Jackie Evancho on America's Got Talent..!

MY GOOD BLOGGER FRIEND SWEDEN passed on this link to me. From America's Got Talent; Jackie Evancho, a little girl with the voice of Maria Callas!

Suzanna Vega: Luka

Perfect ft Grace: Not Over Yet

I love this choon...

Goa-ish mix

Wet Yourself

FROM CLUB WET YOURSELF
In 2007, which shows how little dance music has changed...
Wet Yourself at the Aquarium is in Old Street, famous for Moorfields Eye Hospital (which is why I went down there last time) and City Roads crisis detox centre - somewhere I hope never ever to go again. It was the pits. They had to give me extra methadone, I was so sick.
Watching this video I can smell dry ice, which smells like stawberries, cigarettes (which shows when I last went out) and mixed perfumes... yumyumyummmy...
Something in me would like to go to a dance party "one last time"... ecstasy is like crack but way way nicer. And non-addictive. Ecstasy is the only drug I'd like to take with my Mum.

Acen: Close Your Eyes (Optokonfusion)

I REMEMBER THIS TUNE FROM 1991-2 when the style of music would have been called hardcore (rave).
Nowadays it's known as "old school" - which doesn't half make ME feel OLD...
If you want a bit of old rave music listen to this, it has all the gimmicks. Electronic voice telling you to "just close your eyes, forget your name, forget the world, forget the people... go insane"
And that slightly depressing vibe that fills a lot of electronica of the time.





Beagle Mix: I like the fractal on this one

Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque

Unusual modern choral track. I love good choir music:~


This, the Concorde Choir version, I reckon is sublime:

Michael Jackson: Give In To Me

I dunno why, but this track from MJ's Dangerous album (far better than Bad in my opinion) keeps going around and around my head.

Have a listen and a look:

Michael Jackson: Morphine

MICHAEL JACKSON: MORPHINE
... this ain't bad .....

Contains the line: Demerol, he's on Demerol. Ironic considering Michael was on more than just Demerol (pethidine) when he died ...

Celine Dion vs Mariah Carey vs Leona Lewis

I TEND TO MIX THESE SONGS UP BECAUSE THEY'RE BOTH ABOUT BEING LONELY:
Incidentally I think Whitney Houston knocks Carey out of the ballpark, and Barbra Streisand has a far nicer timbre than Dion. But there ya go...

As for Leona Lewis ~ how a girl with a voice like this ~ hear below ~ can record such average material that just does not show off her voice at all. I do not understand.

She performed these songs on the X-factor. Then they let her co-write her albums. Which makes her and her managers more money (a lot more), but that's all. The songs are nowhere near as good. But again, there you go...

But there you go...

WHICH DO YOU THINK IS BEST?

CELINE DION: ALL BY MYSELF



MARIAH CAREY: WITHOUT YOU



LEONA LEWIS: ALL BY MYSELF



LEONA LEWIS: WITHOUT YOU

Michael Jackson: Bad (full version)

FULL 16-MINUTE VERSION OF THE FULL VIDEO:

Part 1



Part 2



8 min shortened version:

GLEE TV SHOW ~ LIKE A PRAYER!

GLEE Club ~ there is no such thing as a Glee club here in the UK. I mean, I didn't even know "Glee" was a generic name for theatre groups till I accidentally fell across a passage in a Bette Davis biography that mentioned her own schooltime Glee associations... Here, "Glee" Club would be called the School Drama Society... Anyway, the TV show has been running here since late last year. I think the actress who plays Sue is amazing... some of the musical performances are pretty good too...





Glee cast: Like a Prayer (sound only) ...

50 Cent: A Baltimore Love Thing

THIS is a track about heroin. You can read the words at Muddy Waters' blog (click here)

Madonna: Live to Tell

I had never seen this vid till today, though I love the song...

Liza Minnelli: Losing My Mind

Here's the official promo video for this Pet Shop Boys-produced track:

Wiley: Wearing My Rolex

I really like this tune but think it might sound better without words...

Leona Lewis: Better in Time (Jason Nevins Mix)

Oasis: The Importance of Being Idle

This is by far my favourite Oasis track:

Lost Tribe ~ Gamemaster (Original Mix)

I purloined this tune from Crushed ...

Goa Trance

THIS ONE HAS (relatively) good music (and you'd not believe how much crap I had to wade through to find it...)

When I was on this "vibe" I literally felt trance-energy welling through the pavements.

So imagine how surprised I was, feeling the vibe was dead (to me) to find footage of parties like this from just 2 years ago.

Some of this looks suspiciously more like Thailand than Goa, and one of the parties is patently on African soil!




This is one vibed-up party. Japanese girls on Eeeeeeeeee were the very best...

BBC Stars/Lou Reed: Perfect Day

I CHALLENGE YOU to watch this through three times then try not to go through the rest of the day humming it...

Stars of the video are (lines indicate verse breaks):
Lou Reed
Bono
Skye Edwards (from Morcheeba)

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David Bowie
Suzanne Vega
Elton John
Sir Andrew Davis

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Boyzone
Lesley Garrett
Lou Reed
Burning Spear
Bono
Sir Thomas Allen
Brodsky Quartet

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Heather Small (from M People)
Emmylou Harris
Tammy Wynette
Shane MacGowan
Sheona White (tenor horn player)

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Dr. John
David Bowie
Robert Cray
Huey (from Fun Lovin' Criminals)

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Ian Broudie (from The Lightning Seeds)
Gabrielle
Dr. John
Evan Dando (from The Lemonheads)
Emmylou Harris

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Courtney Pine (soprano saxophone player)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis
Bono

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Brett Anderson (from Suede)
Visual Ministry Choir
Joan Armatrading
Laurie Anderson
Heather Small
Tom Jones
Heather Small
Lou Reed



Here's the famous scene from Trainspotting...



I THINK THIS IS A BETTER EXCERPT FROM TRAINSPOTTING; IT STARTS LATER IN THE DEALER'S FLAT AND DOESN'T CUT OFF PREMATURELY LIKE THE ABOVE...

Peter Kay ft Ken & Deidre etc etc: Amarillo

THIS WERE ONE O'T BIGGEST HITS O'T 21ST CENTURI. I saw't documentary onnit yesterdi naarght and bloodi Northern Accent went raaght insaad mi hed agairn. This is track wot put bloodi parrot parroting inside me head again!

Queen: Days of Our Lives

THIS is such a shame: one of their best songs, yet already we see poor emaciated Freddie on the way out...

Sometimes I feel this one tells the story of my own life ... (somehow..)..?...

Queen: It's a Kind of Magic

2-mins "making of" type intro followed by official promo video...



Here it is without intro:

Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody

I've been looking everywhere for this video; the official promo version (as opposed to live performance) wasn't online for ages...

Queen: I'm Going Slightly Mad

I think this proves what a charming voice Mercury had...



Making of I'm Going Slightly Mad...

Freddie Mercury: Living On My Own

THIS is the version that charted here. Most of the footage comes from 1985 and his 39th birthday party, thrown in Hamburg, Germany or Ottolandia in the Netherlands, depending whom you believe...

Well it looks like one hell of a party to me:



I reckon this version's more posed, but hey you get to see more debaucherie...

Body Snatch ~ Euphony "Just 4u London"

I LOOKED EVERYWHERE for this tune and couldn't find it till this one person put it on Youtube last year. Other versions drum-n-bass-ified are never as good except for a UK-garage-efied one that's JUMPIN'

It does go off the record shot and start dancing: give it time!

John Lennon: Imagine

"Imagine no possessions... " sang John Lennon at his baby grand piano in the drawing room of his multimillion pound Berkshire country house...

John Lennon: Nobody Told Me

I like this old Lennon tune...

KLF: Last Train to Trancentral ("pure trance mix")

THE KLF: AKA "JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU" AKA JAMS were musician and A&R man Bill Drummond and musician and techno-genius Jimmy Cauty.

BACK IN THE DAY THE KLF were my favourite pop spoofters. Authors of a book "how to make a million in the record industry" before they actually did so ~ they cleared £1000,000 after taxes from the sales of singles from and the 1991 album: .

Afterwards they drifted and, in the name of "art collective"-style live stunts "the K Foundation" invited the cream of the British press to witness said £1 million in cash burned ~ literally going up in smoke.

And afterwards, surprise-surprise all they could think about was what such money might have bought. Hmmmmm. How many words do you know for STUPID?



Here's the docu on the K Foundation and the "million pound fire"...

Ultravox: Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

I WANTED TO POST SOMETHING with a nuclear theme... this is one of several videos of the time (1984) that showed the supposed prequel to a nuclear attack: people running in panic, snogging, etc

I'm no nuclear expert but the video makers have confused two things: a reactor meltdown (like Tschernobyl) doesn't "explode" but releases Hiroshima amounts of radiation from the radioactive fire... a nuclear explosion comes only from a carefully constructed bomb (even then: e.g. North Korea the smallest miscalculation results in a massive drop in "yield")...

So really this is showing a pre nuclear attack scenario:

Enya Serissimo ~ only time

This I purloined from Linda's psycheheartconnections blog ...

2001 Space Odyssey: Orbital Halcyon

I always thought Halcyon was a nasty banned sleeping pill from the United States... or Halcion Days... some old novel..?

Kai Tracid: Trance and Acid

This reminds me of the sort of crap I used to listen to when I was a student..

DJ Tiesto Traffic

When I read a recent "sigh of relief" article in the paper (probably the Guardian) recently about "the end ... of tunes ... that lead in with 5 minutes of kick drum ..." I knew what they were talking about, though I haven't been out for nearly 10 years. I do have a memory and any club playing anything like this (only gets going 43 seconds into a 2mins 40 clip). ukk

Massive Attack: Teardrop

This purloined from Baino's blog...

Britney Spears: Everytime (Britney Suicide Version)

I WONDER WHAT POSSESSED her to make this video marking her own death?... this several years before all that drugs-and-coot-head trauma...

Don McLean: The Grave

THIS is my second-favourite Don McLean song, here montaged to WW1 footage:

Madonna ~ Justify My Love

I got it back again after a "copyright claim by WEA" yanked it off air...

Lady Gaga: Eh Eh

I THINK this is her newest one out (over here in the UK) but hey I'm no longer down with the kids, in fact I lost it years ago so who knows what's where and where/why/how it's meant to go??

Anyway: enjoy ~

Lady Gaga: Pokerface

Why oh why do the record companies have "official" versions of their vids "embedding disabled by request" ~ why? What object does that achieve? It just makes it impossible to view here unless some kindhearted soul like the one I just found posts it up independently...

Lady Gaga ft Colby O'Donis: Just Dance

I HAD TO GET IN ON THIS LADY GAGA THING SO HERE'S HER BIGGEST TUNE STATESIDE... you know they just luuurve her over here... probably because judging by her ridiculous style you might easily mistake her for British ~ ahem!!

Joe Walsh: One Day at a Time

This purloined from Texan Dave's Higher Powered blog ~ only song I've found to date (I think) about Recovery...

Don McLean: Vincent

THIS is my favourite Don McLean song. I've heard it sung by Julio Iglesias who may claim to have bedded 2000 (or is it 3000? women) yet so obviously hasn't a clue about the passions this song speaks of...

Pet Shop Boys Starring Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley: Absolutely Fabulous

This is meant to be a silly charity record, therefore it is...

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...