Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping?

It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse
Making life easy by making it worse
"My mask is my master", the trumpeter weeps
But his voice is so weak, as he speaks from his sleep

Saying: "Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?"

People are watching, people who stare
Waiting for something that's already there
"Tomorrow I'll find it", the trumpeter screams
And remembers he's hungry, and drowns in his dreams

Saying: "Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?"

My head is a nightclub with glasses and wine
The customers dancing or just making time
While Daevid is cursing, the customers scream
Now everyone's shouting, "Get out of my dream!"

Saying: "Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?"

I'm using this song to describe my mental healt in Health Class, kewl.

Soft Machine = William S. Burroughs.

Cool beans.

I'm so glad everybody's all into Soft Machine. I forgot I had those records for SO long.

[i]Vespertine[/i] is the sexiest album ever recorded, in other news from a nearby and slightly smaller island.

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[QUOTE=crazyGUITARnDRUMgal]anyone happen to know of any free spyware removal software[/QUOTE]

Adaware or Spybot are good if you use them both. download.com has them both .

And JonM - It's the both the sexiest and the best album recorded.

ah thank you very much

no problem

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]Listening to Aphex Twin while lifting weights makes you a bad a[I]s[/I]s.[/QUOTE]

Especially Digeridoo.

It's getting difficult to find my posts :/

I can relate to this song because it describes the times in my life when I don’t feel like I’m in control of everything. Now this isn’t especially a bad thing, sometimes I enjoy the clusters in my mind and the reaction that it gets from other people. So really the people that I think of when I hear this piece is the overall “Crowd” and certain friends I know. The first two lines is a good example for things I’ve seen happen to my friends. It describes instances where things that may appear to be a good idea but really it just isn’t the right decision. This song also describes confused feelings and questioning “Why are we Sleeping” is the metaphor for wondering why we live a certain why when we know the “answers already there.” Overall It’s just a crazy piece that chages dynamically repeatly like the song itself is having a “mood swing,”

Haha, I love how I can interpret this song anyway I want to and it will make some sort of sense.

oic*

*dntc

Hello all, how's it goin?

Oh, swell. I've got three projects to do before I get 2 weeks of nothing all to myself.

How's about you?

i just came from exercising and i feel great :) I went to the dentist today :( it was horrible

It's amazing how good excercise makes you feel. I did pretty much nothing for 3 years and recently started swimming and I feel 100% better.

william s. burroughs is such a b[SIZE=2]adas[/SIZE]s.

[QUOTE=Little Man being Erased]It's amazing how good excercise makes you feel. I did pretty much nothing for 3 years and recently started swimming and I feel 100% better.[/QUOTE]
yeah, exercising takes away my work frustrations :)

So is Vonnegut. He's the first author that I've seen use the phrase: "Why don't you take a flying fuc[size=2]k[/size] at a rolling doughnut. Go take a flying fuc[size=2]k[/size] at the moooooooooooon!"

Good stuff.

edit: to byebye

Kay, to save you guys a thread, what genre is radiohead?

alternative

Just alternative? Or Alternative rock? Also, why? The other bands I see in that genre sound nothing like them :-/

Which era of radiohead? Pablo Honey-The Bends is pretty much straight up alt-rock, then it gets hazy from there.

Well, OK comp and Kid A are what I d/led, but I really like Creep and Banana Co too, so I'm thinking of picking up Pablo at the least.

Radiohead are probably one of the hardest bands to categorise. They range from alt-rock to electronic. Why are genres so important anyway?

I like it so I can choose a genre on my iPod based on my mood and get a scattering of good music from different bands :)

Fair enough. I would just put them in alt-rock then.

It's funny that you bring up Radiohead right after talking about Aphex Twin, as they cited him as a major influence for Kid A, probabably Amnesiac too, but Richard D. James has said before that he doesn't even like Radiohead. Of course RDJ has said lot's of things that are not true, so maybe he's a closet Radiohead fan.

Ok. Works well enough I guess.

[QUOTE=zeppelinfan2k3] I'm thinking of picking up Pablo at the least.[/QUOTE]

Get the bends instead.

Do not get Pablo Honey.

[QUOTE=pikester]Get the bends instead.

Do not get Pablo Honey.[/QUOTE]
Meh, it's all the same with free music...maybe I'll get both. I end up buying all the albums I like, but I rarely buy without downloading it first nowadays :)

[QUOTE=pikester]Get the bends instead.

Do not get Pablo Honey.[/QUOTE]
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Although, I will probably end up getting it eventually, mainly out of curiosity.

Oh you kids.

kids, eh?

[QUOTE=Little Man being Erased]kids, eh?[/QUOTE]

Yes.

[QUOTE=n00b]I just call them music[/QUOTE]

Seriously, I'd just call them Alternative, that should be a decent enough classification.

I heard there was some kool kat action goin' down in A&I? :cool:

^no, maybe you're just drunk. lol

At 12.56pm?! I think not sonny jim.

"We only made one really good album" rock

for Zep.

It's been forty minutes since someone's posted in Alt/Indie.