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♫ She Loves You ♫

Last week when I played a Beatles’ tune, my friend Jennie (who, by the way, has my vote for World’s Best Teacher Ever!) left this comment … “As you know, I play music on my old record player to inspire children’s art as we prepare for our annual art show. They always love the Beatles!  Their favorite is ‘She Loves You’.” Now, that was not one of my favourite Beatles’ tunes … all I could remember…

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オー! スーパーマン - Wikipedia

「オー! スーパーマン」（O Superman）は、パフォーマンス・アーティストとして活動していたローリー・アンダーソンが1981年に発表した楽曲。全英シングルチャートの2位、多くの国でヒットした。

ジュール・マスネが1885年に発表したオペラ『ル・シッド』のアリアを元にローリー・アンダーソンは本作品を書いた。「Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père」（O Sovereign, O Judge, O Father）という歌詞は、「O Superman / O Judge / O Mom and Dad」と置き換えて歌われた。アンダーソンは、アメリカのテナー歌手、チャールズ・ホーランドのコンサートでこのアリアを聴き、そのあとで曲の着想を得たとされる[6]。

『ガーディアン』のインタビューでアンダーソンは次のように述べている[7]。

『…1979年、イランの学生たちはテヘランのアメリカ大使館に突入した。アメリカ政府は怒りにまかせ、ヘリコプターで人質らを救出しようした。でも作戦はまったく裏目に出た。砂漠でヘリコプターと飛行機がぶつかり墜落してしまった。私たちが目にしたのは死体と、燃えさかる瓦礫の山だけ。人質なんてどこにもいなかった。私は曲を書かなくちゃいけない、と思った。これらすべてのこと。そしてテクノロジーの失敗について。 ちょうどその頃、マスネが書いた19世紀の美しいアリアを聴いた。「O souverain」で始まるそれは権威に対する祈りだ。私は面白いと思って曲を書き始めた。 「おお、スーパーマン・・・」。歌詞は神に捧げる祈りのような、一方的な会話から成り立っていた。ちょっと不吉かもね、と思った。でもやはり権力に向かって話しかけるわけだから、不吉にならざるを得ない。私は、不吉なるものと世にありふれたイメージを並列することにした。「お母さん、あなたの長い腕（arms）で、あなたの石油化学の武器（arms）で、軍隊の武器（arms）で私を抱きしめて」 父親と母親に対する愛情を呼び覚ますために、私たちは「アメリカは母国である」と教えられ続けてきたけれど、そんなの本当のことじゃない。 だから私はアメリカの郵便局のスローガン「Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds（雪も雨も暑さも夜の闇も関係なく、彼らは約束の巡回を速やかに終える。）」を歌詞にもぐりこませた…』

イランアメリカ大使館人質事件 - Wikipedia

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Lyrics for O Superman by Laurie Anderson - Songfacts

訳詞

「O Superman」 Laurie Anderson 和訳 - MASQUERADE（マスカレード）

ただ曲を聴くだけではなく、ＭＶを見ながら聴いた方が理解が深まる。この曲は「手」を巡る物語なのであるが、ラストで「手」の正体が明かされて驚愕する。以下、和訳。

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ル・シッド (マスネ) - Wikipedia

ル・シッド（フランス語: Le Cid） ジュール・マスネの作曲したオペラ。1885年11月30日にオペラ座で初演

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Cultural Merger of Popular Music and Religion

XTC released the song "Dear God" on August 6, 1986. The song is about a person who questions the existence of God. It opens with "Dear God, hope you got the letter, and I pray you can make it better down here." The lyrics challenge the idea of suffering, inequality, and injustice in the world if a loving God exists. The song caused considerable controversy when it was released. In the U.S., some listeners and religious groups found it offensive. This led to violent incidents, such as a bomb threat at a radio station in Florida and a student in New York holding a faculty member at knifepoint to play the song on the school's public address system. "Dear God" criticizes organized religion and has been praised for its honesty. Despite its controversial nature, the song gained significant support and became one of the band's most well-known tracks. Musically, it combines contemporary punk with a melodic structure which contrasts with the heavy lyrics. This juxtaposition enhances the impact of the song's message. The genuine struggle and anguish behind the questions posed is felt in the earnest and plaintive delivery of the vocals. The song continues to be a significant cultural discussion point in popular music about religion and faith. Its provocative nature ensures that it remains relevant in conversations about how music explores and questions societal norms. Several artists, including Sarah McLachlan, Tricky, Lawless, and Todd Rundgren, have covered this song, solidifying its influence and reach within the music community. "Dear God" by XTC is a thought-provoking song that directly engages the listener with religion, raising concerns about faith and the existence of a benevolent deity in the face of worldly suffering. Its impact and relevance continue to be felt in discussions about spirituality in popular music today.

Works Cited:

Chalkhills: XTCFans: Andy’s Take: “Dear God.”chalkhills.org/articles/XTCFans20061126.html.

Songfacts. “Dear God by XTC - Songfacts.” Songfacts, www.songfacts.com/facts/xtc/dear-god.

Wikipedia contributors. “Dear God (XTC Song).” Wikipedia, 18 May 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_God_(XTC_song).

“XTC – Dear God Covers.” Genius, genius.com/Xtc-dear-god-sample/covers.

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Music Analysis: Strawberry Letter 23

In S2E1: the wedding scene that Blackbeard crashes

whoever picked the music is a fucking genius

Look at these freaking lyrics!!!!

(Btw, I’m not good at writing English papers, so this is a very messy up summary of what I think)

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“Hello my love, I heard a kiss from you

Red magic satin playing near, too”

Red magic satin

Like the red silk that Ed has that reminds him of Stede

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“All through the morning rain I gaze, the sun doesn't shine

Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind”

He’s sad and in a depression. Only sees the rain.

At morning where new beginnings are supposed to be a thing, but it’s only rain. The new Blackbeard is dark sad.

Rainbows run through his mind

Gay thoughts. Lol

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“In the garden, I see

West purple shower bells and tea”

PURPLE

ed always wore purple whenever he was most himself

Purple symbolizes royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition.

He’s being able to be fancy like he always wanted. Stedes helping him get there.

He wears fine things well :,)

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“If you arrive and don't see me

I'm going to be with my baby

I am free, flying in her arms

Over the sea”

Dude… wow this.

He wants to be free. Free to be himself living with Stede on the sea. He wanted to run away with him.

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“With velvet roses diggin'

Freedom flight”

Freedom motif again

Roses romantic symbolism stuff

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When I searched the real meaning of this song irl, it said that this song is about a couple exchanging love letters. This is the 22nd love letter and it’s his reply to his love. The writer of the song said he wrote this to express his romantic feelings for his girlfriend. The title indicates hopes for another letter.

The lyrics imagery paint the innocence of love. Also, during Bible times, strawberries were symbols of sweetness, love, and beauty.

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Links:

Strawberry Letter 23 - Wikipedia

Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson - Songfacts

http://www.ontheflipsidemusic.com/recapthrowback/2018/2/14/song-recap-the-brothers-johnson-strawberry-letter-23

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The Trio -By Taylor R.

The trio met because they were sons of US arforce personnel in london.They were in high school when they met and after graduation they joind together to make a band in the mid 60s.  The name of the hghschool was London sentral highschool at Bushey Hall. They then began performing live in london.

Their first album ever was America. It was inspired by a five day road tip that simon did with chitty in 1964

Some songs where

"Lakota Dream Song", performed by Earl Bullhead – 3:08

"Once More Our God Vouchsafe to Shine", performed by Julie Lee – 3:07

"Let Us Break Bread Together", performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama – 3:49

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Their news album is Here & Now. It was the first pop album that america released in the past 11 years. It is the 16th studio album made by the band America. It reached teh number 52 on the trending chart.

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In celebration of Happy Mother's day, here's the 11 facts you probably didn't know about Taylor Swift's The Best Day

1. The song is about her mother, Andrea Swift, and the good effects her mother had on her growing up.

2. She wrote & recorded this song while touring with Brad Paisley in the summer of 2007.

3. It is the only song on her 2nd album "Fearless" to be written in the conventional simple-verse form.

4. She actually wrote this song without telling her mom and recorded it without telling her mom. It was a complete secret session.

5. When she got the trackback and synced up all these home videos of her when she was a little kid and made a video and played it for her mom on Christmas. Her mom had no idea that it was her singing for the first half of the song. And Andrea just broke down crying when she realized that Taylor had done this whole thing to surprise her.

6. This song gets her most emotional while singing this song.

7. She wrote the first verse from that perspective, and she starting thinking, "What would I be thinking if I was 5 and I was remembering this?' And it goes, 'I'm 5 years old/It's getting cold and I've got my big coat on.' It had language like that - that makes me really think back to that time,"' she said.

8. The song was inspired by an incident during middle school when Taylor called several of her friends on the phone and asked if they wanted to go shopping with her. However, every girl had a different excuse for why they couldn't go. Eventually, her mother agreed to take her to the local mall. When they arrived, she saw all of the girls she had called on the phone, goofing around in Victoria's Secret.

9. One time, she played this song on Fearless tour on Mother's day, she saw her mom crying. That's why she didn't want to put this song on the Fearless Tour setlist because her mom was there every night and cried every time she heard it.

10. She sang this song again on Mother's Day eve in Santa Clara, California, during the acoustic portion of her reputation Stadium Tour. Apparently by request of Camilla. "And I want you to think about anybody in your life who has mothered you and been there for you and made who you are," she told the crowd.

11. Pitchfork ranks this song in their list of "9 Songs That Remind of Mom".

source: Songfacts, taylor_swiftfacts on Tumblr, Taste of Country, Wikipedia, Genius.

#mothersday #taylorswift #thebestday #andreaswift @taylorswift @taylornation

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*Throws in block quotes and uses Songfacts and Wikipedia as reputable sources.*

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too much too young by the specials!

Helloooooooo anon! Thanks for sending this in. Lowkey waited all day to see if I’d get a few other responses and I got 1 other (shout out Flo) and I got hella busy so here I am at like 2:42am finally getting around to this.

Gotta say, idk what I was expecting from this song but I think I like it! I didn’t expect a ska???? song but yeah this is great! Also apparently this was the shortest UK #1 of the 1980s????? But also the version I’m listening to is SIX MINUTES LONG. Spotify & Songfacts, one of you needs to explain. 

Or Wikipedia can be the savior and tell me that there was a 2 minute long version that was the hit. Interesting. Gotta say that the UK charts have a really strange history, this just reinforces my opinion on that.

But yeah this was great. Kinda sad that it wasn’t the 2 minute long version because that would have been perfect but what can I do lol?

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♫ Downtown ♫ (Redux)

After a day of perusing the news, doing some deep thinking, there is a dark cloud hanging over many of us today, I think.  And thus, I decided that my music post simply must be cheery and uplifting … for my sake and for yours!  This is about the happiest song I know of, with no hidden dark clouds at all, and I have only played it once, some 3 years ago!  Sorry, Clive, I know you don’t care for…

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🚨new episode🚨 It's time for some songs about guys being dudes as Vintown and Sammerz cover two of the greatest songs of all time: "Dirty White Boy" by Foreigner and "Nothin' But a Good Time" by Poison! We start off with "Dirty White Boy". Did you know this song is called "Dirty White Boy"? Seriously, how did that happen? We get into some song meanings (more like wrong meanings), the album cover that made the Bible Belt mad, something called "crypto-racism", and more. The YouTube comments for this one features a sweet old lady named Peggy who really loves this song. Also, a baby named after cocaine? Only in the YouTube comments! The show then makes its way to Poison's 1988 classic, "Nothin' But a Good Time" and talk about the song's working class roots, Poison vs. Motley Crue, the classic music video, hockey, and Yogi Bear. (No picnic baskets were harmed in the making of this section.) You want comments? We got comments! Lots of drug talk, annoying wives, a guy talking management's side in a Poison video, and the dastardly Kirk Cobain is to blame for all of it. Dudes rock and so does this episode. To subscribe, you can find us on Apple, Google, Spotify, or whatever podcast app you use by searching “Music Was Better”. You can also head to https://linktr.ee/musicwasbetter for all of our links. Or paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/MusicWasBetter into the “add feed manually” option on your podcast app. Follow us on all forms of social media at @musicwasbetter Credit to SongFacts and Wikipedia for research. #poison #nothinbutagoodtime #foreigner #dirtywhiteboy #musicwasbetter #podcast #musicpodcast https://www.instagram.com/p/ChoN7ENuJux/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Movies Ansd Tv With Pina Colada Song

Movies And Tv With Pina Colada Song Rupert Holmes

Pina Colada Song Wikipedia

Escape The Pina Colada Song Video

Two Pina Coladas Song

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Janet learns the lyrics to the Pina Colada song. Janet learns the lyrics to the Pina Colada song. On the movie the sweetest thing who sings the pina colada song its a womens group?

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

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At least in retrospect, the ’70s must have been the wildest, most motley, most all-over-the-place decade in the history of popular music. Some genuine musical revolutions either started in the ’70s or matured during the decade: Hip-hop, punk, disco, funk, prog. But if you look at the ’70s through the lens of the pop charts, as this column does, you see excitement and tedium locked in a constant struggle for dominance throughout the decade, with novelty sneaking around the outside and getting some jabs in.

So really, the ’70s ended the only way they possibly could’ve done: With a badly-sung, infernally catchy soft-rock ditty, an infidelity-themed story-song that ends in an O. Henry twist. Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” has popped up on movie and TV-show soundtracks countless times in the past four decades; it has earned its place within our shared consciousness. And yet I can’t imagine ever being in a situation where I would actively seek the song out, where I would want to hear it. But then, I was three months old when the thing hit #1. Maybe I’m not supposed to know what motherfuckers were thinking.

Rupert Holmes, the man who wrote and produced “Escape” and who thus owns the chart transition from ’70s to ’80s, had been part of the pop-music dream factory for a decade when he got to #1. Holmes was born in the UK, the son of an American Army officer and an English woman. He spent the early years of his childhood in the English village of Northwich and the later years in the New York suburb of Nanuet. Holmes’ parents were both musicians, and Holmes went to the Manhattan School Of Music on a clarinet scholarship. Pretty soon after he finished school, he went to work as a pop-music professional.

Holmes was working as an arranger in the late ’60s when he joined the Cuff Links, an anonymous bubblegum group that also featured Ron Dante, the lead singer of the Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar.” When the Cuff Links broke up, Holmes recorded a song called “Jennifer Tomkins.” The single, released under the name Street People, peaked at #36. In 1971, Holmes wrote a cannibalism-themed joint called “Timothy” for the Pennsylvania band the Buoys, and that one peaked at #17. Holmes also wrote ad jingles and scored a little-seen 1970 Western called Five Savage Men. He was in the game.

Holmes released Widescreen, his solo debut, in 1974. Before 1979’s Partners In Crime, the breakout album that gave us “Escape,” Holmes knocked out four solo LPs. None of them sold, but those records helped Holmes build a name for himself as a writer of funny, irony-infused story-songs. Barbra Streisand was a fan, and Holmes wrote songs for her and for the absurdly popular soundtrack for the 1976 film A Star Is Born. Holmes didn’t score a charting single of his own until 1978’s “Let’s Get Crazy Tonight,” which peaked at #72. Private Stock, the label that released “Let’s Get Crazy Tonight,” went out of business when the song was still on the charts.

Holmes got the idea for “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” one night when he was flipping through The Village Voice, the newspaper that once employed me. (“Escape” is the second #1 hit built around classified ads; it arrived eight years after the Honey Cone’s “Want Ads.”) Inspired, Holmes hatched the narrative of a bored couple who, while attempting to cheat on each other, accidentally go out on a blind date with each other. As originally written, the chorus started with the line “if you like Humphrey Bogart.” While he was getting ready to record it, though, Holmes decided that his own songs had too many references to older movies, and to Bogart in particular. He changed “Humphrey Bogart” to “piña coladas” at the last possible minute simply because he didn’t want to let down any of the real Rupert Holmes heads out there.

If you stop to think about “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” for even a second, it’s a pretty nasty little song. The very first line is this: “I was tired of my lady/ We’d been together too long.” The song’s narrator is unhappy with relationship, but he doesn’t do anything to end it. Instead, he sneaks around behind his girlfriend’s back, falling for a sentence in a classified ad. The person described in that ad seems hopelessly basic. Likes: Fruity mixed drinks, rain, champagne, beach fucking. Dislikes: Yoga, health food. But apparently the guy is basic, too, since a few lines of small-print newsprint text are all he needs to ditch his relationship. He takes out his own ad, responding to the first, and he includes grandiose verbiage about planning an “escape.”

He does not successfully execute that escape. It turns out that the girl who took out that classified ad is his own girlfriend, who is just as bored with the relationship as he is. They meet up at an Irish pub and instantly figure out exactly what just happened. The song presents this ending as a happy surprise. In interviews years later, Holmes says that the guy was supposed to be an asshole, and a passive one. The girl, who is also attempting to cheat, was at least the one with the wherewithal to instigate the whole episode. Holmes was hoping that they’d both realize how much they had in common, that they’d recommit themselves to each other. This seems unlikely.

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I have questions. For instance: Where does this couple go from here? They both know that they can’t trust each other. They also know that they don’t really know each other. They’ve got all these completely elementary preferences that they haven’t communicated. After that initial rush of recognition, how does the rest of this relationship look? How long do they stay together? How are they not incredibly pissed off at one another from the moment they spy each other across the bar? How are they not, at the same time, both consumed with guilt upon getting caught? I don’t like this couple’s chances.

I don’t know if this is a good story, but it’s good storytelling. I don’t much like the characters or where they end up, but Holmes sketches out the whole narrative in a few quick words, never losing sight of his own melody. This doesn’t change the reality that the actual music behind this story is exactly the kind of wack-ass soft-rock pablum that I cannot stand. It’s got an awkward, clumpy beat that Holmes recorded with two drummers. (Holmes co-produced it, and he says that the studio band played sloppily that day, so he used the 16 bars he liked the best and looped them.) There’s watery piano. There’s a processed-to-death guitar lead. There’s a groove that can’t stop tripping over itself. And then there are those vocals.

Holmes isn’t a bad vocalist, exactly. He a classic ’70s singer-songwriter guy, a conversational speak-singer. But man, I do not like what happens when he cranks that voice up and hits the hook on “Escape.” The hook is, to be fair, instantly memorable. But this is not always a good thing. Holmes hits that upper register, and I just wish I was someplace else. I don’t even know how people functioned when this thing was all over the radio.

Holmes managed one more big hit after “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).” “Him,” the single’s follow-up, was another story-song. This time, Holmes sang from the perspective of a guy who figures out that his girlfriend is cheating. “Him” peaked at #6. (It’s a 4.) Holmes kept putting out albums into the ’90s, but none of them hit. He also went back to writing songs for other people. “You Got It All,” a ballad that Holmes wrote for the teenage Tongan-American Minneapolis-based Mormon family band the Jets, peaked at #3 in 1986. (It’s a 6.) Britney Spears, an artist who will eventually appear in this column, covered it on her debut album. Get ready to be incredibly depressed: Holmes wrote the song for his 10-year-old daughter. Before the song took off, she died of an undetected brain tumor.

I don’t know how you bounce back from something like that, but Holmes did. After “Escape (The Piña Colada Song),” Holmes has had more success as a storyteller than as a musician. In 1985, Holmes wrote The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, a Broadway musical based on an unfinished Charles Dickens novel. It won five Tonys, including two for Holmes. Since then, Holmes has written more than a dozen plays, many of them hits. He also created Remember WENN, a drama that ran for three season on AMC in the late ’90s, and he wrote all 56 of its episodes. He’s published a few books, too. The man can write, and the best thing about “Escape” is that you can tell that right away.

But Holmes is a whole lot more famous for “Escape” than for anything else he’s ever done in his life. He’s pretty funny when he talks about it, too. In a 2003 Songfacts interview, Holmes said this:

I have a feeling that if I saved an entire orphanage from a fire and carried the last child out on my shoulders, as I stood there charred and smoking, they’d say, “Aren’t you the guy who wrote ‘The Piña Colada Song?'”

Perhaps Rupert Holmes would like to escape “The Piña Colada Song.” So would I.

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BONUS BEATS: Here’s the scene from a 1999 episode of The Simpsons — the same storied episode that predicted the Trump presidency — where the not-aging-well future version of Bart sings a parody of “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” during his sister’s presidential addresss:

BONUS BONUS BEATS: Here’s the weirdly extremely memorable “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” needle-drop from the 2001 film Shrek:

BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: Here’s Kanye West, noted fan of the aforementioned Shrek scene, quoting “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” on “White Dress,” a song that he contributed to the soundtrack of the 2012 RZA-directed kung fu movie The Man With The Iron Fists:

(Kanye West will eventually appear in this column.)

BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: Here’s the scene from 2014’s Guardians Of The Galaxy — which, like The Man With The Iron Fists, stars Dave Bautista — where Chris Pratt steals his Walkman back from the space-prison guard who is enjoying “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”:

BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: Here’s the great scene from a 2016 Better Call Saul episode where Bob Odenkirk sings a few bars of “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” and spouts some fake biographical facts about Rupert Holmes:

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Raised in Hawaii Jack Johnson was the son of a famed surfer and even tried to have a go of his own on the waves. Unfortunately an accident that involved teeth being knocked out and stitches being required kind of halted that dream as he was sidelined from surfing for a while. It wasn’t too long after that however that his musical talents started to become his thing and picked up a guitar and started strumming out a few songs that he’d thought up. He did this throughout college, joining a band and jamming as they performed here and there during their time together. Johnson’s big break came in 2000 however when he not only produced the soundtracks for a couple of films but he tried his hand at making them as well. You could easily say this man is quite talented but it might still be an understatement.

Here are a few of his songs as used in TV and movies.

5. Glee – Bubbletoes

Glee is one of those shows you either liked or didn’t think about. It wasn’t even a matter of not liking if it you didn’t watch it, as the energy and verve of the show was enough to make it interesting. But if you weren’t into the whole song and dance routine then chances are you wouldn’t dislike it but just wouldn’t watch it since the whole idea of not liking the show seemed kind of petty since it was so upbeat a lot of the time, or at least seemed like it. In many way Glee kind of took a lot of people back to their experiences in high school since there are quite a few people that can remember being in similar clubs.

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4. Sense8 – The Sharing Song

This show is something else and it was one of Netflix’s top prospects when it first came out. The ability to connect with people miles away due to a special quality that links them all, and the knowledge and skills that can be shared via that link is pretty cool, but it could cause some serious problems as well. You can’t help but think that some of the people that are connected would embrace this after a period of confusion, but others would seek to block it out since this is the kind of thing that humans would rarely ever be able to get used to since it’s not considered natural or normal.

3. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

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Walter Mitty is a man that no one seems to take seriously since he’s kind of a nobody when the film starts, though he’s far more important than many people would care to realize. Working at Time magazine where he’s been for so long he’s been taken for granted and treated like a shadow on the wall since he’s a very quiet and unassuming person. But when an important negative for the last issue of Time goes missing he has to go and track it down by tracking down the photographer. In the end however he finds that it was with him the whole time, he just didn’t know where to look. The adventure he takes though is what was truly important as it finally got him to open up to the world.

2. Curious George – Upside Down

Several generations have grown up with Curious George since in truth he’s been around for a very long time. As a children’s story he’s one of the most classic tales out there and is the kind of story that you’d want your kid to watch since it’s a very touching and educational show that offers a lot of fun and engaging activity that kids will want to emulate. Sure George gets himself into trouble now and again, but that’s the beauty of the design. Kids can learn how they can get themselves out of trouble as well since George is all about having fun but he’s also about problem-solving. This is just a great show for kids and a bit of nostalgia for adults.

1. Jack Johnson – Middle Man

For all his talent and all his skill at music Jack Johnson is still a very diverse man since he’s not only a musician, but a father, a husband, and an environmentalist that spends a lot of his time balancing his life out between the different roles he’s given himself to play. So far in life it seems like he’s done just fine and has kept everything as it should be. He’s a very open person about his life in music, but keeps a lid on the private lives of his kids and family, which seems like one of the best ideas since quite honestly it’s no one else’s business. He’s definitely a family man and someone that cares a lot about what he does.

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Usually that’s the kind of person that knows just what they want and how to make it happen.

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January 16, 2018

Zombie Performed by The Cranberries Written by Dolores O’Riordan

From Wikipedia:  Zombie is a protest song written about the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, England, in memory of two young victims, Jonathon Ball and Tim Barry.  Released in September of ‘94 as the lead single from The Cranberries second studio album, No Need to Argue.  It reached number one on the charts in Australia, Belgium, France, Denmark and Germany, peaking at number 18 on the US Mainstream Top 40 chart (number one on the US Alternative chart).  At the time of me writing this, the video is one of the 250 most viewed videos on YouTube, with over 660 million views.

On this particular day, the day after Ms O’Riordan’s death, why Zombie?  Why not something pretty like Linger?  Well, that’s easy.  Sometimes, a band makes a song that sounds like no other song they’ve done previously.  Not to say that all of their work sounds the same, there’s a clear variance in their other works.  But nothing else that The Cranberries had produced up to and including that time sounded like Zombie.  It’s an angry grunge sound for which some anger needed to be let loose.

This song… This beautiful protest of violence in the name of Irish independence.  I don’t have the words to sell someone on it that hasn’t heard it.  Ms O’Riordan’s voice would be all that I’d need if I hadn’t heard it.  Linger is sweet and pretty.  Telling me that that voice growls out a chorus that would make Courtney Love green with envy?  I’m sold.

From SongFacts: On August 31, 1994, Just a few weeks after this song was released, the IRA declared a ceasefire after 25 years of conflict, leading some critics of The Cranberries to wonder if the IRA was willing to call a truce to make sure the group didn’t release any more songs about them.

RIP Dolores O’Riordan 1971 - 2018

Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the violence caused such silence Who are we mistaken

But you see it's not me It's not my family In your head, in your Head they are fighting With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns In your head, In your head they are cryin'

In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie Hey, hey What's in your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie Hey, hey, hey, oh

Dou, dou, dou, dou Dou, dou, dou, dou Dou, dou, dou, dou Dou, dou, dou, dou

Another mother's breakin' Heart is taking over When the violence causes silence We must be mistaken

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen In your head, In your head they're still fightin' With their tanks and their bombs And their bombs and their guns In your head, in your head they are dyin'

In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie Hey, hey What's in your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie Hey, hey, hey

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Hey, oh, ya, ya-a

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♫ Night Moves ♫

It’s been a few weeks since we had a week dedicated to a single artist (or group) and per a suggestion by Clive, I thought this would be a good week to start a new one … so get your headphones on, crank the volume up, and get ready for some … {drumroll} … Bob Seger!  Yep, this is officially Bob Seger Week on Filosofa’s Word … I have a few planned that I like or that Clive mentioned, but please…

[musicwasbetter]

🎸NEW EPISODE🎸 The Music Was Better crew took a field trip to the Alanis Morissette concert and now they’re here to talk about it. The show starts off with “You Oughta Know”, that song that everyone thinks they know who it’s about. Well, guess what? You don’t and we’re sick of hearing about it! Why would you even want this song to be about you anyway? Hey, it’s me, the abusive dickbag from. Cool, I guess? The comment section is loaded with jagged little pills, including a dad who used this song to teach his son a lesson about how to treat women. That’s pretty nice. The only song my parents ever played for me was “Helter Skelter”. They said it was about some kind of prophecy their friend Charlie told them about? I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying much attention. We follow up that angry song with a happier one, “Head Over Feet”. Not much facts out there about this one, but the song is a banger. Nobody wants to talk about happy songs anymore. The YouTube comments are filled with the exact kind of people you’d think would be in there. Mostly men who are not okay. Grab a glass of water and swallow down this jagged little pill of an episode. To subscribe, you can find us on Apple, Google, Spotify, or whatever podcast app you use by searching “Music Was Better”. You can also head to https://linktr.ee/musicwasbetter for all of our links. Or paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/MusicWasBetter into the “add feed manually” option on your podcast app. Follow us on all forms of social media at @musicwasbetter Credit to SongFacts and Wikipedia for research. #alanismorissette #jaggedlittlepill #musicwasbetter #podcast https://www.instagram.com/p/CgffvqBuj58/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=