For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday bloggers -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.
Happy Spring Everyone! For anyone on North America's northeastern coast, and even in the middle provinces and states, spring 2014 still feels like winter...brrr...
Let's heat up the weekend starting with this set.
1 - Discotheque -- U2
2 - Rhythm is a Dancer -- Snap!
3 - LoveGame -- Lady Gaga
4 - Give it to Me -- Timbaland, featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake
For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the sets posted by the other 5 on Friday bloggers -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.
This week marks my final post in this year's Birthday Boy/Birthday Girl project, which ran throughout 2013. I had a lot of fun with it.
I found it fascinating to see the sorts of music created by people born in different months, for the most part displaying the characteristics of their astrological signs.
Here's a wee recap of the Birthday Boy/Birthday Girl sets:
January birthday boys-- Rod Stewart, Robert Palmer, David Bowie, Michael Hutchence (INXS) and Steve Perry (Journey)
February birthday girls -- Stockard Channing (Grease soundtrack,) Roberta Flack (with Donny Hathaway,) Natalie Cole, Leontyne Price and Patty Andrews (the Andrews Sisters)
March birthday boys -- Harry Belafonte, Adam Levine (Maroon 5,) Chris Martin (Coldplay,) Charlie Reid and Craig Reid (The Proclaimers) and Eric Idle
April birthday girls -- Kelly Clarkson, Sheena Easton, Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips,) Victoria Beckham (Spice Girls) and Hayley Westenra
May birthday boys -- Steve Winwood, Lou Gramm (Foreigner,) Bono (U2,) Paul Weller (The Style Council) and Georg Wadenius (Saturday Night Live band)
June birthday girls -- Nancy Sinatra, Anne Murray, Laurie Anderson (with Peter Gabriel,) Alanis Morissette and Nicole Scherzinger (Pussycat Dolls)
July birthday boys -- Geddy Lee (Rush,) Stewart Copeland (The Police,) Robbie Robertson, Vince Guaraldi (Vince Guaraldi Trio) and Carlos Santana
August birthday girls -- Shirley Manson (Garbage,) Shania Twain, Geri Halliwell (Spice Girls,) Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine) and Madonna
September birthday boys -- Harry Connick Jr, Michael Buble, Freddie Mercury (Queen,) Bruce Springsteen and Moby
October birthday girls -- Julie Andrews, Susan Sarandon (Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack,) Katy Perry, Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) and Mavis Swan Poole
November birthday boys -- Denny Doherty (The Mamas and The Papas,) Leslie McKeown (Bay City Rollers,) Adam Ant, Billy Idol and Jimi Hendrix
And now lets say Happy Birthday to these December birthday girls.
1 - I Feel Love -- Donna Summer
2 - Sex Crime from the 1984 soundtrack -- Annie Lennox from Eurythmics
3 - Lady Marmalade -- Birthday girl Christina Aguilera with Mya, Pink, Lil' Kim and Missy Elliott
4 - Toxic -- Britney Spears
5 - Give it To Me -- Birthday girl Nelly Furtado with Timbaland and Justin Timberlake
Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.
This wraps up my journey through the decades of recorded popular music, beginning with the 1920s.
And now I shall state for the record that I'm a dance music fan.
I love a lot of musical styles, as you've no doubt discovered through the past year of Travis' captivating musical meme. But the music genre I've always loved and will always love is Dick Clark's favorite:
"It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
Here are only a handful of my favorite club tunes from the first decade of the new millennium.
1 - Can't Get you Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue - 2001
There's a dark secret in me Don't leave me locked in your heart Set me free
I'm bringing sexy back Them other boys don't know how to act I think it's special, what's behind your back So turn around and I'll pick up the slack
(Take it to the bridge!)
Dirty, babe You see these shackles, baby I'm your slave I'll let you whip me if I misbehave It's just that no one makes me feel this way
(Take it to the chorus!)
- Hills / Timbaland / Timberlake
4 - Don't Get It Twisted - Gwen Stefani - 2006
Don't get it twisted Don't get clever This is the most craziest shit ever
Tick tock I guess I'm late again What are you suggesting there now, Gwen? Don't you know better? What are you talking about? You know it's going to come at any point
Night time Flip flop This time push my luck
He was really looking hot Anticipation building up
Space invaders Turn up all the faders Need a translater
- Kanal / Stefani
5 - Bad Romance - Lady Gaga - 2009
Rah, rah Ah, ah, ah Roma Rome mama Gaga Oh, la la! Want your bad romance
I want your ugly I want your disease I want your everything As long as it's free
I want your love Love, love, love I want your love
Welcome to my Second Blogiversary Celebration! Come in. Find a seat. I've got a show planned that celebrates life as I love to live it. And I'm grateful to you, my blog readers and fellow bloggers, for sharing this life with me.
Photo by Hill Peppard
First up is Gene Wilder singing Pure Imagination from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. My life just wouldn't be the same if it wasn't fueled by imagination.
I just love Gene Wilder. He's one of my favorite actors, and he's way up there. I love his slightly creepy vibe in Willie Wonka. Really gray, as in The Gray Character - not the hero, not the villain, but Gray.
Next up - what else could it be but a ballet variation? After imagination, ballet is what I live for. If I make it to 130 years old, it still won't be enough time to see all the ballet I long for.
Here is Marcin Krajewski, dancing the role of The Slave Ali from Le Corsaire, a variation within a pas de deux. A variation is a solo dance piece.
Sigh. I could watch that all day. I think I'll watch it again.
Okay. Can't keep the next act waiting.
Following a ballet version of a noble warrior spirit trapped within a slave, here are young Shaolin monks going through their sword excercises. Beautiful, if lethal choreography along with swords - can't beat that combination for me.
Love it! And now - Spectacular Spectacular! Or should I say, Hindi Sad Diamonds from Moulin Rouge?
Oh, I love that part of Moulin Rouge. The music often goes through my head, and I love the unabashed lushness of the Bollywood homage.
The curtain's rising again. Let's join conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli as he leads us through a concert version of Verdi's Anvil Chorus from the opera Il Trovatore (The Troubador.)
I was lucky enough to sing this piece while I lived in Toronto and sang with Ryerson University's Oakham House Choir. We did a program of famous opera choruses, and this was so joyous to sing.
Here's another choir now - the Gregory Hopkins Gospel Choir, in concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina, singing O Happy Day. Brothers and sisters, this group cooks.
Oh Happy Day, indeed. I feel truly, truly blessed to share my thoughts, my poetry, my fiction, my photography, my love of art, films and dance, my delight in this life and in meeting all of you. Thank you for making these past two years so very special for me.
Champion of the Arts - I write historical and paranormal fiction, as well as poetry. I love to showcase creative works by artists of all stripes. Blogging from Nova Scotia, Canada
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