My Music Memories: The Year Of The Cat of Al Stewart

https://youtu.be/cqZc7ZQURMs

Sounds a lot like bakerstreet of gerry rafferty (more well known) . But the solos and the violins ar3 great.

My Music Memories : Everyone Is A Winner

This song is really from long time ago, when I was a kid listening to the radio and it chartslists. So I heard hits from Hot Choclade like this one. At that time there were more groups that sound like soul, disco , funk, ???, I liked Hot Choclade because of the great guitarist that maked the songs less from smooth. Everyone Is A Winner is proberly the most rocky funk they every made, I love it and played air guitar every time I heard it on thr radio. It was not really air guitar, because I made myself an guitar from Card board,  a long small flat piece of wood and a button  of a doorbell. I used viltstifts to color my guitar and was quite happy  with the result. Hot Choclade made another great song, called Emma, the story behind it, the way the guitar plays during the song, the way they sing it, well it still makes me sad. And we all love happy memories, don 't we ? That's way I choose Winner instead of Emma...

Airguitar hero !!!

My music memories: Wunderbar of Tubler (?) Tudor

Another fun song I remembered after I got the idea of the Bad Manner song. "Wunderbar" is not from a German rockband, only the title is in German. Tumble Tudor was just an Scotsvh (?) band. Wunderbar can both be shouted and whistle at the samw time, not very common in a sing-a-long song.

Any nice covers on yt ??

Fan Of AC/DC

This is maybe just an update on the post I made about Thunderstruck a big hit for AC/DC . I liked the band, but the first frontman was much better than the 2nd one. No matter how hard he tried to sound like the 1st one. I bought Let There Be Rock because of the hit the album is named after and of course Whole Lotta Rosie, with that classic guitarriff. AC/DC did use variations of the same riff in other songs, but there can only one Whole Lotta Rosie.  I am not sure why I bought the 2nd album Powerage. I guess I liked the 1st one so much, the 2nd could not be worse. That was true, Downpayment Blues for example, neverless it doesnt had hits. The most radiofriendly song Rock n Roll Damnation was not catchy enough, a bit boring really. I still want to create a mix with the best parts of every song on both CDs, I had to find time to listen, selecting, cutting, sorting and mixing it. One thing I am sure about,  there will be no animated video. I did it for Bit Trip Mad Mix and for Life Is Strange The Decision. Good ideas and so much time to create video thats not boring . It made me hate a lot of video editors, video converters . I will always remember AC/DC as band that played rock n roll like a real hard rock band.I dont have listen to other albums yet, maybe I will and become a real fan. After these 2 CDs I never bought other musics of them. Did I inform you about I dont like how the 2nd frontman sings ?

Let There Be Rock / Powerage

Let There Be Rock , Whole Lotta Rosie

Rock n Roll Damnation others ? 

search for life versions of the songs

I wanted the create a mix of both albums witg the best parts. But a compiled live album with all songs of both albums should be fine too. I had a couple mp3 from old live concerts somewhere.

My Music Memories: Synth Wave / Retro Wave

I told you earlier at the end of 2016, I discovered a new music genre.

In November 2016 I was browsing on mix.dj in the newest mixes and found a mix with a letterfont as it came straight from the 80s. So I checked it out and fell in love with the music.

The mix was called Night Ride FM and was interupted a lot by a female host who tried to be witty. According to the DJ FRANK the music was a mix of Synthwave, Indietronica or New Retro Wave.
Well, the music style is not new of course, it's just the sound of the 80s into the 21th century. But all are new tracks and not just re-edited originals.

One of my favorite artists in this genre is The Midnight, their album Endless Summer is absolutly a must if you like the 80s as much as I do.

I like instrumental music and a lot of these so called Synthwave or Retro Wave is instrumental too. It's also inspired by music from videogames so that is no suprise.

Lately I saw the movie Drive on TV, the action was ok, but the movie seems a bit unfinished. However the music was fantastic in 80s style, so I though the movie came
from the 80s too. According to wiki it was a movie from 2011 !!!

