60.
Fields of Gold - Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales - 1993
The Police dağıldıktan sonra solo kariyerine devam eden grubun beyni diyebileceğimiz Sting sonraki yıllarda da çok başarılı işlere imza attı. Son derece hiperaktif olan bu güzel insan aynı zamanda yogayı geniş kitlelere sevdirmiş, insan hakları için değişik platformlarda mücadelesini sürdürmüş iyi de bir Newcastle United taraftarıdır.
Bu şarkının ilham kaynağı da İngiltere'de geniş arpa tarlalarının ortasında aldığı ev ve ikinci karısı Trudie Styler ile ondan dünyaya gelen dört çocuğu olmuştur. Yani son derece domestik ve insanı rahatlatan bir şarkı.
- Mad About You, Desert Rose, Shape Of My Heart, Fragile, Englishman In New York
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
Upon the fields of barley
You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
We'll walk in fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold
59.
The
Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In New York – 1993
Işin
doğrusu hiçbir zaman Nirvana hayranı olmadım. Ancak bu liste de Nirvana olmasa
eksik kalırdı. Ben de çözümü orijinali Nirvana’dan daha çok sevdiğim David
Bowie’ye ait olan ve cover yaptıkları parçayı koymakta buldum ve bir taşla iki
kuş vurdum.
Kurt
Cobain’i de ölümünden sonra daha çok tanıdım ve daha çok sevdim. Karısı
Courtney Love da Beatles hayranları için Yoko Ono neyse aynı kategoride bir
nefret objesi olarak görüldü fakat ben öyle de görmedim. The People Vs. Larry
Flynt filminde iyi bir oyuncu da olduğunu ayrıca kanıtladı.
Bu
şarkıda Bowie’nin yaşadığı kişilik bunalımı ve alter ego’su olan Ziggy Stardust
karakteriyle çatışması anlatılır. Ayrıca dizelerini çok beğendiğim William
Hughes Mearns’ün Antigonish şiirinden de bir etkilenme olduğu bariz:
Last night I saw upon the stair
A little man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…
- Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
We passed upon the stair
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago
Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the
world
I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land [Alt:
I searched for foreign land]
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare
At all the millions here [Alt
1: We walked a million years]
[Alt 2: With
multimillionaires]
[Alt 3: We walked a million
hills]
I must have died alone [Alt:
I must have died along]
A long, long time ago
Who knows?
Not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the
world
Who knows?
Not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who sold the
world
58.
With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – 1967
Evet babalar nihayet sahne alıyor. Daha mütevazı, daha az çalınan ama çok sevilen, Rolling Stone'un 311. sıraya koyduğu ama benim daha cömert davranıp 58. sıraya yerleştirdiğim bu şarkıyla huzurlarınızda 'The Beatles'.
Arkadaşlığın ve dostluğun hayatım boyunca önemini anlayıp hakkını vermeye en azından çalışmış bir insan olarak yılların süzgecinden geçip yakınımda olanların yanında seyrek görüştüğüm ama yine de sevdiğim, şu anda nerede olduğunu bile bilmediğim ama bende iz bırakmış olan herkese gitsin bu şarkı.
Bazen ailenizin ve en yakınlarınızın bile anlayamayacağı veya yardımcı olamayacağı durumlarda 'iyi ki dostlarım var' diyebiliyorsanız ne mutlu.
Ayrıca Joe Cocker versiyonu da bateride Phil Collins ve gitarda Brian May ile çok başarılı.
What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
What do I do when my love is away
Does it worry you to be alone?
How do I feel by the end of the day
Are you sad because you're on your own?
Does it worry you to be alone?
How do I feel by the end of the day
Are you sad because you're on your own?
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm, get high with a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Mmm, get high with a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody?
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
I need somebody to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
Would you believe in a love at first sight?
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you but I know it's mine
Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can't tell you but I know it's mine
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends
Mmm, I get high with a little help from my friends
Oh, I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends
Do you need anybody?
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
I just need someone to love
Could it be anybody?
I want somebody to love
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get high with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends
Mmm, gonna try with a little help from my friends
Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Yes, I get high with a little help from my friends
With a little help from my friends
57.
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton – Slowhand –
1977
Karşımızda Hall of Fame’e adı tam 3 kez
kazınan tek insan ve bir gitar dehası var. Eric Clapton olarak ve ayrıca Cream
ve Yardbirds gruplarının üyesi olarak… Rolling Stone dergisinin ‘Tüm Zamanların
En İyi Gitaristleri’ sıralamasında da ikinci gelmeyi başarmış bu müzisyene
şapka çıkarılır.
Çocukluğu John Lennon ve Roger Waters kadar
travmatik geçmiş olsa da şarkılarında bu çok belirgin değildir. Bir diğer ünlü
Jack Nicholson gibi genç yaşta doğum yapan annesini ablası bilmesi ve
büyükannesi tarafından yetiştirilmesi zor bir çocukluk gibi görünüyor.
Bu şarkının ilham kaynağı olan Patty Boyd ise
aynı zamanda George Harrison’ın ilk karısıdır. 1966 – 1977 yılları arasında
resmi olarak Harrison’ın karısı olan Boyd, boşandıktan sonra Eric Clapton ile
1979 yılında evlenmiş ve 1989 yılında aynı ilk evliliğinde olduğu gibi yoğun
alkol ve uyuşturucu tüketimi ve Clapton’ın sadakatsizliği nedeniyle ondan da
ayrılmış.
