Posted by admin on 30 May 2010 | Tagged as: Eurovision, awards, gadgets, meanings
Image via Wikipedia It must be said: Germany’s entry, “Satellite” by Lena, was a very so-so song, and it wasn’t exactly an electric vocal performance. Strange that they received so many votes, although this sort of thing is said every year. But what about the lyrics? A research and semantics laboratory had the fun idea [...]
Posted by admin on 05 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: RIP, meanings, tribute
Image via Wikipedia There is much talk at the moment about the George Harrison “track” that was featured on British radio recently. The story is that Beatle biographer Hunter Davies came across a scrap of paper with some Harrison lyrics, “Silence (Is Its Own Reply)”, speculated to be about his relationship with John Lennon. During [...]
Posted by admin on 02 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, news
Amazon.co.uk WidgetsI just noticed that Dana Winner’s new album, “Between Now and Tomorrow”, has been released featuring “If You Want to Know Me” with lyrics by me. The album features English versions of a similar album released in the Benelux, and was recorded largely for release in her “second home”, South Africa. But this is [...]
Posted by admin on 18 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: RIP, awards, events, meanings, news, politics, tip
The infobahn is alive with Susan Boyle’s rendition (nice word, eh?) of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses”. There is an overwhelming opinion that Boyle has now recorded one of the definitive versions of the song. This, however, is seen as sacrilege by others, who cling to memories of the Stones and Gram Parsons. This sort [...]
Posted by admin on 17 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, tip
Widgets Amazon.frThe way music is licenced around the world means that I have no control over where the tracks I work on eventually crop up. As Perry Rose has played quite a lot in France, just about all his albums are available on Amazon France as MP3s. I have to say: Perry is truly one [...]
Posted by admin on 07 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, news
I just got back from Normandy, which has been celebrating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing this year. So it was a strange coincidence to discover that Dame Vera Lynn is back in the UK charts with a compilation based around “We’ll Meet Again”, the song written for the movie of the same name [...]
Posted by admin on 24 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, meanings, news
As WordPress users are often told by WordPress, “code is poetry”. But what happens when coders take a look at songs and determine the logic behind the songs? A geeky in-joke has now become one of Twitter’s funniest trends. Type #songsincode into the Twitter search engine and you’ll be bombarded by song titles and lines [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, politics
This title from the Ha’aretz newspaper caught my eye. Why do Israeli singers sing in English rather than Hebrew? The debate is an old one, and has been mirrored in many countries. On the one hand, there are the people that worry about cultural identity. On the other, are performers that either don’t care or [...]
Posted by admin on 22 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: meanings
This one comes from the U2 site atU2.com, but is interesting nonetheless. Rock bands are rock bands, and they don’t necessarily have to kiss the cloth of other art forms. In fact, it can be embarrassing seeing a performer from one discipline twisting him or herself to accommodate others (think of the singers from Bowie [...]
Posted by admin on 28 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: meanings, politics, tip
With the shocking Mumbai attacks still playing out as I type this, I can’t help thinking back to other attacks and other wars with their cast of innocent victims. But attacks also leave witnesses. Nitin Sawhney and Natty appear together on the remarkable “Days of Fire”, the opening track on Sawhney’s latest album “London Undersound”. [...]