Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Anouk & Sarah Bettens - I Alone
This song is featuring three magic ingredients to be awesome. Firstly, I Alone is one of the singles from Throwing Copper, the album that brought Live their commercial breakthrough. Second, the voices are the most successful female vocalists the BeNeLux has offered. Anouk may be remembered only for her hit Nobody's Wife, but she has continued success in her home country Netherlands. Sarah Bettens is the lead singer of Belgian rockers K's Choice.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
UB40 & Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe
Sonny and Cher's classica duet I Got You, Babe has known quite a lot of versions, including one "performed" by Cher and... Beavis & Butthead. Since it's so hot and summery, though, let's get a bit raggae. Raggae pop band UB40 hail from Birmingham, UK, while Hereford native Chrissie Hynde is the leader of the Pretenders. And they got each other since 1985.
Monday, July 29, 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with P.J. Harvey - Henry Lee
The story told through this song is centuries old, but no version is as successful as the one by Nick Cave and P. J. Harvey. A story of love, disappointment, murder and punishment.
Seether & Amy Lee - Broken
They are a post-grunge band from South Africa. She is from California and better known as being the founding member and voice of Evanescence. Together, they clain to be Broken.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love
This is a typical case of saving the best for last, this time taking on the sound of the voice of Roxy Music. One of the most sultry songs ever written (and sung). It has that delta heat of Black Velvet and belongs to Bryan Ferry.
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Touch and Go - Would You...?
Reaching back to Eurodance tracks of the 90s for Saturdays and there's no small supply of sexy time songs there. And that even without playing anything from the obviously named German duo E-rotic. Here's something a bit more jazzy and just as direct.
Friday, July 26, 2013
Whitesnake - Slow and Easy
Now, I am not much of a gerontophiliac, if you think this is where we're headed today. But David Coverdale somehow manages to be one sexy old geezer. He's never been quite shy to sing about it and I doubt he heard many no's to the invite below.
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Rammstein - Mann gegen Mann
We have skipped these guys in the German week cause they were duh-level obvious. But they've a reputation for scandalous songs and this is one of them. Oh, and the video is probably NSFW.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Cyndi Lauper - She Bop
Cyndi Lauper has an album with a title that describes her perfectly - She's So Unusual. That album incidentally features one of the songs that lead to the creation of Parental Advisory stickers. She Bop was the culprit as it created a fuss among puritans outraged by its topic: masturbation.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
A Pain That I'm Used To is a bit too new for Ruby Tuesday, so we can skip the S&M part today and just focus on the D&s. Depeche can suit any mood and need just fine.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Nine Inch Nails have a pretty good idea of how to get rid of Monday tensions...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Henri Salvador - Chambre avec vue
A beautiful relaxing song and a video showcasing some really beautiful spots.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
K.D. Lang - Constant Craving
If Saint Lu is craving, she still has a long way to go to the state K.D. Lang's in, which is Constant Craving.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Saint Lu - Craving
Saint Lu is actually Luise Gruber, a blues rock singer from Austria. And she is Craving.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
I think we don't have enough Nirvana around here. And because the 90s are not 10 years ago, as I sometimes think, this song is actually 20 years old.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Tom Waits - Hell Broke Luce
A voice like the creaking irons of torture instruments of hell. Because it's Monday and Hell Broke Luce.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Alphabeat - Fascination
Because nothing invites happiness in quite like retaining a childlike fascination for the world. The Danes from Alphabeat can testify that with their summer hit from 2007.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Doing Time - I Was a Ye-Ye Girl
Get yourselves dancing while celebrating the free spirits and high moods of the 60s. For your information, this is what wiki says: Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged from France, Italy and Spain in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" derived from "yeah! yeah!".
