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a mighty wind


"Since I grew tired of the chase and search, I learned to find; and since the wind blows in my face, I sail with every wind." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb

"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him" - Seneca

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill

"There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down." - Irish Proverb

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James

"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind" - William Shakespeare

"Who spits against the wind, spits in his own face." - French Proverb

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets; and it's always in your face." - Pablo Picasso

"Blow, Boreas, foe to human kind! Blow, blustering, freezing, piercing wind! Blow, that thy force I may rehearse, While all my thoughts congeal to verse!" - John Bancks


Wind Power
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatts. Although wind currently produces about 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 19% of electricity production in Denmark, 9% in Spain and Portugal, and 6% in Germany and the Republic of Ireland (2007 data). Germany today produces more wind energy than any other country. Some 15,000 wind turbines are now in operation in California. Globally, wind power generation increased more than fivefold between 2000 and 2007.

Wind energy is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions when it displaces fossil-fuel-derived electricity by wind energy. The intermittency of wind seldom creates problems when using wind power to supply a low proportion of total demand. Where wind is to be used for a moderate fraction of demand, additional costs for compensation of intermittency are considered to be modest.

Roy Brown: Let the Four Winds Blow - 2MB

The Raveonettes: My Tornado - 3MB

Graham Parker & the Rumour: Howlin' Wind (live) - 6MB

Marianne Faithfull: Blowin' In The Wind - 4MB

Lionel Belasco's Orchestra Feat. Houdini: Blow Wind Blow - 7MB

Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Wind Cries Mary - 5MB

Cut Copy: Strangers In The Wind - 8MB

Thomas Dolby: Windpower - 7MB

Dolemite: Human Tornado Radio Spot - 1MB

Arcade Fire: Cold Wind - 3MB

Billie Holiday: Ill Wind - 6MB

Roxy Music: Whirlwind - 6MB

Donovan: Catch The Wind - 4MB

Neil Young: Like A Hurricane - 13MBweb hit counter

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wind songs
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 02:08 am UTC (link)
you're totally missing Four Strong Winds

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Re: wind songs
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 04:30 am UTC (link)
Ian & Sylvia: Four Strong Winds - 5MB

Neil Young: Four Strong Winds - 7MB

Johnny Cash: Four Strong Winds - 7MB


Mitch & Mickey/The Folksmen/The New Main Street Singers: A Mighty Wind - 4MB


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i like...
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 02:31 am UTC (link)
Wind Beneath My Wings

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Re: i like...
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 04:29 am UTC (link)

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Wind Power
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 02:43 am UTC (link)
How about "They Call the Wind Maria" by the Kingston Trio?

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Re: Wind Power
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 04:32 am UTC (link)
The Kingston Trio: They Call The Wind Maria (Live) - 5MB

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(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 03:17 am UTC (link)
Idiot Wind much?

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 04:33 am UTC (link)
Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind - 11MB

Bob Dylan: Idiot Wind (demo) - 14MB

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[info]flaregun
2008-08-20 03:26 am UTC (link)
Another strong set - thanks for that. I am going to cast my fate to the wind or as the poet once said...
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim, da do da do...

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 04:35 am UTC (link)
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro'

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by

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Cool
[info]imemat.blogspot.com
2008-08-20 04:22 pm UTC (link)
Another amazing post, my friend. And that ain't just blowing some hot air!

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Re: Cool
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Thanks!



New York mayor wants windmills to generate power for city

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[info]carless_sam
2008-08-20 05:07 pm UTC (link)
Cool (like a breeze).

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 06:09 pm UTC (link)
J.J. Cale: Call Me The Breeze - 4MB

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[info]carless_sam
2008-08-20 09:25 pm UTC (link)
All right, you're The Breeze.

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 10:18 pm UTC (link)
Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Hagood: Cool Breeze - 3MB

Big Youth: Cool Breeze - 4MB

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[info]mehetabel
2008-08-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)
wow, that's a lot to digest. The only title that I don't see here or in comments is Sun Ra's "I Am the Brother of the Wind".

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Sun Ra: I Am The Brother Of The Wind - 3MB

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[info]litter_ladder
2008-08-20 05:43 pm UTC (link)
very nice.

also: Cat Power covering Nina Simone's Wild is the Wind
Pavement's Roll with the Wind
Pissing in the Wind by Badly Drawn Boy
Dirty Whirlwind by TV on the Radio

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 06:04 pm UTC (link)
I almost posted Badly Drawn Boy. Oh, well.

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[info]litter_ladder
2008-08-20 06:50 pm UTC (link)
it's not the greatest track ... didn't mean to take the wind out of your sails.

how about Run Fay Run by Isaac Hayes?

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 07:03 pm UTC (link)
Sorry I came off so glum, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Isn't Run Fay Run an instrumental?

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[info]litter_ladder
2008-08-20 07:12 pm UTC (link)
yeah it is but Fay is the name of the storm that's messing with Florida right now.

