Wednesday 28 August 2013

Kangna - Fareed Ayaz and Abu Mohammad

"सुर के लिए साँस की जरूरत होती है।"

Tuesday 20 August 2013

Marigold - Mother Falcon

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Big band rock. Superb.


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Bury all the marigold
Underneath the bedroom
As you stole two kisses from her lips
Tears were shed
And morals bled
And petals were plucked
Something in the heart beat like a drum

Is this love?
I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out
Is this love?
I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out

We kissed without hesitation
No reservations
We dangle our feet from the highest places
In the crowd of the sad
In the crowd of the mad
We are the only smiling faces

Every day and all night
Even when you're alright
I don't want to see you go
And every day and all night
'Til the morning's always bright
I don't want to let you go

The morning light was blocked by dusty, dirty blinds
And I could hear your vodka kisses shouting
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Is this love?
I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out
Is this love?
I don't know but tonight I'm gonna find out

Thursday 15 August 2013

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

Norwegian wood is a fancy name for cheap pine wood. George Harrison plays the sitar.


I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... 
She showed me her room, isn't it good, norwegian wood? 

She asked me to stay and she told me to sit anywhere, 
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a chair. 

I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine 
We talked until two and then she said, "It's time for bed" 

She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh. 
I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath 

And when I awoke, I was alone, this bird had flown 
So I lit a fire, isn't it good, norwegian wood.

Saturday 10 August 2013

I Don't Believe A Word You say, Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite

Harmonica, a Weissenborn lap-slide guitar and a disbelief in all that you say.

I see your mouth moving
But there's a circus coming out
Always busy proving
What the world is all about
It's no use looking you in the eye
I don't believe a word you say
 
Blame it on hard living
Blame it on the times
Blame it on the victims
All stumbling behind
I don't even need to look you in the eye
I don't believe a word you say
 
Don't know what to do without you
Don't know what to do with you
Used to look at you with wonder
Now I look at you and wonder
I can't even look you in the eye
I don't believe a word you say

Tuesday 6 August 2013

I Can't Dance, Genesis

Too funny. Jeans adverts and then MJ looking for his keys and discovering his fly is open.

Do the I Can't Dance walk.
I can't dance, I can't talk.
Only thing about me is the way I walk.

Sunday 4 August 2013

Big Gun, AC/DC

Where you find out that Aussies can rock. And Arnie tries to.

Mercy, Dave Matthews Band

I'd give it 5 stars just for the horns. But with the music and lyrics, it busts through the ratings.


Don’t give up, I know you can see
All the world and the mess that we’re making
Can’t give up and hope God will intercede
Come on back, imagine that we could get it together
Stand up for where we need to be
‘Cause crime won’t save or feed a hungry child
Can’t lay down and wait for a miracle to change things
So lift up your eyes, lift up your heart
Singing, mercy will we overcome this
Oh, one by one, could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I’ll try to give you what you need
Me and you, and you, and you just wanna be free
But you see, all the world is just as we’ve made it
And until we got a new world I’ve got to say
That love is not a whisper or a weakness
No, love is strong, so we got to get together
Yeah, gotta get, gotta get, gotta get
‘Til there is no reason to fight
Mercy, will we overcome this
Yeah, one by one, could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I’ll try to give you what you need
Mercy, will we overcome this
Have we come too far to turn it around
Is it ask too much to be a little bit stronger
But I wanna give you what you need
Mercy, what will become of us
Oh, one by one, could we turn it around
Maybe carry on just a little bit longer
And I’ll try to give you what you need.

Why I Am, Dave Matthews Band

Starts with a tribute to band member and sax player LeRoi Moore. From the album Big Whiskey and the GrooGruxKing.



From Relix:
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King pays overt homage to Moore in its title, since “Grux” is an old, nonsensical nickname some of the band members used to call each other that finally stuck to the sax player. It also plays covert tribute by being largely steeped in an awareness of mortal fragility—although you could say that just about every other collection of lyrics in the Dave Matthews oeuvre, too. (If the Old Testament writers hadn’t gotten around to coining the phrase eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die, Matthews surely would have.) The record is steeped not just in feelings about a band member’s death but also the lingering depression afflicting post-Katrina New Orleans, where the final recording sessions took place in the first quarter of this year.

“Spare a couple of tunes, lyrically, it’s a pretty dark album,” grants the band leader, “but I don’t think that’s unusual for me. But there’s also a real joy in the performance of it. There’s no real point in mourning all the sadness and suffering in the world. Whereas if you acknowledge all the things that are happening in the world and you fight them as if it’s your first priority, then you still are allowed to laugh maniacally at it all and dance like a madman. And so this is my therapy, to sing about the end of the world and dance. We don’t find solutions in despair, we’ll find solutions in the defiance of it. All we have to do is turn the TV on or open the newspaper to see how much disaster and horror there is. Everybody needs a little horn section.”

Did he just use world suffering, theodicy and the problems of evil and pain as justification for sticking a big ole brass section on the new album?

Come Together, Aerosmith

Yes, it's a Beatles song. But no one does ripped vocals better than Steve Tyler. For once, the cover is better than the original. Every time the radio plays the opening guitar and drums riff, I have to turn the volume up.