Richard Wright (R.I.P.)’s Broken China

Now that I got my Sennheiser HD 202 earphones back, I have been listening to Richard Wright’s Broken China a lot on my Cowon Iaudio 7. It sounds really well and it’s a pleasure to my ears. Nice lyrics, great melody, the whole album is like a story. Songs I enjoy most are Woman of custom, Far from the harbour wall, Reaching for the rail, and Breakthrough. Sinead O’Connor sings for a couple songs (Reaching for the rail, Breakthrough).

By the way, it feels strange listening to music done by someone who is dead already. I do believe that life does not end when death comes, and after watching him alive so many times (because he also played the keyboards with the Pink Floyd, one of my favorite bands) on DVDs or so, I tend to believe he achieved something very important in all of us, his music stays in our hearts in time.

k3b for burning music CDs from mp3 files

It’s my first time using k3b to burn music Cds from mp3 files. They are for my sweet daughter Antonia so it’s worth at all.

The task started out with the downloading of a few mp3 files from a website I can’t remember (I’d ask my gfriend but she’s not here right now) and it was no damn surprise they were compressed in a .zip file, so I found out Ark didn’t do with the GUI, or I didn’t take the time to set it up and didn’t care to read documentation on it. Then I downloaded unzip so from the command line I can have all of the required files uncompressed. That was cool since I never had done that before =) and as soon as I was done typing they were out waiting to be added to my music CD project. Almost there when another thing happened…no codecs for mp3 files support! No big deal, just did an install of k3b-codecs via YaST2. It asked me for some depedencies, I chose just to ignore them this time.

Now we have k3b working for all of our musical needs =)

Metallica’s Death Magnetic Kicks Ass!

I can tell that right now, after a couple weeks listening to it on my IAudio 7. I have read some post moaning about its quality and shit, but I kinda like the “live” sound of the album, sounds a lot like the garage days one, which is absolutely my style, and for a mature band like Metallica, they have done a great job this time, and still are my top 5 bands of all times.

Songs I like better: the day that never comes, the unforgiven III, and broken beat ans scarred.

Here is the Broken Beat & Scarred lyrics, just enjoy (it’s fucking better when you are listening to it):

You rise, you fall, your down, then you rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong
You rise, you fall, your down, then you rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong

Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong

Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insights

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard

The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong

Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong

They scratched me
They scraped me
They couldn’t break me

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
But we die hard

Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Braiding your soul in a hard luck story
Show your scars
Spilling your blood in a hot suns foray
Show your scars
Breaking your life
Broken, beat and scarred
We die hard

We die hard
We die hard
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