Monday, March 22, 2010

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 19: NORMAN BATES (1981) -- LANDSCAPE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvnYwvJMKE

12 comments:

Vespertine said...

55555555555555555 i love this song! The actress in vdo is really look like Janet Leigh. They should create more songs about other famous characters.


by the way, now i m falling in love with this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Navl4fYI-Zk&feature=channel

i think she is the kind of girl from the movies in British Film festival. and her music is very great.

Vespertine said...

and from the lyrics, it can be made into thriller-murder fim.

"were under the sheets and you’re killin me
In our house made of paper, and you’re words all over me
We’re under the sheets and your killin’ me
(Ive seen you in a fight you lost)
Like all the boys before, like all the boys before"

celinejulie said...

Thank you for recommending me UNDER THE SHEETS. I like this song very much. I like its music video, too.

As for songs about characters in films, I also like GEORGINA by Chumbawumba. It is about the heroine of THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRRq4HcXSvc

"Georgina's cooking supper for her husband
All her friends are coming round to see the show
Because the thief she calls her husband wont't be hungry
When he see's what's on the end of his fork

Georgina isn't asking anymore
And her lover isn't isn't asking anymore
And the cook isn't asking anymore
Since the thief met a bullet on the way to the floor

Georgin's got a timebomb in her stomach
She knows that any minute now it's going to blow
With all the pain and the silence that she feeds on
With all the hurt that her bruises can't show

Georgina isn't asking anymore
And her lover isn't isn't asking anymore
And the cook isn't asking anymore
Since the thief met a bullet on the way to the floor

Georgina's got an appetite for vengeance
And she sings all the songs from "Oliver"
But she won't be wanting seconds any more
As she thightens up the grip on her trigger finger

Georgina isn't asking anymore
And her lover isn't isn't asking anymore
And the cook isn't asking anymore
Since the thief met a bullet on the way to the floor"

Vespertine said...

oh, the lyrics is really show the influence of the film. I love it very much. I love that the lyrics is so sad but the melody is so cute. Georina might live in the same building with Luka (Suzanne Vega). They are both the victims of domestic violence.

celinejulie said...

As for songs about domestic violence, I also love FIRE ON BABYLON by Sinead O'Connor and IN YOUR CARE by Tasmin Archer.

FIRE ON BABYLON

She took my father from my life oh
Took my sister and brothers oh
I watched her torturing my child
Feeble I was then but now I'm grown
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Fire on Babylon
Fire
Fire
Fire
She's taken everything I liked
She's taken every lover oh
And all along she gave me lies
Just to make me think I loved her
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Look what she did to her son
Fire
Fire
Fire on
Life's backwards
Life's backwards
People turn around
The house is burned
The house is burned
The children are gone
Fire
Fire
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Fire on Babylon
Fire
Fire, oh
Fire, oh
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Look what she did to her son
Look what she did to her son
Fire, haha
Fire, haha
Fire
Fire
Fire, aha
Fire on Babylon
Fire on Babylon

celinejulie said...

IN YOUR CARE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXYiiigba4

the light is fading from my room
as night time comes around too soon
i'm so afraid
swollen eyes portray my pain
as tears fall like the summer rain
I'm so alone

son of a bitch you broke my heart
i need a little loving
to take away the pain
how could you let me down?
when i'm in your care

i pull the covers to myself
drink and smoke upon his breath
i close my eyes
again i pray to god above
what have i done to lose his love?
am i to blame?

when i am dreaming
i can call out
no one hears
father
i'm falling from your heart in tears

hush little baby don't you cry
daddy's going to sing you a lullaby
to show he cares
but you must keep our secret safe
is this love or is this hate?
i feel so scared

Vespertine said...

really love Sinead's babylon and think that this vdo is one of my favorite of Michel Gondry works (with Bjork's Isobel, human behavior). Because the vdo really transfer the feeling of the song.

I always wonder who Tasmin Archer is. I heard her name in my teenage years and buy one of her album. But i think that album is her last album and had commercial failure so i didnt 'click' with it.

In the old days (maybe 15 years ago) Around Samyan, there was a music shop that if we gave them our old cassete tape, they would reduce the price of the new album that we wanna buy. Like we would pay only 30 baht. And i gave them my Tasmin Archer album which i regret because now i know that some album are like some films, i need time to grow old enough to understand it.

celinejulie said...

