On August - 13 - 2010
You’ve blogged about important issues all week, you’ve earned a chance to relax and recharge. It’s Music Time.
So, this week’s theme for this thread is all about putting aside the weight of the world’s events for a while and just enjoying being alive on this amazing Planet. Share the songs that just make you happy, that make you want to dance, make you smile and make you sing along every time!
I’ll kick off my picks with one that’s become one of my 7 year old’s favorite songs, she calls it “The Big Baby” song because of the CD’s cover art:
Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
What a Wonderful World – Joey Ramone
Mr. Blue Sky – ELO
Brand New Day – Sting
All You Need is Love – The Beatles
Categories: Music Thread
SueInCa
choicelady
AdLib
Kalima
Khirad
You’re right, AdLib. It is important to lighten up every now and then. Otherwise, we might find ourselves here:
This is for you, k’es.
Thanks, b’ito! Good one!
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And now for something completely different…or some “things”:
If those waiters don’t stop singing and start waiting on customers, they’re going to get a little behind…
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No buts about it!
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Another fun toe-tapping oldie, surprisingly from Pink Floyd, San Tropez:
OK, Tim is one of my dearest friends in the whole wide world. This video does NOT showcase him at his best (I’ll post others that do), but since we are NOT being serious, here we go (and remember -- this is sarcasm):
Hey, I thought this land was for me? You too? Damn socialists!
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Damn Right!!! Especially for ME. Thanks, AB.
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Glad you guys got it. Damn commies nazis and socialists. We all know it’s MY world!
sorry I bugged off -- shopping for one of my returning students, coming for her first year of college in Las Vegas NEW MEXICO!!!! Go figure. Ah well, I get to go to Santa Fe and Pagosa Springs in September. Bito -- she’s the one who writes so much on the Women’s Writing Project you had checked out.
Must go -- can’t do VP. NEVER get to take part -- but I always read the leftovers the next day.
Leaving you all with another Timmy O’Brien -- and I mean this! Get out there and DANCE!
Hello AB, I have heard Las Vegas NM is a nice place. I don’t know.
You can’t leave without leaving the link. I want everyone to read it. A must read!
http://www.awwproject.org/
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Well maybe a little serious. MightyWoof left a very goo link on climate change by Dr. Suzuki. Seems he is not only a great scientist he is a CANADIAN ROCKER. He leaves this site call ‘Playlist for the Planet. Cool. U-Tube has 68 videos
OK, so it isn’t music, but it is good.
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You’re kidding me Bito
…….. I never knew that!! Just wait ’til I tell hubby – he’ll die larfing!
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MW
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I’ve sorta been into this band ever since I found out the singer is from my hometown.
Glass Candy -- Feeling Without Touching
The always cheeky,
Daft Punk -- Harder Better Faster Stronger
I just can’t resist. What do you expect from an old phart.
May I join you in the Swing Department? With a twofer, Bing Crosby and Andrew Sisters in Accentuate the Positive as played in The Singing Detective (one of my favorite tv productions of all time):
Well if your gonna dance—Take your Clothes Off and Dance
Why did so few people listen to him in ’68
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‘String of Pearls’ !!! Yowwwzaaa! A gift to his wife, Well, Jimmy Stewart did in the movie
Keep the Fire High in the sky, not on the ground.
Here’s another ELO oldie with a fun groove, Livin’ Thing: