Y llegamos nomás a la mitad de este ranking. Ya develamos 25 canciones y faltan otras 25. A estar atentos que se viene lo mejor!

30. “I DON’T FEEL LIKE DANCIN’” – SCISSOR SISTERS (2006)

29. “FEEL GOOD INC.” – GORILLAZ (2005)

28. “CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS” – U2 (2005)

27. “DON’T STOP” – THE ROLLING STONES (2002)

26. “ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL” – JET (2003)

PUESTOS 50 AL 46

PUESTOS 45 AL 41

PUESTOS 40 AL 36

PUESTOS 35 AL 31

Gente, hoje o post vai para uma dupla de diretores incríveis! Alex and Liane! Eles tem feito alguns dos clipes mais legais dos ultimos tempos! Já trabalharam com gente como o Sam Sparro, The Ting Tings, La Roux, Tiga, Scissor Sisters, Mika… Enfim tudo que eu AMO!

Bom, eles são ingleses e moram e Berlim, se conhecem desde os 16 anos de idade e são super amigos e como eles dizem ” Gostamos de música e fazer fotos para música, é por isso que fazemos video clipes”

Ou seja eles são tudo de bom! Então vamos lá ver alguns dos clipes né!

óh o site deles aí>alexandliane

Alguns clipes não podem ser incorporados ao blog ¬¬, mas é só clicar em cima que abre no YouTube!

La Roux – I’m Not Your Toy

Tiga – Shoes

Sam Sparro – Black And Gold

Micky Green – Oh

The Ting Tings – Shut Up And Let Me Go

Scissor Sisters – Laura

Mika – Happy Ending

Namosh – The Pulse

Deichkind – Arbeit Nervt

Ótimos né?! Olha lá o site deles que tem mais!

Por Luana Padjem

Preparatevi, perchè sta arrivando un ciclone assoluto. Loro si chiamano Baseballs, vengono dalla Germania e hanno avuto una idea geniale: ricantare i successi del pop in chiave rockabilly. Fate conto di aver mandato indietro le lancette del tempo negli anni di Elvis. I ritmi sono quelli. Sono che invece di sentire il rock anni 60 sentite, per esempio, “Umbrella” di Rihanna (la trovate sopra).

Nel Nord Europa sono già impazziti, in Finlandia il loro album d’esordio ”Strike” è schizzato in vetta alle classifiche, così come il singolo di cui sopra. L’idea è geniale e divertente. Alcuni pezzi sono veramente esilaranti. Ricordate: “I don’t feel like dancing” degli Scissor Sisters? Loro l’hanno rifatta così.  E che dire di “Hot ‘n cold“, fresco successo di Katy Perry oppure di “Bleeding love” di Leona Lewis? O ancora, chi non ricorda “This Love” dei Maroon 5? No, così non le avete proprio mai sentite (soprattutto l’ultima in versione crooner).

Geni assoluti. Andiamo avanti. Eccovi le loro versioni di “Angels” di Robbie Williams, “The look” dei Roxette, “Hey there Delilah“, dei Plane White T’s (per chi non conescesse l’originale di questo successone del 2007, sta qui), “Don’t cha“ delle Pussycat Dolls, “Love in this club” di Usher. Per non parlare nientemeno che di “Pokerface” di Lady Gaga.  C’ è spazio anche per un pezzo meno noto come “Gives you hell” della band rock alternativa americana All American Rejects (l’originale è questo).  Troppo divertenti. Il modo migliore per cominciare la settimana.

First off, I have to apologise for the lateness of this post. It’s been busy; with all my reading week assignments due in and laptop failures to top it off nicely. I’ve left the “big one” hanging for a week now, completely unintentionally. Hoping not to disappoint, here we go:

Homophonic: one of DCUfm’s newest shows; currently the only show on the station catering for an LGBT audience. This show is James’ brainchild and I’ll be producing it for him for the last few weeks of the semester. Our first show was 9:00 to 10:00 Monday the 16th and we’d like to think it came across well.

The Lineup:

• Introduced the Show with “Spandex Man” by Mr. Scruff (a song used in Spaced)
• Paper Planes by M.I.A
• Gay community news (including celebrity gossip and the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon)
• Groove Is In The Heart by Dee-Lite
• Events, nights out things for the LGBT community to get involved with.
• Take Your Mama by The Scissor Sisters
• Snack review and giveaway: this week’s snack was some ginger root sweets from the Oriental Emporium.
• Praise You by Fatboy Slim
• Interview: James’ interview with MarriagEquality
• Take On Me by Aha

Credit where credit is due: thanks to Diarmuid Hayes for being our first guest co-host.

