~ November Rain
Views: 15636 |  |  |  |  | "November Rain" is a song by the band Guns N' Roses, written by Axl Rose. As well known as the song is itself, perhaps a greater amount of attention is given to the music video, which, when it was released in 1992, quickly became the most requested video ...More on MTV, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography.
As revealed in the Chris Heath book Pet Shop Boys versus America, in an account of when Axl Rose came backstage to meet the British band on their 1991 North American tour, the song was partly inspired by the Pet Shop Boys song "My October Symphony", which appeared on their 1990 album Behaviour. However, early demo recordings of "November Rain" have circulated among collectors since 1988.
The narrative quality of the video accentuated the epic nature of the song. The video entailed Axl and then girlfriend Stephanie Seymour being wed, interspersed with a live performance in a theatre. Particularly, it can be noted for its large budget (about $1.5 million) and stunning cinematography. It is currently the 9th most expensive music video ever.[3] Lead guitarist Slash is prominently featured in some of the video's most memorable scenes, including an epic sequence of helicopter shots swooping around him as he plays the first guitar solo and a later scene where he plays while standing on Axl's piano onstage. Interestingly, the video for "November Rain", unlike comparable songs such as "Stairway to Heaven" and "Bat Out of Hell", uses the full version of the song as opposed to an abridged version. A theatre in downtown Los Angeles was acquired for an evening shoot that went several hours into the night, and to their credit, and unlike many other artists and bands, they didn't even mime for any of the takes. Between several differing versions of "November Rain", while the cameras on cranes that swooped close to Slash's frets were reviewed and set up for the next shot - the band entertained the 1,500 extras by playing more of their songs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Rain |
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~ Divine - Shake it Up
Views: 274932 |  |  |  |  | The actor known as Divine was born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945 in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore to father Harris Bernard and mother Diana Frances. This would be his 60th birthday in 2005!
At the age of 12, the Milsteads moved to ...More Lutherville, another nearby district, just six houses from a boy the same age named John Waters. Years later, John and Glenn would thrive off each other's talents to acheive notoriety and eventually fame.
Glenn was a fat boy, always being picked on by the other boys at school for being plump and effeminate. In high school, his interests fell around horticulture, cosmetology and of course, acting. He worked for five or six years as a hairdresser, eventually running his own salon, a gift from his generous, lenient and naive parents. Generous because of all the gifts he received over the years, lenient because of the lack of punishment he received after destroying their gifts and sqauandering the family's money, and naive because it would be many years into his career as an actor before they realised exactly what was going on. Their relationship with Glenn broke down over the years, to the point where the Milsteads fled to Florida. But towards the end of Glenn's life, after he'd become world-reknown as Divine, he and his parents patched things up a bit.
Around 1966, Glenn was cast in his first Waters film, being remodeled by John and his makeup artist, Van Smith, into the horror show that would forever be known as Divine. Through Waters' films, Divine became synonymous with vile, repulsive acts with an attitude to match. But throughout his career, he longed for a way out of that mask, wig and dress, and in fact, did play a few roles out of drag. Not only did he act, but through somewhat coincidental cir#@!&stances, Divine had a brief career as a disco recording star and club attraction. The first of these records were made with sleazy New York producer Bobby Orlando, famous for producing Pet Shop Boys' first flops. After Orlando, Divine worked with the Stock-Aitken-Waterman team who's roster included Kylie Minogue and Dead or Alive.
Due to his weight, Divine had a plethora of problems with his body including a sleeping disorder termed sleep apnoea in which chronic violent snoring results in memory loss, mood swings, heart attacks and strokes. His weight, among other problems, led him through cycles of depression. He was also reportedly addicted to marijuana, passing out where he sat, exhausted from pot and chronic insomnia.
At age 42, he was just about to branch into television when he met his demise in Southern California. He'd broken his habit of pot smoking, been widely praised by fans and the press for his role as Edna Turnblad in John Waters' Hairspray, and was finally going to play a role out of drag on network television. The Fox program, Married With Children, had booked Divine to play Bundy relative, Uncle Otto - a character Fox hoped would become a regular. He did not show up on the set. His personal manager, Bernard Jay, discovered him dead in his hotel suite - Mr. Jay swears Divine died of happiness, a state he finally acheived the morning of March 7, 1988.
info: www.dreamlandnews.com/divine/index.shtml |
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~ Divine - Native love
Views: 138325 |  |  |  |  | The actor known as Divine was born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945 in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore to father Harris Bernard and mother Diana Frances. This would be his 60th birthday in 2005!
At the age of 12, the Milsteads moved to ...More Lutherville, another nearby district, just six houses from a boy the same age named John Waters. Years later, John and Glenn would thrive off each other's talents to acheive notoriety and eventually fame.
Glenn was a fat boy, always being picked on by the other boys at school for being plump and effeminate. In high school, his interests fell around horticulture, cosmetology and of course, acting. He worked for five or six years as a hairdresser, eventually running his own salon, a gift from his generous, lenient and naive parents. Generous because of all the gifts he received over the years, lenient because of the lack of punishment he received after destroying their gifts and sqauandering the family's money, and naive because it would be many years into his career as an actor before they realised exactly what was going on. Their relationship with Glenn broke down over the years, to the point where the Milsteads fled to Florida. But towards the end of Glenn's life, after he'd become world-reknown as Divine, he and his parents patched things up a bit.
Around 1966, Glenn was cast in his first Waters film, being remodeled by John and his makeup artist, Van Smith, into the horror show that would forever be known as Divine. Through Waters' films, Divine became synonymous with vile, repulsive acts with an attitude to match. But throughout his career, he longed for a way out of that mask, wig and dress, and in fact, did play a few roles out of drag. Not only did he act, but through somewhat coincidental cir#@!&stances, Divine had a brief career as a disco recording star and club attraction. The first of these records were made with sleazy New York producer Bobby Orlando, famous for producing Pet Shop Boys' first flops. After Orlando, Divine worked with the Stock-Aitken-Waterman team who's roster included Kylie Minogue and Dead or Alive.
Due to his weight, Divine had a plethora of problems with his body including a sleeping disorder termed sleep apnoea in which chronic violent snoring results in memory loss, mood swings, heart attacks and strokes. His weight, among other problems, led him through cycles of depression. He was also reportedly addicted to marijuana, passing out where he sat, exhausted from pot and chronic insomnia.
