quinta-feira, março 06, 2025
Chorão, vocalista dos Charlie Brown Jr., morreu de overdose há doze anos...
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Fernando Martins
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00:12
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Marcadores: Brasil, Charlie Brown Jr., Chorão, hardcore melódico, música, overdose, Rap metal, rap rock, reggae rock, Rock alternativo, ska, Skate punk, Só os Loucos Sabem
quarta-feira, março 05, 2025
Eddy Grant - 77 anos
Eddy Grant ou Edmond Montague Grant (Plaisance, 5 de março de 1948) é um músico da Guiana. Quando era muito jovem, os seus pais emigraram para o Reino Unido, onde ele se estabeleceu. Em 1968, como guitarrista e compositor do grupo multi-racial The Equals, alcançou pela primeira vez o topo das paradas de sucesso, com a canção "Baby Come Back".
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Fernando Martins
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07:07
0
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Marcadores: apartheid, Baby Come Back, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
Música adequada à data...
Postado por
Pedro Luna
às
00:07
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Guiana, I don't wanna dance, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
sábado, fevereiro 22, 2025
Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime, nasceu há 57 anos...
Bradley Nowell nasceu e cresceu em Long Beach, Califórnia, junto dos seus pais, Jim Nowell e Nancy Nowell, e com sua irmã Kelly. Conforme cresceu, Nowell tornou-se uma criança problemática. O seu comportamento rebelde agravou-se aos dez anos, quando os seus pais se divorciaram. Ao sair numa viagem às Ilhas Virgens, juntamente com o seu pai, Bradley passou a conhecer o reggae e, ao voltar, foi aprender a tocar guitarra. Aos 13 anos Bradley formou a sua primeira banda, 'Hogan's Heroes', juntamente com Eric Wilson, que mais tarde seria o baixista da banda Sublime. Nowell estudou na Wilson Classical High School, em Long Beach, e mais tarde frequentou a California State University, de Long Beach.
Bradley foi um músico que viria a influenciar muita gente em relação ao estilo musical e ao estilo de vida, sendo um ícone para toda a geração que partilha um gosto comum pelo skate.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:57
0
bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, Bradley Nowell, hip hop, música, overdose, punk rock, reggae, reggae rock, rock acústico, ska punk, Sublime, third wave ska, What I Got
sábado, novembro 02, 2024
Os The Police lançaram o seu álbum de estreia há 46 anos
Although Outlandos d'Amour received mixed reviews upon its release, it has since been regarded as one of the strongest debut albums. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 38th best debut album of all time and the 428th greatest album of all time.
Background and recording
With a budget of £1,500 borrowed from their manager, Miles Copeland (brother of drummer Stewart), the Police recorded Outlandos d'Amour at Surrey Sound Studios in an intermittent fashion over six months, with the band recording whenever the studio had free time or another band's sessions were cancelled. Miles Copeland had promised to pay Surrey Sound £2,000 upon completion of the recording, but did not give them the full amount until much later.
Miles occasionally visited the studio during recording, and he reacted to what he heard from the band with vehement derision. However, upon hearing "Roxanne" he had the opposite reaction and took the recording to A&M Records the following day, where he persuaded the record label to release it as a one-off single. Although the single failed to chart, A&M agreed to give the band a second chance with "Can't Stand Losing You". At first, A&M proposed the band create an improved mix of the song, but after five attempts admitted that it could not improve upon the band's mix, and released the original mix for the single. When it became the band's first hit, the label quickly approved the release of the by-then finished album.
Music and lyrics
Outlandos d'Amour, while at times incorporating reggae, pop and other elements of what would eventually become the band's definitive sound, is dominated by punk influences. This is evident on the opening track "Next to You", despite it essentially being a love song. Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers initially felt the lyrics were neither aggressive nor political enough for their style at the time, but bassist and vocalist Sting was adamant about keeping the song as it was. "Next to You" includes a slide guitar solo by Summers, which Copeland initially dismissed as "old wave".
The second track is the reggae-influenced "So Lonely". Sting has said he used Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the musical basis for the song, while the lyrics in its verses were recycled from "Fool in Love", a song he originally wrote for his earlier band Last Exit. The song itself, about someone who is lonely after suffering a broken heart, was seen as ironic by a large segment of the band's listeners. Sting disagreed with this sentiment, saying, "No, there's no irony whatsoever. From the outside it might look a bit strange, being surrounded by all this attention and yet experiencing the worst lonely feeling ... but I do. And then suddenly the attention is withdrawn a half an hour later. You're so isolated ..."
"Roxanne" was written by Sting after visiting a red-light district near the band's hotel in Paris. The Police had been staying there in October 1977 to perform at the nearby Nashville Club. The song's title comes from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, an old poster of which was hanging in the hotel foyer. Sting had originally conceived the song as a bossa nova, although Stewart Copeland has been credited for suggesting its final rhythmic form as a tango. During recording, Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track. The Police were initially reluctant about the song, but Miles Copeland was immediately enthusiastic after hearing it.
The remaining two tracks on the first side of the album are "Hole in My Life", another reggae-influenced song by Sting, and "Peanuts", a composition written by Stewart Copeland and Sting about Rod Stewart. The lyrics were meant as an expression of disappointment on Sting's part towards his former idol, of whom he said: "I used to be a great fan of his but something happened to him. I hope I don't end up like that." Having since experienced the celebrity lifestyle himself, he has said he no longer identifies with the song's lyrical content and has come to view Stewart in a different light.
"Can't Stand Losing You" begins side two of the original LP. Written and composed by Sting, the song is about a young lover being driven to suicide following a breakup. In a 1993 interview with The Independent, he described the lyrics as "juvenile", saying that "teenage suicide ... is always a bit of a joke"; he also claimed to have written the lyrics in only five minutes.
The following track, "Truth Hits Everybody", is a punk-influenced song. After that is "Born in the 50's", which details life as a teenager during the 1960s. "Be My Girl—Sally" is a medley of a half-finished song by Sting and an Andy Summers poem about a blow-up doll. This leads into the semi-instrumental closer, "Masoko Tanga", the only song on the album to not become a staple of the band's live performances.
Two other songs from these sessions were excluded from Outlandos d'Amour but released as B-sides for two of its singles: "Dead-End Job", a song credited to Sting and Copeland, on the B-side of "Can't Stand Losing You"; and "No Time This Time" by Sting, on the B-side of "So Lonely". The latter was subsequently included on the band's second album Reggatta de Blanc.
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Fernando Martins
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00:46
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Marcadores: música, new wave, Outlandos d'Amour, pop, Pós Punk, punk rock, reggae rock, Reino Unido, Rock, Roxanne, Sting, The Police
quarta-feira, março 06, 2024
Chorão, vocalista dos Charlie Brown Jr., morreu há onze anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:11
0
bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, Céu Azul, Charlie Brown Jr., Chorão, hardcore melódico, música, overdose, Rap metal, rap rock, reggae rock, Rock alternativo, ska, Skate punk
terça-feira, março 05, 2024
Música adequada à data...
Postado por
Pedro Luna
às
19:48
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Gimme Hope Jo Anna, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
Eddy Grant - 76 anos
Eddy Grant ou Edmond Montague Grant (Plaisance, 5 de março de 1948) é um músico da Guiana. Quando era muito jovem, os seus pais emigraram para o Reino Unido, onde ele se estabeleceu. Em 1968, como guitarrista e compositor do grupo multi-racial The Equals, alcançou pela primeira vez o topo das paradas de sucesso, com a canção "Baby Come Back".
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
07:06
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Guiana, I don't wanna dance, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
quinta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2024
Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime, nasceu há 56 anos...
Bradley Nowell nasceu e cresceu em Long Beach, Califórnia, junto dos seus pais, Jim Nowell e Nancy Nowell, e com sua irmã Kelly. Conforme cresceu, Nowell tornou-se uma criança problemática. O seu comportamento rebelde agravou-se aos dez anos, quando os seus pais se divorciaram. Ao sair numa viagem às Ilhas Virgens, juntamente com o seu pai, Bradley passou a conhecer o reggae e, ao voltar, foi aprender a tocar guitarra. Aos 13 anos Bradley formou a sua primeira banda, 'Hogan's Heroes', juntamente com Eric Wilson, que mais tarde seria o baixista da banda Sublime. Nowell estudou na Wilson Classical High School, em Long Beach, e mais tarde frequentou a California State University, de Long Beach.
Bradley foi um músico que viria a influenciar muita gente em relação ao estilo musical e ao estilo de vida, sendo um ícone para toda a geração que partilha um gosto comum pelo skate.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:56
0
bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, Bradley Nowell, hip hop, música, overdose, punk rock, reggae, reggae rock, rock acústico, ska punk, Sublime, third wave ska, What I Got
quinta-feira, novembro 02, 2023
O álbum de estreia da banda The Police foi lançado há 45 anos!
Although Outlandos d'Amour received mixed reviews upon its release, it has since been regarded as one of the strongest debut albums. Rolling Stone ranked it as the 38th best debut album of all time and the 428th greatest album of all time.
Background and recording
With a budget of £1,500 borrowed from their manager, Miles Copeland (brother of drummer Stewart), the Police recorded Outlandos d'Amour at Surrey Sound Studios in an intermittent fashion over six months, with the band recording whenever the studio had free time or another band's sessions were cancelled. Miles Copeland had promised to pay Surrey Sound £2,000 upon completion of the recording, but did not give them the full amount until much later.
Miles occasionally visited the studio during recording, and he reacted to what he heard from the band with vehement derision. However, upon hearing "Roxanne" he had the opposite reaction and took the recording to A&M Records the following day, where he persuaded the record label to release it as a one-off single. Although the single failed to chart, A&M agreed to give the band a second chance with "Can't Stand Losing You". At first, A&M proposed the band create an improved mix of the song, but after five attempts admitted that it could not improve upon the band's mix, and released the original mix for the single. When it became the band's first hit, the label quickly approved the release of the by-then finished album.
Music and lyrics
Outlandos d'Amour, while at times incorporating reggae, pop and other elements of what would eventually become the band's definitive sound, is dominated by punk influences. This is evident on the opening track "Next to You", despite it essentially being a love song. Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers initially felt the lyrics were neither aggressive nor political enough for their style at the time, but bassist and vocalist Sting was adamant about keeping the song as it was. "Next to You" includes a slide guitar solo by Summers, which Copeland initially dismissed as "old wave".
The second track is the reggae-influenced "So Lonely". Sting has said he used Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" as the musical basis for the song, while the lyrics in its verses were recycled from "Fool in Love", a song he originally wrote for his earlier band Last Exit. The song itself, about someone who is lonely after suffering a broken heart, was seen as ironic by a large segment of the band's listeners. Sting disagreed with this sentiment, saying, "No, there's no irony whatsoever. From the outside it might look a bit strange, being surrounded by all this attention and yet experiencing the worst lonely feeling ... but I do. And then suddenly the attention is withdrawn a half an hour later. You're so isolated ..."
"Roxanne" was written by Sting after visiting a red-light district near the band's hotel in Paris. The Police had been staying there in October 1977 to perform at the nearby Nashville Club. The song's title comes from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, an old poster of which was hanging in the hotel foyer. Sting had originally conceived the song as a bossa nova, although Stewart Copeland has been credited for suggesting its final rhythmic form as a tango. During recording, Sting accidentally sat down on a piano keyboard in the studio, resulting in the atonal chord and laughter preserved at the beginning of the track. The Police were initially reluctant about the song, but Miles Copeland was immediately enthusiastic after hearing it.
The remaining two tracks on the first side of the album are "Hole in My Life", another reggae-influenced song by Sting, and "Peanuts", a composition written by Stewart Copeland and Sting about Rod Stewart. The lyrics were meant as an expression of disappointment on Sting's part towards his former idol, of whom he said: "I used to be a great fan of his but something happened to him. I hope I don't end up like that." Having since experienced the celebrity lifestyle himself, he has said he no longer identifies with the song's lyrical content and has come to view Stewart in a different light.
"Can't Stand Losing You" begins side two of the original LP. Written and composed by Sting, the song is about a young lover being driven to suicide following a breakup. In a 1993 interview with The Independent, he described the lyrics as "juvenile", saying that "teenage suicide ... is always a bit of a joke"; he also claimed to have written the lyrics in only five minutes.
The following track, "Truth Hits Everybody", is a punk-influenced song. After that is "Born in the 50's", which details life as a teenager during the 1960s. "Be My Girl—Sally" is a medley of a half-finished song by Sting and an Andy Summers poem about a blow-up doll. This leads into the semi-instrumental closer, "Masoko Tanga", the only song on the album to not become a staple of the band's live performances.
Two other songs from these sessions were excluded from Outlandos d'Amour but released as B-sides for two of its singles: "Dead-End Job", a song credited to Sting and Copeland, on the B-side of "Can't Stand Losing You"; and "No Time This Time" by Sting, on the B-side of "So Lonely". The latter was subsequently included on the band's second album Reggatta de Blanc.
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Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
04:50
0
bocas
Marcadores: música, new wave, Outlandos d'Amour, pop, Pós Punk, punk rock, reggae rock, Reino Unido, Rock, Roxanne, Sting, The Police
segunda-feira, março 06, 2023
Chorão, vocalista dos Charlie Brown Jr., morreu, de overdose, há dez anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
10:00
0
bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, Céu Azul, Charlie Brown Jr., Chorão, hardcore melódico, música, overdose, Rap metal, rap rock, reggae rock, Rock alternativo, ska, Skate punk
domingo, março 05, 2023
Gimme Hope, Jo Anna...!
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
19:48
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Gimme Hope Jo Anna, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
Música de aniversariante de hoje...!
Postado por
Pedro Luna
às
07:50
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
Eddy Grant - 75 anos!
Eddy Grant ou Edmond Montague Grant (Plaisance, 5 de março de 1948) é um músico da Guiana. Quando era muito jovem, os seus pais emigraram para o Reino Unido, onde ele se estabeleceu. Em 1968, como guitarrista e compositor do grupo multi-racial The Equals, alcançou pela primeira vez o topo das paradas de sucesso, com a canção "Baby Come Back".
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:07
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Guiana, I don't wanna dance, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
quarta-feira, fevereiro 22, 2023
Bradley Nowell, guitarrista e vocalista dos Sublime nasceu há 55 anos...
Bradley Nowell nasceu e cresceu em Long Beach, Califórnia, junto dos seus pais, Jim Nowell e Nancy Nowell, e com sua irmã Kelly. Conforme cresceu, Nowell tornou-se uma criança problemática. O seu comportamento rebelde agravou-se aos dez anos, quando os seus pais se divorciaram. Ao sair numa viagem às Ilhas Virgens, juntamente com o seu pai, Bradley passou a conhecer o reggae e, ao voltar, foi aprender a tocar guitarra. Aos 13 anos Bradley formou a sua primeira banda, 'Hogan's Heroes', juntamente com Eric Wilson, que mais tarde seria o baixista da banda Sublime. Nowell estudou na Wilson Classical High School, em Long Beach, e mais tarde frequentou a California State University, de Long Beach.
Bradley foi um músico que viria a influenciar muita gente em relação ao estilo musical e ao estilo de vida, sendo um ícone para toda a geração que partilha um gosto comum pelo skate.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:55
0
bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, Bradley Nowell, hip hop, música, overdose, punk rock, reggae, reggae rock, rock acústico, ska punk, Sublime, third wave ska, What I Got
domingo, março 06, 2022
Chorão, o vocalista da banda Charlie Brown Jr., morreu de overdose há nove anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
09:00
0
bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, Charlie Brown Jr., Chorão, hardcore melódico, música, overdose, Rap metal, rap rock, reggae rock, Rock alternativo, ska, Skate punk, Só os Loucos Sabem
sábado, março 05, 2022
Eddy Grant - 74 anos!
Eddy Grant ou Edmond Montague Grant (Plaisance, 5 de março de 1948) é um músico da Guiana. Quando era muito jovem, os seus pais emigraram para o Reino Unido, onde ele se estabeleceu. Em 1968, como guitarrista e compositor do grupo multi-racial The Equals, alcançou pela primeira vez o topo das paradas de sucesso, com a canção "Baby Come Back".
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
07:40
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Gimme Hope Jo Anna, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock, The Equals
terça-feira, fevereiro 22, 2022
Bradley Nowell nasceu há 54 anos
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
00:54
0
bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, Bradley Nowell, Date Rape, hip hop, música, punk rock, reggae, reggae rock, rock acústico, ska punk, Sublime, third wave ska
sábado, março 06, 2021
Chorão, o vocalista da banda Charlie Brown Jr., morreu há oito anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
08:00
0
bocas
Marcadores: Brasil, Céu Azul, Charlie Brown Jr., Chorão, hardcore melódico, música, overdose, Rap metal, rap rock, reggae rock, Rock alternativo, ska, Skate punk
sexta-feira, março 05, 2021
Música adequada à data...
Postado por
Pedro Luna
às
07:30
0
bocas
Marcadores: apartheid, direitos humanos, Eddy Grant, Gimme Hope Jo'anna, Guiana, música, reggae, reggae rock