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

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!

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

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

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!!!

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

Originally Posted by rockzmom

More "cutting edge" news....

I've posted before about Curt Smith from Tears for Fears... well tonight (July 21st) he is hosting a brand new live streaming series called "Stripped Down Live." Stripped Down Live - from Streamin' Garage Network | TV on the Web to watch the show, you go here: Stripped Down Live on USTREAM: Stripped Down Live with Curt Smith. Each week a different musician comes on and shows off their acoustical talent. Hosted by...



It sounds as if it will be a musicians musicians sort of show and really a great show to watch/listen to if you want to learn about different maybe less heard of artists!
Here is the YouTube announcement about the show YouTube - Curt Smith From Tears for Fears new show announcement- Stripped Down Live w/ Curt Smith

Well, well, well... Stripped Down Live with Curt Smith has hit #16 on iTunes top 100 episode podcast charts! It seems we were on the cutting edge for this show!

If you have iTunes, you can download or subscribe to watch/receive free podcast episodes from Stripped Down Live. Here is a link or just enter "Stripped Down Live" in the search box of the iTunes Store. There have been 8 episodes so far.

Stripped Down Live - Download free podcast episodes by Streamin' Garage on iTunes.

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...
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