Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Be Tender With Me Baby On Youtube

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

One of the things that I do make sure when I’m at home is play music. We have imported all our music into Apple iTunes so they are very easy to find. It just happened that I was playing songs from Tina Turner on my lists that this piece of song really caught my attention. I could really feel the sadness in the music.

Listening and watching a video is completely different. What I did was to go to Google and simply just type exactly the name of the song and write YouTube then click enter. I find that playing Tina Turner’s Be Tender With Me Baby on YouTube several times in a row can be overwhelming. I also like to look at a song’s lyrics while listening to it.

Big In Japan By Alphaville

Friday, September 12th, 2008

The German band Alphaville became very famous in the ’80s with “Big in Japan”, which can be viewed on Youtube. There’s more information on the Wikipedia. I really like this song.

We Are The World

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Every time I play this song I found on YouTube  it reminds me of where I was before at the time. I was still young when “We are the world” was very popular and sang by a team of great singers headed by Lionel Ritchie. I love music as it gives me inspirations about something and keeps me going and just love life.

This WikiPedia article on the song provides more information.

Rico Puno, Hajji Alejandro & Rey Valera

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Watching this video of Rico Puno, Hajji Alejandro & Rey Valera from YouTube.com reminds me of Rico J. Puno when he came over to Kidapawan during his concert tour at the Notre Dame of Kidapawan College. During the show a young female college fan suddenly climbed up on stage and gave him a kiss and a cuddle. Soon afterwards the students started talking negatively about her, a sort of jealousy, but, I think that she had a wonderful time. She must have been lucky.

Bakit Ba -Siakol

Friday, June 20th, 2008

There are always interesting and amusing videos on YouTube that some people with talents on music broadcast themselves and most of the time you can find really nice tagalog song like this one “Bakit Ba”  The guy on the video playing the guitar is just cool; he played it really well. Just try finding Tagalog songs to play; it’s actually very easy if you know the title of the song you are looking for.

This song “Di Mo Ba Alam” with lyrics on YouTube is very creative. I think that the way the lyrics are displayed in a comic strip is different; it’s like you are reading some sort of story in a comic. Well done.

This video is another version of the same song, “Di Mo Ba Alam”. What I like about this song is that lyrics are included its much easier to sing along than just looking at pictures itself.

Another music video, called “Pagmamahal”, is shown with lyrics.

Joe Cocker – With A Little Help From My Friends

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

When it comes to music Joe Cocker is one of the best singers from the 60s. I just watched his video called “With A Little Help From My Friends” on YouTube. I like the quality of this video that was shown here performing live. I like his voice and I like the way he expresses his real feelings to the song by performing on stage as good and wild as he can. I think he’s a brilliant and a very talented singer. He’s on this video with Bryan May from Queen playing the guitar. This video is quite recent as you can see him that he’s a bit older.

He looks so different on this older version from 1969, when he was 25. It’s incredible the way his looks have changed; he was much slimmer then but he still seems to be a nice guy. When it comes to his voice I think its the same now that he’s older, possibly even better.

He was quite drunk on this video of “You Are So Beautiful” live in 1987, when he was 43. You can see how good he was whilst performing drunk; it’s not easy but I think he performed it well. Some people think that alcohol can help build more confidence. For him I think he just likes to drink, which is not unusual. What I like about him is that he dedicates his songs wholeheartedly to his fans, which is a really nice expression of his affection for his audience wherever he was.

There is more information about Joe Cocker on his official website and on the WikiPedia.

Tagalog Songs By April Boys

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

April Boys are brothers in a band based in the Philippines. Their songs were popular around 1994/5, especially in Metro Manila. It was the time I recognised who they were by listening to their songs which were being played all the time. I guessed it was one of their hit songs, as people appreciated it and played it a lot. The fact that most of their songs performed on the stage are love songs is even nicer. Like this one “Ikaw Pa Rin Ang Mamahalin” with lyrics or subtitles included on this video. The video presentation and the background are perfect together. I fell in love with the music then and it has not faded. The lyrics are well written, it’s beautiful, it seems so real when I listen to it. It’s romantic and people like romance.

The second video is called “Di Kita Ma-Reach” on YouTube, which I think was recorded more than a decade ago. I clearly remember that it came out at the same time as “Ikaw Pa Rin Ang Mamahalin”. These songs were very popular and played all the time. Also provided on this video are the lyrics or subtitles in taglish meaning Tagalog and English. Unfortunately, the quality of the video is not wonderful, possibly because it was recorded a while ago, but it is still a great song. What I really like about this video is that the April Boys played the song themselves. One of the brothers, Vingo Regino, is the composer of the songs.

“Sana’y Tanggapin Ang Pag-ibig Ko” on YouTube is very similar to the “Di Kita Ma-Reach” video above with lyrics or subtitles included as well. Here you can see the April Boys singing the song. Sometimes you can see some actors on the background, which is normal for some videos; they portray themselves as actors. I would prefer to watch the real artists playing their songs than watching drama actors on video.

What I love all about these songs are the tunes and the lyrics that life is beautiful especially when you are in love.

House Of The Rising Sun By Animals On YouTube

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The Animals are an English band famous in the 1960s for their beautiful song “House Of The Rising Sun”. This song is one of their most popular and it became number one in 1964. I recently found this song on YouTube with the original band playing. The sound quality of the video is very high; its really nice; its just sound live, although it was made and recorded over forty years ago; the sound itself is really good, plus the guitarists are amazingly incredible. The quality of the picture is quite good; its not too bad for four decades from the making. Behind these successful great artists is the deep- voiced frontman Eric Burdon. Thank you to the person who uploaded the video.

Another video of the “House Of The Rising Sun” on Youtube is almost exactly the same performance the slight difference on this video is the quality of the picture; it looks really old and quite blurred. It doesn’t surprise me though since it was made many years ago; things changed in different way and sometimes colour fades. What I liked about this video is that the lyrics are written below; it’s much easier to follow the tunes and know exactly how to sing with it with lyrics on it like as you expect on a karaoke machine. Apart from that I do like the song very much.

There is a lot of information on the WikiPedia about the Animals.
“House Of The Rising Sun” is very popular on the karaoke especially in the Philippines. Most cafes and pubs have this song on their videos; it’s many peoples’ favourite song.

Tagalog Songs By ASIN

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

ASIN is a Filipino folk rock group musicians from the Philippines. The band are well known for their beautiful songs such as “Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran” it is the first song they released in the 70s. The YouTube video contains various pictures from the Philippines showing how the people are suffering. It is very difficult to understand why the situation is not getting any better.

I really like this song but in some ways it make me feel very sad though; to think that our country the Philippines is still coping and struggling with the difficulties on the whole situation on how to improve people lives. The whole idea of the this song is sending a clear message to everybody how we can help solve poverty. The Philippines will only be rich if we have a good and honest government. It would be nice if the poor people and the low income would get benefits from the government like giving them some money each month to pay for some of their needs. Here comes the problem not everybody pays tax so, how can the government look after everything else when there’s not enough income. Very difficult.

LolitaCarbon.com has a biography of female artist and lead vocalist Lolita of the band ASIN, which describes a brief history of her life when she started making music and also when the three musicians started and became famous.

YouTube has another version of “Masdan Mo Ang Kapaligiran”, which is an original version with the lyrics on the screen so you can sing along with it, which is quite amusing; it’s better than seeing silly things on the screen.
There is a song called “Himig ng Pag-ibig” on YouTube, which I like to watch. It’s the original version and the video recording quality is good, which is always nice. I’m glad I found some Tagalog songs to play,
I really hope that ASIN is still making music. I think that many Filipino considered them great and some of the most talented artists of all time.

A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

This song seems so familiar each time its been played on air. British rock group called Procol Harum is where this famous song A Whiter Shade of Pale” came out; which made the band famous for in the 60s worldwide. It’s amazing that an old song from a long time ago is still so popular; it is one of the classics.

I first heard this when I was a teenager. I had no idea who Procol Harum was; I didn’t realise that this song was called “A Whiter Shade of Pale”. It was only very recently that I searched for Procol Harum and realised that they were once great and really known musicians.

Behind the success of this famous group is Gary Brooker. He is an English singer, songwriter and a pianist. He was the lead vocalist of Procol Harum. I happened to watch various versions of his video on YouTube and I found one that I really like watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_xybRBvgA

I have loved this song’s melody ever since I first heard it whilst walking in the street.