The Pretenders

Hoje deixo-vos uma das melhores bandas dos 80's: Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon, Martin Chambers - The Pretenders.
















e já agora antes que me esqueça fica a lista da discografia dos senhores (e da senhora):

1979 1980 – Pretenders
1981 – Pretenders II
1983 1984 – Learning to Crawl
1986 – Get Close
1990 – Packed!
1994 – Last of the Independents
1999 – Viva el Amor
2002 – Loose Screw
2008 – Break Up the Concrete

Elvis Costelo

Se na última postagem pus aqui a Diana Krall (que adoro) é justo que agora ponha aqui a sua cara metade de que também gosto bastante: Elvis Costelo.
















E já agora para ser perfeito os dois em conjunto:
Elvis Costelo e Diana Krall

DIANA KRALL

Mais uma voz maravilhosa para abrilhantar este blogue.
Ladies and Gentlemens: DIANA KRALL















E depois disto o que é que se pode dizer?
Nada! Foi um momento simplesmente divino...

Vanessa Mae

Esta menina, Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson mais conhecida por Vanessa Mae, é um prodigio musical começou por tocar piano com apenas três anos e violino com cinco.
Foi aliás como violinista que se tornou conhecida no inicio dos anos 90.
Aqui fica a discografia dela:

Albuns

• Violin (1990)
• Kids' Classics (1991)
• Tchaikovsky & Beethoven Violin Concertos (1991/1992)
• The Violin Player (1995)
• The Alternative Record from Vanessa-Mae (1996)
• The Classical Album 1 (1996)
• China Girl: The Classical Album 2 (1997)
• Storm (1997/1998)
• The Original Four Seasons and the Devil's Trill Sonata: The Classical Album 3 ( 1999)
• The Classical Collection: Part 1 (2000)
• Subject to Change (2001)
• Xpectation (Jazz collaboration with Prince) (2003)
• Choreography (2004)

Compilações

• The Best of Vanessa-Mae (2002)
• The Ultimate Vanessa-Mae (2003)
• Platinum Collection (2007)


E agora uns vídeos:

Foreigner

Alguém se lembra destes senhores?
Foreigner





Se com estas músicas não chegaram lá (o que diga-se de passagem é imperdoavel), talvez as próximas duas ajudem a lembrar.

Sufjan Stevens

Lembram-se do senhor que aqui há uns anos declarou que ia lançar um álbum por cada estado americano? (O que ia fazer um total de 50 álbuns)
Até agora desse ambicioso projecto ainda só dois álbuns viram a luz do dia - Michigan em 2003 e Illinois em 2005.
Mas entre esse projecto ele tem lançado outros discos:
Aqui fica a discografia do senhor:

2000 A Sun Came
2001 Enjoy Your Rabbit
2003 Michigan
2004 Seven Swans
2005 Illinois
2006 The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album
2006 Songs for Christmas
2009 The BQE

A este ritmo quando tiver passado dos cem anos ele terá completado o projecto...

Senhoras e senhores: SUFJAN STEVENS

Devendra Banhart

Ora aqui está algo diferente para mudar um pouco o ambiente.
É mais um dos músicos que adoro...
Senhoras e Senhores... Meninas e Meninos...
O único: Devendra Banhart

Que música tocava no ano em que nasceu?

Já não sei quem me enviou este link vão ver:

http://www.planetarei.com.br/100anos/index.htm

Tem algumas músicas boas (embora a maioria seja música brasileira e eu não sou, de todo fã de música brasileira - excepção feita a Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso e Maria Bethania)

Hoje decidi que vou colocar aqui videos que tenho espalhados pelo pc.
Nenhum Cantor ou música em especial... apenas músicas de que gosto (como de costume).

(Esqueci-me que isto demora mais tempo assim... mais de meia-hora para carregar o primeiro... NEURA!!!!!!!!!!)

Tendo em conta o tempo que isto demora a carregar desisto e ficam aqui só estes dois... Foram quase três horas para carregar dois vídeos.Além de estar farto estou com fome vou almoçar.

Bom fim-de-semana...

FUI!!!!!!!!!

The Christians

Já há muito tempo que não ouvia estes senhores.
The Christians!!!!!!!!!!!

Eva Cassidy

Mais uma vez correndo o risco de me repetir deixo-vos uma das melhores vozes da história da música:
Eva Cassidy!

Eva foi uma cantora americana que nasceu em 1963 e faleceu em 1996 (com apenas 33 anos) vitima de cancro.
Enquanto foi viva gravou apenas dois albuns (Eva by Heart (1997) - único álbum gravado integralmente em estúdio e Live at Blues Alley (1997)) ambos lançados póstumamente.
depois da sua morte, no entanto, foram lançados vários álbuns que venderam no total mais de quatro milhões de exemplares em todo o mundo.

