Artist: Whitney Houston
Song: Didn't We Almost Have It All
Year: 1987
Album: Whitney
Loved listening to Whitney back in the 80s. After the 80s... not so much.
Lyrics:
Remember when we held on in the rain
The night we almost lost it
Once again we can take the night
Into tomorrow living on feelings
Touching you I feel it all again
Didn't we almost have it all
When love was all we had worth giving?
The ride with you was worth the fall my friend
Loving you makes life worth living
Didn't we almost have it all
The nights we held on till the morning
You know you'll never love that way again
Didn't we almost have it all
The way you used to touch me felt so fine
You kept our hearts together down the line
A moment in the soul can last forever
Comfort and keep us
Help me bring the feeling back again
Didn't we almost have it all
When love was all we had worth giving?
The ride with you was worth the fall my friend
Loving you makes life worth living
Didn't we almost have it all
The nights we held on till the morning
You know you'll never love that way again
Didn't we almost have it all
Didn't we have the best of times
When love was young and new
Couldn't we reach inside and find
Find love of me and you, we'll never lose it again
Because once you know what love is
You'll never let it end
Didn't we almost have it all
When love was all we had worth giving?
The ride with you was worth the fall my friend
Loving you makes life worth living
Didn't we almost have it all
The nights we held on till the morning
You know you'll never love that way again
Didn't we almost have it all
Didn't we almost have it all
Showing posts with label 1987. Show all posts
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Mr. Brownstone - Guns N' Roses
Artist: Guns N' Roses
Song: Mr. Brownstone
Year: 1987
Album: Appetite For Destruction
This song just shows that Axl doesn't run the whole show. He may now, but he didn't control everything back in the beginning. This song was written by Slash and Izzy Stradlin. Other than singing, Axl Rose has very little to do with this song. Maybe that's why I really like it.
It shows Axl in a lower range, which I think suits him better than blowing his voice out with each note. When I would listen to this album as a kid, I used to think that songs in the lower voice range were sung by another band member. I just couldn't figure out who. I was amazed when I found out it was actually Axl doing the singing.
This is yet another gritty song about drugs. Namely, "Mr. Brownstone" is slang for heroin. It describes the day to day activities of a drug user and the eventual decline of said user. Depending on the point of view, it could glamorize the lifestyle or serve as a cautionary tale.
When you're done with the new album, check out the older stuff. It was much better when the group functioned as a unit and not as the whims of one individual. They don't call the old stuff classic because it's older. They call it classic because it's just that good.
Lyrics:
I get up around seven
Get outta bed around nine
And i don't worry about nothin' no
'cause worrin's a waste of my... time
The show usually starts around seven
We go on stage around nine
Get on the bus about eleven
Sippin' a drink and feelin' fine
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
Now i get up around whenever
I used ta get up on time
But that old man he's a real muthafucker
Gonna kick him on down the line
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
Shoved it in the bindle and i shot it in the middle
And it, it drove outta my mind
I should've known better, said i wish i never met her said i,
I leave it all behind yowsa!
Song: Mr. Brownstone
Year: 1987
Album: Appetite For Destruction
This song just shows that Axl doesn't run the whole show. He may now, but he didn't control everything back in the beginning. This song was written by Slash and Izzy Stradlin. Other than singing, Axl Rose has very little to do with this song. Maybe that's why I really like it.
It shows Axl in a lower range, which I think suits him better than blowing his voice out with each note. When I would listen to this album as a kid, I used to think that songs in the lower voice range were sung by another band member. I just couldn't figure out who. I was amazed when I found out it was actually Axl doing the singing.
This is yet another gritty song about drugs. Namely, "Mr. Brownstone" is slang for heroin. It describes the day to day activities of a drug user and the eventual decline of said user. Depending on the point of view, it could glamorize the lifestyle or serve as a cautionary tale.
When you're done with the new album, check out the older stuff. It was much better when the group functioned as a unit and not as the whims of one individual. They don't call the old stuff classic because it's older. They call it classic because it's just that good.
Lyrics:
I get up around seven
Get outta bed around nine
And i don't worry about nothin' no
'cause worrin's a waste of my... time
The show usually starts around seven
We go on stage around nine
Get on the bus about eleven
Sippin' a drink and feelin' fine
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
Now i get up around whenever
I used ta get up on time
But that old man he's a real muthafucker
Gonna kick him on down the line
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
We been dancin' with mr. brownstone
He's been knockin'
He won't leave me alone
No, no ,no, he won't leave me alone
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
I used ta do a little but a little wouldn't do
So the little got more and more
I just keep tryin' ta get a little better
Said the little better than before
Shoved it in the bindle and i shot it in the middle
And it, it drove outta my mind
I should've known better, said i wish i never met her said i,
I leave it all behind yowsa!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
This Corrosion - Sisters Of Mercy
Artist: Sisters Of Mercy
Song: This Corrosion
Year: 1987
Album: Floodland
This was a nightly request every time that I DJed at the vampire LARP. Someone would eventually come up to me and ask me to play it. It fit into the themes, but it got old fast. For one thing, the song is almost ten minutes long. I have no problem with the length of a song, but when it's a popular request, it grates every second on the fourth night in a row.
