Super Deluxe "She Came on·"

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Grupo: Super Deluxe

Canción: She Came On

Disco: Famous (1995)

Discográfica: Revolution

Estilo: POWER POP

Pedazo de canción de esta banda de Seattle formada en 1994 y que no es post grunge por el hecho de ser de Seattle. Digo esto último porque he visto en algunos lugares que a esta gente la catalogan así. Se podrá discutir si hacen power pop o rock alternativo, pero lo que está claro es que no hacen ni grunge ni post grunge. Super Deluxe editaron dos discos en la década de los 90 y en al año 2005 editaron su último disco.

she came on

like a storm

from the blind side of a memory

soft and warm

left me sea-sick on the shore

she believed

she could prove

it was her world that I needed

but I left her for someone I wanted more

always using clever words to hide the truth

communicating in the ignorance of youth

still I believe that my delusions are realities within confusion

I accept the consequences for my lack of innocence

she was wrong

sunshine bright

flaunting careless situations

guarded wit

always answering just because

wild cliche

I'm discreet

waking up from perfect dreaming

when I realized I want what never was

always using clever words to hide the truth (words to hide the truth)

communicating in the ignorance of youth

still I believe that my delusions are realities within confusion

I accept the consequences for my lack of innocence

why do I just refuse to disagree

with what I believe

I found myself wandering aimlessly

calling it freedom

Ben Folds Five "Evaporated"

Grupo: Ben Folds Five

Canción: Evorated

Disco: Whatever and ever amen (1997) Segundo disco

Discográfica: Sony

Estilo: Indie pop acústico

Banda procedente de Chapel Hill (Carolina del Norte) formada en 1994 y disuelta en octubre de 2000. Editaron tres discos y su peculiaridad era no usar guitarras eléctricas.

What I've kept with me

And what I've thrown away

And where the hell I've ended up

On this glary random day

Were the things I've really cared about

Just left along the way

For being too pent up and proud

Woke up way too late

Feeling hungover and old

And the sun was shining bright

And I walked barefoot down the road

Started thinking about my old man

Want to get into a car and go anywhere

Here I stand, sad and free

I can't cry, I can't see

What I've done

God, what have I done

Don't you know I'm numb, man?

I can't feel a thing at all

Now it's all smiles and business these days

I'm indifferent to the loss

I have faith that there's a soul somewhere

That's leading me around

I wonder if she knows

Which way is up and which is down

I poured my heart out

I poured my heart out

It evaporated ... see?

Blind man at a canyon's edge

Of a panoramic scene

Or maybe I'm a kite that's flying high and random

Dangling a string

Or slumped over in a vacant room

Head on a stranger's knee

I'm sure back home they think I've lost my mind

Scooby Doo, Matthew Sweet y Simple Plan

Grupo: Matthew Sweet
Canción: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Disco: Saturday Morning Cartoons. Greatest Hits (1995)
Discográfica: MCA Records
Estilo: power pop animado

Mi frikismo no tiene límites, frente a los serios problemas de la vida real, una pequeña dosis de música de dibujos animados en su versión clásica y más actual.



Grupo:Simple Plan
Canción: What´s new Scooby-Doo

 

DM3 "Can´t get what you want"

Grupo: DM3
Canción: Can´t get what you want
Disco: Road To Rome (1996)
Discográfica: Citadel Records
Estilo: POWER POP

Trio australiano de power pop, procedentes de la ciudad de Perth, la banda fue formada a mediados de los años 90 por Dom (Dominico) Mariani, Pascal Bartolone y Tony Italiano, siguen más o menos activos en la actualidad. Dom Mariani es el gran genio del power pop australiano de los últimos treinta años. Ha sido miembro de The Stem, Lime Spiders, Summer Suns y desde el año 2002 está publicando discos en solitario.

The Church "Youth Worshipper"

Grupo: The Church
Canción: Youth Worshipper
Disco: Heyday (1986)
Discográfica: Arista
Estilo: Pop Rock Alternativo/ Neo Psicodelia

Youth worshipper, goddess of ruin

Youth worshipper, like you know what you're doing

I'll bet the sun and rain never touch your face again

Race against the time

Youth worshipper, hope you know what you're worth now

Youth worshipper, like you're paying the earth now

You want the child back, want an aphrodisiac

To fill the crack with time

Hooves and horns and teeth and bones

I'm gonna stitch you up when you come unsewn

Youth worshipper, wrapped in blue fox and ermine

Youth worshipper, got no pity for vermin

Your engines and machines drink your fuel and steal your scenes

Alex Chilton y Teenage Fanclub "Free Again"

Grupo: Alex Chilton
Canción: Free Again
Disco: Bach´s Bottom (1975)
Discográfica: Razor and  Tie Music
Estilo: Y que más da. Rock and Roll

Grupo: Teenage Fanclub
Canción: Free Again
Disco: Single (1992)

En al año de Nuestro Señor de 1993, concretamente el 3 de diciembre escuche esta canción en sus dos versiones muchas veces, por fin había terminado mi cautiverio que duro 9 meses. Casi 16 años después me veo liberado de nuevo de otra cuestión vital. No me presento a la reelección.

Summercamp "Play it by ear"

Grupo: Summercamp
Canción: Play it by ear
Disco: Pure Juice (1997)
Discográfica: Maverick
Estilo: Power Pop

I'm amused by the overwhelming choices

I guess the hardest part is knowing when to stop

Yeah I'm confused and I think I'm hearing voices

Things are happening so fast

Do I save the best for last

But I'll have to play it by ear

I can't see that far from here

I'm defined by everything that I know

And I'm tempted by the rest

Is this just one big test

Well I'm not blind, but I wish I could see clearer

Memories tend to fade, so we'll take it day by day

I'll have to play it by ear

I can't see that far from here

Why don't we keep our eyes peeled

I'll have to play it by ear

I can't see that far from here

Why don't we keep our eyes peeled

I should've kept my lips sealed

Inspiral Carpets "This Is How It Feels "

Grupo: Inspiral Carpets

Canción: This is how it feels

Disco: Life (1990)

Discográfica: Mute Records

Estilo: Indie

Banda de Manchester activa de 1986 a 1994

 

Husband don't know what he's done

Kids don't know what's wrong with mum

She can't say, they can't see, putting it down to another bad day

Daddy don't know what he's done

Kids don't know what's wrong with mum

SO THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE LONELY

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE SMALL

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS WHEN YOUR WORD MEANS NOTHING AT ALL

Black car drives through the town, some guy from the top estate

Left a note for a local girl, and yet he had it all on a plate

SO THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE LONELY

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE SMALL

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS WHEN YOUR WORD MEANS NOTHING AT ALL

Husband don't know what he's done

Kids don't know what's wrong with mum

She can't say, they can't see, putting it down to another bad day

SO THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE LONELY

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS TO BE SMALL

THIS IS HOW IT FEELS WHEN YOUR WORD MEANS NOTHING AT ALL

Kara´s Flowers "Soap Disco"

Grupo: Kara´s Flowers
Canción: Soap Disco
Disco: The Fourh World (1997)
Discográfica: Reprise
Estilo: Pop Rock Alternativo

Cuarteto de Los Angeles formado en 1995 y disuelto en 1999. Tres de sus miembros formaron posteriomente Maroon 5. Personalmente me quedo con Kara´s Flowers.

The crowd was getting old
The disco`s back or so I`m told
But weve got nothing here
Except a pair of tired ears, and we say

Hey mama
I`m something
Check it out, see what it`s all about
Cause this is Soap disco, so charming
See the floor from a cleaner point of view

The Children had the time
To overthrow the slime
The super children said they could see

Bright lights and Clean colors
check it out, see what it`s all about
Cause this is Soap disco, so charming
See the floor from a cleaner point of view

Bright lights and clean colors
Check it out, see what it`s all about
Cause this is Soap Disco, so charming
See the floor from a cleaner point of view

Hey mama
I`m something
Check it out, see what it`s all about
Cause this is Soap Disco, so charming
See the floor from a cleaner point of view

The Jesus and Mary Chain y The Pixies "Head On"

Grupo: The Jesus and Mary Chain
Canción: Head On
Disco: Automatic (1989)
Discográfica: WEA
Estilo: Musica Surf desde Escocia





Grupo: The Pixies
Canción: Head On
Disco: Trompe le Monde (1991)
Discográfica: 4AD
Estilo: Noise Rock del bueno

Acabo de comer en un chiringuito en la playa (Sí, a pesar de ser 20 de noviembre, estamos a 22 grados) y mientras me tomaba una ensalada de pollo, estaba escuchando kiss fm, por un momento dudaba entre el suicidio o quemar el sitio, he optado por dejar la ensalada, pagarla y macharme. Por vuestra salud mental, por favor no escucheis kiss fm. Para desintoxicarme de la agresión auditiva de la cual he sido víctima, tenía que poner este pedazo de canción y la dignísima versión que realizaron The Pixies.