At age 42, he was just about to branch into television when he met his demise in Southern California. He'd broken his habit of pot smoking, been widely praised by fans and the press for his role as Edna Turnblad in John Waters' Hairspray, and was finally going to play a role out of drag on network television. The Fox program, Married With Children, had booked Divine to play Bundy relative, Uncle Otto - a character Fox hoped would become a regular. He did not show up on the set. His personal manager, Bernard Jay, discovered him dead in his hotel suite - Mr. Jay swears Divine died of happiness, a state he finally acheived the morning of March 7, 1988.
info: www.dreamlandnews.com/divine/index.shtml |
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~ ROCK DE LOS 80 - PART 4
Views: 21292 |  |  |  |  | GREAT AND FANTATIC MEMORIES!!!
1 -- HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS -- HEART AND SOUL
2 -- AHA -- MAYBE, MAYBE
3 -- B52 -- ROAM
4 -- KENNY LOGGINS -- FOOTLOSE
5 -- DURAN DURAN -- HUNGRY LIKE A WOLF
6 -- MADONNA -- MATERIAL GIRL
7 -- CULTURE CLUB -- SONG WAR
...More
8 -- BRUCE SPRINGTEEN -- DANCING IN THE DARK
9 -- THE BANGLES -- ETERNAL FLAME
10 -- QUEEN -- LIVING ON MY OWN
11 -- ALPHAVILLE -- FOREVER YOUNG
12 -- THE DIVINYLS -- I LOVE MYSELF
13 -- FOREIGNER -- I WANNA WHAT LOVE IS ?
14 -- SUPERTRAMP -- IT'S RAINING AGAIN
15 -- HEART -- ALONE
16 -- THE CARS -- TONIGHT SHE COMES
17 -- DEBBIE GIBSON -- LOST IN YOUR EYES
18 -- ROD STEWART -- DO YOU THINK I'M SEXY ?
19 -- SPANDAU BALLET -- TRUE
20 -- BELINDA CARLISLE -- LEAVE THE LIGHT ON
21 -- TOTO -- HOLYANNA
22 -- PHIL COLLING -- TWO HEARTS
23 -- THE PRETENDERS -- NEVER DO THAT
24 -- DIRE STRAITS -- SULTANS OF SWING
25 -- FR DAVID -- WORDS
26 -- WILL TO POWER -- BABY, I LOVE YOUR WAY
27 -- DAVID LEE ROTH -- CALIFORNIA GIRLS
28 -- TEARS FOR FEARS -- EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD
29 -- CINDY LAUPER -- ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
30 -- CHRISTOPHER CROSS -- SAILING
31 -- INDOCHINE -- 3E SEXE
32 -- KIM WILDE -- CHEQUERED LOVE
33 - THE CURE -- BOYS DON'T CRY
34 -- O.M.D -- SECRET
35 -- KON KAN -- HARRY HOUDINI
36 -- BRYAN ADAMS -- SUMMER OF THE 69
37 -- RICK ASTLEY -- TAKE ME TO YOU HEART
38 -- PET SHOP BOYS -- SUBURBIA
39 -- THE POLICE -- EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE
40 -- DEAD OR ALIVE -- YOU SPIN ME ROUND
41 -- SOFT CELL -- TAINTED LOVE |
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~ Pet Shop Boys-I Made My Excuses And Left
Views: 36294 |  |  |  |  | Pet Shop Boys-I Made My Excuses And Left Unofficial Video
The story is about a man(Me, Dag Erik, the man in costume)that shall propose to the girl (Nina) but finds her together with another man (Sonny). The whole walking is after the proposal. I throw ...More the ring box in the end.
I took a bit of the real story of the song. It's about Cynthia Lennon finding John Lennon and Yoko Ono together: http://www.geowayne.com/psbhtml.htm
Directed and produced by: Dag Erik Nilsson Mysse (Me) and Stefan Hansson
My E-mail: DAGERIKNILSSON@hotmail.com |
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~ Pet Shop Boys - Left To My Own Devices
Views: 33102 |  |  |  |  | "Left To My Own Devices"
(Uuu.....us)
I get out of bed at half past ten
Phone up a friend, who's a party animal
Turn on the news and drink some tea
Maybe if you're with me we'll do some shopping
One day I'll read, or learn to drive a car
If y ...More ou pass the test, you can beat the rest
But I don't like to compete, or talk street, street, street
I can pick up the best from the party animal
I could leave you, say goodbye
Or I could love you, if I try
And I could
And left to my own devices, I probably would
Left to my own devices, I probably would
Pick up a brochure about the sun
Learn to ignore what the photographer saw
I was always told that you should join a club
Stick with the gang, if you want to belong
I was a lonely boy, no strength, no joy
In a world of my own at the back of the garden
I didn't want to compete, or play out on the street
For in a secret life I was a round head general
I could leave you, say goodbye
Or I could love you, if I try
And I could
And left to my own devices, I probably would
Left to my own devices, I probably would
Oh, I would
I was faced with a choice at a difficult age
Would I write a book? Or should I take to the stage?
But in the back of my head I heard distant feet
Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat
It's not a crime when you look the way you do
The way I like to picture you
When I get home, it's late at night
I pour a drink and watch the fight
Turn off the TV, look at a book
Pick up the phone, fix some food
Maybe I'll sit up all night and day
Waiting for the minute I hear you say
I could leave you, say goodbye
Or I could love you, if I try
And I could
And left to my own devices, I probably would
Come on, baby, say goodbye
I could love you, if I try
And I could
And left to my own devices, I probably would
Left to my own devices, I probably would
Out of bed, at half past ten
The party animal phones a friend
Picks up news about the sun
And the working day has just begun
Sticks with the gang - at the back of the street
Pass the test - and you don't compete
Drive the car, if you're with me
Che Guevara's drinking tea
He reads about a new device
And takes to the stage in a secret life
(Uuu.....us)
Left to my own devices, I probably would
If I was left to my own devices, I possibly would
(Uuu.....us)
If I was left to my own devices, I probably would
Left to my own devices, I probably would
I could leave you, say goodbye
Or I could love you, if I try
And I could
And left to my own devices, I probably would
Left to my own devices, I probably would
Come on, baby
Left to my own devices, I probably would |
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~ Eminem-Cani#@!& (instrumentals)
Views: 17560 |  |  |  |  | Freestyle, comment or whatever
LYRICS:
Uncle Marshall!
