[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives....

its from 2013 and a group called "The 1975"...and its called "Chocolate"....and its awesome!..

"Chocolate" is a song by British alternative rock band The 1975. The song was released as a digital download by Dirty Hit and Interscope Records on 24 January 2013 and was released as their debut single from their self-titled debut album. The song has peaked to number 19 on the UK Singles Chart, number 18 on the Scottish Singles Chart and number 9 on the Irish Singles Chart. The single was certified Silver in the United Kingdom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBKqaVk2Co

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pIyg35wiB4   (Against The Current Cover Video)


If you're not whistling or humming this tune all day and feel a skip in your step..then something is very wrong

Its one of those songs I'm hooked on and I don't know why......and I lose those ones!

So here we go!....and don't you dare touch that dial!...its "The 1975"...and their hit....'Chocolate".....

Have a great great weekend everybody.......make it wonderful
This one is for you Harpy  Coz I'm hooked on you...and I love I don't always know why.....I just am

[lexibabe]

big  girls don't cry...
fergie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=agrXgrAgQ0U

[lexibabe]

two from herb alpert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ennMD1fPtXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rsTDXByH3Mc

the lonely bull

[BigDevil]

Pink Floyd - Animals

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives.....and as a guitar player.....its close to my anthem.....

Its from 1971 and the group....... Led Zeppelin.........its called.........."Stairway to Heaven".....

"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in late 1971. It was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page and vocalist Robert Plant for the band's untitled fourth studio album (often referred to as Led Zeppelin IV). It is often referred to as one of the greatest rock songs of all time.

The song, running eight minutes and two seconds, is composed of several sections which increase in tempo and volume as the song progresses. The song begins as a slow acoustic-based folk song accompanied by recorders before electric instrumentation is introduced. The final section is an uptempo hard rock section highlighted by an intricate guitar solo by Page and Plant's wailing vocals, ending with Plant's a cappella delivery of the final line: "And she's buying a Stairway to Heaven".

"Stairway to Heaven" was voted #3 in 2000 by VH1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Rock Songs and was placed at number 31 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was the most requested song on FM radio stations in the United States in the 1970s, despite never having been officially released as a single there.  In November 2007, through download sales promoting Led Zeppelin's Mothership release, "Stairway to Heaven" hit No. 37 on the UK Singles Chart.

Technical Boring Shit for Guitar Players -

The song consists of several distinct sections, beginning with a quiet introduction on a finger picked six string guitar and four recorders in a Renaissance music style[16] (ending at 2:15) and gradually moving into a slow electric middle section (2:16–5:33), then a long guitar solo (5:34–6:44), before the faster hard rock final section (6:45 to 7:45), ending with a short vocals-only epilogue. Plant sings the opening, middle and epilogue sections in his mid vocal range, but sings the hard rock section in his higher range which borders on falsetto.

Written in the key of A minor, the song opens with an arpeggiated, finger-picked guitar chord progression with a chromatic descending bassline A-G#-G-F#-F-E. John Paul Jones contributed overdubbed wooden bass recorders in the opening section (he used a Mellotron and, later, a Yamaha CP70B Grand Piano and Yamaha GX1 to synthesise this arrangement in live performances)[14] and a Hohner Electra-Piano electric piano in the middle section.

The sections build with more guitar layers, each complementary to the intro, with the drums entering at 4:18. The extended Jimmy Page guitar solo in the song's final section was played for the recording on a 1959 Fender Telecaster given to him by Jeff Beck (an instrument he used extensively with the Yardbirds)[14] plugged into a Supro amplifier,  although in an interview he gave to Guitar World magazine, Page also claimed, "It could have been a Marshall, but I can't remember".  Three different improvised solos were recorded, with Page agonising about deciding which to keep. Page later revealed, "I did have the first phrase worked out, and then there was the link phrase. I did check them out beforehand before the tape ran." The other guitar parts were played using a Harmony Sovereign H1260 acoustic guitar and a Fender Electric XII guitar (a 12-string guitar that was plugged directly to the soundboard); these can be heard on the left and right recording channels respectively. For live versions, Page switched to a Heritage Cherry Gibson EDS-1275 6/12 Doubleneck guitar. The final progression is a i-VII-VI (natural minor) progression (Am-G-F), a mainstay of rock music.

