Poetry and Lyrics in Motion

[Angeline]

A companion to the poetry and lyrics thread, put it all together here because yknow sometimes the poetry is in listening to the lyric put to music.

Please feel free to post your favorites




April in Paris, Ella Fitzgerald

 

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If That's Your Boyfriend, Meshell Ndegeocello

 

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Diamonds and Rust, Joan Baez

 

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Song to the Siren, Tim Buckley

 

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reading from On the Road, Jack Kerouac

(The montage is of Kerouac and Neal Cassady)

 

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Sonnet 49, Pablo Neruda (sung by Luciana Souza)

 

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Coney Island Baby, Tom Waits


(Archival Footage of Coney Island)

 

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Forgetfulness, Billy Collins

 

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Fine and Mellow, Billie Holiday

 

[Angeline]

for sandspike

twist my arm baby.


And since many people can't understand her, here's the (very timely) lyric~

Save The Country
Laura Nyro

Come on people
Come on children
Come on down to the glory river
Gonna wash you up
And wash you down
Come on people
Come on children
There's a king at the glory river
And the king loved to sing
In the sun -
"We shall overcome"

I got fury in my soul
Fury's gonna take me
To the glory goal
In my mind I can't study war no more
Save the people
Save the children
Save the country

In my mind I can't study war
In my mind I can't study war
There'll be trains of blossoms
There'll be trains of music
There'll be music...

 

[Angeline]

Subterranean Homesick Blues, Bob Dylan

(Note Alan Ginsberg, in his prayer shawl, in the left corner of the screen)

 

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The Wind Cries Mary, Jimi Hendrix

 

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Jazz so sweet

you could eat it with a spoon.

Sweet Lorraine, Nat King Cole

Nat is backed by a marvelous quartet: Oscar Peterson on piano, Herb Ellis on guitar, Ray Brown on bass and Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax.

 

[Tathagata]

What's He Building in There??

Tom Waits

what the hell is he building?

 

[Tathagata]

Elephant Talk - King Crimson

 

[bogusbrig]

Someone's intepretation of Adrian Henri's 'Love Is'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggx_ZdCcq2A

 

[bogusbrig]

Tanita Tikarem - Yodelling Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M0yyXQwGNs

 

[Angeline]

I'm soooo glad

I'm not the only one posting in this thread anymore.

Oh and gentlemen thank you both for the home movies. They're great.

Tath, I saw Crimson on that Discipline tour and saw Adrien Belew do Elephant Talk. I had seen King Crimson a few times before then and thought they were at their best with that group of musicians (Fripp gets a little too spacey for me sometimes).

Bogus, that video reminds me of a quote from a Ted Berrigan poem:

There's only one way to describe true love.
Does anybody know what it is?​

Come back soon. Bring your friends. And here, have some Bukowski

 

[Tathagata]

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

I saw the tour before this, they had Adrian Belew on guitar
It was the only time I've ever seen my brother get up and dance.

 

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This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

I saw the tour before this, they had Adrian Belew on guitar
It was the only time I've ever seen my brother get up and dance.

Something for the baby:

Once in a Lifetime, Kermit the Frog

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[Tathagata]

Something for the baby:

Once in a Lifetime, Kermit the Frog

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LOL
I love the fact he does the " chopping arm" move
Every picture of me taken during the early 80's I am somehow recreating a move from that video.
I was a big hit at weddings



Lou Reed - Dirty Blvd

 

[Tathagata]

Brain Damage/ Eclipse - Pink Floyd

 

[Angeline]

Busload of Faith, Lou Reed

 

[Tathagata]

Redemption Song - Bob Marley

" How long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?"

Marley was riddled with cancer when he recorded this and it is debated whether he knew he was dying or not.

 

[bogusbrig]

Great song, great lyrics.

Beth Orton/Central Reservation