Christmas Music In Other Words…

My Dad was an English teacher for nigh unto 35 years. He used to use many tricks to try the class involved and attentive. One that he pulled out around this time of year was a quiz called “Are our Auditory Perceptions Similar?” He would have a list of phrases and then the students would have to “translate” them.  Sounds similar in a lot of ways to hashtag wars to me! If I was using it like that I would call it #Christmasmusicinotherwords The first one BTW is “Do you hear what I hear?”

Are Our Auditory Perceptions Similar?

Cobalt Noel

Unto Others A Joyous Yuletide Aspiration

Bring Forth the Frozen Precipitation

Hail Petite Hamlet on the West Bank

Hail Revered Eventide

Kris Kringle Approaches the Municipality

Muteness Falls From Dusk Till Dawn

Argentate Tintinnabulums

Achromatic Twenty Fourth Day of December*(only so many ways you can say it you know)

Caribou of a Specific Name with Crimson Color Proboscis

Counting Crows in the poem

A long December ago

When I dream of Michelangelo

I heard Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby

On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago.

Carmelita, one of my American girls,

You have the ghost in you.

Time to come around here,

While Daylight is fading,

While all my friends are hanginaround,

A hanging tree on holiday in Spain.

She don’t want nobody near so,

She takes a big yellow taxi to Miami.

Mr. Jones, the friend of the devil,

Offered two choices as the rain king screamed his glory.

If I could give all my love or commit a murder ofone?

Her answer: You can’t count on me

She doesn’t want nobody near her home on WashingtonSquare

Music in My Mind

First thank you to hmgross? from whom I liberated the video, Counting Crows never did an official video for this one.  Einstein on a beach

I'm trying to sleep.  I figure, I'll listen to some music that will help.  First, I heard "Someone Like You" by Adele, So I had to share that because I forgot it was her birthday, today May, 5. Then I heard "Ball and Chain" By Social Distortion which I hadn't heard in a while.  The lyrics are great if you listen to them. N.P.  I have been asked what type of music I like in the past and here is a semi-simple explanation.

I like music that has both intelligible words, words that mean something personally and emotionally and vocals,music and percussion  and the percussion's that backs it up should not be  OVERPOWERING.(i.e. THE FLOOR SHOULD NOT ROCK! THE NEIGHBORS ROOF SHOULD NOT ROCK! TWO BLOCKS OVER SHOULD NOT ROCK! CAR ALARMS SHOULD NOT BE CLAMORING FOR 

Music is a story.  It should have a beginning a middle and an end.  It doesn't have to tell a story but it should follow the story rules regarding having a rising, climbing and falling action.  A song bends the rules slightly for refrains but the emphasises the journey the song is making.
All this comes up because of the song from the above link; these words move me:

One more sun comes sliding down the skyOne more shadow leans against the wallAnd the world begins to disappearThe worst things come from inside hereAnd all the king's men reappearFor an eggman, fallen off the wallHe'll never be together again

But there's a story there behind the basic line of Humpty Dumpty. It may read differently to different people but everyone understands it.  The best songs talk of Life, Love and Loss.  We all experience them all not to the same degree, not at the same time.  Although, when we experience them at the same time we can find comfort in song and it can bring us back to joy,peace and understand when life, and love have dealt us losses to big to bare.  "Love is all you need"  Appropriate that the quote I feel describes songs comes from a song.  Every one has one or two quotes they love, but the best songs are the ones that you know all the words to!

N.P.

    "I'm sick and I'm tired                        

     And I can't take any more pain

     So take away take away

     Take away this ball and chain"                                                                                                                                "Ball and Chain" Social Distortion

*I imagine my ball and chain is my pain and sometimes it helps*

Internet Concrete Poem

These Dreams Spin My Head Right Round, Baby
I'm Waiting For The Day When Society
Rise(s) From the Ashes
Let The World Go Away Here We'll Stay
Dreaming Of The Girl With The Kalidescope Eyes
Tommorow People Still Be There

This is a different form of concrete poetry.  Instead of a form, it has links to the songs.  Let me know what you think!

WIP THE BALLAD OF RELIC ISLE

This is a song I'm working on. I'd like some feedback.  It's similar in melody to The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald. It has some inside meaning to those who in the know but this is a basic idea of what is being talked about.  When I get a better recording I will link it up.


The Ballad of Relic Isle

It’s the last known paradise
As you stumble to your bed
Remember to tell your children
How we watched the terror spread
The future comes at a cost
Is it one you want to pay
Need the children suffer
So that we can light our way
What is good for everyone
Can be good for all
Some times one may suffer
To serve a Greater call
So raise up your voices
And Let the anthem reign
Together in harmony
The land shall raise again

Car Crash Songs

Yesterday while playing #SongPop HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY was one of the song I was supposed to guess. It was sung by George Jones so I got the question right for knowing that but it haunted me that I hadn't heard the song or it hadn't lingered in my mind very well. When I finally listened to the song all the way, through I realized it belonged in a very unique category. My family calls those types of songs "car songs" because generally someone dies in a car crash, but the song I heard yesterday might also have applied to an old Facebook Note that I have now dredged up here for you amusement.
"This has been bugging me. Romantic songs that aren't quite so romantic if you listen to the words.
10. Laurie(Strange things have happened) Remember the ghost story about the hitchhiker who leaves the sweater behind and it's the anniversary of the night she died? They made it into a love song.
9. All the other 1950's car crash songs. Leader of the Pack, Tell Laura I Love Her, Teen Angel(otherwise know in our family as "you idiot you went back for the ring" or "the sniff, sniff song")
8. Cutting Crew I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight I like the song but still.. tacky!
7. A moldy oldy Goodnight Irene There is a verse that goes "Sometimes I live in the City, Sometimes I live in the Town, Sometime I take a great notion to jump in the river and drown"
6. Ray Charles- I Can't Stop Loving You Now we enter into the territory of the obsessed and depressed
5. The Mama's and The Papa's Glad to Be Unhappy- Seriously? You're only happy when you're depressed?.?.?...
4. Cruel To be Kind- "I'm just mean to you 'cause I like you." O.K. Chris Brown
3. Frankie Vallie My Eyes Adored You- A side return trip to stalker territory
2. John Mellencamp Hurts So Good- A little S&M anyone??? And is anyone hiding Rhianna from Cougars?? Mellencamp that is!
And the number one is ... a tie between the two most creepy stalkers ever.
One knows what you've doing, cause the other Watches every move you make
One Knows if you been naughty, cause every word you say, every game you play he'll be watching you.
But HEY at LEAST SANTA gave out presents this year, did Sting??JUST SAYING! We should be LISTENING to the words are songs are both telling and not telling us. I'LL REMEMBER that Madonna was ON HER KNEES AND GONNA TAKE YOU THERE.
I'll close by saying this open your minds, ears and hearts and be surprised by what you learn and where you learn it!