HYMN TO HER

THE PRETENDERS
SONGWRITER: MEG KEENE
COUNTRY: U. K. & U. S. A.
ALBUM: GET CLOSE
LABEL: WARNER MUSIC GROUP
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1986
 
              The Pretenders are an English–American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). Following the deaths of Honeyman-Scott and Farndon in 1982 and 1983, the band experienced numerous personnel changes; Hynde has been the band's only consistent member.
        The Pretenders' hit songs include "Brass in Pocket" (1979), "Talk of the Town" (1980), "Message of Love" (1981), "Back on the Chain Gang" (1982), "Middle of the Road" (1983), "2000 Miles" (1983), "Don't Get Me Wrong" (1986), "My Baby" (1986), and "I'll Stand by You" (1994). The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
            "Hymn to Her" is a song that was first released on the Pretenders' 1986 album Get Close. It was written by Meg Keene, a high school friend of Pretenders' lead singer Chrissie Hynde. "Hymn to Her" was released as a single in the UK and reached #8 on the charts. According to AllMusic critic Matthew Greenwald, the song has remained popular on adult contemporary radio stations.
      According to Spin magazine critic Erik Himmelsbach, "Hymn to Her" is one of the songs presenting "traditional pop sentiments" which Hynde and the Pretenders mixed in with their more vitriolic work. Spin critic Brian Cullman described it as a "hymn to the eternal feminine." The Maiden, Mother and Crone that are mentioned in the song are Archetypes of the collective unconscious, specific psychological imaging of the major psychological transitions women undergo over a lifetime. The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism interprets the song as containing pagan themes. Though the Archetypes of the collective unconscious are not limited to religious belief. Vic Garbarini of Musician magazine suggested that a theme of the song is Hynde "trying to listen to that part of [herself] where all [her] songs come from." Greenwald considers it "a timeless love song about a life-long love." According to Greenwald, the melody combines folk music and gospel music elements.
            Cullman evaluated "Hymn to Her" as "a stunner" which combines "the spirit behind 'The Mists of Avalon' with the beauty of Sandy Denny's best work." Greenwald particularly praised the lyrics, Hynde's delivery, and the refrain. Ira Robbins and Delvin Neugebauer of Trouser Press described "Hymn To Her" as a "haunting ballad" that was one of the few worthy songs on Get Close. Author Barbara O'Dair described it as "glorious" and "spine-tingling" and "the best thing" on Get Close. The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism called it "enchanting."
        "Hymn to Her" was later included on the Pretenders' compilation albums The Singles in 1987 and Greatest Hits in 2000. It was also included on the multi-artist compilation album Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute in 1997. Sleeper covered the song as the b-side to "Vegas" and on the related EP in 1995

Let me inside you
Into your room
I've heard it's lined
With the things you don't show
Lay me beside you
Down on the floor
I've been your lover
From the womb to the tomb
I dress as your daughter
When the moon becomes round
You be my mother
When everything's gone
 
And she will always carry on
Something is lost
But something is found
They will keep on speaking her name
Somethings change
Some stay the same
 
Keep beckoning to me
From behind that closed door
The maid and the mother
And the crone that's grown old
 
I hear your voice
Coming out of that hole
I listen to you
And i want some more
I listen to you
And i want some more
 
And she will always carry on
Something is lost
But something is found
They will keep on speaking her name
Some things change
Some stay the same.

EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY

MORRISSEY
Songwriters: MORRISSEY & STEPHEN STREET
Country: u. k.
Album: viva hate
Label: h.m.v.
Genre: alternative rock
Year: 1988
 
