Cultivate your hunger before you idealize.
Motivate your anger to make them all realize.
Climbing the mountain, never coming down.
Break into the contents, never falling down.
My knee is still shaking, like I was twelve,
Sneaking out of the classroom, by the back door.
A man railed at me twice though, but I didn't care.
Waiting is wasting for people like me.
Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry 'cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
(Repeats)
You say, "Dreams are dreams.
"I ain't gonna play the fool anymore."
You say, "'Cause I still got my soul."
Take your time, baby, your blood needs slowing down.
Breach your soul to reach yourself before you gloom.
Reflection of fear makes shadows of nothing, shadows of nothing.
You still are blind, if you see a winding road,
'Cause there's always a straight way to the point you see.
Don't try to live so wise.
Don't cry 'cause you're so right.
Don't dry with fakes or fears,
'Cause you will hate yourself in the end.
(Repeats)
Minggu, 23 Agustus 2009
Wind
Mountain a Go Go Too
| Quite often I, Sometimes I |
Kamisama ni Hotokesama ni sugari | To God, to Buddha |
Danran dansu de randebuu | Dance in a circle then rendezvous |
Danran dansu de randebuu | Dance in a circle then rendezvous |
Yo no tame ni hito no tame ni | For the sake of the word, for the sake of mankind |
Danran dansu de randebuu | Dance in a circle then rendezvous |
Danran dansu de randebuu | Dance in a circle then rendezvous |
Yama no you ni mieru | They appear to me as mountains |
Goku tama ni boku tama ni | Quite often I, Sometimes I |
Selasa, 18 Agustus 2009
What Is Punk Rock?
Although punk rock has been around for around forty years, this site will be mainly focusing on its roots and its beginnings, or the period between the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. Although this might seem like a short time, it is an era that features literally thousands of bands. Consequently, since it would be impossible to examine all of them, I will look at those I deem to be the most important, not necesarily the best.
THE RAMONES
History of The Ramones
The Ramones became a band in 1974 in Queens, New York City. Although the band's members would change frequently as the years progressed, the original group was composed of Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, and Tommy Ramone. Of those four, only Joey and Johnny would stay until the band dissolved in 1996. The name "Ramones" was a pseudonym taken by the members as a reference to The Beatle's Paul Mccartney who supposedly used the name "Ramones" as an alias when checking into hotel rooms. In total, the band released 14 studio albums and 4 live ones. Some highlights include Ramones (1976), Rocket To Russia (1977), Too Tough To Die (1985), and It's Alive (1979).
Deconstructing A Punk Band
The Ramones were not just important musically, the way they looked and the culture which they inhabited was a crucial part of what made them who they were: StylePop Culture
Songs
StyleThroughout their carreer, The Ramones adhered to a specific style of clothes that was reinforced by guitarist Johnny Ramone's insistence in wearing a "uniform". Here is a list of "Ramones Fashion":
- Converse shoes, a must.
- Torn, old, unwashed, small and just plain disguting pair of jeans. Gotta have em.
- Perfecto leather jackets:black, too small, extra points if it has pins.
- Optional: bowl hair cut or sunglasses; choose, you can't have them both.
- Tight T-shirt with clever pop culture allusion on the front
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Chainsaw)
- All quiet on the western front (All's quiet on the Western Front)
- Pet Cemetery (Pet Sematary)
- Spiderman; superheroes in general (Spiderman)
- The Beach Boys (Surf City, Surfin' Bird, Surfin' Safari)
- Green Berets (53rd & 3rd)
Few bands can claim to have written such amazingly fun and memorable rock tunes as The Ramones, here is a list of some of their best:
- Blitzrieg Bop: the start of a revolution, a call to arms, an event in music history (2:14)
- Judy Is A Punk: furious, the Ramones examine themselves (1:32)
- I Wanna By Your Boyfriend: a love song by The Ramones, does it get anymore romantic? (2:24)
- I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You: a breakup song by The Ramones (1:42)
- The KKK Took My Baby Away: Johnny steals Joey's girlfriend, Joey writes a song (2:32)
An Ode To The Ramones
The Ramones personify punk. No matter what others might say, The Ramones truly were the "first" first punk band. When I first heard their sound, it was as if I was listening to music for the first time. Their music was devoid of pretensions. They were the anti-beatles, anti-led zep, anti-stones, anti-who. It was not that they resented those groups, on the contrary, The Ramones adored those bands, it was that they understood that rock was nothing more than rock. By stripping down music to three-chords, a catchy tune, and playing it faster than their instruments could handle, The Ramones reinvented music. But more importantly, it was a band that played honestly. Throughout their long carreer they never really changed their formula. They refused to evolve. They were conscious that their musical innocence would be lost if they attempted to deviate from their beginnings. And it is exactly that innocence, that pure, unshakable love for rock that has made them last the test of time. Long live The Ramones.
Minggu, 09 Agustus 2009
do you know (the ping pong)
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away.
(Do you know [x3])
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed.
Do you know [x4]
Do ya
If birds flying south is a sign of changes
At least you can predict this every year.
Love, you never know the minute it ends suddenly
I can't get it to speak
Maybe finding all the things it took to save us
I could fix the pain that bleeds inside of me
Look in your eyes to see the some about me
I'm standing on the edge and I don't know what else to give.
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away.
(Do you know [x3])
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed.
Do you know [x4]
Do ya
How can I love you [x4]
If you just don't talk to me, babe.
I flow through my act
The question is she needed
And decide all the man I can ever be.
Looking at the last 3 years like I did,
I could never see us ending like this.
(Do you know)
Seeing your face no more on my pillow
Is a scene that's never happened to me.
(Do you know)
But after this episode I don't see,
you could never tell the next thing life could be
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away.
(Do you know [x3])
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed.
Do you know [x3]
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away.
(Do you know [x3])
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed.
Do you know [x7]
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away
(Do you know [x3])
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed
Do you know [x3]
[Chorus]
Do you know what it feels like
love is someone that's in a rush to throw you away
(Do you know how it feels)
Do you know what it feels like
to be the last one to know the lock for the door has changed
Do you know [x4]
Do you know what it feels like loving
Do you know [x4]
Do ya
Do you know [x4]
Do ya
can you hear me
I gotta make a decision
Do I go, do I stay?
You’ve gotten into my system
You are in control of my mental
I need to mean for a stay
I’m on a coaster-collision
I am not about to give in
I can’t explain my position or the condition that I’m in.
Where I am there's no limit, no walls, no ceilings
No intermission, so
Let the party begin
Hey.. Hey.. Hey all the way
DJ let it play.
Hey Hey Can You Hear Me
?Can You Hear Me?
Hey.. Hey.. Hey all the way
DJ let it play.
Hey Hey Can You Hear Me?
OooowOooow Oooow Oooow Oooow Oooow Oooow
Can You Hear Me? Can You Hear Me? Can You Can You Hear Me
I'm here but I can still feel you
sometimes I’m blind but I see you
You're here but so far away
The times when you want me Im missing
you Make me feel like I’m spinning
Sometimes you get what you gain
I’m on a coaster-collision
I am not about to give in
I can’t explain my position or the condition that I’m in.
Where I am there's no limit, no walls, no ceilings
No intermission, so
Let the party begin.
Hey.. Hey.. Hey all the way
DJ let it play.
Hey Hey Can You Hear Me?
Oooow
Hey.. Hey.. Hey all the way
DJ let it play.
Hey Hey Can You Hear Me?
Oooow
Can You Hear Me? Can You Hear Me?
Can You Hear Me? Can You Hear Me?
Oooow
Hear Me?
Can You Hear Me? Can You Hear Me?
Hey.. Hey.. Hey all the way
DJ let it play.
Hey Hey Can You Hear Me?Can You Hear Me?
( repeat 5x )
i'm yours
i'll take my chances
We never had it easy baby
We had to work so hard
And everytime it feels like we're gonna make it
That's when it falls apart, but
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
Every night I think about the mistakes I've made
I try to change my ways
(Nothing's gonna change my ways)
And I don't mind all the little games we play
And all the foolish things you say,cause
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
That's what I'm gonna do
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
Love is what you make it
So give it one more try
Cause I get turned down when you're not around
I just can't take it all
You and I
We never had it easy baby
We've both been hurt before
(Both been hurt before)
And only time will tell us if we're gonna make it
There's no way to be sure, but
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
That's what I'm gonna do
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
You know it's true
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances with you
That's what I'm gonna do
Oooooooohoo
Baby I'll take my chances
i'll take my chances
with you
love bug
boom boom pow
Gotta get that
Gotta get that
Gotta get that that that, that that
Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
[Will.i.am]
Yo
I got that hit that beat the block
You can get that bass overload
I got that rock and roll
That future flow
That digital spit
Next level visual shit
I got that (Boom boom boom)
How the beat bang (Boom boom boom)
[Fergie]
I like that boom boom pow
Them chicks is jackin my style
They try to copy my swagger
I'm on that next shit now
Im so 3008
You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom (Yeah)
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
[Taboo]
Im on that supersonic boom
Ya'll hear that spaceship zoom
When when I step inside the room them girls go ape-shit , uh
Y'all stuck on super A-Shit
That low-fi stupid a bit
Im on that HD flat
This beat go boom boom pow
[Apl.de.ap]
Im a beast when you turn me on
Into the future cybertron
Harder, faster, better, stronger
Makes them ladies extra longer, cuz
We got the beat that bounce
We got the beat that pow
We got the beat that 808
That the boom boom in your town
[Fergie]
People in the place
If you wanna get down
Put your hands in the air
Will.i.am drop the beat now
[Will.i.am]
Yep yep
I be rockin the beats (Yep, yep)
I be rockin the beats (Yep yep yep, yep)
Uh-uh
Here we go, here we go
Satellite radio
Yall getting hit with (Boom boom)
Beats so big Im steppin on leprechauns
Shitin on yall you with the (Boom boom)
Shitin on yall you with the (Boom boom)
Shitin on yall you with the..
This beat be bumpin bumpin
This beat go boom boom
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
This beat be bumpin bumpin
This beat go boom boom
[Fergie]
I like that boom boom pow
Them chick is jackin my style
They try copy my swagger
Im on that next shit now
Im so 3008You so 2000 and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom
(Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Yeah)
Boom boom boom (Yeah)
Boom boom boom
Boom boom boom
Let the beat rock (Let the beat rock)
Let the beat rock (Let the beat...)
Let the beat r... (Let the beat rock, rock, rock, rock)
gives you hell
With a big smile on my face
and it never feels out of place.
And you're still probably working
At a 9 to 5 pace
I wonder how bad that tastes
When you see my face
i hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
Now where's your picket fence love
And where's that shiny car
Did it ever get you far?
You never seem so tense, love
Never seen you fall so hard
Do you know where you are?
Truth be told I miss you
Truth be told I'm lying
When you see my face
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
If you find a man thats worth the damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool you're just as well hope it gives you hell
Hope it gives you hell
[Gives You Hell Lyrics On http://www.elyricsworld.com/ ]
Tomorrow you'll be thinking to yourself
Where did it all go wrong?
But the list goes on and on
Truth be told I miss you
Truth be told I'm lying
When you see my face
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
If you find a man that's worth the damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool you're just as well hope it gives you hell
Now you'll never see
What you've done to me
You can take back your memories
They're no good to me
And here's all your lies
If you look me in the eyes
With the sad, sad look
That you wear so well
When you see my face
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell
If you find a man that's worth the damn and treats you well
Then he's a fool you're just as well hope it gives you hell
When you see my face
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell (hope it gives you hell)
When you walk my way
I hope it gives you hell, I hope it gives you hell (hope it gives you hell)
When you hear this song and you sing along well you'll never tell
And you're the fool I've just as well I hope it gives you hell
When you hear this song I hope that it will give you hell
You can sing along I hope that it puts you through hell
i'll be missing you
I hope Im dreamin
I cant believe this shit
Cant believe you aint here
Sometimes its just hard for a nigga to wake up
Its hard to just keep goin
Its like I feel empty inside without you bein here
I would do anything man, to bring you back
Id give all this shit, shit the whole knot
I saw your son today
He look just like you
You was the greatest
Youll always be the greatest
I miss you big
Cant wait til that day, when I see your face again
I cant wait til that day, when I see your face again...
Yeah... this right here (tell me why)
Goes out, to everyone, that has lost someone
That they truly loved (cmon, check it out)
Verse one: puff daddy
Seems like yesterday we used to rock the show
I laced the track, you locked the flow
So far from hangin on the block for dough
Notorious, they got to know that
Life aint always what it seem to be (uh-uh)
Words cant express what you mean to me
Even though youre gone, we still a team
through your family, Ill fulfill your dream (thats right)
In the future, cant wait to see
If you open up the gates for me
Reminisce some time, the night they took my friend (uh-huh)
Try to black it out, but it plays again
When its real, feelings hard to conceal
Cant imagine all the pain I feel
Give anything to hear half your breath (half your breath)
I know you still living your life, after death
Chorus: faith evans
Every step I take, every move I make
Every single day, every time I pray
Ill be missing you
Thinkin of the day, when you went away
What a life to take, what a bond to break
Ill be missing you
[puff] I miss you big
Verse two: puff daddy
Its kinda hard with you not around (yeah)
Know you in heaven smilin down (eheh)
Watchin us while we pray for you
Every day we pray for you
Til the day we meet again
In my heart is where Ill keep you friend
Memories give me the strength I need (uh-huh) to proceed
Strength I need to believe
My thoughts big I just cant define (cant define)
Wish I could turn back the hands of time
Us in the 6, shop for new clothes and kicks
You and me taking flicks
Makin hits, stages they receive you on
I still cant believe youre gone (cant believe youre gone)
Give anything to hear half your breath (half your breath)
I know you still living youre life, after death
Chorus
[faith evans] somebody tell me why
Interlude: faith evans
On that morning
When this life is over
Iknow
Ill see your face
Outro: 112
Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
Every night I pray, every step I take
[puff] every day that passes
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] is a day that I get closer
[puff] to seeing you again
Every night I pray, every step I take
[puff] we miss you big... and we wont stop
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] cause we cant stop... thats right
Every night I pray, every step I take
Every move I make, every single day
[puff] we miss you big
music fades out*