Gin Blossoms "Follow you down"

Grupo: Gin Blossoms
Canción: Follow you down
Disco: Congratulation ... I´m Sorry (1996)
Discográfica: A&M
Estilo: Pop rock Americano (del norte evidentemente) power pop


Una de las mejores canciones de la banda de Arizona, que se encuentra en su tercer disco. La banda se disolvió después de la publicación de este disco y diez años después ha vuelto publicando dos discos en 2006 y 2010.

Did you see the sky
I think it means that we've been lost
Maybe one less time is all we need
I can't really help it if my tongue's all tied in knots
Jumping off a bridge, it's just the farthest that I've ever been
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Anyplace but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
I know we're headed somewhere, I can see how far we've come
But still I can't remember anything
Let's not do the wrong thing and I'll swear it might be fun
It's a long way down when all the knots we've tied have come undone
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
Anyplace but those I know by heart
Anywhere you go, I'll follow you down
I'll follow you down, but not that far
How you gonna ever find your place
Running in an artificial pace
Are they gonna find us lying face down in the sand
So what the hell now, we've already been forever damned
Anywhere you go I'll follow you down...

Violent Femmes "Gone Daddy gone"

Grupo/Interprete: Violent Femmes
Canción: Gone daddy gone
Disco: Violent Femmes (1983)
Estilo:Post Punk, New Wave

Temazo de la banda de Gordon Gano que está en su primer disco y que el próximo año cumple 30 años.

Beautiful girl lovely dress

High school smiles oh yes

Beautiful girl lovely dress

Where she is now I can only guess

Cause it's gone daddy gone 

Your love is gone

Gone daddy gone 

The love is gone away

When I see you 

Eyes will turn blue

When I see you 

Thousand eyes turnin blue

Tell by the way you that you switch and walk

I can see by the way that you baby talk

I can know by the way you treat your man

I can love you baby til it's a cryin

Beatiful girl lovely dress

15 smiles oh yes

Beautiful girl lovely dress

Where she is now I can only guess

The Cars "Too Late"

Grupo/Interprete:The Cars
Canción: Too Late
Disco: Move like this
Estilo: Pop Rock

Después de catorce años , el año pasado The Cars publicó un disco. Hasta ahí todo normal: una banda de éxito de los años 80 que vuelve a reunirse, sacando un disco para hacer conciertos y caja. Pero el caso de The Cars es diferente a otras bandas que han vuelto para recordar sus viejos éxitos y ver lo bien o mal que el tiempo les ha tratado. Y digo que es diferente, porque Move like this, es un pedazo de disco, a la altura o mejor de alguno de los discos que publicaron en la década de los 80. Es un retorno honrado y un ejemplo es la canción que acompaño con este post, digna de la banda de Rick Ocasek y fiel a su estilo.





i could dream about 
things that never end 
wishes on a star 
and something round the bend
i remember times 
things were pretty clear 
i felt the pressure pawns 
threw away the fears
i believe in you 
and your sultry side 
and i would never jump 
your never ending ride
my feet are on the ground 
i'm in the lost and found 
i might sway and tip 
but i'll never jump the ship
i'm never gonna get that crazy 
i'm never gonna be shot down 
you know it takes a lot to faze me 
whenever you're around
and you say 
it's too late 
and all the storms in life 
you have to contemplate 
and you say 
it's too late 
when the mornings rise 
you got to celebrate yeah
well you may cross the line 
or suck a clementine 
but i know for sure 
i need you never more 
there's dreams on the fridge 
there's lovers on the binge 
nobody really knows 
that's just the way it goes
i'm never gonna get that crazy 
i'm never gonna be shot down 
you know it takes a lot to faze me 
whenever you're around
and you say 
it's too late 
and all the storms in life 
you got to contemplate 
and you say 
it's too late 
when the mornings rise 
you got to celebrate 
yeah yeah
well i can take a fall 
or hang it on the wall 
no matter what you think 
i'm always on the brink 
but you can throw a twist 
and i can move like this 
they give you lots of slack 
then something pulls you back
i'm never gonna get that crazy 
i'm never gonna be shot down 
you know it takes a lot to faze me 
whenever you're around
and you say 
it's too late 
and all the storms in life 
you got to contemplate 
you say 
it's too late 
when the mornings rise 
you got to celebrate yeah 
yeah yeah

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.

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.

The Jessica Fletchers "Bloody Seventies Love "

Grupo.- The Jessica Fletchers

Canción.- Bloody Seventies Love

Disco.- What Happened to The? (2003)

Estilo: Neo Psicodelia, Indie Pop

Moby "We are all made of stars"

Grupo/Interprete: Moby

Canción: We are all made of stars

Disco: 18 (2002)

Estilo: Alternativo, Tecno Ambient

Este fin de semana tendré la oportunidad de ver a este genio de la música y es que el festival Electromar 2011 se hace a 150 metros de donde vivo.

Growing in numbers

Growing in speed

Can't fight the future

Can't fight what I see

People they come together

People they fall apart

No one can stop us now

'Cause we are all made of stars

Efforts of lovers

Left in my mind

I sing in the reaches

We'll see what we find

People they come together

People they fall apart

No one can stop us now

'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together

People they fall apart

No one can stop us now

'Cause we are all made of stars

Slow slow slow, come come

Someone come come come

Even love is goin' 'round

You can't ignore what is goin' 'round

Slowly rebuilding

I feel it in me

Growing in numbers

Growing in peace

People they come together

People they fall apart

No one can stop us now

'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together

People they fall apart

No one can stop us now

'Cause we are all made of stars

People they come together

(People they come together)

People they fall apart

(People they fall apart)

No one can stop us now

(No one can stop us now)

'Cause we are all made of stars

(We are all made of stars)

We are all made of stars

People they come together

We are all made of stars

(People they fall apart)

We are all made of stars

(No one can stop us now)

'Cause we are all made of stars

(We are all made of stars)

Super Deluxe "What´s up with me"

Grupo/Interprete: Super Deluxe
Canción: What´s up with me
Disco: Via Satellite (1997)
Estilo: Power Pop

what's up with me

would you believe

i'm not exactly what i'm supposed to be

a grand cliche on holiday

from what i read i guess a dead giveaway

a reluctant dilettante

with no favorite work of art

or beloved poem that i wrote in rome or somewhere

i get every lesson a la carte

and a purple heart starved for air

je parle francais while i'm away

though i never have a thing to say

what's up with me complatency

far too obvious for you to agree

an idiot savant wondering if he's dumb or smart

struck by cupid's arrow

or a poison dart filled with fear and how

everything might fall apart

ending at the start insincere

what's up with me

born a scorpio

my deviations on display

well i feel all wrong though i'm a-okay (so they say...)

i know better than to act this way

hell i put you on touche

what's up with me

champs elysee

suddenly she's there

telling me that i'm to blame

je suis content

getting what i want

though i whisper the wrong name

au revoir

no small faux pas

thinking of you

Magnapop "Lay it down"

Grupo/Interprete: Magnapop
Canción: Lay it down
Disco: Hot Boxing (1994)
Estilo: Indie Rock, Punk Pop

A sense of worth

A sense of same

A sense of what is in your name

Of what it means to let you down

And pretend when you're around

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down for the last time

Surely show your rage

I'm sorry doesn't matter

And it makes you mad

And if it always stays the same

Then you'll never see it

I'm sorry doesn't help it

And it turns you away

You know there's something there

And it's tearing away at

The part that kills your faith

The part that kills your faith

A sense of worth

A sense of same

A sense of what is in your name

Of what it means to let you down

And pretend when you're around

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down for the last time

Surely show your rage

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down

I'm sorry doesn't matter

And it makes you mad

And if it always stays the same

Then you never see it

I'm sorry doesn't help it

And it turns you away

You know there's something there

And it's tearing away at

The part that kills your faith

The part that kills your faith

A sense of worth

A sense of same

A sense of what is in your name

Of what it means to let you down

And pretend when you're around

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down for the last time

Surely show your rage

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down for the last time

Surely show your rage

Lay it down for the last time

And then turn away

Lay it down

The Mockers "Mary Alice"

 "Somewhere Between Mocksville and Harmony"(1995), fue el primer disco de esta banda estadounidense de power pop muy vinculada con España, Tony Leventhal y Seth Gordon se conocieron de niños en un colegio en Estepona.

