What are you listening to now?

Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Wallflower, the latest album by Diana Krall, is on sale since yesterday here, at the Lorient FNAC CDs store.

Well, i had the choice between Wallflower and two packets of cigarettes... I chose Wallflower...

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Well lads, can't resist to share it here so much i like it.

I had a look this afternoon on the web but didn't found it. I think it's logical, considering that it's about a very very recent album, so we can already find some titles from this album but not this one, at least i didn't found it.

So i decided to make it by myself, extracting the track as a lossless audio file and creating a quick and light video by including some pictures.

About the feeling this title gives to me, well, respect for the original composer Jim Croce but in my opinion, and even if the considered styles of music are totally different, it's the same with this version by Diana Krall as with the All along the watchtower by Jimi Hendrix, it's taken so much over that it almost eclipses the original (by Bob Dylan, of course).

So, just for you lads from =RpR= and as a world premiere i guess, here's Diana Krall on piano and vocals, performing Jim Croce's title Operator.


Enjoy.

Diana Krall's Wallflower first listen, by Ann Powers on NPR.

There you can find her opinion as a music critic, and also the opinion of listeners. Some like, some don't. No accounting for tastes. Clearly, i like.

Notice that it was announced to come out on February 3, that gives an idea of the performance by my favourite local CDs store.

Warning: Spoiler!

Lorient FNAC store, Aristide Briand square.

EDIT : For comparison, you can find here a link to Jim Croce's original version . Not bad, sure, but for me i prefer Diana's version.


EDIT 2 : Here's another link to a video on Youtube about this title by Diana, and posted by a guy nicknamed TheMariosMitrakis.
Well, sorry lad, but you were only second...

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Here's a guy whom i doubt he's well known outside France. Well, maybe he didn't make only masterpieces but this title is one for me.

Doubtless largely autobiographical, this text is what any 14 aged boy could say to his mother, for explaining her that he loves her, that he knows she loves him but that she have to let him free for him to become a man.

The title is simply : Mom



Eddy Mitchell - M'man

Mom,
I have just just reached my fourteen years
I don't want school anymore, I became big
I promises you I shall win you lot of money.

Mom,
I have just smoked my very first Weekend ¹
On the fortifs ² where you don't like that I tramp
I would have killed myself rather than to refuse.

Not only the mothers make the children
The zone, the street pour into my blood
Mom, I would like to sing all that the others feel
Your life, ours,
Don't hold it against me, but now I have chose.

Mom,
towers are not always ghettos
I have no passion for birds
But, as they, I would like to see that from above

Mom,
I better understand the glance of the passers-by
I don't see as them, I think everything in big
In colors and on a white screen.

Not only the mothers make the children
The zone, the street pour into my blood
You know, I don't know much about the things of love
But I always guess
That it's not me, it's not me who choose.

Mom,
I have just just reached my fourteen years
I don't want school anymore, I became big, Mom
Hey, look, I became big

Mom,
I promises you I shall win you lot of money, Mom
I became big, Mom
Hey, Mom, I became big, big
Mom!






1 - WeekEnd was a popular cigarette brand in France in the sixties.
2 - The fortifs was the nickname of the former fortifications in the Paris Belleville district, and reputed for being badly frequented.

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Could be in "Today in history" but it's always better with music...

The day the music died was on February 3, 1959

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Time for summer...

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Replied by Nikita on topic What are you listening to now?

Well, tonight i'm going to (try) to finish rebuilding my solo mode very hard profile, having lost the original one i don't remember when by formatting i don't remember which disk installed now on i don't remember which computer, if not transformed into razor blades since.

I have everything, coffee, M&M's, cigarettes, pizzas, ice tea and music.

I'm presently at the remparts of Djerna, with those two LRDG guys. There's still a long way for reaching the end of this war.

I guess this kind of mission needed something serious, so i chose to pick a ad hoc CD in my collection.

I chose this one...

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