Will you tell us a bedtime story?
Here we go,
Now once upon a time not long ago
There was a little rapper about to blow
But his album came and it was not good
I think it went lead or doubl ...More e copper wood
So the silly little fans they were mislead
By a nerdy internet computer hip-hop head
"Me and you, 'Clef, we're gonna make some cash
Grab the silver paint and let's paint my ass"
Hey mister, would ya care to bare witness to
The ass-whippin' I'm about to administer
To this ass-kissin' little vaginal blister
Stanabis, little Marshall Mathers' sister
And in this corner, we have the mister
Not havin' it, it's the mad sinister
Dr. Evil with his bag of tricks for
this little antagonist #@!&got dick-suckin'
Ex-LL Cool J fan from Windsor
I'm 'bout to murder little Kenny #@!& Keniff-sta
You bastard I ain't wanna have to diss ya
Canabis, where the #@!& you at? I miss ya!
[Chorus]
Can-i-#@!&, oh Can-i-#@!&
Where for art thou Can-i-#@!&?
Please tell me what happened with
That style that you were rappin' with
Can-i-#@!&, oh Can-i-#@!&
Are you from Los Angeles
New York or just a janitor
From Canada? Oh Can-i-#@!&
Now at first I ain't really understand the #@!&
Picture me for a second and imagine it
Chillin' in the Bat-Mansion and relaxin'
When all a sudden some bull#@!& comes across the scanners
It's Can-i-#@!& on some "Stan Lives" #@!&
It creeped me out at first. Man this is sick
For me, being just a sick, this conflict
Gets my dick harder than arithmetic
And I know how you jealous ones envy
I shoulda knew better from the first few letters you sent me
The first two letters you were tellin' me #@!&
Like you respect me, like any other regular MC
The third letter you ask how come I ain't return
None of the messages at Shady Records you left me
The fourth letter: "Slim, you really startin' to upset me!"
The fifth letter told me you were comin' to get me
The sixth letter there's a bomb threat in our building
This crazy mother#@!&er's really tryin' to kill me!
So I went back and read the first few letters that said
Some #@!& about a message you left
Oh #@!&, that's not an "E" that's an "A"
This dude wants to leave me a "massage," he's gay!!
Right away I'm on the phone with Dr. Dre
We got a bogey! (Marshall I'm on the way)
[Chorus]
So in two seconds flat Dre's at my crib
The funny thing is we both know where this kid lives
And neither one of us have Canadian citizenship
#@!&. Oh Dre, wait a mintue that's it
All we gotta do is use a bit of turbo boost
We can fly over the border "Let's go" [WOOSH!]
So we're off to Toronto and we're gainin' speed
[BOOSH!] (What was that? Oh) Jermaine Dupri
#@!& It, keep goin' no time to waste
Wait, backup hit him one more time in case
Okay .. #@!& now he's draggin' under the car
Oh well, only 30 more thousand miles
Meanwhile me and Dre are tryin' to conversate
Just tryin' to find a reason for the constant hate
And tryin' to figure out what happened to 'Germaine Propaine'
"He couldn't have fell off that hard" Ain't no way
"What happened to the way you was rappin' when you was scandalous
That Canibus turned into a television evangelist"
Plus he raps with his regular voice [BOOSH! BOOSH!]
[BOOSH! BOOSH!] (What was that?) Pet Shop Boys
So we pull up to the bridge where he last was spotted
His corpse was still movin' but his ass was rotted
He kinda smelled a little like Courtney Love
I figure if I stick him with a fork he's done
So I stabbed him twice, kept jabbin', Christ
He won't die, this guy's like a battered wife
He's like Kim, he keeps comin' back for more
But he won't fight back I cracked his jaw
Hold up, 'Bis quit foldin' up!
Punch me in the chest! Make my shoulders touch!
Do somethin'! At least one punchline
C'mon till the meter reads 9-9-9-
ty-nine percent of my fans are blonde
'Bis c'mon answer me man respond!
Tell me 'bout the sun rain moon and stars
Intergalatical metaphors from Mars!
Raw to the floor, raw like Reservoir Dogs
Bite another line from Redman's song!
Suddenly the stub from a dead man's arm
From a midget reaches out from under the car
It's JD, this mother#@!&er won't die neither
Dre starts sprayin' him with cans of ether
We stomped the #@!& and then stopmed the #@!& again
(Compton!) Detroit #@!&! Talk some #@!& again!
Stomp him! (switch feet) Stomp him! (switch again!)
Dre alright he's dead dog, quit kickin him!
