“California Dreamin’” is a song by “The Mamas & The Papas written in 1963.
A short kind of simple song, jet so great and amusing. It’s a melodious slice of '60s pop nostalgia and it so mellow you just can sit back and relax.
The lyrics talks about a guy that is out on a cold winter day and he is longing for the warm California.
First verse:
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray I've been for a walk on a winter's day I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A. California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
The first verse describes that he is walking on a cold winter day where the leaves are brown and the sky is gray. And that he would be warm and safe in California.
“Stopped in to a church I passed along the way Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray You know the preacher liked the cold He knows I'm gonna stay California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
On he’s walk he goes in to a church because he is cold and he is trying to get warm. So he goes in there and pretending to prey just so he can be warm. The preacher like the cold just because that when it’s cold outside many people will come in to the church and that good for the preacher and the preacher know he is going to stay just because it’s so cold outside.
“All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray I've been for a walk on a winter's day If I didn't tell her I could leave today California Dreamin' on such a winter's day California Dreamin' on such a winter's day California Dreamin' on such a winter's day”
The line “If i didn't tell her I could leave today” i don’t really get, it doesn't fit in with the song, because the song was written by John Phillips on a winter night in Manhattan when his young wife, Michelle, was homesick for Southern California. It doesn’t make sense because it’s his wife that is longing home…
Michelle said this about the song “It sounded like a dream”.
A song about longing for California, just Envision the clear skies, sun-washed beaches and swaying palm trees...:)
The guitar melody can I say is really harmonic and just that can carry you away in wonderfulness….
"The Great Beyond" is a song by R.E.M was written specifically for the 1999 movie "Man on the Moon"
"Man on the Moon" is a 1999 American biographical film about the American entertainer Andy Kaufman.
First I can say that this song can be interpreted in more than one way. The song was written for the movie "Man on the moon" describing Andy Kaufman and his way to the top.
It's known that R.E.M's lead singer Michael Stipe that writes the most songs by the band is known for his political and social activism. And he is also really concern with the planets health how the world is today, and many of R.E.M songs is interprets in that way. He is no person who writes songs with random texts and he is someone who wants to change the world.
Let's start by saying that it was written to express Andy Kaufman's views on life.
The film is about his desire to reach the top and his total disregard for anything that stood in his way (although not much did). The song reflects the attitude he must have adopted in order to take over America. The lines "I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs" best reflects the challenge he took and also "bending spoons" reveals how he managed to achieve it. His rise to fame was meticulously planned and it goes to show that anything is possible when you put your mind to it.
Moving on to the more "deeper" meaning behind the song covering the political, social and the view of the world in R.E.M's way.
I think it's obvious that this song expresses doing something that is very hard to achieve. This would be an argument for the Andy Kaufman theory but in another way it can be describes a discussion between the song writer(Michael) and another person being the rest of the world.
"I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes All the sights that I have seen I can't believe that I believed I wished That you could see There's a new planet in the solar system There is nothing up my sleeve"
Michael is saying that those (blinding) stars, is the lies that there is nothing wrong with the planet or the society and that it's not the first time this discussion has come up.
I think that this planet stands for the sight of the world that Michael wants his discussion partner to see. What if we found a new planet in our own solar system? We would have high hopes and wishes that we might move there one day for the case that our own planet might be collapsing. And that this is the truth and there is nothing that can make it untrue.
"I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there Over my shoulder a piano falls Crashing to the ground"
"I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs"
Michael is doing a really hard job trying to tell the world something, he need to neutralize lies that is spread around every day. It's hard for many people to understand that all the things that is happening to the planet and the society because they just turn the back against it and think that someone ells takes care of it.
"I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there"
Meaning that Michael is trying new ways and arguments he never used before to make people realise everything.
"Over my shoulder a piano falls Crashing to the ground"
This means that Michael is having a breakthrough in the discussion because he's discussion partner opinion is changing. He is "breaking trough".
