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It's The End of the World As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)

Postby Parador » Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:13 pm

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs.
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site.
Left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then.
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food, but it'll do.
Save yourself, serve yourself.
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and 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.


Does that help? It's what I try to think about when it's tough going. I can't believe that song is 20 years old now.
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Postby Chucky » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:21 pm

20 years? - really? That's amazing. You know, in my worst period of depression, the music that i always chose to listen to to make me smile was REM. My favourites are What's the Frequency Kenneth?, Bad Day, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, and Man on the Moon. Apparently, Michael Stype got the words for Man on the Moon by just going for a drive for a short while. The band had the musical notes for the song but were getting at each others' necks about te lyrics. So, Stype took a breather, went for a drive, and then came back with the lyrics.
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Postby Parador » Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:46 pm

I've been listening to Man on the Moon a lot lately. I just found it on a 45! I still collect old 45 rpm records. They still make them you know. I got Foo Fighters Best of You which is 2005.

I have always wondered if the lyrics or the words came first. I wonder if they ever come up with clever lyrics and then write music. Probably.
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Postby Chucky » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:40 pm

Yeh,

I know that they still mak records but I thought that it was only for the DJing industry (like, all of the dance music stuff). They're the only types of records I've seen around anyway. I have many old records here though, from the 60's, 70's, 80's mainly. They are my parents'. The most recent one is probably Madonna's Like A Prayer album, which was out in the 80's I think.
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Postby Aloneinthewoods » Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:01 am

I'm one of the very few people who rarely listens to music. I love classical music but I rarely listen to them, too.
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Postby Chucky » Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:16 pm

Well, when you do listen to music, which classical tracks do you like the most? I just spent the past 90 minutes listening to Johann Strauss II's waltzes (includes the famous Blue Danube Waltz).
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Postby Yukinari » Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:05 am

I'm really beginning to like the song Solitary Shell by Dream Theater, but I heard it's about autism rather than AvPD, not quite sure though.
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Postby Aloneinthewoods » Fri Dec 19, 2008 7:23 am

Chucky wrote:Well, when you do listen to music, which classical tracks do you like the most? I just spent the past 90 minutes listening to Johann Strauss II's waltzes (includes the famous Blue Danube Waltz).


I actually used to, and still do, like Waltz of the Flowers. I think my infatuation is Mendelssohn's Piano Concertos and Chopin's first Piano Concerto right now.

Blue Danube Waltz is a very nice one to listen to, too. :)
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Postby Parador » Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:01 pm

I'll be listening to and watching the ballet dance Waltz of the Flowers tomorrow night at the ballet.
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Postby Chucky » Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:21 pm

:)

That's by Tchaikovsky! Thanks for mentioning this piece guys because I had been looking for the name of it for ages. I had the music in my head but not the title. i'm going to download it straightaway.
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