MUSICAL MUSICA

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Leah Andreone

IT'S ALRIGHT IT'S OK

Broken doll baby
And she says that life's a waste
It doesn't have to be that way

Dad threw away her mom
Her mom gave up his name
Crucified by their words
Nailed by shame

She stares into the sun
Self inflicted pain
She sees that they're blind
Why does she take all the blame

The rhyme has changed
Compulsion rules
Mary's little lambs are now raised by wolves
A voyeur with wings flashes a cure
She knows forbidden things
They have a lovely lure

It's alright it's ok
Welcome to this life
Killing time
Just watching the grass grow

It's alright it's ok
Welcome to this life
Don't worry sweet baby
Cuz it's over before you know

Persecuted, she's not normal
I envy her strange ways
Seven deadly sins
Seize the hour, seize the day

Her ideas need expression
Her wounds never bleed
Her beauty lives in my eyes
Too bad she can't see

She doesn't try
I watch her spirits die
But giving up the ghost would feel so good
A voyeur with wings flashes a cure
She knows forbidden things
They have a lovely lure

It's alright it's ok
Welcome to this life
Killing time
Just watching the grass grow

It's alright it's ok
Welcome to this life
Don't worry sweet baby
Cuz it's over

Crumbling Camelot, idle teardrops
Cloudy diamonds, freebase funhouse
Expecting to fly but she's just standing still
Every time she gets it up
She just can't close the deal

So she gives herself another way out
Walks her dog for the fiftieth time
And files her nails till they bleed
and she cries now
She doesn't have to try

Voltando às postagens sobre a década de 80 vou falar do ano de 1981.
Nesse ano os tops de vendas nos EUA foram invadidos e dominados por:
(o numero entre parêntesis indica o numero de semanas que lideraram o top de vendas)

"(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon (4 )
"The Tide Is High" - Blondie (1)

"Celebration" - Kool & the Gang (2)
"9 to 5" - Dolly Parton (2)
"I Love a Rainy Night" - Eddie Rabbitt (2)
"Keep On Loving You" REO Speedwagon (1)
"Rapture" - Blondie (2)
"Kiss On My List" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (3)
"Morning Train (9 To 5)" - Sheena Easton (2)
"Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes (9)

"Stars on 45 Medley" - Stars On 45 (1)
"The One That You Love" - Air Supply (1)
"Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield (2)
"Endless Love" - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie (9)
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" - Christopher Cross (3)
"Private Eyes" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (2)
"Physical" - Olivia Newton-John (6)
Enquanto no Reino Unido o top era dominado por:
"There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" - St Winifred's School Choir (1)
"Imagine" - John Lennon (4)
"Woman" - John Lennon (2)
"Shaddup You Face" - Joe Dolce Music Theatre (3)
"Jealous Guy" - Roxy Music (2)
"This Ole House" - Shakin' Stevens (3)
"Making Your Mind Up" - Bucks Fizz (3)
"Stand and Deliver" - Adam and the Ants (5)
"Being With You" - Smokey Robinson (2)
"One Day in Your Life" - Michael Jackson (2)
"Ghost Town" - The Specials (3)
"Green Door"- Shakin' Stevens (4)
"Japanese Boy" - Aneka (1)
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell (2)
"Prince Charming" - Adam and the Ants (4)
"It's My Party" - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (4)
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - The Police (1)
"Under Pressure" - Queen & David Bowie (2)
"Begin the Beguine" - Julio Iglesias (1)
"Don't You Want Me" - The Human League (3)
Também foi o ano em que foram lançados, entre outros, os álbuns:

