SONGWRITERS: Carl Sigman; Hans Bradtke & James
Last
COUNTRY: PHILIPPINES
ALBUM: THEN AND NOW
LABEL: JONATHAN POTENCIANO
GENRE: SEASONAL/EASY LISTENING
YEAR: 2019
Originally from Manila in the Philippines, I
have been living in Las Vegas for over 30 years now.
In those 30 years, I was a business owner of
my own band, most recently called JAMM, and we performed all over Vegas and the
world until it ended on March 14, 2020, the last performance date at the Paris
Hotel & Casino when all our gigs were cancelled due to Covid - 19.Like everyone else around the world, we were
caught completely off guard.Needless to
say, I had to find another way to make money and stay creative because LIVE
music was non-existent.Outside of music
I was building a travel club business.Which I absolutely loved!But, of
course,
Covid -19 took that out at the same
time.
NOTE: WHEN I
DISCOVERED THIS VOICE, I WAS IN LOVE WITH ITS SOFTNESS. THAT'S WHY I PROUDLY
INCLUDE IT ON MY BLOGG
ALMOST
ALL THE SONGS ON THE BLOGG ARE PICKED BY ME
Alanis Nadine Morissette (/əˈlɑːnɪsˌmɒrɪˈsɛt/ə-LAH-niss MORR-ih-SET;
born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Known for her emotive mezzo-sopranovoice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in
Canada in the early 1990s with two highly successful dance-popalbums. In
1995, she released Jagged Little Pill,
an alternative rock-oriented
album with elements of post-grunge, which
sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed
work to date. This earned her the Grammy Award
for Album of the Yearin 1996 and was
made into a rock musical
of the same namein 2017, which earned
fifteen Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical.
The album was also listed in the 2003 and 2020 editions of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All TimeGuide. The lead single, "You Oughta Know", was also
included at #103 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Her highly anticipated, more experimental follow-up, electronic-infused album Supposed
Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998.
Morissette assumed creative control and
production duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept(2002), So-Called Chaos(2004),
Flavors of
Entanglement(2008), Havoc and
Bright Lights(2012), and Such Pretty
Forks in the Road(2020). Her latest album, The Storm
Before the Calm, which features ambient music, was
released in 2022. Her
well-known singles "You Oughta Know", "Hand in My
Pocket", "Ironic",
"You Learn",
"Head Over Feet", "Uninvited",
"Thank U",
and "Hands Clean" reached top 40 in the major
charts around the world, including ten top-40 hits in the UK, 3 three top-10 in
the US and Australia, and twelve top-10 hits in her native Canada. She
also holds the record for the most Nº 1s on the weekly Billboard
Alternative Songs chartfor any female
soloist, group leader, or duo member. She is listed on VH1's 1999 "100 Greatest
Women of Rock and Roll" at number 53.
Morissette has won seven Grammy Awards,
fourteen Juno Awards, one Brit Award, and has
sold more than 75 million records worldwide. She has been dubbed the
"Queen of Alt-RockAngst"
by Rolling Stone
Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album
by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette,
released on June 13, 1995, through Maverick.
It was her first
album to be released worldwide. It marked a stylistic departure
from the dance-popsound of
her first two albums, Alanis(1991)
and Now Is the Time(1992). Morissette began work on the album after moving from her
hometown Ottawato Toronto, making
little progress until she traveled to Los Angeles,
where she met producer Glen Ballard. Morissette and Ballard had an
instant connection and began co-writing and experimenting with sounds. The
experimentation resulted in na alternative rockalbum that takes influence from post-grungeand pop rock, and
features guitars, keyboards, drum machines, and harmonica. The lyrics touch
upon themes of aggression and unsuccessful relationships, while Ballard
introduced a popsensibility to
Morissette's angst. The title of the album is taken from a line in the first
verse of the song "You Learn".
Jagged Little Pill was a worldwide commercial
success, topping the charts in thirteen countries. With sales of over 33 million
copies worldwide, it is one of the best-selling
albums of all timeand made Morissette the
first Canadian to achieve double
diamondsales. Jagged Little Pill was
nominated for nine Grammy Awards,
winning five, including Album of the
Year, making the then 21-year-old Morissette the
youngest artist to win the top honor up to that point. Rolling Stoneranked Jagged Little Pill at number 69 on its 2020 list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
The
album has been re-released twice: on October 30, 2015, in a 2-disc deluxe
edition and a 4-disc collector's edition commemorating its 20th anniversary;
and on June 26, 2020, in a 25th anniversary deluxe edition. Na
acoustic
re-recordingof the album was released on June
13, 2005, to mark its 10th anniversary. A musical stage
productionbased on the album premiered at the American
Repertory Theaterin Cambridgeon May 5, 2018; it transferred to Broadway the following year, and
was nominated for 15 Tony Awards including Best Musical. A world tour
celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill began in early 2020 but
was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Do I stress you out?