I think Stanabis jumped off the bridge again (Damn)
He disappeared yo he's gone he did it again |
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~ Top 20: Comedy Moments (Vol. 3)
Views: 220434 |  |  |  |  | Info about the clips and the music:
20. Laurent Blanc vs Slaven Bilic
19. Emiliano Moretti vs Marco Cassetti
18. Woking player
17. Defense (Manchester United)
16. Andriy Shevchenko
15. Bogdan Stelea vs teammates
14. Otto Rehhagel
13. Hamit Al ...More tintop vs Thomas Myhre
12. Finidi George
11. Kemy Agustien
10. Branco vs Murdoch McLeod
9. Geoff Thomas
8. Joleon Lescott vs offside trip
7. Kieron Dyer
6. Maxi Moralez vs Vitor Alves
5. Offense (Sheffield United)
4. Referee Eric Braamhaar
3. Hans-Jörg Butt
2. Kasey Keller
1. Ballboy (Santacruzense)
20. Freddie Mercury - the great pretender
19. Daniel Bedingfield - never gonna leave your side
18. Five Star - slightest touch
17. Duran Duran - perfect day
16. Good Charlotte - lifestyles of the rich and famous
15. Eminem - the real slim shady
14. Beastie Boys - sabotage
13. R.E.M. - bad day
12. Baha Men - who let the dogs out
11. Huey Lewis And The News - it hit me like a hammer
10. Grant Lee Buffalo - fuzzy
9. Barry Manilow - could it be magic
8. Diana Ross & The Supremes - do you know where you're going to
7. Pixies - where is my mind
6. Stereo MC's - connected
5. Pet Shop Boys - one more chance
4. A Camp - i can buy you
3. Mike & The Mechanics - over my shoulder
2. Mike Flowers Pops - wonderwall
1. The Beatles - with a little help from my friends |
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~ Top 20: Comedy Moments (Vol. 2)
Views: 184985 |  |  |  |  | Info about the clips and the music:
20. Omar Larrosa
19. Breda
18. Nigel Worthington
17. Alexi Lalas & Marcelo Balboa
16. Flying teammates
15. Ballboy vs referee
14. Ballboy vs Steven Gerrard
13. Johan Cruyff & Jesper Olsen
12. Robert Pires & T ...More hierry Henry
11. Fuad Anwar
10. Per Ottosen
9. Teddy Lucic vs Johan Mjällby
8. John Carew
7. Tony Pennock
6. Peter Schmeichel
5. Roberto Di Matteo vs security guard
4. Diana Ross
3. Marcelino Bernal
2. Ozzie Owl, Ollie Owl & Bazz Owl
1. Jan Vertonghen vs fairplay
20. The Streets - dry your eyes
19. Holly Valance - kiss kiss
18. Ottawan - hands up (give me your heart)
17. Suede - beautiful ones
16. Laid Back - fly with me
15. The Beatles - hello, goodbye
14. Victoria Silvstedt - hello hey
13. Alanis Morissette - eight easy steps
12. The Tears - imperfection
11. Sort Sol - golden wonder
10. Ray Charles - hit the road jack
9. Oasis - won't let you down
8. Gwen Stefani - what you waiting for
7. The Bravery - an honest mistake
6. Pet Shop Boys - hit and miss
5. Crazy Town - hurt you so bad
4. Queen - the show must go on
3. Sahlene - fishies
2. Mousse T. vs The Dandy Warhols - horny as a dandy
1. Kula Shaker - troubled mind |
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~ Demo of Korg Prophecy synthesizer
Views: 25617 |  |  |  |  | (SOLD FOR $350 on EBAY Oct 2007) I've had this synth for about 10 years and got it for the ribbon wheel.
VINTAGESYNTH.ORG:This hybrid digital synth is one of the coolest new monophonic lead synths! Tons of real-time control over traditional analog edi ...More ting parameters like cutoff, resonance, envelopes and arpeggios. And it's all at your finger tips. It has a pitch wheel, a mod wheel, and a dual action ribbon wheel, 6 effects processors and more! Plus its retro analog sounds are really good too!
It is used by The Orb, Jan Hammer, Download, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mirwais, Front Line Assembly, Kobe, Depeche Mode, Orbital, Theatre, Uberzone, BT, Union Jack, The Prodigy, the Crystal Method, Eat Static, Apollo 440, Radio Head, Luke Vibert, Stabbing Westward, 808 State, the Pet Shop Boys and lots more! A great and modern techno/electronic music machine. |
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~ Divine - Shake it Up (Formel Eins)
Views: 74373 |  |  |  |  | The actor known as Divine was born Harris Glenn Milstead on October 19, 1945 in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore to father Harris Bernard and mother Diana Frances. This would be his 60th birthday in 2005!
At the age of 12, the Milsteads moved to ...More Lutherville, another nearby district, just six houses from a boy the same age named John Waters. Years later, John and Glenn would thrive off each other's talents to acheive notoriety and eventually fame.
Glenn was a fat boy, always being picked on by the other boys at school for being plump and effeminate. In high school, his interests fell around horticulture, cosmetology and of course, acting. He worked for five or six years as a hairdresser, eventually running his own salon, a gift from his generous, lenient and naive parents. Generous because of all the gifts he received over the years, lenient because of the lack of punishment he received after destroying their gifts and sqauandering the family's money, and naive because it would be many years into his career as an actor before they realised exactly what was going on. Their relationship with Glenn broke down over the years, to the point where the Milsteads fled to Florida. But towards the end of Glenn's life, after he'd become world-reknown as Divine, he and his parents patched things up a bit.
Around 1966, Glenn was cast in his first Waters film, being remodeled by John and his makeup artist, Van Smith, into the horror show that would forever be known as Divine. Through Waters' films, Divine became synonymous with vile, repulsive acts with an attitude to match. But throughout his career, he longed for a way out of that mask, wig and dress, and in fact, did play a few roles out of drag. Not only did he act, but through somewhat coincidental cir#@!&stances, Divine had a brief career as a disco recording star and club attraction. The first of these records were made with sleazy New York producer Bobby Orlando, famous for producing Pet Shop Boys' first flops. After Orlando, Divine worked with the Stock-Aitken-Waterman team who's roster included Kylie Minogue and Dead or Alive.
Due to his weight, Divine had a plethora of problems with his body including a sleeping disorder termed sleep apnoea in which chronic violent snoring results in memory loss, mood swings, heart attacks and strokes. His weight, among other problems, led him through cycles of depression. He was also reportedly addicted to marijuana, passing out where he sat, exhausted from pot and chronic insomnia.
At age 42, he was just about to branch into television when he met his demise in Southern California. He'd broken his habit of pot smoking, been widely praised by fans and the press for his role as Edna Turnblad in John Waters' Hairspray, and was finally going to play a role out of drag on network television. The Fox program, Married With Children, had booked Divine to play Bundy relative, Uncle Otto - a character Fox hoped would become a regular. He did not show up on the set. His personal manager, Bernard Jay, discovered him dead in his hotel suite - Mr. Jay swears Divine died of happiness, a state he finally acheived the morning of March 7, 1988.
info: www.dreamlandnews.com/divine/index.shtml |
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~ TATU - Dangerous and Moving (English)
Views: 36731 |  |  |  |  | O grupo t.A.T.u surgiu em 1999. Foi criado por Ivan Shapovalov, um ex-psicólogo que trabalhava com propaganda e tinha muita vontade de dirigir um videoclipe. Como não é tão fácil conseguir que alguém contrate um desconhecido para fazê-lo, Shapovalov teve ...More a idéia de criar o seu próprio grupo.
Inicialmente, a idéia só incluía Lena, que já vinha de uma família ligada com a música, especialmente seu pai. Porém, ele sentiu a necessidade de ter uma outra imagem para que o público não se cansasse. Foi realizada então uma segunda seleção para o segundo membro do duo t.A.T.u, na qual foi escolhida Yulia. Dizem as duas que Ivan não fazia idéia de que as duas já se conheciam do grupo Neposedi, e que quando se reencontraram no estúdio ficaram muito felizes em poder se rever.
Com o seu grupo já formado, o agora produtor Shapovalov passou a ter a plena liberdade para explorar a imagem das garotas. Não se sabe se a imagem lésbica delas é verdadeira ou não, mas foi o que as lançou ao estrelato na Rússia. Seu videoclipe para o primeiro single, "Ya soshla s uma"("All the things she said" em inglês), no qual as duas aparecem trocando carícias e beijos, também despertou a curiosidade do público.
As duas venderam mais de um milhão de cópias de seu primeiro e único CD: 200 po Vstrechnoy,vmeste na vechno. Após "Ya soshla s uma", as meninas lançaram ainda mais dois videoclipes polêmicos deste mesmo album. São estes "Nas ne dogonyat", no qual elas roubam um caminhão e saem pela estrada do lado errado da pista (aliás, 200 po vstrechnoy, vmeste na vechno ou 200 do lado errado da pista, juntas para sempre, vem desse clipe)atropelando tudo o que vêem pela frante e "30 Minut", no qual Yulia vê Lena com um rapaz e mata os dois, restando a dúvida: era ciúmes do rapaz ou de Lena?
Devido ao grande êxito deste álbum na Rússia, Ivan e as garotas decidiram ir mais longe. Decidiram conquistar a Europa e até mesmo talvez a América. Para isso, contrataram um produtor de peso, Trevor Horn , que já trabalhou com o Yes e já produziu muitas bandas famosas como Simple Minds e Pet Shop Boys.
Apesas da barreira da língua (Lena fala inglês ainda com muita dificuldade e Yulia nem se arrisca em falar, apesar de entender), o CD foi gravadoe está sendo lançado pelo mundo todo com o nome de 200km/h in the wrong Lane (200 km/h na pista errada, com versões em inglês das músicas mais famosas do CD russo e com uma cover de "How soon is now dos Smiths".
Para não deixar seus fãs russos na mão, as t.A.T.u lançaram duas novas músicas, uma chamda Klouni e outra chamada Prostye Dvizhenya que foi acompanhada de um videoclipe pôlemico como sempre. Neste clipe, Yulia se masturba e tem orgasmos na frente da câmera, nada de pornográfico é mostrado. Porém os políticos russos discutiram muito se esse video seria censurado ou não. Mas como disseram as meninas na entrevista da Polonia de agosto. que se encontra na seção de entrevistas desse site, eles viram que não havia nada de ofensivo o suficiente para proibir a sua veiculação. O duo já conquistou a Itália, a Espanha e muitos outros países, agora o que nos resta é esperar para ver o que vai acontecer nas Américas.
Fonte: angelfire.com
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Muitos acreditam que o conjunto tenha alcançado sucesso devido às especulações de que as integrantes seriam lésbicas. O primeiro single ("All The Things She Said") é composto maioritariamente por músicas abordando o tema lésbico, tratando de um amor impossível e mostra no seu vídeo as duas se beijando na chuva vestidas de uniforme escolar. Depois de meses de dúvidas e das polémicas que elas geravam, acabaram por assumir que tudo não passava de um golpe promocional.
Yulia Volkova, a morena da banda, tem uma filha chamada Viktoriya resultando do namoro com um homem chamado Pascha. Agora (2005) ela esta com um homem bem mais velho, que conheceu numa reunião dos pais de Lena Katina. Agora (2007) Yulia esta gravida de 4 meses de seu novo namorado Parviz, Parviz ainda é legalmente casado com a ex-cantora do grupo "Tutsi" Masha Veber e tem um filho de um ano de idade,mas ele diz que não tem mais nada a ver com sua mulher e que vão se divorciar legalmente. Enquanto isso a futura criança ocupa todos os pensamentos do jovem casal, Yulia agora vai ter dois filhos...
Lena namora e a imprensa especula que ela esteja a pensar em casar.
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200 KM/H In The Wrong Lane 2002
Remixes 2004
Dangerous And Moving 2005
The Best 2006
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200 Km/h In The Wrong Lane Ano: 2002
"All The Things She Said / Ya Sholsa S Una"
"Not Gonna Get Us / Nas Ne Dagoniat"
"30 Minutes"
"How Soon Is Now ?"
Dangerous And Moving Ano: 2005
"All About Us"
"Friend Or Foe"
"Gomenasai"
The Best Ano: 2006
"Loves Me Not" |
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~ Flea Market Montgomery - Pet Shop Version
Views: 22537 |  |  |  |  | July 24th, 2006: "Minimal" was announced by the Pet Shop Boys as the second commercially available single from their album Fundamental in the UK. In this song, the word MINIMAL is repeatedly spelled out to the beat of the song.
December 4th 2006 - Samm ...More y Stephens appears on The Ellen Degeneres Show, introducing a quirky advertisement in which he danced and rapped about his flea market in Montgomery, Alabama specializing in living room, bedroom, and dinette sets.
January 2007: This commercial spreads through the internet via YouTube, BoingBoing and similar sites using the slogan, "It's Just Like A Mini Mall".
February 9th, 2007: Having just previously experienced the "Flea Market Montgomery" video, Pimpdaddysupreme hears the Pet Shop Boy's (M Factor Mix) of their single "Minimal" inspiring him to complete the audio mashup of the two.
Sept 24th 2007: Pimpdaddysupreme unleashes the Flea Market Montgomery (It's Just Like Minimal) mashup video onto the Internet. |
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~ Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
Views: 19913 |  |  |  |  | "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"
I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money
You've got the brawn, I've got the brains
Let's make lots of -
I've had enough of scheming and messing around with jerks
My car is park ...More ed outside, I'm afraid it doesn't work
I'm looking for a partner, someone who gets things fixed
Ask yourself this question: Do you want to be rich?
I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money
You've got the brawn, I've got the brains
Let's make lots of money
You can tell I'm educated, I studied at the Sorbonne
Doctored in mathematics, I could have been a don
I can program a computer, choose the perfect time
If you've got the inclination, I have got the crime
Oh, there's a lot of opportunities
If you know when to take them, you know?
There's a lot of opportunities
If there aren't, you can make them
Make or break them
I've got the brains, you've got the looks
Let's make lots of money
Let's make lots of -
(Aahhhhh) Money
(Aahhhhh)
(Aahhhhh - Di du da di da bu di ba)
You can see I'm single-minded, I know what I could be
How'd you feel about it, come and take a walk with me?
I'm looking for a partner, regardless of expense
Think about it seriously, you know, it makes sense
Let's (Got the brains)
Make (Got the looks)
Let's make lots of money (Oohh money)
(Let's) You've got the brawn
(Make) I've got the brains
Let's make lots of money (Oohh money)
I've got the brains (Got the brains)
You've got the looks (Got the looks)
Let's make lots of money (Oohh money)
Money |
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~ PET SHOP BOYS Left To My Own Devices 1.12.88 TrevorHorn Prod
Views: 32206 |  |  |  |  | Reunited in 2005 with producer Trevor Horn for the first time since 1988's magisterial Left to My Own Devices, Pet Shop Boys encountered an unexpected problem. The man responsible for overblown epics such as Relax and Poison Arrow wasn't giving them the H ...More orn they were looking for. So they didn't have to rein him in? "Au contraire," answers Neil Tennant. "We were trying to rein him out."
In the end, as Tennant and Chris Lowe's new album, Fundamental, proves, they got what they wanted, but it wasn't without a struggle. "We kept saying to him, 'We're making a Trevor Horn album here,'" recalls Tennant. "The reason we started working with him again was because of that tATu single, which was proper Trevor. We thought, 'Oh, he's doing pop again': first of all, a pop record; second, a pop record with two Russian lesbians. I said to him, 'You know, you should only work with homosexuals.'"
The great man's sonic imprint is all over new songs such as Casanova in Hell, Minimal and The Sodom and Gomorrah Show. On the first, the cellos detumesce down the scale seconds after Tennant has sung: "He couldn't get an erection." "Actually, we nearly cut those out," says Tennant, "because we thought they might be too arch." "What's wrong with arch?" asks Lowe. On Minimal, Horn ignores the tenor of the song by pelting it with pizzicato strings that are straight out of ABC's The Lexicon of Love. And on S&G — a giant journey from innocence to depravity to regret — well, Tennant admits he cheated. "We were trying to do a real Trevor there," he says, "and I thought, 'You'd have backing vocals here, wouldn't you?' So I put them on — and it sounds like Dollar."
Tennant in the mood he's in today is unstoppable. Flitting from one subject to another in the space of seconds, he'll marvel at the 24-hour nature and vapidity of contemporary celebrity-mag discourse, then veer off down memory lane about Dollar. "I interviewed them for Smash Hits (which, famously, he once edited). I went and bought make-up at Boots with Thereza Bazar." He's off. "David Van Day is a surviving kind of guy. I know he's got the chip van, but he also tours with a version of Buck's Fizz."
"He was never in Buck's Fizz," Lowe protests. "But there's a kind of weird logic that the guy from Dollar is in Buck's Fizz," reasons Tennant. Do you ever do pub quizzes, Neil? "I've never been in a pub in my life," he splutters. "Although someone said to me, 'You know, everyone who knows you agrees that if they were on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, you'd be the friend they'd phone.'"
They're not always like this. Lowe, cruelly inaccurate though the stereotype of him as monosyllabic and scowling beneath his baseball cap is, can play to it when he wants. And Tennant in picky, guarded mode can be a scary prospect. If the joke's on you, beware; on him, and you can relax. Asked to settle, once and for all, whether it's Pet Shop Boys or The Pet Shop Boys, he pokes fun at his penchant for pedantry. "It's Pet Shop Boys. We confuse the issue by calling ourselves the Pet Shop Boys." He pauses before pouncing. "With a lower-case 't'."
Yet critical reaction to them can also be contrary, and sometimes wilfully ignorant. Quite apart from releasing some of the greatest pop singles of the past 20 years, PSB have also made at least three classic albums, with Fundamental now making it four. Detractors dwell on their apparent archness or snag on the perceived contradiction between their innate melancholia and giddy, hi-NRG hedonism. This misses, surely, PSB's uniqueness, which is that they locate the sadness that always resides somewhere in silliness, and vice versa.
Tennant's droll vocal style has also attracted criticism. "Some people think my voice sounds disengaged," the singer acknowledges. "But I think that gives the songs emotional punch. When people take a song and drag it by the scruff of the neck, they don't necessarily get emotion out of it." On the great new track I Made My Excuses and Left (a very PSB title), the subject of the song walks into a party to discover his lover with someone else. Tennant's delivery of the line "I walked into the room/Imagine my surprise", manages, by being conversational and resigned, to set the tragic scene with visceral power. He once, famously, told the American songwriter Diane Warren: "We don't do passion." By which he meant? "That I'm not Mariah Carey." And you imagine Carey lathering that same line with demented coloratura and know immediately what Tennant means. Warren has contributed a song — Numb — to Fundamental, though she was keen for PSB to cover another of her compositions. The title proved a problem. "She couldn't get why the Pet Shop Boys wouldn't sing Kisses on the Wind," Tennant laughs. "Imagine getting the label to say: 'The great new Pet Shop Boys single — Kisses on the Wind'." |
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~ Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking [Extended A&I Mix]
Views: 111484 |  | ![Pet Shop Boys Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking [Extended A&I Mix]](http://img2.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=aczXyA_fxpM_1) | ![Pet Shop Boys Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking [Extended A&I Mix]](http://img3.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=aczXyA_fxpM_2) | ![Pet Shop Boys Simple Minds - Alive & Kicking [Extended A&I Mix]](http://img4.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=aczXyA_fxpM_3) | 1985's Smash-hit "Alive & Kicking" by Simple Minds. This is my own video remix tribute (re-edited on this catchy chorus as sample) done from the rare US Maxi-Promo a.k.a. 'Extended 12" Mix'. only hope you'll really like it... :)
Review.- Simple Minds i ...More s a rock band from Scotland, which had its greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work.
