Posts Tagged ‘The Smiths’
Pause de l’après-midi du vendredi 22 mai 2015
1. Charles Aznavour – Dors
2. Fairport Convention – Si Tu Dois Partir
3. Crash Test Dummies – Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm
4. The Smiths – Girlfriend in a Coma
5. Funkadelic – Soul Mate
6. The Specials – A Message To You Rudy
7. The Zutons – Valerie
8. Elton John – Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
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Audiogramme du samedi 28 février 2015
1. Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal – A La Claire Fontaine
2. Françoise Hardy – L’anamour (Serge Gainsbourg)
3. Clem Snide – Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (The Shirelles)
4. The Beautiful South – You’re The One That I Want (Grease)
5. Violent Femmes – Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Culture Club)
6. Siouxsie & The Banshees – You’re Lost Little Girl (The Doors)
7. speedstar – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths)
8. Thea Gilmore – I’m Not Down (The Clash)
9. Guns N’ Roses – Since I Don’t Have You (The Skyliners)
10. Sammy Rae – Wake Up (Arcade Fire)
11. Greg Laswell – Your Ghost (Kristin Hersh)
12. Sally Saltman – You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
13. Woodpigeon – You’re My Only Home (Magnetic Fields Cover)
14. My Morning Jacket – You’re A Big Girl Now (Bob Dylan)
15. Phosphorescent – You Can Make Me Feel Bad (Arthur Russell)
16. Arthur’s Landing – Love Dancing (Arthur Russell)
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Audiogramme du dimanche 15 février 2015
1. Hurleurs – Si Tu T’En Vas (Léo Ferré)
2. Low – Stay (Rihanna)
3. Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett – True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston)
4. Beach House – Some Things Last A Long Time (Daniel Johnston)
5. Cat Power – Sea Of Love
6. Feist – Secret Heart (Ron Sexsmith)
7. Keep Shelly In Athens – Just Like Honey (Jesus And Mary Chain)
8. St. Vincent – These Days (Jackson Browne)
9. The National – Sleep All Summer (with St. Vincent) (Crooked Fingers)
10. Crooked Fingers – Solitary Man (Neil Diamond)
11. POP ETC – Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
12. Tindersticks – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding)
13. Mark Ronson Ft. Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before (The Smiths)
14. The Czars – Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley)
15. Will Young – Teardrops (Womack and Womack)
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Pause de l’après-midi du lundi 9 février 2015 / Reprises en G
1. Richard Cheese – The Girl Is Mine (Jackson/McCartney)
2. Noah and The Whale – Girlfriend in a Coma (The Smiths)
3. St Vincent – Gloomy Sunday (Excerpt)
4. The Miserable Rich – Golden Brown (The Stranglers)
5. Bruce Willis – Good Lovin (The Rascals)
6. Annie Nilsson – Gotta Get Up (Harry Nilsson)
7. Eric Burdon – Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan)
8. Mark Ronson – God Put A Smile Upon Your Face feat. The Daptone Horns (Coldplay)
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Divine
Sorry! That’s a classic Bait-and-switch. We’re not talking about Divine, John Waters, Pink Flamingos or dog poop.
Instead, I’m just going to post a few The Divine Comedy songs. It’s not Dante, it’s Neil Hannon.
I discovered him on Yann Tiersen‘s L’absente.
Just loved Les Jours Tristes
It’s hard, hard not to sit on your hands
And bury your head in the sand
Hard not to make other plans
and claim that you’ve done all you can all along
And life must go on
It’s hard, hard to stand up for what’s right
And bring home the bacon each night
Hard not to break down and cry
When every idea that you’ve tried has been wrong
But you must go on
It’s hard but you know it’s worth the fight
’cause you know you’ve got the truth on your side
When the accusations fly, hold tight
Don’t be afraid of what they’ll say
Who cares what cowards think, anyway
They will understand one day, one day
It’s hard, hard when you’re here all alone
And everyone else has gone home
Harder to know right from wrong
When all objectivity’s gone
And it’s gone
But you still carry on
’cause you, you are the only one left
And you’ve got to clean up this mess
You know you’ll end up like the rest
Bitter and twisted, unless
You stay strong and you carry on
It’s hard but you know it’s worth the fight
’cause you know you’ve got the truth on your side
When the accusations fly, hold tight
And don’t be afraid of what they’ll say
Who cares what cowards think, anyway
They will understand one day, one day.
I discovered Tiersen before he broke into mainstream with the the mostly instrumental soundtracks for Amélie Poulain and Good Bye Lenin!
I actually liked his songs like Monochrome with Dominique A on his earlier album Le Phare. Despite the accent, the lyrics were just what I needed at the time.
Anyway, I can try
Anything it’s the same circle
That leads to nowhere and I’m tired now.
Anyway, I’ve lost my face,
My dignity, my look,
Everything is gone
And I’m tired now.
But don’t be scared,
I found a good job and I go to work
Every day on my old bicycle you loved.
I am pilling up some unread books under my bed
And I really think I’ll never read again.
No concentration,
Just a white disorder
Everywhere around me,
You know I’m so tired now.
But don’t worry
I often go to dinners and parties
With some old friends who care for me,
Take me back home and stay.
Monochrome floors, monochrome walls,
Only absence near me,
Nothing but silence around me.
Monochrome flat, monochrome life,
Only absence near me,
Nothing but silence around me.
Sometimes I search an event
Or something to remind,
But I’ve really got nothing in mind.
Sometimes I open the windows
And listen people walking in the down streets.
There is a life out there.
But don’t be scared,
I found a good job and I go to work
Every day on my old bicycle you loved.
Anyway, I can try
Anything it’s the same circle
That leads to nowhere and I’m tired now.
Anyway, I’ve lost my face,
My dignity, my look,
Everything is gone
And I’m tired now.
But don’t worry
I often go to dinners and parties
With some old friends who care for me,
Take me back home and stay.
Monochrome floors, monochrome walls,
Only absence near me,
Nothing but silence around me.
Monochrome flat, monochrome life,
Only absence near me,
Nothing but silence around me
A bit like The Incompetents’ amazing lyrics associated to Serge’s french accent
Anyway, revenons à nos moutons…
Neil Hannon / Divine Comedy
Discovered him a bit better on a 2004 Black Session. You know, the radio and concerts organized by the French John Peel, Bernard Lenoir. Lebanon’s version would be the one and only Ziad Nawfal and his Ruptured Sessions.
So, in early 2004 I record this amazing live performance on a k7! Yes one of these.
I played it until it melted recently but I did manage to transfer it to crappy Mp3, alongside sessions for Interpol and Feist.
Neil Hannon covered Randy Newman’s Lonely At The Top, played a couple of quirky originals, like Happy Goth.
But most importantly he played a fantastic version of Our Mutual Friend
No matter how I try,
I just can’t get her out of my mind
And I when I sleep I visualize her.
I saw her in the pub,
I met her later at the nightclub.
A mutual friend introduced us
We talked about the noise
And how its hard to hear your own voice
Above the beat and the sub-bass.
We talked and talked for hours,
We talked in the back of our friend’s car
As we all went back to his place.
On our friend’s settee,
she told me that she really liked me
And I said: “Cool, the feeling’s mutual.”
We played old 45s
And said it’s like the soundtrack to our lives
And she said: “True, it’s not unusual.”
Then privately we danced
We couldn’t seem to keep our balance
A drunken haze had come upon us.
We sank down to the floor
And we sang a song that I can’t sing anymore
And then we kissed and fell unconscious.
I woke up the next day
All alone but for a headache.
I stumbled out to find the bathroom
But all I found was her
Wrapped around another lover.
No longer then is he our mutual friend.
Heart-wrenching. He’s really an amazing storyteller
I actually remembered it when I stumbled upon his cover of The Smiths’ There Is A Light That Never Goes Out while researching my previous post.
Ok, so this is getting a bit glum
Let’s end it on a cheery note
To quote the top 2 comments:
“Best eurovision song ever.”
“His Majesty Dude from the movie the Big Lebowski”
It’s a great track that could’ve been composed by Paul Williams for Phantom of The Paradise
His latest offering has some even weirder stuff on it
Definitely NSFW
Enjoy!
