Old school music is cool!

[Citizen X]

Bubble-gum pop and staying forever young….
It’s tragic that two people can be crazy about each other and then end up getting a divorce….I love bubble-gum pop because it keeps me young at heart. It’s an antidote for seemingly boring relationships. “Forever young, I want to be forever young.’ A relationship should really be extremely fulfilling! The chemistry that only bubble-gum expresses is the only chemistry I’m willing to settle for in a relationship! If it can’t be like this, then why even have a relationship?
This movie clip from the movie ‘a walk to remember,’ epitomizes what I’m talking about when I say bubble-gum pop and chemistry…
Song: Mother I just can’t get enough: New Radicals

“There's something about you,
tears me inside out
whenever you're around
There's something about you
Speeding through my veins
And then we hit the ground

There's something about this rush
Take it away
It made me feel so good
I got a feeling
We got a feeling,
We get a feeling
Like we could die

And Mother
We just can't get enough
We just can't get enough
Lover
We just gotta get it up
We just gotta get it up

There's something about you
That tears me inside out
Whenever you're around
And there's something about you
That makes me fly
You're a heart attack,
just the kind I like

There's something about your kiss
Haunting and strange
That made me feel so good
I get a feeling,
You get a feeling,
We get a feeling
Like we're alive

Chorus:

This world ain't got too much time
But baby I'm fine
Cause baby you're mine, yea
We just can't get enough
You better give up,
Come on and give up
You better give up
Give up your love

It's you for me, me for you
you make my dreams come true
Off the wall I wanna say
I gotta be with you now baby
You're on my mind all the time
I found a billion dimes
I rolled the dice, and lost them all
But baby I just don't mind, mind, mind, mind

Social Security Number please
Credit card number please
Money please
Money please
Soul please
Please deposit $85 dollars
for the next three minutes please
Aw yeah, all right, feel good tonight.”

[Citizen X]

Music. music. music....

[Citizen X]

Brother Slim Shady, I know a thing or 2 about being shady but I beg to differ on your opinion on boy bands!
I especially take exception when you assert:-
“I'm anti-Backstreet and Ricky Martinwith instincts to kill N'Sync, don't get me started…
These fuckin brats can't sing and Britney's garbage. What's this bitch retarded? Gimme back my sixteen dollars. All I see is sissies in magazines smiling. Whatever happened to whylin out and bein violent?
Whatever happened to catchin a good-ol' fashioned passionate ass-whoopin and gettin your shoes coat and your hat tooken? New Kids on the Block, sucked a lot of dick..Boy/girl groups make me sick”

The 80’s, we aspired to walk, talk and look like our favourite boy band. Talk about bad hair day, we used tons of gel just to have the hairstyles of ‘Take That,’ and New Kids on The Block.’
In the usual drunken stupor we would plagiarize their lyrics to impress some chick at some bar or club!
Take that: Want you back

Take that: Want you back
“I guess now it's time for me to give up!
I feel it's time
I Got a picture of you beside me
I Got your lipstick mark still on your coffee cup
Got a fist of pure emotion
Got a head of shattered dreams
Gotta leave it, gotta leave it all behind now

Whatever I said, whatever I did, I didn't mean it
I just want you back for good
Whenever I'm wrong just tell me the song and I'll sing it
You'll be right and understood

Unaware but underlined I figured out this story
It wasn't good
But in the corner of my mind I celebrated glory
But that was not to be
In the twist of separation you excelled at being free
Can't you find a little room inside for me???


And we'll be together, this time is forever
We'll be fighting and forever we will be
So complete in our love
We will never be uncovered again
I guess now it's time, that you came back for good!


“I need you, I guess I always will girl, you my best friend, you my lovely thing, I just want you to know that I will always love you!I’m gonna love you girl, until the end of time, tell me girl, you gonna always be mine.” New Kids on the Block

[Blurock]

Boy bands suck! Why do they call it a band if the poor blighters can not even play an instrument?

A REAL band should consist of at least a lead guitar, bass, drums and then you can add other instruments such as rhythm guitar, keyboards, flute, strings or what ever you fancy. Definitely no electronic computer generated sounds. That's a no-no. Only instruments that can be PLAYED, no computer plug ins and also no pre-recorded music or backing.

Boy bands? They are boy choirs. Full stop. Boy choirs suck. (Unless it is a school choir, which incidently I enjoy listening to)

[adrianh]

We went on a tour of a recording studio a while back. You don't need to be able to sing or play a musical instrument to have a band. Singers use software called "Autotune". The software is clever enough correct their off key singing. The same goes for playing instruments, the instrument data is simply fed through software that also corrects it. The guy running the mixing desk said that one of the problems is that the software makes the music too perfect (in terms of timing etc). He said that they are able to correct any flaw that any instrument may have, so if the drummer is always a bit out of step, no problem, just fix it an if the guitaris can't play a certain note, no problem.

The best artists are those can play their instruments and sing unplugged. There is nothing like a guy on his own with an acoustic guitar....like Johnny Cash, Chris Isaaks, Jack Johnson, Mark Knopfler and many many more (...shows my age)

[Citizen X]

Boy bands suck! Why do they call it a band if the poor blighters can not even play an instrument?

A REAL band should consist of at least a lead guitar, bass, drums and then you can add other instruments such as rhythm guitar, keyboards, flute, strings or what ever you fancy. Definitely no electronic computer generated sounds. That's a no-no. Only instruments that can be PLAYED, no computer plug ins and also no pre-recorded music or backing.

Boy bands? They are boy choirs. Full stop. Boy choirs suck. (Unless it is a school choir, which incidently I enjoy listening to)

We went on a tour of a recording studio a while back. You don't need to be able to sing or play a musical instrument to have a band. Singers use software called "Autotune". The software is clever enough correct their off key singing. The same goes for playing instruments, the instrument data is simply fed through software that also corrects it. The guy running the mixing desk said that one of the problems is that the software makes the music too perfect (in terms of timing etc). He said that they are able to correct any flaw that any instrument may have, so if the drummer is always a bit out of step, no problem, just fix it an if the guitaris can't play a certain note, no problem.

The best artists are those can play their instruments and sing unplugged. There is nothing like a guy on his own with an acoustic guitar....like Johnny Cash, Chris Isaaks, Jack Johnson, Mark Knopfler and many many more (...shows my age)

Blurock, I understand where you coming from! I too agree that one appreciates a group who are not only songwriters and singers but can also do justice to guitars, piano, drums etc. I’m merely saying that boy bands of the 80’s when I was a teenager did have influence on many of us as we aspired to dress like them and adopt whatever hairstyle they had.
Take the Travelling Wilburies for instance a true super group: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, and Jim Keltner. They could write music, sing well and use musical instruments! This video of handle me with care illustrates this!

[Blurock]

You should hear those "autotune" guys live; what a disaster! We are lowering our standards in life, even artistically we now accept cheap s#!t as being acceptable.

Vanash, I also liked the Travelling Wilburys. Real fun band.

[Citizen X]

We went on a tour of a recording studio a while back. You don't need to be able to sing or play a musical instrument to have a band. Singers use software called "Autotune". The software is clever enough correct their off key singing. The same goes for playing instruments, the instrument data is simply fed through software that also corrects it. The guy running the mixing desk said that one of the problems is that the software makes the music too perfect (in terms of timing etc). He said that they are able to correct any flaw that any instrument may have, so if the drummer is always a bit out of step, no problem, just fix it an if the guitaris can't play a certain note, no problem.

The best artists are those can play their instruments and sing unplugged. There is nothing like a guy on his own with an acoustic guitar....like Johnny Cash, Chris Isaaks, Jack Johnson, Mark Knopfler and many many more (...shows my age)

Adrian, You in your eraly 40's....... Dire Straits and Chris Isaaks are part of my collection too...love the song, 'Somebody's Crying,' magical guitar work, magical song...

“I know somebody and they cry for you
They lie awake at night and dream of you
I bet you never even know they do
But somebody’s crying

I know somebody and they called your name
A million times and still you never came
They go on loving you just the same
I know that somebody’s trying

So please
Return the love
You took from me
Or please
Let me know
It can’t be me
I know when somebody’s lyin'
I know when somebody’s lyin'

I know that somebody’s lyin'
I know that somebody’s lyin'

Give me a sign and let me know we’re thru
If you don’t love me like I love you
But if you cry at night the way I do
I’ll know that somebody’s lyin'

So please
Return the love
You took from me
Or please
Let me know
It can’t be me
I know when somebody’s lyin'
I know when somebody’s lyin'”

[Citizen X]