There are a few YouTubers who make long mixes full of the latest Synthwave Retro Wave.



So check these favorites of mine:


ThePrimeThantos
Gelbar
BadJays 
Nightride FM

Want more ? Check YouTube on Synthwave or Retro Wave.
You can see also the 80s style in the pictures and animations in these mixes. Like the picture on the right.

Never published ??

Why ??

My Music Memories : country house

Country and house.

The grid, cotton eye joe and maybe 1 more I forgot.

Best rocksong ever?

Paradise by the dashboard light

Black betty

Mister blue sky

Music

My Music Memories : I Got Five On It by Luniz (featuring Michael Marshall)

This is probably the one rap or hiphop song in this series of music memories. I guess I Still liked it because the music and refrain are better than the whole rapping thing. It is a kind of Tublar Bells in a the hiphop-version . Without the haunted refrain sang by Michael Marshall 
( NO NOT the same guy who sang in the same way, the refrein of Gangsta Paradise of Snoop Dogg, that's L.V.)

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I would forget the song soon, but now... It stayed for days in my head and there also an MSX Moonblaster version made by Silence. Too bad he was a bit lazy and made only a loop with the bells and the bass, so no refrain...I had tried to create in Moonblaster the refrain which should sound a bit the same, but it was so hard to create it from scratch if you don't know the notes. I only manage to create the first refrain line , before I stopped. Check the album it came from, the song has also a real history. The video clip is just standard hip-hop stuff,  cool looking guys with tatoos  dancing girls in small bikinis, in a big house with a big pool. 

The song  has a lot of remixes, but most of them are just other (famous) rappers and the same tune. I had to listen to a lot of shit to find some dope remixes.
Like this one: The Technotronic Luniz Bounce (even at Normal speed awesome)
Or This Dubstep Remix (requires 1:25 speed, luv the bass)

I was busyg with a msx version with a extra refrein and differentsamples, but never finished.

My Music Memories : Hit Me With Your Rhyme-stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads

When I was at primary school, Ian Dury was for a short time very popular. 

His first hit "Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll" was sung by everybody in the translation "Koek and drop and Milky-Way". 



But his 2nd hit with the "Rythme-stick" was even better, and I still like it. 


It's funky, funny and everyone likes to shout HIT ME ! with Ian. 
If some white guys trying to be funky, then this is should be the result. 
The blockheads play like crazy and with the stoïcijns Ian at the front talk-singing 
his crazy lyrics, it's magic. 


Because of these Ian Dury hits, I bought much later the MSX version of Deus Ex Machina, but that's another story 
I already posted. 

After 2 hits I never heard anything from Ian Dury...
Years and years later I bought some kind of greatest hits album of Ian Dury, a bad buy.

All songs even those the other ones with the Blockheads, were just songs you listen to in an empty bar, easy to forget and not worthy to listen to it twice ( well maybe not: Reasons To Be Cheerful part 3 )

Examples: 
- Wake up and make love to me
- Sueperman's Big Sister
- Billericay Dickie
- I Wanna Be Straight
- What A Waste




 
These are just more avant-garde then funky, just not catchy enough. 
No surprise, these titles were no hits in the Netherlands. 
He did want he wanted to do, no concessions in lyrics or music. And no more hits.

But every time I hear "Hit Me" I just smile, turn up the volume and shout "HIT ME !!!" 

Sorry, here are a couple remixes that can compete with the original (sorry Paul Hardcastle).

Fan Of De Raggende Manne

Again it's time to post about some of my Dutch Music Memories. Ow, I am sorry. 
This is the Fan Of Series. Good to know.

I was always a big fan of college rock or punk rock and when I heard the song 
"Poep In Je Hoofd" on the radio, I wanted to find out more about this band "De Raggende Manne". Later I saw them playing live on TV a kind of ballad "Allemaal Voor Jou" . 

For me 2 reasons to buy the CD called "Rooie Pap". Lucky for me there were enough other great songs and lots of Dutch humor too. Like a song for the Dutch king with a duration of 10 seconds. 
Their greatest hit was "Nee's Niks" (see playlist) with a duration of say... 7 seconds, however, it was not included in any chart, cause the song had to be at least 30 seconds long. 

Another plus for "Rooie Pap" was the multimedia part. Yes, it was an audioCD and a CD-ROM together. It was made with an old version of Quicktime of Apple and so it worked on Windows and Apple computers. The multimedia part was showing different parts of the body of De Raggende Man and by clicking on each part you got a different interactive part full of bizarre Dutch humor. I liked it a lot and made a video about the intro and menus. Not showing all the content, cause that would ruin the surprise, just making all watchers curious was my goal. Check it out, here.

After "Rooie Pap" I bought their CD "Zaad". It was noisy, avant-garde music with sometimes a bit of melody and strange lyrics. I only liked 2 songs 1 was a cover from Willeke Alberti 
(by then famous Dutch female singer) "Telkens Weer" (see playlist). 
I liked the jazzy style of De Raggende Manne and the way singer Bob Fosko performs this song I decided to create a 10-hour version...Telkens Weer means Once Again. ..get it? 

Still "Zaad" was a bad buy and I bought the album they made after "Rooie Pap", called "Omschudden". Once again I didn't like most of the songs, it seems everybody was starting and stopping together at the same time but in between they go just randomly making music. 
Only the protest song "Denk Daar Eens Over Na" ( about no drilling for gas or oil in the Wadden Sea, a famous Dutch nature area) was worthy to listen too. After that I never bought anything from De Ragende Manne... except a single from Bob Fosko the lead shouter of the band...and that is the other story...("Me Vader Is Behanger")

Their live performances were the best, but did never last more than 30 minutes, after that the band and the public were exhausted. I browsed YT and created a playlist of I think the best tracks you can find of De Raggende Manne, maybe it is even better than their Best of album called "Het Rottigste van De Raggende Manne."

Like so many groups they had their own comeback, at that time I already lost interest in them. However, the lead-shouter Bob Fosko is still active in all kind of activities, check out his website.

My Music Memories: Poep In Je Hoofd - De Raggende Manne

"Poep In Je Hoofd" is the most famous song of De Raggende Manne. 
It was released on single and came from the album "Rooie Pap" ( see post Fan Of ...). 
It just a short punk-rock song with Dutch lyrics, which is very rare for a Dutch band, 
cause every Dutch band who wants to get famous use English lyrics. 

Not De Raggende Manne. "Poep In Je Hoofd" is just plain Dutch and hard to translate.
I used some online translators and it was still rubbish (or "Poep" in Dutch). 
And I tried it myself to create lyrics, so you could sing it in English but I came not far than:

"Shit in your head, shit in your head, it doesn't matter, you're already dead" 



Yeah, it should rhyme. Still, it is an ideal song to get the shit out of your head.. 
More reason to love it. 

A Japenese group N.A.T.T.O. covered the song live and that sounded very strange. Dutch is a strange langhage for  foreigners. 

I think "Poep In Je Hoofd" was the best rocksong 
De Raggende Manne ever made. 
Only Bob Fosko could create such a lyrics.

Here is an example of an online translator.
I forgot the name, but the result was always the same...

(As you can see, it's not hard to remember the lyrics, 
but you have to sing as hard as you possible can, 
without losing your voice before the song ends... )

"Poop in your head.
 
I'll have your skin beating in your mouth!
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.



I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.

Poop in your head, poop in your head.
What does it matter if you believe.
Poop in your head, poop in your head.
What does it matter?
 
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth

Nice, tasty, yesaaaaaa (Solo)

Poop in your head, poop in your head.
What does it matter if you believe.
Poop in your head, poop in your head.


What does it matter?
 
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.
I'll make you feel well in your mouth
Or do you already have poop, poop in your head.