"And all this talk of time Talk is fine But I don't want to stay around Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes And sleep sweet dreams Me and you with wings on our feet"
I think that he expresses that talking about history is quite easy."And all this talk of time, Talk is fine" You don't hurt anybody's feelings because it has happened a long time ago, you can carefully criticize the present time finding parallels in dark ages and you can express how things have developed and come so far. Yet he says that he doesn't want to "stay around". He wants to draw conclusions for the present time and even dream sweet dreams of a future as it could be. I think that the phrase "sleep sweet dreams" is not meant literally. He could also have said "imagine if the world was like that ..." as John Lennon did in his song "Imagine" :)
"I'm breaking through I'm bending spoons I'm keeping flowers in full bloom I'm looking for answers from the great beyond"
"I'm breaking through"
Referring to what I said about the line "Over my shoulder a piano falls, Crashing to the ground" that he is changing peoples opinions.
"I'm bending spoons"
Have you tried? It's not the easiest task. It's a reference to the line "I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs" a now he is on the way to achieving that task, he is doing something impossible and then manage to do that.
"I'm keeping flowers in full bloom"
Michaels attitude is to change the world - to make it a planet where people are more important than profits. He is trying to keep alive the positive picture of his dream throughout all the critical questions of his discussion partner.
"I'm looking for answers from the great beyond"
What is "The Great Beyond" in this case? It is what Michael wants the world to be like, he is trying to convince people that there is something wrong with the planet and the world and that this "Great Beyond" is a world that is good for everyone.
"I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears Sweetest dreams of you I look into the stars I look into the moon"
"I want the hummingbirds, the dancing bears"
This expresses how free and beautiful the world can be in the "Great Beyond"
"Sweetest dreams of you"
Michael is dreaming about when his discussion partner referring to "you" is accepting all this and joins him in he's thought about "The Great Beyond".
"I look into the stars I look into the moon"
I don't really know if this means starts as the first line in the song but that wouldn't make much sense. I think that he is just creating a beautiful picture. Maybe looking into the starts means yearning that his dreams come true for him.
In the end it come to say that it's all about doing the impossible, about putting your mind to something and achieving the impossible. It's the realization that you can do anything and sustaining the realization. And I think that if you don't have a bit of this spectacle on life you wont come far...
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 can 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 over and over again and each time you listen to it you shiver through your whole body.
"Jumper" is a song by the American rock band Third Eye Blind, released on their 1997 self titled album, and written by vocalist Stephan Jenkins.
In my opinion this song is about putting the past away...
the lyrics there says are these two kids. One of them is trying to get his friend to stop thinking about suicide and is trying to convince him that "everyone has a reason to put the past away" and start over. he says that he knows it might be hard for him and that he would understand if after he helped him he didn't want to see him again. But the kid did take his own life referring to the line: "We'll he's on the table and he's gone to code And I do not think anyone knows what they are doing here And your friends have left too, you've been dismissed I never thought it would come to this"
But in the end the song says that even thought he killed himself his friend was there for him and accepted his decision because that's what's friends are for. The chorus:
"I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in And if you do not want to see me again I would understand, I would understand, I would understand"
says that he is trying to help his friend and that he is there for him and he would understand his decision.
The line:
"Everyone's got to face down the demons Maybe today, you can put the past away"
is just a sum up off the song that says that everybody have problem and in this case a troubled past that will not heal by it self in their life that they have to face and deal with or it will break them down.
Everybody need sometime a friend, a love, brother, sister mother, father or just a person that understands them that's there for them in every situation to help them, and make the best out of the situation...
So thinking that I was going to do a review of the In Flames concert but I have notice that it's not the easiest thing to do. There is a lot of part to remember from the concert and my memory is not the best, and I think ill never bring pen and paper to a concert that big.
But I can say that it was an really good concert with 4 pre bands and In Flames as the main act.
