Se trata de la versionaca que se ha marcado Fabián de uno de esos himnos que creó Alaska y Dinarama allá por 1984. La descubría en uno de mis blogs musicales de cabecera. Poco más se puede decir de esta canción (quien no la conozca, es que ha nacido recientemente… y aún así esto no le exime de la culpa ).

De Fabián sí se pueden contar muchas y grandes cosas: este leonés lleva 4 discos en su haber y es un cantautor de tomo y lomo. Sus letras son precisas y preciosas. Pronto le traeremos por aquí también con algo propio.

Por ahora, esta canción está en la nube (no está metida en ningún disco), así que disfrutadla en mono-dosis:

Letra:

Haces muy mal en elevar mi tensión,
en aplastar mi ambición,
tú sigue así y ya verás.
Miro el reloj, mucho más tarde que ayer.
Te esperaría otra vez.
No lo haré, no lo haré.

[estribillo]
Dónde está nuestro error sin solución.
Fuiste tú el culpable, o lo fui yo.
Ni tú, ni nadie, nadie, puede cambiarme.
Mil campanas suenan en mi corazón,
que difícil es pedir perdón,
ni tú, ni nadie, nadie puede cambiarme.

Vete de aquí, no me supiste entender,
yo sólo pienso en tu bien.
No es necesario mentir.

Qué fácil es atormentarse después,
pero sobreviviré, sé que podré, sobreviviré.

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Antonio Vega – Se Dejaba Llevar
2. Ismael Serrano – Papá Cuéntame Otra Vez
3. Antonio Vega – El Sitio De Mi Recreo

De la banda neozelandesa poco se puede escribir nuevo (os recomiendo esta biografía). La formaron en 1985 dos hermanos (Tim y Neil Finn). Y veinte años más tarde se grabó el disco homenaje “She will have her way – The songs of Tim & Neil Finn” (2005). Un tributo de cantantes australianas y neozelandesas a los temas que los hermanos habían escrito para su grupo u otros. Está gente de la talla de New Buffalo, Natalie Imbruglia, Lisa Miller, … y nuestra protagonista: Clare Bowditch, que también tiene otra versión de Hallelujah. La podemos escuchar sola o acompañada de su banda Feeding Set.

Me tienen rendida a sus pies .

Letra:

I’m really close tonight
And I feel like I’m moving inside her
Lying in the dark
And I think that I’m beginning to know her
Let it go
I’ll be there when you call

[estribillo]
And whenever I fall at your feet
Do you let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

You’re hiding from me now
There’s something in the way that you’re talkin’
Words don’t sound right
But I hear them all moving inside you
Go now
I’ll be there when you call

[estribillo]

The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I’m more than willing to offer myself
Do you want my presence or need my help?
Who knows where that might lead
I fall

And whenever I fall…

The finger of blame has turned upon itself
And I’m more than willing to offer myself
Do you want my presence or need my help?
Who knows where that might lead
I fall at your feet

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Kate Nash – Foundations
2. Sara Bareilles – Gravity
3. Skin – Faithfulness

Este single dio nombre a la gira que llevó a cabo Sara en 2009 para promocionar su disco Little Voice (del que ya extrajimos su conocido Love Song). Increíble cómo se desenvuelve con el piano:

Letra:

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do
I’ll still feel you here ’til the moment I’m gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much
than to drown in your love and not feel your reign.

[estribillo]
Set me free, leave me be.
I don’t want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I’m and I stand so tall,
just the way I’m supposed to be.
But you’re on to me and all over me.

You loved me ’cause I’m fragile.
When I thought that I was strong
you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

[estribillo]

I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you’re everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you’re neither friend nor foe though I can’t seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you’re keeping me down
Keeping me down…

Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Sara Bareilles – Love Song
2. Rachael Yamagata – Be Be Your Love
3. Meredith Brooks – Bitch

El comienzo de la melodía me transporta a un estado de paz y relajo… Y la melancolía se adueña de mí

Los arreglos de la canción son impresionantes (me comenta @iturri que son de Joserra Senperena) pero también podéis disfrutar del directo que hizo para los conciertos de Radio 3. Y no os perdáis esta versión que hace de Crazy junto a Templeton.

Letra:

Why do you think it’s time?
Your dreams are far behind
Lost details of the sky and soil

Rooms are full of those
Their dreams are warn as clothes
Will pureness stay unclassified?

Join my household tips
Tear money back to stripes
And use your deadly lips to say

[estribillo]
“Sun will still be there
When we, we don’t even care
And truth proving endlessly
While we cynic as can be
Can’t even smile.”

