Thread: Music: Cutting Edge and What You Are Listening To?

I know Lampapa often posts here and there some bands or songs she comes across along with the lyrics and I thought it might be nice just to start a thread where we can post songs/albums of cutting edge, new music, or music that you are listening to now that is just your favorite and share/discuss them. I am by no means an expert. I just enjoy music as much as I enjoy films and photography, the arts as a whole. That, and I have two young daughters who keep my on my toes when it comes to what is going on in the music world! (At least in the U.S.)

Additionally, music is a great way to learn new words! So, if you see any words in the lyrics and don’t understand them or the context they are being used, just ask!

If you hear a new song in English or Russian or any other language and think we should know about it, post it along with the lyrics! You don't have to write a long review like I do; but, if you do write one in English, I'll try my best to correct any mistakes you might make. Or if you feel more comfortable post in Russian. While I only know American English, who knows...maybe I will actually learn a few Russian words!

Finally, please give your or thumbs up /thumbs down of what you think about the music posted here! Is it a song you would add to your collection? Or now way no how, it is not your taste at all?

Originally Posted by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche[/url]]
Without music life would be a mistake.

Originally Posted by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[/url]]
Music is the Universal language of mankind.

Originally Posted by [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson

Brian Wilson[/url]]
Add some music to your day.

So, for my first selection, I would like to introduce you to someone you may already know, Curt Smith. What? The name does not ring a bell? What about some of his older lyrics???

“Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without. Come on, I'm talking to you, come on.”

Or

“So glad we’ve almost made it. So sad they had to fade it. Everybody wants to rule the world.”

Now do you remember him?????


Curt was one of the founders of the 80’s band Tears for Fears. He launched a solo career and has a new CD out, “halfway, pleased”.

His CD is far from the sounds of Tears For Fears, as Curt has grown, so has his style and voice. The music has a very alternative mellow relaxing sound that you can play in the background while you are on the computer, say on Master Russian, or trying to unwind from a stressful day.

From his web site, you can listen to the entire song of each track on “halfway, pleased” and the lyrics for each song are there as well (what more could you ask for?). There are also links to his videos, the CD booklet to download in PDF, and for actually purchasing the songs too!

I have selected two songs from this mellow CD for your listening pleasure. One last comment, as Curt originally hails from Bath, England, he uses British spelling and words in his lyrics.

The first song is the duet version of “Seven of Sundays” and is in English AND French and is just a beautiful sensual song and pairing of the two voices along with the French is oh so romantic. I find myself putting this song on continuous repeat and I hope you enjoy. (If you like this duo, then you might also like this song that they did together, "Les Autres")


[video:yc86xnhm]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGFSFaBBjDE[/video:yc86xnhm]


Seven of Sundays
http://www.curtsmithofficial.com/mus...s-duet-with-so
By Charlton Pettus, Chesney Hawkes, Curt Smith and Sophie Saillet

It's alright
Got to tell myself it's alright
Everything that I envied I have become
Where to now?
Now that I've been lost and found
Buried in the afternoon
Breathless and snowbound

Safe as the ocean
Shine like a motor car
Seven of Sundays
Of course you are

Coming down
Ice cream and a towel wrapped around
Flowing hair the swallows me
Follows me down
It's OK
Twisted sheets and endless rainy days
Channels flash across your face
Silence surrounds you

Safe as the ocean………

Seven of Sundays
Of course you are


The second song is “aeroplane”


aeroplane
http://www.curtsmithofficial.com/music/track/aeroplane
By Curt Smith and Charlton Pettus

Shut down
Tangled up in your machinery
No sound
Just the faceless press of words and wheels
Surrounds me
Like molasses on my soles and eaves
Come out
Can anyone come out and play

All I want is an aeroplane
Rubber-banded with paper wings
All I want is to steal again
All I want is a wet dream, ice-cream
All I want is vanishing
All I want is God

Spit out
By an undeserving dumb and mad
No Ground
Just an empty room of words and steel
Winding down
Drowning in the afternoon
Come out
Can anyone come out and play

All I want……..

All I want is vanishing

All I want is an afterglow
A forty-five on my gramophone
All I want is a thick skin, to crawl into
Everything’s vanishing
All I want is God

Mixing two threads here for a minute...

Okay, so for those of you who helped out with my request to vote know that part of the prize was the premiere in New York and the AfterParty. Well the party was on a rooftop and it was a picture perfect night! They had a female DJ and as part of her act she brings in a female electric violinist. I recorded as much as I could with my cell phone and I also found a 2 minute clip of another performance that they did in June in NY at Ellis Island so you can see the New York skyline behind them as it is twilight.

