"Broken Wings"

"Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister. released in 1985 as a single.

I think that this song can be reflected in two meanings: one a little more easy and shallow meaning and one little deeper meaning.

This is a great song of a broken relationship. He realizes to late that its falling apart and he knows it over unless he steps up and tells her how much he truly loves her and that he can't do anything without her.

But if you look a little close I think that it's a song of inspiration that urges the listener to heal his wounds, live life again and learn to enjoy. so to speak that every once a while you will hit bumps in the road of your life but that you must learn to deal with them to enjoy your life.

"So take these Broken Wings
And learn to fly again
Learn to live so free
When we hear the voices sing
The book of love will open up and let us in"

I think it says that you have your broken wings that reflects a problem in life and you must learn to deal with the problem to live enjoy life. And the line:" when we hear the voices sing, the book of live will open up and let us in" reflects that singing is a way of life that is free, meaning that the problem has been solved and life opens up for us to enjoy...

One of the best songs of the 80s<3

Lyrics

The video is good to, one of the better music videos that was produced in the 80s:) The part in it where the band is not shown gives a little feeling of freedom.

Still Alive

The song "Still alive" by Lisa Miskovsky is the main theme for the game "Mirror's edge" released in November of 2008.

Mirror's Edge takes place in a modern, utopian city, where a totalitarian regime has taken over following the events of the "November riots", which took place eighteen years earlier. In Faith's (the main character) own words, the city was once "dirty and dangerous, but alive and wonderful." The government implemented a policy of invasive surveillance, tracking all forms of electronic communication in order to reduce crime to nearly non-existent levels, and quell any challenge to its power.

Faith is a "Runner", a courier who carries physical communiques around the city, her services retained by revolutionary groups who avoid communicating via highly-monitored telephone and e-mail channels. The runner's work on the rooftops of the city being the only communication in the city that is not under surveillance.

The song is singed from the perspective of Faith and she refers to the city as a person.

The first line in the song:

"I have changed
I have changed
Just like you
Just like you"

This verse is about how Faith has watched the city her parents fought to protect, turn from a 'dirty but alive' city, to a sterile lifeless utopia, and in this change she was forced to change in turn, with the city to be able to survive.

"For how long
For how long
Must I wait
I know there's something wrong"

this verse says that she knows that there is something wrong and she is just waiting for it to change because it's not right.

"Your concrete heart isn't beating
and I've tried to
make it come alive"

This verse is saying that the city isn't alive and she is doing everything to give the city life again.

"No shadows,
just red lights.
Now I'm here to rescue you"

This is somewhat a double meaning also, no shadows refers to the bleached lifeless city, in mostly white concrete, broken by striking colours here and there, however throughout the game the primary colour used to signify freedom is red, with all objects you may interact with being coloured red, the last line is Faith declaring that she will rescue the city.

"Oh I'm still alive,
I'm still alive.
I can't apologise, no."

Faith says that she is still working against the city and is still alive and this is an apology to those that have accepted the changes to the city or been too afraid to defy the changes.

"So silent,
no violence.
But inside my head
so loud and clear."

The city is so lifeless, soulless and there is a sheen over the city, no violence because the population is so subdued, but inside her head the city is alive because the she want it to be that way so bad.

"You're screaming...
You're screaming...
Covered up with a smile I've learned to fear."

Faith knows that the people wants the city to change back inside but the people have learn to cover up does thoughts because the are to scared to say something.

"Just sunshine
And blue sky
Is this all we get
For living here"

points to the fact that other than the sun and the sky, there's nothing with soul or life in the city, and living in the environment round the city is all you have.

"Come fire
Come fire
Let it burn and love come racing through"

I believe this is a reference to fires burning away the mask of the city, once burned away it'll be given it's life back and people will stand for their opinions.

"I've learned to lose
I've learned to win
I've turned my face against the wind"

Faith have learn trough her living that there is those people that is trying to stop her and sometime it doesn't goes so well but in the end she know that she can stand victorious on the roofs and just feel the wind blowing in her face and that's a feeling of life.

"I will move fast
I will move slow
Take me where I have to go"

Running and jumping trough out the city, flowing over obstacles at speed, or to shimmy across ledges slowly, both of which lead Faith to her goal, so she is using the city as it is, to rescue it.

I love this song so much, it's a song about fighting for your freedom and something you love because you have the all the right to live with it and in the end you will make a change and break through it...<3

Lyrics

When You're Gone

"When you're Gone" by Avril Lavigne

just can a across this song random from my playlist, it has been awhile since I heard it the last time. I have always thought that it's a good song over the years it has excised but it have never affected me emotional and now it does (maybe because my situation has change, in a really good way) and now when I hear it I shiver a little bit every time...