           Steven Patrick Morrissey (/ˈmɒrɪsiː/; born 22 May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter, and author. He came to prominence as the frontman of rock band the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career. Morrissey's music is characterised by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrics with recurring themes of emotional isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and black humour, and anti-establishment stances.
     Born to working-class Irish immigrants in Davyhulme, Lancashire, Morrissey grew up in nearby Manchester. As a child, he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism, and pop music. In the late 1970s, he fronted punk rock band the Nosebleeds with little success before beginning a career in music journalism and writing several books on music and film in the early 1980s. He formed the Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982 and the band soon attracted national recognition for their eponymous debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention for his trademark quiff and witty and sardonic lyrics. Deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the image of a sexually ambiguous social outsider who embraced celibacy. The Smiths released three further studio albums—Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, and Strangeways, Here We Come—and had a string of hit singles. The band were critically acclaimed and attracted a cult following. Personal differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in the separation of the Smiths in 1987.
            In 1988 Morrissey launched his solo career with Viva Hate. This album and its follow-ups—Kill Uncle, Your Arsenal, and Vauxhall and I—all did well on the UK Albums Chart and spawned multiple hit singles. He took on Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer as his main co-writers to replace Marr. During this time his image began to shift into that of a burlier figure who toyed with patriotic imagery and working-class masculinity. In the mid-to-late 1990s, his albums Southpaw Grammar and Maladjusted also charted but were less well received. Relocating to Los Angeles, he took a musical hiatus from 1998 to 2003 before releasing a successful comeback album, You Are the Quarry, in 2004. Ensuing years saw the release of albums Ringleader of the Tormentors, Years of Refusal, World Peace Is None of Your Business, Low in High School, California Son, and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, as well as his autobiography and his debut novel, List of the Lost.
           Highly influential, Morrissey has been credited as a seminal figure in the emergence of indie rock and Britpop. His work has been the subject of academic study. He has been a controversial figure throughout his music career due to his forthright opinions and outspoken nature—endorsing vegetarianism and animal rights, criticising royalty and prominent politicians, and defending a particular vision of English national identity while critiquing the impact of immigration on the UK. In a 2006 poll for the BBC's Culture Show, Morrissey was voted the second-greatest living British cultural icon.
         Everyday Is Like Sunday" is the third track of Morrissey's debut solo album, Viva Hate, and the second single to be released by the artist. While the lyric was written by Morrissey, the song's composer was Stephen Street. It made number nine in the UK Singles Chart and remains one of his best-known songs. "Everyday Is Like Sunday", as well as the single's B-sides "Disappointed" and "Will Never Marry", feature on the compilation album Bona Drag.
The track has been covered by a number of other bands, including The Pretenders (on the Original Motion Picture soundtrack Boys on the Side), by 10,000 Maniacs (as a B-side to their single "Candy Everybody Wants"), the Armageddon Dildos (on their "Come Armageddon" maxi-single), Estonian 1990s pop group Mr. Lawrence and Mikel Erentxun (on his album Acrobatas). Colin Meloy of The Decemberists also covers the track on his solo album Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey. Dave Couse, former lead singer of A House, has performed this live with his later band The Impossible and alternative rock band Fate or Trouble, who released the song as their debut single. A mostly instrumental version (containing only the title lyric) was used in NFL Network's "When all you want is football" television ad campaign. As well as inspiring several cover versions it has also inspired the cult Canadian film Everyday Is Like Sunday.
           The lyric is reportedly inspired by Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach, about a group of people waiting for nuclear devastation in Melbourne, Australia.
         The single was re-issued on 27 September 2010, on CD and two 7"s, including the unreleased "November the Second", an alternative mix of "November Spawned a Monster". This re-issue debuted at number 42 on the UK singles chart. It coincided with the 20th-anniversary re-issue of his 1990 compilation Bona Drag.

Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench
Where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon
Come, Armageddon, come!
 
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
 
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb!
 
Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey
 
Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face
On your face
On your face
On your face
 
Everyday is like Sunday
"Win yourself a cheap tray"
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey.

COMO ME DUELE PERDERTE

GLORIA ESTEFAN
COMPOSITOR: MARCO FLORES
PAIS: CUBA
ÁLBUM: ALMA CARIBEÑA
DISCOGRÁFICO: EPIC RECORDS
GÉNERO: POP LATINO
AÑO: 2000
 
       Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García (La Habana, 1 de septiembre de 1957), conocida artísticamente como Gloria Estefan, es una cantautora, actriz y empresaria cubano-estadounidense. A lo largo de su carrera, Gloria ha vendido más de 120 millones de discos en todo el mundo, más de 31,5 millones de ellos en los Estados Unidos, lo que la convierte en una de las artistas musicales con mayores ventas de todos los tiempos. Considerada como la «Madre del Pop Latino», Estefan ha ganado múltiples premios y reconocimientos; entre ellos, siete premios Grammy. Posee una estrella en el Paseo de la fama de Hollywood. El diario britânico The Sun la ubicó en el puesto número 13 de las 50 cantantes que jamás serán olvidadas.
            Con año y medio de edad, su familia, por razones políticas, abandonó Cuba y se instaló en Miami; más tarde se mudaron a Texas. Tras cursar estudios de psicología en la universidad, se unió a un grupo que tocaba música latina, donde comenzó a cantar. Tras varios conciertos, entró a formar parte del grupo de Emilio Estefan como cantante, cambiando el nombre del grupo por el de Miami Sound Machine. Gloria Estefan y Emilio se casaron en 1978. En 1980 nació el primer hijo de la pareja, Nayib. Ese mismo año falleció el padre de Gloria. También en 1980, comenzaron a publicar sus primeros trabajos: Renacer, Miami Sound Machine, Imported. En estos discos se mezclaban sonidos latinos con letras en español y en inglés. En 1976 la CBS Discos les ofreció un contrato con el que se dieron a conocer por toda Latinoamérica y publicaron varios discos más con The Miami Sound Machine.
               Alma caribeña es el nombre del noveno álbum de estudio en solitario y el tercero realizado en español, grabado por la cantautora cubana-estadounidense Gloria Estefan. También es el 22 en general, Fue lanzado al mercado bajo los sellos discográficos Epic Records y Sony Discos el 23 de mayo de 2000.

