Τρίτη 11 Ιουνίου 2013

Hellenic words in international songs: Hero


Hellenic words in international songs (Part 2): Hero
(Hero, Heroine, Heroic, Heroism but also: heroin)


Adult Education - HALL & OATES (1983)
Lyrics: The boys are busy in the mirrors, trying to imitate their heroes

All The Things She Said - SIMPLE MINDS (LP Once Upon A Time, 1985)
Lyrics: don't you look down like the heroes say

Army Dreamers - KATE BUSH (LP Never For Ever, 1980)
Lyrics: I've a bunch of purple flowers to decorate a mammy's hero

Born To Run - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP Born To Run, 1975)
Lyrics: The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive

Cause You Are Young - C.C. CATCH (LP Catch The Catch, 1986)
Lyrics: You're a hero, you're a man, you're a winner, take my hand

Chance - BIG COUNTRY (LP The Crossing, 1983)
Lyrics: He came like a hero from the factory floor with the sun and moon as gifts

Child Of Vision - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: You tried to be a hero, commit the perfect crime but the dollar got you dancing and you're running out of time

Coat Of Arms - SABATON (LP Coat Of Arms, 2010)
Lyrics:  Blood of heroes saving their land,  Blood of King Leonidas!

Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover - SOPHIE B. HAWKINS (LP Tongues & Tails, 1992)
Lyrics: I had a dream I was your hero

Dancing Barefoot - PATTI SMITH GROUP (1979), U2 (1989)
Lyrics:  I'm dancing barefoot headin' for a spin. Some strange music draws me in.. It makes me come up like some heroine

Dancing Girls - NIK KERSHAW (LP Human Racing, 1984)
Lyrics: our hero sits with head in hands and heart upon his sleeve

Englishman In New York - STING (LP ...Nothing Like The Sun, 1987)
Lyrics: If "manners maketh man" as someone said, he's the hero of the day. It takes a man to suffer ignorance and mile. Be yourself no matter what they say.

Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - BILLY OCEAN (LP Tear Down These Walls, 1988)
Lyrics: Just like a hero outta the blue. I'll be your non-stop lover, get it while you can

Glory Of Love - PETER CETERA (OST Karate Kid 2, 1986
Lyrics: I'll be the hero you're dreamin' of

Go Gentle - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (LP Swings Both Ways, 2013)
Lyrics: don't waste time with the idiots, think that the're heroes, they will betray zou

Greatest Love Of All - GEORGE BENSON (OST The Greatest, 1977), WHITNEY HOUSTON (1985)
Lyrics: Everybody searching for a hero, people need someone to look up to

Hero - MARIAH CAREY (LP Music Box, 1993)

Hero - ENRIQUE IGLESIAS (LP Escape, 2001)

Heroes - DAVID BOWIE (LP Heroes, 1977)

HIStory - MICHAEL JACKSON (1997)
Lyrics: Every hero dreams of chivalry

Holding Out For A Hero - BONNIE TYLER (OST Footlose, 1984)
Lyrics:  Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?

I Come Undone - JENNIFER RUSH (LP Heart Over Mind, 1987)
Lyrics: Love's got its heroes, but I know that I just can't hold out forever

I Don't Want To Be A Hero - JOHNNY HATES JAZZ (1987 / LP Turn Back The Clock, 1988)

I Wanna Be A Cowboy - BOYS DON'T CRY (LP Boys Don't Cry, 1986)
Lyrics: looking like a hero

I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You - MARC ANTHONY & TINA ARENA (OST The Mask Of Zorro, 1998)
Lyrics: Heroes rise heroes fall, rise again, win it all

If You Could Read My Mind - GORDON LIGHTFOOT (LP If You Could Read My Mind, 1970)
Lyrics: What a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel,  the kind the drugstore sells.
When you reach the part where the heartaches come... the hero would be me. Heroes often fail... and you won't read that book again

Joan Of Arc - LEONARD COHEN (1970), JENNIFER WARNES (1987)
Lyrics: something in me yearns to win such a cold and lonesome heroine

Juke Box Hero - FOREIGNER (LP 4, 1981)

Korean Bodega - FUN LOVIN' CRIMINALS (LP 100% Colombian, 1998)
Lyrics:  See he is both the hero and the pragmatist

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1989)
Lyrics: Your girlfriend is on another date with the hero in your dream

Meds - PLACEBO feat ALISON MOSSHART (aka VV, lead singer of The Kills) (LP Meds, 2006)
Lyrics: All manner of joy, all manner of glee and our one heroic pledge

Mr. Roboto - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here, 1983)
Lyrics: I'm not a hero, I'm not a saviour, forget what you know

99 Red Balloons - NENA (1983 / LP Nena - International Album, 1984)
Lyrics: Everyone's a silver hero, everyone's a Captain Kirk

No More Heroes - THE STRANGLERS (LP No More Heroes, 1977)

Nothing From Nothing - BILLY PRESTON (LP The Kids & Me, 1974)

Obsession - ARMY OF LOVERS (LP Massive Luxury Overdose, 1991)
Lyrics: You're my hero in advance

Once Upon A Time In The West - DIRE STRAITS (LP Communiqué, 1979)
Lyrics: Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest

Oops! ... I Did It Again - BRITNEY SPEARS (LP Oops! ... I Did It Again, 2000)
Lyrics: you see my problem is this I'm dreaming away, wishing that heroes, they truly exist

Our Last Summer - ABBA (LP Super Trouper, 1980)
Lyrics: you're the hero of my dreams

State Of The Nation - INDUSTRY (LP Stranger To Stranger, 1983)
Lyrics: I see them marching off to war they're looking so heroic. I'm told they won't be gone for long but that's a lie and they know it. Ten thousand gone they won't return never to be seen again. Strategic games is all we learn in the end

Streets Of London - RALPH McTELL (1969)
Lyrics: In our winter city The rain cries a little pity For one more forgotten hero And a world that doesn't care

Suzanne - JUDY COLLINS (1966), LEONARD COHEN (1967)
Lyrics: There are heroes in the seaweed, there are children in the morning

The Blower's Daughter - DAMIEN RICE (2001 / LP O, 2002 /  OST Closer, 2004)
Lyrics: No love, no glory, no hero in her skies

The Boy In The Bubble - PAUL SIMON (LP Graceland, 1986)
Lyrics: every generation throws a hero up the pop charts

The Last Of The Famous International Playboys - MORRISSEY (1989 / LP Bona Drag, 1990)
Lyrics: Dear hero imprisoned with all the new crimes that you are perfecting oh, I can't help quoting you

