Some Sound

Glimmande nymf

2011-02-12T01:47:00.000+01:00

C         G     AM         C
Glimmande nymf, blixtrande öga,

C        F     C            G
svävande hamn  på bolstrarna höga,


        C
menlösa styrka,

G               C
kom, kom nu att dyrka


EM  F   G     AM
vid ett smalt och utsläckt ljus


EM  F   G    F  G      C
sömnens gud, vår Morfeus!


AM        Em7             AM
Luckan ren stängd, porten tillsluten,


         F   C          G
natthuvan ren din hjässa kringknuten;

                  C        G
ren Norströms piskperuk

                  C
den hänger på sin spik.


EM   F     G          AM
Sov, somna in vid min musik! ://:


EM   F     G     F   G    C
Sov, somna in vid min musik! ://:

Bellman: Märk hur vår skugga

2011-02-12T01:29:00.004+01:00

Am E Am E
Märk hur vår skugga, märk Movitz, mon frère,
Am Dm E
inom ett mörker sig sluta.
Am E Am F
Hur guld och purpur i sk oveln, den där,
Am Dm E, Am
byts till grus och klutar.
C G
Vinkar Charon från sin brusande älv,
Am E
och tre gånger sen dödgrävar’n själv.
Am Dm E
Mer Du din druva ej ryster,
Am E Am F
Därför Movitz, kom hjälp mig och välj
Am Dm E Am
gravvård över vår syster.

Ach längtansvärda och bortskymda skjul,
Under de susande grenar,
Där Tid och Döden en skönhet och ful
Til et stoft förenar!
Til dig aldrig Afund sökt någon stig,
Lyckan, eljest uti flygten så vig,
Aldrig kring Grifterna ilar.
Ovän där väpnad, hvad synes väl dig?
Bryter fromt sina pilar.

Lillklockan klämtar till storklockan dön.

lövet står Kantor’n i porten.

Och vid de skrålande gossarnas sång

helgas denna orten.

Vägen upp till templets skriftfyllda tron

trampas mellan rosors gulnande bla’n,

multnande plankor och bårar,

till dess den långa och svartklädda rad

djupt sig bugar med tårar.

Så gick till vila, från slagsmål och bal,

grälmakar Löfberg, din maka

där dit åt gräset, långhalsig och smal

du än glor tillbaka.

Hon från Dantobommen skildes i dag

och med henne alla lustiga lag

vem skall nu flaskan befalla.

Torstig var hon och uttorstig är jag

vi är torstiga alla.

Gubben Noach - Carl Michael Bellman

2011-02-12T01:18:00.003+01:00

C G
Gubben Noach, Gubben Noach
C G C
Var en heders man.
C F
När han gick ur Arken,
G C
Plantera han på marken
C G
Mycket Vin, ja mycket Vin,
C G C
Ja detta gjorde han.

Noach rodde, Noach rodde
Ur sin gamla ark,
Köpte sig buteljer,
Sådana man sälljer,
För at dricka, för at dricka
På vår nya park.

Han väl visste, han väl visste
At en mänska var
Torstig af naturen
Som de andra djuren,
Därför han ock, därför han ock
Vin planterat har.

Gumman Noach, Gumman Noach
Var en heders fru;
Hon gaf man sin dricka;
Fick jag sådan flicka,
Gifte jag mig, gifte jag mig
Just på stunden nu.

Aldrig sad' hon, aldrig sad' hon
Kära far nå nå;
Sätt ifrån dig kruset;
Nej det ena ruset
På det andra, på det andra
Lät hon gubben få.

Gubben Noach, Gubben Noach
Brukte egna hår,
Pipskägg, hakan trinder
Rosenröda kinder,
Drack i botten, drack i botten.
Hurra och gutår!

Då var lustigt, då var lustigt
På vår gröna jord;
Man fick väl til bästa,
Ingen torstig nästa
Satt och blängde, satt och blängde
Vid et dukadt bord.

Inga skålar, inga skålar
Gjorde då besvär,
Då var ej den läran:
Jag skal ha den äran;
Nej i botten, nej i botten
Drack man ur så här.

Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence

2011-01-29T12:55:00.002+01:00

Capo Fret 6

Am G
H ello darkness my old fri end,
Am
I've come to talk with you ag ain.
C F C
Because a vi sion softl y creep ing
F C
Left it's seed while I w as sleep ing,
F C
And the vis ion that was planted in my br ain
Am
Still rem ains
C G Am
Within the s ounds of si lence.

G
In restless dreams I walked al one,
Am
Narrow streets of cobble stone.
F C
'Neath the halo of a street l amp,
F C
I turned my collar to the c old and d amp,
F C
When my e yes were stabbed by the flash of a neon l ight
Am
That split the ni ght
C G Am
And touched the sou nds of si lence.

G
And in the naked light I s aw
Am
Ten thousand people, maybe m ore.
F C
People talking witho ut speak ing,
F C
People hearing witho ut listen ing,
F C
People writing so ngs that voices never sha red,
Am
And no one da red
C G Am
Disturb the sou nds of si lence.

G
"Fools!" said I, "you do not kn ow,
Am
Silence like a cancer gro ws.
F C
Hear my words that I mi ght teach y ou,
F C
Take my arms that I mi ght reach y ou."
F C
But my wo rds like silent raindrops fe ll
Am G Am
And echoed in the wel ls of si lence.

G
And the people bowed and pra yed
Am
To the neon gods they ma de.
F C
And the sign flashed out i ts warn ing,
F C
In the words that it w as form ing,
F C
And the sign said, "The wor ds of the prophets are written on the subway wal ls
Am
And tenement ha lls."
C G Am
And whis pered in the so unds of sil ence.

A4 Am
pluck strings 3,1,2,1 3,1,2,1,3,1,2,1, Strum

Van Morrisson: Brown Eyed Girl

2011-01-29T12:43:00.001+01:00

Intro: / G - - - / C - - - / G - - - / D - - - / (x2)

G C G D
Hey, where did we go days when the rain came
G C G D
Down in the hollow playing a new game
G C G D
Laughing, and a running, hey, hey, Skipping and a jumping
G C G D
in the misty morning fog, with our hearts a thumpin' and
C D G Em C D G D
you, my brown eyed girl You, my brown eyed girl

G C G D
Whatever happened to Tuesday and so slow
G C G D
Going down to the old mine with a transistor radio
G C G D
Standing in the sunlight laughing, hiding ‘hind a rainbow's wall
G C G D
Slipping and a sliding, hey, hey, All along the waterfall with
C D G Em C D G
you, my brown eyed girl You, my brown eyed girl

Chorus:
D (3)
Do you remember when we used to sing
G C G D
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da Just like that
G C G D G D
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da

G C G D
So hard to find my way, Now that I'm on my own
G C G D
I saw you just the other day, my, how you have grown
G C G D
Cast my memory back there Lord. Sometimes I'm overcome thinkin' 'bout it
G C G D
Makin' love in the green grass behind the stadium with
C D G Em C D G
you, my brown eyed girl You, my brown eyed girl

Second Chorus:
D (3)
Do you remember when we used to sing
G C G D
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da Just like that
G C G D
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da
G C G D
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da
G C G D G D G (hold)
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la te da la te da

Snow Patrol: Run

2011-01-29T12:34:00.001+01:00

Am G
I'll sing it one last time for you
Am G
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all i've done.

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Anywhere from here

CHORUS:

C
Light up, Light up
G
As if you have a choice
Am
Even if you cannot hear my voice
F
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
It makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
I nearly do.

CHORUS:

C
Light up, light up
G
As if you have a choice
Am
Even if you cannot hear my voice
F
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

VERSE:

Slower, slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess.

CHORUS:

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear.

Snow Patrol: Chasing Cars

2011-01-29T12:32:00.002+01:00

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

A 002220
E 022100
D xx0232

A E D A
We'll do it all, everything, on our own.
A E D A
We don't need anything, or anyone.

A E
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.

A E D A
I don't quite know how to say how I feel
A E D A
Those three words, I said too much, but not enough.

A E
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
A E
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
D A
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

A E D A
Let's waste time, chasing cars, around our heads.
A E D A
I need your grace to remind me, to find my own.

A E
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.
A E
Forget what we're told, before we get too old
D A
Show me a garden that's bursting into life.

A E
All that I am, all that I ever was
D A
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
A E
I don't know where, confused about how as well
D A
just know that these things will never change for us at all.

A E
If I lay here, if I just lay here
D A
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world.

Fields of Gold

2008-06-03T22:46:00.000+02:00

Em C
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
G
Upon the fields of barley
Em C G
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
C D G
As we walk in fields of gold

So she took her love For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold

C G
I never made promises lightly
C G
And there have been some that I've broken
C G
But I swear in the days still left
C D G
We'll walk in fields of gold
C D G
We'll walk in fields of gold

(instrumental, same as verse)

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold

You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold

Mr. Big: To be with you

2008-02-02T00:56:00.000+01:00

CHORUS
E E/F# E Asus2 B E
Im the one who wants to be with you.
Deep inside I hope you'll feel it too.
Waited on a line of greens and blues
just to be the next to be with you.

VERSE 2
Build up your confidence so you can be on top for once.
Wake up! Who cares about little boys that talk to much?
I seen it all go down. Your game of love was all rained out.
So come on baby, come on over. Let me be the one to hold you.

BRIDGE
Asus2 |C#m
Why be alone when we can be together baby?
G | |
You can make my life worthwhile. I can make you start to smile.

VERSE 3
Im the one who wants to be with you.
Deep inside I hope you'll feel it too.
G G/A G/B G Cadd9 D Em
Waited on a line of greens and blues
just to be the next to be with you.

Im the one who wants to be with you
Deep inside I hope you'll feel it too.
Waited on a line of greens and blues
just to be the next to be with you.
Just to be the next to be with you.

De Lillos: Min beibi dro avsted

2008-02-02T00:54:00.000+01:00

B... G... D... F#m
Min beibi dro avsted i en blå folkevogn
A... Em... A...
Og ba meg om å la henne være i fred
B... G... D... F#m
Hun tok med seg en walkman og fatterns bassgitar
A... Em... A...
Og sa at jeg ikke fikk lov å være med

B... E... A...
Min beibi dro avsted, hun dro avsted
B... E... A...
Sammen med de ekle guttene hun spiller med
D.../... C.../...
Hun spiller pønkebassgitar, hun spiller pønkebassgitar
E... D. C#m F#
Og jeg spiller badminton sammen med far

B... G... B... G... ( X 2 )

Min beibi dro avsted i en blå folkevogn
Og ba meg om å la henne være i fred
Hun tok med seg en walkman og fatterns bassgitar
Og sa at jeg ikke fikk lov å være med

Min beibi dro avsted, hun dro avsted
Sammen med de ekle guttene hun spiller med
Hun spiller pønkebassgitar, hun spiller pønkebassgitar
Og jeg spiller bordtennis sammen med far

B... G... B... G...
Hey hey hey hey hey hey-ey-ey-ey-ey
B... G... B... G...
Ba ba ba ba ba ba bababa ba baba

Min beibi dro avsted hun dro avsted
Sammen med de ekle guttene hun spiller med.........

