În ţara-n care m-am născut

Un cantec dedicat romanilor din toate colturile lumii care au venit pe 10 august la Bucuresti sa protesteze impotriva modului cum este condusa tara in care s-au nascut.






Si melodia originala a lui Jean Moscopol scrisa pe cand era in exil. Din pacate acesta nu a mai apucat sa-si revada tara in care s-a nascut...

Implant pentru refuz - Apus

O melodie incredibila, mai ales in aceasta interpretare acustic live:

Cover Power - Everybody Knows

I rarely get time to watch movies lately, but I saw Justice League on a long flight recently. In spite of the action and the super-heroes I think the best part of that movie is the cover of the song Everybody Knows from the opening scene:

You can see the original version in a live performance here:

Simply Falling

I fell myself for this song, it's on repeat :)

Feel It Still

If you still feel like partying this song is for you. Enjoy!

Acum si in lumea copiilor: cover sau plagiat?

Am fost recent cu fetita mea la un spectacol cu Gasca Zurlii, caci auzise de la colegii de gradinita de cantecelele lor. Iar unul din hiturile acestei trupe este o melodie foarte ritmata, dar care are ca versuri doar niste cuvinte fara niciun sens: "a ram sam sam":



Socul a fost insa cand ne-am intalnit recent cu o prietena din UK care a recunoscut cantecelul pe care il fredona fetita mea. E un cantec pe care il stia de acum mai bine de 30 de ani, pe cand era si ea la gradinita si la scoala. Un cantec despre fast-food (pe vremea cand aceasta mancare era la moda si in vest): Pizza Hut, KFC, McDonalds.



Pai bine mai Gasca Zurli, tocmai cantece despre fast-food v-ati apucat si voi sa plagiati? Csf, ncsf...

Luna si noi

Despre asta este vorba: "Ce-ar fi sa plecam intr-o excursie, noi amandoi? Sa pornim o aventura, numai noi doi?"

Mihail, Who Are You?

So, I stumble one day on this addictive song.



Then I start wondering who is this singer and I find out that he has another hit from three years ago. I know both of them from the radio, but often I don't bother about identifying who is the actual singer, the name of the song and so on. But when you have multiple hits it means there is some serious talent at play. Well done, Mihail Sandu!

Light a Candle for Peace

Now that I have a girl at kinder garden I learned that on 21st of September we celebrate peace day. The kids sing on this day a beautiful song about peace, but I thought it is a good way to celebrate peace for adults too. So here is it:

Dark Necessities

I must have been very busy for the last year or so since only yesterday I discovered this RHCP song which was released in June 2016. It's very nice, so I put it on repeat to catch up :)

We Singing Colors - Out Of The City

Thanks to Shazam I can share this gem I just heard on the radio today. Where were you hiding all those years, you beautiful song :) Enjoy!

Carpool Karaoke

I just discovered a show from UK, a guy doing interviews with various singers while driving a car. And mixed with doing karaoke on the songs of the guest. It's fun and it's nice. Here is a special Christmas edition with a mesh of many guests singing a Christmas song:

Girls Talk

I found this little gem today while digging in some Garbage (playlist :)). Enjoy!

New Voices on My Playlist

Sometimes I stumble upon new songs that I like, but usually it's just an isolated hit. If I search for other songs from the same band they don't impress me. However recently I discovered not one, but two performers (one band and one singer) that I really like: Cake and Findlay. I can make a playlist with only their songs, put them on repeat and listen them all day long :)

If Cake is an alternative rock band formed in the nineties which is probably not active anymore nowadays, Findlay is a young British singer as the beginning of her career. So one of the comments on her songs reads like this: "man your are such a fucking  band! please don't kill your self ! Need more"

So, let's hear them out :)

Tonight We Are Young

A nice song to listen after playing for more than an hour with all the kids from the playground :)

Si Me Das A Elegir

Life is somewhere else these days, but I stumbled onto this addictive song today and I remembered I had a blog where I used to post songs I like. So here it is "Me Quedo Contigo (Si Me Das A Elegir)" from Manu Chao:



If you open the above video in YouTube it has also the lyrics. The funny thing is that although I have a 68 days running streak of Spanish lessons on Duolingo I still cannot understand all the lyrics. It seems I need to practice some more :)

David Bowie

I started listening to international music in 1990 after the fall of communism. And one of the first hits I remember from the radio was "Ice Ice Baby" from Vanilla Ice. With this came the scandal that he copied the song from another band, Queen. So I got to listen and like "Under Pressure" from Queen, which I learned was really wrote by Queen and David Bowie.

Then Nirvana came and in their Unplugged concert they sang "The Man Who Sold the World", which later on I found out it was a cover from David Bowie, original version here.

I never searched his discography, but here and there his gems where showing up on the music stage in the 90ies, 2000, or even today: "Jump They Say", "Let's Dance" and so on.

So who was this guy, a space oddity passing by the Earth? Good bye, David Bowie.

P.S. A cover of this song was actually made on board of the International Space Station by Chris Hadfield, on of the astronauts currently on ISS

Over in the Meadow

Lately I became a big consumer of a new music genre, children songs :) Like in every area there are good pieces and also some others that are not that well made. But there are also masterpieces like the one below. The song, the orchestration, the voices and the cartoons, all of them are excellent in this video from Barefoot Books. And I'm not the only one in the family who likes it :) Well done, guys!

Fruits from Moldova

Have you bought recently any fruits from Moldova? Or fruit juices or fruit preservers?
Here is why you should:



In most of the shopping centers from Romania there are stands which sell juices and preserves from Moldova, go ahead and try them, they are very tasty.
This is cover power square (CP^2), not only a cover, but with a clever and powerful message, so let's share the original clip too:

In fiecare zi

I don't listen often hip-hop music, but this song is addictive, I listen it "every day" (that's the name of the song) since I heard it on the radio. The bottom line is that you have to be careful when you buy cherries :)