From Monday 9 January 2023
I can hear it
Any track of music that, whether by title or lyric, references something that makes a noise like a car, plane, drill, train, machine, or mixer.
Paul
The Thunder Rolls – STATE of MINE (feat. No Resolve) – Garth Brooks METAL cover
When my family moved to Portugal in the early 90’s, they said they missed a Joburg phenomenon so much – something that doesn’t happen a lot anywhere else – summer afternoon thunderstorms.
It’s been raining heavily in Jozi the last few weeks. Some of the boys also went away Mid December for 4 days. We got caught in a hectic storm on the water there in KZN. We even saw a lightning bolt hit the mountain and saw this huge light for like 3 seconds. Later found out it hit the transformer.
I can hear it …. the roaring thunder and the mighty lightning klapping the mountain thinking it was going to get us.
I hope you can hear it too …..
Arno
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
Wilfred
Def Leppard – Rocket
Saturn V, the rocket behemoth that blasted the Apollo astronauts to the moon was so loud its acoustic energy would liquify concrete and set nearby fields on fire.
That is of course an internet legend.
But how loud was it then? 203 decibels to be precise.
A standard aircraft engine on a commercial jet is around 150 decibels. While a 36% increase in noise over a typical jet engine might not sound like a significant difference, remember that decibels are mapped on a logarithmic scale. That means that every 10 dB is actually an order of magnitude more noise. So a 160 dB sound is ten times louder than a 150 dB sound.
By that math, a Saturn V blasting off is 10,000 louder than a standard commercial jet engine.
Errol
Foghorn Stringband – Reuben’s Train
American Country and Western, and Bluegrass, is full of sad train songs – with whistles blowing and people leaving 500 miles from home and the train’s headlamp shining into the cells of the prison as it passes on it journey into the night. Reuben’s Song by the Rag’n’Bone Man is no exception. “Reuben down and low, he got no place to go. So he got himself a blade, laid old Reuben in the shade. Said he’s gonna start a graveyard of his own. Oh Lordy me, oh Lordy my, he’s gonna start a graveyard of his own.”
The band, Foghorn Stringband, is one of America’s best ‘old time’ Bluegrass Stringbands. This packed performance is in the living room of a California farmhouse in September 2017. Made me think about doing something like this at a future music evening…
Liezel
George Michael – Killer (Papa was a Rollin Stone)
In the days before “smart phones” and other such devices, when kids were forced to play outside, and you couldn’t ask the neighbour to throw your ball over the wall yet again, playing with a rolling stone was a simple, yet fun game … especially if that rolling stone just so happened to roll and connect with your brother’s head! Ahhh memories … I have to say the amount of times I got shouted at for the “enormous” racket was making with said rolling stone seemed exaggerated. Anyhow, seeing as my selection is a combination of “killer” and “rolling stone”, I reckon a killer rolling stone would definitely make a sizeable, yet fun noise … especially if it connected with … ahem, never mind 🙂