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Last week's mixtape entries were many and varied. As usual, I'll announce the winners of the SBI, and then share a favourite track of mine that helps me ponder the depth and wonder of existence, and hold the contest open for another week with a new track. Keep reading for more details.

🤘🏽No Resteem/Follow/Upvote required🤘🏽

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LAST WEEK'S WINNERS
Some crackers for this contest, made it hard to judge.

Congratulations to these awesome folk and their awesome choice of classic favourites:

• 2SBI goes to @jedau for bringing Guns n Roses track Sweet Child Of Mine into the mix
• 2SBI goes to @muscara for a very cool old French song from Eurovision, France Gall with her Serge Gainsbourg song Poupée de cire, poupée de son
• 1SBI goes to @simonjay for including my teenage boy crush Belinda Carlisle's *Heaven Is A Place On Earth

Each of you will be getting your SBI in the next day.

Also special mentions and upvotes to the other entries:
@calisay, @rossfletcher, @riverflows, @blueeyes8960, @filotasriza3.

All of the tracks will be added to the current soundtrack HI-FI MIXTAPE: AFTER THE FORK.

Track 19: A Song That Makes You Think About Life

"Life. Don't talk to me about life!"
— Marvin the Paranoid Android, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

If you hadn't already noticed, I love philosophy. I love reading about it, I love thinking about it, and I love talking and writing about it. I particularly love it when it bleeds into popular culture and infuses fiction, film, television, and pop music.

Some people ask me what kind of music I like, and I say all kinds. Because I truly do like all kinds; but the stuff I love transcends genre because it somehow makes me wonder and think about stuff. Which is probably why I can't stand the banality and mediocrity of most pop music!

I could've chosen yet another George Harrison track. However after that, this song came to mind.

All I can say is...

Flute solo!

My God by Jethro Tull
from their 1971 album Aqualung

Listen to this track on Spotify.

This video is of the original line-up playing this song at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970. This was clearly before the line-up changed before recording the album.

I'd say this song certainly influenced my cynicism towards Christianity and institutionalised religion (although I was probably already on that path before I got into Tull).

People, what have you done
Locked Him in His golden cage
Golden cage
Made Him bend to your religion
Him resurrected from the grave
From the grave

He is the God of nothing
If that's all that you can see
You are the God of everything
He's inside you and me

So lean upon Him gently
And don't call on Him to save you
From your social graces
And the sins you used waive
You used to waive

The bloody Church of England
In chains of history
Requests your earthly presence at
The vicarage for tea

And the graven image you know
With His plastic crucifix
He's got him fixed
Confuses me as to who and where and why
As to how he gets his kicks
He gets his kicks

Confessing to the endless sin
The endless whining sounds
You'll be praying 'til next Thursday to
All the Gods that you can count

I remember from an early age seeing the abject hypocrisy of people who claimed to be Christians, and yet flouted the tenets of Christianity every day! I also realised fairly early on that any god - all gods in fact - are created in our image, not the other way around. There is nothing wrong with that, in fact I would argue that knowing this makes it easier to live a spiritual life (a topic for another post methinks).

So what do you think about?

And what music inspires you to think about it?

It's your turn....

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CONTEST DETAILS

3 SBI up for grabs for ONE awesome person!!

 
This week, I'm changing things up, and making the contest worth more.

1. Choose a song that makes you THINK ABOUT LIFE.

2. Post it in the COMMENTS section - either a YouTube link or a link to Spotify or any other media service

3. Share a small story about WHY you've chosen this track; what does it make you think about?

4. This week I'm getting bolder. This week only one entry will win 3 SBI total. I'm doing this this week, because I really want to see some thought put into it.

You do not have to upvote or resteem this post!! Although it will be greatly appreciated and received with grace, it isn't a condition of entry - just enter your post as laid out in the guidelines above.

You're invited to vote and comment on others' entries, but again, this is not a condition of entry.

You have 7 days to enter, with the winners being announced next Monday with the next post.

Have fun, and TURN IT UP TO 11!

Enjoy!
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MADE FOR STEEMIT

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