Bryan Adams: Heaven

2008-02-02T00:52:00.001+01:00

[C]Oh, [Am]thinking about all our [G]younger years
There was [Dm]only you and [Am]me,
we were [Dm]young and wild and [G]free

[C]Now, [Am]nothing can take you a[G]way from me
We've been [Dm]down that road be[Am]fore
But that's [Dm]over now, you keep me [G]comin' back for more

{start_of_chorus}
[F]Baby you're [G]all that I [Am]want
When you're [C]lying here in my [F]arms
[F]I'm finding it [G]hard to be[Am]lieve we're in [G]heaven

[F]And love is [G]all that I [Am]need
And I [C]found it here in your [F]heart
[F]It isn't too [G]hard to [Am]see we're in [G]heaven
{end_of_chorus}

[C]Oh, [Am]once in your life you [G]find someone
Who will [Dm]turn your world a[Am]round
Bring you [Dm]up when you're feeling [G]down

[C]Yeah, [Am]nothing could change what you [G]mean to me
Oh there's [Dm]lots that I could [Am]say
But just [Dm]hold me now, 'cause our [G]love will light the way

{c: chorus}

[Dm]I've been waiting for so [F]long
For [C]something to [Am]arrive
For [Dm]love to come a[G]long

[Dm]Now our dreams are coming [F]true
Through the [C]good times and the [Am]bad
[G]Yeah, I'll be standing there by you

Five for Fighting: Superman (it´s not easy)

2008-01-22T21:29:00.000+01:00

C G
I can't stand to fly
Am F
I'm not that naive
C G
I'm just out to find
Am F
The better part of me

C G
I'm more than a bird...I'm more that a plane
Am F
More than some pretty face beside a train
C G F C
It's not easy to be me

C G
Wish that I could cry
Am F
Fall upon my knees
C G
Find a way to lie
Am F
About a home I'll never see

C G
It may sound absurd...but don't be naive
Am F
Even heroes have the right to bleed
C G
I may be disturbed...but won't you concede
Am F
Even heroes have the right to dream
C G F C G
It's not easy to be me

Am G F Am
Up, up ahead...away from me
D Am D
It's all right...you can all sleep sound tonight
F G
I'm not crazy...or anything...

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one-way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me
It's not easy to be me

Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

2008-01-21T22:30:00.000+01:00

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
Em

You can hear the boats go by
Em

You can spend the night beside her
D

And you know that she's half crazy
D

But that's why you want to be there
F#m

And she feeds you tea and oranges
G

That come all the way from China
D

And just when you mean to tell her
D

That you have no love to give her
Em

Then she gets you on her wavelength
Em

And she lets the river answer
D

That you've always been her lover

F#m

And you want to travel with her
G

And you want to travel blind

D
And you know that she will trust you

Em D
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You

2008-01-21T22:25:00.000+01:00

A E7sus4 Bm
Sorry Is all that you cant say
E7sus4 A

Years gone by and still
E7sus4 Bm

Words dont come easily
D E

Like sorry like sorry

Forgive me
Is all that you cant say
Years gone by and still
Words dont come easily
Like forgive me forgive me

A
But you can say baby
Bm D A

Baby can I hold you tonight
Bm D F#m

Maybe if I told you the right words
E A

At the right time youd be mine

I love you
Is all that you cant say
Years gone by and still
Words dont come easily
Like I love you I love you

Travis: Flowers in the window

2008-01-13T01:14:00.000+01:00

G F
When I first met you I was cold
G Am
A melting snowman I was told
G F
But there was no one there to hold
G
Before I swore, that I would be alone forever more

CHORUS
C C/B
Wow, look at you now,
Am
Flowers in the window
D7
Its such a lovely day
Fm G C
And I'm glad you feel the same, 'cos they stand up
C/B
I'm in the crowd
Am D7
You are one in a million and I love you so,
Fm G
Lets watch the flowers grow

G F
There is no reason to feel bad
G Am
But there are many seasons to feel bad, sad, now
G F
Its just a bunch of feelings that we've had
G
To hope that I am here to help you with the load

CHORUS

G F
So now we're here and now is fine
G Am
So far away from there and there is time, time, time
G F
To plant these seeds and watch them grow
G
So there'll be flowers in the window when we go

CHORUS

C C/B Am D7 Fm G
C C/B Am D7

Fm C
Lets watch the flowers....grow

Robbie Williams: Make me pure

2008-01-09T23:58:00.000+01:00

A
So I sing a song
To reel 'em in
D
It's a song I've sung before
A
And a song I'm gonna sing again
D

I mean every word
A

I don't mean a single one of them
E G D A

Oh Lord, make me pure - but not yet

Tell a joke, tell it twice
If no one else is laughing then why am I
I split my sides both times and laugh until I cry
Oh Lord, please make me pure, but not yet

I don't have to try
I just dial it in
I've never found a job that for me was worth bothering
I got a ton of selfish genes and lazy bones
beneath this skin
Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet

Smoking kills
Sex sells
I've got one hand in my pocket but the other one looks cool as hell
I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well
Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet

Bridge:

F C

I stopped praying

Dm F
So I hope this song will do

G E
I wrote it all for you
F C Dm F

I'm not perfect but you don't mind that, do you?

G E
I know you're there to pull me through, aren't you?

So I look for love
I like the search
And I'll be standing for election all across the known universe
Every president get the country she deserves
Oh Lord, make me pure, but not yet

And I've been seeing
Somebody's wife
She said she'd leave him for me and I said that wasn't wise
You can't lie to a liar because of all the lies
Oh Lord, please make me pure,but not yet

Joan Osborne - One of us

2008-01-05T15:08:00.000+01:00

Capo 2nd fret (key of F#m)

Em Cadd9 G D
If God had a name, what would it be?
Em C
And would you call it to his face
G D
If you were faced with him
Em Cadd9 G D
In all his glory -- what would you ask?
Em Cadd9 G D
If you had just one question?
Cadd9 G D
Yeah... yeah... God is great
Cadd9 G D
Yeah... yeah... God is good
Cadd9 D
Yeah... yeah... yeah... yeah... yeah...
  Em Cadd9 G D
What if God was one of us?
   Em Cadd9 G D
Just a slob like one of us?
   Em Cadd9 G D
Just a stranger on the bus trying to make his way home
Em Cadd9 G D

If God had a face, what would it look like
And would you want to see?
If seeing meant that you would have to believe,
In things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints and all the prophets

Trying to make his way home...
Like up to heaven all alone...
Nobody calling on the phone...
Except for the Pope, maybe in Rome.

Bare Egil Band - Det vanlige

2008-01-03T22:15:00.000+01:00

G F C G
Når jeg stadig dusjer, er det ikke fordi jeg trives best med å være skitten
G F C G
Når jeg tar på meg deo, er det ikke fordi jeg gjerne vil lukte dritt
G F C G
Når jeg pusser tennene, er det ikke fordi jeg gjerne vil ha dårlig ånde
G F C G D C
Og når jeg prøver å pynte meg, tar jeg ikke på meg tøy som er slitt

Når jeg går ut av døra, er det ikke fordi jeg helst vil være inne
Når jeg løper til bussen, er det ikke fordi jeg helst vil komme for sent
Når jeg ikke tar taxi, er det ikke fordi jeg har så jævla mye penger
Og når jeg lar skjegget vokse, er det ikke fordi jeg ikke syns langt skjegg er pent

D C
Jeg gjør ikke det motsatte av det som er vanlig
G
Nei, jeg gjør det motsatte av det igjen
F
Og det motsatte av det motsatte av det som er vanlig
C
Det er jo det vanlige, det
G F C G
Jeg gjør det vanlige

Så når jeg går på byen, er ikke fordi jeg hater å treffe mennesker
Og når jeg vanker på Rockall, er det ikke fordi jeg avskyr høy musikk
Og når jeg pimper pilsner, er det ikke i et forsøk på å holde meg edru
Og når jeg prøver å sjekke opp noen, er det ikke fordi jeg ikke har lyst på et stikk

Og når jeg sender et blikk til deg, er det ikke fordi jeg syns du ser forferdelig ut
Og når jeg tar deg på puppen, er det ikke fordi jeg syns puppen er stygg
Og når jeg inviterer deg hjem til meg, er det ikke fordi jeg helst vil være alene i kveld
Og når jeg binder og slår deg, er det ikke for å få deg til å føle deg trygg

Ref. 3X Jeg gjør det vanlige

Finn Kalvik: Ride Ranke

2007-11-30T22:20:00.000+01:00

Mel: Cats in the cradle

Am C G Am
Mitt barn kom til verden på en klinikk, det var en liten gutt vi fikk
C G Am
Men jeg reiser så mye og rakk ikke hjem, da han lærte å gå var jeg ute igjen
G Em
Og sist jeg kom hjem kunne han snakke med meg
C Am C Am
Han sa f ar jeg v il bli som deg, far, jeg vil bli som deg

Am G
Aldri ride ranke og vuggesang
G Am
Aldri Mikkel Rev og bæ, bæ lille lam
Am G
Når kommer du hjem far, jeg vet ikke, men
G Am G Am
Da skal vi få det fint igjen, sønn, da skal vi få det fint igjen

I forrige uke fylte han ti, han sa far takk for ballen, kom så leker vi
Kan du lære meg å sparke, jeg sa ikke nå, jeg har for mye å gjøre og tenke på
Men han var like blid da han gikk sin vei
Han sa far jeg vil bli slik som deg, far, jeg vil bli som deg

Chorus

Han kom fra forelesning i går kveld, jeg sa nå hvordan går det, sett deg ned og fortell
Jeg er så stolt av deg, kom og sett deg da, men han ristet på hodet og smilte og sa
Jeg skal en tur på kino og jeg trenger en bil
Kan jeg låne din vær så snill, far, vær så snill

Chorus

Am C
Jeg er forlengst pensjonert og min sønn er gift
G Am
Ringte ham i går og sa hei takk for sist

C
Det er så sjelden jeg ser deg, kan vi treffes en dag
G Am
Dessverre far det er bare mas og jag
G Em
Jeg har for mye å gjøre i jobben min
C Am
Men det var fint å høre stemmen din, far

G Em
Og da ha n la på røret skjønte jeg
C Am
At han v ar blitt slik som meg
C Am
Min sønn var slik som meg

Chorus

Oasis: Live forever

2007-11-19T22:37:00.000+01:00

G D
Maybe, I don't really wanna know
Am7
How your garden grows
C D
I just wanna fly

Lately, did you ever feel the pain
in the morning rain
as it soaks you to the bone

Em D
Maybe I just wanna fly
   Am7
Wanna live I don't wanna die
   C
Maybe I just wanna breathe
   D Em
Maybe I just don't believe
   D
Maybe you're the same as me
   Am7
We see things they'll never see
   Fmaj7
You and I are gonna live forever

End of the song alternates Am and Fmaj7 while Liam's singing
"Gonna live forever" again and again.

