Desecration smile - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Desecration smile -
Red Hot Chili Peppers

On Sunday I started playing around with the harmonica on Under the Bridge and since then I've started listening to RHCP a little bit in the last couple of days. Overlooking the at-best-moderate success of my attempts, today I will probably start training on this other song, that quietly stuck in my head (and went on to substitute another song I wanted to post today). I've always liked Desecration Smile, I really have no memory of how I got to know it and everything, but it's always been one of my favs and one of the few Red Hot songs I really do like. I never devoted too much attention to them, not being a funky fun, but I really do like some of their songs, especially the stuff that came closer to pop after they got famous. Today I'll go for it, and who knows? Maybe one day I will also be able to play it at least decently on the harmonica! Never say never!

Invisible - U2

U2 - Invisible

A few days ago U2 took part to the umpteenth social campaign, this time for AIDS prevention. U2 made available this song for free download on iTunes in collaboration with Bank of America, which donated 1$ for every download to Red, an organization co-founded by Bono to fight AIDS. I can't say how happy I am that people such as Bono and many others make such a good use of their fame to try and help others. I think that, besides U2's (many) music-related merits, this attachment to social causes and campaigning makes Bono & friends worthy of mention.
Coming to the song, it is quite good too and it also makes sense for the occasion: the lines "I’m more than you know, I’m more than you see here, More than you let me be", "You don’t see me but you will I am not invisible" and "There is no them, There’s only us" can be interpreted as a loud condemnation of discrimination of any kind. It just comes natural (to me) to apply them to gay people, the ones whose discrimination is most often linked to AIDS. And all of this happening during the olympic games in Sochi, with all the fuss that is taking place in Russia. Is it just a coincidence? I'd like to believe that it isn't. As it's never too early to dream of a world with no unjust, bad and unjustified discrimination and violence. And the sooner we dream of it, the sooner the dream will become reality.

By the way - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Awesome music today at the office, I got loads of inspiration for posts! I really enjoyed work today, the music was good (so good that I didn't even put my own earplugs on), the tasks were diverse and the atmosphere relaxed and enjoyable, you gotta love fridays! Today's song is one of the few we got more than one time (there must've been some kind of weird repeat mode on), but this is one of the great songs that you don't mind listening more than one time a day! Have a good friday night! Cheers!

Sunrise - Simply red

And here we are, time has come for the third post already! Today I'm giving you something coming from my childhood that I just found again. I'm talking about Simply Red! I have been exposed to their music quite a bit thanks to my father when I was little and last night, while eating out, I overheard one of their songs (that I already knew, even if I didn't know the title) in the restaurant and I decided to go and check which one it was.
In the end, by listening to the previews of their most famous songs, it occurred to me that I actually knew (well, know) many of them. So, thank you Sunrise for that leap back into my childhood!