Its My Guitar Hero...... Jimmy Page....at his very best!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8

Sooooohere we go!!!........and don't you dare touch that dial!! ........ Its Led Zeppelin...and the iconic......."Stairway to Heaven"

[lexibabe]

run-d.m.c/aerosmith     walk this way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4B_UYYPb-Gk

[lexibabe]

sean Kingston........beautiful girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MrTz5xjmso4

[stormbolt7]

Recent play list...

Shinedown ... Enemies ... Bully....  Sound of Madness ... 45
Avenged sevenfold... Hail to the king ...
Disturbed ... Indistructible .. The Night...  Haunted ..

Storm

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives...after a long sabbatical

Its a blast from the past....its from Jefferson Airplane   and from 1967...its......the wonderfully weird....."White Rabbit"...

"White Rabbit" is a song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single and became the band's second top ten success, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was ranked #478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,#87 on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of All Time, and appears on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll
The name White Rabbit has also been described as a nickname for counterculture era figure Owsley Stanley

One of Grace Slick's earliest songs, written during either late 1965 or early 1966, uses imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass, such as changing size after taking pills or drinking an unknown liquid. It is commonly thought that these are also references to the hallucinatory effects of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms. Characters referenced include Alice, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, the Red Queen, and the Dormouse.
For Slick and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind-expanding and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. Even Marty Balin, Slick's eventual rival in Jefferson Airplane, regarded the song as a "masterpiece". In interviews, Slick has related that Alice in Wonderland was often read to her as a child and remained a vivid memory into her adult years.

While the Red Queen and the White Knight are both mentioned in the song, the references differ from Lewis Carroll's original text, wherein the White Knight does not talk backwards and it is the Queen of Hearts, not the Red Queen, who says "Off with her head!"
The last lines of the song are: "Remember what the Dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head." Although commonly interpreted as quoting the Dormouse, the lines may instead refer to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XI: "Who Stole the Tarts", wherein a very nervous Mad Hatter is called to testify:

'But what did the Dormouse say?' one of the jury asked.
'That I can't remember', said the Hatter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug2EcWkb26I

White Rabbit/ Go Ask Alice

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Call Alice

When she was just small

When the men on the chess board
get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said

Feed your head
Feed your head

I love this song....I am not always sure why....my father would play this all the time in the car when I was little...and it just stuck with me....

So here we go stoners!!...and don't you DARE tough that dial!!...Its from Jefferson Starship.....and 1967...its...."White Rabbit"...

Have a great weekend everyone....and make it better for those around you...

See you around campus.....Michelle

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives....and something completely different...

One of my favorite orchestra pieces of all time......and a wonderfully beautiful piece of work...its Ravels Bolero

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.  Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large scale ballets (such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of Ma Mère l'Oye, 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as La Valse, 1906–1920).

Boléro epitomises Ravel's preoccupation with restyling and reinventing dance movements. It was also one of the last pieces he composed before illness forced him into retirement: the two piano concertos and the Don Quichotte à Dulcinée song cycle were the only compositions that followed Boléro.

The composition was a sensational success when it was premiered at the Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and designs by Alexandre Benois. The orchestra of the Opéra was conducted by Walther Straram; Ernest Ansermet had originally been engaged to conduct during the entire ballet season, but the musicians refused to play under him.  A scenario by Rubinstein and Nijinska was printed in the program for the premiere:

Inside a tavern in Spain, people dance beneath the brass lamp hung from the ceiling. In response to the cheers to join in, the female dancer has leapt onto the long table and her steps become more and more animated.

Ravel himself, however, had a different conception of the work: his preferred stage design was of an open-air setting with a factory in the background, reflecting the mechanical nature of the music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwLABSm0yYc

So here we go..and don't you dare touch that dial!...its Ravel's Bolero.....just imagine sitting in the orchestra pit at the New York Philharmonic...and taking this in.....or wherever your heart desires......its simply breathtaking

I dedicate this to my good friend....GoldenGirl.......Aldine...you are simply the best

[BabyGirl_Brit987]

This Band Called Crystalyne pretty awesome band

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives.....and my favorite...and the greatest guitar song of all time.....from the greatest group in my archives...

Its from Dire Straits.....and a special recording from 1983 called "Alchemy Live"....the song is......"Sultans of Swing"

Alchemy: Dire Straits Live is a double album and the first live album by the British rock band Dire Straits, released on 14 March 1984 by Vertigo Records internationally, and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. Recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 22–23 July 1983, the album features the band's best-known and fan-favourite songs from their first four albums, the ExtendedancEPlay EP, and the Local Hero soundtrack (composed by Mark Knopfler); many of the songs have reworked arrangements and/or extended improvisational segments. The album cover is taken from a painting by Brett Whiteley. Alchemy: Dire Straits Live was remastered and re-released on 8 May 2001.

