Enya's "How Can I Keep from Singing" ~ 3 versions

As featured in this year's Xmas campaign for posh nosh supermarket Waitrose.

Here's the Waitrose ad (1 min)
I love this ad. I think it's really well done. Enchanting...



Here's Enya's official (rarely seen) promo video for the track. The Ireland here looks almost identical to rural Wales. Wales tends not to have churches though, it has some rather Eastern-looking "chapels"...



Here are shots from the Hubble Space Telescope set to the same tune:~

Randy Crawford: Almaz ~ Kingdom Hearts

I think this is a really beautiful tune...

No official promo was produced for this song, released 1986 in the UK only where it got to number 4.

The real Almaz was a refugee from Africa or Palestine I don't recall where... and this song written, recorded and released to mark the occasion of Almaz's wedding...

Pink Floyd: Mother

Purloined from Crushed

Skin: Nothing But

Great song. Great vid. Notice the chief psychiatrist's patronizing cheery interest. As affected by doctors worldwide...

Madonna: You'll See

This in my opinion is her best vocal bar none:

Stereophonics: Maybe Tomorrow

This is good. Once it finally does get going.

I never knew anything about Stereophonics until just now when I saw this embedded at Buster's blog

Madonna: Justify My Love

The above reminds me of this one (hotel corridors and everything...)

Radiohead: No Surprises

I'M AMAZED every day to find out more and more how many radiohead songs I know and love!

Here's another classic:

Radiohead: Karma Police

OK, everyone who HATES RADIOHEAD, tell me here!

REM: One

Purloined from Oceanshaman

This is a v good tune:

Elton John: Candle in the Wind 1997

Commemorating the shock death of Diana, Princess of Wales that dreadful week at the end of summer 1997, many people opined that this was tacky, but I quite enjoyed the mass-hysteria of it all...

Elton John ft. Blue: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word

This song got really slagged off on its rerelease a couple of years ago... but I thought it was really good. The melancholy tune, not to mention the words: rhyming "word" with "absurd": classic!

Elton John: Sacrifice (Superman Smallville video)

Michael Chapdelaine: Bach Prelude (on guiar)

this is well worth hearing...

Ave Maria: Techno Mix

Although this is very roman catholic (the antichrist's religion), I do like this... and as the saying goes: the Devil's Got All the Best Tunes..!!

Bach Prelude Techno Mix

OK this is a bit amateurish, but I love the tune...

Chris de Burgh: Lady in Red

Isn't this an amazing tune? Even people who cannot speak English have come up to him and said (through an interpreter, I'd assume) that though they could not understand the words ever bit of emotion comes through... and of course it does...

Kaoma: Lambada

... isn't this one classic..?!?...



Here's the lyrics:


Chorando se foi quem um dia so me fez chorar
Chorando se foi quem um dia so me fez chorar

Chorando estara ao lembrar de um amor
Que um dia nao soube cuidar
Chorando estara ao lembrar de um amor
Que um dia nao soube cuidar

A recordacao vai estar com ele aonde for
A recordacao vai estar pra sempre aonde for

Danca sol e mar guardarei no olhar
O amor faz perder encontrar
Lambando estarei ao lembrar que este amor
Por um dia um instante foi rei

A recordacao vai estar com ele aonde for
A recordacao vai estar pra sempre aonde for

Chorando estara ao lembrar de um amor
Que um dia nao soube cuidar

Cancao riso e dor melodia de amor
Um momento que fica no ar

I-I-I
Losenta Lambada

Which mean:

Chorando if one day who was so made me cry
Chorando if one day who was so made me cry

Chorando estara to remember a love
That one day could not care
Chorando estara to remember a love
That one day could not care

The remembrance vai to be where he is
The remembrance vai be always get where for

Danca sun and sea in guardarei look
The love is losing find
Lambando will to remember that this love
For one day a moment was king

The remembrance vai to be where he is
The remembrance vai be always get where for

Chorando estara to remember a love
That one day could not care

Song laughter and pain melody of love
A moment that is in the air

I-I-I
Losenta Lambada

And here's what WIKIDPEDIA says about the band Kaoma:

At the end of the 1989 summer, a couple of French business men came to Brazil and bought the musical rights of about 300 lambada songs. They went back to France, and created the Kaoma Band and generated a lot of money on marketing, turning Lambada a world-wide known style, reaching even the far east of Japan in which Lambada is danced until nowadays.

Lambada entered the global mainstream when the French pop group Kaoma recorded a number one worldwide summer hit "Lambada" which sold 5 million singles in 1989. In Portuguese the Lambada song is called Chorando se foi which means the one who left crying.

In the music video, there were two young children, named Chico and Roberta, performing the lambada dance. They shortly thereafter started their own musical career.

The Lambada song was actually an unauthorized translation of the song Llorando se fue (1982) (which means: the one who left crying), from the Bolivian group Los K’jarkas

(Bend it Like Beckham) Hot Hot Hot

Very Anglo-Asian hot

Everything But The Girl: Missing (Club Mix)

This, however, is probably their greatest and most memorable hit:~

Everything But The Girl: I Don't Wanna Talk About It

This one got to number one time back in the late 80s (if I remember rightly...)

a v nice tune.

The group's name, btw, comes from their original ad in Melody Maker or the NME magazine "everything but the girl" (ie we have a group put together but we need a sweet singin' vocalist) and she does sing sweet...

Beatles: Fool on the Hill

This vid purloined from Whitenoise's blog...

Specials AKA: Free Nelson Mandela

It was Mandela's 90th birthday last week and this is the tune that reminds me most of him...

Moby: Go

This is his best and most memorable track (I think)... featuring the dreamlike theme from that old tellyshow Twin Peaks...

Orange: Best Mix

There are gerzillions of versions of this out, but I think this is the best. You need to give it nearly a minute to get going, then it doesn't stop (made me feel like I'd been at the disco biscuits again...)

Cygnus X: Orange Theme

This is one of my favourite tunes from olden times:

DJ Tiesto: DJ as god

Barbra Streisand sings "love theme from A Star is Born" Evergreen IN FRENCH ~ haha!!

REM: Everybody Hurts

This is their best tune and vid of all time...

REM: Losing My Religion

Intrusive Query of the Day: Have you ever wept bitterly as this song played out around you...?

Black Eyed Peas: Where is the Love

What's most remarkable about this song (I think) is that it's the only pop song I can think of that makes a direct appeal to God Almighty:

Father, Father help us, send some guidance from above;
people got me questioning ~ WHERE IS THE LOVE?

Coldplay: Fix You

I'm posting this for someone special because they say this song reminds them of me(!) And not a pun from the title, either.

Also I'm pretty SURE I used to go to 24-hour parties called The Warp at that club that's in that rail-tunnel. It's near Waterloo station, just round the corner from the London Dungeon, the capacity crowd is over 3000 and the club is huge!

The second scene shows a road sign mentioning King's Cross. This has long been a place of open despair: well known for easy prostitution and the overt sale and use of hard drugs and a mainline rail station where I actually have seen the proverbial lost-looking teenager with a packed-up bag and seemingly nowhere to go and of course I did nothing (what could I do?) but thought "what on earth are you doing here..??"... and wondered, if they did stay, how long the shadows of the place would take to get at them...

The third scene on the bridge shows a very famous view across the Thames at night...

Duffy: Warwick Avenue ~ official vid

Here's another that's been going round and round in my head...

Leona Lewis: Better in Time

This song has been going round and round my head... I couldn't post it up because some idiot(s) who have posted the proper video to Youtube had "embedding disabled by request"~ duh!?! Why do people do that?? Anybody know..??

Sam Sparro: Black and Gold

This is such a catchy tune; see how you like it...

Madonna, Britney, Christina ~ Like A Virgin

This is from the 2003 American Music awards. I was so badly addicted to heroin at this time that nothing like this could possibly have invaded my consciousnesss... Saw this for the first time today!

Lennie de Ice: We are Ie

Aka "we are E"... we are E... we are eeing together: etc etc. from that oldskool time:~

Metalheadz (Goldie): Terminator

This was one of the earliest cuts by the artist (who even got a part acting supremely badly on EastEnders) subsequently known (after his exotic dentalwork) as GOLDIE.

This tune is one of very, very few that I specifically remember from a specific party at a specific time... "we're talking about things I haven't done yet:~" then those timestretched crackrushing beats: those coincided with a VERY strong adam and eve MDA/MDMA dome/snowball pill coming on and the lights and the sound and the whooshing and rusing~ hahaHAA!!

Urban Shakedown: Some Justice

This is a classic tune from 1991ish. The sample "wooo-eeeeeee-ooo-aah: we live as one family" is actually sung by a man (but speeded up) from the old garage track: "war and drugs are everywhere ~ and it's getting so hard to breathe the air... now-eeee-aaarr-oooaaah-yeah-wooo-eeee-ooo-roooar-oorooar-yeah, we live as one famileee..." I tried Googling the lyric but got no satisfactory answer... it is not M People's Someday, it far predates that... if anybody has an answer, please leave a comment

Gat Decor: Passion

This is a classic tune from the early 90s... not so keen on the overall tune but love the break with those reverberating resonations

Science Lab: Flesh and Blood

Love this. For the Shakespearean quotations. For the tune. For the "memories" :-?...

Boy George: Crying Game

Featured in the Irish film of the same name, this is one of his top tunes... and what a wonderful voice!

Madonna ft Justin Timberlake & Timbaland: Four Minutes

4 Minutes... from Madge's new album from the new record label that agreed to shell out £8 million an album for three new albums over ten years (she'll be an old age pensioner by the time the last one's delivered!)... HARD CANDY!

I LOVE THIS TUNE!

Marianne Faithfull with Johnny Marr: As Tears Go By (Albert Hall 1999)

This is a cracking performance of the classic song:

David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull: I've Got You Babe

The 1970s: what a decade! This is a bit of a rarity from way back when...

Michael Jackson: Another Part of Me

From 1988: Wow, the hysteria! Pop stars love all that ~ the worship, the adoration... this is like one long Pepsi commercial (or Michael Jackson commercial) ... it's a good performance though ... see his nose was melting, even back then...

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

THIS VERSION PLAYS! This McCartney-written song far far FAR outstrips the dreadful Jackson-written Girl Is Mine (the 2 duets were recorded in vice versa exchange at the same time in 1982; released 1983)... this is a great video... wasn't Linda McCartney lovely?... look closely for Michael Jackson's "lover" cameo played by his SISTER LaToya (see! he was weird even back then!!)

Rolling Stones: Can't Always Get What You Want (from Rock & Roll Circus)

This is a classic song from a classic "underground" (well it wasn't a hit, despite its stars!) 1960s countercultural movie event thing...

YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT (but sometimes you get what you need ~ yeah!)

Kamal Addaraarachchi - Unmaada Wu

This is Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) cinema love music... purloined from Keshi's blog...

Marianne Faithfull: The Balad of Lucy Jordan

This is from her acclaimed Broken English album of the very early 80s... including the title song (about the Bader-Meinhoff gang; quote "say it in broken English," ~ Astrid Proll... this number's a bit more whimsical but a nice little song. Have a listen:~

Donna Summer: I Feel Love (techno remix)

I've no idea WHOSE "techno remix" this might be, or what year so my sincere apologies, cannot help you there. What I remember about this song was coming across it at my friend's house and being entranced by the first pop record I'd ever heard without proper words that still sounded good ~ no! Better!! Than most ordinary songs...

Donna Summer: Dinner With Gershwin

This song, with its tunelessly funky spiralling down bit, had wiped clean out of my mind until the radio played it at an unearthily late hour of last night... 1987... Donna Summer

Blancmange: Living on the Ceiling

Purloined from Crushed by Ingsoc's blog...

Alexei Sayle: Ello John Got a New Motor?

The official promovid was nowhere to be found on Youtube so to save you having to watch the "artist" (a comedian) performing on Top of the Pops); have a look at this carcrashing video instead...

Thompson Twins: Doctor Doctor (Micky D 2007 Remix)

I'm pretty sure this was the first single my brother ever purchased for himself. (He bought it in 1984: some EEJUT has disabled embedding on the original mix, but this is the same promovid...) The first record we ever bought was by Alexi Sayle... we got it for Mumzy on Mother's Day... if it's there it'll be hereabove... For the Thompson Twins wikipedia article click here...