Pre bands: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE DEAD BY APRIL EVERY TIME I DIE MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER
The first pre band was good but "Every Time I Die" was not so good, the band had no teamwork and no good songs and the singer fail a few time trying to motivate the audience, and "Dead By April" is not live, will never be good live and have like 2 or 3 good songs so they did not put on a good performance. But "Killswitch Engage" put on and really good performance and they started out good with "My curse" witch is my favourite song and they ended good with a cover of "Holy Diver" witch really motivated the audience.
In Flames opened up with a strong performance of "Cloud Connected" and trough out the whole performance they had the momentum even through the less known song. The song list was really good and the only negative thing with it was that they did not play "episode 666".
Best was "Come Clarity" where it sounded better then the original recording and with a really nice background visual and firework.
The teamwork in the band was just awesome and the singer was really good with the audience.
The ending with "Alias", The Mirror's Truth", "the Quiet Place", "Take This Life" and "My Sweet Shadow" that In Flames always end the live performances with was awesome.
One negative thing with the concert was that the audience was not so much on fire, many in the audience just stood still and didn't ever sing with...
So today I'm going to see In Flames live in Malmö.
In Flames is a good melodic heavy metal band and they have a few good song, and for the last couple of weeks i have discovered a few more good song so I am looking forward to the concert.
I'm also going to try and do a concert review, i have always wanted to try and it can be fun:D
just to put up something, not my favourite in flames song but a really good one. "Delight And Angers"
though I have listen to Queen for many years I did not came across this song for about a half year ago and it strikes me now how good this song really is.
"'39" is the 39th song in the Queen studio album chronology.
The song's lyrics are a science fiction short story which concerns twenty volunteers who leave a dying Earth on a spaceship in search of new worlds to settle. They return to report success, 100 calendar years later, with only a single year passing from the volunteers' perspective (due to time dilation). The lyrics imply that the song's protagonist faces his child upon return to Earth:
"Oh so many years have gone though I'm older but a year Your mother's eyes from your eyes cry to me"
This, and the fact that all his peers and friends have died, are a terrible grief to the protagonist, as the final words insist:
"For my life Still ahead Pity me"
Brian May described the song as follows:
"It's a science fiction story. It's the story about someone who goes away and leaves his family and... because of the time dilation effect, when you go away, the people on Earth have aged a lot more than he has when he comes home. He's aged a year and they've aged 100 years. So, instead of coming back to his wife, he comes back to his daughter and he can see his wife in his daughter... a strange story. I think, also, I had in mind a story of Herman Hesse, which I think is called "The River". A man leaves his hometown and has lots of travels and then comes back and observes his hometown from the other side of the river. He sees it in a different light, having been away and experienced all those different things. He sees it in a very illuminating way, 'cause I felt a little bit like that about my home at the time as well, having been away and seen this vastly different world of rock music... totally different from the way I was brought up, and I had those feelings about home."
It's one of those song that can have a deeper meaning thou the songwriter didn't mean for it.
I think it can be interpreted in a way that when you go out on a big journey to a new world or place you get much experience and knowledge that you take in and can use in the future. And when you come home you share your experience with the people and notice that they are still the same people or have maybe changed in some way but you feel like a different person in one way or another or maybe more then one.
"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...
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.
Gary Moore is an Irish blues-rock guitarist and singer. He is an former member of the band "Thin Lizzy" but he's know mostly for his solo career.
He's one of rock's most underrated guitarists (both from a technical and compositional point of view). Gary Moore is a really good guitar player that brings such intensity and feeling trough his guitar. There is not many that can make so good blues-rock that goes right in to your soul. When the lyrics plays in some of his songs it's like the guitar starts to speak out the lyrics and it gives the lyrics so much more feeling...
"Still got the blues"
There are a few songs where the lead guitar communicates vibe and emotion better than any vocal you could apply to a song. This is one of those songs. This is one of those rarities where every note, every lick is timed, spaced, and played just perfectly, where the whole is much greater than the sum of it's parts.
