BOYS DON'T CRY

THE CURE

SONGWRITERS: LAURENCE ANDREW TOLHURST; MICHAEL STEPHEN DEMPSEY & ROBERT JAMES SMITH

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: BOYS DON’T CRY

LABEL: FICTION RECORDS

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1980

 

          The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member. The band's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys(1979), along with several early singles, placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom. Beginning with their second album, Seventeen Seconds(1980), the band adopted a new, increasingly dark and tormented style, which, together with Smith's stage look, had a strong influence on the emerging genre of gothic rock as well as the subculture that eventually formed around the genre.

        After the release of the band's fourth album, Pornography(1982), Smith introduced a greater pop sensibility into the band's music. Songs such as "Let's Go to Bed"(1982), "The Love Cats"(1983), "Inbetween Days" (1985), "Close to Me"(1985), "Just Like Heaven" (1987), "Lovesong"(1989), and "Friday I'm in Love"(1992) aided them in receiving commercial popularity. The Cure have released 13 studio albums, two EPs, over 30 singles, and have sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Their most recent album, 4:13 Dream, was released in 2008. The Cure were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

       Boys Don't Cry is The Cure's first compilation album. Released in February 1980, this album is composed of several tracks from the band's May 1979 debut album Three Imaginary Boys(which had yet to see a U.S. release) with material from the band's 1978–1979 era.

I would say I'm sorry

If I thought that it would change your mind

But I know that this time

I have said too much

Been too unkind

 

I tried to laugh about it

Cover it all up with lies

I tried to laugh about it

Hiding the tears in my eyes

'Cause boys don't cry

Boys don't cry

 

I would break down at your feet

And beg forgiveness, plead with you

But I know that it's too late

And now there's nothing I can do

 

So I try to laugh about it

Cover it all up with lies

I try to laugh about it

Hiding the tears in my eyes

'Cause boys don't cry

Boys don't cry

 

I would tell you that I loved you

If I thought that you would stay

But I know that it's no use

And you've already gone away

 

Misjudged your limits

Pushed you too far

Took you for granted

Thought that you needed me more, more, more

 

Now I would do most anything

To get you back by my side

But I just keep on laughing

Hiding the tears in my eyes

'Cause boys don't cry

 

Boys don't cry

Boys don't cry.

LOVE IS A STRANGER

ANNIE LENNOX & DAVE STEWART

SONGWRITERS: ANNIE LENNOX & DAVID ALLAN STEWART

COUNTRY: SCOTTLAND

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1991

 

         Ann Lennox(born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".

         Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes cover versions of songs such as "No More 'I Love You's'" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection(2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard. In 2004, she received the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

           Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. In June 2013 the Official Charts Company called her "the most successful female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the first woman to receive the honour.

           In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. She founded the SING Campaign in 2007 and founded a women's empowerment charity called The Circle in 2008. In 2011, Lennox was appointed na OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012, she performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In 2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor.

          "Love Is a Stranger" is a song by the British pop duo Eurythmics. Originally released in late 1982, the single was commercially unsuccessful, but it was re-released in 1983, reaching the UK top 10. The single was re-released again in 1991, to promote Eurythmics' Greatest Hits album.

Love is a stranger

In an open car

To tempt you in

And drive you far away

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

Love is a danger

Of a different kind

To take you away

And leave you far behind

And love love love

Is a dangerous drug

You have to receive it

And you still can't

Get enough of the stuff

 

It's savage and it's cruel

And it shines like destruction

Comes in like the flood

And it seems like religion

It's noble and it's brutal

It distorts and deranges

And it wrenches you up

And you're left like a zombie

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

It's guilt edged

Glamorous and sleek by design

You know it's jealous by nature

False and unkind

It's hard and restrained

And it's totally cool

It touches and it teases

As you stumble in the debris

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession.

TRAINS AND WINTER RAINS

ENYA

SONGWRITER: ENYA & ROMA RYAN

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: AND WINTER CAME…

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: NEW-AGE

YEAR: 2008

 

         Enya Patricia Brennan(Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin/ˈɛnjə/; born 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore, County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left the group in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, world, pop, and Irish folk. Thus far, she has sung in ten languages, most notably English, Irish Gaelic(Gaeilge), Latin, and Welsh.

          Enya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince(1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya(1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label. The commercial and critical success of Watermark(1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons(1991), The Memory of Trees(1995), and A Day Without Rain(2000). Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. Following Amarantine(2005) and And Winter Came...(2008), Enya took a four-year career hiatus before she resumed in 2012 and released her eighth studio album, Dark Sky Island(2015).

        Enya is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling overall behind U2. Her discography has sold 26.5million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya has won numerous awards, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. She was nominated for na Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001).

       "Trains and Winter Rains" is a single by Irish musician Enya, the first to be taken from the album And Winter Came.... It premiered on the BBC Radio 2 show Wake up to Wogan on 29 September 2008. The song features Agnus Dei, a Christian verse commonly heard in churches.

City streets passing by

Underneath stormy skies

 

Neon signs in the night

Red and blue city lights

Cargo trains rolling by

Once again someone cries

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Every time; it's the same

One more night, one more train

Everywhere; empty roads

Where they go, no-one knows

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone

 

Trains and winter rains

No going back, no going home

Trains across the plains

And in the sky, a star alone. 

MAY IT BE

ENYA

SONGWRITERS: NICKY RYAN; ROPMA SHARE & ENYA

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: THE LORD OF RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING

LABEL: WEA RECORDS

GENRE: NEW-AGE

YEAR: 2001

 

          Enya Patricia Brennan(Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin/ˈɛnjə/; born 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer-songwriter and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore, County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left the group in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, world, pop, and Irish folk. Thus far, she has sung in ten languages, most notably English, Irish Gaelic(Gaeilge), Latin, and Welsh.

          Enya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince(1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya(1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label. The commercial and critical success of Watermark(1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the UK number one and international hit single "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons(1991), The Memory of Trees(1995), and A Day Without Rain(2000). Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. Following Amarantine(2005) and And Winter Came...(2008), Enya took a four-year career hiatus before she resumed in 2012 and released her eighth studio album, Dark Sky Island(2015).

           Enya is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling overall behind U2. Her discography has sold 26.5million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. A Day Without Rain(2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya has won numerous awards, including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. She was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001).

         "May It Be" is a song by Irish recording artist Enya. It was composed by Enya and Roma Ryan for Peter Jackson's 2001 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The song entered the German Singles Chart at number one in 2002 and was performed by Enya at the 74th Academy Awards. "May It Be" was acclaimed by music critics and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

May it be an evening star

Shines down upon you

May it be when darkness falls

Your heart will be true

You walk a lonely road

Oh, how far you are from home

 

Mornië utúlië

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië alantië

A promise lives within you now

 

May it be the shadow's call

Will fly away

May it be your journey on

To light the day

When the night is overcome

You may rise to find the sun

 

Mornië utúlië

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië alantië

A promise lives within you now

A promise lives within you now

 

May it be an evening star

Shines down upon you

May it be when darkness falls

Your heart will be true

You walk a lonely road

Oh, how far you are from home

 

Mornië utúlië

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië alantië

A promise lives within you now

 

May it be the shadow's call

Will fly away

May it be your journey on

To light the day

When the night is overcome

You may rise to find the sun

 

Mornië utúlië

Believe and you will find your way

Mornië alantië

A promise lives within you now

A promise lives within you now.

KING OF PAIN

STING

SONGWRITER: GORDON SUMMER

COUNTRY: U. K.

WHERE?: VIÑA DEL MAR

ALBUM: ALBUM’S FOURTH SINGLE IN THE UK

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1993

 

        Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984. He launched a solo career in 1985, and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.

       As a solo musician and a member of the Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards: he won Song of the Year for "Every Breath You Take", three Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist in 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2019, he received a BMI Award for "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors and was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording. In 2003, Sting received a CBE from Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy Center Honoree at the White House in 2014, and was awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2017.

