Archive for the ‘Call and response’ Category
Bass
Pronounced as in first, second, third and fourth…
Not the Arabic version of basta! And definitely not the fish.
Just different basslines that have been haunting me all day.
This morning a friend declared this track “song of the week”
http://soundcloud.com/luckynumbermusic/friends-im-his-girl
I won’t be posting lyrics but you might want to check’em out anyway…
So is this the track of the week?
No. This is!
Thank you Knight Rider!
The bassline sounds so much like Lambchop’s cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “Give me your love” which also reminds me a lot of Ziad’s Abu Ali. I discovered this guy a few years ago with this gorgeous Jean-Baptiste Mondino video. He’s from Benghazi – Libya and he’s still making music.
http://youtu.be/3M1XKkwtlGc
Also, go download this amazing edit the BCE posted a few months back
Fakroun’s sound brought mid-eighties Gainsbarre to mind. All the synth-filled, twangy NYC-produced stuff from 1984: Love On the Beat?
No comment!
Anyway, I hear The Tick Of The Clock
It’s time to drive aimlessly once again.
More
More Cowbell?
No.
A little more time?
Maybe.
Tell me more! Tell me more?
Yes. But rather this one.
http://youtu.be/f5rGERV1N-s
Nina Simone – Tell me more and more and then some
Tell me more and then some
Daddy you know what I wanna hear
I want some more and then some of that
I love you only dear
I want some more and then some
Oh how you feel
And then when you done told me
About a million times
How much you love me
And you’re through
Start right back again
I’ve made the same mistake
I know the awful ache
Of a little heart that’s been double crossed
The waiting’s been so long so long
It’s hard to be believing
I thought I’d missed my guess
I thought happiness for me was lost
I want more some more
Some more and then some
You know how I love that stuff
Whisper from now on till Doomsday
But I never
No I never no I never
Will get enough
The Main theme today is the more the merrier
http://youtu.be/JBk8f4zCVi0
Trying to see the brightest side of life: No More Blues by Carmen McRae (cover of Jobim’s Chega de Saudade).
This is probably one of the strangest videos I’ve seen. I had never imagined her like that… but the message remains the same.
No more blues
I’m going back home
No more blues
I promise no more to roam
Home is where the heart is
The fun and parties
My heart’s been right there all along
No more fears
And no more sighs
No more tears
I’ve said my last good-byes
If trouble beckons me I swear I’m going to refuse
I’m going to settle down
There’ll be no more blues
Everyday when I am far away
My thoughts turn homeward, forever homeward
I’ve travelled round this world in search of happiness
But all the happiness I found was in my hometown
Anyway, More than this you know there’s nothing
Satan
How did I arrive in a place like this?
Red right hand does the alligator kiss
My hair turns white and my face turns green
But my feet are still moving if you know what I mean
Satan said dance
He says to me to shake around
And don’t stop ’til you hit the ground
And I know it is not how you thought it would be
No whips no chains just dancing dancing dancing dancing
dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing
dancing dancing dancing dancing
Satan said dance
http://youtu.be/M7rbzA-2nqk
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Satan Said Dance
Yesterday I watched The Incompetents’ best concert ever. They were tight, they had a new lineup and they did a fantastic cover of Psycho Killer. And the cherry on top was this track that Ziad played post-concert. You just can’t stop dancing: it was really his satanic majesty’s request. (did you see that smooth transition?)
This is the video of the infamous Altamont concert incident. Here’s the original
…
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
(woo woo, who who)
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint
(who who, who who)
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, have some taste
(woo woo)
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, mmm yeah
(woo woo, woo woo)
Early this morning, he knocked on my door
Early this morning he knocked on my door
I said “Hello, Satan, I believe it’s time to go”
Me and The Devil are walkin’ side by side
Me and The Devil are walkin’ side by side
Well, I’m goin’ to beat my man until I get satisfied
…
That’s another track from the Pump Up the Volume OST from my teenage years. Let’s switched to something really new: Burial has just re-worked Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus. 2 Tracks on 180g Vinyl. Only 1000 ex… So I have no guilt whatsoever linking you to them.
