A little soul

"A Little Soul" (Pulp)

Hey man,
how come you treat your woman so bad?
That's not the way you do it. No, no, no..
you shouldn't do it like that.
I could show you how to do it right.
I used to practice every night on my wife now she's gone. Yeah, she's gone.

You see your mother and me
we never got along that way you see.
I'd love to help you but everybody's telling me you look like me
but please don't turn out like me.
You look like me
but you're not like me I know.
I had one, two, three, four shots of happiness.
I look like a big man but I've only got a little soul.
I only got a little soul.

Yeah, I wish I could be an example.
Wish I could say I stood up for you and
fought for what was right. But I never did.
I just wore my trenchcoat and stayed out every single night.
You think I'm joking? Well, try me. Yeah, try me. Yeah come on, try me tonight.
I did what was wrong though I knew what was right.
I've got no wisdom that I want to pass on. Just don't hang 'round here, no,
I'm telling you son. You don't wanna know me.
Oh, that's just what everybody's telling me.

& everybody's telling me you look like me but please don't turn into me.
You look like me but you're not like me I hope.
I have run away from the one thing that I ever made.
Now I only wish that I could show you - wish I could show a little soul.
Wish I could show a little soul.

Dylan la semana que viene...

¿Y quién es capaz de esperar a la semana que viene?

¡Salud!

Costumbres occidentales exóticas

Como dicen mis alumnos: ¡hal-l-la!

Yo sí me lo creo.


¡Salud!

Dolor

HURT
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real

The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair

Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end

And you could have it alL
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

Johnny Cash

Sugar Mountain rocks Madrid!

El pasado 23 de febrero, asistimos al concierto de nuestros paisanos pontevedreses Sugar Mountain en la sala Wurlitzer Ballroom de Madrid. Rock del bueno, con referencias "setenteras" e influencias notables de los Faces y los Rolling Stones (la formación está "calcada" de estas bandas: dos guitarras, teclados, bajo y batería). Presentaron su último trabajo: In The Raw (Good Sounds) e hicieron versiones de los dos grupos ya citados, más Stray Cats y The Kinks. Un sonido muy trabajado, y entusiasmo contagioso de la banda en la actuación. Se nota que disfrutan de lo que hacen y eso ya es mucho decir de un grupo actual.

Curiosamente, las fotos que peor nos salieron, resultaron ser las mejores. No es la primera que nos sucede.

Los que sientan curiosidad, pueden pichar aquí para consultar fechas de futuros conciertos.

¡Salud!

Object trouvée (9, orquesta)

Recibí el enlace a esta página tan divertida. Si pincháis en un músico, se pone a tocar. Si volvéis a pinchar en él, se para.


¡Salud!

Tropicália en Soul Jazz Records

Vamos a darle su merecido a la discográfica británica SOUL JAZZ RECORDS, culpable de alguno de los mejores momentos con que se han deleitado nuestros oídos en los últimos años. Respecto a su glorioso catálogo, hay que verlo para creerlo. Cualquier tipo de música de cualquier parte del mundo tiene cabida en sus recopilatorios. Lo mejor de todos los estilos de todas las épocas que ha atravesado la música jamaicana se puede encontrar en sus series dedicadas al añorado Studio One de Lee Perry y en la imprescindible serie Dynamite! (que ya va por la sexta entrega). Estas series son responsables de los redescubrimientos de Jackie Mittoo, el productor Joe Gibbs o Sugar Minnott, por señalar sólo las referencias más obvias que han contado con disco individual dentro del catálogo de Soul Jazz Records.

Mas no son estas las únicas "delicatessen" presentes en los lanzamientos de la discográfica. Hay discos dedicados al rock mestizo de los emigrantes latinos en los EEUU (Chicano Power!, Barrio Nuevo, Nu Yorica! y Nu Yorica Roots!) o a la música afrocubana (Santería). Sus discos de soul y funk americano con denominación de origen son inigualables: New Orleans Funk, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Philadelphia Roots, Soul Gospel, Miami Sound y Chicago Soul.

Y, por supuesto, Brasil no podía faltar. Hay muchas referencias brasileñas entre los discos de Soul Jazz Records: Papete (dedicado al berimbau y percusión brasileiras), Batucada/Capoeira, Brasil, The Sexual Life Of The Savages y As Mercenárias (ambos publicados con la etiqueta "brazilian post-punk").
Pero lo que queremos destacar nosotros hoy es Tropicália; un repaso exhaustivo en veinte canciones al movimiento renovador de la música brasileña que eclosionó en 1968, en plena dictadura militar, y que impulsaron Caetano Veloso y Gilberto Gil. En el disco, además de los citados Gil y Veloso, hay temas de Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben y Tom Zé. Como todas las ediciones de Soul Jazz Records, viene acompañado de un lujoso libreto con fotos y una información extensa que sirve para contextualizar y explicar el origen del movimiento y sus consecuencias sociales y artísticas. Absolutamente recomendable.

