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post Apr 24 2023, 04:51 PM
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BJSC154 - Pray For Me I Don't Fit In by Melt Yourself Down

Melt Yourself Down are a London band formed in 2012. Their music covers a wide range of genres such as afrobeat, punk, jazz and funk. This is their second BJSC appearance. They previously represented Trifoski seven years ago, failing to qualify for the final. Pray For Me I Don't Fit In is the title track taken from their fourth album which was released in 2022.

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post May 25 2023, 08:49 PM
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BJSC155 - Macho City by The Steve Miller Band

The Steve Miller Band are an American group formed in San Francisco in 1966. In the UK, they are best known for their 1973 single 'The Joker' which reached number 1 in 1990 after being used in a Levi's TV commercial. They also reached number 2 on the singles chart in 1982 with 'Abracadabra'. Macho City is taken from their eleventh studio album 'Circle Of Love', released in 1981. I have never heard the whole album or any of the groups other albums. I know the song from it being played a few times on Annie Nightingale's Radio 1 request show in 1983. It became a bit of a cult song for the listeners at the time. Forty years later, I hope the same thing will happen with the Buzzjack audience.

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BJSC156 - The First Picture Of You by The Lotus Eaters

The Lotus Eaters were formed in Liverpool in 1982. 'The First Picture Of You' was their debut single, released in July 1983. It reached number 15 on the UK singles chart. The video was filmed in Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. Subsequent singles failed to reach the top 40 and the band split up in 1985. They reformed in 2001.

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BJSC159 - Gaza by Marillion

Five years after they last represented Rolloland, Marillion are back with the song 'Gaza' from their 2012 album 'Sounds That Can't Be Made' which has become very relevant to the current situation in the Middle East. Its lyrics take the perspective of a boy growing up in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip. In an interview with Radio Rollo in 2012, singer and lyricist Steve Hogarth said this about the song:

"This is a song for the people – especially the children – of Gaza. It was written after many conversations with ordinary Palestinians living in the refugee camps of Gaza and the West Bank. I spoke also to Israelis, to NGO workers, to a diplomat unofficially working in Jerusalem, and took their perspectives into account whilst writing the lyric. It is not my/our intention to smear the Jewish faith or people – we know many Jews are deeply critical of the current situation – and nothing here is intended to show sympathy for acts of violence, whatever the motivation, but simply to ponder upon where desperation inevitably leads."

For anyone who is interested, these are the full lyrics to the song:

When I was young it all seemed like a game
Living here brought no sense of shame
But now I'm older I've come to understand
Once we had houses
Once we had land
They rained down bullets on us as our homes collapsed
We lay beneath the rubble terrified

Hoping, dare we dream?
We gave up waiting
For us, to dream is still a dream

When I woke up, the house was broken stones
We suddenly had nothing
And nothing's changed

We live, eight people, in this overcrowded heat
Factory-farmed animals living in our own sweat
Living like this is all my baby brother ever knew
The world does nothing, what can we do?

We will kick the ball
We will skip the rope
We will play outside, be careful
We will paint and draw, we will say our prayers

Outside the pitiless sun bleaches the broken streets
The darkness drops in the evening like an iron door
The men play cards under torchlight
The women stay inside
Hell can erupt in a moment day or night

You ask for trouble if you stray too close to the wall
My father died feeding the birds
Mum goes in front of me to check for soldiers

For every hot-head stone ten come back
For every hot-head stone a hundred come back
For every rocket fired the drones come back

For thirteen years the roads have all been closed
We're isolated, we're denied medical supplies
Fuel and work are scarce, they build houses on our farms
The old men weep, the young men take up arms

We're packed like chickens in this town of block cement
I get headache from the diesel, when it rains, the sewers too
I had no idea what martyrdom meant
Until my older brother, my older brother
I'm sorry I can't continue

You sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind, it is said
When people know they have no future
Can we blame them if we cannot tame them?
And when their hopes and dreams are broken
And they feel they might as well be dead
As they go, will we forgive them
If they take us with them?

Stay close
Stay home
Stay calm
Have faith

With the love of our family we can rise above anything
Someday surely someone must help us
With the love of our family we can rise above anything
Someday surely someone must help us
Even now we will go to school
Even now we will dream to dream
Someday surely someone must help us

Nothing's ever simple, that's for sure
There are grieving mothers on both sides of the wire
And everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright
But any way you look at it, whichever point of view
For us to have to live like this
It just ain't right
It just ain't right
It just ain't right

We all want peace and freedom that's for sure
But peace won't come from standing on our necks
Everyone deserves a chance to feel the future just might be bright
But any way you look at this, whichever point of view
For us to have to live like this
It just ain't right
It just ain't right
It just ain't right

It's like a nightmare rose up slouching towards Bethlehem
Like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land
Slouching towards Bethlehem

It's like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land
Slouching towards Bethlehem

It's like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land
Slouching towards Bethlehem

It's like a nightmare rose up from this small strip of land
Slouching towards Bethlehem

It's like a nightmare rose up, like a nightmare rose up
Slouching towards Bethlehem

I can't know what twist of history did this to me
It's like a nightmare

It's like a nightmare (With the love of our family)
(We can rise above everything)
Towards Bethlehem (Some day surely someone must help us)

Someday surely someone must help us

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Steve Hackett was the lead guitarist in Genesis from 1971 to 1977. 'Hoping Love Will Last' is taken from his second solo album 'Please Don't Touch!' which was released in 1978. It features vocals from the American singer Randy Crawford who went on to have four UK hit singles including 'One Day I'll Fly Away' (no.2 in 1980) and 'Almaz' (no.4 in 1986). She also sang lead vocal on 'Street Life', a top five single for The Crusaders in 1979, so she was relatively unknown when Steve Hackett's album came out.

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