Season 156 Sell Me Love

xommen · Feb 9, 2015

Another one from me, this is my take on I wanna know what love is by Foreigner.

peewee · Feb 9, 2015

There used to be a radio station whose tag was: "Love songs, nothing but love songs..."

Here's a succinct song on the subject by Big Star called "I'm In Love with a Girl"
Don't worry, no wavery peewee falsetto, I am octaves below the original..
http://youtu.be/NwU2trv8IoE

ohmless · Feb 9, 2015

Oops. Sorry Dickadcock. Added now.

ohmless · Feb 9, 2015

Sorry for the lack of introductory video. I just wanted to get things started ASAP. I wanted to still share the inspiration for the theme. It was an interview during one of John's and Yoko's bed ins where he said something like there were enough commercials for violence and not enough for love/peace. I couldn't find the entire quote by itself but here is a snip of it.

RAB11 · Feb 9, 2015

Possibly not what you're looking for but it's thrthe love song upon which Kurt Cobain's reputation as a songwriter was built.

Very tough to play chords up the neck and not squish any babies who may be sat on your lap. He was wincing at the bum notes too.

CeeJay · Feb 9, 2015

RAB11 said:
Possibly not what you're looking for but it's thrthe love song upon which Kurt Cobain's reputation as a songwriter was built.

Very tough to play chords up the neck and not squish any babies who may be sat on your lap. He was wincing at the bum notes too.

Umm ...actually , no ..it's not the bum notes (what bum notes ?) but the title and song choice :

"What the hell is Dad singing about ? A gurl.....bleah "

bubbly193 · Feb 9, 2015

"The Proof of Your Love" - 4K&C
I had a bit of trouble with the clunky guitar capo, and got the chords mixed up near the end because of it. Also, I do not profess to be singer, in any way. I left out the bridge, because my voice can't handle that, kept in the dramatic reading for that purpose.

"The Proof of Your Love" Lyrics
If I sing but don't have love
I waste my breath with every song
I bring, an empty voice
A hollow noise

If I speak with a silver tongue
Convince a crowd but don't have love
I leave a bitter taste
With every word I say

(Chorus)
So let my life be the proof
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You
And what You're made of
How you lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof
The proof of Your love

If I give to a needy soul
But don't have love then who is poor
It seems all the poverty
Is found in me

Chorus:

**Bridge**
Ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
When it's all said and done
Ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
When we sing our final song

Only love remains
Only love remains

(Dramatic Reading from "I Cor. Chapter 13(ESV)")

Chorus:

pabrizzer · Feb 9, 2015

bubbly193 · Feb 9, 2015

ohmless said:
I am not picky. It is all good. Generally wanted to keep them positive but I think that might get cheesy if they were all positive.

Well, my next entry will be both cheesy and positive!

ukuleledaddy · Feb 9, 2015

Today I listened to the latest episode of The Songs Stuck In My Head, which is the name of TCK's radio show. It's so very good. You can listen to a bunch of his shows on Podomatic.com and look for Cloverdale Dave. I find most of my "new" favorite songs from there, and here's one of them.
Love Me This Evening by Stranger Cole & Gladstone Anderson

dickadcock · Feb 9, 2015

I especially like this song as I first heard it when I was learning to speak Swahili. I only recorded the 2 original verses; people often add to it.

bubbly193 · Feb 9, 2015

dickadcock said:
I especially like this song as I first heard it when I was learning to speak Swahili. I only recorded the 2 original verses; people often add to it.

Unazungumza?

dickadcock · Feb 10, 2015

bubbly193 said:
Unazungumza?

If I understand the meaning of what you asked w/o context, I was a teacher, not a musician. I taught in Swahili.

bubbly193 · Feb 10, 2015

dickadcock said:
If I understand the meaning of what you asked w/o context, I was a teacher, not a musician. I taught in Swahili.

Samahani, unazungumza kiSwahili?!

In many languages (I.e Swahili and **Latin American** Spanish) just saying "Do you speak?" is enough to get your meaning across. It's technically slang, of course...

AlanDP · Feb 10, 2015

dickadcock said:
I especially like this song as I first heard it when I was learning to speak Swahili. I only recorded the 2 original verses; people often add to it.

That's really nice. I have a sampler from the Soweta Gospel Choir with that song on it. Never thought I'd hear it anywhere else. Cool!

AlanDP · Feb 10, 2015

SOTU 156 - Sell Me Love - Love is a Rose

I think I sat too close to the camera.

dickadcock · Feb 10, 2015

bubbly193 said:
Samahani, unazungumza kiSwahili?!

In many languages (I.e Swahili and **Latin American** Spanish) just saying "Do you speak?" is enough to get your meaning across. It's technically slang, of course...

That's a generalization I wouldn't have made about Swahili, but I can't dispute it.
I would have used kusema kiswahili or kufahamu (to speak/say; to understand) as very common words to get the meaning across. I knew many people who tried too hard and ended up using vocabularies larger than the native speakers. For my students, a tribal language came first, then Swahili, then English. If they were lucky enough to go to high school, they would learn a "foreign" language. One of my students once smiled a big smile at me and said "we are linguists". And yet he had no shoes.

I would not claim to speak it now, as there has been no reason to speak it for 45 years, but I will always retain some, as it was used all the time, not just in the classroom. My son speaks Nepali. Go figure.

We should get back to the "love song" topic.

bubbly193 · Feb 10, 2015

Another question, does the international anthem of the Romany people, "Gelem Gelem," count as diplomatic. If I get to #5 I was thinking of redoing it in a Hungarian Folk style (Me sem Rom), on a Hawaiian instrument. Seems very diplomatic to me...

ohmless · Feb 10, 2015

To love something or someone you must accept them first. In the spirit of the seasons, there is no reason to ask. Just go for it!

CeeJay · Feb 10, 2015

Righty ho then ...This goes to BEVOMU 's credit in the scale of things ...

Collaboration between The Bouncing Baby Bev and the Misery Wot Is Jarvo....Bev done all the hard work and singing and chord out working and strumming the Tenorry Ukey lellelele ......I just shook a bit of an egg and wafted a few mando notes....She's dead good in't she ??

I always wanted to play a Bazooka.......Borzoi,Saluki....Ouzo, Saki....Zorba's Thingy...... all I ever got was a Mandolin

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