What's on your iPod?
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Phew, things have changed very much since the last time I posted a song on a thread called "Song of the day"!!!
Well, I haven't got an iPod yet, but I'm still listening to music ... everyday.
I suggest this lively and cheerful song for Easter 2013. This is that sort of songs that you would love to listen to in Summer, by the ocean, when it seems that nothing worries you.
I heard this song for the first time last Spring on television, when they broadcasted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Unfortunately this song neither won nor got a good position, but I think the song and the singer were the moral winner of that contest.
The name of the song is "This is the night" by Kurt Calleja and he and his mates represented a very tiny country on the Mediterranean Sea, near to Italy, called Malta.
[video=youtube_share;EgaX5QuMGR8]http://youtu.be/EgaX5QuMGR8[/video]
Well, I haven't got an iPod yet, but I'm still listening to music ... everyday.
I suggest this lively and cheerful song for Easter 2013. This is that sort of songs that you would love to listen to in Summer, by the ocean, when it seems that nothing worries you.
I heard this song for the first time last Spring on television, when they broadcasted the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Unfortunately this song neither won nor got a good position, but I think the song and the singer were the moral winner of that contest.
The name of the song is "This is the night" by Kurt Calleja and he and his mates represented a very tiny country on the Mediterranean Sea, near to Italy, called Malta.
[video=youtube_share;EgaX5QuMGR8]http://youtu.be/EgaX5QuMGR8[/video]
[video=youtube;L9EKqQWPjyo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=L9EKqQWPjyo[/video]
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
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Song for Today: Don Henley, "Boys of Summer"
No baseball or homoeroticism here; indeed, you'd rather not know why, suffice to say it has to do with teenage memories and a beach orgy that never happened.
But look at that hair ....
Don Henley, "Boys of Summer":
No baseball or homoeroticism here; indeed, you'd rather not know why, suffice to say it has to do with teenage memories and a beach orgy that never happened.
But look at that hair ....
Don Henley, "Boys of Summer":
[video=youtube;NfiKT1N670M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiKT1N670M[/video]
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I always thought Creedence Clearwater Revival's eponymous debut LP was their best. Their cover of Dale Hawkins's Louisiana rockabilly hit "Suzie Q" was, in my opinion, one of the iconic tracks that established the genre of acid rock. The long instrumental part, in a quasi-Andalusian modality that meandered yet eventually reached a climax, became a formula.
"Gloomy," also proto-acid-rock, was also a great tune but never made it into the "classic rock" canon.
They quickly found fame and fortune after releasing "Bayou Country" with the perennial Top 100 hit "Proud Mary." The fact that these kids, all of whom were Californians, were arguably the founders of the genre of swamp rock (which is about the Deep South), is testimony to the fact that San Franciso was America's rock'n'roll center in the late 1960s.
Southern rock soon burst onto the scene with authentic Southerners like the Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, Molly Hatchet and Lynyrd Skynyrd. But the genre has always attracted outsiders who perfectly mimic the originals. Alannah Myles, who sang the goosebumpy song "Black Velvet" about Mississippi and Elvis Presley, is from Toronto! Neil Young ("Southern Man," "Alabama") is also Canadian, as are all living members of The Band ("The Weight," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"--the one American in the group, drummer Levon Helm, died last year).
From Dusk 'Til Dawn
Because Even I'm Not Immune
Abingdon Boys School, "From Dusk 'Til Dawn":
No, really, I tried to avoid liking ABS for various reasons; my first exposure to them was a reasonable pop single for a television opening, but sounded a bit plastic; and their look was, well, nearly silly. They looked like a bunch of prettyboy whores.
But they got another run at the TV series, this time the end credits, and perhaps the fact that I adore that particular series has tipped my regard for this sort of pop detritus, but still ....
No matter how much I might pretend otherwise, even I'm not immune to pop sap.
Because Even I'm Not Immune
Abingdon Boys School, "From Dusk 'Til Dawn":
[video=youtube;ail7N0GNADM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ail7N0GNADM[/video]
No, really, I tried to avoid liking ABS for various reasons; my first exposure to them was a reasonable pop single for a television opening, but sounded a bit plastic; and their look was, well, nearly silly. They looked like a bunch of prettyboy whores.
But they got another run at the TV series, this time the end credits, and perhaps the fact that I adore that particular series has tipped my regard for this sort of pop detritus, but still ....
No matter how much I might pretend otherwise, even I'm not immune to pop sap.