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Count Lucanor wrote: ↑August 6th, 2022, 10:51 pm

For some reason I'd love to see her get on stage in a business casual dress, wearing these glasses looking like she's ready to do your taxes or maintain some mf'ing quiet in the library, and rip the house down.

Nothing can be obtained by grasping at the wind
There is no escape from the dualism of life, vanity of vanities

I am embittered towards humanity for its failures
Yet I possess all of these same shortcomings

There is grief in wisdom, there is sorrow in truth
Yet, the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning
And by sad countenance the heart is made stronger in time

So, I embrace this burden and weep for the fools that chase the wind

This is one of the saddest songs I know. Though it starts with an upbeat change it morphs as the lyrics darken, and by the end I’m usually bawling.

Sleep never comes quick enough to protect us
There is no shelter in the present from the ghosts of the past

Like well driven nails
Memories dig their claws in our backs
Revealing our black hearts
Unable to forgive ourselves

Our parched mouths pray for rain
And only the clouds bear witness as we wither away

There’s just something about how Only the Clouds fades out to a long, contemplative musical section that practically invites you to think about every regret you’ve ever had that gets me

Introduced some friends and acquaintances to Animals As Leaders - they grabbed them on Spotify and this was what came up in the car.

I'd be curious as to what people think - ie. if Tosin's another Frip or not. Personality-wise not so much, he's a really chill guy, I just mean playing innovation and talent, and to a degree style of experimentation:

A song from 2000/2001. I remember when my friends first introduced me to Paul Oakenfold. It was a discovery of a new potential favourite DJ. My favourite music genre is trance.
178 million views on YouTube.
Info about the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly ... Town_song)

For the more ... seasoned members, one of the great jazz performances.

On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls and injuring 22 other worshippers. The incident had a profound effect on many Americans. One of them was John Coltrane, one of the leading Jazz saxophonists in the 1950s and 60s, when American Jazz was at its commercial peak.

Coltrane composed and performed “Alabama” that same year in response to the 16th Street bombing. The song is an instrumental, with no words. Music historian Craig Werner describes it this way:

“Coltrane patterned his saxophone lines on the cadences of Martin Luther King’s oration at the funeral of the four girls who died. Midway through the song, mirroring the part of the sermon where King transforms mourning into a statement of renewed determination, Elvin Jones’s drums rise up from a whisper to a tumult of directed anger. Propelled by the rhythms, Coltrane’s sax summons the people to what can only be understood as a unified assault on Pharaoh’s palace.”

Astro Cat wrote: ↑August 9th, 2022, 4:55 pm

Nothing can be obtained by grasping at the wind
There is no escape from the dualism of life, vanity of vanities

I am embittered towards humanity for its failures
Yet I possess all of these same shortcomings

There is grief in wisdom, there is sorrow in truth
Yet, the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning
And by sad countenance the heart is made stronger in time

So, I embrace this burden and weep for the fools that chase the wind

Those are great lyrics. I've never heard of Hopesfall, but I shall be checking them out now...