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#1135: Ferry Corsten – Rock Your Body, Rock

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How I came to know this track is unlike a lot of other stories I recount when it comes to writing these posts. Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten’s ‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ was a song I heard in my sleep. That’s right. Around 2003/04, I was sharing a bedroom with my sister, and she’d leave the radio on as we laid our weary heads on our separate beds and got our few hours of shut-eye in. It was during one of those nights that Corsten’s track played. I feel like I was in a deep sleep at the time, but hearing the song woke me up because it sounded like some intense robot factory. I told my sister the next morning, “I heard this really good song that played on the radio last night.” She said, “Ah, nice. Cool.” Something along those lines. She was being nice about it, but kinda brushed it off. And I was left wondering what that really good song was for a long while.

That all changed though, thanks to Top of the Pops. At some point, the show was doing the countdown of the official UK singles chart. ‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ had charted at number 11. I think a short clip of the music video (below) played, and it sort of stopped me dead in my tracks. I went onto Corsten’s website, the video could be played in full on there. This was the song. Would be funny after all these years if it actually wasn’t and I’ve still yet to hear that sleep-song. I’m 95% sure this was it, though. And I tell you, I kept repeating that video basking in the success. Having owned FIFAs 2003 and 2004, I did think it would be cool if the song was used in the next game that would be made. And it was like EA heard my thoughts because the company included the song on the FIFA 2005 soundtrack. Now there was no way I would be able to forget it even if I wanted to.

‘Rock Your Body, Rock’ is the only song of its genre that I’ve ever thought to listen to. ‘Trance’. If anyone knows any Trance albums, please send them my way. If you can’t, well, I can always go to Rate Your Music. But if this turns out to be the only one I know for the rest of my life, I’d be pretty fine. ‘Rock Your Body. Rock’ begins suddenly with Corsten’s heavily effected vocals, droning on a B-flat note (which is also the one chord the track stays on for its entirety), in which he tells the listener that he wants to have relations with his girl on a worldwide scale. Hence the song’s title. I didn’t know that when I was eight but became very apparent while growing up. His verses appear only twice in the whole song, dedicating a lot more time to the surging instrumental passages that trundle along, fade away, then come in with a vengeance with the euphoric “choruses”. The official music video cuts out a lot of the instrumental sections out, so I’d say the album version’s the way to go. But the edit is also there only have three-and-a-half minutes to spare.

#1110: Seeed – Release

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Well, well, looks like we’ve got another song here that I have to thank the people of EA Sports for. They didn’t create it, obviously. It’s but another of the plenty tracks they thought were worthy of inclusion in one of their soundtracks. I’ve always wondered how that process goes down… Yet again, it’s the FIFA series that Seeed’s ‘Release’ was used, this time in the 2005 iteration of the game. Not 2004, no. Though it would have been 2004 when the game was released. That soundtrack didn’t disappoint either. Had a varied selection from The Streets, Flogging Molly, New Order, Morrissey, and many, many others. But it was this particular track, a
rousing dancehall number, that honestly came to be one of my favourite tracks ever to be used in a FIFA soundtrack.

When you hear the song for the first time, you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that the group would be from the Caribbean. Most likely Jamaica. I mean, the chorus comes in, you hear the dialect/accent the vocalists are singing with and you just assume. I know that’s what I did when I was nine. But it turned out Seeed were a group from Germany who were just really into their dancehall and reggae. Germans doing Caribbean music was something that sounded so strange to the simple kid I was. But it didn’t matter because every time the song came on in the menu screen, I would stop myself from playing matches just to let the whole thing play out. Seeed is a collective of many members, but it’s the three frontmen (Peter Fox, Dellé, and Boundzound – who I just found out while writing this, passed away in 2018) who take up the brunt of the vocals in their music.

‘Release’ is the fourth track on the group’s 2003 Music Monks album, something I should probably listen to just for the hell of it one of these days, and is a call to the heavens above for a break from life. As everyone knows, life in general can be hard a lot of the time. The people of Seeed recognise this too, and wish for a divine intervention that provides ‘sunshine and peace’ with a side of some good music, a loving lady, mariijuana and alcohol – of course EA Sports couldn’t endorse the latter two, so mentions of ‘smoking trees’ and ‘rum’ were censored in the FIFA game. Fox tells the listener that the music of Seeed helps to get rid of any negative feelings in the first verse, Dellé lines out the pressures of the music industry in the second, and Boundzound expresses the pleasures he has in being able to do what he wants while also looking for the girl who might just be the one. A sweet, summery song about relaxation, which I think we can all do with every once in a while. Weird to think I’ve known the song almost 20 years. Still sound so great as it did then. Also, there’s this other version of the song where the keyboards(?) play the melody of The Cure’s ‘Close to Me’. I don’t know where it came from, it’s not the version I’m used to, but I’ll embed it below anyway. Plus, I’ll put in the album version too, cause why not.

#640: Morrissey – Irish Blood, English Heart

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This is the only solo Morrissey song I actually like. I’m not so much a fan of The Smiths either. Never been much into Morrissey’s lyrics nor him really as a person. He’s a bit melodramatic. Possibly racist too, I heard? He’s a character for sure.

This song was on the soundtrack for FIFA 2005 which is how I got to know it. Surprisingly so, seeing how unapologetically political it is. The line about Oliver Cromwell was censored though. Don’t think EA would have the balls to put a song like this in one of their games today. In the song, Morrissey rallies on about how proud he is to be of both titular nationalities, how people shouldn’t be ashamed to be patriotic without feeling like they’re being offensive, and throws some shade at those in the House of Commons and the Royal family for good measure.

Like I said, I’m not too keen on Morrissey’s dramatic lyrics or vocal delivery – but it’s on this track in particular where his voice and the music matches to great effect. The quiet verses lurk along with his signature baritone vocal and the flickering slick guitar riff and defiantly rise into the louder choruses where everything is kicked up a notch. That specific dynamic in a song has been done to death but when it’s done right, it can never go wrong.

If ya didn’t know, the music for the track – written by former songwriting partner Alain Whyte – had already been used in a song but was reworked for Morrissey’s purposes. I’ll link it below. It’s clear that Morrissey’s version is better.