Being an avid guitar player....in many ways I was inspired my Mark Knopfler...and this early recording of this iconic song by Dire Straits....shows the band its its heyday....and at their very best!

The album cover artwork was adapted from a section of a painting by Brett Whiteley titled Alchemy 1974.[2] Alchemy is a hypothetical process once believed to turn ordinary elements into gold. The image of a guitar with lips held by a hand was added for the album design. The original painting, done between 1972 and 1973, was composed of many different elements and on 18 wood panels 203 cm x 1615 cm x 9 cm. In terms of media it used everything from feathers and part of a bird's nest to a glass eye, shell, plugs and brain in a work that becomes a transmutation of sexual organic landscapes and mindscapes. It has been regarded as a self-portrait, a giant outpouring of energy and ideas brought forth over a long period of time.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Dire_Straits_-_Alchemy_Dire_Straits_Live.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa9x9fZBtY

SO don't you dare touch that dial!!......as we listen to one of the greatest of all time.....and my fav....Dire Straits and Alchemy Live....its

"Sultans of Swing"

Have a great weekend everybody.....enjoy

See you around campus

Michelle

[##catfitewatcher314]

not seen that one

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives....and one my Dad said he smoke more weed to than any song every recorded...

Its from the great group of the 60's.....Jefferson Airplane with Grace Slick....its 1967...and its....

"Somebody to Love"

This is a follow-up to my other Jefferson Airplane favorite....one I posted earlier...."White Rabbit"

Somebody to Love" is a rock song that was written by Darby Slick and originally recorded by 1960s folk rock band The Great Society and later by the psychedelic counterculture rock band Jefferson Airplane. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jefferson Airplane's version No. 274 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

When Grace Slick departed to join Jefferson Airplane, she took this song with her, bringing it to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, along with her own composition "White Rabbit". Subsequently, the Airplane's more ferocious rock and roll version became the band's first and biggest success; the single by Jefferson Airplane scored at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100

"Somebody to Love" was also a track on their influential album released in February 1967, Surrealistic Pillow. Driven by Slick's forceful vocal, the song's hard-rock sound was atypical of the group's more folk-oriented psychedelia that comprised most of their previous style and some of the album. The lyrics are in the second person, with each two-line verse setting a scene of alienation and despair, and the chorus repeating the title of the song, with slight variations such as: "... / Don't you need somebody to love? / Wouldn't you love somebody to love? / ..." Like the album on which it appeared, this song was instrumental in publicizing the existence of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture to the rest of the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkoSPqjaU4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdLasOrG6c - performed at Woodstock (1969) - AWESOME!

Not many could pound it out like Grace Slick could!

So here we go stoners!   And don't you dare touch that damn dial!   Its the legendary Jefferson Airplane with Grace SLick and the great....

"Somebody to Love"

Here is hoping you find that "somebody to love"......have a great weekend everybody...make it a fantastic one

I dedicate this song to Harper.....because she is that somebody I found to love

[Michelle]

Another from the Michelle Archives Salute to Woodstock..

Its from on of my all time favs......Santana......from 1969...its......"Evil Ways"

"Evil Ways" is a song made famous by the band Santana from their 1969 album, "Santana." It was written by Clarence "Sonny" Henry and originally recorded by jazz percussionist Willie Bobo on his 1967 album, Bobo Motion. Alongside Santana's release in 1969, "Evil Ways" was also recorded by the band The Village Callers. The lyrics of the song are written in simple verse form,

Released as a single in late 1969, it became Santana's first top 40 and top 10 hit in the U.S., peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Gregg Rolie performs the lead vocals and plays a Hammond organ solo in the middle section. The double-time coda includes a guitar solo performed by Carlos Santana.

"Evil Ways" is about a girl who is spiteful: "You've got to change your evil ways, baby/Before I stop lovin' you." She neglects her boyfriend by spending time with her friends instead of him. "You hang around, baby/with Jean and Joan and-a who-knows-who."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPauXWjY4T8 - from Woodstock 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASqyf_cDN0s - master recording

SO lets go stoners!!   Don't you dare touch my weed...errr.....that dial!!

Its the great Santana!....and...."Evil Ways"

Have a great weekend everyone!......lets get high and make it a great one )