Not gay (but supportive)

There’s a quite an unexplainable thrill that comes from working a live studio mixing desk, having a sense of control and power over the show (when it goes right). Its similar to my first love of  editing, because while the raw content has to be good, the editing (or the mixing) has to be better. It comes down to the editor(or producer) to take the raw content and mould it into the final product.

Anyway, I got through the hour without any major malfunctions, pulling up and down the levels at the right times, me and James cueing off each other nicely. James was great too, nervous at first but expertly finding his feet as we went along; new territory for both of us and another…

(BLEEP-BLOOP)

…achievement unlocked!

Listen to HOMOPHONIC:  Monday nights 9:00 to 10:00. Also listen any time for quality student radio shows such as FINAL CUT: Wednesdays 8:00 to 9:00.

Tits. Can you handle it? (The word, not the tits themselves.)

I’m sure some will blush and others will shrug. What drew me into this song wasn’t the tits though, it was that sweet bass line. You can especially hear it at the beginning of the song. Oh yeah baby! That’s what I am talking about!

By the way, if the watch the fan made video note that it isn’t really Rated G, and probably not even PG-13. I’m sure you can handle it though. (The video, not the tits themselves.) Eyes up here! Oh wait… right. I’m a boy.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Lily Allen
• MGMT
• Mika

I also suggest the music genre:

• Electroclash

Click here for more info on Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters – “Tits on the Radio”.

The MP3 may be purchased here:

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

"Does this even need a witty caption?"

Lady Gaga is a confusing artist. I’ll say this right now; her songs are cringe-worthy, and incredibly pretentious at times. However, she creeps up on you, and before you know it you are singing along to every chorus, and trying to join in on the absurd dance moves in her videos. Lady Gaga is the both the worst of pop, and the best of it all at once, and I don’t know if I’ll ever wrap my head around her fully. If her first album wasn’t confusing enough, this special edition bonus tracks-cum-EP-cum-new album that she calls ‘The Fame Monster’ just adds to the Gaga enigma.

Just let me take on the Lady as a whole, first off. She’s incredibly odd, in terms of look, costume, public persona, music, and especially her music videos. By rights, she should have gone the way of Bjork in the public perception, a one hit wonder that drops out of the mainstream but still has hardcore fans who can accept her strange aesthetic and unique musical style. Lady Gaga, on the other hand, endures. I think this is because she isn’t unique. Whether this is pure lack of creativity, or as I like to see her, a big postmodernist comment on the world of pop and celebrity, is still up for debate. What Gaga does well is take on the wide range of what we call pop, smash it all together through massive layers of production and create something decidedly weird, but catchy as hell and so bombastically unoriginal that it comes full circle and feels fresh and new.

I hate to go track by track, but I’m going to party have to for ‘The Fame Monster’ as it is not really a coherent album. Oh sure, it’s being sold as that now, but it was originally planned as a bonus disc for her debut release ‘The Fame’, filled with tracks that were either new or left off that release, depending on which articles you read. The only thing that seems to pull the album together is the repetition of the words “free bitch” in a few of the songs. The reason for highlighting certain tracks will just give you an idea of what to expect, and an idea of how eclectic an album ‘The Fame Monster’ is:

Bad Romance is the closest to what I’ve come to expect of Gaga thus far, with a similar sound to previous songs like Paparazzi, though with a vocal hook that reminds me of Boney M’s Rasputin, and a verse in French for no other reason than it’s a Lady Gaga song. Alejandro opens with a spoken intro in a bad, pan-European accent, and carries on in that vein, sounding like Shakira taken to the Europop extreme. Monster is booming R&B and features the line “he ate my heart and then he ate my brain.” ‘nuff said. Speechless would sound like Abbey Road/Let It Be era Beatles mixed with Christina Aguilera, if it weren’t for the strange accent Lady Gaga puts on to sing it. Try to imagine a country drawl mixed with Dick Van Dyke quality cockney and you’ll be about half way there. Dance In The Dark sounds a little like a darker version of her earlier song ‘Just Dance’, funnily enough. Telephone (feat. Beyonce) opens with a harp, and then breaks out into a thumping club track. If you like random vocal effects and hearing Beyonce for a verse, then you’ll probably enjoy it, there’s not much else to it really. So Happy I Could Die is what Rhianna would sound like if she’d been around in the 90s, pop R&B scene. Finally we have Teeth, which to my ears is the love child of Fanz Ferdinand’s ‘Ulysses’ and everything Scissor Sisters ever released. Though sadly, unlike those bands, Lady Gaga’s tongue is nowhere near her cheek in this one.

