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Today is a topic. Some of you may have guessed it from Kitty's attire. In honour of God's new representative on earth, it's religion. Any and all things religious.
To start you off it's some gospel from James Bynum - We Are In Need
"who will stand for GOD"
https://youtu.be/sfXseLfZwDY?si=AQ09exrWP9bXYVHz
Today is a topic. Some of you may have guessed it from Kitty's attire. In honour of God's new representative on earth, it's religion. Any and all things religious.
To start you off it's some gospel from James Bynum - We Are In Need
"who will stand for GOD"
https://youtu.be/sfXseLfZwDY?si=AQ09exrWP9bXYVHz
Comments
John Lennon - Instant Karma
https://youtu.be/xLy2SaSQAtA?si=qM0fRaM57BuOQrGV
Token 1 please:
Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Highway
https://youtu.be/1xJbEoc5sDw?...
27 years on, still a Goddess.
Token 2 please: Jesusland - Ben Folds
Token 1 please - Trouble all about my soul - Kansas City Gospel Singers
https://divinehymns.com/lyrics/oh-you-cannot-get-to-heaven-song-lyrics/
Always fun making new lyrics as a kid
https://youtu.be/k409Tpjj6Fs?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/lBumJ0Z7nCw?feature=shared
TOKEN 2. Soeur Sourire (The Singing Nun). Dominique.
https://youtu.be/EO7cD6qmydo?si=7re98yaoxOX7dISR
I didn't think there was anyone else who would add it.
The Singing Nun never saw a penny of the fortune she made. It went to the record company and the Church.
She fell in love with a fellow nun and was used.
They left the Church, I think. She got nothing. The Record company and the Church took it all.
She lived and died with nothing.
Bless her for writing such a beautiful, simple song.
TOKEN 1. REM. Losing My Religion.
https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?si=H06oVaE4jOG53Mcd
This 1995 Tori Amos cover version from the 'Higher Learning' OST is pretty cool...
🎶✌️😎 🎶
https://youtu.be/bYy6qdlsxSA?si=gO2_q8yeM1SZU77a
Man In The Sky
Brule'
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz7zdUUmy5s&list=OLAK5uy_k5S8Cnf4xdnZ4Z2v575QVN91ZQzaFkaNs
Tom Jones
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=NX4nIP8zWOk&list=OLAK5uy_nHUTxgJ03LZaHquMdLVcAsU9Uv_Vfn7jc
Dana Fuchs covers Randy Newman's "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"
Sinead O'Connor covers "Trouble Will Soon Be Over"
I'm atheist but Pip hits a nail on the head with this message despairing of Mankind
Token 1
"My apology is to Mother Nature, because I created you [man]"
LETTER FROM GOD TO MAN - dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4467CI4y0M
🎶✌️😎 🎶
Bono and Gavin Friday - In the Name of the Father
https://youtu.be/Gvx-Z3lD4eA?si=B0UpbMfUTdwvIKpg
Token 2 - Janis Joplin - "oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"
https://youtu.be/Qev-i9-VKlY?si=r-uvX3yqfWT33aiy
Had to delete first reply because even though I spelled it correctly, flippin' auto correct intervened. *mutters*
Hope you are having a cool time over there ☺️
The Jubalaires
Noah
What's that all about?
Hey Colossus
How To Tell Time With Jesus
Steve Wood
Thank god for love
https://youtu.be/AwXK_V_M0gA?si=btSedJpU6Cdrx1HL
Token 1 , by one of my fave country artists, what a voice !
Steve Brown
Me and Jesus
https://youtu.be/rgylPeDJyGs?si=3gdVOHOotW5uM25P
Then Mahalia Jackson opened her mouth, and I didn’t cry—I sobbed.
Token 1: Trouble of the World by Mahalia Jackson
Divine Mercy Chaplet sung by Donna Cori Gibson
https://youtu.be/Licfy_nr_TY?si=ZNDNjiuHZycsYVTJ
Token 1
Mel Brooks The Spanish Inquisition
https://youtu.be/LnF1OtP2Svk?si=36SbHLPSebzv-U0w
Play it loud ❤️
‘In the name of the Father and the Holy Ghost, I have the Holy Spirit in me!’
https://youtu.be/prLFqx1fR-k?si=MKcj9FWGeVqXW4vh
What a great photo and topic!!!
