Florence & The Machine - Spectrum/Say My Name (2012)

Florence and The Machine - Spectrum/Say My Name (2012)
(as of 01 Sep 2012): UK#1, IRL#1, POL#1, NZ#2, BE#2, AUS#4, ISR#4, US#4, DK#35, HUN#39, DE#54, SWE#55, NL#87


Lyrics:

When we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colors on our skin
We were light and paper-thin
And when we first came here
We were cold and we were clear
With no colors on our skin
Til you let the spectrum in

Say my name,
And every color illuminates,
We are shining,
And we’ll never be afraid again.

Say my name!
As every color illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!
Say my name!
As every color illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!

And when we come for you,
We’ll be dressed up all in blue,
With the ocean in our arms,
Kissing eyes and kissing palms.
And when it’s time to pray,
We’ll be dressed up all in grey,
With metal on our tongues,
And silver in our lungs.

Say my name,
And every color illuminates,
We are shining,
And we’ll never be afraid again.

Say my name!
As every color illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!
Say my name!
As every colour illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!

And when we come back we’ll be dressed in black!
And you’ll scream our names aloud!
And we won’t eat and we won’t sleep!
We’ll drag bodies from their graves!
So say my name,
And every color illuminates,
And we are shining,
And we’ll never be afraid again,
Say my name,
As every color illuminates.

Say my name!
As every color illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!
Say my name!
As every color illuminates!
We are shining!
And we’ll never be afraid again!

Say my name!
We are shining!
Say my name!
Say my name!
And we’ll never be afraid again!

David Vendetta ft. Akram - Unidos Para La Musica (2007)

David Paparusso, a.k.a David Vendetta, started his career as DJ at Paris-based Radio FG 98.2. *** (see below)
Both, the station and the DJ caught my ears during my first visits to the French metropolis back in 1993/94. Here he met Antoine Clamaran. Both soon started producing tracks together and his popularity rocketed. As reputation in the DJ scene goes, the word soon got round to Roger Sanchez, for whom he also remixed.

My favourite song of his is 'Unidos Para La Musica', part of his 2007 album 'Rendez-Vous'. Vocals come courtesy of Akram.

***(Radio Fréquence Gay) - a station founded in 1981 to support the local gay community, which has since developed into one of France's most popular dance music radio stations for gay or straight.(98.2FM, www.fgdjradio.com)

David Vendetta feat. Akram - Unidos Para La Musica (2007)
FR#5, BE#30


David vendetta unidos para la musica by abrouki

Lyrics:

Aaaaaaah Aaaaaaah

Amor para todos
Felicidad para cada uno
Y la alegria se aparte en la vida
Y que quedemos todos juntos
Para siempre unidos
Para la musica

Unidos

Amor para todos
Felicidad para cada uno
La alegria se aparte en la vida
Y que tenemos oros juntos
Para siempre unidos
De la musica

Unidos
Aaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaah
Unidos

JX - Son Of A Gun (1993/94/95)

Jake Williams, a.k.a. JX, found huge success in clubland of 1993 following a recording contract with Hooj Choons, the dance label du jour in the UK back then. The track ran up a massive following before being released, charting in the mainstream the year after and; even higher with a re-release in 1995. The success led him to being chosen as the remixer for dance tracks of the time. Jake also produces as Rex The Dog, the alias under which he has worked with artists ranging from Depeche Mode and Madonna to The Prodigy, Mylo and Röyksopp.

JX - Son Of A Gun (1995)
1994: UK#13, NL#38
1995: UK#6, AUS#6


JX - Son Of A Gun by jackOO7

Nush - U Girls (1994)

Danny Harrison (one half of currently successful remix duo Moto Blanco) and Danny Matlock (who also released under the alias Congress back then) collaborated as Nush in 1994. Their track 'U Girls' was part of my essential clubbing soundtrack at the time. In London it was simmering underground for a long time before hitting the mainstream shelves. Although not as commercially successful with the creatures of the day, it made up for it amongst the worshippers of the night, circulating around dancefloors in various mixes for months on end, which in turn led to several more flawed attempts to make it cross-over into pop charts.
I loved it.

Nush - U Girls (1994)

Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive (1979)

Patrick Hernandez was born 1949 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, France, to a Spanish father and a half-Austrian/half-Italian mother. Growing up in the 1960s, he became interested in music. He toured dancehalls and ballrooms of southern France with a number of groups over the next decade. Patrick met his music partner Hervé Tholance, an arranger, guitarist & vocalist, during that period. The two formed a duo and started achieving local success backing French musicians such as Francis Cabrel, Laurent Voulzy, and the French group Gold.
In 1978, Patrick met producer Jean Vanloo and, with disco music at its peak, signed a recording contract. Hernandez went to Waterloo, Belgium to work on songs to record. After working for about a year, an album was released November that year.
The first single that was released was the disco song Born to Be Alive. Its success was immediate: the track spread throughout Europe, where it hit #1 in France in April 1979 and remained there until July. By then, the US had caught on, and after some remixing, the track was released, peaking at #1 in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and crossed over to US#16, selling over one million copies in the US alone.
By year's end, Born To Be Alive had racked up 52 Gold and Platinum from more than 50 countries worldwide.

While touring the US, Patrick was accompanied by Vanloo and his friend Jean-Claude Pellerin. Vanloo and Pellerin held auditions in New York that spring for dancers to accompany him on his worldwide tour. The chosen dancers included a young Madonna.
Patrick's follow-ups to Born to Be Alive did not fare as well.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Hernandez toured and had occasional appearances on other artists' albums in Europe. Another remix of the track appeared in the nightclubs in 1987. Since its release, Born to Be Alive has sold more than $25 million worldwide.

Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive (1979)
FR#1, IT#1, DE#1, AT#1, SWE#1, NOR#1, AUS#1, NZ#1, BE#1, CAN#1, CH#5, UK#10, NL#12, US#16, BRZ#32



Lyrics:

We were born to be alive
We were born to be alive
Born, born to be alive
(Won't you be alive)
You see you were born
Born, born
(Born to be alive)
People ask me why
I never find a place to stop
And settle down, down, down
But I never wanted all those things
People need to justify
Their lives, lives, lives
You see you were
Born, born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were
Born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive
To be alive
To be alive
It's good to be alive
Time was on my side
When I was running down the street
It was so fine, fine, fine
A suitcase and an old guitar
And something new to occupy
My mind, mind, mind
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born
Born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(To be alive)
Born, born to be alive
(Born to be alive)
You see you were born, born, born
(Born to be alive)
Born, born to be alive