The Next Big Writer — Song list for John Hamler

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (dagny) — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:54:09 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM
ultimate social distancing anthem

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (John Hamler) — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:51:47 +0000

Well, while we're all stuck inside wanting to break out of our rusty cages and run...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMlNxB8dXFM

I actually enjoy the original SOUNDGARDEN/Chris Cornell version better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBZs_Py-1_0

but that's just a matter of taste and style, I guess.

Hang in there, people!!

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (Rachel Parsons) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:13:18 +0000

vern wrote:

Rachel Parsons wrote:
My contribution. According to John Denver, perfectly suited for shut-ins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FracPReK4
Downright good one to perk up memories of a more social existence. Gets my heart pumpin' for those days of yore. Thank you ma'am. Take care. Vern

You are welcome, sir. I had heard about this song but had never taken the time to listen to it. I thought John Denver's rendition was great but looked up a couple of earlier ones, including the one song by the author of it. All were great.

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (vern) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:15:39 +0000

Rachel Parsons wrote:

My contribution. According to John Denver, perfectly suited for shutins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FracPReK4

Downright good one to perk up memories of a more social existence. Gets my heart pumpin' for those days of yore. Thank you ma'am. Take care. Vern

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (Rachel Parsons) — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:20:53 +0000

My contribution. According to John Denver, perfectly suited for shut-ins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FracPReK4

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (vern) — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:56:25 +0000

Clairedeplume wrote:

Thanks, Vern.

You're welcome, I'm sure. Well, it's better than silence while we're sitting at home or walking around like bank robbers. I'm still waiting on that one. BTW, folks, a toilet paper factory blew up in Maine so better stock up on magazines and corn cobs, lol. Take care. Vern

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (Clairedeplume) — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:04:54 +0000

Thanks, Vern.

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (njc) — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:48:04 +0000

Classics, of a sort: https://youtu.be/Fg4PdR_ZtEs (Linked long ago off Instapundit.)

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (John Hamler) — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:34:12 +0000

A kinda/sorta fun thing to do during this epidemic crisis with nothing for us to do (except WRITE, that is!) is to go on YouTube and watch black people REACT to white people doing shit like singing, dancing, and performing stand-up comedy. I know that might sound like racist curiosity (while at the same time sounding like I'm taking it for granted that most of the people on this website are probably Caucasian) but I'm really not trying to be antagonistic. It's actually quite informative and entertaining at the same time. Seriously. Just pick your favorite song or performance or whatever and the chances are that a male or female of African persuasion has made a personal video about it.

Here. I'll get y'all started down the rabbit hole with AC/DC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JETSlbeizbA&t=548s

If rock and roll ain't your thing try this Game of Thrones/Red Wedding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ga9F_iN4iI

Or this comedy shite, about black vs white fashion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTsqRe_usM

Cheers

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (Dirk B.) — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:22:26 +0000

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This was really good. A couple of them actually sounded like they belong on Broadway.

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (dagny) — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:47:57 +0000

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A masterpiece! Made me laugh out loud, NJC, thank you!

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Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (dagny) — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:55:54 +0000

Five minutes of pure funk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (vern) — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:28:07 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_xd5jG3JTA

This one seems to fit the mood during these semi-shut-in times. I auditioned this for America's Got Talent several years ago and changed the words to fit in with the audition. Of course they warn you not to be original but what the hell, it seemed like a good idea at the time. They had told us the audition would only last ninety seconds so I figured they would stop me before I got too far in, but unfortunately they didn't stop me and I got a bit nervous and forgot the words about halfway through, lol. This is how I rewrote the words:

Before the AGT audition
I couldn’t find a way to hold my head that didn’t hurt
But the chorus I sang for breakfast wasn’t bad
So I did one more for dessert
Then I fumbled in the closet through my clothes
And found my blackest lucky shirt
Then I looked in the mirror and pumped myself
And sauntered down the stairs to meet the day.

I’d agonized the night before
With doubts of which song I’d be pickin’
But I practiced this little one
Strummin’ on an air guitar that I was stickin’
Then I walked into that little room
And I could almost taste the friction
And it reminded me of those nerves I’d lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way
Oh, that AGT audition
I’m praying, Lord, that I’ll get through
‘Cause there’s something ‘bout those judges
That gets a fellow feeling blue.
And there’s nothing short of dying
That’s half as lonesome as the sound
Of listening to your heartbeat
Waiting for the AGT hammer to come down, hmm, hmm, hmm

Take care. Vern

Re: Song list for John Hamler

null@example.com (dagny) — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:16:22 +0000

John Hamler wrote:

I thought Dagny's Andra Day selection was pretty cool, too. I don't usually go for histrionic singing (and would never have come across or indeed stopped long enough to listen to it without Dagny's suggestion) but... Yeah. I kinda/sorta dig it. Makes me wanna introduce y'all to this rather mannish-looking lady:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjeBNv6ip0
Amazing, right? Thank me later.

Well, I've heard this song before, but I've never seen it performed. The ship tat distracted me, because I got one for my 65th birthday and it hurt like hell. It's a small one, 3'' x 3", that my granddaughter drew and has on her forearm. Did I say it hurt like hell? So...I cringed the whole way through that song thinking about the pain an entire ship would have caused. Other than that, I liked it.

This is one I really like, while it doesn't really encourages me the way Rise Up does, it's just a catchy tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrV90gXmOpA

If you liked that you'll like this too... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLEn5MyXUfE