Thankfully, it's been close to a decade since I've spun this song in a club setting. I can enjoy the song and many others that were overplayed. I can still see the mix of fog, lights and costumes whenever this pops up. It's a picture that I will always remember.
This song marks a change in the public's perception of the band. This album actually charted high in the UK. It is considered a goth classic, even though the band claims to dislike the label of "goth".
Here, for no apparent reason is an anime version of the album version of the song.
Lyrics:
Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd
Gimme something that I missed (Gimme the ring)
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems(Gimme the ring)
Kill the king, when love is the law,
And the we'll turn round... (Gimme the ring)
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call? (Gimme the ring)
On the loan and on the level
...still on the floor (Gimme the ring)
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me... please...
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for Giving Away?
Got a song for me?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold
The hired hand
On heart
Hand of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Song: This Corrosion
Year: 1987
Album: Floodland
This was a nightly request every time that I DJed at the vampire LARP. Someone would eventually come up to me and ask me to play it. It fit into the themes, but it got old fast. For one thing, the song is almost ten minutes long. I have no problem with the length of a song, but when it's a popular request, it grates every second on the fourth night in a row.
Thankfully, it's been close to a decade since I've spun this song in a club setting. I can enjoy the song and many others that were overplayed. I can still see the mix of fog, lights and costumes whenever this pops up. It's a picture that I will always remember.
This song marks a change in the public's perception of the band. This album actually charted high in the UK. It is considered a goth classic, even though the band claims to dislike the label of "goth".
Here, for no apparent reason is an anime version of the album version of the song.
Lyrics:
Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd
Gimme something that I missed (Gimme the ring)
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems(Gimme the ring)
Kill the king, when love is the law,
And the we'll turn round... (Gimme the ring)
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call? (Gimme the ring)
On the loan and on the level
...still on the floor (Gimme the ring)
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me... please...
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for Giving Away?
Got a song for me?
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold
The hired hand
On heart
Hand of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Friday, October 10, 2008
Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room - Paul Lekakis
Artist: Paul Lekakis
Song: Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)
Year: 1987
Album: Tattoo It
This song was originally released in 1987, but it didn't appear on an album until 1990. I remember sitting at the kitchen table, in a friend's house, when I first heard this on the radio. The song didn't really grab me, when I first heard it. This is a song that got stuck in my head for awhile. Because of that, the song grew on me.
After the few weeks of constant airplay, the song largely disappeared from radio and was an afterthought in my head. When I became a DJ for a local club in 1998, I thought of this song. The problem arose when I couldn't think of the title or the artist. As it turned out, I had the title all along, or at least part of it. I remembered Boom Boom Boom.
Armed with that information, I kept running into songs that I was already familiar with by artists like John Lee Hooker. It wasn't until I was killing time at 3AM in Walmart, where I actually got my first lead. I saw the song on a nightclubbing compilation of the eighties. The song title seemed right and the elements seemed right, but I wasn't sure about the artist. Paul Lekakis doesn't really sound like a man with a hit eighties dance song. He sounds more like a sensitive acoustic guitar playing seventies songwriter.
I purchased the compilation CD and played it when I got home. The first notes poured out of my speakers and it sounded right. Then, when Paul started to sing the first line, I knew it was the right song. Eleven years after the fact, I tracked down a song that had eluded me for almost as long.
Lyrics:
Hey baby I'd like to talk to you
How about coming back to my room for a little boom boom
You keep coming to me
I can dig your dynamite
Know the way you move
Get in the groove
You're driving me crazy, crazy for you
Second time you moved me
It's time for us to Boom Boom
You can come right close to me
And feel the burning fire
All the time you got me
It's fine for us to boom boom
If you see the spark in me
And feel my strong desire
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Do the honor to me
Don't you know I like to bite
Get to the view
Closer to you
You're driving me crazy, crazy for you
Second time you moved me
It's time for us to Boom Boom
You can come right close to me
And feel the burning fire
All the time you got me
It's fine for us to boom boom
If you see the spark in me
And feel my strong desire
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Song: Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)
Year: 1987
Album: Tattoo It
This song was originally released in 1987, but it didn't appear on an album until 1990. I remember sitting at the kitchen table, in a friend's house, when I first heard this on the radio. The song didn't really grab me, when I first heard it. This is a song that got stuck in my head for awhile. Because of that, the song grew on me.