Benim için şarkının zaten güzel olmasının
yanındaki anlamı lisedeyken Onur’un gitarla çalması, benim ve Kerem’in de
beraber söylememizdi. Bu kadeh de senin şerefine Eric baba. Bize o güzel anları
yaşattığın için…
- Layla, Tears In Heaven, I Shot The Sheriff, Cocaine, Crossroads
56.
Gocce di Memoria – Giorgia – Single (La
Finestra di Fronte Film Müziklerinden) – 2003
Listeye girmeyi başaran az sayıdaki İtalyanca
parçadan birisi olan Gocce di Memoria 2003 yılında 120.000 kopya satarak o
yılın açık ara en çok satılan single parçası olmuştur.
Çok başarılı bulduğum yönetmen Ferzan
Özpetek’in yine çok beğendiğim ‘Karşı Pencere’ filminin vurucu bir şarkısıdır.
Gocce di Memoria ‘Anı Damlaları’ anlamına
gelir ki zaten burada da hayatımızda iz bırakan insanları veya özel bir insanı
anlatıyor. Bu şarkıda ise gerçekten çok acıklı bir hikaye var çünkü Georgia’nın
erkek arkadaşı şarkıcı Alex Baroni 2002’de Roma’da bir trafik kazasında ölüyor
ve Georgia da bu parçayı ona ithaf ediyor.
- Non Mi Ami, Io Fra Tanti, Quando Una Stella Muore
Sono gocce di memoria
Queste lacrime nuove
Siamo anime in una storia
Incancellabile
Le infinte volte che
Mi verrai a cercare nelle mie stanze vuote
Inestimabile
E' inafferrabile la tua assenza che mi appartiene
Siamo indivisibili
Siamo uguali e fragili
E siamo gia’ cosi’ lontani
Con il gelo nella mente
Sto correndo verso te
Siamo nella stessa sorte
Che tagliente ci cambiera’
Aspettiamo solo un segno
Un destino, un'eternita’
E dimmi come posso fare per raggiungerti adesso
Per raggiungerti adesso, per raggiungere te
Siamo gocce di un passato
Che non puo’ piu’ tornare
Questo tempo ci ha tradito, e’ inafferabile
Raccontera’ di te
Inventera’ per te quello che non abbiamo
Le promesse sono infrante
Come pioggia su di noi
Le parole sono stanche, ma so che tu mi ascolterai
Aspettiamo un altro viaggio, un destino, una verita’
E dimmi come posso fare per raggiungerti adesso
Per raggiungerti adesso, per raggiungere te
Queste lacrime nuove
Siamo anime in una storia
Incancellabile
Le infinte volte che
Mi verrai a cercare nelle mie stanze vuote
Inestimabile
E' inafferrabile la tua assenza che mi appartiene
Siamo indivisibili
Siamo uguali e fragili
E siamo gia’ cosi’ lontani
Con il gelo nella mente
Sto correndo verso te
Siamo nella stessa sorte
Che tagliente ci cambiera’
Aspettiamo solo un segno
Un destino, un'eternita’
E dimmi come posso fare per raggiungerti adesso
Per raggiungerti adesso, per raggiungere te
Siamo gocce di un passato
Che non puo’ piu’ tornare
Questo tempo ci ha tradito, e’ inafferabile
Raccontera’ di te
Inventera’ per te quello che non abbiamo
Le promesse sono infrante
Come pioggia su di noi
Le parole sono stanche, ma so che tu mi ascolterai
Aspettiamo un altro viaggio, un destino, una verita’
E dimmi come posso fare per raggiungerti adesso
Per raggiungerti adesso, per raggiungere te
55.
DIDO –
Life For Rent – Life For Rent – 2003
2004
yazında Como gölü kıyısında Pınar’la Dido konseri izlemek çok zevkliydi. Çimenlerin
üzerinde gerçekten unutulmaz bir Temmuz akşamı yaşamıştık.
Eminem’in
yaptığı belki de tek hayırlı iş Dido’yu müzik dünyasına kazandırmak oldu,
sayesinde güzel bir sesten güzel şarkılar dinledik.
Bu parça
da aslında hayatımıza ne kadar sahip olamadığımızı, ona söz geçiremediğimizi ve
kiralık hayatlar yaşadığımızı anlatıyor. Bir de bir zamanlar kurduğumuz
hayallerin yıllar içerisinde nasıl kaybolduğunu ve başarısız olma korkusuyla
denemediğimiz şeyler yüzünden aslında yaşıyor bile sayılamayacağımızı… Bir
şarkıda bu kadar mesaj yeter de artar bile bence.
- White Flag, Thank You, Here With Me, Hunter, Sand In My Shoes
I haven't
ever really found a place that I call home
I never
stick around quite long enough to make it
I
apologize that once again I'm not in love
But it's
not as if I mind that your heart ain't exactly breaking
It's just
a thought, only a thought
But if my
life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I
deserve nothing more than I get
'cause
nothing I have is truly mine
I've
always thought that I would love to live by the sea
To travel
the world alone and live more simply
I have no
idea what's happened to that dream
'cause
there's really nothing left here to stop me
It's just
a thought, only a thought
But if my
life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I
deserve nothing more than I get
'cause
nothing I have is truly mine
While my
heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I
am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how
can I say I'm alive
But if my
life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I
deserve nothing more than I get
'cause
nothing I have is truly mine
Roy Orbison – Crying – Crying - 1961
Listemde yer alan en eski şarkılardan birisi ki benim için modern anlamdaki müzik 1962’de Beatles ve Love
Me Do ile başlar diyebilirim. 50’lerin Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino
gibi Amerika kökenli Rock’n Roll gruplarına saygı duymakla beraber çok da bayıldığım söylenemez.