It’s unfortunate that when we feel a stone
We can roll ourselves over when we’re uncomfortable
Oh well, the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we’re spinning in his grip
Love is like a sin, my love,
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you again
The devil inside
The devil inside
Every single one of us
The devil inside
So this isn’t my Halloween post yet. But I’ve been going though all my vampire, devil, cemetery, ghost-related tracks. And this one isn’t spooky but it’ll also get you dancing
Beck – Devil’s Haircut
Something’s wrong ’cause my mind is fading
Ghetto-blasting disintegrating
Rock ‘n’ roll, know what I’m saying
And everywhere I look
There’s a dead end waiting
I think we’ll end this post on a weird note: I like Bunnyrabbits, Satan, Cheese And Milk.
Kiss
“Kiss emmak ya Tom Waits!”
His new album is fantastic: the guy’s till at the top of his game.
Listen to this track, I’ve got it on repeat non-stop since yesterday.
Tom Waits – Kiss Me
…
You look at me
I look at you
There’s only one thing
I want you to do
Kiss me
I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again
…
So where do we go from here? Forget about The Shangri-Las, Betty Everett, The Crystals or even Prince.
I’m going for the jugular with this Jeff Buckley track
http://youtu.be/mgtxj2x2pJs
Kiss me, please kiss me,
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation.
Oh, you know it makes me so angry ’cause I know that in time
I’ll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.
Jeff Buckley was a huge Nina Simone fan, covering “Be Your Husband” or “Lilac wine”. So it seemed just obvious to continue with This Year’s Kisses
http://youtu.be/Nh5adqNX5G8
This year’s crop of kisses
Don’t seem as sweet to me
This year’s crop just misses
What kisses used to be
This year’s new romance
Doesn’t seem to have a chance
Even helped by Mr. Moon above
This year’s crop of kisses is not for me
For I’m still wearin’ last year’s love.
http://youtu.be/-ZnVuAGM2lM
The Pallers – The Kiss
If it wasn’t a kiss
Then I don’t know what it was
And here’s the cherry on top / one of my favorites. I love violent kiss-related songs: He hit me (and it felt like a kiss), Kiss with a fist. The whole betrayal with a kiss aspect is part of the greatest story ever told!
But this one‘s just so “uplifting”!
I need someone, a person to talk to
Someone who’d care to love
Could it be you?
Could it be you?
The situation gets rough, and I start to panic
It’s not enough, it’s just a habit
And, kid, you’re sick
Well, darling, this is it
Well, you can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back, I can see them stare
They’ll hurt me bad, but I won’t mind
They’ll hurt me bad, they do it all the time (yeah, yeah!)
Yeah, they do it all the time (yeah, yeah!)
They do it all the time (do it all the time!)
They do it all the time (do it all the time!)
They do it all the time, do it all the time
I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record!
Oh, yeah? Well, don’t get so distressed
Did I happen to mention that I’m impressed?
I take one, one, one ’cause you left me
And two, two, two for my family
And three, three, three for my heartache
And four, four, four for my headaches
And five, five, five for my lonely
And six, six, six for my sorrow
And seven, seven for no tomorrow
And eight, eight, I forget what eight was for
But nine, nine, nine for the lost gods
Ten, ten, ten, ten for everything, everything, everything
Well, you can all just kiss off into the air
Behind my back, I can see them stare
They’ll hurt me bad, but I won’t mind
They’ll hurt me bad, they do it all the time (yeah, yeah!)
Yeah, they do it all the time (yeah, yeah!)
They do it all the time (do it all the time!)
They do it all the time (do it all the time!)
They do it all the time time time time time t-time time tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-time tu-time time (do it all the time!)
Bad
Forget MJ: Halloween’s just around the corner and Tom Waits’ latest album just landed.
Here’s the single that’s been all over the internet for the last few weeks.
Tom Waits – Bad As Me
They told me you were no good
I know you’ll take care of all my needs
You’re the same kind of bad as me
Anyway, staying with the Halloween theme, have you seen True Blood?