Ná de ná (Los Enemigos)

Sé que hoy no,
sé que hoy no voy a tenerte.
Sé que hoy no vas a tenerme a mí.

¡Hay que ver!
Ésto lo sé ná más verte entre la gente
y de repente, de repente,
de repente caigo de la cuenta de que te divierte.

Creo que no
quiero volver a verte;
sé que luego pensaré que sí.
Que si no puedo dejar de quererte.
¿Cómo quieres que te cuente, que te cuente,
que te cuente que yo no soy así?
que cómo voy a ser lo que tu inventes;
y que no intentes, no intentes
no intentes cambiarme así:
no me inventes, y no me cuentes.
Sigo siendo el que hay en frente, en frente.
En frente de ti hay un tio de lo más corriente

Sé muy bien que habías soñado otra cosa;
yo también soñé con algo así,
algo así como un camino de rosas
que salieron apestosas.
Y me fui, y me fui.
¿Y vengo a parar aquí
a que me conviertas en otra cosa?
No, hermosa. No, hermosa, no intentes cambiarme así.
No me inventes, y no me cuentes.
Sigo siendo el que hay en frente, en frente.
En frente de ti hay un tipo de lo más corriente.

No intentes cambiarme así.
No me inventes, y no me cuentes.
Sigo siendo el que hay en frente, en frente

ná de ná...ná de ná...ná de ná...ná de ná...

Orphans, de Tom Waits

Después del Modern Times de Dylan, sale otro disco del año. Genialidad y creatividad a raudales. Sorprendente que un artista sea capaz de mantener semejante nivel de calidad.

Rock&Roll

DEBRIS
I left you on the debris
at the Sunday morning market
you were sorting through the odds and ends
you was looking for a bargain

I heard your footsteps at the front door
and that old familiar love song
'cause you knew you'd find me waiting there
at the top of the stairs

I wouldn't of went back
just to see how far it was
and you looked shocked to tell me
but I had to love her myself

there's more trouble at the depot
with the general workers union
and they said they'll never change a thing
well, they won't fight and their not working

oh you was my hero
hell you are my good friend
I've been there and back
and I know how far it is

but I left you on the Debris
now we both know you got no money
and I wonder what you would have done
without me hanging around

POR METER ENTRE MIS COSAS LA NARIZ
Estás aquí
no me vas a entretener
encontré mi medio de locomoción.
Tantas las cervezas que bebí
que perdí todo el respeto a la lección.

Oigo ladrar
mas no pases por aquí
frenaré con cuatro acordes la agresión.
Otra vez
cenaremos rock & roll
pero no maldeciré mi indecisión.

Y yo sé que esta noche
no me vas a encontrar
no vas a hacerme mal
no me conoces, no me conoces.
Esta noche
no me vas a encontrar
no vas a hacerme mal
no me conoces, no me conoces.

Muero por ti
que no sabes dónde vas
por meter entre mis cosas la nariz
estás tan lejos de acertar
que prefiero no tenerte junto a mí.

Y yo sé que esta noche
no me vas a encontrar
no vas a hacerme mal
no me conoces, no me conoces.
Esta noche
no me vas a encontrar
no vas a hacerme mal
no me conoces, no me conoces.

¡Salud!

Debris, composta por Ronnie Lane, está en el disco A nod is as good as wink... to a blind horse (1971), de los Faces. Por meter entre mis cosas la nariz, pertenece, por supuesto, al enorme Rosendo Mercado, y puede escucharse en su fantástico A las lombrices (1987).

Lista de bandas en una emisora de Pandora.com

Emisora para relajarse:

R.E.M.
Emmylou Harris
Los Lobos
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman
John Cale
Brian Eno
David Bowie
The Magnetic Fields
Mazzy Star
The Flaming Lips
Lou Reed
The Velvet Underground
Neil Young
Bruce Springsteen
Talking Heads
Pearl Jam
Os Mutantes
Drive-by Truckers
Supergrass
Ryan Adams
Blur
Pulp
Gene Clark
The Byrds
The Minus 5
10,000 Maniacs
Pavement
Cowboy Junkies

¡Salud!

Tu mirar

De tanto leva frechada do teu olhar
Meu peito até parece sabe o que?
Taubua de tiro ao alvaro
Não tem mais onde fura

Teu olhar mata mais do que bala de carabina
Que veneno estriquinina
Que pecheira de baiano
Teu olhar mata mais que atropelamento de automover
Mata mais que bala de revorver

De tanto llevar flechazos de tu mirar

mi pecho ya parece, ¿sabes qué?

Tabla de tiro al blanco,

ya no tiene dónde agujerear.

Tu mirar mata más que bala de carabina

que veneno estricnina

que pechera de Bahiano.

Tu mirar mata más que atropellamiento de automóver

mata más que bala de revórver.

(Tiro ao álvaro - Adoniran Barbosa, cantada por Elis Regina)

¡Salud!

