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  • Posted by $ DriveTrain 10 years, 8 months ago
    The first ones that spring to mind are a jarring contrast of genres.
    I can only stand Country for a few minutes at a time (it was a lot more fun in the mid-90s when Country bars were where all the women were at,) but I always liked the simple, direct sound of the late Chris Ledoux - serious Americana:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXGVz...

    When I first heard this I about fell off my chair, because it's an accurate description of a memorable day in my life a couple of years before, including the part about working on a barbed-wire fence...

    I'm really disgusted at the bizarre, public, Leftwing lurch that Professor Peart and the boys have taken in the last few months - and though I despise "rap" even when it's tongue-in-cheek, coming from Rush, and with some distinctly Objectivist lyrics... "Roll The Bones." Granted, the message is an exhortation to make an effort and take chances when there are no guarantees of outcome rather than being about success from work specifically, but still a shoo-in:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE1S...

    And... does "Twenty Flight Rock" count? (No tie-in too vague for a link to the Jeff Beck-Imelda May "Rock 'n Roll Party" - one of the most spectacular tours I ever experienced):
    https://youtu.be/4VfeP3roN7A?t=4265
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  • Posted by JoleneMartens1982 10 years, 8 months ago
    "The only way I know", by Jason Aldean, Luke Bryant, and Eric Church.
    Really makes you want to get your hands dirty!
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  • Posted by MikeWi 10 years, 8 months ago
    Why am I receiving warnings about personal attacks when I haven't engaged in any?

    My two song suggestions for this topic are, 1)'You've got Another Thing coming' by Judas Priest and 2)'We are the Champions' by Queen
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You're right! These elderly brain cells keep disappearing and taking my mind with it. Well, what I said about it holds true, anyhow. So, from "Fame" I'll recommend "I Sing The Body Electric." Please don't tell me that's from something else.
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  • Posted by tkstone 10 years, 8 months ago
    Maybe a bit of a stretch, but how about Red Barchetta by Rush. It takes a lot of work to outrun/outwit the future police, and keep the dream of the open road alive! Not much of the music of my generation spoke of such things as productivity.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 8 months ago
    How about "What I Did For Love" from the movie "Fame." The song is about having achieved a certain degree of mastery over a subject the singer loves, such as music, art, or dance. And in a classical vein there's the 1812 Overture by Tchaikowski.. True, it's an old warhorse, but it never fails to inspire, as it did in the movie "V." And, since I'm posting about warhorses, "The Star Spangled Banner" when played appropriately in an up-tempo always inspires me. It's telling about a battle that the fledgling USA was bound to lose, but didn't - "The flag was still there."
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Disney's version with Patrick Swayze is quite entertaining. It does feature the evil corrupt railroad businessman as villain; some truth in that view, too. You should see for yourself though.
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  • Posted by craigerb 10 years, 8 months ago
    We have not wings, we cannot soar;
    But we have feet to scale and climb
    By slow degrees, by more and more,
    The cloudy summits of our time.

    The heights by great men reached and kept
    Were not attained by sudden flight,
    But they, while their companions slept,
    Were toiling upward in the night.

    ("Success" from “The Ladder of Saint Augustine”
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 8 months ago
    16 tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford had quite the voice!

    Working at the Car Wash...kidding.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I first heard of that in elementary school.
    Hate to think of what may have PC replaced it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I do believe I late 60s saw tha skitt.
    Also foggy is I was either in Dothan, AL, or Sarasota, FL.
    I was as much against the Vietnam War as the Smothers Brothers.
    But I'm the one who got drafted.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 10 years, 8 months ago
    For me, one remedy for discouragement is to listen to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, keeping in mind the entire work was composed when he was deaf (presumably from lead poisoning).
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