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Lockdown Song
Artist: Steps
Album: Steptacular
Released: 1999
Genre: Pop
Yeah, I'm a deeper shade of blue
And there's nothing I can do
You're so far, far away
You're so far away
I suspect that everyone will know or recognise Steve Gregory's saxophone solo in George Michael's Careless Whisper. Lovely song from my youth. I am also the proud mother of Michiel who took saxophone lessons at the academy for many years. Both the alto sax and the soprano saxophone resounded through the house for years. I loved it so much. At the moment his focus is on studying, but playing the saxophone will certainly come back home. A macro photo of the alto saxophone could not be missing here today.
Happy Monday dear friends. Here's my #LockdownSong for #MacroMondays; by Jill Barber.
Thank you for your visit :)
Macro Mondays 'lockdown song' theme.
I 'discovered' Lianne La Havas with this song which she wrote during lockdown 2020. I listened to it over and over.
🎶 Paper Thin ~ Lianne La Havas
The heart is made in a small book of inspirational quotes and measures just under 1.5" in width
Alternative song choice 🎶 Where is the Love ~ The Black Eyed Peas
121 pictures in 2021 (47) illustrate a book title - Love Story by Erich Segal
Lock down has been difficult for musicians both professional and amateur. Our group, Folk Routes has not performed, even together, since March. I've taken comfort in perfecting one of my favourite folk songs "The Rout of the Blues". Written by Barry Dransfield. It's an adaption of an older song but the history behind the song is amazing. The English language is amazing in being able to use the same spelling to mean different things. In this instance rout, means a mustering of troops. In the time fo George III, cavalry of the Blues Regiment, had their muster point on Salisbury Plain.
Wives and girl friends would follow the soldiers to war, cooking and caring for them. Hope you have the energy and time to read all of this.
You can hear the whole song here, performed by Robin and Barry Dransfield.
"Money Money Money"
I work all night, I work all day
To pay the bills I have to pay
Ain't it sad?
And still there never seems to be
A single penny left for me
That's too bad
In my dreams I have a plan
If I got me a wealthy man
I wouldn't have to work at all
I'd fool around and have a ball
Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world
Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man's world
Aha-aha
All the things I could do
If I had a little money
It's a rich man's world
It's a rich man's world
The Parting Glass is an old Irish song about a man who is having his last drink at his pub. He is saying goodbye to his friends but the song doesn't tell us why he is having "to go." One can speculate from the words that perhaps he is dying. It is a sad song, one of lonliness and isolation and yet somewhat of a celebration of a man's frienships and good memories. I'm submitting it for the Jan 25, 2021 Macro Monday's theme of "Lockdown Song". By the way, it's played in the key of Am.
For the Macro Monday challenge "Lockdown Song" (January 25th 2021) Sung by Gretchen Peters:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmNWXi9cRQ4
Written originally expressing the frustration at the daily tail-back and traffic jam, driving to work every morning.
"It's raining in my coffee cup
Comin' down since I got up today - cold and gray
And lookin' in my rearview mirror
I could be anywhere but here I am - traffic jam"
I find it expresses so well the frustration of being stuck in lockdown too.
"I've been goin' nowhere fast
Runnin' out of time and gasoline
Waiting for the light to turn green
I'll be damned if I'll grow old
Waitin' for these wheels to roll, not me
Waitin' for the light to turn green"
The full lyrics are: Here
HMM!! and stay safe and well this week!
My 2021 MM set starts: Here
and previous years of the Macro Mondays challenge:
My 2020 set: Here
My 2020 set: Here
My 2019 set: Here
My 2018 set: Here
My 2017 set: Here
My 2016 set: Here
My 2015 set: Here
My 2014 set: Here
My 2013 set: Here
……Music has been my ‘go to’ retreat during the pandemic - but then it generally is anyway! What's been useful is the plethora of web based music that is is now available to us now! I was listen to J to Z the Jazz prog’ on BBC Radio 3 and heard a piano trio - I googled to investigate more and found him - Emmet Cohen, great I thought and began to listen! But the guest vocalist REALLY was something else which led me elsewhere!!! Cyrille Aimée - WOW what a find, so Cyrille is my nominated Macro Monday Artist - please please PLEASE see link for Emmet & Cyrille youtu.be/81viyOKgx0w ……BTW, the picture is a close-up of the bridge on our sons Double Bass. Happy Macro Monday, stay locked down and cosy to stay safe and to keep EVERYONE else safe too! A VERY BIG THANK YOU to ALL the key workers who are carrying on to benefit the rest of us - we applaud you all. Alan;-)👏👏👏👏👏
For the interested I’m growing my Shutterstock catalogue regularly here, now sold 60 images :- www.shutterstock.com/g/Alan+Foster?rid=223484589&utm_...
