Posts Tagged ‘R.E.M’
Audiogramme du mercredi 30 Decembre 2015
1. The Spaniels – House Cleaning
2. Al Green – I Can’t Stop
3. Kings Of Convenience – Singing Softly To Me
4. Adam Green – Nat King Cole
5. Coldplay – Don’t Panic
6. Beirut – Postcards From Italy
7. Paul Simon – Mrs. Robinson
8. Christophe – Tonight Tonight
9. R.E.M. – Radio Song(Live)
10. Rilo Kiley – Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
11. Lambchop – Steve McQueen
12. Metronomy – She Wants
13. Aloe Black – Are You Ready
14. Chairlift – Romeo
15. Beyonce – Blow (Dave Harrington Copyright Breaking Edit)
16. Le Tigre – Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
BONUS: The Graduate Trailer
Audiogramme du mardi 29 Decembre 2015
1. Nina Simone – Feelings
2. Kississippi – This Song Used To Be About You
3. R.E.M. – The One I Love(Live)
4. Paul Simon – Graceland
5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Hot Coals
6. Marcus Marr and Chet Faker – Birthday Card
7. Egyptian Lover – She’s So Freaky
8. Starwalker – Le President – Single (Featuring Bardi Johannsson & Jean Benoit Dunckel)
9. Suicide – Dream Baby Dream
10. King Sunny Ade and his African Beats – Synchro System
BONUS:
Audiogramme du vendredi 25 Decembre 2015
1. Bill Murray – Christmas Blues
2. Faith No More – Easy
3. Bill Murray & Jenny Lewis – Baby, It’s Cold Outside
4. She & Him – Sleigh Ride
5. Yo La Tengo – I Saw The Light (Todd Rundgren)
6. Paul Simon – Late in the Evening
7. Rod Stewart – Stay With Me
8. Darwin Deez – The Mess She Made
9. Albert King – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’
10. Alicia Keys – How Come You Don’t Call Me
11. Maya Rudolph – Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
12. Minnie Riperton – Every Time He Comes Around
13. R.E.M. – Electrolite(Live)
14. Paul McCartney – Blackbird
15. Sinéad O’Connor – Black Boys On Mopeds
16. Peggy Lee – Where Or When
17. Phoenix and Bill Murray – Alone on Christmas Day (Beach Boys Cover)
18. Bill Murray – We Wish You a Merry Christmas
BONUS:
Pause de l’après-midi du mercredi 4 mars 2015 / Reprises en #
1. Ry Cooder – 3 Cool Cats (The Coasters)
2. Jack Johnson – The 3 R’s (The Magic Number)
3. R.E.M. – #9 Dream (John Lennon)
4. Venus In Furs – 2HB (Roxy Music)
5. Mick Harvey; Anita Lane – 69 Erotic Year (Serge Gainsbourg)
6. Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes – 500 Miles (Hedy West)
Download the full show / Télecharger l’émission: Link / Lien
Pause de l’après-midi du mardi 17 février 2015 / Reprises en N
1. St. Vincent – Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
2. Caetano Veloso – Nega Maluca, Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
3. Snow Patrol – New Sensation (INXS)
4. The Klaxons – No Diggity (Blackstreet)
5. Level 42 – Need You Tonight (INXS)
6. Capital Cities – Nothing Compares 2 U (Sinead O’Connor / Prince)
7. You Say Party! We Say Die! – Nightswimming (R.E.M.)
Download the full show / Télecharger l’émission: Link / Lien
Pause de l’après-midi du jeudi 6 novembre 2014
1. Chet Atkins – Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man / Anton Karas)
2. The Soulcats – You Keep Me Hanging On (The Supremes)
3. Great Big Sea – It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (R.E.M. cover)
4. Hawa – D.A.N.C.E. (Justice Cover)
5. Anna Calvi – Ghost Rider (Suicide)
6. Giant Drag – Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
7. Bill Frisell – Come Together (The Beatles)
(Indie-an) Summer
Marie Laurencin, Trois jeunes femmes, vers 1953
It started with a pang.
At dawn
Was it hunger, an irresistible thirst or just my guilty conscience running away with me?
I obviously opted for hunger.
“French toast with molasses
Croquet and baked alaskas”
I’d been listening to this new box-set of REM rarities and found this gorgeous track.
Turns out they were covering Indie band Beat Happening
Of course, it’s not about food or a a picnic or just about “Indian summer” the golf and country club in Olympia (where beat Happening are from).
Star-crossed lovers? Oral sex? Theories abound.
“Touch girl, apple blossom
Just a boy playing possum
We’ll come back for Indian summer
And go our separate ways”
I just really like it. Makes me feel sad in a good way.
And to think I always thought it was a Ben Gibbard song
In the end, your subconscious always gets the upper hand.
Anyway…
It reminded me of another sad summer-y breakup track. Also a cover; this time by The National and St. Vincent
“Weary sun, sleep tonight, go crashing into the ocean
Cut the line that ties the tide and moon, ancient and blue
We take our empty hearts and fill them up with broken things
To hang on humming wire like cheap lamps down a dead end street
Close your weary eyes until the wintertime
And every time we turn away it hits me like a tidal wave
I would change for you but, babe, that doesn’t mean I’m gonna be a better man
Give the ocean what I took from you so one day you could find it in the sand
And hold it in your hands again
Cold ways kill cool lovers
Strange ways we used each other
Why won’t you fall back in love with me?
There ain’t no way we’re gonna find another
The way we sleep all summer
So why won’t you fall back in love with me?”
Indie artists covering Indie-er artists
I prefer the cover, but here’s the original by Crooked Fingers
And then randomness (who’s always been my closest ally) gives me the perfect outro: Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra covering Joe Dassin.
If you don’t know the original, here you go. Weirdly enough, he was American but sang in French…
For me it’s the civil war in Lebanon, Dédé and the unfortunately not too frequent “so bad it’s good” moments on Radio Nostalgie.
“je me souviens, je me souviens très bien
De ce que je t’ai dit ce matin-là
Il y a un an, y a un siècle, y a une éternité”
Post-Scriptum / Anatomy of a post:
Seems that very low voices were the common thread… or maybe that’s always the case…
Interested in vocal ranges? check this link
Reminds me of that lyric from Leonard Cohen ‘s Tower of Song:
“I was born like this, I had no choice. I was born with the gift of a golden voice”…
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.
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…
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