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Blood Sweat and Tears, Bob Marley, Bobby Hebb, Chrissie Hynde, Curtis Mayfield, Dusty Springfield, Gurrumul, Kraftwerk, Monty Python, Paul Simon, Procol Harum, Renee Geyer, Sade, Smash Mouth, the Reels, Verndell Smith
Playlist compiled by Algernon, originally compiled by Warrigal Mirriyuula and Algernon
Editor’s Note: Where DOES he get these album covers ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQ6OESv24A
Chrissie Hynde, I’ll Stand By You
Dusty Springfied, Blood Sweat and Tears, Gurrumulhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKfwCoLIVbs
Gurrumul, Wipeout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBuja42rqw
Dusty Springfield Just A Little Lovin’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3nu-qmxM0w
Blood Sweat & Tears Sometimes In Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vP6IWjqn8o
Curtis Mayfield People Get Ready
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcWHZc8s2I
Sade No Ordinary Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
Always look on the bright side of Life – Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w
The ministry of silly walks – Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbUl_E-R91Q
Sunny – Bobby Hebb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlnz95SZwBk
Stares and whispers – Renne Geyer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-0rNzpaxzg
Quasimodo’s dream – The Reels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXsyXjZPvGU
Mother and child reunion – Paul Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99gznekEOHA
Tour de France – Kraftwerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQj–Kjn0z8
Walking on the Sun – Smash Mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8AuLUMOUM
Tar and Cement –Verndelle Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqrvn3q1oo
No woman no cry – Bob Marley
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Just noticed something wrong with this list. These two should be included.
Dusty Springfield Just A Little Lovin’
Blood Sweat & Tears Sometimes In Winter
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Ah music!
I am reading a book written by Oliver Sacks “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”. In it he describes the plight of those suffering severe disabilities of parts of their brains. People with IQ less than 20, Tourette sufferers, accident victims. Some of those would do amazing things once music was introduced. It seems that music and rhythm is a necessity rather than just an added something to switch on for fun. Even the profound deaf seem to get help by the imagining of music or by the ‘evoke’ of sound and rhytm. Think of the deaf Beethoven who imagined music while unable to hear towards the end of his life…
Thanks for the music Algy.
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Life’s pretty dull without the arts and music gerard. Something all can enjoy.
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Good stuff that Gerard. Mind food isn’t it.
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I mean the book but it’s curious how we respond to music & even that some people ‘see’ it.
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I’m listening to the roundly remarkable warmly romantic Blood Sweat and Tears track, Sometimes in Winter, Gez.
One of Oliver’s theses does rest on the concept or round about it of suffering I suddenly (romantically 🙂 ) recalled listening to the music. He describes the fellow who jumps through the revolving doors as his party trick and he plays the drums. Once medicated he felt he lost his sense of well being or rather identity, based on the applause that drove him to master the art of his timing his jump through the doors and his drumming became lack lustre. He decided to abandon the medication after a discussion with the Professor who was taken with the principle his patient medicated felt a suffering of loss of his persona. I haven’t read it for a few years, but reckon that’s the gist.
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My cousin Terry and his son both take medication to help them deal with problems of the mind. The lad has ADHD and reports the same “flatness” when he is on medication – but it’s what gets him through school – and he doesn’t take it when the holidays are on or on weekends. He says it takes the edge of his cricket game and he’s less down, but also less fun at parties. I should say that tstopping taking his ADHD medication is also with the agreement of his paediatrician. His mother has the same medication and also something to keep the black dog at bay. She can tinker with the ADHD medication too, but must keep up the anti-depressant medication. One time after feeling well for some weeks, her GP agreed to let her take a holiday from the antidepressant and within a fortnight the black dog had returned. So they compromised and she is on a lower dose, but she’s on it for life. Just like an insulin dependent diabetic is on their medication for life. Terry’s husband would certainly support your take on this, ‘Shoe.
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Mike
Thank you for your interesting comment that you know of this philosophical view of suffering being a mixed bag and certainly relative to our needs. I was not of course challenging the meaning of suffering per se which as I understand it has some popularity, beats me, I reckon people know whether they are suffering or not or that other people collectively know they are suffering as a result some one person is off the rails.
It’s anguish as those of us who have family members who have suffered know. I feel terribly sorry that there is a spin off in families that we are affected by generations.
Dropping in that file of ‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat’ for any who come across our cache. Nothing like a paper copy tho’..
Click to access wife-hat.pdf
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Hey, many thanks, ‘Shoe. I skimmed a bit and it is stylistically as I might have anticipated from reading Sach’s “Uncle Tungsten”. A good and interesting read. I have a spare copy of John Elder Simpson’s “Be Different”, which is a wonderfully illuminating and practical treatise on Asperger’s syndrome from a man diagnosed at 40, if you’d like a read, Email me your address privately and I’ll send it down.
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,I’m enjoying this one…The good old Monty Python, something that is soo funny, doesn’t age..
Procol Harum, Paul Simon, Bob Marely, Gurrumul, Dusty…what’s here not to like
🙂
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Being the devout pythonist that I am I’d have to agree Helvi. Much to like here.
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This might be the best list ever. Special stuff. Love the Reels.
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High praise there vivenne. Thank you.
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You deserve it Algy. A kiss and a hug.
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You’ve got me blushing now, vivenne.
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We saw Renee Geyer at Lizottes, Newcastle, about two years ago. She was awesome, in the true sense of the word…absolutely filled the stage, and manged to engage the audience. She signed all of our old CDs, and I blurted out something like, ‘You’re beautiful, Ms Geyer.’ Her reply was. “If you think I’m so f@#$ing beautiful, why do I see a f@#%ing ugly old woman in the mirror?”
Having said that, she was terrific.
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We’ll have to piggy back, Big. I can’t access the comments box. It aint workin’. It is a condition of exposure I think Big that makes people in that light self conscious. How lovely of you though. Good on you.
I have a ‘new’ laptop given to me surplus to requirements of my friend Wojciech and it is a-mazing how much volume the spealers have. Boy, I am I happy with this at long last.
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But does it sound any better shoe.?
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Yes. It has fabulous ambience. I have been so deprived for so long in this regard. This is a Toshiba & my laptop is an ASUS. Fancy me not taking it back! That’s poor but I didn’t realise how bad it was. At the time it was the top of the line but one.
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Yep the problem with these computers is that they can be hot at the time but turn into door stops within a few years or so. Mines 5 years old but still running XP, Quick when I bought it but its becoming unable to deal with the software I need to run on it. Before the end of the financial year I’ll replace it.
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What a marvellous word that. Spealers instead of speakers. How good. I love it. 🙂
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Could that be said praise from Renee Big M or self doubt?
Used to see many bands live in my youf. Not too many bands in pubs nowadays. Too much noise apparently.
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That concert seems special, now that Renee has stopped performing after being treated for cancer last year.
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Just checked her website, she’s started performing again. She was in Adelaide last night , next weekend in NZ and the following weekend in Melbourne. Lets hope a full recovery there.
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Good one, Algy, thanks for checking.
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