I read its a well know problem that Firefox has problems playing the embedded clips from youtube. I hope they clear that up in the next update. Otherwise use IE instead.
here a list of clips from Green my favourite album of REM. Sadly REM is mostly accociated with there later hits like Shiny Happy People and Loosing My Religions song i cant hear anymore too. Green was just before. Many find Automatic For The People there best maby because it was there first REM album. Green has much from there later style in it. So have a go and tell em if you like it or hate them still as much hehe.
Popsong '89 "hello i love you.."
silly song silly clip. This one is uncencored.
Get Up
One of my favourite songs
"Sleep delays my life (get up, get up) Where does time go? (get up, get up, get up) I don't know Sleep, sleep, sleepy head (get up, get up, get up) Wake it up...up (get up, get up) You've got all your life (way up ahead) (get up, get up, get up)
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up) I've seen you laying pined (get up, get up) Life is rough...rough (get up, get up, get up) I've seen you laying down (get up) With the loving kind (get up, get up) I know life is hard...hard (where goes your time?) Where to turn? Where to turn?
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life)
Dreamtime...
Dreams they complicate my life (Dreams they complement my life) This time, no escape, I wake up. (get up, get up)"
what does "I've seen you laying pined" means?
You Are The Everything
You have been here and you are everything
its not the entire song but nice footage.
Stand
a singalong lol some will hate it maby i think its funny
World Leader Pretend
recorded at Pinkpop a festival in the Netherlands. I have this concert at cd and played this a lot. This is the best song on the album great lyrics. If you skip all the vids so far then only play this one.
I sit at my table and wage war on myself It seems like it's all...it's all for nothing I know the barricades, and I know the mortar in the wall breaks I recognize the weapons, I used them well
This is my mistake. Let me make it good I raised the wall, and I will be the one to knock it down
oooh my those years a long time ago. The intro here is not on the album *we live as we dream alone.. and i always hear that voice yelling from the audience *yeahh..
The Wrong Child
a delicate song
Orange Crush
only lousy clips so a soundclip instead. That hunting guitar riff Its amazing!! if never get bored of this one.. "The line "I've got my spine, I've got my Orange Crush" may refer to the damage to the central nervous system that soldiers contracted as a side effect of Agent Orange."
briljant!
Turn you inside out
i'm a big fan of the guitar playing of Peter Buck. That "jangle"..
Hairshirt
only one lousy recorded clip again so a audio one. Reminds me of the summer of 1992 sticky warm no change everyday was the same.
I Remember California
geee one of the two clips eh im stunnend that they choose this music for this!
Untitled Song
the last song of the album. "This world is big and so-awake I stayed up late to hear your voice This light is here to keep you warm This song is here to keep you strong
I made a list of things to say But all I really want to say All I really want to say is Hold her and keep him strong While I'm away from here Hold her and keep her strong While I'm away from here
I've seen the world and so-awake And stay up late to hear me sing Just hold her I've seen the world and so-awake And stay up late to hear me sing Just hold him Hold her and keep her strong While I'm away from here Hold him and keep him strong While I'm away from here
a week ago i found these, a for me unknown band, at youtube. A great mix of spooky old dark wave, Lydia Lunch & fi. Siouxsie and the Banshees.
Black Ice - Severed
Think you like this Honey!
here one other vid of them:
Black Ice - Invisible
it reminds me of Lydia Lunch (her voice specially). I cant find much clips of her on Youtube but here are two lol on the first one she doesn't sing and on the second well..: Lydia Lunch - Dance of The Death Childeren
before i forget she made (with Sonic youth) one of the most brilliant songs ever Deathvalley 69 which i cant embed here prob due to copyrights but click the link. Sonic Youth play this life but whats this song without Lydia Lunch! What brilliant piece!
last song is also from a for me unknown band
The Electrocution Boys - A Dissappearance
the comments say it hasn't been released yet well do that soon indeed!
One of the best bands ever! And im glad i saw them one time life. Overwhelming and one of the best live acts i ever saw. One thing i remember he jelled "laat het gaan! waaah waaah (I always think he said it dutch haha) yeaah scream let is come out!! Two brilliant clips on you tube.
Unspeakable
"Facts and figures the clocks turn backwards Facts and figures turn anticlockwise Many signposts leading to the same place I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice Unspeakable!
Keep running 'cos it's nightmare time Every direction leading to the same place I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice Unspeakable!"
