Totallympics Open International Song Contest 2016

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

IRELAND

 

The Corrs

Runaway

 

 

 

"Runaway"

 

Say it's true, there's nothing like me and you
I'm not alone, tell me you feel it too

And I would run away
I would run away, yeah
I would run away
I would run away with you

Cause I am falling in love with you
No never I'm never gonna stop
Falling in love with you

Close the door, lay down upon the floor
And by candlelight, make love to me through the night

Cause I have run away
I have run away, yeah..., yeah
I have run away, run away
I have run away with you

Cause I am falling in love with you
No never I'm never gonna stop
Falling in love with you...
With you...

And I would runaway
I would runaway, yeah....
I would runaway
I would runaway with you

Cause I am falling in love with you
No never I'm never gonna stop
Falling in love with you...

Falling in love with you
No never I'm never gonna stop falling in love with you

With you, my love, with you...

 

 

 

[bestmen 2,827]

THE CORRS -

I had 2 tapes like this

 

 

 

 

 

my favorite was "LISTEN TO THE RADIO"

                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                                       

 

Edited October 2, 2016 by bestmen

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

15 minutes ago, bestmen said:

THE CORRS -

I had 2 tapes like this

 

 

 

Cool, and nice to see someone else still has some old tapes besides me

[Sindo 1,512]

To make everything clear:

 

I don't know the username of the user who registered with username "niger" some hours ago and I would like to never know it, because I do not want to "discriminate" in the future the user who did that. I am just sure it was a false registration because the user was not connecting from Niger and already has an account here.

 

I do not want to lose time checking who is the user who did that, but of course I will have to do it he/she will try again. So I am sure that if this user is reading this, will not try again to do that

 

As a general rule, don't do that because you will always get caught

[Wanderer 1,726]

 New Zealand Entry

 

 

Where to start with Chris Knox? He’s one hell of an entity. This is where we’ll start with Chris Knox: It’s impossible to imagine New Zealand cultural life without his contribution to it. Possibly the most important figure in New Zealand alternative/indie/post-punk rock, Chris Knox has been an integral figure of three of the country's more important rock bands (Tall Dwarfs, Toy Love, the Enemy), as well as recording prolifically as a solo artist.

 

Some valuable excerpts:

Spoiler

 

These days, Knox needs a caregiver, and hasn’t yet fully recovered the power of speech, but his face is still as expressive as ever. More so, actually, because he knows the face has to carry the signals.

Yes, a radically changed Chris Knox greets the world, but he’s still here, even if he can’t get out there and sing, play, record, write, broadcast and animate like he used to. So this appreciation is no obituary, and it has warts in it, even if it’s not quite warts ‘n’ all, because Knox is the last person on earth who would ever want his idiosyncrasies smoothed over for public consumption.

Chris Knox, to paraphrase a line that Frank Zappa once said to me about his own music, is one heck of a thing to comprehend. He did so much, and his eclectic range of activities between his formative years in The Enemy through to his tragic stroke was so sustained that it’s hard to get your bearings. But there is one thing that runs right through the 32 years of his professional life: The unyielding, flinty integrity of Knox the man and everything he did.

In many ways, Knox was a typical New Zealand pragmatist, so from that great revelation of punk rock on, he was the artwork, and he became a living embodiment of what he stood for, a sometimes testy, often provocative advertisement for anti-pretension, another way of living, a new way of making music.

 

 

Spoiler

 

Knox, notorious for Iggy Pop-style on-stage self-laceration, wished to move from punk/new wave into more subtle, experimental underground rock. Sharing this desire was guitarist Alec Bathgate, who had played with Knox in the Enemy and Toy Love. Together they formed the duo Tall Dwarfs, lo-fi experimentalists with a penchant for both pop and psychedelia. Tall Dwarfs (whose activities are detailed in a separate entry) were instrumental in developing the quirky aesthetic picked up by most artists on the Flying Nun label, the top New Zealand indie that counted Tall Dwarfs as one of its first signees.

Although Knox has worked with Bathgate on Tall Dwarfs records since the early '80s, he has also maintained a less active, but ongoing, solo career in which he writes, performs, and records without Bathgate's assistance. Knox has had an ample opportunity to work alone given that he and Bathgate, because of their different living circumstances, are usually only able to record together for short, infrequent bursts of time. Undoubtedly Knox's solo albums are more personal in nature than his group projects, yet in all honesty it can be difficult to find much difference between them and the Tall Dwarfs records. Working independently, Knox also staunchly adheres to a lo-fi, home recording ethic; he also favors songs which alternate between acoustic pop, post-psychedelia, and bursts of fuzzy garage noise, just as Tall Dwarfs do.

 

Consequently, Tall Dwarfs fans will undoubtedly find Knox's records worth checking out, though on the whole the best of Tall Dwarfs is a better place to start investigating Knox's music. Within each Knox solo record there is a great deal of diversity, although it must be cautioned that there isn't a notable difference in approach from recording to recording. This can make his extensive discography less rewarding than those of pop auteurs who take greater care to vary their palette from release to release, such as England's Martin Newell. 

 

 

Additionally: http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=chris_knox

 

New Zealand have decided to enter the song contest with one of the most beautiful love songs written by Chris Knox, unique Kiwi sound. Lyrically very touching with sublime guitar distortion, characteristic for Chris. Enjoy.

 

 

Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly

Label: Flying Nun

Recorded: 1989

 

 

Lyrics

Hello my friend
It's morning, time to wake now
Your body and mine entwined will have to break now
I want your flesh, your warmth to stay beside me
Oh, how I wish you could be deep inside me

Show me your eyes, your love, most tender feeling
And I'll give you mine, be truthful and revealing

'Cause it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
It's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's more than what it might be

When we're alone I cannot always face you
Maybe my mood won't let these arms embrace you
That doesn't mean my love's somehow diminished
Give me the time to show our love's unfinished

'Cause it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
And it's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love 
And it's more than what it might be

I need your body, your mind and your emotions
Shed me your tears till I drown in your oceans

'Cause it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
It's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's more than what it might be

And every word I sing is true

What can I say the words destroy all meaning
There's only cliche to get across this feeling

That it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
And it's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's more than what it might be

And every word I sing's for you

'Cause it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
And it's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's more than what it might be

This is a love song to John and Leisha's mother
This isn't easy 
I might not write another

But it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
And it's more than what it might be
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's love not given lightly

'Cause it's you that I love
And it's true that I love
And it's love not given lightly
But I knew this was love
And it's you that I love
And it's more than what it might be

 

[dareza 911]

I have a two favortes For others I will have a big problem

[Werloc 3,171]

Yay, Wanderer!!! New Zealand lives on

[Gianlu33 4,633]

All continents are in

[dcro 10,210]

Sadly there is still no India. I didn't give them points in my previous two participations, but I liked their songs nevertheless...

[Dolby 735]

On popular demand, India will take part in the contest. (Taking out time to listen and rate all the entries will still be difficult, hopefully, I would be able to find the required time).

 

Since, I haven't had any chance to think about the entry, I am simply selecting one of my all time favourites, a song which moves me to tears everytime I listen to it. 

 

Song : Luka Chuppi
Music : A.R. Rehman
Lyrics : Prasoon Joshi
Singers : Lata Mangeshkar, A.R. Rehman 

 

 

This is the version which was used in the movie, you can listen to the full version with one of the best 'jugalbandis' here

 

 

Lyrics:

 

Luka Chuppi Bahut Huyi
Saamne Aa Ja Na
Kahan Kahan Dhundha Tujhe
Thak Gayi Hai Ab Teri Maa

(It's enough of hide and seek, come in front of me
Your mom is tired looking for you up and down)

Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na
Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na

(It's been evening and I am worried about you
Come dear, my eyes became blurred)x2

Kya Batau Maa Kaha Hu Mai
Yahan Udne Ko Mere Khula Aasmaan Hai
Tere Kisso Jaisa Bhola Salona
Jahan Hai Yahan Sapno Vala
Meri Patang Ho Befikar Udd Rahi Hai Maa
Dor Koi Lute Nahi Beech Se Kaate Na

(Mom, what I can tell about where I am
Here I got open sky to fly
Innocent, like your stories, here the world is beautiful 
Mom, here my kite of dreams is soaring high without any worries
The string is not stolen, not cut in middle)

Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na

(It's been evening and I am worried about you
Come dear, my eyes became blurred)

Teri Raah Takey Aankhiya
Jaane Kaisa Kaisa Hoye Jiya
Teri Raah Takey Aankhiya
Jaane Kaisa Kaisa Hoye Jiya

(My eyes are watching the way expecting you
Don't know what my heart feels now)x2

Dhire Dhire Aangan Utre Andhera, Mere Deep Kaha
Dhalke Suraj Karey Ishara Chanda Tu Hai Kahan
Mere Chanda Tu Hai Kahan

(Slowly darkness is growing into my courtyard, where is my lamp ( kid )
The setting sun gives sign to me, where are you my moon
My dear son where are you..)
 

Luka Chuppi Bahut Huyi Saamne Aa Ja Na
Kahan Kahan Dhundha Tujhe Thak Gayi Hai Ab Teri Maa

(It's enough of hide and seek, come in front of me
Your mom is tired looking for you up and down)

Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na
Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na

(It's been evening and I am worried about you
Come dear, my eyes became blurred)x2

Kaise Tujhko Dikhau Yaha Hai Kya
Maine Jharne Se Pani Maa Tod Ke Piya Hai
Guchcha Guchcha Kai Khwaabon Ka Uchal Ke Chua Hai
Chaya Liya Bhali Dhoop Yahan Hai
Naya Naya Sa Hai Roop Yahan
Yahan Sab Kuch Hai Maa Phir Bhi
Lage Bin Tere Mujhko Akela

(How can I show you what is here
I have drunk water from the waterfall
I jumped and touched many bundles of my dreams
Here, there is sun and shade
This place is very new and fresh
Mom, here I got everything, still, without you I feel all alone... )

Re ga re ga sa sa sa re
Re ga re ga sa sa sa pa ma pa ga ma ga re
Re ga re ga sa sa sa sa re sa pa ma ga ma ga re
Sa sa sa sa ni re sa ni dha ni dha pa ma pa ga ma pa
Dha ni sa ni sa ni dha ni dha pa ma ga ma ga re
Re ga re ga sa sa sa sa ni sa pa ma ga ma ga re

Rega rega rega rega rega
Sa re ne sa re re re ga re ga re ga ma pa ga ma ga re
Ma ma pa dha ma ma pa
Ma ma pa dha ma ma pa
Pa ma pa ne sa re ga
Re ma ga ga re ga re re re sa ga re ga sa sa sa
Ne re sa ne sa pa dha pa ma ma ma pa dha ne sa ne sa
Ga ne dha ne dha pa pa ma ga|ga ma pa dha ne sa ne sa …..
Re pa ma ga
Sa sa sa sa sa sa sa sa sa
Nesa nesa nesa nesa nesa nesa nesa nesa nesa

Ne sa re re ne sa sa sa
Ni sa re re re sa sa sa
Ne sa re re ne sa sa sa
Ne sa re re ne sa sa sa

Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na
Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Na
Aaja Saanjh Hui Mujhe Teri Fikar
Dhundhla Gayi Dekh Meri Nazar Aa Ja Naa…

(It's been evening and I am worried about you
Come dear, my eyes became blurred)x3