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

Here is one that will really test your English listening skills... Nicki Minaj and Will.i.am's "Check it Out" ... it is about a month old and is just starting to get radio play here. It will be on Nicki's debut album scheduled to come out the end of November.

The song also uses a sample of "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Now why is that important? The music video for that song was the very first one to be played on MTV!

WARNING: It does have a lot of curse words in it.


Lyrics (at least the best that I could find):

Step up in the party like my name was bad b-tch
All these haters mad because I'm so established
They know I'm a beast yeah I'm a f-cking savage
Haters you can kill yourself
In my space shuttle and I'm not coming down
I'm stereo and she's just so monotone
Sometimes it just me and all my bottles all alone
I ain't coming back this time

I can't believe it
It's so amazing
This club is heating
This party's blazin'
I can't believe it this beat it banging
I can't believe it
(I can't believe it)
Hey check it out
Check it out (x10)
Yeah yeah I'm feeling it now
Check it out (x3)

Step up in the party like my name was Mr. T
All these hating naggers ain't got nothing on me.
Honestly I gotta stay as fly as I can be
If you lick and roll it you get super OG
honeys always rush me cause I'm fly, fly, fly
Dummies they can't touch me cause I'm floating sky high
I stay swagger-rific you don't need to ask why
You just gotta see with your eyes

I can't believe it
It's so amazing
This club is heating
This party's blazin'
I can't believe it this beat it banging
I can't believe it
(I can't believe it)
Hey check it out
Check it out (x10)
Yeah yeah I'm feeling it now
Check it out (x3)

(Hey) Check It Out (x10)
(Yeah yeah, I'm feeling it now-ow)
Check It Out (x3)
Check this mother-f**ker OUT!

It got me in the club, in the club, just rocking like this

The DunDun

The sun done
Yep, the sun done
Came up, but we still up in dungeon
The DunDun
Yep, in London
Competition, why yes I would love some
How the f**k they get mad cause they run done.
Mad cause I'm getting money in abundance
Man I can't even count all of these hundreds
Duffle bag every time I go to SunTrust
I leave the rest just to collect interest
I mean interest
F**k my nemesis
Exclamation... just for emphasis
And I don't sympathize, cause you a simple b***h
I just pop up on these hoes on some pimple sh*t
And put the iron to your face you old wrinkled b***h

We just had to kill it
We on the radio hotter than a skillet
We in the club making party people holla
Money in the bank we be getting top dollar
I'm a big baller,
You a little smaller
Step up to my level, you need to grow a little taller
I'm shot caller
Get up off my collar
You a Chihuahua
I'm a Rottweiler

[Bridge]
I can't believe it, it's so amazing.
I can't believe it, this beat is banging.
I can't believe it, it's so amazing.
I can't believe it, I can't believe i-it.

[Chorus]
(Hey) Check It Out (x10)
Check It Out (x3)

Brand new Black Eyed Peas... "The Time (The Dirty Bit)" came out yesterday but will "officially" released in two weeks. It samples the song "Time of my Life" from Dirty Dancing YouTube - Dirty Dancing - Time of my Life (Final Dance) - High Quality

Lunatica - The Incredibles

Once upon a time there was
A planet so tiny and blue
It was the perfect place to be
But one life form on it wanted more

But they don't see that it's half past twelve
To turn a blind eye is the easier way
As long as they feel safe in their beds
There's no need to wake up from their dream
But the truth no longer hides
They must see what they'll leave behind

Wake up, mankind, your time is running out
Give your children the chance to make things right

Now the planet is striking back
And, of course, the lamenting is big
Global warming, pollution as well
Is not enough to make them understand
That now is the time to change
Their behaviour and world's fate

Wake up, mankind, your time is running out
Give your children the chance to make things right

Not a big Katy Perry fan but this new song, Firework, and the video are really good. She looks amazing in it. Just released and already almost 3.5 million views!



Lyrics:
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?

Do you ever feel already buried deep?
Six feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you?

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby, you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, oh
You're gonna leave 'em falling down

You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow

Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will blow
And when it's time, you'll know

You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, oh
You're gonna leave 'em falling down

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through

'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh
As you shoot across the sky

Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go, oh
You're gonna leave 'em falling down

Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

No fluffy bunnies here today! This really is a great rockin' out song and funny fan made video! Has many comments on how it should be the official vid for the song!

Robin... is this your style??

Dead! - My Chemical Romance


Lyrics:
Yeah!

And if your heart stops beating
I'll be here wondering did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe
Did you get what you deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand? It ain't exactly what you planned.
And wouldn't it be great If we were dead?
Ohh dead.

Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did you get what you deserve?
The ending of your life
And if you get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe
Did you get what you deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait
Then your heart can't take this

Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked you anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand to take a pistol by the hand?
And wouldn't it be great if we were dead?

And in my honest observation
During this operation
Found a complication in your heart
So long, 'Cause now you've got (now you've got)
Maybe just two weeks to live
Is that the most the both of you can give?

One, two, one two three four!

LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Well come on,
LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA!
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!
Oh motherf*****,

If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing? (LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing?
If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why are we laughing? (LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
If life ain't just a joke (LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!)
Then why am I dead?
DEAD!

This video is totally cool. I might just have to check out the band, I like the music, too. I agree, it should be the official video for the song.

Here's a video for the most recent CD I bought:

YouTube - CRADLE OF FILTH - Forgive Me Father (I Have Sinned)

Originally Posted by bitpicker

This video is totally cool. I might just have to check out the band, I like the music, too. I agree, it should be the official video for the song.

My Chemical Romance aren't a half bad band (and I don't mean they aren't half a bad band, I mean they're pretty decent. Gotta love the ambiguity of English). They got far too much hate, because of what they represented to people (emo culture, immature fangirls/fanboys, and supposedly "selling out" by becoming famous). What often gets overlooked is that they wrote a good deal of very good, fun, catchy songs.

I'm just gonna post a random selection of stuff I like listening to now:

Wildhearts - I Wanna Go Where the People Go

Björk - Army of Me

Strapping Young Lad - Far Beyond Metal (explicit lyrics)
^ I love heavy metal, and this is one of my favourite bands for going crazy to!

and for something Russian...
Zемфира - Во Мне

This may not be my typical style of music, but I just found out the other day that this singer is actually a former classmate of mine who now lives in Canada. And on Sunday she is going to perform live here in my hometown, where we are going to have a bit of a reunion with a number of other former classmates from 25 years ago...

Mystéfy

Originally Posted by bitpicker

This may not be my typical style of music

That is an understatement! Hey but seriously, are you going to jam with her??? If so, ya know we want videos!!!

@kidkboom ... ah we have a dj/producer in da house! Have you competed in any of the mashstix challenges or have anything up on their site? I really am into mashups almost more than original songs now; but, the club remixes can have toooooo long of an intro for me. That is why I have been bugging our resident German, bitpicker, to help me out lately as I really like the mashups by Mashup Germany and while he uses mainly songs in English, he always seems to throw one German one in there and I need translations! I also like Dylan Vasey from London.

Jarod Ripley (French) has the best mashup I've heard using Adele's Rolling in the Deep

Originally Posted by rockzmom

That is an understatement! Hey but seriously, are you going to jam with her??? If so, ya know we want videos!!!

I don't think so, I only teach myself those instruments, nothing you'd want to hear live.

To set you at ease regarding the understatement yesterday I went to see Mekong Delta live. That's more like me...

YouTube - Mekong Delta - Night On A Bare Mountain

Originally Posted by rockzmom

That is an understatement! Hey but seriously, are you going to jam with her??? If so, ya know we want videos!!!

@kidkboom ... ah we have a dj/producer in da house! Have you competed in any of the mashstix challenges or have anything up on their site? I really am into mashups almost more than original songs now; but, the club remixes can have toooooo long of an intro for me. That is why I have been bugging our resident German, bitpicker, to help me out lately as I really like the mashups by Mashup Germany and while he uses mainly songs in English, he always seems to throw one German one in there and I need translations! I also like Dylan Vasey from London.

Jarod Ripley (French) has the best mashup I've heard using Adele's Rolling in the Deep

Rockzmom, thanks for the heads up about mashstix! Looked like they don't have any contests or challenges that are open just at the moment, but now that I know about it I'll mos def have to be in the next one! In the meantime I've got some mashups you might like.. or hate.. I'll PM you.. (Nothing German-speaking though sadly, unless Karin Dreijer Andersson's German accent counts)

Last Thanksgiving I posted "Alice's Restaurant" this year, I'll post Adam Sandler's Thanksgiving Song. Happy Thanksgiving everyone and even if it is not your holiday, take a minute and think about something you have to be thankful for. I know I am thankful for meeting all of you!

For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/us...?_r=2&emc=eta1

On Thursday, at a photo studio in Parsons, Kan., the last Kodachrome processing machine in the world will be shut down to be sold for scrap.

By A. G. SULZBERGER
Published: December 29, 2010

I’ve got my camera until now, up and running.
As the rest of the world has done away with those old-fashioned technologies I wonder if they still use them in Russia. This maybe a stupid question but I really don’t know if they do. Gonna have a look see the first thing tomorrow.
There was a time when some brave people did those things themselves: the colour film developing and sometimes even photograph printing, all of which involved complex, time consuming and life threatening fooling around with fancy chemicals. I for one wasn’t that much brave myself so was only able to develop into someone who could make slides or transparencies. But if you had the patience to mount a projector and rig up a bed-sheet to serve as a screen satisfaction out of watching those slides was money in the bank.

So those of you who follow this thread know I love a good mashup and at the end of each year an album of them is created called Best of Bootie. This year there just didn't seem to be a lot of them on there that I liked; but, there was one that just made me want to get up out of my bed and maybe go for a walk, or... knock somebody out! It mashes up one of my all time favs one-hit-wonders, Dexy's Midnight Runners "Come on Eileen" AND LL Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out"

Knock Out Eileen...