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[info]snuh
2008-08-20 07:58 pm UTC (link)
I gotta get out of my box more!

Isaac Hayes: Run Fay Run - 4MB

Jelly-Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers: Fickle Fay Creep - 3MB

The Pretty Things: Miss Fay Regrets - 5MB

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wind
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 07:38 pm UTC (link)
Taj Mahal's version of Let the Four Winds Blow is great. Check it out. And what about The Association and Windy!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00123HS5O/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk12

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Re: wind
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 08:01 pm UTC (link)
I love Taj Mahal, he's a national treasure. When I was a kid trapped in summer camp, I was forced to sing Windy - the trauma!

The Association: Windy - 5MB

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Re: wind
(Anonymous)
2008-08-20 08:21 pm UTC (link)
Singing The Association's Windy in summer camp? What kind of white bread, Young Republican, Up With People camp did you go to?

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Re: wind
[info]snuh
2008-08-20 09:10 pm UTC (link)
Oh, it was anything but that. It was a Long Island-based camp right out of Meatballs, most of the kids were children of the first wave of post WW2 parents. I think the fact it was back in the Pleistocene Era was the main reason they were forcing us to sing it, then it was halfway cool - don't forget, there was a time where Eddie Cantor was considered cutting edge and risqué.

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Re: wind
(Anonymous)
2008-08-21 05:19 am UTC (link)
The Secret Machines - It's a Bad Wind That Don't Blow Somebody Some Good

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Re: wind
[info]snuh
2008-08-21 05:35 am UTC (link)
The Secret Machines: It's a Bad Wind That Don't Blow Somebody Some Good - 5MB

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Wind Songs
(Anonymous)
2008-08-21 04:19 pm UTC (link)
How about a very happy sounding Robert Wyatt, The Winds of Change - celebrating political change in South Africa. Also, Opal with Kendra Smith's singing Hear the Wind Blow.

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Re: Wind Songs
[info]snuh
2008-08-22 06:48 am UTC (link)
I love Robert Wyatt, he definitely can be very happy sounding. Your other selection sounds good as well. Unfortunately, hosting problems have reared its ugly head again. 15% of the bandwidth transfer I have with the mp3 files is generated by downloads here and at my other place of posting, Star Maker Machine. The other 85% is primarily used by streaming music services and people swooping in with mass downloading programs like Songbird. My current host said they were getting over 200 simultaneous server connections because of this traffic, so this is no longer going to be viable solution. I should have it sorted it out later today, my hosting costs are going to increase between 250%-500%. When you see those songs up, you'll know I've sorted it out.

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Re: Wind Songs
[info]snuh
2008-08-24 12:20 am UTC (link)
Robert Wyatt with the Swapo Singers: The Winds of Change - 5MB

Opal: Hear the Wind Blow - 3MB


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more wind
(Anonymous)
2008-08-21 11:33 pm UTC (link)
Talking Heads - Listening Wind
PJ Harvey - The Wind
Bob Seger - Against the Wind (there´s a cover version by The Hold Steady)
Wind and Rain (old traditional, covered very often. Dylan stole the melody for "Percy´s Song")
Wild is the Wind (by Dimitri Tiomkin), great version by David Bowie
and, not to forget: Scorpions - Wind of Change ;-)

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Re: more wind
[info]snuh
2008-08-22 06:52 am UTC (link)
I considered the Talking Heads song for the main body of the post, I can stick it here once I muck my way through the hosting problems I describe above. I enjoy PJ Harvey, I'd think I might prefer The Hold Steady over Seger. Wind and Rain sounds like a winner as does the Tiomkin tune. Scorpions... hmmmm ;-)

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Re: more wind
[info]snuh
2008-08-24 12:36 am UTC (link)
Talking Heads: Listening Wind - 7MB

PJ Harvey: The Wind - 6MB

The Hold Steady: Against the Wind - 8MB

Wikipedia: The Twa Sisters

"The Twa Sisters" is a murder ballad that recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her sister. It is first known to have appeared on a broadside in 1656 as "The Miller and the King's Daughter." At least 21 English variants exist under several names, including "Minnorie" or "Binnorie", "The Cruel Sister", "The Wind and Rain", "Two Sisters", and the "Bonnie Bows of London". The ballad was collected by Francis J. Child (Child 10) and is also listed in the Roud Folk Song Index (Roud 8).

Altan: The Wind And Rain - 6MB

Paul Clayton: The Twa Sisters - 6MB

Tom Waits: Two Sisters - 9MB

Bob Dylan: Percy's Song - 9MB

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Dimitri Tiomkin: Wild Is The Wind - Main Theme - 4MB

David Bowie: Wild Is The Wind - 10MB

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[info]writerinjuly
2008-09-01 04:35 am UTC (link)
Cat Stevens - The Wind

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[info]snuh
2008-09-01 04:58 am UTC (link)
Alright! Another one for the collection.

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