Em resenha sobre o lançamento de seu álbum American Tune, de 2003, o jornal inglês Daily Telegraph referiu-se a ela como protagonista da "mais memorável carreira póstuma na história da música pop".

Aqui fica a discografia completa desta grande voz:

The Other Side (1992), com Chuck Brown
Eva by Heart (1997) - único álbum gravado integralmente em estúdio
Live at Blues Alley (1997)
Songbird (1998) - compilação de álbuns anteriores
Time After Time (2000) -
No Boundaries (2000)
Method Actor (2002)
Imagine (2002) -
American Tune (2003) -
Wonderful World (2004) - compilação de faixas de álbuns anteriores
Somewhere (2008)

E agora uns vídeos:











E para terminar um dueto com outra grande voz Katie Melua

Garbage

Dire Straits

Não podia faltar aqui este



E a minha preferida

Tracy Chapman

Eis-me de volta depois de uns dias de ausencia devido a uma pequena gripe (sazonal - nada dessas modernices de gripes A).

E deixo aqui uns videos de uma das melhores vozes da música. (Sim. Eu sei que digo isso de todos - ou quase todos os músicos que vou pondo aqui mas esta é mesmo uma voz excepcional).
Boa música aliada a palvras poderosas (e vice-versa)
Tracy Chapman




New Beginning

The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing
It's time to start all over, make a new beginning
There's too much pain, too much suffering
Let's resolve to start all over make a new beginning

Now don't get me wrong - I love life and living
But when you wake up and look around at everything that's going down -
All wrong
You see we need to change it now, this world with too few happy endings
We can resolve to start all over make a new beginning

Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over

The world is broken into fragments and pieces
That once were joined together in a unified whole
But now too many stand alone - There's too much separation
We can resolve to come together in the new beginning

Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over

We can break the cycle - We can break the chain
We can start all over - In the new beginning
We can learn, we can teach
We can share the myths the dream the prayer
The notion that we can do better
Change our lives and paths
Create a new world and

Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over

The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing
It's time to start all over, make a new beginning
There's too much fighting, too little understanding
It's time to stop and start all over
Make a new beginning

Start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over

We need to make new symbols
Make new signs
Make a new language
With these we'll define the world

And start all over
Start all over
Start all over
Start all over ...




For My Lover

Two weeks in a Virginia jail
For my lover, for my lover
Twenty thousand dollar bail
For my lover, for my lover

And everybody thinks
That I'm the fool
But they don't get
Any love from you

The things we won't do for love
I'd climb a mountain if I had to
Risk my life so I could have you
You, you, you...

Everyday I'm psychoanalyzed
For my lover, for my lover
They dope me up and I tell them lies
For my lover, for my lover

And everybody thinks
That I'm the fool
But they don't get
Any love from you

The things we won't do for love
I'd climb a mountain if I had to
Risk my life so I could have you
You, you, you...

I follow my heart
And leave my head to ponder
Deep in this love
No man can shake
I follow my heart
And leave my mind to wonder
Is this love worth
The sacrifices I make?

Two weeks in a Virginia jail
For my lover, for my lover
Twenty thousand dollar bail
For my lover, for my lover

Everyday I'm psychoanalyzed
For my lover, for my lover
They dope me up and I tell them lies
For my lover, for my lover

And everybody thinks
That I'm the fool
But they don't get
Any love from you

The things we won't do for love
I'd climb a mountain if I had to
Risk my life so I could have you
You, you, you...




Telling Stories

There is fiction in the space between
The lines on your page of memories
Write it down but it doesn't mean
You're not just telling stories

There is fiction in the space between
You and reality
You will do and say anything
To make your everyday life
Seem less mundane
There is fiction in the space between
You and me

There's a science fiction in the space between
You and me
A fabrication of a grand scheme
Where I am the scary monster
I eat the city and as I leave the scene
In my spaceship I am laughing
In your remembrance of your bad dream
There's no one but you standing

Leave the pity and the blame
For the ones who do not speak
You write the words to get respect and compassion
And for posterity
You write the words and make believe
There is truth in the space between

There is fiction in the space between
You and everybody
Give us all what we need
Give us one more sad sordid story
But in the fiction of the space between
Sometimes a lie is the best thing
Sometimes a lie is the best thing




Crossroads

All you folks think you own my life
But you never made any sacrifice
Demons they are on my trail
I'm standing at the crossroads of the hell
I look to the left I look to the right
There're hands that grab me on every side


All you folks think I got my price
At which I'll sell all that is mine
You think money rules when all else fails
Go sell your soul and keep your shell
I'm trying to protect what I keep inside
All the reasons why I live my life



Some say the devil be a mystical thing
I say the devil he a walking man
He a fool he a liar conjurer and a thief
He try to tell you what you want
Try to tell you what you need


Standing at the point
The road it cross you down
What is at your back
Which way do you turn
Who will come to find you first
Your devils or your gods


All you folks think you run my life
Say I should be willing to compromise
I say all you demons go back to hell
I'll save my soul save myself




Talkin bout a revolution

Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know they're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

Poor people are gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people are gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Don't you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper

And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no
Talking about a revolution oh no




Fast car

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way




Baby Can I Hold You

Sorry
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like sorry like sorry

Forgive me
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me forgive me

But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time you'd be mine

I love you
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like I love you I love you




America

You were lost and got lucky
Came upon the shore
Found you were conquering America
You spoke of peace
But waged a war
While you were conquering America

There was land to take
And people to kill
While you were conquering America
You served yourself
Did God's will
While you were conquering America

The ghost of Columbus haunts this world
'Cause you're still conquering America
The meek won't survive
Or inherit the earth
'Cause you're still conquering America

America
America
America

Your found bodies to serve
Submit and degrade
While you were conquering America
Made us soldiers and junkies
Prisoners and slaves
While you were conquering America

America
America
America

You hands are at my throat
My back's against the wall
Because you're still conquering America
We're sick and tired hungry and poor
'Cause you're still conquering America

You bomb the very ground
That feeds your own babies
You're still conquering America
Your sons and your daughters
May never sing your praises
While you're conquering America

America
America
America

I see you eyes seek a distant shore
While you're conquering America
Taking rockets to the moon
Trying to find a new world
And you're still conquering America

America
America
America

The ghost of Columbus haunts this world
'Cause you're still conquering America
You're still conquering America
You're still conquering America






Subcity

People say it doesn't exist
'Cause no one would like to admit
That there is a city underground
Where people live everyday
Off the waste and decay
Off the discards of their fellow man


Here in subcity life is hard
We can't receive any government relief
Won't you please, please give Mr. President my honest regards
For disregarding me


They say there's too much crime in these city streets
My sentiments exactly
Government and big business hold the purse strings
When I worked I worked in the factories
I'm at the mercy of the world
I guess I'm lucky to be alive


They say we've fallen through the cracks
They say the system works
But we won't let it
Help
I guess they never stop to think
We might not just want handouts
But a way to make an honest living
Living this ain't living


What did I do deserve this
Had my trust in god
Worked everyday of my life
Thought I had some guarantees
That's what I thought
At least that's what I thought


Last night I had another restless sleep
Wondering what tomorrow might bring
Last night I dreamed
A cold blue light was shining down on me
I screamed myself awake
Thought I must be dying
Thought I must be dying




Matters of the Heart

I lose my head
From time to time
I make a fool of myself
In matters of the heart

We should have been holding each other
Instead we talked
I make a fool of myself
In matters of the heart

But I asked before
Your reply was kind and polite
One wants more
When one's denied
I make a fool of myself
In matters of the heart

I won't call it love
But it feels good to have passion in my life
If there's a battle
I hope my head always defers to my heart
In matters of the heart

I guess I'm crazy to think
I can give you what you don't want
I make a fool of myself
In matters of the heart

I wish that I had the power
To make these feelings stop
I lose all self control
In matters of the heart

I can't believe
It's so hard to find someone
To give affection to
And from whom you can receive
I guess it's just the draw of the cards
In matters of the heart

You caught me off guard
Somehow you reached me
Where I thought I had nothing left inside
I've learned my lesson I've been edified
In matters of the heart

I've spent my nights
Where the sleeping dogs lie
Not by your side
It feels so lonely
Once again I've left to much to chance
In matters of the heart

Here I sit
I'm feeling sorry for myself
It's quite a sight
But I have you to thank
For reminding me
We're all alone in this world
And in matters of the heart

I'm already missing you
Although we won't say good-byes
Until tomorrow afternoon
Maybe when and if I see you again
We'll see eye to eye
In matters of the heart

I have no harsh words for you
I have no tears to cry
If the moon were full
I'd be howling inside
It only hurts
In matters of the heart

If today were my birthday
I'd be reborn
As Bronte's bird a bird that could fly
And all accounts would be settled
In matters of the heart

Matters of the heart

The Pogues

Aqui há dias um amigo meu chamou-me a atenção para o que ele considerava uma falta grave.
Ainda não coloquei aqui um vídeo... uma referencia que fosse a uma das melhores bandas de sempre.
Para corrigir a falha aqui ficam alguns vídeos:
THE POGUES













Fairytale Of New York

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The rare old mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

Belle and Sebastian

Hoje deixo só uns vídeos que não tenho muito tempo.
Ladies and Gentlemans: BELLE and SEBASTIAN!!!!!

Sergio Godinho

Apesar de já andar por aí há uns anos, este senhor é, na minha opinião, o melhor artista português da actualidade.
Nasceu no Porto em 1945 mas com 20 anos saiu de Portugal para evitar a guerra colonial só regressando depois do 25 de Abril. Nos nove anos que esteve fora do país Sérgio Godinho esteve em vários países e cidades mas foi em Paris que iniciou a sua carreira musical.
Durante dois anos participou no espectáculo musical "Hair", colaborou com José Mário Branco no álbum "Mudam-se os Tempos, Mudam-se as Vontades" e lançou os seus dois primeiros álbuns: "Os Sobreviventes" em 1971 e no ano seguinte o álbum "Pré-Histórias".
No momento em que se dá o 25 de Abril Sérgio Godinho estava no Canadá com a primeira mulher. Regressou a Portugal nesse mesmo ano e lançou o álbum "À Queima-Roupa".
De então para cá tem editado com regularidade e sempre com qualidade. Colaborou com diversos projectos musicais e ocasionalmente como actor em projectos de televisão, cinema e teatro e também publicou livros (O pequeno livro dos medos - texto e ilustrações [livro infantil]; O sangue por um fio [livro de poemas]).
Aqui fica a lista da discografia completa deste grande senhor da música portuguesa:

Álbuns de originais

Os sobreviventes (1971)
Pré-histórias (1972)
À queima-roupa (1974)
De pequenino se torce o destino (1976)
Pano-cru (1978)
Campolide (1979)
Canto da boca (1981)
Coincidências (1983)
Salão de festas (1984)
Na vida real (1986)
Os amigos de Gaspar (1988)
Aos amores (1989)
Tinta permanente (1993)
Domingo no mundo (1997)
Lupa (2000)
O irmão do meio (2003)
Ligação directa (2006)

Álbuns ao vivo

Escritor de canções (1990)
Noites passadas (1995)
O elixir da eterna juventude (1996)
Rivolitz (1998)
Afinidades (com os Clã) (2001)
Nove e Meia no Maria Matos (2008)

Colectâneas

Era uma vez um rapaz (1985)
Biografias do amor (2001)
Setenta e Um - Oitenta e Seis - O melhor de Sérgio Godinho (2004)

Bandas sonoras

A Confederação (LP, Diapasão/Sassetti) (1978)
Kilas, o mau da fita (1979)

EPs

Romance de um dia na estrada (Guilda da Música/Sassetti) (1971)

Singles

Na Boca do lobo (Guilda da Música/Sassetti) (1975)
Liberdade (Sassetti) (1975)
Nós por cá todos bem (Diapasão) (1977)
Kilas, o mau da fita (Philips) (1981)
Tantas vezes fui à guerra (Philips) (1983)

Colaborações

Fausto Bordalo Dias - Madrugada dos Trapeiros (1977)
Espanta Espíritos - Espanta Espíritos (1995)
Despe e Siga . Tema: Tou Bom . Álbum: Os Primos (1995)
Silence 4 . Tema: Sexto Sentido . Álbum: Silence become it (1998)
Clã . Tema: O Sopro do Coração . Álbum: Lustro (2000)
Gabriel, o Pensador . Tema: Tás a ver? . Álbum: Tás a ver? (2003)
Manuel Paulo . Tema: Casa Inacabada com Baloiço na Janela . Álbum: O Assobio da Cobra (2004)
José Mário Branco . Tema: Pão Pão . Álbum: Resistir é vencer (2004)
Joana Melo . Tema: Com um brilho nos olhos . Álbum: Operação Triunfo (2004)
Sons da Fala - Sons da Fala (2007)
Camané . Tema: Sonhar Durante o Fado . Álbum: Sempre de Mim (2008)
Cristina Branco . Tema: Bomba-Relógio . Álbum: Kronos (2009)

DVD

Sérgio Godinho - De Volta ao Coliseu (2006)

E agora alguns vídeos:





Uma das minhas preferidas



Aquela que talvez melhor o define













E claro não podia faltar esta



Lisboa Que Amanhece

Cansados vão os corpos para casa
Dos ritmos imitados doutra dança
A noite finge ser
Ainda uma criança de olhos na lua
Com a sua
Cegueira da razão e do desejo

A noite é cega, as sombras de Lisboa
São da cidade branca a escura face
Lisboa é mãe solteira
Amou como se fosse a mais indefesa
Princesa
Que as trevas algum dia coroaram


Não sei se dura sempre esse teu beijo
Ou apenas o que resta desta noite
O vento, enfim, parou
Já mal o vejo
Por sobre o Tejo
E já tudo pode ser
Tudo aquilo que parece
Na Lisboa que amanhece


O Tejo que reflecte o dia à solta
æ noite é prisioneiro dos olhares
Ao Cais dos Miradoiros
Vão chegando dos bares os navegantes
Amantes
Das teias que o amor e o fumo tecem

