Song of the Day: The XX - Heart Skipped A Beat

"The xx - Heart Skipped A Beat"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHYZy8SFp54


Actually, while I'm in this mood, let me post a couple more songs from The XX.

"xx - Reconsider"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvvgDC_MNqI

"The xx - Missing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drdCkc3xBOc

Song of the Day: The Be Good Tanyas - In Spite Of All The Damage

Great song today.  Perfect song for that sad, wistful mood I'm in lately.

"the be good tanyas - in spite of all the damage"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-H0Mx2qoD8

Song of the Day: Edward Maya & __?__ - Stereo Love

Just like yesterday, two versions of today's song.  Which do you prefer?

"Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love (Official Music Video)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Z3YrHJ1sU

"Edward Maya & Mia Martina - Stereo Love (Ultra Music)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5D4y6x-oo

I think I like the second version better.   :)

Song of the Day: Maná - El Verdadero Amor Perdona

Two versions of the the song today.

"Maná - El Verdadero Amor Perdona (Video Oficial)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q21oI-UIdVI

And a bachata version, with Prince Royce (whoever he is):
"Maná - El Verdadero Amor Perdona [feat. Prince Royce] (Video Oficial)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-I64yyrsCc


Translation, "True Love Forgives":
http://lyricstranslate.com/en/el-verdadero-amor-perdona-true-love-forgives.html-0

Spanish
El Verdadero Amor Perdona

Tienes todos los espacios
Inundados de tu ausencia
Inundados de silencio
No hay palabras, no hay perdón

Tú me tienes olvidado
No respondes al llamado
No eches tierra a la palabra
Me condenas a la nada
No me entierres sin perdón

Mira corazón que es el engaño
Se revierte y hace daño
Se revienta en el aire
Como pompas de jabón

Como pude haberte yo herido
Engañarte y ofendido
Alma gemela no te olvido
Aunque me arranque el corazón

Ay! El rencor que nos envenena
Nos hace daño
Aunque no regreses corazón
Has de perdonarme

El verdadero amor perdona
No abandona, no se quiebra
No aprisiona, no revienta
Como pompas de jabón

Aha haaha hahah- ahaha

Un error es algo humano
No justifico la traición
Los amantes verdaderos
Se comprenden, se aman
Y se olvidan del rencor

La noche empieza a amotinarse
De sueños rotos y el dolor
Y me revuelco en la cama
Aferrándome a la nada
Implorando tu perdón

Mira corazón cuanto te extraño
Pasan días, pasan años
Y mi vida se revienta
Como pompas de jabón

Como pude haberte yo herido
Engañarte y ofendido
Alma gemela no te olvido
Aunque me arranque el corazón

Ay! El rencor que nos envenena
Nos hace daño
Aunque no regreses corazón
Has de perdonarme

El verdadero amor perdona
No abandona, no se quiebra
No aprisiona, no revienta
Como pompas de jabón

El verdadero amor perdona
El verdadero amor perdona
Si el amor es verdadero
No se quiebra, no abandona
Si el amor es verdadero
No se quiebra, no abandona






English
True Love Forgives
Versions: #1#2#3#4

You have all the spaces
Flooded with your absence
Flooded with silence
There are no words, no excuses (1)
You have me forgotten
You don’t answer the call
Don’t break your promises (2)
Don’t condemn me to the nothingness
Don’t burry me without forgiveness

Look Heart (3) what is the deceit
It reverses and does damage
It bursts in the air
Like soap bubbles
How could I have hurt you
Deceived and offended you?
Twin soul I don’t forget you
Even if I tear out my heart

Oh! The bitterness (4) that poisons us
It harms us
Even if you don’t return, Heart
You will forgive me

True love forgives
It doesn’t abandon, doesn’t break
Doesn’t imprison, doesn’t burst
Like soap bubbles

An error is something human
I don’t justify the betrayal (5)
True lovers
Understand each other, love each other
And forget the bitterness
The night begins a riot (6)
Of broken dreams and pain
And I toss in bed
Clinging to the nothingness
Imploring your forgiveness

Look Heart, how much I miss you
Days go by, years go by
And my life bursts
Like soap bubbles
How could I have hurt you
Deceived and offended you?
Twin soul I don’t forget you
Even if I tear out my heart

Oh! The bitterness
That poisons us, that harms us
Even if you don’t return, Heart
You will forgive me

True love forgives,
It doesn’t abandon, doesn’t break
Doesn’t imprison, doesn't burst
Like soap bubbles

True love forgives,
True love forgives
If the love is true, it doesn’t break, doesn’t abandon
If the love is true, it doesn’t break, doesn’t abandon

(1) Literal translation of the word: forgiveness
(2) Literal translation of the line: “Don’t throw dirt on the word” Used as a saying to mean “don’t break your word/promise”
(3) “Heart” is used as an endearing term as in “my heart”/”my love”
(4) Literal translation of the word: rancor
(5) Literal translation of the word: treason
(6) Literal translation of the word: mutiny

Binney and Wiebe, heard of them?