"King of Pain" is a song by English rock band The Police, released as the final single from their fifth and final studio album Synchronicity(1983). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting as a post-separation song from his wife, "King of Pain" conjures up symbols of pain and relates them to a man's soul. A&M Records released "King of Pain" as the album's fourth single in the UK, while in many other countries it was released as the second single.

       The song received acclaim from music critics, many of whom praised Sting's lyrics and cited the song as a highlight from Synchronicity. It reached Nº 3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1983, and Nº 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart for five weeks in August 1983. In the United Kingdom, it reached Nº 17 in January 1984.

       Multiple artists have covered "King of Pain". Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette covered the track for her MTV Unplugged album (1999) and released it as the second single from the album.

There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

There's a black hat caught in the high tree top

There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a little black spot on the sun today, that's my soul up there

It's the same old thing as yesterday, that's my soul up there

There's a black hat caught in a high tree top, that's my soul up there

There's a flag pole rag and the wind won't stop, that's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a fossil that's trapped in a high cliff wall, that's my soul up there

There's a dead salmon frozen in a waterfall, that's my soul up there

There's a blue whale beached by a springtide's ebb, that's my soul up there

There's a butterfly trapped in a spider's web, that's my soul up there

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out

There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt

There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed

There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread

There's a red fox torn by a huntmen's pack, that's my soul up there

There's a black winged gull with a broken back, that's my soul up there

There's a little black spot on the sun today

It's the same old thing as yesterday

I have stood here before inside the pouring rain

With the world turning circles running 'round my brain

I guess I'm always hoping that you'll end this reign

But it's my destiny to be the king of pain

King of pain

King of pain, king of pain, I always be king of pain.

LOVE IS A STRANGER

EURYTHMICS, ANNIE LENNOX, DAVE ALLAN STEWART

SONGWRITERS: ANNIE LENNOX & DAVE ALLAN STEWART

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SWEET DREAMS (ARE MAD OF THIS)

LABEL: RCA VISTOR

GENRE: NEW WAVE

YEAR: 1982

 

            Eurythmics were a British pop duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. Stewart and Lennox were both previously in The Tourists, a band which broke up in 1980; Eurythmics were formed later that year in Wagga Wagga, Australia. The duo released their first studio album, In the Garden, in 1981 to little success, but went on to achieve global success when their second album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), was released in 1983. The title track became a worldwide hit which topped the charts in various countries including the US. The duo went on to release a string of hit singles and albums before they split up in 1990. By this time, Stewart was a sought-after record producer, while Lennox began a solo recording career in 1992 with her debut álbum Diva. After almost a decade apart, Eurythmics reunited to record their ninth album, Peace, released in late 1999. They reunited again in 2005 to release the single "I've Got a Life", as part of a new Eurythmics compilation album, Ultimate Collection.

            The duo have won na MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1984, the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1987, the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1999, and in 2005 were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. The Eurythmics have sold an estimated 75 million records worldwide. In 2017, the group was nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and were nominated again in 2018.

           "Love Is a Stranger" is a song by the British pop duo Eurythmics. Originally released in late 1982, the single was commercially unsuccessful, but it was re-released in 1983, reaching the UK top 10. The single was re-released again in 1991, to promote Eurythmics' Greatest Hits album.

 

Love is a stranger

In an open car

To tempt you in

And drive you far away

 

Ooh, love is a stranger

In an open car

To tempt you in

And drive you far away

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

Love is a danger

Of a different kind

To take you away

And leave you far behind

 

And love love love

Is a dangerous drug

You have to receive it

And you still can't get enough of the stuff

 

It's savage and it's cruel

And it shines like destruction

Comes in like the flood

And it seems like religion

It's noble and it's brutal

It distorts and deranges

And it wrenches you up

And you're left like a zombie

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

It's guilt edged

Glamorous and sleek by design

You know it's jealous by nature

False and unkind

It's hard and restrained

And it's totally cool

It touches and it teases

As you stumble in the debris

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession

 

And I want you

And I want you

And I want you so

It's an obsession.