The Show Must Go On - QUEEN (LP Innuendo, 1991)
Lyrics:another hero, another mindless crime

These Days - BON JOVI (LP These Days, 1996)
Lyrics: Don't you know that all my heroes died and I guess I'd rather die than fade away

Thick As A Brick (Part 1) - JETHRO TULL (LP Thick As A Brick, 1972)
Lyrics (on 18'40''): Come on ye childhood heroes! won't you rise up from the pages of your comic-books, your super crooks and show us all the way

We Close Our Eyes - GO WEST (LP Go West, 1985)
Lyrics: Heroes never give into the night

We Don't Need Another Hero - TINA TURNER (OST Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, 1985)

Welcome To The Black Parade - MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (LP The Black Parade, 2006)
Lyrics:  I'm just a man, I'm not a hero

When YouTell Me That You Love Me - DIANA ROSS (LP The Force Behind The Power, 1991)
Lyrics:  Every time you touch me I become a hero

Wind Beneath My Wings - ROGER WHITTAKER (1982), BETTE MIDLER (OST Beaches, 1988)
Lyrics: did you ever know that you're my hero?

Wish We Were Heroes - MELISSA MANCHESTER & DAVID GATES (LP Hey Ricky, 1982)

Wish You Were Here - PINK FLOYD (LP Wish You Were Here, 1975)
Lyrics: and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? 

Working Class Hero - JOHN LENNON / PLASTIC ONO BAND (1970)

You're History - SHAKESPEAR'S SISTER (LP Sacred Heart, 1989)
Lyrics: You should see me from your ivory tower, I'm the hero of the hour

You're In The Army Now - BOLLAND (LP The Domino Theory, 1981)
Lyrics: You'll be the hero of the neighbourhood, nobody knows that you left for good 

Your Love Alone Is Not Enough - MANIC STREET PREACHERS feat. NINA PERSSON (LP Send Away The Tigers, 2007)
Lyrics: Trade all your heroes in for ghosts


Reference to Hellenic heroes in international songs 

Achilles
Achilles Last Stand - LED ZEPPELIN (LP Presence, 1976)

Ajax
Flash - QUEEN (OST Flash Gordon, 1980)
Lyrics:  Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body 

Hercules
Hercules - AARON NEVILLE (1973) 

Jason & The Argonauts
Birdhouse In Your Soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (1990)
Lyrics: There's a picture opposite me, of my primitive ancestry which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free. Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job. After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts... Bluebird of friendliness like guardian angels its always near
(Αναφορά στη διέλευση ανάμεσα απο τις Συμπληγάδες Πέτρες) 

Theseus
In The Flat Field - BAUHAUS (LP In The Flat Field, 1980)
Lyrics: Where is the string that Theseus laid find me out this labyrinth place
(Αναφορά στο Λαβύρινθο και το μίτο της Αριάδνης)


also see:

Heroin

Birth, School, Work, Death - THE GODFATHERS (1987 / LP Birth, School, Work, Death, 1988)
Lyrics: and heroin was the love you gave

Ganz Wien - FALCO (LP Einzelhaft, 1982)
Lyrics: Ganz Wien, ist heut auf heroin

I Believe In You - TALK TALK (LP Spirit Of Eden, 1988)
Lyrics:  I've seen heroin for myself, on the street so young laying wasted. Enough ain't it enough... Crippled world

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - THE DANDY WARHOLS (LP ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, 1997)
Lyrics: But I never thought you'd be a junkie because heroin is so passe

Time To Pretend - MGMT (LP Oraculr Spectacular, 2008)
Lyrics: I'm feelin' rough I'm feelin' raw I'm in the prime of my life. Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives... I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars. You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars


My related  broadcast on Radio Boo (12/06/2013)

http://yourlisten.com/channel/content/16991538/hero_songs

Παρασκευή 7 Ιουνίου 2013

Religion related Hellenic terms in songs


Listen to the relevant broadcast:



1) Genesis Ch.1, V.32 - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT (LP I Robot, 1977)

2) Hymn Τo Ηer - PRETENDERS (LP Get Close, 1986)
Lyrics: from the womb to the tomb

3) Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnite Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: midnight snacks in the mausoleum where the pixelated doctors moan

4) Otherside - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (LP Californication, 1999)
Lyrics: A cemetery where I marry the sea

5) Born Of Frustration - JAMES (LP Seven, 1992)
Lyrics: all an illusion, only in my head you don't exist. 
Who are you foolin'? Don't need a shrink or an exorcist

6) Kick It In - SIMPLE MINDS (LP Street Fighting Years, 1989)
Lyrics: don’t let the demons in

7) Total Eclipse - KLAUS NOMI (LP Encore, 1983)
Lyrics:  Big shots argue about what they've got making the planet so hot, 
hot as a holocaust

8) Only The Good Die Young - BILLY JOEL (LP The Stranger, 1977)
Lyrics: Come out Virginia, don't let 'em wait, you Catholic girls start much too late

9) Anarchy In The UK - SEX PISTOLS 
(1976 / LP Never Mind The Bollocks - Here's The Sex Pistols, 1977)
Lyrics: I am an anti-Christ, I am an anarchist

10) Missionary Man - EURYTHMICS (LP Revenge, 1986)
Lyrics: black eyed looks from these Bible books... He's got the saints and apostle Backin' up from behind

11) Walking In Memphis - MARC COHN (LP Marc Cohn, 1991)
Lyrics: Now security they did not see him (Elvis) They just hovered 'round his tomb she (Muriel) said "Tell me are you a Christian child?" and I said "Ma'am I am tonight" 

12) Litanie Des Saints - DR. JOHN (LP Goin' Back To Noew Orleans, 1992)

13) Exodus - BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS (LP Exodus, 1977)

14) Blasphemous Rumours - DEPECHE MODE (LP Some Great Reward, 1984)
Lyrics: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours 
but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor 
and when I die I expect to find Him laughing

15) You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk - PET SHOP BOYS (LP Nightlife, 1999)
Lyrics: You're a devil, now an angel suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk

16) The Fifth Horseman - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics: Love is The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
The Bible mentions four I'm living proof of more

17) Mea Culpa Part II - ENIGMA (LP MCMXC a.D., 1990)
Lyrics: 
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
(Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy)

18) Dawn Of The Iconoclast - DEAD CAN DANCE (LP Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, 1987)

19) The Seventh Seal - SCOTT WALKER (LP Scott 4, 1969)
Lyrics:  This morning I played chess with Death said the knight. 
We played that he might grant me time. My bishop and my knight will shatter his flanks

