Ahora cada uno anda por su lado: Liam con el grupo Beady Eye y Noel con su proyecto en solitorio High Flying Birds. Pero si bien en ocasiones ocurre que cuando bandas se disuelven, los elementos resultantes de esa separación son iguales de buenos o mejores que la anterior banda, aquí hemos salido perdiendo. El pack Oasis es difícilmente superable y necesita de los dos hermanos. Aunque me temo que por mucho que necesiten dinero, no les volveremos a ver nunca más juntos. Así que disfrutemos de clásicos como este “Stop crying your heart out“, que viene que ni pintado para los tiempos que corren:

Letra:

Hold up
Hold on
Don’t be scared
You’ll never change what’s been and gone

May your smile
Shine on
Don’t be scared
Your destiny may keep you warm

[estribillo]
Because all of the stars
Are fading away
Just try not to worry
You’ll see them some day
Take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out

Get up
Come on
Why’re you scared? (I’m not scared)
You’ll never change what’s been and gone

[estribillo]

We’re all of us stars
We’re fading away
Just try not to worry
You’ll see us some day
Just take what you need
And be on your way
And stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out
Stop crying your heart out

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Embrace – Gravity
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird [Recomendación]
3. La semana de… Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now

Y hablando de retomar caminos, hacía mucho que no traía por aquí una canción de banda sonora de serie. En este caso, la agraciada es Anatomía de Grey :

Letra:

Please don’t let this turn into something it’s not
I can only give you everything I’ve got
I can’t be as sorry as you think I should
But I still love you more than anyone else could

All that I keep thinking throughout this whole flight
Is it could take my whole damn life to make this right
This splintered mast I’m holding on won’t save me long
Because I know fine well that what I did was wrong

[estribillo]
The last girl in the last reason to make this last for as long as I could
First kiss in your first time that I felt connected to anything
The weight of water, the way you told me to look past everything I had ever learned
The final word in the final seconds you ever learned to me was love

We have got through so much worse than this before
What’s so different this time that you can’t ignore
You say it is much more than just my last mistake
And we should spend some time apart for both our sakes

[estribillo]

And I don’t know where to look
My words just break and melt
Please just save me from this darkness
Please just save me from this darkness [x2]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
2. Snow Patrol – Set Fire To The Third Bar
3. La semana de… Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever

Así que, después de empezar fuerte con Yellow o In My Place, seguir con temas de su próximo disco y más clásicos como Clocks, llegó el momento de este Fix You (con fuegos artificiales incluidos) para cerrar con Ritmo de la noche… ¡ups! quiero decir, con Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall.

Esta semana iré contando más impresiones del festival. Hasta entonces, os dejo con el directo del jueves (sí, yo era una de esas gargantas que se desgañitaba cantando):

Letra:

When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

[estribillo]
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
“Just what your worth”

[estribillo]

Tears stream, down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I…

Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I…

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Coldplay – Fix You
2. Coldplay – Violet Hill
3. Coldplay – Life In Technicolor II

I’m a pilot es una fiesta mezcla de instrumentos y de esa melancolía que destila la voz de Simon Balthazars. Aire fresco, aunque sí que es cierto que deja un cierto regusto a Arcade Fire .

Versión en directo y “oficial”:

Letra:

You can’t trust that sound,
You’re sleeping in all the time,
You’ll see me on the screen,
Through all the other soul’s dark walls,
With the sun.
The mad circus says good night.

The tape machine exposed,
From all its spinning round the moon.
I’ve scratched all my reels,
I’ve bitten all my nails to the bone,
Like a stone.
You come back and thrown up.

Away From the top
And away from the drills

[estribillo]
But kid I’m a pilot,
It’s all I believe in
It’s all I believe in
You can ride on my back.

And time on your hands.
You spent your money down by the tracks.
You had the drivers sign your arms.
My hospitals will welcome you home,
Like a tomb.
With gun marks aching,
To look at your grace,
And believe what you say.

[estribillo]

If I stay in this room,
They’ll remember me for my youth
If I stay in this room,
They’ll remember me for my youth.
If I give it all up
If I give it all up
If I give it all up

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Thirteen Senses – Into The Fire
2. Keane – Everybody’s Changing
3. Stereophonics – Maybe Tomorrow

Y el blog también. Eso sí, para celebrar el cambio de dígito hemos invitado a Nina Persson (voz de The Cardigans) y a los Manic Street Preachers. Todos han venido sin cobrar y actuarán en riguroso vídeo de dailymotion, dando buena cuenta del duelo vocal mantenido entre Nina y James.

Este single formó parte de Send Away the Tigers, el octavo álbum de estudio del grupo galés (2007). Y el título es bastante rotundo: “Tu amor solo no es suficiente”. Según la banda, corresponde a la última línea de una nota suicida de alguien muy cercano al grupo. Ahí es nada…

Letra:

Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough
When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts
They’re always the one’s that love you most love you most love you most

Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough
It’s what you felt it’s what you said what you said what you said

You said the sky would fall on you fall on you fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed Blue they stayed Blue Baby Blue

But your love alone won’t save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all you made it worse
It left you lonely
It left you cursed

You stole the sun straight from my heart from my heart from my heart
With no excuses just fell apart fell apart fell apart

No you won’t make a mess of me mess of me mess of me
For you’re as blind as a man can be man can be man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive

I could have placed us in exile
I could have shown you how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough

I could have shown you how to cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
2. The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
3. Nina Simone – Sinnerman

El álbum homónimo tiene un buen puñado de grandes canciones. No se puede decir lo mismo de su último disco (The Fray, 2009), del que apenas se ha oído nada. Cómo salvar una vida es emotiva. Pone los pelillos de punta. Igual que me los ha puesto el programa que ha dedicado Jokin a este blog en Itzali Telebista. Mila esker Jokin!