So where does that leave us? The Fame Monster is an eclectic mix of songs, which while possibly enjoyable on their own, don’t totally work together. Actually even on their own, just as you start to get into a song something, be it the lyrics, or an odd sound effect Gaga decided to add, will make you cringe. The subject matter is a little more mainstream than her main her first album, with each track seeming more about relationships than celebrity. Here’s the rub. Nothing I or any other reviewer says about this album will matter. This album will sell. It will pump out single after single, and Lady Gaga will make video after absurd video to promote it. I still can’t work out whether Lady Gaga is a genius or just very lucky to hit on some untouched artery of the market, but it doesn’t really matter. She’s cemented in pop culture now, and this album is doing nothing to endanger that.

5/10

Standout Tracks:

Bad Romance

Speechless

Telephone (feat. Beyonce)

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting down with VHS Or Beta’s Craig Pfunder and Mark Palgy on a cold Manhattan afternoon. The boys have taken on a new venture by not only uprooting themselves from Kentucky to Brooklyn, but by starting their own label, Chromosome Records. If they didn’t seem busy enough the band also has a new musical project that is prepared to take the music world by storm.

GSL: You’re initially from Kentucky. How did you end up in Brooklyn of all places?

(Craig looks at Mark)

Craig: You’re the one who got here first man! I guess like anyone does, I mean unless you are already from New York. Mark and I have been working out of Kentucky for over a decade. We’re in our thirties. It makes more sense for us to be living somewhere like Louisville when we’re touring so much. It’s super cheap there, and super comfy and easy. Now that we’re not touring as much, we’re able to really appreciate living in somewhere like Brooklyn. Mark took the opportunity to get out. It’s the first place Mark ever lived besides Louisville. He was eager to get out and see what else is out there. Then I came shortly after.

Is there a big music scene in Louisville?

Craig: There actually is. I couldn’t say that you’ve heard of all the acts, or even a quarter of them, but Louisville has always been rich in music. The obvious bands are there but at the time I left there seemed to be a lot of bands playing out…excitement about those bands.

You were signed to Astralwerks for quite a while. What made you decide to leave the label?

Craig: Part of that was out of our hands. When Astralwerks parent company got brought out and restructured they changed the format of that label. We were let go of our contract and we decided that what better time than now to take advantage of the idea of bands like us, with little extra work can have ownership of our masters, control over what we want. So we saw it as a blessing to kind of jump into that because we used to release our own records. It’s exciting we’ve kind of come full circle with that aspect.

Did you consider going to another label instead of starting your own?

Craig: There are always labels I think we’ve felt a kinship towards. I think we really appreciate the asthetic of DFA and labels like that. Interestingly enough, DFA was tied to Astrelwerks. If the right thing came along, maybe. Right now it seems pretty cool doing our own thing though.

How different was it to self release an album 10, 12 years ago compared with today?

Mark: Much easier now. You can get online and do it.

Craig: We were going through, just the idea of having to figure it out, hard copy stuff back then was just insane. When you’re doing a PR push and you’re paying for that it’s like nowadays its way more email oriented. Back then you were really trying and putting money into print ads and point of sales stuff. Print magazines were way harder to get into back then so the campaign push was a lot harder. Now it’s like blogs! PR companies are pushing towards blogs, more independent companies. The price has come down considerably for a PR push but it’s just a completely different climate. It’s almost like 2012 happened in the music industry and now the North and South Pole are completely different. It’s a weird thing.

Are you accepting new artists on your label or is it solely going to be VHS or Beta?

Mark: I think we have interests in artists but not in the traditional label roles, like coddling them and giving record deals and advances. Dance labels, there’s no real genuine royalty like come and do a track on our label and then go do something with somebody else, you know? I think if something amazing comes along that we want to have on our label for a while, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, but for now it’s a dance label.

Craig: The process is going to be us trying to find talent that is as excited as we are about the process. Like Mark said, we’re not trying to take kids out to dinner and be like “Yea we got all this money for you and here’s some big advance. ” It would be more likely that we find artists that are eager to get their music out there and heard and we provide an avenue for them to do that. Low cost, with the option of them making money and hopefully are tastes will be credible enough to where the label will have credibility of it’s own. That’s another really exciting thing for us. Hopefully someday kids will be sending us their demo tapes, like ‘Hey!’…tapes? Yea right! Their demo Mp3 or link to their music and that would be the idea of talent searching for us. Right now we’re searching for the talent, but hopefully we can build it into something cool like Kitsune or something where they have such a depth of artists they work with but they’re not purely Kitsune artists. Most of them aren’t.

Was starting a label something you always wanted to do?

Mark: It’s something we’ve done before. I can’t say I’ve always wanted to do it but now that I see how it can be done and it can be lucrative it seems like the right time to do it.

You’ve come up with releasing one song a month online. How did you come up with the idea for that?

Craig: It’s not necessarily one every month. Maybe every other. It’s more of something where, I think the circumstance happened because we weren’t writing songs that were soundly completely like one another. We were in this process of feeling like our tastes were at different places. It was away for us to kind of step into the role of a producer instead of maybe a band. Like when Mark and I are getting in there in the studio and passing things back and fourth, it’s been more collaborative than it’s ever been, the process has been. I think whenever that change happens you kind of have to change other things too. This was a way for us to get out some of these songs that we worked on, but not have to wait for the entire record concept to be finished. Right now we can get the songs out, the second one is almost done and will be out soon. Then the third and fourth will be worked on and so fourth. It’s like periodicals in the literary world. You have things that are instant or quarterly and it’s like ideas are being heard more recently to their session, they’re not being heard a year after the session or writing of the song, and maybe the artist doesn’t feel connected to the song at the point that the audience finally gets to hear them. We could literally write a track tonight and decide maybe that could be the next single and you would hear it in a couple of months. It’s like I think for the artist to have that period of time to get that song out that’s kind of exciting.

Are you writing songs as you go along or are there any songs that have been written prior?

Craig: This is all pretty new stuff. It’s not much like backburner stuff where we were like “Well this didn’t make the last record, lets put this in.” It’s so new that I’m tracking vocals today after this interview!

After the whole thing is done, do you plan on releasing the songs on a physical cd?

Mark: We’re going to compile the release. I don’t know about a cd but we’re definitely going to compile probably put a some new songs that aren’t necessarily going to be the singles.

Craig: That’s back to the point of why we’re in Brooklyn. Part of it is I wanted to get up here and have the process be faster than the internet. Go to work on music so it can go faster.

How do you think this will change the way your fans listen to your music?

Craig: Well we haven’t completely abandoned the idea of a record, it’s not like we’re doing this forever. We’ve been a band for a really long time and it looked interesting. As far as the audiences are accepting it on Facebook, people are cool. Like yesterday I posted something like “I can’t wait to drop the next single,” and people genuinely wrote back like “We can’t either,” and “When is it going to drop?” There’s an excitement that builds around that kind of stuff. When you think of everything else in the world that is released in episodes, it’s kind of an interesting concept to how music could possibly be released in that fashion.

Are all the members of VHS Or Beta involved with the working of the labels, or is it just you two?

Craig: Well the original members are me, Mark, and our drummer Mark (Guidry). We work with two guys when we play live, but they live spread out. As far as the band, yes, the three of us are running the record label.

Your songs have been remixed by great artists like LA Riots. How did your songs become involved in those?

Mark: Remixes are such a great thing to have. Whether it works out great is how it’s approached.

Craig: It’s a medium that keeps energy going in the dance world. It reinvigorates everything it does. It allows artists to work with one another, it allows original works to be interpreted by other artists which is a pretty special thing. We’ve been fortunate enough to be a band that has attracted the attention of people like the Juan McLean and Babydaddy from Scissor Sisters. We’ve had a ton of great people work on our stuff. The idea also with our new single is that we’ll be including really awesome remixes.

How important do you think it is for a band to reinvent the way they write music and the way they release their albums?

Craig: What’s weird is that it used to be that the label would have to figure out how to market the record for you. Your job was to wake up, go to the piano or guitar, record a song, get together your bandmates flush that song out. Then the label would help you find a producer and then you record that song and they pay for it. Now it’s like yeah you’re right. We as musicians and as people who are putting our own music out we do have to think about it. A part of it that we weren’t really prepared for our whole life, but with the internet it has become easier. I don’t think anyone is staying on top of it and nothing is completely working, there’s no guy out there that has all of it figured out and making trillions and billions of dollars in music. The problem is that people don’t want to pay for music anymore and they don’t feel they shouldn’t have to so nothing has changed that. But if you find something then maybe you figured something out that no one else has. Our main job is to write music that we care about and keep it relevant to the times I guess. We’ll do our best to be a record label, but it’s our first job is to write music.

Do you worry about the new songs leaking ahead of time?

Craig: We’re pretty careful with who we send demos to. If there was a leak and there was an excitement about the leaking than that would be a healthy problem. I mean, don’t they say if your record leaks and no one cares about it, then you have a problem right? We don’t really send out our music before it’s time to many people. It’s a really tight group of people.