Avril have said her self that the song is about someone you love and and the little things you miss about them, and I completely agree with her. the song says that when you're love one is gone (maybe just not around by the time, or out of town, vacation or even dead) the pieces of your heart is missing the love one, and the face of the love one. And the only words you need to hear to get you trough the day and make it OK is "I miss you".

the song has both negative and positive parts depending on your situation but if look at the negative parts just by them self, you don't see that those parts ties the song together and make the whole meaning of the song beautiful.


I miss you<3

Gorillaz

A band called "Gorillaz" exist of four animated band members: 2-D (vocals, keyboard), Murdoc (bass guitar), Noodle (lead guitar and occasional vocals) and Russel (drums and percussion).

So what's the deal with this "virtual hip-hop group"?

Gorillaz was formed in real life by two people : Damon Albarn (from britpop band "Blur") and Jamie Hewlett, who is an English comic book artist and animator.

Damon Albarn has said that there has been many many people working with Gorillaz over the years with him self being the only permanent musical contributor by preforming the singing voice for 2-D on every album and track.

In short, the Gorillaz as real, singular human beings do not exist.

Everybody that has heard Gorillaz knows that it is some really alternative music. If I would describe the music style of Gorillaz I would say like I mentioned before that it is hip-hop with something called zombie-style rapping and alternative rock. So it basically alternative hip-hop/alternative rock. Does genre has some things in common because alternative hip-hop is a genre that's drawing equally from funk and pop/rock, as well as jazz, soul, reggae. it's more keyboard, guitar and strings.

So the whole discography of Gorillaz consists of two studio albums, ten singles, one extended play (EP), one B-side compilation, one remix album, and one remix/B-side compilation.

the band released their first studio album, Gorillaz. Their second studio album, Demon Days, was released in 2005.

"Feel Good Inc."

This song has been Gorillaz most popular song to date. This song is about pop-culture and the repeat of bad ideas through the lot of it. It's saying how people are brainwashed and driven into bad things and how Hollywood is shutting down good ideas. De La Soul represent Hollywood (the INC.), Noodle is freedom of thoughts and different, new ideas and 2-D is trapped in the middle of pop-culture but wants to escape, and realises by the end of it that he can't.

This explains why 2-D repeats the phrase "Feel good," over and over to himself, as he is depressed and frustrated, and why De La Soul are laughing mockingly at 2-D; because he can't be rid of them.

The music video to this song is one of my favourite music videos. It's so cool and really well done.



"Clint Eastwood"

Clint Eastwood is a mix of electronic, hip hop and rock.

Many people thinks that this song is about drugs and what he seen when he is on acid, but that not right.

The video and song name is a reference to the famous western starring actor Clint Eastwood, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". The yell from the film's theme song can be heard at the beginning of the video. Midway through the film, Del summons a graveyard from the ground, which is a reference to the ending of "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Although often mistaken for referring to drugs such as marijuana, LSD, or mushrooms, the song's famous chorus, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag", is actually a reference to the money in the bag Clint Eastwood's character rides off with at the end of the film. Also in the video, resurrected "Gorillas" dance the Thriller referencing to Michael Jackson's Thriller music video.

The video for Clint Eastwood won an award at the Rushes Soho Short Film Festival Awards in 2001

It's a really wired video but really well done and cool.


"19-2000"

For me the song says that you got all the time in the world, slow down, take it easy, "get the cool shoeshine".


There are two different versions of this song the first called "19-2000" released on this début album "Gorillaz" and the second one called "19-2000 (Soulchild remix)"

Both videos are almost identical, except for a few minor changes in order for the two songs to sync up with the video.

"19-2000"



"19-2000 (soulchild remix)"



"Kids With Guns"

This is one of my favourite Gorillaz songs. I love the bass intro that goes on through the song.

Sorry but I can't find this song anywhere on the internet..:S if you have Spotify it's up there. Or if you have it on your computer listen to it.

http://open.spotify.com/track/0eEgMbSzOHmkOeVuNC3E0k

"Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head"

please listen to this song first and listen to the lyrics before reading my analysis.



So this is an really interesting song, first it sounds like a story but if you look a little deeper and think, you'll see it's more than just a story...

To me this song seems like the idealistic fantasies that we all have. In essence we either all want to be Happyfolk or we feel like we already are. The Strangefolk represent reality, in that, there's always going to be someone or something that comes along to ruin happiness for everyone else.

