Every Moment Has A Song

Songs You May Have Missed #740

01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: cachito, mana, maná

Maná: “Cachito” (1992)

Despite their having won four Grammy awards, eight Latin Grammy awards and being the most successful Latin band of all time, Maná aren’t a household name to most Americans.

The affecting ballad “Cachito” (“A Bit”) is from ¿Dónde Jugarán Los Niños?, an album that sold over ten million copies worldwide and became the best-selling Spanish-language rock album of all time.

The lyrics:

Tan solo un adicto
Un adicto de tu Sol
Y es que con solo un cachito
Un pedacito de tu luz
Yo llegaría al cielo
O me caería al suelo
Por ti amor

Tan solo
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Soy un adicto de tu corazón

Pedirle a mi cabeza
Que deje de pensar en tí
Es casi como pedirle
A mi corazón que deje de latir
Mas bien olvida eso
No no repitas eso, te pido amor

Tan solo
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Un cachito de tu corazón
Soy un adicto de tu corazón

Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón
Chiquitita de mi corazón

English translation:

Just an addict
An addict of your Sun

And the fact is that
With just a little bit
A little piece of your light

I’d get to heaven
Or I’d fall to the ground
For you love

Oh, no

Just a little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
An addict of your heart (oh-oh-eoh)
A little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
I’m addicted to your heart

Ask my head
Stop thinking about you (you)
It’s almost like asking
To my heart to stop beating (beating)

Rather forget that
Don’t repeat that
I ask you, love

Just a little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
An addict of your heart (oh-oh-eoh)
A little piece of your heart (ay-ay-ay, eoh)
I’m addicted to your heart

Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart
Little girl in my heart

Video of the Week: Nina Hagen–‘Stille Nacht’

01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Video of the Week Tags: nina hagen, silent night, stille nacht

Nina Hagen sings Silent Night for French Television FR3 in 1992.

9 of The Best Beatle Intros

01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: beatles

(via CultureSonar) BY ADAM LEADBEATER

An often underappreciated element of the Beatles’ songwriting is their seemingly effortless ability to craft a truly memorable ‘intro.’ The art of writing a timeless song opening is a masterful skill. The Fab Four were particularly expert in doing so throughout their eight years together.

The band’s finest introductions are typically iconic in their own right, innovative for their time, and often acts of musical genius in and of themselves. Here are nine of the best intros by the Fab Four.

I Saw Her Standing There (1963)

One of the most simplistic yet impactful Beatles intros appears immediately on track one of their debut album Please Please Me.

Paul McCartney’s sharp and purposeful count of “One, Two, Three, Four!” injects raw energy into this relentless rock and roll classic.

The bouncing bassline and clanking guitar work are pure magic, perfectly setting the scene for the rest of the band’s first LP and also their formative years.

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

“A Hard Day’s Night’s” intro is all about a single sound. This title track from the Beatles’ third album opens with a very distinctive note, created using a combination of twelve-string electric guitar, an acoustic six-string, bass, and piano. Strummed aggressively and left to ring out, the exact chord has become the subject of much speculation over the years.

“It is F with a G on top,” George Harrison would finally confirm in 2001. “But you’ll have to ask Paul about the bass note to get the proper story.”