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  • milestones

    Dez 22 2009, 11h48 por rikkyu

    Last.FM Milestones1st track: (07 Oct 2007)
    Don Omar - TocarDale Don Dale
    5000th track: (02 Jun 2008)
    Coldplay - TocarViolet Hill
    10000th track: (06 Dec 2008)
    Bebe - Siempre me quedara
    15000th track: (10 Mar 2009)
    Gene Kelly - TocarSingin' In the Rain
    20000th track: (15 Jun 2009)
    Bing Crosby & Dixie Lee Crosby - TocarThe Way You Look Tonight
    25000th track: (24 Aug 2009)
    Clazziquai Project - Love Again
    30000th track: (26 Oct 2009)
    The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday
    Generated on 22 Dec 2009
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  • Songs to listen

    Dez 17 2009, 12h29 por klunatik

    Recommended Songs (sorted by most recommended songs)

    TocarPurple Haze : The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Score = 792.61)
    Venus In Furs : The Velvet Underground (Score = 783.77)
    TocarSunshine Of Your Love : Cream (Score = 748.55)
    TocarBorn To Be Wild : Steppenwolf (Score = 742.45)
    TocarPiece of My Heart : Janis Joplin (Score = 625.43)
    TocarIn-A-Gadda-Da-Vida : Iron Butterfly (Score = 617.28)
    TocarHey Joe : The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Score = 560.69)
    TocarHeroin : The Velvet Underground (Score = 499.71)
    TocarRoundabout : Yes (Score = 467.84)
    TocarMore Than A Feeling : Boston (Score = 446.34)
    TocarMagic Carpet Ride : Steppenwolf (Score = 436.35)
    Behind Blue Eyes : The Who (Score = 429.36)
    TocarLayla : Eric Clapton (Score = 428.15)
    TocarCocaine : Eric Clapton (Score = 427.72)
    TocarPlanet Caravan : Black Sabbath (Score = 413.85)
    TocarFortunate Son : Creedence Clearwater Revival (Score = 410.98)
    TocarTime of the Season : The Zombies (Score = 405.58)
    For What It's Worth : Buffalo Springfield (Score = 378.84)
    TocarEight Miles High : The Byrds (Score = 371.93)
    TocarAll Right Now : Free (Score = 354.24)
    Won't Get Fooled Again : The Who (Score = 352.11)
    TocarWhite Room : Cream (Score = 350.74)
    TocarIncense and Peppermints : Strawberry Alarm Clock (Score = 350.41)
    TocarLavender : Marillion (Score = 346.54)
    TocarDust In The Wind : Kansas (Score = 330.96)
    TocarMy Generation : The Who (Score = 329.31)
    Hocus Pocus : Focus (Score = 323.83)
    TocarI Can See For Miles : The Who (Score = 307.76)
    TocarHeart Full Of Soul : The Yardbirds (Score = 302.25)
    TocarDream On : Aerosmith (Score = 298.04)
    TocarNights In White Satin : The Moody Blues (Score = 292.58)
    TocarThe Logical Song : Supertramp (Score = 286.87)
    California Dreamin' : The Mamas & the Papas (Score = 282.63)
    TocarLa Grange : ZZ Top (Score = 281.92)
    TocarHeart of the Sunrise : Yes (Score = 275.77)
    TocarBrown Sugar : The Rolling Stones (Score = 273.8)
    Tocar(Don't Fear) The Reaper : Blue Öyster Cult (Score = 272.21)
    TocarHotel California : Eagles (Score = 267.36)
    Go Your Own Way : Fleetwood Mac (Score = 258.18)
    Lucky Man : Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Score = 252.52)
    TocarPeaches En Regalia : Frank Zappa (Score = 251.21)
    TocarShe's Not There : The Zombies (Score = 250.94)
    Walk This Way : Aerosmith (Score = 249.48)
    TocarLola : The Kinks (Score = 245.05)
    TocarKayleigh : Marillion (Score = 244.38)
    TocarWorld Of Pain : Cream (Score = 243.38)
    TocarRainy Day Mushroom Pillow : Strawberry Alarm Clock (Score = 241.63)
    TocarSolsbury Hill : Peter Gabriel (Score = 237.54)
    TocarSlow Ride : Foghat (Score = 234.97)
    TocarFree Bird : Lynyrd Skynyrd (Score = 234.48)
    TocarSpace Oddity : David Bowie (Score = 232.32)
    Venus : Shocking Blue (Score = 221.28)
    TocarFirth of Fifth : Genesis (Score = 218.06)
    TocarRock You Like A Hurricane : Scorpions (Score = 213.91)
    Heart of Gold : Neil Young (Score = 211.86)
    TocarCitadel : The Rolling Stones (Score = 203.43)
    Jerusalem : Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Score = 201.27)
    TocarSchool's Out : Alice Cooper (Score = 194.36)
    TocarEvil Woman : Electric Light Orchestra (Score = 194.05)
    TocarYYZ : Rush (Score = 193.8)
    Layla : Derek and the Dominos (Score = 190.52)
    TocarThe Weight : The Band (Score = 190.16)
    Private Investigations : Dire Straits (Score = 188.24)
    Sunday Morning : The Velvet Underground (Score = 185.6)
    TocarCrazy Train : Ozzy Osbourne (Score = 185.43)
    TocarWith A Little Help From My Friends : Joe Cocker (Score = 184.88)
    Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine : Country Joe & the Fish (Score = 184.3)
    TocarSweet Home Alabama : Lynyrd Skynyrd (Score = 182.72)
    Combination of the Two : Big Brother & The Holding Company (Score = 181.67)
    Expecting to Fly : Buffalo Springfield (Score = 181.38)
    TocarRoxanne : The Police (Score = 181.17)
    TocarWalk On the Wild Side : Lou Reed (Score = 180.13)
    TocarSharp Dressed Man : ZZ Top (Score = 179.17)
    Runnin' Wild : Airbourne (Score = 177.74)
    TocarSummertime Blues : Blue Cheer (Score = 175.54)
    TocarThe Pusher : Steppenwolf (Score = 174.81)
    TocarBad Moon Rising : Creedence Clearwater Revival (Score = 174.4)
    Flying High : Country Joe & the Fish (Score = 173.75)
    TocarOn The Road Again : Canned Heat (Score = 173.53)
    TocarAmerican Woman : The Guess Who (Score = 171.86)
    I Want You (She's So Heavy) : The Beatles (Score = 169.96)
    4:41AM (Sexual Revolution) : Roger Waters (Score = 168.03)
    TocarWild Thing : The Troggs (Score = 167.11)
    TocarLiving After Midnight : Judas Priest (Score = 162.95)
    Blue Jay Way : The Beatles (Score = 159.47)
    TocarToo Much, Too Young, Too Fast : Airbourne (Score = 159.12)
    TocarBlack Betty : Ram Jam (Score = 156.52)
    TocarTry (Just A Little Bit Harder) : Janis Joplin (Score = 154.83)
    TocarLove Hurts : Nazareth (Score = 153.84)
    TocarGoing Up The Country : Canned Heat (Score = 153.29)
    TocarI Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) : The Electric Prunes (Score = 152.53)
    TocarGood Vibrations : The Beach Boys (Score = 149.88)
    TocarMr. Tambourine Man : The Byrds (Score = 149.37)
    TocarHoly Diver : Dio (Score = 148.64)
    TocarBohemian Rhapsody : Queen (Score = 148.23)
    TocarWe're Not Gonna Take It : Twisted Sister (Score = 147.97)
    TocarPour Some Sugar on Me : Def Leppard (Score = 147.41)
    TocarBarracuda : Heart (Score = 147.25)
    TocarGimme Shelter : The Rolling Stones (Score = 147.03)
    Rainbow In The Dark : Dio (Score = 146.41)
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  • How varied is your music taste?

    Nov 27 2009, 5h12 por synthsncupcakes

    First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

    1. Tokio Hotel
    Devilish
    Cinema Bizarre
    LaFee
    Nevada Tan
    Killerpilze
    Panik
    Aloha From Hell


    2. Imogen Heap
    Frou Frou
    Kate Havnevik
    A Fine Frenzy
    Jem
    Regina Spektor
    Florence + The Machine
    Sia
    The Bird and the Bee

    3. Lady GaGa
    Britney Spears
    The Pussycat Dolls
    Space Cowboy
    Ashley Tisdale
    Katy Perry
    Ke$ha
    Little Boots
    Madonna

    4. Paramore
    Hey Monday
    VersaEmerge
    Flyleaf
    Boys Like Girls
    Automatic Loveletter
    All Time Low
    Fake Number

    5. Coldplay
    Keane
    Snow Patrol
    Travis
    The Killers
    Radiohead
    Oasis
    The Fray
    Thirteen Stones

    6. Muse
    Franz Ferdinand
    Placebo
    Kasabian
    Arctic Monkeys
    Kaiser Chiefs


    7. The Beatles
    John Lennon
    George Harrison
    Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney & Wings
    Wings
    The Who
    The Rolling Stones
    The Kinks

    8. MGMT
    The Management
    Klaxons
    Vampire Weekend
    Passion Pit
    Black Kids
    The Kooks
    Empire of the Sun
    Late of the Pier

    9. Johan Palm
    Kevin Borg
    E.M.D.
    John ME
    Anna Bergendahl
    Erik Hassle
    Alice Svensson
    Lasse Lindh
    Simon Norrsveden

    10. Los Campesinos!
    Johnny Foreigner
    Dananananaykroyd
    Sky Larkin
    Slow Club
    Titus Andronicus
    The Cribs
    Ra Ra Riot
    Matt & Kim


    11. Panic at the Disco
    Fall Out Boy
    The Academy Is...
    Cobra Starship
    The Cab
    Forgiven Durden
    The Hush Sound
    My Chemical Romance
    This Providence

    12.Mars Argo
    The Golden Revelry
    fun.
    Mark Gardener and Andy Bell
    The Soft Hills
    Slowlands
    Nelson Bragg
    The Homophones
    Eureka Brown

    13.Hayley Williams
    Low Shoulder
    Zac Farro
    Death in the Park

    14.Owl City
    Swimming With Dolphins
    Lights
    A Rocket To The Moon
    Breathe Carolina
    nevershoutnever!
    The Secret Handshake
    Breathe Electric
    PlayRadioPlay!

    15.Bat for Lashes
    My Brightest Diamond
    Patrick Wolf
    St. Vincent
    Lykke Li
    Fever Ray
    Cat Power
    PJ Harvey

    16.Simon & Garfunkel
    Paul Simon
    Cat Stevens
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    Bob Dylan
    Art Garfunkel
    Peter, Paul & Mary
    Donovan
    The Mamas & The Papas

    17.Jim Sturgess
    Evan Rachel Wood
    Dana Fuchs
    Joe Anderson
    T.V. Carpio
    Dana Fuchs & Jim Sturgess
    Martin Luther McCoy
    Dana Fuchs & Martin Luther McCoy
    Carol Woods & Timothy T. Mitchum

    18.Fräulein Wunder
    Debbie Rockt!
    Eisblume
    Jennifer Rostock
    peilomat
    Queensberry

    19.Crystal Castles
    You Love Her Coz She's Dead
    HeartsRevolution
    Kap Bambino
    Bondage Fairies
    Does It Offend You, Yeah?
    Metronomy

    20.School of Seven Bells
    A Sunny Day in Glasgow
    Lotus Plaza
    Telepathe
    Asobi Seksu
    M83
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    Maps
    Beach House


    147 :D
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  • How varied is your music taste?