20) Crusader (I The Fall Of Jerusalem) - CHRIS DE BURGH (LP Crusader, 1979)
Lyrics: "What do I do next?" said the bishop to the priest, 
"I have spent my whole life waiting, preparing for the feast
and now you say Jerusalem has fallen and is lost, 
The king of heathen Saracen has seized the holy cross;"

21) Epitaph - KING CRIMSON (LP In The Court Of The Crimson King, 1969)
Lyrics: confusion will be my Epitaph

22) Universal Soldier - BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (1964), DONOVAN (1965)
Lyrics: He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew

23) Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1964 / OST The Graduate, 1967)
Lyrics: And the signs said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls"

24) Le Geant De Papier - JEAN-JACQUES LAFON (LP Le Geant De Papier, 1985)
Lyrics: Demandez-moi de combattre le diable, D/aller defier les dragons du neant  De vous construire des tours, des cathedrales Sur des sables mouvants 
(Ask me to fight the devil, to go and brave the dragons of nothingness,  to build towers & cathedrals for you on shifting sands)

25) Deacon Blues - STEELY DAN (LP Aja, 1977)

26) Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: Looking like a born again living like a heretic
Listening to Arthur Lee records making all your friends feel so guilty

27) Nothing Ever Happens - DEL AMITRI (LP Waking Hours, 1989)
Lyrics: They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock

28) China In Your Hand - T’PAU (LP Bridge Of Spies, 1987)
Lyrics: now life will return in this electric storm,  a prophecy for a fantasy, the curse of a vivid mind

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Religion related terms of Hellenic (Greek) origin / etymology in international songs.


ANTI-CHRIST (ΑΝΤΙΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ)

Anarchy In The UK - SEX PISTOLS (1976 / LP Never Mind The Bollocks - Here's The Sex Pistols, 1977)
Lyrics: I am an anti-Christ, I am an anarchist

Fire Water Burn - BLOODHOUND GANG (LP One Fierce Beer Coaster, 1996)
Lyrics: Webster yea Emmanuel Lewis cause he's the anti-Christ



APOCALYPSE (ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΗ)

The Fifth Horseman - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics: Love is The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse



APOSTLE (ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΣ)

Missionary Man - EURYTHMICS (LP Revenge, 1986)
Lyrics: He's got the saints and apostles backin' up from behind



ATHEIST (ΑΘΕΟΣ)

Universal Soldier - BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (1964), DONOVAN (1965)
Lyrics: He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain, a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.



BAPTIZE (ΒΑΠΤΙΖΩ, ΒΑΠΤΙΣΗ)

Ask The Lord - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)
Lyrics: Hot summer rain burn me on the wheel, baptize me with fire

Madonna’s Eyes - JENNIFER RUSH (LP Jennifer Rush, 1984)
Lyrics: When the fog has finally settled in, she will baptise all the waiting men



BIBLE (ΒΙΒΛΟΣ < ΒΙΒΛΙΟ)

American Pie - DON McLEAN (LP American Pie, 1971)
Lyrics: do you have faith in God above, if the Bible tells you so?

Chocolate Jesus - TOM WAITS (LP Mule Variations, 1999)
Lyrics: Well I don't go to church on Sunday, don't get on my knees to pray, don't memorize the books of the Bible.. I got my own special way

I Want Your Sex - GEORGE MICHAEL (LP Faith, 1987)
Lyrics: I don’t need no Bible, just look in my eyes

Judas - LADY GAGA (LP Born This Way, 2011)
Lyrics: In the most Biblical sense

Missionary Man - EURYTHMICS (LP Revenge, 1986)
Lyrics: black eyed looks from these Bible looks

Pink Cadillac - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (1984), NATALIE COLE (1988)
Lyrics: Well now way back in the Bible, temptations always come along. There's always somebody tempting somebody into doing something they know is wrong

Respect Yourself - THE STAPLE SINGERS (1971), BRUCE WILLIS (1987)
Lyrics: if you don’t give a heck about the man with the Bible in his hand, y'all just get out the way, and let the gentleman do his thing

The Fifth Horseman - PREFAB SPROUT (LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics:  The Bible mentions four, I tell you there's one more...

The Honeythief - HIPSWAY (LP Hipsway, 1986)
Lyrics: sleek big cat bible black



BISHOP (ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ)

Crusader (I  The Fall Of Jerusalem) - CHRIS DE BURGH (LP Crusader, 1979)
Lyrics: "What do I do next?" said the bishop to the priest, "I have spent my whole life waiting, preparing for the feast, and now you say Jerusalem has fallen and is lost, The king of heathen Saracen has seized the holy cross;"

The Seventh Seal - SCOTT WALKER (LP Scott 4, 1969)
Lyrics:  This morning I played chess with Death said the knight. We played that he might grant me time. My bishop and my knight will shatter his flanks



BLASPHEMY (ΒΛΑΣΦΗΜΙΑ)

Blasphemous Rumours - DEPECHE MODE (LP Some Great Reward, 1984)
Lyrics: I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find Him laughing

Shoot Me Down - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (LP Love Not Money, 1985)
Lyrics:  Stop my mouth with kisses dear forever they will keep me here and these drunken blasphemies must never make us enemies

Watchdogs - UB 40 (LP Rat In The Kitchen, 1986)
Lyrics:  you try to close your eyes but the blasphemies keep coming tempting you lies



CATHEDRAL (ΚΑΘΕΔΡΙΚΟΣ < ΚΑΘΕΔΡΑ)

Cathedral Song - TANITA TIKARAM (LP Ancient Heart, 1988)

Electric Guitars - PREFAB SPROUT(LP Andromeda Heights, 1997)
Lyrics: grander than Castles, Cathedrals or stars

Hotel Yorba - WHITE STRIPES (LP White Blood Cells, 2001)
Lyrics: Let's get married in a big cathedral by a priest

Le Geant De Papier - JEAN-JACQUES LAFON (LP Le Geant De Papier, 1985)
Lyrics: Demandez-moi de combattre le diable, D´aller défier les dragons du néant De vous construire des tours, des cathédrales Sur des sables mouvants (Ask me to fight the devil, to go and brave the dragons of nothingness, to build towers & cathedrals for you on shifting sands)

Lonely Sky - CHRIS DE BURGH (1975)
Lyrics: The old cathedral lights are low

Tom's Diner - SUZANNE VEGA (LP Solitude Standing, 1987)
Lyrics:  this rain... it will continue through the morning...as I'm listening to the bells of the cathedral

Turn Of A Friendly Card (Part 1) - THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT (LP The Turn Of A Friendly Card, 1980)
Lyrics:  But a pilgrim must follow in search of a shrine as he enters inside the cathedral

