sábado, 28 de marzo de 2009

Collarbone

Cortita: los ingleses son los que mejor música han hecho, hacen y harán en la historia de la música mundial. Fujiya & Miyagi es una banda relativamente nueva, formados en Brighton en 2000. Ellos se autocalifican como altamente influenciados por el género Krautrock.

El nombre de la banda proviene de una marca de reproductor de discos y del maestro de Daniel Larusso en "Karate Kid" (el Sr. Miyagi, Pat Morita)
Tienen dos discos: "Transparent Things" de 2006 y a fines de 2008 sacaron otro: "Lightbulbs".
Les dejo el tema más conocido de ellos: "Collarbone", con una posible explicación de su letra hecha por un usuario de YouTube:

"its about zoo animals getting let out representing the things in society that always seem to be under the rug and not talked about. The army is literally playing big brother and cleaning this up so we can go and live our happy sockerball kicking lives."

Here you go:



Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone

First time her collarbone tripped over my shoelaces [3x]
Over my shoelaces, yeah, over my shoelaces

Got to get a new pair of shoes
to kick it with her, not kick it with you
[2x]

Second time her collarbone tripped over my shoelaces [3x]
Yeah, 100 meter races, yeah, 100 metered race

Got to get a new pair of shoes
to kick it with her, not kick it with you
(Sock it to me)
Got to get a new pair of shoes
to kick it with her, not kick it with you

What she gonna do with a fool like you? [3x]
What she gonna [4x]
What she gonna do with a fool like you? [3x]
What she gonna [3x] Sock it to me, ah!

Toe bone connected to the ankle bone
ankle bone connected to the shin bone
shin bone connected to the knee bone
knee bone connected to the thigh bone
thigh bone connected to the hip bone
hip bone connected to the back bone
back bone connected to the collarbone
collarbone connected to the neck bone
neck bone connected to the head bone
head bone connected to the neck bone
neck bone connected to the collarbone
collarbone connected to the back bone
back bone connected to the hip bone
hip bone connected to the thigh bone
thigh bone connected to the knee bone
knee bone connected to the shin bone
shin bone connected to the knee bone
ankle bone connected to the shin bone
toe bone connected to the ankle bone
ankle bone connected to the shin bone
shin bone connected to the knee bone
knee bone connected to the thigh bone
thigh bone connected to the hip bone
hip bone connected to the back bone
back bone connected to the collarbone

Got to get a new pair of shoes
to kick it with her, not kick it with you
(Sock it to me, ah)
[4x]

What she gonna do with a fool like you? [3x]
What she gonna [4x]
What she gonna do with a fool like you? [3x]
What she gonna [3x] Sock it to me, ah!

Uh, sock it to me, ah [3x]

jueves, 26 de marzo de 2009

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Luego de un zarpado recital en Buenos Aires, Radiohead queda dando vueltas en mi vida...un show soñado, perfecto, viendolo a 10 mts del escenario, con Thom Yorke en primer plano, así también como los zarpados violeros/toca todo que tiene a su lado...

Sencillamente sensacional el momento que se creó con temas como Paranoid Android, Creep o este temita que vamos a poner ahora acá: Street Spirit (Fade Out).

Radiohead es una banda que le tenés que tener paciencia, salvo excepciones no suelen ser temas con un estribillo pegadizo (y comercial) que te van a quedar rondando en la cabeza sino más bien se te van a ir metiendo de a poquito hasta que adores la melancolía y profundidad tanto lírica como musical de los temas.
Una de las excepciones a esa regla de no-riffs pegadizos es este temita...desde el minuto cero ya te invita a flashear miles de cosas y el video es sencillamente genial. Ahi vá:

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Rows of houses, all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out

This machine will, will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under

Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see its beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love
IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

sábado, 21 de marzo de 2009

Boys you won't remember

De la Wikipedia

The Wrens are an indie rock band that formed in the late 1980s in New Jersey. Their debut album Silver was released in 1994. The band was plagued by label problems throughout the rest of the 1990s, leaving them unable to release an album for many years after Secaucus in 1996. The band's third offering, The Meadowlands, finally surfaced in late 2003. Following a gig at University of London Union in London in March 2006, The Guardian declared: "On this form the Wrens are surely one of the best live bands in the world."
Una banda sensacional que tenés que escuchar con detenimiento y con un toque de melancolía en tu ser. Te dejo el video original (maso, dale mas bola a la música)...





The Wrens - Boys You Won't Remember


boys you won't remember
from the minute
you walked into the room
every letter started brokenhearted
and ended way too soon

lived through underrated
getting jaded
to wind up with no one
hiding in new places getting wasted
singing "i guess we're done"

i don't want you to wonder why
i don't want you to wonder why
won't do any good
you don't know what you got into
until you know when it's all gone, gone...

i don't feel the need to try and explain
excuses sounding insane
you're gonna find, you're gonna find
i've been knocked down
but i've stood up
down off of the ground
but i've stood up
lost without a sound
but i've stood up
to faced another round
but i've stood up
you want me, you want me...

i don't know what you got on me
even in just you wait and see

i dont feel the need to try and explain
excuses sounding insane
you're going to find
you're going to find
i'm feeling down
but i've stood up
down off of the ground
but i've stood up
lost without a sound
but i've stood up
to face another round
but i've stood up
you want me, you want me

...y luego podés ver porqué este tipo inglés dijo que esta banda hace uno de los mejores shows en vivo de la historia (no coincido aunque es muy copado poder "tocar" entremezclado con la banda que fuiste a ver...mirá este show en Londres: (a partir del minuto 1:45 prestá atención)

jueves, 12 de marzo de 2009

Eighties

Killing Joke son una banda de rock post punk inglesa formada en 1978 en Notting Hill, Londres.
Con un éxito comercial modesto, Killing Joke ha influenciado a muchas bandas posteriores como Nirvana, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Napalm Death, Tool, Prong, Metallica, Primus, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Faith No More, Korn, etc.
Hasta el día de hoy tienen actividad y son una banda muy interesante para escuchar ya que en su discografía han pasado por distintos estilos: rock industrial, doom, gloom, incorporando elementos de música dance, rock gótico, metal, etc.

El tema que acerco de la banda es peculiar porque la banda reclamó que Nirvana reconozca que Kurt Cobain había "tomado prestado" el riff del tema "Eighties" para crear "Come As You Are". Como la banda reconoció abiertamente que habían tomado el riff, la banda dejó de lado el litigio pero hace muy poco, Dave Grohl (antaño batero de Nirvana, ahora front man de Foo Fighters) decidió compensar a "Killing Jokes" por el robo y le grabó la batería de su anteultimo disco de 2003 Killing Jokes (este es el segundo disco de la banda que se titula igual que su nombre, el primero fue en 1980)

Los dejo con el temita en cuestión para que comprueben el plagio.

Eighties - Killing Joke



Killing Joke - Eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i have to push, i have to struggle
Eighties - get out of my way, i'm not for sale no more
Eighties - let's kamikaze 'til we get there
And we sang
You do it this way
Eighties - by day we run by night we dance, we do
Eighties - i'm in love with the coming race
Eighties - i've got the best, i'll take all i can get
Eighties - i'm living for the eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i struggle
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle

Come As You Are - Nirvana