Spain, Vicente, Chema, Jose alberto and Jose Carlos' votes

2 lykke li 6 points
5 jose gonzales 11 points
7 black eyed peas 5 points
8 eminem 8 points
9 green day 10 points
12 foo fighters 12 points
14 the all american rejects 3 points
16 barricada 1 point
17 boikot 2 points
18 agnes carlsson 7 points
22 3 days grace 4 points
23 nightwish 9 points

Music Contest from Lithuania :)

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Toto was an American rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut, released during 1978. Continuing with 1982's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV, Toto became one of the best selling music groups of their era. They are known for such hit singles as "Hold the Line", "Rosanna", "Africa", and "Stranger in Town". Although their popularity in the United States diminished in the 1990s and 2000s, they continued to tour and sell out theaters and arenas internationally.
Toto was known for their technical skill in the studio, as well as a musical style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard rock, R&B, and jazz. Although they were regularly associated with the soft rock genre, this broad array of musical styles helped them appeal to a variety of musicians and non-musician listeners.
Formation

Toto formed as a group of six studio musicians in 1977. Before the band formed, the members of Toto were regulars on albums by Steely Dan,[1] Seals and Crofts,[2] Boz Scaggs,[3] Sonny and Cher,[4] and many others, contributing to many of the most popular records of the 1970s. Keyboardist David Paich, son of famed musician and sessions player/arranger Marty Paich, rose to fame after having co-written Boz Scaggs' Silk Degrees album. Having played on many sessions with drummer Jeff Porcaro (the son of noted session percussionist Joe Porcaro whom he had met while attending Grant High School in North Hollywood, California where they had formed the band Rural Still Life), the two began to seriously discuss the possibility of forming their own band. They brought in bassist and fellow session vet David Hungate, having played with him on the road with Boz Scaggs. In addition, the duo asked guitarist Steve Lukather (who had also played in Scaggs' band as a replacement for Les Dudek) and Jeff Porcaro's brother Steve Porcaro (keyboards) to join the team. Luke and Steve Porcaro had also attended Grant High and had in fact continued the band Rural Still Life (the name shortened to Still Life) after Paich & Jeff had graduated. With the addition of former S.S. Fools singer Bobby Kimball, the group began to work on their first album in 1977 after signing with Columbia Records.

"Africa" is a song by rock band Toto. The song was included on their 1982 album Toto IV, and scored number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1983 and number three on the UK Singles Chart the same month. The song was written by the band's keyboardist David Paich and drummer Jeff Porcaro. David Paich sings both verses of the song. Bobby Kimball, Steve Lukather and Paich sing the choruses.
Without a doubt Toto’s most recognizable song, "Africa" was almost omitted from the Toto IV record prior to its release. Having spent a great amount of time producing the tune, the band became so tired of the song that they didn’t want it on the album. The song itself was very different from anything the band had done before, and some members felt that it didn’t sound like Toto.
“I didn’t think it was very good,” said Steve Lukather (Classic Rock Revisited, 2003). “That tells you what can happen when we pick our own singles!”
David Paich, who co-wrote the song with Jeff Porcaro, said that it “could have been the beginning of a solo project [for me] because it was so different. I thought I’d save it…[because] world music wasn’t around then.”
The initial idea for the song came from David Paich, playing on his piano. Jeff explains the idea behind the song: "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past."
David Paich says the following: "At the beginning of the 80's I watched a late night documentary on TV about all the terrible death and suffering of the people in Africa. It both moved and appalled me and the pictures just wouldn't leave my head. I tried to imagine how I'd feel about if I was there and what I'd do."
Musically the song took quite some time to assemble, as David and Jeff explain:
"On 'Africa' you hear a combination of marimba with GS 1. The kalimba is all done with the GS 1; it's six tracks of GS 1 playing different rhythms. I wrote the song on CS-80, so that plays the main part of the entire tune."
Jeff Porcaro reminisces about how the song's drum track took shape:
"I was about 11 when the New York's World Fair took place, and I went to the African pavilion with my family. I saw the real thing; I don't know what tribe, but there were these drummers playing, and my mind was blown. The thing that blew my mind was everybody was playing one part. As a little kid in Connecticut, I would see these Puerto Rican and Cuban cats jamming in the park. It was the first time I witnessed someone playing one beat and not straying from it, like a religious experience, where it gets loud, and everyone goes into a trance. I have always dug those kind of orchestras, whether it be a band of all drummers. But I just love a band of guys saying one thing. That's why I loved marching band, and I said, 'Gee, someday there's going to be a little drum orchestra where everybody plays one thing, and you don't stray from it. You do it until you drop. You're banished from that land if you move from that one part.'
"So when we were doing 'Africa', I set up a bass drum, snare drum and a hi-hat, and Lenny Castro set up right in front of me with a conga. We looked at each other and just started playing the basic groove.... The backbeat is on 3, so it's a half-time feel, and it's 16th notes on the hi-hat. Lenny started playing a conga pattern. We played for five minutes on tape, no click, no nothing. We just played. And I was singing the bass line for 'Africa' in my mind, so we had a relative tempo. Lenny and I went into the booth and listened back to the five minutes of that same boring pattern. We picked out the best two bars that we thought were grooving, and we marked those two bars on tape. We made another mark four bars before those two bars. Lenny and I went back out; I had a cowbell, Lenny had a shaker. They gave us two new tracks, and they gave us the cue when they saw the first mark go by. Lenny and I started playing to get into the groove, so by the time the that fifth bar came – which was the first bar of the two bars we marked as the cool bars we liked – we were locked, and we overdubbed shaker and cowbell.
"So there was bass drum, snare drum, hi-hat, two congas, a cowbell, and a shaker. We went back in, cut the tape, and made a one-bar tape loop that went 'round and 'round and 'round. The Linn machine was available to us. Maybe it would have taken two minutes to program that in the Linn, and it took about half an hour to do this. But a Linn machine doesn't feel like that! So we had an analog groove. We took that tape, transferred it onto another 24-track for six minutes, and David Paich and I went out in the studio. The song started, and I was sitting there with a complete drumset, and Paich was playing. When he got to the fill before the chorus, I started playing the chorus, and when the verse or the intro came back, I stopped playing. Then we had piano and drums on tape. You have to realize that there are some odd bars in 'Africa', so when you have a one-bar loop going, all of a sudden, sometimes Lenny's figure would turn around. So Lenny went in and played the song again, but this time he changed his pattern a little for the turn-arounds, for the fills, for the bridge, for the solo. We kept the original part and the new one. Then we had to do bongos, jingle sticks, and big shakers doing quarter notes, maybe stacking two tracks of sleigh bells, two tracks of big jingle sticks, and two tracks of tambourine all down to one track. I was trying to get the sounds I would hear Milt Holland or Emil Richards have, or the sounds I would hear in a 'National Geographic' special, or the ones I heard at the New York World's Fair."
"Africa" was played on all of Toto's tours from its release until the band's breakup in 2008. It was sung by David Paich at the 2009 Millennium Development Goals Awards Ceremony.
The music video was directed by Steve Barron.[8] The story is of a researcher in a library (portrayed by band member David Paich), looking for clues to a book called Africa. Many scenes include the band performing atop a stack of hardcover books.


I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way,
Hoping to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, Hurry boy, It's waiting there for you

CHORUS:
It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

CHORUS

(Instrumental break)

Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you

It's gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa, I bless the rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have
Toto Discogaphy:

• Toto Falling In Between Live - 2007
• Falling In Between - 2006
• The Essential Toto - 2003
• Circa 1980's - 2003
• Love Songs - 2003
• Through The Looking Glass - 2002
• Super Hits - 2001
• Mindfields - 1999
• Rock & Roll Band - 1999
• Toto XX (1977-1997) - 1998
• Toto/Hydra/Toto IV - 1997
• Tambu - 1995
• Kingdom of Desire - 1993
• Past To Present - 1990
• The Seventh One - 1988
• Fahrenheit - 1986
• Isolation - 1984
• Toto IV - 1982
• Turn Back - 1981
• Hydra - 1979
• Toto - 1978


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCca5mPMp9A

Music Contest from Lithuania :)

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and entertainer. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers of all time. His unique contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with a highly publicized personal life, made him a prominent global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

Alongside his brothers, he made his debut in 1964 as lead singer and youngest member of The Jackson 5, and later began a successful solo career in 1971. His 1982 album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995) also among the world's best selling albums. He is widely credited with having transformed the music video from a promotional tool into an art form with videos for his songs such as "Billie Jean", "Beat It" and "Thriller" making him the first African American artist to amass a strong crossover following on MTV. With stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of physically complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk. His distinctive musical sound, vocal style, and choreography, is credited with stretching across and breaking down cultural, racial, economic, generational, and global barriers that has inspired countless pop, rock, R&B and hip hop artists.

One of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, his other achievements feature multiple Guinness World Records—including the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time"—15 Grammy Awards (including the "Living Legend Award" and the "Lifetime Achievement Award"), 26 American Music Awards (24 only as a solo artist, including one for "Artist of the Century")—more than any artist—, 17 number one singles in the US (including the four as a member of the Jackson 5), and estimated sales of up to 750 million records worldwide making him the world's best selling artist in history. He was also a notable philanthropist and humanitarian who donated and raised over 300 million dollars through support of 39 charities and his own Heal the World Foundation.

Jackson's personal relationships and life generated controversy for years. His changing appearance was noticed from the late 1970s onwards, with changes to his nose and to the color of his skin drawing media publicity. He was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993 though no charges were brought, and in 2005 he was tried and acquitted when the jury ruled him not guilty on all charges. He married twice, first in 1994 and again in 1996, and brought up three children, one born to a surrogate mother. While preparing for the This Is It concert tour in 2009, Jackson died at the age of 50 after suffering from cardiac arrest. He reportedly had been administered drugs such as propofol and lorazepam, and his death was ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles County coroner. His death triggered an outpouring of grief from around the world with his globally live broadcast memorial service attracting an audience of up to one billion people; as well as a huge surge in his album sales, resulting in him becoming the best selling artist of 2009 with sales in excess of 8.2 million in the United States where he became the first artist ever to have 4 of the top 20 best-selling albums in a single year, and 29 million albums globally, where he had an unprecedented 8 of the top 25 best-selling albums worldwide.



Thriller



It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl!
But all the while you hear the creature creeping up behind
You're out of time

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life

They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change that number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen
I'll make you see

That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a
Killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl, I can thrill you more than any ghost would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller, ow!

(I'm gonna thrill ya tonight)
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'alls neighborhood

I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, ooh baby
I'm gonna thrill ya tonight, oh darlin'
Thriller night, baby, ooh!

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller







Rodney Lynn "Rod" Temperton (born 1947 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England)[1] is an English songwriter, record producer and musician most famous for writing a number of songs performed by Michael Jackson, including the title track of Jackson's Thriller,[2] the biggest-selling album of all time.




Got to Be There (1972)

Ben (1972)

Music & Me (1973)



Forever, Michael (1975)

Off the Wall (1979)

Thriller (1982)






Bad (1987)

Dangerous (1991)

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995)






Invincible (2001)



Michael Jackson – Thriller video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkjtctcuQ9Q

Note from the Administrator

Hi!
Just let you know that these latest projects by Lola and Extremoduro (and probably some other one later) are presented on this blog for exhibitionist purposes, but they are OUT OF THE CONTEST as they were presented out of the expiry date, that is, last monday. Please DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM. At the same time, the members of these groups are not allowed to vote on Sunday. Thanks to all.

Music contest from Hungary

Full name: Judit Korsós
Nick name: Lola
Birth: 14.august 1988. Hungary













Albums:

2006 Álomtánc (Dreamdance)

2007 Élj a mának (Live for today)
2008 Lola 3

Awards (in Hungary):
the best singer of the Year: for 3 times
the best female singer: for 4 times
the favourite hungarian singer: for 2 times
the best new singer: for 1 time
the best hungarian album: for 1 time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKf_JJWJCKk

Well you can give me all your love
And anything else you got too
But don't pay it any mind
If it seems like I'm acting cool

Well you can dress me in your mirror
Give me kisses forever and a day yeah
But there's just one thing
You don't have to say

You don't have to say you love me
And you don't have to say any prayers
No you don't have to say you love me
Baby it's alright

Cos honey I don't care
Oh baby I don't care
Oh honey I don't care
Oh honey I don't care

Well you can turns the lights down low
Somethings are better that way
And you can tell me all your stories
But please spare me the plays

Cos you don't have to say you love me
And you don't have to save any tears
No you don't have to say you love me
Baby it's alright

Cos honey I don't care
Oh honey I don't care
Oh baby I don't care
Oh honey I don't care

Deep in your eyes
I see your thoughts
I know you want me
Sometimes it hurts
But you know that some things
Are best left never said

Cos you don't have to say you love me
And you don't have to say you care
No you don't have to say you love me
Baby it's alright

Cos honey I don't care
Oh when I tell you baby
I don't care
Oh baby please believe me
I don't care
Oh when I tell you baby
I don't care
Oh baby please believe me
I don't care
Oh baby please believe me
I don't care
Oh when I tell you baby
I don't care
Oh baby please believe me
I don't care
Oh when I tell you baby
I don't care
Oh baby please believe me
I don't care

by Orsi & Dóri from Hungary

Music Contest from Spain (4ºb) [Sergio, Jose]

EXTREMODURO
Extremoduro is a Spanish rock band from Plasencia, Extremoduro. The band is led by Roberto Iniesta, also known as “Robe” or even “El rey de extremadura”. (The king of Extremadura)

The band was created in 1987 and is regarder as one of the most influential band of Spanish hard rock scene, besides being a complete symbol for their region. Iniesta’s lyrics are often described as rude street poetry, with frequent allusions to drogs, love and self-destruction.

The band’s name is a pun literally, Extremoduro means “Hard extreme” and is also straight fowar de formation of “Extremadura” the region were the band comes from.

