Archive for the ‘Song Lyrics’ Category

What Are Your Influences?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Every musical act has influences. The Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest influenced each other. Punk bands from the U.K. influenced garage bands in Southern California and vice versa. Reggae and dub influenced each other.

What are your influences? That’s what we talked about in Helping and Listening Skills this week. We came up with a great list and I liked it so much I took a picture of it.

I asked the students to tell me about the things that influence them. What do they value? Why do they do what they do; love what they love? This is the list they came up with:

Parents
Environment
-Friends
-Neighborhood
-Peers
-Religion
Culture
Schools
Food/Nutrition
Media
Mental Illness
Life Experience
-Observation
Socio-Economic Status ($$$)
Books
Music
Relationships
Friendships
Family
-Uncles
-Aunts
-Brothers
-Sisters
-etc.
Role Model
-Coach
-Minister
-Teacher
Law
Government
Health
Medication/Drugs
Language
Sleep
Fashion
Freedom
Travel
Pets
Sex
Arts
-Pictures
-Painting
-Dance
Entertainment
Perception

The point I want to make in this class is that you cannot know any of these things about yourself or anyone else unless you first learn how to listen.

A great Master Mind group is one that’s committed to honoring and respecting each other and that includes listening unconditionally and without judgment. It is honoring a person to trust that they know what’s best for their own life.

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Start a Master Mind Group.comWhen you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

Female-Led Garage Punk Band ‘The Living Deadbeats’ Release New Digital Single in UK

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Lindsay Kasting, 23-year-old singer for Vancouver-based garage punk band, ‘The Living Deadbeats’, has been compared to Exene, Penelope Houston, and Mia Zapata. Today, Dirty Water Records in the UK will release the tracks “Hey Girl/Liar Liar” as their single of the week.

You can buy it or preview it on iTunes now.

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Hey Girl/Liar Liar – The Living Dead Beats

Other members of The Living Deadbeats include London-born, Pete Fiend (previously the lead singer for legendary ’80s powerpoppers The FINKS) on Bass/vox, Dirty Swagger – Guitar/vox; and 19-year-old female drummer, Nadja. Band influences include Stooges, Cramps, The Gits, Jawbreaker, Detroit Cobras and X.

Here’s a video of The Living Deadbeats performing Hey Girl / Liar Liar in a parking lot.

You can buy it on iTunes now.

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Hey Girl/Liar Liar – The Living Dead Beats

The band is from Vancouver, Canada and will be having a release party in Vancouver on Aug. 21 at The New Brandiz Pub. The Living Deadbeats will open for L.A.’s Woolly Bandits in Vancouver on September 11.

See more pics and stuff about The Living Deadbeats at The Living Dead Beats MySpace page.

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Start a Master Mind Group.comWhen you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

Video Links to Almost Every Beatles Song There Is

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

Here it is folks, every song the Beatles ever made on video. Just click on the title of the song you want to hear and see the video-clip. When you click on the link, you will have access to the lyrics and other insider information.