Roy Orbison hiç
karizmatik olmayan görüntüsü ve sahnesine karşın müzik tarihinde The Beatles,
Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello ve daha nice çok
önemli şarkıcı ve grupların büyük sevgi ve saygısını kazanmış mümtaz bir
şahsiyettir.
Rolling Stone dergisiyle
ortak noktalarımızdan bir tanesi de bu şarkı çıktı çünkü onlar da 69. sıraya
almışlar. Orijinal versiyonu yerine 1992’de K.D. Lang ile birlikte yaptıkları
ve bence çok başarılı olan düet versiyonunu tercih ettim, insanın içine işleyen bir şarkı.
- In Dreams, Only The Lonely, She's A Mystery To Me, Pretty Woman
[Roy:] I was all right for a while
I could smile for a while
[KD:] THEN I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
WHEN you stopped to say hello
[Roy:] You wished me well
You couldn't tell that
I've been crying over you,
crying over you
And you said "So long"
Left me standing all alone, alone and crying, crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand
But the touch of your hand can start me crying
I thought that I was over you But it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before
But darling, what can I do?
For you don't love me
And I'll always be crying over you, crying over you
[Roy:] Yes now you're gone
[Both:] And from this moment on, I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying over you
53.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – I Won’t Back
Down - Full Moon Fever - 1989
Güzel bir motivasyon şarkısıdır. Kendinizi
yorgun, bıkkın ve umutsuz hissettiğinizde ihtiyacınız olan silkinmeyi sağlar,
enerji yükler. Bütün dünya üstüne geliyor gibi olsa da asla boyun eğmeyenlerin
şarkısıdır. Ayrıca gitarda George Harrison ve ELO’dan Jeff Lynne, bateride Ringo
Starr da var. Daha ne olsun?
George Bush bu şarkıyı 2000 yılı seçimlerinde
kullanınca kendisinden pek hazzetmeyen Tom Petty dava açmakla tehdit etmiştir
ama maalesef felakete engel olamamıştır. Yine de gönüllerimizi bu tehditle
fethetmiştir.
Johnny Cash versiyonunu da dinleyin, tavsiye
ederim.
- Learning To Fly, Free Falling, Mary Jane
Well, I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down
No I'll stand my ground
Won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
Well I know what's right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
No I won't back down
52.
The Cure – Just Like Heaven – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - 1987
The Cure deyince akla ‘Love Song’, ‘Lullaby’,
‘Pictures of You’ veya Cuma gününe yapılan bir güzelleme olarak hafızalarımızda
yer etmiş ‘Friday I’m in Love’ daha çok gelse de bu parça arabayla seyahat
ederken sesi sonuna kadar açıp 180’le gitmek için çok idealdir ve grubun adı
gibi ruhu tedavi edici özelliği vardır. Yalnız bilinçli tüketiniz; alkolsüz ve
boş bir yolda!
- Lullaby, Pictures Of You, Love Song, Boys Don't Cry, Close To Me, In Between Days,
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
51.
Forever Young – Alphaville – Forever Young - 1984
Oscar Wilde’ın meşhur eseri Dorian Gray’in
portresinde hep genç kalabilmek uğruna ruhunu satan Dorian Gray’den tutun da
‘Hızlı yaşa, genç öl, cesedin yakışıklı olsun’ sözünün belki de Türkçe’ye
girmesine neden olan asi genç James Dean’e kadar pek çok insan ölümsüzlüğün
veya hiç bitmeyen gençliğin sırrını aramıştır.
Alphaville 80’lerde gerçek anlamda iz bırakmış bir gruptur. Big In Japan
dinleyip de diskoda dans etmemiş bizim yaş kuşağı genci herhalde yoktur.
- Sounds Like A Melody, Big In Japan, Dance With Me, Jerusalem
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad men
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
50.
Take on Me – A-Ha – Hunting High And Low - 1985
Listenin tam ortasını taçlandıran, 80'lerin en sevilen şarkıları anketlerinin bazılarında 1 numarada yer alan, Youtube'da 100 milyon izlemeye ulaşan neredeyse 30 yıllık bir faydalı eser.
Yıllar sonra Pitbull ve Cristina
Aguilera’nın ‘Feel This Moment’ şarkısının temelini oluşturacak kadar
hareketli, ‘rotoscoping’ denilen farklı klip tekniğiyle göz alıcı ve A-Ha’nın
Hunting High and Low, Stay on These Roads gibi daha mesaj veren şarkıları
yerine basit ama bir dönemin ruhunu yansıtan parça.
- Hunting High And Low, Stay On These Roads, Velvet, Crying In The Rain, Forever Not Yours
So needless to say
Take on me, take me on
Oh the things that you
say
Take on me, take me on
49.
The Show Must Go On – Queen – Innuendo - 1991
1991'in soğuk ve kasvetli bir Kasım günü Freddie Mercury'nin ölüm haberini televizyonda duyduğumda ne kadar üzüldüğümü hatırlıyorum. Daha yapacak çok işi, söyleyecek ve yazacak çok şarkısı vardı ama o da vaktinden çok önce gitti.
Queen'in son albümü olan Innuendo aynı zamanda Freddie Mercury'nin veda albümüdür. Bazılarının anlamını çözmek için uğraştığı, bazılarının hiç umursamadığı hayatta herkes şovu bir şekilde sonuna kadar sürdürmek için sürekli bir mücadele içinde. Bazen içimiz kan ağlayarak, bazen mutlulukla ve bazıları da Freddie gibi ölümün yakın olduğunu bildiği halde azimle...
- Bohemian Rhapsody, Those Were The Days Of Our Lives, Under Pressure, I Want To Break Free, Let Me Live, Another One Bites The Dust, You Don't Fool Me, Innuendo, Somebody To Love, We Will Rock You
Empty spaces - what are we living for
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score
On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore
The show must go on,
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.
Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance
Another heartache, another failed romance
On and on, does anybody know what we are living for?
I guess I'm learning, I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
The show must go on
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on
The show must go on
I'll face it with a grin
I'm never giving in
On - with the show -
I'll top the bill, I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the -
On with the show -
The show must go on...
48.
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M. - Automatic For The People - 1992
R.E.M.'in müzik tarihindeki öneminin yüzü suyu hürmetine bir şarkısını almam gerekiyordu. 'Losing My Religion' artık çok çalınıp içi boşaltıldığı için tercihimi Everbody Hurts'ten yana kullandım. Ayrıca Michael Douglas'ın oynadığı harika 'Falling Down' filmiyle de video klibi arasında ciddi bir benzerlik var.
Herkesin hayatında kötü dönemler olabilir, hiçbir çıkış yolu olmadığı düşünülebilir ama umudu kaybetmemek gerekir. Neyse, bu konu üzerine yazılmış binlerce şiir, düzyazı, film ve tiyatro eseri olduğu için kısa kesip şarkıya geçiyorum.
- Losing My Religion, Man On The Moon, Leaving New York, The One I Love, Shiny Happy People
When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go
'Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (Hold on)
If you think you've had too much
Of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand, oh no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
47.
The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals - The Animals - 1964
Gitar ve orgun bu kadar
güzel bir kombinasyonu herhalde az bulunur. Çocukluğumdan kalan hatıralardan
bir tanesi de babamın evdeki gitarı tıngırdatarak bu şarkıyı söylemesidir.
Tabii bir Eric Burdon değildi ama bas-bariton sesiyle şarkıyı fena da yorumlamazdı.
Şarkı anonimdir ve Nina
Simone, Woody Guthrie ve Bob Dylan da dahil pek çok sanatçı tarafından
yorumlanmıştır. Öyküsü de bir blues şarkısı gibi acıklıdır ve New Orleans’daki
bir genelevi konu alır ama Animals yorumunda bu daha ziyade kumarbaz ve içki düşkünü
bir babanın ve sonra da oğlunun günah ve kederle geçen yaşamlarına odaklanır.
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, It's My Life
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
46.
Time – Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973
Proust’un Kayıp
Zamanın İzinde romanı gibi geçmişe, oradaki kaygısız ve gamsız günlere duyulan
özlem hepimizde vardır. Aslında gerçekten güzel ve mutlu olan o geçmiş midir
yoksa hayalimizde yaşattığımız geçmiş mi?
Roger Waters bile
bu muhteşem şarkıda istediklerini tam olarak söyleyemediğinden dem vuruyor ve o
anda aklıma Nuri Bilge Ceylan filmlerinde bir türlü akmak bilmeyen zaman,
taşradaki o sıkıntı ve boşluk geliyor. Oradan da dünyada bazı insanların ne
kadar çok yapacak şeyi ve zamanlarının yetmediğini, ondan çok daha fazla
insanın da ne kadar boş hayatlar yaşadığını düşünüyorum..
Ticking
away the moments that make up a dull day
Tired of
lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
So you
run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Every year
is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Home
When I
come home
Far away
45.
Love Bites - Def Leppard - Hysteria - 1987
Bu
albümü de bir Kore seyahatinde bulduğumda pek mutlu olmuştum doğrusu. Güzel
zamanların sıkı bir şarkısı diyebiliriz. Zaten Def Leppard’ın en çok ses
getiren albümü Hysteria’dır ve daha sonra bir daha aynı başarıyı
yakalayamadılar.
Bir
yandan kaybedilen bir aşkın acısı ve öte yandan unutamamamın verdiği çaresizlik
o dönem için fena da olmayan bir video kliple birleşince ergenlik dönemimin iz
bırakan bir parçası kendine listede yer buluyor.
- Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria, Too Late For Love
If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me?
Do you tell lies and say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch 'n' see?
Ooh babe ooh yeah
When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?
Ooh c'mon
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It's what I need
When I'm with you are you somewhere else?
Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself?
When you wake up will you walk out?
It can't be love if you throw it about
Ooh babe
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
Yes it does
It will be hell
44.
Soldier Of Fortune - Deep Purple - Stormbringer - 1974
Liste ilerledikçe ağır toplar arka arkaya gelmeye başlıyor. 70'lerin sıkı hard rock gruplarından Deep Purple'ın bu nefis gitar baladı da özellikle 40'ı devirdikten sonra daha da anlamlı gelmeye başlıyor.