Founding members Jim Kerr (vocals) and Charlie Burchill (guitar), along with drummer Mel Gaynor, are the core of the band, which currently features Mark Taylor on keyboards and Eddie Duffy on bass guitar.
Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr formed a punk band in 1977. They were heavily influenced by Lou Reed, and after one unsuccessful single as Johnny & the Self Abusers, they shuffled the line-up to include former Abusers Brian McGee on drums and Tony Donald on bass guitar, the latter of whom was quickly replaced by Derek Forbes.
Simple Minds commercial first album, Life in a Day, took a cue from fellow Post-punk forebears Magazine, and was somewhat self-consciously derivative of the late-70s punk boom.
While still categorisable as 'rock', Simple Minds' second release, Real to Real Cacophony, had a darker edge, and announced some of the New Wave experimentation that would become the band's trademark sound over the next two albums.
The next album, Empires and Dance, was a far more radical departure, and signalled the influence of Kraftwerk, Neu! and similar European artists. Indeed, during this period Simple Minds promoted themselves as a European band, not a Scottish or UK band.
Simple Minds' sixth studio album, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), released in 1982, was a significant turning point for the band. With a slick, sophisticated sound thanks to producer Peter Walsh, Simple Minds were soon categorised as part of the New Romantic outgrowth of New Wave (along with Duran Duran and others), and the record generated a handful of charting singles including "Promised You a Miracle" and "Glittering Prize", which both hit the UK Top 20 and Australian Top 10, continuing the band's early success in that region. In addition, jazz keyboardist Herbie Han#@!& performed a synth solo on the track "Hunter and the Hunted."
Despite the band's new-found popularity in the UK and Europe, Simple Minds remained essentially unknown in the U.S. The movie The Breakfast Club changed all that. Released in early 1985, this Brat Pack drama from writer/director John Hughes was a box-office smash and made household names of many of its young stars, including Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez. It also broke Simple Minds into the US market almost overnight, when the band achieved their only number-one U.S. pop hit with the film's opening track, "Don't You (Forget About Me)". Ironically, the song wasn't even written by the band, but by Keith Forsey, who offered the song to Billy Idol and Bryan Ferry before Simple Minds agreed to record it. The song soon became a chart-topper in many other countries around the world.
Taking advantage of their new-found popularity, Simple Minds released their most unashamedly commercial album, Once Upon a Time, which was tailored specifically to appeal to the stadium-rock sensibilities of American audiences. Reviled by some long-time fans yet embraced by millions of new listeners and critically well-received, the record reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US, even though "Don't You (Forget About Me)" was not included. The band made it clear in interviews prior to the album's release that they would not include the song, believing that it would devalue the rest of the album, which they felt could stand on its own merits.
Once Upon a Time would go on to generate four worldwide hit singles: "Alive & Kicking", "Sanctify Yourself", "Ghostdancing" and "All The Things She Said", the latter of which featured a cutting-edge music video directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński that used techniques later employed in music videos for Pet Shop Boys and Art of Noise. Because of Simple Minds powerful stage presence and lyrics that trafficked in Christian symbolism, the band was criticized by some in the music press as a lesser version of U2, despite the fact that both bands were now heading in different musical directions.
Simple Minds have secured a string of successful hit singles, the best known being its number one worldwide hit single "Don't You (Forget About Me)", from the soundtrack of the John Hughes movie The Breakfast Club. |
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~ Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [45t Prime Cut of Shep's Mastermix]
Views: 50548 |  | ![Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [45t Prime Cut of Sheps Mastermix]](http://img2.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=q7_930Chv-E_1) | ![Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [45t Prime Cut of Sheps Mastermix]](http://img3.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=q7_930Chv-E_2) | ![Pet Shop Boys Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls [45t Prime Cut of Sheps Mastermix]](http://img4.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=q7_930Chv-E_3) | 1986's number one Mega-hit "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys. I re-edited my own-vid remix tribute from the "Shep Pettibone 45t Prime Cut-Dub Mastermix" (which also was enjoyed with the "Dub Mix" & "Ultimix" remix version). It could be probably, one of th ...More e singles with more remixes released at Music History. Hope you'll enjoy it!
Review.- Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop/pop music/electronic music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant (born as Neil Francis Tennant in July 10, 1954, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England)
who provides main vocals, keyboards and very occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe (born as Christopher Sean Lowe in 4 October 1959, Blackpool, Lancashire, England) on keyboards and occasionally on vocals. The duo write the vast majority of their songs and have also written songs for other artists.
Pet Shop Boys formed in London in August 1981 when vocalist Neil Tennant (a former editor at Marvel Comics who later gained some notoriety as a journalist for Smash Hits magazine) first met keyboardist Chris Lowe (a onetime architecture student) at an electronics shop. Discovering a shared passion for dance music and synthesizers, they immediately decided to start a band. Dubbing themselves the Pet Shop Boys in honor of friends who worked in such an establishment -- while also obliquely nodding to the sort of names prevalent among the New York City hip-hop culture of the early 1980s -- the duo's career first took flight in 1983, when Tennant met producer Bobby "O" Orlando while on a writing assignment. Orlando produced their first single, 1984's "West End Girls." The song was a minor hit in the U.S. but went nowhere in Britain, and its follow-up, "One More Chance," was also unsuccessful.
Upon signing to EMI, the Pet Shop Boys issued 1985's biting "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)." When it too failed to attract attention, the duo's future appeared grim, but they then released an evocative new Stephen Hague production of "West End Girls," which became an international chart-topper. Its massive success propelled the Pet Shop Boys' 1986 debut LP Please into the Top Ten, and when "Opportunities" was subsequently reissued, it too became a hit. Disco, a collection of dance remixes, was quickly rushed into stores, and in 1987 the duo resurfaced with the superb Actually, which launched three more Top Ten smashes -- "It's a Sin," a lovely cover of the perennial "Always on My Mind," and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?," a duet between Tennant and the great Dusty Springfield. A do#@!&entary film titled It Couldn't Happen Here was released the following year.
Also in 1988, Pet Shop Boys issued their third studio LP, the eclectic Introspective. The single "Domino Dancing" was their final Top 40 hit in the U.S.
