Music to (not) work by

Every music nut knows being carried away by some great song when they're supposed to be doing something else.
What's yours, right now? And, if you like, what are you not doing?

"Gonna get inside yoooooou. Gonna get insiiiiiide - your bitter mind." I love you Pete!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCc_G-gIixA

Right now? Probably The Best of Times by Dream Theater, as I kind of mentioned in another thread. Such a pretty melody.

These are the best of times
I'll miss these days
Your spirit guides my life each day.

I'm also finding it hard to get over Another Time, Another Place by U2. Boy, their debut album, is a fantastic little rock record, despite what most of the rest of their career looked like, and that song in particular has been stuck in my head for a couple days now.

This is kind of a neat idea. I never really thought of keeping track of what particular song is really getting lodged in my brain at a particular time. Maybe I should keep a journal.

You're supposed to put links so you can share. :)

The Best of Times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG7r32tQTak

Another Time, Another Place: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcQW2KNc9S8

How's that?

This song is driving me to distraction right now... from one of my top 3 favourite albums ever... anything with a guitar/mandolin duel is fine with me :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=666JAioPDhM

So that's one of the three mysterious albums you like better than ANatO?

Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formats, plus Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (the song).

I'm seeing The Tragically Hip in a little under two weeks so have been listening to a lot of their stuff in recent days. Sleep was a little elusive last night and I got stuck on this one. It's one of those songs to listen to in the dark by the stereo lights. It's about the loss of Gord Downie's (lead singer) sister's son at just five years old due to a heart condition. Absolutely wrenching and beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoXM95WyJjM

September seventeen
For a girl I know it's Mother's Day
Her son has gone alee
And that's where he will stay
The wind on the weathervane
Tearing blue eyes sailor mean
As Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green

His tiny knotted heart
Well, I guess it never worked to good
The timber tore apart
And the water gorged the wood
You can hear her whispered prayer
For men at masts that always lean
The same wind that moves her hair
Moves her boy through Fiddler's Green

Nothing's changed anyway
Nothing's changed anyway
Any time today

He doesn't know a soul
There's nowhere that he's really been
But he won't travel long alone
No, not in Fiddler's Green
Balloons all filled with rain
As children's eyes turn sleepy mean
And Falstaff sings a sorrowful refrain
For a boy in Fiddler's Green

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]

Thanks to you both for the links. Elton is an artist I should be ashamed of having only in the hits formats
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Same here. :P I'm probably going to purchase some more of his music, at least digitally, pretty soon.

Anyway, I Want it All has been stuck in my head recently. Here's a link if you really need. one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pm4fQRl72k

Also, The Outlaw Torn by Metallica (very good song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86Z6Xw_C0w

Hear me
And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open
See me
And if my face becomes sincere, beware
Hold me
And when I start to come undone, stitch me together
See me
And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn

^ Those are interesting lyrics. That's why I love these kinds of random music threads. I still remember with great happiness a love songs version of this I started two or three years ago. I loved that thread. I still think of it from time to time. I was introduced to some music there that I will never forget. Cost me money though! This one probably will too.

If you guys want some Elton John concerts, I can hook you up!

Bruno Mars Locked out of Heaven.

I'd post a link but at 88million views, probably not necessary.

Here's a link though to a skit on Saturday Night Live featuring Bruno. It's called Sad Mouse and features him as an emotionally distraught NYC Times Square Worker. This was October 2012.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoFxcSsmKI&sns=em

If the link doesn't work just google Bruno Mars Sad Mouse.

If you don't care for sad mouse, here's Bruno and band with Locked out of Heaven live on SNL (same show as above).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CX7tCW8zMk&sns=em

Ran this on repeat for a while this morning. I remember when I first heard the song with the intro. A beautiful noise and even on first hearing you knew what song would eventually emerge. I was playing the intro for my son once, telling him what song it was going to be, and he couldn't hear it in there and wondered how I could. I didn't and don't know and can't describe it without the language of musical knowledge. It's just something you can feel running underneath and coiling together. It's the same for that Hotel California intro that is played with it sometimes. You knew what was coming on first hearing of that as well. Anyway, without further babble, The Alan Parsons Project:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBQalkIeE7s

And, what the heck, The Eagles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYf4kqnAWos

Just because it's not THAT bad. Come on! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjTN11CnNY

Can't get this one out of my head today. I had a mad crush on B.O. when I was about 17. Best we didn't run off together though as I would have ended up with some pretty unfortunate initials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA3NVafsdo

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[b]GratefulFan wrote: [/b] Can't get this one out of my head today. I had a mad crush on B.O. when I was about 17. Best we didn't run off together though as I would have ended up with some pretty unfortunate initials.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA3NVafsdo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA3NVafsdo[/url][/QUOTE]

lol!