500 canciones que dieron forma al rock & roll

James Henke, director del Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, en colaboración con músicos y críticos, seleccionó las 500 canciones (no sólo rock) consideradas más influyentes en dar al rock and roll la forma que tiene hoy en día. La lista se encuentra en orden alfabético por artista:

A
AC/DC, “Back in Black”
AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”
Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys, “Wabash Cannonball”
Aerosmith, “Dream On”
Aerosmith, “Toys in the Attic”
Afrika Bambaataa, “Planet Rock”
The Allman Brothers Band, “Ramblin' Man”
The Allman Brothers Band, “Whipping Post”
The Animals, “The House of the Rising Sun”
The Animals, “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”
Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues”
Arrested Development, “Tennessee”
B
The B-52's, “Rock Lobster”
LaVern Baker, “Jim Dandy”
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, “Work With Me Annie”
The Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
The Band, “The Weight”
Beach Boys, “California Girls”
Beach Boys, “Don't Worry Baby”
Beach Boys, “God Only Knows”
Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations”
Beach Boys, “Surfin' U.S.A.”
The Beastie Boys, “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)”
The Beatles, “A Day in the Life”
The Beatles, “Help!”
The Beatles, “Hey Jude”
The Beatles, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
The Beatles, “Norwegian Wood”
The Beatles, “Strawberry Fields Forever”
The Beatles, “Yesterday”
The Beau Brummels, “Laugh Laugh”
Beck, “Loser”
Jeff Beck Group, “Plynth (Water Down the Drain)”
The Bee Gees, “Stayin' Alive”
Archie Bell and the Drells, “Tighten Up”
Chuck Berry, “Johnny B. Goode”
Chuck Berry, “Maybelline”
Chuck Berry, “Rock and Roll Music”
The Big Bopper, “Chantilly Lace”
Big Brother and the Holding Company, “Piece of My Heart”
Big Star, “September Gurls”
Black Sabbath, “Iron Man”
Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
Bobby Blue Bland, “Turn On Your Love Light”
Blondie, “Heart of Glass”
Kurtis Blow, “The Breaks”
Gary U.S. Bonds, “Quarter to Three”
Booker T. & the M.G.'s, “Green Onions”
Boston, “More Than a Feeling”
David Bowie, “Fame”
David Bowie, “Space Oddity”
David Bowie, “Ziggy Stardust”
The Box Tops, “The Letter”
Charles Brown, “Driftin' Blues”
James Brown, “I Got You (I Feel Good)”
James Brown, “Please, Please, Please”
James Brown, “Say It Loud — I'm Black and I'm Proud”
Ruth Brown, “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”
Jackson Browne, “Late for the Sky”
Buffalo Springfield, “For What It's Worth”
Solomon Burke, “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
Johnny Burnette Trio, “Train Kept a-Rollin'”
The Byrds, “Eight Miles High”
The Byrds, “Hickory Wind”
The Byrds, “Mr. Tambourine Man”
C
Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues”
Johnny Cash, “I Walk the Line”
The Champs, “Tequila”
Gene Chandler, “Duke of Earl”
The Chantays, “Pipeline”
Ray Charles, “Hallelujah I Love Her So”
Ray Charles, “I Got a Woman”
Ray Charles, “What'd I Say”
Chubby Checker, “The Twist”
Chic, “Le Freak”
Charlie Christian with The Benny Goodman Orchestra, “Solo Flight”
Eric Clapton, “After Midnight”
Dave Clark Five, “Glad All Over”
The Clash, “London Calling”
Jimmy Cliff, “Many Rivers to Cross”
Jimmy Cliff, “The Harder They Come”
Patsy Cline, “I Fall to Pieces”
The Clovers, “Love Potion No. 9”
The Coasters, “Yakety Yak”
The Coasters, “Young Blood”
Eddie Cochran, “C'mon Everybody”
Eddie Cochran, “Summertime Blues”
Joe Cocker, “With a Little Help From My Friends”
The Contours, “Do You Love Me”
Sam Cooke, “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Sam Cooke, “Bring It on Home to Me”
Sam Cooke, “You Send Me”
Alice Cooper, “I'm Eighteen”
Elvis Costello, “Pump It Up”
The Count Five, “Psychotic Reaction”
Country Joe and the Fish, “The Fish Cheer and I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag”
Don Covay, “Mercy Mercy”
Cream, “Crossroads”
Cream, “Sunshine of Your Love”
Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Fortunate Son”
Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Green River”
Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Proud Mary”
Crosby, Stills and Nash, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, “Ohio”
The Crows, “Gee”
The Crystals, “Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)”
The Crystals, “He's a Rebel”
Culture Club, “Time (Clock of the Heart)”
D
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones, “Let's Go Trippin'”
The Damned, “New Rose”
Danny & the Juniors, “At the Hop”
Bobby Darin, “Splish Splash”
Spencer Davis Group, “Gimme Some Lovin'”
De La Soul, “Me Myself and I”
Deep Purple, “Smoke on the Water”
The Dell-Vikings, “Come Go With Me”
The Dells, “Oh, What a Night”
The Delmore Brothers, “Hillbilly Boogie”
Derek and the Dominos, “Layla”
Devo, “Whip It”
Bo Diddley, “Bo Diddley”
Dion and the Belmonts, “A Teenager in Love”
Dire Straits, “Sultans of Swing”
The Dixie Cups, “Chapel of Love”
The Dixie Hummingbirds, “I'll Live Again”