• Abacab - Genesis
• Alles ist gut - D.A.F.
• Almost Blue - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• Amy Grant in Concert - Amy Grant
• And Don't the Kids Just Love It - Television Personalities
• Another Ticket - Eric Clapton
• Anthem - Toyah
• Architecture & Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny
• As Far as Siam - Red Rider
• Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! - Earthstar
• Bad Religion (EP) - Bad Religion (debut album)
• Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
• Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks
• The Baron - Johnny Cash
• Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's
• Being with You - Smokey Robinson
• Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
• The Best of Blondie - Blondie
• Best of the Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers
• The Best of Top of the Pops '81 - Top of the Poppers
• Beyond the Valley of 1984 - Plasmatics
• Big City - Merle Haggard
• Black & White - The Pointer Sisters
• Black President - Fela Kuti
• The Blasters - The Blasters
• Block to Block - De Press
• Bobby & the Midnites - Bobby and the Midnites
• Boonoonoonoos - Boney M.
• Breaker - Accept
• Breakin' Away - Al Jarreau
• Buchenwald - Whitehouse
• Bucks Fizz - Bucks Fizz
• Burning Blue Soul - The The
• Business as Usual - Men at Work (Australia, debut album)
• Captured - Journey
• The Catherine Wheel - David Byrne
• Chances Are - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• ChangesTwoBowie - David Bowie
• Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
• Children of Paradise - The Greatest Hits of Boney M. - Vol. 2 - Boney M.
• Christmas Album - Boney M.
• Circle of Love - Steve Miller Band
• Coconut Telegraph - Jimmy Buffett
• A Collection of Great Dance Songs - Pink Floyd
• The Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes
• Computer World - Kraftwerk
• Connections & Disconnections - Funkadelic
• Controversy - Prince
• Come an' Get It - Whitesnake
• Cool Night - Paul Davis
• Coup de Grâce - Mink DeVille
• Cowboy Jubilee - Riders in the Sky
• Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty - Felt
• Curiosum - Cluster
• Dad Loves His Work - James Taylor
• Damaged - Black Flag
• Dance - Gary Numan
• Dangerous Acquaintances - Marianne Faithfull
• Dare - The Human League
• Dark Continent - Wall of Voodoo
• Dead Ringer - Meat Loaf
• Dead Set - Grateful Dead
• Deaf - You've Got Foetus On Your Breath
• Deceit - This Heat
• Dedicated to Peter Kürten - Whitehouse
• Dedication - Gary U.S. Bonds
• Denim and Leather - Saxon
• Deuce - Kurtis Blow
• DEV-O Live - Devo
• Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
• Difficult to Cure - Rainbow
• Directions - Miles Davis
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
• Discipline - King Crimson
• Document and Eyewitness - Wire
• Don't Say No - Billy Squier
• Don't Stop - Billy Idol
• Drama of Exile - Nico
• Dreamtime - Tom Verlaine
• Duran Duran - Duran Duran
• Earthshaker - Y&T
• East Side Story - Squeeze
• El Loco - ZZ Top
• The Electric Spanking of War Babies - Funkadelic
• El Rayo-X - David Lindley
• Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse a.k.a. French Record - Kate and Anna McGarrigle
• Escape - Journey
• Escape Artist - Garland Jeffreys
• Exit...Stage Left (live album) - Rush
• Extended Play (EP) - The Pretenders
• Evangeline - Emmylou Harris
• Face Dances - The Who
• Face Value - Phil Collins
• Fair Warning - Van Halen
• Faith - The Cure
• Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Fire of Love - The Gun Club
• Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Öyster Cult
• Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd.
• The Fool Circle - Nazareth
• For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC
• For Those Who Think Young - Rough Trade
• 4 - Foreigner
• The Fox - Elton John
• Freelancing - James Blood Ulmer
• Freetime - Spyro Gyra
• Freeze Frame - The J. Geils Band
• Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
• Friday Night in San Francisco - Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
• From the Lions Mouth - The Sound
• Get Lucky - Loverboy
• Ghost in the Machine - The Police
• Give the People What They Want - Jimmy Cliff
• Give the People What They Want - The Kinks
• Go for It - Stiff Little Fingers
• Gonna Ball - Stray Cats
• Gosh It's... - Bad Manners
• Greatest Hits - Queen
• Happy Birthday - Altered Images
• Hard Promises - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Hardware - Krokus
• Healing - Todd Rundgren
• Heartbreak Radio - Rita Coolidge
• Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen
• High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard
• Higher Plane - Al Green
• Hit and Run - Girlschool
• Hooligans - The Who
• Honi Soit - John Cale
• Hoy-Hoy! - Little Feat
• I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts - The Waitresses
• I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
• Icehouse - The Flowers a.k.a. Icehouse
• If I Should Love Again - Barry Manilow
• In Concert Volume Two - Amy Grant
• In God We Trust, Inc. - Dead Kennedys
• In My Eyes (EP) - Minor Threat
• In Our Lifetime - Marvin Gaye
• In the Garden - Eurythmics
• In the Pocket - Commodores
• Individuellos - La Düsseldorf
• The Innocent Age - Dan Fogelberg
• Insect and Individual Silenced - Nurse with Wound
• Intensities in 10 Cities (live) - Ted Nugent
• It Must Be Magic - Teena Marie
• The Jacksons Live! - The Jacksons
• Jane Siberry - Jane Siberry
• Joy - The Minutemen
• The Judgement of Paris - Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women
• Juice - Juice Newton
• Juju - Siouxie & the Banshees
• Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson
• Killers - Iron Maiden
• Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
• King Cool - Donnie Iris
• Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X as Gen X
• Kix - Kix
• Koo Koo - Debbie Harry
• La Folie – The Stranglers
• Land Speed Record - Hüsker Dü
• Law and Order - Lindsey Buckingham
• Let Them Eat Jellybeans - Various Artists from Alternative Tenticles Records
• Magnetic Fields - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Level 42 (debut) - Level 42
• Long Distance Voyager - The Moody Blues
• Long Play Album a.k.a. Stars on Long Play - Stars on 45
• The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
• Love Is Only Feeling - Donovan
• Love Songs - Cliff Richard
• Lustwandel - Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Made in America - The Carpenters
• Magic, Murder and the Weather - Magazine
• Magic Window - Herbie Hancock
• Magnetic Fields - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Maiden Japan (EP) - Iron Maiden
• The Man with the Horn - Miles Davis
• Marauder - Blackfoot
• Mark of the Mole - The Residents
• Mask - Bauhaus
• Material - Moebius & Plank
• Mecca for Moderns - The Manhattan Transfer
• Minor Threat (EP) - Minor Threat
• Mistaken Identity - Kim Carnes
• Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
• Modern Times - Jefferson Starship
• Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
• Movement - New Order
• Moving Pictures - Rush
• M.S.G. II - Michael Schenker Group
• Music from "The Elder" - Kiss
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - David Byrne & Brian Eno
• The Nature of the Beast - April Wine
• Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
• New Traditionalists - Devo
• Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
• Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
• 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs - Dolly Parton
• Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (live) - Motörhead
• Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell
• October - U2
• Odyshape - The Raincoats
• Of Skins and Heart - The Church
• Offramp - Pat Metheny Group
• Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo
• Paradise Theatre - Styx
• Party - Iggy Pop
• Party Mix! - The B-52's
• Penis Envy - Crass
• Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17
• Performance - Ashford & Simpson
• Physical - Olivia Newton-John
• Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
• Place without a Postcard - Midnight Oil
• Play Me Out - Helen Reddy
• The Plimsouls - The Plimsouls
• Point of Entry - Judas Priest
• Positive Touch - The Undertones
• The Poet - Bobby Womack
• Prayers on Fire - The Birthday Party
• Precious Time - Pat Benatar
• Present Arms - UB40
• Present Arms in Dub - UB40
• Pretenders II - The Pretenders
• Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants
• Private Eyes - Hall & Oates
• A Product of ... (Participation) - Thompson Twins (debut)
• Public Service (EP) - Various Artists
• The Punch Line - Minutemen
• Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited (debut)
• Quarterflash - Quarterflash
• Quiero Ser - Menudo
• Rage in Eden - Ultravox
• Raise! - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Re-ac-tor - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
• Reckoning - Grateful Dead
• Red - Black Uhuru
• Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire
• Reflections - Gil Scott-Heron
• Rock until You Drop - Raven
• 7 - Madness
• Shake It Up - The Cars
• She Shot Me Down - Frank Sinatra
• Shot of Love - Bob Dylan
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa
• Signals, Calls, and Marches (EP) - Mission of Burma
• Six Pack (EP) - Black Flag
• Slates - The Fall
• Snaz (live) - Nazareth
• Solid Gold - Gang of Four
• Something Special - Kool & the Gang
• Somewhere in England - George Harrison
• Songs in the Attic - Billy Joel
• Sonic Attack - Hawkwind
• Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call - Simple Minds
• Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash - The Replacements (debut)
• Speak & Spell - Depeche Mode
• Special Forces - Alice Cooper
• Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar
• Standing Together - Midnight Star
• Stands for Decibels - The dB's
• Stray Cats - Stray Cats
• Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt
• Still - Joy Division
• Stop and Smell the Roses - Ringo Starr
• Street Songs - Rick James
• Strictly Personal - The Romantics
• Take It Off - Chic
• Take No Prisoners - Molly Hatchet
• Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs
• Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
• Ten Out of 10 - 10cc
• There Goes the Neighborhood - Joe Walsh
• There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - B.B. King
• Three Quartets - Chick Corea
• Time - Electric Light Orchestra
• The Time - The Time
• Tin Drum - Japan
• Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa
• To the Bone - Kris Kristofferson
• Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
• Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart
• Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe
• Too Late the Hero - John Entwistle
• Torch - Carly Simon
• Trio - Trio
• Trust - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• Turn Back - Toto
• Underneath the Colours - INXS
• The Visitors - ABBA
• Waiata - Split Enz
• Wanted Dread and Alive - Peter Tosh
• Welcome to Hell - Venom
• What's THIS For...! - Killing Joke
• Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Diana Ross
• Wild-Eyed Southern Boys - 38 Special
• Wild Gift - X
• Wild Things (EP) - The Creatures
• Word of Mouth - Jaco Pastorius
• Wünsche fliegen übers Meer - Die Flippers
• Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield
• You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa
• You Want It You Got It - Bryan Adams
• You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With - Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs and John Giorno
• Zebop! - Santana
Em Portugal o ano de 1981 ficará lembrado como o ano em que surgiram, entre outras pérolas:

Telepatia – Lara Li

O Rapaz do Cubo Mágico – Lara Li
Baile no Bosque – Trovante
Balada das Sete Saias / Companha – Trovante
Rua do Carmo – UHF
À Flor da Pele – UHF
Portugal na CEE / Espelho Meu – GNR
Sê um GNR / Instrumental nº1 – GNR
Vígaro Cá, Vígaro Lá – Lena d’Água
Patchouly – Grupo de Baile
(não consegui um video mas arranja-se a musica)

Chiclet – Taxi
Heróis do Mar – Heróis do Mar
Dá-me Lume/Ribeira – Jáfumega
Flor Sonhada/Foram Cardos, Foram Prosas – Manuela Moura Guedes (ela mesmo)
Totobola/Ela Controla – Roquivários