©Alan Foster.
©Alan Foster. All rights reserved. Do not use without permission.……
"In the stratosphere
there's nowhere to go from here"
Beck
(this is the first of two Stratosphere photos I have posted)
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: LOCKDOWN SONG
SUBJECT: A THISTLE
(not quite 2" horizontally)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI
I found a website where it asks others to share their thoughts as to what the composer, Bob Dylan, might have had meant when he wrote the lyrics of the song ... the post below caught my eye and mirrors my own thoughts especially during these days of pandemic and past election events and controversies ... I would like to give credit to the author but unfortunately (s)he is anonymous....
PS... I omitted quotation marks because I made a few changes and added few punctuation marks for clarity. Otherwise, the original thought stayed the same.... each question a cry for PEACE and yet each answer refers back to the "TITLE."
This song states we know the answers to his questions but like a piece of paper we are trying to catch on a windy day, the preverbal wind always keeps it just out of reach.
He asks, “how many roads must a man walk before he is a man?” We, as humans, are always proving our "manhood". “When will man know war,” solves nothing. We only will silence the cannons when each of us stops thinking we are always better than others.
When does oppression cease?; when will we have enough ears?; when will all people be treated the same? At the rate we are going in accepting one other, mountains will be washed to the sea before it happens.
The answer is "blowin’ in the wind.” We have to band together in catching that piece of paper. We have to "catch" the meaning of “loving each other.” Otherwise, the answer is just "blowin’ in the wind," waiting for us to get the meaning of PEACE. Peace is NOT the absence of war. It's acceptance of ALL.
HMM theme - Lockdown Song
Memories made in the coldest winter by Kanya West. I'm not a fan of his but I love this track.
Macro Mondays this week falls on January 25, the birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Normally this is a cause for celebration as Burns Night, with much music, dancing and whisky - but sadly not this year due to the COVID restrictions. But I wanted to try and incorporate Robbie Burns into my image for this week's theme 'Lockdown Song'.
Burns was a regular visitor to Edinburgh, and while there he had a platonic relationship with Mrs Agnes Maclehose. Burns wrote Ae Fond Kiss after their final meeting in 1791 before she departed Edinburgh to be with her estranged husband.
Ae Fond Kiss seems like a very suitable lockdown song, for those who have had to be away from family, friends and lovers due to the COVID restrictions on travel and meeting others. The first eight lines are as follows:
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me,
Dark despair around benights me.
It is Burns' most recorded love song, and a wonderful version was recorded by the late Andy M Stewart www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWnuEbwlGA
As always when photographing snails, I set up the shot first, taking care to keep within the size limit and to do test shots to determine the most suitable exposure and depth of field in order to minimise the photoshoot time. The image shows bagpipe music for Ae Fond Kiss and the end of my Scottish smallpipe chanter.
Clearly, two snails were going to be required but getting two snails in adequate focus is difficult, but as I was using f9 (to ensure the title was in soft focus but still readable) I thought it could be done. I went to get the snails, and I found these two youngsters snuggled up together! When I placed them on the chanter, they immediately moved towards each other and displayed this behaviour - it's difficult to avoid anthropomorphising, but this might be interpreted as affection! In all my years as a student of snail behaviour, I have never seen this before, but it has been well described previously (Love, M.L. (2001) Proc. Natl. Acad. Gastropod Sci., Vol. 23, 37-42 ).
The day was fairly dull, but brightened up a little while later, so thought to try this again with better light - but the two snails must have satisfied their lust in the meantime and showed no interest in each other, in fact crawling off in opposite directions (we've all been there...).
