4 posts tagged “live”
This is an amazing song ... don't let the video quality fool ya (the sound is actually very good). It's the lyrics and performance that will get under your skin. If you feel nothing after listening to this tune, you are dead inside. You should see someone about that.
Afraid of an airplane
Of a car swerving in the lane
Of a dark cloud too low
Or being swept away by the undertow
Of a building tumbling down
Of the train when it's underground
Of the icy mountain roads
We have to take to get to the show
There's just a time when we must all let go the breath that we hold
There's just a time when we must all let go the breath that we hold
You know, the unknown we have to let go
Afraid when the phone rings
Another breath of life has ceased
It seems it's just lost so easily
Afraid my heart, it beats too slow
Or that I died and just didn't know
Or of a fate I will have to choose
And I'm afraid of how much I love you
There's just a time when we must all let go the breath that we hold
There's just a time when we must all let go the breath that we hold
You know, the unknown we have to let go
It's just now that I've found a place where I can breathe
It's just now that I've found a place where I can sleep
It's just now that I've found a place where I can breathe
It's just now that I've found a place where I can sleep
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day every hour
I wish that I was bullet proof
Wax me
Mould me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it was bullet proof
So pay the money and take a shotradiohead
Leadfill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof
And bullet proof
embrasses moi à Paris
sens moi à Rome
fais moi danser à New York City
si t'es un homme
parles moi à Londres
touches moi à Tokyo
je ne veux pas attendre
de tomber de haut
i wanna travel the world (x3) with you
endores moi à Venise
réveilles moi à San Francisco
je suis un peu surprise que le monde est beau
i wanna travel the world (x3) with you
embrasses moi à Paris
sens moi à Rome
fais moi danser à New York City
si t'es un homme
parles moi à Londres
touches moi à Tokyo
je ne veux pas attendre
de tomber de haut
i wanna travel the world (x3) with you
Swedish band The Knife is mediaChick's band of the hour. They play the best electro-pop I've heard in a while, a curious combination of industrial discord, club dance beats, moody vocals, electronic synth beats, and lots of what sounds like a marimba. It works. The first song I heard from this band was "Girls' Night Out" which caught my attention as I was plugging away at work. It's got that combination of the comfortable familiar and "dang, I didn't expect that!" that gets my blood pumping.
Listen to it (click the play button below the big ol' box below) and read this stuff I lifted from Last.FM about The Knife (I cut out the boring parts):
The Knife is an amazingly prolific electronic indie duo from Sweden formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who also run their own record company, Rabid Records.
One of the group's distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos feature the members wearing masks, and until recently, they outright refused to perform live concerts. (mediaChick's Note: Here's an interesting tidbit: In their video for "Pass It On" The Knife is portrayed as a blonde drag queen seducing a 20-something doe-eyed boy. When they played "live" recently, the used the same actors to perform that song...the videos are below.) They use venetian masks similar to those that can be seen in the movie Eyes Wide Shut - which had its premiere the same year that The Knife was formed. Recently the group has showed themselves in public wearing masks formed as bird's beaks, similar to those used by medieval doctors. (mediaChick's note: check out the photo below...they also paint themselves up as monkeys, too. Just sticking it to the man, I guess.)
The Knife won a Swedish Grammy award as best pop group of the year 2003, but they boycotted the ceremony by sending two representatives of another artist group dressed as gorillas with the number 50 written on their costumes, apparently as a protest against male dominance within the music industry.
The group became prominent in late 2005 when José González covered "Heartbeats" on his 2003 album, Veneer. The song was used by Sony in a commercial for Bravia television sets, and released as a single in early 2006. The group commented on this in a Dagens Nyheter article, claiming that Sony paid a large sum of money to use the song. In view of the group's left-wing views and non-commercial philosophy, they excused this transaction on the basis that the money was needed to establish their record company.
The Knife's song "We Share Our Mothers' Health" from their album Silent Shout was featured by the iTunes store as a free song of the week in late 2006. This song was also featured in the ABC series Ugly Betty, as well as an episode of CSI: NY.
(mediaChick's Note: I have thoughtfully included this LIVE performance video below.)At the Swedish Grammies awards in January 2007, The Knife won in all six categories they were nominated in: Composer of the Year, Music DVD of the Year, Producer of the Year, Pop Group of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year. Again, they did not attend the award ceremony.
(Instead they released 6 bizzare pre-recorded acceptance speech videos.)Official "Pass It On" video
