Everything posted by IrisAlbastru
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What seven albums chart your personal music journey
1. Romanian folks music albums - won't help if i would put the name here. This was my first love. I was fascinated by romanian folk music as a very little kid, I used to hear them over and over . the fascination came back latter and i still love a lot of folks music from different countries. 2. Beatles - no album particular, as in comunism times you got songs on a magnetophon band, from radio and friends. I even didn't knew they are the Beatles, if i am honest. I heard them because i like the melody and that was for me the first reason. That is as i was under 14 :lol: . Now i understand them at a new level, the lircs got more deeper as i could think with 12 :lol: 3. Depeche Mode - Music for the masses - i had money from my parents to buy my first album. I choosed between NKOTB , which i found at that time , ahem, good looking, and Step by step was a hit at that moment, and Depeche Mode . I choose DM and this seems to be a love for the life, even when i don't like everything they brings out. Depeche Mode + the book Dune = the best of my teenager era ! 4. Janis Joplin - once again mixture, no particlar album, they were to expensive back in time - first time when i realise music can have a program, a meaning and a style. 5. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman - do i need to explain this one? Timeless tunes, timeless lyrics. It was a revelation what a great songwriter can do. 6. Prince - Diamond and Pearls - a perfect album, who brought me behind silly charts and TV music. Funny thing: the worst songs on the album were the singles. Brilliant music. Brilliant musician, instrument choices. I could listen and listen again just to catch the sound of a new instrument. 7. Mark Owen - How the mighty fall - Many will wonder to see here in thsi list of great names, I don't have to say how much prejudices i had against boybands and their shirt ripping image strategy since i was 16 (when i think i was quite to spend my money on a NKOTB album then, only in a couple of month to discover meaningful music and to be ashamed of it :lol: ). This album came in my life when i needed. It is more for the personal message of the songs but also to open my mind that the musician don't have to have success but that his music is still worth to try. Teached me a good lesson. From that moment on, i was more open to give a chance to not known artists, to strange styles or voices, to appreciate personality. I could have choose on my way a far lot more of albums, my journey is not done. I had great revelations with Queen, REM, Bob Dylan, Credence clear water revival, Goran Bregovic, Simon and Garfunkel, Lennon, Joan Baez, Razorlight, Doors, Pink Floyd. My last one was Arctic Monkeys for example. I could go on and on. I learned from which one how versatile music can be, what "moment" music is and what music " for years". I learned to choose and don't let me driven by a mode or by charts. Sometimes one album is more important than the other, sometimes my heart need one style over the other. I cannot said which one is the best, and what for? :lol: Also i didn't counted my revelation in classic music, which were as great as in the "light" music and took also a lot of time to refine and to go over prejudices.
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Artists you didn't get first time around
Arctic Monkeys. I didn't get the fuss about them till the The Last Shadow Puppets project :heart:
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Ireland 2010
I think the song is a littöe bit generic, a littöe bit of what i would expect to hear in a Disney movie, but from the lot of songs o heard by now, this would definitiv make Top 10! Not bad, Ireland!
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Selecţia Naţională Romania 2010
She got big in Romania with this ong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQXFPFsEitw . And after that i clasiffied here in the "jazz/ cool music" area :lol: . But i am long gone from Romania it seems ....
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Selecţia Naţională Romania 2010
Not what i expected from Paula Seling :blink: . I have her in my memory with total other style :blink:
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Serbia 2010
LOL, this last? I think you don't know here in west how the sound of Bregivic is loved in the East Europe. If itt is written by him, it is not the best song, but still good enough to make a lot of east-europian to vote for it. I see in top 20 :lol: *i still haven't the song which will get my vote :unsure: . Rushing to hear Romania's song*
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Moldova 2010
So, after the year of drums a couple of years ago, this year is of the violin? :lol: I normally like the entries from Moldova, like Nelly or Zdup si Zdop. But this one, i still have to make my mind. I woudn't buy it or phone for it, that is for sure :lol:
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Is there only Robbie and Gary who ....
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatAs i said, the one in the pictures a couple weeks ago is another woman, was not this one. With that one is he still together. :teresa: And it does seems to me a double standar here. Anyway , if the people will be happeier without Mark in the band, why don't you make a petition at Polydore? They have someone on the waiting list :lol: . Or they can reduce TT after each scandal till only Gary and Robbie remains, and everybody will be happy here.
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Is there only Robbie and Gary who ....
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatShhhhh....that girl from weeks ago in pic with Howard .....is other one :teresa:
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Is there only Robbie and Gary who ....
