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psych@diasp.org
Michael

It's very rare I see something pop up on Twitter (to which I'm not often glued) from the realm of golden oldie music.
This caught my eye, and even rarer, I replied. Tweet tweet!_ I'm ba-a-ad!_

Where have I heard that before? Sam the Sham, MJ, Billie Eilish...) I have not heard his name nor music in a long time. Wow.
He was... 'bad to the bone', this...

Bad Boy Leroy Brown

Well, here's one movie, with his song. The one about him, point taken, is largely unsung. Ripe for a #movie / #biography

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LYRICS:

Well the south side of chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named leroy brown

Now leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover"
All the mens just call him "sir"

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Now leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom continental
He got an eldorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

Well friday bout a week ago
Leroy shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named doris
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And leroy brown learned a lesson
'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog,

Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone

And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

#film #music #JimCroce #LeroyBrown #musica #musique #1973 #ClassicRock

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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Ah, Stevie Nicks! 🎶

I'd seen her name several times in the past few weeks, & wondered why? A birthday or event? Yes, that was it, Born 26 May 1948.
I even saw a quote from her in the local newspaper (May 2022):

"I hear all these older songwriters go, like, 'I can't write love songs anymore.'
And I'm, like, 'Well, that's just stupid.' Go open your memory library and check in there."

Indeed. Checking in. Wayback machine: Stevie Nicks! Unpacking... A long-time favorite, from Buckingham Nicks.
Unpack carefully. Headphones/big speakers recommended. Happy travels through the memory library.

Frozen Love

#music #StevieNicks #quotes #BuckinghamNicks #musica #musique #1973 #frozenlove [Stevie Nicks Bio] [Song Note]

FROZEN LOVE:

You may not be as strong as me
And I may not care to teach you
It may be hard to keep up with me
But I'll always be able to reach you

And if you go forward (You go forward), I'll meet you there
And if you climb up through the cold freezing air
Look down below you, search out above
And cry out to life for a frozen love (Cry out, love)

Life gave me you; the change was made
And there's no beginning over
You are not happy, but what is love?
Hate gave you me for a lover...

And if you go forward, I'll meet you there
And if you climb up through the cold freezing air
Look down below you; search out above
And cry out to life for a frozen love

  - Lindsey Buckingham / Stevie Knicks

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jakob@pod.orkz.net
Jakobu

Hey ho, one hour gone by with me trying to translate one of the most distressing and sad poems in the whole world. The poem called Estadio Chile that was written by the Chilean Poet and folk-singer Victor Jara as he was in detention in the Chile Stadium after the coup in 1973. The paper he wrote it on was smuggled out in the shoe of another prisoner. Victor Jara was beaten to death and dumped in a favela not far from the stadium four days after the coup..

Yes, I know. Rather sad. Sometimes you can get in a mood like that.

The poem is in Spanish

We are five thousand here
in this small part of town.
We are five thousand.
How many in all
in the cities, in the whole country?
Only here,
ten thousand hand that could seed the fields
go work in the factories.
All this human life
with hunger, cold, panic, pain,
pressure, terror and madness.

Six of us is lost
in space amongst the stars.
One dead, one beaten like I had never belived
a human could be beaten.
The four left just want to flee
all the terror,
one jumps into the nothingness.
another beats his head against the wall
but all stare at death.
What horror the face of fascism creates!
They carry out their plans with cunning precision
nothing means anything to them,
To them Blood is medals,
Killing an act of heroism.
Is this the world you created, dear God?
Was it for this: your seven days of work and wonder?
Inside these four wall exists only a number
that will not progress.
That will slowly crave more death.

But then consciousness hit me
And I see this tide has no heartbeat
And I see the pulse of the machines
And the military show off their motherly face
filled with sweetness.
And Mexico, Cuba, and the world?
Scream out againt this atrocity!
We are ten thousand hand
that can do nothing.
How many in the whole country?
The blood of our comrade president
hits harder than bombs and guns.
That is how our fist will strike back anew.

Song, how bad I am selling this
when I must sing of horror.
Horror that I am living,
that I am dying - horror.
To see myself amongst so many, and so many
Infinite moments
where the silence and the screams
are the goal of this song.
What I have seen I never saw.
What I have felt and what I fell
will grow from this moment...

(1973)

Maybe some of the Spanish speaker here can correct me. @gargamello maybe? I had difficulties with:

  • menos que no producen.
  • harán brotar el momento...

#poetry #translation #sad #sadder #VictorJara #stadium #Chile #1973

Estadio Chile [o Canto que mal me sabes] (Víctor Jara)

Letra y otras informaciones de la canción Estadio Chile [o Canto que mal me sabes] (Víctor Jara) - Cancioneros.com, canción de autor, letras, discos y noticias de trovadores y cantautores.

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jakob@pod.orkz.net
Jakobu

Victor Jara

La Partida ###

On this date, 9/11 1973, the lawful Chilean government was overthrown by the military. Four days later the tortured body of the poet and singer Victor Jara was found outside of the Chile Stadium (Estadio Chile) that was used by the military as detention camp. This beautiful piece shows Jara's fascination with the music of the Andes. So very melancholic, and so very God damn sad that a father that had done nothing but sing should be killed in this horrible way.

#music #VictorJara #folk #Andes #murder #innocent #Chile #coup #911 #1973

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