Blogovision 2023, no.20: Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention

 

It’s so hard

It’s so hot

We should be here in now

And love what we got

Lyrics from So Hard So Hot

by Alison Goldfrapp, from her album The Love Invention

Blogovision 2021, no.04: Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean

 

How does this happen?

For twenty-nine years

I've been searching for you

Twenty-nine years

You, a most elusive truth

These tattered bits of me

I've been piecing

For twenty-nine years

Lyrics from 29 Years, by Tori Amos

From her album Ocean To Ocean

Blogovision 2021, no.18: Lana Del Rey - Blue Bannisters

 

In Arcadia, Arcadia

All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries

That pump the blood that flows straight to the heart of me

America, America

I can't sleep at home tonight, send me a Hilton Hotel

Or a cross on the hill, I'm a lost little girl

Findin' my way to ya

Arcadia

Lyrics from Arcadia by Lana Del Rey,

from her album Blue Bannisters

Blogovision 2020, no.06: Pan Pan - Φαντασμαγορία Ένα

 

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μέρες παγωνουν εδώ, γινονται  ή χρυσάφι ή ατμός  

Σπάει σε κομματια το Αγορι-Φαντασμα, σκοταδι, βυθος

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Μερες που φερνουν κρυφα το αρωμα της τυχαια στο μετρο

Πεσε στα γονατα Αγορι-φαντασμα μες στον συρμο

Το όνομα της θα μείνει για πάντα σ εκείνο το φως

Έχω έξι λεξεις

Για κάθε μερα

Που δεν σε είχα

Και σε σκεφτόμουν 

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Και κάθε βράδυ

λέω το όνομα σου 

και κανω χωρο 

μηπως και ερθεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Όμως δε θα ρθεις

κι ειναι η ζωη μου

να βρισκω καυλα

μεσα στον πονο

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Αν ησουν διπλα

δεν θα παιζα νοτα

δεν θα γραφα στιχο

μα παλι φευγεις

"Μήνες σε θέλω

Μείνε σε θέλω"

Lyrics from Μείνε Σε Θέλω/Μήνες Σε Θέλω (Stay I Want You/Months I Want You) by Pan Pan 

from his album Φαντασμαγορία Ένα (Phantasmagoria One)

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade no.05: David Bowie - Blackstar

Something happened on the day he died

Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside

Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried:

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)

​

How many times does an angel fall?

How many people lie instead of talking tall?

He trod on sacred ground, he cried aloud into the crowd

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar)

Lyrics from Blackstar by David Bowie from his album Blackstar

Blogovision 2019, no.07: Cigarettes After Sex - Cry

Back when you were far away
We would go on dates to watch the same movie
And you were imagining sitting next to me
Holding my hand for the whole thing

Lyrics from Falling In Love by Cigarettes After Sex, from their album Cry

Blogovision 2019 best albums of the decade, no.08: The National - High Violet

And I won't follow you

Into the rabbit hole

I said I would, but then I saw your shivered bones

They didn't want me to

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders

It's a terrible love and I'm walking in

It takes an ocean not to break

Lyrics from Terrible Love by The National, from their album High Violet

Blogovision 2019, best albums of the decade, no.14: Anna Calvi - Anna Calvi

Cause the night calls me
When the wind, leads, behind the world
But we hold, hold, hold it down
Oh we hold, hold, hold it down
Cause the night calls for
Suzanne and I
We will rise

Lyrics from Suzanne And I by Anna Calvi, from her album Anna Calvi

Blogovision 2018 no.04: Scott Matthew - Ode To Others

We resist even though the abyss may compel us to stray

We take stance none of these lies make sense

While they pray hate we'll say

Love, oh sweet love

Oh sweet love

May you guide us today

Lyrics from End Of Days by Scott Matthew, from his album Ode To Others

Blogovision 2016/My top-20 albums of the year - no.01: David Bowie - Blackstar

Something happened on the day he died

Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside

Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried:

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)

​

How many times does an angel fall?

How many people lie instead of talking tall?

He trod on sacred ground, he cried aloud into the crowd

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar, I'm not a gangstar)

Lyrics from Blackstar by David Bowie from his album Blackstar

no.02: case/lang/veirs

no.03: Anohni - Hopelessness

no.04: Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

no.05: Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool

no.06: James Blake - The Colour In Anything

no.07: Nicolas Jaar - Sirens

no.08: The Hidden Cameras - Home On Native Land

no.09: Adrian Younge - Something About April II

no.10: Tindersticks - The Waiting Room

no.11: The Veils - Total Depravity

no.12: Flume - Skin

no.13: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

no.14: Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

no.15: Daughter - Not To Disappear

no.16: Savages - Adore Life

no.17: Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town

no.18: The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect

no.19:  Trentemøller - Fixion

no.20:  Jane Siberry - Angels Bend Closer

Blogovision 2016/My top-20 albums of the year - no.05: Radiohead - Moon Shaped Pool

Red crosses on wooden doors

And if you float you burn

Loose talk around tables

Abandon all reason

Avoid all eye contact

Do not react

Shoot the messengers

This is a low flying panic attack

Sing the song of sixpence that goes

Burn the witch

Lyrics from Burn The Witch by Radiohead from their album Moon Shaped Pool

no.06: James Blake - The Colour In Anything

no.07: Nicolas Jaar - Sirens

no.08: The Hidden Cameras - Home On Native Land

no.09: Adrian Younge - Something About April II

no.10: Tindersticks - The Waiting Room

no.11: The Veils - Total Depravity

no.12: Flume - Skin

no.13: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

no.14: Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

no.15: Daughter - Not To Disappear

no.16: Savages - Adore Life

no.17: Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town

no.18: The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect

no.19:  Trentemøller - Fixion

no.20:  Jane Siberry - Angels Bend Closer

Blogovision 2016/My top-20 albums of the year - no.06: James Blake - The Colour In Anything

Just please, more time

I'm sorry, I don't know how you feel

I don't know how you feel

It's hard to tell if I don't know how you feel

But in my heart

There's a radio silence going on

But in my heart

There's a…

Lyrics from Radio Silence by James Blake from his album The Colour In Anything

no.07: Nicolas Jaar - Sirens

no.08: The Hidden Cameras - Home On Native Land

no.09: Adrian Younge - Something About April II

no.10: Tindersticks - The Waiting Room

no.11: The Veils - Total Depravity

no.12: Flume - Skin

no.13: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

no.14: Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

no.15: Daughter - Not To Disappear

no.16: Savages - Adore Life

no.17: Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town

no.18: The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect

no.19:  Trentemøller - Fixion

no.20:  Jane Siberry - Angels Bend Closer

Blogovision 2016/My top-20 albums of the year - no.09: Adrian Younge - Something About April II

Sittin’ by the radio, I had the strangest feeling

I felt deja vu, was listening to every word my broken heart had said

Then the caller on the line, she made a dedication

That we should open up our eyes

Sittin’ by the radio, the sky is crying

Lyrics from Sittin' By The Radio by Adrian Younge from his album Something About April II

no.10: Tindersticks - The Waiting Room

no.11: The Veils - Total Depravity

no.12: Flume - Skin

no.13: Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

no.14: Jenny Hval - Blood Bitch

no.15: Daughter - Not To Disappear

no.16: Savages - Adore Life

no.17: Mayer Hawthorne - Man About Town

no.18: The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You've Come To Expect

no.19:  Trentemøller - Fixion

no.20:  Jane Siberry - Angels Bend Closer

Blogovision/My top-20 albums of the year - no.05: Foals - What Went Down

Through lanes and stone rows
Black granite, wind blows
Fire lake and far flame
Go now but come again
Dark clouds gather 'round
Will I run or stand my ground?
Oh, when I come to climb
Show me the mountain so far behind
Yeah, it's farther away
Its shadow gets smaller day after day

Lyrics from Mountain At The Gates by Foals, from the album What Went Down

Blogovision/My top-20 albums of the year - no.6: Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines

"I've always been inspired by visual artists of all mediums because, as with music, art is not a job you can go to and leave from, but it is something that defines who and what you are [...] Visual artists shake up our brains and force us to look at everything, from objects we don't normally think twice about to people we might not have cared about. In one image, they can remind us of nature's power to enchant, as well as humankind's fruitless attempt to overpower her or simply second-guess her. Through the visual artist's application of tone, shape, pattern and pigment, I not only begin to see, but I can honestly say I begin to hear". 

Tori Amos, Rolling Stone magazine, 19 February 2014

"Tash said something to me. She said, 'You know, your albums, I've always seen them as being a certain phase you're going through...' This is my 13-year-old telling me this! And she said, 'I don't see this as a phase. I see moments of all your records. And then things that I've never heard before, that might have come from the musical. You're starting to write certain stories from the perspective of being a mom, and from being 50. Because you've lived.'" 

Tori Amos, press release for Unrepentant Geraldines, March 2014

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