Mes: noviembre 2009

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electrónica soul

The Source & Candi Staton – You Got The Love

You Got The LoveEl otro día, escuchando el disco debut de Florence + The Machine, una canción me sonaba especialmente. Y era esta versión de You Got The Love. Si os gustaba el programa de televisión Planeta Finito (famosos recorriendo ciudades del mundo), conoceréis de sobra esta melodía, pues era la cabecera del mismo.

Pero yo me sigo quedando con el remix que hizo The Source junto a la voz de Candi Staton, una cantante soul que brilló con fuerza en la época de los 70 y que volvió a la escena en 1991 con esta canción. La versión original fue escrita en 1986 por Anthony B. Stephens, Arnecia Michelle Harris y John Bellamy. Un poco de ritmo para terminar la semana.

Letra:

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

Sometimes it seems that
The going is just too rough
And things go wrong
No matter what I do
Now and then I feel
That life is just too much
But you’ve got the love
I need to see me through

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

Time after time
I say oh Lord whats the use
Time after time
I say this just won’t do, but
Sooner or later in life the things you love you loose,
Just like before I know i’ll call on you

Occasionally
my thoughts are brave and friends are few
Occasionally
I cry out Lord what must I do
Occasionally
I call up Master make me new
You’ve got the love
I need to see me through

Sometimes I feel like
Throwing my hands up in the air
I know I can count on you
Sometimes I feel like saying
Lord I just don’t care
But you’ve got the love I need
To see me through

You got the love
You got the love
You got the love
…

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grunge rock

The Presidents of the United States of America – Lump

presidentsNo es Obama, ni Bush. Ni siquiera Reagan (que era el más coqueto). Los auténticos presidentes de Estados Unidos son unos chicos de Seatle que llevan en el poder desde 1993. Eso sí, han tenido unos cuantos altibajos durante su carrera, con múltiples separaciones y un buen lío con la discográfica Columbia Records cuando ésta editó en el 2000 el disco recopilatorio Lump sin el consentimiento de la banda.

Un poquito de ritmo para el martes con esta canción que es ya un clásico (a la par que viejuna: apareció en su disco debut). No os podéis perder las parodias que se han hecho de ella.

Letra:

Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh
Totally motionless except for her heart
Mud flowed up into Lump’s pajamas
She totally confused all the passing piranhas

[estribillo]
She’s lump, she’s lump
She’s in my head
She’s lump, she’s lump, she’s lump
She might be dead

Lump lingered last in line for brains
And the ones she got were sort of rotten and insane
Small thing’s so sad that birds could land
Is Lump fast asleep or rocking out with the band?

[estribillo]

Lump was limp and lonely and needed a shove
Lump slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love
She spent her twenties between the sheets
Life limped along at subsonic speeds

[estribillo]

Is this lump out of my head?
I think so
Is this lump out of my head?
I think so
Is this lump out of my head?
I think so
Is this lump out of my head?

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indie soul

Florence + The Machine – Between Two Lungs

florence-and-the-machines-lungFlorence + The Machine es un proyecto de la joven cantante londinense Florence Welch, un animal de escenario con una voz negra poderosa y una energía desbordante.

Esta melodía que combina todo tipo de instrumentos con un estilo elegante y exquisito, está dentro de su disco de debut: Lungs (2009). Me hizo mucha gracia cuando leí una entrevista a Florence en la que comentaba que «compone sus mejores temas cuando está borracha o resacosa; es entonces cuando la música libre y asilvestrada aparece«. Habrá que probar hoy domingo a componer algo 😉

Letra:

Between two lungs it was released
The breath that captured me
The sigh that blew me forward

Cause it was trapped
Trapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs

And my running feet could fly
Each breath screaming
«We are all too young to die»

Between two lungs it was released
The breath that passed from you to me
That flew between us as we slept
That slipped from your mouth into mine
It crept between two lungs
It was released
The breath that passed from you to me
That flew between us as we slept
That slipped from your mouth into mine
It crept

Cause it was trapped
Tapped between two lungs
It was trapped between two lungs

Now all the days of begging
The days of theft
No more gasping for a breath
The air has filled me head-to-toe
And I can see the ground far below
I have this breath
And I hold it tight
And I keep it in my chest
With all my might
I pray to God this breath will last
As it pushes past my lips
As I…

Between two lungs it was released
The breath that passed from you to me

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indie

Feist – My Moon, My Man

The reminder¿Nunca os ha pasado que veis un anuncio en televisión y os gusta la canción que lo acompaña pero no hay manera humana de saber a quién pertenece? Pues ese es el caso de esta proclama de Movistar. Después de buscar en foros y páginas, de pasar la sintonía por el caza-canciones del android, etc… sólo me ha quedado recurrir a tito Beni (mi caza-canciones personal del trabajo ;-)).

Él ha conseguido averiguar que la canción se ha hecho exclusivamente para el anuncio y dura menos de un minuto. Eso sí, la base parece ser esta melodía de Feist. No conocía a esta cantautora canadiense pero me ha parecido un sonido muy elegante. Así que ha valido la pena la búsqueda.

Letra:

My moon, my man’s a changeable land
Such a loveable land to me
My care, my co-lead barber I know
There’s nowhere to go but on

How honestly my beggar should be
The song’s out of key again
My fools, my things
We’re digging the things
If the candlelit page again

[estribillo]
Take it slow
Take it easy on me
Shed some light
Shed some light on things
Take it slow
Take it easy on me
Shed some light
Shed some light on things

My moon and me
Not skirty swift bean
It’s the dirtiest clean I know
My care, my co-lead barber I know
There’s nowhere to go
There’s nowhere to go

[estribillo]

My moon
The moon my man
My moon
The moon my man…

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cantautor ost

Aimee Mann – You Could Make a Killing

Aimee_Mann_-_I'm_With_StupidLunes. Viento sur azotando nuestras cabezas (hace unos años se podía considerar como atenuante en caso de cometer un crimen). Así que no es de sorprender que el silencio seleccionado para hoy sea este You could make a killing de Aimee Mann, una gran cantautora norteamericana que ya se ha pasado con anterioridad por aquí. Al igual que con Wise Up, que formaba parte de la banda sonora de Magnolia, ésta melodía aparece en la película Crueles Intenciones, además de en su segundo álbum I’m with Stupid (1995).

Que conste que no es una declaración de intenciones 😉

Letra:

There is nothing that competes with habit
And I know it’s neither deep nor tragic
It’s simply that you have to have it

[estribillo]
So you can make a killing
Oh you can make a killing
so you can make a killing

I wish I was both young and stupid
Then I too could have the fun that you did
Till it was time to pony up what you bid

[estribillo]

I could follow you and search the rubble
Or stay right here and save myself some trouble

Or try to keep myself from seeing double
Or I could make a killing
Or I could make a killing
Oh I could make a killing
Yeah I could make a killing
I could make a killing

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