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 |
𝑨𝒊𝒓 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 “𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆”, 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
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑭𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝑶𝒏 𝑴𝒚 𝒊𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒔🔹
𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒔 “𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏”, 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"
https://bit.ly/32y3WiB
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| Bruno Mars. Photo credit: Shutterstock |
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑳𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒔🔹
𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 “𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒊𝒓”, 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
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝑴𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒚🔹
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑶𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂 “𝑻𝒐 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒂 𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆”, 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"
https://bit.ly/32tr4Pq
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| The Cinematic Orchestra. Photo credit unknown |
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏🔹
𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒍 “𝑵𝒆 𝑴𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒔”, 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
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉🔹
𝑳𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑪𝒐𝒉𝒆𝒏 – "𝑯𝒆𝒚, 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑵𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒚 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆"
“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 |
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐🔹
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 – "𝑰 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝑴𝒚 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍"
“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
🔹𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝑾𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑾𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒅🔹
𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 “𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒊”, 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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