Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age"… It describes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. And Zeitgeist is the name of a new album by The Smashing Pumpkins.

If true that Pumpkins' reading of our culture has been accurate over the years, things are, to use an over-used running cliché, looking good. This is their most positive and hopeful album yet from a group whose lyrics are brutally “honest”.

Song of the week: Starz, from Zeitgeist, by The Smashing Pumpkins
- a stand out track on an outstanding album.

Born of love and cast in light
Don't you know we cannot die

We are stars
We are
We are stars
We are
We are stars
We are

The stars above, stars of grace
Shining down what's left of face

You hurt so bad
This knowing, this fallacy
I want so much
To follow as I lead

For love I keep
Silent I weep
Dead suns rule dead air
But heaven is everywhere
Stars...

Torn from god and flung towards night
Don't you want what I can't fight

We are stars
We are
We are stars
We are
We are stars
We are

The stars that shine, stars that bleed
Silver seeking destiny
So follow please

This hurts so much
This knowing carries me
We want so bad
We forget we are free

Spirit smile on
Deep black diamond
So rise the lost toys
Island of white noise
And purple haze

We are stars
We are stars
We are stars

What hurts so much
Is knowing we are free

Unluckily the metronome tells me “Starz” is 135 bpm. I have tested two albums and only found one track at 180 so far; once I have a collection I will have to road test them before you see a list.

Starz: A live version:


Report on Monday night training.
Adam, Amanda, Carolyne, Charmaine, Emma, Ewen, Geoff B, Helen, Katie, Ken, Margaret, Maria, Mick H, Neil, Sonia and I did our last strength/co-ordination hill session before we move to another training phase next week.

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