Oder rettet meinen Tag.
Ein kleines Stück Musik,
ein einziger 3-Minuten-Song,
von irgendwoher,
meist aus dem Radio,
meist nur noch selten gespielt,
meist zu Hause oder unterwegs - dann wippt der Fuss, dann rast das Blut, und alles, alles ist wieder gut - wie kürzlich wieder mal bei BAKERMAN von Laid Back.

Anderes, das den Adrenalinspiegel in einer Nanosekunde von null auf hundert bringt (Liste bestimmt unvollständig):
BREAKTHROUGH (Queen) - DON'T GET ME WRONG (Pretenders) - THE PASSENGER (Siouxie & the Banshees / Iggy Pop) - I WANT YOU (Bob Dylan) - LOVE CATS (Cure) - SHAKE YOUR HIPS / RIP THIS JOINT (Rolling Stones) - HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Stevie Wonder) - BROWN EYED GIRL (Van Morrison) - SPEEDING (Creatures) - DELICIOUS DEMON / FUCKING IN RHYTHM & SORROW (Sugarcubes) - TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING (Jamiroquai) - WHAT'S WRONG WITH GROOVIN' (Letta Mbulu) - MANO CAETANO (Maria Bethânia) - MATERIAL GIRL (Madonna) - CREAM (Prince) - ADDICTED TO LOVE (Ciccone Youth) - INTO MY SOUL (Gabin) - TWO SPACES (Frank Black) - LUST FOR LIFE (Iggy Pop) - GOOD NIGHT MOON (Shivaree) - FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH (Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66) - NÄBE DE GLEIS (Patent Ochsner) - ROCK 'N ROLL MUSIC (Beatles) - FANTA (Taj Mahal & Toumani Dibiate) - DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA (Police) - I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE (Creedence Clearwater Revival) - CREEP (Radiohead) - THAT'S HOW I'M LIVING (Ice T.) - GOOD VIBRATIONS (Brian Wilson) - ROSE ROUGE (Saint Germain) - IF YOU CAN'T GET ME LOVE (Suzie Quatro) - WHERE WILL I BE (Emmilou Harris) - ALL AT SEA / WIND CRIES MARY (Jamie Cullum) - IN YOUR ROOM / MANIC MONDAY (Bangles) - COMMON PEOPLE (William Shatner) - POLITIK (Coldplay) - OHNI DI (Züri West) - RESPECT (Aretha Franklin) - GOOD THING (Fine Young Cannibals)

Anja Garbarek.
Sehr schön!

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Wham! Last Christmas

... on my ordinary, ordinary life,
I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.
Jamie Cullum

John in Ehren, absolut - doch wie so viel Anderes erwies sich auch das mit der Zeit als völlig falsch.
Because: the music never dies.

.........................
white christmas - silver bells - born of Mary - children's christmas song - my christmas tree - Santa Claus is coming to town - twinkle twinkle little me - little bright star - joy of the world - the christmas song - just a lonely christmas - noel - silent night...

Amanda Palmer (links) von den fabelhaften Dresden Dolls...

...berichtet in ihrem Tagebuch über eine Begegnung mit einer "meiner" musikalischen Entdeckungen des Jahres, Regina Spektor - ein Name, dessen Erwähnung immer noch kaum mehr als blosses Schulterzucken und ahnungsloses Kopfschütteln auslöst.
Nun bin ich rehabilitiert - das fachkundige Urteil im Auszug:

(...) We had been offered a slot at the all-night Bongo Club cabaret by a friend of an ex-girlfriend of a friend of a friend of a friend, so we decided to meet there later that night. I told them I would try to bring Regina (The Ms. Regina Spektor), who had a show scheduled that night. She and I met up for lunch before her soundcheck and I brought her to the forest cafe, which i had discovered a few nights earlier. it was a classic anarcho-punk co-op cafe with a big leaf-and-branch-filled room for sitting and the most delicious vegetarian food. we ate and got good green tea and shared stories and woes and then went to her soundcheck and tried a little song together, which we played that night at her show which was, of course, fucking brilliant. Regina Spektor is a piano-playin-poety-from-another-planet-singin-bad-ass motherfucker. i watched her in complete awe and was bolstered in my opinion that a piano can indeed stand on it's own three legs.

I took Regina over to the bongo club and we stuffed into the overpacked dressing room surrounded by sequined girls and flaming gay MCs before heading down to play. It was very reminiscent of the Old Dolls Days when the PA never worked and the sound was always horrible, but we managed to pull of a pretty good impromptu show. I played a few songs on my own, Regina and I did a reprise of the song that I has sang with her at her show (titled "UH-merica" and a beautiful song it is....) and then my new band took stage and all hell broke loose. After a bit of celebrating and meeting many new people (a bunch of Regina’s fans came over from her show and were also headed to my show the next day) i called it an early night before I got myself into Beer Related Trouble (i did not have such luck the next night). Goodbye, Regina....i always wish we could be friends all the time, but we're always in different places. That's what this is like. (...)

I stood there numb
Watchin’ my friend walk away
With my love on her arm
Oh, what she said was
“sorry for what I had to do
But you see I love him as much as you” …

The devils workshop is a busy place
On top of evil there’s an innocent face

… A friend is an enemy you can see…
‘cause what you got that’ll make you lose
And then turn around and step in your shoes
So you better keep an eye on your close friend
You better watch out for your close friend
Don’t trust nobody
Don’t trust nobody
Keep an eye on your close friend
Keep an eye

(Diana Ross: “Keep an eye”)

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We're happy tonight.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Man beachte: das winterlich-weihnachtliche posing...

...verwegen kichern, streichen sich die Herren ehrerbietend über den angegrauten Schnauz... Die jüngeren Männer beobachten argwöhnisch, wie ihre Begleiterinnen dem Frontmann schmachtende Blicke zuwerfen. Und kommen doch nicht umhin, Bünes augenzwinkernden Schalk mit Applaus zu verdanken. Dann schiebt der Bandleader ["Konzert war keine Glanzleistung"] noch einen derben Witz übers Vögeln zur Zeit der Vogelgrippe nach und stürzt sich ins Finale des zweiten Sets...

(Ch. Lenz im Berner BUND zum Tourstart von Patent Ochsner)