Token 1 please.
https://youtu.be/zNBj4EV_hAo?si=90U0v7tjRrYMtzRR
I’d never really listened to him until my daughter left this double CD in my car. Strangely, it’s one of those albums when I don’t skip tracks.
Listening to this I’m right back there in my old slime-green Corsa.
https://youtu.be/EfGDvDGE7zk?feature=shared
Token 1 can I suggest a bit of this?
https://youtu.be/iFca32_7YUU?feature=shared
(sorry about that, I'm ok now.
Great tune btw, love it.)
Token 2: Sonnenreigen by Faun
https://youtu.be/Pg0BYLw-4Do
This is one of my favorite songs relating to the wheel of the year.
There’s better video out there, but this one has the better of the English subtitles (song is in German)
Token 1: The Bog Bodies (Dorm Demo) by one of my favorite current/new artists, Rabbitology
https://youtu.be/-6BJEasgFKU
“I have hands for building altars / Lips to pray to reckless gods / Yeah, I was made to be a devotee”
https://youtu.be/up0t2ZDfX7E?si=gcIv9jtdaKNQ919Y
Token 1: How Not To Drown by Chvrches and Robert Smith.
https://youtu.be/7U_LhzgwJ4U?si=Hw20xHvzmTmpUmFr
Frank Zappa - Heavenly Bank Account.
Zappa is a rich source of such satire.
🎶✌️😎 🎶
Be Bop Deluxe - "Blazing Apostles".
So very underrated here in the USA. (probably elsewhere, too)
Whatever they were, they were stunningly good throughout their fairly brief career.
I pick
Robert Wyatt
God song
(He was not quite a believer, I think)
https://youtu.be/jZKbjPB8M_Y?si=FFODC70iimEAgtGU
Salve a tutti
Token one :
Tom Waits
Chocolate Jesus
(He made quite a few about deception in religion)
https://youtu.be/7rgili5Eirc?si=KGot3sNb1y4Mruxr
(NOT a token) great cover by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa of this one:
https://youtu.be/V4UrRXkpHHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVjiKRfKpPI
“Those things that you’re liable
To read in the Bible,
It ain’t necessarily so.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC_9oDKy0LA
The Byrds - Jesus Is Just Alright
https://youtu.be/wdKrHYUZCwM?si=fzMYLNw8r0kYlMqM
Eff-all conversion, good company, a great free Indian vegetarian meal, and a live band!
Hari Bol (chant the names of God) rocks!
TOKEN 1 is a joyous blast of disco gospel
The Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word (Larry Levan mix)
https://youtu.be/TP8P4kZQUec?si=fay5eayGcef68j4U
As penance you have have to listen to all the tunes in today's Jukebox IN FULL!
Shredding is just... likeable.*
🙁🎸
Ida Maria--Oh My God
(Note: Remember to suggest decaf coffee to Ida.)
Token 1
Spacemen 3--Walkin' With Jesus
Depeche Mode
Personal Jesus.
https://youtu.be/u1xrNaTO1bI?si=aOBACzB0ir_Vac--
I can never resist this one
(Not a token)
https://youtu.be/K3QDDlWmR9Q?si=B-RlyU5V6CsTl3yn
All the food was laid out and nobody else was interested so we just ate. And ate.
Many years ago, I was working backstage for Pet Shop Boys, this was in the 90s.
People kept coming in as the support band were playing and then just walking off. Must have been really disheartening for them.
My band played support for Pet Shop Boys at the original Fridge in Brixton. I knew the members of Bronski Beat fairly well. Even though I met George, I'm quite sure he won't remember me.
Feels like yesterday!
Token one.
Going with an anti religious song.
XTC.
Dear God. https://youtu.be/p554R-Jq43A?si=TzVLuILsskSVBzxa
❤️
Whoa!
That seals it... it's an all time classic.
✨
Unreal brilliance.
Every. Single. Time.
SO powerful.
