365 Day Song Challenge

Day 147 - A song that you love but for some reason don’t own

Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars


Oh, her eyes, her eyes, make the stars look like they’re not shining

Her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying 
She’s so beautiful, and I tell her every day

Yeah, I know, I know, when I compliment her she won’t believe me
And it’s so, it’s so, sad to think that she don’t see what I see
But every time she asks me do I look ok, I say

When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing, just the way you are
And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while
Because girl you’re amazing, just the way you are(yeah)

Her lips, her lips, I could kiss them all day if she let me
Her laugh, her laugh, she hates but I think it’s so sexy
She’s so beautiful, and I tell her every day

Oh, you know, you know, you know, I’d never ask you to change
If perfect’s what you’re searching for then just stay the same
So, don’t even bother asking if you look ok
You know I’ll say

When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing, just the way you are
And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while
Because girl you’re amazing, just the way you are
The way you are, the way you are
Girl you’re amazing, just the way you are

When I see your face, there’s not a thing that I would change
Cause you’re amazing, just the way you are
And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while
Cause girl you’re amazing, just the way you are. Yeah

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  • Don't Worry Babyfrom “The Beach Boys & Friends”by Lorrie Morgan & The Beach Boys

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 146 - A song with great vocal harmonies

Don’t Worry Baby - The Beach Boys & Lorrie Morgan


Beatles and Beach Boys… Always great vocal harmonies!!
* For lyrics and videoclip, please check my older post.

New music video Burn It Down by Linkin Park from their upcoming album Living Things.


Lyrics:

The cycle repeated
as explosions broke in the sky
all that I needed
was the one thing I couldn’t find

And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We’re building it up
To break it back down
We’re building it up
To burn it down
We can’t wait
To burn it to the ground

The colors conflicted
as the flames climbed into the clouds
I wanted to fix this / but
couldn’t stop from tearing it down

And you were caught at the turn
caught in the burning glow
And I was there at the turn
Waiting to let you know

You told me yes / You held me high
And I believed when you told that lie
I played that soldier / You played king
And struck me down when I kissed that ring
You lost that right / to hold that crown
I built you up but you let me down
so when you fall / I’ll take my turn
and fan the flames as your blazes burn

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 145 - A song that features an unusual instrument

The Word - The Beatles

(song starts at 4:52 of the cartoon after the Wait sing-a-long)


Beatles producer George Martin played the harmonium, an organ-like keyboard instrument. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

Say the word and you’ll be free

Say the word and be like me

Say the word I’m thinking of

Have you heard the word is love?

It’s so fine, it’s sunshine

It’s the word, love

In the beginning I misunderstood

But now I’ve got it, the word is good

Spread the word and you’ll be free

Spread the word and be like me

Spread the work I’m thinking of

Have you heard the word is love?

It’s so fine, it’s sunshine

It’s the word, love

Everywhere I go I hear it said

In the good and bad books that I have read

Say the word and you’ll be free

Say the word and be like me

Say the word I’m thinking of

Have you heard the word is love?

It’s so fine, it’s sunshine

It’s the word, love

Now that I know what I feel must be right

I’m here to show everybody the light

Give the word a chance to say

That the word is just the way

It’s the word I’m thinking of

And the only word is love

It’s so fine, it’s sunshine

It’s the word, love

Say the word, love

Say the word, love

Say the word, love

Say the word, love

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365 Day Song Challenge

Day 144 - A song that features your favorite keyboard solo

Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings


I know I posted this songs many times (first time, with lyrics, audio and song facts and then here again), but it is so awesome *-*!! But truth be told the first one I thought was Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five!! Ow, how I LOVE that song!!!

* This video is from his performance in Sao Paulo on November 21st 2010

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365 Day Song Challenge

Day 143 - A song that features your favorite drum solo

Keep Yourself Alive - Queen


First thing that came to mind was surely The End, and after that Helter Skelter, but this is a good one as well!


This is a song about simply staying alive. The message of the song: Staying alive is more important than being rich or famous. It boils down to “being yourself” instead of what everyone else wants you to be.
Queen guitarist Brian May wrote the words and music for this song, which was Queen’s first single. (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

I was told a million times
Of all the troubles in my way
Tried to grow a little wiser
Little better ev’ry day
But if I crossed a million rivers
And I rode a million miles
Then I’d still be where I started
Bread and butter for a smile
Well I sold a million mirrors
In a shop in Alley Way
But I never saw my face
In any window any day
Well they say your folks are telling you
To be a superstar
But I tell you just be satisfied
To stay right where you are

Keep yourself alive keep yourself alive
It’ll take you all your time and a money
Honey you’ll survive