Arayışlarla oradan oraya savrularak geçen bir yaşam ve en sonunda durulma isteği bir gün herhalde herkeste hasıl olur.
- Smoke On The Water, Child In Time, Hush, Perfect Strangers
I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
43.
Enjoy The Silence –
Depeche Mode – Violator – 1990
Kolejde bizim dönemde
okuyup da Evrim arkadaşımız sayesinde Depeche Mode’a yabancı kalan herhalde
olmamıştır. Bu virüsü bize de bulaştırdığı için kendisini hayırla yad ediyorum
ama asıl diğer tehlikeli virus olan Fenerbahçelilik bulaşıcı olmadığı için sadece
kendisi ve yaklaşık 25 milyon bahtsızı etkilemeye devam ediyor.
2001 yılında ekonomik
krizin tam göbeğinde Ekim ayında Abdi İpekçi’de Türkiye’de verdikleri ilk
konseri yerinde izleme şansına nail olan bahtiyar kullardan birisi olarak
hayatımın en güzel gecelerinden birisi olduğunu söyleyebilirim. Bir Kenan
Doğulu değilse de(!) bu arkadaşların da sahnesi bayağı iyiymiş.
Bu kadar yazıyorum, çok
konuşkan birisi olmasam da özellikle ilginç kişilerle ilginç konular hakkında
konuşmayı da severim ama gerçekten de çoğu zaman sessizliğin keyfini çıkarmak
gibisi yok.
- Somebody, Personal Jesus, People Are People, Strangelove, Everything Counts, Question Of Lust, Policy Of Truth
Words
like violence
42.
Sweet Child O’Mine –
Guns’n Roses – Appetite For Destruction - 1988
"Sweet Child o' Mine" Guitar World dergisinin "En iyi 100 Gitar Solosu" listesinde 37., Blender'ın ‘Doğduğundan Beri en İyi 500 Şarkı’ listesinde 3., Rolling Stone's en iyi 500 şarkı listesinde 198., Q magazine 100 en iyi
gitar parçasında 6., yine Rolling Stone ‘Dünyayı Değiştiren 40 Şarkı’
listesinde yer alıp VH1’ın ‘80’lerin En İyi 100 Şarkısı’ listesinde de kendine
7. Sırada yer bulmuştur.
Bu kadar övgüye mazhar olmuş bir
parça için benim fazla bir şey söylememe herhalde gerek kalmadı. Bu müstesna şarkı benim listemde de 42. sırada yer alarak test edilip onaylanıyor.
- November Rain, Don't Cry, Patience, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Paradise City
She's got a smile that it
seems to me
Now and then when I see her
face
Sweet child o' mine
She's got eyes of the bluest
skies
Her hair reminds me of a warm
safe place
Sweet child o' mine
Where do we go?
41.
Nothing
Else Matters – Metallica – Metallica – 1992
Benim
müzikteki sertlik sınırım Hard Rock’ta Deep Purple, AC-DC veya Metallica gibi
gruplarla çizilmiştir. Megadeth, Slayer vs. bana fazla gelir.
Çok
sıkı bir Metallica hayranı olmasam da yıllardır bu alanda istikrarlı bir çizgiye
sahip olan grup aynı zamanda Hard Rock’ı benim gibi hardcore Hard Rock’çı
olmayanlara da sevdirmiştir. Hele bu şarkı gerçekten olağanüstü.
Aslında
James Hetfield’ın bu şarkıyı o dönemdeki kız arkadaşı için turnedeyken yazdığı
iddia edilse de Hetfield yıllar sonra belki o ilişkiyi unutmak da istediği için
popülist bir yaklaşımla hayranlarına adamıştır.
- One, Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, The Day That Never Comes
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
Nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for gamesthey play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know, yeah!
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
I could smile for a while
[KD:] THEN I saw you last night
You held my hand so tight
WHEN you stopped to say hello
[Roy:] You wished me well
You couldn't tell that
I've been crying over you,
crying over you
And you said "So long"
Left me standing all alone, alone and crying, crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand
But the touch of your hand can start me crying
I thought that I was over you But it's true, so true
I love you even more than I did before
But darling, what can I do?
For you don't love me
And I'll always be crying over you, crying over you
[Roy:] Yes now you're gone
[Both:] And from this moment on, I'll be crying, crying, crying, crying
Yeah, crying, crying over you
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – I Won’t Back
Down - Full Moon Fever - 1989
Güzel bir motivasyon şarkısıdır. Kendinizi
yorgun, bıkkın ve umutsuz hissettiğinizde ihtiyacınız olan silkinmeyi sağlar,
enerji yükler. Bütün dünya üstüne geliyor gibi olsa da asla boyun eğmeyenlerin
şarkısıdır. Ayrıca gitarda George Harrison ve ELO’dan Jeff Lynne, bateride Ringo
Starr da var. Daha ne olsun?
George Bush bu şarkıyı 2000 yılı seçimlerinde
kullanınca kendisinden pek hazzetmeyen Tom Petty dava açmakla tehdit etmiştir
ama maalesef felakete engel olamamıştır. Yine de gönüllerimizi bu tehditle
fethetmiştir.
Johnny Cash versiyonunu da dinleyin, tavsiye
ederim.