The Water Is Wide (trad.)

2007-11-17T23:23:00.000+01:00

G C G
The water is wide, I cannot cross over,
C D7
And neither have I wings to fly.
Bm Em
Give me a boat that can carry two,
C D7 G
And both shall row, my love and I.

Now love is gentle, and love is kind
the sweetest flower when first it's new
but love grows old, and waxes cold
and fades away like morning dew

There is a ship, she sails the sea
she's loaded deep as deep can be
but not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not how I sink or swim

The water is wide, I can't cross over
and neither I have wings to fly
give me a boat that can carry two
and both shall row - my love and I
and both shall row - my love and I

Robbie Williams: Advertising space

2007-11-04T21:49:00.001+01:00

C
There's no earthly way of knowing
   G
what was in you heart when it stopped going
   F C G
the whole world shook the storm was blowing through you

Waiting for God to stop this
and up to your neck in darkness
everyone around you was corrupted say something

Am Em Dm
Theres no dignity in death to sell the world your last breath
   F
they're still fighting over everything you left oh

C Em
I saw you standing at the gates
Am
when marlon brando passed away
G F
you had that look upon your face

advertising space and

No one learned from your mistakes
we let our profits go to waste
all that's left in any case
is advertising space oh

Through your eyes the world was burning
please be gentle i'm still learning
you seem to say that you kept turning up

they poisoned you with compromise
at what point did you realize
everybody loves your life but you oh oh

Bridge:

Special agent for the man
through watergate and vietnam
No one really gave a dam
do ya think the CIA did

Chorus

C Em
i've seen your daughter man shes cute
Am
i was scared but i wanted to
G F
boy she looks alot like you.

Bette Midler: The Rose

2007-11-04T13:19:00.000+01:00

C G F G C
Some say love it is a river, that drowns the tender reed
   C G F G C
Some say love it is a razer, that leaves your soul to bleed
   Em Am Dm G
Some say love it is a hunger, an endless aching need
   C G F G C
I say love it is a flower, and you it's only seed

It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of wakingthat never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dyingthat never learns to live

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winterfar beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun's love
in the spring
becomes the rose

DeLillos: Kokken Tor

2007-11-04T13:14:00.000+01:00

C Am
   Dette hendte meg engang
C Am
   Jeg var på en slags restaurant
G C
  Sammen med min kjæreste og hennes far
Em
han var sjømann

På samme båt kom kokken Tor
Han satte seg ned ved vårt bord
Og denne historien den handler mest om han

Da far og datter begynte snakke privat
Ble jeg sittende som Tors kamerat
Og det virket som han ikke tålte være på land

og plutselig viste han neven sin og sa:
Du trenger mere disiplin
og jeg mislikte sterkt hans engasjement

Og Tor sa:

G Am Bm7 C
Hei du, jeg elsker deg, din jævel!
G D Em
Du har så mye sensualitet
G Am Bm7 C
Men snart skal du få deg en på tryne
G D Em
for stygge gutter er det verste som jeg vet

Tor sa at han elsket meg
og Tor sa at han hatet meg
og jeg prøvde slippe unna øynene hans

Min kjæreste hadde nok et dårlig instinkt
jeg prøvde gi henne hint og vink
men hun og faren snakker stadig uten stans

Og Tor sa...

Men endelig snudde faren seg og sa:
Hvordan går det med dere da?
Tor, du må ikke plage guttungen med preiket ditt!

Men kokken sa at vi hygget oss
Men nå måtte han kaste loss
Og takk for praten det var jaggu hyggelig gitt

Og jeg sa:
Hei, Tor, jeg syns du er en jææææævel!
Du har ikke mye sensualitet
Du burde faen meg hatt deg en på tryne
Men det er vel allerede altfor sent

Robbie Williams: Better man

2007-11-03T01:54:00.000+01:00

G
Send someone to love me
Em
I need to rest in arms
C
Keep me safe from harm
D
In pouring rain

G
Give me endless summer
Em
Lord I fear the cold
C
Feel I'm getting old
D
Before my time

Em D
As my soul heals the shame
G Em
I will grow through this pain
C D
Lord I'm doing all I can
G
To be a better man

G
Go easy on my conscience
Em
'Cause it's not my fault
C
I know I've been taught
D
To take the blame

Rest assured my angels

Will catch my tears

Walk me out of here

I'm in pain

Em D
As my soul heals the shame
G Em
I will grow through this pain
C D
Lord I'm doing all I can
G
To be a better man

Once you've found that lover
You're homeward bound
Love is all around
Love is all around

I know some have fallen
On stony ground
But Love is all around

G
Send someone to love me
Em
I need to rest in arms
C
Keep me safe from harm
D
In pouring rain

G
Give me endless summer
Em
Lord I fear the cold
C
Feel I'm getting old
D
Before my time

Em D
As my soul heals the shame
G Em
I will grow through this pain
C D
Lord I'm doin' all I can
G
To be a better man...

Oasis: Don´t look back in anger

2007-11-01T22:55:00.000+01:00

Intro: C F C F

C G Am
Slip inside the eye of your mind
   E F
Don't you know you might find
G C Am G
A better place to play
C G Am
You said that you'd never been
   E F
But all the things that you've seen
G C Am G
   Slowly fade away

F Fm C
So I start a revolution from my bed
F Fm C
Cos you said the brains I had went to my head
F Fm C
Step outside, the summertime's in bloom
G
Stand up beside the fireplace
Abdim (xx3434)
Take that look from off your face
Am G F
Cos you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

C G Am E F
So Sally can wait, she knows it's too late
   G C Am G
as she's walking on by
   C G Am E F G
Her soul slides away, but don't look back in anger
G C
I heard you say

G Am E F G C Am G

Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows, if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
of a rock and roll band, who'll throw it all away

Gonna start a revolution from my bed
Cos you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, the summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from of your face
Cos you ain't never gonna burn my heart out

Chorus x2

C G Am
Her soul slides away [long pause]
[slow]
F
But don't look back in anger
Fm
Don't look back in anger [pause]
C G Am E F G C
I heard you say least not today

DeLillos: Klokken er mye nå

2007-11-01T21:25:00.000+01:00

Chords:

B5: x244xx

Fmaj9: 102010

Fmaj7-B5: xx3200

Gadd9: 32020x

F#m: 244222

G/B: 320022

Fm: 133111

C/B: 032003

G6: 020000 / xxx987

B: x23332

C Dm
Klokken er mye nå
   G
Og damen i TV'n har sagt
G F C
At hun ønsker en god natt
   G
Fra alle i NRK
   Dm
Men radio'n holder på
   G
Hele natten og hvis du vil
G F C
Kan du ligge og lytte til
   G
Et spennende hørespill
   Am E7
Om spøkelset i Canterville
   A7
Som er så lei av å ikke være til
   Dm G C
Uten søvn på flere hundre år

Men hvis jeg hadde evig liv,
Da ville døden vært vakrere en Gud
For alt det som han har skapt
Ble ikke nok til at jeg holdt ut
Hvis jeg visste at det aldri tok slutt
Med mine ensomme tanker
Om hvorfor vi eksisterer,
Om hvorfor vi overlever (E7)
Om hvorfor vi alltid strever,
Og svakhet dominerer
Og gjør de samme feil om og om igjen

   B-5 Fmaj9
Men allikevel hvis jeg var over 500 år
   B-5
Så ville man kanskje ha kommet
   Fmaj9
Og spurt meg om råd
   F#maj7-5
Men man kunne vel ikke ha vært sikker
   Gadd9 F#m
På om jeg husket fullstendig feil

C G
Det som skjer mot slutten
B Em Dm C
Er noe av det vakreste av alt
   G
Bare tenk på høsten
B Em Dm Am
Like før bladene har falt
G/B C
Ned på bakken
F Dm G
Varme farver gjør meg øm og glad
   G7
Får meg til å forstå
   G6
At døden er bra
Dm G
At høsten kommer
C C/B Am G
Er noe vi alle kan stole på
F G
Den er ikke som våren
   Fm
Som kommer og går
G C
Uten at man forstår

   Dm
Klokken er mye nå
   G
Og damen i TV'n har sagt
G F C
At hun ønsker en god natt
   G
Fra alle i NRK
   Am
Men radio'n holder på
   G
Hele natten og hvis du vil
   F
Kan du ligge og lytte til

C
Et spennende hørespill

GunsnRoses: Patience

2007-10-31T00:01:00.000+01:00

C
Shed a tear cause I'm missing you
G
I'm still allright to smile
A D
Girl I think about you every day now

C
Was a time when I wasn't sure
G
But you set my mind at ease
A D
There is no doubt, you're in my heart now

C G
Sad woman take it slow
C Em
It will work itself out fine
C G D
All we need is just a little patience

Sad sugar make it slow and
It comes together fine
All we need is just a little patience

Sit here on the stairs
Cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now
I'll wait dear

Sometimes I get so candescent
But I can't speed up the time
You know love, there's one more thing
To consider

Sad woman take it slow
And things will be just fine
You and I just use a little patience

Sad sugar take the time
Cause the lights are shining bright
You and I got what it takes to make it

D
We don't fake it
D
Ahh and never break it
D
Cause I can't take it

G C
A little patience
G C
Mhh Yeah

G
I've been walking the streets tonight
C
Just trying to get it right
G
It's hard to see with so many around
C
you know I don't like being stuck in a crowd
G
And the streets don't change but maybe the name
C
I ain't got time for the game
G
Cause I need you
C
Yeah Yeah cause I need you
G
Uh I need you
D
Woh I need you
G C G
Uhh this time

Eric Clapton: Wonderful tonight

2007-10-30T23:53:00.000+01:00

G D
It’s late in the evening
C D
She’s wondering what clothes to wear
G D
She puts on her make up
C D
And brushes her long blonde hair
C D
And then she asks me
Em
Do I look alright?
C D G
And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight

We go a party
And everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady
Is walking around with me
And then she asks me
Do you feel alright?
And I say yes, I feel wonderful tonight

D C
I feel wonderful
D G D Em
Because I see the love light in your eyes
C D
And the wonder of it all
C D
Is that you just don’t realize
G
How much I love you

It’s time to go home now
And I’ve got an aching head
So I give her the car keys
And she helps me to bed
And then I tell her
As I turn out the light
I say my darling, you were wonderful tonight

Em C D G
Oh my darling, you are wonderful tonight

Dolly Parton: Jolene

2007-10-30T17:42:00.000+01:00

Capo on 4th fret.

Am C G Am G Em Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Am C G Am G Em Am
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Jolene Please don't take him just because you can
(Please don't take him even though you can)

Am C G Am
Your beauty is beyond compare with flaming locks of auburn hair
G Em Am
with ivory skin and eyes of emerald green.
Am C G Am
Your smile is like a breath of spring your voice is soft like summer rain
G Em Am
And I can not compete with you Jolene.

