Category Archives: Noon’s Tunes
Noon’s Tune at Noon: “Only The Horses” by Scissor Sisters
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Watch this in the highest quality, biggest screen your computer will support. It’s a catchy tune, but, the video is beautifully filmed.
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “The Conqueror” by Beatrice Eli
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“‘The Conqueror’ might seem like a traditional love song, but I wrote it from seeing people – and being in a situation myself – where you find yourself loving the other person’s love more than being in love. It’s like if you manage to conquer his love and own his heart, even though you fail as a couple, at least you’ll be remembered. You’ll always be special for that person.’”
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “Always Something There To Remind Me (Acoustic Version)” by Naked Eyes
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If you were concious during the 1980s, you’ll no doubt have heard this tune:
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But, I bet you’ve not heard the acoustic remake the band did for their 2007 album Fumbling With The Covers. I think think this version brings new meaning to the song, giving it a bit more depth of feeling:
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “Another World” by Antony and the Johnsons
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This is so beautifully heartbreaking.
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “These Roads” by Mia Borders
Noon’s Tune at Noon: “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” by Meat Loaf (Jim Steinman Week)
What better way to wrap up Jim Steinman week with what I think of as his most epic song.
Meat Loaf teamed up with Steinman again, and recorded this over-the-top song in 1993. This song has it all, and then some. It even contains a bit of a mystery — unless you really listen carefully, you might miss what it is that he won’t do. There are actually a couple of different things he says he won’t do. Take a listen, and see if you can find them all. (If you get a chance, check out the full album version of this song — it clocks in at a truly epic twelve minutes.
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler (Jim Steinman Week)
It’s Day 6 of Jim Steinman week, and I know you’re ready for all the pulse-pounding drama to stop. Almost, dears. Almost.
I mentioned earlier in the week, when posting “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”, by Air Supply, that it was the #2 song in the country, while at the same time, another Steinman song was #1. This is that #1 Song.
Arguably the most well-known of Steinman’s songs, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” sold about 6 million copies. It’s much more rock and roll than some of the other songs from earlier in the dark, and Tyler’s scratchy, powerhouse voice makes the song nearly perfect. Can you really envision anyone other than Bonnie Tyler singing this song?
I happen to think that Bonnie Tyler should have been a bigger star here in the U.S, but, alas, she came and went, as so many others before and since have (though she’s much more successful in Europe). In tribute, and, because I know you secretly are loving these Steinman songs, I’ll include another Steinman song that Tyler sang on the Footloose soundtrack.
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “Left In The Dark” by Barbra Streisand (Jim Steinman Week)
So, here we are at Day 5 of Jim Steinman week.
Have I mentioned that Steinman is one of this year’s inductees into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame? He’s in good company, as this years class also includes Bob Seger and Gordon Lightfoot, among others.
Today’s entry is a performance by The Mother Of All Divas: Barbra.
I have to admit, when I first encountered this song, I was skeptical. Barbra singing a Meat Loaf song? Barbra? Really?
Then I listened to it. Know what? It works. She’s got The Big Voice, and the skill to handle all the vocal aerobics the song requires. She brings some real feeling to the song: a strong woman demanding of her cheating lover to “Tell me who! Tell me where! Tell me when!” (you can practically see her standing there, confronting her lover, and ticking the three things off on her fingers), and mixes it with a heartbreaking vulnerability, when she softly sings “I just need some love, so turn out the lights, and I’ll be left in the dark again.” On of Streisand’s strengths, her phrasing, is quite evident in this song, you can her the anger, the sarcasm, the longing, even the irony of it all, coming through loud and clear.
Take a listen, and see what you think. Loud is a good volume at which to play this one.
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Noon’s Tune at Noon: “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” by Celine Dion (Jiim Steinman Week)
We’re at Day 4 of Jim Steinman week.
If you’ve been listening to the songs this week, you’ll have noticed a pattern to Steinman’s songs. The songs have quiet parts, loud parts, angelic choir parts, cymbals crashing, resulting in a sort of Wagnerian Pop-Rock Opera. And, because they are operatic in tone, not just anyone can sing a Steinman song. A Big Song needs a Big Voice.
From 1996, here’s “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now”, performed by Celine Dion, arguably the Biggest Pop Voice around:
