What are you listening to?

[Laird]

Cue-point is set to 14:47, Gymnopédie No. 1.

That's a very familiar piece; I feel like I've heard it recently, and fairly often, but I can't remember where - maybe in a soundtrack; maybe as on-hold music; maybe somewhere else. The Legacy section of the Wikipedia article on the piece doesn't list anything that seems to be a plausible candidate. Hmm.

That's a very familiar piece; I feel like I've heard it recently, and fairly often, but I can't remember where - maybe in a soundtrack; maybe as on-hold music; maybe somewhere else. The Legacy section of the Wikipedia article on the piece doesn't list anything that seems to be a plausible candidate. Hmm.

In my own case I later realised that the reason this music was in my head was because there is a version on cello and other strings at the start of a video entitled "Dr. Bruce Greyson and the Paradox of the Near-Death Experience".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErQTIpNqSVQ

'I Want to Break Free' (Queen) Performed In North Korea

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As you may suspect - all is not as it seems.
More to follow

An explanation of a previous interpretation of "I want to break free":

from a comment posted by @chop-logic

Moranbong Band & State Merited Chorus - The 70th anniversary of The Workers' Party of Korea

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Epic 6500-person Pub Choir sings 'I Want To Break Free' (Queen)


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A lot of skilful and clever editing

gives

the previous video.

"Sisters of Mercy."

That's the only song I wrote in one sitting. The melody I had worked on for some time. I didn't really know what the song was. I remember that my mother had liked it.

Then I was in Edmonton, which is one of our largest northern cities, and there was a snowstorm and I found myself in a vestibule with two young hitchhiking women who didn't have a place to stay. I invited them back to my little hotel room and there was a big double bed and they went to sleep in it immediately.

They were exhausted by the storm and the cold. And I sat in this stuffed chair inside the window beside the Saskatchewan River. And while they were sleeping I wrote the lyrics. And that never happened to me before. And I think it must be wonderful to be that kind of writer. It must be wonderful.

Because I just wrote the lines with a few revisions and when they awakened I sang it to them. And it has never happened to me like that before. Or since.

Cover by Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt


A live version:

That cheerful song, "You are my Sunshine", it has a darker side too. Creatively photographed.

The Dead South - You Are My Sunshine

A good song for this time - The Planet - Hans Theessink, A song for Mother Earth, originally recorded on the CALL ME album 1992.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdh_TNefhWE

Love this ... so different.

https://youtu.be/iqAsfDCIkGo?si=xw3G_Wnl9MGtr0rY