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built to spill - liar

2007-11-15T04:26:00.000-08:00

Esta canción para mi es una de las mejores del pop de los últimos tiempos. La tercera vez que la escuchas ya estás enganchado. Si el pop se mantiene vivo es por grupos como este. La canción es del disco You in reverse de 2006

When things are all you think of
And plans are all you make
and thoughts are all you dream of
your falls are all you take
look out the world's destroying ya
relax it isn't fair
mother natures disposition
she don't mind she don't care
she don't mind she don't care

And I wouldn't be a liar
No i wouldn't be a liar if I told you that
I wouldn't be a liar

Passing over, passions pour, passing everything

I wouldn't be a liar
No I wouldn't be a liar if I told you that

It takes up all of your life
these decisions you make
it takes up all of a day
making them all

Well i sat on the patio
while the pianos were being tuned
forget about it all for a little while
she don't mind she dont care
she don't mind she don't care
she don't mind she don't care

And I wouldn't be a liar
No I wouldn't be a liar if I told you that
I wouldn't be a liar

You see it seems minor to me
You see it seems minor to me
You see it seems minor to me
You see it seems minor

adam green - the prince's bed

2007-11-15T02:57:00.000-08:00

Este es uno de mis favoritos de Adam Green, es del disco Friends of Mine que para mi fue de los mejores de 2003.

if there's a heart inside your eye
if there's a clock inside your head
if there's a girl outside your bed
put your face in my place

my head is falling off my head
and i dont want to see clear again
everyone is talking about jesus
everyone is talking about jesus
everyone is talking about jesus
everyone's fucking my princess

goodnight to my new dead wife
goodnight to my nazi friend
i'm standing on the tip of my stinking ship

hey princess over there
why you sitting over there
when you've got a warm spot to share
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed

oh i know you've thought about it
and i knew you want to have it
now i always have my camera
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed
in the prince's bed

the strokes - new york city cops

2007-11-09T03:04:00.000-08:00

Este es uno de los temas que más me gustan de the strokes, es del primer disco y la verdad que no sabía cual escoger. Me decidí por este directo porque realmente el estribillo es para mi unos de los mejores entre el rock actual.

(Oh I meant, ah no I didn't mean that at all)
Here in the streets so merchanised
Rise to the bottom of the meaning of life
Studied all the rules I don't want no part
But I let you in just to break this heart
Even though it was only one night
It was fucking strange

Nina's in the bedroom
She said time to go now
But leaving it ain't easy
I got to let go
I got to let go
And the hours they ran slow
I said everynight she just can't stop saying
New York City cops
New York City cops
New York City cops
They ain't too smart
New York City cops
New York City cops
New York City cops
They ain't too smart

Kill me now cause I let you down
I swear one day I'm going to leave this town
Stop. Yes I'm leaving
Cause it just won't work
They act like Romans but they dress like Turks
Sometime in your prime
See me I like the summertime (but hey)

Nina's in the bedroom
She said time to go now
But leaving it ain't easy
I got to let go
I got to let go oh
Trapped in an apartment
She would not let them get her
She wrote it in a letter
I got to come clean
The authorities they've seen
Darling I'm somewhere in between
I said everynight, she just can't stop saying
New York City cops
New York City cops
New York City cops
They ain't too smart
New York City cops
New York City cops
New York City cops
They ain't too smart

editors - smokers outside the hospital doors

2007-11-04T07:07:00.000-08:00

Este tema de Editors es la primera novedad que pongo, salió hace unos meses (en el 2007). Podría poner muchas cosas recientes que están bien, pero creo que este tema es uno de los que más me ha impactado, la voz de Tom Smith (cantante/guitarra/piano) es una de las que más me ha sorpendido de los nuevos grupos que van apareciendo, tiene pinta de convertirse en uno de los grandes, lo único que le falta es un nuevo nombre...

Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Left smashed off the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed off the floor)

the decemberists - eli, the barrowboy

2007-11-04T05:25:00.000-08:00

Este es mi tema favorito de the Decemberists. La voz de Colin Meloy una de las mejores del pop actual, el videoclip no es nada del otro mundo, aquí lo que importa es la canción.

Eli, the barrowboy, you're the old town
Sells coal and marigolds and he cries out all down the day
Below the tamarac she is crying
Corn cobs and candlewax for the buying, all down the day

Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk arabian thread
She is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
And I must push my barrow all the day
And I must push my barrow all the day

Eli, the barrowboy, when they found him
Dressed all in corduroy, he had drowned in the river down the way
They laid his body down in a churchyard
But still when the moon is out, with his pushcart, he calls down the day

Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown
Made of gold and silk arabian thread
But I am dead and gone and lying in a church ground
But still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day

radiohead - idioteque

2007-10-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-24T14:15:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-24T01:45:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-23T15:43:00.000-07:00

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

2007-10-23T03:28:00.001-07:00

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