You don't know, what you do to me (What you do to me)
All I see, is new to me (New to me)
Just four dollar bars, and embelished strong
Said you had, done me wrong
But we'll see (We'll see)
Yeah, what you do to me (What you do to me)

(In the meantime, in the meantime, they won't bother me. )

They don't bother you, well they don't bother me
Engine too loud in this brand new Ferrari V
So we couldn't hear the haters anyway, pardon me
Girls say I'm one of the biggest hearbreakers arguably
Cupid shoot arrows but this girl make my heart bleed
I swear to God if I die she could make my heart beat
Beat, please resuscitate a G
Give me mouth-to-mouth or even give me south-to mouth
Damn 'cause you don't know what she do to me
She could kill my soul only thing left is a eulogy
She so hot and ain't another brother cool as me
To get her cold as me I think I gotta buy her jewelry
What she do to me

Darling no, ha, what you do to me (what you do to me)
All I see, yeah, is new to me (Is new to me)
These strange colors, and all the others, no they can't see
(Done me wrong, we'll see, we'll see)
Oh mama, what you do to me (what you do to me)

(In the meantime, in the meantime, they won't bother me. )

(Verse Two - Billy Danze)
I'm from the hell hole
The total opposite of Melrose
Is where the homies get the money through the steel doors
If you don't know me I suggest you ask your kinfolk
Tell them the man here
Billy Danze here
Black Keys here
MO-P's here
You say its poppin' if its rockin' listen we there

(You don't know)
Come on be clear
(Whatever you do to me)
You could never ruin me
I'm good, I flooded the hood like A.C.
I'm modest - so you ain't really gotta praise me
I'm the artist, that's ghetto-ly known as O.G.
With the (Magnum)
With forever kid (Swagger) You could never get

Darling no, ha, what you do to me (what you do to me)
All I see, yeah, is new to me (Is new to me)
These strange colors, and all the others, no they can't see
(Done me wrong, we'll see, we'll see)
Oh mama, what you do to me (what you do to me)

(In the meantime, in the meantime, they won't bother me. )

The first two are timeless classics, the third one is something completely different but I've been listening to it a fair bit lately. I actually haven't heard all of MCR's new album, but I like what I have heard of it.

Originally Posted by Demonic_Duck

I actually haven't heard all of MCR's new album, but I like what I have heard of it.

I like Planetary (GO!) from their new album as well


Another song we are listening to in our household is by Adele, Rolling In The Deep
Just song and Lyrics


Official Video (but it's Vevo so I don't think all of you can watch it!)
YouTube - Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Heard this one on the radio yesterday and the DJ was correct... you have to get past the intro of the song as it is a bit country and then it really starts to rock and once you have heard it a few times you sort of forget about the fact that the intro bothers you any more. The band is Seether and they are from South Africa, Seether - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The song is called, aptly titled... "Country Song" from their soon to be released new album "Holding On to Strings Better Left to Fray"



Lyrics:
Well I can't stand to look at you now
This revelation's out of my hands
Still I can't bear the thought of you now
This complication's leaving me scared

Stay when you think you want me
Pray when you need advice
Hey keep your sickness off me
Trying to get through
Blame all your weakness on me
Shame that I'm so contrite
Hey keep your fingers off me
Why can't I get through?

You think you have the best of intentions
I cannot shake the taste of blood in my mouth

Chorus
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me, save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's,
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You got me thinking that the party's all over

Well I can't stand to be myself
This liberation's seemingly rare
And I can't stand the taste your mouth
This sublimation's out of my hands

You can stay 'cause you think you want me
Pray when you need advice
Hey keep your sickness off me
I'm tryin to get through
Shame you could take this from me
Bane on an empty mind
Hey keep your fingers off me
Why can't I get through?

Chorus
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me, save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You got me thinking that the party's all over

(Guitar Solo)

Lay down
Just stay down
Lay down 'cause I'm trying to get through

Say what you want but you're not gonna win this time
Take what you want but just leave me alive
(x 2)

Chorus
(Hey) I keep on thinking that it's
(Hey) all done and all over now (whoa)
You keep on thinking you can save me, save me
(Hey) My ship is sinking but it's,
(Hey) all good and I can go down (whoa)
You got me thinking that the party's all over

Lay down
Just stay down
Lay down 'cause I'm trying to get through
(x 2)

Got brass in pocket
Got bottle I'm gonna use it
Intention I feel inventive
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

Got motion restrained emotion
Been driving detroit leaning
No reason just seems so pleasing
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

[Chorus:]
Gonna use my arms
Gonna use my legs
Gonna use my style
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers
Gonna use my, my, my imagination

'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special so special
I gotta have some of your attention give it to me

Got rhythm I can't miss a beat
Got new skank it's so reet
Got something I'm winking at you
Gonna make you, make you, make you notice

[Chorus]

'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention
Give it to me
'cause I gonna make you see
There's nobody else here
No one like me
I'm special, so special
I gotta have some of your attention

Give it to me