The song is mainly about a guy that though it was easy to let love go, but he found out that it wasn't easy and that his love will always be in his heart ("but i still got the blues for you").
The lyrics is in a way simple but it has a really good feeling in it that makes the word really good. And when the guitar solo just kicks in after a long vocals part it just feels that the guitar just brings the whole song together and deliver the meaning in such amazing way.
This is really how you make a guitar cry and speak at the same time....
"The loner"
It not easy to feel the amazing feeling of and "instrumental" song. An instrumental song is and song with no vocals at all, it's just the instrument that talks for them self...
The guitar just sings and cries at the same time trough the whole song and it's such a beautiful melody, it truly feels like the saga of someone who's alone in the world. I wouldn't hesitate to say that it's an hauntingly(yeah, that's a word) melody.
This is one of does songs that have a real soul in it and such great passion that send shivers trough you whole body and it almost makes you want to cry because the guitar just cries trough the whole song in a so beautiful way....
just close your eyes and enjoy....
"Out In the Fields"
Lets go to one of Moore's song that is more rock to it then blues. "Out In the Fields" was written and recorded by Gary Moore and Phil Lynott (Phil formed the band Thin Lizzy). Gary Moore on vocals and guitar and Phil Lynott on bass and vocals.
Baisically saying that in war everyone is equal. Nobody has a better chance of not being killed. Therefore it is a message of peace "The cries of every nation; they're falling on deaf ears again". It's also about how so many wars/conflicts have to do with religion and race, and how stupid it all is.
The lead guitar solo performed by Moore in "Out in the Fields" has long been considered a masterpiece by electric guitarists, despite its short duration. Included in the Top 100 Guitar Solos of All Time. It starts out slowly then builds up great speed and it's a feel of harmony and above all sheer power.
"Over the Hills and Far Away"
This song is probably Gary Moore's most known song, it a song that everybody have heard sometime.
he lyrics speaks of a man that is accused for a robbery and is being imprisoned for ten years because he can not tell where he had been that night. He had been with his best friend wife that night and she prays that he will returns some that, that's for sure(referring to the line:
"Over the hills and far away, she prays he will return one day. As sure as the rivers reach the seas, back in his arms again she'll be."
And he knows that he will taste freedom again some day and he swears that he will return some day.
This is so pose to be based on a true story.
Out trough the song there is a drum play that feels so powerful and joyful that you almost want to jump to it. The drums gives away a little feeling of a military march. The solo is almost like "Out in the Field", it a short solo that begins slowly for a few seconds and then fires up big and just feels so good. The is a really good violin play in the song that gives away a good melody of joy and feeling.
A really good song that because of it's powerful vocals and music.
"Empty Rooms"
This is and really heartbreaking ballad. The lyrics really speaks for them self. It about a love that is broken up and the guy can't get her out of his mind. She is everywhere and he knows that he must be strong but his heart tells his that he is wrong. He must learn how to live without love... The term "Empty Rooms" has an dual meaning. Literally empty rooms - empty of the one you love or empty of love. Also it symbolizes the period of time in which you "learn to live without love" where ever that may be.
There is two versions off this song one "original version" and one "original long version". for me I'd say that he long version is much more better because in the middle of the song it slows down and it one of those part where you feel the power and the soul in the song.....
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
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.
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.
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.
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".
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
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...
"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:)
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"
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:)
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.
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...
Music can describe all the feeling a human can have in one way or another. When I listen to music it expose all my feeling in that lyric. Music is not just a lyric with music in it, it´s so much more. A lyric describes your inner feeling and the lyric really talks to you.
Music is the most beautiful thing in the whole world because when you listen to it you can really just sit/lie down a relax and forget all your problems for a few minutes...
just a 18 year old guy that loves music over everything else,, i can listen to everything im very open when it comes to music.:D my favorit band is obvious QUEEN<3 the music i listne the most to is the music that was written from the 60's to the end of the 80's the music was best then and will always be:D<3
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