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say, how appropriate
I don't like to dissect everything today
I don't mean to pick you apart you see
But I can't help it
And there I go
jumping before the gunshot has gone off
Slap me with a splintered ruler
And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn't there already
If only I could hunt the hunter
And all I really want
is some patience
A way to calm the angry voice
And all I really want is deliverance, ah
Do I wear you out?
You must wonder why I'm relentless and all strung out
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
I'm like Estella
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy
And I am frightened
by the corrupted ways of this land
If only I could meet the maker
And I am fascinated by the spiritual man
I am humbled by his humble nature, yeah
And what I wouldn't
give to find a soul mate?
Someone else to catch this drift
And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred? Ah
Enough about me,
let's talk about you for a minute
Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses is falling
All around, all around
Why are you so
petrified of silence?
Here can you handle this?
Did you think about your bills, you ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're going to die?
Or did you long for the next distraction?
And all I need now is
intellectual intercourse
A soul to dig the hole much deeper
And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
If only I could kill the killer
And all I really want
is some peace man
A place to find a common ground
And all I really want is a wavelength, ah
And all I really want is some comfort
A way to get my hands untied
And all I really want is some justice, ah
It's all I really
want, some patience
A way to calm me down
And all I really want is deliverance
A place to find a common ground.
SONÍFERA ILHA
TITÃS
CompositorES: ANTONIO BELLOTTO; MARCELO FROMER;
CIRO PESSOA MENDES CORREA; CARLOS BARMAK & JOAQUIM JR.
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: TITÃS
GRAVADORA: WEA
GÊNERO: POP ROCK
ANO: 1984
Titãs
é uma banda de rock
formada na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil
em 1982. Embora originalmente tocassem pop-rockalternativo em seus primórdios, o grupo também
já utilizou diversos outros gêneros ao longo de quase 40 anos de carreira, como
new wave, punk rock,
grunge,
MPB e música eletrônica.
É
uma das bandas de rock mais bem sucedidas no Brasil, tendo vendido mais de 6,3
milhões de álbuns e fazendo parcerias com vários artistas brasileiros de renome
e diversos cantores internacionais. Eles receberam um Grammy Latino
em 2009 e ganharam o Troféu Imprensa de Melhor Banda por quatro
vezes.
A
formação inicial contava com um número de integrantes bastante incomum. Eram
nove membros, sendo que seis eram vocalistas. Arnaldo
Antunes, Branco Mello e Ciro Pessoa
cantavam e faziam vocais de apoio. Sérgio Britto, Nando Reis
e Paulo Miklos,
além de cantarem, se revezavam entre os teclados e o baixo.
O restante do grupo era formado por André Jung,
na bateria, Marcelo
Fromer na guitarra rítmica e Tony Belloto
na guitarra solo.
Ciro Pessoa rapidamente deixou o grupo, antes mesmo do lançamento do primeiro
álbum da banda, em 1984.
André Jung era o baterista inicial, mas foi substituído por Charles Gavin
no início de 1985,
estabelecendo a formação clássica da banda.
Titãs
é o álbum
de estreia da banda brasileira de rockde mesmo nome,
lançado em 22 de agosto de 1984 pela WEA.
Após
várias divergências enfrentadas, como a indisposição do co-fundador Ciro Pessoa
de continuar no grupo, os Titãs-agora
sem o "do Iê Iê" que carregavam no nome-gravaram seu primeiro álbum,
com onze faixas.
O
lançamento aconteceu na danceteria Tífon em São Paulo.
Foi
nele que os Titãs vieram a conhecer seu primeiro grande sucesso: "Sonífera Ilha",
cantada por Paulo Miklos. Assinada por Tony Bellotto,
Marcelo
Fromer, Branco Mello, Ciro e Barmack, garantiu
presenças constantes nas rádios e em atrações televisivas como a Discoteca do Chacrinha e o Programa Raul
Gil. As vendagens de Titãs, porém, foram decepcionantes: o álbum não
chegou nem mesmo a cinquenta mil cópias vendidas na época do lançamento. Em
agosto de 1997, havia vendido 109 mil cópias, a pior vendagem da banda até
então.
