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Milow – Ayo Technology

millowHay momentos difíciles en los que necesitas un coscorrón de alguien para darte cuenta de muchas cosas. En el largo camino de la vida siempre habrá personas poniendo palos y zancadillas, pero también habrá otras que tenderán sus manos. Así que escuchemos a este belga pensando en estas últimas. Jonathan Vandenbroeck, también conocido como Milow, versiona esta canción de 50 cent, Justin Timberlake y Timbaland, dándole un toque muy personal.
Con la cabeza alta, siempre con la cabeza alta.

Letra:

She work it girl, she work the pole
She break it down, she take it low
She fine as hell, she about the dough
She doing her thing out on the floor
Her money money, she makin’ makin’
Got the way she shakin’
Make you want to touch it, make you want to taste it
Have you lustin’ for her,
go crazy face it

She’s so much more than you’re used to
She know’s just how to move to seduce you
She gone do the right thing and touch the right spot
Dance in you’re lap till you’re ready to pop

She always ready, when you want it she want it
Like a nympho, the info
I show you where to meet her
On the late night, till daylight the club jumpin’
If you want a good time, she gone give you what you want

[estribillo]
Baby It’s a new age,
You like my new craze
Let’s get together
Maybe we can start a new phase
The smokes got the club all hazy,
Spotlights don’t do you justice baby
Why don’t you come over here,
you got me saying
Aayooh
I’m tired of using technology,
Why don’t you sit down on top of me
Aayooh
I’m tired of using technology
I need you right in front of me

In her fantasy, there’s plain to see
Just how it be, on me, backstrokin’,
Sweat soaking
All into my set sheets
When she ready to ride, I’m ready to roll
I’ll be in this bitch till the club close
What should I do, on all fours
Now that that shit should be against the law
Different style, different move,
Damn I like the way you move
Girl you got me thinking about,
All the things I’d do to you
Let’s get it poppin’ shorty
We can switch positions
From the couch to the counters in my kitchen

[estribillo]

Ooh she wants it, Ooh she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
She wants it, Hmm she wants it
Hmm she wants it, I got to give it to her
I got to give it to her

[estribillo]

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Iggy Pop – The Passenger

Lust for LifeMe escribía hoy Joaquín desde Ecuador indicando que ahora que ya han pasado por Silencio Lou Reed y David Bowie, cómo no iba a hacerlo el precursor del punk: Iggy Pop. Y yo que soy muy obediente (y tenía esta canción en los borradores esperando el momento adecuado para salir), no he esperado ni un minuto en publicarla. Por seguir enlazando unas melodías con otras, decir que en ésta colabora David Bowie en la música. Y siguiendo con canciones que han sido usadas en spots de televisión, me quedo con The Passenger, perteneciente al álbum Lust for Life (1977).

Al final todos somos pasajeros eternos de un viaje con la misma parada final. La cuestión es saber disfrutar de la travesía 😉

P.D. ¿Soy la única a la que Iggy Pop le parece el calco con años de Anthony Kiedis (de los Red Hot)?

Letra:

I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride
I ride through the citys backside
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah, theyre bright in a hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight

I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the citys a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight

[estribillo]
Singin la la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la la-la

Get into the car
Well be the passenger
Well ride through the city tonight
See the citys ripped insides
Well see the bright and hollow sky
Well see the stars that shine so bright
The sky was made for us tonight

Oh the passenger
How how he rides
Oh the passenger
He rides and he rides
He looks through his window
What does he see?
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He see the stars come out tonight
He sees the citys ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
cause it just belongs to you and me
So lets take a ride and see whats mine

[estribillo]

Oh, the passenger
He rides and he rides
He sees things from under glass
He looks through his windows eye
He sees the things he knows are his
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He sees the city asleep at night
He sees the stars are out tonight
And all of it is yours and mine
And all of it is yours and mine
Oh, lets ride and ride and ride and ride…

[estribillo]

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Boat Beam & Havalina – Falling Over

Puzzle ShapesGracias al blog bandalismo.net, me entero que dos grandes grupos de la escena independiente se han juntado en un estudio para aunar lo mejor de cada uno: por un lado, las chicas de Boat Beam (que ya se pasaron por aquí con su single debut, The Rain Pauly) y por otro los chicos de Havalina (que también se pasaron con su Noches sin dormir). Este Falling Over pertenece al disco debut de las primeras: Puzzle Shapes. Veremos que nos depara esta colaboración Boatlina 🙂

Letra:

All that’s true and all that’s you is all that I’m falling over
All I do is try to fool the storms that keep circling over
When I’m strong and I belong your charm I can just ignore
But the a scent I can’t forget but can’t quite recall who wore it

There’s no way, I can stay awake

Gormless girls the bones of earls adrift in my grey surrender
Streets of old and hearts to hold grow damp as they start to ember
I’m not upside down, I’m chucked around, late at night I’m grinding
Puddles freeze and huddles sneeze all night in the Park Lane subway

There’s no way, I can stay away

[estribillo]
Hopeless to resist your sweet abyss
Hopeless to resist your sweet abyss

All that you collected in your lap gathers to confront you
All your weapons are corroded back, frantically defeated
On the Piccadilly line divine daydreams take me over
Why am I thinking of salvation in just another lover?

There’s no way I can stay awake
There’s no way I can stay away

[estribillo]

All that’s true and all that’s you is all that I’m falling over
All that’s true and all that’s you is all that I’m falling over
All that’s true and all that’s you is all that I’m falling over
All that’s true and all that’s you is all that I’m falling over

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glam rock

David Bowie – Life On Mars?

David_Bowie_Hunky_DoryPrimera aparición estelar del polifacético y ambiguo David Bowie en este blog (antes ya se había presentado en los coros). Y la canción seleccionada es Life On Mars?, de su álbum Hunky Dory (1971).

Treinta años después vuelve a estar en la picota por su aparición en la banda sonora de la serie homónima de la BBC y el acompañamiento de una campaña publicitaria televisiva de tarjetas de crédito. Una letra cargada de surrealismo (casi tanto como David) con referencias a Lennon, Mickey Mouse… y una carga extra de ironía: ¿os suenan los acordes al My Way de Frank Sinatra? En 1968, Bowie escribió en inglés la letra de una canción francesa titulada «Comme, D’Habitude«, llamando a su versión «Even a fool learns to love«. Nunca fue publicada, pero más tarde Paul Anka escuchó la original, compró sus derechos, y la reescribió titulándola «My way». Qué puñetera es a veces la vida 😉

¿Habrá vida en marte? Gracias a Cymo por la recomendación vía twitter :-).

Letra:

It’s a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
But her mummy is yelling «No»
And her daddy has told her to go
But her friend is nowhere to be seen
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seat with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen

But the film is a saddening bore
‘Cause she’s lived it ten times or more
She could spit in the eyes of fools
As they ask her to focus on

[estribillo]
Sailors fighting in the dance hall
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go
It’s the freakiest show
Take a look at the Lawman
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best selling show
Is there life on Mars?

It’s on America’s tortured brow
That Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow
Now the workers have struck for fame
‘Cause Lennon’s on sale again
See the mice in their million hordes
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads
Rule Britannia is out of bounds
To my mother, my dog, and clowns
But the film is a saddening bore
‘Cause I wrote it ten times or more
It’s about to be writ again
As I ask you to focus on

[estribillo]

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Lou Reed – Walk On the Wild Side

lou reedEmpezaremos este post con las excusas pertinentes por el largo silencio mantenido. Las razones son muy simples: llevo unas tres semanas ultimando el lanzamiento de un proyecto que hace que mi vida sea un auténtico «wild side» (en el ámbito laboral, porque lo que es el ocioso…). Así que nada más adecuada que esta melodía mitiquísima de Lou Reed (con uno de los estribillos más conocidos). Una oda a lo que muchos no se atrevían a cantar en aquella época (e incluso en ésta): la transexualidad, las drogas, los chaperos y el sexo oral, y el término «de color» para referirse a los afroamericanos.

El nombre de la canción está inspirada en una novela de Nelson Algren (A Walk on the Wild Side, 1956) y apareció por vez primera en su segundo disco en solitario: Transformer (1972). Fue producida por David Bowie, que hace los coros. Tiene infinidad de versiones, pero dejo de vuestra cuenta descubrirlas (y publicarlas en los comentarios ;-)).

Letra:

Holly came from miami f.l.a.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her leg and then he was a she
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side

Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom she was everybodys darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
She says, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls go

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)

Little Joe never once gave it away
Everybody had to pay and pay
A hustle here and a hustle there
New York City is the place where they said
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said hey Joe, take a walk on the wild side

Sugar plum fairy came and hit the streets
Looking for soul food and a place to eat
Went to the Apollo
You should have seen him go go go
They said, hey sugar, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side

Jackie is just speeding away
Thought she was james dean for a day
Then I guess she had to crash
Valium would have helped that dash
She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
I said, hey honey, take a walk on the wild side
And the coloured girls say

Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo)
(doo)

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