Music That Reflects Your Mood, Soul, Moment, Philosophy....

[Illyria]

Sums up everything for me...

I am a one way motorway
I’m the one that drives away
Then follows you back home
I am a street light shining
I’m a wild light blinding bright
Burning off alone


It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

I am a new day rising
I’m a brand new sky
To hang the stars upon tonight
I am a little divided
Do I stay or run away
And leave it all behind?

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

~Foo Fighters...Times like these

[nightcat]

Anybody else here familiar with Guided By Voices?

Here's a song from their "Isolation Drills" CD that I've always related to.

Guided By Voices
"Twilight Campfighter"

(copyright 2002 by Robert Pollard)

Twilight campfighter
You build your fires into an open wound
You want us to feel better
On these darker trails
With light revealing holy grails
To hike through dangerous weather
You need twilight eyes

Sunspot solider, you come from another day
Accept no pay
You want us to feel better
All for longing causes
Racing minds and lengthy pauses
All who must soon shed their veils
And wipe their eyes

As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
And can dance contented to the sound of money
Could I have seen a sight
Much greater than your twilight eyes
That penetrate your silent lives (their silent lies)

Twilight campfighter
We do congratulate
It's not too late
To make us all feel better
Under darker skies
With your twilight eyes

[SETIsLady]

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane -
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn -
world serves its own needs, don't misserve your own needs. Feed it up a knock,
speed, grunt no, strength no. Ladder structure clatter with fear of height,
down height. Wire in a fire, represent the seven games in a government for
hire and a combat site. Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the furies
breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered
crop. Look at that low plane! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population,
common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its
own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the
reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright
light, feeling pretty psyched.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign tower. Slash and burn,
return, listen to yourself churn. Lock him in uniform and book burning,
blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate. Light a candle,
light a motive. Step down, step down. Watch a heel crush, crush. Uh oh,
this means no fear - cavalier. Renegade and steer clear! A tournament,
a tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
and I decline.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

The other night I tripped a nice continental drift divide. Mount St. Edelite.
Leonard Bernstein. Leonid Breshnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine...fine...

[Grim Jim]

Should the lyrics to "Astronomy" puzzle you, here's BÖC's very own description of the song:

“The rhythm of events on-rushing; the gallop of events in the saddle; the Invisibles visible at last and manifest; no more hints or traces, but, their agent unleashed to forge a new destiny...”

The song is part of a story that spins out in selected songs over the course of many BÖC albums; a story of one known, alternately, as Imaginos or Desdinova. Imaginos/Desdinova is a "modified" human with a soul of extraterrestrial origin. He serves ETs known as Les Invisibles and, throughout the span of modern history (15th - 21st century), in various guises helps shape world events. "Astronomy" is the song in which he first came to accept his extraterrestrial origin and mission.

Being a star baby myself, I quite relate.

Wow, I never knew that.

So is ETI related to this story, seems like it?

E.T.I.

I hear the music, daylight disc
Three men in black said, "Don't report this"
"Ascension," and that's all they said
Sickness now, the hour's dread

All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news

I'm in fairy rings and tower beds
"Don't report this," three men said
Books by the blameless and by the dead
King in yellow, queen in red

All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news

Dead leaves always give up motion
I no longer feel the motion
Where prophecy fails, the falling motion
"Don't report this, agents of fortune"

All praise
He's found the awful truth, Balthazar
He's found the saucer news

One of my fav BOC songs among many. I saw them on the Imaginos tour in a small theatre for the first time and they blew me away

[nightcat]

ETI is definitely one of the related songs according to former BÖC drummer Albert Bouchard who, for the BÖC FAQ, compiled a list of them. He and Sandy Pearlman actually created the concept together. The Imaginos album is kind of a condensation of this incredibly involved tale.

[Captain Kundalini]

Hey Nightcat! Welcome back! I'll be tuning in for your show, if I can reach it.
Good to see ya again.

[Captain Kundalini]

I don't mind all the guys dancing with my girl
That's fine, I know them all pretty well
And I know sometimes I must get out in the light
Better leave her behind where the kids are alright...
The kids are alright...

Sometimes, I know I gotta get away
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away
And I know if I don't, I'll go out of my mind
Better leave her behind where the kids are alright...
The kids are alright...

I know if I go things would be a lot better for her
I had this plan but her folks wouldn't let her
I don't mind, I feel I gotta get away
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away
And I know if I don't I'll go out of my fuckin' mind
Better leave her behind where the kids are alright...
The kids are alright... (3x)

Dedicated to Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon

[nightcat]

Great song, Captain K.

The Who are rock godz, IMHO. Love the Who!

[Captain Kundalini]

Great song, Captain K.

The Who are rock godz, IMHO. Love the Who!

You got that right, my man.

[Captain Kundalini]

Here's a great one.
I'm sending it out to all you lurkers out there.

Join Together!
Lyrics and Music by Pete Townshend

When you hear this sound a-comin'
Hear the drummers drumming
I want you to join together with the band
We don't move in any 'ticular directions
And we don't make no collections
I want you to join together with the band

Do you really think I care
What you eat or what you wear
I want you to join together with the band
There's a million ways to laugh
And everyone's a path
Come on and join together with the band

Everybody join together
I want you to join together
A-come on and join together with the band

We need you to join together
Come on and join together
Come on, join together with the band

You don't have to play
If you can't follow, lead the way!
I want you to join together with the band

We don't know where we're going
But the season's ripe for knowing
I want you to you join together with the band

It's the singer not the song
That makes the music move along
I want you to join together with the band
This is the biggest band you'll find
It's as deep as it is wide
Come on and join together with the band

Hey, hey, hey, join together
Everybody come on, come on, and join
Join together with the band
We need you to join together
Everybody come on
Hey, hey hey
Join together with the band.

[Aquarius]

[ANNIE]
The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!

[SETIsLady]

Little child dry your crying eyes
How can I explain the fear you feel inside
Cause you were born into this evil world
Where man is killing man and no one knows just why
What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again

CHORUS
When the children cry let them know we tried
Cause when the children sing then the new world begins

Little child you must show the way
To a better day for all the young
Cause you were born for all the world to see
That we all can live with love and peace
No more presidents and all the wars will end
One united world under God

CHORUS

What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again
No more presidents and all the wars will end
One united world under God

When the children cry let them know we tried
When the children fight let them know it ain't right
When the children pray let them know the way
Cause when the children sing then the new world begins

[Shecoda]

I have been in an upbeat mood lately. This is one of my favorite songs.


Love Reign O'er Me

The Who
Quadrophenia


Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea.
Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers'
Laying in the fields.


Love, Reign o'er me.
Love, Reign o'er me, rain on me.


Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky.
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high.


Love Reign O'er me.

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool cool rain.
The nights are hot and black as ink
I can't sleep and I lay and I think
Oh God, I need a drink of cool cool rain.