Verano Azul; Juan Magan

"Juan Magan is a Spanish producer, remixer, and DJ of electronic music, especially House, R&B, Dancehall and Hip-Hop, recognized internationally for his contributions to the 'Electro Latino' category of music.

"Juan Magan went double platinum with the singles 'Bora Bora', 'Verano Azul' and with his album Suave."*

I'm too lazy too translate the source (blogodisea.com) about this song, so if you know Spanish, good for you... ^^

"Aquí os presento en primicia, la canción de este verano, que rescata silbidillo de estribillo y hasta bicicletas (aunque remozadas), de la mítica serie 'Verano Azul' (si, esa de Antonio Mercero donde aparecían Chanquete o El Piraña). Para ver similitudes musicales, os aconsejo revisar el opening de la serie.

"Pues bien, Juan Magan nos deleita de nuevo con un tema pegadizo de bella y rica prosa (Faldita y canesú, ya no hay tabú), y contrató a cuatro chicas que vio por la playa para hacer el vídeo. Las chicas, tuvieron que realizar la coreografía en cinco minutos, lo que explica la simpleza de la misma y que vayan a su aire."

She's moving like a rockstar
Moving is a pornstar
"dale" come you tornstar
Ya no te paes dale mami
Mueve loca, bésame la boca
Fuerte como roca,
Verano azul p'a ti p'a mi
Baila mi soca, la mano arriba loca,
Y a quitarnos la ropa
Bebamos de mi copa
Y muéveme mi copa,
Me gusta como tú
Perreando a poca "lú"
Faldita y camisú
Ya no hay tabú.

Amanesiendo era verano,
Latino americano,
Y el sol muy delicado
U el mando muy a mano,
En labios nos besamos

Yo recuerdo una noche en el coche mio,
¡ay que lío! tú me quitabas el frío.
Por tus curvititas me guío,
Dices que eres libre yo me fio.
Si yo supiera que un hombre te estaba esperando,
No hubiera tocado lo que estaba tocando,
Lo mio es duro y lo tuya es blando
Dulce como el mango.

Tú que estás hablando, si fue culpa tuya,
No me montes la bulla.
Yo no sabía que tú eras suya.
Cuando llego la patrulla,
Señor agente me puso caliente,
Yo no soy culpable, ni soy indecente,
Pregunte a la gente.

She's moving like a rockstar
Moving is a pornstar
"dale" come you tornstar
Ya no te paes dale mami
Mueve loca, bésame la boca
Fuerte como roca,
Verano azul p'a ti p'a mi
Baila mi soca, la mano arriba loca,
Y a quitarnos la ropa
Bebamos de mi copa
Y muéveme mi copa,
Me gusta como tú
Perreando a poca "lú"
Faldita y camisú
Ya no hay tabú.

She's moving like a rockstar
Moving is a pornstar
"dale" come you tornstar
Ya no te paes dale mami
Mueve loca, bésame la boca
Fuerte como roca,
Verano azul p'a ti p'a mi
Baila mi soca, la mano arriba loca,
Y a quitarnos la ropa
Bebamos de mi copa
Y muéveme mi copa,
Me gusta como tú
Perreando a poca "lú"
Faldita y camisú
Ya no hay tabú.

Joãozinho; Vanessa da Mata

Vanessa da Mata is a Brazilian MPB singer born in 1976, Mato Grosso, who had already won a Latin Grammy Award.

Vanessa's discography has four studio albums, one better than the other. The second album, "Essa Boneca Tem Manual" (This Doll Has Handbook), was released in 2004 and there is one song in there which has whistlings!

The song with whistlings is "Joãozinho". The story behind it is that Vanessa has an aunt called Rita who had the "Joãzinho style" (which I don't know how to translate) didn't like her curly hair and she straightened it. It is an hommage to her aunt Rita.*

Moça de joãozinho no cabelo
Faz de conta no espelho
Faz de conta no espelho
Abre a porta e vai para o asfalto
Lisa a ponta do cabelo
Alisa a ponta do cabelo

Corre quando começa a chover
Olha só vai enrolar
O cabelo encolher

Vem ver Maria
Vem ver Maria
Joãozinho
Vem ver Maria
Vem ver Maria
De joãozinho

Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke; Kishore Kumar

OK! I was very lucky finding lyrics and a video! I know nothing about India. Can someone please give me the answers about who is Kishore Kumar, why there is whistling in the song, who wrote it and what means Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke?

Ó.Ò

Hum hain rahi pyaar ke, humse kuchh na boliye -3
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye
Hum usi ke ho liye
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye

Dard bhi hamein qubool, chaina bhi hamein qubool -2
Humne har tarah ke phool, haar mein piro liye -2
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye
Hum usi ke ho liye
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye

Doop thi naseeb mein, dhoop mein liya hai dum
Doop thi naseeb mein to dhoop mein liya hai dum
Chandni mili to hum, chandni mein so liye -2
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye
Hum usi ke ho liye
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye

Dil pe asraa kiye, hum to bas yunhi jiye -2
Ek kadam pe hans liye ek kadam pe ro liye -2
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye
Hum usi ke ho liye
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye

Reh mein pade hain hum, kab se aap ki qasam -2
Dekhiye to kum se kum, boliye na boliye -2
Jo bhi pyaar se mila, hum usi ke ho liye
Hum usi ke ho liye
Hum hain rahi pyaar ke, humse kuchh na boliye...

No Complaints; Beck

"The Information" is the tenth (and seventh major-label) studio album by American alternative rock musician Beck, released in October 2006 on Interscope Records. It was produced and mixed by longtime Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich. Recording began in 2003 concurrently with Guero, but the album was not completed until 2006. Rolling Stone magazine has named it the 24th best album of 2006, while Spin magazine ranked it number 10 on their 40 Best Albums of 2006.

The album reached #7 on the US's Billboard 200, #6 in Canada and #31 on Australia's ARIA Chart. As of July 2008, The Information has sold 434,000 copies in the United States."¹

In the music video, we see Beck himself whistling and also the blondie girl with a pandeiro around her head.

We are aimless
And the target is an empty wall
We're out of patience
With smiles that cut across her face
No complaints
But I wish I had my top of my brain
I'd like to walk
But the sun doesn't know we're awake

We're in spaceships
Take a visit to the Pyranees
Paid vacations
Send a brochure from the agency
No complaints
But my girlfriend dug a ditch in my room
Walking papers and a hole
Straight out from my shoes

No complaints
But it's harder
To believe in the truth
She'll write a message
On a billboard
And I'll send it to you

We feel painless
Check the status on the info line
In some ways tainted
Radiation from the factory
No complaints
But it's overrated, that's for sure
Take a bus back
From Little Rock, Arkansas
Or Modesto
That's where my drawl comes from

Sissyneck; Beck

According to Spinner, "Throughout his career, Beck has been known for his multi-instrumental postmodern arrangements and mad scientry of processed beats. Appearing on the sample-heavy album 'Odelay,' with inspirations ranging from Grand Funk Railroad to Franz Schubert, this track is no exception. The whistled into to 'Sissyneck' is courtesy of legendary jazz pianist Dick Hyman."

I don't need no wheels
I don't need no gasoline
'Cause the wind that is blowing
Is blowing like a smoke machine

If I said to you
That I was looking for a place to get to
'Cause my neck is broken
And my pants ain't getting no bigger

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

All my friends
Tell me something is getting together
I got a beard that would disappear
If I'm dressed in leather

Now let me tell you about my baby
She was born in Arizona
Sitting in the jailhouse
Trying to learn some good manners

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

Matchsticks strike
When I'm riding my bike to the depot
'Cause everybody knows my name
At the recreation center

If I could only find a nickel
I would pay myself off tonight
'Cause nobody knows
When the good times have passed out cold

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

I got a stolen wife
And a rhinestone life
And some good ol' boys
I'm writing my will
On a three dollar bill
In the evening time

Don't talk to me
If you're looking for somebody to cry on
Don't talk to me
If you're looking for somebody to cry on
Ahhhowwww!!

Ram On; Paul McCartney

According to Wikipedia, "Ram is an album by Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, released in 1971, the only album credited to the pair. It was McCartney's second solo album after The Beatles broke up.

"After the release of the successful debut McCartney, Paul and Linda went on a lengthy holiday and spent much time on their farm on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland. It was during this period that Paul, often with Linda's input, composed the songs that would feature on Ram."

According to Songfacts, "this is a sort of "jingle" tune written by McCartney on his ukulele. In the late '60s and early '70s, Paul used to carry along this instrument everywhere when he was wandering around New York City." Also that "The song is about being straightforward, courageous and strong."

"The words 'Ram' and 'On' form the name 'Ramon,' which was one of Paul's pseudonyms when he was in The Beatles. The ram is also the name of the animal chosen as the title track of the album, which meant for Paul to ram against the things that were making him depressed at the times of the Beatles breakup. Plus, it refers to the sheep and rams he had at his Scottish farm in the Mull of Kintyre."

Ram on give your heart to somebody
soon right away, right away

Ram on give your heart to somebody
soon right away, right away

Ram on give your heart to somebody
soon right away, right away

C'mon People; Paul McCartney

"C'mon People" is not a very known song by Paul, so I couldn't find much information about it. :(

"C'Mon People" is a single from Paul McCartney's 1993 album, Off the Ground. The song reached number 41 on the UK singles chart. McCartney recorded the song for UK music programme Top Of The Pops.¹

well we're going to, yeah we're going to
get it right this time.
we're going to really going to
raise it to the sky.
people are ready to forgive a few mistakes
but let's get started, form a party
don't you know how long it takes!

c'mon people let the fun begin.
we've got a future and it's rushing in.
call all the minstrels from the ancient shrine.
pass down the message that it's right this time.

well i'm trying to, yeah i'm crying to
lay it on the line.
we're trying to, really dying to
get it right this time.
so many yearning for the way it's gonna be.
believe it when you see it happening to you.,
you know it's real.

c'mon people let the world begin.
we've got a future and it's charging in.
we'll make the best of all we have, and more.
we'll do what never has been done before.
oh yeah.

well i'm going to, yeah i'm going to
get it right this time.
i'm going to, really going to
raise it to the sky.
i must admit i may have made a few mistakes,
but let's get started, from a party
don't you know how long it takes!

so c'mon people let the fun begin.
we've got a future and it's rushing in.
call all the minstrels from the ancient shrine.
pass down the message that it's right this time.
oh yeah.

c'mon people let the world begin.
we've got a future and it's charging in.

now c'mon people.

Vanilla Sky; Paul McCartney

Today’s song was specially composed for the movie with the same name. And what I am posting here is from Songfacts.com.

When Cameron Crowe asked McCartney to do a song for the movie, Paul at first suggested "From A Lover To A Friend" from his recent album Driving Rain. McCartney won a Golden Globe for this song. The lyrics were inspired by a waiter who brought a dish to McCartney's table that he hadn't ordered. This was included on McCartney's 2002 live album Back In The US, which was recorded on his 2001-2002 tour.

The chef prepares a special menu
for your delight oh my
Tonight you fly so high up
in the vanilla sky

Your life is fine
It's sweet and sour
unbearable or great
You gotta love every hour
you must appreciate

This is your time
this is your day
You've got it all...
don't blow it away

melted tea leaves cast your fortune
in a glass of wine
snail or fish
balloon or dolphin
see the silver shine

English Tea; Paul McCartney

Now it’s time to post all McCartney’s whistling song. Let’s get start with “English Tea”. “English Tea” was released in McCartney’s 2005 album named “Chaos and Creation in the Backyeard”, which peaked #6 on US Billboard 200 and #10 on UK Albums Chart.

“English Tea” wasn't released as a single, so I thought it was going to be difficult to find things about it. But, luckily, I was wrong and I could find a complete interview about this album on BeatleLinks.net, so I’m posting the part that interests us:

“It’s erm, the lyrics say ‘Very twee, very me’ and I think it is very me that stuff. The Beatles made a sort of English y sort of music, once they got past their American roots, American influences. You know a lot of our early stuff was ‘Some other guy now’ and you know pure soul RnB stuff that we loved (sings Twist and Shout) was directly taken from America. But then we started to sort of work in little things that were more us, and erm that kind of thing, that’s particularly me that kind of English Tea type of thing. Again it was this fascination with sort of how people speak, how some English people speak. But the idea started, I was on holiday, and if you want a cup of tea, you don’t do what you do in England, say ‘A cup of tea please’, They always say ‘What kind of tea?’ You know like in England nobody would ever say ‘What kind of tea?’ Well they actually would these days, but in the old days it was never like ‘What kind of tea?’ It’d be like ‘What do you mean? Cuppa tea.’ So now they say ‘What kind of tea?’ and you have to say ‘English Breakfast tea’ and then they go ‘Oh OK’ and you get it you know you get an ordinary cup of tea. So I just thought that’s amazing that calling it ‘English tea’, but I thought it’s kind of original because we don’t call it that . So I just started playing with that idea, of English tea. And then as I say there’s one particular older English person I’m thinking of who instead of saying ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’ might say ‘Would you care for a cup of tea?’ It's just the way they say it, and I love that. ‘Would you care?’ and in this case ‘Would you care to sit with me, for a cup of English tea?’ And so I really went to town on that whole fruity way of talking, that whole fruity language that I like. It’s I think it’s very endearing, very English, and I even managed to work in the word ‘peradventure’ which I was very proud of. Cos that’s like, cos I read Dickens quite a bit, it came to me from… I thought there is a word ‘peradventure’ and I think as I say I read it in Dickens (you get these old usages of words in there). And I thought ‘I do hope I’m right cos I’ve put it in the song’. ‘Do you know the game croquet… Per adventure we might play’… You know I thought ‘Oh I hope this is right’ I looked it up in the dictionary: ‘peradventure – perhaps, maybe’. ‘Yes!’

“I thought ‘Oh great I’m sure not many people work that into a song’. And then also, ‘Do you know the game croquet, peradventure we might play, Very gay Hip hooray’ you know in the old sense of the word ‘gay’ so it was nice, it was that croquet, very English, lawns, hollyhocks, roses, very Alice in Wonderland, that was also in the back of my mind, which influenced a lot of me and John’s writing. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, that’s Alice to us you know (Sings) Picture yourself…’ The whole idea of ‘picture yourself’ you know in a boat on a river very Alice very Lewis Carroll, it’s just the way I like to write that, so a fruity little song.”

Would you care to sit with me
For a cup of English tea
Very twee, very me
Any sunny morning

What a pleasure it would be
Chatting so delightfully
Nanny bakes, fairy cakes
Every Sunday morning

Miles of miles of English garden, stretching past the willow tree
Lines of holly, hocks and roses, listen most attentively

Do you know the game crochet
Peradventure we might play
Very gay, hip hooray
Any sunny morning

Miles of miles of English garden, stretching past the willow tree
Lines of holly, hocks and roses, listen most attentively

As a rule the church bells chime
When it's almost supper time
Nanny bakes, fairy cakes
On a Sunday morning

Life is a Song; Patrick Park

First of both, I’m copying-and-pasting from NY Daily News website; second, from Patrick Park’s website. Have a nice day! See ya!

1)
“Certain things happen to us in our lives and we identify those things as being part of us,” Park explains. “But once they’re gone there’s no reality to them anymore. The past is a figment of our imagination. If you hold on to it too strongly, you can’t see what’s really around you.”

While declining to go into specifics, Park offers: “There are a million ways to self-destruct and I feel like I’ve found a lot of those — whether that be sabotaging relationships, personal and professional, or substance abuse — trying to get away from whatever feeling I haven’t been able to deal with.”

The struggle to confront those emotions defines much of the new CD. Lyrically, Park does so in an uncommonly clear way. Unlike many pop scribes, who seem hell-bent on making their words as inaccessible as possible, Park pens vivid verse that’s poetic, too. “The trick is to be clear without being too literal,” he says. “I want people to know what I'm getting at.”

2)
In 2000, when Park had a batch of songs, he decided to demo them. He lacked the money to go into a studio, but that didn’t deter him: “I ended up recording in the back of a store that a friend’s girlfriend owned. I sang all the vocals on my knees inside of this couch-cushion hut that we built because there was a cricket in the room and it kept bleeding into the microphone. It was August and it was hot and horrible.” Later that year, Patrick had a chance run in with producer Dave Trumfio (Wilco, OK GO, Earlimart) and was able to give him a copy of what came to be known as the “basement tapes”. “I didn’t expect to ever hear from him again, but he called me the next day and asked if I had any more songs.”

You say life is a dream where we can’t say what we mean
Maybe just some roadside scene that we’re driving past
There’s no telling where we’ll be in a day or in a week
And there’s no promises of peace or of happiness

Well is this why you cling to every little thing
And polverize and derrange all your senses
Maybe life is a song but you’re scared to sing along
Until the very ending

Oh, it’s time to let go of everything we used to know
Ideas that strengthen who we’ve been
It’s time to cut ties that won’t ever free our minds
From the chains and shackles that they’re in

Oh, tell me what good is saying that you’re free
In a dark and storming sea
You’re chained to your history, you’re surely sinking fast
You say that you know that the good Lord’s in control
He’s gonna bless and keep your tired and oh so restless soul

But at the end of the day when every price has been paid
You’re gonna rise and sit beside him on some old seat of gold
And won’t you tell me why you live like you’re afraid to die
You’ll die like you’re afraid to go

Oh, it’s time to let go of everything we used to know
Ideas that strengthen who we’ve been
It’s time to cut ties that won’t ever free our minds
From chains and shackles that they’re in
From the chains and shackles that they’re in

Well life is a dream ‘cause we’re all walking in our sleep
You could see us stand in lines like we’re dead upon our feet
And we build our house of cards and then we wait for it to fall
Always forget how strange it is just to be alive at all

I Like Birds; Eels

This was dedicated to the mother of Eels’ mainman Mark Everett, who died from lung cancer in 1998. Everett explained to the Sun newspaper January 10, 2008:

“The quirky-sounding I Like Birds is dedicated to his mother and is, he suggests, ‘tinged with sadness’.

“Well, shit happens. Life is happy and sad and all the shades of grey in between. I just try to reflect all that stuff as best I can. My mother was an avid birdwatcher. She had a lot of bird books and feeders that I brought with me from her house. I set up the feeders in my yard and I read the books. I Like Birds was a way of staying connected to her.”

Thank you, Songfacts.com!

I can't look at the rocket launch
The trophy wives of the astronauts
And I won't listen to their words
'Cause I like
Birds

I don't care for walkin' down town
Crazy auto car gonna mow me down
Look at all the people like cows in a herd
Well I like
Birds

If you're small
And on a search
I've got a feeder for you to perch on

I can't stand in line at the store
The mean little people are such a bore
But it's all right if you act like a turd
'Cause I like
Birds

If you're small
And on a search
I've got a feeder for you to perch on

If you're small
And on a search
I've got a feeder for you to perch on
I've got a feeder for you to perch on
If you're small
And on a search
I've got a feeder for you to perch on
I've got a feeder for you to perch on

Like Flames; Berlin

Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford (bass guitar), Terri Nunn (vocals), David Diamond (keyboards) who were later joined by Ric Olsen (guitar), Matt Reid (keyboards) and Rob Brill (drums).

I knew this band because of one of its famous songs: "Sex (I'm A)", which I first heard played by the trip hop music group called "Lovage".

The whistling song "Like Flames" was released in the 1986 album "Count Three & Pray". It is the only song in this album written only by Rob Brill. I'm still trying to find who whistles...

