And the lightning cracks the sky...

Hoje decidi partilhar esta cover duma música que muitos metaleiros conhecem... A Through the Fire and Flames da banda DragonForce, que musicalmente é um pesadelo para tentar tocar! Aliás esta cover em piano teve que ser com mais uma pessoa, se virem as notas vão perceber, LoL.

Eu por acaso tive o imenso prazer de os ver ao vivo e são simplesmente brutais, com uma energia invejável! 

Que acharam da cover? Já agora, gostaria de deixar a nota de que a música não é só difícil como eles ainda tocam a fazer headbang!

We're all born naked and the rest is drag!

Who you waiting for?

Another savior

Always looking but you never find

Never find

Waking up from

Another night gone

Always looking but you never find

Never find

Going downtown

You know where you going

Throw your top down

Like you know where you going

Tell me one thing

Do you like where you going

Ignoring all of the signs

I'm telling the truth now

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

Who-who, who do you think you are?

Who-who telling the truth now

Who-who, who do you think you are?

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

A lonely highway

You drove the wrong way

Always chasing down the fantasy-fantasy

A sexy muscle car

Under the radar

Always looking but you never see-never see

Going downtown

You know where you going

Throw your top down

Like you know where you going

Tell me one thing

Do you like where you going

Ignoring all of the signs

I'm telling the truth now

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

Who-who, who do you think you are?

Who-who telling the truth now

Who-who, who do you think you are?

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

I'll say it again

It's never been the clothes that make the man

Nothing can

Leave your baggage behind

And I said

I'm telling the truth now

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

Who-who, who do you think you are?

Who-who telling the truth now

Who-who, who do you think you are?

We're all born naked and the rest is drag

Nota: RuPaul aka Mama Ru é que sabe!

Any way the wind blows...

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide,

No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,

Look up to the skies and see,

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,

Because I'm easy come, easy go,

Little high, little low,

Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,

Put a gun against his head,

Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.

Mama, life had just begun,

But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,

Didn't mean to make you cry,

If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,

Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,

Sends shivers down my spine,

Body's aching all the time.

Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,

Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows),

I don't wanna die,

I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?

Thunderbolt and lightning,

Very, very frightening me.

(Galileo) Galileo.

(Galileo) Galileo,

Galileo Figaro

Magnifico-o-o-o-o.

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.

He's just a poor boy from a poor family,

Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?

Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)

Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)

Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)

Will not let you go. (Let me go!)

Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)

Oh oh oh oh

No, no, no, no, no, no, no

Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?

So you think you can love me and leave me to die?

Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,

Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

Nothing really matters,

Anyone can see,

Nothing really matters,

Nothing really matters to me.

Any way the wind blows.

Nota: já tinha mencionado esta música dos Queen, tantas vezes no blog e nunca a tinha efectivamente colocado nas músicas do blog... Shame! Shame! Shame! LoL.

I make no apologies, this is me!

I'm not a stranger to the dark

Hide away, they say

'Cause we don't want your broken parts

I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars

Run away, they say

No one will love you as you are

But I won't let them break me down to dust

I know that there's a place for us

For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down

I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

I am brave, I am bruised

I am who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come

And I'm marching on to the beat I drum

I'm not scared to be seen

I make no apologies, this is me

Another round of bullets hits my skin

Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in

We are bursting through the barricades

And reaching for the sun (we are warriors)

Yeah, that's what we've become

Won't let them break me down to dust

I know that there's a place for us

For we are glorious

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down

Gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

I am brave, I am bruised

I am who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come

And I'm marching on to the beat I drum

I'm not scared to be seen

I make no apologies, this is me

And I know that I deserve your love

There's nothing I'm not worthy of

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down

I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

This is brave, this is bruised

This is who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come (look out 'cause here I come)

And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (marching on, marching, marching on)

I'm not scared to be seen

I make no apologies, this is me

(Whenever the words wanna cut me down

I'll send the flood to drown them out)

I'm gonna send the flood, gonna drown them out

This is me

Nota: esta música do musical "The Greastest Showman" parece que foi escrita para toda a gente que se sente um outsider... a verdade é que todos nós com as nossas singularidades somos fantásticos! 