DJ Mia Moretti & Electric Violinist Caitlin Moe



If you want to watch the clip I made, here is a link (it's almost 7 minutes)
http://s444.photobucket.com/albums/q...t=c147b9ee.mp4

Rihanna is easily one of my favourite mainstream modern pop/RnB artists. Eminem isn't my favourite rapper of all time, but I do think he's pretty good. (Although the tendancy of some rappers to make bad puns annoys me... "now you get to watch her leave out the window, guess that’s why they call it window pane"... COME ON!)

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

(Although the tendancy of some rappers to make bad puns annoys me... "now you get to watch her leave out the window, guess that’s why they call it window pane"... COME ON!)

Nooooooooooooooooooo... that is one of my FAVORITE lines in the song!! My daughter also likes "you don’t get another chance, life is no nintendo game"

I posted the song "Airplanes" earlier by B.O.B and there is another line like that..." But I ain't have neighbors, that's why they call it hood." I thought that was a good one too, why DO we call it the hood?

So the latest song that I have been in love with is "Secrets" by OneRepublic. It is interesting that this song came out first in Germany and Australia but not in other countries, so Bitpicker, you may have heard this one on the radio long before we did. For us in the States, this song came to our attention with LOST and the movie "The Apprentice" and it was finally released in June as a single. It is in my head as I write which is sometimes very annoying as I can't focus but it goes along with the current part of the storyline that I am writing!

Song: Secrets
Artist: OneRepublic
Album: Waking Up
Composer: Ryan Tedder
Year: 2009/2010

Lyrics:
I need another story
Something to get off my chest
My life gets kinda boring
Need something that I can confess
Til' all my sleeves are stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come by it honestly I swear
Thought you saw wink, no
I've been on the brink, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

My god, amazing how we got this far
It's like we're chasing all those stars
Who's driving shiny big black cars
And everyday I see the news
All the problems that we could solve
And when a situation rises
Just write it into an album
Singing straight, too cold
I don't really like my flow, no, so

Tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh, got no reason, got not shame
Got no family I can blame
Just don't let me disappear
I'mma tell you everything

So tell me what you want to hear
Something that were like those years
Sick of all the insincere
So I'm gonna give all my secrets away
This time, don't need another perfect line
Don't care if critics never jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away

Oh... the other one that is creeping in my head while I'm writing this current scene is the new Bruno Mars song... "Just the Way You Are" It is his first single from his debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. The video was released this month and the effects they use for the cassette tape are cool. That is for those of you old enough to remember cassette tapes!

Song: Just The Way You Are
Artist: Bruno Mars
Album: Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Composer: Cain, Khari; Lawrence, Philip; Levine, Ari; Mars, Bruno; Walton, Khalil
Year: 2010

Lyrics:

Her eyes, her eyes
make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
falls perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday (yeahh)

I know, I know
When I compliment her she won't believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think that she don't see what I see
But everytime she asks me "Do I look okay?"
I say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

Her lips, her lips
I could kiss them all day if she let me
Her laugh, her laugh
she hates but I think it's so sexy
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday

Oh you know, you know, you know
I'd never ask you to change
If perfects what you're searching for
Then just stay the same
So don't even bother asking if you look okay
'Cause you know I'll say

When I see your face
There's not a thing that I would change
'Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are
And when you smile
The whole world stops and stares for a while
'Cause girl you're amazing
Just the way you are

The way you are
The way you are

I am showing my age here again but I remember when this song first came out and I first time I heard it. I even have the original ALBUM, yes folks an LP! I fell in love with it then, still like it and often quote it.

"I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boom Town Rats.

Who would have thought that 30+ years later the lead singer, Bob Geldof, would go on to be knighted, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the world's biggest political activists. He is also known for playing the role of Pink in Pink Floyd's 1982 film Pink Floyd The Wall.

In this day and age of autotune, backup singers and fake this and that... here is an old live performance that he did with just a piano to back him up and it is probably my favorite version of the song. The way he paces the song, times each syllable, his mannerisms. Even the audience is spellbound, you could hear a pin drop.

Even if you have heard the song, you may not know that it was based on an actual event that took place in California. I Don't Like Mondays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Song: I Don't Like Mondays
Artist: Boom Town Rats
Album: The Fine Art of Surfacing
Composer: Bob Geldof
Year: 1979

Lyrics:
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-woo-woo-woo-oot the whole day down

The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father’s world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain’t that peachy keen
Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cuz there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
Oh Oh oh whoa whoa

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-oot
The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
(With the problems of the how's and why's)
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
Oh Oh Oh

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoo-oo-oo-woo-woo-woot the whole day down



I forgot... we have a number of "House" fans on the forum and it was used in an episode and this is a great fan video!

Coffee Cup.. I'm wondering if you've heard this song? It actually was released back in April but is just now getting lots of air play around here.
It is "Like a G6" by Far East Movement. G6 is short for the Gulfstream G650 airplane.

The song is pretty much all about drinking.

