Clap Your Hands

 

Another episode in this series begins in 1969. Norman Greenbaum wrote this psychedelic-style hit. Handclaps are a key element of the track’s driving, gospel-style rhythm and were added in the studio alongside backing vocals from the Oakland-based gospel trio, the Stovall Sisters.

Mott The Hoople released several good, albeit unsuccessful, albums in the late 1960's and early 1970's, and were on the verge of splitting up in 1972. One of their fans was David Bowie, who wrote and produced All The Young Dudes for them, turning it into a glam rock classic.

‘Dog Days Are Over’ is the opening track on Florence + The Machine’s debut album from 2009. On this album, Florence Welsh has achieved a remarkably successful blend of alternative, art-pop and soul.

From the ashes of the doo-wop group Dion and the Belmonts, their lead singer rose to unprecedented heights as a solo artist and had several hits. Something for those with a nostalgic streak.

New Song On Sunday

 

Florence Welsh returns with a new single from her upcoming album Everybody Scream. It is a mystical song, and Welsh plays with hints and references to witchcraft. Her distinctive voice guides us through the song, which is staged accordingly mystically and witchy, with screaming choirs and driving rhythms. It's clever that the album is set to be released on Halloween. Halloween and the Celtic holiday Samhain focus on the dead and the supernatural, with the latter marking the end of the harvest and the beginning of a “darker” season. The last words here belong to her:

The witchcraft, the medicine, the spells and the injections

The harvest, the needle protect me from evil

The magic and the misery, madness and the mystery

Oh, what has it done to me?

Everybody scream 

Kiss With A Fist

This song came by shuffle on my mobile phone a few days ago. I think I posted it a few month ago but it is worth to do it again. Florence + the Machine was founded by Florence Welsh in 2007. They combine influences of Indie, Folk, Rock and a little bit of Soul in a superb sound. The songs are carried by the voice of Florence. I like this song for its stomping rhythm, the straight guitars and the way it was sung. Hope you enjoy it as well and have a good week.

Florence + the Machine - Kiss With a Fist

I'm not calling you a liar

Within the scope of my data protection I have bumped into the first record of Florence + the Machine. I didn't listen to it in full length for a long time and nearly forgot how complete it is. Still love her voice to her fragile songs.

Florence + the Machine - I'm not calling you a liar

Pictures of War

Always I was impressed by the pictures of Robert Capa. He was a Jewish-Hungarian combat photographer photojournalist who covered five wars: the Spanish Civil War, the second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arabic-Israeli War and the first Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the battle on Omaha Beach and also the liberation of Paris. His action photographs, such as those taken through the 1944 Normandy invasion, uniquely portray the violence of war.

If you take a look at the pictures of the Normandy invasion you will know where Steven Spielberg got the set decoration for the first 20 minutes of his move 'Saving Private Ryan'. 

In 1936, Capa became well known all over the globe for the 'Falling Soldier' photo long thought have been taken in Cerro Muriano on the Cordoba front in the Spanish Civil war. It was thought to be of a Workers' Party of Marxist Unification militia man who had just be shot and falling to his death, and was long considered as an iconic image of the war. In the last decade a lot of people found out that this picture doesn't show a real shooting. But anyway - even if this picture is a fake by Cape it shows exactly the cruelness of war.

Robert Capa: If you picture isn't good enough, you weren't close enough.

Florence and the Machine - Kiss with a fist