Jewish Music

[Fleassy]

Hey all, im looking to get hold of some jewish music tonight... do any of you have any songs you could send me? I need to take some into university tomorow :S

[BraveSirRubin]

I got a whole bunch of Israeli music in Hebrew... Israeli national anthem... stuff like that if you're interested.

MSN me @ pavelrubin@hotmail.com

[the dauer]

http://www.sixthirteen.org/kolzimrah/resources/

Mp3s from kabbalat Shabbat, which is the mystical service on Friday night.

There is also klezmer, which is Ashkenazic (Eastern European) Jewish folk music.

http://www.golemrocks.com/html/music/

Golem is a modern klezmer band. They have foreign influences, but so did klezmer 15 years after it hit American shores.

I was going to suggest Matisyahu, the hasidic reggae superstar, but apparently now all of his online music is streaming instead of on mp3. I don't share audio.

Although it is claimed to be very old, Jewish liturgical music has changed many times over the years. The hasidim composed many new melodies and the greatest recent influence on liturgical music was a man named shlomo carlebach. This is also a good site for liturgical music:

http://www.virtualcantor.com/

Sefardic Jews have different liturgical melodies than ashkenazic Jews. they also have different folk music. Other groups also have their own types of music, like the Yemeni Jews, the Ethiopian Jews, etc.

Dauer

[BraveSirRubin]

You can also always download stuff from kazza or so like "Fiedler on the roof", or any Yiddish music.

[Taylor]

also there are some really good contemporary israeli artists such as Mosh Ben-Ari, Aviv Geffen, Subliminal and Hadag Nahash. The last two are quite political with subliminal being right wing and hadag nahash being left wing but the actual music of either is quite good.

[feministhippy]

Try to avoid the Debbie Friedman stuff. Some of it is very good, and the cantor at my synagoge loves her, but most of it isn't as good as other music is. It doesn't really have the same feeling as a lot of other Jewish music does.

[SpliffVortex]

Best jewish song by Billy Joel

Captain Jack Lyrics


Saturday night and you're still hangin' around
Tired of livin' in your one-horse town
Like to find a little hole in the ground
For a while

So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans
And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens
It's just like some pornographic magazine
And you smile

Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push and you'll be smilin'

Your sister's gone out. She's on a date
You just sit at home and masturbate
The phone is gonna ring soon but you just can't wait
For that call

So you stand on the corner in you New English clothes
And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes
But still your finger's gonna pick your nose
After all

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah

So you decide to take a holiday
You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet
Ah but there's no place to go anyway
And what for...
You've got everything, but nothing's cool
They've just found your father in the swimming pool
And you guess you won't be going back to school
Anymore...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
La da da, Oh yeah, yeah

So you play your albums and you smoke your pot
And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot
Oh, but still you're aching for the things you have not got
What went wrong...
And if you can't understand why your world is so dead
And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head
Well, you're twenty-one and still your mother makes your bed
And that's too long...

But Captain Jack will get you high tonight
And take you to your special island
Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin'
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight
Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight

[Taylor]

I might just be really stupid but I don't get it.

[atropine]

hes an idiot.. just ignore

[SpliffVortex]

and so are you

[tsif's]

there isn't realy a thing such as "jewish music". since jews around the world were seprated from each other 2000 years ago, allmost all of the original athno-national jewish culture was lost in time. each comunnity tended to adapt the culture of its surroundings. and so the music of sephardim, who are jews from north africa and arab countries, resemble arab music, and the ashkenazic music is basically adapted east-europien music.

the closest thing to real jewish music is the "Hazanut", which is the ceremonial way of reading the torrah. if you ever been to a bar-mitzva, the strange noises that the young boy standing in the middle is making are attempted Hazanut. since both of the main parts of judaism ,sephrdic and ashkenazic, practice this way of reading, though in slightley diffrent ways, to my opinion it is the only real cmopletly jewish music.

and by the way - Tayler, where ever did you come across aviv geffen?

[Taylor]

I was in israel for most of 2004. :)