Old school music is cool!

[Didditmiself]

Vanash, greetings and all and all! Thanks so much for the video on 'Aap jaisa Koi". That is one of the songs that I was looking for! And also the lyrics! Now I can understand what the young girl is singing about. I did not realise that the song was recorded so long ago - 1980!! Lotus FM (started playing?) this tune last year hence my thinking it is fairly new. After the song there's also a link/a page to other Bollywood tunes which you've kindly provided which I'll look at later. Much appreciated!!

[Plumbing Supplies]

Meatloaf (Marvin Lee Aday) - just has a way of painting a true piece of art, with the lyrics as his brushes and the music and his voice as the coulours.... I mean just listen to bat out of hell - you can picture the contrasts that he is creating and you can experience-feel the emotions and what he is singing sbout

Up to Meatloaf and Jim Steinman for this one !

Bat out of Hell

The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling
Way down in the valley tonight
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
And a blade shining oh so bright
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in the sky
And a killer's on the bloodshot streets
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising
Oh I swear I saw a young boy
Down in the gutter
He was starting to foam in the heat

Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world
That's pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you

I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram
On a silver black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry
And we're all about to see the light
Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole
Everything is stunted and lost
And nothing really rocks
And nothing really rolls
And nothing's ever worth the cost
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/meat+lo..._20091332.html ]
And I know that I'm damned if I never get out
And maybe I'm damned if I do
But with every other beat I got left in my heart
You know I'd rather be damned with you
Well, If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night with you
If I gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Gotta be damned you know I wanna be damned
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night
Dancing through the night with you

Oh Baby, you're the only thing in this whole world
That's pure and good and right
And wherever you are and wherever you go
There's always gonna be some light
But I gotta get out
I gotta break it out now
Before the final crack of dawn
So we gotta make the most of our one night together
When it's over you know
We'll both be so alone

Like a bat out of hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes
When the night is over
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone gone gone
Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes
But when the day is done
And the sun goes down
And moonlight's shining through
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you
Then like a sinner before the gates of heaven
I'll come crawling on back to you

I can see myself tearing up the road
Faster than any other boy has ever gone
And my skin is raw but my soul is ripe
And no one's gonna stop me now
I gotta make my escape
But I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see the sudden curve until it's way too late
And I never see the sudden curve till it's way too late

Then I'm down at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning' bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Oh breaking out of my body
And flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Then I'm dying at the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart
Still beating
Still beating
Oh breaking out of my body and flying away
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell
Like a bat out of hell

[Citizen X]

Vanash, greetings and all and all! Thanks so much for the video on 'Aap jaisa Koi". That is one of the songs that I was looking for! And also the lyrics! Now I can understand what the young girl is singing about. I did not realise that the song was recorded so long ago - 1980!! Lotus FM (started playing?) this tune last year hence my thinking it is fairly new. After the song there's also a link/a page to other Bollywood tunes which you've kindly provided which I'll look at later. Much appreciated!!

This song of Nazia Hassan is very unique in that she sandg it when she was just 15 Years of age! She tragically died of cancer at the young age of 35! If you want something very, very rare on Nazia Hassan than it can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nbwmv
and literllay nowhere else. It was a big deal for an Asian singer to appear on BBC in 1980! Here she sings it on BBC when she was just 16 years of age!
I reiterate that I do my Indian community a great discredit in that I don't even understand 1 of the various rich languages of the Indian community. I appreaciet that both Indian movies and music are appealing to many people. I largely listen to english music and watch english movies...

[Citizen X]

I like this song for many reasons, partly because the animation on the Disturbed video was so well done and partly because one gets the feeling that in order to set things right one must take a stand.

Well fitting or not the coming strikes are for the people, so let's hope for a peaceful victory.

"Land Of Confusion" by DISTURBED

[Originally by Genesis]

I must have dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They're moving into the street

Now, did you read the news today?
They say the danger has gone away
But I can see the fire's still alight
They're burning into the night

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go around
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

Oh, superman, where are you now?
When everything's gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, these men of power
Are losing control by the hour

This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there's not much love to go around
Tell me why this is a land of confusion

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in

I remember long ago
When the sun was shining
And all the stars were bright all through the night
In the wake of this madness, as I held you tight
So long ago

I won't be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We're not just making promises
That we know we'll never keep

There's too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And there's not much love to go round
Can't you see this is a land of confusion?

Now, this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we're given
Stand up and let's start showing
Just where our lives are going to

[Citizen X]

My perception of music: I give you “Get into the groove: Madonna
Words of the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and vice versa
“And you can dance for inspiration
Come on, I'm waiting

Get into the groove
Boy, you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah

Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy, what will it be?