Como duele el día nublado
Como el tiempo es tan pesado siiii
Porque a diario pienso en ti
Que bien grita el silencio
Que bien duelen los recuerdos siiii
Porque todo habla de ti
 
Que delicia tu sensualidade
Que locura cuando te sentía muy de cerca
Y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto
Como fue que tu dejaste de querer
Y olvidaste del ayer
De nuestras miradas de nuestra piel
No te duele así perder
Lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel
 
Lo que me queda por decir
Es como duele perderte ay ay ay
Como me duele
 
Que pequeño se hace el cielo
Que humillante es el deseo siiii
Porque ya no estas aquí
 
Que sincero se hace el frío
Como hiel mi sufrimiento
Ya no se lo que es vivir
 
Que delicia tu sensualidade
Que locura cuando te sentía muy de cerca
Y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto
 
Como fue que tu dejaste de querer
Y olvidaste del ayer
De nuestras miradas de nuestra piel
No te duele así perder
Lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel
 
Lo que me queda por decir
Es como duele perderte ay ay ay
Como me duele perderte
 
Que delicia tu sensualidade
Que locura cuando te sentía muy de cerca
Y ahora que estas lejos hasta el universo ha muerto
 
Como fue que tu dejaste de querer
Y olvidaste del ayer
De nuestras miradas de nuestra piel
No te duele así perder
Lo que fue perfecto y acordado fiel
 
Lo que me queda por decir
Es como duele perderte ay ay ay
Como me duele perderte.

DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
SONGWRITER: TOM SNOW
COUNTRY: U. K.(AUSTRALIA)
ALBUM: TOTALLY HOT
LABEL: MCA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1979
 
       Dame Olivia Newton-John AC DBE (born 26 September 1948) is a British-Australian singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, entrepreneur and activist. She is a four-time Grammy Award winner whose chart career includes five US number ones and another ten Top Tens on Billboard's Hot 100, and two Billboard 200 number-one albums: If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Never Been Mellow (1975). Eleven of her singles (including two Platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two Platinum and four 2× Platinum) have been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.
              In 1978 she starred in the musical film Grease, whose soundtrack remains one of the most successful in history and features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want" – which ranks as one of the best-selling singles of all time – and "Summer Nights". Her signature solo recordings include the Record of the Year Grammy winner "I Honestly Love You" (1974) and "Physical" (1981) – Billboard's top Hot 100 single of the 1980s – plus her cover of "If Not for You" (1971), "Let Me Be There" (1973), "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)" (1974), "Have You Never Been Mellow" (1975), "Sam" (1977), "Hopelessly Devoted to You" (also from Grease), "A Little More Love" (1978), "Heart Attack" (1982) and, from the 1980 film Xanadu, "Magic" and "Xanadu" (with Electric Light Orchestra).
          Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues. She has been an advocate for health awareness, becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and co-owning the Gaia Retreat & Spa in Australia.
       "Deeper Than the Night" is a song recorded by English-born Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for her eleventh studio album Totally Hot (1978). Written by Tom Snow and produced by John Farrar, the song was the second of three singles released from Totally Hot.
            "Deeper Than the Night" reached number eleven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 18 in Canada. On the Adult Contemporary charts it was a bigger hit, reaching number four and number seven in those countries, respectively. It was also a minor hit in both the United Kingdom and Australia.

I can't imagine why you say the things you do
Maybe in time I'll understand
What is the reason for the emptiness you feel
When I'm trying everything I can
 
My love is running deeper than the night
Stronger than the north wind blowing
It's a fire burning bright
And it's always been this way
 
Can you hear me?
Am I really coming thru?
Why do your eyes seem to dance away?
I know what's right for you Haven't I always?
I need you more than I can say
 
My love is running deeper than the night
Stronger than the north wind blowing
It's a fire burning bright
And it's always been this way
 
My love is running deeper than the night
Stronger than the north wind blowing
It's a fire burning bright
And it's always been this way
 
And I'll never ever change
In my lifetime, I'll stay the same
Yes I'll never, I'll never change
I'll love you, I'll stay the same
 
My love is running deeper than the night
Stronger than the north wind blowing
Fire burning bright, and it keeps on growing, keeps on growing
[Repeats]