You have me…

Posted on May 20, 2009 by borysSNORC

Apparently "Du hast" doesn’t translate to "you hate," but "you have." The English version of ‘Du hast’ is sung as ‘You hate’ to appeal to an english speaking audience. If you say ‘You hate’ you will need to say ‘Du hasst’. The infinitive form of ‘hate’ is ‘hassen’ and the infinitive form of ‘have’ is ‘haben’. ‘Haben’ is an irregular verb, so when it’s conjugated into the you/du form, it’s ‘hast’.

So does… ‘You have me’ make this some sort of weird arse love song?!?!?!? The film clip is like some sort of mafia hit… so maybe ‘You have me is a familial solidarity thing? Who knows. Love the song anyway.

Du Hast

Du
Du hast
Du hast mich (repeat X 5)

Du hast mich
Du hast mich gefragt
Du hast mich gefragt
Du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt

Willst du bis der Tod euch scheide
treu ihr sein für alle Tage…
Nein! Nein!

Du
Du hast
Du hast mich (repeat X 3)

Du hast mich
Du hast mich gefragt
Du hast mich gefragt
Du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt

Willst du bis der Tod euch scheidet
treu ihr sein für alle Tage…
Nein! Nein!

Willst du bis zum Tod der Scheide
sie lieben auch in schlechten Tagen….
Nein! Nein!

Willst du bis der Tod euch scheidet treu ihr sein…
Nein! Nein!

You Have

You
You have
You have me (repeat X5)

You have me
You have me to say
You have me to say
You have me to say and I did not obey

Will you until death does sever
Be upright to her forever…
Never! Never!

You
You have
You have me (repeat x 3)

You have me
You have me to say
You have me to say
You have me to say and I did not obey

Will you until death does sever
Be upright to her forever…
Never! Never!

Will you ’til death be her rider
Her lover too, to stay inside her…
Never! Never!

Will you until death does sever be upright…
Never! Never!
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What a pathetic groupie I’d make.

Posted on May 17, 2009 by borysSNORC

I’ve been trying to remember the bands and performers I’ve seen in concert and it’s not so easy for some reason. Some I can’t be sure where I saw them, and some I can’t even really pinpoint with whom or when. Expo being in Brisbane when I was a teenager was great. Myself and my boyfriend had season passes so we went as often as we could.

Motley Crue (BEC)
Masters’ Apprentices (Alex Hills)
Joe Cocker (Fisherman’s Wharf)
Motorhead * (Tallebudgerra)
Jimmy Barnes (twice at Expo, once at BEC)
UB40 (BEC)
John Cougar Mellancamp (twice – Expo)
Megadeath (Festival Hall)
Luciano Pavarotti (Farewell Tour)
Eurogliders (Expo)
Redgum (Amamoor)
Crowded House (Expo)
Tina Turner (BEC)
Nathan Cavilleri (Expo)
1927 (Alex Hills)
Aerosmith (BEC – fell asleep)
Ladysmith Black Mombazo (Expo)
Slim Dusty (under duress)
Wickety Wak (ditto)
Funaddicts (Easts)
Blur (Festival Hall)
Riptides (Fisherman’s Wharf)
Cat Empire (Tivoli)
Rod Stewart (BEC)
John Williamson (Sth Stradbroke Is and Amamoor)
The Angels (Manly Hotel)
Mental As Anything (Expo)
John Farnham (BEC)
AC/DC (BEC)
Nick Cave (Expo)
Deltones (Twin Towns)
Kate Cebrano (Expo
The Choir Boys (Manly Hotel)
Violent Femmes (Fisherman’s Wharf)
Black Sorrows (Expo)
Dame Kiri Tekanawa (in NZ)
Hoodoo Gurus (Expo too)
Ted Egan (Amamoor)
The Cockroaches (before they became squillionaire Wiggles)

*what little they played before the police dogs and paddy wagons turned up.

Well not a particularly illustrious list based on what I can remember – likely that which hasn’t been remembered is not worth remembering anyways. I knew I hadn’t been to many concerts… but that’s a sad, sad list indeed. There is however a really diverse and eclectic range of music genres encompassed in the list and it occurs to me that I look rather well rounded… or like I’ve got some majorly fragmented personality or something.

My favourite acts on that list would have to be Joe Cocker, Violent Femmes and Pavarotti… all brilliant. Given what it costs these days to buy a ticket to go see a live act it’s no suprise that there’s not many modern acts on that list at all.
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Engel

Posted on April 22, 2009 by borysSNORC

One of my favouite songs at the moment….

Engel

Wer zu Lebzeit gut auf Erden
wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden
den Blick gen Himmel fragst Du dann
warum man sie nicht sehen kann

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehen
wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein

Sie leben hinterm Sonnenschein
getrennt von uns unendlich weit
sie müssen sich an Sterne krallen (ganz fest)
damit sie nicht vom Himmel fallen

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehen
wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein
Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein
Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein

Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehn
kann man uns am Himmel sehne
wir haben Angst und sind allein

Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein etc

The female Guest singer for this song is ‘Bobo’.

Angel

Live in virtue, no desire In the grave an angel’s fire
You look to heaven and wonder why
No-one can see them in the sky
Just as the clouds have gone to sleep

Angels can be seen in heaven’s keep
Alone in fear they question why
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Angels live, they never die

Apart from us, behind the sky
They’re fading souls who’ve turned to ice
So ashen white in paradise
Just as the clouds have gone to sleep

Angels can be seen in heaven’s keep
Alone in fear they question why

Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die

Just as the clouds have gone to sleep
Angels can be seen in heaven’s keep
Alone in fear they question why

Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die
Goddamn not an angel when I die

Ignore the elephant. There is no room. There is no elephant.

Posted on February 25, 2009 by borysSNORC

Music has always played a bit part in my life. I always choose music to play in the house or in the car based on what sort of mood I’m in or what sortr of day I’m having. I know I often deliberately try to pick things to listen to when I’m not really in the mood for it, in an obvious attempt to change how I’m feeling. Occasionally it works but sometimes it’s a a bit much to expect to immediately become all Cat Empire when you’re actually feeling all Pink Floyd.

There’s a meme going around at the moment to come up with 20 albums, CDs, LPs whatever… that affected you or changed your life in some profound way or another. I don’t know if many albums have ‘profoundly affected me’ but I have lots of artists/songs that evoke memories and associations with certain people – some of them painful, some of them joyful, some of them comforting and some of them erotic even.

Keeping it to only 20 may be the challenge…

01. Meatloaf – Bat Out of Hell (learning to drive music)
02. The Clash – London Calling (first boyfriend’s fav band)
03. The Eagles – Best of (staying with the cousins)
04. Simon & Garfunkel – Greatest Hits (living at Birdwood Rd)
05. ABBA – anything (dancing in the back yard as kids)
06. The Riptides – Resurface (Sundays at Fisherman’s Wharf)
07. Alannis Morrisette – Jagged Little Pill (speedway days)
08. Soundtrack – Top Gun (lost my virginity)
09. Bert Kaempfert – Swinging Safari (every family dinner party)
10. Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (teenage broken hearts)
11. The Cat Empire – Two Shoes (loud. after late shifts to stay awake)
12. James Blunt – Back to Bedlam (hanging out with Dazzles)
13. Garth Brooks – The Hits (on repeat all over Europe in ’95)
14. Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes (cadet camps with Two Trucks)
15. Dramarama – Cinéma Vérité (getting ready to go out with BigSal)
16. Beautiful South – Carry on up the Charts (holiday in Ireland)
17. Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA (AM’s Bedford van)
18. Enya – Paint the Sky with Stars (singing the Small Child to sleep)
19. The Waifs – Up All Night (missing absent friends)
20. Madness – Complete Madness (Schoolies ’88/’89)

I was a good little Catholic schoolgirl and it was my first time.

Posted on October 7, 2008 by borysSNORC

I was thinking the other day while tossing up the virtues of cleaning out my CD collection …."what was the first album I ever bought with my own money?" Took me a few minutes and I remember buying my first album – admittedly I purchased a tape and not an LP because we didn’t have a record player with us on holiday and no one had ever heard of CDs yet. Yes, yes, yes. I know – my crinoline petticoats are showing.

Me and BigSal had been given some money for Christmas and decided to go shopping for some tapes as we had a Sony Walkman circa 1983 and only tapes full of music we had taped off the radio. I shit you not. We used to sit by the radio waiting for our favourite songs to come on so we could tape them. We didn’t have a lot of disposable income back then… hang on… what am I talking about? We didn’t have ANY income, disposable or otherwise!!! Not like kids these days. OMG did I just say that? Hell, it’s not just my crinoline petticoats showing… I think my whalebone corset and bloomers are out in the breeze with that comment… sigh.

When did we get so old?!?! :S Hopefully I can restore a bit of street cred with my choice in music. My first tape was Quiet Riot’s ‘Metal Health’ album. Which I played to death! Even now, any track of that album rapidly makes me feel like I am about 14 or 15 again.

Big Sal picked up Midnight Oil’s ‘Red Sails in the Sunset’ which was also a pretty great rock album. Goes without saying that my Dad wasn’t overly impressed with our selections 🙂
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