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NO REPLY AT ALL
Genesis
Composição: Phil Collins/tony Banks/mike Rutterford

Talk to me, you never talk to me.
Ooh, it seems that I can speak.
But I can hear my voice shouting out.
But there's no reply at all.
Look at me, you never look at me,
Ooh, I've been sitting, staring, seems so long.
But you're looking through me
Like I wasn't here at all.
No reply, there's no reply at all.
Dance with me, you never dance with me.
Ooh, it seems that I can move,
I'm close to you, close as I can get.
Yet there's no reply at all,
There's no reply at all.
I get the feeling you're tryin' to tell me,
Is there something that I should know?
What excuse are you tryin' to sell me?
Should I be reading stop or go, I don't know.
Be with me, seems you're never here with me,
Ooh, I've been trying to get over there.
Ah, but it's out of my reach.
And there's no reply at all.
There's no reply at all.
I get the feeling you're trying to tell me;
Is there something that I should know?
What excuse are you trying to sell me?
Should I be reading stop or go, I don't know.
Maybe deep down inside,
I'm trying for no one else but me.
Too stubborn to say, "The buck stops here.
It's not the one you're looking for."
But, maybe deep down inside,
I'm lying to no one else but me.
Oh but my back is up.
I'm on my guard - with all the exits sealed.
Listen to me, you never listen to me,
Ooh, and it seems there's no way out,
I've been trying, but we cannot connect,
And there's no reply at all,
There's no reply at all,
There's no reply at all,
No reply at all.
Is anybody listening - oh oh,
No reply at all...

R.E.M.
Em 1980, formava-se o R.E.M., em Athens, Georgia, com Michael Stipes (vocal), Peter Buke (guitarra), Mike Mills (baixo) e Bill Berry (bateria). Desde a primeira gravação, o EP Chronic Town (referência de bandas como o Radio Haed), lançado em 1982, a banda mostra tendência intimista e melancólicas em suas letras quase indecifráveis. Os LPs seguintes seguiam a mesma receita: Murmur (1983), Reckoning (1984), Fables ou Reconstruction (1985), Life's Rich Pageant (1986), que trouxeram sucessos como "Fall on me", "So central rain" e "Radio free Europe".

O lançamento de Document (1987) mostra amadurecimento da banda. O disco traz as inesquecíveis "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" e "The one I love", que logo alcançam as paradas de sucesso, elvando o R.E.M. ao reconhecimento mundial. Green (1988)traz melodias ainda meia energética, e marca o início de uma nova fase da banda, com músicas mais pop e trabalhadas. O sucesso incontestével vem no início da déecada de 90, com o lançamento de Out of time (1991).

IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD
R.E.M.

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, the Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, and a government
for hire at a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furys breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing. Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do to Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched. It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Lock it in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a motive. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline. It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonard Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam bug net, right? Right. It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...


OINGO BOINGO
Tudo começou a partir de grupo teatral "The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo", onde alguns de seus integrantes (leia-se Danny Elfman - vocais, guitarra, percussão e programação, Steve Bartek - guitarras, Kerry Katch - baixo, Rich Gibbs - teclados, Johnny Hernandez - bateria, Dale Turner - trompete, trombone, Sam Phipps - sax tenor, Leon Schneiderman - sax barítono) decidem formar, em 1979, o grupo musical Oingo Boingo.

Em 1980, assinam contrato com o selo IRS e lançam um EP auto-intitulado. O LP de estréia não alcança o sucesso comercial desejado. Os dois álbuns seguintes lançam alguns hits em pistas de dança: "Private Life", de Nothing to Fear, e "Wake up, It's 1984", do álbum Good for your Soul. Em 1984 o líder Danny Elfman lança seu primeiro disco solo, sendo que a partir de 1985 ele passa a se dedicar à trilhas sonoras de filmes, sendo muito requisitado na área. O álbum Dead Man's Party, de 1985 (o mais conhecido do grupo), estoura com várias músicas como "Weird Science", que foi tema do filme Mulher Nota Mil, a famosíssima "Stay" e a própria "Dead Man's Party". Outro hit fácil de se lembrar do é "Just another day", do álbum Boi-ngo de 1987.

JUST ANOTHER DAY
Oingo Boingo

(There's life underground)
I feel it all around / I feel it in my bones
My life is on the line / When I'm away from home
When I step out the door / The jungle is alive
I do not trust my ears / I don't believe my eyes
I will not fall in love / I cannot risk the bet
Cause hearts are fragile toys / so easy to forget
It's just another day / There's murder in the air
It drags me when I walk / I smell it everywhere
It's just another day / Where people cling to light
To drive away the fear / That comes with every night
CHORUS
It's just another...
It's just another day
It's just another...
It's just another day...
It's just another day--When people wake from dreams
With voices in their ears--That will not go away
I had a dream last night / The world was set on fire
And everywhere I ran / There wasn't any water
The temperature increased / The sky was crimson red
The clouds turned into smoke / And everyone was dead
(but) There's a smile on my face... For everyone
There's a golden coin... That reflects the sun
There's a lonely place... That's always cold
There's a place in the stars... For when you get old
There's razors in my bed / That come out late at night
They always disappear / Before the morning light
I'm dreaming again / Of life underground
It doesn't ever move / It doesn't make a sound
And just when I think--That things are in their place
The heavens are secure--The whole thing explodes in my face

# posted by Debora : 12:49