When All’s Well - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL (LP Love Not Money, 1985)
Lyrics: My love is like cathedral bells



CATHOLIC (ΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΟΣ)

Catholic Girls - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Joe's Garage Act I. 1979)

King In A Catholic Style - CHINA CRISIS (LP Flaunt The Imperfection, 1985)

Only The Good Die Young - BILLY JOEL (LP The Stranger, 1977)
Lyrics: Come out Virginia, don't let 'em wait, you Catholic girls start much too late



CEMETERY (ΚΟΙΜΗΤΗΡΙΟ)

Otherside - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (LP Californication, 1999)
Lyrics: A cemetery where I marry the sea

Pet Sematary - RAMONES (LP Brain Drain, 1989 / OST Pet Sematary, 1989)
Lyrics: I don't wanna be burried, in a pet cemetery



CHRISTIAN (ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΟΣ)

Loving The Alien - DAVID BOWIE (LP Tonight, 1984)
Lyrics: Christians & the unbelievers

Walking In Memphis - MARC COHN (LP Marc Cohn, 1991)
Lyrics: she (Muriel) said "Tell me are you a Christian child?" and I said "Ma'am I am tonight" 



DEACON (ΔΙΑΚΟΝΟΣ)

Deacon Blues - STEELY DAN (LP Aja, 1977)



DEMON (ΔΑΙΜΩΝ)

Don’t Mess With Dr. Dream - THOMPSON TWINS (LP Here's To Future Days, 1985)
Lyrics: In the hours before the dawn, you curse the day that you were born. Oh those demons scream in ecstasy and you crawl around in agony

The Devil Went Down To Georgia - THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND (LP Million Miles Reflections, 1979)
Lyrics: he (the devil) pulled the bow across the strings and it made an evil hiss and a band of demons joined in

Kick It In - SIMPLE MINDS (LP Street Fighting Years, 1989)
Lyrics: don’t let the demons in

No More 'I Love You’s' - THE LOVER SPEAKS (1986), ANNIE LENNOX (1995)
Lyrics: I used to have demons in my room at night... Desire, despair, desire, so many monsters

Run Samson Run - NEIL SEDAKA (1960)
Lyrics: In the Bible, 1000 year BC... She was a demon, a devil in disguise

Summer (The First Time) - BOBBY GOLDSBORO (1973)
Lyrics: It was a hot afternoon last day of June and the sun was a demon



DEVIL, DIABOLIC (ΔΙΑΒΟΛΟΣ, ΔΙΑΒΟΛΙΚΟ)
http://ilovemyradio.blogspot.gr/2008/01/songs-religion-part-2-names-terms.html

Sadeness Pt. 1 (LP MCMXC a.D., 1990)
Lyrics:  Sade, are you diabolical or divine?



EPITAPH (ΕΠΙΤΑΦΙΟΣ)

Epitaph - KING CRIMSON (LP In The Court Of The Crimson King, 1969)
Lyrics: confusion will be my Epitaph



EXODUS (ΕΞΟΔΟΣ)

Baba O'Riley - THE WHO (LP Who's Next, 1971)
Lyrics: The exodus is here

Exodus - BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS (LP Exodus, 1977)

Exodus (Noah's Ark 2001) - BONEY M (LP 10.000 Lightyears, 1984)



EXORCIST (ΕΞΟΡΚΙΣΤΗΣ)

Born Of Frustration - JAMES (LP Seven, 1992)
Lyrics: all an illusion, only in my head you don't exist. Who are you foolin'? Don't need a shrink or an exorcist

Look Who's Dancing - ZIGGY MARLEY & THE MELODY MAKERS (LP One Bright Day, 1989)
Lyrics: Exorcism, devilism we nuh deal wid, our faith in jah jah man, it well, well, well solid



GENESIS (ΓΕΝΕΣΙΣ)

Genesis Ch.1, V.32 - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT (LP I Robot, 1977)



HERECY, HERETIC (ΑΙΡΕΣΗ, ΑΙΡΕΤΙΚΟΣ)

Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: Looking like a born again living like a heretic. Listening to Arthur Lee records making all your friends feel so guilty



HOLOCAUST (ΟΛΟΚΑΥΤΩΜΑ)

Total Eclipse - KLAUS NOMI (LP Encore, 1983)
Lyrics:  Big shots argue about what they've got making the planet so hot, hot as a holocaust.



ICON, ICONOCLAST (ΕΙΚΟΝΑ, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ)

Presidential Suite - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (LP Rings Around The World, 2001)
Lyrics: Found an icon that gave him a hard one

Iconoclast - EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (LP Tarkus, 1971)

Dawn Of The Iconoclast - DEAD CAN DANCE (LP Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, 1987)



HYMN (ΥΜΝΟΣ)

Hymn - ULTRAVOX (LP Quartet, 1982)



KYRIE ELEISON (ΚΥΡΙΕ ΕΛΕΗΣΟΝ)

Kyrie - MR. MISTER (LP Welcome To The Real World, 1985)
Lyrics:
Kyrie eleison, down the road that I must travel
Kyrie eleison, through the darkness of the night
Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow
Kyrie eleison, on a highway in the light

Mea Culpa Part II - ENIGMA (LP MCMXC a.D., 1990)
Lyrics: 
Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
(Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy)



LITANIE (ΛΙΤΑΝΕΙΑ)

Litanie Des Saints - DR. JOHN (LP Goin' Back To Noew Orleans, 1992)



MARTYR (ΜΑΡΤΥΡΑΣ)

An Innocent Man - BILLY JOEL (LP An Innocent Man, 1983)
Lyrics: You know you only hurt yourself out of spite I guess you'd rather be a martyr tonight That's your decision

Generations Of Love - JESUS LOVES YOU (LP The Martyr Mantras, 1991)
Lyrics: The angels and martyrs, the lovers and saints

Perfect Way - SCRITTI POLITTI  (LP Cupid & Psyche 85, 1985)
Lyrics: I took a page out of my rule book for you, you wanna message, a confession, you wanna martyr me too, you wanna margin of error for two



MAUSOLEUM (ΜΑΥΣΩΛΕΙΟ)

Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnite Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: midnight snacks in the mausoleum where the pixelated doctors moan



MONK (ΜΟΝΑΧΟΣ)

Desolation Row - BOB DYLAN (LP Highway 61 Revisited, 1965)
Lyrics: Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk. Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk

In Liverpool - SUZANNE VEGA (LP 99.9 F, 1992)
Lyrics: I'll be the girl who sings for my supper, ζou'll be the monk whose forehead is high

