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Lobster What else.......!
B-52
The B-52's on SNL, January 26, 1980, their debut appearance You can see here an early example of guitarist Ricky Wilson's signature tuning and missing strings that helped give the B-52's their "quirky sound." Unfortunately, Ricky's death at the age of 32 due to complications from AIDS cut short what was promising to be an interesting career (a death that hit the band hard). If you want to see the set they did on SNL the entire episode is on the internet archives. 'Rock Lobster' starts at 24:19 and 'Dance This Mess Around' starts at 1:03:04. If you're into the B-52's, both performances are a great watch. You can hear the audience really into the band during 'Dance This Mess Around'. Enjoy.
(Forget) Cause you're gonna sit on the face when I'm not there!
(Forget) Cause you're gonna sit on the face when I'm not there!
Be the cool soundtrack........ so on that note.
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Psycho Killer
(The text is then more harmless than expected.... However, the song is already cool)
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh-oh-oh
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ay-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya, ooh
You start a conversation, you can't even finish it
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh-oh-oh
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ay-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya
Ce que j'ai fait, ce soir-là
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir-là
Réalisant mon espoir
Je me lance vers la gloire, okay
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh-oh-oh
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ai-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya, ooh
Released 46 years ago today
Talking Heads: 77, the debut album by the Talking Heads, featuring this song Psycho Killer.
#punkrockhistory
Things are not always as they seem. One leads and the other controls from below..... when the servant controls his master only on the basis of the master's desires, the servant is the master, nevertheless the illusion is what is seen.
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In the realm of digital promises without fulfilment.... only surface with the illusion of personal connection..... sweet we let others live our passion without limitations everything only two dimensional.
Real sweet sad......little dirty secrets publicly dreamed.
There is a time in life when everything fits, but at some point we start to emphasise only the downsides and turn the beauty of life into endless attention to small, annoying details.
At some point, we are alone and see ourselves as failures. But the problem is not around us, it is within us.
We have somehow forgotten that life is a gift and that we should celebrate it and not struggle with it.
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Collecting stones is one of the most beautiful ways to pass the time, in the here and now. Only those who know that they cannot ultimately own things learn to appreciate life. Even life is only a temporary loan.
All the stones I have ever collected accompany me until they are stones again without me, without ever having known that they were part of my life. Only the gravestone knows your name.
Sport, sweaty bodies, toned muscles, people at the limit. Man-making line with self-optimisation fetish..... Pain, pain, pain, perfection unattainable.
The dream of a perfect body in the world of decay is reaching for the stars .... Decay is what ultimately awaits us as stardust. We are stardust that lives and decays in an eternal cycle of transformation.
Iron, water, carbon and all the substances that we are plus the madness of the randomness of life.
In this sense, shape your substances until you are transformed.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
The song is like a gentle breeze in summer that lovingly caresses my ear.
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Cool! What else......!
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
There are so many interpretations of walk on by that couldn't be more different. The variance makes it a journey through a sound carpet which always uses the same yarn but has different colours.
It is undisputed that the version of dionne warwick sixty years ago is unrivalled.
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Here is a compilation of the colours woven with the same starting yarn.
Dionne Warwick
“That a broken heart is blind.”
Black Keys
Little Black Submarines - Black Keys (Lindsey Cohen Cover)
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (STAY HIGH)
What else!
In a world full of madness, being high is not the most insane thing in the world.
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RJD2
More then sound......!
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It's like witchcraft .....
A little flower sprang from the ashes.
Where I always liked the ashes better, yes, and I like flowers.
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What I don't like to see anymore though are people with band t-shirts which they have never listened to, what's with the design beats sound, sad smile!
Forget women in music history who were the pioneers of rock'n'roll, Rosetta Tharpe.
Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneer of rock'n'roll. With her guitar playing and stage presence, she inspired many young men who shaped a new era of pop music in the 1950s. Despite this, the African-American musician is almost forgotten today.
In the 30s and 40s, the gospel singer with the electric guitar was a true rock star in the USA. Many of the young men who established the new style of music in the early 50s with throaty vocals, hard riffs and expressive body movements heard and admired her, explains Gayle Wald.
Courage in times of segregation
The American and English scholar published the biography "Shout Sister Shout" about Rosetta Tharpe in 2007. During segregation in the USA, the African-American woman showed courage, says Wald. For example, Rosetta Tharpe took the Jordenaires - a white vocal group - on tour as support.
"Rosetta Tharpe was clever in the way she tried to deal with segregation. The Jordenaires, for example, had to prove themselves to an African-American audience and live up to their expectations. In the 50s, she had a female singing group, The Rosettes, to accompany her. They were young women. Rosetta was in her mid-40s at the time and she made sure that these young women never had to present themselves in a patronising or stereotypical way on stage. For example, when appearing on American television, they were to stand in a backdrop with a hay cart like in the countryside and the women were to wear headscarves. For Rosetta Tharpe, this represented the stereotype of the black woman as a slave in the fields; it had nothing to do with emancipated, creative female artists. She rejected the headscarves for her singers and prevailed."
