Topic: Jahn's JukeBox

[Jahn]

Freddie Wadling takes a little try on "Comfortably Numb" (2008).
I do not like the version but it is fun to watch.


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

[Jahn]

Marillion
Sugar mice



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIPrJmzG7Ss

"I was flicking through the
channels on the T.V.
On a Sundoy in Milwaukee in the rain.
Trying to piece together conversations

Trying to find out where to lay the blame.

But when it comes right down to it
there's no use trying to pretend

For when it gets right down to it
there's no one here that's left to blame.
Blame it on me
you can blame it on me

we're just sugar mice in the rain.

I heard Sinatra calling me down
through the floorboards

Where you pay a quarter for a
partnership in rhyme.
To the jukebox crying in the corner
while the waitress is counting out the time.

For when it gets right down
to it there's no use trying to pretend
. . .

'Cause I know what I feel
know what I want
[ Find more Lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.org/7JAI ]
I know what I am

Daddy took a raincheck.
'Cause I know what I want

know what I feel and I know what I need

Daddy took a raincheck
your daddy took a raincheck.
Ain't no one in here that's
left to blame but me

Blame it on me
blame it on me.

Well
the toughest thing
that I ever did was talk to
the kids on the phone

When I heard them asking questions
I knew that you were all alone.
Can't you understand that the
government left me out of work

I just couldn't stand the looks
on the faces saying what a jerk.

So if you want my address
it's number one at the end
of the bar

Where I sit with the broken angels
clutching at straws and nursing our scars.
Blame it on me
blame it on me
sugar mice in the rain

Your daddy took a raincheck
your daddy took a raincheck."

Now, please, what is a raincheck?

[Jahn]

Marillion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDlXIKzUkqk
Hotel hobbies padding dawn's hollow corridors
A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories

Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare
Opening the doors for the dreams to come home

We live our lives in private shells
Ignore our senses and fool ourselves
To thinking that out there that someone else cares
Someone to answer all our prayers, all our prayers...

Are we too far gone, are we so irresponsible
Have we lost our balls, or do we just not care
We're terminal cases that keep talking medicine
Pretending the end isn't quite that near
We make futile gestures, act to the cameras
With our made-up faces and our PR smiles
And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us
We'll find out that after all, we're only men of straw

But everything is still the same
Passing the time and passing the blame
We carry on in the same old way
We'll find out we left it too late one day
to say what we meant to say

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water
Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of
The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning
Out of your mind, you're out of your depth, you should have taken soundings
Clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws

And if you ever come across us don't give us your sympathy
You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands
And you'll recognise by the reflection in our eyes that deep down inside we're all one and the same

We're clutching at straws
We're still drowning
Clutching at straws
We're still drowning, yeah Clutching at straws
I'm still drowning
We're clutching at straws
I'm still drowning

[Jahn]

This is the original (no live session had "it")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr4zaRGOB2M

I am the Warrior
I serve the death machine
Losers or conquerors
All flash past on my silver screen

Death is no easy answer
For those who wish to know
Just ask those who have been before you
What fate the future holds

It ain't pretty ...

I am a Messenger
The message here, you must know
I am the Warrior
I deliver the fatal blow

So fate will have to wait
Till time  heal the scar
See my heart is ruled by Venus
And my head by Mars

[Jahn]

I have recently invested in a new TV-set, and every time I put it on I see the most interesting programs, yesterday it was a program about Bruce Springsteen making a follow up album (Dancing at the edge of Town). And today I found a program with Elvis Costello.

I am no great fan to him (either, heh no album with Bruce  ), but I think Costello is clever and some times difficult to  understand. And I am no great fan of Country music, but I have my favorites in the field, but these songs were good so I kept on listening. I have one LP with Kris Kristofferson and that one is Ok, and now I saw that he was an old man, doing as good as he could. (Wise and white).

 I have never heard of Rosanne Cash but their t song that these guys had made together (on Rosannes initiative), it just gave me the goose flesh .... it was such a relief to watch and hear this serene song being performed by these great, mature artists. I felt the old feverish vein of walking through fire and water for the simple sake that one believes in something higher, something true and perhaps one even believes in something that is holy.

Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello and Kris Kristofferson met 5th April and made this song:


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


You want love
But it's never deep enough
You want life
But it's never long enough
You want peace
Like it's something you can buy
You want time
But you're content to watch it fly

I'm not afraid
And I refuse to be
I can't fall
There's nothing to stop me

You believe in dreams
In a dream forsaken land
You believe the heart
Is the measure of a man
It's an old love story
And I swear to God it's true
You believe in me
And I believe in you

I'm not afraid
And I refuse to be
I can't fall
There's nothing to stop me

You want imagination
But you cannot pretend
You need air
But you won't even break a window
You want space
For some pretty stars to lend
You want free will
Or something like it that you can bend

I can't think
It's getting hard to do
You can't fail
There's nothing to stop you

It's an old love story
And I swear to God it's true
You believe in me
And I believe in you

[Nichi]

This was very nice, Jahn - and I wouldn't have expected to like it either!
Elvis is a very interesting fellow.

Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello and Kris Kristofferson met 5th April and made this song:


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


You want love
But it's never deep enough
You want life
But it's never long enough
You want peace
Like it's something you can buy
You want time
But you're content to watch it fly

I'm not afraid
And I refuse to be
I can't fall
There's nothing to stop me

You believe in dreams
In a dream forsaken land
You believe the heart
Is the measure of a man
It's an old love story
And I swear to God it's true
You believe in me
And I believe in you

I'm not afraid
And I refuse to be
I can't fall
There's nothing to stop me

You want imagination
But you cannot pretend
You need air
But you won't even break a window
You want space
For some pretty stars to lend
You want free will
Or something like it that you can bend

I can't think
It's getting hard to do
You can't fail
There's nothing to stop you

It's an old love story
And I swear to God it's true
You believe in me
And I believe in you

[Jahn]

This was very nice, Jahn - and I wouldn't have expected to like it either!
Elvis is a very interesting fellow.

Right.

Sorry that noone more have found this link.

Use hearphones to get the best out of this one.

[Nichi]

Sorry that noone more have found this link.

I've felt that way many times myself! Believe me.  Think I'll post it on my FB page tomorrow. 

[Michael]

I must confess to having been a secret fan of Kris Kristofferson - I used to have a great album of his, Jesus Was a Capricorn, but I lost it along the way.

[Jahn]

I must confess to having been a secret fan of Kris Kristofferson - I used to have a great album of his, Jesus Was a Capricorn, but I lost it along the way.

No shadow on Kris K, and he really does a great performance in this April 5th song.

[Jahn]

i am no great fan of Bruce Springsteen, but you should now that he is a great artist and also very very famous in Sweden.

My heart though, and music preference goes to his companion Little Stevens. And here is one of the great songs of Little Steven Live, very true to the originial soundtrack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lj-AZXCnNQ

Have a nice evening!

[Jahn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Peh91Brak&feature=related

[Nichi]

My heart though, and music preference goes to his companion Little Stevens. And here is one of the great songs of Little Steven Live, very true to the originial soundtrack.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lj-AZXCnNQ

It's funny, I can't look at him now without comparing his presentation then to his presentation in the last decade on "The Sopranos". He must be a really good actor, because you can hardly see "Sil" in "Little Stevie" here, pacing across the stage.

[Jahn]

It's funny, I can't look at him now without comparing his presentation then to his presentation in the last decade on "The Sopranos". He must be a really good actor, because you can hardly see "Sil" in "Little Stevie" here, pacing across the stage.

Did Steve van Zandt play in the Sopranos?

I have heard about that TV series about the mob but never seen it, though it has been quite popular over here.

[Nichi]

Did Steve van Zandt play in the Sopranos?

I have heard about that TV series about the mob but never seen it, though it has been quite popular over here.

Yes, he was Silvio, Tony Soprano's right-hand man, manager of "Bada-Bing", Tony's strip-club. He was steady, quiet, and completely ruthless. Executed one of the female leads.  The energy was so different than "Little Stevie's".

But it brings to mind something I've often thought - and that is that being a rockstar is just another role, for a good actor.