Fave 'Classics'

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Dunno - I find Johnny Cash’s version much better than the NIN original.

Great song, anyway!

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns (…could bring himself to say sh*t)
On my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
my sweetest friend
Everyone I know
goes away in the end
You could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way...

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Very moving song. It was used to great sffect in a Radio 4 play last week.

I agree Johnny Cash's version is the best, though he hardly sings it, his great rough voice puts the feeling over so well.

[Daz Madrigal]

Its very moving in that it quickly makes me flee the house.

I agree with Exco here, I have always hated Pop music with its transigence and disposability. It lasts for one listen - not eternity.

Classical music is far superior yet fails to provide the instant jolt that a classic rock record can.

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////It lasts for one listen - not eternity.////

Well lucky you! I have to live for the moment. I don’t have an eternity.

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madrigalman said:

Its very moving in that it quickly makes me flee the house.
Classical music is far superior yet fails to provide the instant jolt that a classic rock record can.

Lots of instant jolts in classical. Eg. Beethoven's 5th

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Adagio in G minor by Albinoni

Haunting

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4dpbk8YBs

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One of my faves, Loop, but Youtube doesn’t do it any justice.

There was a prog on Radio 4 a few years ago, where people told personal stories they related with Barber’s Adagio - for Strings. Sad, I know, but it was really moving! I remember just having parked my car to go somewhere, but I got hooked, stayed and listened to the whole prog. Amazing that I can still remember it now!

Youtube’s better left to for the ‘naff stuff’…

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=un8NZMOsAbQ

Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
There's a thousand pretty women waitin' out there
And they're all livin' devil may care
And I'm just the devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

How I wish that there were more
Than the twenty-four hours in the day
'Cause even if there were forty more
I wouldn't sleep a minute away
Oh, there's black jack and poker and the roulette wheel
A fortune won and lost on every deal
All you need's a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas with you neon flashin'
And your one armbandits crashin'
All those hopes down the drain
Viva Las Vegas turnin' day into nighttime
Turnin' night into daytime
If you see it once
You'll never be the same again

I'm gonna keep on the run
I'm gonna have me some fun
If it costs me my very last dime
If I wind up broke up well
I'll always remember that I had a swingin' time
I'm gonna give it everything I've got
Lady luck please let the dice stay hot
Let me shoot a seven with every shot
Viva Las Vegas, Viva Las Vegas,Viva Las Vegas
Viva, Viva Las Vegas

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uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XflbpAOBVfE

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
It's not warm when she's away.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long anytime she goes away.

Wonder this time where she's gone,
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away.

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone,
But ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness everyday.
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone,
And this house just ain't no home anytime she goes away.

Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.
Anytime she goes away.

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uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zT4qUIf59d0

Looking out on the morning rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
but your love was the key to my peace of mind

cause you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

And when my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it
I didn't know just what was wrong with me
till your kiss helped me name it

now I'm no longer doubtful
of what I'm living for
cause if I make you happy I don't need to do more

you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

oh baby what you've done to me (what you've done to me)
you make me feel so good inside (good inside)
and I just wanna be (wanna be)
close to you you make me feel so alive

you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural, natural woman

you make me feel
you know you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

you know you
you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

natural woman