- Learning To Fly, Free Falling, Mary Jane
Well, I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down
No I'll stand my ground
Won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
Well I know what's right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
No I won't back down
No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down
No I'll stand my ground
Won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
Well I know what's right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground
And I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I will stand my ground
(I won't back down)
Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
Hey I won't back down
(I won't back down)
Hey, baby, there ain't no easy way out
(I won't back down)
I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
No I won't back down
52.
The Cure – Just Like Heaven – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me - 1987
The Cure deyince akla ‘Love Song’, ‘Lullaby’,
‘Pictures of You’ veya Cuma gününe yapılan bir güzelleme olarak hafızalarımızda
yer etmiş ‘Friday I’m in Love’ daha çok gelse de bu parça arabayla seyahat
ederken sesi sonuna kadar açıp 180’le gitmek için çok idealdir ve grubun adı
gibi ruhu tedavi edici özelliği vardır. Yalnız bilinçli tüketiniz; alkolsüz ve
boş bir yolda!
- Lullaby, Pictures Of You, Love Song, Boys Don't Cry, Close To Me, In Between Days,
"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
51.
Forever Young – Alphaville – Forever Young - 1984
Oscar Wilde’ın meşhur eseri Dorian Gray’in
portresinde hep genç kalabilmek uğruna ruhunu satan Dorian Gray’den tutun da
‘Hızlı yaşa, genç öl, cesedin yakışıklı olsun’ sözünün belki de Türkçe’ye
girmesine neden olan asi genç James Dean’e kadar pek çok insan ölümsüzlüğün
veya hiç bitmeyen gençliğin sırrını aramıştır.
Alphaville 80’lerde gerçek anlamda iz bırakmış bir gruptur. Big In Japan
dinleyip de diskoda dans etmemiş bizim yaş kuşağı genci herhalde yoktur.
- Sounds Like A Melody, Big In Japan, Dance With Me, Jerusalem
Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad men
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men
Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune
The music's played by the, the mad men
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever? Forever young
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later, they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young?
It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever
So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever?
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
50.
Take on Me – A-Ha – Hunting High And Low - 1985
Listenin tam ortasını taçlandıran, 80'lerin en sevilen şarkıları anketlerinin bazılarında 1 numarada yer alan, Youtube'da 100 milyon izlemeye ulaşan neredeyse 30 yıllık bir faydalı eser.
Yıllar sonra Pitbull ve Cristina
Aguilera’nın ‘Feel This Moment’ şarkısının temelini oluşturacak kadar
hareketli, ‘rotoscoping’ denilen farklı klip tekniğiyle göz alıcı ve A-Ha’nın
Hunting High and Low, Stay on These Roads gibi daha mesaj veren şarkıları
yerine basit ama bir dönemin ruhunu yansıtan parça.
- Hunting High And Low, Stay On These Roads, Velvet, Crying In The Rain, Forever Not Yours
We're talking away
I don't know what
I'm to say I'll say it
anyway
Today's another day to
find you
Shying away
I'll be coming for your
love, OK?
I
Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two
So needless to say
I'm odds and ends
But that's me stumbling
away
Slowly learning that life
is OK.
Say after me
It's no better to be safe
than sorry
Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two
Oh the things that you
say
Is it life or
Just a play my worries
away
You're all the things
I've got to
remember
You're shying away
I'll be coming for you
anyway
Take on me, take me on
I'll be gone
In a day or two
49.
The Show Must Go On – Queen – Innuendo - 1991
1991'in soğuk ve kasvetli bir Kasım günü Freddie Mercury'nin ölüm haberini televizyonda duyduğumda ne kadar üzüldüğümü hatırlıyorum. Daha yapacak çok işi, söyleyecek ve yazacak çok şarkısı vardı ama o da vaktinden çok önce gitti.
Queen'in son albümü olan Innuendo aynı zamanda Freddie Mercury'nin veda albümüdür. Bazılarının anlamını çözmek için uğraştığı, bazılarının hiç umursamadığı hayatta herkes şovu bir şekilde sonuna kadar sürdürmek için sürekli bir mücadele içinde. Bazen içimiz kan ağlayarak, bazen mutlulukla ve bazıları da Freddie gibi ölümün yakın olduğunu bildiği halde azimle...
- Bohemian Rhapsody, Those Were The Days Of Our Lives, Under Pressure, I Want To Break Free, Let Me Live, Another One Bites The Dust, You Don't Fool Me, Innuendo, Somebody To Love, We Will Rock You
Empty spaces - what are we living for
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score
On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore
The show must go on,
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.
Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance
Another heartache, another failed romance
On and on, does anybody know what we are living for?
I guess I'm learning, I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
The show must go on
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on
The show must go on
I'll face it with a grin
I'm never giving in
On - with the show -
I'll top the bill, I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the -
On with the show -
The show must go on...
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score
On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore
The show must go on,
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on.
Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance
Another heartache, another failed romance
On and on, does anybody know what we are living for?
I guess I'm learning, I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning, round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
The show must go on
The show must go on
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on
My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on
The show must go on
I'll face it with a grin
I'm never giving in
On - with the show -
I'll top the bill, I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the -
On with the show -
The show must go on...
48.