Bill Doggett, “Honky Tonk”
Fats Domino, “Ain't That a Shame”
Fats Domino, “Blueberry Hill”
The Dominoes, “Sixty Minute Man”
Lonnie Donegan, “Rock Island Line”
Donovan, “Sunshine Superman”
The Doors, “Light My Fire”
The Doors, “The End”
Dr. Dre, “Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang”
Dr. John, “Right Place Wrong Time”
The Drifters, “Money Honey”
The Drifters, “There Goes My Baby”
The Drifters, “Up on the Roof”
Duran Duran, “Hungry Like the Wolf”
Bob Dylan, “Blowin' in the Wind”
Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
Bob Dylan, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”
Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin'”
E
The Eagles, “Hotel California”
The Eagles, “Take It Easy”
Duane Eddy, “Rebel Rouser”
Eurythmics, “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
The Everly Brothers, “All I Have to Do Is Dream”
The Everly Brothers, “Bye Bye Love”
F
The 5 Satins, “In the Still of the Night”
The Flamingos, “I Only Have Eyes for You”
Fleetwood Mac, “Go Your Own Way”
The Flying Burrito Brothers, “Sin City”
The 4 Seasons, “Big Girls Don't Cry”
The 4 Seasons, “Walk Like a Man”
The Four Tops, “Baby I Need Your Loving”
The Four Tops, “Reach Out I'll Be There”
Aretha Franklin, “Chain of Fools”
Aretha Franklin, “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You)”
Aretha Franklin, “Respect”
Free, “All Right Now”
The Bobby Fuller Four, “I Fought the Law”
Lowell Fulson, “Reconsider Baby”
Funkadelic, “One Nation Under a Groove”
G
Peter Gabriel, “Biko”
Cecil Gant, “We're Gonna Rock”
Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
Marvin Gaye, “Sexual Healing”
Marvin Gaye, “What's Going On”
Gerry and the Pacemakers, “How Do You Do It?”
Gary Glitter, “Rock 'n' Roll Part 2”
Go-Go's, “We Got the Beat”
Golden Gate Quartet, “Rock My Soul”
Grand Funk Railroad, “We're an American Band”
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”
The Grateful Dead, “Dark Star”
The Grateful Dead, “Uncle John's Band”
Al Green, “Let's Stay Together”
Guitar Slim, “The Things That I Used to Do”
Guns N' Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle”
Woody Guthrie, “Pastures of Plenty”
Woody Guthrie, “Pretty Boy Floyd”
Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land”
H
Bill Haley and His Comets, “(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock”
Slim Harpo, “Rainin' in My Heart”
Wynonie Harris, “Good Rockin' Tonight”
Wilbert Harrison, “Kansas City”
Dale Hawkins, “Suzy-Q”
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, “I Put a Spell on You”
Richard Hell & the Voidoids, “(I Belong to the) Blank Generation”
Jimi Hendrix, “All Along the Watchtower”
Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”
Jimi Hendrix, “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
The Hollies, “Bus Stop”
Buddy Holly, “Peggy Sue”
Buddy Holly and The Crickets, “That'll Be the Day”
John Lee Hooker, “Boogie Chillun”
John Lee Hooker, “Boom Boom”
Howlin' Wolf, “Smokestack Lightnin'”
Howlin' Wolf, “Spoonful”
Howlin' Wolf, “The Red Rooster”
Human League, “Don't You Want Me?”
Mississippi John Hurt, “Stack o' Lee Blues”
Hüsker Dü, “Turn on the News”
I
The Impressions, “People Get Ready”
The Ink Spots, “If I Didn't Care”
Iron Butterfly, “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida”
The Isley Brothers, “It's Your Thing”
The Isley Brothers, “Shout — Parts 1 & 2”
J
Jackson 5, “ABC”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Mahalia Jackson, “Move on Up a Little Higher”
Michael Jackson, “Beat It”
Michael Jackson, “Billie Jean”
Elmore James, “Dust My Broom”
Elmore James, “Shake Your Moneymaker”
Etta James, “Tell Mama”
Rick James, “Super Freak”
Tommy James and the Shondells, “Hanky Panky”
Jan & Dean, “Surf City”
Jane's Addiction, “Been Caught Stealin'”
Jefferson Airplane, “Somebody to Love”
Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”
Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Matchbox Blues”
Jethro Tull, “Aqualung”
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”
Billy Joel, “Just the Way You Are”
Elton John, “Bennie and the Jets”
Elton John, “Your Song”
Little Willie John, “Fever”
Blind Willie Johnson, “Motherless Children”
Robert Johnson, “Crossroads Blues”
Robert Johnson, “Hell Hound on My Trail”
Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain”
Robert Johnson, “Sweet Home Chicago”
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, “Caldonia”
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five, “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
K
Albert King, “Born Under a Bad Sign”
B.B. King, “Sweet Little Angel”
B.B. King, “The Thrill Is Gone”
Ben E. King, “Spanish Harlem”
Ben E. King, “Stand by Me”
Carole King, “You've Got a Friend”
Freddy King, “Hide Away”
The Kingsmen, “Louie Louie”
The Kinks, “A Well Respected Man”
The Kinks, “Lola”
The Kinks, “You Really Got Me”
Kiss, “Rock and Roll All Nite”
Buddy Knox, “Party Doll”
Kraftwerk, “Autobahn”
L
LL Cool J, “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Cyndi Lauper, “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
Leadbelly, “The Midnight Special”
