Whats the name of that song..?

Wow dr you are really pulling them out of the archives! I love the bluesy sound to this rockin classic. Awesome song choice!

Lips

I can't find my favorite song but this one is great too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgepre_mademoiselle-k-jouer-dehors_music

Wow, what a nice choice of songs on this page - you guys have really made my day! Here's something I hope will make your day, too: This girl is extremely popular in Serbia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9zeDd0mpg

HOTEL CALIFORNIA

This is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce."

On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about."
Don Henley: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles.
This won the 1977 Grammy for Record Of The Year. The band did not show up to accept the award, as Don Henley did not believe in contests.
Don Felder got the ball rolling on this. He had the chord progressions and took it to Don Henley and Glenn Frey. They put the words down, then Joe Walsh wrote all the guitar parts and arranged them for everyone. (thanks, Les - Dannevirke, New Zealand)
"Colitas," in the line "Warm smell of coolitas," is often interpreted as a flower or a sexual reference. It is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning "Little Buds," and is a reference to marijuana.
This was recorded at 3 different sessions before the Eagles got the version they wanted. The biggest problem was finding the right key for Henley's vocal.
Glenn Frey compares this to an episode of The Twilight Zone, where it jumps from one scene to the next and doesn't necessarily make sense.
The line "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to Steely Dan. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry. The year before, Steely Dan included the line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did."
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played together on the guitar solos, creating the textured sound.
The lyrics for the song came with the album. Some people thought the line "She's got the Mercedes Bends" was a misspelling of "Mercedes Benz," and wrote Henley to complain. The line was a play on words.
Glenn Frey: "That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know. And we just decided to make it Hotel California. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us." (thanks, Moomin - London, England)
When the Eagles got back together in 1994, they recorded a live version of this for an MTV special that was included on their album Hell Freezes Over. The album was #1 in the US its first week.
All 7 past and present members of the Eagles performed this in 1998 when they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
The hotel on the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel, known as the Pink Palace. It is often frequented by Hollywood stars. The photo was taken by photographers David Alexander and John Kosh, who sat in a cherry-picker about 60 feet above Sunset Boulevard to get the shot of the hotel at sunset from above the trees. The rush-hour traffic made it a harrowing experience. Check out the hotel.
Although it is well known that Hotel California is actually a metaphor, there are several strange Internet theories and urban legends about the "real" Hotel California. Some include suggestions that it was an old church taken over by devil worshippers, a psychiatric hospital, an inn run by cannibals or Aleister Crowley's mansion in Scotland. It's even been suggested that the "Hotel California" is the Playboy Mansion. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)
The music may have been inspired by the 1969 Jethro Tull song "We Used to Know," from their album Stand up. The chord progressions are nearly identical, and the bands toured together before the Eagles recorded "Hotel California." In a BBC radio interview, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson said laughingly that he was still waiting for the royalties. In Ian Anderson's interview with Songfacts, he makes it clear that he doesn't consider "Hotel California" to be borrowing anything from his song: "It's difficult to find a chord sequence that hasn't been used, and hasn't been the focus of lots of pieces of music. It's harmonic progression is almost a mathematical certainty you're gonna crop up with the same thing sooner or later if you sit strumming a few chords on a guitar. There's certainly no bitterness or any sense of plagiarism attached to my view on it, although I do sometimes allude, in a joking way, to accepting it as a kind of tribute."
In Chicago at the time of this song's popularity many people called Cook County jail "Hotel California" because it is on California street. The name stuck and now people of all ages and races refer to the jail by this nickname. (thanks, jesse - chicago, IL)
Don Felder: "I had just leased this house out on the beach at Malibu, I guess it was around '74 or '75. I remember sitting in the living room, with all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day. I had this acoustic 12-string and I started tinkling around with it, and those Hotel California chords just kind of oozed out. Every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great just plops in your lap." (thanks, Stone - Libertyville, IL)
An alternative interpretation of the meaning of the lyrics is that the song is a description of the journey from Need to Love and Marriage to Divorce and ultimately to the impossibility of regaining the life and happiness of the pre-divorce state.
Initially the traveler is feeling the need of a relationship ("My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night"). The traveler meets his love and gets married ("There she stood in the doorway. I heard the mission bell"). A marriage commitment opens up the possibility of happiness but also the traveler is aware and vulnerable to the possibility of intense unhappiness ("And I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell")
Unfortunately the marriage dissolves and his love becomes obsessed with money ("Her mind is Tiffany-twisted") where Tiffany" refers to the very expensive jewelry store, Tiffany & Co. With the divorce there is the division of property - she got the Mercedes Benz. After the breakup when he sees her with any guys she reassures him that the pretty, pretty boys" are just friends." In this new world of being single the other singles he meets do their dance in the courtyard" of life. They generally fall into two groups: There are those who can't stop talking about their Ex ("Some dance to remember") and there are those who don't what to say anything at all about their past marriage ("some dance to forget").
Now in this world of being divorced he longs to return the pre-divorced state of happiness ("So I called up the captain, please bring me my wine"), but he finds that his happiness is now irrevocably in the past ("We haven't had that spirit here since 1969").
Deep into the post-divorce single's scene with "mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice" he is reminded that "we are all just prisoners here, of our own device." He and others want this divorce nightmare to be over, yet - "they stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast." Now frustrated, he panics and is "running for the door. I had to find the passage back to the place I was before" But he is brought up short when the night man informs him that "You can checkout any time you like (commit suicide), but you can never leave" (become pre-divorced).
There are two choruses in the song and each mention the "Hotel California." Around the time the song was written, California was experiencing the highest divorce rate in the nation. Each chorus has lines that remember his past marriage ("Such a lovely place") and his past lover ("Such a lovely face"). The first chorus indicates that there can always be more divorces ("Plenty of room at the Hotel California, any time of year, you can find it here"). The second chorus points out that as a part of divorce you will always "bring your alibis." (thanks, David - Redwood City, CA)
The Hotel California album is #37 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time. According to the magazine, Don Henley said that the band was in pursuit of a note perfect song. The Eagles spent 8 months in the studio polishing take after take after take. Henley also said, "We just locked ourselves in. We had a refrigerator, a ping pong table, roller skates and a couple cots. We would go in and stay for 2 or 3 days at a time." (thanks, Ray - Stockton, NJ)


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At first I thought this song was a bit weird and now I really like it.  Somebody I used to know

I've just discovered this artist - he's a Croat with a very authentic voice that you can't hear every day. Here's one of his most popular songs: Budi moja voda (Be my water)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ohp6bfYOc

I loved this one blue and the video was pretty darn cool! Thanks.

CatFace that was a really great song... although I could not understand the words, the music was incredible!

katt

another classic

Zuga that took me straight back to my teen years! The amazing thing is that it was written over 40 years ago and would not be surprising if it was written today! Thanks for the memories!


katt

Slow classic from the 70's - Nazareth...smooching on the dance floor......such memories.

Giving my age away now

blue

Oh yeah.... Even though I was born in the (very) late 70s I can tell you that I did cherish this song for a while. Hell, I think I've even cried a couple of times while listening to it

That's so sweet Johnny.

Another old favourite that I never got sick of listening to (even now) - Samba Pa Ti.  This is another smoochy one but no words - just pure music.

live version

Such great songs! Thanks for sharing!
Here is one I really, REALLY like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7CtqwyxHM0&feature=related

I love this song mark, has to be one of her best. What is sad about this song is she recorded it right before she died and did not live to see it released or how big of a success it was.

OMG, didn't know about that fact Lips! This is such a cool song!

Btw, blue - Samba Pa Ti is one of my favorites, too!

And here's a classic I can't get out of my head these days...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWNwHof0kc

You sent me back in time there Cat.

This one used to play on the radio all the time.  My older brother was serving in Northern Ireland and I was permanently petrified that something would happen to him.  When I heard this on the radio, I always cried.  This one is for my older brother.

Albatross

Ay, thanks Lips   I also didn't know that. It gives me the chills to think about it.... such a great song.

That's another one of my favourites! But I have another version, a 7-year old kid from Argentina plays it in a TV studio with Carlos Santana himself watching and applauding!

Here goes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vkG6berbic

He is soooooo adorable Johnny! I love to see talented kids who look up to a good role-model! I also loved this video of father and daughter singing Adele's song:

Just look at the faces she makes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtawDJtcRg8

:D Great videos and that little girl is adorable. There's a lot of talented young people.

Alanis Morrisette "Bent for you"  <3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_qI8I0JcE

Kapetan Esid - Captain Acid

I really like this.  Thanks Zuga.

blue

Experience something amazing... just beautiful..

