Song of the day?

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"In The Flesh" - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGO9nPO0Po
So ya thought ya might like to go to the show
To feel the warm thrill of confusion
That space cadet glow

I got some bad news for you sunshine
Pink isn't well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We're gonna find out where you fans really stand

Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall (against the wall)
Now there's one in the spotlight, he don't look right to me
Get him up against the wall (against the...)

And that one looks Jewish and that one's a coon
Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
There's one smoking a joint and another with spots
If I had my way I'd have all of ya shot

(@dibblee You've got some really good tastes)
 
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I continue with traditional music, this time coming from the Mayas. The song "Ahometa Ku Yaxi" is a Mayan dancing song. I don't know who this Anfredo Roel is who is attributed with the music in the YouTube video but on the CD the Mayan musicians remain nameless so perhaps he is one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-7k7iAmcK4
 
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Say Yes Dog - Lies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEBSSiDwQqk&list=OLAK5uy_mOr-35hBKT_B0LRTNlvT21AwnNXGh7lRM&index=3

Foster The People - Imagination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE6pANWJGuU

No Vacation - Yam Yam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu9FMfASReY
 
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Don't know if this has been posted or not, but it's great.

https://youtu.be/0-4R2BEGeTo
Penguin's Detour - Cover by miy_yuu
 
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This time I have decided to go with Guillaume de Machaut, THE French composer of the 14th century. The ballade "Amours me fait desirer" tells of a love burning so intensely that the loving man is in danger of dying if not the lady of his heart gives love to him. The problem, though, is that the man has decided to take the secret of his love to the grave rather than to confess. This piece is played and sung by Ensemble Musica Nova, interpreters of the Medieval Musica Nova to which the compositions of Guillaume de Machaut also belong.

Classical music ahead!
Era: Medieval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ws6k3Pm6SU
 
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Today I have chosen a song about what I wish everybody in the corona crisis to find, and if not in real life then at least online. "Pastyme with good companye" is a song composed by King Henry VIII of England. Composers on the throne might not be all too common but are nothing unusual as well. Other well known examples are Alfonso X of Castile, John IV of Portugal, and Frederick the Great (i.e. Frederick II of Prussia).

Classical music ahead!
Era: Renaissance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksXYoiRiDxs
 
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Today I have chosen an excerpt (the full version is 9:44 long but not availiable on YouTube) from "Ceann Drochaid' Innse-breiridh (The End of Inchberry Bridge)", a traditional Hebridean Scottish Gaelic song preserved in "Colin Campbel's Instrumental Book 1797". Due to a unique method of notation which is nearly unintelligible, the Hebridean Gaelic music was restored in an attempt of what is called music archaeology. The piece is musically performed by Barnaby Brown, Bill Taylor, and Clare Salaman as part of the European Music Archaeology Project. If the lyrics appear unintelligible this is no wonder, for they are canntaireacht, the traditional Gaelic method of vocalising bagpipe music, playing a bagpipe with the human voice instead of the actual instrument, so to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11yfjRA96MA
 
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Me again. My choice of the day is "Telema", a traditional song of the Romani people (or gypsies as they are commonly but politically incorrectly known) from Russia, performed by Loyko.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOt0_Uy-Fy0
 
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Julie Byrne - Melting Grid

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-UXtbT0TkY

@Albwin - the songs you post all sound so interesting, I think I'll have to go back through the thread and check them all out!
 

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