He talks about you in his sleep and there's nothing I can do to keep
from crying when he calls your name Jolene
Now I can easily understand how you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me Jolene

chorus

You can have your choice of men but I could never love again
He's the only one for me Jolene
I had to have this talk with you My happiness depends on you
and whatever you decide to do Jolene

chorus

Am
Jolene Jolene.

Oasis: Rocking Chair

2007-10-30T17:25:00.000+01:00

Chords used:
C (x32010) C/B (x2x010) Am (x02210)
F (x33211) G (3x0033) D (xx0232)
E (022100) Em (022000) E7 (020100)

Intro: C C/B Am (four times)

C C/B Am F
I'm older than I'd wish to be, this town holds no more for me
F C G D7 F
All my life, I've tried to find another way
C C/B Am F
I don't care for your attitude, you bring me down I think you're rude
F C G D7 F
All my life, I've tried to make a better day

Chorus
Em Am
It's hard enough being alone
Em Am
Sitting here by the phone
F
Waiting for my memories
E E7
To come and play
Em Am
It's hard enough sitting there
Em Am
Rockin' in your rockin' chair
F
It's all too much for me to take
E E7
When you're not there

Rufus Wainwright: Hallelujah

2007-10-30T15:37:00.001+01:00

Yes, I know! Leonard Cohen wrote the song and Jeff Buckley added a verse... but I still like the Wainwright/Shrek version...

Intro: C |G C|G
C Am
I’ve heard there was a secret chord
C Am
That David played and it pleased the Lord
F G C G
But you don’t really care for music do you?

C F G
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
Am F
The minor fall, the major lift
G E Am
The baffled King composing Hallelujah

F Am
Hallelujah, hallelujah
F C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Chorus

Maybe I’ve been here before
I know this room, I’ve walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah

Chorus

There was a time when you let me know
What’s real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The Holy Dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Chorus

Maybe there’s a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it’s not a cry you can hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah

Chorus

Extreme: More than words

2007-10-30T14:56:00.000+01:00

Cadd9: x32030
Bm7: x20202
Cm: xx5543
D/F#: 200232
Bm: 224432 evt. xx4432
G/B: 100011
Em7: 022032 (can be replaced by E7: 020130)
Am7: x02013

G... Cadd9... Am7... C....D. G...

VERSE:
G Cadd9
Saying I love you is
Am7 .......... C....... D ................ G
not the words I want to hear from you
G.................. Cadd9
It's not that I want you
Am7 C D Em
not to say but if you only knew

Bm7 Am7
Ho-ow ea-sy
D G D/F# Em
It would be to show me how you feel
Bm7 Am7 D7 G7 C
More than words is all you have to do To make it real
C Cm G
Then you wouldn't have to say
Em7
That you love me 'cos
Am7 D7 G
I'd already know

BRIDGE:
G D/F# Em Bm C
What would you do if my heart was torn in two
C G/B Am7 D7 G
More than words to show you feel that your love for me is real
G D/F# Em7 Bm7 C
What would you say if I took those words away?
C G/B Am7
Then you couldn't make things new
D7 G
Just by saying I love you

Now that I've tried to
Talk to you and make you understand
All that you have to do is
Close your eyes and just reach out your hands
And touch me
Hold me close don't ever let me go
More than words
Is all I ever needed you to show
Then you wouldn't have to say
That you love me
Cos I'd All Ready Know

Tip!
Play with fingers and slightly off the beat to get the feel of the song.
If possible, mute the strings between chords to get the percussive
"chunk" that Nuno gets on the album.

Pink Floyd: Wish you were here

2007-10-30T14:48:00.001+01:00

Em / G / Em / G / Em / Am7 / Em / Am7 / G / G

C D Am G
So, so you think you can tell, heaven from hell? Blue skies from pain?
D C Am
Can you tell a green field, from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
G C D
Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade, your heroes for ghosts?
Am G D
Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change
C Am G
And did you exchange, a walk-on part in the war, for a lead role in a cage...

(guitar solo - repeat intro)

C D
How I wish, how I wish you were here
Am G D
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year
C Am
Running over the same old ground, what have we found - the same old fears?
G
Wish you were here

INTRODUCTION
--0--3------------ Strum g ---------3------------ strum g
--------0--2------ a feW -------2-------------- again!!
--------------3--- TimeS -----2----------------
------------------ --0-------------------
------------------ ----------------------
------------------ ----------------------

Johnny Cash: Hurt

2007-10-30T13:40:00.000+01:00

* means instead of just strumming, pick the first two strings that
are meant to be played and strum the rest.

Intro (*): Am, C, D (2x)

Verse 1 (*):

Am C D Am
I hurt myself today
   C D Am
To see if I still feel
C D Am
I focus on the pain
C D Am
The only thing that's real

C D Am
The needle tears a hole
   C D Am
The old familiar sting
C D Am
Try to kill it all away
   C D G(strum)
But I remember everything

Chorus (strum all):

C F C
What have I become?
   G
my sweetest friend
C F
everyone I know
C G
goes away in the end
C F
you could have it all
   C
my empire of dirt
G C
I will let you down
F Am (*)
I will make you hurt

Verse 2 (*):

C D Am
I wear this crown of thorns

C D Am
upon my liar's chair

C D Am
full of broken thoughts

C D Am
I cannot repair

C D Am
beneath the stains of time

C D Am
the feeling disappears

C D Am
you are someone else

C D G(strum)
I am still right here

Chorus (strum all):

C F C
What have I become?

G
my sweetest friend

C F
everyone I know

C G
goes away in the end

C F
you could have it all

C
my empire of dirt

G C
I will let you down

F C
I will make you hurt

G C
if I could start again

F C
a million miles away

G C
I would keep myself

F
I would find a way

De Derre: Jenter

2007-10-30T13:37:00.000+01:00

G C
Jeg traff henne på St.Hanshaugen sommeren 89.
D C G
Hun gråt når hun var full, og sang når hun var blid.
Bm
Jeg elsket henne høyt, hun elsket meg vilt.
C D
Høsten kom, døra smalt og etterpå ble det stilt.

Så jeg traff traff ei lita jente en regnfull vår
med bløte konsonanter og regnvått hår.
Hun lovet meg troskap, jeg lovet henne alt.
Vinteren kom, troskap gikk og etterpå bla det kaldt.

G Am
Jenter som kommer og jenter somm går.
C Em D
Jenter som glipper, jenter du aldri får.
G Am
Jenter som smiler en tidlig vår.
C D G Am D Em
Jenter og en litt sliten matador. He-hey He-hey He-He-hey

G C
Ved Frognerparken møtes to trikker kvart på ni,
D C G
og hun smilte bak ruten til vinteren var forbi.
Hm
Jeg skrev i rutens morgendugg: Jeg tror jeg elsker deg!
C D
Men våren kom og isen gikk og hun seilte sin vei.

G Am
Jenter som kommer og jenter somm går.
C Em D
Jenter som glipper, jenter du aldri får.
G Am
Jenter som smiler en tidlig vår.
C D G Am D Em
Jenter og en litt sliten matador. He-hey He-hey He-He-hey

G C
Månen er gul og titter ned på skrå
D C G
og Gud er en mann det er vanskelig å forstå.
Hm
Jeg kikker meg i speilet og årene går.
C D Em
Hei, jeg heter Berger. Jeg er matador.

G Am
Jenter som kommer og jenter somm går.
C Em
Jenter som glipper, jenter du aldri får.
G Am
Jenter som smiler en tidlig vår.
C D G Am D Em
Jenter og en litt sliten matador. He-hey He-hey He-He-hey

Halvdan Sivertsen: Kjærlighetsvisa

2007-10-30T13:34:00.000+01:00

C G Am (Am7)
Når sommerdagen ligg utover landet,
Dm G7 C
og du og æ har funne oss ei strand
G E Am
Og fire kalde pils ligg neri vannet,
D7 G
og vi er brun og fin og hand i hand
G7 C
Når vi har prata om ei bok vi lika,
G Gm (trengs ikke) A
og alt e' bra og ikkje te' å tru
Dm C G Am Em
Ingen e' så god som du da -
Dm C G7 C
ingen e' så god som du

Og når høsten finns og hverdagslive venta
Og fuglan tar te vett å flyg mot sør
Og vi får slit med regninga og renta
Og meininga forsvinn i d vi gjør
Når vi må over mang en liten avgrunn
Og ofte på ei falleferdig bru
Ingen e så go som du da
Ingen e så go som du

Men av og tel når tegnan blir for tydli
Og dem som sitt me makta gjør mæ skræmt
Når de fine ordan demmes blir motbydli
Og tankan bak e jævli dårlig gjæmt
Da har æ ei som vet at folk vil vokne
Og at veien ifra høyre snart må snu
Ingen e så go som du da
Ingen e så go som du

Og når æ kryp te køys å frys på beina
Og du har lagt dæ før mæ og e varm
Da vet du æ e litn og aleina
Og låne mæ litt dyne og ei arm
Og dagen den e vikti og den kræv oss
Men natta den e din og min og nu
Ingen e så go som du da
Ingen e så go som du

Unni Wilhelmsen: Won´t Go Near You Again

2007-10-30T13:29:00.000+01:00

(Capo 2. fret)

Intro:
C
Yes, all that you've given me,
F
I know!
C G/H
But all you cost me ,
Am
you know?
F C
Sums is up to nothing much you know
E7 Am
Nothing much at all
Am E7
To live from, anyways
Am E7
hardly to survive...
C Dm Am
So I won't come near you again
F
Now, You can bet your life
C G/H Am - F
I can't come that close again
C Dm
I won't go near you
C/E F Dm - Dm9
I don't think I even want to see you

Intro:

C F
Sorry for not being what you needed
C G/H
For not possessing what you
Am
think you want
F C
Don't know 'bout anyone who does by the way
E7 Am
That's why you're still you
Am E/H
Still with yourself
Am/C E7
While I am someone else...
C Dm
I won't come near you again...

C
‘Cause the past is stronger
F
than my will to forgive
C G/H Am
Why did you need my hand, my hand that night
F C
What did you mess up my systems for
E7 Am
Well, if you really know me so well
Am E7
Tell me which part loved
C E7
And which one I hate the most
Am G/H
Did it get you ready for later
Am/C E7
Or did the others fade out like me?
C Dm Am
Well, I won't come near you again...

Dm
Ever again
F
Never again
Dm
Never again,baby
F
Never again, I said
Dm
Never again
F
Ever again

Unni Wilhelmsen: Anything about June

2007-10-30T13:27:00.000+01:00

G-Em-C-G

G Em C G
You can call her June Though she wasn`t born that month
G Em C G
And the things I would have sung for her would have been about all I wanted
D C D
And nobody knows why she was left alone
Am D G Em C G
Nobody knows anything at all Anything about June

2. Oh June...
who would sleep through all of November
And some things growing in my window still
are there to make me remember.
And nobody knows what she could have been
nobody knows anything - Anything about June.

3. Oh June...
who I know disappeared in May
And the things you`ll hear in a lifetime
are nothing, nothing she would say.
And nobody knows about her wind,
and where it blows.
Nobody knows anything at all -
Anything about June...