The Happyfolk were innocent and completely blind to the evil the Strangefolk brought because they couldn't see their eyes. This is a lot like life itself in that we often can't see when bad things are going to happen even if we have multiple signs (shadows, nightmares, etc.). Its that whole "ignorance is bliss" concept, only amplified.

Ultimately greed leads to the downfall of mankind, and that's why in digging for the precious jewels, the Strangefolk woke the spirit of the mountain.

There are two ways to interpret the mountain. You could say that it has always been just a volcano that became active once disturbed, or that there is some true spiritual meaning behind it, in that God punishes those who are evil. But unfortunately, the Happyfolk were caught up in all this, just because they couldn't see the eyes of the Strangefolk...

As depressing as it is, I think this song may just be saying, there never can nor will be a land of Happyfolk because Strangefolk will always come to inevitably destroy it.

"Oh little town in USA, the time has come to see
There's nothing you believe you want
But where were you when it all came down on me?
Did you come it down on..."

I can't be sure about this last line, but I think it's a statement about the U.S. and how the Americans may feel that they have it all over there, but then again they do so little to help foreign nations (this can be discussed). Or maybe, just maybe, 2-D is saying that Americans are the Strangefolk and somehow this song ties back to the U.S. going to war because of 9/11, and the "mining for gems" being one big metaphor for the U.S. digging for oil.

this really says that you can never find a place that's nice and peaceful because there isn't any...

This is an extremely well put together narrative and I love this song because it's sound so cool.

So after analysing Gorillaz I can say this: Many of the lyrics is really good and many of the lyrics is really deeper then you may think. The image that people have of Gorillaz is that it's just a cartoony hip-hop group with some weird song that don't have any meaning at all, just sounds good. They have never tried to listen to the lyrics.

Gorillaz is a really awesome group with a somewhat weird sound that calm your mind and deep lyrics that mean something rather then just sounding good, but that is also important and Gorillaz manage to pull it of almost every time.

I recommend for you to listen to the whole album "Demon Days" because i think it's one of the better albums in the world, and it's one of my favourite albums.

Update...

I know I haven't put up anything here for about 2 month now. The reason for this is more then one, but in a large sense it's was because of a change of life style for a few weeks. but I did not stop completely;P I have been working on things on and off in that period that maybe come up soon...

and the reason for why I'm back is that a few people have been reminding me about it;) and off course that I want to express my thoughts about music and that I love to write and read about music and it calms my mind...it's my door to freedom.

So for now I will just do something small with something bigger coming up the next few days.

The whole Queen thing is not dead, it's everything but dead, just so you know;) I would never give up on QUEEN!!!!!!

So just putting up some songs to listen to and not so much analysing, just song that I like:)

The Who - "Real Good Looking Boy"

A song about a boy that loves him self and he thinks but his mother keep pushing him down, but in the end he falls I love with a person that loves him for who he is and the boy is thankful for the love that person gives him and that the person makes him feel like a real good looking boy.

maybe a little shallow description because I have a bigger in my head but I can't really remember what I have heard about this song before.



David Bowie "Ziggy Stardust"

"Ziggy Stardust" is a glam power ballad that tells the story about David Bowie's most famous alter ego. In a large sense it's about that in the beginning it was David and he's band "The Spiders From Mars" and they had fun just jamming and writing song, but David's fame became bigger and now it is only him.



Nine Inch Nails "The Perfect Drug"

This is maybe a little unexpected but I like this song. So Nine Inch Nails is a little different industrial rock/metal and it sound very special, but it sound good and the song is weird but good. Maybe that's why i like it:P So the song is about a guy that describes he's love like a drug



just ending this by saying:"Music is our last true great freedom. They can burn our books, they can burn our paintings, but they can't stop us singing and making music".

Queen

so if you know my all-time favorite band is Queen<3<3 I'm thinking of starting a Queen kind of marathon here:) don't really know yet, because it's Queen and I want it to be really perfect and nothing ells:)thats probably the reason why I haven't put up anything about Queen yet.

so I just start to put up a few random songs from the Queen discography. the reason why i chose this songs is just that on I came across them when listening to some songs one of them just felt right at the moment and it still does and some just is really good...and that's what's music is all about: feeling.

the songs maybe isn't so known but I must start somewhere...

