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Songs of Special Significance |
 Feb 5 2007, 07:39 PM
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Are there any songs which speak to you on a personal level of your own existential or spiritual experiences - pre, during or post G.V.: -
A few of my own: - REM 'Losing my Religion' ; Jon Anderson 'Somehow I'll find my Way Home' Joni Mitchell 'Woodstock ' (we are stardust ) Kate Bush 'Man with the Child in His Eyes' Joy Division ''Feel it closing in' Tom Waits 'God's away on business' or 'Misery's the river of the world' The Beatles 'All you need is Love' John Coltrane 'A Love Supreme  
-------------------- And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin.
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Feb 5 2007, 08:38 PM
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 Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 712 Joined: 6-March 05 From: Near London, England Member No.: 42 |
Leonard Cohen - The Sisters of Mercy
Kate Bush - Army Dreamer -------------------- The legal concept of a reasonable person is about as unreasonable as you can be.
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Feb 5 2007, 09:10 PM
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What a wonderful and dangerous question. I have spent the last half an hour looking through my CD shelves and found a few favorites. But it feels like there are many more I just can't remember now... It's maybe not always lyrics that literally speak of things I have experienced, but lyrics that resonate strongly with something in me.
Some English ones: The Beatles Eleanor Rigby Cat Stevens Lady D'Arbanville King Crimson Epitaph Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven Pink Floyd On the Turning Away The Moody Blues Nights in White Satin, The Other Side of Life Leonard Cohen, Who By Fire Styx Boat on the River Loreena McKennitt Skellig -------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Feb 5 2007, 10:08 PM
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Interesting that you both picked a Leonard Cohen track as I had him in mind earlier in connection with this but then omitted him - when I was sixteen I would sit for hours in the dark in my front room meditating with his Songs of Leonard Cohen playing.
 
-------------------- And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~ Anais Nin.
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Feb 5 2007, 10:48 PM
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Me too...
THAT SPECIFIC ALBUM is what I recently recommended to someome who did not know Leonard Cohen as the one to listen to. I think unless you listen to it at the right time you won't like it as much as you can. I have posted this video on GR before for Bhaktavasya who said she is a Leonard Cohen fan. At the end he starts crying: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ocq_noEO2uU -------------------- I do not believe in the posts which are not forced into existence by the compulsive result of Mans urge to open his heart" - Edvard Munch
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Feb 6 2007, 12:37 AM
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In no particular order, looking through my spirit mix playlist:
All Soul's Night--Loreena McKennitt Woodstock--Joni Mitchell (though I also love Eva Cassidy's cover) Shine On You Crazy Diamond--Pink Floyd Amazing Grace (Ani DiFranco's version is my favorite, Laura Love's a close second) Testimony--Ferron Closer--NIN (You get me closer to god...) Hymn to Her--Pretenders Govindam--Pia Spider Woman's Home--R. Carlos Nakai and Paul Horn Libana: The Earth is Our Mother, A Circle is Cast, The Earth, The Air..., Yemaya Ani DiFranco: If He Tries Anything, Back Back Back Tool: The Grudge, Aenema, Parabol, Parabola, Forty Six and 2 George Harrison: Hear Me Lord, Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth), My Sweet Lord, Art of Dying, All Things Must Pass I Just Want To Celebrate--Rare Earth Dead Man's Party--Oingo Boingo I'm A Woman--Koko Taylor In Your Eyes--Peter Gabriel Carry On--Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Where To Now, St. Peter?--Elton John Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For--U2 Hold On--Sara McLachlan Get Together--The Youngbloods People Get Ready--Aretha Franklin I'll Take You There--The Staple Singers Shine--Imogen Heap Sweet Religion--Imogen Heap All The Candles In The World--Jane Siberry Unwritten--Natasha Bedingfield Spider Web--Joan Osborne Spock Thoughts--Leonard Nimoy (the Desiderata) New Attitude--Patti LaBelle O Holy Night--Tracy Chapman's version Breathe (2am)--Anna Nalick Tony Scott--Music for Zen Meditation Jesus Christ Superstar (rock opera by Webber/Rice) -------------------- "We have fallen into the place where everything is music." --Rumi he said change the channel/i've got problems of my own/i'm so sick of hearing about drugs/and aids/and people without homes/and i said, well,/i'd like to sympathize with that/but if you/don't understand/then how can you act --Ani DiFranco My LiveJournal |
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Feb 6 2007, 05:36 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 712 Joined: 6-March 05 From: Near London, England Member No.: 42 |
Rhapsodies - Papathanasiou Vangelis and Irene Papas
Organ Symphony by Saint Seans The Moody Blues (I have everything) Early Joan Baez There is a certain quality in some female voices... Joan Baez, Irene Papas, Lisa Gerrard, Yma Sumac, Kate Bush among them that gives me goosebumps and makes my hair stand up -------------------- The legal concept of a reasonable person is about as unreasonable as you can be.
