Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan

"They say things are done for the majority / Don't believe half of what you see / and none of what you hear"

"Huomenna en muista missä"

Tue, 24 Feb 2015 at 06:08

"Making up religions / dropping out of school / laughing through the summertime / never meant to hurt nobody"

"And I remember / I remember all the feelings / I remember, where I should had gone" * Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods: Song of Angels * written and produced by Jerry Harrison * released in Feb 1988

"I'm so in love with you / I'll be forever blue / what religion or reason / could drive a man to forsake his lover" * Erasure: A Little Respect * written by Vince Clarke & Andy Bell * produced by Stephen Hague * released on Apr 18, 1988 * directed by Peter Christopherson, first aired in Sep 1988

"If fortune should ever favour me / ? if I should have money in store / I'll come back and I'll wed the sweet lassie I left / on Paddy's Green..." * T.T. Oksala: Shamrock Shore * trad. * arranged and produced by T.T. Oksala * released in 1988

"Poor people gonna rise up / and get their share / poor people gonna rise up / and take what's theirs" * Tracy Chapman: Talkin 'Bout a Revolution * released originally in early Apr 1988 * footage from Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa, a concert held at the Wembley Stadium in London on Apr 16th 1990

"But there's one thing, one thing we all have in common" * Randy Newman: I Want You to Hurt Like I Do * produced by James Newton Howard & Tommy LiPuma * released in Sep 1988

Mathilda May & Yves Montand: La Parfumerie (music by Michel Legrand, lyrics by Jacques Demy) * footage from the film Trois places pour le 26, directed by J. Demy, released in France on Nov 23rd 1988

"I love that boy / I love that man in the street / I love wild child smiles on the faces that I meet" * Tom Tom Club: Don't Say No (written and produced by Tina Weymouth & Chris Frantz) \ released in Sep 1988

"I believe it's meant to be, darling" * Susanna Hoffs: Eternal Flame (written by S. Hoffs, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg), released originally by The Bangles on Oct 18th 1988 \ footage from a live performance in Yokohama, 1996

"Tämän jälkeen Vanhalla / ei mikään ole ollut niin kuin ennen" * Lapinlahden Linnut: Kuppilan tango (music by Pekka Hedkrok, lyrics by Tapio Liinoja), released (originally without orders and other speaks) in Apr 1988 \ video made for the 1st episode of Seitsemän kuolemansyntiä (a tv sketch show by Lapinlahden Linnut released on Oct 15th 1988), directed by Pertti Melasniemi

"I was faced with a choice at a difficult age / would I write a book or should I take to the stage? / but in the back of my head I heard distant feet / Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat" * Pet Shop Boys: Left to My Own Devices (music by Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe, lyrics by N. Tennant), released on Oct 11th 1988, video directed by Eric Watson

"Cup of tea, take time to think, yea / 'ime to risk a life a life a life" * Tanita Tikaram: Twist in My Sobriety (released on Sep 13th 1988), video directed by Gerard de Thame (first aired in Oct 1988)

"I'd really like to live beside you, baby / I love your body and your spirit and your clothes" * Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan (released originally in Jan 1987, by Cohen in Feb 1988), live at Töölön jalkapallostadion in Helsinki on Sep 2nd 2012

"Eestlane olla on uhke ja hää / vabalt vaarisa moodi" * Ivo Linna & In Spe: Eestlane olen ja eestlaseks jään (Karl August Hermann, Alo Mattiisen, Jüri Leesment), released in 1988

Houston Skyline (Philip Glass), from the soundtrack to the film The Thin Blue Line (directed by Errol Morris, released on Aug 25th 1988), released on the album Music from the Thin Blue Line on Apr 4th 2003