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What I recently listened to on my Last.fm

Sunday, 1. June 2008, 06:26:56

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My three favorite albums (at this moment)

Thursday, 1. May 2008, 11:03:30

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Scott tagged me to do the following:

1. Name your three favorite music group's albums (can be individual or group). Yes, yes i know "what is an album?" for those not older than dirt like me-that is CD. And DWG's don't count - - I don't really think they ever produced an album.

2. Name your three favorite songs from each. Feel free to tell us why, if you would like.

3. Then, feel free to pick on three of your friends with links to their sites posted.


My three favorite albums (at this moment)

I'm trying to take this tagging as an opportunity to talk about the following three amazing albums but, of course, there are many more artists and genres that I enjoy as well.

John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) - instrumental parts for flute 1-3
performed by Eberhard Blum - piccolo, flute and alto flute, hat ART CD 6111

There are four tracks ("The index points at 15:00, 30:00, and 45:00 are provided for convenience of reference and are not indications of divisions in the work.") and it's impossible to make any commitments regarding the quality of the tracks. This music is intensive but also kind of relaxed. The flute and John Cage's music go along pretty well.

Jean-Luc Godard: Nouvelle Vague (premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990)
ECM New Series

This is the complete soundtrack - music, dialogue, sounds. You'll find music by Dino Saluzzi, David Garling, Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg, Paul Giger, Patti Smith, Meredith Monk, Heinz Holliger and Werner Pirchner on two CDs. Forget about the three songs. This is one of my favorite albums just because you can only enjoy it as a whole.

John Zorn / Naked City: Radio (1992), Avant

John Zorn's music (all his albums are great) made me curious about many other artists. Track 9 "The Bitter and the Sweet" is a nice one but, again, it's much more impressive if you've listened to the faster and noisier tracks 1 - 8 before. And after "The Bitter and the Sweet" comes track 10 "Krazy Kat" (the title speaks for itself) followed by track 11 "The Vault" which has some metal influences with a lot of energy and so on and on.


I asked the following people to write about their favorite albums - only if they feel like it:

Melissa
Aya
Hungry Ghost

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My Last.fm Artist Quilt

Friday, 22. February 2008, 22:20:03

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My Last.fm Playlist

Sunday, 20. January 2008, 19:58:55

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Listen here to the song "My Way" by Frank Sinatra

Saturday, 24. March 2007, 17:27:02

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Lyrics

And now, the end is here
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall and did it my way

I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way,
"Oh, no, oh, no, not me, I did it my way"

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught
To say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows and did it my way!

[instrumental]

Yes, it was my way


To listen to this song please click here: My Way / Quicktime

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Listen to "Ana Alom El-Hazinah" by Fairuz

Friday, 16. March 2007, 06:46:30

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Lyrics of "Ana Alom El-Hazinah"

أنا الأم الحزينة

أنا الأم الحزينة و ما من يعزيها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها
أم يسوع قد بكت فأبكت ناظريها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها
لهفي على أمة قتلت راعيها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها
ناح الحمام على تشتت أهليها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها
عذارى أورشليم تبكي على بنيها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها
تعالوا إلى مريم أمه نعزيها
فليكن موت ابنك حياة لطالبيها

To listen to this song please click here: Ana Alom El-Hazinah / Real Player

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Listen here to the song "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper

Saturday, 30. December 2006, 09:02:06

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Lyics

We-hell- I see them every night in tight blue jeans
In the pages of a blue boy magazine
Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation
I'm picking up - good vibration -
Oop - she bop -

Do I wanna go out with a lion's roar
Huh, yea, I wanna go south n get me some more
Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
They say I better stop - or I'll go blind
Oop - she bop -

She bop - he bop - a - we bop
I bop - you bop - a - they bop
be bop - be bop - a - lu - she bop,
I hope He will understand
She bop - he bop - a - we bop
I bop - you bop - a - they bop
be bop - be bop - a - lu - she bop
Oo - oo - she - do - she bop - she bop

(whistle along here...)

