acoustic sessions

I was searching for a song to share on the blog on Youtube.

I found Let Me Down Easy and it is kind of a stranger song to me.

I accept and appreciate changes easily.

"We are broken by others
But we mend ourselves
We take comfort in strangers
But I don't think it helps
If every fool wore a crown
I would be a king and not a clown"

We were in a hurry to have the breakfast quickly last Sunday,

cause my husband had to go to work and I was very sleepy as it was 8 AM!

Then he opened Morning Acoustic from Spotify and this song started.

I have an ukulele which I basically call as "Uku" and still cannot play well.

But I love songs played with ukulele so much.

"You always thought twice didn't you
My baby blue... You'd say,
'What goes around comes around'
Didn't you?"

No One Ever Loved, performed by Lykke Li, 

is another song that I tagged by Shazam 

while I was watching "The Fault in Our Stars".

As this is a harrowing movie, the soundtracks are slow and heavy.

"You're the diamond in the gutter
You're the hole inside my heart
You're the one I will remember every night
Before the dawn meets the light"

I was just spending my time by surfing on the internet 

and Spotify was supporting me with the "Afternoon Acoustic" list.

Then I heard You and Me cover of Boyce Avenue.
I always think that originals are better 

as sometimes this idea becomes a failure but I still insist on.

"What day is it? And in what month?
This clock never seemed so alive
I can't keep up and I can't back down
I've been losing so much time

'Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do, nothing to lose
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you "

Last weekend I watched the popular movie "The Fault in Our Stars"
(2014, imdb rating 8.1/10).

I tagged all of the songs during the movie by Shazam.

Long Way Down was the first song that I tagged which is sang by Tom Odell.

Tom Odell is known with "Another Love".

"It's a long way down
You know it's a long way down
Feels like a long way down
Love it feels like a long way down
So honey don't leave, don't leave,
Please don't leave me now"

There's nothing to write so much thing about Pink. Briefly, I admire her.

After I listened Ina Müller's voice for this song, I tried to find out the original version

and when I saw Pink's version, I directly made a decision to share the original one.

"Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly."

I like listening to Jessie J's songs so much and
Nobody's Perfect is the first song that I listened from her.

Cristian Cabrerizo better known as Cris Cab (born January 21, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter who has become well known with his international hit "Liar Liar".
His songs are a fusion of pop, reggae, and soul.
I like especially reggae songs so much, therefore today's song is coming from Cris Cab.
Have a funny Sunday!

"Liar, liar,
She's on fire
She's waiting there, around the corner
Just a little aid, and she'll jump on ya'"

MAGIC! is a Canadian reggae fusion band.

In 2013, they released their debut single, "Rude", from their debut album Don't Kill the Magic.

This was one of the songs that we listened during our vacation this summer.

"Can I have your daughter for the rest of my life?
Say yes, say yes 'cause I need to know
You say I'll never get your blessing 'til the day I die
Tough luck, my friend, but the answer is 'No'"

Clean Bandit is a British electronic group founded in Cambridge, England in 2009.
In January 2014, they scored their first UK Singles Chart-topping single with "Rather Be",
featuring elements of classical music along with a dance music beat.

Alexa Goddard (born 21 December 1988) is an English pop and R&B singer.
I think that her acoustic cover is the best version of this song. 

"If you gave me a chance I would take it
It's a shot in the dark but I'll make it
Know with all of your heart, you can't shame me
When I am with you, there's no place I'd rather be"

I couldn't find someone else who sings Wrecking Ball better than Miley Cyrus.

I found BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge version available on Youtube.

Wrecking Ball's original music video stirred up most of the people 

who are watching it for the first time.

But then due to cencorship issues, producers are forced to revise the music video.

"I came in like a wrecking ball
I never hit so hard in love
All I wanted was to break your walls
All you ever did was wreck me"
 

Lights Bokan (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner on April 11, 1987)
is a Canadian electropop musician, singer, and songwriter.
And now she goes acoustic for her song "River".

"Take me river, carry me far
Lead me river, like a mother
Take me over to some other unknown
Put me in the undertow"

Maps is the name of the new Maroon 5 single

and Lacy Cavalier made a cover of this song.

I cannot mention that this one is the best version of the covers of this song

but for now we can say that this one is the most clicked one in Youtube.

"But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you"

Chandelier is the new song of Sia that we listened this weekend and 

I found Marie Martins's acoustic cover 

while I was searching for some other (easier) vocal sounds.

I think this is one of the best cover of this song.

"I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier
I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist
Like it doesn't exist
I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night, feel my tears as they dry
I'm gonna swing from the chandelier, from the chandelier"

Baby Blue is an English rapper and singer.

She is getting known by her new song Bump nowadays.

Hope Murphy, Britain's Got Talent 2012 singer, made a nice piano cover of this song.

"And I can never understand why you ask me
My heart is dying in your hands but my heart beats
It goes bump bump bump bump, bump bump bump
It goes bump bump bump bump, bump bump bump

And I can never understand why you told lies
I wanna move on but I can't for my heart cries
It goes bump bump bump bump, bump bump bump
It goes bump bump bump bump, bump bump bump"

So tell everyone that we're back on our broadcast. 

Youtube is finally available in Turkey (w/o VPN and Hotspotshield) and 

I'm continuing to share acoustic records that I like.

Deriving the name from the idea of “the music taking control”,

ortoPilot is the musical brain child of Manchester based, multi-instrumentalist Matt Hutchison. 

Taking much inspiration from his musical hero John Mayer, his spectacular musicianship 

takes the saturated singer/songwriter genre to a whole new level.

"Don't go chasing waterfalls
Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
But I think you're moving too fast"

I listened this song while I was in the car and going to work.

Of course I tagged it by using Shazam.

PowerFM in Turkey is the best radio station for finding out nice and new songs.

Tom Peter Odell (born 24 November 1990) is a British singer-songwriter 

and won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013.

"And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight
But my hands been broken, one too many times
So I'll use my voice, I'll be so fucking rude
Words they always win, but I know I'll lose"

Above & Beyond is an English dance music group which was formed in 2000 

and consisting of members Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamäk. 

"I'm sorry baby
You were the sun and moon to me
I'll never get over you, you'll never get over me"

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer-songwriter
known for her deep contralto vocals.
After years of abusing drugs, then alcohol,
Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning on 23 July 2011.
Her album Back to Black posthumously became the UK's best-selling album
of the 21st century, at that point.

"We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black"

It is becoming hard to share an acoustic song for each day.

I started to feel myself good when I can share a song once a week actually.

Therefore I've changed my mind to "share whenever you can". :)

Alecia Beth Moore Hart (born September 8, 1979), better known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter and actress.

I admire her performance and voice.

"I'll keep you locked in my head
Until we meet again"

This should not be an excuse, but I realized  that I was overloaded nowadays.

Being an engineer, a housewife, a singer, a wife, a student, a lover becomes hard sometimes.

Therefore I feel myself a little bit confused and tired.

But, I still have some good song inventory in my Shazam tags.

Thanks God, we have Shazam! 

By the way, Kodaline are an Irish rock band which is originally known as 21 Demands.

I met him while I was making a search for a new acoustic song in Youtube.

When I realized that he had more than 65 mio clicks for his video I decided to listen to him.

Maybe you've already memorized the lyrics but I should share this song today.

Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. 

"I'm gonna pick up the pieces,
And build a Lego house
If things go wrong we can knock it down"

Today's session is coming from Pharrell Williams.

I couldn't believe my eyes when see in my screen that he was born in 1973.

He seems so young.

"Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I’m happy
Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do"

Justin Timberlake is 33 years old and married with Jessica Biel at the moment.

He has a concert on the 26th of May this year in Istanbul, Turkey.

I like him so much, so I wanted to share a song from him for the whole last week.

I'm a little bit busy nowadays and I can't find the opportunity to share a song for each day.

"'Cause I don't wanna lose you now
I'm lookin' right at the other half of me"

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946), is an English
musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
He is best known for his work as the guitarist and
co-lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

 When I hear this song I remember the summer of 2003.
I was working in a hotel and the guitarist in the restaurant
was playing this song every evening.

"Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?

I was bored from Blogger, thus I was out for a while, but now I'm back.

And I found a new hero who is making acoustic covers.

I listened Dark Horse from Katy Perry in the 56th Grammy awards for the first time.

Tyler Ward realized a similar performance with the acoustic guitar, which I liked so much!

I should search more for acoustic songs.

Maybe you can propose some?

"Make me your Aphrodite
Make me your one and only
But don’t make me your enemy"

Two days ago I turned back to real life -to a hard working area-,
thus I couldn't share anything for you to listen and relax, now I'm back in Blogger.
This song is the soundtrack of Bridget Jones's Diary (2011)
and Lady Antebellum was performing this song in the movie.
Acoustic version is covered by Boyce Avenue and Savannah Outen.

"It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now
Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
And I don't know how I can do without
I just need you now"

I heard this song in the car while we were going to the most famous mall in Bursa.

As the name of the song was written on the radio, I tagged again not to forget it.

The song was also known by my husband.

Kings of Convenience is an indie folk-pop duo from Norway.

They're singing like it's a lullaby
As the original video is denied in our country, I must share this one!

"Okay I get it, okay I see
You were fronting because you knew 

you'd find yourself vulnerable around me
Okay I get it, okay I see
I step too close to your boundaries"

This time Miley Cyrus is not stripping.