((*I'll be back in a bit - got something in my eyes, I think*)) 😢
"Thing's that you're liable to read in the bible, ain't necessarily so.." with references to David & Goliath, Jonah & the whale, Moses.
https://youtu.be/v-szBDby1Zg?si=Vla2qxMTjplAMjQ7
https://youtu.be/Zxc20saM8DA?si=wVGx0XVNmNC8NLW4
Litany of the Godly Love
Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens
From an album that will slow down my head, calm me when overwhelmed, by two magicians of words and music.
https://youtu.be/4acrGU13wq0?feature=shared
Amen
Alex Ebert
From the closing minutes of the magnificent film All Is Lost, in which there is only one actor (Robert Redford) and no dialogue.
https://youtu.be/UOh6DtDR03U?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/6AkkAo4tmM8?si=z9RvKgrAx09EvCM_
Token 1 is Church of the Holy Spook by Shane MacGowan and the POPES.....
https://youtu.be/pxNvT1i3700?si=CqDoPbxEpr_45zds
Discordianism is a belief system based around Eris, the Greek goddess of strife and discord, and variously defined as a religion... It was founded after the 1963 publication of its holy book, Principia Discordia
or
How I Found Goddess & What I Did To Her
When I found Her
being a Beginning Introduction to
The Erisian Mysterees
Which is Most Interesting
'God Only Knows'
The Beach Boys
IMV one of the most beautiful songs ever.
https://youtu.be/lpd4jzKA4SA?si=HfIIq_s2AtImnH4C
Not a token
Going back to my teen years
Duran Duran: Save a Prayer
https://youtu.be/6Uxc9eFcZyM?si=HFjejSVqSqlFkQiT
Token 1
Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia
https://youtu.be/lPLvBO_2Gn0?si=wRpy-2DuMfvlTUXs
“You think you’re righteous, your body and soul Your faith in Jesus, but no self-control”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WTtf7mM3OY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cEWiJR9qeoc&list=RDcEWiJR9qeoc&start_radio=1
"Paranóia", Raul Seixas 🇧🇷
"Paranoia"
My mother told me a long time ago
Wherever you go, God follows God always sees everything you do
But I didn't see God
I thought he was a ghost, but
But I was afraid
I was afraid
"Andar com fé", Gilberto Gil 🇧🇷
"Walk with faith"
Faith is in the morning
Faith is in the evening Oh, oh
In the heat of summer
Faith is alive and well
Faith is also about to die Oh, oh Sad in solitude
Token 2
God knows it's true - Teenage Fanclub
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NLm-lIe2mEA
Token 1
Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam - The Vaselines
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-AvJTeQ4hQ
https://youtu.be/Dov98r3Tdv0?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/aDdOnl0bHO4?si=YW7dSS47LBkkdaRc
🎶 😎👍 🎶
Token 2 Sinnerman / Nina Simone
So I ran to the Lord
I said Lord, hide me, please hide me
Please help me, all on that day
He said, "Child where were you
When you oughta have been prayin'?
https://youtu.be/jV_nbD0beFg?si=u1lChHvjNzyDzK03
❤️
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Token 1 God’s away on business / Tom Waits
https://youtu.be/W9mhsW5aWJM?si=eA_rCe9N8R4En1yl
NOT A TOKEN
https://youtu.be/xMrjhN_iQF8?feature=shared
🙄
Love TW❣️ - I do apologize for my bizarre need to make puns of his name, (and, HIS name, too) though. I'm probably going to 'H-E-double-hockey sticks' for my posts here today, anyway, so - might as well have a little fun, right? ... 😇/😈
Token One: (Although not a favourite) The Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles:
"Christ, You know it ain't easy. You know how hard it can be. The way things are going, they're going to crucify me."
The Pusher
(Token 2)
Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on the pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes, I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun
(Actually, the first one I thought of.)
🤷♂️
Certainly a weird one... probably.
Especially since I originally got certain key the lyrics wrong in my 8 year-old head... which means I still get them wrong.
😬
Jesus
(Token 1)
Thanks Wagane... awesome!
❤️
Help in my weakness ´cause I’ m falling out of graaaaaaaaace
And that's all I have to say about it !
OMG!
Looking that up now!
I had to learn the guitar part for when we played an all-nighter at the Kings Cross Scala Cinema.
I was crap at guitar.
I hope that I didn't take it from you. I absolutely thought of you when I posted it.
Also, I think of it quite sincerely... and not particularly religious.
It's that expression of being lost and desperate that we can have sometimes.
It's as good as any of their songs... I think.
I have something much, much darker to air.
😀
The Mike Sammes Singers & The Ted Taylor Organsound: Immortal Invisible God Only Wise
For the record, yes please.
Topic one
Ultimate Spinach: (Ballad of) The Hip Death Goddess
I know exactly how hard it is to post a proper token.
