By Alex Madrigal
I first heard this band when I went to go see a different band called fun. They put on a great show and had really good songs. Back then they were called The Jakes, but they have recently (after going over to roadrunner records) changed their name to Young the Giant. Naming themselves after the Brothers Grimm fairytale, which you can read here.
They have a few tracks for free download at Purevolume.com and I believe you can buy the album there as well (if you are so inclined). Also, if you download the free tracks ... place your cursor right below the playlist, it scrolls down to other songs of theirs (it might be slow, but it took me a bit to catch on to this). Let me know what you think of Cough Syrup, its the most downloaded on Purevolume.com so I figure it has the best chances.
Cough Syrup by Young the Giant
Lyrics:
Life’s too short to even care at all oh
I’m losing my mind losing my mind losing control
These fishes in the sea they’re staring at me oh oh
Oh oh oh oh
A wet world longs for a beat of a drum
Oh
If I could find a way to see this straight
I’d run away
To some fortune that I should have found by now
Uhh ch ch ch ch
Life’s too short to even care at all oh
I’m coming up now coming up now out of the blue
These zombies in the park they’re looking for my heart
Oh oh oh oh
A dark world aches for a splash of the sun oh oh
If I could find a way to see this straight
I’d run away
To some fortune that I should have found by now
And so I run to the things they said could restore me
Restore life the way it should be
Waiting for this cough syrup to come down
Life’s too short to even care at all oh
I’m losing my mind losing my mind losing it all
If I could find a way to see this straight
I’d run away
To some fortune that I should have found by now
So I run to the things they said could restore me
Restore life the way it should be
Waiting for this cough syrup to come down
One more spoon of cough syrup now
One more spoon of cough syrup now
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Monday, December 14, 2009
Song Share: Broken Promise
By Alex Madrigal
I thought of this song during music night when we were talking about how anything that Michael Stipe touches is gold. Brian Molko is a great song writer and i love his voice. His voice is so unique and emotional. I also like that this song shows Placebo's 2 sides, their quiet sad side and the loud angstful and angry side.
I thought of this song during music night when we were talking about how anything that Michael Stipe touches is gold. Brian Molko is a great song writer and i love his voice. His voice is so unique and emotional. I also like that this song shows Placebo's 2 sides, their quiet sad side and the loud angstful and angry side.
Lyrics:
We'll rise above this
We'll cry about this
As we live and learn
A broken promise
I was not honest
Now I watch as tables turn
And you’re singing
I’ll wait my turn
To tear inside you
Watch you burn
I’ll wait my turn
I’ll wait my turn
I’ll cry about this
And hide my cuckold eyes
As you come off all concerned
I’ll find no solace
In your poor apology
In your regret that sounds absurd
And keep singing
I’ll wait my turn
To tear inside you
Watch you burn
And I’ll wait my turn
To terrorize you
Watch you burn
And I’ll wait my turn
I’ll wait my turn
And this is a promise
Promise is a promise
Promise is a promise
Promise is a promise
And I’ll wait my turn
To tear inside you
Watch you burn
I’ll wait my turn
I’ll wait my turn
A broken promise
You were not honest
I’ll bide my time
I’ll wait my turn
Monday, September 21, 2009
Song Share: Banged and Blown Through
By Alex Madrigal
Saul Williams (or as he is known on this album… Niggy Tardust) is a poet/rapper/actor who collaborated with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails on this album (The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!). I first heard this song at a Nine Inch Nails concert where Trent covered it. I love the idea of the character in the song being a “broken instrument” begging the conductor to “bring out the song” in them. It also reminds me of Trent always referring to NIN as being a “Broken Machine.” I hope you all like the song.
Saul Williams (or as he is known on this album… Niggy Tardust) is a poet/rapper/actor who collaborated with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails on this album (The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!). I first heard this song at a Nine Inch Nails concert where Trent covered it. I love the idea of the character in the song being a “broken instrument” begging the conductor to “bring out the song” in them. It also reminds me of Trent always referring to NIN as being a “Broken Machine.” I hope you all like the song.
Song: Banged and Blown Through
Artist: Saul Williams
Lyrics:
We are broken
Instruments.
Bust wide open
Smashed and bent.
Not what you’d expect
From these city streets.
Who serves to protect
The orchestra in me?
Conductor, conductor,
I feel electricity
Conductor, conductor,
Can you bring out the song in me?
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
We are broken
Instruments.
Bust wide open
Smashed and bent.
Not what you’d expect
From these city streets.
Who serves to protect
The orchestra in me?
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
Banged and blown through
(instruments, instruments…)
Conductor, conductor!