I love the name "Tasmin Archer". I think it sounds very beautiful. Your experience reminds me of my own experience when I started listening to pop music enthusiastically in the late 1980's. One's taste of music changes with time. I remember that my friends and I didn't like Soul II Soul's songs (KEEP ON MOVIN and BACK TO LIFE) at all in 1989, but in 1990, we unknowingly had become addicted to Soul II Soul's music and have never been cured from this addiction until now. I also remember that in 1989 I preferred New Kids on the Block to Spandau Ballet, and changed my opinion completely a year later.

pc said...

Hey … Thank for Norman Bates’s Landscape. This track gives me a glimpse of what’s going on in the mind of those psychopaths, and also after I discovered some radio programs on WFMU I’ve been obsessively hooked into some late 70s post-punk and early 80s new wave stuffs ever since. All I can say is the dark mood in this track really belong to that time when all the music was sharp, precise, abrasive and still loaded with the smell of danger, some sort of thrill which I can hardly find from music in this day.

Read your comment about songs related to film, this tune pop in my head right away.

Warm Leatherette - The Normal
http://www.youtube.com/user/604pc?feature=mhw5#p/f/24/S5QErPDNcj4


You probably know about it already but I first heard this track while watching the BBC documentary “Synth Britannia” ( http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Synth+Britannica+zarezagreb2&search_type=&aq=f ) on YouTube. I didn’t catch a name at that time, but I heard it again later on the radio program. According to what I read from wiki, Daniel Miller wrote the lyric of this track out of his inspiration from J.G. Ballard's controversial 1973 novel Crash.

celinejulie said...

Thank you for the link to WARM LEATHERETTE by The Normal. I hadn't heard of this song before, and I haven't seen CRASH (David Cronenberg) yet. But I think this song is good and is a representative of the same kind of music as NORMAN BATES. I think this kind of music has a charm of its own.

As for songs inspired by novels, my most favorite one is, of course, WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Kate Bush:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChywYrwHBY

Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper, like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me?
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you, I loved you too

Bad dreams in the night
They told me I was going to lose the fight
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights

(Chorus) Heathcliff, its me, Cathy come home
I'm so cold, let me in-a-your window

Oh it gets dark, it gets lonely
On the other side from you
I pine alot, I find the lot
Falls through without you
I'm coming back love, cruel Heathcliff
My one dream, my only master

Too long I roam in the night
I'm coming back to his side to put it right
I'm coming home to wuthering, wuthering,
Wuthering Heights

(Chorus)
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Oh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Cathy
(Chorus)

Vespertine said...

Khun PC krub, i love Warm Leatherette very much. Someone should made MV by adding the visual from Crash. รู้สึกว่าการที่มันใช่ประโยคและดนตรีแบบเดิมซ้ำไปซ้ำมาตลอดทั้งเพลง มันไม่ใช่แค่ลูกเล่นหรือแฟชั่นทางดนตรี แต่มันเข้ากับสภาพคนที่แทบจะไร้จิตใจหรือกลุ่มคัลต์ที่หลงใหลในโลหะวัตถุใน Crash ได้ดี จำได้ว่าเคยอ่านบทความวิชาการชิ้นนึง ที่เขียนถึง Basic Instinct ภาค 2 ว่าแม้หนังอาจจะไม่ดีในสายตาของนักวิจารณ์ทั่วไป แต่สภาพเมือง และตึกโลหะหรือพื้นผิวเงินๆ ดำๆ ที่เห็นตลอดทั้งเรื่อง มันช่างสะท้อนโลกของ J.G. Ballard ได้อย่างน่าสนใจ (แม้หนังเรื่องนี้จะไม่ได้ดัดแปลงจากบัลลาดโดยตรง แต่ตอนฉากเปิดเรื่องก็มีความคล้าย Crash มาก รวมทั้งพวกการเล่นอารมณ์ Risk Addiction อย่างที่เป็นชื่อหนังก็น่าจะมาจาก Crash เลย)

celinejulie said...

I love BASIC INSTINCT 2 (2006, Michael Caton-Jones, A+). I'm glad to know that there is someone writing about some interesting things about this film. I just found out that Leora Barish and Henry Bean, the screenwriters of BASIC INSTINCT 2, are also the screenwriters of WINDOW SHOPPING (1986, Chantal Akerman, A).