Neil Tennant is openly gay, although he refused to confirm rumours about his sexuality in the 1980s until finally coming out shortly after the release of 1993's Very in Attitude, a UK gay lifestyle magazine. Lowe, meanwhile, has remained tight-lipped on the subject. The duo are sometimes incorrectly assumed to be a couple (in the 1990 biography Pet Shop Boys, Literally, Tennant recalls that even their ex-manager, Tom Watkins, was under this impression for a time).
Pet Shop Boys are seen as significant figures in gay culture for such songs as "Can you forgive her?", "It's a sin" (for which gay director Derek Jarman produced the video), "New York City Boy" and their cover of Village People's "Go West". They have written a song about a young male fan spending a night with a rapper, based on Eminem, called "The night I fell in love" and a song about coming out, "Metamorphosis". Their 1990s single "Being boring" dealt with the gay experience and the devastation wrought by the AIDS crisis; the song (and its supporting video, filmed by Bruce Weber), remains one of their most popular. However, Neil Tennant has stated many times that his lyrics are not specifically gay. Many of their songs are written from an ambiguous view point that can be taken any way the listener perceives it, and this goes some way to explain why a large segment of their die-hard fans are heterosexual.
Pet Shop Boys have performed and worked with many artists considered to be gay and bisexual icons such as Elton John, Liza Minnelli, Dusty Springfield, Bananarama, Boy George, Kylie Minogue and Madonna. Pet Shop Boys attempted to organise and perform in a planned 2001 tour of out gay musicians, entitled 'Wotapalava'. However, the plans were later put on hold and the idea seems to have been discarded.
The Duo have sold more than 50 million records worldwide. The longevity of their career is generally attributed to their ability to create melodic and interesting pop/dance music. Since 1986, they have had thirty-nine Top 30 singles and twenty-two Top 10 hits in the UK, including four number ones: "West End Girls", "It's a Sin", "Always on My Mind" and "Heart". |
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~ Tears For Fears - Shout [Ultra Hot Razor Cut-Dub Multi Mix]
Views: 55161 |  | ![Pet Shop Boys Tears For Fears - Shout [Ultra Hot Razor Cut-Dub Multi Mix]](http://img2.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=YLjKlOoWMzs_1) | ![Pet Shop Boys Tears For Fears - Shout [Ultra Hot Razor Cut-Dub Multi Mix]](http://img3.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=YLjKlOoWMzs_2) | ![Pet Shop Boys Tears For Fears - Shout [Ultra Hot Razor Cut-Dub Multi Mix]](http://img4.everyvideoevermade.com/img.ashx?src=YLjKlOoWMzs_3) | 1985's worldwide mega-hit "Shout" by Tears For Fears. i re-edited this video remix (my 2nd tribute by TFF, after "Everybody Wants To Rule The World") through those all versions that i have in my sacred collection...he he, for the enjoy (no white label), t ...More hese are below in their respective order:
-Dub Mix,
-Acapella,
-12" US Mix/Pet Shop Boys Mix in UK,
-Double Dub,
& Razormaid Mix.
Hope you'll like my job!:)
Review about "Shout" success.- "Shout" is a song originally written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley of the British band Tears for Fears. It was the band's eighth single release (the second taken from their second LP Songs from the Big Chair) and sixth UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #4 in January 1985. In the USA, it reached #1 on August 3, 1985 and remained there for three weeks. A smash hit, "Shout" would become one of the most successful pop songs of 1985, eventually reaching the Top Ten in 25 countries.
In the UK, Shout was released in a variety of formats including 7", 12", and even a 10" single - a format quite uncommon at that time. A special 7" boxed pack with a Tears for Fears 1985 calendar was also released.
While Tears for Fears' previous single "Mothers Talk" had showcased a new, more extroverted songwriting style, "Shout" was an unexpected synth-rock anthem, complete with power chords, heavy percussion, and female backing vocals. The song even features a lengthy guitar solo, something previously unheard of in Tears for Fears' music.
Roland Orzabal handles the lead vocal on the song, with both he and Curt Smith singing the chorus.
"The song was written in my front room on just a small synthesizer and a drum machine. Initially I only had the chorus, which was very repetitive, like a mantra. I played it to Ian Stanley, our keyboardist, and Chris Hughes, the producer. I saw it as a good album track, but they were convinced it would be a hit around the world"--"A lot of people think that 'Shout' is just another song about primal scream theory, continuing the themes of the first album. It is actually more concerned with political protest. It came out in 1984 when a lot of people were still worried about the aftermath of The Cold War and it was basically an encouragement to protest". — Roland Orzabal
"It concerns protest inasmuch as it encourages people not to do things without actually questioning them. People act without thinking because that's just the way things go in society. So it's a general song, about the way the public accepts any old grief which is thrown at them." —Curt Smith
"Shout" is by far the most abundantly remixed song in the Tears for Fears catalog, with at least fifteen different versions of it having been officially released under the band's name.
As was commonplace during the 1980's, the original 12" vinyl single release featured an extended remix of the song. Three remixes by collaborators Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero later appeared on American releases of the single, including dub and a cappella versions. More recently, remixes have been done by notable DJs such as Jakatta, Fergie, Skylark and Beatchuggers.
In addition to the twelve-inch mixes, "Shout" also appeared in three different 7" versions. The original single mix released in the UK and much of the rest of the world clocks in at 5:53 and is the closest match to the version that appeared as the lead track on the Songs from the Big Chair LP. The version released in Germany and Japan is 4:51 in length and fades out during the guitar solo. Meanwhile, the final version released in America is specifically tailored for radio play at a concise 3:59 in length, featuring edits to the chorus and instrumental sections.
The promotional clip for "Shout", filmed in late 1984, was the second Tears for Fears clip directed by famed music video producer Nigel Dick. It features footage of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith at Durdle Door in Dorset, England, as well as a studio jam with the full band, including Ian Stanley and Manny Elias, performing the song amidst a crowd of family and friends. The video reportedly cost only £14,000 to produce. Along with the clip for "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", the "Shout" video had a big hand in helping break Tears for Fears in America, due to its heavy airplay on music video pioneer MTV. Ironically, the band had at one time considered making a second video for the song's American single release, as the original was not considered MTV friendly. |
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