Summer everywhere and my heart has gone mad

Good morning and welcome to Freaky Friday Song. It's been extremely hot for the past few days. I mean extremely hot for Scotland. We even had both, heat and haar a couple of days ago, which made it really difficult to take a deep breath. Today, however it's a wee bit chillier and perhaps that's why people already cover themselves up from heads to toes. I mean, come on, it's still around 20 degrees centigrade! It's chillier, but it's still warm, so why the hell do some people wear tights? And boots? And scarves? And (I'm not joking) winter coats?

So here's one to bring on the summer mood. It's actually a horrible song from mid-nineties, that was a huge summer hit in Poland and since then has been played on the radio every summer over and over again. Like Last Christmas in December. Yes, I know, we Polish people must be really freaky to listen to something like that. I personally turn the radio off when it's on. But since I have no speakers at work, I'm not going to listen to it now. The home-made video doesn't really help at all, to be honest, but this is Freaky Friday Song, isn't it? Oh, and I guess I forgot to mentioned that the band's name is Dead Pork Loin's Formation. Yes, it is, baby.

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And don't forget the lyrics! Chorus: Summer, summer everywhere, my hearts has gone mad, summer, summer everywhere, I'll lay my hands on you girl. Oh, how pathetic!

I was emo

When scanning some old photos for Facebook I have suddenly realised that when I was a teenager (and then young twenty-something at the uni) I was emo.

Not because I was wearing black and pink and painted my nails dark. Nor because of the music I was listening to - although in some ways, maybe, but it would mean I'm still one, as I still consider a band that recorded an album of songs about pain and suffering in various tempos to be one of my favourites.

No, I suddenly remembered that as a teenager I was quite miserable. Full of Weltschmerz. I was writing poems about loneliness and being misunderstood. About how life sucks and how it was all depressing me. I would write a diary of a depressed teenager and dream of meeting a sensitive guy. Luckily emo guys were not existent back then, as I'm absolutely positive I would sooner or later date one. Or I would keep on writing poetry about how guys don't really get me. Depressing.

I can only imagine that if I had a blog when I was 16 it would be a dark and depressing webspace. Definitely black background. Full of poems and song lyrics, mostly about being unhappy or even dying. Possibly skulls and razors. And I would also have followers who would post depressing comments.

Frankly I was kinda still emo when I was graduating from uni, specially when I realised, that five years of studying doesn't grant a job. Oh, world sucked then and I was really depressed!

Well, anyway, if you are a parent of an emo child, my point is - they grow out of it. I did. Yeah, I'm still moany and can get depressed and I do believe that world can really suck - but I couldn't care less now. Really. I find being depressed annoying and when things go wrong I get angry. No more sad songs and no more tearful poems. No, I guess I rather moved over to gangsta rap, considering the amount of swear words I'm using when the world begins to suck.

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I've had a freaky song picked up for today, but as soon as I've heard the news I knew I had to pick up something else.

So today, it's not a freaky song, this one is a great song, with very meaningful lyrics, but it has one of the weirdest videos of all Michael's fantastic videos.

Farewell, Michael!

Louder than action

Oasis were playing at Murrayfield in Edinburgh last week. I'm not a huge fan. To be honest I'm not a fan at all, since I'm a huge fan of a different band, that's better than Oasis...

Here's the story: in 1996 Michael Hutchence of INXS was presenting a BRIT award for best band to the Gallagher brothers. Liam Gallagher accepted the award saying: 'Has-beens shouldn't be presenting awards to gonna-bes'. If Michael Hutchence was a third Gallagher brother he would probably smash Liam's face. But he didn't - he went to the studio where his band was recording their 10th studio album and secretly recorded and extra backing track to album's first single. The rest of the band didn't have a clue until months later, when the album was published, and some journalist asked at the press conference: Where does the line in backing track saying 'I'm better then Oasis' come from?

You can listen for yourself. In the chorus, there's definitely one line in the backing vocals that says it:

When talking about terse but meaningful words thank speak louder than actions (and music industry), here's another story that always makes me laugh: When Pet Shop Boys covered U2's 'Where the street's have no name' and turned it into medley with Franki Valli's 'Can't take my eyes off of you', U2 issued a press release, that said only: 'What have we done to deserve this'? (which is a paraphrase of a title of another PSB's song: 'What have I done to deserve this', a duet with Dusty Springfield).

And by the way, streets have no names (mostly) in Japanese cities.

One white dove

Hello and welcome to the Freaky Friday Song corner.

Here's something older than I am, but for some reason it must have been still on the radio when I was a child. Anyhow, I can remember if from the times when I was in the nursery.

Whenever we have visitors at home we play this video, because we think that George Baker and his Selection look really funny. They are Dutch, but for some reason or the other they actually sing in Spanish. And English.