As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
I get an electric shock from you
This secondhand living just won't do
And the way I feel tonight
I could die and I wouldn't mind
And there's something going on inside
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I can't stand up
I can't cool down
I can't get my head off the ground
As soon as I get my head around you
I come around catching sparks off you
And all I ever got from you
Was all I ever took from you
Yeah, the world could die in pain
And I wouldn't feel no shame
And there's nothing holding me to blame
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
I said yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
And I'm taking myself to a dirty part of town
Where all my troubles can't be found
Makes you wanna feel
Makes you wanna try
Makes you wanna blow the stars from the sky

Billy Bragg "Sexuality"

Grupo: Billy Bragg
Canción: Sexuality
Disco: Don´t Try This at Home" (1991)
Discográfica: Elektra
Estilo: Anti-Folk

El "Rojo" de la música británica en una de sus canciones más divertidas. Este tío es un genio

I've had relations with girls from many nations

I've made passes at women of all classes

And just because you're gay I won't turn you away

If you stick around I'm sure that we can find some common ground

Chorus:

Sexuality - Strong and warm and wild and free

Sexuality - Your laws do not apply to me

A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden

Headlines give me headaches when I read them

I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade

He said some things are really left best unspoken

But I prefer it all to be out in the open

Sexuality - Young and warm and wild and free

Sexuality - Your laws do not apply to me

Sexuality - Don't threaten me with misery

Sexuality - I demand equality

I'm sure that everybody knows how much my body hates me

It lets me down most every time and makes me rash and hasty

I feel a total jerk before your naked body of work

I'm getting weighed down with all this information

Safe sex doesn't mean no sex it just means use your imagination

Stop playing with yourselves in hard currency hotels

I look like Robert De Niro, I drive a Mitsubishi Zero

Sexuality - Strong and warm and wild and free

Sexuality - Your laws do not apply to me

Sexuality - Come eat and drink and sleep with me

Sexuality - We can be what we want to be

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The James "Come Home"

Grupo: The James
Canción: Come Home
Disco: James (1991)
Discográfica: Fontana
Estilo: Pop Rock Alternativo

It's that time again when I lose my friends

Go walkabout, I've got the bends from pressure

This is a testing time when the choice is mine

Am I a fool for love or foolish with desire

You can throw him out you can spit on him

Call what he does a sin if it makes you feel better

And I can't believe you're all I'll ever need

And I need to feel that you're not holding me

And the way I feel just makes me want to scream

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home

After thirty years I've become my fears

I've become the kind of man I always hated

I am pulled apart, and my swollen heart

Has flipped out of the pan into the fire

I am in love insane with a sense of shame

That I threw stones at the condemned and

Now I'm slated

And I don't believe you're all I'll ever need

And I need to feel that you're not holding me

And the way I feel just makes me want to scream

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home

Come home, come home, come home

Adorable "Homeboy"

Grupo: Adorable
Canción: Homeboy
Disco: Against Perfection (1993)
Discográfica: SBK
Estilo: Indie Pop

Después de más de trescientas entradas todavía tengo oportunidad de poder exhibir pequeñas joyas como la que acompaño con este post. Se trata de Adorable, una banda de principios de los 90, formada en Coventry y con tan sólo dos discos publicados.

I'm tripping into the back of my mind

And your words like angels crash inside

And a word and a movement and a touch

And a word and a movement and it's all too much

It's all too much

I never understood what it meant to be

I never understood what it meant to be misunderstood

And even if I did, I don't think I'd care less

And even if I did, I don't think I'd care less

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

I want to drown beneath the waves

I want to dig myself a shallow grave

And hold you up for all to see

I want to cut you up, I want to watch you bleed, ever so slowly

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

I can't follow what I don't believe in

I can't follow what I don't believe in

And that's why there's nothing left of me

'Cause I don't believe in you

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

You're so beautiful

Doo-doo-doo-doo, you're my homeboy, you're my

homeboy

Doo-doo-doo-doo, you're my homeboy, you're my

homeboy

Beautiful

Oh god, you're so beautiful

Soul Asylum "Without a trace"

