Music for 2019

[RocketMan]

Wartime prayers, wartime prayers
In every language spoken,
For every family scattered and broken.

Because you cannot walk with the holy,
If you're just a halfway decent man.
I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
With a genius marketing plan.
I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
Even a little drop will do.
I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.

[IanEye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQegNKAxfw




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EBTk5brQVY




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_umeMtV4QU

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[Cordelia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbwjQSBH0sE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmnvPnDZUI8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9zg_JIL0k

[Laodicean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNIIOr3g8lQ

Talk Talk in 2019. The entire set at Montreux 1986 is amazing.

[seemslikeadream]

I am a real good dancer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PErUiAyVoGc

Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy
That I'm uneducated and my opinion means nothin'
But I know I'm a real good dancer
Don't need to look over my shoulder to see what I'm after
Everybody's got their problems-ain't no new news here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2owRcIlN2w

Miles and miles on my own
Walk with shame, I follow on
A language to find hard to hear
Not to understand, just disappear

Could you take my place and stand here?
I don't think you'd take this pain
You'll be on your knees and struggle under the weight
Oh, the truth would be a beautiful thing
Oh, the truth is a beautiful thing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZDKlpybZE

[IanEye]

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If friendship is what you're looking for, there are probably better communities, like the Stereo Wiring Club beloved by IanEye.

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Is it possible that you are thinking of the Moon Wiring Club?
They are pretty awesome.

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Tough fucking cookies.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0BUex5stF8

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Again, too fucking bad.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaNB_vJMs4k


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[IanEye]

Q: The signature Moon Wiring Club sound is even more specific, probably because it’s so closely tied to its process and origins: the Playstation. How did that even happen?

A: I always wanted to do music. But at the time, around 2001, with something like Cubase, I found it too difficult to figure out what I wanted to use it for. However, I’d also played a lot of computer games; I still do. There’s a game you can get for Playstation 2 called MTV Music Generator; the memory capacity is extremely short, so I gave up with it very quickly - at first. I wanted 6 minute tracks. But I played around with it over time and learnt how to take its shortcomings and manipulate them into beat tracks. Because it was a game - because it was not software - it was alluring, and I kept at it. If you’re obsessive with a computer game, you can train yourself to do things very fast, it’s ridiculous! I eventually became adept at it and loaded my own samples into it and started to use it my own way to create really awful, naff music that no one will ever hear. But that was the beginning.

[seemslikeadream]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ect2P99a7qY

She lives, no fear
Doubtless in everything she knows
Through time unchecked,
The sureness of her flows.
She leaves herself inside you when she goes.

She lives in a time of her own...

You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.

She lives in a time of her own...

Her love whips hard
Like wind and stands in eager pain.

She wins your thoughts
And drives your inner planes.
She clears and shares
A love that never strains.

She lives in a time of her own...

You have always heard her speaking,
She's always been in your ear.
Her voice sounds a tone within you,
Listen to the words you hear.
Her time has no past or future,
She lives everything she sees.
Her time doesn't spin outside here,
It's in every breath she breaths.

She lives in a time of her own...

Her eyes like light reflect the aura of her hair.
She sends, attends, behind an alpha stare.
She seeks the stars and spirals up their stairs.

She lives in a time of her own.
She lives in a time of her own.
She lives in a time of her own.
She lives in a time of her own.

[IanEye]

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i sit here in the thunder
the green on the grave
i feel it all around me


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWaj8wU_qRg


& it's not easy for me
to give away a secret
it's not safe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a10b5coYLFk

He was standing by the edge of a small pool—not more than ten feet from side to side—in a wood. The trees grew close together and were so leafy that he could get no glimpse of the sky. All the light was green light that came through the leaves: but there must have been a very strong sun overhead, for this green daylight was bright and warm.

It was the quietest wood you could possibly imagine. There were no birds, no insects, no animals, and no wind. You could almost feel the trees growing. The pool he had just got out of was not the only pool. There were dozens of others—a pool every few yards as far as his eyes could reach. You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. The wood was very much alive.

"I don't believe this wood is a world at all. I think it's just a sort of in-between place."

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[seemslikeadream]

Bare trees, gray light
Oh yeah it was a cold night


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F84yWm1ZjCg

[IanEye]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-7zYBKgzfs

”The map is not the territory.” - Alfred Korzybski



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKaYdgH3o4w

“I’m the map.” - the Map



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ROu-XI6_0


Would you wear this map as a hoodie?
Now you can.

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[streeb]

[seemslikeadream]

You think we can't fight what the eyes can't see

It's like you have the people under a spell, Mr Devil




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ao9Pdaj-n0

People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
And I know all the things you hide
Even though it's a good disguise
And I see all the things you do

But what you do will come back to you

You think we can't fight what the eyes can't see
Because you think we are blind in poverty
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
It's like you wants the people to kill
And fire gunshots and burn buildings to hell
No, after that you aren't gonna treat me well
It's like you have the people under a spell, Mr Devil
Talking to the people in the congress
A we vote you in, so you better do you best because
After that there's no contest
It's the state of the union address
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
Broadcasting lies on the television screen
Trying to get us hooked on your American dream
Up on your games if you know when you'll win
When you cheated on your wife with your moneys and your scheme
Thief will rule and no doubt he'll be followed
We are no fool and no call me no nigga
Do a good term and you deserve another
Signed musically yours, the general sleepywonder
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should
People in the misery
Government or work or government
It makes a mockery
Respect to the youths
When they're in front and all dem back a me
Why you don't treat them like the way you should

[Cordelia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4QBhC1uCP4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLYWaF8-ys8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7GroZ60UYc

[IanEye]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwxS1WabY3Q

Now here comes Positive Disintegration. Things have changed. Not so much musically - a few fizzing synth-lines and drum-machine jabs aside, it's the same make-up as before...muscular, pared-down, cranked-up...tough new wave. Which is a relief.

Nah, the main difference is that the faint glimmer of light that used to lurk in Diät's songs has been properly snuffed out. Whether surveying the smouldering wreckage of that thing thing we call "personal life", or zooming out to comment on the global political impasse (uh-oh!), the conclusions reached aren't encouraging. Self-doubt has hardened into self-loathing.