2042 – Neil Young – The old homestead (1980)

Escrita por Neil Young, foi gravada em 11 de dezembro de 1974, no Quadrafonic Sound Studio, em Nashville, Tennessee e lançada em 29 de outubro de 1980 no disco Hawks and Doves, o décimo primero disco de Neil. Foi produzida por Neil Young, Wliott Mazer e Tim Drummond. Neil tocou violão e cantou. Tim Drummond tocou baixo. Levon Helm tocou bateria. Tom Scribner tocou uma serra. A letra alegórica dessa canção faz referencia à ambiguidade sobre trabalhar com seus amigos de banda.

A letra:

Up and down the old homestead
The naked rider gallops through his head
And although the moon isn't full
He still feels the pull

Out on the floor where the cowboys dance
Approaching slowly at a glance
Here comes the shadow of his stance
The reins are fallin' from his hands

Why do you ride that crazy horse?
Inquires the shadow with little remorse
Just then a priest comes down the stairs
With a sack of dreams and old nightmares

Who are you, the rider says
You dress in black but you talk like a Fed
You spout ideas from books that you read
Don't you care about this guy's head?

Just then the sound of hoof beats was heard
And the sky was darkened by a prehistoric bird
Who flew between the unfulfilled moon
And the naked rider, to a telephone booth

We'll call the moon and see what's up
I've got some change in this little tin cup
We'll say that the shadow is growin' dim
And we need some light to get back to him
Just one call should do it all
I'll carve this number on the wall
With my beak

Flying feathers were all around
The air was filled with a ringing sound
Two more birds, the second and the third
Came down from the sky to deliver the word

Where have you been, they said to the first
Get back to the clouds, we're dying of thirst
There's not enough time to make that call
Let's ditch this rider, shadow and all

The sky was filled with the beautiful birds
Still on the ground some crying was heard
With his dime in his hand and his hand on the dial
His ears were sweating as he forced a smile

Hoof beats beating across the range
He rode through the night with his cup of change
Tired and beaten he fell into slumber
But up in the sky they still had his number

Up and down the old homestead
The naked rider gallops through his head
And although the moon isn't full
He still feels the pull
Still feels the pull

A versão de Neil Young:

2041 – ABBA – Lay all your love on me (1980)

 

Escrita por Benny Andersson e Bjorn Ulvaeus, foi gravada entre setembro e outubro de 1980 no Polar Music Studios em Estocolmo, e lançada em 3 de novembro de 1980, no disco Super Trouper, o sétimo disco do grupo. Sairia também em compacto, em julho de 1981, com On and on and on como Lado B. Foi produzida por Benny Andersson e Bjorn Ulvaeus. Chegou ao número 7 no Reino Unido, número 8 na Irlanda, número 13 na Bélgica, número 26 na Alemanha Ocidental e número 68 na Suécia. Agnetha Falyskog cantou. Anni-Frid Lyngstad fez backing vocals. Benny Andersson tocou teclado, sintetizadores e fez backing vocals. Bjorn Ulvaeus tocou guitarra e fez backing vocals. Lasse Wellander tocou guitarra. Rutger Gunnarsson tocou baixo e Ola Brunkert tocou bateria. O vocal do refrão é feito como um coro de igreja. Foi regravada pelo Information Society, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every woman I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice

But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me

It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little small talk, a smile, and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily

I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you, dear

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think I was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible

'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned has overturned
What can I do?

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me

Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me

A versão do ABBA:

A versão do Information Society:

A versão de Amberian Dawn:

2040 – Dire Straits – Les Boys (1980)

 

Escrita Mark Knopfler, foi gravada entre junho e agosto de 1980, no Power Station Studios, em New York City e lançada no disco Making movies, o terceiro da banda, em 17 de outubro de 1980. Foi produzida por Mark Knopfler e Jimmy Iovine. Mark Knopfler tocou guitarra e cantou. John Illsley tocou baixo e cantou. Pick Withers tocou bateria e cantou. Roy Bittan tocou teclado e Sid McGinnis tocou guitarra.

A letra:

Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
They're not afraid now
A disco bar in Germany
Les boys are glad to be
Upon parade now

Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got SS caps
But they got no gun now
Get dressed up get a little risqué
Got to do a little s & m these days
It's all in fun now

Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their Mercedes Benz
To a disco bar in old München

Well now they get the jokes that the d.j. makes
They get so nervous and they make mistakes
They're bad for business
Some tourist take a photograph (take a photograph)
Les boys don't get one laugh
He says they're useless

Les boys come on again
For the high class whores
And the businessmen
Who drive in their Mercedes Benz
To a disco bar in old München

Late at night when they've gone away
Les boys dream of Jean Genet
High heel shoes and a black beret
And the posters on the wall that say
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay

Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys are glad to be gay
Les boys do cabaret
Les boys do cabaret

A versão do Dire Straits:

2039 – Bob Marley and The Wailers – Zion train (1980)

 

Escrita por Bob Marley, fo gravada entre janeiro e abril de 1980 e lançada no disco Uprising, o décimo segundo disco de Bob e último antes dele morrer. Foi produzida por Chris Blackwell e Bob Marley. Bob cantou, tocou guitarra e violão. Aston Barrett tocou baixo, piano e percussão. Carlton Barrett tocou bateria e percussão. Carlton Davis tocou bateria. Tyrone Downie tocou teclado e fez backing vocals. Alvin Patterson tocou percussão. Junior Marvin tocou guitarra solo e backing vocals. Earl Lindo tocou teclado. Al Anderson tocou guitarra solo. Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths e Judy Mowatt fizeram backing vocals.