Plain White Ts: Hey There Delilah

2007-10-30T13:21:00.000+01:00

Song: Hey there Delilah
Artist: Plain White T's
Tabbed by: Tup on Ultimate-guitar.com

Capo 2nd fret:

Intro: C Em C Em
((Verse chords))
C
Hey there Delilah,
Em
What’s it like in New York City?
C
I’m a thousand miles away,
Em
But girl tonight you look so pretty,
Am
Yes you do,
F Am
Time Square can’t shine as bright as you,
G
I swear it’s true.

Hey there Delilah,
Don’t you worry about the distance,
I’m right there if you get lonely,
Give this song another listen,
Close your eyes,
Listen to my voice it’s my disguise,
I’m by your side.

((Chorus chords))
C Am
Oh it’s what you do to me,
Oh it’s what you do to me,
Oh it’s what you do to me,
Oh it’s what you do to me,
C
What you do to me.

Hey there Delilah,
I know times are getting hard,
But just believe me girl some day,
I'll pay the bills with this guitar,
We'll have it good,
We'll have the life we knew we would,
My word is good.

Hey there Delilah,
I’ve got so much left to say,
If every simple song I wrote to you,
Would take your breath away,
I’d write it all,
Even more in love with me you’d fall,
We’d have it all.

Chorus

**bridge:**
F
A thousand miles seems pretty far,
G
But they’ve got planes and trains and cars,
C Am
I’d walk to you if I had no other way,
F
Our friends would all make fun of us,
G
And we'll just laugh along because,
C Am
We know that none of them have felt this way,
F
Delilah I can promise you,
G
That by the time that we get through,
Em Am
The world will never ever be the same,
G G
And you’re to blame.

((extended verse:))
C Em
Hey there Delilah you be good, And don’t you miss me,
C
Two more years and you’ll be done with school,
Em
And I'll be making history,
Am
Like I do,
F Am
You’ll know it's all because of you,
Am
We can do whatever we want to,
F Am
Hey there Delilah here's to you,
G
This one’s for you.

**chorus till fade out**

C Am....... C!

Britney Spears: Baby One More Time

2007-10-30T13:10:00.001+01:00

Change F to Dm, and G to Em. It sounds better! Ingjerd

Updated: 03/06/08

Ironic! but this song is fun to play and a bit of a suprise to your hardcore rock n´roll mates... Save Britney!

[Am]Oh baby, baby
How [E]was I supposed to [C]know
That [F]something wasn't [G]right here
[Am]Oh baby baby
I [E]shouldn't have let you [C]go
And [F]now you're out of [G]sight, yeah
[Am]Show me, how you want it [E]to be
Tell me [C]baby
'Cause I need to [F]know now [G]what we've got

[CHORUS:]
[Am]My loneliness is [E]killing me
I must [F]confess, I [G]still believe
[Am]When I'm not with you I [E]lose my mind
Give me a [C]sign
[F]Hit me baby [G]one more time

Oh baby, baby
The reason I breathe is you
Boy you got me blinded
Oh baby, baby
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
That's not the way I planned it
Show me, how you want it to be
Tell me baby
'Cause I need to know now what we've got

[Repeat CHORUS]

Oh baby, baby
How was I supposed to know
Oh pretty baby
I shouldn't have let you go

I must confess, that my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time

[Repeat CHORUS]

I must confess that my loneliness
Is killing me now
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And give me a sign
Hit me baby one more time

Travis: Sing

2007-10-30T13:01:00.000+01:00

ARTIST - Travis
SONG - Sing
TABBED BY - Nick Burkett on Ultimate-Guitar.com
Capo on 2nd fret

Verse
Em Am
Baby you've been going so crazy
   Em
Lately nothing seems to be going right
Em Am
So low, why'd you have to get so low?
   Em
You're so, You've been waiting in the sun too long

Chorus

G D Am Am G
If you sing, siinnnggg, sing, sing, sing, sing
   G D Am
For the love you bring wont mean a thing
   Am G
Unless you sing, sing sing sing

Caught her, crying over your shoulder
Hold her, tell her everything's gonna be fine
Surely, you've been going to hurry
Hurry, cause no ones gonna be stopped

Nah, nah, nah, nah

Chorus

Strum chorus chords 2X, end on G.

Everything changes

2007-10-30T12:59:00.000+01:00

I have now made the decision to turn this blog into a guitar chords and tabs blogs rather than write about music (can´t be arsed really....). So there you go. Agree sis?

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ok, then:

Welcome to Some Sound Guitarbook blog!

The Shins defintely shine... but is it really gold?

2007-02-26T09:50:00.000+01:00

The Shins are a musical group on Sub Pop records comprising singer, songwriter and guitarist James Russell Mercer, keyboardist / guitarist / bassist Martin Crandall, bassist/guitarist Dave Hernandez and drummer Jesse Sandoval, as well as new member Eric Johnson of the Fruit Bats. Their sound is commonly described as indie rock, drawing on several musical genres including pop (in the tradition of The Beach Boys), alternative and folk. The Shins are based in Portland, Oregon.

Obviously, The Shins are a great band, and I loved their last CD "Wincing the Night Away", but after last night's gig at the Astoria, I was beginning to wonder whether they should have named their CD "WHINING the night away". For the first 4 or 5 songs, the sound at Astoria was absolutely terrible, and vocalist James Russel Mercer's already penetrating voice, became a little too much to bear. However, let's blame it on the sound engineers at Astoria, for as they went along, the performance became better and better - and when this great Portland band started on a couple of tracks from their first and second album, they were actually brilliand. All is forgiven! I greatly enjoy the rest of the gig, and yes, the Shins are more than a shining dollar sign for their label SubPop (remember the 1996 film about that Label? Called Hype! You can get it at Amazon), but actually their music and performance of last night was GOLD (despite the initial bad sound engineering...).

Also fab last night, was the Polytechnic - a brilliant indie/alternative/pop punk band from the music hub Manchesterrrrrr. Check them out!

Polytechnic
The Shins

Harrods Rocks!

2007-02-26T09:24:00.000+01:00

You may find this title rather suprising, but right now there's an exhibition on at Harrods celebrating the electric guitar. Featuring in the exhibition are the world's first electric guitar (the "sauce-pan"), guitars owned by Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground and the Rolling Stones. In addition, there's a whole range of guitars decorated by artists, musicians (Graham Coxon did one!) and designers (Agnes B, Patrick Cox). Well worth seeing! The only downside of this great (and FREE) exhibition, from a business/marketing perspective, is that they did not put the exhibition on the same floor where they actually SELL musical instruments! I mean, I felt like purchasing a Fender Strat after this, so I guess more people had the same feeling? But no, the instruments are sold on the 3rd floor, and the exhibition had no pointers to that department suprisingly enough.

This brings to mind: Sis, you know that guitars are about half the price in the US right? An American Fender Stratocaster costs about £800 here, but in the US sells at around $700 (= less than £400). Now, that is of course an expensive guitar and a little out of our league, but if you went for the Standard Fender Strat, you could get it at $400 (£200) - and of course there's cheaper guitars than the Fenders! (but they look cooooool!). So waddoya say - shall we go electric? :-)

Born to Rock (the exhibition at Harrods)

Old School Meets New School Playing Old Video Games

2007-02-25T09:37:00.000+01:00

Cadence Weapon: It's old new school hip hop using retro video game sounds. It's so refreshing listening to hip hop that actually does not sound exactly the same as...every other hip hop song!

The Decemberists - Live@Shepherd's Bush (whatever that means...)

2007-02-12T01:25:00.000+01:00

If you can imagine a gig where half the band members appear in the midst of the moshpit to re-enact the American Civil War accompanied by, amongst other instruments, a xylophone, a mandolin and an accordion, whilst a slightly rhotacistic, definitely nasal vocalist, with the look of a young W.B. Yeats, demonstrates how to warm up for a rock concert and pulls lighthearted, somewhat odd-looking members of the audience up on stage for a sing-along – THEN you can imagine a night of The Decemberists.

This amazing five-piece, indie pop band from Portland, Oregon, fronted by singer/songwriter Colin Meloy, played for a sold-out Shepherd’s Bush Empire Thursday last week, and yours truly was lucky enough to be there. The fact that The Decemberists self-released their debut EP, 5 Songs, and two great albums, Picaresque and Her Majesty, on indie label Kill Rock Stars (home of super-funk band The Gossip and former label of another Portland curiosity: The cult figure and mysteriously deceased Eliott Smith), before signing to major label Capitol Records last year, makes them no less cool. I was wondering whether they’d be more commercial (ok I hate the term, but you know: “sell-out”) now that they’re with a major, but when the gig started by a bizarre spoken introduction over the PA inviting us all to say hello to our neighbours in the crowd, after which the band arrive on stage, kicking off with some amazing track from their latest album – The Crane Wife (which I must admit I have not yet bought, and so, don’t know the name of I’m afraid!) – I was convinced! They then go on to perform most of the songs from the new album, but also include great tracks from previous albums such as the song “Billy Liar”.

The band interact with the crowd in a great way thoughout the performance, and vocalist Colin pulls off some real cheesy lines which seem to go down rather well with tonight’s crowd such as “I’m soooo happy to be back at The Bush...whatever that means!!”. Well, the crowd certainly seems to be enjoying themselves, that’s for sure. Even more so when the band finished off with an extensive encore including guest stars (one was which was Colin’s slightly drunk uncle) and the aforementioned civil war re-enactment.

I know it is early in 2007 yet, but I can safely say that this night will remain as one of the top gigs I’ve been to this year.

myspace.com/thedecemberists

The Headlines ready for headlining? And momumental performance by The Little Ones

2007-02-02T14:56:00.000+01:00

So while my sister is hanging around at Berkley, hopefully not living off ‘Leary biscuits’ [never heard of it? Look it up here] – I’m enjoying London which at the moment is nice and sunny! The gigscene is also pretty good at the moment and on Tuesday I went to Club Fandango to catch FREERUNNER + OPERAHOUSE + THE LITTLE ONES + THE HEADLINES @ THE DUBLIN CASTLE in Camden (I’m afraid I missed Freerunner and Operahouse, so can’t report on them). A bustling night – swarming with photographers, movers and shakers (NME’s James Jam was lurking about for example). First on were The Headlines (ironic, isn’t it?) – a five piece indie band from Manchester who were barely old enough to get into the pub – let alone drinking. Age aside, they’re probably one of the most talented new bands around and played Manchester music biz event In the City last year. The vocalist has a voice which sounds like a blend of Morrisey from when he was in the Smiths and Antony (Antony & the Johnsons). Still unsigned – so if any A&R managers read this – get in touch with their manager willie[at]gallusmusic.co.uk now!

