Monat: Februar 2014

let there be songs to fill the air

….das waren übrigens die zeiten vor h&m und bon prix…

..ach ja, und gestern abend, als ich brav zu hause saß und meine plattensammlung mich plötzlich anrief:

spiel mich rauf und runter, mister dj
i wanna get fucked up 

da fiel mir noch die geniale patti smith-cd „twelve“ von 2007 in die hände…
im letzten lied, einem song von stevie wonder, heißt es wirklich schön formuliert:

People spend most of their lives livin‘ in a pastime paradise
People spend most of their lives livin‘ in a future paradise

ach ja, und hier der text zu positively 4th street

Der Song wurde am 29. Juli 1965 während der Sessions zum Album Highway 61 Revisited aufgenommen, wurde aber nicht für das Album verwendet. Das Stück wurde nach Like A Rolling Stone Dylans zweite Hit-Single in den US-Charts und schaffte es auf Platz 7. In Großbritannien belegte er Rang 8. In Kanada schaffte es die Nummer sogar auf Platz 1 der Single-Charts. Als B-Seite suchte man From A Buick 6 aus dem Highway 61-Album aus.

Positively 4th Street

You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning

You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning

You say I let you down
You know it’s not like that
If you’re so hurt
Why then don’t you show it

You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You’re in with

Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with

You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, “How are you?” “Good luck”
But you don’t mean it

When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it

No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them

And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJbuqkptpQ

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnidbDVSmQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUA2Fod7nHc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv7DY27aPyk

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXB1SUmEuw

 

 

you angel you

Damals, auf meiner Therapie, meinte mein Sporttherapeut auf meine Bemerkung, dass die Leute doch heutzutage nix Gescheites mehr im Kopf hätten:

„Herr Bergdolt, Sie wissen doch:
Das Ficken und das Feierabendbier
Sind des kleinen Mannes Hauptpläsier“

Mhm. Ich dachte, aha, interessant, was einem Sporttherapeuten da so auf den zukünftigen Lebensweg mitgeben.

Ich probierte das dann gleich  bei meiner Therapeutin aus.

Das eine fand sie nicht so gut, dem anderen war sie selbst verfallen.

Seitdem torkele ich durch mein weiteres restliches Leben und halte mich lieber an Bob,
the only angel who always stayed with me.

In geradezu exorbitanter Vorfreude auf den Sommer und auf das Münchner Tollwood-Konzert hab ich vorgestern auf der Tube nach ein paar Filmchen gestöbert.

Fängt an mit „Desolation Row“ von der Europatour im Herbst 2003.
Dann kommen 4 Videos von Bonn 2012.

„Don’t Think Twice“ ist von Stockholm 2007, „Can’t Wait“ von Milano 2011.

Der Rest ist mal hier und mal da, steht eh meistens dran.

Am Schluß das Video zu „Duquesne Whistle“.

Und das Highlight von Eindhoven 93, als Liz einfach so auf die Bühne reinschneite und die Security mehrmals vergeblich versuchte, die beiden zu trennen.

The circus is in town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pny3g4a-s

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1EBor281Q

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH55dLua9E0

 

 

 

 

it takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

 

Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby
Can’t buy a thrill
Well, I’ve been up all night, baby
Leanin’ on the windowsill
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don’t make it
You know my baby will

Don’t the moon look good, mama
Shinin’ through the trees?
Don’t the brakeman look good, mama
Flagging down the “Double E?”
Don’t the sun look good
Goin’ down over the sea?
Don’t my gal look fine
When she’s comin’ after me?

Now the wintertime is coming
The windows are filled with frost
I went to tell everybody
But I could not get across
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby
I don’t wanna be your boss
Don’t say I never warned you
When your train gets lost

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeBzvgewgsc

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlSn8Isv-3M

…this one goes out to the one I love

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9PY4r83p8

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSV5mUIuoUk

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5mHwcsmSE

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6JG-yE8UTw

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjGOxo0KDMs

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egnuKspNBAU

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeWsbLFDUyc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTMwayiKCPw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at the end of the day…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8DTO6frax4

 

Oh, the mud splattered victims
Have to pay out all along the ancient highway
Torn between half-truth and victimisation
Fighting back with counter attacks

Its when that rough God goes riding
When the rough God goes gliding
And then rough God goes riding
Riding on in

I was flabbergasted by the headlines
People in glasshouses throwing stones
Gaping wounds that will never heal
Now theyre moaning like a dog in a manger

Its when that rough God goes riding
And then the rough God goes gliding
Therell be nobody hiding
When that rough God comes riding on in

And its a matter of survival
When youre born with your back against the wall
Wont somebody hand me a Bible?
Wont you give me that number to call?

When that rough God goes riding
And then that rough God goes gliding
Theyll be nobody hiding
When that rough God goes riding on in
Riding on in

When that rough God goes riding
When that rough God goes gliding
Therell be nobody hiding
When that rough God goes riding on in
Riding on in

Therell be no more heroes
Theyll be reduced to zero
When that rough God goes riding
Riding on in, riding on in
Riding on in, riding on in

 

„Rough God Goes Riding“ is the opening song on the album, The Healing Game by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. The song reached #168 on the UK charts. One of the B-sides of the single, the alternative version of „The Healing Game„, appears on all three editions of Morrison’s 2007 compilation album Still on Top – The Greatest Hits. The other B-side „At the End of the Day“ was released as a bonus track on the 2008 reissue of The Healing Game.

According to biographer Clinton Heylin this song: „signalled a return to the religious and spiritual preoccupations that had driven Morrison’s work throughout the eighties, the image of the Rough God being derived from Robin Williamson’s ‚Mr. Thomas‘ — recorded by Morrison for Inarticulate — in which ‚the rough God goes riding with his shears‘, a reference to the avenging Messiah who shall return to wreak final judgement on Man.“

Greil Marcus wrote that „The deep burr of Morrison’s voice buries the words, which cease to matter; you might not hear them until the tenth time you play the album, or long after that. ‚It’s when that rough god goes riding,‘ he sings, drawing the words both from Yeats and down in his chest, and you might never know it’s the Angel of Death that has you in its embrace.“

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPSBzGEklE