"High" is a 1988 song recorded by French artist David Hallyday. It was the second of the four singles from his debut studio album True Cool. Released in November 1988, the song was a hit in France, becoming David Hallyday's first number-one single.
The song was composed by Lisa Catherine Cohen and the music composed by the singer himself. As for the rest of the album, lyrics are in English-language. The music video was shot in a church, Hallyday playing the organ, while a chorus composed of women chanted 'high' during the refrains. With this vigorous song, Hallyday presents "a musical style at the joint of Californian rock and pop".
In France, the single debuted on the singles chart at #45 on November 19, 1988, climbed quickly and entered the top ten in its fourth week. It topped the chart for five consecutive weeks, then almost didn't stop to drop on the chart and totaled 15 weeks in the top ten and 23 weeks in the top 50. Although it was not certified by the SNEP, the French certifier, its sales made the song the 440th best-selling single of all time in France. The song was the most successful from the album True Cool and the second one in Hallyday's career, behind "Tu ne m'as pas laissé le temps".
High is the fourth studio album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 August 2004 on Sanctuary Records. A single, "I Would Never", was released one week prior to the album: a second song, "She Saw the World", was made available as a promotional single, but never released officially.
"Soul Boy" had already been recorded by former Spice Girl Melanie C for her album Reason the previous year.
The album received generally favourable reviews, with many critics considering High to be a stronger album than their previous effort Peace at Last. AllMusic said "the Blue Nile have returned with a more balanced album [than Peace at Last] and Buchanan is broken-hearted again, thank the stars. He's been struggling with fatigue and illness and as selfish and inconsiderate as it sounds, it's brought the spark back to his writing... given the time to sink in, the album fits well in their canon."The Guardian believed that with High "the emotional commitment of Peace at Last is combined with the observational detachment of the earlier work... In pop, most people do their best work within five or six years. How extraordinary, then, that after more than two decades of activity, the Blue Nile remain on course, their range expanded, their focus more refined, unshaken in their determination to proceed at their own measured pace."
"High" was the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, performed in English by Knut Anders Sørum.
The song is a dramatic ballad, with Sørum expressing his desire to bring an unnamed person "high". The lyrics suggest that this person has been beset by problems, and that Sørum believes he can go some way to curing them.
As Norway had finished the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in the top 10, the song was pre-qualified for the final. Here, it was performed third, following Austria's Tie Break with "Du bist" and preceding France's Jonatan Cerrada with "À chaque pas". At the close of voting, it had received 3 points, placing 24th (last) in a field of 24, thus requiring Norway to qualify through the semi-final at the next Contest.
The low score, and long wait before Norway scored any points at all, led Australian commentator Des Mangan to jokingly offer money for anyone prepared to vote for the country. Initially, this was "a thousand bucks", later climbing to "ten thousand bucks and my house". Mangan explained during this commentary that he did not want Norway to further extend its unwanted record of failing to record a point on the most occasions.
Hands is a 2010 album by English jazz double bassist Dave Holland and Spanish flamenco guitarist Pepe Habichuela. The unlikely pairing was arranged by Minuel Ferrand, the director of musical events for the Cultural Department of Andalusia. The first meeting took place in 2007, with four days of rehearsals, followed by three concerts. The group was expanded in May of 2008 and recorded Hands in March of 2009, and released on Holland's own label Dare2. Eight of the ten tracks on the album were written by Pepe Habichuela based on the flamenco tradition, while Holland contributes two originals.
The Guardian called Holland's sound, "a natural for this richly sonorous idiom". Chris May of All About Jazz called Hands, "an elegant, lyrical, rhythmically spicy blend of jazz and flamenco in which flamenco gets top billing. The Allmusic review by Chris Nickson awarded the album 4 stars stating "It's Habichuela's magical fingers that mesmerize, covering the scales as adroitly as any pianist and bringing a rich fullness and a stunning imagination to the sound. But what's really at work here is a group consciousness, an exploration of flamenco, and the listener shares Holland's journey. There's nothing here that's diluted - this is hardcore flamenco, very much the real thing - and the hard realism is one of the great pleasures."
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Hands is the second EP from Brooklyn-based symphonic rock band Emanuel and the Fear and was released via EAT Fear Records in June 2011 following the band's first full-length release, Listen.
The 405 issued a positive review of the band's second EP, declaring "Hands is an EP which demonstrates musicianship at its best...a wonderful mixture of influences, added to its melodies and textures, all add together to create a true good feeling within your heart. Fans of Ben Folds and Nils Lofgren especially should like and admire this record but it has the accessibility for just about anyone to jump in and enjoy – excuse the pun - over and over again." Following the release of the EP, the band toured throughout the UK, including a stop in England to play the End of the Road Festival, where they shared a stage with Joanna Newsom, Lykke Li, Best Coast and Beirut.
Here we go with another one
Cold for the winter
Keep it hot when the summer comes yeah
And it’s all when the summer’s done
But we all gotta represent him dawg cause the summers
done
Nope, we ain’t slaves no more
We don’t follow our sinful ways no more
You don’t see us in the purple haze no more
Them days no more, them ways no more
Folks was looking at me like I’m crazy
Yep that’s my name, that’s the way God made me
Get your word out if you’re a spiritual baby
And open up the book so you can roll in the day with me
Beyond belief!
Hey get your hands up high
Get ‘em in the air try to touch that sky
Y’all know we gon’ rep the most high
Yeah, we gon’ rep the most high
Go ahead get low
Get ya hands down
Try to touch that floor
Y’all know that’s the way that we roll
Yeah, that’s the way that we roll
Hey I hope this works
There’s more to life in Christ than just church
God made Adam by breathing into the dirt
Then we all sin and fallen into the curse but
You think you got it, to get it, you gotta live it dawg
You gotta read it, believe it, then go and get it dawg
Spit it how you live it
If you got it, you can give it
But I never seen a lazy boy grow
And I know a couple of ‘em
Who be sayin’
That they love him
But they never really get out there and go
So back to the fact
That we out to relax
And say: hey, I’m saved
No need for me to act
Instead of growing in Christ
And learning to reenact
That lifestyle he lived
I’m like homey you seeing that?
Beyond belief!
Hey get your hands up high
Get ‘em in the air try to touch that sky
Y’all know we gon’ rep the most high
Yeah, we gon’ rep the most high
Go ahead get low
Get ya hands down
Try to touch that floor
Y’all know that’s the way that we roll
Yeah, that’s the way that we roll
Go ahead
It’s your birthday move to the left
It’s your birthday move to the right
It’s your birthday but you gotta grow some more so get
thirsty
Go ahead
It’s your birthday move to the left
It’s your birthday move to the right
It’s your birthday but you gotta grow some more so get
thirsty
Beyond belief!
Hey get your hands up high
Get ‘em in the air try to touch that sky
Y’all know we gon’ rep the most high
Yeah, we gon’ rep the most high
Go ahead get low
Get ya hands down
Try to touch that floor
Y’all know that’s the way that we roll
Yeah, that’s the way that we roll
Beyond belief!
Hey get your hands up high
Get ‘em in the air try to touch that sky
Y’all know we gon’ rep the most high
Yeah, we gon’ rep the most high
Go ahead get low
Get ya hands down
Try to touch that floor
Y’all know that’s the way that we roll