Day: May 19, 2021

Brahms’ Lullaby by Johannes Brahms

~ JezzieG

Brahms’ Lullaby
1868
Romantic

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms
Romantic
Born: 7 May 1833, Hamburg, Germany
Nationality: German
Died: 3 April 1897, Vienna, Austria

Brahms was a composer, pianist and conductor. He spent much of his professional life in Vienna. Brahms composed for orchestras, chamber ensembles, organ, piano and voice. A virtuoso pianist he premiered many of his own works himself. He is grouped with Bach and Beethoven as one of the ‘Three B’s’ of music

Age of Loneliness by Enigma

~ JezzieG

Age of Loneliness
1993
New Age

Enigma
New Age
Formed: 1990
Nationality: German

Formed in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu, Enigma is a new-age, worldbeat project. The creation of the project is inspired by the desire to make a kind of music that did not adhere to the old habits and rules whilst presenting a new form of artistic expression with both experimental and mystic components. To date has sold an estimated 70 million ALBUMS WORLDWIDE. The project has also received three Grammy nominations

A Dapper Gent

~ JezzieG

Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 110

He is not a clown, nor is he a child
But he amuses me in innocence
In the watching I have become beguiled
When he’s dressed to the nines every day
With his evening dress even in daylight
He’s so dapper in almost in his way
With his Poirot-like gait from dawn til night
I wonder do his wee feet feel the snow
When to the ocean he goes off to play
And chasing fish for his living is wild
His odd walk replaced by grace in sea flight
My love for this sea bird is so intense
In his world of ice and snow. What’s to know
His living just echoes go with the flow

©JGFarmer2021

Hedonism by Skunk Anansie

~ JezzieG

Skunk Anansie

A British rock band, consisting of Skin on lead vocals and guitar, Cass on bass, guitar and backing vocals, Ace on guitar and backing vocals and Mark Richardson on drums and percussion, Skunk Anansie formed in 1994. The took their name Akan folk tales of Anansi the spider-man of Ghana and added Skunk to sound nastier.

Hedonism
Album: Stoosh
Date: 1996
Genre: Punk

Lyrics by Deborah Ann Dyer and Len Arran

I hope you’re feeling happy now
I see you feel no pain at all, it seems
I wonder what you’re doin’ now
I wonder if you think of me at all
Do you still play the same moves now?
Or are those special moods for someone else?
I hope you’re feeling happy now

Just because you feel good
Doesn’t make you right, oh no
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight

Does laughter still discover you?
I see through all the smiles that look so right
Do you still have the same friends now
To smoke away your problems and your life?
Oh how do you remember me?
The one that made you laugh until you cried
I hope you’re feeling happy now

Just because you feel good
Doesn’t make you right, oh no
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight, want you

Oh, no
Just because you feel good
Doesn’t make you right, oh no
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight, want you

Just because you feel good
Doesn’t make you right, oh no
Just because you feel good
Still want you here tonight, want you

I wonder what you’re doing now
I hope you’re feeling happy now
I wonder what you’re doing now
I hope you’re feeling happy now