it and thought it had gone doolally.

Blink 82 Bought an LP (yes, an LP) for my granddaughter's birthday three years ago. Never listened to it of course.
It is her birthday again in a few days. Car this year as she is 17. Her elder siblings both got C2s for their birthdays. I wonder if she will go the same route.

[myglaren]

One can't mention Amelia Earhart without invoking the Joni



In my mind perhaps the best thing that she has done.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks Steve, hadn't seen that before. Sometimes you say you don't pay much attention to lyrics. Joni's are sheer poetic magnificence, and I always consider her album Hejira to be her masterpiece.

Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker - "Shadows And Light". just popped up at the side, from which your Amelia vid was taken...I'll enjoy that.

REgards Neil

[myglaren]

Indeed, the lyrics to that are exquisite!
I regard "Hejira" as one of the top five of my record/CD collection (Have both LP & CD).
I am overawed by her guitar skills, much more than the noodling bloke behind her.

The comments to that video are all very heartening, she is a very appreciated talent.

[myglaren]

I like this girl, very enthusiastic.

Not quite the same grit as Taylor Momsen though.

[mickthemaverick]

Prompted by Neil's post on Today's County in the Spotlight I thought of this song. However when I listened to Joni's version I honestly found it a bit slow so I picked this up tempo version by Judy Collins as it reflects Neil's post better IMO!!!!