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Count On Me
This is my favorite Orange song today. I love the supportive vibe and the melody feels like a warm hug.
As time will go by you’ll see
You can always count on meThis came on at a perfect time for me today. It is nice to find a song I can count on to clear my mind and remind me where I am here on the ground. When I need a little confidence boost, It’s Pink Floyd’s ‘Fearless” .
This just got classified for every playlist.
As for Orange, we have a car dealer in this area called Orange Motors.
Their marketing gimmick is, “What color Orange Ford are you looking for?”
My favorite Orange song is….
(p.s. if this is an old joke, I apologise. It’s all new to me)
I just love this part
Sometimes I like the solitude in darkness
The time before the waking of the sun
But when I find you walking there beside me
I know the breaking of the dawn will have begun -
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Hi JP. When I heard Orange for the very first time, “Count On Me” and “Still A Friend of Mine” were the two song that immediately grabbed me. Count On Me me is a great song, and has some inspired lyrics for sure. My fave part is:
No matter how many turns a river makes, it will always meet the sea, no matter how many times a promise breaks, you can always count on me…..
How poetic and inspiring is that!!!
Now speaking of “What color Orange Ford are you looking for?” It is this one for me. This video reminds me of the Mona drifting in the snow video MLT posted, when some of us asked if Mona drives when the MLT Club was very young.
The 760 HP, 625 lb-ft torque, 0-60 mph in 3.5 sec, quarter mile in 11.0 secs specs, can come in handy to pass those slow moving farm vehicles in the country. This new orange 2020 Mustang GT-500 outputs almost 3 times the horsepower of my old 2002 Mustang GT.
Now I know Jacki likes purple Mustang convertibles, but the question was what orange Ford are you looking for. 🙂
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Count on Me is one of my favorite songs from “Orange” as well. I love all of the songs, though. “Close to You” is probably my very favorite. But, “Orange” is a fantastic album.
I can’t wait for the “New” release. These creative, very talented, young ladies just continue to blow me away like The Beatles did back in the sixties and seventies.
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Yes, “Close To Me” holds a very special place in my heart as well. It’s one of only a very few songs I have known in my lifetime that can somehow pierce directly into my soul and always transport me to a better place.
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Yes, Count On Me gets me emotional, everytime, and from the getgo when I first heard it, Stiil A Friend of Mine, same effect…it’s a combo of the lyrics, mekidy tune, vocals, quite poignant.?☮
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I love all the comments from everyone. Yes, Jacki, emotional.
There are a lot of musicians posting here, which is really no surprise – birds of a feather.
I have been reading some posts about how certain scales can bring so much emotion to a song. This explains why I get so misty when I listen to classical music. Oh, and it happens more when I can see the musicians.
I remember watching a Beatles documentary and the host was showing how each chord change in “She’s leaving home” was a perfect match to the lyrical mood. Fascinating how that works.
Watching MLT perform perform “She’s Leaving” is jaw dropping awesome.Count On Me is my favorite Orange song today
JP
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It’s just fascinating JP delving into the music theory and learning how so much emotions can be created through the use of major and minor scales and chord progressions and modes. Amazing how the simple movement between the notes and subtle note variations create so much feeling. Here are a few lines from a great article “How the Beatles Changed Music…”
Although The Beatles knew a lot about music styles, they didn’t have extensive musical training. The Beatles experimented with lots of instruments and music styles and sometimes combined them in new ways. The Beatles influenced music and music history in many ways.
In their early years, they would listen to all kinds of music such as: Rock, Pop, Folk, Blues, Jazz, Classical, and even Indian.
The Beatles stayed interesting for so many years, partially because they experimented with many things like: Song form (melodies and harmonies and what parts you sing when) and instruments.
Mona and Lisa’s harmonies and singing in She’s Leaving Home are jaw dropping indeed. Love all their Duo Sessions, being able to see their passion as they play.
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Thanks Jung Ro. That’s what I’m talking about. Very kool.
I love the emotional power music can have on you. Just the idea that a few notes played at a certain tempo can immediately lift you into waves of emotion. I can still remember seeing Amadeus when I was nineteen-ish and it struck me how beautiful it was that one man composed music for every instrument and he could pretty much hear it in his head as he created it. If you ever see me smiling during a symphony, that is probably what I am thinking about. One guy wrote all of this a long long time ago.
It’s so nice to see younger people like MLT enjoying this music. I hope that this music will be studied and played for generations to come.
JP
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JP, Amadeus was awesome! I still have the VHS of the movie, and DVD acquired later! It’s always amazed me in that movie how anyone could feel and hear a music composition by just looking at the notes on sheet music. I just couldn’t comprehend that. I love this scene where, as you described, Mozart composes music while he hears the chorus and every instrument in his head perfectly arranged. After seeing this movie, I could understand what my dad must have been feeling when he use to listen to his classical music records for hours and sometimes I could see him with his eyes closed and head moving to the rhythm of the music. The year after this movie came out, I believe it inspired Falco to do his massive hit “Rock Me Amadeus” in 1985.
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“One man composed music for every instrument and he could pretty much hear it in his head as he created it.”
I’ve heard the same said of Brian Wilson!
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Yes, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, John Lennon carry on the genius of the great composers. They are the Bach, Mozart and Beethoven of our time.
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