I'll be fine, you're aaaaaaaaah
Poop in your head."

I made 2 silly jokes with De Raggende Manne first hit "Nee's Niks" and "Poep In Je Hoofd" called:  "Nee, Da's Niks" and "Nee's Niks An"
Be annoyed, be very annoyed !!!

My Music Momories / TnC House Classics presents : Flashdance - Deep Dish

I was not sure if this song belongs to My Music Memories or TnC House Classics, 

cause I never owned this track. 
It is a kind of dance track, so here it is in 
both series.

The track is a sort of cross-over between rock and dance, a bit repetitive and very hypnotic, the rock-riff stays in your head 
for days.

The original came from the soundtrack of Flashdance (...What a feeling..) and was called "He's a dream" by Shandi Sinnamon.
 I listen to it, but the whole song was ruïned 
by the producers, it started okay, then in the middle...you better listen for yourself...

So Deep Disk took the best parts of the song, hired a better singer and WHAM !!!

Whole Flashdance track is 
so simple, so lots of remixes made their own versions.

Most of them could not add more interesting stuff for having an excuse creating long remixes of Flashdance with a duration 9 minutes or longer.

But some remixes are not bad at all, check these out.

There was a DJ Sultan who made an interesting cross-over remix with Money for Nothing of Dire Straits and Flashdance of Deep Dish, called "Flash for Nothing"

Lately, I was searching for Icebaer remixes and a guy called Sim0ne remixed it just in the style of Deep Fish Flashdance, but more monotone.

My Music Memories : Eisbaer van Grauzone

Once upon a time, I found a way to download songs from Grooveshark.com, an online music service, like Spotify, without paying. 


Very illegal, but they didn't have much music 
I liked.I got the idea to collect all my fav rock songs to mix them together in 1 big mix. 

It would include favs like "Girls School of Wings" but also "Language of Love of Cliff Richard", "Downpayment Blues by AC/DC".

So it would be rock songs in all variations. 

Including some German stuff, I still liked, for example, "Major Tom of Peter Schilling",  "Dreiklangsdimensionen of Rheingold" and "Skandal Im Sperrbezirk of the Spider Murphy Gang". 

While I was searching on YouTube for finding the right title and artist names of these German songs, I found also this one, "Eisbear of Grauzone". Songs about an icebear are not very common and I started to listen to the video and the animated icebear. 

The song starts just like so many other soft rock songs, sang in the German language when its time for the chorus the song really starts. Uncontrolled guitarnoises backed up with weird computersounds. 

Of course the message of Eisbaer is not hard to miss. The global warming-up let the ice melt and the icebear has less room to live. And in the animated video, you see an icebear looking for a new place to live and ends up in a busy city. Although I found the song by accident, its seems to be a real rock-classic, lots of people tried to improve the song by creating slightly different mixes. I listened a lot of these and the only remix that really matters was the house version of Groove Zone.


The message is almost the same, it's hard to find any icebears in their natural habitat. Maybe we must find a way to cooldown our planet to get earth in balance again... 

Have fun with this My Music Memories.  Grauzone made more songs, 
This one caught my eye and my soul. 
Well, Nena (again) covered a Grauzone song ballad and she made it better than 
the original, a really lovely song.

After I wrote this, I found some really interesting remixes, see my playlist
I am sure there will be some mixes you will like too.

My Music Memories: De Eskimo of Andre van Duin

Now the winter is coming to the Netherlands and lots of people tried to skate on every ditch, that's been frozen, I remembered this Dutch song of a very known (and old) Dutch comedian, Andre van Duin. Why cause I don't like the weather when the temperature goes below zero. 
I always have cold feet and hands, not able to do much when I am outside. 
But sometimes I have to and this song shows exactly the state I am in.

It's, of course, a Dutch song, with Dutch lyrics so I used Google translate and the translation made the song funnier than the Dutch version.
Here are the lyrics:

Try to sing along with the English lyrics, while listening to the Dutch version!
Big fun!

Note: Andre van Duin released another Eskimo song, it was a parody on "Mexico" of the Zangeres Zonder Naam (who sang a Dutch translation of "Le chanteur de Mexico"). 
He made a lot of parodies of songs an although he was also a composer of lots of other songs he released, I still remembered his parody's the best.

My Music Memories : Everybody want to rules the world - Tears for Fears

Never being a big fan of Tears for Fears, "Shout" (from the same album "Songs from the Big Chair") was also a big hit, somehow its too poppy for a song called "Shout".
Check out "Twist and Shout" of The Beatles and you know what I mean. 
I listened recently to "Shout" and I still think it's too smooth, but what a great guitar solo! 
Even better than the one in "Everybody Wants To Rule The World".  
 
And that is the song I want to post about. I already posted a long time ago about the Mojo Jojo version from Cartoon Network and proves it doesn't matter how bad you sing it, the music will make it sound like you are a real popstar. 
The steady beat, spacey synths, and a funky guitar make the song unforgettable. 
I don't mind about other hits, like "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" or the duet with Oleta Adams, called  "Woman in Chains"
For me, there is only one song that counts, "Everybody Wants To Rule The World". 

I did a quick search for any remix and this one from Lorde in combi with Assassin's Creed the movie (not the game)  is the most impressive remix and movie of the song.
Even the trailers were boring and confusing, better watch all Cinema Trailers of the games.
And even a special Trump remix (don't worry,  he won't sing)
More DJs tried to improve the original, some fail, some are just outstanding.
Not only DJs want to mix this song, some other (unknown) artists covered the song very nicely, like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Relient K  and Aron Wright or even acapella.

Ow, I forget the 8-bit versions, also a very important category in music on YouTube, some even with vocals! I also find a remix, with a video you will remember forever, take a look here.
I could not resist adding more good remixes,  cause I like music in a lot of genres.

My Music Memories: Mossels - De Mosselman

Another example of my bad taste in Dutch music. When house was coming up in the early 90s, everybody tried to create a new house-genre to make some money. One of them was De Mosselman. His first single Mossels was an example of "you get a famous Dutch song, put a housebeat in it and sell it as GabberHouse music" .

 
For a while it worked and many Dutch children songs, like De Mosselman got a second life as a GabberHouse tune. Like always, the first songs in a new musicgenre are really good, before everybody was copying it. De Mosselman was one good example of this GabberHouse genre, I still think its funny and a great dance track. 

Warning: Not all Dutch people will dressed a dance like the people you see in the videoclip. Sorry! 

After the succes of Mossels he continues with another great cover Opzij Opzij Opzij of the Dutch composer Herman van Veen. He had his own website (demosselman.nl) with photo's,  gigs and even some short songs never relased like Kruimeldief. He even sang a duet with Vader Abraham, a Famous Dutch singer of "The little café by the harbour" and Sieneke with a Gabberhouse version of her Eurovision Song Contest. ( I agree with the comments of some people in the Netherlands it was much better than the original (brrr).

But after a couple of years GabberHouse was dead, the site was closed and 
De Mosselman  (alias of Sander Scheurwater) is working now in a kitchen shop.

If you want to sing along with De Mosselman,  I translated the lyrics in English.  
Give it a try and you be the star of any Karaoke evening.

"Say you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Say you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen

Mussels Mussels
Mussel mussel mussel
Mussel mussel
Mussel mussel mussel mussel mussel...

Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen"

My Music Memories: Today of Junkie XL

I was preparing a video serie of my favorite vehicles in Midtown Madness 2, with a Top 5 of trucks, muscle cars, rally cars, planes ( really !!!) etc etc. Just wanna showcase them and do a quick race. Therefor I wanted some race music so I listened to OSTs of race games whom cars have been converted in MM2, like the Need For Speed, Driver, Flatout, Midnight Club series.Then I found this track. and the intro guitar riff kept on pounding in my head for almost a week. So now you will have it too. 