Mamas and Papas: Creeque Alley

This is absolutely classic 1960s over-coloured tv... dunno why but American stuff from this era of telly survives far better, is far more watchable than British. American TV at this era had more lines (the current 525/whatever in non-HD) whereas British was the old 425 lines (it's now 625 and HD is 1080. wow you really wanted to know all that yeah I know the numbers are out but I'm not a TV technician am i?... right here goes. Full Technicolor!

Mamas and the Papas: Creeque Alley Matt Mix

This is quite a good renewed version (original vocals). Sorry nothing to watch however...

Scott McKenzie: San Fransisco

I really used to believe all this crap with all my heart. Peace and love and chemical dreams. If you've ever tripped out high upon higher and sublime upon sublime there is no way of bringing the beauty of the experience back with you... I once had a friend down who brought some cocaine. I did some lines and was soon stuck to the ceiling. I had tickets for a rave in south London. He was too wasted to go. So I had to negotiate an hour and a half nightbus ride all the way down. By Trafalgar Square I was eeing out on 2 pills as well and my eyes such massive discs I couldn't read the bus time tables and had to tell passers-by I'd "forgotten my reading glasses" (how embarrassing)... then I arrived around 3pm. Security let me straight in I'd obviously taken all my drugs (indeed I had: felt like I was flying by this point)... first person I encountered was a middle-aged woman in a ball gown swaying back and forth in the foyer (Brixton Academy: a venue for 5000) I told her: "you are so cool". We subsequently made friends. Watching this video and seeing how stuck in the neverending moment of bliss some "flower kids" are I remember this lady having to tell me: "there's the party. Then the party's over. You have to accept that." But I never could. I wanted happiness to last for ever...

Mamas and the Papas: California Dreaming

Not sure who first released the tune but this is the best version in my opinion. Also massive Mama Cass is well funky

Taffy: I Love My Radio...

She wasn't Welsh, as far as I know, but an Italian model who'd always wanted to put out a record. And this was her first and only attempt and a top five hit. Radio Luxembourg played it regularly, but the BBC's Radio 1, which, in the 1980s was the single most powerful force in British pop, refused to playlist it unless she rerecorded, altering the line "my midnight radio" to "my DJ's radio". Why? Because Radio One switched off at midnight! Those were the days! When people listened on AM (Radio Luxembourg had the most powerful transmitter in the world: a million kilowatts of power blasting music all over Europe, but most specifically to the United Kingdom)... yes and Radio One used to shut down at 00:00 hrs!

The Specials: Ghost Town...

This is another absolute classic of the 1980s... utterly no idea what chart position it got to, but this was around for ages and ages...

Robbie Neville: C'est La Vie

Anyone else remember this from the late 80s? Robbie Neville was a record producer; this was the one single he released (just for the heck of it, so the story goes...) it got to number 2 in the UK...

Madonna: White Heat

Best unreleased track by far from 1986's True Blue album...

Madonna: Who's That Girl?

There's a saying, that most people have forgotten more about Madonna's life than is worth remembering of their own ("yeah: speak for yourself, mate," I can hear you retort)... well who remembers this? From 1987... soundtrack from her flop movie of the same title... (I always thought when she writes her autobiography (I'll ghostwrite for her! For a 60% cut...) she should call it I'M THAT GIRL ...

Dolly Parton: Jolene

This is absolute classic. Not only the song but the "patter" before it... most amusing... if this was part of a TV special she did over here in the 1980s I'm sure I saw it all 1st time round...

Gabriella Cilmi: Sweet About Me

EXCELLENT STUFF! This has been wafting out everywhere... from kebab shops, sandwich stalls, grocers, laundrettes etc etc... Sweet About Me... if you're reading this on foreign shores and it's not come your way yet, take my word: it will!

Captain Sensible: Glad It's All Over

This one I remember from the time I used to see my Mum every other weekend and go driving back on Sunday night with the Bruno Brookes Top 40 (surely the top-rated radio show in British history... you could wander about and everybody'd have it on, late Sunday afternoons)... I presumed this song was about the aftermath of nuclear war. Seems to have been filmed in Camden Town (or does anyone know any better..?) It's a really good tune ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Origin of Love

Purloined from Wat's blog...

Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

This is one of her best tunes...

Madonna: Hung Up

I think this exceeds Like a Prayer and Vogue as Madonna's best track ever...

Staxx: Joy

A chart "miss" this is hailed nowadays as a "1994 UK club classic" (in other words, an "underground" hit ~ haha)... Audrey's latest post reminded me of this as "Carol" (the singer) was a friend of a friend (never even met her she came from Leicester)... all we all wanted this to go zooming up the charts but it never happened... As I was saying to Audrey only today I have known so many singers, actors and other creatives in my time... some really did have "something"... but that "something" the talent is only the 1% of success... the other 99% is what hard work, a good management team and a clued-up record company do for you!

Liza Minelli: Losing My Mind

This is the only Liza Minelli track I know... but it is quite good: (been going round my head for several days...)

Animal Crackers - The Tongue feat. Dudley Perkins

Animal Crackers - The Tongue feat. Dudley Perkins

Purloined from Bimbimbie's blog!...

Madonna: The Power of Goodbye

This is a good track: specially for Audrey...

Michael Jackson: Stranger in Moscow

This is a pretty good performance of one of Jackson's very best new (as in post Bad/Thriller/etc) songs.... have a good watch... and boy can he move...!

JoBoxers: Just Got Lucky

This purloined from Salty Miss Jill... great stuff...! ;->...

Sigur Ros: Hoppipola

This purloined from Anna's Stories...

David Usher: Crazy

From Montreal summer 2007... this tune I like... v compelling. Purloined from Deb's blog... Actually: either it's one of those tunes that's so superior... you think you've known it for decades... or it's been subliminally spinning round my head for the past year-and-a-half...

Kraftwerk: The Model

This is a classic... but the singing!

Madonna: Hung Up

Age of Love: Age of Love

This is probably THEE alltime trance classic... this is a version of the Jam and Spoon mix but not as good as below... the video's great though... and I know it cuts off in the end... sorry... nothing I could do 'bout that...

Age of Love: Age of Love - Jam and Spoon classic mix

THIS is the alltime classic mix... sorry no visuals:... Play this one's sound and the top one's video:~ best of both worlds... Did anyone ever go to a party called Return to the Source? This reminds me of there...

Goldie - Inner City Life

This is a classic "drum & bass" tune... watch it for lots of London-tastic imagery...

Fridge - Paradise

This one's a classic. Young or old, open the curtains, crank cup the volume: clear out the cobwebs... If you listen to BBC World Service radio you'll note the waa-aaaah vocal being used on a trail for a documentary about "sex and the Islamic girl"... but I know this tune from 1999. Very "celestial"... TOP VOLUME PLEASE:

TechnoStarWars

This is good... esp. when, at about 3:31~ into that phunky-discordant Hardcore Choir "thang"... This is fantastic... a home-made Starwars (new films) moving clipsathon in time to techno "Old Spice" music soundtrack... don't be put off by initial stills; this is nearly all motion picture...

Beethoven: Fuer Elise ~ Techno Remix

Mozart: Requiem I

Doesn't the conductor look like a cross between mad professor - head torturer and horror film butler..?!? This is one of my favourite bits of classical music...

Labi Siffre: Something Inside So Strong

I know this one's been up before; but this is the original video...

Bodysnatch: Euphony (Just 4U London)

NO video and this isn't the mix I like but ... wow I remember it from that time 1992...haha!

The Prodigy: Everybody in the Place

I remember this coming on at a "rave" in 1992... but by that time no selfrespecting "rave" DJ would play the Prodigy unless it was disguised on white label (which it surely was)...

Такого как Путин Takogo kak Putin "You Must Be Like Putin"

This came out as a single, by a mysterious Russian girl group, just before Russia's last elections. The words tell how Putin is the ideal husband, lover and military leader... Vladmir Putin the Ideal Man! It has to be said: Putin is the highest-octane leader we have in the world today. Or to put it another way; the world's most charismatic dictator!