Fora
estas duas faixas, ainda constam versões para: "The Harder They
Come", de Jimmy Cliff, que Nando Reis
interpretou como "Querem Meu Sangue"; "Patches", de Ronald Dunbar e G. N.
Johnson, vertida para o português como "Marvin" por Nando e Sérgio Britto; e de "The Ballad of John and Yoko", dos Beatles),
transformada por Sérgio em "Balada Para John e Yoko", sem contar a
versão inicial de "Go Back", feita pelo tecladista a partir de um
poema de Torquato Neto. Todas seriam posteriormente
revistas em outros discos do grupo.
Não posso mais viver
assim ao seu ladinho
Por isso colo o meu
ouvido no radinho de pilha
Pra te sintonizar
sozinha numa ilha
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca
Me enche de luz
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca
Me enche de luz
Não posso mais viver
assim ao seu ladinho
Por isso colo o meu
ouvido no radinho de pilha
Pra te sintonizar
sozinha numa ilha
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca
Me enche de luz
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca
Me enche de luz
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca
Me enche de luz
Sonífera ilha
Descansa meus olhos
Sossega minha boca.
MAN ON
THE MOON
R.E.M.
Songwriters: BUCK PETER LAWRENCE & BERRY WILLIAM
THOMAS
Country:
u. s. a.
Album: authomatic for the people
Label: warner bros
Genre: rock
Year: 1992
R.E.M. was an American rockband from Athens, Georgia, formed
in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry,
guitarist Peter Buck, bassist
Mike Mills, and
lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who
were students at the University of
Georgia. One of the first alternative rockbands, R.E.M. was noted for Buck's ringing, arpeggiatedguitar
style; Stipe's distinctive vocal quality, unique stage presence, and obscure
lyrics; Mills's melodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry's tight,
economical drumming style. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts such
as Nirvanaand Pavementviewed
R.E.M. as a pioneer of the genre. After Berry left the band in 1997, the band continued its
career in the 2000s with mixed critical and commercial success. The
band broke up amicably in 2011 with members devoting time to solo projects
after having sold more than 85 million albums worldwide and becoming one of the
world's
best-selling music acts.
R.E.M. released its first single, "Radio Free
Europe", in 1981 on the independent record
label Hib-Tone. It was
followed by the Chronic TownEPin 1982, the
band's first release on I.R.S. Records.
In 1983, the group released its critically acclaimed debut album, Murmur, and
built its reputation over the next few years with similarly acclaimed releases
every year from 1984 to 1988: Reckoning,
Fables of the
Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant,
Documentand Green,
including an intermittent b-side compilation Dead Letter
Office. Don Dixonand Mitch Easterproduced
their first two albums, Joe Boydhandled
production on Fables of the Reconstruction and Don Gehmanproduced
Lifes Rich Pageant. Thereafter, R.E.M. settled on Scott Littas
producer for the next 10 years during the band's most successful period of
their career. They
also started co-producing their material and playing other instruments in the
studio apart from the main ones they play. With
constant touring, and the support of college radiofollowing years of underground success, R.E.M. achieved a mainstream
hit with the 1987 single "The One I
Love". The group signed to Warner Bros.
Recordsin 1988, and began to espouse
political and environmental concerns while playing large arenas worldwide.
Automatic for the People is the eighth studio
album by American alternative rockband R.E.M., released by Warner Bros.
Recordson October 5, 1992 in the United
Kingdom and Europe, and on the following day in the United States. R.E.M. began
production on the album while their previous album, Out of Time(1991),
was still ascending top albums charts and achieving global success. Aided by
string arrangements from John Paul
Jones, Automatic for the People features
ruminations on mortality, loss, mourning and nostalgia.
Upon release, it received widespread acclaim
from critics, reached number two on the US Billboard 200,
and yielded six singles. Rolling Stonereviewer Paul Evans concluded of the album, "This is the
members of R.E.M. delving deeper than ever; grown sadder and wiser, the Athens
subversives reveal a darker vision that shimmers with new, complex
beauty." Automatic for the People has sold more than 18 million copies
worldwide.
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