So the government is shut down, eh?  Think again.  The killing and spying parts are still being funded, of course.  At ridiculously wasteful levels.

As an aside: The government can't even build a data center right.  This is one of the places that will help invade and violate our privacy.  From Data Center Knowledge (and a bunch of other places):
"NSA Data Center Plagued by Electrical Problems" by Rich Miller
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/10/08/nsa-data-center-plagued-by-electrical-problems/

I am still bothered by the fact that our government feels the need and justification to spy on its citizens.  This intrusion in privacy was predicted, and could have been prevented, while still protecting us, according to some whistleblowers.  Consider this article from the Government Accountability Project:

"NSA Whistleblowers William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe"
http://www.whistleblower.org/program-areas/homeland-security-a-human-rights/surveillance/nsa-whistleblowers-bill-binney-a-j-kirk-wiebe

Doesn't matter who the president is.  Obama doesn't give a damn about your rights any more than Bush did, or any other president.  Big government is its own justification.  Big government itself is the problem, regardless of party.

Song of the Day: Eva Cassidy - True Colors

Ah, YouTube, you know me so well.  I was listening to some Brandi Carlile songs and you, YouTube, showed a number of other songs along the right side of the screen as you always do.  I hadn't listened to Eva Cassidy for a long time, but there she was.

I could post so many of her songs (I guess that's true of both Eva and Brandi), but let me pick this one for today.  As you know, my seven readers*, I loved Eva's version of Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time."  If not, click here: Songs of the Day: Eva Cassidy - Time After Time; Allison Crowe - Time After Time.  Well, here's another cover of one of Lauper's songs.

"Eva Cassidy- True Colours (Lyrics)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFFBuH4gFPw

And the original, by Lauper:
"Cyndi Lauper - True Colors"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8

Both versions are great.


If you don't know Eva Cassidy's story, consider reading this site:
Eva Cassidy Web Site (unofficial)
http://evacassidy.org/eva/

Lots of good links on that page, but here is one that caught my eye.  From the Boston Globe, back in 1999:
"Eva Cassidy's Gift" by Joan Anderman
http://www.crosstownarts.com/CrosstownArts/client_music/eva/gift.html

She never signed with a major label--they didn't know how to categorize her, how to market her.  As if they needed to.

Indeed, Cassidy's subtle, but striking, innovations with familiar tunes were more than merely imaginative. With an intense purity of tone matched by an equally intense purity of emotion, Cassidy gave songs new life, even as hers was slipping away. Many thought she was black, so soulful was her way with a melody. But she sang jazz, gospel, folk, and pop with equal finesse, moving with ease from ''Autumn Leaves'' to Pete Seeger's ''Oh, Had I a Golden Thread'' to Curtis Mayfield's ''People Get Ready'' and sounding for all the world as if she were, by turns, a jazz diva, an earnest folk singer, and a fiery soul screamer.

And that, by all accounts, was Cassidy's curse as well as her blessing. An expansive musician whose love of song far exceeded her professional ambition, Cassidy refused to narrow her focus in order to make herself more marketable in an industry that's rigorously dedicated to stylistic niches. Plenty of record labels came calling; none had a clue what to do with a young woman who sounded like Judy Collins, Aretha Franklin, and Diana Krall rolled into one. ''She had a magnificent voice. The problem was she could sing a telephone directory, but she didn't have a musical point of view,'' says Bruce Lundvall, president of Jazz and Classics for Capitol Records, who considered signing her to the Blue Note label in 1994. Instead, Lundvall paired Cassidy with Pieces of a Dream, a Philadelphia pop-jazz unit, in the spring of 1994, trying to find some way to develop her as an artist. But the union was misguided and, following two singles and a tour, ultimately unsuccessful. ''I have to admit I'm guilty of passing on a brilliant career. We couldn't figure out what she was, and I blame myself. I talked to her on her deathbed and told her I'd made a terrible mistake. She said `God bless you.' She never harbored resentment.''

The end of the story sums things up well.

Young, who originally framed Cassidy's brief career as a tragedy, has changed her view. ''I remember when we first aired the story, we had a substitute jock who heard it in her car on the way to work,'' Young explains. ''She came bursting into the studio while I was still on the air and said, `No, no, you're wrong about this. It was a miracle that her voice was recorded at all. It's not a loss. It's a gift.'''

Eva, you were taken from us far too soon.


Update, 6/28/2020:
Here is a video I found that talks about Eva, reinforcing much of what I quoted above.  This wasn't available when I did my original post.
Mick Fleetwood talking about Eva Cassidy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td5mG_4xp14

October 16, 2024:

https://evacassidy.org/

Eva Cassidy - One Night That Changed Everything (documentary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEqzTlZdfSo

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Texts from my dog

Hilarious, try not to laugh out loud!

From Littlewhitelion.com:
"Texts From My Dog (10 pics)"
http://littlewhitelion.com/texts-from-my-dog-10-pics-40511/