Well I’ve loved a million women
In a belladonic haze
And I ate a million dinners
Brought to me on silver trays
Give me ev’rything I need
To feed my body and my soul
And I’ll grow a little bigger
Maybe that can be my goal
I was told a million times
Of all the people in my way
How I had to keep on trying
And get better ev’ry day
But if I crossed a million rivers
And I rode a million miles
Then I’d still be where I started
Same as when I started

Keep yourself alive keep yourself alive
It’ll take you all your time and a money
Honey you’ll survive

Keep yourself alive 
Keep yourself alive
It’ll take you all your time and a money
To keep me satisfied
Do you think you’re better ev’ry day?
No I just think I’m two steps nearer to my grave
Keep yourself alive come on
Keep yourself alive mmm
You take your time and take more money
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive come on 
Keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive come on, come on
Keep yourself alive
It’ll take you all your time and money
To keep me satisfied
Keep yourself alive
Keep yourself alive
All you people keep yourself alive
Take you all your time and money
Honey you’ll survive

Keep you satisfied
Keep you satisfied

O____O …. QQ
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  • Hotel Californiafrom “Hell Freezes Over”by Eagles

365 Day Song Challenge

Day 142 - A song that features your favorite guitar solo

Hotel California - Eagles


After thinking of songs like Johnny B. Good and While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I was at a lost to which other song to post… Until suddenly this came to mind! Perfect!


This is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the LondonDaily Mail November 9, 2007 said: “Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce.”

On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, “everyone wants to know what this song means.” Henley replied: “I know, it’s so boring. It’s a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about.”
Don Henley said: “We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.
This won the 1977 Grammy for Record Of The Year. The band did not show up to accept the award, as Don Henley did not believe in contests. Timothy B. Schmit had just joined the band, and he says they watched the ceremony on TV while they were rehearsing.
Don Felder came up with the musical idea for this song. According to his book Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles, he came up with the idea for the song while playing on the beach. He had the chord progressions and basic guitar tracks, which he played for Don Henley and Glenn Frey, who helped finish the song, with Henley adding the lyrics. Felder says they recorded the song about a year after he did the original demo, and in the session, he started to improvise the guitar part at the end. Henley stopped him and demanded that he do it exactly like the demo, so he had to call his housekeeper and have her play the cassette demo over the phone so Felder could remember what he played.
“Colitas,” in the line “Warm smell of coolitas,” is often interpreted as a flower or a sexual reference. It is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning “Little Buds,” and is a reference to marijuana.
This was recorded at 3 different sessions before the Eagles got the version they wanted. The biggest problem was finding the right key for Henley’s vocal.
Glenn Frey compares this to an episode of The Twilight Zone, where it jumps from one scene to the next and doesn’t necessarily make sense.
The line “They stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast” is a reference to Steely Dan. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry. The year before, Steely Dan included the line “Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening” on their song “Everything You Did.”
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played together on the guitar solos, creating the textured sound.
The lyrics for the song came with the album. Some people thought the line “She’s got the Mercedes Bends” was a misspelling of “Mercedes Benz,” and wrote Henley to complain. The line was a play on words.
Glenn Frey: “That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know. And we just decided to make it Hotel California. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us.”
Although it is well known that Hotel California is actually a metaphor, there are several strange Internet theories and urban legends about the “real” Hotel California. Some include suggestions that it was an old church taken over by devil worshippers, a psychiatric hospital, an inn run by cannibals or Aleister Crowley’s mansion in Scotland. It’s even been suggested that the “Hotel California” is the Playboy Mansion (Songfacts.com)


Lyrics:

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair 
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air 
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light 
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim 
I had to stop for the night 
There she stood in the doorway; 
I heard the mission bell 
And I was thinking to myself, 
“This could be Heaven or this could be Hell” 
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way 
There were voices down the corridor, 
I thought I heard them say… 

Welcome to the Hotel California 
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) 
Such a lovely face 
Plenty of room at the Hotel California 
Any time of year (Any time of year) 
You can find it here 

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends 
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends 
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. 
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget 

So I called up the Captain, 
“Please bring me my wine” 
He said, “We haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine” 
And still those voices are calling from far away, 
Wake you up in the middle of the night 
Just to hear them say… 

Welcome to the Hotel California 
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) 
Such a lovely face 
They livin’ it up at the Hotel California 
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise) 
Bring your alibis 

Mirrors on the ceiling, 
The pink champagne on ice 
And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device” 
And in the master’s chambers, 
They gathered for the feast 
They stab it with their steely knives, 
But they just can’t kill the beast 

Last thing I remember, I was 
Running for the door 
I had to find the passage back 
To the place I was before 
“Relax, ” said the night man, 
“We are programmed to receive. 
You can check-out any time you like, 
But you can never leave! “