three tune tuesday - I wish there were the sixties...?

avatar
(Edited)

@melinda010100, you seduced me! On a regular basis I see posts in my feed provided for the #three-tune-tuesday challenge run by @ablaze, and sluggishly think: "I should participate too!" - and pass by every time, put it off for "later, someday." Reading your Cohen selection, I got hooked up. Ok, probably this day came today, all of a sudden. I dont know -- the stars occupied some special position in the sky? or today's random soundtrack that slipped me into my iPhone's shuffle mode... anyway, today I was returning from the office at ten o'clock in the evening, and in the subway wagon I was starring at random strangers to the accompaniment of Marie Laforet, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez songs ... and easily could be Leonard Cohen as well. The mean tears slowly were rolling out, from experiencing these endlessly repeated regrets in my mind that the great hopes of 1968 did not come true, the money won, and human society rolled in the wrong direction. We had a chance -- and we missed it. Saying "we", I mean all the folks, I was born later myself ... I selected three songs to share with you, from my today's playlist. These are not 'best of the best' or iconic, as Janis Joplin's 'Bobby McGee' or Stones' 'Paint it black'.


Joan Baez - Gracias A La Vida

(from «Gracias a la Vida» LP, 1974)

This song from 'Spanish' studio album of American singer-songwriter Joan Baez, released in 1974. A lot of interesting things can be told about the singer and this certain album (she was Dylan's girlfriend, and around the time Baez stated she released said album as "a message of hope to the Chileans suffering under Augusto Pinochet", in the wake of the death of Salvador Allende; #Wiki)... Ok, I don't know Spanish and I don't understand what she sings about on this album, but I'm ready to listen to any song from it endlessly, at any moment; it is a quintessence of happiness, preserved spirit of the time that have passed, the time when folks yet had hopes to change their lives to better. Today... I don't even know, what folks can dream of? to raise more money? to enjoy more delicious sorts of food, beer and cool travel trips, to escape from themselves and their damn life? where?.. there is no place left you can run off to. Only this brief moment of freedom and hope in the past.. but it is imaginary.

Marie Laforêt - Ivan, Boris et moi

Everybody knows any musical crap can be enhanced benefit greatly when a stupid banal pop tune is mixed with helpless touching female vocals. This certain song has enough of this Umza-umza pop, but this is totally not the case. Here's a live recording from 1969 for comparison:

It is charged with the break thru, freedom, happiness of life, youth, nostalgia for a carefree childhood feelings... can you feel it?

Marie Laforet - Мon amour mon ami

Another one from glorious 1967; not sure if it is her greatest hit or not, that doesnt matter. I just return to this stuff endlessly, and do understand that ... with all the progress of technology (own recording studio in the bedroom, or even in your smartphone) -- something was completely lost along the road.

I actually was late for my introduction to this great artist (but it's never too late - isn't it?). All thanks go to Youtube, imagine that! it was YT that introduced me to her songs a few years ago. I momentarily downloaded a torrent of 17 CD albums and occasionally travel back in time to look at her face and to listen to her voice ... although in French I can understand just dozen words, no more.

Now they simply don't make it like that anymore!

(...to be continued).
sep1201.png

All videos and music is copyrighted by the artists, not me!
My posts at pinmapple.com
Thanks for visiting my blog!
vintage songs threetunetuesday creativecoin neoxian pob vyb waivio vsc hive-193816
0
0
0.000
28 comments
avatar

pixresteemer_incognito_angel_mini.png
Bang, I did it again... I just rehived your post!
Week 159 of my contest just started...you can now check the winners of the previous week!
!BEER
3

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I didn't know this music, but I love it. Thanks for introducing me.
I did grow up in the 60s and agree. We misses our chance.
John Prince got it right in his son ILLEGAL SMILE. "I chased a rainbow down a one-way street dead end
And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen"

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen

mda...... 🤓😨😨

It is not surprising that money won... money is the strength, foundation and blood in the body of bourgeois society, the lubricant on which the wheel of society turns into the future, and other platitudes. But it was a little chance, wasnt it?...

I'm very happy you discovered and enjoyed this music; no boasting, I have not a bad taste in music (albeit a specific one for drama and tragedy, hehe). I promise to present other titles as well. More will follow!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

You have great taste in music! I've enjoyed your suggestions over the years and will be looking forward to TTT posts from you.
!PIZZA

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

🍕🍕🍕 Ah, so sweet! and definitely better with a slice of !PIZZA 😘 My Tuesdays are the most busy part of the office week, so I dont have a lot of time thru the day but I will see... maybe I should prepare some drafts in advance?... but on the other hand, it is often a matter of inspiration and the current moment of time 😏 Now I am going to bed -- it is almost 3 a.m here, haha!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Sleep well, my friend! I have been enjoying making short form content on Ecency Waves when I don't have time for a complete post. One photo and a sentence will do!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar
(Edited)

PIZZA!