E o Necas que julgou que era cantora
Que as dádivas da noite são eternas
Mal chega a madrugada
Tem que rapar as pernas para que o dia
Não traia
Dietriches que não foram nem Marlénes


Em sonhos, é sabido, não se morre
Aliás essa é a Única vantagem
De após o vão trabalho
O povo ir de viagem ao sono fundo
Fecundo
Em glórias e terrores e aventuras

E ai de quem acorda estremunhado
Espreitando pela fresta a ver se é dia
E as simples ansiedades
Ditam sentenças friamente ao ouvido
Ruído
Que a noite se acostuma e transfigura


Na Lisboa que amanhece

Não sei quem foi que o disse, não me recordo, mas ouvi uma vez dizer que é estranho que uma das melhores canções sobre Lisboa alguma vez escrita tenha sido escrita por alguém... do Porto!

1982

Ontem não tive tempo de por aqui nada…
Mas estava ocupado a recolher dados para esta postagem. É que isto de andar a fazer postagens dos anos 80 ano a ano ainda dá trabalho.

Ora bem no belo ano de 1982 os tops de vendas eram liderados por:
Nos EUA

"Physical" – Olivia Newton-John (6 semanas em 1981 + 4semanas em 1982) o single mais vendido do ano




"I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" – Daryl Hall & John Oates (1)
"Centerfold" – The J. Geils Band (6)
"I Love Rock 'N Roll" – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (7)
"Titles" – Vangelis (1)
"Ebony And Ivory" – Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder (7)


"Don't You Want Me" – The Human League (3)



"Eye Of The Tiger" – Survivor (6)
"Abracadabra" – Steve Miller Band (2)
"Hard To Say I'm Sorry" – Chicago (2)
"Jack And Diane" – John Cougar (4)
"Who Can It Be Now?" – Men at Work (1)
"Up Where We Belong" – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes (3)
"Truly" – Lionel Richie (2)
"Mickey" – Toni Basil (1)
"Maneater" – Daryl Hall & John Oates (2 semanas em 1982 + 2 semanas em 1983)


E no Reino Unido


"Don't You Want Me" – The Human League (3 semanas em 1981 + 2 semanas em 1982)
"Land of Make Believe" – Bucks Fizz (2)
"Oh Julie" – Shakin' Stevens (1)



"The Model" – Kraftwerk (1)
"Town Called Malice" – The Jam (3)
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" – Tight Fit (3)
"Seven Tears" – Goombay Dance Band (3)
"My Camera Never Lies" – Bucks Fizz (1)
"Ebony and Ivory" – Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder (3)
"A Little Peace" – Nicole (2)
"House of Fun" – Madness (2)



"Goody Two Shoes" – Adam Ant (2)
"I've Never Been to Me" – Charlene (1)
"Happy Talk" – Captain Sensible (2)
"Come on Eileen" – Dexys Midnight Runners (4) o single mais vendido do ano



"Eye of the Tiger" – Survivor (4)
"Pass the Dutchie" – Musical Youth (3)
"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" – Culture Club (3)
"I Don't Wanna Dance" – Eddy Grant (3)
"Beat Surrender" – The Jam (2)
"Save Your Love" – Renee & Renato (2 semanas em 1982 + 2 semanas em 1983)
E foi nesse ano que foram lançados os álbuns:
• Abominog - Uriah Heep
• Absolutely Live - Rod Stewart
• After the Snow - Modern English


• Age To Age – Amy Grant
• Album - Generic Flipper – Flipper
• All Four One – The Motels
• Ambient 4: On Land – Brian Eno
• American Fool – John Cougar Mellencamp
• Another Day/Another Dollar – Gang of Four
• The Anvil – Visage
• Are You Ready – Bucks Fizz
• Asia – Asia
• Assault Attack – The Michael Schenker Group
• Avalon – Roxy Music
• Back from Samoa – Angry Samoans
• Bad Brains – Bad Brains
• Barry Live in Britain – Barry Manilow
• Bean-Spill (EP) – The Minutemen
• Beasts (EP) - Sex Gang Children
• Beat – King Crimson
• Beautiful Vision – Van Morrison
• Before a Word Is Said – Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins
• Big Science – Laurie Anderson
• Black Metal – Venom
• Black Tiger – Y&T
• Blackout – Scorpions
• The Blue Mask – Lou Reed
• Bobbie Sue – The Oak Ridge Boys
• Branigan – Laura Branigan
• The Broadsword and the Beast – Jethro Tull
• A Broken Frame – Depeche Mode
• Business as Usual – Men at Work (US)
• The Changeling – Toyah
• Chase the Dragon – Magnum
• Chicago 16 – Chicago
• Choose Your Masques – Hawkwind
• Chris Rea – Chris Rea
• Christ – The Album – Crass
• Chronic Town (EP) – R.E.M.
• Church of Hawkwind – Hawkwind
• Circus Animals – Cold Chisel
• Coda – Led Zeppelin
• Comeback - Eric Burdon
• Combat Rock – The Clash
• Complete Madness – Madness (greatest hits)
• Computer Games – George Clinton
• The Concerts in China - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Creatures of the Night – Kiss
• Dawn Patrol – Night Ranger
• Death Wish II – Jimmy Page
• The Distance – Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band


• Diver Down – Van Halen
• Donna Summer – Donna Summer
• The Dreaming – Kate Bush
• D.S. al Coda – National Health
• Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 – Eagles
• The Early Tapes/Strategy – Level 42
• Eddie Murphy – Eddie Murphy (Debut)
• Electric Rendezvous - Al Di Meola
• English Settlement – XTC
• Enter K – Peter Hammill
• Everything Falls Apart – Hüsker Dü
• …Famous Last Words… – Supertramp
• Fantastic – Wham!
• Fast Women & Slow Horses – Dr. Feelgood
• Five Miles Out – Mike Oldfield
• Flex Your Head – Various Artists
• Flieg' Vogel flieg' – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Forever Now – The Psychedelic Furs
• Forging Ahead – Bad Manners
• Friend or Foe – Adam Ant
• Gap Band IV – The Gap Band
• Garista – :$OVIET:FRANCE:
• Garlands – Cocteau Twins
• The Getaway – Chris de Burgh
• Get Nervous – Pat Benatar


• The Gift – The Jam
• Going Where the Lonely Go - Merle Haggard
• The Golden Age of Wireless – Thomas Dolby
• Groovy Decay – Robyn Hitchcock
• The Great Twenty-Eight – Chuck Berry
• H2O – Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Hello, I Must Be Going! – Phil Collins
• Here Comes the Night – Barry Manilow
• Hex Enduction Hour – The Fall
• The High and the Mighty – Donnie Iris
• Homotopy to Marie – Nurse With Wound
• Hot Space – Queen
• Hour Live – Toots & the Maytals
• How Could Hell Be Any Worse? – Bad Religion (debut full-length)
• Humans Only – Earthstar
• The Hunter – Blondie
• I, Assassin – Gary Numan
• I Paralyze – Cher
• Identity Crisis – Sweet (final album)
• ...If I Die, I Die – Virgin Prunes
• Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• In the Name of Love – Thompson Twins
• Iron Fist – Motörhead
• It's Alright (I See Rainbows) – Yoko Ono
• It's Hard – The Who
• The John Lennon Collection – John Lennon
• Jinx - Rory Gallagher
• Junkyard – The Birthday Party (final album)
• Kansuigyo – Miyuki Nakajima
• Keep On Doing – The Roches
• Kenny G – Kenny G (debut)
• A Kiss in the Dreamhouse – Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Kissing to Be Clever – Culture Club
• Langkah Berikutnya (and then Tokoh-Tokoh) – Ebiet G. Ade
• The Lee Aaron Project – Lee Aaron
• Leichenschrei – SPK
• Lexicon of Love – ABC
• Lionel Richie - Lionel Richie
• Live Evil – Black Sabbath
• Living My Life – Grace Jones
• Love over Gold – Dire Straits
• Love Will Turn You Around – Kenny Rogers
• Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (debut)
• Mesopotamia – The B-52's
• Metal on Metal – Anvil
• Miami – The Gun Club
• Midnight Love – Marvin Gaye