How has your music evolved over the years, even to the way you come together to collaborate?

Craig: Things have just changed. I mean we were literally four guys in a room making noise until something felt right and then we’d record it. That process we were so young. We were just laughing about this the other day with the mix engineer. We were talking about how when you’re young your egos are so charged and you think you know everything and everyone’s opinionated so much and it takes so long for everything. In a lot of ways now that we’re older, it’s a lot easier to accept other people’s ideas and to find merit in their ideas. I think the biggest difference is on the new music we’re writing from different perspectives. Like Mark and I are writing more from a synthesizer perspective more than a guitar perspective. Pretty much are previous efforts revolved around some sort of guitar part. That’s not going to last forever but right now it’s really exciting for us. Guitar is our first instrument. That’s the main thing, samples. We used to feel like we had to play every single note for it to be authentic and now we’re excited about pushing play, enjoying what you’re hearing.

What advice would you give to upcoming bands about signing or not signing to a label?

Craig: Don’t do it.

Mark: Don’t do it!

Craig: Unless you can get an exuberant amount of money up front and they retain ownership of your masters and they don’t touch your publishing or merch….

Mark: That will never happen.

Craig: I don’t think the era of the label is dead I just think it would have to be pretty darn impressive for me to sign another contract. If anything get a manager and a lawyer you really trust. The chemistry of what’s going on right now, I can’t even say I’ve seen a record deal but I can’t imagine it’s pretty. I can’t imagine them being like we really want to work with you and sign this 42 page contract. You owe them your first born. Record labels are just kind of banks in a weird way. People have figured it out that they can get by without them.

Download VHS Or Beta’s First Single “Feel It When Y ou Know” at iTunes and Beatport

Also be sure to check VHS Or Beta online at their official website and Myspace !

Did you think I was joking when I said Hanan’s coverage was top notch over at Music Induced Euphoria? The proof is in the pudding. Check out the video below. Watch the whole thing as Hanan herself runs on stage to hug Julian. I can’t believe it!

Not only am I extremely jealous, but I am now even more excited for Friday night when I get to see JC perform in LA. The hysteria is boiling inside of me. It can’t come quickly enough; I’ve said that a lot in the past few days in anticipation of JC’s LA show and every time I do, I think of Scissor Sisters’ amazing track with the same name. Check it out below.

Scissor Sisters – It Can’t Come Quickly Enough (mp3)
(website)(iTunes)(Amazon)

Mr. Oizo is definitely an Apes With Barrels favorite, ¡yay experimental french electro-house! , and I recently happened upon a remix he did of Doctor L back in 2000 titled ‘Strange Shit Happens (Mr. Oizo Remix)’ which was missing from my essentially complete collection of his music (His remix of Ark’s Punkadelic was only released on Vinyl, and is relatively rare, unfortunately it will probably never surface, and the tracks ‘Pig’, ‘Tnust’, and ‘Half A Square‘ continue to elude internet exposure) I apologize to those of you who have most of these, but I think all of this crazy surrealist Frenchmans remixes deserve to be posted regardless, so here goes, voici, la musique de l’ordinateur>>>

For the start of the new month and Music Monday tomorrow, I give you the newly updated Planet Glitter Shower Music chart – based on the most played tunes this week so that you may go forth inspired and dance around. Go ahead. Throw shapes!

"Quitting's out of the question!"

1. Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole  (1) Second week at number one in the shower tune chart. Coz it works!
2. The Gambler – Kenny Rogers (2) This one continues to baffle me but the stats don’t lie!
3. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry (3) Good chooooon Ms Perry, that album refuses to die. She releases MTV Unplugged this month though so look out for that.
4. The Loving Kind – Girls Aloud (6) Dreams that glitter…
5. We Built This City – Starship (4) Down one place to 5 but it’s a feel good classic and might stick around
6. 3 Words – Cheryl Cole This will be released in December. It’s a grower with a touch of Black Eyed magic.
7. Heaven – Cheryl Cole (23) No wonder this made a massive leap. It’s been in my head and should be in yours too. Tune’s good, lyrics are all lovey dovey but I can forgive that.
8. Boys and Girls – Pixie Lott (13) Blame this on needing music when you get ready for a night out.
9. Waking Up In Vegas – Katy Perry (12) Shake the glitter….
10. Paparazzi – Lady Gaga (5) I think this one stuck around coz I saw the V performance. Down 5 places tho…

