5 on Friday -- Set 226

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

It's June, and time for my monthly feature for 5 on Friday -- The Hit Makers.

Once a month I'm going to feature the songs that launched careers. I'll be looking at different musical styles and the groups or singers from those styles who I love the best.

This month, let's look ahead to Father's Day. Here are five of my favorite male vocalists who are also dads.

1 - All or Nothing at All -- Frank Sinatra -- 1943 (was released in 43, although originally recorded in 39)

Father to daughters Nancy and Tina, and son Frank Jr.

2 - Heartbreak Hotel -- Elvis Presley -- 1956

Father to daughter Lisa Marie 

3 - Whole Lotta Love -- Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin -- 1969

Father to sons Karac, Logan and Jesse Lee (Karac passed away at age five)

4 - You've Made Me So Very Happy -- David Clayton Thomas of Blood Sweat and Tears -- 1969

Father to daughter Ashleigh

5 - Time is Running Out -- Matthew Bellamy -- 2003

Father to son Bingham

Poetry Train Monday - 182 - Uprising

For this week's Poetry Train, I'd like to dedicate the lyrics from this Muse song to the people of Egypt.















Uprising


Paranoia is in bloom
The PR transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs that keep us all dumbed down
And hope that we will never see the truth around

So come on

Another promise, another scene
Another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed
And all the green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined

So come on

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

So come on

Interchanging mind control
Come let the revolution take its toll
If you could flick a switch and open your third eye
You'd see that we should never be afraid to die

So come on

Rise up and take the power back
It's time the fat cats had a heart attack
You know that their time's coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

So come on

- Matthew Bellamy

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Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis

5 on Friday - Set 17

This has become one of my favorite groups evah.

I adore the way Muse looks at the world. All of their songs play out like life-or-death moments, when only passion can preserve a desperate soul.

For more tunes, hurry on over to Trav's Thoughts and have a listen.


1 - Resistance

The night has reached its end
We can't pretend
We must run, we must run
It's time to run

Take us away from here
Protect us from further harm
Resistance

- Matthew Bellamy



2 - Map of the Problematique

I can't get it right
Get it right since I met you

Loneliness be over
When will loneliness be over?

Life will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side

And no one thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
That when we bleed, we bleed the same?

- Matthew Bellamy



3 - Starlight

(sound is low on this one)

My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to re-ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive

I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

- Matthew Bellamy



4 - Bliss

(don't forget to turn the volume back down!)

Everything about you pains my envying
Your soul can't hate anything
Everything about you is so easy to love
They're watching you from above

Give me
All the peace
And joy in your mind
I want the peace and joy in your mind

- Matthew Bellamy



5 - Stockholm Syndrome

And I won't hold you back
Let your anger rise
And we'll fly
And we'll fall
And we'll burn

No one will recall
No one will recall

This is the last time I'll
Abandon you
And this is the last time I'll
Forget you
I wish I could

- Matthew Bellamy