Bye bye. I will read your comments over a week or so... 

I dont know , I like the video clip about a hairdresser making very strange haircuts, 
mister Junkie XL himself. 

After this wonderfull track "Today" I googled for more of Junkie XL, a Dutchman like me. Sorry to say, most of it was boring or not my kind of music. That's a bit strange cause I was in the past a big fan of Nerve (Junkie XL was one part of the duo) and his remixes  & productions with KONG, which I also fan of. 

I guess when you get older your music taste changes a little. So there will no "Fan Of Junkie XL", his "little less conversation" remix of Elvis Presley is simple and still another great track ( with his alias JXL ).

I was just about to publish this post when I remembered I bought once a mega single-CD 
of Junkie XL, when Junkie XL was a Dutch band, with the rapper "Rude Boy" from Urban Dance Squad. It featured "Billy Club", "No Remorse" and 2 remixes of tracks of the album "Saturday Teenage Kick". It was so called "Big Beat" music, like The Prodigy made.
I liked it but not enough to buy the full album. I wish I did, cause 2 tracks "Def Beat" and 
"No Remorse" featured in the OST of racegames I still like to listen to.

My Music Memories: Een kopje Koffie of VOF De Kunst

Another Dutch song, which is basically another cover with new lyrics. However, the lyrics fit the song and it could have been a hit outside The Netherlands. The original song was called "Verde e Amarelo" of Roberto en Erasmo Carlos from Brasil. The English translation will be "One Cup Of Coffee". Yes, it's a Dutch song about our national drink, coffee ;-)

Lucky for me I didn't translate more lines of text, somebody else did and created also a funny video featuring Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek Voyager series, who drinks a lot of coffee during the clip.


I had to admit, when I was working in the office they had a special coffee maker, which created perfect expresso. And I was a real addict, I drank some 6 mugs of expresso during the working day. If you count a mug as 3 times a normal expresso, you know I had no problem to stay awake. I had to, cause I got up at 6, to be on time at 8 at the office, mostly working until 17 or a bit later, be at home always after 6.



VOF De Kunst made more sing-a-long songs like "Suzanne" their greatest hit (also a cover), "Oude Liefde Roest Niet", they tried their luck in English songs as The Art Company and later they were successful with songs about Sinterklaas and other children songs.

Now I get very thirsty. I guess it's time for "Een kopje koffie".

My music memories: Sollicitere of Janse Bagge Bend (vs The Blues Brothers)

When the song was played everywhere on the Dutch radio stations, I had left school and was currently unemployed.I had many jobs via employment agencies, but all last for a couple of weeks or months. So I got an alimony from our town and had to apply for jobs.
I really liked the lyrics, cause I also had to write many cover letters (by hand) every week to prove I was searching for suitable jobs. Enough about me.

The Jasse Bagge Bend is a real live band, you can see it clearly in the official video-clip
of "Sollicitere" and I know it's just a cover of "Gimme Some Lovin" of the
The Spencer Davis Group, but I like this version much more. Why? Cause they changed the organ with a trumpet, sax, and trombone and made the song more Rhythm & Blues.

When I found out the real title of the original song I started to remember a musical comedy called "The Blues Brothers". 

If you don't remember it, it's a totally over the top movie with lots of car chasing/crashing, explosions, a stupid story about "The Blues Brothers Band" raising money for a community center and lots of great music and famous artists, for example James Brown as a reverend and Ray Charles as owner of music store.



But "The Blues Brothers" were not only comedians, they were also a great Rhytmn & Blues bands who played many concerts. 

One of the songs they played was, "Gimme Some Lovin", I could not find the whole song from the movie, so watch the clip with only the beginning of the song, showing the humor in the movie. 

If you like it, watch 
the whole movie. 


If you don't like the story, like it for the jokes. 

If you don't like the jokes, 
like it because of its music.

 If you don't like the music...
Well you better stop reading now.