Nearly but not quite…

• 13. I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry (11) Down two for the anthem ’straightened out’ by Lloyd in X Factor
• 14. One of the Boys – Katy Perry (9) Down five but still around. A song about being pretty and sparkly YAY
• 24. Boyfriend – Alphabeat (25) Up one coz someone thought it was funny to dedicate this song to me after Pride. No more shall be said about this. If you were around at the time, you already know!
• 25. Call the Shots – Girls Aloud Pulled this one back from nowhere and it sounds mega before you go out.
• 26. Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
• 28. Sweet Home Alabama – Lyn Skyn (27) Down one, catchy and reminds me of the film and J Lu. Yum!
• 29. Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble (36) Slow and steady progress for the gorgeously bouncy happy song, ruined slightly by the video and the girl he sings to. He sings it to me, in my mind he does!
• 30. Meet Me Halfway – Black Eyed Peas NEW ENTRY coz it makes ya dance. Will be huge!
• 38. Cry Me A River – Michael Buble NEW ENTRY It’s a catchy ‘I don’t care about you so ner’ kinda song.
• 39. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon RE-ENTRY coz it reminds me of people. hehe xx
• 41. Remedy – Little Boots (37) Ooops it’s slipping down the chart. Still a stonking choon though.
• 44. Music is the Victim – Scissor Sisters  NEW -Jakey’s second appearance of four. Pre-going out track!
• 45. Rock With You – Michael Jackson NEW- MJ  doubters need to discover Off The Wall. When he was good he was very very good, Funky. This track does it all.
• 49. I Don’t Feel Like Dancing – Scissor Sisters NEW  funny how a song about sitting down, fills the dancefloor! And with help from Elton too…
• 50. I Can’t Decide – Scissor Sisters Another with the stubborn theme. Used in Dr Who with John Simm too.

Until next week I’ll leave you with this… Taio Cruz contributed ‘Stand Up’ to Cheryl’s album. Her management had first refusal on a song that he wrote especially for her but he ended up taking it back. That song?  ‘Break Your Heart’, damn record company executives…. most unglittery move of the month!

Scissor Sisters. Tipo sorelle forbice, comunque il nome di una posizione sessuale fra donne.
Uno li guarda e pensa a una serata Mukkassassina. Uno li ascolta e scopre delle belle canzoni. L’immagine li frega, certo. Ma anche no. Perché questo non prendersi sul serio è la loro forza.
C’è Elton John, fra le loro canzoni, tanto Elton John. E mi ricordano a tratti l’Electric Light Orchestra più pop e meno prog. Ma sì che c’è, solo che c’è tanta ironia da queste parti. Sono glam, sono divertenti, vien voglia di ballare sui loro pezzi. Sono fuori dal tempo. Sembrano saltare fuori direttamente dalla fine dagli anni Settanta, ma sono anche straordinariamente contemporanei. E hanno dei bei suoni, anche.
Poi ci sono i gioielli. In mezzo ai pezzi più dance, sanno infilare alcune perle. Nel primo album ce n’erano almeno tre, Laura era uno di questi, quasi un blues glam. Bellissima.

La posizione sessuale è nota come tribadismo, anche. Giusto per non lasciar spazio al non detto.

Muzyka popularna zawsze pełna była  falseciarzy. Wypełniali wszystkie jej rejony, nawet takie, które dziś awansowały na półkę kultury wysokiej (czyli takiej, której zwolennicy lubią czuć się wyżsi od innych). Przykładem jest tu nie tylko Farinelli, bohater słynnego filmu Gérarda Corbiau o ostatnim kastracie, ale i rzesza facetów wydających z siebie piski niewymuszone operacyjnie (mężczyźni mogą zbliżyć się jedynie do altu, najniższego głosu kobiecego).

Zostawiając już na boku odcięte narządy płciowe, które i tak męczyć nas będą, przybrawszy formę freudowskich kompleksów, zróbmy krótki przegląd współczesnych muzyków “śpiewających cienko”. Bo falset to tak na prawdę ciężka praca. Etymologicznie pochodzi od włoskiego słowa “falso” (fałszywy) i realizowany jest poprzez silne napięcie strun głosowych, co wymaga niezłego treningu. Odliczamy dziesięciu naszych ulubionych falseciarzy:

10. Mika – Młody półlibańczyk, który swoimi chwytliwymi melodiami i głosem przypominającym wymuszającego uwagę dzieciaka, podbił popowy świat.

9.  Justin Hawkins – romansujący z dramatycznymi dźwiękami opery i histerycznie uwielbiający wszelkie wydania Glam Metalu, charyzmatyczny wokalista The Darkness.