    Nov 27 2009, 5h11 por synthsncupcakes

    First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

    1. Tokio Hotel
    Devilish
    Cinema Bizarre
    LaFee
    Nevada Tan
    Killerpilze
    Panik
    Aloha From Hell


    2. Imogen Heap
    Frou Frou
    Kate Havnevik
    A Fine Frenzy
    Jem
    Regina Spektor
    Florence + The Machine
    Sia
    The Bird and the Bee

    3. Lady GaGa
    Britney Spears
    The Pussycat Dolls
    Space Cowboy
    Ashley Tisdale
    Katy Perry
    Ke$ha
    Little Boots
    Madonna

    4. Paramore
    Hey Monday
    VersaEmerge
    Flyleaf
    Boys Like Girls
    Automatic Loveletter
    All Time Low
    Fake Number

    5. Coldplay
    Keane
    Snow Patrol
    Travis
    The Killers
    Radiohead
    Oasis
    The Fray
    Thirteen Stones

    6. Muse
    Franz Ferdinand
    Placebo
    Kasabian
    Arctic Monkeys
    Kaiser Chiefs


    7. The Beatles
    John Lennon
    George Harrison
    Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney & Wings
    Wings
    The Who
    The Rolling Stones
    The Kinks

    8. MGMT
    The Management
    Klaxons
    Vampire Weekend
    Passion Pit
    Black Kids
    The Kooks
    Empire of the Sun
    Late of the Pier

    9. Johan Palm
    Kevin Borg
    E.M.D.
    John ME
    Anna Bergendahl
    Erik Hassle
    Alice Svensson
    Lasse Lindh
    Simon Norrsveden

    10. Los Campesinos!
    Johnny Foreigner
    Dananananaykroyd
    Sky Larkin
    Slow Club
    Titus Andronicus
    The Cribs
    Ra Ra Riot
    Matt & Kim


    11. Panic at the Disco
    Fall Out Boy
    The Academy Is...
    Cobra Starship
    The Cab
    Forgiven Durden
    The Hush Sound
    My Chemical Romance
    This Providence

    12.Mars Argo
    The Golden Revelry
    fun.
    Mark Gardener and Andy Bell
    The Soft Hills
    Slowlands
    Nelson Bragg
    The Homophones
    Eureka Brown

    13.Hayley Williams
    Low Shoulder
    Zac Farro
    Death in the Park

    14.Owl City
    Swimming With Dolphins
    Lights
    A Rocket To The Moon
    Breathe Carolina
    nevershoutnever!
    The Secret Handshake
    Breathe Electric
    PlayRadioPlay!

    15.Bat for Lashes
    My Brightest Diamond
    Patrick Wolf
    St. Vincent
    Lykke Li
    Fever Ray
    Cat Power
    PJ Harvey

    16.Simon & Garfunkel
    Paul Simon
    Cat Stevens
    Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
    Bob Dylan
    Art Garfunkel
    Peter, Paul & Mary
    Donovan
    The Mamas & The Papas

    17.Jim Sturgess
    Evan Rachel Wood
    Dana Fuchs
    Joe Anderson
    T.V. Carpio
    Dana Fuchs & Jim Sturgess
    Martin Luther McCoy
    Dana Fuchs & Martin Luther McCoy
    Carol Woods & Timothy T. Mitchum

    18.Fräulein Wunder
    Debbie Rockt!
    Eisblume
    Jennifer Rostock
    peilomat
    Queensberry

    19.Crystal Castles
    You Love Her Coz She's Dead
    HeartsRevolution
    Kap Bambino
    Bondage Fairies
    Does It Offend You, Yeah?
    Metronomy

    20.School of Seven Bells
    A Sunny Day in Glasgow
    Lotus Plaza
    Telepathe
    Asobi Seksu
    M83
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    Maps
    Beach House


    147 :D
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  • Last.FM Milestones

    Out 31 2009, 13h49 por paulina1406

    Last.FM Milestones1st track: (07 Dec 2007)
    Queen - TocarIs this the world we created? (live)
    1000th track: (17 Feb 2008)
    The Moody Blues - TocarNights In White Satin
    2000th track: (24 Mar 2008)
    Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé - TocarGuide Me Home
    3000th track: (12 Apr 2008)
    Freddie Mercury - TocarFoolin' Around
    4000th track: (03 May 2008)
    Queen - 09 - Is This The World We Created
    5000th track: (25 May 2008)
    Scorpions - TocarStill Loving You
    6000th track: (17 Jun 2008)
    The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
    7000th track: (20 Jul 2008)
    Night Ranger - TocarSentimental Street
    8000th track: (01 Sep 2008)
    Van Halen - Jump
    9000th track: (09 Oct 2008)
    Deep Purple - TocarStrange Kind of Woman
    10000th track: (09 Nov 2008)
    The Beach Boys - TocarI Get Around
    11000th track: (16 Dec 2008)
    The Beatles - Rain
    12000th track: (23 Jan 2009)
    Guns N' Roses - TocarKnockin' On Heaven's Door
    13000th track: (23 Feb 2009)
    The Yardbirds - TocarI'm A Man
    14000th track: (24 Mar 2009)
    The Skyliners - TocarSince I Don't Have You
    15000th track: (30 Apr 2009)
    Toto - TocarHold The Line
    16000th track: (26 May 2009)
    The Mamas & The Papas - TocarLook Through My Window
    17000th track: (09 Jul 2009)
    Pussycat - Mississippi
    18000th track: (20 Aug 2009)
    Creedence Clearwater Revival - TocarHave You Ever Seen The Rain?
    19000th track: (07 Sep 2009)
    Nazareth - TocarDream On
    20000th track: (24 Sep 2009)
    Queen - TocarGet Down, Make Love
    21000th track: (11 Oct 2009)
    Richard Marx - TocarNow And Forever
    22000th track: (31 Oct 2009)
    The Beach Boys - Here Today
    23000th track: (10 Nov 2009)
    AC/DC - Let's Make It
    24000th track: (23 Nov 2009)
    Marvin Gaye - TocarI Heard It Through The Grapevine
    25000th track: (03 Dec 2009)
    Bryan Adams - Mysterious Ways
    26000th track: (13 Dec 2009)
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - TocarSweet Home Alabama
    Generated on 13 Dec 2009
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  • Nick Cave's Jukebox again & His drunken sing-a-long with David McComb + extras

    Out 4 2009, 14h50 por BlackCoffeeDuck

    Nick Cave's Jukebox again
    Another CD set of songs which have inspired Nick Cave over the years is going on the market. This is the third this year and the fifth overall. The first two were Original Seeds way back in 1998 and the follow up Original Seeds, Volume 2 in 2004. I would rate the first Original Seeds very highly just because there was nothing like it before but now that is very different.


    Original Seeds - Track listing:
    1. Tim Rose - TocarLong Time Man
    2. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - TocarCat Man
    3. Leonard Cohen - TocarAvalanche
    4. Karen Dalton - TocarKatie Cruel
    5. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - TocarHammer Song
    6. Tom Jones - Weeping Annaleah
    7. The Loved Ones - Sad Dark Eyes
    8. Scott Walker - TocarThe Big Hurt
    9. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
    10. Lefty Frizzell - TocarThe Long Black Veil
    11. Johnny Cash - The Folk Singer
    12. Odetta - TocarAnother Man Done Gone
    13. Blind Willie Johnson - TocarI'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
    14. Edwin Hawkins Singers - TocarOh Happy Day
    15. Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Je t'aime...moi non plus
    16. Isaac Hayes - TocarBy The Time I Get To Phoenix
    I would still rate this one the best out of them all. I would give it four out of five stars too. Most tracks make sense if you're a fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds which is the sub-title of the CD, Songs that inspired the Bad Seeds. All but three songs can be found on their albums in covers and/or based on but rewritten in someway. Cat Man was an early The Birthday Party cover. The Big Hurt was on the MOJO soundtrack with the help of the great British band Gallon Drunk and Jane & Serge classic Cave sung an English version called TocarI Love You....Nor Do I with Anita Lane. The liner notes from this CD is great and I recommend this album. But I should warn you about the last song it's almost 19 minutes long and is sometimes a bit too much. It really should be Glen Campbell's TocarBy The Time I Get To Phoenix which is the original too but for some mad reason this one got put on the CD. Which I think is the reason why I wouldn't rate it five stars, missing one whole star for this nightmare of a song, sorry Issac but I wish you got to Phoenix a bit quicker. Cave says about it: "He does a long explanation about what women are actually like; it's very funny. How men have just got to go out." This quote is from a great book called "Songwriters Speak" I found at my local library, more about that later but here's the website: http://www.debbiekruger.com/songwritersspeak/about.html


    Original Seeds, Volume 2 - Track listing:
    1. Harry Belafonte - Did You Hear About Jerry?
    2.Tom Waits - Way Down In The Hole
    3. Fred Neil - A Little Bit of Rain
    4. Gang of Four - TocarLove Like Anthrax
    5. Bob Dylan - Sara
    6. Tim Rose - Hey Joe
    7. The First Edition - TocarJust Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
    8. Elvis Presley - TocarIn The Ghetto
    9. Nina Simone - Plain Gold Ring
    10. The Stooges - TocarLoose
    11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
    12. Hoyt Axton - Double Dare
    13. Lou Reed - TocarPerfect Day
    14. Alice Cooper - Street Fight
    This one is not in any way as good as the the first one. I would rate it two and half out of five. Why? Well, I'm giving it half a star each for the songs which are on Bad Seeds albums the rest are, really could be's. Only Hey Joe, In The Ghetto, Plain Gold Ring, Black Betty and the last half star goes to writing up liner notes to convince you the rest are just as important. Loose was a live favorite of The Birthday Party. Some were going to be on the cover album Kicking Against the Pricks but never recorded. Played live once or twice in the years of playing shows. Mick Harvey has played the others himself solo or on his albums. Another warning for the last song again this time it's only 55 seconds long so why is it here? Well, I don't really know which is what I mean by the liner notes hoping you buy in too what is written but one word for that song: pointless.


    Mojo Presents Bad Seeds, Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations - Tracks listing
    1. The Saints - This Perfect Day
    2. Johnny Cash - TocarFolsom Prison Blues
    3. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues
    4. Karen Dalton - Katie Cruel
    5. Tim Rose - Long Time Man
    6. Scott Walker - The Big Hurt
    7. Current 93 - TocarAll the Pretty Little Horses
    8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Blume
    9. Martin L. Gore - TocarLoverman
    10. Lydia Lunch - TocarDone Dun
    11. Beasts of Bourbon - TocarCocksucker Blues
    12. The Golden Gate Quartet - TocarWade In The Water
    13. Peggy Seeger - Henry Lee
    14. Mississippi John Hurt - TocarStack O' Lee Blues
    15. Hank Williams - TocarI'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
    This CD was given away for free with Mojo Magazine but I have seen it for sale on ebay. It was with this years March issue with Mr. Cave on the cover. I would rate it three out five stars which is good for a give-away album. A few double ups but the version of Long Time Man is different longer re-recorded in 2003 just before Tim Rose passed away. The one on Original Seeds was record in 1967. Cave sings on Current 93 and Lydia Lunch tracks. TocarLoverman is the only cover and the reason for this one is both are on Mute Records. The rest is pretty clear if your a fan but if you buy the magazine that comes with the CD or should that be the other way around, there is a two page write up about all the tracks.


    The Roots of Nick Cave - Tracks listing
    1. Carl Perkins - TocarBlue Suede Shoes
    2. Big Joe Turner - TocarShake, Rattle & Roll
    3. Little Richard - TocarKeep A Knockin'
    4. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
    5. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - TocarI Put A Spell On You
    6. John Lee Hooker - TocarI'm Gonna Kill That Woman
    7. Leadbelly - TocarBottle Up and Go
    8. Ella Jenkins - Wade In The Water
    9. The Alabama Singers - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
    10. Odetta - Another Man Done Gone
    11. Leadbelly - Black Betty
    12. Harry Belafonte - Mourning Song
    13. Little Willie John - TocarFever
    14. Charlie Gracie - Tocar99 Ways
    15. Hank Williams - TocarLost Highway
    16. Roy Rogers - The Streets Of Laredo
    17. Hobart Smith And Texas Gladden - Down In The Willow Garden
    18. Ernest Phipps - TocarShine On Me
    19. Chubby Parker - TocarKing Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-me-o
    20. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
    21. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
    22. Blind Willie Johnson - TocarJohn the Revelator
    I think I got this one before the Mojo magazine's one but both came out around the same time at the beginning of the year. I'll rate it three and a half out of five stars just under the first one. I like it better maybe because I love all the really, really old songs on it. A lot of older songs or just a lot more than the three previous ones. More double up's again but a few ones that should have been so obvious before. The Streets Of Laredo was a song Conway Savage sung on tour around the time of the Doco "The Road To God Knows Where" which makes up a few of the songs here which were played kind-off like a tour mix tape. Harry's track makes more sense this time, it's from when Nick Cave - Mick Harvey - Blixa Bargeld did the soundtrack to To Have And To Hold and re-recorded Tocarmourning song (performed by raun raun theatre). TocarJohn the Revelator is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 1 and TocarShine on Me is from The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2. If you want more info there is good liner notes written by Dave Henderson who's from Mojo magazine too.


