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                  By metmike - Sept. 27, 2025, 3:55 p.m.            

            Bread - Mother Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWLtrq92nxk

PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture

https://powerpop.blog/2022/04/25/bread-mother-freedom/

What is the deeper meaning of Mother freedom?

Anonymous

 ∙ 14y ago

Updated: 4/28/2022

Mother Freedom is a reference to the United States. Since the beginning of the nations history, the U.S. has fought for freedom, not only for itself, but also for other countries. The U.S. is the first supreme power that fought for democracy and freedom for its citizens, hence, we don't have a king or rulers. We live in the land of the free, and we were the first country to establish that and are helping spread that freedom to other countries.

That is the reason we are known as "Mother" Freedom, because we not only gave "birth" to it, but we are also "reproducing" it among other countries.                                   

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                By WxFollower - Sept. 28, 2025, 10:49 p.m.            

Regarding “Bread”, David Gates is a great song-writer and singer! I admittedly love a lot of soft rock/pop that many hard rock fans don’t care for. Songs he wrote and sang as the lead of Bread like “Guitar Man”, “Diary”, and “Lost Without Your Love” are absolutely awesome to me. Music like that makes my chest tingle. I have the impression that not a high % of males are like me in that regard. Thus, I consider it a beautiful gift of sorts that I can experience that kind of pleasure. I wonder if that’s correct.

 Sorry about going way OT. Wasn’t there an active music thread here at one time? If there still is, I’d copy and paste this post to there..

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                                                  By metmike - Sept. 28, 2025, 11:47 p.m.            

Agree, Larry!

Bread had some awesome songs but Mother Freedom was my favorite.

A huge surprise 'hard rock' sound to it that was so different than their other great SOFT rock stuff. 

I listen to music, mainly for the instrumentals, which is why I like music from film score composers like Hans Zimmer, john Barry,  John Williams, Ennio Morricone and Thomas Newman.

Like you, I experience a  special, emotional feeling that music causes. Numerous favorite songs cause me chills and tears if I hear them for the first time in awhile.

          When Music Makes You Cry        

                    What emotion do most people feel when they are moved to tears by music?      

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-new-brain/201709/when-music-makes-you-cry

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Sad, Soulful Music and Emotional Healing: Why Crying to Heartbreaking Songs Is Good for Mental Health

https://doctorsexplain.net/sad-soulful-music-and-emotional-healing-why-crying-to-heartbreaking-songs-is-good-for-mental-health/

                        By WxFollower - Sept. 29, 2025, 2:37 a.m.            

I wasn’t really familiar with that one. I’m obviously into the softer stuff. I should add two more very memorable, awesome soft songs, “Sweet Surrender” and his solo hit  “The Goodbye Girl”, the theme song for the movie of the same name. You can feel the emotions in these. They don’t write and sing music like this anymore. But at least we can listen to these whenever we want.

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                By metmike - Sept. 29, 2025, 7:11 a.m.            

WOW! I didn't know he did this but can hear him and his style in those songs!

Goodbye Girl (David Gates song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Girl_(David_Gates_song)

The Goodbye Girl • Theme Song • David Gates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN84g-qVwkk

Sweet Surrender (David Gates song)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Surrender_(David_Gates_song)

sweet surrender youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siX--bzWWEw

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Knowing that you like this kind of music, Larry. I'm hoping that you love music from one of my all time favorite bands, The Moody Blues!

There are half a dozen songs of theirs that make me very emotional!

      New Horizons    

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3d8XVOm5zU&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmQrkgW8YdAk0Vrzi0cYVqyO&index=2                                                                

      For My Lady    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iweoWnozKcM

Isn't Life Strange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXKPtFzwPmg&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmQrkgW8YdAk0Vrzi0cYVqyO&index=4

While this 4th one wasn't as loved as those above(I actually cried listening to each of the 3 above when copying them here) , it's one that most people know:

What "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues is Really About

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQ5OPNRMm0

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6xMOTjLIaY

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                By WxFollower - Sept. 29, 2025, 9:30 a.m.            

Hey Mike,

 I like those first 3, especially the 2nd and 3rd. “Isn’t Life Strange” is the only one of those 3 that I recognize.

 I love the very familar classic “Nights in White Satin”. The instrumentation in that is quite impressive and memorable.