The secret to music success from a rudimentary perspective!
Now, you could work towards a master degree in music, which is indeed commendable, but it’s no guarantee of you releasing an album that millions will buy and still millions will listen to decades after its original release date!
Here’s that grassroots, rudimentary secret…
“This is my story you know, my story! Some people got nothing, some people got hope and dreams. We couldn’t afford to buy records so we listened to the radio and anything that the radio played is that to the ear. I was into , you know, like call it spiritual music, you know, it couldn’t get more revolutionised than that. We called our selves the ‘wailing wailers,’ cause we cried so much in our lives. The way we were was poor living in Trench Town, I grabbed my acoustic guitar. We done our thing in our yard, you know, we smoked a romantic and everyone was there and we start playing, everyone influenced and communicated to us. Even a stranger, and him tell you, “ Sing it this way, put this word to it,” You know, it’s like a people’s music. We come together about 1960, at that time, we used to have one track, you know everything mixed and recorded one time and that it! “ Bob Marley
“One thing about music when it hit you it make you feel okay!” Bob Marley

[Citizen X]

I’ll confess I love 80’s bubblegum pop! If you were a teenager in the 80’s, you’ll appreciate how the music of that time had impacted our lives, included but not limited to our love lives, our dress code, all sorts of manner of hairstyles, just our general attitude at large.
The 80’s had its fair share of eccentric bands, one such band was Dexy’s Midnight Runners were a British Birmingham based band. They must have shared the same pubs with UB40 as they come from the same neighborhood! Come on Eileen was released in 1982! So, I proudly give you ‘Come on Eileen!”

Dexy’s Midnight Runners:Come on Eileeen
“Poor old Johnny Ray
Sounded sad upon the radio
He moved a million hearts in mono
Our mothers cried and sang along
And who'd blame them?
Now you're grown, so grown
Now I must say more than ever

Go, toora loora toora loo-rye-aye
And we can sing just like our fathers

Come on, Eileen
I swear (well, he means)
At this moment you mean everything
With you in that dress
My thoughts, I confess, verge on dirty
Ah, come on, Eileen

These people around here wear beaten-down eyes
Sunk in smoke-dried faces
They're so resigned to what their fate is
But not us, no, not us
We are far too young and clever

Remember, toora loora toora loo-rye-aye
Eileen, I'll hum this tune forever

Come on, Eileen
I swear (well, he means)
Ah, come on, let's take off everything
That pretty red dress
Eileen (tell him yes)
Ah, come on, let's, ah, come on, Eileen, please”

[Citizen X]

Okay, Slim Shady, I get it, 'girl/boy groups make you sick! But Slim, you must understand, not all of us had the right stuff as teens, we had to find artists that we could relate to...The right stuff….
Sometimes having the right stuff may not necessarily include giving people what they want. The most powerful voice delivery system of New Kids on the Block as they were between 1987 and 1990 was Joey Mcintrye. He joined the group at age 12 and he looked 10 years old when he delivered the powerful and signature vocals of the song ‘Please don’t go girl in 1988.’ Maurice Starr wanted to create the same magic he created with New Addition(they sold records, teenage girls loved them). He wanted a White group this time, that were not into drugs, interested in sports and conscious about how they looked. He wanted to give teenage girls their ideal ‘guy,’ The ‘oddity,’ as Dave would say was Joey Mcintrye, he looked very, very young, but it was only his voice that could make the entire concept and group succeed. At that time, I was in high school, I thought was I cursed with looking so very young, I often aksed, when would I get my beard! I thank God, I didn’t! I thank God no one calls me ‘uncle,’ that would break my heart.
The actual video from the 80’s incorporate a lot of things that I can relate to i.e. youthful fun, the concept of crazy about you romance, the concept of looking fit and healthy and dressing trendy. The video also included footage of the boys in a theme park. A theme park and the iconic roller-coaster hot summers night will definitely keep you and your chick young hearted! If it can’t be fun, exciting, an adventure, then why the hell even have a relationship? Somebody please tell me?
This url will bring some fond 80’s memories back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3hqQP1bto

[tec0]

Now in this song one will find a raw truth spelled out, Enjoy

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE "A Light In A Darkened World"

I see so much corruption
And it's hard to ignore
Living on greed and possessions
Is this what we're dying for?

