Squeeze "Up the junction"

Grupo/Interprete: Squeeze
 Canción: Up the junction
 Disco: Cool for the cats (1979)
 Estilo: New Wave


"Cool for the Cats" es el segundo disco (y uno de los mejores) de esta banda londinense y Up the function es una de las mejores canciones del disco. Se ve claramente la influencia de The Beatles y The Kinks, algo que  Chris Diffort y Glenn Tilbrook nunca han negado. New wave londinense ahora que está de moda Londres y la música británica, después de la ceremonia de apertura de los JJOO

I never thought it would happen
with me and the girl from clapham
out on the windy common
that night i ain't forgotten
when she dealt out the rations
with some or other passions
i said “you are a lady”
“perhaps” she said. “i may be”
We moved in to a basement 
with thoughts of our engagement
we stayed in by the telly 
although the room was smelly
we spent our time just kissing
the railway arms we're missing
but love had got us hooked up
and all our time it took up
I got a job with stanley
he said i'd come in handy
and started me on monday
so i had a bath on sunday
i worked eleven hours
and bought the girl some flowers
she said she'd seen a doctor 
and nothing now could stop her
I worked all through the winter 
the weather brass and bitter
i put away a tenner each week to make her better
and when the time was ready 
we had to sell the telly
late evenings by the fire
with little kicks inside her
This morning at four fifty 
i took her rather nifty 
down to an incubator
where thirty minutes later
she gave birth to a daughter
within a year a walker
she looked just like her mother
if there could be another
And now she's two years older
her mother's with a soldier
she left me when my drinking
became a proper stinging
the devil came and took me
from bar to street to bookie
no more nights by the telly
no more nights nappies smelling
Alone here in the kitchen
i feel there's something missing
i'd beg for some forgiveness 
but begging's not my business
and she won't write a letter
although i always tell her
and so it's my assumption 
i'm really up the junction

Belle and Sebastian "Another Sunny Day"

Grupo/Interprete: Belle and Sebastian
Canción: Another Sunny Day
Disco: The Life Pursuit (2006)
Estilo: Indie Pop





Another sunny day, I met you up in the garden You were digging plants, I dug you, beg your pardon I took a photograph of you in the herbaceous border It broke the heart of men and flowers and girls and trees Another rainy day, we're trapped inside with a train set Chocolate on the boil, steamy windows when we met You've got the attic window looking out on the cathedral And on a Sunday evening bells ring out in the dusk Another day in June, we'll pick eleven for football We're playing for our lives the referee gives us fuck all I saw you in the corner of my eye on the sidelines Your dark mascara bids me to historical deeds Everybody's gone you picked me up for a long drive We take the tourist route the nights are light until midnight We took the evening ferry over to the peninsula We found the avenue of trees went up to the hill That crazy avenue of trees, I'm living there still There's something in my eye a little midge so beguiling Sacrificed his life to bring us both eye to eye I heard the Eskimos remove obstructions with tongues, dear You missed my eye, I wonder why, I didn't complain You missed my eye, I wonder why, please do it again The lovin is a mess what happened to all of the feeling? I thought it was for real; babies, rings and fools kneeling And words of pledging trust and lifetimes stretching forever So what went wrong? It was a lie, it crumbled apart Ghost figures of past, present, future haunting the heart

Orange Juice "Dying Day"

Grupo/Interprete:  Orange Juice
Canción:  Dying Day
Disco: You can't hide your love forever (1982)
Estilo: Indie Pop

Afortunadamente en los años 80 se hicieron canciones como esta.

Somebody is whispering
Tongues are a-twisting
My eyes are glistening
Say hello to your débutante
And say bye-bye to true love

I heard your bugle playing
The sweetest music to my eyes
I'm not afraid to say it
I'm close to tears

We'll run away
And I'll always believe
Until my dying day
My dying day

I say I'm not sorry
To cast you off, discourteously
When you talk so realistically
The thrill of love
Has gone for me

I heard your bugle playing
The sweetest music to my eyes
I'm not afraid to say it
I'm close to tears

We'll run away
And I'll always believe
Until my dying day
My dying day

Husker Dü "Makes no sense at all"

Grupo/Interprete: Husker Dü

Canción: Makes no sense at all

Disco: Flip your wig (1985)

Estilo: Noise Rock.

