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Stillwater

After discussion in a previous thread, I think I realized I have never spoken music much here on the forums... which is funny... if you were to know me in real life, haha.

When I think of the things that have the most profound and lasting influence on my life, powerfully for the better, I think of the people I have known, music, the natural world, meditation and spiritual practice, and books, in that exact order. And for me Music is probably the most religious experience I have had by far in waking life, and the easiest and most accessible thing to share with others. For me, it is absolutely uncontainable, I simply overflow  :lol:

I thought it might be nice for us to share some playlists of some of the music we all liked; I could honestly go on for hundreds and hundreds of songs, and it would still only be the highlights, but I will keep it under 30 at least to start! I can always share dozens more if anyone is interested!



"Don't Wanna Pray"- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyOP1CXxryo

"Blue Ridge Mountains"- Fleet Foxes    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m8CkxXhPtw

"You Want Alchemy"- Kate Bush    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EM3M509P7c

"Suspended in Gaffa"- Kate Bush    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2acDdfbvY

"Waiting for the Moon to Rise"- Belle and Sebastian    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8DDDEotEmc

"Poor Boy"- Nick Drake    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYJyp4EIbI

"Postcards from Italy"- Beirut    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61BVv6pLtw

"River Man"- Nick Drake    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idcaRTg4-fM

"Peace like a River"- Paul Simon    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAmPfEMI16g

"Adios Hermanos"- Paul Simon    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtABhCcTFjM

"China Town"- Destroyer   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zCJwn3Ym7g

"Solider of the Heart"- Judee Sill     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN9shdXDnNU

"Yasashisa ni tsutsumareta nara" (Japanese folk song)- Yumi Arai    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLhPR8Qk44

"California"- Joni Mitchell    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4foLKDlcE

"500 Miles"- Joan Baez    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K6z3HiRAs

"Water is Wide"- Bob Dylan and Joan Baez    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np1jIde44vE

"Tiny Dancer"- Elton John  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0aRyxNRMn0

"Crane Wife"- The Decemberists (the intro is funny... he is asking for requests, and of course someone picks this 20-minute song, lol) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOMHM6waxk

"The Working Hour"- Tears for Fears    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4qxbu7eio

"Goodnight Song"- Tears for Fears    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QZTFcLPTBQ

"On Fire"- Bruce Springsteen    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBTtRL8g_C4

"Thunder Road"- Bruce Springsteen    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMB3M43AEpc

"Life on Mars"- David Bowie   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0RmRGTePw

"Isobel"- Bjork    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PPGlqVWXc

"Roof of the World"- Dido    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnsn0GMv9RE

"Nothing Gonna Break my Strike"- Matthew Wilder (the video on this one is incredible, haha) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KobNbbI2s

"Blood of Eden"- Peter Gabriel and Sinnead O' Conner    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuwgLkcPESQ

"Slegehammer"- Peter Gabriel    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g93mz_eZ5N4

"Another Day in Paradise"- Phill Collins    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI

"And You and I"- Yes     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-rdL2KkvzY

"Exiles"- King Krimson    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWAbNIMsveI

"Aqueous Transmission"- Incubus    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQK7KSTQfaw

"Esme"- Joanna Newsom    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9VeFnn2hM


What sorts of things do you guys connect with? Would love to hear it!

"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic

Bedeekin

I love music but I'm not as passionate as you Stillwater. I know your type though.... I know it well. A few of my friends are very motivated in life by music and I find it kind of intimidating when it comes to sharing my taste with them... because with that level of love of music it seems to come with a type of snobbery. It's only a perceived snobbery... not actual snobbery. Like a film buff has snobbery. Geekyness I suppose is another way of putting it.

aaaaaaanyway.... for what it's worth this is what I was listening to this morning....

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes. This is a great live compilation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWIvfE01J0k




Stillwater

Yeah I hear that, haha. I am not normal when it comes to music, that is certain; when I go to a new place, the first friends I seem to make turn out to be street performers and buskers, haha.

I can also understand the intimidation part; I guess at this level of interest, the gathering of information is very active and conscious, whereas most folks seem to absorb what is around them, and what they grow up around, or what their peer group values. But even with that level of exposure, I still feel like most people are exposed to beautiful and meaningful art which can allow them to break barriers with others. I guess to me it sort of takes the place alcohol often does as a social facilitator, lol; I mean beer is ok I guess, but nothing beats listening to what someone grew up around with them, and watching the way it reminds them of their highest ideals. I guess I also thought of Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez in this context, because I remember years ago in university I was meeting with some Polish professors we were having an exhange program with. Someone was playing the Rolling Stones in the background in another room, and one of the Poles began to talk about how that was the start of the real commercialization of music, but it was also a time when tons of folk acts were able to become known as a result; someone procured a guitar, and somehow one of them was playing old Joan Baez songs. It was like one of those fleeting moments that only seem to happen in films, to see someone so profoundly animated by their past like that... like a sharing people are not capable of on normal everyday terms.


