Ghiaap
(Haarlo, The Netherlands) | | Posted: May 17, 2013 - 00:42 | |
LizK wrote:
The 'spitting' is a sound in Hebrew that is not to be found in English. Like Kalahara clicking. If you spoke clicking, the sound would not irritate you. It would communicate to you.
Why am I writing this elementary stuff. Your intent was to enjoy the sound of your crankiness.
Also in the Dutch language we have the 'spitting' sound. We pronounce the letter G as gghhhh and not as in English dzjiiii. We also have the three letter combination 'sch' wich is pronounced as sssghû. I like Hebrew, it's a very compact language and -of course- it's the language of JHWH's chosen people! Shalom Jeruzalem! BTW; the song is a bit mediocre |
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Hasan
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kobkob wrote:palesinian people ?
sorrry , never heard of such a nationality
its the biggest haux of the 20th century
where is there capital ?
when did they ever had an independent state ?
did the jews that where forced to leave there homes in arab countrys ever got any conpensation ?
israel left gaza for good , insted of bulding an economy they put evrything they got into hatred and war
What a vile post! Galloping hypocrisy! Only bureaucrats and red* and black** totalitarian psychos think that a state with a capitol is a prerequisite for a community of human beings to claim right to property and life. Here we have a guy defending the Jews who have only possessed, for the first time in dozens of centuries, a state with a capitol for less than 2/3 of century. And his argument? No state, no capitol, therefore a HOAX! Huh! What? The dispossessed victims of armed robbery lose their homeland, get pounded back to the prior status of the robbers, and one of the robbers wants to take away, not only the lives of many and the homes of all, but even their right to call themselves "a people". Who was it said, "We have nothing to fear but stupidity?" Kobkob. You scare me ... into well armed self-defense! Get it? * red: eg, lenin, stalin, mao **black: eg, hitler, mussolini, bush |
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msbostick
| | Posted: May 13, 2013 - 13:43 | |
Kol ha-kavod (congrats) L'Radio Paradise for playing Israeli Music, which is some of the most hip music in the world! More please! Thanks
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walchenbach
(Puget Sound) | | Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 21:30 | |
leave the politics out of the music discussion.
this music hurts my ears because it is terrible, not because of nationality or political persuasion of the artist.
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kobkob
(alloney aba israel) | | Posted: Apr 12, 2013 - 07:50 | |
meloman wrote:
The people you call "fanatics" are Palestinians, who have had everything taken from them by a brutal occupier: their land, their homes, their possessions, their children, but not their humanity. They are simply, desperately trying to fight back against a brutal regime which uses the world's fourth largest military against an unarmed civilian population.The situation is not "vexing," it is criminal and should be condemned by every person who values human rights.
palesinian people ? sorrry , never heard of such a nationality its the biggest haux of the 20th century where is there capital ? when did they ever had an independent state ? did the jews that where forced to leave there homes in arab countrys ever got any conpensation ? israel left gaza for good , insted of bulding an economy they put evrything they got into hatred and war |
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Feb 08, 2013 - 12:14 | |
Everybody in my church loves this song...
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laozilover
(Left of Chicago and up) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 04:17 | |
meloman wrote:...As I listen to this "artist" in November of 2012 the Israelis are once again bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians. I understand this is not a political forum, but I would urge that you not play music by Idan Raichel to protest the violence and show solidarity with the victims of Israeli brutality. Thank you. Liking the sound of this tune, I bought the record last year. Had I known this, I might not have. Thanks for the input!  |
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meloman
(Warsaw, Poland) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 04:07 | |
rdo wrote:Dear meloman.  I do not agree that RP should stop playing this song/perfomer, or any performer on the basis of the performer's political beliefs. I won't budge on that. As for Gaza, these are fanatics launching rockets at civilians mainly, and Israel does have a right to defend itself. That said, Israel continues to settle its citizens in occupied territory (we call this theft in western civilization), so the situation is pretty vexing, I agree. It would be nice if Israel stopped stealing land from poor people. The people you call "fanatics" are Palestinians, who have had everything taken from them by a brutal occupier: their land, their homes, their possessions, their children, but not their humanity. They are simply, desperately trying to fight back against a brutal regime which uses the world's fourth largest military against an unarmed civilian population.The situation is not "vexing," it is criminal and should be condemned by every person who values human rights. |
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kdarwish
(Turku, Finland) | | Posted: Jan 08, 2013 - 04:03 | |
Deep, multifaceted, really eclectic paradise, thanks.