Next up was US band The Little Ones. Now, they may be little, but their music and performance was pretty monumental in my humble opinion. The band came together in Los Angeles in early 2006. The Little Ones make bright, summery sounding indiepop reminiscent of The Shins and The Zombies. They self-released their debut EP, 'Sing Song', in 2006 and have since signed to Astralwerks/Heavenly. Because of the Heavenly connection (which is a part of EMI), there was lots of EMI people there. And of course I managed to say LOUD something along the lines of “…they should bloody fire the entire A&R department at EMI….” just as an A&R manager FROM EMI was walking past (I was discussing the restructuring of EMI with a friend). Great. Still gave her Ellen Jorunn’s demo, so hopefully we’ll get some feedback and all will be forgiven….

Now, I look forward to catching the Decemberists@Shepherd’s Bush Empire next week (ah yes, got tickets… phewh! What I did not get tickets for as of yet is The Shins and The Hold Steady which both play London this month – darn!).

How’s sunny California, sis?

Ellen Jorunn on UK tour

2007-01-30T17:02:00.000+01:00

Check out www.myspace.com/ellenjourunn for dates and venue information, and to listen to her amazing new songs....

Email Ingjerd for guestlist.

Ben Folds - Live @ Hammersmith Apollo / BBC 6 Music

2007-01-25T19:11:00.000+01:00

I managed to grab a last minute ticket for Ben Folds’ gig at the Hammersmith Apollo in London on Tuesday this week.

Unfortunately, I had some other stuff to do before, so did not make it up there before 9.45 at which point Ben Folds was already on stage playing “Mr. Jones” and I ended up far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far (I’m not going to do a StarWars thing here, but you get the idea…) away from the stage. The crowd was mainly people in late 20s/early 30s wearing glasses – but the atmosphere was amazing. I’ve never actually experienced going to a gig where EVERYONE knows all the lyrics and sings along IN TUNE! Now, I must admit that I did not know the lyrics unfortunately…

Ben would start pretty much every song announcing which key it’s played in which I found pretty cool you know, from a geeky point of view, and kept pounding the piano so hard you’d think it would break in two any minute. Not too worry: After coming back for a two song encore, Ben smashed the piano by throwing a piano stool at it. Nice.

Checking out the merch on my way out I found an incredibly cool tshirt (which I did not buy as I’d already splurged out too much on the ticket): Ben Folds has tshirts printed with individual fan number codes on them – just in case anyone want to know that they’re fan # 197485354495 or something.

Ok, so I could not see much – but was it worth it? Defintely.

But I must admit sulking a bit about not seeing, so happy was I when I got a text from a mate who works at BBC 6 Music that I could come see the recording of a Ben Folds Hub Session. Crammed together with all the Ben Folds fans who work at BBC – and trust me they’re quite a few – we got to enjoy listening (up close this time) to four songs. This time, he did manage to wreck the piano solely by playing on it. :-)

Links:
BBC 6 Music photo gallery

The Prodigy launch record label

2007-01-22T09:49:00.001+01:00

Ragged Flag will release the band's forthcoming album

The Prodigy have announced the launch of their own record label.

The hit-making electropunk outfit have established the Ragged Flag label, which will release their forthcoming album and seek out new talent.

The endeavour will be backed by UK independent label Cooking Vinyl, home to artists including Billy Bragg, Frank Black and The Violent Femmes.

Prodigy founder Liam Howlett remarked on the band's website: "We have been planning this for a while and we are looking forward to building our label up, starting off with the release of the new Prodigy album. We have recorded a few songs already for this next album and they are sounding big and mean!"

The Prodigy are currently in the studio working on the follow-up to their chart-topping 2004 album 'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned'.

Remember to register for Glastonbury 2007!

2007-01-20T23:57:00.000+01:00

What are the changes to ticket sales procedure in 2007? This is important to know - because for this years' festival, the ticketing system will be completely different. Here's what they say you have to do:

As part of Glastonbury Festivals continuing campaign to combat touting, pre sales registration is being introduced this year. Everyone wanting to buy a ticket for the 2007 Festival will first have to register. This will mean supplying your contact details and a passport standard photo. Each ticket sold will feature the photograph of the person in whose name it is registered and will be non-exchangeable.

You will need to register between February 1st and 28th, 2007. You will be able to register both online and by post. Information about how to access the registration site, together with full details of how tickets will be sold in 2007 and their cost, will be announced on this site before the end of January.

Also, the official line-up will be released in the July 2007 issue of Q on sale 1st June.....

The next Glastonbury Festival will take place in June from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th. I can't wait!!

Au revoir Simone

2007-01-20T21:09:00.000+01:00

I should probably also say "au revoir Torbjørg" as she's now packed her bags and her guitar and left for the wonders of San Francisco. I'm jealous! Well, can't complain really - London is also amazing. But a bit dark and gloomy at the moment.

Anyways, nuff chit-chat - I'd like to introduce you to this amazing all girl - all keyboards band from New York: Au Revoir Simone. I can't be "bovvered" to write my own review at this point - and will copy in the pieces I agree with from PitchforkMedia instead (also, scroll down the bottom for a free download!):

Au Revoir Simone
Album: Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation
Label: Moshi Moshi (UK) - I think they self-released in the US
How to get it? emusic

While the Brooklyn-based trio Au Revoir Simone's synth-pop is always simple, elegant, and ethereal, it's expressed in two distinct modes which approximately divide the album. The first is musically fanciful and lyrically Pollyannaish, and it dominates the first half of the album and makes good on the promises implicit in its title. On "Through the Backyards", a swaying keyboard melody and subtle twitters ride pneumatically hissing percussion. Band members Heather D'Angelo, Erika Forster, and Annie Hart breathe out dulcet harmonies over the rigid rhythm of the music, rhapsodizing about cherry trees and declaring that you can "just make a wish and everything comes true." The drum machines on "Hurricanes" pop and trill beneath bright keyboards until canned applause segues into a jaunty Charlie Brown piano. The vocal melody and the didactic platitudes it contains are remindful of Kimya Dawson: "Dreaming takes you where you want to be/ Don't follow the status quo/ Picture where you'd like go." It's not realistic, but it's not supposed to be -- it's encouragement, the anti-synth-pop to the Moldy Peaches anti-folk, without the schmaltzy affectations.

In the record's second half, a contrary mood takes over-- Au Revoir Simone are still concerned with romance, but they shed their bubbly pep for a dark, cool menace. "Back in Time" announces this shift with an insistently pulsing drum and dreamy synths that billow up in clouds, shot through with a mournful bleat. It's still sprightly but murkier and less obvious than the preceding tracks, the soundtrack to a crisis of faith. If the album's first half is imbued with a summery sense of hope and good cheer, it's starting to feel a bit threadbare by "The Winter Song", the way a sunny sky looks thin and provisional in winter. By the time it peters out into the windblown barrenness that inaugurates "And Sleep Al Mar", it's as if seasonal affective disorder had taken over in earnest. The song throbs with the ominous swing of Air's Virgin Suicides score and stately piano figures as the trio murmurs discomfiting come-ons: "Teenage Mexican boy/ Don't be shy/ ‘Cause I could listen to Spanish all night."

The album feels bifurcated in a way that's not unsatisfying, but Au Revoir Simone is at their best when they manage to embody whimsy and realism within a single track on "Where You Go". For the most part, it's the usual volley of basic piano phrases and cascading synths; dreamy chirps of "where you go is where I want to be." But near the end, it collapses into a sleek minor key bounce that echoes the lyrical turn from naiveté to a more sophisticated (i.e. jaded) view of romance: "It was late at night, I met you at a party / It was a crowded room, I couldn't hear you talking / You tried to hold my hand and then you left without me." The synths on final track "Stay Golden" percolate with restrained urgency, and amid their tight swirl, a sentiment rings out that sounds like the mature Au Revoir Simone of the record's back half rebuking the green one of the front half: "Your faith was an illusion." Luckily, if that gets you down, you're welcome to let the album spin back to the first song and start building the pretty illusion again.

-Brian Howe, July 14, 2006

Free download:
Au Revoir Simone: "Through the Backyards" [MP3]

Canada On My Mind

2006-12-21T12:31:00.000+01:00

Malajube is a indierock band from Montreal, Canada. And they sing in French! But it feels absolutely right, and it makes them all the more special in a world dominated by the English language. Show a sense of humor as well, with Boy Least Likely To-ish sounds in the song "Montreal -40c." On the other hand, they display prog elements as well, such as in "Fille a Plumes," yet still being easy to listen to. Progressive á la feelgood. Turn up the volume to "Le Métronome" and enjoy the beauty of French (or the French, whichever you prefer). Arcade Fire gone happy?

The Rest is yet a Canadian band. The vocals remind me of the Arcade Fire. The Harmony is..harmonic. I'm thinking Coldplay, and I'm still thinking Arcade Fire, only more harmonic. I need more synonoms, I think. Perfect for early mornings. When you're sitting on the bus. Or train. Or whatever you sit on. As long as it's moving and you can look at the landscape flashing by through a window.

I DO Feel Like Dancin'

2006-12-21T12:26:00.000+01:00

But to GOOD music, for once? If so, you should check out the band with the ingenious name Ratatat. It's electronica, more specificly electrorock. You simply cannot listen to songs such as "Wildcat" or "Seventeen" without feeling the temptation to start dancing (hard to resist even at the library!).

Another name to look out for is MIKA (in all capital letters, yes), notably the song named after Grace Kelly. Hence the title "Grace Kelly." It's a happyhappy feelgood pop song. Plenty of references as well, for instance to Queen.

Slightly Disturbing and Muppetesque

2006-12-14T21:51:00.000+01:00

It's "Paris is On" by Paul Brill, remixed by Jason Forrest.

A Glimpse from the Forthcoming Shins Album

2006-11-23T00:08:00.000+01:00

Now you can download "Phantom Limb" by the Shins. Part of their upcoming album, "Wincing The Night Away", the familiar and cozy, yet somewhat edgy, this track helps shortening the time waiting for the album, which will be released in January next year.

They use chain-like percussion (like Kasabian did on their newest album, "Empire"). Somehow, it fits rather well with the folksy vocals - which appears to be inspired by "Joik" (traditional Sami music). Interesting!

Download: The Shins - Phantom Limb, from Wincing The Night Away.

We Love the Beatles Mash-Up!

2006-11-16T18:06:00.000+01:00

This was completely unexpected to me! I did actually not know that there was going to be a new Beatles album coming out now (embarrased). Ok, so when it came I thought: "Another best-of.... Booooring!". But wait a minute! This is so much more than that! First of all, it's a mash up! They've taken origianal demo tapes and reworked them, so for example Strawberry Fields Forever is in a completely different version than what we're normally familiar with. "Love" is produced by the original The Betales producer: Sir George Martin, and his son Giles, and came about after a they were requested to produce music for the highly successful Cirque du Soleil show, a co-production with Apple Corps featuring the music of the Beatles, currently wowing audiences in Las Vegas.

In creating the music for the show and for the album, George and Giles have created a continuous "soundscape"--a series of well-known Beatles songs augmented by additional instrumentation and vocals taken from their vast bank of original multi-track tapes.

Additionally, the is the only fully digital The Beatles production.

Once again the Liverpool 5 proves their worth. This is a gem for new and old fans alike.

Rating: 8/10

Track list:
1. Because
2. Get Back
3. Glass Onion
4. Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition)
5. I Am The Walrus
6. I Want To Hold Your Hand
7. Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing
8. Gnik Nus
9. Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition)
10. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter
11. Help!
12. Blackbird/Yesterday
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
15. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
16. Octopus's Garden
17. Lady Madonna
18. Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition)
19. Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
20. Revolution

Listen to a preview here

Eastern Affair

2006-11-16T00:35:00.000+01:00

Music inspired by sounds of Eastern Europe appears to be the latest in style. Artists and bands such as Beirut, Master Chaynjis, Gogol Bordello, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, and Captain & Me all share an influence from the traditional music hailing from Eastern (and Southeastern) Europe. I’m thinking Slavic countries, I’m thinking accordion, I'm thinking Gypsies, I'm thinking violins, I'm thinking Turkey meshed with bluegrass and pirates et cetera.

Panda Bear: "Young Prayer"

Switch to emusic!

2006-10-24T13:28:00.000+02:00

Today I started using a service called emusic. EMusic sells music without DRM (Digital Rights Music Management). That does not mean that they do anything illegal. They just sell plain mp3 files that anybody can download and use on any device - meaning that they introduce users to the same level of usability and cross platform flexibility as CDs (but without the fuss of ripping cds).

So now, I use emusic for all downloads. For less £10 a month, I can download 40+ tracks (they also have many free tracks). Much cheaper than Itunes.

It's great!

The only thing I'm missing here, is a rating system - not just for albums but on track basis, so that for each album I can see what the top rated songs from that album are.

So, labels out there: add your music to emusic! It's my number 1 shop right now! and with 10,000 tracks on my computer, I guess I'm a pretty good client (and no, I actually bought most of it - so hardly any illegal p2p). and then I use Itunes to organise and play my music.

So please visit eMusic today!

Losing Losing Losing

2006-10-21T00:42:00.000+02:00

What would it sound like if the Boy Least Likely To would happen to be French, yet sing in English (though with a French accent)? Add a bit darker melodies, keep the naïve appearance, and you get the Original Losing Losers.

The band hasn't been signed yet, so you can download the entire album off their web site, something you should do ASAP. That is also the title of the album, only without capital letters. asap.

For those who don't know French (that would include myself), go to this page and right-click on the link saying "téléchargez le diks en fichier RAR" and select save as.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw: "In the River"

Tracklist for the Shins' forthcoming album

2006-10-18T14:28:00.000+02:00

The Shins' new album will be called "Wincing the Night Away", and will be released on the 23rd of January 2007.

Tracklist
1. "Sleeping Lessons"
2. "Australia"
3. "Pam Berry"
4. "Phantom Limb"
5. "Sea Legs"
6. "Red Rabbits"
7. "Turn on Me"
8. "Black Wave"
9. "Spilt Needles"
10. "Girl Sailor"
11. "A Comet Appears"

Read more about it on Spin.com and Pitchfork Media.

The Shins: "The Past and Pending"

Traditional music meets rock

2006-10-09T15:07:00.000+02:00

If you mix traditional as in folk music - not folk as in folksy, but as in traditional ethnic music..ish - with rock, alternative rock, and add gothic elements, you get Woven Hand. Listen. Now. Perfect for dark Autumn evenings. Or early mornings.

http://www.myspace.com/wovenhandmosaic

Ckeck Out These Bands (September)

2006-09-24T01:31:00.000+02:00

The Beauvilles
http://www.myspace.com/thebeauvilles

Grizzly Bear
http://www.myspace.com/grizzlybear

The Lodger
http://www.myspace.com/thelodgerleeds

Fionn Regan - nice acoustic pop
http://www.myspace.com/fionnregan

The Strand - rock
http://www.myspace.com/thestrandmusic

Vetiver - circulating with Devendra Banhart
http://www.myspace.com/vetiverse

Voxtrot
http://www.myspace.com/voxtrot

Upcoming Concerts, Oslo

2006-09-23T18:56:00.000+02:00

September
24: Jaqueline @ Last Train
26: Forward Russia @ Garage
28: Tennessee Beats @ Last Train
30: Grand Island @ Blå

October
1: Blood on the Wall @ Blå
3: Camera Obscura @ Mono
4: Fionn Regan @ Mono
7: Sgt. Petter (/Sebastian Waldejer?) @ Mono
8: Snow Patrol @ Rockefeller
11: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals @ Sentrum Scene
12: Essex Green @ Garage
12: Amusement Parks on Fire @ Mono
14: Texum @ Mono
19: Hanne Hukkelberg @ John Dee
21: Paolo Nutini @ John Dee
27: Pipettes @ Garage

November
7: Wombats @ Gloria Flames
11: Wombats @ Mono
14: Sufjan Stevens @ Sentrum Scene
16: The School @ John Dee
20: Klaxons @ Blå
24: Kooks @ John Dee
25: Cansei de Ser Sexy @ Blå
30: Cheaters @ John Dee

Also, you should make sure to come around to the annual Zoom/Urørt competition, in which unsigned bands participate, the first round starting on the 17th of October at the Garage in Oslo.

An American Band Called Oslo, a Norwegian Band with a Norwegian Name and an American Band with er, an American Name?

2006-09-04T22:30:00.000+02:00

It's true! Oslo is a US band that play indie psychedelic rock.
http://www.myspace.com/oslo

Furthermore, I came across this Norwegian band called Den Norske Flammen (The Norwegian Flame, or Flame of Norway...you get the picture), labelled as Indie/Experimental/Lounge. Quite nice.
http://www.myspace.com/dennorskeflammen

Finally, you should definitively check out a band called The Velvet Teen, which is sort of psychedelic, defiant, desperate, naive kind of indie music. Or some such.
http://www.myspace.com/thevelvetteen

"Bands I Saw This Summer" or, "Check Them Out"..or Both!

2006-09-04T22:20:00.000+02:00

At the Wireless Festival
The Like
Gogol Bordello
Dirty Pretty Things
Raconteurs
Belle & Sebastian
Strokes

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Gnarls Barkley
Pharrell
Flaming Lips
Massive Attack

The Boy Least Likely To
Ben Lee

OK Go
Mystery Jets
Niteversions
Goldfrapp
Depeche Mode

Other
Love Is All @ instore concert, Rough Trade (Neal Street)
Black Assassin @ Hope & Anchor
Chow Chow @ Hope & Anchor
The Strand @ Hope & Anchor
1990's @ Late at Tate
The Long Blondes @ Late at Tate
Scritti Politti @ Late at Tate
Sam de la Haye @ The Bedford - www.myspace.com/samdelahaye
The View @ FROG
Wombats @ The Pleasure Unit - www.myspace.com/wombatsuk
The Fratellis @ Electric Ballroom
Boxer Rebellion @ Fortress Studios
Joan As Police Woman @ The Spitz
Rogers Sisters @ Barfly
Inbetween Days @ Barfly

Live @ London Calling 28 June - 2 July
Mando Diao
Metro Riots
Kill the Young
We Start Fires
The Research
The Holloways
The On Offs
Les Incompetents
Misty's Big Adventure (hyper ska ompa ompa rock with occasional political messages)
Kid Harpoon (gotta love his version of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan", and "Colours" - the latter not being a Cohen cover, that is)
Newton Faulkner (he pulled off a brilliant version of Massive Attack's "Teardrop" using his guitar as a drum whilst playing the guitar at the same time!)
Liam Frost
Lazenby
Mohair

The Bedford Bandstand at Clapham Common 5. August
Tony Moore
Jon Bilbrough
Lee Rogers
Susy Thomas
Simon James
Charlie Calleja
Haley Glennie Smith
Tyler - www.tylermusic.co.uk / www.myspace.com/tylerlive
Jon Allen
Sophie Turner
Dead Beat

V Festival 19-20 August
Morrissey
Keane
Radiohead
Dead 60s
Paolo Nutini
Beck
Bloc Party
We Are Scientists
The Feeling
The Beautiful South
Rufus Wainwright
Nerina Pallot
Keith
Director
The Dandy Warhols
Morning Runner
Gomez
Regina Spektor
The Grates

Phoenix, X.Lover, Black Assassin, Albert Hammond Jr., Keith

2006-09-04T22:01:00.000+02:00

Went to see Phoenix at Rockefeller on Saturday, and the gig was excellent! Everyone was really into the music, singing, dancing and clapping along. The support band, X.Lover, was quite good as well, though it was almost impossible to find any info about them on the web.. But you can read about them here: here or, alternatively, listen to audio clips from their e.p. here

Phoenix myspace

When I was in London in July, my sister and I dropped by Hope & Anchor in Islington, where we saw a band called Black Assassin, described as "stomping out some mighty fine groove based rock...dancey Hendrix type vibes". You can download some of their songs from their myspace site.
http://www.myspace.com/blackassassinband

Strokes member Albert Hammond Jr. is doing a side project with band, and will release the album "Yours to Keep" the 9th of October, but you can listen to some of the songs on his myspace before that (or buy the forthcoming single). My favourite is "Scared", which - to me, anyway - sounds like a mix of late Beatles vocal and Strokes gitars, yet being a nice quiet song.
http://www.myspace.com/alberthammondjr

I also went to V Festival this summer (the one in Staffordshire, not Chelmsford), where I, among others, saw a band called Keith. Unfortunately, we missed the bulk of the gig, because we didn't get there earlier, but from what I heard, they can be described as a rock with a touch of electronica.
http://www.myspace.com/keiththeband

April Top Ten

2006-05-01T12:44:00.000+02:00

Two of this (or rather, the previous) month's top ten songs are from the album Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, an album on which several artists and bands are featured. Gainsbourg's songs have been rerecorded by various bands that wanted to pay tribute to Gainsbourg - for instance Franz Ferdinand and Placebo - by making their own version of a Gainsbourg song. Worthwhile checking out! You can read more about it here. By the way, the picture has absolutely nothing to do with Gainsbourg, but it fits rather well in a top ten setting.

1. "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?" by the Zutons
2. "Ooh La" by the Kooks
3. "Steady, As She Goes" by the Raconteurs
4. "A Good Idea at the Time" by OK Go
5. "I Call It Art (La Chanson de Slogan)" by the Kills
6. "Leaders of the Free World" by Elbow
7. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" by the Flaming Lips
8. "A Song for Sorry Angel (Sorry Angel)" by Franz Ferdinand
9. "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
10. "Riot Radio" by the Dead 60s

Some Sound, Anyone?

2006-04-06T17:39:00.000+02:00

Due to a retarded name, the blog formerly known as "Separated by Sea" is now called "Some Sound". Initially, the plan was to just use a symbol, but after further consideration, we found out that it might cause some problems.

Currently listening to "Johnny Cash" by Sons & Daughters

March Top Ten

2006-04-06T16:50:00.000+02:00

I had some trouble ranking the ten top songs from March as all of them could have been at the top! Either way, here it is (finally).