I guess it is sort of like being a sports buff or some such; like such a person can strike up a conversation about Arsenal's lineup this year, and how their forwards are unbalanced purposely to concentrate abilty on one side of the field... and the listeners really have no way of interfacing or adding to that discussion. Music can be be like that to some extent, but that part I feel is also superficial and accessory to the discussion. For instance, with Edward Sharpe we both just posted, there is an implicit level of... rhetoric going on, because the bandmates take on these personas of preachy-evangelical types which it is meant to be understood aren't their actual personalities; they sort of see themselves as channeling this energy and passion which is so far removed from our present society that they need to take on the role of characters to express it. This can be confusing to some at first I guess. But then, to me that is also outside the point. Music to me is so far above such sophistries, and so universally understood, that barriers like that are only minor nuances.  Music has no language barrier, or reading list pre-requisite... you can listen to a Farsi or an Italian singer, and understand their emotion and intenion outside of any understanding of lyrics or cultural context, and that to me makes music one of the perfect vehicles of sharing and communicating between people.
"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic

Szaxx

#3
There's far more where the eye can't see.
Close your eyes and open your mind.

Stillwater

QuoteArthur Brown, Fire. ( Wow factor when young).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laMuBs9AU_E&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Haha, that is a great video... a bit like the doors  :lol:

QuotePini Floyd, Comfortably Numb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8fFVOoqepc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Clearly a classic. The scissor sisters recently did a (less classic, but also awesome) cover, lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVE-R1_Izo

QuoteJohn Denver and Placido Domingo, Perhaps Love. (Practice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XjOseVwwic&feature=youtube_gdata_player

That is pretty amazing... I haven't listened to many of John Denver's songs... sort of reminds me of James Taylor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmgkvIgc0w

Those are pretty good, and I like the U2 cover too  :wink: U2 is one of the only stadium fillers that I think is justified in doing so , haha. Dave Matthews is probably another. They both manage mass appeal and greatness at the same time, which isn't easy!
"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic

sunshaker

#5
Nice playlists :-)

Thought i would add Celtic woman, who i always find haunting  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mAGlPG62vA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC1O8_ipWAw

Also came back across Loreena McKennit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SG6ZITbWpU
                                                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js-cKpZydfE

The Heart sutra Deva premal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR1L9IN03g
Looks like i'm on a music day now :-)

Astralzombie

#6
I must have missed this thread.

I'll give a list of some of the songs that have become important to me. I am one of those that, I tend to associate a song with memories, you know first kiss, first whatever, when my dog died, when I met so and so, that kind of stuff.. Some reasons are very obvious to me while others are not.

Perhaps that will explain the range. If you find the lyrics or imagery offensive or aren't congruent with a spiritual path, don't worry because I agree. It's just that I can't erase the importance that they had during certain periods of my life.

No particular order but they are all my favs.

QuotePancho & Lefty-Willie and Merle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvdmxszsDM8

QuoteAstro Zombies-The Misfits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L1CtXtB4Yc

QuoteCorpus Christi Bay-Robert Earl Keen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jngkzO34x5s

QuoteSistinas-Danzig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTV-KjQ0Po

QuoteI've had Choices-George Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1BTbSsFmZ4

QuoteSweet Child O' Mine-Guns n Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-AYAv0IoWI

QuoteDon't Close Your eyes-Keith Whitley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUICUbKZoI

QuoteHeaven-Los Lonely Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jUICUbKZoI

QuoteRooster-Alice in Chains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHiR1xeOSs

QuoteThe Howl-SamHain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wk7YN-_GDE

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain

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Lionheart

 There's only one on my mind right now. This an oldie, but a goodie! Enjoy!  :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URGORB-B5Z4

newhere

You guys have some nice songs! This song I listen to when I just want to 'relax'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myd3UtlSvZM

Stillwater

Oh man, forgot about this topic!

Maybe we should do this regularly again... here are a few:

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"Play for Today"- Belle and Sebastian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FCA55QhMWo

"Lazy Line-Painter Jane"- Belle and Sebastian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2R8bb0vkk

"Black Starling"- Pure Bathing culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yxquj3VMPg&list=PLVs0DfbRc_AbUDFXgsGjL22DSIqm1Soon&index=5

"Pray for Rain"- Pure Bathing culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtc0Rql69Cs

"Divers"- Joanna Newsom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48xlgXqQKLA
"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic

Stillwater

#11
Ok, here is a real treat... this one really gets me wet. Wait till it is late at night (you need to, these are nighttime songs), and your mind is fully clear and receptive, and pop it on with full attention and absorbtion. You will be transported.

It is so rending, and so euphoric at the same time.

It amazes me that humans are able to share what is deepest inside them this completely. This is core-deep stuff.


"Hats" Album, Pure Bathing Culture
https://youtu.be/a5Y03s95dZ8


The original that Sarah is covering here is a masterpiece:

"Hats" Album, The Blue Nile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTAAgVOdTLI
"The Gardener is but a dream of the Garden."

-Unattributed Zen monastic