Something you've heard
somewhere you've seen
too real to ignore
you've chosen not to believe
from the black of their pain
to the white of their fear
in the dust they die
while eden lies near

the freedom bought,
changed hands, was sold
this heat of love has turned ice-cold

we just can't escape it
like flames reaching out from the sun
we can't defeat it
like flames reaching out from the sun

from the garden of love,
been banished too long
and the balance will shift
between the week and the strong
once they would beg and they would plead
but now they demand
divided by those that need
and those that command

the freedom bought,
changed hands, was sold
the heat of love has turned ice-cold and
we never learn but we know too well
heaven's died and gone to hell

now you watch but you shoud have run
like flames that leap from the base of the sun
and you dream you're free but you'll awake
too much too late, too much too late

Bad Sun; The Bravery

Yesterday, an ancient band; today, a newborn band called The Bravery. The Bravery was born seven years ago by Sam Endicott (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Michael Zakarin (lead guitar), John Conway (keyboards), Mike Hindert (bass) and Anthony Burulcich (drums) in New York City. Their sound is a sort of alternative rock, dance-punk and post-punk revival.

The Bravery released three studio albums: The Bravery (2005), The Sun and the Moon (2007) and Stir the Blood (2009). "The Bravery" came into the post-punk revival wave with bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Futurehead, etc; because of this album they became very hype, and most of people would consider them "the next big thing". With "The Sun and the Moon" the band approached the pop sound and kicked out the post-punk influences; its most conservative fans didn't like it at all!

“Bad Sun” is a song from their second album. It has a more pop vibe than the others songs, and this feature has probably been thought beforehand because the whistlings are poppier at all. But pop is good, very good.

If you didn't know The Bravery, enjoy it!

We are lies like the summertime
Like the spring we are such fools
Like fall we are false prophets
Like winter we are cruel

I don't know what's wrong with us
They just made us this way
There's a hole in you and me
That pulls us together

And I don't know where we belong
I think we grew under a bad sun
I know we're not like everyone
You and me we grew, under a bad sun

Every day you bring me pain
And we savor it like rain
We hold it on our tongues
Just like wine

Someday back when we were young
I guess something just went wrong
The two of us are hung
From the same twisted rope

And I don't know where we belong
I think we grew under a bad sun
I know we're not like everyone
You and me we grew under a bad sun

Daydream; The Lovin’ Spoonful

This song is really really old! The Lovin’ Spoonful released it in 1966. Sixty-six! My mother was a child. Well, time can passin’ me by a lot, and things always change, but only the good stuff survive along the years. The name of this band is hard to remember (I’m one who couldn’t), but this song is remarkable. One time you hear it, you will never forget it. “Daydream” is like “Raindrops keep falling on my head”, but with whistlings. Both songs are an anthem for their generation.

Speaking about comparison, The Lovin’ Spoonful’s leader, John Sebastian (he’s the only guy sitting down in the photo below), composed “Daydream” attempting to rewrite the Supremes’ “Baby Love”, though it turned into something quite different. Better! You also can read in Sogfacts.com that “this song started the whole New Vaudeville Bandwagon in the late 1960s of which Sgt. Pepper was the most well known example. This song influenced the Beatles, as John Lennon’s jukebox included both this and 'Do You Believe In Magic?’. This song was a major influence on Paul McCartney’s Beatles composition 'Good Day Sunshine’.”

“Daydream” peaked #2 on Billboard Hot 100 in the same year of its release and also #2 on the UK Singles Chart. The eponymous album “made the Billboard 200 Albums of the Year Chart in: 1967, 1966”.

Bah. Let’s its historic behind. Download the song, put it on your MP3 Player, go outside and take a walk, take a walk in the sun... ;)

What a day for a day dream,
What a day for a day dreamin’ boy.
And I’m lost in a day dream,
Dreamin’ 'bout my bundle of joy.
And even if time ain’t really on my side,
It’s one of those days for taking a walk outside.
I’m blowing the day to take a walk in the sun,
And fall on my face in somebody’s new mowed lawn.

I’ve been havin’ a sweet dream,
I’ve been dreamin’ since I woke up today,
It’s starring me in my sweet dream,
'Cause she’s the one that makes me feel this way,
And even if time is passin’ me by a lot,
I couldn’t care less about the dues you say I got.
Tomorrow I’ll pay the dues for dropping my load.
A pie in the face for being a sleepy bull toad.

And you can be sure that if you’re feelin right
A day dream will last a long time into the night.
Tomorrow at breakfast you may prick up your ears,
Or you may be dreamin’ for a thousand years.

Jimmy Jazz; The Clash

The Clash! My favorite punk rock band ever! I’m not too much in the punk – I admit I really enjoy only the most famous, like Ramones, Sex Pistols, Green Day (haha! :P), but The Clash eat my brain. The way they mixed rhythms, like reggae and rockabilly, in ther music and diversified themselves, unlike Ramones, for instance, which every song was always similar with the others.

This song, Jimmy Jazz, is on the most famous The Clash’s album, “London Calling”, 1979, “the last year of the punk rock” – which gave way to hardcore. “London Calling” is one of the most prizewinning albums of punk, appearing in the list “Definitive 200 Albums of Rock Hall of Fame”, also being considered the 8th in the list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” made by Rolling Stone magazine, and even the cover artwork, the so famous photo of Simonon smashing his Fender P Bass, was considered the best rock'n'roll photograph of all time by the Q magazine in 2002.

This cover refers to the cover of Elvis Presley’s first album and, believe it, both King’s debut album and “London Calling” has a song with whistling! The Elvis one you can check here. Coincidence?

“Jimmy Jazz”, despite the “jazz” in its name, has a beat more focused on ska and reggae than the style which calls the song’s protagonist. The lyrics of “Jimmy Jazz” encourages resistance to the police and criticized its violence.

The police walked in for Jimmy Jazz
I said, he ain't here, but he sure went past
Oh, you're looking for Jimmy Jazz

Sattamassagana for Jimmy Dread
Cut off his ears and chop off his head
Police came looking for Jimmy Jazz

So if you're gonna take a message 'cross this town
Maybe put it down somewhere over the other side
See it gets to Jimmy Jazz

Don't you bother me, not anymore
I can't take this tale, oh, no more
It's all around, Jimmy Jazz

J-a-zee zee J-a-zed zed
J-a-zed zed Jimmy Jazz
And then it sucks, he said, suck that!
So go look all around, you can try your luck, brother
ANd see what you found
But I guarantee that it ain't your day
Chop! Chop!

Hocus Pocus; Focus

“In 1971, the group released Moving Waves, which brought the band international acclaim and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with the radio edit of the rock rondo ‘Hocus Pocus’. This rock classic consists of Akkerman’s guitar chord sequence used as a recurring theme, with quirky and energetic interludes that include alto flute riffs, accordion, guitar, and drum solos, whistling, nonsensical vocals, falsetto singing, and yodeling. This album established Thijs van Leer and Akkerman as composers who could appeal to progressive-rock album listeners (a large audience in the early 1970s) and radio single buyers.”

This is from Songfacts.com and the interview title is Focus And The American Hell done by Tony Stewart (not the race driver): “But for some silly noises which can’t really be called vocals, this song is an instrumental. In an interview with the British newspaper New Musical Express in May 1973, lead guitarist Jan Akkerman said ‘Hocus Pocus’ was ‘just a send-up of those rock groups.’

“Joke or not, it was a big hit. The album version of this Van Leer/Akkerman composition runs to 6 minutes 42 seconds. The radio edit entered the Billboard Chart at #98 week ending March 3, 1973 and peaked at #9 week ending June 2.”

Wikipedia also says: “In May 2010 Nike included ‘Hocus Pocus’ as the main theme tune in their extended FIFA World Cup commercial. This has created renewed interest and acclaim on the many internet sites that link to the Nike advert. The advert was first aired on US Network TV during the UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Inter Milan on May 22 and then throughout the World Cup.