She has clothes on her and she is singing a Lana Del Rey song,
Summertime Sadness for BBC Radio 1.

Her name was Destiny Hope Cyrus before she changed her named to Miley Ray Cyrus.
She is now 22 years old and famous with her crazy actions.
This cover is watched by more than 10 million people, that's why today you're receiving it.

"Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That baby you're the best"

Adam Lambert is now 32 years old. 

I thought that he's younger than me but this time I'm also surprised by him.

Adam Mitchel Lambert made music history as the first openly gay artist 

to achieve this top charting position.

 "Baby you're beautiful
And there's nothing wrong with you
It's me, I'm a freak
But thanks for lovin' me
Cause you're doing it perfectly"

After Pink's performance @ 56th Grammy awards, I wanted to share this song.

But this time, the singer is not Pink, it is a young lady, Nicole Cross.

There's not enough information about this girl on Google,

but we'll hear more in the future.

"Where there is desire, there is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned
But just because it burns, doesn't mean you're gonna die
You've gotta get up and try"

Below file doesn't consist a video, it's just a nice song!

Nowadays, we're trying to play this song in our band like Within Temptation did,

but I found this cover, while I was making a search on Deezer,

 which is a little bit different from the others.

"You shoot me down but I won't fall
I am titanium"

This song is the soundtrack of the movie, The Counselor which we watched yesterday.

It wasn't very clear to hear the lyrics during the flow of the movie,

but Shazam is my hero for such kind of issues.

With a few lyrics, it's able to find the song that you want to tag, so I like it!

Josh T. Pearson is a musician from Texas.

"Woman when I've raised hell, you of all people are gonna know it
There'll be nothin' not nailed down left unturned in this home
Then your old friend silence will creep back into this pettiest of all places
He'll ask you again, "Which is better or for worse, livin' with me or livin' with all my ghosts?"

Although she is 25 years old she has already won 7 Grammy awards.

Taylor was very pretty and cute in the 56th Grammy awards, 

and she attracted the attention on herself with her shining dress also.

Thus, today's guest on my blog is the American singer-songwriter Taylor Alison Swift.

One additional note about her: Forbes estimates that she is worth over $220 million. 

"You go talk to your friends talk to my friends talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together
Like ever..."

Don't get afraid of this girl!

She's not a ghost, she's only at her eighteen!

Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor who is known on stage as Lorde was born in 1996.

She won a Grammy award this year too.

"You can call me queen Bee
And baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule.
Let me live that fantasy"

As I'm out of office for a while, I'm just concentrated on watching movies.

One of the today's movie was My Blueberry Nights which is directed by Kar Wai Wong.

Norah Jones is the leading lady in the movie,

that's why I'm sharing this song from the movie.

"I don't know how it will end
With all those records playin'
I guess it's just how it goes
The stories all have been told before"

I found this song during my search on Deezer from "Acoustic Dance Sessions" list.

In my opinion acoustic cover of Wonderful Days is better than the original version of this song.

I guess I'll find more from Deezer and Spotify.

Roos-Anne (Sanne) Hans better known by her stage name Miss Montreal

was born in 1984 and she is a Dutch singer-songwriter and guitar player.

"I prayed on my knees to heaven above
Send me somebody please someone to love"

Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III who is known on stage as Aloe Blacc is singing Wake Me Up!

Tim Bergling, who was born in 1989 and is known on stage as Avicii, 

is a Swedish DJ, remixer and record producer.

Avicii remixed and released Aloe Blacc's song in June 2013.

"I tried carrying the weight of the world
But I only have two hands"

I was out of Blogger due to an operation that I had on Wednesday.

Today I feel myself better to listen and share something.

This is the song that I tagged by Shazam.

While the song doesn't have a video on Youtube yet, we'll just listen today!

"Everybody, everybody wants to love
Everybody, everybody wants to be loved
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh"

Odak is a Turkish music band from İzmir.

I like this form of Lykke Li's song too much due to the xylophone's sound.

And nowadays I'm trying to understand how I can play the metallophone.

Let's sing together!

"You're my river running high, run deep, run wild" 

This song was very popular during my university years
and there was a band named "Çalar Saat" which was performing this song very well.
They were taking the stage in a bar, "Beri Blues" in Bornova, in İzmir.

"I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you"

For me this is the song of the sweetest city in Turkey, İzmir.

I remember my lovely and funny days, weeks, months and years with my friends.

Today's song is proposed by Tunciş, thanks for giving back my memories.

"You tell me that you love me so
You tell me that you care
But when I need you baby

You're never there"

Although I have 2 names and 2 surnames (4 @ total), this is the longest name
that I've seen in my life, Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong.
She had a son in 2011.
I think she should be thankful for this.
 