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatDream on about clean-cut Robbie and Gary :teresa: . We don't know what the next day will bring. But perhaps they learned better to choose with whom to cheat :lol: . And they would better come out now as the shock is already done. And like i said, i don't see what that should change the opinion about the band. It is like buying albums for the picture on the cover and not for the music inside. Well, better now that those "fans" are going away from them as in 5 years when they won't look so good anymore and will not dance anymore at their gigs. Smaller fan-base but apreciating them for the music, instead for mirror images.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatOur world makes us ill more as earlier. Our society emphasis on success, and either you have it but you have fear to lose it, or you haven't and then you are feeling like a looser. I must say that it happens to have in my antourage a lot of persons having to deal with fear crisis and with depressions. That is why i can tell you it is not a mode word, it is real . You are a strong person Norma, but not all are like you. Honestly, i don't want to see Mark doing a Britney. It is the right moment now to go in rehab, he cannot live anyway a normal life now like going shopping , at work or taking his children out.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatI don't think so, Norma. But at the moment i am more worried for his mental well being, so the drinking i think is an excuse to bring him somewhre where he can think and where he can be looked up. It is no easy to have depressions, here i don't look for an excuse for him, but i know about what i am speaking and how dangerous such a crisis moment could be. Do you think at the moment he can go to the AA meetings without being fallowed by a great number of paparazzi?
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatWell well Norma, he will pay enough, don't worry :rolleyes: . But looking at the last article in Mirror should be for everyone here more clear why he come first to say the storyin his terms. The article in the Mirros apparently quotes Emma, and when you read actually is only "a friend has said", "a pal has said" and nothing directly said by Emma. I am pretty sure at this moment no one entering their house, no firend or pal would go to tell something to the Mirror. And about telling only because he must: what is the problem of the public to knows this intim details. Do you feel better? Make from yourself a better person? I don't want to know it - i am not interested in it. I have my family and my friend to care for and thank you very much i have by far not the time to hear from all of them as much as i want. Why should a star makes mea culpa for the public? Did you buy the music or the image? Is Tiger Woods so good in his sport only because is he fidel to his wife? This pathetic excuse of the public hungry for the sadness of the other, for senzational stories, for dirty secrets makes me have a very low oppinion on the masses of people actually. But would you like for the press to search in your intim details, in your secrets and fears? To camp at your door? And don't come here with this is the price for being a celebrity. this is once again an excuse of the public who has nothing better to do and instead to live their lives and go for a walk in park with family stay watching TV and liveing the lifes of celebrity as if they would live much better. Yeah, great to have money and be well known. But this is devil present - it come always with fear not to do soemthing wrong, not to say a wrong word, not to fall down, not to be hated by the public, not to be fallowed on the street, not to be blackmailed, not to have your kids kidnaped. Should i go along? Why do you think the majority of celebrities broke down and a lot of them have secret addictions, nervous breakdown. bizzare acting?
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Take That - General Chart Topic
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatWell, it was nonetheless their best album. But no song from Gary was as strong as Rule the world or Reach out (i am that small fraction of TT fans who doesn't like Patience). His best song on The Circus was She said. The rest of his songs didn't make the cut in my top 20 of TT songs :unsure: . Sometimes i like You and sometimes i like Greatest Day. But not anytime.... Beautiful world was to samney for me in sound (that is the problem for example with the new Boyzone album, are they also have as producer John Shanks?), apart from Shine and Patience. Luckily i bought the extended version with the brilliant We all fall down and Rule the world. The Circus shows more versatility, more courage in changing styles, more instruments, more courage in production. As that comes more from Mark, Jason and Howard songs (apart from the boring What is love), i hope that Mark will get the chance to put his imput on the new album.
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Arctic Monkeys - "My Propeller"
Do they plan any prmotion for it? Without promotion i don't see bothering the top 75 :cry:
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United Kingdom 2010
Oh dear :unsure: . This won't be for sure the worst song on Eurovision, but it needs some reworking and refining!
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Germany 2010
I don't like her to much, from the last four i liked her the least . The song is not quite bad, but i don't see this in top 10, she has not really the power and versatility to bring that to a public which didn't know her at all from before, as the publicum from Eurovision is.