• Milo Goes to College – The Descendents
• Mirage – Fleetwood Mac
• Mondialement vôtre – Dalida
• Music for a New Society – John Cale
• Naked – Sex Gang Children
• Nebraska – Bruce Springsteen
• New Britain – Whitehouse
• New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) – Simple Minds
• Night and Day – Joe Jackson
• The Nightfly – Donald Fagen
• 1999 – Prince
• Nona – Nona Hendryx
• Nothing Can Stop Us – Robert Wyatt
• Nothing to Fear – Oingo Boingo
• Now and Forever – Air Supply
• Now Then... – Stiff Little Fingers
• Nugent – Ted Nugent
• The Number of the Beast – Iron Maiden
• Nylon Curtain – Billy Joel
• Offene Türen – Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Oh, No! It's Devo – Devo
• On Land – Brian Eno
• One Night at Budokan - Michael Schenker Group
• 1+9+8+2 – Status Quo
• One to One – Carole King
• The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away - Bootsy Collins
• One Vice at a Time – Krokus
• Only Theatre of Pain – Christian Death (debut)
• Oriental Beat – Hanoi Rocks
• The Party's Over – Talk Talk
• Peter Gabriel also known as Security – Peter Gabriel
• Pictures at Eleven – Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
• Picture This – Huey Lewis & The News
• Plastic Surgery Disasters - Dead Kennedys
• Pleasure Victim - Berlin
• Pornography – The Cure
• Power Play – April Wine
• Prairie Serenade – Riders in the Sky
• Private Audition – Heart
• Psychopathia Sexualis – Whitehouse
• The Pursuit of Accidents – Level 42
• The Record – Fear
• Revelations – Killing Joke
• Rio – Duran Duran
• The Rise & Fall – Madness
• Rock in a Hard Place – Aerosmith
• Room To Live – The Fall
• Rough Diamonds – Bad Company
• Ruff Cuts EP – Twisted Sister
• Saints & Sinners – Whitesnake
• Screaming Blue Murder – Girlschool
• Screaming for Vengeance – Judas Priest
• Send Me A Lullaby – The Go-Betweens
• Set – Thompson Twins
• Shabooh Shoobah – INXS
• Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch – Frank Zappa
• Shoot Out the Lights – Richard and Linda Thompson
• Showtime! – The J. Geils Band (live)
• Signals – Rush
• Silk Electric – Diana Ross
• The Singles: The First Ten Years – ABBA
• The Sky's Gone Out – Bauhaus
• Sleepwalking – Gerry Rafferty
• Somewhere in Afrika – Manfred Mann's Earth Band
• Songs of the Free – Gang of Four
• Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth
• Speak of the Devil – Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
• Spécial Dalida – Dalida
• Stand by Your Man (EP) – Motörhead & Girlschool
• Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium – Stevie Wonder
• Stink – The Replacements
• Straight Between the Eyes – Rainbow
• Sweets From a Stranger – Squeeze
• 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Midnight Oil
• Tenebrae – Simonetti-Morante-Pignatelli (Goblin)
• Three Lock Box – Sammy Hagar
• Three Sides Live – Genesis
• Thriller – Michael Jackson
• Time and Tide – Split Enz
• Time Pieces: Best of Eric Clapton – Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
• Too Fast for Love – Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
• Too-Rye-Ay – Dexys Midnight Runners
• Toto IV – Toto
• Tough – Kurtis Blow
• Trance – Chris & Cosey
• Troops of Tomorrow – The Exploited
• Tug of War – Paul McCartney


• The Tunes of Two Cities – The Residents
• TV Party (EP) – Black Flag
• 2x45 – Cabaret Voltaire
• 2XS – Nazareth
• UB44 - UB40
• Under the Big Black Sun – X
• Under the Blade – Twisted Sister (debut album)
• Underwater Kites – The Modern Art (debut)
• Upstairs at Eric's – Yazoo


• Vs – Mission of Burma
• Walk Among Us - The Misfits
• Warrior Rock: Toyah on Tour – Toyah (live)
• Wasted Youth – Girl
• We Are...The League - Anti-Nowhere League
• What Time Is It? – The Time
• White Eagle – Tangerine Dream
• White Heat – Dusty Springfield
• Wild in the Streets – Circle Jerks
• The Winning Hand – Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Lee & Dolly Parton
• Wiped Out – Raven
• World Radio – Leo Sayer
• Zapp II – Zapp
• Zipper Catches Skin – Alice Cooper

E em Portugal?
Em Portugal surgiam (entre outras) pérolas tais como:

• Jáfumega dos Jáfumega
• Desconto Especial/Autocarro Diariamente dos Alarme (o único single lançado pela banda)
• Algarismos de Carlos Paião
• "Oito Encomendas Discriminadas No Verso" dos CTT
• Fantasmas/Lisboa Ano 10000 e Hiroxima (Meu Amor)/1001 Noites (ambos singles) dos Da Vinci
• Bem Bom/Perfumada; Bim bom (versão inglesa)/Bem Bom (versão portuguesa); Bingo (versão espanhola)/ OK KO (também todos singles) das Doce
• Terra de Mel de Eugénia Melo e Castro
• Independança dos GNR
• Perto de Ti de Lena d’Água
• Persona Non Grata dos UHF
• Na Braza dos Trabalhadores do Comércio


• Roquivários dos Roquivários
• No Sul da Europa dos Opinião Pública
• Por Esse Rio Acima de Fausto





E foi também em 1982 que desapareceu uma das maiores vozes da música portuguesa
Adriano Correia de Oliveira

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez mais conhecida como Joan Baez.
Mais uma das cantoras que eu considero indispensáveis em qualquer colecção de música.



O original é de Bob Dylan mas ela cantou inumeras músicas dele







Esta que é uma das suas canções mais conhecidas também é do Bob Dylan



BLOWING IN THE WIND

How many roads must a man walk down,
before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove fly,
before she sleeps in the sand?
And how many times must a cannon ball fly,
before they're forever banned?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist,
before it is washed to the sea?
How many years can some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
And how many times can a man turn his head,
and pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

How many times must a man look up,
before he sees the sky?
And how many ears must one man have,
before he can hear people cry ?
And how many deaths will it take till we know,
that too many people have died?