Conductor, conductor,
Can you bring out the song in me?Monday, June 29, 2009
Song Share: Rock Island Line
By Alex Madrigal
So when i first see the Johnny Cash Remixes CD, i think "this can either turn out awesome! or turn out horribly." I decided to buy it and i was not let down by most of the CD, to be honest, the only song that is still growing on me (very slowly) is the big headlining song on the CD "I Walk The Line" with Snoop Dogg. But for the most part this is a great album, and i chose this song because it wasn't too unchanged but also it's not one of the more radical tracks on the album. I was really close to choosing the song "doin' my time" just because of the haunting use of johnny's vocals during that song. However, i chose this song because I particularly like the approach that the DJ took on this song. It starts out with the original and slowly adds and adds more and more to it. The best part is that the DJ adds on just enough at just the right parts of the song so that it doesn't sound forced.
Title: Rock Island Line (wolf remix)
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Johnny Cash Remixed (2008)
Now this here's the story about the Rock Island Line
The Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleasn
And just outside of New Orleans is a big toll gate
And all the trains that go through the toll gate
They gotta pay the man some money
But of course, if you got certain things on board
You're okay and you don't have to pay the man nothin
And just now we see a change comin down the line
When you come up to the toll gate
The driver, he shout down to the man
I got pigs, I got horses, I got cows
I got sheep, I got all livestock, I got all livestock
I got all livestock
The man say, you alright boy just
Get on through, you don't have to pay me nothin
And then the train go through
And when he go through the tollgate
The train gotta have a little bit of steam
And a little bit of speed
And when the driver think he safely on the other side
He shouts back down the line to the man
I fooled you, I fooled you
I got pig iron, I got pig iron
I got all pig iron,
Down the rock island line is a might good road
Oh the rock island line is the road to ride
The rock island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the rock island line
It was cloudy in the west, looked like rain,
but round the corner come-a passenger train.
North-bound train on the south bound track,
you were all right a-leavin but you won't be back
Now I may be right and I may be wrong
but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Now the engineer said before he died,
there were two more drinks he'd like to have tried,
the doctor asked him "what could they be"
he said "a hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea"
So when i first see the Johnny Cash Remixes CD, i think "this can either turn out awesome! or turn out horribly." I decided to buy it and i was not let down by most of the CD, to be honest, the only song that is still growing on me (very slowly) is the big headlining song on the CD "I Walk The Line" with Snoop Dogg. But for the most part this is a great album, and i chose this song because it wasn't too unchanged but also it's not one of the more radical tracks on the album. I was really close to choosing the song "doin' my time" just because of the haunting use of johnny's vocals during that song. However, i chose this song because I particularly like the approach that the DJ took on this song. It starts out with the original and slowly adds and adds more and more to it. The best part is that the DJ adds on just enough at just the right parts of the song so that it doesn't sound forced.
Title: Rock Island Line (wolf remix)
Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Johnny Cash Remixed (2008)
Now this here's the story about the Rock Island Line
The Rock Island Line she runs down into New Orleasn
And just outside of New Orleans is a big toll gate
And all the trains that go through the toll gate
They gotta pay the man some money
But of course, if you got certain things on board
You're okay and you don't have to pay the man nothin
And just now we see a change comin down the line
When you come up to the toll gate
The driver, he shout down to the man
I got pigs, I got horses, I got cows
I got sheep, I got all livestock, I got all livestock
I got all livestock
The man say, you alright boy just
Get on through, you don't have to pay me nothin
And then the train go through
And when he go through the tollgate
The train gotta have a little bit of steam
And a little bit of speed
And when the driver think he safely on the other side
He shouts back down the line to the man
I fooled you, I fooled you
I got pig iron, I got pig iron
I got all pig iron,
Down the rock island line is a might good road
Oh the rock island line is the road to ride
The rock island line is a mighty good road
Well if you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
Get your ticket at the station of the rock island line
It was cloudy in the west, looked like rain,
but round the corner come-a passenger train.
North-bound train on the south bound track,
you were all right a-leavin but you won't be back
Now I may be right and I may be wrong
but you're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Now the engineer said before he died,
there were two more drinks he'd like to have tried,
the doctor asked him "what could they be"
he said "a hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of tea"
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Song Share: Maria
By Alex Madrigal
okay, so i'm sorry that this song is in spanish. But i think it's worth it. It's by a band called Cafe Tacuba. The band is very very very eclectic and plays many different styles even though they are usually just described as spanish rock. The band plays everything from ska (rarotonga), alternative rock(eres), and; as seen in this song, more traditional mexican styles. (they even dress the part in this video)
Best of all... one of the member of the band regularly plays the melodica... what's not to like?
I love the simplicity of this song... it could be played using only the guitar (and melodion of course) and it will be just as beautiful.
This song is a ballad about a woman who was beautiful but stuck up... now... i believe that in the song... she's dead, i've had discussions with others who believe that she's not really dead, but it's just "as if" she were dead. I translated the lyrics the best i could.
If you like this song you might like Avientame (the video is crazy... and translated on youtube) it was the theme song for a pretty big indie film (amores perros) from mexico that (i believe) was all about people being the cruelest to the people that love them the most... and that is defenitly conveyed in the video. [i don't mean to double dip.. but there you go] (warning... it has pretty graphic kissing scenes.)
Back to Maria, hope it's not boring... hope you dig it.
Lyrics:
Maria
Maria goes out at night (sale sola de noche maria)
suffering(haunting) through the city (pena por la ciudad)
walking the streets where she once (recorriendo las calles que un dia)
denied kisses in the dark (nego besos en la oscuridad.)
Her eyesight gets blurry; (Y se nubla la vista Maria)
because it hurts to remember (porque duele recordar)
that the kisses once denied, maria, (que los besos negados Maria)
will never more return (nunca mas regresaran)
at night through that route/street/road (En las noches por ese camino)
something strange is apt to happen (algo extrano suele pasar)
in feeling on the lips a chill, (al sentir en los labios el frio)
from other lips that cannot be seen (de otros labios que no regresaran)
it's maria who's haunting the streets (es Maria quien pena las calles)
and under a street light (y debajo de un farol)
she steals kisses and life from the people (roba besos y vida a la gente)
while she lies in a coffin (mientras yace en un cajon)
pretty maria (Maria bonita)
maria withers (Maria marchita)
okay, so i'm sorry that this song is in spanish. But i think it's worth it. It's by a band called Cafe Tacuba. The band is very very very eclectic and plays many different styles even though they are usually just described as spanish rock. The band plays everything from ska (rarotonga), alternative rock(eres), and; as seen in this song, more traditional mexican styles. (they even dress the part in this video)
Best of all... one of the member of the band regularly plays the melodica... what's not to like?
I love the simplicity of this song... it could be played using only the guitar (and melodion of course) and it will be just as beautiful.
This song is a ballad about a woman who was beautiful but stuck up... now... i believe that in the song... she's dead, i've had discussions with others who believe that she's not really dead, but it's just "as if" she were dead. I translated the lyrics the best i could.
If you like this song you might like Avientame (the video is crazy... and translated on youtube) it was the theme song for a pretty big indie film (amores perros) from mexico that (i believe) was all about people being the cruelest to the people that love them the most... and that is defenitly conveyed in the video. [i don't mean to double dip.. but there you go] (warning... it has pretty graphic kissing scenes.)
Back to Maria, hope it's not boring... hope you dig it.
Lyrics:
Maria
Maria goes out at night (sale sola de noche maria)
suffering(haunting) through the city (pena por la ciudad)
walking the streets where she once (recorriendo las calles que un dia)
denied kisses in the dark (nego besos en la oscuridad.)
Her eyesight gets blurry; (Y se nubla la vista Maria)
because it hurts to remember (porque duele recordar)
that the kisses once denied, maria, (que los besos negados Maria)
will never more return (nunca mas regresaran)
at night through that route/street/road (En las noches por ese camino)
something strange is apt to happen (algo extrano suele pasar)
in feeling on the lips a chill, (al sentir en los labios el frio)
from other lips that cannot be seen (de otros labios que no regresaran)
it's maria who's haunting the streets (es Maria quien pena las calles)
and under a street light (y debajo de un farol)
she steals kisses and life from the people (roba besos y vida a la gente)
while she lies in a coffin (mientras yace en un cajon)
pretty maria (Maria bonita)
maria withers (Maria marchita)
Monday, January 5, 2009
Song Share: Vaka
By Alex Madrigal
It was very hard for me to choose a song from this band, but i finally settled on this song, vaka. This album "( )" originally had no song names, so the other name for this song is "untitled 1" The singer sings in no real language--his voice is usually used simply as an instrument. [it's funny, but sometimes i think i hear him sing real words... and they usually go with what the song is meaning to me at the time] This is a great Sigur Ros song, like many other songs of theirs-- there's a build-up, there's a climax, and finally a great explosion/resolution/falling apart at the end... and the pure emotion manifested in their music is really what grabs me. Sometimes their songs can sound happy, or sad, or hopeful, or proud, or that feeling of letting go and losing hope... sometimes it's the same song. I find that my own state of mind usually dictates what the song is to me at the time. I hope everyone likes it, i encourage everyone of watch the sigur ros videos (the untitled tracks are the my personal favorites) on youtube... also, they give away mp3s of their songs on their web page (media tab)
It was very hard for me to choose a song from this band, but i finally settled on this song, vaka. This album "( )" originally had no song names, so the other name for this song is "untitled 1" The singer sings in no real language--his voice is usually used simply as an instrument. [it's funny, but sometimes i think i hear him sing real words... and they usually go with what the song is meaning to me at the time] This is a great Sigur Ros song, like many other songs of theirs-- there's a build-up, there's a climax, and finally a great explosion/resolution/
i hope i didn't ramble too much.
peace.
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