Outros olhares: Roman Catholic Church of St Anthony, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, há uns dias atrás (Abril de 2025)

Outros olhares: Christ Church, Malacca, Malaysia, há uns dias atrás (Abril de 2025)

Chumbawamba - tubthumping live, 1997

"Tubthumping" is a song by British rock band Chumbawamba, released in August 1997 by EMI, Universal and Republic Records as the first single from their eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). It is the band's most successful single, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. At the 1998 Brit Awards, "Tubthumping" was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Single. It sold 880,000 copies in the UK."

REM - world leader pretend, 1988

"Green marks the departure of the jangle pop and college rock styling of the band's previous albums. In a 1988 interview, Peter Buck described Green as an album that didn't feature any typical R.E.M. songs. Describing the band's standard output as "Minor key, mid-tempo, enigmatic, semi-folk-rock-balladish things", the guitarist noted that for Green, "We wrote major key rock songs and switched instruments." Singer Michael Stipe had reportedly told his bandmates to "not write any more R.E.M.-type songs".

Emma Anderson - clusters, 2023

"Clusters is the second single from Emma Anderson’s debut solo album Pearlies, which is due out later this month. It’s a real grower, its initially intimate tones expanding into a charming motorik groove somewhere between Melody’s Echo Chamber and Stereolab."

Blonde Redhead - snowman, 2023

"‘Snowman’ is about how it can be a blessing or a curse to be invisible and undetectable, and how it’s something we all feel and desire at times.”

The Stranglers - always the sun live, 1986

"Lead vocalist, and lead guitarist Hugh Cornwell mentioned in his book The Stranglers Song by Song that he thought it could have been as big as "Golden Brown".

Stars - fourteen forever, 2008

"The band that makes the records you clutch to your chest like a prep-school misfit in a 1980s movie, the band that cuts out the construction-paper heart you wear on your sleeve. They make records that get down on their knees and beg to get quoted in someone's yearbook."

Beach House - all the years, 2008

"With Devotion, Beach House prove once again that they're one of the more strangely named bands around. Their music is so lonely, so haunting, that the only beach house it evokes is a deserted one, stranded on a winter night so desolate that summer isn't even a memory. Then again, that atmosphere is precisely what made Beach House's self-titled debut so striking, and Devotion is even more so, since Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally bring more focus, depth, and warmth to their unmistakable sound."

Texas - say what you want all day every day, 1998

"In 1998, Texas collaborated with Wu-Tang Clan members Method Man and RZA to remix the song as "Say What You Want (All Day, Every Day)". This version features Method Man and RZA on vocals and was released as a single in March 1998, peaking at number four on the UK Singles Chart and reaching the top 10 in Iceland, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. Both versions of the song are included on Texas's 2000 compilation album The Greatest Hits."

REM - the worst joke ever, 2004

"The song has grown on me and maybe its brevity coupled with the resurrection of the track during the Dublin sessions make me think of it in a different way. By this point in the album though, there is a malaise - could this song have picked up the pace and plugged in a little it might've started sounding like ACCELERATE. Maybe."

Brian Wilson - god only knows live, 2020

"The first time I heard it, Brian played it for me at the piano. And I went, "Oh my god, he's talking about God in a record." It was pretty daring to me. And it was another time I thought to myself, "Oh, boy, he's really taking a chance." I thought it was almost too religious. Too square."

Dido - white flag, 2003

"White Flag" is a song by English singer-songwriter Dido, released as the lead single from her second studio album, Life for Rent (2003). The song was first released to US radio on 7 July 2003 and was issued in the United Kingdom as a physical single on 1 September 2003. The song performed well on record charts around the world, peaking at number one in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. In Dido's native UK, it reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, and in the United States, it climbed to number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100."

Saint Etienne - spring, 1991

"Stanley in many ways is essentially a nostalgist. Foxbase Alpha is full of sepia tinted nostalgia for an English childhood of the Sixties and Seventies. The album is superbly presented. An Indie girl in artfully tilted cap, t-shirt and skirt carrying a banner bearing the album title on the cover. An inner sleeve with pictures of heroes set up to resemble the stickers you used to buy in childhood days in those lost decades."

Fazerdaze - bigger, 2023

"Singer, songwriter and producer Fazerdaze - otherwise known as Amelia Murray - has been a touchstone figure in the musical landscape of Aotearoa, New Zealand, for nearly a decade now, her output an intricate combination of both deeply personal and widely relatable. This autumn she returned to share new single ‘Bigger’ - a synth-laden, alt-rock offering that examines the pressures of international touring on the human psyche and interpersonal relationships. Candidly explaining more about the new cut, Amelia has said that she’s “often felt that ambition and being in the public eye can be a point of tension in my romantic relationships. I think this song is me trying to explore and overcome that with someone I cared about. For the production, I was exploring writing an anti-chorus. The synths do all the work and the vocal melody drops into a talk. I wanted to experiment with strange bendy synths and lean into a cinematic night time world.”

Teenage Fanclub - foreign land, 2023

"With distinctive rich vocal harmonies and warm guitars, the veteran Scottish indie alt-rock band return with a single from their 13th studio album, Nothing Lasts Forever out in September on PeMa and Merge. Still with original co-lead vocalists and guitarists Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, the lineup since 2019 now also includes Welsh musician Euros Childs from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci on keyboards and vocals."

The Lightning Seeds - pure, 1989

"Pure" is a song by British music group the Lightning Seeds from their debut album, Cloudcuckooland. Released in June 1989, the song peaked at No. 16 in the UK. The track is the band's sole entry on the US Billboard Hot 100's top 40, peaking at No. 31, and was the first hit for the band on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, peaking at No. 8 in May 1990. It was later featured prominently in the movie "What Happens Later" (2023)."

Fait-divers on the essential

“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”

Matt Berninger - breaking into acting, 2025

"‘Breaking Into Acting’ features vocals from Meg Duffy of LA band Hand Habits and touches on the malleability of performance. “Sometimes you have to fake forgiveness before you can actually forgive,” explains Berninger on the song. The new track follows the first single off the album, 'Bonnet of Pins', in which Berninger confronts grief and the unexpected humour it can bring."

Mike Oldfield - daydream, 2002

"The musician/composer once again spins carefully layered guitar and keyboard performances into a seemingly endless stream of space-age lullabies supported by the faintest of beats"