A Day in the Life
A Hard Day ‘ s Night
A Taste of Honey
Across The Universe
Act Naturally
All I ‘ ve got to Do
All My Loving
All Together Now
All You Need Is Love
And I Love Her
And Your Bird Can Sing
Anna (Go To Him)
Another Girl
Any Time At All
Ask Me Why
Baby It ‘ s You
Baby You ‘ re A Rich Man
Bad Boy
Because
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Birthday
Blackbird
Blue Jay Way
Boys
Can ‘ t Buy Me Love
Carry That Weight
Chains
Come Together
Cry Baby Cry
Day Tripper
Dear Prudence
Devil In Her Heart
Dig A Pony
Dig It
Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Do You Want to Know a Secret
Doctor Robert
Don ‘ t Bother Me
Don ‘ t Let Me Down
Don ‘ t Pass Me By
Drive My Car
Eight Days a Week
Eleanor Rigby
Every Little Thing
Everybody ‘ s Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey
Everybody ‘ s Trying to be My Baby
Fixing a Hole
Flying (instrumental)
For No One
For You Blue
Free As A Bird
From Me To You
Get Back
Getting Better
Girl
Glass Onion
Golden Slumbers
Good Day Sunshine
Good Morning, Good Morning
Good Night
Got To Get You Into My Life
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Hello, Goodbye
Help
Helter Skelter
Her Majesty
Here Comes The Sun
Here, There And Everywhere
Hey Bulldog
Hey Jude
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don’t
Honey Pie
I Am the Walrus
I Call Your Name
I Don ‘ t Want to Spoil the Party
I Feel Fine
I Me Mine
I Need You
I Saw Her Standing There
I Should Have Known Better
I Wanna Be Your Man
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Want To Tell You
I Want You (She ‘ s So Heavy)
I Will
I ‘ ll Be Back
I ‘ ll Cry Instead
I ‘ ll Follow the Sun
I ‘ ll Get You
I ‘ m a Loser
I ‘ m Down
I ‘ m Just Happy to Dance with You
I ‘ m Looking Through You
I ‘ m Only Sleeping
I ‘ m so tired
I ‘ ve Got A Feeling
I ‘ ve Just Seen a Face
If I Fell
If I Needed Someone
In My Life
It Won ‘ t Be Long
It ‘ s All Too Much
It ‘ s Only Love
Julia
Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand
Lady Madonna
Let it Be
Little Child
Long Tall Sally
Long, Long, Long
Love Me Do
Love You To
Lovely Rita
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Maggie Mae
Magical Mystery Tour
Martha My Dear
Match box
Maxwell ‘ s Silver Hammer
Mean Mr. Mustard
Michelle
Misery
Money (That ‘ s What I Want)
Mother Nature ‘ s Son
Mr. Moonlight
No Reply
Norwegian Wood
Not a Second Time
Nowhere Man
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Octopus ‘ s Garden
Oh! Darling
Old Brown Shoe
One After 909
Only A Northern Song
P.S. I Love You
Paperback Writer
Penny Lane
Piggies
Please Mister Postman
Please Please Me
Polythene Pam
Rain
Real Love
Revolution 1
Revolution 9
Rock and Roll Music
Rocky Raccoon
Roll Over Beethoven
Run For Your Life
Savoy Truffle
Sexy Sadie
Sgt. Pepper ‘ s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper ‘ s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

P.S. Let me know if there’s a link above that isn’t working or that you want me to fix.

Start a Master Mind Group.comWhen you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

Hip Hop and The Law of Attraction

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

This song by Blackalicious is about living in the flow of life which is exactly what the Law of Attraction is. But in some ways it’s more enjoyable to listen to this song and feel it than it is to sit around and think about it.

Buy Automatique by Blackalicious on iTunes

Automatique by Blackalicious Lyrics

[Floetry]
It’s automatique– now
So here bring my speak– style
Show y’all how to freak– star
Is automatique– now
So automatique– now
The sound you gon’ keep– down
Come listen and peep– how
It’s automatique

[Gift of Gab]
It’s automatic sporadic movements on the brake
The moment’s magic the last thing that I should do is think
I burst the energy that hints that really it’s no time
At birth you start to think that after death back to no mind
A rest that makes you new again now you embrace the planet
And stand in all of all the thing you daily took for granted
The trees are posin’ all unique in form make this perfection
The most important time is now tomorrow’s a projection
A co-creator if you only just believe in that
Right here today inside is where I find my freedom at
Is simple as a lyric from my soul to yours as felt
I didn’t write this I just let the pen move by itself
It’s ART-o-matic

[Hook]

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[Natalie of Floetry]
So blessed we rest in a space over-standin’
This breath’s so unique we must trace where we landed
Magnetizin’ minor tracks is subliminal
So fiend-in to the evidence is evident I’m bein’ true
True to the moment the channelin’ the callin’
True to the heartbeat the passion and the formin’
This rollercoaster’s the one I stood in line for
Hands in the air these upside downs here are paid for
Make this relevant and here what you gotta hear
I’m recordin’ all the secrets of my silent shed
Don’t think about it just absorb everything you taste
If it set you free you gonna find the ways
You’re who you gonna be unless you choose otherwise
If you let it flow the universe will empathize
Check your programs they monitorin’ your sanity
Now close your eyes inside you find the clarity
It’s automatic!

