songs that make time stand still
 

Here Comes the Flood (1990 version) - Peter Gabriel

Everything comes to a halt when I hear it. Devastating.

When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen easter tide
There's no point in direction
We cannot even choose a side.

I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud
The rain was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
We will say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
Itll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Dont be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn
They'll use up what we used to be.

Lord, here comes the flood
We will say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again, the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

Didn't Peter Gabriel do the song with the lyrics "In your eyes" Don't remember the song, but I love it.

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One of my favorites as well.

actually a lot of PG songs slow down time for me (Solsbury Hill, Mercy Street, Don't Give Up, Red Rain, etc) , but HCTF stops it dead in its tracks.

Here Comes the Flood

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Hothouse Flowers - Thing of Beauty
I (barely) play guitar and will look up chord charts on the net, then find the music and play along. When looking for Thing of Beauty I came across someones amateur video...
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An amateur video set to Mercy Street (which is an ode to Anne Sexton...an amazing poet)

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And an Anne Sexton poem (which inspired this song). She was hospitalized a number of times (including electroshock), and finally comitted suicide.

THE KISS

My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby , you fool !

Before today my body was useless.
Now it's tearing at its square corners.
It's tearing old Mary's garments off, knot by knot
and see -- Now it's shot full of these electric bolts.
Zing! A resurrection!

Once it was a boat, quite wooden
and with no business, no salt water under it
and in need of some paint. It was no more
than a group of boards. But you hoisted her, rigged her.
She's been elected.

My nerves are turned on. I hear them like
musical instruments. Where there was silence
the drums, the strings are incurably playing. You did this.
Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped
into fire.

This one stops time for me. The memories attached to it are priceless.
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"When the flood calls,
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Dont be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn
They'll use up what we used to be"

Wow.

If i could save time in a bottle
The first thing that i'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If i could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, i would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one i want to go
Through time with

If i had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one i want to go
Through time with

Was thinking about it a while ago and for the most part I am still listening to music that was made in the 60's, 70's and early 80's.

Except for Jazz I rarely listen to anything live...

IMO, there is nothing much worth listening to made the last 15-20 years.

Suppose, I am just getting old. My daughters keep referring to artists and music that I have never heard of and they go: "BUT DAD! You must be joking, surely you have heard of....!!"

There are dozens of songs that stops time as it were. One very intoxicating intro that immediately comes to mind is the drums and base in Stone´s Slave. Dododo dododododo dododo...:D

Stayin' alive, Bee Gees. "I'm going nowhere, somebody help me!"

Gabriel is a genius. The Lamb was brilliant. It's one of my Desert Island discs.

Alice in Chains Unplugged. Great performance.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7651092545589177851

This one's haunting. Cash singing Reznor.

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There was some great stuff. Timeless.

Here's Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker doing "Gloria".

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Thumbs up

Big Head Todd and the Monsters - Bittersweet.

With fellow Pelican Jeremy (Gogar) playing the pedal steel.


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I'm sure most won't agree with me, but these lyrics....

Weezer, Say it Ain't So

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Lyrics? Hard to beat the King Missle classic;

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