So here is 2010 and last night crazy parties were set all over the world. On the occasion of this festive atmosphere, and with my stomach still digesting the excellent food I tasted, today I present 10 songs about similar parties. Most of them speak of the bright side of the feast, others of the dark - unfortunately that one exists too... I wish to all a happy new year and may the party occasions be more in the future!1. Party – Paul McCartney
(Jessie Mae Robinson)
Paul McCartney accompanied by David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), Mick Green (Johnny Kid & The Pirates), Pete Wingfield and Ian Paice (Deep Purple) in an exceptional rock’n’roll song that guarantees to make people dance. From the exceptional cover album Run Devil Run (1999).
2. It’s My Party – Lesley Gore
(Walter Gold-John Gluck Jr.-Herb Weiner)
A 1963 song that reached #1 in the USA and #9 in Britain and constituted the first hit by the producer Quincy Jones. Its subject is sentimental disappointment in adolesence and it was initially performed by Helen Shapiro meeting no special success. But this version remains a classic...
3. Gordon’s Gardenparty – The Cardigans
(Peter Svensson-Nina Persson)
Here is a cosmopolitan view by the Swedish Cardigans, with thelazy and sexy performance by Nina Persson, te flute by Anders Nordgren and the jazzy, old-fashioned motif. The best to relax after the debauch...
4. The Party – Loukianos Kilaidonis
(Loukianos Kilaidonis)
Where does your party take place and who is invited? The answer by Kilaidonis in this happy song of hisQ you gather all good boys (Beatles, Vmvakaris, Tsitsanis, Bach, Fellini, Abbott & Costello, Zorro, Robin Hood and many more) and you enclose yourselves in a deep well, while at the end you escape on a balloon. Sounds like fun!
5. I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party – The Beatles
(John Lennon-Paul McCartney)
The Beatles were greatly influenced by Bob Dylan's songwriting, around1964 when they discovered him. Lennon immediately incorporated this influence in his songs, resulting to more acoustic sounds and more confiding lyrics. Here we see he's got the blues, seized by insecurity and disappointment.
6. Garden Party – Rick Nelson(Rick Nelson)
Here Nelson refers to one of his concerts in Madison Square Garden where the audience bood him for following more country paths and having abandoned rock’n’roll. But as hesays in his own lyrics: “You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself”.
7. Death Of A Party – Blur
(Damon Albarn-Graham Coxon-Alex James-Dave Rowntree)
Here Blur move to lo-fi, showing that they were a band with guts, not at all willing to sink along with Britpop Titanic. And they show us around the dark side of the feast...
8. Party Pit – The Hold Steady
(Craig Finn-Tad Kubler-Galen Polivka-Bobby Drake-Franz Nicolay)
The Americans The Hold Steady in a song about an aquaintance at some party. Electric sound and masterly narration in a song from Boys And Girls In America in 2006.
9. Party Tonight – Matisse
(Greggy K.-John Massouras)
'Our own' Matisse in a song from last year's (now) Rock ‘N’ Roll Mafia. Bass vocals, sax and guitars and a mood to forget everything for the sake of the feast.
10. Where’s The Party – Madonna
(Madonna-Stephen Bray-Patrick Leonard)
We close with an uplifting song from Madge's third studio album, True Blue in 1986. Here Madonna appears to have a lot of appetite to party. So let;s go together!
* Photos from http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2106689114_e4af4ec42b.jpg και www.wikipedia.org
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