5 posts tagged “songs”

One of my favorite people in the world (that I actually know well) has a VOX now. You can listen to her songs there if you like. This is good.

http://cristen.vox.com

Here is her version of the Gypsy Kings' song, "La Montana".

Here is a very old picture of Cristen and me that we got done in a photo booth, I think. You could choose graphics to add to the photos.

Little devils

I talked to someone recently about Caetano Veloso, Brazilian music, Marisa Monte, and Spanish music (like Shakira, Juanes, and Julieta Venegas) so I thought I would post some Caetano Veloso songs from a CD of his that I have called Noites do Norte. I am sure there are better Veloso songs out there, but I don't know them all. If anyone wants to recommend a better song from his library, by all means go ahead in the comments section. Eu falo um pouco em portugues. ;)

Here are some from the Noites do Norte album ...

05 Rock'n'Raul

Caetano Veloso

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06 Michelangelo Antonioni

Caetano Veloso

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I love that the title of the above song is the name of a famous Italian director, whose movie, L'Avventura, I love.

Here is the first song on the CD ...

01 Zera A Reza

Caetano Veloso

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Here is the second song from the album. I can't leave it out because it's very pretty. I used to play this song while driving back from lunch to my job, and I remember passing under the canopy of the trees while little bits of sunlight broke through the green leaves. It was a magical moment. Ha! I ususally don't talk like that. It's moments like those that make me want to travel more, but it's too damn expensive!

02 Noites Do Norte

Caetano Veloso

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OK, there are three songs on Portishead's new album, Third, that make me think of others songs.

The first song is "Hunter", which makes me think of a song from the 1992 horror movie, Candyman, by Philip Glass called "Face to Razor".

Here are the two songs ...

02 Hunter

Portishead

04 Candyman (1992) Suite: Face To Razor

Philip Glass

The next song on Third is "The Rip", which makes me think of the Pink Floyd song, "On The Run", from Dark Side of the Moon. You have to listen to all of "The Rip" to hear the similar sound. Here are those two songs ...

04 The Rip

Portishead

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03 On The Run

Pink Floyd

(If you play Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz, "On The Run" plays a little bit after the above scene.)

The next song from the Third album that reminds me of another song is "Deep Water", which reminds me of the Ink Spots' "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". Again, you have to listen to the Portishead song for a while to see the similarity. Here are the two songs ...

07 Deep Water

Portishead

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Ink Spots

OK, now here are three songs that I listened to or thought of recently that use the expression "lights go down" or "when the lights go down" in them.

John Stewart - Gold

Gold

John Stewart

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Lights Go Down

09 The Lights Go Down

Electric Light Orchestra

and finally Madonna's Heartbeat (from Hard Candy) ...

04 Heartbeat

Madonna

I just realized that it is Madonna's song "Give It 2 Me" that says "when the lights go down", but "Heartbeat" does have the phrase "that the light shines on" so it is a little topical. OK, I am done now. This post is way too random.

I've posted one video from her before, but I thought I would post another since she does a lot of good covers of songs I like.

Here is her cover of Feist's "My Moon My Man" ...

She has a lot of Regina Spektor covers (she also has original songs), too, on YouTube, and she has a page on MySpace.

I'm glad someone put all of the clips from M.I.A.'s upcoming album, Kala, into a YouTube video. It makes it very easy to listen to them. Here is the video ...

I also actually downloaded the video in case the one above gets removed for some strange reason(I don't think it will, though).