I'm so out of it! Thanks for the promote, love!



In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
*promote

Looks like @blankfist and @mintbbb are next with 132 and 192 stars away, respectively...

I suppose we'll need to start asking new Galaxy members what they'd like the theme of their badge/icon to be when they can't be nailed down by avatar.

In any case, I can't wait to hear more original Sifter folk music from @dag maggot.

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I love the sound of Irish and Scottish folk music, the girl is pretty mesmerizing too.

>> ^Pprt:

Please see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3L7OV414Kk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU12KW-XyZE


Very compelling stuff.

I hope everyone here sees the Muzzas attempt to "kidnap" the heavily armed commando boarding their ship and their deadly offensive with "metal objects" and folk music. Israels' pussy-arse commandos are lucky the ship wasn't carrying weapons, or anything else Israel pretends it's illegal naval blockade of the mediterranian and Gaza is supposed to prevent, otherwise they might have had to gun down some old men and women armed with inflamitory songs and "metal objets". YOU ARE SURELY TAKING THE PISS

No, "Puff, the Magic Dragon" is not about marijuana, or any other type of drug. It is what its writers have always claimed it to be: a song about the innocence of childhood lost.


The poem that formed the basis of the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" was written in 1959 by Leonard Lipton, a nineteen-year-old Cornell student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash rhyme about a "Really-O Truly-O Dragon," and, using a dragon as the central figure, he came up with a poem about the end of childhood innocence. Lipton passed his work along to a friend, fellow Cornell student (and folk music enthusiast) Peter Yarrow, who put a melody to the words and wrote additional lyrics to create the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon." After Yarrow teamed up with Mary Travers and Paul Stookey in 1961 to form Peter, Paul & Mary, the trio performed the song in live shows; their 1962 recording of "Puff" reached #2 on the Billboard charts in early 1963.


The 1960s being what they were, however, any song based on oblique or allegorical lyrics was subject to reinterpretation as a "drug song," and so it was with "Puff." (For Peter, Paul & Mary, at least, the revelation that their song was "really" about marijuana came after the song had finished its chart run; other groups were not so fortunate, and accusations of "drug lyrics" caused some radio stations to ban songs such as the Byrds' "Eight Miles High" from their playlists.) "Puff" was an obvious name for a song about smoking pot; little Jackie Paper's surname referred to rolling papers; "autumn mist" was either clouds of marijuana smoke or a drug-induced state; the land of "Hanah Lee" was really the Hawaiian village of Hanalei, known for its particularly potent marijuana plants; and so on. As Peter Yarrow has demonstrated in countless concert performances, any song — even "The Star-Spangled Banner" — can be interpreted as a "drug song."


http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.asp

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Paramecium like to listen to upbeat folk music when they eat.
Noted.

Thanks for the quality! And yes, I had seen that one. Beautiful music, Eastern European folk music in general, very beautiful sounds. This is another one of my favourites, and is also on the Voyager record.

In reply to this comment by Haldaug:
This is great! Have you seen this other *quality Georgian folk song?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Beautiful-Georgian-folk-song

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Excellent. I'm such a sucker for folk music...

>> ^kronosposeidon:
To address Deano's point, I don't think eliminating the Music channel is a good idea. There are too many videos here that don't fit neatly into our five musical genre tags:
rocknroll
metal
jazz
bravo
hiphop
Even if we included Wildwestshow for country music, that's still not enough to cover all of our musical bases. Where would reggae go? Or theremin music? Or any experimental instruments, such as tesla coils? Or just plain old acoustic folk music?
Music definitely needs to stay, IMHO.


That's not what Deano said. The point made was that if a music video already fits in a certain musical channel, then it should not be necessary to also add a music label to it. For instance, you submit a classical music video, so you put it in the bravo channel and possibly the livemusic channel; if the video already has those 2 musical channels, why bother adding it to the music channel and waste one slot that could be used to describe another characteristic of such video?

at least that's how I am reading that post.

To address Deano's point, I don't think eliminating the Music channel is a good idea. There are too many videos here that don't fit neatly into our five musical genre tags:

rocknroll
metal
jazz
bravo
hiphop

Even if we included Wildwestshow for country music, that's still not enough to cover all of our musical bases. Where would reggae go? Or theremin music? Or any experimental instruments, such as tesla coils? Or just plain old acoustic folk music?

Music definitely needs to stay, IMHO.

I don't think you have to be a hipster to appreciate some good ol' lo-fi folk music.

Also, as the credits proclaim in bold letters, this was shot on the roof of Memorial Hall in Cincinnati, OH.