"I was born to love you"



"las Palabras de Amor(The Words of Love)"



"Mad the Swine" so this is an unreleased song from the first Queen album - "Queen" from 1973 but the song was never released on that album instead it was released on the single "headlong" i 1991. so when i came across it i was like: omg a queen song i haven't heard:) and i love it.

this is really old school Queen<3



"Princes Of the Universe" - included in the soundtrack for the movie "Highlander" a song that is not know by people that don't listen to queen really much, but it's Queen all trough<3



Queen 4-ever

"The Spirit Of Radio"

I love song that pays tribute to music and that explains the love for music:)

so the song "The Spirit Of Radio" by Rush was released in 1980 on the album "Permanent Waves".

The song talks about the music industry, in general. It's saying that music can be a wonderful form of expression, and can make life better, when made for the right reasons.

"Begin the day with a friendly voice,
A companion unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood."
this first part really talks about how music can make your day if you waking up and hearing the DJ's voice on the radio and then music start playing and you feel so happy. This have happened to me countless times:)

The song is also saying that the music industry can ruin music. It can fill people with the wish to make music solely for money, for profit, and no other reason.
the last line:
"and the words of the profits were written on the studio hall
and echoes with the sounds of salesmen"
it's that this makes many musicians compromise their art, their music, for the money.
"glittering prizes and endless compromises" It's also saying that it doesn't need to be this way, "it's really just a matter of your honesty". It's up to the musicians to make the music for the right reasons.

it's the horrid truth of what music has come down to: money/fame/profit. The song explains music doesn't have to be this way it shouldn't be about this. The chorus...
"Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free."
that there explains the beauty of music. It's invisible air waves but yet music means so much to people. It shouldn't be about the price of money, but about the passion of music, the love for music, the freedom they get, but mostly how it affects them as a person and their fans...these things are priceless...

"...All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted.
Not so coldly charted, it's really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah, your honesty...."
I think this part is for all those who think capitalism & technology are at fault for any decline in "soul" music might have. Music can have soul regardless of the medium involved, and money can even be made off of it if done with honesty and integrity.

"One likes to believe in the freedom of music,
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity."
This statement describes many many artists in the music industry, they begin with integrity, but then lose it by "selling out".... they have lost their integrity, artists such as Brittany Spears, Ashlee Simpson. They and many more have proven the point that musicians seeking "glittering prizes" will end up with "endless compromises" ultimately end up "shattering" their careers and loosing many of their once adoring fans.

I can just say that this is what music should be about: the freedom, life, emotions and a gift beyond price...

No music, No Life...

Wonderwall

"Because maybe
You're gonna be the one that saves me
And after all
You're my Wonderwall"

"Wonderwall" by Oasis

I love this song, but it can be really tricky to figure out the lyrics...

first I must point out one thing, that this is a song that can be interpreted in many ways, depending on the person and how the person is feeling at the moment. Noel Gallagher that has written this song, is one of the best song writers I think and he can write a song with such a depth that can go right in to the heart of everyone.

It’s so great when an artist sings with such passion. I think what makes a song great is when it really means a lot to the person that is singing it, if they can make you feel the song they've done they're job. It’s also cool when the artist says something that many people can relate too, but most people wouldn’t have been able to think of in those words themselves.

many people think of this as an love song. I totally agree because the song can mean so many thing.

So this is one way to think of this song. In a large sense it is about not being able to act on your feelings. The girl (probably a friend of the guy) that the song is about means the world to the guy, but he's unable to express his love in fear of what may happen to their friendship if he does. You are afraid to say anything personal, and even more afraid of not say anything.

then there is a other way. Noel Gallagher have said that it's a song about an imaginary friend who’s going to save you from yourself. and if you look at the lyric that fits in perfectly. He wants a person to help him with his problems but he can't find anyone. He has trouble to talk about he's problems and that's why he wants that persons help. "I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do, about you now" I think means that because he can't find anyone ells so he can be the only one that can feel anything about the imaginary person is himself.
"And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding"
The person has it hard to help you, and it says that everything that is hard In life will have some bump in the road on the way there.

so what about the definition of the word "wonderwall"?

A wonderwall i think is a person that you can talk to about everything, that understands you like no one ells, one you can share your feelings and thought to and save you from your problems. A person being there through it all. a perfect person being there through it all, and that person is just always going to be there. A very special person that makes you truly happy in your heart, makes you come alive and free and safe, a safe heaven, from the rest of world when you are with that person. And I'm really happy that I have found one of those persons in my life:)

So this is the Original "Wonderwall" and the music video is good to:)



I came across another version of the song. In the original Liam Gallagher is singing and Noel Gallagher is playing guitar. I found a live version on youtube where Noel Gallagher preforms the song by himself. Noel sings with such passion and it's so beautiful I get chills every time I see it... The two version is both really really good but no version can beat the original even thought this version is really good:)