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eddstarr88 wrote:It's eddstarr's storytime again.
I've always treated music as a universal, humankind's greatest gift. By the time I was in junior high school my musical exposure was about to expand greatly. There's no two ways about it, desegregation's most immediate impact on me was music. My school friends loved to talk music and I became aware that I still had a lot to learn.
Now I can post images and video on RJ and act like it's no big deal.
But this is a big deal for me. What are the odds that a Navy kid growing up in Norfolk, VA listening to "The YES Album" of 1971, in glorious FM Stereo, would survive to tell his new online friends what a revelation YES was for me?
It was as if a door to another dimension had opened up and I was hearing in a new way! I'll never forget my dad walking in on me as I was listening to "The YES Album" and he asked me, "why are you listening to that white boy music?". I can still see him glaring at me like I had transformed into a stranger in his house.
But I'm not like my dad, I couldn't be like him. All I've seen and experienced in the last 50 years has made me so far away from my parents, it's like I have become a stranger to their world and way of thinking.
I'm the kind of man that can still listen to YES and be awed that they rocked my world so long ago, and YES is still with us today!
From the 1971 album, this is the studio cut of their 2-part song.
Part 1 is called "Your Move" with lots of references to a game of chess.
Part 2 is called "All Good People" where YES repeats the same phrase over and over, concluding with one of the most unique endings I've ever heard for a song - progressive fade out with cord drops on each refrain!
Got my imagination 40 years ago!
YES - "I've Seen All Good People" - 1971:
http://youtu.be/uJM7TdshUbw
Such a classic song
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B.B. King - The Thrill is Gone
It was written by Rick Darnell and Roy Hawkins in 1951, but it was popularized by B.B. King in 1970.
There is a battle between two wolves inside us all.
One is evil and the other one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed the most.
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Here we go again! GN has beatten me to the magnificent Isley Brothers.
Well I'm gonna counter with a man who's talent is right up there with Isaac Hayes and Curtis Mayfield. And here is his signature song written and produced faster than Tavis Smiley could believe when he interviewed this man on his show just a couple of years ago.
This one's for the history books everyone,
Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street" - 1972:
http://youtu.be/I9wqUruBXe8
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thecrow174 wrote:
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall
Oh Yeah - Pink Floyd rocks the world with this one!
The impact this album had when it was first released might be hard to believe today. But here is the scene that must have taken place in dorm rooms all over the country at that time, "dude . . . I heard this on the radio and I just bought the album. You've got to here this!!!"
So good, even the reworked movie version rocks.
Yet another song for the history books everyone:
http://youtu.be/YR5ApYxkU-U
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