Led Zeppelin, “Dazed and Confused”
Led Zeppelin, “Rock and Roll”
Led Zeppelin, “Stairway to Heaven”
Led Zeppelin, “Whole Lotta Love”
The Left Banke, “Walk Away Renee”
John Lennon, “Give Peace a Chance”
John Lennon, “Imagine”
John Lennon, “Instant Karma (We All Shine On)”
Jerry Lee Lewis, “Great Balls of Fire”
Jerry Lee Lewis, “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On”
Little Eva, “The Loco-Motion”
Little Feat, “Dixie Chicken”
Little Walter, “Juke”
Professor Longhair, “Tipitina”
The Lovin' Spoonful, “Do You Believe in Magic”
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, “I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent”
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”
Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Free Bird”
M
Madonna, “Like a Virgin”
The Mamas and the Papas, “California Dreamin'”
The Marcels, “Blue Moon”
Bob Marley and The Wailers, “Lively Up Yourself”
Bob Marley and The Wailers, “No Woman, No Cry”
Martha and the Vandellas, “Dancing in the Street”
Martha and the Vandellas, “(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave”
Curtis Mayfield, “Superfly”
M.C. Hammer, “U Can't Touch This”
Paul McCartney, “Maybe I'm Amazed”
Barry McGuire, “Eve of Destruction”
Don McLean, “American Pie”
Blind Willie McTell, “Statesboro Blues”
John Cougar Mellencamp, “Authority Song”
Metallica, “Enter Sandman”
Midnight Oil, “Beds Are Burning”
Amos Milburn, “Let's Have a Party”
Steve Miller Band, “Fly Like an Eagle”
The Miracles, “Going to a Go-Go”
The Miracles, “The Tracks of My Tears”
The Miracles, “You've Really Got a Hold on Me”
Joni Mitchell, “Help Me”
Moby Grape, “Omaha”
The Monkees, “I'm a Believer”
The Monkees, “Last Train to Clarksville”
The Monotones, “Book of Love”
Bill Monroe, “Mule Skinner Blues”
The Moody Blues, “Nights in White Satin”
The Moonglows, “Sincerely”
Van Morrison, “Brown Eyed Girl”
Van Morrison, “Madame George”
Van Morrison, “Moondance”
The Mothers of Invention, “Brown Shoes Don't Make It”
Mott the Hoople, “All the Young Dudes”
N
Ricky Nelson, “Hello Mary Lou”
Aaron Neville, “Tell It Like It Is”
New York Dolls, “Personality Crisis”
Randy Newman, “Sail Away”
Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
O
O'Jays, “Love Train”
Phil Ochs, “I Ain't Marchin' Anymore”
Roy Orbison, “Oh, Pretty Woman”
The Orioles, “Crying in the Chapel”
Johnny Otis, “Willie and the Hand Jive”
P
Parliament, “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)”
Les Paul and Mary Ford, “How High the Moon”
Pearl Jam, “Jeremy”
The Penguins, “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)”
Carl Perkins, “Blue Suede Shoes”
Carl Perkins, “Matchbox”
Pinetop Perkins, “Pinetop's Boogie Woogie”
Peter and Gordon, “A World Without Love”
Peter, Paul and Mary, “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)”
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “American Girl”
Wilson Pickett, “In the Midnight Hour”
Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2”
Pink Floyd, “Money”
Pink Floyd, “See Emily Play”
The Platters, “The Great Pretender”
The Police, “Every Breath You Take”
The Police, “Roxanne”
Elvis Presley, “Heartbreak Hotel”
Elvis Presley, “Jailhouse Rock”
Elvis Presley, “Love Me Tender”
Elvis Presley, “Mystery Train”
Elvis Presley, “Suspicious Minds”
Elvis Presley, “That's All Right”
The Pretenders, “Brass in Pocket”
Lloyd Price, “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”
Prince, “Little Red Corvette”
Prince, “When Doves Cry”
Procol Harum, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
Public Enemy, “Fight the Power”
Q
Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Queen Latifah, “Ladies First”
Question Mark and the Mysterians, “96 Tears”
Quicksilver Messenger Service, “Who Do You Love”
R
R.E.M., “Losing My Religion”
R.E.M., “Radio Free Europe”
Ma Rainey and Her Tub Jug Washboard Band, “Prove It on Me Blues”
Washboard Band, “Prove It On Me”
Bonnie Raitt, “Something to Talk About”
Ramones, “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker”
The Young Rascals, “Groovin'”
The Young Rascals, “Good Lovin'”
Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Give It Away”
Otis Redding, “Shake”
Otis Redding, “(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay”
Otis Redding, “Try a Little Tenderness”
Jimmy Reed, “Big Boss Man”
Jimmy Reed, “Bright Lights, Big City”
Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”
The Replacements, “I Will Dare”
Paul Revere and The Raiders, “Just Like Me”
Cliff Richard and the Shadows, “Move It”
Little Richard, “Good Golly, Miss Molly”
Little Richard, “Long Tall Sally”
Little Richard, “Tutti Frutti”
The Righteous Brothers, “You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'”
Billy Riley and His Little Green Men, “Red Hot”
Jimmie Rodgers, “Blue Yodel No. 9”
The Rolling Stones, “Honky Tonk Women”
The Rolling Stones, “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”
The Rolling Stones, “Jumpin' Jack Flash”
The Rolling Stones, “Miss You”
The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”
The Rolling Stones, “Time Is on My Side”
The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”