Everybody Hurts - R.E.M. - Automatic For The People - 1992
R.E.M.'in müzik tarihindeki öneminin yüzü suyu hürmetine bir şarkısını almam gerekiyordu. 'Losing My Religion' artık çok çalınıp içi boşaltıldığı için tercihimi Everbody Hurts'ten yana kullandım. Ayrıca Michael Douglas'ın oynadığı harika 'Falling Down' filmiyle de video klibi arasında ciddi bir benzerlik var.
Herkesin hayatında kötü dönemler olabilir, hiçbir çıkış yolu olmadığı düşünülebilir ama umudu kaybetmemek gerekir. Neyse, bu konu üzerine yazılmış binlerce şiir, düzyazı, film ve tiyatro eseri olduğu için kısa kesip şarkıya geçiyorum.
- Losing My Religion, Man On The Moon, Leaving New York, The One I Love, Shiny Happy People
When your day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go
'Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (Hold on)
If you think you've had too much
Of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand, oh no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough
Of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go
'Cause everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (Hold on)
If you think you've had too much
Of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand, oh no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone
No, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
Everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts
47.
The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals - The Animals - 1964
Gitar ve orgun bu kadar
güzel bir kombinasyonu herhalde az bulunur. Çocukluğumdan kalan hatıralardan
bir tanesi de babamın evdeki gitarı tıngırdatarak bu şarkıyı söylemesidir.
Tabii bir Eric Burdon değildi ama bas-bariton sesiyle şarkıyı fena da yorumlamazdı.
Şarkı anonimdir ve Nina
Simone, Woody Guthrie ve Bob Dylan da dahil pek çok sanatçı tarafından
yorumlanmıştır. Öyküsü de bir blues şarkısı gibi acıklıdır ve New Orleans’daki
bir genelevi konu alır ama Animals yorumunda bu daha ziyade kumarbaz ve içki düşkünü
bir babanın ve sonra da oğlunun günah ve kederle geçen yaşamlarına odaklanır.
- Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, It's My Life
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
46.
Time – Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973
Proust’un Kayıp
Zamanın İzinde romanı gibi geçmişe, oradaki kaygısız ve gamsız günlere duyulan
özlem hepimizde vardır. Aslında gerçekten güzel ve mutlu olan o geçmiş midir
yoksa hayalimizde yaşattığımız geçmiş mi?
Roger Waters bile
bu muhteşem şarkıda istediklerini tam olarak söyleyemediğinden dem vuruyor ve o
anda aklıma Nuri Bilge Ceylan filmlerinde bir türlü akmak bilmeyen zaman,
taşradaki o sıkıntı ve boşluk geliyor. Oradan da dünyada bazı insanların ne
kadar çok yapacak şeyi ve zamanlarının yetmediğini, ondan çok daha fazla
insanın da ne kadar boş hayatlar yaşadığını düşünüyorum..
Ticking
away the moments that make up a dull day
You
fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking
around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting
for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of
lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are
young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then
one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one
told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you
run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing
around to come up behind you again.
The sun
is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter
of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year
is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans
that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging
on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time
is gone, the song is over,
Thought
I'd something more to say.
Home
Home again
I like to
be here
When I
can
When I
come home
Cold and
tired
It's good
to warm my bones
Beside
the fire
Far away
Across
the field
Tolling
on the iron bell
Calls the
faithful to their knees
To hear
the softly spoken magic spell
45.
Love Bites - Def Leppard - Hysteria - 1987
Bu
albümü de bir Kore seyahatinde bulduğumda pek mutlu olmuştum doğrusu. Güzel
zamanların sıkı bir şarkısı diyebiliriz. Zaten Def Leppard’ın en çok ses
getiren albümü Hysteria’dır ve daha sonra bir daha aynı başarıyı
yakalayamadılar.
Bir
yandan kaybedilen bir aşkın acısı ve öte yandan unutamamamın verdiği çaresizlik
o dönem için fena da olmayan bir video kliple birleşince ergenlik dönemimin iz
bırakan bir parçası kendine listede yer buluyor.
- Pour Some Sugar On Me, Hysteria, Too Late For Love
If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me?
Do you tell lies and say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch 'n' see?
Ooh babe ooh yeah
When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?
Ooh c'mon
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It's what I need
When I'm with you are you somewhere else?
Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself?
When you wake up will you walk out?
It can't be love if you throw it about
Ooh babe
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
Yes it does
It will be hell
Watch out, love bites
When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me?
Do you tell lies and say that it's forever?
Do you think twice, or just touch 'n' see?
Ooh babe ooh yeah
When you're alone, do you let go?
Are you wild 'n' willin' or is it just for show?
Ooh c'mon
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don't wanna be there when you decide to break it
No!
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It's no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It's what I need
When I'm with you are you somewhere else?
Am I gettin' thru or do you please yourself?
When you wake up will you walk out?
It can't be love if you throw it about
Ooh babe
I don't wanna touch you too much baby
'Cos making love to you might drive me crazy
Love bites, love bleeds
It's bringin' me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
If you've got love in your sights
Watch out, love bites
Yes it does
It will be hell
44.
Soldier Of Fortune - Deep Purple - Stormbringer - 1974
Liste ilerledikçe ağır toplar arka arkaya gelmeye başlıyor. 70'lerin sıkı hard rock gruplarından Deep Purple'ın bu nefis gitar baladı da özellikle 40'ı devirdikten sonra daha da anlamlı gelmeye başlıyor.