“A re-release of ‘Hocus Pocus’, due to the Nike commercial, led to the song entering the British Charts at 57.”

The comercial is amazing! I couldn’t fail to post it here. It’s a pity the whistlings aren’t there... :P



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Alpha Beta Gaga; Air

Alpha Beta Gaga is an instrumental eletronic song by the eletronica french duo called Air. Because the song is instrumental I have nothing to talk about it. I will only ler registered this: “Air” means Amour, Imagination, Rêve.

And this: the Alpha Beta Gaga’s whistling is very fucking contagious! \o/

Brick House; The Commodores

“Brick House” is a song composed by the funk group The Commodores. How can we find in Songfacts.com and Wikipedia, it was created in 1977 by chance: The Commodores were in the studio, and between one recording and another, while they tunned the instruments, the bassist Ronald LaPread, “began jamming with his guitar and came up with the now famous bass line that begins the song and runs throughout it”. Then the other members of the band began to accompany him with their instruments. They lacked the lyrics, so the vocalist William King (I thought Lionel Ritchie was the lead singer*) disposed himself to write it. However, King fell asleep and his wife Shirley Hanna-King composed these famous lines while he rested. Only a few years later they discovered that she was the songwriter, because William took the “Brick House” lyrics to the studio as if he were the author!

The term “brick house” comes from the slang “she is built like a brick shit house” which means that she is a voluptuous woman, with a strong sex appeal, like the brick houses are strong compared to the wooden houses.

The whistling is at the very beginning and, unfortunately, it is not the protagonist of the song. :P

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* Does anyone know what he did in The Commodores?

She's a brick house
Mighty might just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house
The lady's stacked and that's a fact,
ain't holding nothing back.

She's a brick house
She's the one, the only one,
who's built like a amazon
We're together everybody knows,
and here's how the story goes.

She knows she got everything
a woman needs to get a man, yeah.
How can she lose with what she use
36-24-36, what a winning hand!

[Chorus]

The clothes she wears, the sexy ways,
make an old man wish for younger days
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough to knock a man to his knees

[Chorus]

Over my Shoulder; Mike + the Mechanics

Mike + the Mechanics was born as a side project by the musician Mike Rutherford, one of the founding members of the progressive rock band Genesis, when his band announcied a hiatus. So Rutherford called Paul Carrack, Paul Young, Adrian Lee and Peter van Hooke to join his new band.

Mike + the Mechanics made success with the songs "The Living Years", "All I Need Is A Miracle", "Word of Mouth" "Over My Shoulders", etc. I only knew this last one, but I didn't know it was a whistling song. I even knew which artist or band sang it. It was written by Mike and Paul Carrack and "was released in early 1995 as the first single from their album Beggar on a Beach of Gold. It was the most successful single from that album peaking at #12 on UK singles chart."

Genesis came back from the hiatus and Mike is playing in his two bands currently.

Yeah...

Looking back, over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eyes
I never dreamed it could be over
I never wanted to say good bye

Looking back, over my shoulder
With an aching deep in my heart
I wish we were starting over
Oh, instead of drifting so far apart

Everybody told me you were leaving
Funny I should be the last to know
Baby, please, tell me that I'm dreaming
I just never want to let you go

Looking back, over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eyes
Tearing my heart, over and over
I never wanted to say goodbye

I don't mind everybody laughing
But it's enough to make a grown man cry
Cause I can feel it slipping through my fingers
I don't even know the reason why

Every day it's a losing battle
Just to smile and hold my head up high
Could it be that we belong together?
Baby, won't you give me one more try?
One more try?

Looking back over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eyes
I never dreamed it could be over
I never wanted to say goodbye

Looking back over my shoulder
Oh, with an aching feeling inside
Cutting me up, deeper and deeper
Fills me with a sadness that I can't hide

Looking back over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eyes
I never dreamed no no it could be over
I never wanted to say goodbye

Looking back over my shoulder
I can see that look in your eyes