Hey, hey - they say I better get a chaperone
Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
No, I won't worry, and I won't fret -
Ain't no law against it yet.
Oop - she bop - she bop -

She bop - he bop - we bop.....


To listen to this song please click here: She Bop

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Listen here to the song "Jar Al Amar" by Fairuz

Thursday, 2. November 2006, 19:03:20

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My sister and I

Nouhad (known later as Fayrouz) was born in Beirut, in a modest house. She attended the St. Joseph School for girls.

Our father worked hard as a typesetter in a printing shop to provide the proper shelter and education for us.

Due to World War II, he could no longer afford the luxury of private schools, so Nouhad had to go to a public school.

Our family had a rough time but our mother Liza al-Bustani did the impossible to retain our pride among other children. She encouraged us to go to church every Sunday. She raised us on the love of others.

"Do not envy others, be satisfied with what you have, and always love each other" - those were her daily words to us from our first day till she passed away in 1961 (she was only 45).

Our youth was full of pain and poverty, but we grew up with dignity and pride. | © Joseph W. Haddad


To listen to this song please click here: Jar Al Amar / Real Player

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Listen here to the song "Sway" by Dean Martin

Saturday, 16. September 2006, 15:15:41

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Artist: Dean Martin
Released as a single on Capitol records
Title: Sway
Year: 1954





















Lyrics

When the rumba rhythm start to play
Dance with me, make me sway.
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more.

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease.
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me.

Other dancers maybe on the floor
Dear but my eyes will see only you.
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I grow weak.

I can hear the sound of violins
Long before it begins.
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now.

Other dancers maybe on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I grow weak.
I can hear the songs of violins
Long before it begins.
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
You know how,
Sway me smooth, sway me now.


To listen to this song please click here: Sway

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Listen to "There is a light that never goes out"

Sunday, 20. August 2006, 08:53:58

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Artist: The Smiths
Title: There is a light that never goes out
Year: 1987






















Lyrics

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
(but then a strange fear gripped me and i
Just couldn't ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
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To listen to this song please click here:
There is a light that never goes out

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Listen to the song "Karma Police" by Radiohead

Sunday, 13. August 2006, 07:59:43

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Artist: Radiohead
Album: Ok Computer
Title: Karma Police
Year: 1997



















Lyrics

Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, hes like a detuned radio
Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us

Karma police, Ive given all I can, its not enough
Ive given all I can, but were still on the payroll
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself


To listen to this song please click here: Karma Police

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Listen to the song "La Taatab Aalayi" by Fairuz

Sunday, 6. August 2006, 08:21:34

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Biography of Fairuz, Part 2

In December of 1946, Nouhad became a student in Flaifel's class in the Conservatoire where she learned for four years theories of oriental and western music and how to sing and chant. Her parents encouraged her even though they could not afford much, one day her father surprised her with a radio. After graduation, she started her first job as a choir singer in the Lebanese Broadcasting Radio Station.

There she met Assi Rahbani and they worked together. In 1954, at nineteen years of age, Fairuz married Assi and converted to Greek orthodoxy. Soon thereafter, the Rahbani brothers, Assi, Mansour (the Rahbani brothers themselves), and sometimes Elias (also their brother but not included in the expression Rahbani brothers) formulated their company and began composing music for Fairouz (as Nouhad now came to be known).

Fairuz's early recordings were an innovative mixture of Arab instruments and musical idioms with European instruments, such as violins, and dance rhythms, combining Fairuz's distinct vocal timbre with lyrics that expressed nostalgia for Levantine village life. She also sang several patriotic songs for Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Mecca. Her first official appearance was in 1957 in Baalbeck. | © Wikipedia

To view part 1 of this biography please click here: Part 1.


To listen to the song please click here: La Taatab Aalayi / Real Player

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