    Nick Cave's Jukebox - Track listing
    1. Gene Vincent & His Big Blue Caps - Cat Man
    2. Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody (Live)
    3. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
    4. Tex Ritter - TocarRye Whiskey
    5. Jimi Hendrix TocarHey Joe
    6. Leadbelly - Black Betty
    7. John Lee Hooker - I’m Gonna Kill That Woman
    8. Johnny Cash - TocarWanted Man
    9. Johnny Cash - Man In Black (Live)
    10. Tommy McClennan TocarBottle It Up and Go
    11. Elvis Presley - TocarBlue Suede Shoes
    12. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge
    13. Neil Young - Helpless (live)
    14. Little Willie John - Fever
    15. Leroy Carr - TocarHow Long, How Long Blues
    16. The Pogues - The Body of an American
    17. The Everly Brothers - TocarDown In The Willow Garden
    18. Mississippi John Hurt - Stack O' Lee Blues
    19. The Louvin Brothers TocarKnoxville Girl
    20. Dick Justice - Henry Lee
    21. Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O
    22. Louis Armstrong - TocarMack The Knife
    23. Memphis Slim - TocarGrinder Man Blues
    This is going to be the fifth one of these kind of CD's and is out next week (October 12th or around about then). I don't think I should rate it because I don't have it yet. Once again more doubles and so many more than the others before this one. There are 23 tracks more than all the other CD's and all of these are total classics I could listen to them again and again. The songs which aren't on the other ones really should have been included before and also add up to the number of tracks on the first three. I don't know if it would be silly for me to buy another one but I guess if you haven't got any of the other four this new one looks like it could be the best one so far. Last thing to say about it would be is if you know anything about Nick Cave and the song Hey Joe it's off course the Tim Rose version he loves not the Jimi Hendrix one but in saying that Jimi's one is the more famous, and putting it on here is not doubling up the other song again so that's OK, I guess. I do think there are a lot of tracks which could or should be on these kind-off CDs but are not, I shall make a list here on last.fm at the end of this journal.

    His drunken sing-a-long with David McComb

    I just got this great book about David McComb & The Triffids which is so great. I'm not finished it yet but I think it would be five stars out of five it is that great. It's better than any bio book ever written. It written by all sorts of people. I would recommend it to everyone. One of the most funny story's is written by Nick Cave talking about getting drunk at an Aussie picnic in London with David and having a sing-a-long with each other, I'm going to write out the list of songs they sung but get the full story and so much more buy the book here: http://www.fremantlepress.com.au/books/newreleases/1104 And that is a drawing of David by Martyn P. Casey anyway here's the list of songs David & Nick sung, more of these songs have been covered heavily but I've tried to find the originals. Can you imagine two drunk Aussies singing them???
    1. The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
    2. Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
    3. Dionne Warwick - TocarWalk On By
    4. Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass - TocarThis Guy's in Love with You
    5. John Denver - TocarLeaving On A Jet Plane
    6. Simon & Garfunkel - TocarBridge Over Troubled Water
    7. Peter, Paul & Mary - Lemon Tree
    8. Mississippi Sheiks - TocarSitting on Top of the World
    9. The Seekers - TocarGeorgy Girl (From Film 'Georgy Girl')
    10. Bruce Springsteen - TocarThunder Road
    11. Elvis Presley - TocarBlue Moon
    12. The Mamas & The Papas - TocarCalifornia Dreamin'
    13. Carpenters - TocarCalling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft
    14. Aretha Franklin - TocarI Say A Little Prayer
    15. Simon & Garfunkel - TocarThe Boxer
    16. Elvis Presley - TocarSuspicious Minds
    17. Elvis Presley - TocarKentucky Rain
    18. Leonard Cohen - Bird on a Wire
    19. Malvina Reynolds - TocarMorningtown Ride
    20. Simon & Garfunkel - TocarCecilia
    21. The Beatles - Yesterday
    22. Ella Fitzgerald - TocarAnything Goes
    23. Frank Sinatra - TocarWhat'll I Do?
    24. The 5th Dimension - Tocar(Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All
    25. Carpenters - Close To Me
    26. Bob Dylan - Belle Isle
    27. Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
    Nobody at the time put these two guys in a recording studio to record all this and as far as I know the only song they did together or should I say David sung on backing vocal's for Nick's TocarLay Me Low in 1994 which I have to say is kind-off perfect and very odd because a few years later McComb passed away but what is even more odd is the very last song he recorded was Still Alive And Well on Where Joy Kills Sorrow album. If you would like that album check it out here: http://www.wminc.com.au/catalogue1.shtml#006 It's a classic Aussie album.

    Extras
    OK here is a couple of things that I haven't fitted into my journals before about Cave, first is the book called "Songwriters Speaks" by Debbie Kruger. To sum up the book quickly it's got just over 600 pages and is full of interviews with Aussie songwriters. Most are, if not all, are mainstream singers and Cave is the only one I'm into but I've had a look at the others before returning, did I say it a library book? A few things I want to note down here for myself really but who ever reads these might like to know too is:
    In the intro pages Kruger says "I particularly enjoyed his (Cave's) anecdotes about encounters with Rolf Harris and Barry Humphries." which are funny but are nowhere in the interview so my guess is these were edited out because there not about songwriting. The interview starts on page 430 and goes to 445 so it's longer that most magazines or online. It was done at his office in Hove, England in 2004 around the time of Abattoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus.
    The songs talked about are:
    TocarLoom of the Land saying the line "The elms and the poplars were turning their backs" which is from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and he wished he edited it out because "I don't like the idea of someone reading Lolita and going, "Oh, How often has he done that?" "
    TocarInto My Arms is talked about. In Triple J's Hottest 100 of all-time recently saying it was written after he visited a church which wouldn't be anything different from him really but the whole story is a bit more to it. He was in some drug rehab clinic and the only place you were allowed to go was a church and three days in on a Sunday he'd come back feeling very ill and "sat down and wrote that very quickly, and I didn't have anything there to play it on... rehabilitation didn't work [Laughs], at least I got a good song out of it." which makes a bit more sense really.
    Tocar(Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? he said he wrote in a taxicab on the way to INXS singer Michael Hutchence's house which is a bit odd and kind-off changes the track for me but then again Cave played Into My Arms at Micheal's funeral and famously insisted the TV cameras to be turned off while he sung it.
    TocarNobody's Baby Now was written for Johnny Cash's American Recordings but he thought "Fuck it, I'm not handing that over. I really love that song and I'm going to do it." then later on in the interview says "I'm particularly proud of the first verse... takes so long to get to the point." going on to say "It reminds me of TocarTupelo Honey the Van Morrison song."
    There are off course other songs he talks about but see if you can find the book at your library too.


    Another book Cave makes it in to is "The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature" which is an epic encyclopedia size book. Which has some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries. Very few contemporary songwriters make it into it only Kev Carmody's TocarFrom Little Things Big Things Grow, Archie Roach's Took The Children Away, Yothu Yindi's TocarTreaty and Cave's TocarOpium Tea which I have to say is an odd one to pick but I've said that before in this journal. Check it out here: http://www.macquariepenanthology.com.au/aboutaustliteratureanthology.html

    OK, to finish off here are few songs that might or might not have inspired Nick:
    1. The Velvet Underground - TocarJesus
    2. James Carter & The Prisoners - TocarPo' Lazarus or The Fairfield Four - TocarPo Lazarus
    3. Muddy Waters - TocarHoney Bee or listen to TocarHoney Bee (Live)
    4. J.B. Lenoir - I Feel So Good or listen to I Feel So Good (Take 21)
    5. John Ashe - There's No Night Out In The Jail
    6. The Pogues - Rainy Night in Soho
    7. Bob Dylan - Stack A Lee or Woody Guthrie - TocarStack-O-lee or Alan Lomax - TocarStackerlee or Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
    8. Leonard Cohen - TocarTower of Song
    9. Roy Orbison - TocarRunning Scared
    10. Wilmoth Houdini - TocarHappy Land Of Canaan
    11. The Walker Brothers - TocarOrpheus
    12. Jacques Offenbach - TocarOrpheus In The Underworld
    13. Miles Davis - TocarNature Boy or listen to John Coltrane - TocarNature Boy
    14. Sir John Betjeman - Late-Flowering Lust or could it be the whole album Late Flowering Love
    15. Johnny Thunders - TocarChinese Rocks
    16. Leonard Cohen - TocarI'm Your Man
    17. Sister Myrtle Fields - TocarJesus At The Well or Mahalia Jackson - TocarJesus Met the Woman At the Well or Reverend Gary Davis - TocarJesus Met the Woman at the Well or Bob Dylan - Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
    Bob Dylan - Girl From the North Country or listen to Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country
    18. John Lee Hooker - TocarGrinder Man or listen to Peter Chatman - Grinder Man Blues or Milton Sparks - TocarGrinder Man Blues
    19. The Velvet Underground - TocarAll Tomorrow's Parties or Nico - TocarAll Tomorrows Parties
    20. Cilla Black - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart or Gene Pitney – Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
    21. Alan Lomax - TocarIt Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad
    22. Bob Dylan - Love Henry or Ralph Stanley - TocarHenry Lee
    23. Karen Dalton - TocarSomething on Your Mind
    24. Leonard Cohen - TocarWhy Don't You Try
    25. The Box Tops - TocarWeeping Analeah
    26. Burl Ives - TocarThe Long Black Veil
    27. Johnny Cash - TocarMuddy Waters
    28. Odetta - TocarAll the Pretty Little Horses
    29. The Pop Group - TocarWe Are All Prostitutes
    30. Bob Dylan - Death Is Not the End
    31. Robert Johnson - TocarPreachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
    32. James Iron-Head Baker - TocarBlack Betty
    33. Memphis Minnie - Bumble Bee Blues
    34. Odetta - TocarTake This Hammer
    35. John Lee Hooker - TocarIt Serves Me Right To Suffer
    36. Frank Sinatra - TocarNature Boy
    37. Leadbelly - TocarMy Friend Blind Lemon
    38. Woody Guthrie - TocarRye Whiskey
    39. Toni Fisher - TocarThe Big Hurt
    40. Bob Dylan - Froggie Went A Courtin'
    41. Frank Sinatra - TocarFrom Here To Eternity
    42. Leonard Cohen - TocarSuzanne
    43. Louis Armstrong - TocarWhat A Wonderful World
    44. Elvis Presley - TocarCindy, Cindy
    45. Blind Willie Johnson - TocarLet Your Light Shine On Me
    46. Michel Polnareff - Goodbye Marylou
    47. Bruce Springsteen - TocarI'm on Fire
    48. Bob Dylan - New Morning
    49. Bobby Bare - Tocar500 Miles Away From Home
    50. The Seekers - TocarThe Carnival Is Over
    I've written way to much but if you have some tracks to add to this very long track listing feel free to if you want to in the comment box below. I would have to have missed something so go for it. I like seeing comments you know. Thanks for reading and until next time.
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  • Birthdays of 270 favourite female singers

    Set 30 2009, 22h54 por emcxmc

    Here to compare for most of my favourite female singers their age and birthday (listed chronologic), with place of birth (if indicated) and short description (as shown in Wikipedia).