8. Frankmusik – falset z pomocą elektroniki. Niedawno w Łodzi na Venie na bis zaśpiewał “It’s a Sin” Pet Shop Boysów.

7. Antony Hegarty – głos drżący z niepewności, a jednocześnie bardzo czysty, mocny i pewny.

6. Russell Mael – młodszy z braci Sparks, którzy już blisko 40 lat raczą nas swoimi pstrymi hymnami i wciąż wychodzi im to świetnie.

5. Jake Shears ze Scissor Sisters – disco falset – czasem campowy, czasem wzruszający, ale zawsze gorgeous.

4. Andy Bell z Erasure – pionier pełnego emocji ostentacyjnego falsetu lat 80.

3. D’Angelo – były chłopak Angie Stone z wielkim talentem w pięknej piosence ze świetnym teledyskiem.

2. Maximilian Hecker – niemiecki wokalista, eks-model, melancholik. Szkoda, że tak słabo znany.

1. Klaus Nomi – falset pierwszej klasy. Przeszywający operowy głos, połączony z wykreowaną w stylu marsjańsko-kabuki personą Klausa Divy, wciska w fotel.

by: Maria Durska, Adam Kruk 2009

Un petit tag musical vu chez Chinchilla et Axoo (je me rends compte que ma blogo est très lambtonienne, bizarrement xD)

1- Que j’écoute en ce moment : Là tout de suite, I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow, globalement ces derniers temps I don’t feel like dancing – Scissor Sisters

2- Qui me rend joyeuse : Ah j’en ai un paquet. En ce moment  je dirais All the Day and All of the Night, des Kinks

3- Qui me rappelle un ex-copain : Double Jeu – Christophe Willem, j’avais pris l’habitude de lui “chanter” sur msn à chaque fois qu’elle passait sur iTunes, ça l’agaçait , enfin c’était devenu un jeu

4- Qui me rappelle une amie perdue : N’importe quelle chanson de Noir Désir, que j’ai donc viré, certaines de Queen, Buttons des PCD, Lonely Day de SoaD (et tout ça pour une seule ;o)

5- Qui me fait pleurer : Je sais pas, en ce moment y’en a pas. Et là tout de suite, j’arrive pas à penser à des chansons qui me font pleurer même si je ne suis pas d’humeur à pleurer.

6- Qui me fait réfléchir sur le monde : Dream On – Aerosmith

7- Qui en dit beaucoup sur moi : Alors là… En une chanson, ce n’est pas possible, je suis trop de personnes différentes xD. Love song for a vampire – Annie Lennox ^^

8- Que j’aurais aimé écrire : Fuck You – Lily Allen (elle est arrivée jusqu’à moi pile au bon moment cette chanson ;o)

9- Qui fait que mes amis pensent à moi quand ils l’entendent : Cette question est bizarre, j’en sais rien moi ;o. D’ailleurs, celles qui passent par là, dites-le moi , j’éditerai.

10- Qui me rappelle mon enfance : Pour que tu m’aimes encore – Céline Dion (j’étais fan de Céline avant)

11- Avec laquelle j’aimerais me réveiller : I don’t feel like dancing – Scissor Sisters

12- Avec laquelle j’aimerais m’endormir : Ballerina – Van Morrison

13- Pour laquelle je ferais n’importe quoi pour l’entendre en live : Stray Dog – Robert Pattinson , ou Be Somebody – Kings of Leon

14- Qui me fait penser à ma solitude : Message Personnel – Françoise Hardy

15- Qui n’est pas mon type de musique mais que j’aime pourtant : What about us – John Barrowman xD AH ! Et puis Schnappi bien sûr ! (sans blague vous me verriez écouter Schnappi, vous auriez peur, mon chat a peur, ma chienne a peur, ma soeur a peur, tous se demandent si mon cerveau n’aurait pas fondu)

16- Avec laquelle j’aime travailler : … aucune xD, non sérieusement, bon tout dépend de ce qu’on entend par travailler, je décide que ça correspond à ce que j’écoute en écrivant. City of Blinding Lights- U2

17- Que j’écoute dans ma voiture : (ai pas de ouatuuure mais sinon je mettrai à fond Do Somethin’ – Britney Spears

18- Que j’écoute en boucle sans me lasser : I don’t feel like dancing – Scissor Sisters (non non ce n’est pas du tout la troisième fois que je la cite )

Je tague Petite Etoile, Mademoiselle V, Galy, Anne O’Nymous (ça fait longtemps que t’as pas posté :p), et c’est tout sinon elles pourront pas taguer qui elles veulent ;o xD.

I have never watched Life on Mars or indeed the sequel Ashes to Ashes but given that they are titles of tunes by my songster hero, Bowie, perhaps I really ought to.  Indeed I so love the lyrics in this Scissor Sisters track “Return to Oz” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOt1hBMBV74.

So what else might I be missing out on (just because I prefer not to interact with the big black box in the corner of the room)?  Thanks Steve for that quote! 

Most of us at some time, for one reason or another, find ourselves in a place where we didn’t intend to be.  Sometimes this can be a good thing, at other times it is a good thing but we just don’t know it yet.  I call this ‘lost’.  It is never that bad.  But to find our way back out again we need to sift through the debris. 

Some of the aftermath is useful information.  If we can process this and place it into the future scheme of things then it is worth analysing and drawing out the learning.  Some of the aftermath is useless information.  If, as we process it, it ties our minds in myriad knots then this is not doing us any favours. 

The information may well be worth something in the future when we decide to drawn down on it but for the moment it is just adding weight to the drowning process.  Let it go. Anything worth hanging onto which we discard now will come back to us when the time is right and if we keep an open mind.

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Gosto de músicas que expressão momentos, gosto de músicas que vão além do básico principalmente quando se trata de sentimentos

The Other Side da banda Scissor Sisters expressa muito bem

principalmente nessa parte (ja vou colocar com a tradução embaixo pra facilitar …)

What will one day become of us

We’ll grow as grass under their feet

No one here will ever know your name

And you still lie there next to me

If it takes another life

I’ll wait for you

On the other side

Everything that comes to me as good belongs to you

I’ll count our blessings as I Wait for you On the other side

Good luck and I will see you through

e a tradução

O que um dia irá nos tornar?

Iremos crescer como grama embaixo dos pés

Ninguém aqui jamais irá saber seu nome

E você ainda estará lá deitado, tão perto de mim

Se levar outra vida

Eu prefiro te esperar do outro lado

Tudo o que chega pra mim de bom te pertence

Eu irei contar nossas histórias enquanto eu espero por você do outro lado

Boa sorte e eu vejo você por aqui

A música matou a “charada” do dia,  e quem sabe a pessoa na qual eu dedico essa música acabe lendo, eu recomendo que baixem é bem gostosinha de ouvir.

Spank Loft Party

A Benefit for Issue 15 of Spank Zine
Friday October 23
10pm
$7 before midnight $10 after
DJs Sean B and DJ Will
Late Night Guest DJ Gant Johnson
Performance by Ana Matronic of Scissor Sisters!
Light show by English Kills
Hosted by Muffinhead
Room instillation by Deputy

RSVP to spankparty@gmail.com for location

Sexta pela manhã vou pra casa dos meus pais e volto só na quarta. Não consigo dormir e nem pensar em outra coisa tamanha a minha tensão.

Em 2006 eu me mudei de Tapejara, cidade com pouco mais de 20 mil habitantes, e desde então posso contar nos dedos as vezes que voltei pra lá.  Não é descaso, não sou do tipo que que renega o lugar de onde veio. Gosto muito de lá e minha maior tristeza é saber que, cada vez mais, eu me distancio dum lugar onde eu vivi muito bem durante 17 anos.

Apesar de morar sozinho e ter total liberdade, lá eu me sinto deslocado e também tenho atitudes de quem é visita e não morador. Fico de mal humor, passo a me vestir igual um mendigo durante o dia inteiro, me trancar em casa e dormir pras horas passarem, não consigo ficar o tempo suficiente com os meus pais e passo a maior parte do tempo recluso, como se lá continuasse sozinho dentro de casa. É estranho, porque não guardo nenhuma recordação ruim, ao contrário de Porto Alegre, que é o lugar onde eu não fico entediado, mas também é o lugar onde eu mais me frustro, me decepciono e tenho péssimas lembranças.

Já pensei que talvez voltar pra casa dos pais fosse a saída pra terminar com esse inferno astral, frustrações e esses pensamentos negativos, mas chega ser absurda a idéia de que um lugar que me fez tão bem durante esse tempo todo foi completamente descartado porque hoje em dia eu sinto que eu não me encaixo mais lá. Muito menos em Porto Alegre.

A conclusão seria que eu não me encaixo em lugar algum, então? Fica a questão.

please help me friend from coming down
i’ve lost my place now and it cant be found
is this the return to oz?
the grass is dead, the gold is brown and the sky has claws
there’s a wind-up man walking round and round
what once was esmerald city is now a crystal town

I’ve hit a low and been in total bumout mode for I don’t know, the last two weeks. I need to reach up and pull myself out. Music, Save me.

GirlTalk – In Step

Scissor Sisters – Paul McCartney

Van Halen – Runnin With The Devil

Leftover Crack – Rock the 40 oz.

Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)