Friday, July 12, 2013
The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me
The Last Shadow Puppets is a side-project of the frontmen of Arctic Monkeys and The Rascals. Because beautiful things come out from friendship.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Joe Cocker - I Come in Peace
He comes in peace, like all anciently wise creatures of the Universe do. This one's off Joe Cocker's 22nd's album, released in November last year, and dammit, he's been going on and on since 1961. Most of us can't even say that about our lives, let alone our careers.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Erykah Badu - Honey
In the aftermath of the German week, here is German R&B queen Erykah Badu and her love song to old fashioned record stores :)
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Abba - The Day Before You Came
A song so old, that Dallas was new and thrilling back then. It even gets a shout-out.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Sportfreunde Stiller - Applaus
Never knew much about Sportfreunde Stiller other that they existed... However, I saw them live last year and it was a really enjoyable show. And what better way to end the German week, than in a resounding round of applause.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Mark Oh - Tears Don't Lie
Speaking of German DJs of whom even noobs of the electronic scene like me have heard...
Friday, July 5, 2013
Marius Müller-Westernhagen - Sexy
Well, sexy is not necessarily something I would call this guy... but since a sexy has made him so miserable, I think he deserves a bit of attention as a consolation prize.
Xavier Naidoo - Bei Meiner Seele
I pretty new song, but still, I find it a beautiful compliment, a straight and simple declaration of love.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Corvus Corax - In Taberna
And today we go Neo-medieval with Corvus Corax. First time I heard this song, it made quite a strong impression on me, because it was at the Sighişoara Medieval Festival [ do check it out! ] and it was being used by fire dancers. Beautiful images.
Anyways, small trivia: they use authentic instruments, very often bagpipes solos.
Anyways, small trivia: they use authentic instruments, very often bagpipes solos.
Scooter - Hyper, Hyper
In the 90s, there was something called Eurodance. And a good portion of it and mostly of the trance crossovers were German artists. Along with half a dozen boy bands that have long since vanished in yellowed, dog-eared Bravo pages, you could literally not get away from songs of the likes of Scooter.
Boehse Onkelz - Gestern war heute noch morgen
For Thursday we have a controversial band, called Böhse Onkelz.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Warlock - Make Time for Love
It is not the first time that Doro has graced this blog with her powerful presence. But since I seem to have started on a German rock bands note, let's keep that up one more day.
Sandra - Maria Magdalena
I often forget that Sandra is actually German. This song managed to climb to the top of the charts not only in Europe. It was even remixed a few times, and we all dance to it if we get the chance.
Apocalyptica ft Nina Hagen - Seemann
I feel like I'm cheating a little bit, because the band itself isn't German, but the artist they're featuring and the song they're singing are German :)
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Modern Talking - You´re My Heart, You´re My Soul
If it´s Ruby Tuesday, these guys should definitely appear here, at least once. My generation grew up with their songs, and hate ´em, love ´em, they´re up with the old rubies by now.
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
The first song I ever remember remembering was Scorpions' Wind of Change. I fell in love with it cause it had that je ne sais quoi that I later learned to identify as the trademark of a well written power balad. Therefore, the ever audio cassette I ever owned was, at my request, something of the Scorpions. And boy, was I in for a surprise when instead the gentle uplifting riffs, my tender, innocent ears got blasted by the likes of Virgin Killer. Cause, uhm... yeah... The Scorpions are a German rock band. Or well, used to be.
Can - I want more
Here is a beautiful example of Krautrock, forefather to so many other contemporary genres.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Rammstein - Keine Lust
A German week cannot start with anything else _but_ Rammstein. And being Monday, I´m not in the mood... for anything.
And least of all for work xP
Lacrimosa - Der Morgen Danach
Time is running out for all of us, and Lacrimosa apparently know that it is doing so even if you are in love, or especially when you are in love to be more accurate.
D.A.F - Der Mussolini
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft or D.A.F. is an influential German electropunk/NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978.
Atrocity - Cold Black Days
Mondays are indeed cold black days. Atrocity are a metal band from Ludwigsburg, so they gotta know, since spring has waited till June this year to grace that area... cold black days, indeed.
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