We were borderline kids with a book of disorders

Once upon a thrill from a kiss to a swill

We were swallowing the nights like we had nine lives

Dead and gone so long, seventeen so gone

We were borderline kids with a book of disorders

Medicating everyday to keep the straightness in order

Dead and gone so long, seventeen so gone

It's the false side of hope, where believers concede

And there's only memories, when it's over

So pour out some liquor, make it an old fashioned

Remember your youth, in all that you do, the plank and the passion

They were the best of times, they were the best of times

They were the best of times, they were the best of times

Of your life

Once upon before we were brilliant and bored

Two dashes of the bitters, add some ice and you pour

Dead and gone so long, seventeen so gone

It's the false side of hope, where believers concede

And there's only memories, when it's over

So pour out some liquor, make it an old fashioned

Remember your youth, in all that you do, the plank and the passion

They were the best of times, they were the best of times

They were the best of times, they were the best of times

Of your life

(Get boozy, boozy, boozy)

Now it looks like a wasteland

(Get boozy, boozy, boozy)

Not the way that we remember

(Get boozy, boozy, boozy)

One more sip for the past

(Get boozy, boozy, boozy)

And always tip your bartenders

Get boozy, boozy, boozy

So pour out some liquor, make it an old fashioned

Remember your youth, in all that you do, the plank and the passion

They were the best of times, they were the best of times

Nota: eu já mencionei antes o quanto eu adoro as influências nestes dois últimos álbuns de Panic! at the Disco, digam lá que as músicas não estão brutais?

Learn to swim

Some say the end is near.

Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.

Certainly hope we will.

I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three-ring circus sideshow of freaks.

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.

The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.

Any fucking time. Any fucking day.

Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay.

Fret for your figure

And fret for your latte

And fret for your lawsuit

And fret for your hairpiece

And fret for your Prozac

And fret for your pilot

And fret for your contract

And fret for your car.

It's a bullshit three-ring circus sideshow of freaks.

Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A.

The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.

Any fucking time. Any fucking day.

Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay.

Some say a comet will fall from the sky.

Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.

Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.

Followed by millions of dumbfounded dip shits.

And some say the end is near.

Some say we'll see Armageddon soon.

Certainly hope we will

I sure could use a vacation from this stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit.

One great big festering neon distraction,

I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.

Learn to swim.

Learn to swim.

Learn to swim.

Mom's gonna fix it all soon.

Mom's comin' 'round to put it back the way it ought to be.

Learn to swim.

Fuck L Ron Hubbard

And fuck all his clones.

Fuck all these gun-toting

Hip gangster wannabes.

Learn to swim. 

Fuck retro anything.

Fuck your tattoos.

Fuck all you junkies

And fuck your short memory.

Learn to swim.

Fuck smiley glad-hands

With hidden agendas.

Fuck these dysfunctional

Insecure actresses.

Learn to swim. 

'Cause I'm praying for rain

I'm praying for tidal waves

I wanna see the ground give way.

I wanna watch it all go down.

Mom, please flush it all away.

I wanna see it go right in and down.

I wanna watch it go right in.

Watch you flush it all away.

Time to bring it down again.

Don't just call me pessimist.

Try and read between the lines.

And I can't imagine why you wouldn't welcome any change, my friend.

I wanna see it all come down.

Bring it down

Suck it down.

Flush it down.

Nota: Já vos tinha dito que sou grande fã de Tool? Aliás tudo o que o Maynard toca é perfeito, LoL. Esta música é exemplo disso mesmo... o que acham? Gostam ou não é bem o vosso género?

We're screaming like demons, swinging from the ceiling!

Well it's midnight, damn right, we're wound up too tight

I've got a fist full of whiskey, the bottle just bit me

That shit makes me bat shit crazy

We've got no fear, no doubt, all in balls out

We're going off tonight

To kick out every light

Take anything we want

Drink everything in sight

We're going 'til the world stops turning

While we burn it to the ground at night

We're screaming like demons, swinging from the ceiling

I got a fist full of fifties, tequila just hit me

We got no class, no taste, no shirt, and shit faced

We got it lined up, shot down, firing back straight crown

We're going off tonight

To kick out every light

Take anything we want

Drink everything in sight

We're going 'til the world stops turning

While we burn it to the ground at night

Ticking like a time bomb, drinking 'til the night's gone

Well get your hands off of this glass, last call my ass

Well no chain, no lock, and this train won't stop

We got no fear, no doubt, all in balls out

We're going off tonight

To kick out every light

Take anything we want

Drink everything in sight

We're going 'til the world stops turning

While we burn it to the ground at night

We're going off tonight

To kick out every light

Take anything we want

Drink everything in sight

We're going 'til the world stops turning

While we burn it to the ground at night

Nota: gostava de vos dizer que descobri esta música no meio duma playlist da Amazon Music e quando estava  ouvir pensei "epá mas que música altamente, quem é que canta isto?". Para qual o meu espanto que é Nickelback e agora sinto-me suja por gostar de uma música deles, LoL. Bem, paciência, fica o meu guilty pleasure...

I'm on the run, chasing down a dream...

Feel the blood rushing through my veins

Baby don't stop

Because I'm ready to blow

Standing still doesn't work for me

Taking my shot

I've got places to go

Once you get just a little taste

And you feel the heat coming on strong

There's no way you're turning back

Oh, I got to keep moving on

Do or die, every day and night

My eyes are on the prize

With the road underneath my feet

I'm learning how to fly

I can't slow down

I'm on the run, chasing down a dream

I won't slow down

I need some room, some room to breath

And no matter how the world may change

It's the fire inside, the burning flame, oh

I won't slow down

I can't slow down

Take a chance, time to make a change

Hit while it's hot

I've got nothing to loose

Taking

One day

At a time

Wanna see it all come true

Do or die, every day and night

My eyes are on the prize

Keep the world underneath my feet

I'm learning how to fly

I can't slow down

I'm on the run, chasing down a dream

I won't slow down

I need some room, some room to breath

And no matter how the world may change

It's the fire inside, the burning flame, oh

I won't slow down

I can't slow down

I can't slow down

I'm on the run, chasing down a dream

I won't slow down

I need some room, some room to breath

And no matter how the world may change

It's the fire inside, the burning flame

I won't slow down

I can't slow down, I can't slow down

Nota: aquele momento solene de apreciar clássicos do Rock e este sonoro de Foreigner tem que estar obrigatoriamente na lista, não acham?

Rattle your cage

Let me hear you scream!

I'm black and bruised, beat up, but still I take the blows

'Cause all I need is blood and sweat and skin and bones!

I'll take this rage,

Rattle your cage,

Nobody said it's easy!

It's do or die,

Only the strong survive!

Get ready for the last stand!

Get ready, I'm your hangman!

Let me hear you scream like you want it!

Let me hear you yell like you mean it!

If you're gonna go down:

Go loud!

Go strong!

Go proud!

Go on!

Go hard or go home!

Let me hear you scream!

I'll pull you up and push you right back in your place!

I'll take you down and wipe that smile right off your face!

I'll watch you break,

Your mine to take,

Don't blink; you just might miss it!

It's all or nothing,

Nowhere left to run!

Are you ready for the last fight!

Get ready with the war cry!

Let me hear you scream like you want it!

Let me hear you yell like you mean it!

If you're gonna go down:

Go loud!

Go strong!

Go proud!

Go on!

Go hard or go home!

Let me hear you scream!

Let me hear you scream like you want it!

Let me hear you yell like you mean it!

If you're gonna go down:

Go loud!

Go strong!

Go proud!

Go on!

Go hard or go home!

Let me hear you scream like you want it!

Let me hear you yell like you mean it!

If you're gonna go down:

Go loud!

Go strong!

Go proud!

Go on!

Go hard or go home!

Let me hear you scream!

Nota: às vezes temos que apreciar os clássicos... mesmo que seja o maluco do Ozzy Osborne, LoL.

And never let go...

Never mistake what we are

We'll stand apart with our own scars

Never regret or fight alone

We'll stand apart, all our flaws shown

I'll take your hand in mine

And never let go

I'd give my life to find

What you already know 

I'll take you with me

We'll carry on

I don't mind waiting

Don't mind at all

Go, disengage, liberate

Evolve now, unchained and go your own way

Never forget where you've been

We'll stand apart, we'll awaken

I'll take your hand in mine

And never let go

I'd give my life to find

What you already know

I'll take you with me

We'll carry on

I don't mind waiting

Don't mind at all

We've come much too far

Our past, a world away

Embrace now who we are

We stand another day

Found strength and now we know

Release and let it go

Let it go

I'll take you with me

We'll carry on

I don't mind waiting

Don't mind at all

Nota: muito sinceramente, eu não acho que o senhor Tremonti tenha lançado um álbum que eu não tenha gostado, LoL.

All these dreams

Would you finally know it when it came? 

Would it have a reason, have a name? 

Would you truly hate it when it's gone? 

And curse it all along 

All I was 

So unlike the way you know me 

All these dreams 

Are so unlike the way they were before 

Would it finally change you, will you break? 

Would it leave you angered, 'cause you pain? 

Could it be the threat's already gone? 

And was it all along? 

All I was 

So unlike the way you know me 

All these dreams 

Are so unlike the way they were before 

Before 

All I was 

So unlike the way you know me 

All these dreams 

Are so unlike the way they were before 

So unlike the way!

Nota: agora com o commute aproveito também para colocar a minha música em dia... este ano o grande senhor Tremonti lançou um álbum e eu antes de ouvir o novo, meti-me a ouvir os anteriores, como fã maluquinha que sou, LoL. Duvido que me vá desiludir! Gostou e/ou conhecem?

Bitches better get out the way!

Aquele momento quando se vê tantas temporadas de RuPaul's Drag Race que se começa a cantar e a dançar as músicas assim do nada, LoL.

Por favor, digam-me que eu não sou a única!

P.S. - este vídeo tem 3 das finalistas da temporada que mais gostei até agora pois tem a minha Drag Queen favorita de todo o sempre Bianca Del Rio!

Fulfill the prophecy

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing

Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision

Always had high, high hopes

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Didn't know how but I always had a feeling

I was gonna be that one in a million

Always had high, high hopes

Mama said

Fulfill the prophecy

Be something greater

Go make a legacy

Manifest destiny

Back in the days

We wanted everything, wanted everything

Mama said

Burn your biographies

Rewrite your history

Light up your wildest dreams

Museum victories, everyday

We wanted everything, wanted everything

Mama said, don't give up, it's a little complicated

All tied up, no more love and I'd hate to see you waiting

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing

Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision

Always had high, high hopes

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Didn't know how but I always had a feeling

I was gonna be that one in a million

Always had high, high hopes

Mama said

It's uphill for oddities

Stranger crusaders

Ain't ever wannabes

The weird and the novelties

Don't ever change

We wanted everything, wanted everything

Stay up on that rise

Stay up on that rise and never come down

Stay up on that rise

Stay up on that rise and never come down

Mama said, don't give up, it's a little complicated

All tied up, no more love and I'd hate to see you waiting

They say it's all been done but they haven't seen the best of me

So I got one more run and it's gonna be a sight to see

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing

Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision

Always had high, high hopes

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Didn't know how but I always had a feeling

I was gonna be that one in a million

Always had high, high hopes

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Shooting for the stars when I couldn't make a killing

Didn't have a dime but I always had a vision

Always had high, high hopes

Had to have high, high hopes for a living

Didn't know how but I always had a feeling

I was gonna be that one in a million

Always had high, high hopes

Nota: quem mais ficou super excitada com o novo álbum de Panic! At The Disco?

Songs that possess you...

Em conversa com um colega de trabalho sobre o tão falado filme sobre um dos grandes, enormissimos nomes da música: Freddie Mercury. Comentando também o vídeo de um concerto dos Greenday, que simplesmente nos arrepia de início ao fim, e o facto de toda a gente, mesmo que Queen não esteja na sua cena, sabe a letra da música Bohemian Rhapsody. Seja no meio de uma playlist do Spotify ou no carro a ouvir a rádio, começamos automaticamente a cantarolar!  Incrível, não é?

O que me deixou a pensar... que outras músicas parece que entram em nós e nunca mais saem, qual demónio à espera do padre para ser exorcizado? 

Digam lá se discordam comigo mas quem é que não sabe a letra desta canção dos Abba?

E do primeiro hit da Britney Spears?

Quem é que não começa logo toda uma actuação dramática juntamente com esta música de Celine Dion?

Já para não falar desta música demoníaca dos Goo Goo Dolls que parece que não sai das nossas cabeças?

E quem é que depois destes anos todos ainda sabe esta música dos Aqua?

Então e a grandiosa Queen Beyoncé?

Não poderia deixar faltar as safadas das Spice Girls que têm todo um role de músicas que nunca mais vão desaparecer do mapa!

Mas gostaria de finalizar com uma música que mesmo que vocês não queriam saber da letra, mesmo depois destes anos todos, vocês sabem tim-tim por tim-tim!

Agora boa sorte em tirar estas músicas do vosso sistema, LoL. Então e que outras músicas vocês acham demoníacas e que precisam de um belo de um exorcismo?

To and through the heart

Run desire run

Sexual being

Run him like a blade

To and through the heart

No conscience

One Motive

Cater to the hollow

Screaming feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacify this hungering

So grow

Libido throw

Dominoes of indiscretions down

Falling all around

In cycles

In circles

Constantly consuming

Conquer and devour

Cause it's time to bring the fire down

Bridle all this indiscretion

Long enough to edify

And permanently fill this hollow

Screaming feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacifying

Feed me here

Fill me up again

Temporarily pacifying

Nota: Já vos tinha dito que A Perfect Circle é uma das minhas bandas favoritas?

A banda sonora das Semanas Académicas

Quer ainda estejas na universidade, já te tenhas formado no ano passado ou há 7 anos como aqui a vossa Soberana (ó meu Deus, foi mesmo há tanto tempo?!)... há sempre bandas sonoras das Semanas Académicas!

Para quem foi a Semanas Académicas, como eu, no início do milénio (sim, não magoem as vossas cabeças a fazer contas, eu ia a Semanas Académicas bem antes de entrar na Universidade), vai concordar que uma presença habitual em todas, foram os Blasted Mechanism. Ainda antes do Gangnam Style, ainda antes do KPop, o pessoal universitário já ouvia música sem perceber nadinha das letras, LoL.

Calma... Obviamente que ia incluir o Quim Barreiros, esse grande Deus das Semanas Académicas! Eu acho que o pessoal até fica desiludido se por acaso ele não aparece em alguma, LoL.

Recentemente, a Ana Malhoa tem marcado presença em algumas Semanas Académicas. O que muito provavelmente o pessoal leva esse concerto para o gozo... Até ao momento em que ela canta a abertura do programa Super Bueréré. Aí o pessoal roça a loucura e cantam em plenos pulmões, LoL. O que é extremamente inteligente da parte dela pois o pessoal que costumava ver o programa dela ou está a acabar licenciaturas ou mestrados. Provavelmente o pessoal que está a começar agora, não se recorda deste programa, ahahah.

Menção honrosa: Fernando Alvim, claro... muitas das vezes a salvação para todo aquele pessoal que não gostava de nadinha no cartaz (tirando o sir Quim Barreiros, claro) pois podíamos ouvir Dartacão, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dragon Ball, Queen, etc. Brutalíssimo para cantar em plenos pulmões! E ficarmos assim meio burrinhos de como é que ainda nos lembramos de mais de metade das músicas, LoL.

Along the way I had to sell my soul

I came to L.A. to make rock and roll

Along the way I had to sell my soul

I made some good friends that make me say

I really wannabe in L.A.

I took the time to get to Beverly

Laid some rockin' tape roll at 11AD

Alain and Natasha always make me say

I really wannabe in L.A.

I take the city in the dead of night

I'm burning gas until I feel alright

My sunset honeys always make me say

I really wannabe in L.A.

I came to L.A. to make rock and roll

Along the way I had to sell my soul

I made some good friends that make me say

I really wannabe in L.A.

I really wannabe in L.A.

I really wannabe, really wannabe, really wannabe in L.A.

Nota: uma das minhas favoritas dos senhores Eagles of Death Metal. Já conheciam?

Músicas de embalar

Aquele momento fantástico em que o Príncipe não se acalma com músicas de embalar mas sim com a música Misty Mountains Cold de um dos filmes do The Hobbit! Yup, é o nosso Príncipe, LoL.

E por aí? Há por aí mais algum bebé que goste de tudo menos de músicas de embalar? Ou há alguma música que vos acalme, no matter what?

Trust your instincts

I want you so hard, I want you so good

But can you trust me? Yes, you know you could

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

Don't waste your time cause the boy's bad news

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

Just leave him alone cause the boy's bad news

I want you so hard, I want you so good

Now take a chance, momma, you know you should

Trust your instincts and let me in

Just be my ride and I'll be my friend

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

You're wastin' your time, the boy's bad news

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

Leave him alone, 'cause it's just bad news

I want you so hard, I want you so good

But can you trust me? Yes, you know you could

Trust your instincts and let me in

Just be my ride and I'll be my friend

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

You're wastin' your time, girl, the boy's bad news

My friends are talkin' and they're tellin' you

Just leave him alone cause the boy's bad news

The boy's bad news

Nota: aquele momento fantástico em que ouves esta música quando vais a Camden e tens que chegar a casa e re-ouvir a discografia dos Eagles of Death Metal!

Movie Soundtracks

Uma das coisas que adoro num filme é uma boa banda sonora... e sei que não sou a única, pois o Mais-que-Tudo é viciadão nas bandas sonoras dos filmes do Lord of the Rings, por exemplo. No meu caso, tenho duas bandas sonoras de filmes que acho brutalíssimas: 

As adaptações das músicas que fizeram para o filme Sucker Punch, são simplesmente espectaculares!

Tanto como o Awesome Mix vol. 1 como o vol. 2, ou seja, as escolhas musicais dos filmes dos Guardians of the Galaxy, são simplesmente fantásticas!

E vocês, caros súbditos, há algum filme que gostem que tenha uma banda sonora de eleição?