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Take That - General Chart Topic
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatAs exactly Gary's songs were disspointing for me on the Cicrus, i hope he packs all his songwritting creativity this time. Also the other TT members.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatI have always hated thes kiss and tell stories. If she was sorry for Emma or for the kids she would have stop the relationship, not him, she would have said to Emma, not to The Sun and not sellling her story for a book. She is just hunting the money, she balckmailed Mark already, so , what for a quality of woman do you expect she is? I needed three years of ork to put apart that money she received only once from Mark. At least Mark choosed the right woman to make children with :lol:
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Take That - General Chart Topic
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatActually Gordon Smart is friend with Gary, that way is not so bad now with Mark.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatI do think he tryed to hold everything under control also with drugs and alcohol. But exactly this kind of addicition as he has where the addicted keeped himself under control the most of the time, are the worst to get control over. I mean, he was never drunk on the interviews, promotion, TV and radio apparition (apart from one Brit award show, which shows actually how insecure and afraid he was) or at the gigs. He was never to be seen drunk when he was with his kids. He drank always after work... Also he didn't seemed under drugs to me in none pic or video. Robbie got out of control a lot, Mark didn't in his public appearance. Mark is a little bit like Michael J Fox, he was also "nice" and "cute" and a heavy silent drunker. I have told you all the time that Mark had a lot of hard times, not only Gary. But the silent ones are the deepest ones. For those taking the time to listen to his solo songs, his third dimension was clear (tip, just look on youtube after "Wasting away" and "Baby I'm not good", to see what i mean). I am glad he got in the clinic, as he is now really hitting the bottom. His family problems are his and Emma to clear, so i won't discuss anymore. I just hope that his friends, those people he helped over the years will stand by him now and help him. I hate the idea that the other four are keeping making the album without him for example. Postponing seems to me still a better idea: can you see Mark in 6 month capable to make promotion tour? Getting questions after questions? Surviving the scrutinity of papers and public? I don't! And if they do in the formel 3+or-Robbie, TT is ended for me, as it will be the TT 1 again all over when they let Robbie down and continue without the one "with problems". Image over friendship. I am a bit sad that the other three didn't bother with a message on TTO, a little "Get well, we are beside to you" would be nice to hear. But yeah, Norma, TTO (i have said also a lot of times before) is one of the worse and lame band website i saw. Cheating is not nice, is one of the worse thing a man could do to his wife, but he did that not to the public or his fans. People forget too easy that he gave in his music the best for the fans, that he was always the heart in live gigs, that he was the one always smilling and having a good word for the fans, that he has done a lot for charities (not on the scale Gary did, he liked more small charities and causes), that he helped a lot of artists, his backing musicians. He did a lot of mistakes but also a lot of good. Like every person in the world.... That is the last thing i had to say on this thema. It is up to him now and up to his friends to help him. His music has helped me in my dark times, so now is my turn to support further the artist Mark Owen.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatMaybe the media will forget for a moment, but that would be the thema at every interview they will done in promotion, i can bet about it. And the fans won't forget either. Well, he must pay for what he has done, i won't judge Emma for neither decision she may take. Sometimes i think that being creative for a male person goes hand in hand with being a fully idiot :rolleyes: (and i won't bet on Robbie or Gary for being other way, if i were you Norma :teresa: ). I don't think that TT are tired for being a pop-group. I think they are tired for receiving so much attention, for keeping their mouth shout, playing safe and the role of perfect man. That was the first time round, that is also now. They all should learn for it (give me a break, how the other didn't know about it? They learn very quicky when a person is very often following them). At Howard was only the ring missing, but is quite the same story. At least Jason has no kids. I won't comment on Gary as at him the rumours are really the fewest and Robbie i was no interested to read anything about him, but knowing how "sweet" and "on a plate" the pop-star" life is, i won't put my money on a pop-star ever for being an angel.
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatI don't think six months will be enough. Damn, i want to read in promotion time articles about the music they made and not about this story, over and over again. By The Circus they got only asked about Robbie. Now it will be that ... It might be that they will get far less fans in UK and more buyers and publicity (which was tending to 0 for The Circus) in Germany. Germany is not such impressed by good guy image like UK. That is why there is a very different perception of Robbie in Germany and TT are considered boring...
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatMonths or a year at least. That with drinking was not a news, but very few people have read his solo interviews. He said back in time that when he was down he used to drink (he didn't said he was alkoholiker or so strong drinker, only that he used to drink at bad times)... Not everybody smiling is really happy. Also that he is such a nice person doesn't mean he is perfect. I think someone blackmailed him. No way that he comes with such a news other way. Apart from Gary the other three let very little from themselves and were very private. Like i said, it is not my problem to judge what he makes in his private times. I know a lot of TT fans will be dissapointed, as they think the TT members are saints. It is a big problem that the fans are majority female, as for them the perfect image is very important. I hope they will put the album on hold now and release it next year, when the press will have enough of the story. But i don't think Polydor is that smart. They will just put Mark somewhere in the background, bring Robbie and for them the problem will be solved...
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Mark "I cheated with loadsa girls"
IrisAlbastru posted a post in a topic in Robbie Williams and Take That's Robbie Williams and Take ThatLOOOOOOLLLLL Well, perhaps the only positive thing from all of this it will be that a lot of people will stop wondering if Mark is gay :lol: