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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 youror thumbs up
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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
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")
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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
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