The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.
Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.
Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Pröfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.
Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.
Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.
Moon Over Miami
Various Artists Lyrics
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I found myself in a desert called Cyberland
It was hot
My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty
Out of the obice walked a cow, Elsey
I asked if she had anything to drink she said
"I'm forbidden to produce milk
In Cyberland we only drink Diet Coke"
Only thing to do is just over the moon
They've closed everything real down
Like barns and trophs and...
Preformin' Spaces
And replaced it all with lies and rules and
Virtual Life... But there is a way out
OOOOOOO
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
I gotta get outta here
It's like i'm being tied to the hood of
a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer
and fuel oil pushed over a cliff by a suicidal
mickey mouse
I gotta [18x] find a way...
to jump over the moon
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Then a little bulldog entered
His name we have learned was Benny
And although he once had principles
he abandonded to live as a lapdog to a wealthy daughter of the
revolution
1..2..3
That's bull he said
Ever since the cat took off with the fiddle that cows been jumpy
And the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table and eloped
And she had trouble with the milk
and the moon ever since maybe it was a female thing
But who'd wanna leave cyberland anyways!
Walls ain't so bad
The dish and the spoon for instance
their down on their luck they come knockin' on my doghouse door
and i said "Not in my backward utensils, go back to china!" (bideebong)
The only way out is up, elsey whispered to me
A leap of faith
"Still Thirsty??" Parched
"Have some milk"
As I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder
and sucked the sweetest milk,
i have ever tasted!
Climb on board she said
and as a harvest moon rose over cyberland
we reared back we sprang into a
gallop, leaping out of orbit i awoke singing
Oooh
Only thing to do
Only think to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Over the moon
Over the ...
Moo.
Moo.
Moo with me.
Please, sir, could you give me a moo?
(Everyone starts mooing)
Yes.
Yes!
Moo with me!
Yes! Moo with me!
Yes, it sounds beautiful!
Let me hear you moo, New York City!
The lyrics to "The Moon" describe a dream where the singer finds themselves in a desert called Cyberland. They are parched and encounter a cow named Elsey who tells them that drinking Diet Coke is the only option in Cyberland since milk production is forbidden. The singer is determined to find a way out and jump over the moon. Later, a bulldog named Benny enters the scene and speaks about various characters from nursery rhymes. Elsey offers the singer milk and they climb aboard her, galloping into the night sky as they jump over the moon. The end of the song has the audience joining in a mooing chorus.
In her unique style of interpretation, singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco takes "The Moon" and transforms it into a gentle, acoustic ballad. She emphasizes the singer's longing for escape with slow, soft strumming before building up to a crescendo as the singer jumps over the moon. Rent, the Broadway musical, also covers the song, but their version is much more energetic and upbeat, leaning into the rock influences of the original. The song fits perfectly into Rent's storyline of bohemian artists struggling to find their place in a world that doesn't understand them.
Line by Line Meaning
Last night, I had a dream
The beginning of a surreal dream where the singer is lost in a desert called Cyberland
I found myself in a desert called Cyberland
The singer finds themselves in a desert which represents a lifeless and barren society
It was hot
The intense heat represents the inescapable suffering in Cyberland
My canteen had sprung a leak and I was thirsty
The artist is in need of thirst quenching and the leaky canteen represents insufficient resources in Cyberland
Out of the obice walked a cow, Elsey
Elsey, the cow, symbolizes the rare living creature of Cyberland
I asked if she had anything to drink she said
"I'm forbidden to produce milk
In Cyberland we only drink Diet Coke"
She said...
The singer encounters Elsey who is not allowed to produce milk but suggests that they jump over the moon for a way out of Cyberland's struggles
Only thing to do is just over the moon
The phrase implies that the singer needs to take a leap of faith in order to break out of Cyberland
They've closed everything real down
Like barns and trophs and...
Preformin' Spaces
The government has shut down everything real and physical for the sake of promoting virtual reality
And replaced it all with lies and rules and
Virtual Life... But there is a way out
Everything in Cyberland is an illusion in contrast to the real world. However, there is a possibility of escape.
OOOOOOO
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
I gotta get outta here
It's like i'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck being packed in with fertilizer
and fuel oil pushed over a cliff by a suicidal
mickey mouse
I gotta [18x] find a way...
to jump over the moon
The singer is feeling trapped and suffocated like they are attached to the tragic and deadly metaphor
Only thing to do is jump over the moon
Then a little bulldog entered
His name we have learned was Benny
And although he once had principles
he abandonded to live as a lapdog to a wealthy daughter of the
revolution
1..2..3
That's bull he said
Benny, the dog, represents the people of Cyberland who have lost their principles and have become a lapdog to the wealthy ruling peoples of Cyberland
Ever since the cat took off with the fiddle that cows been jumpy
And the dish and the spoon were evicted from the table and eloped
And she had trouble with the milk
and the moon ever since maybe it was a female thing
But who'd wanna leave cyberland anyways!
Walls ain't so bad
The dish and the spoon for instance
their down on their luck they come knockin' on my doghouse door
and i said "Not in my backward utensils, go back to china!" (bideebong)
The odd and nonsensical lines describe the diminishing intimate relationships between the Cyberland characters. The dish and the spoon, who represent romantic companionship, cannot exist in Cyberland and only the dog, Benny, is able to comprehend this; speaking on the falsehood of relationships and companionship in Cyberland
The only way out is up, elsey whispered to me
A leap of faith
"Still Thirsty??" Parched
"Have some milk"
As I lowered myself beneath her swollen udder
and sucked the sweetest milk,
i have ever tasted!
Climb on board she said
and as a harvest moon rose over cyberland
we reared back we sprang into a gallop, leaping out of orbit i awoke singing
Elsey, the cow, reveals that the only way out of hardship is by taking a leap of faith. As the singer drinks the sweet milk, they find the strength to follow Elsey, riding off into the moonrise towards an alternative and unknown new beginning.
Oooh
Only thing to do
Only think to do is jump
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Only thing to do is jump Over the moon
Over the moon
Over the ...
Moo.
Moo.
Moo with me.
Please, sir, could you give me a moo?
(Everyone starts mooing)
Yes.
Yes!
Moo with me!
Yes! Moo with me!
Yes, it sounds beautiful!
Let me hear you moo, New York City!
The closing lines are said during a group mooing session to New York City, implying that they should come together and make something beautiful.
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