Well-know songs by extremoduro include “So payaso”, “Golfa”, “Salir”, “Extremaydura”, “Puta” and “Jesucristo García”. The highest moment in the band´s career was probably reached with the release of their album Ágila, which was awarder a prize for best video in the firts eclitons of the Spanics music aware in 1996

Components

Roberto “Robe” Iniesta Ojía, (born May 16, 1962 in Plasecia, Spain) is songwriter, singer and guitarrists of rock band Extremoduro.

After having left school and 3rd bachiller and having worked whit his father, at the age of twenty he bigan writing song and heformed his first band, Dosis Letal.
Iñaki Antón Gonzalez, “uoho” is a rock musician and producer of Spanish born in Bilbao an 3 Augoust 1964, guitarist in the bands Platero y tú, Alon Jackson and Inconscientes. He lived in his youth in the neighbord of Zabala (Bilbao) where he met his fellow wauldbe in the band “Platero Y tú”, witch Roberto Iniesta created in 2006 the label Muxika. As a producter as well as in almost all discs you have recorded as a musican, has worked ford bands the likes of Donna Regina, Maria, Despistados,... Many of albums have been recorded an Iñaki´s home, a recording studio on his property, built in an old formhouse.










Jose Ignacio Cantera is a Spanish rock drummer member of the band Extremoduro, incoscientes. In 1997 his foined with bassit Miguel Colino at Extremoduro, band in wich militated and Roberto Iniesta.










Miguel Colino is a rock bassist member the band Extremoduro, incoscientes.
In 1999 foined together whith drummer Jose Ignacio to Extremoduro, band in wich militatid Roberto Iniesta. Since the training has remained estable and have relased to studio albums.












DISCOGRAPHY:




Rock Trangresivo (1989) “Jesucristo Garcia”









Somos unos animales (1991) “Tu corazon”









Deltoya (1992) “Deltoya”










¿Dónde estan mis amigos? (1993) “Pepe Botika”








Pedrá (1995) “Pedrá”








Agila (1996) “Cabezabajo”









Iros todos a tomar por culo (1997) “Decidi”









Canciones prohibidas (1998) “Salir”









Yo, minoria absoluta (2002) “Puta”









Grandes exitos y fracasos Ep.1 (2004) “Necesito droga y amor”









Grandes exitos y fracasos Ep.2 (2006) “Sol de invierno”









La ley innata (2008) “ Primer movimiento”





Lyrics´s song. El sueño “la ley innata” (2008)

No hay nada en el espejo
y persigo mis reflejos
igual que en los sueños.
De andar desorientado
voy cayendo en picado;
es igual que un mal sueño.

La vida es roja si te vas
y me derrota igual
que en los sueños,
y olvido y ya no sé qué hacer,
no dejo de correr,
como en sueños.

Te estaba dando un beso
y mis labios no eran esos,
igual que un mal sueño.

La gente está que trina
y la letra se me olvida;
es igual que en mi sueño.

La vida es roja si te vas
y me derrota igual
que en los sueños,
y olvido y ya no sé qué hacer,
no dejo de correr,
como en sueños.

Si no te vuelvo a ver,
no quiero despertar;
la realidad no me abandona.
Busco un mundo mejor
y escarbo en un cajón
por si aparece entre mis cosas.

Buscando mi destino,
viviendo en diferido
sin ser, ni oír, ni dar.
Y a cobro revertido
quisiera hablar contigo,
y así sintonizar.

No hay día que me levante
y no haya muertos delante,
es peor que un mal sueño.
Hoy han dicho en la tele
que han muerto tres mujeres
y que han sido ellos;
que un hombre-bomba entró en un bar
dispuesto a dialogar
con sus muertos;
que bombardean una ciudad
y algo ha salido mal.

Por supuesto.
Una bomba inteligente
ha matado al presidente;
pensó que era bueno.
Y dicen por la tele
que han muerto más mujeres
y que han sido ellos.

La vida es roja si te vas
y me derrota igual
que en los sueños,
y olvido y ya no sé qué hacer,
no dejo de correr,
como en sueños.

Si no te vuelvo a ver,
no quiero despertar;
la realidad no me abandona.
Busco un mundo mejor
y escarbo en un cajón
por si aparece entre mis cosas.

Buscando mi destino,
viviendo en diferido
sin ser, ni oír, ni dar.
Y a cobro revertido
quisiera hablar contigo,
y así sintonizar.


*OUT of Contest*

THE LOGO OF "LOOSE-NOTES" 2010

...AND THE WINNER IS...
BLACK EYED PEAS!!!
"MEET ME HALF WAY"



Being just five points ahead GREEN DAY.
3rd WAS EMINEM AND 4th NIGHTWISH, 5th MUSE.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER!!!