Saturday, August 29, 2009

this can not be...


this morning a person told me something terrible... One of my favourite bands "Oasis" has split up. First I didn't believe it but I took a look at Rollingstone magazines homepage and there was an article saying: "Noel Gallagher Quits Oasis"...

Oasis is a band from Britain formed in 1991 and released their first album in 1994. The Band has an big influence from The Beatles.

So it's true that Oasis has split up for good probably. It was Noel Gallagher one of the two brothers in the band that said that he couldn't work with his brother Liam one more day after an argument before a gig in Paris on Friday night. They cancelled the Paris gig only minutes before the show was going to start saying that the band has split up and was not going to play. the crowd first thought it was a joke until screens at both sides of the stage showed the message “As a result of an altercation within the band, the Oasis gig has been cancelled.”

but this is not the first time this has happened so hopefully this is not the real end but I wouldn’t be surprised if they never played together again...

If this is the end of the Oasis then it is a sad day. Although they maybe never surpassed the likes of the albums “definitely maybe” or “(What's the story) morning glory”, they still produced some fantastic albums that most bands would trade their right arm for.

I think that Oasis is one of the most important band to come out of Britain in the last 25-30 years. It's a sad day for everyone who loves music like I said, Noel is an inspiration to so many people. I think that he is got to be one of the most talented song writers of all time. Not many people that can write as him.

The next few days is going to consist of much Oasis music and guitar playing in my room:) I'm also going to analyse some song the next few days here...

Oasis is always going to be in my heart as one of best bands ever and the biggest influence on British pop/rock and rock & roll music the last 20 years.

The music always ruled with this band...Oasis is going to "Live Forever"

Thursday, August 27, 2009

In Flames

I have forgotten all about it,, I'm going to see In Flames the 14 of December.:)It was some guys in my class that they where going to see them, and I was like; yeah why not, and the tickets where kind of cheap.

I have never listen to In Flames so much, but they have some good songs and it can be fun:) just hopping that the crowd will not be to wild, can be hard to stand in the middle of the crowd, and it's a In Flames concert and that don't make it better...

"World of Promises" not a known song but it's really good:) lyrics are nice to. cover of the song with the same name by the Band "Treat" that released it in 1988.



Original of "World of promises" by "Treat", want to have it up here because I think the original is better than "In Flames" version. Love the 80s hard rock style on the song:D



"Come Clarity" - really good alternative new-age metal ballad



Take this life - their most known song, love the chorus:)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

"Stairway to Heaven"

in my opinion one of the best songs in history...

so stairway to heaven is a song by a British rock band "Led Zeppelin". The song was written in 1970 and released in 1971.

The song is one of the most known rock and roll songs in history and its the song you think of when people mention "Led Zeppelin"...

The lyrics were not only bold and inspirational, they were unlike anything of their era. "Robert Plant" the lead singer of "Led Zeppelin" said this in an interview "My hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady is sure, all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven'. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat." Plant's own explanation of the lyrics was that it "was some cynical aside about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration.

No one knows really what the lyrics is about, It's one of those great songs that can mean many different things depending on the person. You put yourself in the lyrics and try to get a sense out of it to interpret the meaning. I my self can see hope n the lyrics.

So I made a little analyse of the lyrics:

To me this song means lots of different things. one is the paths. we can travel on two paths, one the road to heaven and the other the road to hell. our paths change all the time in our own life's. the piper is god, and he wants us to "join him." this song is also about death. the lady is dying. she's buying the stairway with her life. at the beginning, it says that "she's sure all the glitters are gold" this means that she already sees the light, and she's dying. the sign and the song bird are just there because it begins to paint a picture of heaven. the narrator or singer is looking to the west, and "his spirit is crying for leaving" his soul as left already and he has died too. but his soul his remorse full or sad for leaving the world. if we ask the piper, being god will help, sort of like a prayer, and god will help you through an other day. two roads you can go by, and before you die, you can change the road you are currently on. "Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know, The piper's calling you to join him, Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know Your stairway lies on the whispering wind." this is god calling you, and your death. it comes like a wind, it happens that fast. "as we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls". shadows are tall when the sun is setting, and this is meaning that the sun is setting as we walk down the road, our life's are coming to an end. and the lady from the beginning is in white light, like an angel. "listen very hard the tune will come to you at last." this means everyone will die. we are all as one and to be a rock and not roll is impossible, all of our life's will come to an end. this song as a lot of symbolism in it, I hope you see what I'm saying. the cool thing about symbolism, is there is no wrong or right answer.

