Post by Triple J on May 25, 2004 20:28:37 GMT -5
HEY LOOK! My feature's on the home page! ;D
We're going to take another journey into...[glow=green,9,300]OBSCURITY[/glow]
You know these songs? Share your thoughts. You don't know them? Check 'em out!
1. "Right Next Door (Because Of Me)" Robert Cray ('86 album Strong Persuader) - African-American contemporary blues singer/songwriter. Great guitarist! Also had a hit with "Smoking Gun" from the same album.
I heard him shout "Who is he?" she mumbled low... he said "Baby don't you lie to me no more"... and I'm listening through these thin walls, in silent shame... as she called out my name, I was right next door... it's because of me, it's because of me
2. "Tenderness" General Public ('84 album "All The Rage") - British pop/ska group, founded by members of the English Beat. Single made it to #27 on the U.S. charts.
I don't know when to start or when to stop... my luck's like a button I can't stop pushing it... my head feels light but I'm still in the dark... seems like without tenderness there's something missing... tenderness, where is the tenderness, where is it?
3. "Somewhere Down The Crazy River" Robbie Robertson ('87 self-titled album) - Canadian-born, former lead guitarist of "The Band." The lyrics on this are half spoken, half sung.
(spoken) I turned around and she said "Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?" I said "Uh... I don't know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way." She said "Hang the rich."
(sung) Catch the blue train... to places never been before... look for me, somewhere down the crazy river, somewhere down the crazy river... catch the blue train... all the way to Kokomo... you can find me somewhere down the crazy river, somewhere down the crazy river
4. "First We Take Manhattan" Leonard Cohen ('88 album "I'm Your Man") - Born in Canada, poetic folk singer, most successful during the late 60's to early 70's. He incorporates synthesizers with his deep voice on this track. This was later covered by Jennifer Warnes.
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom... for trying to change the system from within... I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them... first, we take Manhattan... then we take Berlin
5. "America" KBC Band ('86 self-titled album) - Offshoot from Jefferson Airplane/Starship, fronted by Paul Kantner, Marty Balin & Jack Casady.
Sing a song of America... once she was a young girl with her heart on fire... born in the dust of the magic of history, it all goes on, yeah the dream goes on
6. "Gravity Of Love" Enigma (2000 album "The Screen Behind The Mirror") - "Enigma" is the alias of Romanian born producer Michael Cretu. Best known in the 90's for top 10 singles "Sadeness Part 1" and "Return To Innocence." Guest vocals by Ruth-Ann Boyle of electronica group "Olive." This is one of my favorite songs.
What you need, and everything you feel... is just the question of the day... in the eye of the storm you'll see a lonely dove, the experience of survival is the key, to the gravity of love
7. "Identify" Natalie Imbruglia ('99 "Stigmata" motion picture soundtrack) - Another fave of mine. Very different sound for her. Melancholy, almost ghostly. Song written by Billy Corgan & Mike Garson.
Your eyes they send me... to eternity... your heart may cast me down... to Hell... and down... but lately it's your love... that's condemnation enough... identify... please identify... if it's me you want standing by your side, identify... these tears of mine... am I lonely... or am I just alive?
We're going to take another journey into...[glow=green,9,300]OBSCURITY[/glow]
You know these songs? Share your thoughts. You don't know them? Check 'em out!
1. "Right Next Door (Because Of Me)" Robert Cray ('86 album Strong Persuader) - African-American contemporary blues singer/songwriter. Great guitarist! Also had a hit with "Smoking Gun" from the same album.
I heard him shout "Who is he?" she mumbled low... he said "Baby don't you lie to me no more"... and I'm listening through these thin walls, in silent shame... as she called out my name, I was right next door... it's because of me, it's because of me
2. "Tenderness" General Public ('84 album "All The Rage") - British pop/ska group, founded by members of the English Beat. Single made it to #27 on the U.S. charts.
I don't know when to start or when to stop... my luck's like a button I can't stop pushing it... my head feels light but I'm still in the dark... seems like without tenderness there's something missing... tenderness, where is the tenderness, where is it?
3. "Somewhere Down The Crazy River" Robbie Robertson ('87 self-titled album) - Canadian-born, former lead guitarist of "The Band." The lyrics on this are half spoken, half sung.
(spoken) I turned around and she said "Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?" I said "Uh... I don't know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way." She said "Hang the rich."
(sung) Catch the blue train... to places never been before... look for me, somewhere down the crazy river, somewhere down the crazy river... catch the blue train... all the way to Kokomo... you can find me somewhere down the crazy river, somewhere down the crazy river
4. "First We Take Manhattan" Leonard Cohen ('88 album "I'm Your Man") - Born in Canada, poetic folk singer, most successful during the late 60's to early 70's. He incorporates synthesizers with his deep voice on this track. This was later covered by Jennifer Warnes.
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom... for trying to change the system from within... I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them... first, we take Manhattan... then we take Berlin
5. "America" KBC Band ('86 self-titled album) - Offshoot from Jefferson Airplane/Starship, fronted by Paul Kantner, Marty Balin & Jack Casady.
Sing a song of America... once she was a young girl with her heart on fire... born in the dust of the magic of history, it all goes on, yeah the dream goes on
6. "Gravity Of Love" Enigma (2000 album "The Screen Behind The Mirror") - "Enigma" is the alias of Romanian born producer Michael Cretu. Best known in the 90's for top 10 singles "Sadeness Part 1" and "Return To Innocence." Guest vocals by Ruth-Ann Boyle of electronica group "Olive." This is one of my favorite songs.
What you need, and everything you feel... is just the question of the day... in the eye of the storm you'll see a lonely dove, the experience of survival is the key, to the gravity of love
7. "Identify" Natalie Imbruglia ('99 "Stigmata" motion picture soundtrack) - Another fave of mine. Very different sound for her. Melancholy, almost ghostly. Song written by Billy Corgan & Mike Garson.
Your eyes they send me... to eternity... your heart may cast me down... to Hell... and down... but lately it's your love... that's condemnation enough... identify... please identify... if it's me you want standing by your side, identify... these tears of mine... am I lonely... or am I just alive?