Here’s one of my favorites (I assume you know it well) from them and this ironically isn’t soft at all:

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J-hmyAS6c

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                By metmike - Sept. 29, 2025, 1:47 p.m.            

Wow, Larry.

You are right that it isn't exactly your style of soft rock but its not nearly as close to the extreme in my music types.

I think other people are this way too!

As a 10 year old, this was my favorite song:                           

                             Davie Allan & The Arrows — “Blues Theme” 1966    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqEmO9ZXVOQd

This too from Led Zeppelin was some hard stuff:

      Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (Official Audio)

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vG_mTt6hCs

Black Sabbath ~ War Pigs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQUXuQ6Zd9w

This song was one of Bob Segers first, when he was a Detroit area phenom(from Ann Arbor), years before the rest of the country knew him. Also about the war but its the crazy guitar instrumentals that I loved.

Great words!

The Bob Seger System - 2 + 2 = ? (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGl-Bpyo2TM

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I love tons of alternative music. Some of the videos today really enhance the music. These are SO brilliant!

The Shins, James Mercer - The Rifle's Spiral (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqWjl7GkCE

Yeasayer - "I Am Chemistry"  (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XzqCUbiPc4

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I just thought of another artist that you must love too:

ENYA! There are a dozen of her songs that both Deb and I love. She hates those songs/type of music that I listed above.

Alan Parsons had some great stuff that you probably like. Deb loves these songs too but not their hard stuff that i love.

I have every CD those groups made and these songs make me cry!

Here's 3 from Alan Parsons that you might like. There's too much from Enya that I could pick.

      Old and Wise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDlDKvidYbk

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Some Other Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLeSi1IZUfs

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Silence and I  

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99x3Bv7dfHo

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                By WxFollower - Sept. 29, 2025, 3:14 p.m.            

Thanks, Mike!

 Alan Parsons has released some enjoyable stuff.  

 But I had several Enya cassettes that I played a whole lot in my car especially back in ~the late 1980s to ~2005. They were my road-trip favorites!

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                By metmike - Sept. 29, 2025, 3:48 p.m.          

Sorry Larry, I accidentally deleted your thread that mentioned Orinoco Flow.

I remember the exact moment I heard Enya for the first time Playing that album.

It was the 1990s and my Evansvile family and Detroit family were in a movie theatre at the Detroit InstitUte of Science waiting on the show.

I was blown away by their massive speakers playing such heavenly music. That’s all I could think  about For awhile.Who the heck was that???

At first I thought it might be the Canadian group Abba?

I have no recollection of anything else I did that day, week or month. I had to find out who did that music and buy the CD.

I get that way when my wife is watching a movie and I hear awesome music. In today’s world, it takes just a minute to find out who that is and then listen to them as much as we want.
I actually have a list of hundreds of songs that I love or discovere this way that would have long been forgotten if not for the list.

Like you, that one and the others by Enya were played more than any for quite awhile, especially since my life loves her too.

With most CDs, I like a couple of songs the most and not so much others. With Enya, it was the opposite. We liked ALL the music and almost every song.

Great way to relax and have the same artist on playing heavenly music for a long time!

                By WxFollower - Sept. 29, 2025, 4:06 p.m.            

 I love ABBA too. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t. I have (had) some cassettes of theirs, too. By the way, they’re Swedish.

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                                            By metmike - Sept. 29, 2025, 6:58 p.m.            

Thanks for the correction on ABBA. Not sure why I thought Canada?

When we were in the science museum theater waiting for the show(we got there really early), they had one of the most awesome sound systems I ever heard. Enya's instrumentals are off the charts!

Then, this song came on, the first one I ever heard from Enya blasting from a world class sound system. I remember that moment 3 decades later. Time stood still.  

This was followed by several more Enya songs. OMG!

Then they started the movie we all came for but it couldn't match listening to Enya for the first time for me!

Caribbean Blue (2009 Remaster)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5vdZKGiDiE

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                                  By WxFollower - Sept. 29, 2025, 9:34 p.m.            

OMG Mike! “Caribbean Blue” from Shepherd Moons is one of my favorites. If paradise could be put into music form, it could be this song!

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                            By metmike - Sept. 30, 2025, 11:18 a.m.            

            Larry,

Who ever guessed we'd be having such an awesome conversation about our love of music in a thread on Jimmy Kimmel and the First Amendment!!

I may move this to a new thread since it grew so big.