$PIZZA slices delivered:
melinda010100 tipped qwerrie
@qwerrie(1/5) tipped @nickydee
qwerrie tipped melinda010100

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

I am not familiar with all of their songs but I listened to them and they seem to be very nice
Old but Gold

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

yeah, oldies but goldies, exactly 😀😀😀😘

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

As a guest curator for @ecency I decided to accept the boost to this post as it's well curated and it's show true passion for music

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Hey, welcome to TTT! Great to see you here!

I don't know Spanish and I don't understand what she sings about on this album, but I'm ready to listen to any song from it endlessly, at any moment

There's so much truth to that. There are so many great songs out there that I don't understand one word to but will listen to them repeatedly

"Мon amour mon ami" was great fun to listen to. The 60's definitely were a fantastic time for music and new thought.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

My greatest pleasure! Will try to participate further on, as well. I have a lot of intresting names and titles, to shake the dust off for the public's notice 😏

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

That just took me back on a journey thirty years into the past 👀

I have not heard of these two artsist. Dylan, huh?! I Googled the lyrics. Nice!! 🔥👣 Yeah!

And Marie Laforet. I'm an official fan from today. Her songs are so French! So offbeat and so "real" (Yep. I Googled the lyrics because my French is sketchy af these days)

I think I'm gonna pick up languages again now too. I've been threatening to learn Spanish since January as well.

I went to find a song I was (honestly and bizarrely) singing on my meander home from the village just the other evening...

Still one of my favourites.

Ah L'Amour. Who can say how it "works"

I guess if we knew it wouldn't be the hottest topic in songs. Still! ♥️

Some things are better left a mystery, I think...

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Some things are better left unsaid, left a mystery, so true.
Happy that I accidentally helped you in discovering these names.
Dylan was very important number #1, in the era of 60-es, for that generation.
😏
Oh, and listening to some of Laforet's songs, I desperately regret that I did not study French at school, but English :))))
🍕
Have a Hive !PIZZA from me, to celebrate this discovery!

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Haw. Thanks! :)

Now I'm dead curious to know what your "home" language is?

!PIMP

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Well, I am a Russian native speaker (and reader )))) 🤓
!BEER

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Ah... love the sound of that language.

My aunt married a Russian guy :) Cool accent when he spoke English 👍🏻

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

@melinda010100, you seduced me! On a regular basis I see posts in my feed provided for the #three-tune-tuesday challenge run by @ablaze, and sluggishly think: "I should participate too!" - and pass by every time, put it off for "later, someday." Reading your Cohen selection, I got hooked up. Ok, probably this day came today, all of a sudden. I dont know -- the stars occupied some special position in the sky? or today's random soundtrack that slipped me into my iPhone's shuffle mode... anyway, today I was returning from the office at ten o'clock in the evening, and in the subway wagon I was starring at random strangers to the accompaniment of Marie Laforet, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez songs ... and easily could be Leonard Cohen as well.

What an intro and so glad to have you joining us and I have just clicked play and will listen for the next ten minutes or so to see what you have brought to our #ttt table for our ears to feast on!!

Great opener with Joan Baez and 'Gracias A La Vida', a song that was new to me and I enjoyed learning the history you shared too about here being Dylan's girlfriend and why she wrote the song/album. I see where you are coming from in saying "Today... I don't even know, what folks can dream of? to raise more money? to enjoy more delicious sorts of food, beer and cool travel trips, to escape from themselves and their damn life? where?.. there is no place left you can run off to. Only this brief moment of freedom and hope in the past.. but it is imaginary."

I do not fully agree though, I believe that the fact that you can write this means you are aware and can therefore find joy and meaning in music, in nature, in people and understand that it is not found in materialism, which almost always corrupts.. Good point though..

I really enjoyed hearing the songs from Marie Laforêt, but even more so hearing about your passion for her and her way and her music, very interesting.

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

☘️ Grazie Mille! ☘️

find joy and meaning in music, in nature, in people ...

thats what I do, yeah... I also find it in creating visuals (photo) and in books.
still, I love how it sounds -- 'music is your only friend' (c) 😎

0
0
0.000
Reply
avatar

Nice one, life is there right on front of us, if we can sift through all the superficial shite and see the real stuff and the real honest to goodness people and there are plenty of them. Peace out my friend ✌️

0
0
0.000
Reply