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gypsygrrl
| | Posted: Dec 15, 2012 - 08:36 | |
I've been listening for some time now and, I'm pretty sure I've heard just about every genre there is (and huzaa) EXCEPT rap (boo). what's up w/that, Bill?
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Dec 07, 2012 - 19:13 | |
Dear meloman. I do not agree that RP should stop playing this song/perfomer, or any performer on the basis of the performer's political beliefs. I won't budge on that. As for Gaza, these are fanatics launching rockets at civilians mainly, and Israel does have a right to defend itself. That said, Israel continues to settle its citizens in occupied territory (we call this theft in western civilization), so the situation is pretty vexing, I agree. It would be nice if Israel stopped stealing land from poor people. |
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meloman
(Warsaw, Poland) | | Posted: Nov 14, 2012 - 00:00 | |
This information is from the website, "The Electronic Intifada."
“We certainly see ourselves as ambassadors of Israel in the world, cultural ambassadors, hasbara ambassadors, also in regards to the political conflict.” - Idan Raichel, 2008 (“An interview with Idan Raichel,” translated from Hebrew in online magazine To Australia).
As is evident in Idan Raichel’s quotation above, the musician is willingly part of the Brand Israel campaign, which aims to bring arts to the world in order to, in the words of an Israeli foreign ministry official, “show Israel’s prettier face, so we are not thought of purely in the context of war” (“After Gaza, Israel grapples with crisis of isolation,” The New York Times, 18 March 2009). Adalah-NY stated in a recent press release that beyond Raichel’s collusion with the Israeli government’s cynical use of art, he has served in and performed for the Israeli army and actively expressed support for the Israel military during its brutal attacks on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09 and criticized Israelis who refused to serve in the army.
And now a personal comment.
As I listen to this "artist" in November of 2012 the Israelis are once again bombing Gaza and killing Palestinians. I understand this is not a political forum, but I would urge that you not play music by Idan Raichel to protest the violence and show solidarity with the victims of Israeli brutality. Thank you.
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jozsef
| | Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 23:46 | |
Somehow I feel a bit proud to hear Hebrew on a radio station located at the west coast  |
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 15:37 | |
SusanHiddenPoet wrote:Beautiful song ... music, voice and lyrics ... searched and was thankful to find the translation from a user on YouTube:Sheeriot Shel HaChaim (Scraps of Life)What is time telling me
Its all scraps of life
And to live the moment
To begin collecting the shards
Maybe I will get out more
Start to speed up a bit
Start to get along
And make some noise
Maybe a different place
A more exciting place
Start to shake things up
And make them right again (Courtesy of YouTube User: ShoshanaBukhari) A few alternate translations of sh'AIR yote shell ha Ha-YEEM... life's offal the dregs of life For Americans, the most exact translation is "leftovers" (as in food not eaten), but "leftovers of life" makes little sense without some context. Offal is precise, but dregs is more poetic and it's a common phrase and therefore gets my vote over scraps. Scraps is a good translation for carrion or giblets, but "scraps of life" is a bit ambiguous by itself. |
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westslope
(BC coast) | | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 02:08 | |
LizK wrote:
The 'spitting' is a sound in Hebrew that is not to be found in English. Like Kalahara clicking. If you spoke clicking, the sound would not irritate you. It would communicate to you.
Why am I writing this elementary stuff. Your intent was to enjoy the sound of your crankiness.