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
Auch wir haben unseren Schwager an Corona verloren.🌹
Mein Lieblingssong von“Simon&Garfunkel.
Für“Happy Macro Monday!“— Lockdown song.
"Guitar and Pen" - a song by The Who about songwriting and creative input, from the album ""Who Are You" (1978).
"Macro Mondays" contribution "Lockdown Song":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9EdWnSX-c
I've been spending many, many lockdown evenings reading a 1500-page biography about this fascinating and unique rock band. During this time, "Who Are You" has become my favourite Who album. - 20 years ago I didn't like it very much. Now I find the songs and their lyrics very fascinating. And many lines from "Guitar and Pen" remind me what's missing during these lockdown days: inspirational, creative moments that happen between human beings. A Zoom conference can definitely not provide or replace that.
Width of the objects (pen and Marshall mini amp) in focus: 6,1x6,1 cm.
(A.Schacht Edixa-Travenar-A 1:2,8/50mm @ f/11)
Macro Mondays: Lockdown Song
Band: Alcest
Music/Album: Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
Genre: Post-Black Metal
Part of a piano accordion keyboard. You can't think of Paris street songs without an accordion. Fantastic song;
It’s no joke that this pandemic has taken its toll on the elderly.
My grandfather's clock was too large for the shelf
So it stood ninety years on the floor
It was taller by half than the old man himself
And it weight not a penny's weight more
It was bought on the morn that my grandpa was born
And was always his treasure and pride
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died
Ninety years without slumbering (tic tac tic tac)
His life's seconds numbering (tic tac tic tac)
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died.
At watching its pendulum swing to and fro
Many hours he had spent as a boy
As he grew into manhood the clock seemed to know
For it sharaed everyu sorrow and joy
And it struck tewntyfour as he entered the door
With his beautiful and blushing bride
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died
My grandfather said that of those he could hire
Not a servant so faithful he'd found
For it wasted no time and it had but one desire
At the close of each week to be wound
Yes it kept in its place but not a frown upon its face
And its hands never hung by its side
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died
Then it rang an alarm in the dead of the night
An alarm that for years had been dumb
And we knew that his spirit was pluming for flight
That his hour for departure had come
Yes the clock kept the time
With a soft and muffled chime
As we stood there and watched by his side
But it stopped short never to go again
When the old man died
Photo 3”x 3” character and furniture from family doll’s house.
Elton John "Made in England"
For #MacroMondays and this week's theme #LockdownSong.
Happy Macro Monday!
Thanks for all your faves and comments everyone!
I really appreciate them!
Ballad/Pop by Jim Croce, 1973
MacroMondays
Lockdown Song theme
. ABC originally did not intend to release the song as a single; but when Croce was killed in a plane crash in September 1973, its lyrics, dealing with mortality and the wish to have more time, had additional resonance. And now after losing a year, we keep adding to the pandemic's loss.
For this weeks #Macromonday theme #Lockdown Song, I jumped at the chance to combine my two favorite passions. Photography and music. In this shot I wanted to portray the gritty beauty of Ballad Rock and echo the silence of a still guitar string. My go-to choice during quarantine was Ballad Rock, and one of my all time favorites is Disturbed's power ballad version of "The Sound of Silence" www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
Shirley Bassey "Burn my candle (at both end)" from 1956.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfkm1UW9r7U
Für "Macro Mondays"
Thema "Lockdown Song" am 25.01.2021.
Have a "Happy Macro Monday"
and a good start into the new week.
Stay safe/Bleibt gesund!
Thank you for all your views, faves and comments.
For Macro Mondays theme: Lockdown Song
A song to wash your hands by.
And in July, my 80th birthday was celebrated at a virual party with guest from three states and two countries.
by Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs...from 1963, is my lockdown song...a fun song to dance to in the kitchen! The photo is a gelato combo: Creamy Berry and Sette Veli. Since June we have made it a tradition to have gelato from this amazing family owned Italian pastry and gelato shop every Sunday! It's a half hour drive, which gets us out of the house, and we are supporting a small business during the pandemic...the best gelato ever from an amazing Sugar Shack!