Music can be such a revelation
Dancing around you, feel the sweet sensation
We might be lovers if the rhythm's right
I hope this feeling never ends tonight

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free
At night I lock the doors, where no one else can see
I'm tired of dancing here all by myself
Tonight, I wanna dance with someone else

Get into the groove
Boy, you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah

Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy, what will it be?

Gonna get to know you in a special way
This doesn't happen to me every day
Don't try to hide it, love wears no disguise
I see the fire burning in your eyes
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/m...he_groove.html ]
Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free
At night I lock the doors, where no one else can see
I'm tired of dancing here all by myself
Tonight, I wanna dance with someone else

Get into the groove
Boy, you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah

Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy, what will it be?

Live out your fantasy here, with me
Just let the music set you free
Touch my body and move in time
Now I know, you're mine

Live out your fantasy here, with me
Just let the music set you free
Touch my body and move in time
Now I know, you're mine

Get into the groove
Boy, you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah

Get up on your feet, yeah
Step to the beat
Boy, what will it be?”

Words of the masculine gender shall be deemed to include the feminine and vice versa(gender nuetral music!!!)
And you can dance for inspiration

[Citizen X]

Smokey Robinson wrote the words and music to the Temptations, “ My Girl,”
He knew how to create a magical combination of words. One of my favourite classic songs is “being with you,” by Smokey Robinson

“I don't care what they think of me
And I don't care what they say
I don't care what they think if you're leavin'
I'm gonna beg you to stay
I don't care if they start to avoid me
I don't care what they do
I don't care about anything else
But bein' with you
Bein' with you!
Honey, don't go, Don't leave this scene
Be out of the picture, And off of the screen
Don't let them say, We told you so
They tell me you love me, And then let me go
I heard the warning voice
From friends and my relations
They tell me all about your
Heart-break reputation
But I don't care what they think about me
And I don't care what they say, no
I don't care what they think if you're leavin'
I'm gonna beg you to stay
I don't care if they start to avoid me
I don't care what they do
I don't care about anything else
But being with you
Being with you
People can change they always do
Haven't they noticed the changes in you!
Or can it be that like love I am blind
Do I want it so much
'Til it's all in my mind!
One thing I know for sure
It's really, really, real
I never felt before
The way you make me feel"

I don't care about anything else
But being with you”

A journey to 1981???
I proudly give you Smokey Robinson: Being with you

[Citizen X]

Princess, even though we only share a fleeting 1 second glimpse at intersections some 15 years after the fact I can assert that “we two of a kind
“All I wanted was a sweet distraction for an hour or two,
Had no intention to do the things we've done.
Funny how it always goes with love, when you don't look, you find -
But then we're two of a kind, we move as one.

We're an all time high, we'll change all that's gone before.
Doing so much more than falling in love.
On an all time high, we'll take on the world and wait.
So hold on tight, let the flight begin.

I don't want to waste a waking moment, I don't want to sleep.
I'm in so strong and so deep, and so are you.
In my time I've said these words before, but now I realize
My heart was telling me lies, for you they're true.

We're an all time high, we'll change all that's gone before. ...
So hold on tight, let the flight begin. We're an all time high.” Rita Coolridge

If a words can say so much, then I suppose a video will say much more....

[Citizen X]

This song which was a famous club mix at the time is still engraved in my mind and heart:-
That’s the way love is: Ten City

“Two people take a vow to be together
and live and love each other forever.
They promise to love a lifetime
funny thing then they change their minds.
They both go their separate ways and love is just a memory.
But a young heart doesn't stay sad long another love soon comes along.
That's the way love is

Two people don't get along,
deep down inside both have feelings very strong

They try hard to conceal it.
Their hearts burn 'cause they both know they can feel it.

That's the way love is

Lovers leave without a reason
feelings change just like seasons.
In love nothing's for certain
There's no use in pretending what's behind the curtain.

No one knows how this feeling goes it's hard to believe

Even stranger to conceive. It's so gratifying love's feeling ain't no denying.
Yet it's so unfair when the feeling's no longer there."

I proudly give you 'That's the way love is"

[Citizen X]

"People say I'm crazy, doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well, they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"

People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away
Well, they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time, boy. You're no longer on the ball"

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ahhh, people ask me questions, lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go..." John Lennon
---

I proudly give you John Lennon "Watching the wheels."

