John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

DAILY CRACK!!!! I’M BA-AAAACK.

While I’m still battling this month long bout of bronchitis, I am feeling much better today then I have in a while. And in my surge of feeling good I started watching one of the greatest movies ever - Mr. Holland’s Opus! oK I know what you’re thinking but give me a break, I love that movie. And of course my favorite scene is always when Richard Dreyfuss sings Beautiful Boy to his son Cole. It is FAN-TAS-TIC. Always makes me tear up.

So here is the original by John and Yoko. And if you wanna see the Richard Dreyfuss version check it out here.

Enjoy!

-Calidre

John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)

Close your eyes,
Have no fear,
The monsters gone,
He’s on the run and your daddy’s here,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,

Before you go to sleep,
Say a little prayer,
Every day in every way,
It’s getting better and better,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,

Out on the ocean sailing away,
I can hardly wait,
To see you to come of age,
But I guess we’ll both,
Just have to be patient,
Yes it’s a long way to go,
But in the meantime,

Before you cross the street,
Take my hand,
Life is just what happens to you,
While your busy making other plans,

Beautiful,
Beautiful, beautiful,
Beautiful Boy,
Darling,
Darling,
Darling Sean.

The 5.6.7.8’s - I’m Blue

I had thought up a whole lot to say about the 5.6.7.8’s a while ago but I have a headache now. So I’ll keep it short and sweet.

They’re an awesome lil girl rock group from Japan that you’ve probably heard before (wooo hoooo, woooo hooo hooo). Quentin Tarentino has a great ear for music and is probably largely responsible for any exposure they’ve gotten stateside.

I like dancing around to them and hopefully you will too. Enjoy!

-CaliDre

The 5.6.7.8’s - I’m Blue

I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo.
I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo.
I’m blue-oo-oo, I’m blue, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-blue.

I dropped a penny in the well,
Hopin’ you would come back soon.
A fortune teller told me,
My love with you-ooo was through.
I hope she was wrong,
‘Cause you been gone too long. Come home.

I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo.
I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-doo.
I’m blue-oo-oo, I’m blue, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-blue.

Every night about two,
My love for you comes tumblin’ down.
(I can’t stand being here alone. )
I start to a-feelin’ and a-fumblin’,
But you ain’t nowhere around. 
(I hope her reading was wrong. )
I hope she was wrong,
‘Cause you been gone too long. Come home.

I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-blue.
I’m blue-oo-oo oo-oo, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-blue.
I’m blue-oo-oo, I’m blue, doo-be-doo-be-doo-be-blue.

Gabriela Robin- Moon

technically, gabriela robin is a mysterious performer who works only with japanese composer kanno yoko. earlier this year, kanno yoko performed as gabriela robin for the first time in public. what a shocking revelation (oh my!)! i guess it was a garth brooks, chris gaines type thing. this song, moon, was featured in the anime ∀ gundam which aired in 1999. kanno yoko’s most famous work to date has probably been on the popular series cowboy bebop. she infused that series with a heavily jazz-influenced (peep the vid or you’ll develop bunions!) sound. it’s worth checking out. she’s also worked on wolf’s rain, escaflowne, macross plus, jin roh, and the ghost in the shell anime series among others. i really enjoy her music. i chose this song because i like it, but also because she sings it. typically other singers sing over her compositions. it’s cool to see that she can do it all.

ah. the lyrics. she lyrics aren’t in any particular language. apparently she took sounds from other languages and created her own thing. sometimes it sounds like latin, at other times like russian, at others like japanese. it’s nice.

-the skinny miracle

Utada - Come Back To Me

Hmmmm…so I don’t know WHAT I was doing this morning when I stumbled onto Utada, but stumble I did. So much so in fact, that I decided to buy this song, preorder her album, and do a post within 4 hours of said stumble.

Utada is a New York born Japanese singer/songwriter/composer. From what I have read so far, she is about as big as they come in Japan. She has had five number 1 albums there and is only 26! Three of her albums are also on the all time best selling list there. The thing that really struck me while reading about Utada was that her first album was released in English but did staggeringly well in Japan. It has gone on to become the all time best selling album there. Translation in my mind: this chick MUST have it going on. So after a little more digging, I found this song.

It is the first single off her upcoming album This Is The One, her 2nd attempt to release an album in the US. Her 2004 effort was not very well promoted and did not sell well. Her voice is soulful (WAY more then I expected), the song is an easy listen, and definitely makes me curious to hear more. I’m eagerly awaiting my copy of the CD in May. I hope that it peaks your curiosity as well. Enjoy!

-CaliDre

Utada - Come Back To Me

The rain falls on my windows
And the coldness runs through my soul
And the rain falls, oh the rain falls
I don’t want to be alone
I wish that I could photoshop
All our bad memories
Cuz the flashbacks, oh the flashbacks
Won’t leave me alone

If you come back to me
I’ll be all that you need
Baby come back to me
Let me make up for what happened in the past

CHORUS (2X)
Baby come back to me
I’ll be everything you need
Baby come back to me
You’re one in a million (One in a million)

Lower East Side of Manhattan
She goes shopping for new clothes
And she buys this and she buys that
Just leave her alone
I wish that he would listen to her side of the story
It isn’t that bad, it isn’t that bad
And she’s wiser for it now

I admit I cheated
Don’t know why I did it
But I do regret it
Nothing I can do or say can change the past

CHORUS (2X)

Everything I ever did
Heaven knows I’m sorry babe
I was too young to see
You were always there for me
And my curiosity got the better of me
Baby take it easy on me

Anything from A to Z
Call me what you wanna babe
I open my heart to thee
You are my priority
Can’t you see you’ve punished me
More than enough already
Baby take it easy on me

CHORUS (4X)

minmi- shiki no uta

you never know where you’ll come across good music. this song is from an anime that aired a few years ago called samurai champloo. anime series and movies have proven a wonderful source for music. samurai champloo, which i never finished, introduced me to an equally wonderful song called ‘battlecry’ by nujabes and shing02. cowboy bebop is full of wonderful music composed by yoko kanno, from the opening theme ‘tank’ to ‘green bird’ and ‘rain.’ ghost in the shell: stand alone complex, fantastic children, princess mononoke, and outlaw star also contain songs i enjoy. suffice to say, i have a nice stash of japanese music to draw from when the mood strikes me.

i selected this song because it is one of my favorite discoveries. for some reason i didn’t expect something like this from a japanese artist, particularly this one. minmi is known more for soca/raggae music than this. if you’re surprised at japan’s fascination with caribbean music, you shouldn’t be. if you’re curious to see how deep that fascination runs, search youtube for the japanese dancehall queen. hi.la.ri.ous. i digress (seriously- it’s hilarious). i’d heard a lot of chinese and korean pop artists and a few japanese pop artists but nothing like this. like i said, you never know what you’ll find or where you’ll find it.

-the skinny miracle