#classic rhyme

[dabiconcordia]

The Days of the Month - Beautiful Illustrated Calendar

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February has twenty-eight alone. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting leap-year—that's the time When February's days are twenty-nine. by Anonymous

[artistmarchalius]

I love 1970s Maria, of course I had to play dress up!

[death-of-cats]

Sansa VI ASOS

Theon I TWOW

[cakedpie-pathologic]

Dogheads playing hopscotch

[sweetsweetperil]

Cherry red blood stirring in my veins,

Coffees a brewing, you can see it in my face

Steaming, burning, crying, a quiet masquerade,

Tip me over before I shout your name

[musictyme]

A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario

[thelastspeecher]

At least half the books in Stan and Angie's house are not in English, if not most of them. Angie doesn't have dyslexia, but finds reading Ancient Greek easier than English, and even picks up like, modern Greek.

Stan, who does have dyslexia, and rather severe, almost exclusively uses Ancient Greek and modern Greek in print. He absolutely despises using English. He's joked about moving to Greece and Angie chews him out for suggesting that. It's even more dangerous there for them than California! And they have kids!

There are books in other non-English languages in the house, too. Stan bounces from job to job a lot, and in between jobs he indulges in his hobbies, which are stealing/scamming and learning more languages. The latter so he can get better at stealing and scamming.

Also so he can get by with swearing in front of the kids without Angie noticing.

(In a sappy moment, Stan decides to learn Irish to connect with Angie's mortal heritage more, even though there aren't exactly a bunch of people speaking Irish where they live. Angie thinks it's incredibly sweet.)

[cazzyf1]

Did you know that Hesketh Racing had their own theme song?

[shiningclown69]

Just a guy in his Jress (Jean Dress)

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

The issues & beauties of German music

(70s Kraut Rock )

Here, NOT ONE SINGLE SOUL talks about Krautrock 🌿 it seems like dead & forgotten (except CAN)

which is sad about this phenomenon :/ the only ones paying attention are prog magazines and music connoisseurs

Everyone talks about the Scorpions and Rammstein (in fact it's quality). Sometimes Boney M but... it's always the same: good music is too elite for the masses.

Even the band Eloy. Prog fans love them- the most listeners come from other places of the earth but not their origin country. Often a fault of the music industry, critics as well as the radio stations which really neglected these now in modern times.

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The rhymes & language, pronunciation

Sure, worse languages exist. But to be honest, can you relax, with the German language? There's no flow at all, nothing like Italian or, you know, English. It's a popular opinion and what speaks against it?

Depends on the way someone sings and per region there is a difference but some harshness is always there.

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Sung in English example: Eloy (again)

Some people are totally fine with the accent (their whole discography is in English sung by Frank Bornemann!!) others have problems getting into this band. Depends on the listener.

What often happened was that the groups had a British singer...

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Old fashioned names

For example British rock: someone asks you, you say your idol is some random Jeff or Pete or whatever their names are. What about German musician's names? They're called Dieter or Jogi or Herbert or Udo

"Who's your favourite musician?" - Jürgen xy (sorry shouldn't sound mean)

People make jokes about old fashioned names, then why blaming yourself and getting sideeyed.

This is all a matter of coolness, let's move to the music...

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A few information

Okay don't judge (seems extremely stereotype now) the people, musicians of the 60s and 70s were the first generation after WW2. You can imagine. The children of ex- patriots. They wanted to change something. BUT!! They were BOUND in the roots of their country.

There was a scene and later with many students and discotheques. There were artists from all over the world. The music is innovative and you can hear it even clearly. You can also hear their protest, spirit and the diversity of sounds.

There is nothing you can call THE Kraut. It's practically impossible to sum the sound up. Actually it's not a genre. That one word represents all the music made in Germany

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An example.

You hear the instruments? The bass, drums, hard guitar, organs, saxophone EVERYTHING WORKS. SO FINE MUSIC.

Listen to it, create your own opinion.

Notes

1. So many songs by this one group called Lied des Teufels? Yeah. They're not known at all. That singer sounds like imitating Ian Gillan- Everyone can TRY to copy but they do it in their own style which is not copying, it's storytelling. (Kind of)

2. THE WHOLE THING SHOULD NOT MAKE ME SEEM PASSIONATE OR SOMETHING BECAUSE I DISCOVERED KRAUT LITERALLY YESTERDAY

3. Probably it's something that gets boring really fast

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So...

Skillful musicians w/ ability to express themselves and the problems of their country. Wether the singing style is something for you or not- there are countless of other groups.

We HAVE TO speak about these forgotten acts again & give it a chance

[quietwingsinthesky]

actually wait someone tell me other people know what thats referencing. thats not just like. something my grandma made up right. thats a real nursery rhyme isnt it.

[creatediana]

"Myrrha's Son" - a poem written 4/08/2024

Inspired by the passage in The Wild Irish Girl (1806) by Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan:

In short, there are a thousand little fugitive graces playing around her, which are not beauty, but the cause of it; and were I to personify the word spell, she should sit for the picture.

[ruffles23]

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese

[unluckylibrary]

The feeling of betrayal after reading a classic gothic novel and not liking it

[alazarrr]

Sigel & Freeway Killed Every Track on HOT 97

[taylorswiftandx]

Taylor’s Songs that reference fairy tales, nursery rhymes, classic children's lit (there is a little flexibility here), etc. pls.

Thank you! These should be covered between TS and Myth/Legend/Fantasy and TS and Literary References.