Tacones "Dificil"

Grupo/Interprete: Tacones

Canción: Dificil

Disco: requien final (1981)

Estilo: pop, new wave.

Gracial al fenomenal y recomendable blog Sangre Española (http://sangrespanola.wordpress.com) he podido volver a escuchar esta canción casi treinta años después. Tacones es uno de los muchos grupos de finales de los 70 o principios de los 80 que fueron masacrados musicalmente por las discográficas con sonidos muy lejanos a la esencia de las bandas. Quizá esta canción sea la única excepción.

Como dato para confirmar lo anterior la producción del disco fue de Tino Casal y hubieron arreglos de Luís Cobos y Teddy Bautista.

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)

A.C Newman "There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve"

Grupo/Interprete: A.C Newman
Canción: There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve
Disco: Get Guilty
Estilo: Pop Rock Alternativo, Indie Pop

A.C Newman fue miembro de Zumpano y en la actaulidad lo es de The New Pornographers, lo que de momento no le impide mantener una carrera discofráfica en solitario. Esta canción es de su segundo disco

there are maybe ten or twelve

things i could teach you

after that, well i think you're on your own

that wasn't their opening line

that was the tenth or the twelfth

make of that what you will

make of that what you will

once there was a haunted loop

of your deep fallen tears

forehead resting on a record shelf

amid moving boxes stacked

i'm still waiting for the right words

make of that what you will

make of that what you will

and the eyes they were

a color i can't remember

which says more than the first two verses

and it is the devil you know

that will slam the door harder

make of that what you will

make of that what you will

make of that what you will

make of that what you will

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

Astrid "Plastic Skull"

ESCUCHA ESPECIALMENTE RECOMENDADA

Grupo/Interprete: Astrid
Canción: Plastic Skull
Disco: Strange Weather Lately (1999)
Estilo: Indie Rock.

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