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Feb 6 2007, 06:54 AM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,503 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
QUOTE (Adrija @ Feb 5 2007, 10:08 PM) Interesting that you both picked a Leonard Cohen track as I had him in mind earlier in connection with this but then omitted him - when I was sixteen I would sit for hours in the dark in my front room meditating with his Songs of Leonard Cohen playing.  It's hard not to have Cohen on this kind of list. His lyrics are unique. -------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Feb 6 2007, 08:42 AM
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Pundit Group: Full Member Posts: 595 Joined: 27-March 05 From: victoria b.c. Member No.: 66 |
QUOTE (evakurvan @ Feb 5 2007, 03:48 PM) Me too... THAT SPECIFIC ALBUM is what I recently recommended to someome who did not know Leonard Cohen as the one to listen to. I think unless you listen to it at the right time you won't like it as much as you can. I have posted this video on GR before for Bhaktavasya who said she is a Leonard Cohen fan. At the end he starts crying: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ocq_noEO2uU Thankyou so much. I missed seeing that the first time. Songs of Leonard Cohen was my introduction to his music when i was 19 (1968) winding down like morning dew from an lsd trip. Later that morning, while walking past a mound of garbage i noticed a small flower blossoming at the edge, a sign of life defying the odds (and she shows you where to look between the garbage and the flowers) and i started to cry. His songs have had a deep impact on my spiritual life, the way i think and see the world. They also became part of the soundtrack of my life, almost 20 years ago, with the Famous Blue Raincoat recording of his songs by Jennifer Warnes. there are other 'songs of spiritual significance' ("we weren't lovers like that and beside it would still be alright") that i want to acknowlege, later. thankyou again 
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Feb 6 2007, 09:50 AM
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Hurt - Johnny Cash
Gloomy Sunday-Billie Holiday Papa was a rolling stone-Temptations Sisters are doinŽit for themselves-Aretha Franklin We dont need another hero-Tina Turner -------------------- It is healthy to react in a relevant way to the facts of life.
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Feb 6 2007, 10:25 AM
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Enlightened One Group: Full Member Posts: 2,272 Joined: 4-July 05 From: FINLAND Member No.: 111 Future Paul Newman Cup winner |
Eric Satie...practically anything by him. Nice to play that when working. It "gives room" to you. No other way to explain it.
-------------------- It is healthy to react in a relevant way to the facts of life.