1. "Sofa Song" by the Kooks
2. "Ride" by the Vines
3. "Creeping Up the Backstairs" by the Fratellis
4. "Lillian" by the Delays
5. "All too Human" by the Rakes
6. "Big Day" by Tahiti 80
7. "No Tomorrow" by Orson
8. "The Great Escape" by We Are Scientists
9. "Run to Her" by the Five O'Clock Heroes
10. "The New Sound" by the Fernets (download it for free here)

You Could Have It So Much Better

2006-03-19T13:00:00.000+01:00

...when I upload the pictures from the Franz Ferdinand gig I went to this Friday. It was brilliant! The entire crowd was really into the music and everyone was singing alond to all of the songs. One of the better gigs I've been to this year, no doubt about it. If you ever get the opportunity to see Franz Ferdinand live I can definitively recommend it - they're great live!

The support band, Bonk, on the other hand, wasn't particularly good. Now, I've only listened to them live, so they might be better in studio, but still... It was OK, but I guess Franz' original support band couldn't make it, so they just found some Norwegian band to do the warm up.

You can read the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten's review of the concert here.

Coming up this Tuesday is the Zoom 2006 tour gig at Garage in Oslo, where Heroes & Zeros - winner of both Zoom 2006 and Urørt - and the Fernets, with Lofi Man as support band.

Currently listening to "Better Do Better" by Hard-Fi

Albums Coming Up

2006-02-28T22:46:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to "Dig" by the Brakes (the US ones)

The following artists/bands will release new albums in 2006:

Bloc Party (probably late 2006)
Blur
The Bravery (late 2006/early 2007)
Damon Albarn (Summer)
Flaming Lips (3rd of April: "At War with the Mystics")
The Futureheads (2nd of May)
Hard-Fi (Autumn)
Kaiser Chiefs (Winter)
Kasabian (October)
Keane (Spring - May?)
The Killers (Summer/Autumn)
Massive Attack (compilation 27th of March, and a new album early 2007)
Maximo Park (May)
Phoenix (Summer)
Razorlight (Summer)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (8th of May)
Rufus Wainwright (Summer/Autumn)
Shins (May)
Snow Patrol (April)
The Streets (10th of April)

February Top Ten

2006-02-27T22:54:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to "Creeping Up the Backstairs" by the Fratellis

I know, I know, it's still February, so it's a wee bit early, but I have other things to do tomorrow and on Wednesday. And on Thursday I'm going to London to visit my sister Ingjerd and go to concerts, Delays at Sheperd's Bush the 7/3 for instance.

But enough chit chat. Here's the list:

1. "DARE" - Gorillaz
2. "Valentine" - The Delays
3. "Moving to New York" - The Wombats (free download)
4. "Let the Sunshine in" - The Fernets (free download)
5. "Another Kind of Green" - John Mayer Trio
6. "Derail and Crash" - The Wombats (free download)
7. "Turn Up the Radio" - Caddy (free download)
8. "Last Living Souls" - Gorillaz
9. "The Other Side" - The Ryes
10. "Camera" - Editors

On a side-note, I went to the Tiger's Youth Nightclub in the pub at John Dee on Friday - Tiger being Tiger Record Store, a small independent record store in Oslo - where they were to play new underground music etc. When I first heard about it, I though "hey, what a great idea!", but not that many turned up, so it wasn't that fun, and we left pretty soon (went to the student pub U1 instead). On the other hand, we might have turned up too early, because people might just have been starting to arrive. We did get to see some ecstatic dancing though. Or rather, some drunk/mad guy going wild on the dancefloor, and unlike the girl Arctic Monkeys sings about, you can bet he did not look good on the dancefloor. Amusing though.

Next time I'll turn up later and bring more people along - that way it'll be more fun.

Singles?

2006-02-21T22:03:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to: "Black Mark" by Emmerhoff and the Melacholy Babies

As I'm currently in the process of moving into the basement "appartment", I went through some of my stuff yesterday, for instance the older CDs. I can't belive how many lame CDs I bought when I was in secondary school. We're talking "Absolute Music 21", "McMusic 6" and so on, with songs such as "Makin' Out" by Infinity (could you possibly find a more retarded title for a song?). And CD singles! For instance "Crazy Little Party Girl" by Aaron Carter. Good god! And whoever even buys CD singles anymore? Can't be that many. At least I haven't bought any for years, and there's little point in doing it either. I'd rather download the single song I want. I mean, if you were to put on a CD single on a party/pre party/after party, you'd have to change the CD almost even before you have the time to even put it on.

On a side-note, I found a pair of trousers that I had forgotten that I had, and they still fit. Yay!

The Editors concert was brilliant! There was actually still availble tickets for sale when I arrived! The vocal was rather odd - in a funny way. But then they tend to be like that. The warm-up band, called the Brakes (not to be mixed with the American band with the same name), was all right, and quite amusing at times. They had a few funny songs (played between country rock songs or some such), that were rather short, and could go like this: (title: Comma Comma Comma Full Stop) COMMACOMMACOMMACOMMA FULL STOP! (the end). They also had another one, about US Vice-President Dick Cheney being a dick.

Wombats, Parks and Emergencies

2006-02-16T00:10:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to: "Begging" by the Libertines

I came across this British band with a Norwegian band member (drums/bass - can't recall which one), a band called the Wombats. This band is really great! You can download a few of their songs for free here ("Lytt" means listen, and "Last ned" means download - though you probably have to right-click and select save as..). Furthermore, they're coming to Norway in April. The 1st of April, actually (no joke), and they will be playing on Rock Bottom in Oslo.
http://www.thewombats.co.uk/

The new Maximo Park album will be released the 20th of February and you can preview some of the tracks here: http://www.maximopark.com/stayecard/

Then there's a Norwegian band called the Fernets, and they are rather good, actually. Supposedly, they have a gig at Garage in Oslo on the 21st of March, but they aren't listed in the programme at Garage's site, so I'm not 100% sure whether it's correct or not. Listen, download songs (free) and read more here.

While looking for a gig by DonkeyBoy, I came across this global festival, which this gig turned out to be part of. It's called the Emergenza Music Festival, and is a world-wide festival for unsigned bands. I, for one, is interested in checking this out in Oslo.
http://www.emergenza.net/
The Emergenza Gigs in Oslo, Norway

Other fab band:
The Goo Men (check out the song called "The Goo Men Love You")

And now on to something COMPLETELY different.

I'm sick and tired of this winter, especially the snow. Managed to get stuck with the car TWICE today. And then because of the snow everyone keeps double parking, leaving few or no places to park the car. I finally found a place I could squeeze in the small (right....) Volvo station wagon. I had to go out the back door, so to say, because there wasn't enough space to get out through the side doors.

UK Festivals 2006, etc etc

2006-02-10T11:30:00.000+01:00

Hi sis!

this is a good initiative, I must say. I am a bit hung over today to be honest. Great office party in the Winchester Club (near Warren st underground station) last night.

London is fab! but finding a flat is a bloody nightmare. It's like there are so many letting agents and such a varying standard. On wednesday we saw some proper shitty flats to be honest, and the only nice ones where completely out of our league. We will probably end up living in South West London, where you can still get flats at a resonable price in nice areas. I was hoping to find something near Clapham south/clapham junction, but will probably have to get something near Streatham Hill (SW16) which is Zone 3. Yeah, there will be some travelling to work!

And now to something completely different:

If you are asking yourself which UK festival you are going to this summer, look no further.... For your convenience, I have looked into which ones I'm thinking will be the best this year, and here are the candidates (ordered by date):

- The O2 Music Wireless festival 2006 (London)
(end of June)

The site for this festival actually launches in about 9 days or so, so watch out!!!
This festival was arranged for the first time in 2005, and wow, it was a blast! It is not a "true" festival in the sense that it does not include tents etc, but it is in the middle of Hyde Park, spread over 4 days. Last year it included bands such as Keane, Kasabian, Supergrass, Rufus Wainwright, The Editors, Hard-Fi, Moby, Basement Jaxx, Babyshambles and Martha Wainwright. All in all, a great event. There are no "real" rumours or announcements regarding the 2006 festival, but I think it will be worth going!

- T in the Park (Scotland) (7-9th July)

This is predicted to be "THE Festival" in 2006, especially since Glastonbury is cancelled for 2006.

- Carling Weekend (Reading/Leeds) (25-27th August)

The Reading Festival has traditionally been the second largest event after Glastonbury. Rumours has it that the following bands are coming:
Muse
Humanzi
Wolfmother
iForward Russia!
Boy Kill Boy
Dirty Pretty Things
Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Chiefs
Arctic Monkeys
The Strokes
Alice Cooper
Flaming Lips
Secret Machines
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

- The V festival (Chelmsford)
(19-20th August)

This is the 10th anniversary for the V festival, and I think that Sir Richard Branson
might invest a little extra in it this year? Rumours has it that the following bands are coming...
Radiohead
James Blunt
The Who
Keane
Kasabian
Razorlight

Ingjerd

Hurrah and good night

2006-02-04T00:41:00.001+01:00

Currently listening to:"Sad, But True" by Sixpence None the Richer

It's Friday night (well, now it's actually Saturday), and what have I done tonight? Written a icky term paper in Comparative Politics. I delivered it some minutes ago - good riddance if you ask me. I could have been at a party or I could have joined my sister at that concert with a band called My Latest Novel, but noooo: I had to start writing that paper waaay too late, thus forcing me to spend this evening - a FRIDAY! - in my room and in front of the computer.

Whatever happened to social life?

London vs. Oslo

2006-02-02T23:35:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to: "Good Love Is On the Way" by John Mayer Trio

In London, at Carling Academy Brixton, "due to overwhelming demand, The Editors have added a 3rd night!".

In Oslo, the Editors will play at John Dee in about two weeks, and there's loads of tickets still availble (I got mine before Christmas, just in case).

On a side note, I got tickets for the Franz Ferdinand gig at Rockefeller in Oslo (which is sold out now), and I really look forward to it!

Yeah, got the John Mayer Trio live CD today...

January Top Ten

2006-02-02T23:12:00.000+01:00

Currently listening to: "Try" by John Mayer Trio

The following songs were my top ten favourite songs in January.

1. "Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" - Sufjan Stevens
2. "Taper Jean Girl" - Kings of Leon
3. "Hide Away" - The Ryes
4. "Chicago" - Sufjan Stevens
5. "The Spell" - Leaves
6. "Love's A Game" - The Magic Numbers
7. "Genius" - Kings of Leon
8. "Advertising Space" - Robbie Williams
9. "Area" - The Futureheads
10. "Dirty Harry" - Gorillaz

Billy Boyd at BI in Oslo

2006-01-30T21:23:00.000+01:00

This afternoon, Billy Boyd was a guest lecturer at BI Norwegian School of Management. Very interesting, and quite amusing. By the way, the guy to the left was one of the guys at the "Tufte IL" programme that was aired on TV Norge (TV channel) the autumn of 2005.

There's a better picture here, and if you know Norwegian you can read more about it here.