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk - PET SHOP BOYS(LP Nightlife, 1999)
Lyrics: You're a devil, now an angel suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk



MONOGAMY (ΜΟΝΟΓΑΜΙΑ)

Kids - ROBBIE WILLIAMS & KYLIE MINOGUE (LP Sing When You're Winning, 2000)
Lyrics:  For serial monogamy



ORTHODOX (ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟ)

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (LP GenerationTerrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Life lies a slow suicide orthodox dreams and symbolic myths



PARTHENOGENESIS (ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΓΕΝΝΕΣΗ)

Nemesis - SHRIEKBACK )LP Oil & Gold, 1985)
Lyrics: big black Nemesis, parthenogenesis 



PROPHET, PROPHECY (ΠΡΟΦΗΤΗΣ, ΠΡΟΦΗΤΕΙΑ)

Can I Play With Madness - IRON MAIDEN (LP Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, 1988)
Lyrics: the prophet stared at his crystal ball, there's no vision there at all... the prophet looked and he laughed at me, he said you're blind too blind to see

China In Your Hand - T’PAU (LP Bridge Of Spies, 1987)
Lyrics: now life will return in this electric storm, a prophecy for a fantasy, the curse of a vivid mind

E=mc2 - B.A.D. (LP This Is Big Audio Dynamite, 1985)
Lyrics: Ritual ideas relativety, only buildings no people prophecy

One Of Us - JOAN OSBOURNE (LP Relish, 1995)
Lyrics: 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?

Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1964 / OST The Graduate, 1967)
Lyrics: And the signs said, 'The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls αnd tenement halls"

Small Talk - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Cupid & Psyche 85, 1985)
Lyrics: Small talk, ooh we're tired of prophecying, we heard the word was good but it's stupefying



SATAN, SATANIC

Dr. Mabuse - PROPAGANDA
Lyrics: He's a satanic gambler, a beautiful fool



SYNAGOGUE (ΣΥΝΑΓΩΓΗ)

Nothing Ever Happens - DEL AMITRI (LP Waking Hours, 1989)
Lyrics: They'll burn down the synagogues at six o'clock



TOMB (ΤΥΜΒΟΣ)

Celebrate Youth - RICK SPRINGFIELD (LP Tao, 1985)
Lyrics: Everybody lives the pride and passion of the young from the womb to the tomb

Hymn Τo Ηer - PRETENDERS (LP Get Close, 1986)
Lyrics: from the womb to the tomb

The Pusher - STEPPENWOLF (1967 / LP Steppenwolf, 1968 / OST Easy Rider, 1969)
Lyrics: tombstone

Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON (LP Thriller, 1982)
Lyrics: grizzly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom

Tomb Of Memories - PAUL YOUNG (LP The Secret Of Association, 1985)

Walk Like An Egyptian - BANGLES (LP Different Light, 1986)
Lyrics: All the old paintings on the tombs they do the sand dance don't you know

Who Do You Love - BO DIDDLEY (1956)
Lyrics:  Tombstone hand and a graveyard mine, just 22 and I don't mind dying



Special mention: ANGEL

Angel in song titles:

All The Angels - BIG SLEEP (2001)
Angel - AEROSMITH (1987)
Angel - GAVIN FRIDAY (1996)
Angel - MADONNA (1984)
Angel Eyes - WET WET WET (1987)
Angel Of Mine - FRANK DUVAL & ORCHESTRA (1980)
Angel Of Harlem- U2 (1988)
Angel Of The Morning - JUICE NEWTON (1981)
Angels - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (1997)
Che Angelo Sei - AL BANO & ROMINA POWER (1982)
Dance Of The Bad Angels - BOOTH & THE BAD ANGEL (1996)
Devil Or Angel - BOBBY VEE (1960)
Engel - RAMMSTEIN (1997)
Guardian Angel - MASQUERADE (1983)
Send Me An Angel -REAL LIFE (1983)
Send Me An Angel - SCORPIONS (1990)
There Must Be An Angel - EURYTHMICS (1985)
Undercover Angel - ALAN O'DAY (1977)


Angel in song lyrics:

Candy - ASH (2001 / angel of the summer stars)
Don't Give Up On Us - DAVID SOUL (Can't we stay the way we are? The angel and the dreamer Who sometimes plays a fool)
Honey - BOBBY GOLDSBORO (1967 / the angels came)
I Can Laugh About It Now - BLACK (1988 /  is there room in the sky for all of us angels here on earth?)
Number One Friend - THE SILENCERS (1995 / I would like to be your guardian angel)
Summer Wine - NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD (1966 / Strawberries cherries and an angel's kiss in spring)
(They Long To Be) Close To You - RICHARD CHAMBERLAINE (1963), THE CARPENTERS (1970 /  on the day that you were born the angels got together and decided to create a dream come true)
You Mean Everything To Me - NEIL SEDAKA (1960 / you are an angel from above)
(You're The) Devil In Disguise - ELVIS PRESLEY (1963 / You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel but I got wise


Groups names after religious terms of Hellenic origin:

Christians, Deus, Vaya Con Dios, Herman's Hermits


Πέμπτη 16 Μαΐου 2013

Medicine related Hellenic terms in songs




1) Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)
Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

2) Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

3) Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)
Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma

4) Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)
Lyrics: like a nympho (maniac)

5) Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)
Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

6) Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)
Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley

7) Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens

8) Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)
Lyrics: I got a bad migraine

9) Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)
Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania

10) Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

11) Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill (symptoms)

12) Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy

13) Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)
Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein

14) Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)

15) Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!

16) What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)
Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner

17) Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)
Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics

18) The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)
Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows

19) Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

20) Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)
Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends

21) I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)
Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

22) One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

23) Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah

24) Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything

25) Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political

26) Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma


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Terms of Hellenic origin & etymology in Medicine in general


ACNE

Suicide - BOBBY GAYLOR (LP Fuzzatonic Scream, 2000)
Lyrics: Adios, Acne!


ALLERGY

Allergies - PAUL SIMON (LP Hearts & Bones, 1983)

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)
Lyrics: What kind of man is he To create this allergy?