So my younger daughter actually saw this band perform live when they opened for 30 Seconds to Mars. They are finally getting airtime and have the number 1 hit on Billboard this week for alternative music:

Neon Trees - Animal



They also did an amazing live Mashup/Cover of "Baby" & "Stand by Me." At the end of the song they talk about how this mashup came about.

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Coffee Cup.. I'm wondering if you've heard this song? It actually was released back in April but is just now getting lots of air play around here.
It is "Like a G6" by Far East Movement. G6 is short for the Gulfstream G650 airplane.

The song is pretty much all about drinking.

It is a really cute song. Though never heard it before. The nice girl's voice, pretty girl's faces, cool girl's dance moving. It would certainly fit any house party all over the world.

Some more dance here. John Dahlback ft Elodie - Bingo.
This track was also released back in April.
Never stop dancing!

Nice article today about Neon Trees and their song Animal and how it has taken 11 months for this song to become a hit!!!
Neon Trees lights up the charts - CNN.com

Originally Posted by rockzmom

So my younger daughter actually saw this band perform live when they opened for 30 Seconds to Mars. They are finally getting airtime and have the number 1 hit on Billboard this week for alternative music:

Neon Trees - Animal

Okay, so for once I can't view a video because I'm in the US! I was allowed to see Behind the Scenes Making of a Music Video part 1 YouTube - foo fighters behind the scenes but not part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHiL-RvcZ0

Would someone please try and see if you can watch PART2, download it and repost it so that I can watch it?? Puhl-ease??

Here is the actual music video, which happens to be the #2 rock video viewed on Vevo (#1 is Chop Suey by System of Down)

Foo Fighters, The Pretender (winner, Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance)

Lyrics:
Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend
Keep you in the dark
And so it all began

Send in your skeletons
Sing as their bones go marching in... again
The need you buried deep
The secrets that you keep are at the ready
Are you ready?

I'm finished making sense
Done pleading ignorance
That whole defense
Spinning infinity, but
The wheel is spinning me
It's never ending, never ending
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

In time or so I'm told
I'm just another soul for sale... oh, well
The page is out of print
We are not permanent
We're temporary, temporary
Same old story

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

I'm the voice inside your head
You refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face
Mirrored in your stare
I'm what's left, I'm what's right
I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that will take you down
Bring you to your knees

So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

Keep you in the dark
You know they all pretend

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
What if I say I'm not just another one.
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one.
(You know they all... pretend)
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

What if I say I'm not like the others?
(Keep you in the dark)
What if I say I'm not just another one.
(You know they all... pretend)
You're the pretender
What if I say that I'll never surrender?

So who are you?
Yeah, who are you?
Yeah, who are you?

Here is a generic link so everyone should be able to watch

Originally Posted by rockzmom

Okay, so for once I can't view a video because I'm in the US! I was allowed to see Behind the Scenes Making of a Music Video part 1 YouTube - foo fighters behind the scenes but not part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHiL-RvcZ0

Would someone please try and see if you can watch PART2, download it and repost it so that I can watch it?? Puhl-ease??

Try this proxy server "SneakME.net", enter the link to the video "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHiL-RvcZ0" in to the box and press "go".

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Try this proxy server "SneakME.net", enter the link to the video "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHiL-RvcZ0" in to the box and press "go".

CoffeeCup! THANK YOU!!!

I recently learned that heroes of my youth twenty years back are still at it. You might not call that Cutting Edge though. Here's Mekong Delta, Overture:

YouTube - Mekong Delta - Ouverture

Robin

Grammy's Song of the year:

YouTube - Need You Now by Lady Antebellum [[LYRICS ON SCREEN]]

Linkin Park has a new album out, A Thousand Suns. This is a concept album which has upset a number of die hard LP fans. I recall a number of older concept albums did not get a warm reception but then went on to be long lasting influences upon music... The Beach Boys Pet Sounds is probably the best example.

Today, a radio station here played the second single from the album to be released...

Waiting for the End the video has the lyrics

For those of you who watched the video my daughter made for her speech (the one that you all helped with the title for) she used a special version of mashup song created by Dylan Vasey. Dylan is probably the best known mashup producer in London. He is now working on a project that could make him known outside the UK. Anyway, One of his latest mashups is "Can't Handle a Bad Romance." It seems I like Lady Gaga much better in mashups!



He also made this one that our household likes a lot. "Belly Dancers Speak No Americano"

What a fun thread!

I don't think it's very cutting edge, but I like it just the same:
Artist: Freelance Whales
Song: Generator(First Floor)

The song makes me feel ridiculously happy. Sometimes you just need those mood elevating songs.

Video: (better quality just music)
(Performance)

Lyrics:: (there isn't much for lyrics)

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh

We get up early just to start cranking the generator

Our limbs have been asleep, we need to get the blood back in 'em

We're finding every day, several ways that we can be friends

eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh

We keep on churning and the lights inside the house turn on

And in our native language we are chantin' ancient songs

Then when we quiet down, the house chants on without us.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh