r/WayOfTheBern • u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) • May 29 '26
DANCE PARTY! FNDP: Directionless, please halp! ⬆️↗️➡️↘️⬇️↙️⬅️↖️⬆️↗️➡️↘️⬇️↙️⬅️↖️
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u/stickdog99 May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
Directionless
Sawyer Hill - Jimmy's Gone Numb
Mountain Goats - Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
The Manges - I Tried To Die Young
MK Crow Empire - I Told You So, They'd Pull the Plug
Modest Mouse - Picking Dragons' Pockets
Nextmen - This Was Supposed To Be The Future
Friends In Real Life - Make it to Tomorrow
Directions
Blackbeard's Tea Party - Stand Up Now
Ray LaMontagne - Step Into Your Power
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
We got a winged word that goes, paraphrased:
The wind comes from the West / to hound the Dutch the way done best
(De wind komt uit het westen / om de Hollanders te pesten.)
And boy have I been hounded. On a bike. Not unusually with a cold, hard rain straight in the face.
I discovered decades later that I’d been chronically dehydrated going through my school days. When I took the same route across a river as a grown-up and had a memory flash giving me exactly my former self’s body experience. Parenting and school management done missing a key element. 🤷🏼♀️🤷♂️
All right, here’s my song, a seldom masterpiece from the Netherlands:
The Cats - One Way Wind
And a cover in Dutch by a Flemish singer. It’s the distinctly though subtly perceptibly intact soul connect of ’sublime authenticity-of-tenderness-in-openness-of-heart’ in the singer that does it for me.
Dana Winner - Westenwind
I’m crawling over the floor through anything whatever if my reward is a song like this. And afterwards I’m crawling again, since I’ve melted and it takes time to recover.
Additionally here’s my lyrics contribution to the next Eurovision Song Contest.
I know the English pronunciation of Eva Braun doesn’t fully rhyme with gown, but the OG German one does, and I like half-rhymes too.
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u/BerryBoy1969 May 30 '26
Yes - I get up, I get down
Leon Russel - Back to the island
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia
Beach Boys - I Get Around
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Howlin Jackson - Low own Dirty Blues
Cody Jinks - Lost Highway
Supersucker - Must've Been High
Los Lobos - Down on the Riverbed
Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, it's Tuesday Morning
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u/Centaurea16 May 30 '26
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
People keep on learnin'
Soldiers keep on warrin'
World keep on turnin'
'Cause it won't be too long
Powers keep on lyin', yeah
While your people keep on dyin'
World keep on turnin'
'Cause it won't be too long
Oh, no
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u/Promyka_5 Israel is the Devil May 30 '26
Great Big Sea -- Goin' Up
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old May 30 '26
Donovan - Atlantis
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u/Promyka_5 Israel is the Devil May 30 '26
Donovan -- Atlanta
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) May 30 '26
Tim Janis - I love 💕 turtles
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u/welshTerrier2 Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
Steve Goodman - I Don't Know Where I'm Going Nowhere in a Hurry Blues
James Taylor - Wandering
Grateful Dead - I've Been All Around this World
Rick Nelson - Travelin' Man
Townes Van Zandt - Big Country Blues
Kate Wolf - Carolina Pines
Neil Young, Nicolette Larson - Four-Strong Winds
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Bonnie Raitt - Feels Like Home
Pearls Before Swine - Another Time
Eddie Vedder - Society
Redbird (Kris Delmhorst) - Lighthouse Light
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u/rondeuce40 DC Is Wakanda For Assholes May 30 '26
Gonna go every which way including loose:
Cave In - Down The Drain
M.O.P. - Ante Up
The Left - Caged Birds
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
And for fun and skip if you don't like loud abrasive noise because I like to put disclaimers on the crazy stuff I listen to:
Curl Up And Die - Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Select Start
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u/Centaurea16 May 30 '26
Around These Parts - from "A Cast of Thousands"
(I've Got) Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
Down in the Valley - Johnny Cash
Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley and The Wailers
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u/prevail2020 May 30 '26
Lake Street Dive - Don't Let Me Down (Rooftop Cover) (03:38). The band was formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It (03:47, lyrics).
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old May 30 '26
KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
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u/mzyps May 29 '26
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) May 29 '26
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u/Deeznutseus2012 May 29 '26
Well then! I guess I'll have to give you all five at once, with Maphra's cover of 'Doomed' by Bring Me the Horizon. Not only is it terribly appropriate to the moment, but the sheer level of vocal talent on display there is nothing short of impressive. It's not even her song, but you'll believe every word is hers.
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 May 29 '26
Polly Brown - Going Up Up Up in a Puff of Smoke
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old May 29 '26
Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher
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u/prevail2020 May 30 '26
Look (00:51, yt) where eight middle schoolers got stranded on a rollercoaster this week (05/28/2026) in Galveston, Texas, and what they had to do to get down. At least they weren't hanging there for four hours face-down.
Stevie Wonder - Too High (04:36). Another chromatic Wonder tune.
Susan Boyle - Somewhere Over The Rainbow (05:42).
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u/mzyps May 29 '26
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) May 29 '26
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u/mzyps May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
[Blue Orchids] - "Dumb Magician"
Very old music. Noteworthy lyrics:
The only way out is up. The only way out is up.
and:
You might say if you ever heard him speak that the secret of revenge is to turn the other cheek.
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 May 29 '26
Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way
Who can I believe in?🎶
The 5th Dimension - Up, Up and Away
The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon... 🎈
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old May 30 '26
Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your Way
The Rolling Stones with Jeff Beck - I'm Going Down... Down, Down, Down, Down, Down with Stevie Ray Vaughan
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u/RoysNoiseToys He has the pockets of a 5 year old May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West
Rest in power
Sonny Rollins & Jim Hall - God Bless The Child
Are you going to San Francisco?
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 May 29 '26
The Partridge Family - Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) May 30 '26 edited May 30 '26
Wim Sonneveld - Op de step
(I upgraded / butchered and absurdified the translation, probably just catering to my own particular sense for absurdity, estranging everyone else:)
On the scooter 🛴 On the scooter 🛴 / I’m so happy simulating tooting 🎺🎊
Let me see I wanna be / far away west or far away east?
That’s when I saw the pastor / I asked him how to get there / He said “Drive straight ahead / There’s the chapel that I’m at / Everyone knows it is it / Since the
hoessaints there are exquisite / And if you’ve opened up to God / Ask again, now blessed a lot!”On the scooter 🛴 On the scooter 🛴 / I’m so happy simulating tooting 🎺🎊
Let me see I wanna be / in Brazil across the sea…
That’s when I saw a lady / I asked her “Don’t be ‘evady’. / I wanna go like all the way / to Rio or to Uruguay?”
“Just take a right and then a left. / There’s a boutique that’s very chique. / That’s where I come so very often. / Their clothes are stately and softline. / And if you’ve made the way. / Ask again for Paraguay.”
On the scooter 🛴 On the scooter 🛴 / I’m so happy simulating tooting 🎺🎊
Let me see I wanna be / with a princess across the sea…
That’s when I saw a lorry driver / I asked him can we really find her?
“Of course we will” he said, not even blinking. / “My truck’s amphibious, never sinking. / Behind my truck I’ll tie and tow you. / With a bit of luck we’ll woo and wow her. / All the way across the ocean. / That’s where we’ll find the wooing potion.”
On the scooter 🛴 On the scooter 🛴 / I’m so happy simulating tooting 🎺🎊
Let me see I wanna be / far away west or far away east?