ANALGESIC

Analgesic Love Song - PURESSENCE (LP Planet Helpless, 2002)


ANATOMY

Hot Girls In Love - LOVERBOY (LP Keep It Up, 1983)
Lyrics: She likes her tapes on 10 and it's the same as her anatomy


ANEMIA, ANEMIC

Pennyroyal Tea - NIRVANA (LP In Utero, 1993)
Lyrics: I'm anemic royalty


ANESTHESIA

Bad Medicine - BON JOVI (LP New Jersey, 1988)
Lyrics: I don't need no anesthesia or a nurse to bring a pill
Also: symptoms


ANOREXIA NERVOSA

Pride - ROBERT PALMER (LP Pride, 1982)
Lyrics:  Please tell Ms Fonda  to reduce her price Anorexia Nervosa mannequin all this physicality will wear you thin


ANTIBIOTICS

Thank U - ALANIS MORISSETTE  (LP Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, 1998)
Lyrics: How 'bout getting off these antibiotics


ANTIDOTE

The Real Slim Shady - EMINEM (LP The Marshall Mathers LP, 2000)
Lyrics: but if you feel like I feel I got the antidote


ANXIETY,  ANGST

I Turn To You - MEL C (LP Northern Star, 1999)
Lyrics: When my insides are wracked with anxiety

Engel - RAMMSTEIN (LP Sehnsucht, 1997)
Lyrics: Wir haben Angst und sind allein


ASTHMA

I Got 5 On It - LUNIZ (LP Operation Stakola, 1995)
Lyrics: Stop hittin' 'cause you know ya got Asthma

Legalize It - PETER TOSH (LP Legalize It, 1976)
Lyrics: It's good for the flu Good for Asthma, Good for tuberculosis, Even numara thrombosis


CANCER

Leave In Silence - DEPECHE MODE (LP A Broken Frame, 1982)
Lyrics: I would stop this thing from spreading like a cancer

The Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (LP Wednesday Morning 3 AM, 1964)
Lyrics: Silence like a cancer grows


CLINIC, CLINICAL

What It's Like - EVERLAST (LP Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, 1999)
Lyrics:  she heads for the clinic and she gets some static walking through the door they call her a killer, and they call her a sinner


The Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP (LP Breakfast In America, 1979)
Lyrics: and they showed me a world where I could be so dependable, clinical, intellectual, cynical.


COMA, COMATOSE

Girlfriend In A Coma - THE SMITHS (LP Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987)

Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS (1991 / LP Generation Terrorists, 1992)
Lyrics: Living life like a comatose
Also, several other Hellenic words: organise, neon, symbolic, myths, cycle, political


DIAGNOSE, DIAGNOSIS

Do You Read Me - RORY GALLAGHER (LP Calling Card, 1976)
Lyrics: I can't diagnose that look in your eyes

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)
Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis

Manchild - NENEH CHERRY (LP Raw Like Sushi, 1989)
Lyrics: Through the speaker boxes loud's my diagnosis


DYSENTERY

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)
Lyrics: From New Delhi to Darjeeling I have done my share of healing And I've never yet been beaten or outboxed I remember that with one jab Of my needle in the Punjab How I cleared up beriberi And the dreaded dysentery But your complaint has got me really foxed


EPIDEMIC

Through The Glass - STONE SOUR (LP Come What (Ever) May, 2006)
Lyrics: An epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything


EPILEPSY

Let's Get It Started - BLACK EYED PEAS (LP Elephunk, 2004)
Lyrics: Bob your head like epilepsy, up inside your club or in your Bentley


GLAUKOMA

Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (LP Bush Doctor, 1978)
Lyrics: the only cure for glaucoma


HEPATITIS

Sexx Laws - BECK (LP Midnight Vultures, 1999)
Lyrics: Wearing hepatitis contact lens


HYSTERIA

Hysteria - DEF LEPPARD (LP Hysteria, 1987)

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)
Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria


LEPER

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)
Lyrics: I was walking around the flower show like a leper coming down with some kind of nervous hysteria

One - U2 (LP Achtung Baby, 1991)
Lyrics:  Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head

Ziggy Stardust - DAVID BOWIE (LP The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, 1972)
Lyrics: like a leper Messiah


MANIA, MANIAC, NYMPHOMANIA, PYROMANIA

Maniac - MICHAEL SEMBELLO (OST Flashdance, 1983)

Ayo Technology - 50 CENT feat. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (LP Curtis, 2007)
Lyrics: like a nympho

Kleptomanie - EXTRABREIT (1983)

Rock Of Ages - DEF LEPPARD (LP Pyromania, 1983)
Lyrics: Drive me crazier, no serenade No fire brigade, just Pyromania


MELANCHOLIA

Far Gone Now - VAYA CON DIOS (LP Night Owls, 1990)
Lyrics: Humming melancholic lines


MIGRAINE

Time Will Crawl - DAVID BOWIE (LP Never Let Me Down, 1987)
Lyrics: I got a bad migraine


MORPHINE

1979 - THE SMASHING PUMPKINS (LP Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Lyrics: Morphine city slippin dues down to see

Just Like A Pill - PINK (LP M!ssundaztood, 2002)
Lyrics: I can't stay on your morphine, cuz it's making me itch, I said I tried to call the nurse again but she's being a little bitch

Sister Morphine - MARIANNE FAITHFULL (1969)

Sword Of Damocles - LOU REED (LP Magic & Loss, 1992)
Lyrics:  That mix of morphine and dexedrine


NEUROTIC

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)
Lyrics: Neurotic to the bone


OVERDOSE

Mothers Little Helper - THE ROLLING STONES (LP Aftermath, 1966)
Lyrics: if you take more of those, you will get an overdose


PARALYSIS

I Need Love - LL COOL J (1987)
Lyrics: we're so in love when we hug we become paralyzed

Livin' In A World Without You - THE RASMUS (LP Black Roses, 2008)
Lyrics:  You paralysed my body with a poison kiss

Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON (LP Thriller, 1982)
Lyrics: You're paralysed


PARANOIA

Paranoid - BLACK SABBATH (LP Paranoid, 1970)

Paranoid Android - RADIOHEAD (LP OK Computer, 1997)

Basket Case - GREEN DAY (LP Dookie, 1994)
Lyrics:  Am I just paranoid?


PHARMACY, PHARMACOPOEIA

Boom (There She Was) - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Provision, 1988)
Lyrics: Pharmacopoeia, I gotta a way to be good (all right), I want to understand how I'm misunderstood (and I like it), Pharmacopoeia, I got a way with the world (all right) I got an alphabet that you never have heard (and I like it)


PHYSICIAN

Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968 / LP Barabajagal, 1969)
Lyrics:  Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth. On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends


PNEUMONIA 

I'll Never Fall In Love Again-JERRY ORBACH & JILL O'HARA (1968), DIONNE WARWICK (1970)
Lyrics:  What do you get when you kiss a guy, you get enough germs to catch pneumonia after you do, he'll never phone 'ya, I'll never fall in love again

Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flew - HUEY 'PIANO' SMITH & THE CLOWNS (1957)


PSYCHOSIS

Go Let It Out - OASIS (LP Standing In The Shoulder Of Giants, 2000)
Lyrics: Sister psychosis don't got a lot to say


SCHIZOPHRENIC

Double Life - STYX (LP Kilroy Was Here, 1983)
Lyrics: Nowhere to hide, though we both might try I'm schizophrenic, and so am I

Gimme Some Truth - JOHN LENNON (LP Imagine, 1971)
Lyrics: I've had enough of watching scenes of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
Also: neurotic, psychotic (hypocrites, politicians)


SPASM, SPASTIC

Babylon Sisters - STEELY DAN (LP Gaucho, 1980)
Lyrics: San Francisco Show and Tell,well I should know by now that it's just a spasm

Bobby Brown - FRANK ZAPPA (LP Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
Lyrics: Thanks to Freddie, I'm a sexual spastic

Goodnight Saigon - BILLY JOEL (LP The Nylon Curtain, 1982)
Lyrics:  We came in spastic like tameless horses


STETHOSCOPE

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)


SURGERY

The Miracle - QUEEN (LP The Miracle, 1989)
Lyrics: Open hearts and surgery

Right Place Wrong Time - DR. JOHN (LP In The Right Place, 1973)
Lyrics: Just need a little brain salad surgery got to cure this insecurity

Through The Wire - KANYE WEST  (LP The College Dropout, 2004)
Lyrics: I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw


SYMPTOM

Sick & Tired - THE CARDIGANS (LP Emmerdale, 1994)
Lyrics: symptoms are so deep


SYNDROME

Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (LP The Eminem Show, 2002)
Lyrics: Goin' through public housing systems, victim of Munchhausen's syndrome

Other known syndroms: Down's, Gulf War, Stockholm


THERAPY

Bleed Like Me - GARBAGE (LP Bleed Like Me, 2005)
Lyrics: Therapy is speedie's brand new drug

First Six Months Of Love - MICHELLE GUREVICH (LP New Decadence, 2016)
Lyrics: Before begin the dissections Before the therapy sessions
also see: Serotonin

King For A Day - GREEN DAY (LP Nimrod, 1997)
Lyrics: My daddy threw me in therapy

Laid - JAMES (LP Laid, 1993)
Lyrics: My therapist said not to see you no more She said you're like a disease without any cure

Rattlesnakes - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Rattlesnakes, 1984)
Lyrics: She says all she needs is therapy, yeah all you need is, love is all you need


THROMBOSIS

Goodness Gracious Me - PETER SELLERS & SOPHIA LOREN (1960)
Lyrics: My initial diagnosis Rules out measles and thrombosis


TRAUMA

Where Is The Love - THE BLACK EYED PEAS feat. JUSTIN (LP Elephunk, 2003)
Lyrics: Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma


ALSO:

Bipolar Disorder (Sear Of A Blank Planet - PORCUPINE TREE, 2007)
Cardiac Arrest (Cardiac Arrest - MADNESS, 1981)


Biology related terms:

Adrenaline (Crush - JENNIFER PAIGE, 1998)
Biology (She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY, 1983)
Genetic (Genetic Engineering - OMD, 1983)
Génétique, Chromosomes (Le Vent Nous Portera -NOIR DESIR, 2001)
Phlegm (From Under The Covers - THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH, 1989)
Stigma (Xavier - DEAD CAN DANCE, 1987)


Παρασκευή 3 Μαΐου 2013

Mythology & Ancient Hellenic History in songs & artists names


My Broadcasts on Radio Boo

Songs & artists with names or references to Hellenic mythology & Ancient Hellenic history
(Broadcasted live on Radio Boo, April 15, 2013)

18:00 - 19:00

01) Michael Penn - No Myth (LP March, 1989)

02) Aaron Neville - Hercules (1973)

03) Alison Moyet - That Ole Devil Called Love (1985)
Lyrics:When he sings that Siren song, I just gotta tag along
Notice: Allthough the original songs refers to the Siren, Alison rephrases the song as 'When he sings that sorry song'

04) The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (LP Synchronicity, 1983)
Lyrics: You consider me the young apprentice, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis

05) T-Rex - Get It On (LP Electric Warrior, 1971)
Lyrics: You got the teeth of the Hydra upon you

06) Roxy Music - Do The Strand (LP For Your Pleasures, 1973)
Lyrics: The Sphynx and Mona Lisa, Lolita and Guernica did the Strand

07) Annie Lennox - A White Shade Of Pale (LP Medusa, 1995)

08) Sybil - Don't Make Me Over (1989)

09) OMD - Pandora's Box (LP Sugar Tax, 1991)

10) Eros presents Richard D - Enamorada (2001)

11) Mike Oldfield feat. Anita Hegerland - Pictures in the Dark (1985)
Lyrics:  Pictures in the dark, I see, Morpheus comes to me

12) Shriekback - Nemesis (LP Oil & Gold, 1985)

13) LL Cool J - Dear Mallika (LP The Rapsody Overture - Hip Hop Meets Classic, 1997)
Lyrics: vacuums filled with narcissism suckin up the livin

14) Tal Bachman - She's So High (LP Tal Bachman, 1999)
Lyrics: She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite


19:00 - 20:00

01) Felt - Rain Of Crystal Spires (LP Forever Breathes The Lonely Word , 1986)
Lyrics: Homer's "Iliad" lay burning in the fire

02) Raining Pleasure - Kemal (LP Reflections, 2005)
Lyrics:Who is Lucy, who is Nestor?

03) Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (LP Gorillaz, 2001)
Lyrics: So I'mma stick around with Russ and be a mentor

04) The Andrews Sisters - Rum & Coca-Cola (1945)
Lyrics: If you ever go down Trinida they make you feel so very glad Calypso sing and make up rhyme

05) Kirka - Sadness In Your Eyes (1992)

06) Sunday Club - Grete Weitz (LP For Sale, 1984)
Lyrics: In this northern Marathon

07) Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die (LP You AreThe Quarry, 2004)
Lyrics: Hector was the...

08) Placebo - Special K (LP Black Market Music, 2000)
Lyrics:  You're my new Achilles heel

09) Sabaton - Coat of Arms (LP Coat Of Arms, 2010)
Lyrics: That dawn, envoy arrives Morning of October 28th No day, proven by deed Descendence of Sparta, Athens and Crete! Call to Arms banners fly in the wind, For the glory of Hellas Coat of Arms reading freedom or death, Blood of King Leonidas

10) Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great (LP Somewhere In Time, 1986)

11) The Clash - The Magnificent Seven (LP Sandinista! 1980)
Lyrics: Socrates and Milhous Nixon Both went the same way - through the kitchen, Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin Who's more famous to the billion millions?

12) Lou Reed - Sword of Damocles (LP Magic & Loss, 1992)

13) Francois Feldman feat. Joniece Jamison - Love Platonique (1995)


also see:

A View To A Kill - URAN DURAN (OST A View To A Kill, 1985 / A chance to find the Phoenix for the flame)

Birdhouse In Your Soul - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (LP Flood, 1989)
Lyrics: There's a picture opposite me Of my primitive ancestry Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free Though I respect that a lot I'd be fired if that were my job After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts Bluebird of friendliness Like guardian angels its always near

Get Lucky - DAFT PUNK feat. PHARRELL & NILE (2013 / Like the legend of the Phoenix)

Gift Of The Gods - JOE BELLOMO (1960 / Paris & Helen)

Misled - KOOL & THE GANG (1984 / Pandora's Box)

Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)
Lyrics: As you closed in, in slow motion quoting Sappho, in the original Greek

Rise Up Like A Phoenix - CONCHITA WURST (2014)

Sisyphus - ANDREW BIRD (2019)


Listen to my broadcast from 15/04/2013
http://yourlisten.com/lefteris.lalos.7/mythology-ancient-hellenic-history-in-songs-15-4-13


Δευτέρα 1 Απριλίου 2013

Hellenic words in international songs: Apology


My Broadcasts on Radio Boo


Hellenic words in international songs: Apology
(Apology, Apologies, Apologize)

18:00 - 19:00

01) Numb - U2 (LP Zooropa, 1993)
Lyrics:  Don't theorize, realize, polarize, chance, dance,dismiss, apologize

02) A Question Of Lust - DEPECHE MODE (LP Black Celebration, 1986)
Lyrics: Apologies are all you seem to get from me but just like a child you make me smile

03) Pyjamarama -ROXY MUSIC (1973)
Lyrics: I may seem a fool to you for everything I say or think or do how could I apologise for all those lies

04) Show Of Strength - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN (LP Heaven Up Here, 1981)
Lyrics:  Your stalwart smile would shame a politician, Typically... I'll apologise next time

05) 1979 - SMASHING PUMPKINS (LP Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, 1995)
Lyrics: No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it

06) Hell Is For Children - PAT BENATAR (LP Crimes Of Passion, 1980)
Lyrics: It's all so confusing this brutal abusing they blacken your eyes and then apologize
"Be daddy's good girl, and don't tell mommy a thing", "Be a good little boy, and you'll get a new toy
Tell grandma you fell from the swing"

07) What Difference Does It Make - THE SMITHS (LP The Smiths, 1984)
Lyrics: No more apologies

08) Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah - THE POGUES (1988)
Lyrics: and if I hurt you, I apologize

09) Town Called Malice - THE JAM (LP The Gift, 1982)
Lyrics: stop apologizing for the things you've never done, cause time is short and life is cruel

10) Let's Spend The Night Together - THE ROLLING STONES (LP Between The Buttons, 1967) Lyrics: I feel so strong that I can't disguise (oh my) Let's spend the night together But I just can't apologize (oh no)

11) Take It Round Again - THE CRY (LP Quick Quick Slow, 1984)
Lyrics: no need to compromise and you don't need an excuse just to enjoy yourself... you won't get away... I won't accept any apologies.

12) Cannonball - SUPERTRAMP (LP Brother Were You Bound, 1985)
Lyrics: I was unwise, so don't apologize I paid the price, for taking your advice

13) Midnight Blue - LOU GRAMM (LP Ready Or Not, 1987)
Lyrics: I won't apologize for the things I've done and said

14) If You Let Me Stay - TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY (LP Introducing The Hardline... 1987)
Lyrics: I know I've been careless, girl and I must apologize I'll try better next time, baby

15) The Sweet Escape - GWEN STEFANI feat. AKON (LP The Sweet Escape, 2006)
Lyrics: I must apologize for acting, stinking, treating you this way


19:00 - 20:00

01) Love The Way You Lie - EMINEM feat. RIHANNA (LP Recovery, 2010)
Lyrics: Next time, there won't be no next time I apologize even though I know it's lies
I'm tired of the games I just want her back I know I'm a liar If she ever tries to fucking leave again
I'mma tie her to the bed and set the house on fire

02) Through The Wire - KANYE WEST (LP The College Dropout, 2004)
Lyrics: I really apologize how I sound right now man

03) Ms. Jackson - OUTKAST (LP Stankonia, 2000)
Lyrics:  Never meant to make your daughter cry I apologize a trillion times

04) Apologize - TIMBALAND presents ONEREPUBLIC (LP Timbaland Presents: Shock Value, 2007)

05) Life For Rent - DIDO (LP Life For Rent, 2003)
Lyrics: I apologize that once again I'm not in love but it's not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking

06) Missing You - CHRIS DE BURGH (LP Flying Colours, 1988)
Lyrics: You can break a heart with just a word or two and take a lifetime to apologize when the one you love's in front of your eyes

07) Lucky Stars -DEAN FRIEDMAN feat. DENISE MARSA (LP "Well, Well," Said The Rocking Chair. 1978)
Lyrics: I was acting like a fool & I apologize

08) I'm Sorry - BRENDA LEE (1960)
Lyrics: Please accept my apology

09) What Kind Of Fool - BARBRA STREISAND & BARRY GIBB (LP Guilty, 1980)
Lyrics:  I only apologize for being as they say, the last to know

10) I Finally Found Someone - BARBRA STREISAND & BRYAN ADAMS (OST The Mirror Has Two Faces, 1996)
Lyrics: Did I keep you waiting, I didn't mind I apologize, baby, that's fine

11) Lady, Lady Lady - JOE ESPOSITO (OST Flashdance, 1983)
Lyrics: Time like silent stares, with no apology

12) Cry - WATERFRONT (1988 / LP Waterfront, 1989)
Lyrics: please don't apologize, just let me wipe the tears away

13) Louise - HUMAN LEAGUE (LP Hysteria, 1984)
Lyrics: She took a moment just to recognize the man she'd known so well before and as he started to apologize lose any bitterness she bore

14) Why Does A Man Have To Be Strong - PAUL YOUNG (LP Between Two Fires, 1986)
Lyrics: There I go again, finding the words to apologise

15) What A Fool Believes - THE DOOBIE BROTHERS (LP Minute By Minute, 1978)
Lyrics:  She had a place in his life He never made her think twice As he rises to her apology Anybody else would surely know He's watching her go

16) The Winner Takes It All - ABBA (LP Super Trouper, 1980)
Lyrics: I apologize If it makes you feel bad


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