On stage with Little Richard
In his memoirs, Little names Richard Tharpe as one of his great musical role models. He met his idol at the age of 14. And Tharpe - impressed by the teenager's musical talent - invited him to come on stage at one of her concerts, says Wald:
"She got him on stage and paid him to perform. It meant a lot to him that he was recognised by someone like her and encouraged to carry on. And who knows, maybe they both saw each other as sexually transgressive performers. Even if Rosetta wasn't bisexual or had relationships with women. The fact that her guitar playing was perceived as masculine changed Rosetta's relationship to femininity from people's point of view. She was queer in many different ways for her audience."
Empty church and anonymous grave
On 9 October 1973, Rosetta Tharpe, aged just 58, died of a second stroke. She had previously had a leg amputated due to diabetes. The church was only half full at her funeral - and she was buried in an anonymous grave.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Manchester, 1964)
Southern Avenue
Southern Avenue is a five-piece American blues and soul blues band from the United States. It was founded in 2015 and named after a street in Memphis that leads from the easternmost part of the city limits to "Soulsville", the original home of Stax Records. Rock 103 described them as "the most talked-about band in Memphis". ....
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One day I was sitting on the beach, the sun shining, the sky blue, the sea as far as the horizon, listening to this song on a continuous loop until my dark shadows faded.
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It is never too late to just let go
いつも驚かされるのは、良くも悪くも人の行動だ。
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誰かを喜ばせるために、自分ができることは必ずある。
Bloody hell, he's so right!
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From my side, I like to live in a utopia to make the world a better place!
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The jerks can then live in their destropy, a world full of hatred, envy, resentment and propaganda, I won't put my mind through the stress of always being upset about anything and everything..
Just between us, our brain is a fascinating orgasm that lies completely in the dark and helps us to make the world more colourful when we have real humanity in us. It sorts the world for us and creates patterns, and only those who recognise that patterns need to be broken are the ones who can shape the world for the better.
HER ...... ROCKET MAN
HER
The story of HER is characterised by massive successes and tragic strokes of fate, by triumph and tragedy in equal measure - but ultimately it is above all the story of a friendship: that between Victor Solf and Simon Carpentier.
German-born Victor and Frenchman Simon met back in 2007 - they were still at school - and the two hit it off like brothers. When they started making music together, their sound was equally influenced by classic soul à la Otis Redding and hip-hop from the post-"Yeezus" phase. They gave their project the name HER in 2015.
Their music became instantly recognisable when the early song "Five Minutes" was used as the soundtrack for Apple's "Shot on iPhone" campaign - which ultimately earned them more than 6.7 million streams on Spotify. The duo from Rennes with Franco-German roots then released the EP series "Her Tape #1" and "Her Tape #2", which were peppered with highlights such as "Quite Like", "Union" and "Her" - which in turn meant more than 20 million additional Spotify streams for HER. Behind the seductively provocative visuals that adorned their covers was a subtly dreamy newer wave sound, minimalist, somewhere between pop and soul, in which jazz elements also flickered - and so the two best friends circled the globe several times, presented the EPs live and also made a decent wave in the States.
So much for the numbers, the impressive successes of the last two or three years - because in the midst of all the hustle and bustle, Simon lost a long, hard, silent battle against cancer, which hardly anyone outside his closest circle of family and friends realised: he died a few months ago, in August 2017.
"The whole of last year was incredibly hard because Simon was so unwell," reports Victor. "For example, it was incredibly difficult for him to do our tour - but he also thought it was important to carry on and give concerts! He just didn't want to give up, he didn't want to stop... he battled with this illness for six years. And we didn't actually talk about cancer or death that much during that time: We wanted to talk about life instead. And now, I think it's my job to continue this line and this approach. It's really difficult for me, but I'm doing my best - for myself and for him."
With the support of his late friend, at least in spirit, Victor went back into the studio and continued working on their debut album "HER", which will be released by Republic Records in 2018. He put the finishing touches to the existing songs and also returned to the stage in between: among other things, he played a stunning, deeply moving set at the Rock En Seine Festival in Paris - a festival, incidentally, where HER had always wanted to perform. More shows followed all over Europe and then the album was as good as finished: "Most of the songs were already finished beforehand; they just needed some fine-tuning on the vocals, the background vocals...", he reports. "It was just important to me that Simon's voice, Simon's vision and his guitar playing remained virtually untouched and really sounded exactly how he wanted them to in the final version. I worked on that."
With the single "We Choose", HER have already released a significant album harbinger in advance: Simon's unmistakable voice spreads out over an extremely minimalist, light and smooth production, meaning that his presence can be felt immediately and his signature is unmistakable. "The strange thing is that this was the very first song we wrote as HER - and also the last one I recorded with Simon," explains Victor. "We wrote it just as our previous band was coming to an end. We wanted to make a real statement with it: that you can't lose hope, that you have to hold on to what you love. We were working on new ideas every day back then, and this song just stood out because we were also about holding on and carrying on - after all, there were people back then who thought we were going to stop completely now that the other band had ended. Well, we didn't stop. And I think now is the perfect time to release 'We Choose': Because even when things are bad, there's still one thing - hope. The song is kind of the prologue to the next chapter. A chapter that will hopefully continue the way he would have wanted it to."
While the band started this new chapter with a sold-out concert at the Bataclan in Paris, the music of HER remains the best and most tangible proof of how unique the chemistry and bond between the two band founders was.
"It's just extremely important that this album comes out," Victor concludes. "It's the only way for me to come to terms with his death. This is music forever, for life."