Saturday, July 25, 2009

"Some Might Say"

Oasis - "Some Might Say" is an wonderful song, and i love it. I have heard this song many time but the past week i have listen to it a lot because of different reasons...:) and it never gets bad, never.

Noel the lead guitarist and vocalist that wrote the song said that he had no idea what this song is about. it's maybe one of does song that gives images in their songs which would inspire in peoples mind a general meaning connected to the song. A song where the listener defines the meaning through he´s/her´s life.

To me the song reminds me of people who pretend life should be lived in a robotic, well-defined and constructed set of rules. without realizing that well, life is anything but predictable. you could believe you're heading down a certain path and wound up on the wrong road no quicker than with a blink of an eye. it also echoes the fact that because life is so unpredictable, being judgmental of how someone is leading their life is probably the most ridiculous thing one can do.

This song has two massive statements about life that really appeal to me.

"Some might say that sunshine follows thunder
Go and tell it to the man who cannot shine"

- you can comfort someone by telling them Good things happen after bad things but what about the man who never has good things happen to him?

secondly.

"Some might say they don't believe in heaven
Go and tell it to the man who lives in hell"

- If we don't believe in heaven does this mean we only belive in hell and is that where were going. Tell that to the man who lives in hell. it can also be that the people that don't believe in heaven don't know that there is people in the world that lives in hell. "Go and tell it to the man that lives in hell" can be a man that is living a hard life with no happiness, hell on earth.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

"Wind of Change"

"Wind of change" by Scorpions is one of the best power ballads ever and one if my all time favorite songs ever...

The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time – such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc (which soon led to the fall of the USSR), and the clearly imminent end of the Cold War.

Many listeners of the song who are not acquainted with Moscow are often confused by the meaning of the opening lines of the song, which are:
"I follow the Moskva
Down to Gorky Park
Listening to the wind of change"

The Moskva is the name of the river that runs through Moscow (both the city and the river are named identically in Russian), and Gorky Park is the name of an amusement park in Moscow. The Scorpions were inspired to write this song on a visit to Moscow in 1989, and therefore included references to the aforementioned landmarks.

The video to the song shows clips from the fall of the Berlin Wall, other political thing that have happen through history and other moments of injustice through history... many band have done this kinds of videos to their song but i think that "Wind of Change" is the best video that follows the message of the song and the subject.

When the intro starts it always send shivers down my spine and through my body, it so quite and peaceful and then when the the singer starts to sing it's so beautiful and just amazing.

Every little thing about this song is wonderful, from the intro to the guitar solo, to the chorus, to the verses, to bridge and to the ending.

Every time I listen to this song I just let everything go and disappear from the world and nothing can bring me down in that moment...

Scorpions - "Wind of Change"

Saturday, July 18, 2009

I love music

I love music
it is my essence
It determining what I am and is changing constantly
with me.
For me the music is sacred,
it is my belief,
it gets my respect and honour.
I learn from the musicians I love,
those who care about what they play,
what they say
how the song can touch your innermost and get
your inner being to shudder
how the text can make you cry
how the chords can change the world.
With music as diverse and dedicated
we need never despair after a poem,
a text,
a word,
a melody,
a chord
or a song to grow by.

Volbeat

Volbeat is a metal band from Denmark that They play a fusion of early rock 'n' roll, heavy metal and rockabilly. They are inspired by the rock 'n' roll legends Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash.

Johnny Cash inspired metal can only sound good, and it does. I love it:) The singer has a great voice and it fits in with the music.

Volbeat - "Sad man's Tongue"



Volbeat - "A Gardens Tale"



Volbeat - "I Only Want to Be with You" cover of Dusty Springfield's song released in 1963.



Volbeat - "Still Counting"



Volbeat - "A Moment Forever"

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Sounds


I fucking love "The Sounds"... this band play som new wave with a little mix of punk/pop.

so i saw them yesterday at "tivolirock", it was the second time i have seen them and they where awesome, really good performance:) i couldn't stand still:P

so they have done some really good song i the past on 3 albums:

2002 - "Living in america"

On the one hand, the Sounds recycle punk, New Wave, disco, and ladle it on thick with the cheesy keyboards. And the sound isn’t too sleek or polished, either, so that, despite the cheesy keyboards, the effect is like hearing them, keyboards and all, at a clammy, sweaty club. Considering all the bands trying for the same feel these days, the Sounds do a really bouncing, bopping, rocking pastiche of 1983.

2006 - dying to say this to you"

The group starts with a basic new wave sound—jaunty ‘80s keyboard lines and song sketches that could have turned into bad hair retreads. The Sounds’ success on this album comes with the way they rough up these songs for the recordings, primarily by using slightly overdriven guitar to add rowdier hooks. The combination splits the difference between pristine studio musicians and unwashed garage rockers.

2009 - "Crossing the Rubicon"

Vibrant and swelling with color, The Sounds’ Crossing the Rubicon is just the sort of triumphant, optimistic fare for making summer nights on the town all the more exciting.

This, their third album, functions much in the same way as their other albums do. The grand sense of effective guitar, the rock-solid synth-pop slither, and the deep anthem drive cruises through every single track while vocalist Maja Ivarsson energetically runs through her paces.

so some of "the Sounds" biggest hits is:

- "Living in America"
- "Song with a Mission"
- "Tony the Beat"
- "Painted by Numbers"
- "Night after Night"

but i love all their songs:P

"Living in America"



"Painted by Numbers"



"Tony the Beat"

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Michael Jackson


So the king of pop i dead... I decided to do a album review of his most popular album:"Thriller"

"Off the Wall" his first solo album was a massive success, spawning four Top Ten hits (two of them number ones), but nothing could have prepared Michael Jackson for Thriller. Nobody could have prepared anybody for the success of Thriller, since the magnitude of its success was simply unimaginable.

an album that sold 40 million copies in its initial chart run, with seven of its nine tracks reaching the Top Ten (for the record, the terrific "Baby Be Mine" and the pretty good ballad "The Lady in My Life" are not like the others). This was a record that had something for everybody, building on the basic blueprint of Off the Wall by adding harder funk, hard rock, softer ballads, and smoother soul.

Expanding the approach to have something for every audience. That alone would have given the album a good shot at a huge audience, but it also arrived precisely when MTV was reaching its ascendancy, and Jackson helped the network by being not just its first superstar, but first black star as much as the network helped him.

This all would have made it a success (and its success, in turn, served as a new standard for success), but it stayed on the charts, turning out singles, for nearly two years because it was really, really good. True, it wasn't as tight as Off the Wall -- and the ridiculous, late-night house-of-horrors title track is the prime culprit, arriving in the middle of the record and sucking out its momentum -- but those one or two cuts don't detract from a phenomenal set of music.

It's calculated, to be sure, but the chutzpah of those calculations (before this, nobody would even have thought to bring in metal virtuoso Eddie Van Halen to play on a disco cut) is outdone by their success. This is where a song as gentle and lovely as "Human Nature" coexists comfortably with the tough, scared "Beat It," the sweet schmaltz of the Paul McCartney duet "The Girl Is Mine," and the frizzy funk of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)." And, although this is an undeniably fun record, the paranoia is already creeping in, manifesting itself in the record's two best songs: "Billie Jean," where a woman claims Michael is the father of her child, and the delirious "Wanna Be Startin' Something," the freshest funk on the album, but the most claustrophobic, scariest track Jackson ever recorded.

These give the record its anchor and are part of the reason why the record is more than just a phenomenon. The other reason, of course, is that much of this is just simply great music.

5/5 :D