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.

Esta é das minhas preferidas



E esta (mais uma do Bob Dylan) é a minha preferida



A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

John Lennon

É sem duvida um dos maiores génios da história da música. Em 2002 entrou na lista dos 100 britânicos mais influentes de sempre.
John Winston Lennon nasceu em 1940 na cidade britanica de Liverpool e tornou-se mundialmente famoso como um dos quatro integrantes da banda que revolucionou a música nos anos 60 os Beatles.
Depois da banda se separar John Lennon iniciou uma carreira a solo(ou re-iniciou, visto já ter lançado 3 albuns a solo [sem grande sucesso] enquanto ainda estava nos Beatles).
Ao contrário dos primeiros albuns que eram muito experimentais e com gravações caseiras esta segunda fase da sua carreira esteve recheada de sucessos (Imagine, Woman, Instant Karma, Jealous Guy...).
Em 1980 e depois de 5 anos sem gravar Lennon lançou o seu último álbum "Double Fantasy" que marcava o regresso aos discos e ao sucesso. Do álbum faziam parte canções como "(Just Like)Starting Over", "Woman", "Watching the Wheels" e "Beautiful Boy". Mas aquele que devia ser o álbum de regresso foi o último a 8 de Dezembro desse mesmo ano John Lennon foi assassinado por Mark David Chapman (o sujeito da foto da esquerda)

Além de músico e activista pela paz Lennon realizou documentários e escreveu livros. Aqui fica uma lista da extensa obra de Lennon:

DISCOGRAFIA:

• Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (1968)
• Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions (1969)
• Wedding Album (1969)
• Live Peace In Toronto (1969)
• Plastic Ono Band (1970)
• Imagine (1971)
• Sometime In New York City (com Yoko Ono) (1972)
• Mind Games (1973)
• Walls And Bridges (1974)
• Rock 'n' Roll (1975)
• Shaved Fish (colectânea) (1975)
• Double Fantasy (com Yoko Ono) (1980)
• The John Lennon Collection (coletânea) (1982)
• Milk And Honey (com Yoko Ono) (1984)
• Live In New York City (show gravado em 1972)(1986)
• Menlove Avenue (1986)
• Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
• Lennon (Box com 4 cds) (1990)
• Lennon Legend (colectânea) (1997)
• John Lennon Anthology (1998)
• Wonsaponatime (1998)
• Accoustic (2004)
• Peace, Love & Truth (2005)
• Working Class Hero: The definitive John Lennon (colectânea)(2005)
• The US Versus John Lennon (coletânea)(2006)

Documentários e filmes

• The U.S.A vs John Lennon, é um documentário que investe no lado de activista pela paz de John.
• How I Won The War, de 1966, lançado no Brasil como Que Delícia de Guerra. Dirigido por Richard Lester (de A Hard Day's Night e Help!)
• Imagine, de 1971, considerado um dos precursores dos actuais vídeos, contém as canções do álbum Imagine e duas canções do álbum Fly de Yoko Ono: "Don't Count the Waves" e "Mrs. Lennon". Foi dirigido pelo casal Lennon.
• Imagine: John Lennon, documentário de 1988 narrado pelo próprio Lennon, com excertos de mais de 100 horas de entrevistas e imagens do arquivo de Yoko. Dirigido por Andrew Solt.
• The Beatles Anthology, de 1996, documentário sobre os Beatles narrado pelos próprios.
• John Lennon Legend, em DVD, apresenta clipes de sua carreira solo
• Gimme Some Truth, em DVD, documentário sobre a gravação do álbum Imagine
• The US Versus John Lennon
• Chapter 27, um filme onde Lindsay Lohan vive uma fã dos Beatles em especial John Lennon. Na trama, Lindsay conhece o assassino de John Lennon e acaba por ficar amiga de Mark David Chapman, vivido por Jared Leto. O filme já se encontra nos cinemas. Relata os pensamentos de Mark em toda a sua infância até o momento da sua vida, quando atira em John Lennon, em frente à sua casa.
• Across The Universe (2007) Across the Universe é um musical revolucionário de rock, com amores, diferenças ideológicas, sociais e belíssimas canções que recria, com delicadeza e psicadélica criatividade, a América do turbulento período do fim da década de 60. A trilha sonora do filme é inteira dos Beatles.
• The Killing of John Lennon, filme sobre o assassinato de Lennon por Mark David Chapman. O filme foi escrito e dirigido por Andrew Piddington.
Livros
• "In His Own Write"
• "A Spaniard In The Works"
• "Imagine this: growing up with my brother John Lennon"(escrito pela meia-irmã de Lennon, contando como foi viver com Lennon, seu irmão...)
• " John Lennon: A Vida" Biografia escrita por Philip Norman

E agora alguns vídeos: