TAKE ME TO CHURCH

demi lovato; cover Hozier

SONGWRITER: Andrew hoozier-byrne

COUNTRY: ireland

ALBUM: take me to the church

LABEL: rubyworks records

GENRE: indie

YEAR: 2013

"Take Me to Church" is a song by Irish musician Hozier. It was released on his debut extended play(EP) and later his self-titled debut album(2014). The song was released as his debut single on 2013 as a free download. Hozier, a struggling musician at the time of its writing, wrote and recorded the song in the attic of his parents' home in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. A mid-tempo soul song, its lyrics use religious terminology to describe a romantic relationship. The song first caught the attention of independent label Rubyworks, where producer Rob Kirwan overdubbed the original demo with live instruments. Only two musicians feature on the track: Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) and drummer Fiachra Kinder.

The music video contributed to the song's widespread popularity. Directed by Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson of small production company “Feel Good Lost”, it follows a relationship between two men and the subsequent violent homophobic backlash. Upon its YouTube release in September 2013, the video quickly began to go viral, leading to Hozier's subsequent license with Columbia Records US and Island Records UK.

In 2014, the song achieved widespread global popularity, topping the charts in 12 countries and reaching the top 10 in 21 other territories. Aided by music platforms Shazam and Spotify to become a rock radio hit in the US, the song spent 23 consecutive weeks at the top of the Hot Rock Songs chart, tied with Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" as the longest-running number-one in its chart-history (at the time), later crossing over to the all-genre Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number two in December 2014. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards and has been certified five times platinum in the US.

On 16 April 2016, Hozier released the original Take Me To Church EP on special edition 12-inch vinyl picture disc for Record Store Day UK, the first time the EP was available as a physical release.

 

My lover's got humour

She's the giggle at a funeral

Knows everybody's disapproval

I should've worshipped her sooner

If the heavens ever did speak

She is the last true mouthpiece

Every sunday's getting more bleak

A fresh poison each week

"We were born sick"

You heard them say it

My church offers no absolutes

She tells me, "Worship in the bedroom"

The only heaven I'll be sent to

Is when I'm alone with you

I was born sick, but I love it

Command me to be well

Amen, amen, amen

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me that deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me that deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life

If I'm a pagan of the good times

My lover's the sunlight

To keep the goddess on my side

She demands a sacrifice

To drain the whole sea get something shiny

Something meaty for the main course

That's a fine looking high horse

What you got in the stable?

We've a lot of starving faithful

That looks tasty

That looks plenty

This is hungry work

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me my deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me my deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life

No masters or kings when the ritual begins

There is no sweeter innocence

Than our gentle sin

In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene

Only then I am human, only then I am clean

Amen, amen, amen

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog

At the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me that deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life

Take me to church

I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies

I'll tell you my sins

So you can sharpen your knife

Offer me that deathless death

Good God, let me give you my life.

CHINESE RADIO

LONDON BOYS

SONGWRITERS: RALF & RENE MAUE

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: THE TWELVE COMMANDMENTS OF DANCE

LABEL: ULTRAPHONE

GENRE: DANCE

YEAR: 1989

London Boys were a German-based English dance-pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim (born 1 July 1959 in London, England – 21 January 1996) and Dennis Fuller (born 19 June 1959 in Jamaica – 21 January 1996). They are best remembered for the UK Top 5 hits "Requiem" and "London Nights".

The duo were killed as they were travelling and their car was hit by a drunk driver in the Eastern Alps, Austria, on 21 January 1996. Ephraim's wife also died in the accident, leaving their three-year-old son without parents and leaving Fuller's 10-year-old daughter without a father.

The Twelve Commandments of Dance is the debut album by German-based English dance-pop duo London Boys, released in 1989. It reached number 2 in the UK Albums Chart and stayed on the chart for 29 weeks.

Other than the charting singles stated in the track listing, two other singles were released: "I'm Gonna Give My Heart" and "Dance Dance Dance".

It was back in '69, like a night mare cryin'

In a hotel bed on the coast

Happy Shanghai girls

Like a pretty string of pearls

And a snow storm up in my nose

I was on my way to heaven, with a funky red 11

And a switchblade job on the side

Hear the music playin' and my heartbeat prayin'

To the airways out in the night

Ouh, radio! I love my radio! My chinese radio

Ouh, radio! I love my radio! My chinese radio

Ouh

Oh, I could write a million stories

Tales of love and hate and pain

And my fears would truly frighten

Any ordinary man

Is there someone out there laughing!

Walking in the pouring rain,

Lord, I'm sure I know the answers

But it's too hard

To explain

Now my head is burning, an' I feel it turning

In an igloo up on the moon

Saying: Lord, have mercy on a guy from Jersey

And it falls back into my room

Just a stranded tourist

An' I wouldn't touch the purest

If I ever get out here alive

While the FM-switches and the green-light digits

Keep in touch with the world outside

Just a river on the run, now

I'm flyin' and I won't touch down

Got nowhere left to run

I get on my knees and pray!

WITH A LITTLE LOVE

MODERN TALKING

SONGWRITER: DIETER BOHLEN

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: BACK FOR GOOD

LABEL: HANSA

GENRE: DANCE

YEAR: 1998

Back for Good is the seventh album by Modern Talking, released on 30 March 1998 after the unexpected reunion of the duo. The German duo's seventh album was released after almost 11 years of absence. Back for Good is a collection of their previous hits which consists of 18 tracks, including four new songs, 13 previous hits in a redone format and one medley. Some of the group's earlier hits were rehashed and arranged differently, including "Lady Lai" and "Angie's Heart".

Back for Good entered the number one position in Germany on 13 April 1998 and spent a total of five weeks at the top, it eventually earned 5 gold-awards in Germany alone for selling over 1,250,000 units. The album Back For Good spent total of 54 weeks on the German album chart.

Back for Good was also successful outside of Germany, topping the album charts of many other countries including Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland and Austria. Back for Good eventually went on to sell over three million copies in Europe alone.

Modern Talking was a German duo consisting of singer Thomas Anders and arranger, songwriter and producer Dieter Bohlen, with the participation of Luis Rodríguez in the production. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles, reaching the top five in many countries. Some of their most popular and widely known singles are "You're My Heart, You're My Soul", "You Can Win If You Want", "Cheri, Cheri Lady", "Brother Louie", "Atlantis Is Calling(S.O.S. for Love)" and "Geronimo's Cadillac".

Modern Talking worked together from 1984 to 1987, then the band split up. In 1998, they reunited and made a successful comeback, recording and releasing music from 1998 to 2003. The duo released singles which again entered the top ten in Germany and abroad. Some of those singles were the re-recorded version of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul '98". After the duo's second and final break-up in 2003, their global sales had reached 120 million singles and albums combined.

In 2006, Bohlen included a secret message in his song "Bizarre Bizarre" when played backwards: "There will never be an end to Modern Talking". Bohlen's response: "I meant to say that the music of Modern Talking will live forever". Anders has kept the Modern Talking songs in his repertoire and produced songs in a similar vein for his solo records ("Independent Girl"). In 2006, he produced an álbum Songs Forever of swing and jazz versions of popular songs (including Modern Talking's first hit). Bohlen has written two autobiographical books about Modern Talking's history from his perspective. The first book sold a million copies in Germany. The sequel was heavily criticised for his unfairness towards the people he worked with. As a result of that, Bohlen withdrew from the public for a year until 2006, when he said he regretted putting out the second book. Anders had not been the only one pressing charges against Bohlen and demanding that sections of the book be modified. Frank Farian was also angered by Bohlen's literary output and released a book in which he tried to expose Bohlen as a fraud. Bohlen's first book was the basis of an animated comedy film called Dieter: Der Film. The soundtrack of this film contains the previously unreleased Modern Talking song "Shooting Star" which had been written for the Universe album.

Music critics were unenthusiastic about Modern Talking and gave the band almost bad reviews because of their music and performance. Although recognizing the catchiness and professional production of the songs, the lack of originality was criticized by British representatives of these genres of music, such as the Pet Shop Boys or Erasure. In particular, it was criticized that many of their songs would sound quite similar; a fact that Bohlen also openly admitted to Der Spiegel in 1989:

"I do not deny that all Modern Talking hits sound very, very similar. We have always decoupled those tracks from our LPs as singles that sound as similar as possible to their predecessors." 

