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Posted by floatingbridge on August 2, 2011, at 19:30:25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKJgzHyY5I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Posted by sleepygirl2 on August 2, 2011, at 20:06:30
In reply to Everything is free now, posted by floatingbridge on August 2, 2011, at 19:30:25
What do you think it's about?
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 1:21:37
In reply to Re: Everything is free now » floatingbridge, posted by sleepygirl2 on August 2, 2011, at 20:06:30
This is the one that you feel strongly about, hey?
>What do you think it's about?
There was a discussion on youtube about whether it was about copyright, which I refuse to believe.
Here are the words
Everything is free now,
That's what they say.
Everything I ever done,
Gotta give it away.
Someone hit the big score.
They figured it out,
That we're gonna do it anyway,
Even if doesn't pay.I can get a tip jar,
Gas up the car,
And try to make a little change
Down at the bar.Or I can get a straight job,
I've done it before.
I never minded working hard,
It's who I'm working for.(Chorus)
Every day I wake up,
Hummin' a song.
But I don't need to run around,
I just stay home.And sing a little love song,
My love, to myself.
If there's something that you want to hear,
You can sing it yourself.'Cause everything is free now,
That what I say.
No one's got to listen to
The words in my head.
Someone hit the big score,
And I figured it out,
That we're gonna do it anyway,
Even if doesn't pay.There's sadness there, but liberation too.
She and Dave Rawlings are going to tour here next year, I heard today.
Posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 8:11:18
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 1:21:37
I missed them here. Kicked off their new album. This was the next night in SF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgMjO_hiqig&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 8:37:48
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 1:21:37
Oh for golly sakes. About copyright? That is very silly.
> This is the one that you feel strongly about, hey?
>
> >What do you think it's about?Well, there is the autobiographical, where I was when I first heard it; also of a life once familiar, using a tip jar to gas up the car.
Then there is the defiance and freedom of the lyrics. I like how sigi put it, liberation and saddness. Maybe the saddness is haunted by a sense of futility, but accepted with dignity and a steel spine, qualities I admire greatly. The narrator seems working class. Though Ms. Welch was not, really. But that doesn't matter.
Modern American depression era. The big rock candy mountain and all. Someone's hit the big time. The big time is very much part of the myth in the US. But, really, most of us work every day of our lives.
Written out, it's not a poetic masterwork. But add the music and the voice, and it's just magic to me.
>
> There was a discussion on youtube about whether it was about copyright, which I refuse to believe.
>
> Here are the words
>
> Everything is free now,
> That's what they say.
> Everything I ever done,
> Gotta give it away.
> Someone hit the big score.
> They figured it out,
> That we're gonna do it anyway,
> Even if doesn't pay.
>
> I can get a tip jar,
> Gas up the car,
> And try to make a little change
> Down at the bar.
>
> Or I can get a straight job,
> I've done it before.
> I never minded working hard,
> It's who I'm working for.
>
> (Chorus)
>
> Every day I wake up,
> Hummin' a song.
> But I don't need to run around,
> I just stay home.
>
> And sing a little love song,
> My love, to myself.
> If there's something that you want to hear,
> You can sing it yourself.
>
> 'Cause everything is free now,
> That what I say.
> No one's got to listen to
> The words in my head.
> Someone hit the big score,
> And I figured it out,
> That we're gonna do it anyway,
> Even if doesn't pay.
>
> There's sadness there, but liberation too.
>
> She and Dave Rawlings are going to tour here next year, I heard today.
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 10:46:39
In reply to Re: Everything is free now » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 8:37:48
> But add the music and the voice, and it's just magic to me.
Yeah, me too.
I will make a point of seeing them this time if and when they come.
A friend said they were wonderful, the singing and the playing.Things are futile of course (if you are looking for salvation and everlasting life, I mean) but ummmmmm I sort of assumed she was talking about a different and better relationship to herself.
Posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 11:43:16
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 10:46:39
> Things are futile of course (if you are looking for salvation and everlasting life, I mean) but ummmmmm I sort of assumed she was talking about a different and better relationship to herself.Could you say more? About the different and better relationship. Surely she has that, I think. And it does go with the ideas of the inner conviction an artist needs to proceed and be productive.
Then, that song was penned, I think, when she was leaving the constraints of her previuos albums which had been more produced, so this album was more vulnerable, just Ms. Welch, her quirky lyrics and that voice.
On the same album check out the Elvis Presley song and My First Lover. Oh, then, Time's the Revalator.
I've just talked myself into agreement with you.
Can you tell that is my favorite Welch album :-/. ?
Posted by sigismund on August 3, 2011, at 13:51:14
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 11:43:16
I wonder if it about accepting being ordinary?
The Chuang Tzu has a wonderful passage about how we should willingly bear disgrace and humiliation, and answering his own question as to what this means says 'accept being ordinary'.
The life that is given to us is free.
I was driving early yesterday and there was a magnificent sunrise to my left which made me think of hallucinogenic drugs, I kept wanting to look at the shades of red, some were so deep and there were bits of gold there too, and I thought of humans being ridiculous, surrounded by all this.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on August 3, 2011, at 20:49:37
In reply to Re: Everything is free now » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on August 3, 2011, at 8:37:48
You know, I sort of like that "o'brother where art thou?"
soundtrack, parts of it anyway, I played them over and over.