Walking around with your head in the clouds
Makes no sense at all
Sell yourself short, but you're walking so tall
Makes no sense at all
Is it important? You're yelling so loud
Makes no sense at all
Walking around with your head in the clouds
Makes no sense at all
Makes no difference at all

I don't know why you want to tell me
When I'm right or when you're wrong
It's the same thing, in your mind, the only time
I'm right is when I play along

You concern yourself with evidence
It's evident to me
Well you say you've got the tiger by the tail
But I don't see these things that way

Wilco "Born alone"

Grupo/Interprete: Wilco
Canción: Born Alone
Disco: The whole love
Estilo: Rock alternatico, indie rock.

Esta canción se encuentra en el último disco de Wilco. La pregunta es: ¿Está agotado el proyecto musical Wilco? Quizás no, pero empieza a dar síntomas de eso. No quiero decir que el disco sea malo, sólo que a ciertas bandas se le exige más por su calidad y trayectoria. Otra cosa es el negocio y es que parece que si no tienes disco nuevo no merece la pena hacer conciertos ... creo que me estoy metiendo en un tema complicado que además no es objeto de este blog.

R.E.M "Harborcoat"

Grupo/Interprete: R.E.M

Canción: Harborcoat

Disco: Reckoning (1984)

Estilo: Rock Alternativo.

Pues bien. Esta semana la banda de Rock alternativo R.E.M ha anunciado su disolución, esto ha sido hasta noticia en los Telediarios y precisamente eso es lo que me llama la atención: que R.E.M lleve más de veinte años siendo una banda de Rock de lo más popular y conocida, con todos sus singles en las radio formulas y sin embargo se les siga llamando "alternativos".

Según mi opinión R.E.M fue una de las mejores bandas de los años 80 y de esos años vienen sus mejores canciones. quizá el último disco de R.E.M que merezca la pena como tal sea Out of time (1991), a partir de ese disco sólo algunas canciones se pueden salvar y hubo mucho marketing, promoción y canciones de relleno.

Que R.E.M se separen no es una mala noticia, es algo lógico, pero debería haberse producido diez o quince años antes.

R.E.M tiene muchas grandes canciones y para mi esta es la mejor.

Belle and Sebastian "Get me away from here, I'm dying"

Grupo/Interprete: Belle and Sebastian

Canción: Get me away from here, I'm dying

Disco: If you're feeling sinister (1996)

Estilo: Indie Pop.

Con esta canción comienza el primer disco de Belle and Sebastian, de eso hace ya quince años.

Ooh! Get me away from here I'm dying Play me a song to set me free Nobody writes them like they used to So it may as well be me Here on my own now after hours Here on my own now on a bus Think of it this way You could either be successful or be us With our winning smiles, and us With our catchy tunes and words Now we're photogenic You know, we don't stand a chance Oh, I'll settle down with some old story About a boy who's just like me Thought there was love in everything and everyone You're so naive! They always reach a sorry ending They always get it in the end Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then With a winning smile, the poor boy With naivety succeeds At the final moment, I cried I always cry at endings Oh, that wasn't what I meant to say at all From where I'm sitting, rain Falling against the lonely tenement Has set my mind to wander Into the windows of my lovers They never know unless I write "This is no declaration, I just thought I'd let you know goodbye" Said the hero in the story "It is mightier than swords I could kill you sure But I could only make you cry with these words"

Teenage Fanclub "I still have thee"

Grupo/Interprete: Teenage Fanclub
Canción: When I still have Thee
Disco: Shadows (2010)
Estilo: Indie Pop

Clap your hands say yeah "Maniac"

Grupo/Interprete: Clap your hands say yeah

Canción: Maniac

Disco: Hysterical

Estilo: Indie pop

Una de nuestras bandas indies favoritas, junto con The Drums y The pain of being pure at heart, va a sacar un nuevo disco el próximo 20 de septiembre. El disco se va a llamar Hysterical y por lo que he leído será bastante mejor que el segundo, con más vitalidad y optimismo. Maniac es el adelanto del disco, una canción brillante en sus dos acepciones como adjetivo, la canción brilla y desde luego es sobresaliente.

Adrian Borland "Summer wheels"

Grupo/Interprete: Adrian Borland

Canción: Summer wheels

Disco: Harmony and destruction (2002)

Estilo: Rock alternativo

Adrian Borlan fue el líder de The Sound, una gran banda de los años 80. Tras la disolución de The Sound, inició una carrera en solitario, publicando cinco discos hasta su muerte en 1999. "Harmony and destruction" es su disco póstumo, en el cual estaba trabajando cuando decidió poner fin a su vida un 26 de abril.