    (born before 1940)

    + Bessie Smith (July 9, 1892 or April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

    + Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992, Berlin, Germany) was a German-born American actress and singer.Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer. In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.

    + Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day.

    + Édith Piaf, born Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 -10 October 1963), French singer and cultural icon who is almost universally regarded as France's greatest.

    92 - Vera Lynn Dame Vera Lynn, DBE (born 20 March 1917) is an English singer whose career flourished during World War II. Nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart", the songs most associated with her are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover".

    + Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 in Newport News, VA – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was one of the most influential jazz singers of the 20th Century, the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards.

    + Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American Grammy award winning jazz and popular music singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota.

    + Maria Callas (New York City December 2, 1923 – Paris, France September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century.

    + Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American blues, jazz, and gospel singer. Because of her strong voice and emotional singing, she is known as the “Queen of the Blues”

    + Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Mortenson (Los Angeles, 1 juni 1926 – 5 augustus 1962).

    83 - Irene Papas - Irene Papas (born September 3, 1926) is a Greek actress and occasional singer.

    + Julie London (September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress who was known for her smoky, sensual voice (Cry me a river). Born in Santa Rosa, California,

    + Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008) was a South African singer and civil rights activist also known as Mama Africa.

    + Patsy Cline (September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963), born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer who enjoyed pop music crossover success during the era of the Nashville sound in the early 1960s. Since her death at age 30 in a 1963 plane crash at the height of her career, she has been considered one of the most influential, successful, revered, and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century

    77 - Petula Clark, CBE (born 15 November 1932) is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades. Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1960s she became known internationally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown," "I Know a Place," "My Love," "Colour My World," "A Sign of the Times," and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist ever and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records.

    76 - Yoko Ono, (born February 18, 1933), is a Japanese-American artist and musician. She is known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician.

    + Nina Simone - Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist.

    75 - Brigitte Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, former fashion model, singer and animal welfare/rights activist.

    74 - Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1935) is an American country music singer-songwriter; she was one of the leading country vocalists and songwriters during the 1960s and 1970s and is revered as a country music cultural icon.

    72 - Roberta Flack - Roberta Flack (Feb 10, 1937 in Asheville NC, USA).

    72 - Wanda Jackson - Wanda Lavonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist.[1] She is known to many as the The First Lady (or Queen) of Rockabilly, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an Early Influence on April 4, 2009.

    71 - Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins on January 25, 1938) is an American blues, soul, R&B, rock & roll and jazz singer and songwriter. She is the winner of four Grammys, seventeen Blues Music Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (in 1993), the Blues Hall of Fame (in 2001), and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in both 1999 and 2008).

    + Nico, Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938 – July 18, 1988), singer of psychedelic sixties band The Velvet Underground.

    + Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known as Dusty Springfield, was a pop singer and entertainer. Of all the female British pop artists of the 1960s, she made one of the biggest impressions on the American market. Owing to her distinctive sensual sound, she was one of the most notable white soul artists.

    70 - Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington).

    70 - Grace Slick - Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing on October 30, 1939), singer of psychedelic sixties band Jefferson Airplane.

    70 - Tina Turner - Tina Turner, Anna Mae Bullock (Nutbush, 26 november 1939).


    (born between 1940 - 1950)

    69 - Merrilee Rush (born January 26, 1940, Seattle, Washington, USA) is an American singer best known for her recording of the song "Angel of the Morning", a Top 10 charting song which earned her a Grammy nomination for Female Vocalist Of The Year in 1968.

    69 - Nancy Sinatra - Nancy Sandra Sinatra Jr (born June 8, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American singer and actress. She is the daughter of the legendary singer Frank Sinatra and his first wife Nancy Barbato.

    68 - Joan Baez - Joan Chandos Baez (born in Staten Island, NYC, USA, on January 9, 1941), folk singer.

    68 - Shirley Owens (born June 10, 1941, Henderson, North Carolina) was the member of the hit group, The Shirelles. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

    + Cass Elliot (September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & The Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing five studio albums. Elliot was found dead in her room in London from an apparent heart attack after two weeks of sold-out performances at the Palladium. In 1998, the four members of the group were inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    67 - Carole King - Carole King, born as Carole Klein (Brooklyn (New York), 9 februari 1942).

    67 - Aretha Franklin (March 25, 1942) is a Memphis, Tennessee-born but Detroit, Michigan-raised American iconic gospel, soul, and R&B singer. Many have called her “The Queen Of Soul” and “Lady Soul”. She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, and gospel. She is generally regarded as one of the best vocalists ever.

    67 - Barbra Streisand - Barbra Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theatre actress.

    + Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette (May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998), was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country music's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists.

    + Janis Joplin - Janis Lyn Joplin (Port Arthur (Texas), 19 januari 1943 – Los Angeles (Californië), 4 oktober 1970).

    66 - Cilla Black (born Priscilla Maria Veronica White on 27 May 1943) is a British singer, actress and television performer, origin from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, who has been successful as an entertainer from 1963 through the present day. She is most famous worldwide for her successful singles "Anyone Who Had A Heart" and "You're My World". After a successful recording career and a brief time as a comedy actress, she became the best paid female presenter in British television history.

    66 - Christine McVie - born Christine Anne Perfect, July 12, 1943, in Birmingham, Greenodd, Cumbria, England) is an English singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the band Fleetwood Mac.

    66 - Ronnie Spector (born Veronica Yvette Bennett, 10 August 1943, in New York City) was the lead singer of the 1960’s girl group The Ronettes, who most famously sang Be My Baby. She is the ex-wife of producer Phil Spector.

    66 - Joni Mitchell - Joni Mitchell, born as Roberta Joan Anderson (Fort Macleod (Alberta, Canada), 7 november 1943).

    65 - Françoise Hardy - Françoise Madeleine Hardy (née le 17 janvier 1944 à Paris).

    65 - Diana Ross (born Diana Ernestine Earle Ross; March 26, 1944, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 100 million records.

    65 - Patti LaBelle (born Patricia Louise Holt on May 24, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a hugely revered R&B/soul singer who fronted two moderately successful groups before rising to stardom as a solo artist in the late 1970s, influencing a new generation of female singers.

    65 - Nona Hendryx (born October 9, 1944 in Trenton, New Jersey) is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress. Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady Marmalade."

    65 - Anna McGarrigle, (born December 4, 1944, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Quebec) is a Canadian folk music singer/songwriter who writes and performs as a duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle with her sister Kate McGarrigle.

    65 - Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.), better known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music with equal conviction and power; and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis. She is best known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry".

    64 - Sally Carr (born Sarah Cecilia Young on 28 March 1945, in Muirhead, Lanarkshire). Lead singer of Middle of the Road were a Scottish pop group who enjoyed great success across Europe in the early 1970s.

    64 - Carly Simon - Carly Elisabeth Simon (New York City, 25 juni 1945).

    64 - Deborah Harry - Debbie Harry, american singer, born as Deborah Ann Harry (Miami, 1 juli 1945), lead singer of punk band Blondie .

    64 - Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945 in Pasadena, California) is an American singer-songwriter. She is noted for her distinctive, raspy voice which she attributes to many hours spent singing in smoky bars and clubs.

    64 - Bette Midler - Bette Davis Midler (born December 1, 1945).

    63 - Dolly Parton - Dolly Rebecca Parton (Sevierville (Tennessee), 19 januari 1946).

    63 - Kate McGarrigle, (born February 6, 1946, Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who writes and performs as a duo Kate & Anna McGarrigle with her sister Anna McGarrigle.

    63 - Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946, later adopted by Gilbert LaPierre) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, author and entertainer. Among her many career accomplishments in music, television and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards among others.

    63 - Linda Ronstadt - Linda Marie Ronstadt (Tucson (Arizona), 15 juli 1946).

    63 - Jane Birkin - Jane Mallory Birkin (born in London on December 14th, 1946) is an English actress, model, singer and film director who lives in France. She is best known for her duet "Je t'aime... moi non plus" with Serge Gainsbourg.

    62 - Marianne Faithfull - Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946).

    62 - Patti Smith - Patti Smith, Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946 in Chicago).

    + Sandy Denny, born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978), England.

    62 - Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk (born February 3, 1947, in Astoria, New York City) is an American singer-songwriter. Usually known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" and "What Have They Done To My Song Ma". Melanie has sold over 25 million records over the course of her career.

    62 - Sandie Shaw (born Sandra Ann Goodrich, 26 February 1947, Dagenham, Essex, England) is a British singer. She was, as described in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "the barefoot pop princess of the 1960s", owing to her distinctive penchant of performing on stage without shoes.

    62 - Jennifer Warnes - Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is a Grammy winning American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her rich soprano/contralto voice, her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.

    62 - Kiki Dee (born Pauline Matthews, 6 March 1947, Little Horton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) is a singer-songwriter, with a career that has lasted over 40 years.

    62 - Emmylou Harris - Emmylou Harris (Birmingham (Alabama), 2 april 1947).

    62 - Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, visual artist and musician. Laura Phillips Anderson was born June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States. She attended Mills College in California, and eventually graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, studying art history. In 1972, she obtained an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. She became more widely known in 1982 with the single “O Superman”.

    62 - Dolores Brooks (born June 20, 1947 in Brooklyn, NY) was a member of the girl group The Crystals.

    62 - Julie Covington (born 11 September 1947, London) is an English singer and actress, best known for recording the original version of "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina".

    + Mariska Veres (1 October 1947 - 2 December 2006) was a Dutch singer who was best known as the lead singer of the rock group Shocking Blue.

    62 - France Gall - France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris).

    + Minnie Riperton (Nov 8, 1947 - July 12, 1979).

    62 - Gigliola Cinquetti - Gigliola Cinquetti (b. 20 December 1947 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian singer.

    61 - Patty Pravo - Patty Pravo (born 9 April 1948 Venice, Italy) is the stage name of Italian pop singer Nicoletta Strambelli.

    61 - Kate Pierson - Catherine Elizabeth Pierson (born 27 April 1948 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52's. She also plays keyboard, guitar and bass for the band.

    61 - Grace Jones (born Grace Mendoza on May 19, 1948, in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a model, singer and actress.

    61 - Stevie Nicks - Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born on May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and has sold nearly 120 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics.

    61 - Olivia Newton-John born 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom is a British-born, Australian-raised singer and actress.

    61 - Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE, (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie on 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day. She is most famous worldwide for her hit "To Sir, With Love" and in the UK for "Shout".

    61 - Chi Coltrane (born on Nov 16, 1948 in Racine, Wisconsin) was an American singer/songwriter who entered the charts in many countries with her eponymous debut album by November of 1972.

    60 - Mary Weiss, born on December 28, 1948 in Jamaica, Queens, New York, found fame in the 1960s as the lead singer of The Shangri-Las.

    60 - Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines December 31, 1948, Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The Queen of Disco".

    60 - Véronique Sanson (full name, Veronique Marie Line Sanson, according to the ASCAP Songwriter's Database, born April 24, 1949, in Boulogne, near Paris, France) is a two-time Victoires de la Musique Award-winning French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer with an avid following in her native country.

    60 - Rory Block - Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American female blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style.

    60 - Bonnie Raitt - Bonnie Lynn Raitt (Burbank (Californië), 8 november 1949).


    (born between 1950 - 1960)

    59 - Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950, Pontardawe, Wales) is a Welsh folk singer. She is best known as one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label, and for her 1968 single "Those Were The Days".

    59 - Suzi Quatro (born Susan Kay Quatrocchio, June 3, 1950, Detroit, Michigan) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actress.

    59 - Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin, 11 June 1950, Cricklewood, London) is an English singer-songwriter.

    59 - Tina Weymouth (Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth) (born on November 22, 1950 in Coronado, California) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club.

    59 - Joan Armatrading - Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE, (born 9 December 1950, Basseterre, Saint Kitts, UK) is a British singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and the first female UK artist to have debuted at number 1 in the Billboards Blues charts. She is also the first female UK artist to be nominated for a Grammy in the blues category.

