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”. [...]
Posted by admin on 22 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: meanings, news, politics, protest, religion
In a pretty radical move, Sony Entertainment has decided to pull a track by the Malian harp player Toumani Diabete from the upcoming Little Big Planet game. The track “Tapha Niang” contains two lines quoted from the Quran. After a poster on a Sony message board started complaining, the company decided to withdraw the track [...]
Posted by admin on 16 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: meanings, politics
I’m not sure what to make of this. 80s icon Boy George has recorded a song using a sample of the US president candidate Barack Obama. But, it’s hard to know what exactly the point is, or what he intends to achieve. “Yes We Can” is somewhere between a very private statement and a feelgood [...]
Posted by admin on 10 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: awards, meanings, news
Modest Mouse’s single “Dashboard” picked up the award for the College Song of the Year from BMI recently, topping a strong career since 2006′s “We Were Dead before the Ship Even Sank” (although they’ve existed since 1994). I’ve always enjoyed the band for their titles such as “This is a Long Drive for Someone With [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: meanings, news
I must admit: I wasn’t expecting this. Watching Britney Spear’s recent career has been a painful exercise, as a cute child star hit the worst times you could ever wish on her (or her family). But on “Womanizer” she’s back, almost as if nothing had happened. The photos look great, the production is slick, the [...]
Posted by admin on 30 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: events, meanings, news, tip
They seem like more innocent days. Here is the British group 10cc with their 1974 hit “Wall Street Shuffle”. And if you’re looking for further proof of the power of a good lyric, 10cc provide it once again.