The song also has one of the greatest guitar play of all time. "Jimmy Page's" acoustic picking rising into chiming chords, which introduce the solo, a brilliant succession of phrases that steadily moves toward rock & roll ecstasy. Everything is perfect about it, the beautiful start rising in to rock and roll, and the solo is one big music orgasm:D

So when people say that this is not the best Led Zeppelin song and that the people that says it is the best song don't like Led Zeppelin, it's bullshit. If you look at the history of the greatest songs of all time the majority of songs is not close to the music that the band plays, it sticks out from the bands other music.

No matter how many times I listen to it, the song always manages to stop me from whatever I'm doing to just listen. It's truly unbelievable.

Monday, August 17, 2009

"Tears In Heaven"

So "Tears In Heaven" by Eric Clapton, if you haven't heard this one before your missing out big time!

so the story behind this songs is about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell out of a 53rd-story window in his mother's friend's New York City apartment, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident was visibly distraught for months afterwards.
-wikipedia

This song really brings beautiful, sad and touching all in one, even tho its a song about his sons death it's so hopeful because when you hear it the lyrics are like saying that no ones gone forever and you're gonna see them again and that they are happy in heaven, no tears i heaven.

he also sings that he wants to go to heaven with his son but he can't stay there because it's not his time to go. And that he must be strong because if he's not time can bring him down and he will not go to heaven when it's time. He knows that he's son is happy in heaven and he will have peace there.

The whole song bring hope for people that have died because it gives you a knowing about that the person that died will have peace i heaven and there will be no Tears In Heaven...

Eric Clapton stopped playing this song live in 2004 because when he plays that song Eric must connect with the feelings that were there when he wrote it because it a big part of preforming that song live. He has forgotten those feeling and he don't want them back particularly...

Friday, August 14, 2009

The perfect song

What is the perfect song?

I think it's a song that really goes into your soul and dance with you. The song takes you away from the real world and away from all your problems and you feel all the love and happiness in the world. The song makes you want to jump up and down, and the song makes you want to shout out your love and happiness and you feel like you are on top of the world. you can never tire of the song, you can listen to the song again and again and each time you listen to it your whole body shivers. The lyrics talk to you and releases your feelings...

thats my image of the perfect song

Monday, August 3, 2009

Open Your Heart

"Open Your Heart" - Europe

I haven't listen to this song for a few months but when i turned on some Europe music today i remembered how beautiful it is...

There are two versions of this song, the first version was on Europe's album - "Wings of Tomorrow" released in 1984 and the second version is on the album - "Out of This World" released in 1984. The differences in the two version is a little change in the lyrics and in the second version there is a better guitar rift and solo, on the second version there was another guitarist also, you can here the differences like i said.

The song is about a relationship with a girl that goes up and down all the time - "Days filled with joy and days filled with sorrow" and he doesn't know if he is going to happy one day or lonely another. And he just want that everything could be like before when the relationship was always wonderful. He wants her to open up and tell him whats wrong, and he don't know if can cope anymore. The he wonders if the time can heal the relationship...

it sounds like a normal love song that anyone can write but I think that there is more to it and the lyric as a whole makes it more beautiful.

Here is the change in lyrics of the last verse

1984: "Oh girl, before I fall... Maybe the sun will continue to shine, maybe the rain will continue to fall, maybe you want to leave me behind, maybe you'll change and give me a call."

1988: "Before we lose it all... Maybe the time has its own way of healing, maybe it dries the tears in your eyes, but never change the way that I'm feeling, only you can answer my cries."

I think that the change they made to the lyrics in the last veers from the first version to the second tighten the lyric because he sing about them and not her.

If you ask me i think that the second version is the best because the little change of lyrics and guitar rifts makes a lot of difference to the song and it becomes more beautiful...

and one final thing about the second version is that after the solo he sings - "open your heart...yeah! let me here you make up your mind" that "Yeah!" he adds makes it so much better somehow, you get a little rush from it and it makes you scream:P it sounds stupid that a little thing like that can do so much but i think that i does so much more:D

sometimes it's the little things that counts...:)

First version - 1984



Second version - 1988