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Rob Thomas, formerly of Matchbox Twenty, sings “Little Wonders”, taken from the new Disney film “Meet The Robinsons”. This is the non-animated version of the video.
Lyrics to Little Wonders by Rob Thomas
I was very fortunate to have found the song The Promise by Within Temptation for my translated ghost story The Promise. I recalled that this is one of Darly’s favorite bands. The Dutch band, Within Temptation is a melodic progressive rock with stunning female vocals, the vocalist Sharon Den Adel sings with a lot of power, a siren in her voice, and in this song, it’s almost haunting, but somewhat angelic vocals. Her voice gives me goosebumps while listening to The Promise…it’s just that good. I’m surprise to say that I do like this band, might be shocking for Darly to find out.
The Promise by within Temptation Lyrics,
Below is a comment made by one of my readers, Bob on the post ‘Ideology of East Meets West’ that I think it would be great lost if only to be left in ‘comment box’ and I hope that you don’t mind me posting this (Bob) because I think it’s worth a post of its own. One of the greatest things about Blog is that we can share our experiences, ideas and sometimes reading what others have to say helps us to understand our situation a bit better. I think every comment is a contribution to a post because it takes the post to the next level, thank you all for commenting on this post, sometimes I feel like I’m just venting out my frustration…but don’t we all.
From Bob: I just wanted to share this song from one of my favorite artist with y’all. I heard it this morning on my way to school. I know I had taken the article of ‘Ideology of East meets West’ beyond what it meant & broadened it to a general view of things. (Hope I am forgiven by it). I like looking at the ‘big picture.’ Hopefully this song will reinforce what I had commented on this great discussion presented here (so far) by Nye.
Natalie writes the majority of her songs. That’s what I like about her. She was formally with ’10,000 Maniacs’ as their singer then went off to solo career. 10,000 Maniacs has not been the same since she left them. Why I like her music? All aspects of her music simply come together for me, as music should as I come to understand IMO. I love her lyrics most of all, and her voice simply gets the meaning across.
To put it short, this song’s main idea concerns with what we are doing to the environment…a comment brought in by Seiji as the consequence of our greed & continuous yearning for material things. The lyric, blend in with what we see in reality, bring a very haunting image to the mind of what will happen, or is happening. The second part where she speaks about the “five & dime queen” bring to mind Wal-Mart of all things. I think you know what I mean here.
This is Natalie’s take on the song:
“…the song is a desperate plea for innocence, to be ‘faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,’ expresses a craving we all share now for the world we took for granted and lost. Suddenly there seems to be no hiding from our past as a nation or our present, or our future. For me it’s the death of nostalgia and dreams.”
Enjoy.
Bob:)))
“Motherland” by Natalie Merchant
One of my favorite Christmas cartoons or movies is A Charlie Brown Christmas, which I’ve watched every years, this is a powerful tale of Charlie Brown’s quest for the true meaning of Christmas amid the garish trappings of a commercialized holiday. This show poses a question of, “Does anybody know the meaning of Christmas?”
A Charlie Brown Christmas - 1 of 3
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My favorite Christmas songs…
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Winter Wonderland
- O Holy Night
- Little Drummer Boy
- Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Silent Night
I recently learned this from Sim’s Blog on How to embed mp3 player in your blog, great instruction as always. This is the link to get different colors.
- Cheers (Full Version)
- Jeopardy (Think Song)
- Full House
- Happy Days
INDIA.ARIE LYRICS
“The Heart Of The Matter”
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Enya, Only Time
I’m not an expert in music; to try to get my point across might be a struggling. Some people are gifted in music and have a keen sense of hearing. I don’t have that and I’m not going to tell you otherwise, but I love music and I’ll try my best to do justice to the topic.
Music isn’t meant for just our ears only; it’s also the food that nourishes our heart and soul. I’m sure that we all have different taste in music, and to say that one has better taste in music than others is a bit unfair, because that’s measuring music based on our own personal preference and perception. The sound of music varies from one person to the next mainly because of our native to the area, our knowledge in music or instruments, and the one thing that we all can’t deny is our personal taste in music.
I think some of us might have heard the term ‘listening to music with your third ears,’ which means that when we listen to music, it doesn’t just stop at our eardrums, but it continues to travel to other parts of our body. Sounds can create certain types of feeling, whether it’s a chill that runs down our spine, goose bumps that appears on our arms and legs, or happiness that paints a smile on our face. This type of music is so powerful; I personally feel that classical music can creates these feelings, especially instruments such as the violin and piano. However, certain type of music can do the reverse, the loud and obnoxious sound that some might call it ‘music’; can creates irregularity of our heartbeat, and our brain wave, therefore, one should choose music wisely.
If sounds play such an important role in our well being, this worries me a bit because there are so many different types of noise out there that might be poisonous to our body. Whether it’s at the supermarket where you hear people arguing or fighting, office where you hear gossiping, or factory where you hear loud machine noises, and if you have to take this in, day after day, imagine what state of mind you will be in. It doesn’t surprise me one bit why some people are so grumpy, worse they would only listen to music that doesn’t have much rhythm, and words that are degrading and don’t have much meaning. For those that only listen to this type of music for pleasure, little did they know that it could be damaging to their third ears in the end. I think the types of music that would be therapeutic to the third ears are the types that is soothing, the type that will recharge our body and soul.
I personally love Thai classical music, called Ma Ho Ree, the sound of the Thai classical instruments are very soothing, and remind me of my childhood in Thailand. I associate this type of music with festive events, such as events at Wat (temple), or school functions. Some of my favorites are Lao Damnern Sai, Ton Vorachate, Khaek Chern Jao, Kra-Tae, Khaek Toy Mor, and Klen Kra-Tob Fung.
I also like to listen to classical music, but sadly that I don’t listen as much as I like to. I think that most young people don’t like classical music because they think it’s old fashion, but I think that’s their personal opinion, definitely not a professional opinion because music from artist such as Mozart and Beethoven have been around for over a century and yet there’s still a high demand for their musics. I think some people only listen to certain type of music because they want to create certain image of themselves, and classical music is definitely not cool. If that’s the case then I think it wouldn’t hurt to listen to classical music in the privacy of your own home, if you are going to listen to music, why not also listen to the type that will also be beneficial to your third ears.
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