[Citizen X]

Hand on your heart: Kylie Minogue: 1988

Britney Spears went straight from the Mickey Mouse club to the strip club!!!! To play slut is very easy, you simply have to take off your clothes on stage, now where’s the trill there! What cannot be seen is far more revealing and compelling than what can be seen..
“Girly Girl!!” I personally like girly girl in a woman! To pull off girly girl in a music video is a daunting task especially if you’ve got that stripper slutty attitude
“Girly girl is a slang term for a girl or woman who chooses to dress and behave in an especially feminine style, such as wearing pink, using make-up, dressing in skirts, dresses and blouses, and talking about relationships and other activities which are associated with the traditional gender role of a girl.
Though the term is sometimes used as a term of disdain, it can also be used in a more positive way, particularly in terms of exploring one of a range of gender positions. Being a 'girly girl' can then be seen as a fluid and partially embodied position - a form of discourse taken up, discarded or modified for tactical/strategic ends.[1]”
In 1988 Kylie Minogue had to pull off “ Girly Girl,’ in an authentic manner in the 80’s music video “ Hand on your heart.” This involved various facial expressions, all sorts of bodily movements and genuine ‘girly girl, attitude! The obligatory hand movements and her punch line, “ Look me in the eye and tell me you don’t need my love??”
She didn’t have to parade in her underwear to crate sex appeal. My eyes were in the usual places, cleavage and groin area! It’s a guy thing!
I proudly give you a textbook example of “ Girly Girl.”

“Put your hand on your heart and tell me
That we're through, ooh
Oh, put your hand on your heart
Hand on your heart


Well it's one thing to fall in love
But another to make it last
I thought that we were just beginning
And now you say we're in the past
Oh, look me in the eye
And tell me we are really through

You know it's one thing to say you love me
But another to mean it from the heart
And if you don't intend to see it through
Why did we ever start
Oh, I wanna hear you tell me
You don't want my love

Put your hand on your heart and tell me
It's all over
I won't believe it till you
Put your hand on your heart and tell me
That we're through, ooh

Oh, put your hand on your heart
Hand on your heart


They like to talk about forever
But most people never get the chance
Do you wanna lose our love together
Do you find a new romance
Oh, I wanna hear you tell me
You don't want my love

Oh, put your hand on your heart
Hand on your heart

look me in the eye
And tell me we are really through”

---

[1] Vide Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girly_girl#mw-head. Accessed 3 November 2012

[Citizen X]

The Power Of Love: Huey Lewis and the news
"The power of love is a curious thing
Make a one man weep, make another man sing
Change a hawk to a little white dove
More than a feeling that's the power of love
Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream
Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream
Make a bad one good make a wrong one right
Power of love that keeps you home at night
You don't need money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden and it's cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
That's the power of love
That's the power of love
First time you feel it, it might make you sad
Next time you feel it it might make you mad
But you'll be glad baby when you've found
That's the power makes the world go'round
And it don't take money, don't take fame
Don't need no credit card to ride this train
It's strong and it's sudden it can be cruel sometimes
But it might just save your life
They say that all in love is fair
Yeah, but you don't care
But you know what to do
When it gets hold of you
And with a little help from above
You feel the power of love
You feel the power of love
Can you feel it ?
Hmmm"

I proudly give you 'The power of love!"

[Citizen X]

Bruce Springsteen: The boss: Dancing in the dark

I’ve often had to take many shots in the dark! I love music that’s rich in methaphors and analogies. Take for example Marley’s ‘rock my boat,” “ for every little action, there is a reaction, oh can’t you see what you’ve done for me, I’m happy inside, all, all of the time,”
In one of Marley’s songs, he provides, “They say the sun shine for all, but I tell you that in some people’s world’s it don’t shine at all!” For many years I took this to mean that some people on this earth live comfortable lives financially, that is, they not struggling but in other peoples world’s they live miserable lives i.e. abject poverty. I was wrong all these many years! I revisited a book I bought many years ago “ catch a Fire: The life of Bob Marley: Timothy White.
What Marley meant when he said that the sun shines in some peoples world but not in other’s is simply this. Some people have God in their lives and therefore this prescence of God in their lives causes light and the sun to shine in their lives, whereas, in other peoples lives they don’t have God in their lives and therefore this light is not present and the sun doesn’t therefore shine in their lives.
I love this part of the song “dancing in the dark:”
“I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now baby gimme just one look
You can't start a fire sitting round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart”
“I get up in the evening
And I ain't got nothing to say
I come home in the morning
I go to bed feeling the same way
I ain't nothing but tired
Man I'm just tired and bored with myself
Hey there baby I could use just a little help! You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Message keeps getting clearer
Radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place
I check my look in the mirror
I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my face
Man I ain't getting nowhere just living in a dump like this
There's something happening somewhere
Baby I just know that there is
You can't start a fire
You can't start a fire without a spark
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You sit around getting older
There's a joke here somewhere and it's on me
I'll shake this world off my shoulders
Come on baby the laugh's on me
Stay on the streets of this town
And they'll be carving you up all right
They say you gotta stay hungry
Hey baby I'm just about starving tonight
I'm dying for some action
I'm sick of sitting 'round here trying to write this book
I need a love reaction
Come on now baby gimme just one look
You can't start a fire sitting round crying over a broken heart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
You can't start a fire worrying about your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire.”

