In at number four of my personal top ten freethinker songs;
Stevie Wonder-Sir Duke
A celebration of music and it's effects and no mention of a deity or the need for one at all.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Friday, 15 July 2011
TOP TEN FREETHNKER SONGS : NUMBER FIVE
In at number five, the half way point of my personal free thinker top ten;
Joan Armatrading-Love and Affection
Although it's a celebration of love and self realisation and acceptance, I always heard the undertone of melancholy in it. When I discovered Ms Armatrading was gay, in an era when being gay, black and female meant physical harm,* I understood why.
She never calls on a god to assist her.
*Which era is that? Every flaming era!
Joan Armatrading-Love and Affection
Although it's a celebration of love and self realisation and acceptance, I always heard the undertone of melancholy in it. When I discovered Ms Armatrading was gay, in an era when being gay, black and female meant physical harm,* I understood why.
She never calls on a god to assist her.
*Which era is that? Every flaming era!
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
TOP TEN FREETHINKER SONGS : NUMBER SIX
At number six of my personal top ten freethinker songs;
Prelude-After The Goldrush
Brilliant song. When I first heard it, I understood it as the tale of the Twentieth Century so far (up to the early '70s), with the events in no particular order.
The Knights in Armour coming, saying something about a Queen. . .The death of Queen Victoria.
Fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating in the breeze. . .The idea of UFOs and those who acknowledge them, especially the event labelled the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima and
Mother Nature on the run in the 1917. . .the destruction caused by trench warfare in the Great War, both the Miracle of the Sun and the peak of destruction happening in 'the' 1917.
Lying in a burned out basement. . .The blitz, the aerial bombing of cities on and by both sides in World War Two.
The sun burst through the skies. . .Alamogordo, 16th of July 1945.
The silver spaceships flying. . .The V rockets on Britain or maybe the B29 bomber raids on Japan.
Banners flying all around the chosen one. . .Hitler's election to the Reichstag.
Flying Mother nature's silver seeds. . .the Apollo programme, especially the moon landings.
And it doesn't mention a god or the need for one at all.
I was wrong, of course. But not about it not mentioning a god.
Prelude-After The Goldrush
Brilliant song. When I first heard it, I understood it as the tale of the Twentieth Century so far (up to the early '70s), with the events in no particular order.
The Knights in Armour coming, saying something about a Queen. . .The death of Queen Victoria.
Fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating in the breeze. . .The idea of UFOs and those who acknowledge them, especially the event labelled the Miracle of the Sun in Fatima and
Mother Nature on the run in the 1917. . .the destruction caused by trench warfare in the Great War, both the Miracle of the Sun and the peak of destruction happening in 'the' 1917.
Lying in a burned out basement. . .The blitz, the aerial bombing of cities on and by both sides in World War Two.
The sun burst through the skies. . .Alamogordo, 16th of July 1945.
The silver spaceships flying. . .The V rockets on Britain or maybe the B29 bomber raids on Japan.
Banners flying all around the chosen one. . .Hitler's election to the Reichstag.
Flying Mother nature's silver seeds. . .the Apollo programme, especially the moon landings.
And it doesn't mention a god or the need for one at all.
I was wrong, of course. But not about it not mentioning a god.
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