Exit
"noise turns darker the moments pass but the drums keep thundering in familiar way outside the legions multiply by and by - you're still alive getting nowhere - can't find no way
discord dances discord earth 'cos ego ego taking the fame harvest thanks didn't go quite right
noise turns darker the moments pass but the drums keep thundering in familiar way by and by - i'm still aliveoutside the legions multiply"
"Voor Elkaar" is a new program on public tv broadcaster RVU. Its a simpel format. There are people who need help. Help with cooking, to be just company for a day, a walk over the market, help for finishing rebuilding a house. The people are ill or old so they cant do it or are lonely. A presenter asks random (local) people on the street if they want to help them. How willing/open are the Dutch? "No no time no time, nothing for me, im not handy" is many times the answer. A girl reply's the host "so many people are so busy with themselves. It will be hard to find them". What would i say? I first would def walk around the camera lol.
I find it so sweet of the people who agreed to help. They all reply how great they find the experience to help (without pay but just to give help being social). It makes me teary eyed when i see that old woman -who is blind so she couldn't visit her old neigbourhood (-market) anymore and now she can again with help from a volunteer- answering: "This is the most beautiful day in my live.."
To bad no subtitles but maby its still nice to watch. Btw click on "Voor Elkaar" to watch.
My Honey made a discussion posty about poverty. I wanted to reply but it got a bit long. Many arguments came up while writing it. In the end i decided to make it fit for a post on my blog.
reply to Atomic:
Hmm it’s a complicated matter. I personally never knew what real poverty is. We only had to “be careful”, we ate lousy bread and i wore all my brothers’ old clothes (10 years outdated!). These days I see it as a lesson... I learn to save. (Eh...)
Personally i only give money to charity. But many don’t believe it helps. The Dutch as a country give 0.8% of the “total gross national income" to “development co-operations” (charity; hope I translated that correct). That’s a huge amount. Actually I’m bit proud of it; there are foreign countries who give more in whole but less as per citizen. Also must be said that the Dutch government mostly really pay! There are countries who Offer to help promise certain amount to donate but never really give. The mouth is faster then the wallet. But lately, since we have a growing right winged population, people call (shout) to lower that 0.8% or even to stop that- period. They give multiple arguments:
The most important one is that the money is often misused. For instance when given to corrupt country you often have to pay certain persons first before getting it to the right-people. And second why donate a country which is at war? The money has no “save ground” for to be invested in the long run. Many see Africa as a hopelessly-by war-divided-bottomless well. We give and give and give… Then there is the bold racism argument. Money donate on Islamic countries is less & less (not) popular. The argument that the money is not properly invested locally I can understand. Maby it was given to easy? The money is used short termed and not invested for the future. Of course that has many reasons. (Well if I’m hungry now I don’t think of buying/saving grain to sow next year? And next year there will probably be again). One is lack of knowledge; how to properly invest. Next is maybe motivation. A real good argument is that the invested money is destroying local economics. Notorious is the help for Ethiopia. The hunger was severe. Then the West gave so much free grain… from The West! that the grain which Africa grows itself couldn’t compete. Local farmers went bankrupt and well consequences are obvious. So what can we do? The West can be blamed for poverty and wars in Africa. The cold war wasn’t fought directly but there. So we morally have to do something and wars may not stop us. As big providers of guns we first have to stop to deliver them. Obvious it wont help much there are so many who eagerly willing to take it over (and the West prob use that as an argument to deliver So we still have bit control!). Countries must not get the change to borrow too much money to get in debt. The corrupt systems don’t care about the future. The West must not give their superfluous food. Or make conditions (buy our grain from the money we give you). The UN must organize a worldwide ban on collaboration with corrupt systems. Like Mugabe’s. It doesn’t help if the West bans him while other countries jump in. Then liberation and stimulation of equal rights for woman which comes with education (birth controle is important). The West has to open their markets for products from third world countries. But one legal argument is that the food has to have same *health inspections/ warranties. That’s expensive for them and so they can’t compete. It’s one of the reasons the West ban them or hmm maybe the one they use to save their own markets! But do I say something new here aren't they well know? One of the nicest ideas I only read about last years but it existed from way back (btw our future queen is active in this) is Microcredit. I couldn’t say it better then here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcredit please read it. A great way to stimulate local development with responsibility. Also read the part about woman! There is also criticism on this. It’s a bit of a mix of what I think and what generally is thought here. Maybe it’s a start for a further debate?
Greetings, Ambres
(ps.What people generally think won't say they are my ideas. I could make many more remarks but i hope its sufficiënt for now).
I think in my life time there will be never i band like The Smiths again. One could say its because you never be 20 again. Maby.. maby "those feelings" are over indeed but i dont believe that anybody (a band) can make such a genius combination of clever lyrics with such brilliant music ever again. I sometimes think of the best band ever. That's impossible depends on the time when you choose but now i would choose for The Smiths. Imagine they wrote only one lousy song! "Work is a 4 letter word".. and even then title is funny! About The Smiths later more but during a youtubenight (that must be a normal word from now on) i found this clip..