Now choose this day
Who you will serve
To be the light in a darkened world

Many are willing to only live for themselves
Turning away from morality
Nothing can save you now

Now choose this day
Who you will serve
To be the light in a darkened world
You feel dissolved and the water's beginning to rise
Become the light in this darkened world

This is destiny
The choice is now defined
No more deception
Now change will come

It's in your hands
It's in your hands

Now choose this day
Who you will serve
To be the light
In a darkened world

It's in your hands
It's in you hands
Become the light in this darkened world

[Citizen X]

Now in this song one will find a raw truth spelled out, Enjoy

I see so much corruption
And it's hard to ignore
Living on greed and possessions
Is this what we're dying for?


Many are willing to only live for themselves
Turning away from morality
Nothing can save you now

Now choose this day
Who you will serve
To be the light in a darkened world
You feel dissolved and the water's beginning to rise
Become the light in this darkened world

No more deception
Now change will come

It's in your hands
Now choose this day
Who you will serve
To be the light
In a darkened world

It's in your hands
It's in you hands
Become the light in this darkened world

Smart song, very sobering message!
My contribution in kind has simply got to be Johnny Clegg’s Cruel Crazy Beautiful World
Cruel Crazy Beautiful World

“You have to wash with the crocodile in the river
You have to swim with the sharks in the sea
You have to live with the crooked politician
Trust those things that you can never see
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana (jesse boy) ayeye ayeye

Chorus:
It's a cruel crazy beautiful world
Every time you wake up I hope it's under a blue sky
It's a cruel crazy beautiful world
One day when you wake up I will have to say goodbye
Goodbye -- It's your world so live in it!

Beyond the door, strange cruel beautiful years lie waiting for you
It kills me to know you won't escape loneliness,
Maybe you lose hope too
Ayeye ayeye jesse mfana ayeye ayeye

When I feel your small body close to mine
I feel weak and strong at the same time
So few years to give you wings to fly
Show you the stars to guide your ship by

It's your world so live in it!”

[tec0]

For a bit of fun

ALESTORM "Captain Morgan's Revenge" [2008]

Countless years ago while lost in barren seas
There whispered murmurs of a bloody mutiny
We took up arms and slain the officers of rank
And with swords drawn made the captain walk the plank

And as he fell down to the depths
He swore a deadly curse
"As sure as hell's my final fate
You'll all soon die, or worse"
Now as we stand before the gallows
Waiting for the end
I'll say these final words my friend

At sunrise we'll all dance the hempen jig
So raise up your pint of rum and take another swig
The curse of Captain Morgan has led us to this fate
So have no fear, and don't look back, the afterlife awaits

We returned to port with sorrow in our chests
An evil shadow followed us on every quest
Never to feel joy again was our fate
Only misery and death, fear and burning hate

We broke the law, betrayed the code
Now time is running out
An unforgivable offence
Of that there is no doubt
Now as we stand before the gallows
Waiting for the end
I'll say these final words my friend

At sunrise we'll all dance the hempen jig
So raise up your pint of rum and take another swig
The curse of Captain Morgan has led us to this fate
So have no fear, and don't look back, the afterlife awaits

Many years have passed now
Yet the curse still lives on
And now we rot in a black prison cell
Waiting for our true calling in hell
But for the lives we leave behind
Don't shed a tear, don't cry
The only way to break this curse
Is for us all to die
Now as we stand before the gallows
Waiting for the end
I'll say these final words my friend

At sunrise we'll all dance the hempen jig
So raise up your pint of rum and take another swig
The curse of Captain Morgan has led us to this fate
So have no fear, and don't look back, the afterlife awaits

It is just a cool song

[tec0]

Can’t believe it has been 10 years when I first woke up to this song.

SEETHER "Fine Again" 2002

It seems like every day’s the same
and I’m left to discover on my own
It seems like everything is gray
and there’s no color to behold
They say it’s over and I’m fine again, yeah
Try to stay sober feels like I’m dying here

And I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell I am prepared now,
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late, just as well

I feel the dream in me expire
and there’s no one left to blame it on
I hear you label me a liar
‘cause I can’t seem to get this through
You say it’s over, I can sigh again, yeah
Why try to stay sober when I’m dying here

And I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell
I am prepared now,
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late; just as well

And I’m not scared now.
I must assure you,
you’re never gonna get away
And I’m not scared now.
And I’m not scared now. No…

I am aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day
Too late, I’m in hell
I am prepared now
seems everyone’s gonna be fine
One day too late, just as well
I am prepared now,
seems everything’s gonna be fine for me
For me; for myself.
For me, for me, for myself
For me, for me, for myself

I am prepared now for myself
I am prepared now and I am fine... again