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• Sinéad O’Connor | Reason with Me
  — demo from new album, Home
  
  
  
  LYRICS
  Hello, you don't know me, but I stole your laptop
  and I took your TV. I sold your granny's rosary for 50 p.
  
  And I even pulled a old hijack, said I had a hypodermic
  in me backpack, but I was only bluffing.
  
  Chorus:
  Oh so long I've been a junkie,
  I ought to wrap it up and mind my monkeys.
  I really want to mend my ways,
  I'm gonna call that number one of these days.
  
  I'm the one who sits in the backroom,
  I'm the one who doesn't know how to have fun.
  I'm the one to smoke amiss all around me,
  'cause I don't like no one around me.
  'Cause if I love someone, I might lose someone;
  if I love someone, I might lose someone.
  
  Chorus
  
  I'm gonna reach a hand out to you, say you,
  would you pull me up, now could you?
  I don't want to waste the life God gave me,
  and I don't think that it's too late to save me.

Burning Joan
The lament sung by the amorous prison guard, when he fails to engage the affections of the indifferent Joan.

I was a yeoman and I was a soldier
When I sailed from Dover the weather was fine
For Loval and Launceston Sir Thomas of Taunton
For Ranolf and Rudall my comrades and I

But I earned my spurs as a turnkey
For St George and a farthing a day
My battles were fought through the dungeons and vaults
My enemies battered with pulley's and chains

But shock-headed Joan was my beauty
She was my jewel and my prize
Scratching her tits in the blood and the shit
Plucking the lice from her thoroughbred thighs

Sometimes at her cell I would linger
To watch while she crouched in the straw
I'd be stroking her hair and she'd sullenly glare
But she never acknowledged my presence at all

So I shed no tears as the brazier crackled and rang
The arquebusiers and the flower of chivalry sang

Oh Joannie oh Joannie the tumbrel and the pony
Through the ranks of the yeomanry steer
The gallows is cold and the gibbet is lonely
We'll make things hot for you here

See I thought that I was her friend and protector
Compassion I readily gave
And oft of a while sympathetically smiled
As the callous inquisitors hammered away

But she never returned my affection
Nor ever my homage received
And since in my dreams as she spatters and screams
I secretly doubt she was thinking of me

As the flames licked her arse and her belly
For she never a glimmer betrayed
So I cast off my conscience I joined with the band
And I fiddled while Joan burned away

Chords:
Intro. E E7
Verse/Chorus A D A E A D E (A)
Alternate Verse/Instr. D A D A D A F#m E
Bridge D A F#m E
Ending E E7 A
http://www.blythpower.co.uk/lyrics/Paradise/joan.htm

Sing along now..

I'd swear I can smell the musty old records right through the youtube

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• The Universe / Galaxy Song | Monty Python
  
  

and now for something a little more, concrète ...
Pierre Henry's "Psyché Rock"...


sounds familiar? because it was the inspiration for the theme song





a short version of Psyché Rock...

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Reading wiki's musique concrète (a tip offered by justdrew, and gratefully followed), thinking of finding an appropriate category for the video below when I realized the orchestra in the video is real-life: HUMANS! So, I've pasted the process the author/musician accomplished to produce this video for your listening pleasure (or not ).

• Beethoven | Symphony No. 5, C minor, Op. 67
  — first movement, Allegro con brio
  
  
  
  [YOUTUBE NOTES.] How did you make this video? There were a lot of steps; here's a short summary. I found a recording I could license and made the arrangements to use it. I found a MIDI file that was fairly complete, and imported that into the notation program Sibelius.
  
  I compared it to a printed copy of the score from my library and fixed things that were wrong (b5_fullscore.pdf is a snapshot taken during this process; note that there was a piano part in the MIDI file --- not something in the real score). Then, I listened to the recording and compared that to the score, and modified the score so that the timings were more like what the orchestra was actually playing (see b5_timings_adjusted.pdf).
  
  I exported this as a MIDI file and ran it through my custom frame-rendering software. Then, I made a "reduction" of the score (b5_reduction.pdf) and colored it to match the colors I was planning to use in the bar-graph score (b5_reduction_color.pdf).
  
  Unfortunately, when I squished the bar-graph score enough to make room for the notation score, too much detail was lost, so I ended up deciding not to use the notation.
  
  Then I put all the pieces (rendered frames, audio, titles) together in Adobe Premiere and exported the movie as a QuickTime file.
  
  Then, I used On2 Flix to convert the final file into Flash format (so that YouTube's conversion to their Flash format wouldn't change it in unpredictable ways), and uploaded the result. The PDFs mentioned in this description are in this ZIP file.

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• Spandau Ballet | Once More — LIVE
  
  
  Spandau Ballet | Once More
  — official video
  
  
  Spandau Ballet | Gold