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tea for two wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:24 pm
1st song Changing World : lyrics as these we need more of these days in the mainstream.
Gorgeous solo at 3min15sec.
2nd song Bullets and Tears : such lovely changes at 40sec 56sec 2min04sec 2min31sec 3min17sec. Also the solo at 4min30sec.
I could easily play to my family these songs with their sincere lyrics sincere singing OW.
Ps. when I see TAFKAE I can't help but think TAFCAKE
Thanks so much TfT. I struggle a bit with lyrics, think they sound naff sometimes, same with the singing, but I think it is improving and your encouraging comments help with confidence.
I started listening to music actively when Bob Dylan, Peeter Seeger et al came on the scene and even though I was of a relatively young age 13/14, their lyrics sort of connected with me. Why a 14 year old should be so taken with the plight of Hollis Brown, I don't know I just was.
I also listened to people such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf....currently I am a fan of K Pop - Black Pink are so slick.
But I try to write about things that aren't just about Boy Meets Girls, One Gives the Other the Boot.
I suppose I would have called a Protest Singer back in the day, but singing pop style ditties. I suppose I am sort of a Cliff Richard with attitude
Writing keeps me out of mischief I guess. If I am not writing I'd be tending to my vegetable plot.
The singing's pretty good actually - very nice timbre, and good pitch. The lyrics are quite complex, forcing you to lean in and listen properly. When you do that the message is well worth the effort. Love the piano rolling around - and everything's very clear and precise. What's not to like?
amanise wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:49 pm
The singing's pretty good actually - very nice timbre, and good pitch. The lyrics are quite complex, forcing you to lean in and listen properly. When you do that the message is well worth the effort. Love the piano rolling around - and everything's very clear and precise. What's not to like?
Well done! Some more of those please!
Thanks a lot Amanise,
I take your point about having to lean in to get the words. Trying to get the alliteration clear is somethign I am mindful of. And some times when I sing the words, and I am coming up to a phrase where I think "Uh oh, timing, phrasing, pitch and clarity" well sometimes other words just come into my head and mess everything up. For example there are the lines........
"There's a Tear, Falls into the Sand,
from the Eyes of a Child that's only Seen Hunger and Pain"
Came out as.....
"There's a Terd, Falls into the Sand,
from the Ars* of a Child that's only Seen Hunger and Pain"
amanise wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:49 pm
The singing's pretty good actually - very nice timbre, and good pitch. The lyrics are quite complex, forcing you to lean in and listen properly. When you do that the message is well worth the effort. Love the piano rolling around - and everything's very clear and precise. What's not to like?
Well done! Some more of those please!
Thanks a lot Amanise,
I take your point about having to lean in to get the words. Trying to get the alliteration clear is somethign I am mindful of. And some times when I sing the words, and I am coming up to a phrase where I think "Uh oh, timing, phrasing, pitch and clarity" well sometimes other words just come into my head and mess everything up. For example there are the lines........
"There's a Tear, Falls into the Sand,
from the Eyes of a Child that's only Seen Hunger and Pain"
Came out as.....
"There's a Terd, Falls into the Sand,
from the Ars* of a Child that's only Seen Hunger and Pain"
And I can't get it out my head now
Oh well, how we suffer for our art
I don't think Melodyne has a module for that......
OneWorld wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 12:07 pm
Thanks so much TfT. I struggle a bit with lyrics, think they sound naff sometimes, same with the singing, but I think it is improving and your encouraging comments help with confidence.
I started listening to music actively when Bob Dylan, Peeter Seeger et al came on the scene and even though I was of a relatively young age 13/14, their lyrics sort of connected with me. Why a 14 year old should be so taken with the plight of Hollis Brown, I don't know I just was.
I also listened to people such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf....currently I am a fan of K Pop - Black Pink are so slick.
But I try to write about things that aren't just about Boy Meets Girls, One Gives the Other the Boot.
I suppose I would have called a Protest Singer back in the day, but singing pop style ditties. I suppose I am sort of a Cliff Richard with attitude
Writing keeps me out of mischief I guess. If I am not writing I'd be tending to my vegetable plot.
Very welcome OW.
For me the timing is just right for these lyrics. Particularly for those parts of our World where there are struggles as in Ukraine.
Just because we here in blightly don't have such, we on the whole can't quite appreciate lyrics as these. Were we living in Ukraine we shure would.
There are millions around the World for whom such lyrics would hit home.
Pop is kinda the ideal platform keeping things breezy so that family members of various ages could sing it.
The timing was also just right for Bob Dylan for Nina Simone.
Yes I agree TfT. This is not a forum for political debate, but I first became politically aware during the Vietnam War protests, I also washed in South Africa during the times of apartheid. I have travelled the world, generally by way of work and because of that was able to spend time amongst those directly affected by conflict, I also spent several years working as a volunteer in a country that was at war. And in every single case, it became more and more apparent, that famous saying "The first casualty of war is the Truth" the tales I could tell, how we are fed a tissue of lies in order to justify conflict.
Where ever I went, I seemed to be protected - I carried a guitar, a guitar will let you go places a gun wouldn't. I would seek out go-downs, honky tonk bars, shabeens of Soweto, in some places I would initially be met with distrust, hostility even and get welcomed with "Hey white boy, you lost or something, you might have found your way in here but it won't be so easy to find your way out - wadda'ya want"
And I'd say, "Just want to learn some jazzy licks and listen to people with a story to tell. I want to hear from the people that matter because there's one thing I always see - it's the people that takes a bullets but the politicians take the glory"
And they'd say "C'mon in and seat yourself down, you've come to the right place" LOL