"I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life
Oh just to be with you is having the best day of my life"

Today's session is a little bit different, the sound is coming from the violin this time.

There's not so much information about him on Google,

but wrt. The Guardian, he's a model, actor, magazine editor, singer and violinist.

"I've gotta keep my mind free

just to keep on walking, even if I'm all alone
I won't let nobody, ever try to stop me

I've gotta keep track of my soul"

I heard this song in a mall today when we were searching for a new TV.

I just Shazamed it and found the name of the song.

I was surprised that my husband was already aware of this song and band.

Plain White T's is an American pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois which was formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, Ken Fletcher and Steve Mast. 

"Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice, it's my disguise
I'm by your side"

Yesterday I cleaned the house, made the ironing 

and the day passed away when I remembered to share the song of the day.

That's why this is the third time that I'm sharing the song of yesterday.

This melody is from Tracy Chapman's Fast Car.

Just a suprise for us from Colbie Caillat.

Sorry for the delay!

"I'm still alive but I'm barley breathing
just praying to a God that I don't belive in."

This is the second amazing soundtrack from House, M.D.

I was addicted to Hugh Laurie but after the fourth season of House, M.D. I suddenly gave up!

The song is excelling in the lyrics given below:

"Well this might take a while to figure out
So don't you rush it
And hold your head up high right through the doubt
'Cause it's just a matter of time
You've been running so fast
It's the seven day mile
Has you torn in-between here and running away"

I discovered this lady by chance when I was making search for a new song on Youtube.

Adele Emeli Sandé is a Scottish soul singer who was borned in 1987.

After four years in Medicine Faculty of Glasgow University she left the school for being a musician.

"All the signs seem to say love is lost
I don't wanna give up what we've got"

When I heard this voice I thought that I am listening Beirut.

And also a little information about the name of the song is as follows:

 

"We've been asked whether "Somewhere Only We Know" is about a specific place, and Tim has been saying that, for him, or us as individuals, it might be about a geographical space, or a feeling; it can mean something individual to each person, and they can interpret it to a memory of theirs... It's perhaps more of a theme rather than a specific message... Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time..."

"Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin"

Can you imagine that you are the most clicked person on YouTube?

PSY did it!

But these girls are also singing this song in a pretty way without the crazy dances.

I cannot understand the lyrics in Korean.

"Heeeey, sexy lady

Hop hop hop hop..."

Do you think that you're young? 

I'm not sure about myself, cause I'm living my 30th year in the life.

This is a great record of the American Indie rock-band Fun. and Janelle Monáe.

The man you see in the video is Nate Ruess (Nathaniel Joseph).

"So if by the time the bar closes
And you feel like falling down
I'll carry you home"

Coldplay paid tribute to Michael Jackson with a cover of the legend's smash hit Billie Jean.

This is the song from Jackson's sixth solo album, Thriller.

The song was mixed 91 times by audio engineer Bruce Swedien before it was finalized.

"People always told me be careful of what you do
And don't go around breaking young girls' hearts
And mother always told me be careful of who you love
And be careful of what you do 'cause the lie becomes the truth"

This song is the soundtrack of House M.D. 

I watched the first four seasons of this crazy doctor's TV series.

At that time there wasn't any application like Shazam or SoundHound to tag a song that you liked.

I listened some lyrics and than made Googling to find which song is that.

"Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness"

James Arthur is singing Shontelle's Impossible!
He won the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012.
I can honestly say that he is singing this song better than Shontelle.

"Tell them I was happy
And my heart is broken
All my scars are open
Tell them what I hoped would be
Impossible, impossible"

The Dolly Rockers was an English girl band (Lucie Kay, Sophie King and Daniele Owen).
They first became known when they competed in the 3rd series of The X Factor (2006).
The Dolly Rockers re-auditioned for The X Factor in 2013, but failed.
On 10 October 2013, they had decided to go their separate ways after seven years together.

"Feel the warmth, we’ll never die
We’re like diamonds in the sky"

The original name of him is Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez.

He changed his name to Bruno Mars on the stage. 

He is a 28-year-old man from Honolulu. 

Grenade is one of the songs from his first studio records in 2010. 

I suggest all of you to listen the emotional voice and lyrics of Bruno Mars. 

Let's start from Grenade!

"I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won't do the same"

This song of Damien Rice is also the soundtrack of Closer. 

Can you imagine that movie without this melody?

We also hear this song during the most romantic scene of Dawson's Creek.

It is written by the clarinet teacher of Damien for his daughter.

"And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time"

Due to an old flame I feel upset while listening this song.

This is the song of promises that you need to keep.

Tracy Chapman is known by "Fast Car", but I think this song is the best of her.

She won 4 Grammy awards till now.

"If you wait for me
then I'll come for you
Although I've traveled far
I always hold a place for you in my heart"