Reminds me of Xhosa. You wrote this for my enjoyment. No crankiness after this whimsical and warm piece. Thanks X10^3! |
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lilywhite
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Dahlia_Gumbo
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Aug 11, 2012 - 14:23 | |
Nice! Thank you. Never would have heard this otherwise. All hail RP.
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Fer1111
(Holland) | | Posted: Jul 03, 2012 - 13:44 | |
Allthough I don't understand a word he sings, I must admit it is a beautiful song.....
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FooledAgain
(43°40'N 79°20'W) | | Posted: May 08, 2012 - 16:34 | |
fredriley wrote:
English has utility, but it can never be said to have aural beauty.
Yes, it can. "English has aural beauty." And I mean it. |
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2012 - 06:44 | |
LizK wrote:
The 'spitting' is a sound in Hebrew that is not to be found in English. Like Kalahara clicking. If you spoke clicking, the sound would not irritate you. It would communicate to you.
True enough. English native speakers should understand that English sounds harsh and crude to folk with other mother tongues, as it has a relatively small range of sounds. I've studied Scots Gaelic for some years, on an off, and that has a vast range of phonemes many of which simply cannot be expressed in English - the 'ch' in 'loch', for instance, or the 'adh' in 'monadh'. To a native Gaelic speaker, English sounds rough and unsubtle and limited. Many singers from a Gaelic background (eg Karen Matheson, Julie Fowlis) choose to sing in Gaelic primarily because it's more lyrically and aurally expressive, even though they can, and sometimes do, sing in English. I don't know any semitic languages like Hebrew, which for sure can sound strange to English speakers' ears, but as Liz has written, they have a wider range of sounds than English, which is, after all, a bastard creole of German, Norse, Celtic and French (not necessarily in that order). English is unusual in not having any gutteral sounds to speak of, as these are common in most other European languages I know of (eg Spanish, German). Anglocentric complaints about Hebrew (or Gaelic, or whatever) are like drinkers of El Plonko edition vin ordinaire complaining about complex appellation controlée wines. English has utility, but it can never be said to have aural beauty. |
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RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA) | | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 06:40 | |
coy wrote:it is a beautiful language
too bad the holy land the jeru salem has become has become a land of war
it must have been beautiful
Yes, and now with Israel hot to attack Iran, things will go from bad to worse. And many think that what Israel starts, we'll have to finish! |
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lemmoth
(NYC) | | Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 14:19 | |
ad4tise wrote:I find absolutely nothing amusing listening to this guy spit in the microphone. His voice is nothing special. Bubble Gum music spitting along
And from the ratings, I am not the only person who feels this way.
Your reaction to the language "calling it spitting" is juvenile and borders on the intolerant. I do agree with you that the song is not otherwise anything special. |
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 14:17 | |
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LizK
(Houston, Texas) | | Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 21:44 | |
ad4tise wrote:I find absolutely nothing amusing listening to this guy spit in the microphone. His voice is nothing special. Bubble Gum music spitting along
And from the ratings, I am not the only person who feels this way. The 'spitting' is a sound in Hebrew that is not to be found in English. Like Kalahara clicking. If you spoke clicking, the sound would not irritate you. It would communicate to you. Why am I writing this elementary stuff. Your intent was to enjoy the sound of your crankiness. |
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iTuner
| | Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 21:40 | |
Sounds like a bad foreign film soundtrack song.
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coy
(san antonio) | | Posted: Jan 26, 2012 - 21:38 | |
it is a beautiful language
too bad the holy land the jeru salem has become has become a land of war
it must have been beautiful
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(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas) | | Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 19:26 | |
Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
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ad4tise
(Oil Spill County.) | | Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 19:24 | |
I find absolutely nothing amusing listening to this guy spit in the microphone. His voice is nothing special. Bubble Gum music spitting along
And from the ratings, I am not the only person who feels this way.
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borderlessworld
(Good Old Germany) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 01:15 | |
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salzburg4321
(Salzburg, Austria) | | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 01:14 | |
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