Roxy Music, “Love Is the Drug”
Run-D.M.C., “Walk This Way”
Rush, “The Spirit of Radio”
Otis Rush, “I Can't Quit You Baby”
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, “Devil With a Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly”
S
Sam and Dave, “Soul Man”
Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, “Wooly Bully”
Santana, “Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen”
The Searchers, “Needles and Pins”
The Seeds, “Pushin' Too Hard”
Pete Seeger, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, “Night Moves”
Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the U.K.”
Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen”
The Shadows of Knight, “Gloria”
The Shangri-Las, “Leader of the Pack”
Del Shannon, “Runaway”
Shirelles, “Dedicated to the One I Love”
Shirelles, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”
Simon and Garfunkel, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Simon and Garfunkel, “The Sounds of Silence”
Paul Simon, “Graceland”
Sir Douglas Quintet, “She's About a Mover”
Sister Sledge, “We Are Family”
Percy Sledge, “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Sly and the Family Stone, “Dance to the Music”
Sly and the Family Stone, “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”
Bessie Smith, “Downhearted Blues”
Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns, “Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie-Woogie Flu”
Patti Smith, “Gloria (in Excelsis Deo)”
The Smiths, “Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now”
Sonic Youth, “Teenage Riot”
The Soul Stirrers, “By and By”
Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
Bruce Springsteen, “Dancing in the Dark”
Bruce Springsteen, “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)”
The Standells, “Dirty Water”
The Staple Singers, “Respect Yourself”
Edwin Starr, “War”
Steely Dan, “Reelin' in the Years”
Steppenwolf, “Born to Be Wild”
Rod Stewart, “Maggie May”
Iggy and The Stooges, “Search and Destroy”
The Stooges, “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
Stray Cats, “Rock This Town”
Barrett Strong, “Money (That's What I Want)”
The Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper's Delight”
Donna Summer, “Love to Love You Baby”
The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love”
The Supremes, “You Can't Hurry Love”
The Surfaris, “Wipe Out”
Swinging Blue Jeans, “Hippy Hippy Shake”
T
T. Rex, “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”
Talking Heads, “Life During Wartime”
Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”
James Taylor, “Fire and Rain”
Television, “Little Johnny Jewel”
The Temptations, “Ain't Too Proud to Beg”
The Temptations, “My Girl”
The Temptations, “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “This Train”
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, “Ball 'n' Chain”
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, “Hound Dog”
Toots and the Maytals, “Pressure Drop”
Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”
Traffic, “Dear Mr. Fantasy”
The Trammps, “Disco Inferno”
The Troggs, “Wild Thing”
Big Joe Turner, “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
Ike and Tina Turner, “River Deep, Mountain High”
The Turtles, “It Ain't Me Babe”
U
U.T.F.O., “Roxanne, Roxanne”
U2, “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”
U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
U2, “Sunday Bloody Sunday”
V
Ritchie Valens, “La Bamba”
Van Halen, “Jump”
Van Halen, “Runnin' With the Devil”
Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Pride and Joy”
Velvet Underground, “Heroin”
Velvet Underground, “White Light/White Heat”
The Ventures, “Walk Don't Run”
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps, “Be-Bop-a-Lula”
W
The Wailers, “Get Up Stand Up”
The Wailers, “I Shot the Sheriff”
Jr. Walker and the All Stars, “Shotgun”
T-Bone Walker, “Call It Stormy Monday”
War, “Slippin' Into Darkness”
Clara Ward and the Ward Singers, “How I Got Over”
Dinah Washington, “Am I Asking Too Much”
Muddy Waters, “Got My Mojo Working”
Muddy Waters, “Hoochie Coochie Man”
Muddy Waters, “Mannish Boy”
Muddy Waters, “Rollin' Stone”
The Weavers, “Goodnight Irene”
Mary Wells, “My Guy”
The Who, “Baba O'Riley”
The Who, “Go to the Mirror Boy”
The Who, “My Generation”
Big Joe Williams, “Baby Please Don't Go”
Larry Williams, “Bony Maronie”
Marion Williams, “Packing Up”
Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson, “Good Morning (Little) School Girl” Chuck Willis, “C. C. Rider”
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, “Take Me Back to Tulsa”
Jackie Wilson “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher”
Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City”
Stevie Wonder, “Master Blaster (Jammin')”
Stevie Wonder, “Superstition”
Stevie Wonder, “Uptight (Everything's Alright)”
Link Wray, “Rumble”
X
X, “Los Angeles”
Y
Jimmy Yancey, “Midnight Stomp”
The Yardbirds, “Shapes of Things”
Yes, “Roundabout”
Neil Young, “Down by the River”
Neil Young, “Heart of Gold”
Neil Young, “My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)”
Z
ZZ Top, “Legs”