After the few weeks of constant airplay, the song largely disappeared from radio and was an afterthought in my head. When I became a DJ for a local club in 1998, I thought of this song. The problem arose when I couldn't think of the title or the artist. As it turned out, I had the title all along, or at least part of it. I remembered Boom Boom Boom.
Armed with that information, I kept running into songs that I was already familiar with by artists like John Lee Hooker. It wasn't until I was killing time at 3AM in Walmart, where I actually got my first lead. I saw the song on a nightclubbing compilation of the eighties. The song title seemed right and the elements seemed right, but I wasn't sure about the artist. Paul Lekakis doesn't really sound like a man with a hit eighties dance song. He sounds more like a sensitive acoustic guitar playing seventies songwriter.
I purchased the compilation CD and played it when I got home. The first notes poured out of my speakers and it sounded right. Then, when Paul started to sing the first line, I knew it was the right song. Eleven years after the fact, I tracked down a song that had eluded me for almost as long.
Lyrics:
Hey baby I'd like to talk to you
How about coming back to my room for a little boom boom
You keep coming to me
I can dig your dynamite
Know the way you move
Get in the groove
You're driving me crazy, crazy for you
Second time you moved me
It's time for us to Boom Boom
You can come right close to me
And feel the burning fire
All the time you got me
It's fine for us to boom boom
If you see the spark in me
And feel my strong desire
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Do the honor to me
Don't you know I like to bite
Get to the view
Closer to you
You're driving me crazy, crazy for you
Second time you moved me
It's time for us to Boom Boom
You can come right close to me
And feel the burning fire
All the time you got me
It's fine for us to boom boom
If you see the spark in me
And feel my strong desire
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Boom Boom Boom
Let's go back to my room
So we can do it all night
And you can make me feel right
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Indians - Anthrax
Artist: Anthrax
Song: Indians
Year: 1987
Album: Among The Living
Back in the late eighties, I used to watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV every Saturday night. It was a plethora of videos that I couldn't see at any other time of the week. Classic clips from the seventies and the, then, current videos.
Whenever "Indians" would come on, I would get up and start the wardance, just like in the video. It was fun and surprisingly good exercise. Although, I really didn't think of it as exercise back then. I would hope for the back to back Indian themed videos. The other one was "Run To The Hills" by Iron Maiden.
As I got older, and started to decipher lyrics more, I gained a deep respect for bands that didn't try to dumb down to the audience. Anthrax was a band that filled their lyrics with social commentary and literary works. I always appreciate a band more, when they raise the intelligence bar a few levels without making it appear that way.
There were many levels that you could enjoy Anthrax on. I always found the history lessons and book reviews a great hidden resource within the moshing music.
Lyrics:
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Respect is something that you earn
Our indian brothers' getting burned
Original American
Turned into second class citizen
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and Prejudice
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
WARDANCE!!!
Territory, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it
make it's configuration
Prejudice, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what
this land is all about!!!!
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved, never
Apathy can never solve
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Song: Indians
Year: 1987
Album: Among The Living
Back in the late eighties, I used to watch Headbanger's Ball on MTV every Saturday night. It was a plethora of videos that I couldn't see at any other time of the week. Classic clips from the seventies and the, then, current videos.
Whenever "Indians" would come on, I would get up and start the wardance, just like in the video. It was fun and surprisingly good exercise. Although, I really didn't think of it as exercise back then. I would hope for the back to back Indian themed videos. The other one was "Run To The Hills" by Iron Maiden.
As I got older, and started to decipher lyrics more, I gained a deep respect for bands that didn't try to dumb down to the audience. Anthrax was a band that filled their lyrics with social commentary and literary works. I always appreciate a band more, when they raise the intelligence bar a few levels without making it appear that way.
There were many levels that you could enjoy Anthrax on. I always found the history lessons and book reviews a great hidden resource within the moshing music.
Lyrics:
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved
Apathy can never solve
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Respect is something that you earn
Our indian brothers' getting burned
Original American
Turned into second class citizen
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and Prejudice
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
WARDANCE!!!
Territory, It's just the body of the nation
The people that inhabit it
make it's configuration
Prejudice, Something we all can do without
Cause a flag of many colors is what
this land is all about!!!!
We all see black and white
When it comes to someone else's fight
No one ever gets involved, never
Apathy can never solve
Forced out - Brave and Mighty
Stolen land - They can't fight it
Hold on - To pride and tradition
Even though they know how much
their lives are really missin'
We're dissin them...
On reservations
A hopeless situation
Cry for the Indians
Die for the Indians
Cry for the Indians
Cry, Cry, Cry for the Indians
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