When a movie is a great success, there will be a sequel sooner or later. In this case, 
it took 18 years, when "Blues Brothers 2000" came out. Don't watch that, just listen 
to the soundtrack and forget the movie. For your own good, trust me.


Last note about the Janse Bagge Bend, they made more 
very good songs, like "Awt en Versjlete", "D'n Hoofinzenjeur", "Prins Dzjah d'n 1ste" and more covers with new lyrics 
like "Proemevlaai" 
Sometimes funny lyrics, sometimes to think about.

 Maybe I will post more about "The Blues Brothers" movie,
At the moment I dont know what I had to say more about
the movie and his music.


Wait !
Special for you I translated the lyrics of "Sollicitere" into English.

 Sollicitere - Janse Bagge Bend
(Gimme Some Lovin'- The Spencer Davis Group)
 S. Winwood/E. Masthoff

Hey!
The perspectives for the future, which are zero comma zero,
Although after a lot of sweating you have a university bull.
If you are a teacher, bank clerk, or psychologist,
In the following years you are probably unemployed.

You must apply, apply!
They say you go ahead
Apply

Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Then write them again!

Hey!
You start the day sleeping up to an hour or one,
You look in the newspaper if there are still jobs.
That is still nothing, so you sleep the rest of the day.
You feel quite lousy, you get the nerves on your stomach, cause

You must apply, apply!
Go ahead, you must write once again
Apply

Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Then write them again!

On Monday you have to be at the social service again,
For the x time, fill in the form again.
You do illegal work, occasionly
But look out, the controller is watching you.

You must apply, apply!

Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written?
Then write them again!

Hey!
In the evening when it gets dark, you start to live
You look in it around if there is something going on.
You go to Punk band concert, perhaps going to a shabby shed
Maybe you'll go to the Janse Bagge Bend
With you need to apply, apply

Have you already written? Seventy-five Letters!
Have you already written? Seventy-six Letters!
Have you already written? Seventy-seven Letters!
Have you already written? Eighty Seventy letters!
Have you already written? Seventy-nine Letters!
Have you already written? Then you write again.

My Music Memories: The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

It's strange how some long forgotten music comes back to me. 
Like this one: "The Whole of The Moon" of The Waterboys.

I was with my wife on a long journey with our car and there was not much good music on any radiostation. My wife asked me to search for the music CD-Rs I made for our marriage ceremony and reception, so we could listen next time to those old songs we loved both.

Back home I started the search for the CD-Rs and found 5 out of 6. I remembered I made also tapes of these CDRs in case the CDRs was not working (indeed, in the town hall they had to play the tape instead). In the end, I had more than 10 tapes I liked to have recorded as mp3, still tape 6 kept missing. I guess there was never a CD-Rs with number 6.


So I started playing the tapes on my Hifi-system, while converting them on-the-fly to 
mp3-files. As always I listen to the first part of the first song of every tape sides. 

Then I heard a piano, battling with an organ, some weird violin notes. The voice of Mike Scott started and the song stayed in my head for more than a week. 
Backing vocals, some trumpets, a saxophone solo, it was all too much for me to take. 

I started searching for more of The Waterboys, found other songs I was forgotten 
(I bought once The Best of The Waterboys 81-90 on cassette, I lost it somehow) 
and created a playlist on YouTube.

Now I have listened to a lot of The Waterboys (aka Mike Scott and others) and 
there are 3 albums you should listen if you like this song "The Whole Of The Moon" 
(from "This Is The Sea")


In the right order, they are: A Pagan Place, This Is the Sea and Fisherman's Blues.

And you can listen to the rest as a bonus. 

Well, you might think Mike Scott is not a good singer, but he knows how to put emotion in each song that will going straight to your heart.

I wasn't sure I should post it on Fan Of or My Music Memories, cause after I bought "The Best of " (mainly cause I like "The Whole.." and "A Girl Called Johnny" ) I never had the urge to buy more albums of The Waterboys.


Today I might be a fan, considering I like at least 3 albums very much.
U2 ?