Letra:

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it’s just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through

Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

[estribillo]
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence

Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you’ve told him all along
And pray to God he hears you

[estribillo]

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you’ve followed

He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he’ll say he’s just not the same
And you’ll begin to wonder why you came

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Coldplay – Life In Technicolor II
2. Vega4 – Life Is Beautiful [Recomendación]
3. La semana de… Queen – Save Me

Disfruten de la versión marioneta de la banda (atentos al muñequito del staff… tiene un momento huchita muy gracioso ). ¿Serán los músicos unos simples títeres en manos de las discográficas? (de nuevo, dejo caer la pregunta ).

Letra:

There’s a wild wind blowing,
Down the corner of my street
Every night there the
headlights are glowing

there´s a cold war coming,
On the radio I heard
Baby it´s a violent world

Oh love don´t let me go
Won’t you take me where the
streetlights glow
I could hear it coming
I could hear the sirens sound
Now my feet won’t touch the ground

Time came a creeping
Oh and time’s a loaded gun
Every road is a ray of light
It goes on
Time only can lead you on
Still it´s such a beautiful night

Oh love don´t let me go
Won’t you take me where the
streetlights glow
I could hear it coming
Like a serenade of sound
Now my feet won’t touch the ground

Gravity release me,
And don´t ever hold me down
Now my feet won’t touch the ground.

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Coldplay – Violet Hill
2. Coldplay – Warning Sign
3. Embrace – Gravity

Además aprovecho para anunciar que tocarán el 2 de abril en Bilbao y que ya tengo entradas . Será la presentación de su nuevo disco: Tonight.

Letra:

Oh well I woke up tonight and said I
I’m gonna make somebody love me
I’m gonna make somebody love me
And now I know, now I know, now I know
I know that it’s you
You’re lucky, lucky
You’re so lucky!

[estribillo]
Oh well do you, do you do you want to?
Oh well do you, do you do you want to, want to go
Where I’ve never let you before?
Oh well do you, do you do you want to?
Oh well do you, do you do you want to, want to go
Where I’ve never let you before?

Well he’s a friend and he’s so proud of you
He’s a friend and I knew him before you, oh yeah
Well he’s a friend and he’s so proud of you
You’re famous friend well I blew him before you, oh yeah

[estribillo]

Well here we are at the transmission party
I love your friends they’re all so arty, oh yeah

Oh well I woke up tonight and said I
I’m gonna make somebody love me
I’m gonna make somebody love me
And now I know, now I know, now I know
I know that it’s you
You’re lucky, lucky
You’re so lucky!

Oh well do you, do you do you want to?
Oh well do you, do you do you want to, want to go
Where I’ve never let you before?

Oh lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Oh lucky lucky
You’re so lucky
Yeah

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
2. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
3. Ocean Colour Scene – Better Day

Cuando los nazis vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, guardé silencio porque yo no era comunista,
Cuando encarcelaron a los socialdemócratas, guardé silencio porque yo no era socialdemócrata,
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, no protesté porque yo no era sindicalista,
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, no protesté porque yo no era judío,
Cuando vinieron a buscarme, no había nadie más que pudiera protestar.

Letra:

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But well forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

[estribillo]
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Will be next
Will be next
Will be next

Gravity keeps my head down
Or is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain

Holes in your head today
But I’m a pacifist
I’ve walked las ramblas
But not with real intent

[estribillo]

And on the street tonight an old man plays
With newspaper cuttings of his glory days

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Manic Street Preachers & Nina Persson – Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
2. Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) [Recomendación]
3. The Cranberries – Zombie [Recomendación]

Aún no había puesto nada de Ocean Colour Scene, propulsores del indie y el britpop allá por los 90. Sobre todo en una época durilla para despuntar, dado que sólo parecía que hubiese dos bandas: Blur vs. Oasis.

Esta melodía que proclama por un mejor día (y que, sin embargo, no me parece nada optimista) está sacada del álbum Marchin’ Already (1997). Interesante la frase: When youre giving everything away, everybody lets you pay.

Letra:

Sonny signed his name up for tomorrow
And laughed with all this friends
At all the little men who borrow tunes
They heard just yesterday

Davey got us down but we got away
And drank to all the days
That we had whiled away
Just playing robin hood a little out of phase

[estribillo]
And then the nightmares come
And you get blown away
And up in your room your walls are cold
You find your head is holding out
For the welcome of a better day
And then the nightmares come
And you get blown away
And up in your room
Your walls are getting colder
Like you’re getting on a roller coaster
You cant find the breaks

Stevie burned the sky when he flew away
And left us things to say
When all the world was falling down
Around our shoulders; cold and grey

Harry carried on in his usual way
And Minnie went inside
He came out once and we both cried
And Minnie blew my head away

[estribillo]

When youre giving everything away
Everybody lets you pay
Youre saving up for a better day
Seeing things in a better way
When you know you’ve got to live
Theres nothing you wont give
To hear the phone and not let it ring
Every monday morning

Shughie found love and he almost cried
We laughed and wondered why
We loved the sky and found the space
And gazed out over stevies plane

And then the nightmares come
when your friends go away
And up in your room your walls are cold
You find your head is holding out
For the welcome of a better day
And then the nightmares come
And you get blown away
And up in your room
Your walls are getting colder
Like youre getting on a roller coaster
You cant find the breaks

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Fanfarlo – I’m A Pilot
2. Ash – Polaris
3. Kasabian – Underdog