They said oh yeah it's a tough world

You are restless and you are young

I said oh girl it's a good world

And your time will come

Your time will come

They said you came from the wrong side

He's a page from the end of the book

I said you came from the right side

Took me just one look

Then you understood

With a little love you will survive

With a little love you will get by

Do what you want go your own way

'cause it's your life

With a little love you make the start

Yeah why lovers break each other's heart

Do what you want go your own way

'cause it's your life

They said no future forget it

You came from the wrong side of town

I said don't listen don't let it

Let it bring you down

Make you wear a frown

They said oh let him down easy

Left at the hearts you have won

I said that love is for livin'

Like the morning sun

It had just begun.

SHOULD I STAY, SHOULD I GO

PATTY RYAN

SONGWRITER: SYSTEMS IN BLUE

COUNTRY: GERMANY

ALBUM: ALL THE BEST

LABEL: HARGENT MEDIA

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2008

Patty Ryan is a German singer best known for her Europop song "You're My Love, You're My Life" from 1986. She also sang the hits "Stay With Me Tonight", "Love is the Name of the Game", and "I Don't Wanna Lose You Tonight"(all from her debut álbum Love is the Name of the Game). Her style is similar to that of bands like Modern Talking, London Boys, and Bad Boys Blue(she has also on occasion collaborated with Modern Talking's Dieter Bohlen). Some of the songs from her debut album resemble Modern Talking songs considerably, You're My Love, You're My Life(You're My Heart, You're My Soul), I'm Feeling So Blue(There's Too Much Blue In Missing You), and the song Chinese Eyes even is based around melodies from "You're My Heart, You're My Soul". She also sang Danuta Lato's hit "Touch My Heart".

Ryan had her start in music business with the rockabilly formation Susi & die Rockets, which also participated in the ZDF-Hitparade in 1981 with the song Dieses Haus ist kein Bahnhof (German version of Sweet Lolita from the British rockabilly band Matchbox).

Patty Ryan's newest releases are the 2005 CD single "I Gave You All My Love", the 2006 compilation All the Best(Otre-Media), the hits "Ohne Zweifel" (2004), and "Lass mir doch mal meinen Spass" (2005) in Germany.

Systems in Blue is a German pop band, composed of the members Rolf Köhler, Michael Scholz, and Detlef Wiedeke. After Rolf Köhler's death, the Singer Olaf Senkbeil was invited to join them. The original band members started in the beginning of the 1960s, working in different bands during 1960s and 1970s, Rolf Köhler worked for several different artists such as Blonker, Uriah Heep, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Grave Digger, Gamma Ray, Iron Savior, Savage Circus, Tokyo, Mephistopheles, and Kin Ping Meh(featuring Geff Harrison) among others. They were part of the choruses of the Dieter Bohlen produced Modern Talking in 1984–1987 and 1998–2000 and Blue System in 1987–1997 with Rolf Köhler as the refrain singer.

Love is not a sacrifice

Love is not a sin

You smile to me and I'm hypnotized

Love me just skin to skin

Another time and another place

I'll find the way to your heart

Come and kiss me and we will depart!

Should I stay - Should I go?

Only time will let me know – I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

Who can ease my pain and sorrow, babe?

Should I stay – Should I go?

Only time will let me know – I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

It's all written in the wind

Love is like a paradise

Love is like a dream

I see the passion deep in your eyes

I feel like seventeen

Another time and another place

I'll find the way to your heart

Come and touch me – make a brandnew start!

Should I stay (should I stay) – Should I go? (should I go)

Only time will let me know – I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

Who can ease my pain and sorrow, babe?

Should I stay (should I stay) – Should I go? (should I go)

When you love me I will know – my love

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

It's all written in the wind

Another heart and one love romance

She's not the girl of your love

Come and kiss me – and we will depart!

Should I stay (should I stay) – Should I go? (should I go)

Only time will let me know – I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

Who can ease my pain and sorrow, babe?

Should I stay (should I stay) – Should I go? (should I go)

Only time will let me know - I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

It's all written in the wind

Should I stay (should I stay) – Should I go? (should I go)

Only time will let me know - I'm sure

Where's the answer of tomorrow?

It's all written in the wind.