Always on my mind
Whoever said Pet Shop Boys were “The Smiths you can dance to” definitely had a point: Melancholy, witty lyrics and pounding beats… Some will say you can dance to Morrissey’s darkest lyrics. I remember joyfully singing along to this one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure – the privilege is mine
Anyway, so PSB were in Byblos this weekend and offered us one of the best concerts in the festival’s history. The highlight of the show which was also my own personal emotional low was Always on My Mind
Maybe I didn’t treat you
Quite as good as I should have
Maybe I didn’t love you
Quite as often as I could have
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied
Maybe I didn’t hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
Im so happy that you’re mine
If I make you feel second best
Girl, Im sorry I was blind
You were always on my mind
You were always on my mind
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn’t died
Give me, give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied, satisfied
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time
You were always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
Amazing how this song’s riff makes you dance and how it just made me tear up…
Anyway, it’s a country classic first sung by Brenda Lee
Willie Nelson covered it
So did Elvis
And talking about the King, last night around midnight I stumbled upon this gem
Maybe it’s too late I sometimes I even hate myself
For loving you
Trying to be strong then night-time comes along and I start wanting you
Wanting you.
Where is all my self control I’m burning way down in my soul
And needing you
Wishing I could be the man, I try to
Hating me for wanting you to be with you
Knowing you don’t love me like you used to
But it’s midnight, Oh and I miss you
It’s getting late and I know that’s when I am weak
Funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the day light
I ought to go to bed and try to straighten out my head and just forget you
Oh but it’s midnight, yeah and I miss you
It’s getting late and I know that’s when I am weak
Funny how things have a way of looking so much brighter in the day light
I ought to go to bed to try to straighten out my head and just forget you
Oh but it’s midnight and I miss you
It’s midnight and I miss you
I remembered my father’s words:
نفس تسكن إليها
in the sense of
ما سكنت إليه النفس ، واطمأن إليه القلب ، والإثم ما لم تسكن إليه النفس ولم يطمئن إليه القلب وإن أفتاك المفتون
And this morning I woke up to this cover of Fade Into You, which definitely is not a love song… Emotional turmoil, teenage years, 20 years ago, Knocking on Heaven’s door knock off, haunting
I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that’s true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You’ll come apart and you’ll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what’s not there.
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
A stranger’s light comes on slowly
A stranger’s heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then it’s smiles cover your heart
Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it’s strange you never knew
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I think it’s strange you never knew
That’s it for today, the time and date for our next session has not been determined yet…
Tendre
Et la tendresse ? Bordel !
Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde!?
Aujourd’hui je me cache derrière la vie les mots des autres.
I am the son
And the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son and heir
Of nothing in particular
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There’s a club, if you’d like to go
You could meet someone who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home
And you cry
And you want to die
When you say it’s gonna happen now,
When exactly do you mean?
See I’ve already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
Tender is the night
Lying by your side
Tender is the touch
Of someone that you love too much
Tender is the day
The demons go away
Lord I need to find
Someone who can heal my mind
Come on, Come on, Come on
Get through it
Come on, Come on, Come on
Love’s the greatest thing
Come on, Come on, Come on
Get through it
Come on, Come on, Come on
Love’s the greatest thing
That we have
I’m waiting for that feeling
I’m Waiting for that feeling
Waiting for that feeling to come
Oh, she may be weary
Young girls they do get weary
Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah yeah
But when she gets weary
Try a little tenderness, yeah yeah
You know she’s waiting
Just anticipating
For things that she’ll never, never, never, never possess, yeah yeah
But while she’s there waiting, without them
Try a little tenderness (that’s all you gotta do)
It’s not just sentimental, no, no, no
She has her grief and care, yeah yeah yeah
But the soft words, they are spoke so gentle, yeah
It makes it easier, easier to bear, yeah
You won’t regret it, no, no
Some girls they don’t forget it
Love is their only happiness, yeah
But it’s all so easy
All you gotta do is try, try a little tenderness
And then there’s this track called Otis which is a total rip off. Probably why they transformed it into a tribute…
Tendre la main, tendre le cou, tant de reproches… on se quitte avec des mots legerement trop sucrés. Mais sortis de leurs contextes ils degagent d’autres arômes.
Quelle douce faiblesse
Quel joli sentiment
Ce besoin de tendresse
Qui nous vient en naissant
Vraiment, vraiment, vraiment
Y en a qui ont le cœur dehors
Et ne peuvent que l’offrir
Le cœur tellement dehors
Qu’ils sont tous à s’en servir
Celui-là a le cœur dehors
Et si frêle et si tendre
Que maudits soient les arbres morts
Qui ne pourraient point l’entendre
On part avec le coeur qui tremble
Du bonheur de partir ensemble
Sans savoir ce qui nous attend
Ainsi commence le voyage
Semé d’écueils et de mirages
De l’amour et de ses tourments
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”…
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…
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)
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!
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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