Arayışlarla oradan oraya savrularak geçen bir yaşam ve en sonunda durulma isteği bir gün herhalde herkeste hasıl olur.
- Smoke On The Water, Child In Time, Hush, Perfect Strangers
I have often told you stories
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
About the way
I lived the life of a drifter
Waiting for the day
When I'd take your hand
And sing you songs
Then maybe you would say
Come lay with me love me
And I would surely stay
But I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Many times I've been a traveller
I looked for something new
In days of old
When nights were cold
I wandered without you
But those days I thougt my eyes
Had seen you standing near
Though blindness is confusing
It shows that you're not here
Now I feel I'm growing older
And the songs that I have sung
Echo in the distance
Like the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
Yes, I can hear the sound
Of a windmill goin' 'round
I guess I'll always be
A soldier of fortune
43.
Enjoy The Silence –
Depeche Mode – Violator – 1990
Kolejde bizim dönemde
okuyup da Evrim arkadaşımız sayesinde Depeche Mode’a yabancı kalan herhalde
olmamıştır. Bu virüsü bize de bulaştırdığı için kendisini hayırla yad ediyorum
ama asıl diğer tehlikeli virus olan Fenerbahçelilik bulaşıcı olmadığı için sadece
kendisi ve yaklaşık 25 milyon bahtsızı etkilemeye devam ediyor.
2001 yılında ekonomik
krizin tam göbeğinde Ekim ayında Abdi İpekçi’de Türkiye’de verdikleri ilk
konseri yerinde izleme şansına nail olan bahtiyar kullardan birisi olarak
hayatımın en güzel gecelerinden birisi olduğunu söyleyebilirim. Bir Kenan
Doğulu değilse de(!) bu arkadaşların da sahnesi bayağı iyiymiş.
Bu kadar yazıyorum, çok
konuşkan birisi olmasam da özellikle ilginç kişilerle ilginç konular hakkında
konuşmayı da severim ama gerçekten de çoğu zaman sessizliğin keyfini çıkarmak
gibisi yok.
- Somebody, Personal Jesus, People Are People, Strangelove, Everything Counts, Question Of Lust, Policy Of Truth
Words
like violence
Break the
silence
Come
crashing in
Into my
little world
Painful
to me
Pierce
right through me
Can't you
understand
Oh my
little girl
All I
ever wanted
All I
ever needed
Is here
in my arms
Words are
very unnecessary
They can
only do harm
Vows are
spoken
To be
broken
Feelings
are intense
Words are
trivial
Pleasures
remain
So does
the pain
Words are
meaningless
And
forgettable
All I
ever wanted
All I
ever needed
Is here
in my arms
Words are
very unnecessary
They can
only do harm
Enjoy the
silence
42.
Sweet Child O’Mine –
Guns’n Roses – Appetite For Destruction - 1988
"Sweet Child o' Mine" Guitar World dergisinin "En iyi 100 Gitar Solosu" listesinde 37., Blender'ın ‘Doğduğundan Beri en İyi 500 Şarkı’ listesinde 3., Rolling Stone's en iyi 500 şarkı listesinde 198., Q magazine 100 en iyi
gitar parçasında 6., yine Rolling Stone ‘Dünyayı Değiştiren 40 Şarkı’
listesinde yer alıp VH1’ın ‘80’lerin En İyi 100 Şarkısı’ listesinde de kendine
7. Sırada yer bulmuştur.
Bu kadar övgüye mazhar olmuş bir
parça için benim fazla bir şey söylememe herhalde gerek kalmadı. Bu müstesna şarkı benim listemde de 42. sırada yer alarak test edilip onaylanıyor.
- November Rain, Don't Cry, Patience, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Paradise City
She's got a smile that it
seems to me
Reminds me of childhood
memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright
blue sky
Now and then when I see her
face
She takes me away to that
special place
And if I stared too long
I'd probably break down and
cry
Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine
She's got eyes of the bluest
skies
As if they thought of rain
I'd hate to look into those
eyes
And see an ounce of pain
Her hair reminds me of a warm
safe place
Where as a child I'd hide
And pray for the thunder and
the rain
To quietly pass me by
Sweet child o' mine
Sweet love of mine
Where do we go?
Where do we go now?
Where do we go?
Sweet child o' mine
41.
Nothing
Else Matters – Metallica – Metallica – 1992
Benim
müzikteki sertlik sınırım Hard Rock’ta Deep Purple, AC-DC veya Metallica gibi
gruplarla çizilmiştir. Megadeth, Slayer vs. bana fazla gelir.
Çok
sıkı bir Metallica hayranı olmasam da yıllardır bu alanda istikrarlı bir çizgiye
sahip olan grup aynı zamanda Hard Rock’ı benim gibi hardcore Hard Rock’çı
olmayanlara da sevdirmiştir. Hele bu şarkı gerçekten olağanüstü.
Aslında
James Hetfield’ın bu şarkıyı o dönemdeki kız arkadaşı için turnedeyken yazdığı
iddia edilse de Hetfield yıllar sonra belki o ilişkiyi unutmak da istediği için
popülist bir yaklaşımla hayranlarına adamıştır.
- One, Unforgiven, Enter Sandman, The Day That Never Comes
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
Nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for gamesthey play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know, yeah!
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know
I never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
Nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for gamesthey play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know, yeah!
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