[Hook]

[Floetry]
Free your body know this ought to be open
Then lose control just let it happen then
Live at it and set it
Move again your clarity start to assume again
I know this one twist will feel it in
You think you don’t know the engine (???)
But it’s so automatic
So so so automatic

[Gift of Gab]
It’s automative, beyond the common logic native
Beyond the ball around my drama now I’m divin’ waitin
So stop and wait this, now operate it on the wavelength
A thought of way is presented by true laws of nature
Across the nation a lost of patience is cost inflation
So caught in waitin’, and contemplatin’ obligations
Read up inaugurations politrations violatin
And all the haters all up it cannot invadin’
The honest tension, two orders sacred not created
Good thought I made it!! I’m born beyond the constellations
So concetratin’, and follow man we all are awakin’
It’s automative, you gotta make it follow faith in
Come on come on!

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Start a Master Mind Group.comWhen you think about it, every musical act you know of is using the Master Mind principle whether they realize it or not. They are joining together as a team with a combined vision. You can use the same principle and make some truly rockin’ things happen in your life.

Do you have a creative project you want to complete? Do you want to find a purpose for your life?

If so, I invite you to come over to my brand new page called Start a Master Mind Group.com. I’m offering 4 freebies to get you started so you can get a sense of what the Master Mind is all about.

There’s nothing cool about holding back.

This Song is About You

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Watch it on YouTube.

This video with lyrics included is all about taking charge of your life and it all begins by taking charge of your mind. One of the first lyrics is “half the kids that you grew up with were pushin’ prams by the time that they were just sixteen” then later, those same kids “aren’t pushin’ prams are pushin’ pills to boys and girls who are half their age” (In case you aren’t familiar with the word pram it refers to what most American’s call a baby stroller.)From Sabotage to Success by Sheri Zampelli

I’m here to tell you it’s never too late to change your mind and thereby change the course of your life. If you need help, there is a free MP3 hypnosis download at icreatehabits.com titled Create the Life You Want.

If you have a problems with self-sabotage, check out the book From Sabotage to Success.

Living High on Life – Agape Toastmasters Table Topics

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Tomorrow morning, I am the Table Topics Master of the day. The theme (which Ty the Toastmaster is responsible for, not me) is “Puff…Puff…Pass! Livin’ Hiiiiiigh on Life! What’s Your Internal Peace Pipe That Keeps You High?”

When Ty told me the theme, I immediately heard Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder playing in my mind. So, I decided to look up the lyrics. They are awesome (read below). I am going to use snippets of the lyrics as a springboard for table topics. Should be inspiring.

By the way, in case you’re wondering how I ever got into Stevie Wonder, he was very popular in the ’70s when I was a kid and I admired his spirit back then. I currently have an episode of Soul Train saved in my Tivo featuring young Stevie Wonder as the guest. He writes a song on the spot just for the Soul Train audience and is amazingly shy. Don Cornelius asks him, “When did you figure out you had so much talent” and Stevie bashfully replies, “I haven’t.”

I love this music and the spirit behind it.

Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder Lyrics

People keep on learnin’
Soldiers keep on warrin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long

Powers keep on lyin’
While your people keep on dyin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long

I’m so darn glad he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach the highest ground

Teachers keep on teachin’
Preachers keep on preachin’
World keep on turnin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no

Lovers keep on lovin’
Believers keep on believin’
Sleepers just stop sleepin’
Cause it won’t be too long
Oh no

I’m so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin’
Till I reach my highest ground…Whew!
Till I reach my highest ground
No one’s gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Don’t you let nobody bring you down (they’ll sho ’nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
He’s the only friend you have around

Buy music by Stevie Wonder on iTunes

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Song of the Week – 4-13-10 – Do Anything You Wanna Do by Eddie and the Hot Rods

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Do Anything You Wanna Do Lyrics

I’m gonna break out of the city
Leave the people here behind
Searching for adventure
It’s the kind of life to find
Tired of doing day jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I know I must be someone
Now I’m gonna find out who

Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you ?
Why don’t you tell them what you’re gonna do
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do

I don’t need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn’t be
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see
No-one tells you nothing even when you know they know
They tell you what you should be
They don’t like to see you grow

Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you ?
Why don’t you tell them what you’re gonna do
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do

I’m gonna break out of the city
Leave the people here behind
Searching for adventure
It’s the kind of life to find
Tired of doing day jobs
With no thanks for what I do
I know I must be someone
Now I’m gonna find out who

Why don’t you ask them what they expect from you ?
Why don’t you tell them what you’re gonna do
You’ll get so lonely, maybe it’s better that way
It ain’t you only, you got something to say
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do
Do anything you wanna do

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Get Do Anything You Wanna Do by Eddie and the Subtitles on iTunes

Check out more on their MySpace page.

The song of the week is brought to you by Michael Zampelli, former owner of Southern California punk rock icon, Zed Records. For almost 30 years, this mecca of punk and alternative music kept Southern California enthusiasts adequately supplied with unique, original and innovative music.

Currently, Zampelli manages a hockey fan message boards at www.letsgokings.com with thousands of subscribers. He takes photos for the LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.

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I Used Punk Rock and Hip Hop Lyrics in My Toastmasters Speech

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

Words and environment impact your life. In this speech from the Toastmasters manual, The Entertaining Speaker, I outline a musical anthology of my life starting in childhood with weekly immersion in Soul Train, moving to age 11 and the purchase of Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder.

(All song links go to iTunes)

In 1979 it was Rapper’s Delight by Sugar Hill Gang then in the 90’s it was People’s Instinctive Travels and Paths of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest.

In between was a lot of fun in the punk rock scene. Songs mentioned and sung in this speech: California Uberalles and Police Truck by The Dead Kennedys and New Dreams by Naked Raygun. I finished up with my theme song: Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers with Q-Tip on vocals.

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Song of the Week – 4-6-10 – Believe by Moneen

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Believe Lyrics

Did you wake up today,
Did you find the strength to say,
The world is your own?

Did you look up today
Did you find the words to say,
The world is your own?
To be left here alone,
Your own way.

You’ve got to believe
You’ve got to believe
In your own way
(In your own way)
You’ve got to smile
You’ve got to be strong
You’ve got to believe
In your own way

Do you still feel sideways?
Well damn this backwards way
Way of thinking,
When I stop thinking
Your own way

You’ve got to believe
You’ve got to believe
In your own way
(In your own way)
You’ve got to smile
You’ve got to be strong
You’ve got to believe
In your own way

WAAAOOOOHHH
WAAAOOOOHHH WAY

You’ve got to believe (WOAH)
You’ve got to believe (WOAH)
In your own way (WAY)
(In your own way)
You’ve got to smile (WOAH)
You’ve got to be strong (WOAH)
You’ve got to believe
In your own way

You’ve got to believe
In your own way

You’ve got to believe
In your own way

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Get Believe by Moneen on iTunes

Check out more on their MySpace page.

The song of the week is brought to you by Michael Zampelli, former owner of Southern California punk rock icon, Zed Records. For almost 30 years, this mecca of punk and alternative music kept Southern California enthusiasts adequately supplied with unique, original and innovative music.

Currently, Zampelli manages a hockey fan message boards at www.letsgokings.com with thousands of subscribers. He takes photos for the LAist and the LA Derby Dolls. Each week he will contribute a song with a theme, a message and a beat. Enjoy and stay tuned.

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I’ll Speak and Sing the Punk Lyrics of My Youth April 10

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Tonight I’m preparing for my speech on April 10 titled “Music That Shaped My Youth”. I plan to talk about my upbringing in punk rock culture and my secret love of hip hop that began in 1979 when I purchased Rapper’s Delight by Sugar Hill Gang and memorized all the words.

I plan to sing a few lyrics through out the speech to capture a bit of the punk rock spirit and, I will (um, “rap”?) vocalize the lyrics of Galvanize by the Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip.

Here are the songs I plan to “sing”/rap in my speech. I’m going to put them here so I can come to this page for practice. Hope you enjoy a little walk down memory lane. I will post a video of the speech on April 10 so come back and see the finished product later.

Viva La Revolution and Joker in the Pack by The Adicts

California Uberalles by the Dead Kennedys

Police Truck by Dead Kennedys

New Dreams by Naked Raygun (Even though you can’t hear the song so great here, I love how this video captures the pure mayhem that takes place at every Naked Raygun show, large or small. Being in that “crowd” energy for so many years of my life, it is difficult to be content with long periods of sitting still.

Galvanize by Chemical Brothers (Party Ben Galvanize the Empire Remix)