Posted by floatingbridge on August 4, 2011, at 22:49:59
In reply to Re: Everything is free now, posted by sleepygirl2 on August 3, 2011, at 20:49:37
> You know, I sort of like that "o'brother where art thou?"
> soundtrack, parts of it anyway, I played them over and over.I was listening to this and thought you might enjoy it.
I don't know much about her, but remember it from the film Juno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3LkW70LZY8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Posted by floatingbridge on August 5, 2011, at 13:46:10
In reply to Maybe you know this one, sg » sleepygirl2, posted by floatingbridge on August 4, 2011, at 22:49:59
Last Welch/Rawlings post. At least for the month: Elvis Presley Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FM8ui2ByUI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
Just a country boy that combed his hair
And put on a shirt his mother made and went on the air
And he shook it like a chorus girl
And he shook it like a Harlem queen
He shook it like a midnight rebel, baby
Like you never seenI was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
How he took it all out of black and white
Grabbed his wand in the other hand and he held on tight
And he shook it like a hurricane
He shook it like to make it break
And he shook it like a holy roller, baby
With his soul at stakeI was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
He was all alone in a long decline
Thinking how happy John Henry was that he fell down and died
When he shook it and he rang like silver
He shook it and he shine like gold
He shook it and he beat that steam drill, baby
Well bless my soulHe shook it and he beat that steam drill, baby
Well bless my soul, what's wrong with me?I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
I was thinking that night about Elvis
Day that he died, day that he died
Just a country boy that combed his hair
Put on a shirt his mother made and he went on the air
And he shook it like a chorus girl
He shook it like a Harlem queen
He shook it like a midnight rebel, baby
Like he never seen
(she does sing bits that are not included.)
Posted by sigismund on August 5, 2011, at 22:53:44
In reply to Rescuing Elvis, posted by floatingbridge on August 5, 2011, at 13:46:10
It looks like they are playing in what used to be a theatre. When they came to Brisbane they played at the Tivoli, and perhaps they will again play in a place like that.
I've got this new computer...only 11" wide and like 5 high, about the size of a book, and it doesn't need to be plugged into the modem. It has this extra mouse so I don't come to grief on the touchpad.
I often think of you enviously re your previous large dose of Dexedrine. I could probably have whipped through the financial pages by now if I had just one of those. Blank Frank. Or just a little of what Elvis had.
Posted by floatingbridge on August 5, 2011, at 23:31:58
In reply to Re: Rescuing Elvis, posted by sigismund on August 5, 2011, at 22:53:44
Wish I could have given it to you. Had this huge bottle. When I decided to stop taking it, I returned it to the doctor. You can imagine how hurt I felt after such voluntary actions to be told I I had dependency issues. I was such a trusting lambkin. Anyways, then you'd grok the financial pages.
I love the lyrics. You know the John Henry reference? I was amazed by that. Rawlings and Welch managed to say something about Presley no one had, to my knowledge, touched before. He was a real person. Sometimes I forget that. By the time I was really aware of him, he was deep into
the Vegas period, chubby in a white jumpsuit, then gone.But now I think, if that jumpsuit makes you feel good, go for it.
And the hair. At least he was only hurting himself, not bilking people out of money through *smart* business practices. He didn't have a corporation to hide behind. Just that big old Graceland.Was it Herzog who said Americans (the US variety) are the most exotic culture and completely innocent of that exoticism? I'm not sure I agree. But it stuck with me.
> It looks like they are playing in what used to be a theatre. When they came to Brisbane they played at the Tivoli, and perhaps they will again play in a place like that.
>
> I've got this new computer...only 11" wide and like 5 high, about the size of a book, and it doesn't need to be plugged into the modem. It has this extra mouse so I don't come to grief on the touchpad.
>
> I often think of you enviously re your previous large dose of Dexedrine. I could probably have whipped through the financial pages by now if I had just one of those. Blank Frank. Or just a little of what Elvis had.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on August 7, 2011, at 1:33:40
In reply to Maybe you know this one, sg » sleepygirl2, posted by floatingbridge on August 4, 2011, at 22:49:59
sure, I know it, a sweet song :-)
Posted by Shes_InItForTheMoney on August 9, 2011, at 20:49:51
In reply to Everything is free now, posted by floatingbridge on August 2, 2011, at 19:30:25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY&feature=related
:)
Posted by floatingbridge on August 9, 2011, at 20:59:15
In reply to Re: Eat the Rich » floatingbridge, posted by Shes_InItForTheMoney on August 9, 2011, at 20:49:51
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY&feature=related
>
> :)Can I search it?
There is a song eat the rich. Darn. I saw them. Who was it? Oh. No. That band said eat the Dutch.
Posted by floatingbridge on August 9, 2011, at 22:39:54
In reply to Re: Eat the Rich » floatingbridge, posted by Shes_InItForTheMoney on August 9, 2011, at 20:49:51
Now I definitely did not see them ;-)
But I remember this song well. Not exactly what Ms. Welch had in mind, I don't think, but I wore a groove in this particular song back in the days of vinyl.
:)
I saw some band from Indonesia do a take off with a twist.
Posted by Shes_InItForTheMoney on August 10, 2011, at 16:56:57
In reply to Won't open :-/ » Shes_InItForTheMoney, posted by floatingbridge on August 9, 2011, at 20:59:15
Try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY&feature=related
> >
> > :)
>
> Can I search it?
>
> There is a song eat the rich. Darn. I saw them. Who was it? Oh. No. That band said eat the Dutch.
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