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Exactly right now?

 

"I'm Your Fan" Leonard Cohen "tribute" album...

The song just finished as I turned it off to come into my office:

 

John Cale's version of "Hallelujah"...the one that's on the movie "Shrek" (on the actual movie, they used a different version on the Soundtrack CD)...

 

>>I heard there was a secret chord

That david played and it pleased the lord

But you don't really care for music, do you

Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth

The minor fall and the major lift

The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

 

 

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to her kitchen chair

She broke your throne and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... .

 

 

Baby i've been here before

I've seen this room and i've walked this floor

I used to live alone before i knew you

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

But love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

 

 

Well there was a time when you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show that to me do you

But remember when i moved in you

And the holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was hallelujah

 

 

Well, maybe there's a god above

But all i've ever learned from love

Was how to shoot someone who outdrew you

It's not a cry that you hear at night

It's not somebody who's seen the light

It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....<<

 

 

Next up: Track #1: REM's version of Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan"

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Ludacris, Outkast, Hoobastank, Sheryl Crow, and Dixie Chicks among others. Pretty wide range.

Kind of feeling John Cale's song as well. I remember hearing it for the first time on The West Wing, in the episode where Mark Harmon's character is killed off. I still listen to it 5-6 times in a row on some days.

-Rich

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I use my MP3 player to listen to unabridged audio books from audible.com. I am reluctantly finishing the third book of George R. R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" series called "A Storm of Swords". Just incredible! I can't wait for the fourth book to be released. Soon, I hope!

 

(I have a 160 mile daily commute and 'reading' is the only thing that keeps me even minimally sane).

 

Linda

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Exactly right now?

 

"I'm Your Fan" Leonard Cohen "tribute" album...

The song just finished as I turned it off to come into my office:

 

John Cale's version of "Hallelujah"...the one that's on the movie "Shrek" (on the actual movie, they used a different version on the Soundtrack CD)...

 

Next up: Track #1: REM's version of Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan"

 

Great taste in music!

I heard Hallelujah in Shrek but did not pay much attention to it. Then I heard it in West Wing and was totally moved by the song. Did some digging and discovered all three versions of it. Cohen does not have the singing ability but boy can he write and present the songs. Wish Cale lived longer - he could really move people with his version of songs.

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Pilewski - I'm with you. I have a boom box set up in my office and when I'm feeling like I need an island fix, I put on Buffett. Was just listening to the Beaches CD from the boxed set.

 

The other times, I listen to classical. I usually need to be revved up or revved down. It's usually Buffett, though, and I usually need to be revved up.

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I've been burning a hole in the new Beastie Boys CD...not bad, if you are a fan of the Beastie's....very old school, a la Paul's Boutique.

 

Of course, with only 5 days until my cruise, Live Buffett will be finding its way into the CD player. Boatdrinks anyone?!?!?!

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Creed - Weathered

 

John Williams - Sound Track from the first Harry Potter film

 

Dean Martin - Capitol City

 

That's it for now. But I shall be making my custom tanning CD and cruising CD over the weekend.

 

Any more good suggestions for music to listen to while you sun yourself like a lizard on a rock?

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Tom Lehrer's - Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

 

Great choice, Flagger...

It's in my car, just not in the CD player itself right now...

But, every time I go on a Mexican Riviera cruise, I pull out Lehrer's "In Old Mexico":

 

When it's fiesta time in Guadalajara,

Then I long to be back once again

In Old Mexico.

Where we lived for today,

Never giving a thought to tomara.

To the strumming of guitars,

In a hundred grubby bars

I would whisper "Te amo."

 

The mariachis would serenade,

And they would not shut up till they were paid.

We ate, we drank, and we were merry,

And we got typhoid and dysentery.

 

But best of all, we went to the Plaza de Toros.

Now whenever I start feeling morose,

I revive by recalling that scene.

And names like Belmonte, Dominguin, and Manolete,

If I live to a hundred and eighty,

I shall never forget what they mean.

 

(For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this

world than the sight of a lone man facing singlehandedly

a half a ton of angry pot roast!)

 

Out came the matador,

Who must have been potted or

Slightly insane, but who looked rather bored.

Then the picadors of course,

Each one on his horse,

I shouted "Ole!" ev'ry time one was gored.

 

I cheered at the bandilleros' display,

As they stuck the bull in their own clever way,

For I hadn't had so much fun since the day

My brother's dog Rover

Got run over.

 

(Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with

such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the

driver both ears and the tail - but I digress.)

 

The moment had come,

I swallowed my gum,

We knew there'd be blood on the sand pretty soon.

The crowd held its breath,

Hoping that death

Would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon.

 

At last, the matador did what we wanted him to.

He raised his sword and his aim was true.

In that moment of truth I suddenly knew

That someone had stolen my wallet.

 

Now it's fiesta time in Akron, Ohio,

But it's back to old Guadalajara I'm longing to go.

Far away from the strikes of the A.F. of L. and C.I.O.

How I wish I could get back

To the land of the wetback,

And forget the Alamo,

In Old Mexico. Ole!

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