The photo is inspired by Adele's theme: "Hello"
www.youtube.com/watch/YQHsXMglC9A
In this week's macro inspired by musical themes, I used a mini phone, from my father's toy collection "Ancient objects", whose measurements are 5cm wide by 5cm high.
I had to scan, print and cut the title that appears inside the marker on the mini phone, because I couldn't write it by hand to fit it.
The video for the song is set in a nostalgic place in 2007, its synopsis revolves around a woman who, after being "destroyed" emotionally, tries to renew herself. Several scenes in the video were shot with IMAX cameras, making it the first video clip in IMAX format.
"Hola soy yo"
Hola, ¿Cómo estas? Es tan típico de mi hablar de mi misma..
Lo siento. Espero que estés bien
¿Alguna vez saliste de esa ciudad donde nunca pasa nada?
No es ningún secreto que nos hemos quedado sin tiempo.....
"Hello It's Me"
Hello how are you? It's so typical of me to talk about myself.
I'm sorry. I hope you are well
Have you ever left that city where nothing ever happens?
It is no secret that we have run out of time .....
"Hola c'est moi"
Bonjour, comment allez-vous? C'est si typique de ma part de parler de moi.
Désolé. J'espère que tu vas bien
Avez-vous déjà quitté cette ville où rien ne se passe?
Ce n'est un secret pour personne que nous n'avons plus de temps .....
"Ciao sono io"
Ciao, come stai? È così tipico per me parlare di me stesso.
Mi dispiace. Spero tu stia bene
Hai mai lasciato quella città dove non succede mai niente?
Non è un segreto che abbiamo finito il tempo .....
María
I came across Bluegrass gospel music a little while ago and it's given me some real encouragement. I particularly like this rendition of "Wayfaring Stranger" by the Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, from Oslo, Norway of all places.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bvZ-WCkXGE
Btw, this is a miniature violin, with a total length of 6.5 cm.
These are the Bluegrass Gospel lyrics:
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world of woe,
Yet there is no sickness, no toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go.
I'm going there to see my Father,
I’m going there no more to roam.
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.
I know dark clouds will gather 'round me
I know my way is rough and steep,
Yet beauteous fields rise up before me
Where God's redeemed, their vigils keep.
I'm going there to see my Mother.
She said she'd meet me there when I come.
So, I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home.
I'm going there to see my Father,
I’m going there no more to roam.
I'm only going over Jordan,
I'm only going over home.
I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Travelling through this world below.
Yet there is no sickness, no toil, nor danger
In that bright land to which I go.
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""Lockdown Song"
Les images et les musiques nous racontent des histoires ...
Images and music tell us stories.
Quelques unes de mes musiques sur la vidéo :
Rameau - rondeau des Indes Galantes
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire
Sati - Gnossienne
Bach - suite n° 1 en sol majeur pour violoncelle
etc
...
HMM
Lockdown theme song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1V8YRJnr4Q
Gerbera flower with tiny delicate blue wild Commelina cyanea flowers above that are sought after by native bees.
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Once there was a time ...
when the internet did not exist, no social media, no facebook, whatsapp or Flickr (indeed a horror scenario). Suppose you lived in that time... and now let's take it a step further ... you are on an island, alone and lonely, no radio, no TV, no music and no telephone ...
You write a letter, old-fashioned with pen and paper ... Put the letter in a bottle ... and if the current is good, you throw the bottle into the sea ... And you wait, wait ... and wait ... you continue living and surviving. Not knowing if someone ever receives and reads your mail, let alone comes to help you. Imagine... real social distance.
Thanks all for your visit, faves and or comments, they are much appreciated. Stay safe and have a very Happy Macro Monday!
we learn to live again. My "Covid Lockdown Song" for Macro Mondays...."Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters. Wearing a mask...we learn to live again. Dave starts out a little slow....give him time www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_bQ9nzt9Xo
Knock on Wood -+- Eddie Floyd (1966 original). This classic was later covered by David Bowie, Amii Stewart, and others.
The action of knocking on wood is probably applicable to the current pandemic situation.