I just got Season 4 and will be overdosing on it some time soon. In the meantime, here’s one of the best song for opening credits on TV
Jace Everett – Bad Things
I don’t know what you’ve done to me,
But I know this much is true:
I wanna do bad things with you.
As good as it is, this track really reminds me of Chris Isaak’s song for Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
http://youtu.be/NIAneEiWEJ4
Watch the jealousy scene that triggers everything below.
Of course, the blue scene with the Naval Officer has scarred me for life (in a good but painful way).
Chris Isaak – Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two?
I didn’t think so.
You ever tried with all your heart and soul to get you lover back to you?
I wanna hope so.
You ever pray with all your heart and soul just to watch her walk away?
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.
You ever toss and turn your llying awake and thinking about the one you love?
I don’t think so.
You ever close your eyes you making believe your holding the one your dreaming of?
Well if you say so.
I hurts so bad when you finally know just how low, low, low, low, low, she’ll go.
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.
Ohh. Feel like crying, feel like crying.
Ohh, feel like crying, feel like crying.
Art
I won’t even try to explain the subtle nuances between Lebanese and English in this graffiti.
Like Hank Moody said in Californication: “Far as I’m concerned, art’s just a guy from Brooklyn.”
Elle est drole cette vidéo. M’a fait penser tout de suite aux danseurs comptant (contents?) pour rien de Gad el Maleh.
Mais bon, passons à l’art poétique; celui de Verlaine, mis sur microsillons par Ferré. Et oublions sa vie d’artiste
De la musique avant toute chose
Et pour cela, préfère l’Impair
Plus vagu’ et plus soluble dans l’air
Sans rien en lui pèse ou qui pose,
…
Et tout le reste est littérature.
Et puisque vous insistez, sans toutefois tomber dans l’exhaustivité voilà un dernier morceau par un grand bonhomme incompris:
Drive
I finally watched Drive. Not at the movies but on a huge screen at a friend’s house.
When I went to watch at the cinema a few days ago, I was alone and the guy at the ticket booth explained that they’d play it if I bought 2 tickets. It seems they pay 10000LL to the municipality for every screening and since tickets are also 10000LL, the only way it would be worth their time was if I paid them an extra ten…
So I went and got it on DVD. Good copy / Played like a charm.
The only 2 problems with this “screener”:
– No closing credits
– Angelo Badalamenti credited for the soundtrack instead of Cliff Martinez!!!
So, go watch it at the movies if you can. It’s really worth it. I will not go into a fully-fledged review:
It’s bit violent with a beautiful cast and some great 80s inspired music.
http://youtu.be/eAc23x2JJG0
Download the Full Soundtrack pop it in your car and start driving. Beirut isn’t LA but yesterday night it felt like it.
The songs are also pretty cool in a very “literal lyric”-mode.
Nightcall, the Kavinsky (yes the guy who played Ajram Beach a few years ago) / Lovefoxxx (of CSS fame) was not written for the film but fits perfectly.
But the one that makes you swell up and want to slowdance like it’s 1984 is A Real Hero (feat. Electric Youth)
A real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being, and a real hero,
Real human being,
Real human being,
Talking about Drive, you probably know that REM just called it quits. You’ll tell me: “Why, were they still releasing new music?”
Now, don’t be mean!
I LOVE Automatic for The People. It’s up there with the albums of my teenage years with Blood Sugar Sex Magic, Nevermind, Achtung Baby…
Here’s a link to the Drive video. Weirdly enough, Warner Bros has disabled all the other videos for Lebanon…
And here’s the track in its original version and in the mindblowing live 1994 “funk” Version
And of course, the lyrics. Did you know there’s a whole blog dedicated to deciphering Michael Stipe’s lyrics and he even replied to fans’ questions!!!
Smack, crack, bushwhacked
Tie another one to the racks, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
What if I ride? What if you walk?
What if you rock around the clock?
Tick-tock, tick-tock
What if you did? What if you walk?
What if you tried to get off, baby?
Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Hey kids, shake a leg
Maybe you’re crazy in the head, baby
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Maybe you rocked around the clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Maybe I drive, maybe you walk
Maybe you try to get off, baby
Hey kids, shake a leg
Maybe you’re crazy in the head, baby
Ollie, ollie
Ollie, ollie, ollie
Ollie, ollie in come free, baby
Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Smack, crack, shack-a-lack
Tie another one to your back, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby
Maybe you did, maybe you walked
Maybe you rocked around the clock
Tick-tock, tick-tock
Maybe I drive, maybe you walk
Maybe I try to get off, baby
Hey kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Hey kids, rock and roll
Nobody tells you where to go, baby, baby, baby
I think I’ll end this post with Bobby McFerrin. You probably know Don’t Worry Be Happy. But his album Simple Pleasures was one of the important gifts my uncle gave me along with my electric guitar, and the LPs to Lyle Lovett and his Large Band and Rickie Lee Jones’ Flying Cowboys.
He covers Cream’s Sunshine of Your Love and The Beatles’ Drive My Car. But I prefer this track
Bobby McFerrin – Drive
Gonna get in my car, drive away
Drive so far, no one’s gonna find me
Put my foot on the gas, accelerate
Drive so fast, no one’s gonna catch me…
Silence
Be alert to the rules of the three
What you give, you will return to
This lesson, you have to learn
You only get what you deserve
http://youtu.be/-ptwmNVE1j8
Portishead – Silence
Empty in our hearts
Crying out in silence
Wandered out of reach
Too far to speak
Drifting unable
Did you know when you lost?
Did you know when I wanted?
Did you know what I lost?
Do you know what I wanted?
Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can’t you understand
Oh my little girl
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable
http://youtu.be/k4EV1DWsCiI
Areski Belkacem & Brigitte Fontaine – Le Silence
Tous les chiens se sont tus
La lune s’est levée
Elle était rouge et nue
Sur mon coeur arrêté
Ah le silence éclaté
Dans le rang répandu
Là sous le ciel qui sue
Ah la chaleur torturée
La lumière qui tue
Et ma vie revenue
Tous les chiens se taisaient
Parfois les fleurs s’égorgent
Je n’oublierai jamais
le ciel est une forge
Ah les oranges écrasées
Les anges écartelés
Et ma vie retrouvée
Ah la chaleur étalée
Dix mille abeilles en feu
Mon amour sur les yeux.
The Tremeloes – Silence Is Golden (Four Seasons cover)
Oh don’t it hurt deep inside
To see someone do something to her
Oh don’t it pain to see someone cry
How especially if that someone is her
Silence is golden, but my eyes still see
Silence is golden, golden, but my eyes still see
Talking is cheap people follow like sheep
Even though there is no where to go
How could she tell he decieved her so well
Pity she’ll be the last one to know
How many times will she fall for his lines
Should I tell her or should I be cool
And if I tried I know she’d say I lied
Mind your business don’t hurt her you fool
Silence is golden, but my eyes still see
Silence is golden, golden, but my eyes still see
Au Revoir Simone – Stay Golden
I saw it coming
I just thought that you should know
I’m feeling better every day
I’m only waiting if you stay, so don’t feel bad
Your faith was an illusion
And you’re as loyal as your faith will let you be
Your expectation
It’s not hard to live without
I’m feeling better every day
And emptiness still leaves a space, so don’t feel bad
You lost all your emotion
And may you find all your relations will keep you free
A careless bird is complicated
An empty nest still leaves a space
And if you’ve still got some time on your hands after this long post, check out The Stupidest Music Lawsuit Ever – Infringing on Cage’s 4’33″
Know
Take my hand if you know where I’m going through
Take my hand if you know where I’m going
You know ow
You know ow
Are you in the know?
I don’t just type “know” into my itunes and go through the songs. A lot of thought goes into these selections… most of the time they appear in a “dream”…
http://youtu.be/GTXQt8IMDSg
Cut Copy – Where I’m Going
All you need is a dream and a lover too
All you need is a dream and a lover
Take my hand ’cause I know what you’re going through
After the time I haven’t known where you’re going
You know ow
You know ow
My uncle offered me Lyle Lovett and his large band’s LP in the early nineties.