    58 - Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951) is an American country singer best known for a series of country-pop crossover hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". She accumulated 18 No. 1 country hits during the 1970s and 1980s. She is also famous for her nearly floor-length hair and was voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1983. She is the younger sister of singer Loretta Lynn (16 years younger).

    58 - Ellen Foley (born June 5, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American singer and actress, who has appeared on Broadway and television, where she co-starred in the sitcom Night Court. In music, she has released three solo albums but is best known for her collaborations with the singer Meat Loaf.

    58 - Bonnie Tyler - Bonnie Tyler (born June 8, 1951 in Skewen, Neath, South Wales, United Kingdom).

    58 - Chrissie Hynde - born Christine Ellen Hynde, 7 September 1951, Akron, Ohio, lead singer of The Pretenders.

    57 - Juice Newton (born Judith Kay Newton February 18, 1952 in Lakehurst, New Jersey is an American Pop music and Country singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as a CMA Award for Best New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively).

    + Nicolette Larson (July 17, 1952 – December 16, 1997, Helena, Montana, USA ) was an American singer best known for her 1978 cover of Neil Young's "Lotta Love".

    57 - Máire Ní Bhraonáin, better known as Máire Brennan or incorrectly/phonetically as Moya Brennan (born August 4, 1952, Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland), is a Grammy Award-nominated Celtic Folk singer. She began her singing career when her family formed the band Clannad in 1970.

    56 - Pat Benatar (born Patricia Mae Andrzejewski on January 10, 1953) is a four-time Grammy Award-winning American singer best known for her mezzo-soprano vocal range and establishing herself as one of rock's top vocalists and one of music's top-selling female artists with hit songs such as "Love Is a Battlefield"

    56 - Lucinda Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American rock, folk, and alt-country songwriter and singer. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she was named “America’s best songwriter” by TIME magazine in 2002.

    56 - Cyndi Lauper - Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper (born June 22, 1953).

    56 - Nanci Griffith - Nanci Caroline Griffith, born July 6, 1953, is an American singer, guitarist and songwriter from Austin, Texas, United States.

    ?? - Mary Margaret O'Hara, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, born on ??,??, 1954??.

    55 - Alice - Alice Visconti, born Carla Bissi in Forlì, Italy on September 26, 1954 is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971.

    55 - Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American vocalist, musician, songwriter, and producer from the United States. Over the course of a three-decade career, Jones has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, blues, pop, soul, and jazz standards.

    54 - Annie Lennox - Annie Lennox is an Oscar, Brit and Grammy award-winning pop musician and vocalist. She was born on December 25, 1954 in Aberdeen, Scotland. After three years as lead singer of The Tourists, Lennox achieved her most notable fame as the alto, soul-tinged lead singer of the 1980s rock duo Eurythmics with British musician David A. Stewart.

    54 - Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen on 11 March 1955) is a singer from East Berlin, Germany.

    54 - Jane Siberry - Jane Siberry, born October 12, 1955, Canada.

    53 - Julee Cruise - Julee Cruise (born 1 December 1956, in Creston, Iowa).

    52 - Loreena McKennitt - Loreena McKennitt (Morden (Manitoba) Canada, 17 februari 1957).

    52 - Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957 in Southwark, Southeast London, England), better known by her stage name, Siouxsie Sioux is a singer, best known as the vocalist of Siouxsie & The Banshees between 1976 and 1996.

    52 - Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Fajardo García; September 1, 1957, Havana, Cuba) is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide. She has won seven Grammy Awards, placing her among the most successful crossover performers in Latin music to date.

    52 - Toni Childs - Toni Childs (born October 29, 1957, from Orange, California).

    51 - Annabel Lamb (born ??/??/1958, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. She has released eight albums to date. Lamb had a British Top 30 hit in 1983 with her cover version of The Doors "Riders on the Storm", her only hit on the UK Singles Chart.

    51 - Meredith Brooks - Meredith Ann Brooks (born June 12, 1958 in Oregon, USA).

    51 - Kate Bush - Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958 in Bexleyheath, Kent, now part of Greater London, England, UK).

    51 - Madonna - Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Ritchie (Bay City (Michigan), 16 augustus 1958).

    51 - Siobhan Fahey (born Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey, 10 September 1958, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland) was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister.

    51 - Heidi Berry is an American singer-songwriter, born on ??/??/1958, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1991, Ivo Watts-Russell asked Berry to sing on the third album by This Mortal Coil, and over the next five years she recorded three albums for 4AD.

    51 - Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin September 22, 1958) is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock N' Roll".

    51 - Carmel (born Carmel McCourt, 24 November 1958, Wrawby, Lincolnshire, England) is a British female singer, her eponymous band Carmel uniting bassist Jim Parris, and drummer Gerry Darby.

    50 - Sade (pronounced “shah-day”) is a Grammy-winning, world-famous English group, which achieved success in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Sade Adu, (real name Helen Folasade Adu - born 16 January 1959 in Ibadan, Nigeria)

    50 - Susanna Hoffs (born Susanna Lee Hoffs, January 17, 1959) is a vocalist and rhythm guitarist for The Bangles.

    50 - Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr, 27 April 1959) is a pop singer originally from Bellshill, Scotland.

    50 - Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959, Santa Monica, California) is an American songwriter and singer known for her highly literate lyrics and eclectic folk-inspired music.

    50 - Eddi Reader - Eddi Reader MBE (born Sadenia Reader, 29 August 1959, Scottland).

    + Kirsty MacColl - Kirsty Anna MacColl (10 October 1959 – 18 December 2000) (aged 41) was an English singer-songwriter from Croydon, England.


    (born between 1960 - 1970)

    49 - Nena (born Gabriele Susanne Kerner, March 24, 1960, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) is a German singer and actress. She rose to international fame in 1984 with the New German Wave song "99 Luftballons".

    49 - Anne Clark - Anne Clark (born 14 May 1960, Croydon, London, England).

    49 - Sarah Brightman - Sarah Brightman, (Born: Aug 14, 1960 in Berkhampstead, England).

    49 - Aimee Mann - Aimee Mann (born September 8, 1960).

    49 - Jennifer Rush (born September 28, 1960, Queens, New York, US is an American German-based Pop/Rock singer, best known for the million-selling single "The Power of Love", which went on to be covered by Celine Dion

    49 - Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18 November 1960 in Chiswick, West London) is an English pop singer.

    48 - Cowboy Junkies - Margo Timmins (born January 27, 1961 in Montreal, Quebec).

    48 - Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian musician from Melbourne, singer and composer who gained international renown as part of the music group Dead Can Dance together with Brendan Perry.

    48 - Enya - Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin, born on 17 May 1961, Gaoth Dobhair, County Donegal, Ireland.

    48 - Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961 in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

    48 - Kim Deal - Kimberley Ann Deal (born June 10, 1961) is an American singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of the alternative rock band the Pixies.

    48 - Alison Moyet (born Genevieve Alison Jane Moyet, 18 June 1961), is an English pop singer-songwriter noted for her bluesy voice.

    48 - Mylène Farmer - Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author.

    48 - k.d. lang - Kathryn Dawn Lang, OC (born November 2, 1961).

    47 - Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock, country and pop into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards. Crow is also a left-wing political activist.

    47 - Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston, February 24, 1962, Dallas, Texas) is a U.S. singer-songwriter whose music and performances are influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style.

    47 - All About Eve - Julianne Regan (born 30 June 1962, Coventry, UK).

    47 - Joan Osborne - Joan Elizabeth Osborne (born July 8, 1962).

    47 - Tracey Thorn (born 26 September 1962), lead singer of duo Everything but the Girl, from Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

    + Eva Cassidy (Eva Marie Cassidy, February 2, 1963 in Washington, DC – November 2, 1996 in Bowie, Maryland) was an American vocalist described by the British newspaper The Guardian as "one of the greatest voices of her generation." She had a diverse repertoire of jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop. Cassidy remained virtually unknown outside of her native Washington, DC, when she died of melanoma (which had spread to her bones) in 1996.

    46 - Harriet Wheeler (born 26 June 1963) is the lead singer of the 1980s/1990s alternative rock band, The Sundays

    46 - Tori Amos - Myra Ellen Amos, born on August 22, 1963.

    46 - Elizabeth Fraser, born Elizabeth Davidson Fraser, August 29, 1963, Falkirk, Scotland and part of the group Cocteau Twins.

    46 - Natalie Merchant - Natalie Anne O'Shea Merchant (born October 26, 1963 in Jamestown, New York, U.S.) former lead singer and member of 10,000 Maniacs.

    45 - Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964) and known as Neneh Cherry is a two-time Grammy Award-nominated and MTV Europe Music Award-winning singer-songwriter and rapper.

    45 - Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964, origin from Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American singer–songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason", "The Promise" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.

    45 - Maria McKee - Maria Louise McKee, born on August 17, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, also known as lead singer of the band Lone Justice.

    45 - Patricia Lynn Yearwood, professionally known as Trisha Yearwood (born September 19, 1964, Monticello, Georgia, US) is an American country music artist. She is best known for her ballads about vulnerable young women from a female perspective that have been described by some music critics as "strong" and "confident."

    45 - Lou Rhodes (born as Louise Robinson, 1. November 1964 in Leeds), is an English singer and songwriter from Manchester, now living in Wiltshire. In addition to providing vocals and lyrics for the band Lamb.

    45 - Diana Krall, (born Diana Jean Krall, Nanaimo, British Columbia, November 16, 1964) is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian jazz pianist and singer. She is known for her contralto vocals.

    44 - Happy Rhodes - Kimberley Tyler Rhodes, born on August 9, 1965 in Poughkeepsie, New York.

    44 - Shania Twain, (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop artist. Her third album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music.

    44 - Björk - Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Reykjavik, 21 november 1965).

    43 - Alison Goldfrapp - Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp (born 13 May 1966) is an English soprano singer-songwriter with the duo Goldfrapp.

    43 - Tanya Donelly (born July 14, 1966, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh.

    43 - Martina McBride (born July 29, 1966, in Medicine Lodge, Kansas) is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is best-known for her inspirational-style ballads about women and children.

    43 - Kristin Hersh - Kristin Hersh (born August 7, 1966).

    43 - Shirley Manson - Shirley Ann Manson (born August 26, 1966) is a Scottish musician, the lead vocalist of the band Garbage. Manson is also the former keyboardist and backup singer with Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie, as well as the ex lead singer of Angelfish.

    43 - Sinéad O'Connor - Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor (Glenageary, 8 december 1966, Ireland).

    42 - Eleanor McEvoy (born 22 January 1967) is one of Ireland's most accomplished contemporary singer/songwriters. McEvoy composed the song Only A Woman's Heart, title track of A Woman's Heart, the best-selling Irish album in Irish history.

    42- Liz Phair - Elizabeth Clark Phair born on April 17, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

    42 - Heather Nova - Heather Allison Frith, born on July 6, 1967 in Bermuda.

    42 - Faith Hill (born Audrey Faith Perry on September 21, 1967) is an American country singer. Hill's voice (described as both soulful and raspy) and careful song selection have helped her to sell more than 40 million records and accumulate 8 number-one singles and 3 number-one albums on the Country charts.

    42 - Gillian Welch (born October 2, 1967 in New York City) is a singer-songwriter whose musical style combines elements of bluegrass, neotraditional country, Americana, old-time string band music, and folk into a rustic style that she dubs "American Primitive".

    42 - Sophie B. Hawkins - Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer and songwriter, born 1 November 1967, in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

    42 - Sharleen Spiteri - Sharleen Eugene Spiteri (born 7 November 1967 in Glasgow) lead singer of Texas.

    42 - Carla Bruni (born Carla Gilberta Bruni Tedeschi, December 23, 1967 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian-born, naturalized French songwriter, singer, former model and First Lady of France.