This was the first “COVID Project” I remember. A bit quick, I prefer the pacing of David Willcocks’ version from the 60s, but I like the video.
💿 Spem in Alium
✍️ Thomas Tallis
🎤 Stile Antico
https://youtu.be/QfnEbwcLq0E?si=sodSXYD7ncTPi6la
I’ve been wanting to get this one in forever.
TOKEN 1
💿 Love and Hate
🎤 Michael Kiwanuka
I believe
She won't take me somewhere I'm not supposed to be
You can't steal the things that God has given me
No more pain and no more shame and misery
https://youtu.be/aMZ4QL0orw0?si=fO_LyY3vjXp_Eb-p
Here's our Token 2,
Billie Holiday - Solitude
"In my solitude
I'm praying
Dear Lord above
Send back my love"
https://youtu.be/xiU-O8arVa8?si=re9QXR3tPZwEsONT
I expect Kitty will be checking the catacombs before turning in...
Madonna - Shanti/Ashtangi
Thank you!
Have a lovely weekend, all. :)
Token 1 is
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Jesus christ superstar
Superstar
https://youtu.be/5AIRBpW1drE?si=EQ87KoHVnxVP1tzC
Token 1
Madonna
Like a prayer
(Love the gospel bit in this)
https://youtu.be/79fzeNUqQbQ?si=7w9pxtsTqY5DeDdF
😇/😈
"...God is on the cell phone,
God is on the net -
God is in the warning,
God is in the threat...
...I'm not the same as you
'Cause I've seen the light &
I'm gaining in height now...
...I've got a halo around my head."
'Halo'
~ Porcupine Tree (Live, 2005)
https://youtu.be/Rj6U0KRj8Yk
🎶 ✌️😎 🎶
I may be going to an extended vacation in Hades after these, but, you've only got one soul, amirite? 😇/😈
TOKEN 1:
"...if Jesus saves, well he better save himself..."
'Hymn 43'
~ Jethro Tull (1971)
https://youtu.be/9AMby6djSzg
Over 35 yrs ago I went to a funeral, a single mum who had a 13yo daughter. There was no other close family & the girl chose this for the service. She sat alone, her choice, & as it played I watched her mouth every word. Often thought about this.
God is watching us
https://youtu.be/lN4AcFzxtdE?si=qBXf7xZbx564WvEV
I wonder how she is now?
You Want It Darker
Magnified, sanctified, be Thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
https://youtu.be/YD6fvzGIBfQ?si=MNfMvkKNR-48g-FA
As good as it ever gets... ever.
✨
(Should have said that was Token 1 - You'd think I'd know by now 🙄)
The Planets - IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Gustav Holst:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs
It always somehow reminds me of the 'Thunderbirds' theme? Anything can happen in the next 7 minutes and 17 seconds... 😁
The Beatles - The Inner Light:
"Without going out of my door
I can know all things of earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven"
I'm sure Al would like this... 🙏
https://youtu.be/sa3948JzWCc?si=c6Plg7rDEiDcYMuB
https://youtu.be/swT6YTPYwgM?si=fzvWfiFW87J4hR18
I Believe In God from Leonard Bernstein's extraordinary Mass, which addresses the doubts of a street chorus juxtaposed with religious folks - it was met wth some controversy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuSumcycgRw
IMHO some of the most beautiful music in the world was written for the church centuries ago for example published in 1605 - TOKEN 1
Ave Verum by William Byrd
Performed by Voces 8
Both me and @kookaburra1966.bsky.social have posted this many times before but it's so little known and so very deserving.
Token 1
Sister Janet Mead: The Lord's Prayer
Imagine if the original Sisters Of Mercy had got their hands on this! 😁😸
https://youtu.be/6ImchDvFU6Q?si=IjOEeWv2O4XZLkqr
😁
I'm undecided about which version of Gimme Shelter I love more.
Dolly Parton's Jolene however only exists as another slightly off key live recording by Andrew Eldritch. He was so much better in the studio.
He'd done Cantonese or Mandarin at uni (Mandarin I think) with Andrew.
The world used to be a much smaller place.
We were always at the bleeding edge, back in the day!
I love how you add such amazing context to the track, sir!
I can't think of anyone else who would be able to.
I love it too.
I only wish it had been used that way. It would have got more attention than it did.