I transferred it to MP3 recently and I’ve been listening to it a lot
I love 10 of the 12 tracks despite the country overtones. Here’s one for tonight’s theme.
Lyle Lovett – I Know You Know
So tell me something that you mean
Not just what comes to mind
Because you know I would believe
Anything you’d say
And I know you know
I know you know
I know you know
I’m so in love with you
Staying with the same period, Have you seen Pump Up The Volume?
Pirate radio flick with Christian Slater from 1990?
I love the Soundtrack. That’s where I discovered Concrete Blonde’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows. Not to be confused with N*E*R*D’s Everyone Nose
Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows
Concrete Blonde – Everybody Knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
2 more tracks to go. No comment…
http://youtu.be/O71oNlKncww
The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
…
I know it’s over – still I cling
I don’t know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la …
I know it’s over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
“If you’re so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you’re so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you’re so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you’re so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
…
The Beach Boys – God only knows
If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me
God only knows what I’d be without you
Fear
Just watched the latest episode of Philosophie on arte. It’s Raphael Enthoven’s vulgarization show which is hit and miss. You might know him as ex- MR Carla Bruni. Check out the story, it’s a real soap!!
This one was interesting and touched on a lot of subjects, including fear.
Confiance vs. défiance
Confiance vs. méfiance
Confiance vs. soupçon
Confiance vs. peur…
Pulp – The Fear (Live)
This is our Music from A Bachelors Den
– the sound of loneliness turned up to ten.
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed & it sounds just like this.
This is the sound of someone losing the plot –
making out that they’re okay when they’re not.
You’re gonna like it, but not a lot & the chorus goes like this:
Oh Baby, here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
A monkey’s built a house on your back.
You can’t get anyone to come in the sack
& here comes another panic attack.
Oh here we go again.
So now you know the words to our song,
pretty soon you’ll all be singing along.
When you’re sad, when you’re lonely & it all turns out wrong.
When you’ve got the fear.
& when you’re no longer searching for beauty or love –
just some kind of life with the edges taken off.
When you can’t even define what it
is that you are frightened of
this song will be here.
Oh Baby, here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
If you ever get that chimp off your back.
If you ever find the thing that you lack
but you know you’re only having a laugh
& here we go again.
Until the end
Until the end
The National – I’m Afraid of Everyone (feat. Sufjan Stevens)
Venom radio and venom television
I’m afraid of everyone, I’m afraid of everyone
They’re the young blue bodies
With the old red bodies
I’m afraid of everyone, I’m afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don’t have the drugs to sort
I don’t have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out
I’ll defend my family with my orange umbrella
I’m afraid of everyone, I’m afraid of everyone
With my shiny new star
Spangling tennis shoes on
I’m afraid of everyone, I’m afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody out
But I don’t have the drugs to sort
I don’t have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out
I don’t have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out
You’re the voice that’s swallowing my soul, soul, soul
(repeat)
http://youtu.be/nC99KQF2VLo
The Smiths – Girl Afraid
Girl afraid
Where do his intentions lay ?
Or does he even have any ?
…
Boy afraid
Prudence never pays
….
I’ll never make that mistake again!
http://youtu.be/nyRg99Ofam4
I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared
I’m scared, so scared
I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared
As the years roll away
And the price that I paid
And the straws slips away
You don’t have to suffer
It is what it is
No bell book or candle
Can get you out of this, oh no!
I’m scarred, I’m scarred, I’m scarred
I’m scarred, uh huh
I’m scarred, I’m scarred, I’m scarred
Every day of my life
I just manage to survive
I just wanna stay alive
You don’t have to worry
In heaven or hell
Just dance to the music
You do it so well, well, well!
Hatred and jealousy, gonna be the death of me
I guess I knew it right from the start
Sing out about love and peace
Don’t wanna see the red raw meat
The green eyed goddamn straight from your heart
I’m tired, I’m tired, I’m tired
Of being so alone
No place to call my own
Like a rollin’ stone
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