[Citizen X]

You Are
Lionel Richie
“Baby you'll find, there's only one love, yours and mine
I've got so much love

And needing you so, my love for you, I'll never let go,I've got so much love

All I want is to hold you, Let me show how much I love you baby
I don't mind and I don't mind (Loving you)
Girl I love you
There's no one above you

You are the sun, You are the rain
That makes my life this foolish game
You need to know, I love you so
And I'd do it all again and again

Tell me it's true, I can't believe you do what you do
I've got so much love, And my love you'll see
We'll stay together, just you and me
I've got so much love

Only you (know me)
Tell me how to love you baby (show me)
I don't mind and I don't mind (tell me)
Girl, I love you
Always thinking of you


I know you know the way I feel
And I need your love for always
Cause when I'm with you
I fall in love
Again and again and again, Baby.”

I proudly give you "YOU ARE."

[Citizen X]

Start me up: Rolling Stones: 1981
Want manic and self indulgent????
The Rolling Stones were formed in 1962!
The earliest settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (keyboards, piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar, vocals), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). Since Wyman's retirement in 1993, the band's full members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood. Darryl Jones (bassist) and Chuck Leavell (keyboardist) are regular contributors but not full band members. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989, noting that "critical acclaim and popular consensus has accorded them the title of the “World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.”[1]
You can’t get mote manic and self indulgent than Mick Jagger in the video ,’Start me Up.’ I Love it!
I proudly give you “ Start me up.”

“If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
I've been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you start me up
If you start me up I'll never stop
Never stop, never stop, never stop

You make a grown man cry (x3)
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
Start it up

If you start it up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can't compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slide it up,
Slide it up, slide it up, slide it up

Don't make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She's a mean, mean machine
Start it up

If start me up
give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Slide it up, baby just slide it up
Slide it up, slide it up, never, never, never

You make a grown man cry”
Ride like the wind at double speed
I'll take you places that you've never, never seen
If you start it up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop
Never, never, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop

You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come”

---

[1] Vide: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones

[Citizen X]

Olivia Newton- John and breast cancer
A DEDICATION to all women who have fought breast cancer
In 1980 I was a kid. Since most movies were almost always released in South Africa some 2 years after its release date in the States, Grease was released in SA in 1980.
It was 1980 and I thought that Olivia Newton- John was a Goddess! Even as a little kid, I knew what to look for or rather where to look(CLEAVAGE). In 1992 Olivia survived a fight with breast cancer. Sheryl Crow and Kylie Minogue also survived breast cancer..
"You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978film version of the musical Grease. It was performed by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
The single was a huge international hit, reaching no.1 in several countries. It was the only single from the Grease soundtrack to top both the US and UK pop charts.”[1]
Picture.[2]

I proudly give you: “ You the one that I want.”

"I got chills.
They're multiplyin'.
And I'm losin' control.
'Cause the power
you're suplyin',
it's electrifying!

You better shape up,
'cause I need a man
and my heart is set on you.
You better shape up;
you better understand
to my heart I must be true.
Nothing left, nothing left for me to do.
You're the one that I want.
(you are the one i want), o,o, oo, honey.
The one that I want.
(you are the one i want), o,o,oo, honey.
The one that I want
You, o,o, oo
are what I need.
Oh, yes indeed.
If you're filled
with affection
you're to shy to convey,
meditate in my direction.
Feel your way.
I better shape up,
'cause you need a man
i need a man
who can keep me satisfied.
I better shape up
if I'm gonna prove
oh you better prove
that my faith is justified.
Are you sure? Yes, I'm sure down deep inside.
You're the one that I want.
You, o,o, oo, honey.
The one that I want.
You, o,o,oo, honey.
The one that I want
You, oo, oo
are what I need.
Oh, yes indeed.”

---

[1] Vide: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_the_One_That_I_Want. Accessed: 14 November 2012


[2] Vide: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(film)