radiohead - idioteque

Este video es impresionante, Radiohead aquí hacen un directo tremendo con el tema "idioteque" del disco Kid A. Uno de mis temas favoritos y aún más uno de los mejores videos en directo que se pueden encontrar. Por un lado Thom Yorke canta como nunca y por otro Johnny Greenwood se sale con los sintetizadores incluyendo siempre nuevos arreglos a esta canción. Pone los pelos de punta

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first
Women and children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I..

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker
I've seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen enough
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children..

Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both..

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the..

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money..

Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time
Background:
The first of the children

Arcade Fire - Laika

The Arcade Fire, tal vez mi grupo favortio del siglo XXI. Hay guitarras, violines, pero sobretodo un acordeon que marca la diferencia. La voz de ella no es la mejor pero es Arcade Fire, él en cambio tiene una fuerza cantando que atrae desde el primer momento. El directo, simplemente hay que verlos, a pocos grupos les queda tan bien el darse golpes con la baquetas en la cabeza e ir de locos. La canción va dedicada igual que el disco a su difunto amigo alex. Un directo de los que no habría que perderse.

Esta canción pertenece al disco funeral

Alexander, our older brother,
set out for a great adventure.
He tore our images out of his pictures,
he scratched our names out of all his letters.

Our mother shoulda just named you Laika!

Come on Alex, you can do it.
Come on Alex, there's nothin' to it.
If you want somethin' don't ask for nothin,
if you want nothin' don't ask for somethin'!

Our mother shoulda just named you Laika!
It's for your own good,
it's for the neighborhood!
For the neighborhood

Our older brother bit by a Vampire!
For a year we caught his tears in a cup.
And now we're gonna make him drink it.
Come on Alex don't die or dry up!

Our mother shoulda just named you Laika!
It's for your own good,
it's for the neighborhood!

When daddy comes home you always start a fight,
so the neighbors can dance in the police disco lights.
The police disco lights.
Now the neighbors can dance! (x4)

James - Laid

Un pedazo de tema que define el pop-rock de los 90. Se nota como disfruta el público con esta canción. Parece que de igual como baile y que es lo que haga, Tim Booth tiene a todos a sus pies.
El tema pertenece al disco Laid de 1993, yo recomiendo sobretodo Pleased to Meet You de 2001 y a parte del Laid el Seven de 1992.

This bed is on fire
With passionate love
The neighbours complain about the noises above
But she only comes when she’s on top

My therapist said not to see you no more
She said you’re like a disease without any cure
She said I’m so obsessed that I’m becoming a bore, oh no
Ah, you think you’re so pretty

Caught your hand inside the till
Slammed your fingers in the door
Fought with kitchen knives and skewers
Dressed me up in womens clothes
Messed around with gender roles
Dye my eyes and call me pretty

Moved out of the house, so you moved next door
I locked you out, you cut a hole in the wall
I found you sleeping next to me, I thought I was alone
You’re driving me crazy, when are you coming home

New Order - Blue Monday

Esta canción de New Order un ejemplo de los inicios del pop electrónico y la música dance. El tema tocado en directo tiene algunas variaciones respecto a la versión del disco, para mi el mejor tema de New Order y uno de los mejores del pop electrónico de los 80

How does it feel to treat me like you do?
When you've your hands upon me
And told me who you are
I thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me, how do I feel
Tell me now, How do I feel

Those who came before me
Lived through their vocations
From the past until completion
They'll turn away no more
And I still find it so hard
To say what I need to say
But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me
Just how I should feel today

I see a ship in the harbor
I can and shall obey
But if it wasn't for your misfortune
I'd be a heavenly person today
And I thought I was mistaken
And I thought I heard you speak
Tell me how do I feel
Tell me now, how should I feel

Now I stand here waiting...
I thought I told you to leave me
While I walked down to the beach
Tell me how does it feel
When your heart grows cold

Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Este es uno de los temas que definen el rock aunque ellos vinieran del punk. Más sencillo imposible, solo una melodía de órgano que se repite y repite y una batería que anima el conjunto. La letra y la voz de Ian Curtis me parecen bestiales...

When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions wont grow
And were changing our ways,
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
Our respect run so dry?
Yet theres still this appeal
That weve kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again

Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just cant function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again