25 de abril

GRÂNDOLA, VILA MORENA
Grândola, vila morena
Terra da fraternidade
O povo é quem mais ordena
Dentro de ti, ó cidade
Dentro de ti, ó cidade
O povo é quem mais ordena
Terra da fraternidade
Grândola, vila morena

Em cada esquina um amigo
Em cada rosto igualdade
Grândola, vila morena
Terra da fraternidade
Terra da fraternidade
Grândola, vila morena
Em cada rosto igualdade
O povo é quem mais ordena

À sombra duma azinheira
Que já não sabia a idade
Jurei ter por companheira
Grândola a tua vontade
Grândola a tua vontade
Jurei ter por companheira
À sombra duma azinheira
Que já não sabia a idade



Enlace a la bitácora de la Associação José Afonso. Escucha aqui "Grândola vila morena" cantada por el propio Zeca.

Pimentinha

Queria escribir algo lindo sobre Elis Regina, algo que hiciese que quien lo leyera sintiese un deseo irresistible de escucharla. Decir cosas como que ella fue -y sigue siéndolo 24 años despues de su tristísima muerte- la mejor voz de la MPB de todos los tiempos. Podría incluso añadir que, fuera de Brasil, su voz, su fuerza, su imagen artística, sensibilidad y la inteligencia con la que supo dirigir su carrera logran que Elis soporte sin desventaja la comparación con Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald o Aretha Franklin. A lo mejor, debería mencionar como ella es todavía una de las artistas más queridas por el público brasileño.

A continuación, claro, tendría que explicar cómo me emociona oirla cantar. Cómo estremece percibir los cambios de registro de los que era capaz, la facilidad con la que Elis podía transmitir de forma sincera cualquier matiz presente en una palabra, en una frase, en una canción.

En vez de eso, reproduciré la letra de una de sus canciones. Eso debería bastar para conseguir despertar ese interés mucho más fácilmente que mis pobres palabras.

Ahí va:

COMO OS NOSSOS PAIS
Não quero lhe falar, meu grande amor
das coisas que aprendi nos discos
Quero lhe contar como eu vivi
e tudo o que aconteceu comigo

Viver é melhor que sonhar
Eu sei que o amor é uma coisa boa
Mas também sei que qualquer canto
é menor do que a vida de qualquer pessoa
Por isso cuidado meu bem
Há perigo na esquina
Eles venceram e o sinal está fechado p'ra nós
que somos jovens
Para abraçar seu irmão e beijar sua menina na rua
é que se fez o seu braço, o seu lábio e a sua voz

Você me pergunta pela minha paixão
Digo que estou encantada com uma nova invenção
Eu vou ficar nesta cidade não vou voltar p'ro sertão
pois vejo vir vindo no ventoo cheiro da nova estação
Eu sei de tudo na ferida viva do meu coração

Já faz tempo eu vi você na rua
cabelo ao vento, gente jovem reunida
Na parede da memória essa lembrança
é o quadro que dói mais

Minha dor é perceber que apesar
de termos feito tudo o que fizemos
ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos
ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos
como os nossos pais

Nossos ídolos ainda são os mesmos
e as aparências não enganam não
Você diz que depois deles não apareceu mais ninguém
Você pode até dizer que eu 'tou por fora
ou então que eu 'tou inventando
Mas é você que ama o passado e não vê
Mas é você que ama o passado e que não vê que o novo sempre vem

Hoje eu sei que quem me deu
a ideia de uma nova consciência e juventude
'tá em casa guardado por deus
contando o vil metal
Minha dor é perceber que apesar
de termos feito tudo, tudo tudo tudo o que fizemos
nós ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos
ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos
ainda somos os mesmos e vivemos
como os nossos pais

¿Cómo? ¿Todavía estáis ahí? ¡Corred a escucharla! ¡YA!

¡Salud!

Ich liebe Kraftwerk!

Locuras musicales

¡Están locos estos ingleses! ¿A quién en su sano juicio se le puede ocorrer una locura semejante? Como siempre en estos casos, la locura resulta ser apasionante (y, además, seguro que le sacam algún dinero).

La SGAE y otras alimañas

Cuando pienso en la SGAE y en la eficacia de sus métodos me acuerdo siempre de un sketch de Monty Python en el que un grupo de mafiosi trata de extorsionar al ejército británico mediante la clásica oferta de “protección". Un genial Graham Chapman interpreta a un descolocado coronel, a quien Terry Jones y Michael Palin, con trajes negros con rayas blancas, sombrero y palillo en la boca, explican:

Sergeant: Two civilian gentlemen to see you ... sir!
Colonel: Show them in please, sergeant.
Sergeant: Mr Dino Vercotti and Mr Luigi Vercotti. The Vercotti brothers enter. They wear Mafia suits and dark glasses.
Dino:Good morning, colonel.
Colonel : Good morning gentlemen. Now what can I do for you.
Luigi (looking round office casually): You've ... you've got a nice army base here, colonel.
Colonel: Yes.
Luigi: We wouldn't want anything to happen to it.
Colonel: What?
Dino: No, what my brother means is it would be a shame if... (he knocks something off mantel)
Colonel: Oh.
Dino: Oh sorry, colonel.
Colonel: Well don't worry about that. But please do sit down.
Luigi: No, we prefer to stand, thank you, colonel.
Colonel :All right. All right. But what do you want?
Dino: What do we want, ha ha ha.
Luigi: Ha ha ha, very good, colonel.
Dino: The colonel's a joker, Luigi.
Luigi: Explain it to the colonel, Dino.
Dino: How many tanks you got, colonel?
Colonel: About five hundred altogether.
Luigi: Five hundred! Hey?
Dino: You ought to be careful, colonel.
Colonel: We are careful, extremely careful.
Dino: 'Cos things break, don't they?
Colonel: Break?
Luigi:Well everything breaks, don't it colonel. (he breaks something on desk) Oh dear.
Dino:Oh see my brother's clumsy colonel, and when he gets unhappy he breaks things. Like say, he don't feel the army's playing fair by him, he may start breaking things, colonel.
Colonel:What is all this about?
Luigi: How many men you got here, colonel?
Colonel: Oh, er ... seven thousand infantry, six hundred artillery, and er, two divisions of paratroops.
Luigi: Paratroops, Dino.
Dino: Be a shame if someone was to set fire to them.
Colonel: Set fire to them?
Luigi: Fires happen, colonel.
Dino: Things burn.
Colonel: Look, what is all this about?
Dino: My brother and I have got a little proposition for you colonel.
Luigi: Could save you a lot of bother.
Dino: I mean you're doing all right here aren't you, colonel.
Luigi: Well suppose some of your tanks was to get broken and troops started getting lost, er, fights started breaking out during general inspection, like.
Dino: It wouldn't be good for business would it, colonel?
Colonel: Are you threatening me?
Dino: Oh, no, no, no.
Luigi: Whatever made you think that, colonel?
Dino: The colonel doesn't think we're nice people, Luigi.
Luigi: We're your buddies, colonel.
Dino: We want to look after you.
Colonel: Look after me?
Luigi: We can guarantee you that not a single armoured division will get done over for fifteen bob a week.
Colonel: No, no, no.
Luigi: Twelve and six.
Colonel: No, no, no.
Luigi: Eight and six ... five bob...

Los métodos de la SGAE son los de los mafiosos italo-americanos de las películas de Coppola: usan la fuerza para tratar de controlar un mercado del que quieren sacar tajada. Ni más ni menos. El dinero es una obsesión para ellos y por eso el mismo concepto de software libre les resulta tan aberrante como la descarga ilegal de música o películas de la red. Como buenos fanáticos, ya no distinguen blanco de negro. Menos mal que todavía queda alguien dispuesto a pararles los pies.

¡Salud!

The Fleshtones, sala Gruta 77, Madrid 21/01/2006

Música para hoy (1)

Home is where I want to be
Pick me up and turn me round
I feel numb - born with a weak heart
I guess I must be having fun
The less we say about it the better
Make it up as we go along
Feet on the ground
Head in the sky
It's ok I know nothing's wrong . . nothing

Hi yo I got plenty of time
Hi yo you got light in your eyes
And you're standing here beside me
I love the passing of time
Never for money
Always for love
Cover up and say goodnight . . . say goodnight

Home - is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
I come home - she lifted up her wings
Guess that this must be the place
I can't tell one from another
Did I find you, or you find me?
There was a time
Before we were born
If someone asks, this where I'll be . . . where I'll be

Hi yo We drift in and out
Hi yo sing into my mouth
Out of all those kinds of people
You got a face with a view
I'm just an animal looking for a home
Share the same space for a minute or two
And you love me till my heart stops
Love me till I'm dead
Eyes that light up, eyes look through you
Cover up the blank spots
Hit me on the head Ah ooh


This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) -- Talking Heads



Exactamente así es como me siento hoy.

¡Salud!