I was walking down the street one day

Thinking 'bout the things I'd like to say

But it doesn't matter-it's okay

She never listens anyway

CHORUS

Who can it be, who can it be

Who can it be who's calling me?

Mary Alice, please won't you tell us

What is going on inside your head

I know I need you and don't believe you

When you say get someone else instead

I saw a person in my mind

The girl I thought I'd never find

But when I found her she was more

Than I had ever bargained for

CHORUS

When I saw you , I knew it must be true

That I would do anything you want me to

CHORUS

Kisses "Bermuda"

El duo angelino Kisses publicó el pasado año su primer disco "The heart of nightlife", indie pop electrónico que te traslada a los años 80 y que recuerda a los grandes de este género: Depeche Mode

Carey Ott "I Wouldn't Do That to You"

Carey Ott es un cantautor chicaguense que a mediados de los 90 lideró, con muy poca fortuna, una banda llamada Torben Floor. Años después, ya en solitario, ha publicado dos discos. Lucid Dream es su disco publicado en 2006. Indie Pop, con el sello personal del autor y la influencia del Country Rock que cualquier nortemericano lleva en las venas.

Como dato curioso la canción de este disco "Am I just one" ha salido en la serie "Anatomía de grey".

Looking at the soft skin of yesterday's light fall upon you

Rising up off the pillowy haze that we gaze through

It's the song that I sing because I have to

I make a choice to raise my voice but you're hard to refuse

I wouldn't do that to you

I wouldn't do that to you

I couldn't drag it out

You couldn't settle me down

I wouldn't do that to you

Peel off the yellowing pages of memories in black and white

When love was just a sweet idea we could lie beside

And it's a price that we pay because we want to

But it's worse to see the hurt when she's so much to lose

I wouldn't do that to you

I wouldn't do that to you

I couldn't drag it out

You couldn't settle me down

I wouldn't do that to you

(To you, to you)

Trying on the tough skin of Saturday night falls around you

I'm thinking of the billowing blaze that surrounded you

Now it's the song that you sing because you have to, not 'cause you want to

And it's the hardest thing to choose when there's so much to lose

I wouldn't do that to you

I wouldn't do that to you (no)

I couldn't drag it out

You couldn't settle me down

I wouldn't do that to you

Pavement "Spit on a stranger"

Grupo/Interprete: Pavement
Canción: Spit on a stranger
Disco: Terror twilight
Estilo: Noise Pop, Lo-Fi.

However you feel,

whatever it takes,

whenever it's real,

whatever awaits,

whatever you need,

however so slight,

whenever it's real,

whenever it's right.

I've been thinking long and hard about the things you said to me,

like a bitter stranger,

and now I see the long, the short, the middle and what's inbetween,

I could spit on a stranger,

(pour/pull me out)

you're a bitter stranger.

(pour me out)

Whatever you feel,

whatever it takes,

whenever it's real,

whatever awaits me,

whatever you need,

however so slight,

whenever it leads,

whenever it's right.

Honey I'm a prize and you're a catch

and we're a perfect match,

like two bitter strangers,

and now I see the long,

the short of it and I can make it last,

I could spit on a stranger,

(pour me out)

you're a bitter stranger,

(pour me out)

I could spit on a stranger,

(pour me out)

you're a bitter stranger.

(pour me out)

I see the sunshine in your eyes,

I'll try the things you'll never try,

I'll be the one that leaves