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Feb 6 2007, 03:48 PM
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 in cervinus veritas Group: Full Member Posts: 3,890 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Phallus Falls, FL, Amurca Member No.: 5 devolutionist |
Voodoo chile (live) Jimi Hendrix
In the light -Led Zeppelin please come home -Allman Brothers break on through - The Doors big bonghits -Darth Vaders church Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya -Pandit Jasraj within you without you -Beatles satyam shivam sundaram- Lata Mangeshkar simple man- Lynard Skynard |
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Feb 6 2007, 05:09 PM
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Pundit? Group: Full Member Posts: 5,503 Joined: 2-March 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 6 Irregular Member |
Since we came upon the subject of goosebumps-causing voices and also of Sanskrit mantras, here's a bunch of favorites:
Sri venkateshvara pate tava suprabhatam I don't know the chanter's name, it seems to be a female but even of that I am not sure. I had the whole prayer on a tape that got so overused it won't play anymore. But two years ago I located it on the net. It seems to be the same thing. Hope the link still works. http://www.astrojyoti.com/mp3stotras_full.htm Then, from the movie Dance of the Wind, the little girl Tara's song (I don't have the Sanskrit but it is a prayer too). Shveta Jhaveri (who btw does the voice of the main character in the movie), but who also records her own music, a fusion of raga and jazz. Sheila Chandra (who used to sing pop, like Ever So Lonely, but also experimental music, and who sang a track for the Lord of the Rings movie, titled Breath of Life. For those of you who saw the movie: it's in The Two Towers, when the wounded Aragorn gradually awakens on a riverbank with his horse near him. Come to think about it... also Enya, who sings Aniron (and more) for the same movie. What to speak of her sister Maire Brennan (Clannad). I better stop here... -------------------- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Einstein)
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Feb 6 2007, 05:16 PM
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Speaking of Sanskrt songs, I had a favorite bhajan tape I cannot find anymore. It was called 'Lokanath Swami: Vrndavan Bhajans". Does any of you guys happen to have that on CD?
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Feb 6 2007, 06:37 PM
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Dreams Made Flesh - Dead can Dance - in concert at Den Haag
The Alchemist - Enigma - from A Posteriori CD -------------------- The legal concept of a reasonable person is about as unreasonable as you can be.
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Feb 6 2007, 06:55 PM
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Enlightened One Group: Full Member Posts: 2,272 Joined: 4-July 05 From: FINLAND Member No.: 111 Future Paul Newman Cup winner |
She is a woman in love- Tom Petty
-------------------- It is healthy to react in a relevant way to the facts of life.
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Feb 6 2007, 10:04 PM
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This member has left Gaudiya Repercussions. Group: Former Members Posts: 7,266 Joined: 1-March 05 From: USA Member No.: 2 |
QUOTE (zanardi @ Feb 6 2007, 01:50 AM) Hurt - Johnny Cash Gloomy Sunday-Billie Holiday Papa was a rolling stone-Temptations Sisters are doinŽit for themselves-Aretha Franklin We dont need another hero-Tina Turner I was so surprised when Johnny did a NIN song like Hurt. His version was fantastic! I guess it really helps to have lived through a whole lot more "Hurt" than the much younger Trent Reznor. -------------------- "We have fallen into the place where everything is music." --Rumi he said change the channel/i've got problems of my own/i'm so sick of hearing about drugs/and aids/and people without homes/and i said, well,/i'd like to sympathize with that/but if you/don't understand/then how can you act --Ani DiFranco My LiveJournal |
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Feb 6 2007, 10:05 PM
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QUOTE (rhapsodieff @ Feb 6 2007, 10:37 AM) Dreams Made Flesh - Dead can Dance - in concert at Den Haag The Alchemist - Enigma - from A Posteriori CD I was going to add Enigma's first album but forgot to type it in. -------------------- "We have fallen into the place where everything is music." --Rumi he said change the channel/i've got problems of my own/i'm so sick of hearing about drugs/and aids/and people without homes/and i said, well,/i'd like to sympathize with that/but if you/don't understand/then how can you act --Ani DiFranco My LiveJournal |
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Oct 5 2009, 07:54 PM
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On the path Group: Full Member Posts: 54 Joined: 4-October 07 From: sunny side of the Alps / Slovenia Member No.: 1,151 |
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Oct 6 2009, 06:25 PM
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 On the path Group: Full Member Posts: 116 Joined: 26-August 09 From: There and Back Again Member No.: 1,803 Wandering and wondering |
At the moment for some reason I'm totally fascinated by The Voice by Celtic Woman.
Goosebumps, shivering, crying... almost bhava  It's a long time I've felt this strongly for any piece of music.Oh, yes, and Ameno by Era. I would have to think about a general list, this is a temporary one. -------------------- Not all those who wonder are lost...
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