Hehe. Radiohead bandmembers' side project and they call it "The Smile"? The immediately recognizable, doomy, jazz-inflected sound and "spasmodic" lyrics of Radiohead and they chose "The Smile"?
On "John Prine Live" he tells a story of a little girl who thanked him for her favorite song, about a "happy enchilada." He said he didn't recall ever singing about an enchilada, happy or otherwise, but she said it was the one with "it's a happy enchilada and you think you're going to drown." So he said "I'm glad you like the song" to the girl and then sang the verse with "happy enchilada" just for kicks at the concert.
Translation of the [Turkish] lyrics, thanks to DeepL translator:
There is a secret shining in the deep bosom of the night
Drifts with the wind, flows into the seas
What good is beauty, if you don't see it
Why does your heart beat, unless you live love
What good is beauty, if you don't see it
Why does your heart beat, unless you live love
A friend of mine took his own life a few years back. I'd moved ten time zones away and keeping up had been hard... you know how it goes.
When I'd been around, we'd exchanged music suggestions, but I'd never been able to suggest a band that he really loved. He loved music, made his own compilation CDs for friends around the holidays. (Got a Badly Drawn Boy one year and another Travis singing Brittany Spears "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time," which I thought was a pretty funny joke.)
I heard Shearwater for the first time just after he died. It's the band most of all I wish I'd been able to suggest to him. Perhaps Animal Life (surging at the blood's perimeter: / The half remembered wild interior / Of an animal life) or this one. I think I might have had a winner with Shearwater.
This sounds like the bouncy rhythm with swing-influenced themes of Caravan Palace and Parov Stelar to me. Fun! Keeps me dancing in my chair while at "work." You?
Here's what Google thinks the lyrics are:
I want to take you somewhere
Quiero llevarte a un lugar
that you only hear about
que solo se oye hablar
behind palm trees
detrás de palmeras
where the air tastes like salt
Donde el aire sabe a sal
and the sun meets the Lararara sea
y el sol encuentra el mar Lararara
Bill needs to play Talk Talk, The The, and Mister Mister in a row just for fun.
ce wrote:
Hear hear! I think RP also plays Duran Duran and Frou Frou.
Don't forget Bowie's Rebel Rebel, Kingsmen's Louise, Louise, Amy MacDonald's Love Love, Cake's Mahna Mahna, Dylan's Lay Lady Lay, Decemberist's July, July! Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang, Tracy Chapman's Bang Bang Bang, Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey, a couple songs by Cry Cry Cry, a bunch by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and last but certainly not least, Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
To me, it doesn't even sound like Mumford & Sons. Am I wrong?
Could be that the song features Pharell Williams singing? I love a good call and response. And they're welcoming us, too. How courteous. An 8 for you out of the gate, M&S&PW.
Pre-Madonna? You mean like?
Love the big suit pic (and the ticket!), too.
But what do you think of the hat on my falcon?
Must be thinking of this kind of smile:
And the result is adorable:
There is a secret shining in the deep bosom of the night
Drifts with the wind, flows into the seas
What good is beauty, if you don't see it
Why does your heart beat, unless you live love
What good is beauty, if you don't see it
Why does your heart beat, unless you live love
When I'd been around, we'd exchanged music suggestions, but I'd never been able to suggest a band that he really loved. He loved music, made his own compilation CDs for friends around the holidays. (Got a Badly Drawn Boy one year and another Travis singing Brittany Spears "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time," which I thought was a pretty funny joke.)
I heard Shearwater for the first time just after he died. It's the band most of all I wish I'd been able to suggest to him. Perhaps Animal Life (surging at the blood's perimeter: / The half remembered wild interior / Of an animal life) or this one. I think I might have had a winner with Shearwater.
Here's what Google thinks the lyrics are:
I want to take you somewhere
Quiero llevarte a un lugar
that you only hear about
que solo se oye hablar
behind palm trees
detrás de palmeras
where the air tastes like salt
Donde el aire sabe a sal
and the sun meets the Lararara sea
y el sol encuentra el mar Lararara
On the beach
En la playa
sky of stars
Cielo de estrellas
On the beach
En la playa
there is a full moon
Hay luna llena
[Repeat 3 times]
Grammarcop wrote:
Bill needs to play Talk Talk, The The, and Mister Mister in a row just for fun.
ce wrote:
Hear hear!
I think RP also plays Duran Duran and Frou Frou.
Don't forget Bowie's Rebel Rebel, Kingsmen's Louise, Louise, Amy MacDonald's Love Love, Cake's Mahna Mahna, Dylan's Lay Lady Lay, Decemberist's July, July! Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang, Tracy Chapman's Bang Bang Bang, Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey, a couple songs by Cry Cry Cry, a bunch by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and last but certainly not least, Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
Could be that the song features Pharell Williams singing? I love a good call and response. And they're welcoming us, too. How courteous. An 8 for you out of the gate, M&S&PW.