A letra:

Zion train is coming our way
The Zion train is coming our way
Oh, people, get on board! (You better get on board!)
Thank the Lord (Praise Fari)
I gotta catch a train, 'cause there is no other station
Then you going in the same direction (Ooh-ooh)

Zion train is coming our way
The Zion train is coming our way

Which man can save his brother's soul? (Save your brother's soul)
Oh man, it's just self control (Oo-hoo-oo!)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul (Just don't lose your soul)
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
To the bridge (Ooh-ooh!)

Oh, where there's a will
There's always a way
Where there's a will
There's always a way (Way, way, way, way)

Soul train is coming our way, er!
Zion train is coming our way

Two thousand years of history (History)
Could not be wiped away so easily
Two thousand years of history (Black history)
Could not be wiped so easily (Could not be wiped so easily)

Oh, children, Zion train is comin' our way, get on board now!
They said the Zion train is comin' our way
You got a ticket, so thank the Lord!

Zion train is
Zion train is
Zion train is
Zion train

They said the soul train is coming our way
They said the soul train is coming our way

A versão de Bob Marley and The Wailers:

A versão de Avis Ramley:

 

A versão de Casely:

2038 – U2 – A day without me (1980)

 

Escrita por Bono Vox, The Edge, Adam Clayton e Larry Mullen Jr., foi gravada em 1980 e lançada em 18 de agosto de 1980, no compacto que tinha Things to make and do, instrumental, como Lado B. Sairia também no disco Boy, o de estréia da banda, em 20 de outubro de 1980. Foi produzida por Steve Lillywhite. Na verdade foi a primeira música que ele produziu com a banda. A letra fala de remover uma pessoa do seu círculo social habitual e reflete sobre o que seria o mundo sem a presença dessa pessoa.

A letra:

Starting a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind

I'm dreaming
You're awake
If I were sleeping
What's at stake
A day without me

Whatever the feelings
I keep feeling
What are the feelings
You left behind

Today's a day without me

I started a landslide in my ego
Look from the outside
To the world I left behind

In the world I left behind
Wipe their eyes, and then let go
To the world I left behind
Shed a tear, and then let go

A versão do U2:

A versão do Lemon Chile:

2037 – Bruce Springsteen – Independence day (1980)

 

Escrita por Bruce Springsteen, foi gravada em 24 e 25 de abril de 1980, no Power Station Studio, em New York City e lançada em 17 de outubro de 1980, no disco The River, o quinto de Bruce. Sairia também em compacto, que tinha The River como Lado A, em maio de 1981. Foi produzida por Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt e Jon Landau. Bruce disse que o coração e a alma do disco eram Independence day, Point blank, Stolen car e The River. Ou seja, é uma das quatro canções mais importantes do disco pro próprio Bruce. Fala de um lar que já não pode mais ter pai e filho juntos no mesmo teto. A canção é cantada do filho falando pro pai. Começa com a frase: “Papa go to bed now, it's getting late”, mudando a ordem natural que era o pai dizendo isso pro filho. O filho então reconhece que apesar de algumas similaridades, eles dois brigam demais e é hora do filho partir. É conhecida como melhor trabalho vocal de Bruce, com uma sinceridade brutal que fortalece a canção. Foi escrita ainda em 1977. Bruce cantou e tocou guitarra. Roy Bittan tocou piano. Clarence Clemons tocou sax e pandeiro. Danny Federici tocou orgão. Gary Tallent tocou baixo. Steve Van Zandt tocou guitarra. Max Weinberg tocou bateria.

A letra:

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate
We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow
Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
There's a darkness in this town that's got us too
But they can't touch me now
And you can't touch me now
They ain't gonna do to me
What I watched them do to you

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day
All down the line
Just say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day this time

Now I don't know what it always was with us
We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

Well say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day all boys must run away
So say goodbye it's Independence Day
All men must make their way come Independence Day

Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint
And the highway she's deserted clear down to Breaker's Point
There's a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

Well Papa go to bed now, it's getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there's just different people coming down here now and they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will just be swept away

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But won't you just say goodbye it's Independence Day
I swear I never meant to take those things away

A versão de Bruce Springsteen:

2036 – Neil Young – Captain Kennedy (1980)

 

Escrita por Neil Young, foi gravada em 11 de agosto de 1976, no Indigo Ranch Recording Studio, em Malibu, na California e lançada em 29 de outubro de 1980, no disco Hawks and Doves, o décimo segundo disco de Neil. Foi produzida por Elliot Mazer, Tim Mulligan e Neil Young. Na gravação, só temos Neil tocando violão e cantando. Nenhum outro músico. Fala sobre a vida de Lou Kennedy, um mercador marinho que teve seu barco destruído por um barco alemão em agosto de 1941. Neil estava de ferias em Nassau, nas Bahamas e conheceu Kennedy no começo dos anos 70 e conheceu sua história e compôs essa música em sua homenagem.

A letra:

I am a young mariner headed to war
I'm thinking about my family and what it was for
There's water on the wood and the sails feel good
And when I get to shore
I hope that I can kill good

My father was a sailor named Captain Kennedy
He lost his wooden schooner to the Germans on the sea
Exploded on the water for everyone to see
And humiliate that American Captain Kennedy

I saw him in Nassau in nineteen-seventy one
His strength was failing but he still ran a run
He worked until his fingers wore to the bone
To buy that wooden schooner and sail on his own

He was known in the islands as hundred foot iron
That steel hull freighter was passing its time
And time flew by faster with life on the sea
And the days grew shorter for Captain Kennedy

I am a young mariner headed to war
I'm thinking about my family and what it was for
There's water on the wood and the sails feel good
And when I get to shore
I hope that I can kill good

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