    41- Sarah McLachlan - Sarah Ann McLachlan, born January 28, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

    41 - Axelle Red - Axelle Red was born Fabienne Demal in Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium, on February 15, 1968

    41 - Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968 in Rockport, Massachusetts, USA) is an American singer and songwriter.

    41 - Kylie Minogue, Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress.

    41 - KatieJane Garside (born July 8, 1968) is a vocalist and lyricist who fronted the first incarnation of the band Daisy Chainsaw and sang guest vocals for the industrial act Test Department. After retiring from the music world temporarily, she now sings with Queen Adreena, an independent rock band from London. Ruby Throat’s debut album The Ventriloquist was released on 8th November 2007 in a limited run of only 500 copies.

    41 - Lori McKenna (born in Massachusetts, on December 22, 1968 as Lorraine Giroux) is an American folk singer/songwriter. She lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts with her husband and five children.

    40 - Tanita Tikaram (born 12 August 1969, Münster, Germany) is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter, best known for the hits "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart.

    40 - PJ Harvey - Polly Jean Harvey, born October 9, 1969 in Yeovil, United Kingdom.


    (born between 1970 - 1980)

    39 - Gabrielle - Louise Gabrielle Bobb (born April 16, 1970, London) is an English singer who records under the name Gabrielle.

    39 - Ani DiFranco (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970 in Buffalo, New York) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is a prolific artist, having released over twenty albums and is widely celebrated as a feminist icon.

    38 - Sara Evans (born Sara Lynn Evans, February 5, 1971 in New Franklin, Missouri) is an country singer and songwriter. Evans was one of the few traditional-styled singers to emerge from Nashville in the late 1990s, according to Allmusic. Since emerging from the late-90s, Evans has made four No. 1 Country hits and Gold and Platinum-certified albums.

    38 - Rachel Goswell (born 16 May 1971 in Fareham, England) is a singer-songwriter who was a vocalist with shoegazing pioneers Slowdive.

    38 - Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. During her career she has won 26 Grammy Awards, making her the most awarded female artist (and the third most awarded artist overall) in Grammy history.

    38 - Lisa Ekdahl (born July 29, 1971 in Mariefred, Sweden) is a Swedish singersongwriter. Her voice has been described as "child-like" and "soft, supple and smooth".

    38 - Dolores O'Riordan - Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (Burton) (born September 6, 1971) lead singer of The Cranberries.

    37 - Dido - Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, (born 25 December 1971, London).

    37 - Cat Power - Charlyn "Chan" Marshall (born Charlyn Marie Marshall on 21 January 1972).

    37 - Mindy Smith - Mindy Smith (born June 1, 1972 on Long Island, New York) is an American singer-songwriter.

    36 - Chantal Kreviazuk - Chantal Kreviazuk (born May 18, 1973, Winnipeg, Canada).

    36 - Jennifer Paige (born September 3, 1973, Marietta, Georgia, United States) is an American singer-songwriter who rose to stardom in the early years of 1990s teen-pop, and is best known for her 1998 pop hit "Crush".

    36 - Tara MacLean (born October 25, 1973 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

    35 - Imelda Mary Higham (born ??/??/1974), known as Imelda May and previously as her maiden name Imelda Clabby, is an Irish female vocalist from the Liberties, in Dublin, Ireland. Specialising in Rockabilly music, she has a repertoire of covers and self-penned songs.

    35 - Andrea Corr, (born Andrea Jane Corr, May 17, 1974) is the lead singer and writes most of the lyrics for the Irish folk-rock band The Corrs from Dundalk, Ireland. The group consists of the Corr siblings: Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle); Sharon (violin, vocals); Caroline (drums, percussion, bodhrán, vocals); and Jim (guitar, keyboards, vocals).

    35 - Jewel, born Jewel Kilcher, May 23, 1974, Payson, Utah, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and has sold twenty-seven million albums worldwide.

    35 - Alanis Morissette - Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974).

    35 - Nina Persson (born Nina Elisabet Persson, September 6, 1974 in Örebro, Sweden) is the lead singer and lyricist for the Swedish pop group The Cardigans.

    35 - Natalie Maines (born Natalie Louise Maines Pasdar, October 14, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band, the Dixie Chicks. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought."

    34 - Madeleine Peyroux (born 1974, Athens, Georgia, USA) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Peyroux is noted for her vocal style, which has been compared to that of Billie Holiday.

    34 - Natalie Imbruglia - Natalie Jane Imbruglia (born February 4, 1975, Australia).

    34 - Miranda Lee Richards - Miranda Lee Richards (born April 4, 1975) is an American singer-songwriter.

    34 - Anouk Teeuwe (born April 8, 1975) is a Dutch singer, professionally known as Anouk. Since 1997, she has released seven pop-rock albums.

    34 - Nerina Pallot - Nerina Pallot (born Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot, 26 April 1975, London).

    34 - KT Tunstall - Kate Victoria Tunstall better known as KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975 in St Andrews, Scotland) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist.

    34 - Keri Noble (born 1975) is an American singer-songwriter born in Fort Worth, Texas and raised in Detroit. Her father was a Baptist minister, and Noble sang in church as a child.

    33 - Emma Bunton - Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English pop singer, songwriter, radio presenter, and occasional actress. Bunton is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, the Spice Girls

    33 - Feist - Leslie Feist, (Amherst (Nova Scotia), 13 februari 1976, Canada).

    33 - Charlotte Martin - Charlotte Ann Martin (born March 29, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, who performs predominantly on the piano.

    33 - Noe Venable (born April 20, 1976 in San Francisco, California) is an experimental folk/pop singer-songwriter.

    33 - Kasey Chambers (born 4 June 1976, in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian alternative country singer-songwriter.

    33 - Leigh Nash - Leigh Bingham Nash (born 27 June 1976) is a singer, and composer, best known as the lead vocalist for the rock band Sixpence None the Richer.

    33 - Catherine Feeny (born ??/??/1976) is an American singer/songwriter based in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, studied in Washington, D.C., and finally relocated to Los Angeles, where she started seriously writing her own songs.

    32 - Kate Walsh - Kate Walsh es un cantautora inglesa de Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, born 2 february 1977.

    32 - Ilse Annoeska de Lange (born May 13, 1977, Almelo, Netherlands) is a Dutch country and pop singer, better known as Ilse DeLange.

    32 - Sarah Slean - Sarah Hope Slean (born on 21 June 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, painter, and photographer from Pickering, Ontario.

    32 - Lisa Knapp - Lisa Knapp (born July 21, 1977) hailed as one of Brit folk's brightest new young stars when she appeared with Wild and Undaunted in 2007.

    32 - Fiona Apple - Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart, born September 13, 1977, USA).

    32 - Rachael Yamagata - Rachael Yamagata (born on September 23, 1977 in Arlington, Virginia)

    32 - Tina Dico, (born Tina Dickow on October 14, 1977 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a singer and songwriter, inspired by artists such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

    32 - Imogen Heap - Imogen Heap (born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering) is a Grammy nominated English singer and songwriter from Romford, Havering.

    32 - Elisa Toffoli (born in Trieste, Italy, December 19, 1977) is an Italian singer, performing under the mononym Elisa. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica and trip hop.

    31 - Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.

    31 - Vienna Teng - Vienna Teng (born Cynthia Yih Shih on October 3, 1978) is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in New York City.

    31 - Karen Lee Orzolek, better known as Karen O, is the lead vocalist for the New York rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. She was born on November 22, 1978 in South Korea.

    31 - Nelly Furtado - Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978, Canada).

    30 - Erin McCarley (born January 15, 1979 in Garland, Texas) is an alternative music singer-songwriter.

    30 - Norah Jones - Norah Jones, born on March 30th 1979 in New York City.

    30 - Butterfly Boucher is an Australian singer/songwriter, born June 2, 1979. The name "Butterfly" was a suggestion from a friend of the family. Boucher currently resides in the United States in Nashville, Tennessee.

    30 - Kaki King - Kaki King (born August 24, 1979 as Katherine Elizabeth King) is an American guitar player and singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia.

    30 - Geike Arnaert is the former lead singer of the Belgian pop group Hooverphonic. Born on 13 September 1979, Westouter, Belgium.

    30 - Bat for Lashes - Bat for Lashes is the pseudonym of British musician Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), a Brighton-based songwriter.

    30 - Sara Bareilles - Sara Beth Bareilles (born December 7, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Bareilles was born and raised in Eureka, California.

    30 - Ingrid Michaelson (born Ingrid Ellen Michaelson, 8 December 1979, NY) is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter best known for her single "The Way I Am."


    (born between 1980 - 1990)

    29 - Regina Spektor - Regina Spektor (Moskou, 18 februari 1980)

    29 - Vanessa Carlton - Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American soft rock / pop singer, songwriter, and pianist.

    29 - Lene Marlin - Lene Marlin Peterson (August 17, 1980 in Tromso, Norway).

    28 - Lisa Hannigan (born Lisa Margaret Hannigan, 12 February 1981, Kilcloon, County Meath, Ireland) is an Irish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has led to much success, critical praise, airplay and award nominations in her native Ireland and, more recently, in the United States.

    28 - Brandi Carlile (b. June 1, 1981, in Ravensdale, Washington) is an American singer and songwriter. Carlile’s music has been categorized in several genres, including pop, rock, alternative country, and folk.

    27 - Amy Lynn Hartzler (b. December 13, 1981, Riverside, California, U.S.), better known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence.

    27 - Meiko (pronounced MEE-ko), born on February 25, 1982 is an American singer/songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia and currently residing in Los Angeles, California.

    27 - Kelly Clarkson (born Kelly Brianne Clarkson, April 24, 1982, Fort Worth, Texas, United States) is an American pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002.

    27 - LeAnn Rimes, (born Margaret LeAnn Rimes, August 28, 1982, Pearl, Mississippi, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy Cline, and her rise to fame at the age of 13, becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.

    26 - Carrie Underwood (Carrie Marie Underwood, born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer and songwriter from Checotah, Oklahoma. She rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol. She has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist, a multiple Grammy Award winner, was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, and is the reigning Academy of Country Music Awards Entertainer of The Year.

    26 - Alela Diane - Alela Diane Menig (b. April 20, 1983, Nevada City, California, USA) is an American singer and songwriter, who is associated with the psych folk.

    26 - Michelle Branch (born July 2, 1983, Sedona, Arizona, USA ) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

    26 - Missy Higgins (born Melissa Morrison Higgins on August 19, 1983, in Melbourne, Australia) is one of Australia’s most popular female singer-songwriters.

    26 - Amy Winehouse - Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983 in London) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including soul, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm and blues.

    26 - Miranda Lambert - Miranda Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star.

    25 - Priscilla Ahn (born Priscilla Natalie Hartranft, March 9, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. She currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

    25 - Katharine McPhee (Katharine Hope McPhee, born March 25, 1984) is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, actress, model, and television personality. She gained fame as a contestant on the fifth season of the Fox reality show American Idol in 2006, eventually finishing as the runner-up.

    25 - Anna Nalick - Anna Christine Nalick (born March 30, 1984, in Glendora, California), is an U.S. singer-songwriter.

    25 - Jessie Baylin is a Nashville based singer/songwriter born April 4, 1984, in Gillette, New Jersey.

    25 - Mandy Moore - Amanda Leigh "Mandy" Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American singer–songwriter, actress and fashion designer.

    25 - Duffy - Aimée Ann Duffy (born 23 June 1984), better known by her stage name Duffy, is a Welsh singer-songwriter.

    25 - Katie Melua - Ketevan "Katie" Melua (Georgia, born 16 September 1984).

    25 - Avril Lavigne - Avril Ramona Lavigne Whibley (Belleville, Ontario, 27 september 1984).

    25 - A Fine Frenzy - Alison Sudol (born December 23, 1984), known professionally as A Fine Frenzy is an American alternative singer-songwriter and pianist.

    24 - Melody Gardot (born February 2, 1985 in New Jersey) is an American jazz singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was disabled at 19 after being struck by a car while riding her bicycle and began writing music after using music to aid her recovery.