Lovers never say Good-Bye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEOJ539xD4

I beleive our soul is a masterpiece of music, our heart allows passage of mixed melody and rhythem, but only the soul searches the blooms and knows when to pick the secret spirited flower of perfect harmony..just some thoughts i had.. By Vivi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srsW9cL1mUI&feature=related

Seven Secrets

oh baby baby it's a wild world!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVxtzcssiy8&feature=related

I'm on a Bob Marley kick 

Stir it up

Little darlin' stir it up.... 

Love that song Froggy..theres just music no matter what you could never get tired of and thats one of them..

I've been on a Santana Kick and came across this mix, the CD version is more profound, but i love watching live performances

This one here is with Santana, Lauryn Hill, and Cee Lo Green, whom i adore..

Do you like they way it's going down? If you don't.. change it, because we have that power, when given the oportunity to change the situation.. you should - Lauryn Hill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0GlkbT3HWY&feature=related

That's a good one Imagin. I love Santana too. His entire presence is just so cool.

Great track Imagin.  I'm a huge Santana fan and have been for donkeys years. 

blue

Santana is one of my favourites too, a guitar god!

Triggerfinger

Great band from belgium!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4gBlanN6RQ

They are great Johan.  Thanks for that one. 

blue

Thanks Johan, great song. It's always fun to hear new music and bands from different countries.

Here is one song I like that is performed by the band from the Netherlands, Spinvis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_CcPG1dySo

REO Speedwagon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgT_mJXbvCQ

"Keep on loving you"

Have to post another one, don't know if it has been posted before.....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StOWOSZD9w8&feature=related

This man is like a "god" to me, so excuse me if it has been posted before

Johan

LEGEND!

I want to hear you guys opinion on this one.
Most of the times i think an original of a song is the best version, cause there's nothing above the original, and some songs should be left alone period!

But................. now i have found a song from Lykke Li- I follow Rivers, nice song, and a cover of this song by Triggerfinger, i mentioned this band before in this thread, just listen to them and tell me what version you like best, i personally deviate from my own beliefs now and think that at this one the cover is better............

First the original..........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxuY4SYtaA&feature=related

Second the cover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHtIPv4L4s&feature=related

by the version of triggerfinger i get goosebumps each time i listen to it..........

Let me know, johan

I think I prefer the 2nd version (triggerfinger version) although.....I love that girls voice in the first version. 

Now, if she could sing on the triggerfinger version...I would prefer that one.

As for preferring original versions of songs, I know what you mean. Some should never be copied, ever. 

Whilst we are on the subject of "covers" - what do you think of this "The first time ever I saw your face"?

Original(?)

Roberta Flack

Cover

Alison Moyet

I actually love them both.  Alison Moyet certainly did the song justice.

blue

I like Lykke Li, but the cover is absolutely fantastic, I'm gonna start listening to Triggerfinger!

Yes, the originals should to be left alone but there are always exceptions. I have an another, I'm sure obvious example:

Nine Inch Naiils:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0bZtf5MCzY

Johnny Cash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=related

I love original, but what Johnny did was a real masterpiece!

I have to say I prefer the Johnny Cash version. 

blue

I like both versions, but i would prefer Roberta Flack, but you are right, Alison sure did the song justice.

Markotik, i am sticking to the Nine Inch Naiils version on this one.......

I prefer Roberta Flack but Alison's version sounds really good.

Nine Inch Nails are great, and I was surprised when I realized that people thought that Hurt is Johnny's song, they didn't even know the original version.

ELMO!!

         

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF86D_UNxc&feature=related

Thanks for sharing the video, way better than the original. Elmo rules!

Heard this by accident but it proved quite interesting for me, cant let it out of my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4udPWOZqjig

Very , very good music, i know the music of Tarja for a while now, she was a front show act a few years ago here in the netherlands just before this band came up, if you love the music of tarja, you will certainly like this music.........

Within Temptation - Ice queen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkC7Np3JbOQ&feature=related

Within Temptation - Mother Earth (live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxd05Ab6Nhc&feature=related

I get the shivers every time she sings

Another great band from the Netherlands   

She is amazing.

This caught my eye after I watched your vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR_mBh5mqok&feature=related

Pretty amazing too.

blue

Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

This was one of my favorites..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqoieJfMDP0&feature=related

In and Out of Love - Armin and Sharon