what music are you TTing with?

“great line, another song.

"Leanin' on my shovel in a graveyard of dreams...."”

“VAN MORRISON : Brown eyed girl !!”

“Kept seeing the term "indie rock" coming up, so had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_%28music%29

I feel old.”

“Get down on it

Kool & the Gang”

“I have moved on to Elton John...


feeling very mellow today :)”

“A Little Less Conversation 12" Extended Remix

Elvis


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“MoViNg In StErEo

The Carzzzzzz”

“life's the same I'm moving in stereo
life's the same except for my shoes
life's the same you're shakin' like tremolo
life's the same it's all inside you

it's so easy to blow up your problems
it's so easy to play up your breakdown
it's so easy to fly through a window
it's so easy to fool with the sound

it's so tough to get up
it's so tough
it's so tough to live up
it's so tough on you

life's the same I'm moving in stereo
life's the same except for my shoes
life's the same you're shakin' like tremolo
life's the same it's all inside you

life's the same I'm moving in stereo
life's the same except for my shoes
life's the same you're shakin' like tremolo
life's the same it's all inside you


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“KT Tunstall ... veeeeeeery interesting .....


”

“Skunk Anansie.”

“Rolling Stones......Satisfaction !!”

“I can't go no - daydreamer!”

“Queen....Bohemian Rhapsody”

“Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs

Heard the guy on NPR a little while ago and stumbled on the CD the other day. Bought it without hearing anything more than the NPR interview and tiny music snippets.

Good stuff!


Ordin”

“Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf....you get the picture”

“Jazz program on Chicago Public Radio”

“OKAY OKAY....Box Car Willie's Favorites...and the Bavarian Polka Tunes...(but only when I am suicidal)”

“Greatful Dead....You get the picture?”

“Skunk Anansie.”
Nigal
7:28:19 PM
2/21/06

Get The #&%!$ Out!!!!

Who put the Little Baby Swastikkka on the wall?”

“Hey man! Stop tryin' to sell me jesus with your smelly fingers.”

“Wow Ordin, someone else bought a Matisyahu CD? I can’t wait to go see him and Balken Beat Box next month. Here’s some cool links if ya get bored.

Check out his new video for his new song Youth: http://www.matismusic.com/video/Matisyahu_Youth_VidFull.ram

Here’s a thread from his web boards for all his media apperences he’s done. (His boards are awesome and it’s very interesting what happens when you get that many different people together):

http://jdubrecords.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=730

It only takes about two days after a live show for it to be up for downloading on Archive.com:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=matisyahu%20AND%20mediatype%3Aetree%20AND%20collection%3Aetree”

“Cocklespurs Greatful Dead is pretty good....I have a couple of the GD ties. One in particular is BRIGHT RED with the little dancing bears on it. When we have to do the "Drug Free" day and wear red...I wear that tie. It is sad but I sat in a meeting of DEA, ATF and other agencies and only three people noticed the tie.”

“I too bought Matisyahu's Live at Stubbs.

Pretty cool stuff. I tend to like most things that are off-center.”

“"When we have to do the "Drug Free" day and wear red...I wear that tie."

Great idea! The red tie would draw attention away from the red blood shot eyes!”

“Nigal,
Sitting here listening to Live At Stubbs again...

As a rabid fan of reggae, it wasn't hard to justify laying out the cash for the Matisyahu CD, even without ever hearing anything more than a few musical snippets from his NPR interview. His story seemed interesting enough, and it was reggae after all.

Reggae, REAL reggae, has been, still is, and will always be the music of expanding social consciousness, of protest, music straight from the heart. Matisyahu has taken reggae into his very core and found a way to paint his own picture, proclaim his own message, to bring the listeners to a place they would never have otherwise wandered.

There are probably few bigger fans of reggae in this world than myself and nothing grates on me worse than musicians and bands that bastardize the soul of reggae, steal little snippets and beats and twist it into something it isn't.

This CD, and in particular, Matisyahu doesn't dissappoint. It remained steadfast and true to the roots of reggae. It is about expanding consciousness, it remains true to the premise of protest, and it is most definitely from the heart.

Spin the track called "King Without A Crown" for a musical example of all those qualities.

Money well spent. Can't wait for his new CD to be released.


Ordin”

“10-11 P.M. REFLECTIONS FROM THE KEYBOARD
BARTOK: Valse, Op 14, No 6; FALLA: 4 Spanish Pieces: Aragonesa; BACH: Prelude and Fugue No 19 in A; GOTTSCHALK: Grand Scherzo; CHOPIN: Valse, Op 64, No 2; FAURE: Nocturne No 11, Op 104; GLUCK/ALKAN: Gavotte from Orfeo; TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse in Quintuple Time.”

“I love reggae too. I got into it from hearing Marley. I know a lot of people consider him mainstream but I just love the vibe he give off. Because reggae is so unrecognized I don’t really know who is who in reggae. I like the heavy roots type of sound.

My favorite Matisyahu song is Got No Water from his first CD.



Got No Water
You quench my thirsting soul and you fill my appetite
I give myself to you because you treat me right
Put my trust in the world and the world gets tight
Shift my trust to you it's like a crystal clear night
Expand in all directions get the sections to unite
Hashem's rays fire blaze light my way light of my life
And these days well wait no longer night
reaching for my G-d like skyscrapers in the night
I said I know its hard inside is empty galus (exile) cuts like a knife
Internalize torah vibes bound to feel alright


Chorus:
Whirlwind of praise from below to above
Take flight in the sky got wings like a dove,
Soaring to shamayim (heaven) where the angels call in love
And the glory of Hashem fits like a glove

Hashem rules the world and Israel is his wife
Love you yes my G-d with all my heart my soul and my might
When I feel you by my side yes I'm flying like a kite
You open up my eyes and give me sight
Super energized and everyday I feel you give me life
I seen the ways of the world intoxifying on pride
Young man don't you know drugs impurify your mind
When Israel left mitzrayim four fifths got left behind
If you got no water how you gonna survive
Roots lead you to the well springs so you could stay alive
Pharaoh claimed to be a G-d and claimed to make the Nile
A crocodile could smile and show his teeth
You could see beauty shining externally but that's the story of Greece
Inside America bleeds, Israel won't you get up from your knees
Its just lies in disguise Torah's truth won't you please realize
Given to the humble one on Mt. Sinai

Chorus

Shma Y'sroel, Hashem Elokainu, Hashem Echad
(Hear Israel, the lord is our G-d, the lord is one)

The world could just crumble to dust its just us it's not two it's just one
The middle road called truth, Torah you sooth my brain bruise
Open up peruse with knowledge of G-d
And move up an arousal from below till the secrets start to ooze
Don't snooze it's pure light the most high wants us alive
What's the proof?
We got life!
Chabad philosophy that's the deepest well-spring
Gaining knowledge of G-d while your gaining money
Fill up yourself with the light of his majesty
In a world of separation that's the only way to be
It's time we leave we won't flee just walk out easily

If you got no water how you gonna survive”

“Garden State soundtrack. It's pretty much amazing.”

“It's Been Awhile

Staind”

“Pat Benatar :


Love is a Battle Field”

“Uh-Oh!

LOL”

“The James Gang!!!!!!!!!!”

“Jaywalkin' has to be one of my favorite guitar songs.”

“Nigal,
If Bob Marley is considered mainstream, it's because those in mainstream migrated to Bob. Certainly not the other way around. The world awoke to the sounds of reggae because of Bob Marley. His music touched a place deep within us all and embedded itself there. Never before has a musician had such world wide appeal, such a POSITIVE global effect, such ability to weave a thread that bound us together like an enormous human quilt. No, Bob wasn't really mainstream, he was US.

At the risk of sounding like a crackpot, I firmly believe that Bob was sent to us for a reason. His music proved to be a conduit through which messages were poured about how we treat one another as humans and how much better this world would be with a little bit of Love and basic respect. Robert Nesta Marley was a Prophet.

Off the soapbox now....

As for other roots-style reggae artists that you'd very likely enjoy:
Black Uhuru
Israel Vibration
Burning Spear
Jimmy Cliff

Here's one more suggestion, John Brown's Body. They're a bunch of younger guys from the Ithaca, NY area that seem to have a tremendous grasp of what reggae is. The do it well.


Ordin”

“GnR


Knockin on heavens door.....”

“Zeppelin..

Stairway to Heaven”

“i'm noticing a theme here dd”

“they're out of order though”

“LOL ;)”

“Blue Oyster Cult I just downloaded from Usenet.”

“Don McLean...American Pie



Now we are definantly in the wrong order !”

“MTV has the new Matisyahu album for streaming. It's almost not worth having to deal with their crappy site. I swear their web site sucks worse than than their channels.

http://www.mtv.com/music/#/music/the_leak/matisyahu/youth/index.jhtml”

“Will not go in the woods today because the weather is inclement, by W. C. Dubussey
-Aldo Ciccolini, piano (EMI CD-54447)

(Quelques aspects du "Nous n'irons plus au bois" parce qu'il fait un temps insupportable, fr Images oubliees)
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“The Replacements

please to meet me”

“Paul Westerberg rocks!!”

“I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell.”

“The Stroke

Squire

sweet”

“Dream On

Aerosmith

2 sweet”

“Boogie Nights

Heatwave

always the best in town

keep on dancing”