    24 - Lily Allen - Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English pop music singer and songwriter.

    23 - Maria Mena (Maria Viktoria Mena, Oslo, Norway, February 19, 1986) is a Norwegian pop-rock singer-songwriter, born into an artistic family, her mother, a playwright and her father, a drummer. Both Maria and her brother Tony are named after characters from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story. Her mother is Norwegian and her father is Nicaraguan.

    23 - Susanne Sundfør (born 19 March 1986, Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She is the granddaughter of language researcher Kjell Aartun. She currently resides in Oslo.

    22 - Kate Nash - Kate Marie Nash (born 6 July 1987) is an English singer-songwriter based in London.

    22 - Amy Macdonald - Amy Macdonald (Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, 25 augustus 1987).

    22 - Florence + The Machine - Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28th August 1987), London, England, UK.

    21 - Adele - Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, born 5 May 1988, is an English soul/jazz singer.

    20 - Sonya Kitchell (Sonya D. Kitchell, born March 1, 1989 in Northampton, Massachusetts) is an American jazz singer-songwriter.

    20 - Taylor Swift - Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress.


    (born after 01/01/1990)

    19 - Laura Marling - Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990), is a folk-pop, singer-songwriter from Hampshire, England

    19 - Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990), is an Austrian artist better known with her experimental musical project name Soap&Skin. She grew up in a small village called Gnas in south east Styria, where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. In 2008 she played German singer Nico in the play "Nico - Sphinx auf Eis" by Werner Fritsch in Berlin and Vienna.


    (not listed)
    (because no favourites of mine).

    Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, ...
    Anastacia, Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Paris Hilton, ...
    Britney Spears, Christina Aquilera, Shakira, ...
    Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, ...
    and all other girls alike.
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  • Days of the week songs!

    Set 30 2009, 3h42 por suikodee

    This sounds like a fun song title exercise... alright here we go:

    Sunday
    Maroon 5 - TocarSunday Morning
    The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
    Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
    No Doubt - TocarSunday Morning
    U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Monday
    Carpenters - TocarRainy Days And Mondays
    The Mamas & The Papas - TocarMonday, Monday
    New Order - TocarBlue Monday

    Tuesday
    Lynyrd Skynyrd - TocarTuesday's Gone
    The Moody Blues - TocarTuesday Afternoon
    The Rolling Stones - TocarRuby Tuesday

    Wednesday
    Simon & Garfunkel - TocarWednesday Morning, 3 A.M.

    Thursday
    David Bowie - TocarThursday's Child

    Friday
    The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

    Saturday
    Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
    Chicago - TocarSaturday in the Park
    Elton John - TocarSaturday Night's Alright For Fighting
    Kaiser Chiefs - Saturday Night
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - TocarCome Saturday
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  • Divagações Sonoras #5 - Pet Shop Boys - Yes: Comentários faixa-a-faixa

    Set 7 2009, 22h41 por RaulRoque


    Pet Shop Boys - Yes: Comentários faixa-a-faixa
    Por Raul Roque - São Paulo/SP - 07 de Setembro de 2009

    A última edição da revista Literally (disponível para membros do fã clube do Pet Shop Boys) apresenta um tópico sobre as músicas do álbum "Yes" e "Yes, etc." Segue abaixo alguns trechos a respeito das canções produzidas pelo Xenomania:

    Yes:

    1. TocarLove etc.
    Brian Higgins; Chris Lowe; Miranda Cooper; Neil Tennant; Owen Parker; Tim Powell

    Chris Lowe: Esse é um exemplo do que Brian [Higgins] e Miranda [Cooper] estavam fazendo em seu projeto particular. Quando nós escutamos, achei que tinha soado muito moderno. Gostei do acorde quase "trance", feito em um ritmo misturado, que achei realmente incomum - ela possui o elemento edificante do "trance" sem ser "trance". Também, quando os tambores chegam, ela soa bastante forte. Tudo já estava lá, exceto o trecho depois do primeiro refrão.

    Neil Tennant: Eu estava prestes a dizer para o Brian Higgins, "Nós podemos ter essa música animada?" que, eu precisei ser honesto, não conseguia lembrar particularmente o nome. Eu gostei de todas as músicas que soaram um pouco como New Order, uma delas eu acho que se tornou "The Loving Kind".


    2. All over the world
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant; Peter Tchaikovsky

    Neil: Essa foi a última música a ser escrita de todo o álbum. O título dela no início era "I'm Not Crying, I'm Laughing".

    Chris: A música dos versos é a mesma, mas com uma melodia diferente. E o que não estava lá era o refrão. Ela era um pouco "New Jack Swing". O que nós estávamos tentando fazer era algo parecido com esse ritmo de uma gravação que ouvimos no México.

    Neil: O Xenomania estava até feliz com essa outra música. De fato, depois que "All Over The World" tinha terminado, fomos chamados por Brian e ele estava sentado por lá, sussurrando "I'm Not Crying, I'm Laughing" pra ele mesmo. Mas depois que demos um tempo em Agosto, decidimos que "I'm Not Crying, I'm Laughing" era um lixo total. Então nós fomos até o estúdio com Tim do Xenomania e - influenciados pelo jeito que o Xenomania trabalha - tiramos todas as letras e o vocal.

    Chris: Eu pensei, "Por que não colocar a sequência de acordes de Nutcracker?". E então ela decolou.

    Neil: Foi uma sessão de gravação realmente boa - isso tudo aconteceu em duas ou três horas.

    Chris: Foi muito, muito bom. Nós pensamos, "Meu Deus, isso é bom". Qual foi a famosa frase que Brian disse sobre ela?

    Neil: "Você acabou de fazer o álbum 10% melhor."

    Neil: Então eu cheguei com a melodia do verso à la David Bowie: "There's something... that look in your eyes tonight..." Eu estava de repente relembrando David Bowie. Chris e Tim [Powell] também gastaram um bom tempo trabalhando no ritmo dela.

    Chris: Tim realmente aprimorou o ritmo pra cima, fez dela 4x4.


    3. Beautiful people
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Neil: Brian Higgins, quando nós tocamos pra ele as músicas que havíamos escrito, gostou demais dessa música.

    Chris: Ela foi feita inteiramente por nós.

    Neil: Eu sempre penso na nossa demo como sendo algo um pouco mais "folk".

    Chris: Ela não soou "folk" pra mim. A meta original era pra ser R'n'B. Ela possui uns acordes bastante comoventes. O arranjo exato já estava lá.

    Neil: De qualquer forma, folk e soul se encontraram nos The Mamas & The Papas e, ainda nesse estágio, os vocais de fundo eram pra ser como The Mamas & The Papas. Quando nós escrevemos essa música, amei ela demais. Na demo eu faço um solo de guitarra - nós não mantivemos isso, infelizmente.

    4. TocarDid you see me coming?
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    "Did You See Me Coming?" foi primeiramente escolhida como single devido aos entusiasmos da equipe de promoção radiofônica da Parlophone, que sentiu que ela poderia ter um bom espaço nos rádios. Antes do "Yes" ser lançado, Neil e Chris consideraram ela atípica pra ser um single, pensando que "All Over The World" e "Pandemonium" eram escolhas mais óbvias.

    Neil: Eu estava preocupado porque o título havia soado obsceno. Essa não foi minha intenção. Minha mãe costumava dizer "eles devem ter visto você chegando" se você tivesse burlado alguma coisa. Isso surgiu daí. A música é sobre alguém entrando em um bar, vendo alguém e pensando "Deus, eu realmente gosto deles, eu poderia passar o resto da minha vida com eles."

    Chris: Não foi isso que o Brian disse?

    Neil: ... Sim, que ela estava 80% lá. Ele sempre gostou do trecho em que o canto gregoriano surge, porque é um pouco inesperado. Ele disse, "Oh, isso é lindo". Nós colocamos Johnny Marr nela, com a guitarra, e eles reforçaram o ritmo. Mas ela é uma das que soam similares às originais. É o mesmo vocal da demo.

    Chris: Bons improvisos no final.

    Neil: Eu estou dando 110% nos improvisos. Este sou eu pensando, "O que Dusty Springfield faria?"


    5. Vulnerable
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Chris: Essa é outra que tocamos pro Brian na nossa primeira visita - audição, eu digo.

    Neil: A demo estava na verdade em tom diferente. Nós colocamos ela pra baixo porque eu não conseguia cantá-la. Eles meio que intensificaram ela. Nick Gatfield (Presidente da A&R da EMI) queria que ela fosse em dueto, e havia a discussão de que poderia ser com a Carla Bruni, que foi idéia de Dave Dorrell. Eu consigo imaginar ela cantando sim. A música é cantada a partir do ponto de vista de uma mulher que conhecemos.

    Neil: A guitarra é na verdade um "sample" do Chris. Eu gostei porque eu sempre senti que ela soou muito francesa, um pouco como "Voyage Voyage" ou algo parecido. Acho que ela tem uma melodia particularmente bonita. O tipo de melodia que nós escrevemos que é justamente tida como a certa, realmente. Mas às vezes eu penso se a idéia toda está ultrapassada hoje em dia.

    6. More than a dream
    Brian Higgins; Chris Lowe; Jason Resch; Kieran Jones; Miranda Cooper; Neil Tennant

    Neil: Ela era originalmente chamada "Where The Wild Things Are", que era um título ruim, e ela teve diversas modificações. Houve um momento que ela quase foi descartada. Embora Brian tenha dito que ela tinha uma introdução de um "hit". Eu acho que provavelmente ela tenha - se fossem as Girls Aloud, provavelmente seria um. Eu fiquei preocupado porque ela era muito o que não somos para estar em um dos nossos álbuns. Mas num determinado momento, exatamente quando estávamos quase a ignorando, Chris foi ao andar de cima e escreveu a melodia a partir de "Coming soon, something good" e eu amei.

    Neil: E o Brian amou a melodia vinda depois da introdução, porque ela é bem alegre. De novo, é muito francesa. Ela me lembrou de algumas gravações francesas dos anos oitenta como "TocarEtienne." Chris também escreveu essa outra parte - aonde vai "Driving through the night, just you and me..." - que Miranda e eu havíamos escrito quando a música ainda era "Where The Wild Things Are". Nós sempre chamamos essa parte como o trecho da Belinda Carlisle. Eu acho que para o refrão, Miranda escreveu a transição lírica e eu, as letras. Nos versos, eu tinha a idéia de "coming soon, something good", e então no segundo verso, Miranda e eu escrevemos juntos. Portanto, é uma verdadeira colaboração. Brian se envolveu muito na estrutura dela.

    7. Building a wall
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Neil: A pessoa que gostou dessa música foi o Brian Higgins. Ainda quando ela havia terminado, Chris e eu pensamos na idéia de deixar ela de lado.

    Chris: A música de fundo passou por uma grande reformulação. Ela passa de "trance" - a melodia dos versos foi feita a partir de uma melodia que depois nós colocamos nela - e então ela vira "rock".

    Neil: Johnny Marr toca um som estranho de guitarra - nós falamos pra ele tocar como Robert Fripp em "TocarHeroes". Ela é a música favorita do Stuart Price do álbum.

    Chris: Minha voz está nela porque o Neil pediu. Não foi idéia minha.

    Neil: Achei que "protection, prevention..." seria bom com duas vozes.

    Chris: Estou feliz por poder cumprir o favor.


    8. King of Rome
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Neil: Eu tinha uma idéia sobre escrever a respeito do Rei de Roma, que foi o filho de Napoleão. Ele não tinha família, era solitário e não conhecia seu pai. Ele justamente parecia um incrível símbolo de solidão e exílio. Estava escrevendo as letras para "King of Rome", quase todas, quando de repente pensei que ela poderia ser sobre o "Rei do Pop" ao invés disso. Estava pensando que trágica figura Michael Jackson é, eternamente vagando pelo mundo. Brian Higgins não gostou da hipótese dela poder ser sobre Michael Jackson, e quando eu contei pra ele como originalmente ela era chamada, ele disse "Sim, nós iremos voltar a chamar ela de 'Rei de Roma'." Na verdade, ele costumava chamar ela de "Baby Come Back To Me".

    Chris: Ou "It Couldn't Be More Tragic" - esse era o seu outro título pra ela. A música nunca realmente mudou. Eu esperava uma produção maior pra ela, mas o Brian gostou como ela era. É simplesmente um "loop" de tambores.


    9. Pandemonium
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Neil: Diferente do resto do álbum, "Pandemonium" foi escrita no ano anterior, em 2007, quando estávamos escrevendo músicas para a Kylie Minogue.

    Chris: Eu acho que ela é uma música muito boa à la "Estamos bêbados e rindo com nossos amigos". Ela tem essa sensação do "glam rock" dos anos 70.

    Neil: Johnny Marr gostou desse fato.

    Chris: Johnny toca a gaita, que nós desconhecíamos que ele sabia tocar. Ele foi até o porta-malas do seu carro e de repente a pegou.

    Neil: Pegamos algumas pessoas do Xenomania pra fazer os "ooh"s e o "It's Pandemonium", incluindo Bob Stanley do Saint Etienne.

    10. The way it used to be
    Brian Higgins; Chris Lowe; Miranda Cooper; Neil Tennant; Nick Coler

    Neil: É provável que essa nunca seja um single, porque é muito longa e uma música difícil de se editar, porque a história é a história.

    Chris: Essa era uma música do Xenomania. Eu amei absolutamente a primeira vez que escutei, e eu apressadamente a levei pro andar de cima.

    Neil: Ela seria em dueto. Nós pensamos em chamar Tina Turner. Mas não o fizemos. Miranda e eu tínhamos a idéia de que ela seria como um filme. É a história de um relacionamento - no começo, duas pessoas se encontram novamente depois de um longo tempo, para então terem uma grande nostalgia do início de sua relação, quando eles primeiro se apaixonaram. Miranda e eu sentamos e escrevemos a história. Eles estavam de férias em Roma e então viajaram pra Manchester. Logo em seguida, se mudaram pra Nova Iorque, um erro fatal, e a relação deles começou a decair, para então um deles se mudar pra Los Angeles. No fim, eles se encontram de novo, e eles estão voltando um pro outro.

    Chris: Um final feliz?

    Neil: Para denotar isso, no final da música eu queria ter mudado o tom, mas soou um pouco neutro. Não funcionou.

    Chris: Tierce de Picardie.

    Neil: O que é isso?

    Chris: É quando você repentinamente termina em acorde maior.


    11. Legacy
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    O governo chinês (Departamento Geral de Admissão de Imprensa e Publicação) não aprovou a distribuição de "Legacy" na China. O Pet Shop Boys sugeriu que, melhor do que removê-la do disco, eles deveriam ao invés disso incluí-la como instrumental.

    Neil: É interessante ser confrontado com a realidade do que aconteceu com ela. Eu acho que tendo a música em instrumental dá certo. Isso só faz recordar que a China é um país totalitário. É interessante porque a China é até libertária quanto à expressão artística, desde que não seja política.

    Neil: Retornando ao livro "The Rest Is Noise", eu li sobre um acorde chamado "The Tritone", que costumava ser, na idade média, diabólico. É uma combinação particular de notas, uma tríade maior com um quinto achatado, então isso dá uma nota que não pertence ao tom, e tem uma qualidade impressionante. Eu estava também escutando a trilha sonora do Jonny Greenwood para o filme "There Will Be Blood". Mas Chris havia começado a escrever a música de "Legacy".

    Chris: Ela é um pouco mais tônica, mas foi inspirada em acordes interessantes que não eram acordes pop. A parte engraçada da música é a valsa. É um lançamento enorme. Valsas são bastante excitantes, eu acho. Valsas são exuberantes. E foi muito legal gravá-la - havia tambores e chocalhos. Quando nós fazemos a valsa, é uma valsa vienense. Foi idéia do Neil.

    Neil: Eu estava pensando se Roxy Music tem alguma valsa. Tem em uma faixa deles no seu quarto álbum ["Bitter-Sweet"]. Eu achei que era fantasticamente pretensioso fazer isso - ir por meio de uma valsa e então cantar em francês.


    Yes, Etc.

    1. This Used to Be the Future
    Chris Lowe; Neil Tennant

    Quando o Pet Shop Boys achou que o álbum havia soado um pouco longo, depois de tocar na gravadora nos estúdios da Abbey Road, eles decidiram tirar a música "This Used To Be The Future". Ela estava originalmente entre "King of Rome" e "Pandemonium".

    Neil: Eu tinha o título "This Used To Be The Future" na minha agenda por um bom tempo. E também a idéia de escrever uma música sobre o jeito como o futuro era para ser, e como isso na realidade se desdobrou. Quando era uma criança nos anos sessenta, havia aquela idéia de um futuro glorioso em que uma cidade planejada por Le Corbusier faria viagens espaciais, e tudo seria racional e liberal. Percebi um dia sobre essa combinação de Irã, quer dizer, de religião fundamentalista e tecnologia nuclear. Você também tem esse potencial no Paquistão. E havia um dialeto acontecendo em que, algo que vem de um absoluto processo de racionalismo [Tecnologia] ganhou força juntamente com o fundamentalismo [Religião]. E isso nunca era pra ter sido o futuro. Na verdade, o passado se tornou o futuro. Eu não quis passar tudo de novo sobre fundamentalismo nela, mas eu quis salientar esse ponto bem no final - que termina com o "amém".

    Neil: Nós também pensamos em chamar o Bernard Sumner para cantar a melodia que soa como Bernard, embora no final nós não tenhamos chamado ele porque talvez isso pudesse parecer anos oitenta demais ter Bernard Sumner, Neil Tennant e Phil Oakey cantando uma música. Então Bernard foi substituido por Chris Lowe.

    Chris: [Phil Oakey] fez alguns estilos diferentes de vocal. Ele disse, "Você quer que eu tente meu vocal Iggy Pop?" Que é o que está na versão oficial da música.

    Quando eles decidiram criar o álbum que em seguida se tornou o "Yes, Etc.", Neil e Chris pediram ao Xenomania para trabalhar em alguns mixes. O Pet Shop Boys escolheu 6 das músicas do álbum para serem remixadas. "Nós ficamos lá por dois dias", diz Neil. (O Pet Shop Boys não pôde ficar por lá para remixar as duas últimas músicas e essa é a razão pela qual eles são creditados como co-remixers dessas.)

    Fonte: Xenomania News - Pet Shop Boys discuss "Yes" track-by-track
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  • Best Albums of the Sixties (1960-1969)

    Ago 17 2009, 19h05 por thomas10

    1969;

    1 Funkadelic - Funkadelic
    2 The Rolling Stones - LET IT BLEED
    3 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
    4 James Brown - Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud
    5 The Stooges - The Stooges
    6 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
    7 Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
    8 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
    9 Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
    10 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
    11 Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails
    12 Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
    13 The Beatles - Abbey Road
    14 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
    15 Fleetwood Mac - English Rose


    1968;

    1 Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
    2 The Beatles - The Beatles (White Album)
    3 Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
    4 The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
    5 Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
    6 The Rolling Stones - BEGGARS BANQUET
    7 Nico - Chelsea Girl
    8 Dr. John - Gris-Gris
    9 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
    10 Big Mama Thornton - Ball N' Chain
    11 Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
    12 The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
    13 The Everly Brothers - Roots
    14 Traffic - Traffic
    15 Ray Barretto - Acid


    1967;

    1 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
    2 Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
    3 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
    4 Tim Buckley - Goodbye and Hello
    5 The Doors - The Doors
    6 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    7 Fred Neil - Fred Neil
    8 Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
    9 The Doors - Strange Days
    10 Love - Forever Changes
    11 Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again
    12 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
    13 Sun Ra - Atlantis
    14 The Beau Brummels - Triangle
    15 Magic Sam - West Side Soul


    1966;

    1 The Beatles - Revolver
    2 Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
    3 The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    4 Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
    5 The Rolling Stones - AFTERMATH
    6 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
    7 Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
    8 The Kinks - Face To Face
    9 John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton
    10 Them - Them Again
    11 Paul Revere & the Raiders - Midnight Ride
    12 Tim Hardin - Tim Hardin 1
    13 The Mamas & The Papas - If You Can't Believe Your Eyes and Ears
    14 Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
    15 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Breakout...!!!


    1965;

    1 Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
    2 The Beatles - Rubber Soul
    3 The Rolling Stones - OUT OF OUR HEADS
    4 Horace Silver - Song For My Father
    5 The Zombies - The Zombies (Featuring She's Not There and Tell Her No)
    6 The Who - My Generation
    7 The Kinks - You Really Got Me
    8 Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch
    9 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Going To A Go-Go
    10 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run The Game
    11 The Beatles - Help!
    12 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
    13 Jackie Wilson - Soul Time
    14 Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1
    15 The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today!


    1964;

    1 Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at the Star Club, Hamburg
    2 John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
    3 Terry Callier - The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier
    4 Dusty Springfield - A Girl Called Dusty
    5 Solomon Burke - Rock 'N' Soul
    6 Sam Cooke - Ain't That Good News
    7 The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones
    8 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go?
    9 Jacques Brel - Olympia 64
    10 Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
    11 Skip James - Greatest of the Delta Blues Singers
    12 The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
    13 Mississippi Fred McDowell - My Home Is In The Delta
    14 The Rolling Stones - 12 X 5
    15 Charles Aznavour - La mamma


    1963;

    1 Sam Cooke - Night Beat
    2 John Barry - From Russia With Love
    3 Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
    4 Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
    5 Link Wray - Jack the Ripper
    6 Sam Cooke - Live At The Harlem Square Club
    7 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
    8 Mississippi John Hurt - Avalon Blues
    9 Ravi Shankar - India's Master Musician
    10 Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
    11 The Beatles - With the Beatles
    12 Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
    13 Jackie McLean - One Step Beyond
    14 The Beatles - Please Please Me
    15 Roy Orbison - In Dreams


    1962;

    1 James Brown - Live At The Apollo
    2 Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Wolf (The Rockin' Chair Album)
    3 Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
    4 Odetta - Odetta and the blues
    5 Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream
    6 Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
    7 Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya
    8 Ben E. King - Don't Play That Song
    9 Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
    10 Booker T. & The MG's - Green Onions
    11 Dick Dale - Surfer's Choice
    12 Roy Orbison - Crying
    13 Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
    14 John Lee Hooker - Burnin'
    15 The Drifters - Save The Last Dance For Me


    1961;

    1 Nina Simone - Forbidden Fruit
    2 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - An Electrifying Evening With The Dizzy Gillespie Quintet
    3 Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee's Greatest!
    4 Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special
    5 Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Newport
    6 Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
    7 Elvis Presley - Elvis Is Back
    8 Bill Evans - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
    9 Duke Ellington with Count Basie's Orchestra - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
    10 Quincy Jones - The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones: Live!
    11 Bobby Vee - Bobby Vee
    12 Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
    13 Bobby "Blue" Bland - Two Steps From the Blues
    14 Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk
    15 Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem


    1960;

    1 Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters at Newport
    2 Miriam Makeba - Miriam Makeba
    3 Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain
    4 Ike & Tina Turner - The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner
    5 Link Wray - Link Wray & the Wraymen
    6 John Lee Hooker - The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker
    7 Etta James - At Last!
    8 Eric Dolphy - Out There
    9 Oscar Brown Jr - Sin & Soul
    10 James Brown - Please Please Please
    11 John Coltrane - Giant Steps
    12 Joan Baez - Joan Baez
    13 Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
    14 Gil Evans Orchestra - Out of the Cool
    15 Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes!


    See also;
    Best Albums of The Late Fifties;
    http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29

    Best albums of The Seventies;
    http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29

    Best Albums of the Eighties;
    http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29

    Best Albums of The Nineties;
    http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y25kn_best_albums_of_the_nineties_%281990-1999%29

    Best Albums of The Noughties;
    http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29
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