Grupo: Soul Asylum
Canción: Without a trace
Disco: Grave Dancer´s Union (1992) Sexto disco de su carrerra.
Discográfica: Columbia
Estilo: Pop Rock Alternativo

I fell in love with a hooker
She laughed in my face
So seriously I took her
I was a disgrace

I was out of line; I was out of place
Out of time to save face
See the open mouth of my suitcase
Sayin' leave this place

Leave without a trace
Leave without a trace
Leave without a trace

I tried to get a good job
With honest pay
I might as well join the mob
The benefits are okay

Standing in the sun with a popsicle
Everything is possible
With a lot of luck and a pretty face
And some time to waste

Leave without a trace
Leave without a trace
Leave without a trace

I tried to dance at a funeral
New Orleans style
I joined the Grave Dancer's Union
I had to file

Trying to do the right thing, play it straight
The right thing changes from state to state
Don't forget to take your mace
If you're out walking late

I liked to see your face
You left without a trace
You leave without a trace

The Hippycrickets "I´ll Try"

Grupo: The Hippycrickets
Canción: I´ll Try
Disco: Inconceivable (1997)
Discográfica: No Tomorrow
Estilo: Power pop

Trío de power pop formado en 1992 en Pensacola (Florida)

The Killer Barbies "Comic Books "

Grupo: The Killer Barbies
Canción: Comic Books
Disco: Dressed To Kiss
Estilo: Punk Rock Verbenero

Mercury Rev "Opus 40"

Grupo: Mercuty Rev
Canción: Opus 40
Disco: Deserter´s Song (1998)
Discográfica: V2
Estilo: Indie Pop

Fenomenal canción de esta estupenda banda de Buffalo (Nueva York) activos desde 1990, con nueve discos editados, el último de ellos del pasado año 2008

Well she tossed all night like a ragin' sea
woke up an' climbed from th' suicide machine
with her spanish candles an' her persian poems
stuck on th' rocks inside opus 40 stoned
an' scratchin' he wrists in the pourin' rain
she collapses down upon th' ocean floor again

Tears in waves minds on fire
Nights alone by yr side

Catskill mansions buried dreams
i'm alive she cried but i don't know what it means
somewhere out there across th' moonlit sands
there's a line drawn like th' lines on her own shand
an' slammin' her eyes lockin' th' door
she collapses down upon th' ocean floor again

Tears in waves minds on fire
Nights alone by yr side

East River Pipe "Hell is an open door"

Grupo: East River Pipe
Canción: Hell is an open door
Disco: The Gasolen Age (1999)
Discográfica: Merge
Estilo: Indie Pop

En realidad East River Pipe no es un grupo, es el cantautor multinstrumentista F.M Cornog, que lleva desde 1989 haciendo música. El último disco editado como East River Pipe es de 2006. Indie pop íntimo, con ligera influencia folk y gran influencia de Tom Verlaine y Lou Reed.

Splitsville "Yearbook"

Grupo: Splitsville
Canción: Yearbook
Disco: Ultrasound (1997) Segundo disco
Discográfica: Big Deal
Estilo: Power Pop

I've got a homeroom in my heart

A lesson plan I should have started once

But never did

Grade incomplete

I've got your yearbook in my head

It's filled with words I never said

Handwriting legible but none too neat

What can I do?

Pictures of you

Keep making me turn back pages

To redefine

These moments in time

But what does it matter anyway?

A Precious Moments figurine

Shoplifted porno magazines

Each frozen memory tastes bittersweet

Just like the night of our fist kiss

The fleeting glimpse of future bliss

Turned out to be the class

That I won't repeat

Each snapshot comes with it's own

Cache of conflictin' feelings

Four years of public wounds

Which probably won't end up healin'

Administered by teacher

Principal and guidance counselor

It almost makes me wish

I had the sense to stay the hell out

And what can I do?

Pictures of you

Keep making me turn back pages

To redefine

These moments in time

That I'll probably never understand. . . .

Pixies "Stormy Weather"

Grupo: The Pixies
Canción: Stormy Weather
Disco: Bossanova
Discográfica: Elektra
Estilo: Pop-Rock Alternativo-noise?

Una de las mejores canciones de esta banda. Si no estais de acuerdo, se admiten comentarios.

hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering
travelling career
she can really move
oh velveteen!

my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore you
my velouria

say to me
where have you been
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?

we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every summer
every
my velouria
my velouria

forevergreen
i know she's here
in California
i can see the tears
of shastasheen

my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore your
my velouria