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Music Video of the Day: Take My Breath Away by The Hospital (2024, dir by Marcelo de la Vega)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Right now, I have a cold so I can relate to the song’s title.  It’s a good song and a straight-forward video.  No, it’s not a cover of the song from Top Gun that played whenever Tom Cruise looked up at the sky.

Enjoy!

Song of the Day: The Happening by The Supremes

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today is Faye Dunaway’s birthday and today’s song of the day is The Happening, which was the theme song of Dunaway’s first movie, 1966’s The Happening!  Faye played a hippie who, with George Maharis and Michael Parks, kidnapped Anthony Quinn.  The film wasn’t a hit but the song was.

Here are The Supremes with The Happening.

Hey, life, look at me
I can see the reality
‘Cause when you shook me, took me out of my world
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening
When you find that you left the future behind
‘Cause when you got a tender love
You don’t take care of
Then you better beware of the happening

One day you’re up, then you turn around
You find your world is tumbling down
It happened to me, and it can happen to you

I was sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
Yeah, riding high on top of the world
It happened, suddenly it just happened
I saw my dreams fall apart
When love walked away from my heart
And when you lose that precious love you need
To guide you
Something happens inside you, the happening

Now I see life for what it is
It’s not all dreams, ooh, it’s not all bliss
It happened to me and it can happen to you

Once
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened
Ooh, and then it happened

Is it real, is it fake
Is this game of life a mistake?
‘Cause when I lost the love I thought was mine
For certain, suddenly I started hurting
I saw the light too late
When that fickle finger of fate
Yeah, came and broke my pretty balloon
I woke up
Suddenly I just woke up to the happening

So sure, I felt secure
Until love took a detour
‘Cause when you got a tender love you don’t
Take care of, then you better beware of

Songwriters: Alex Mungo / David Taylor / Jasper John Nielson Stainthorpe / Mark Robert Tiplady / Rob Downes / Stephen Wren

Song Of The Day: The Golden Path by The Chemical Brothers, feat. Wayne Coyne

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips.  Our song of the day is The Golden Path, a collaboration between Wayne and The Chemical Brothers.

 

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was confronted
By mysterious spectre
He pointed to the graveyard
Over on yonder hill
I paused in cosmic reflection
Confused on wondering
Of how I came to die

Hm!
I was confused
Coz if I was dead
How and why did I die
And I composed myself
And decided I should face it

Then I stood paralyzed
On the supposed golden path
And I was confronted
By powerful demon force
And there was the devil
And we spoke his words
Flowed like glowing lava from the mouth of a volcano
And I said:
Help me, Lord!!
I found myself in some kinda hell
But I did not believe in heaven and hell
World in opposites kind of reality

But I gained control of myself
And decided to press on

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was trembling with fear
All the lions and the wizards yet to come
I seen in the distance
Silver mountains rising high in the clouds
And a voice from above did whisper
Some shining answer from the moon

Please forgive me
I never meant to hurt you

Songwriters: Edmund John Simons / Steven Gregory Drozd / Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands / Wayne Michael Coyne

Song of the Day: Goldfinger (performed by Shirley Bassey)

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Goldfinger (1964, dir by Guy Hamilton)

It’s Shirley Eaton’s birthday!

Shirley Eaton has since retired but she had a busy acting and singing career in the 1960s.  Her best-know role was playing the ill-fated Jill Masterson in the 1964 Bond film, Goldfinger.  She was the one who ended up getting suffocated in gold paint after helping Bond expose Goldfinger as a card cheat.

It seems appropriate, therefore, that today’s song of the day should be that film’s title tune.  Enjoy Goldfinger, performed by the great Shirley Bassey.

Goldfinger, he’s the man
The man with the midas touch
A spider’s touch
Such a cold finger
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don’t go in

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death from Mister Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold

Golden words he will pour in your ear
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s kissed her
It’s the kiss of death from Mister Goldfinger
Pretty girl, beware of his heart of gold
This heart is cold

He loves only gold
Only gold
He loves gold
He loves only gold
Only gold
He loves gold

Songwriters: Tim Wheeler

Music Video of the Day: Look Up By Ringo Starr (2025, dir by Wyndham Garnett)

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s music video of the day comes to use from Ringo Starr and …. hey, this is the first 2025 video that has been shared on the Shattered Lens!  I’m happy to give that honor to the most likable member of the Beatles.

This song is from Ringo’s new country-and-western album.  Despite being from the Southwest, I tend to prefer EDM to C&W but still, it’s a nice little song.  I like the positivity of it.  I honestly feel like my prediction that the 2020s would be a lot like the 1970s is finally starting to come true.  People are tired of being depressed and stressed all the time.

Enjoy!

Song of the Day: Leave Home by The Chemical Brothers

Posted on by Lisa Marie Bowman

Today’s song of the day better get you dancing!

The footage in the video below comes from a 1983 film called Koyaanisqatsi.  That film featured a soundtrack by Philip Glass.  The song is from The Chemical Brother’s first single off of their debut album, Exit Planet Dust.