I hope that Brian's mentions will not only entertain you but will also touch your hearts.
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| Photo credit: Marco Vittur |
๐จ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ “๐จ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐”, 1980
“In the Eighties I went to an American school in Luxembourg, and believe it or not I actually did some sports; I played soccer and basketball. And we used to drive to Belgium, Germany and France and have games against other American schools, and on the bus trips a lot of people would bring their boom boxes, and it would end up as a kind of battle of the boom boxes. The guy who really liked Air Supply usually used to win because I guess that was the band that the chaperones could tolerate the most.”
Air Supply "All Out Of Love"
https://bit.ly/32vuFMW
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐’๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ด๐ ๐๐ป๐๐๐๐๐น
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐ “๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐”, 2012
“I have to make it very clear that I really can’t stand Bruno Mars. I don’t like his music, I don’t like his persona – I don’t like that cheeky coked-up confidence he’s got. I understand it, because he’s small, like me, it’s small man’s syndrome, just played out way too far. But this song itself is an absolute fantastic pop song.”
Bruno Mars "Locked Out Of Heaven"
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| Bruno Mars. Photo credit: Shutterstock |
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐น
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ “๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐”, 2015
“It’s a song about female sexual empowerment, but it also just happens to be fucking hilarious. And why can’t feminism be funny? Why does it have to be dry and academic? It’s about reversing the gender roles: get your dick in the air cos we’ve been shaking our tits for years, so it’s your turn now. There’s a breakdown where she goes, ‘Balls and dick, two balls and one dick, balls, balls, dick, dick, balls and dick.’ What the fuck? That’s brilliant! [Laughs] ‘Dick in the Air’ is a testament to Peaches’ lyrical imagination and ability to have you laugh while getting a message across.”
Dear friends, I admit, I'm not sure if you can handle the irony of the official video of this song.
But to really get an idea of what Brian is talking about, please try to look and have fun:
Peaches “Dick in the Air”
https://bit.ly/2GMLdIx
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ช๐๐๐น
๐ป๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ “๐ป๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐”, 2007
“It really just goes straight to my heartstrings. It’s the instrumentation, it’s the singer’s voice – which is quite high pitched, he’s singing almost beyond his range, so there’s a kind of desperation there – and it’s a song about unconditional love and the desire to take care of another person completely selflessly, and to overcome life’s challenges and hurdles with another person that you adore. It resonates for me because it’s something I’ve experienced myself being a father.”
I can almost promise you that you can't listen this song without tears, and if you watch the whole video, you will definitely cry.
The Cinematic Orchestra "To Build a Home"
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| The Cinematic Orchestra. Photo credit unknown |
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐น
๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ “๐ต๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐”, 1959
“It translates as ‘don’t leave me’. It’s basically a man begging a woman on his hands and knees not to leave him. There is such desperation and devastation in this song and it’s communicated with so much verisimilitude, in such a real way, you can really feel the desperation and devastation jumping out of the speakers. At one point in the song, I’ve done a little translation, he says, ‘Don’t leave me, I’ll be the shadow of your hand, I’ll be the shadow of your dog, just please, don’t leave me.’ That’s pretty fucking heavy. And pretty desperate.”
Remember the amazing Jacques Brel in the live performance of this song and you can even compare which version you like more, because the second link is “Ne Me Quitte Pas” by Brian Molko.
https://bit.ly/35il3Xs
https://bit.ly/3khfYTI
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐น
๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐ – "๐ฏ๐๐, ๐ป๐๐๐’๐ ๐ต๐ ๐พ๐๐ ๐ป๐ ๐บ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐"
“I was brokenhearted, I’d been dumped. Back at school that was a really big deal – the end of the world. I’d just bought Cohen’s greatest hits on cassette. This came on and something really magical happened. It was a transcendental experience. I was the song. I remember falling to the ground, bursting into tears and crying for about 20 minutes.”
The great legend Leonard Cohen ... pay tribute to him and fall in love too ...
https://bit.ly/2Ude9wj
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| Leonard Cohen. Photo credit: Shutterstock |
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐น
๐ป๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ – "๐ฐ ๐ต๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐"
“There have been many over the last 20 years. Recently though, I decided ‘f**k this’ and set myself a challenge to psychologically and emotionally steal back these songs from exes. It works. The most recent one is ‘I Need My Girl’ by The National.”
The National "I Need My Girl"
https://bit.ly/3ke6NDv
๐น๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐พ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐’๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐น
๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ “๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ณ๐๐๐”, 2000
“The theme of the song I think is good, which is, ‘Dude, you’d better cool it with the drugs or you’re going to fucking die’. But the music is a bit nursery rhymey, and it mentions the names of actual drugs in the song, and I find that puerile and unimaginative. I was going through a period in my life where my lifestyle was so hedonistic that I thought everything I did was a fucking masterpiece, and I thought the sun shone out of my ass, so I didn’t really pay much attention to quality control because of course anything I did was fucking amazing! [Laughs] But that was the Nineties. I’ve changed!”
(Source: Rolling Stone Australia, 2017)
Today I share with you probably the most beautiful live performance of this song in Paris 2000.
I love Brian's eyes in 1.58!
https://bit.ly/2IpbYU9
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| Placebo live in Cologne 2000. Screenshot from VIVA Overdrive |
Dear Soulmates, we all have favorite songs that are deeply ingrained in our souls and are often associated with the emotion of sadness, happiness or joy of the moment that was important to us at the time. What comes to your mind when you can look into Brian's soul through these songs?
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