Join my household tips
Tear money back to stripes
And use your deadly lips to say

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Kate Nash – Foundations
2. Russian Red – I Hate You But I Love You
3. Rachael Yamagata – Be Be Your Love

Rachel Yamagata lleva curtiéndose en el mundo de los directos, las bandas sonoras y las colaboraciones con artistas desde 1999. En 2004 parió su primer álbum, Happenstance, donde está esta joyita. Y desde entonces no ha parado.

No recomendable para momentos de bajón o para alegrar fiestas .

Letra:

If I could take you away
Pretend I was queen
What would you say
Would you think I’m unreal
‘Cause everybody’s got their way I should feel

[estribillo]
Everybody’s talking how I, can’t, can’t be your love
But I want, want, want to be your love
Want to be your love, for real
Everybody’s talking how I, can’t, can’t be your love
But I want, want, want to be your love
Want to be your love for real
Want to be your everything

Everything…

Everything’s falling, and I am included in that
Oh, how I try to be just okay
Yeah, but all I ever really wanted
Was a little piece of you

[estribillo]

Everything will be alright
If you just stay the night

Please, sir, don’t you walk away, don’t you walk away, don’t you walk away
Please, sir, don’t you walk away, don’t you walk away, don’t you walk away

[estribillo]

I want to be your love, love, love

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Sara Bareilles – Love Song
2. Russian Red – I Hate You But I Love You
3. David Gray – The One I Love

Que me disculpen los que me acusan de ñoña. Hay días en los que no sale nada mejor

Letra:

We could be
better than we were
If you could only see
I’m different than before
Best believe that I will never knock upon your door
But then again
You just say when

Look around
And everything has changed
Some things gone
And some things rearranged
If I ever called you
Would you think it’s strange?
But then again
You just say when

I will lay down
And whisper softly words unsaid
Wonder if you look the same
Would you even know my name?

I’ll be fine
Two feet on the ground
But no one knows
When no one’s around
Write you out a story
Read without a sound
But then again
You just say when

We could be
Better than we were
If you could only see
I’m different than before
Best believe that I will never knock upon your door
But then again
You just say when

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Kate Nash – Foundations
2. The Unfinished Sympathy – Spin In The Rye
3. Anni B Sweet – Motorway

En un año de mucho women-power de la mano de Alanis Morissette, Natalie Imbruglia, … En un año en el que aún daba reparo pronunciar el título de la canción por la ondas y en muchas estaciones hacían referencia a la misma como “una canción Meredith Brooks”.

Fue la canción que me enseñó a pronunciar correctamente playa en inglés

Letra:

I hate the world today
You’re so good to me
I know but I can’t change
tried to tell you but you look at me like maybe I’m an angel
underneath
innocent and sweet

Yesterday I cried
You must have been relieved to see the softer side
I can understand how you’d be so confused
I don’t envy you
I’m a little bit of everything
all rolled into one

[estribillo]
I’m a bitch, I’m a lover
I’m a child, I’m a mother
I’m a sinner, I’m a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I’m your health, I’m your dream
I’m nothing in between
You know you wouldn’t want it any other way

So take me as I am
This may mean you’ll have to be a stronger man
Rest assured that when I start to make you nervous
and I’m going to extremes
tomorrow I will change
and today won’t mean a thing

[estribillo]

Just when you think you’ve got me figured out
the season’s already changing
I think it’s cool you do what you do
and don’t try to save me

[estribillo]

I’m a bitch, I’m a tease
I’m a goddess on my knees
when you hurt, when you suffer
I’m your angel undercover
I’ve been numbed, I’m revived
can’t say I’m not alive
You know I wouldn’t want it any other way

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Free Bird [Recomendación]
2. Radiohead – Creep
3. Katy Perry – Hot N Cold

Este chico se ha ido haciendo un nombre gracias al mundo del cine: escribió la banda sonora de Yo, yo mismo e Irene, ha colaborado musicalmente con Scarlett Johansson (su hermano es el representante de la actriz), otro hit suyo Just Another ha aparecido en series como Smallville, Dawson crece, Felicity, … Y por supuesto, esta canción ha aparecido en otra serie: House.

Expresa a las mil maravillas la rendición. Cuando has bajado ya los brazos y has asumido tu destino. Aunque ese destino suponga la pérdida de algo muy importante. No siempre se tienen las fuerzas suficientes para luchar contra los elementos.

Letra:

I’m taking a ride off to one side
It is a personal thing.
Where?
When I can’t stand?
Up in this cage I’m not regretting.

I don’t need a better thing,
I’d settle for less,
It’s another thing for me,
I just have to wander through this world
Alone.

Stop before you fall
Into the hole that I have dug here,
Rest even as you
Are starting to feel the way I used to,
I don’t need a better thing
Just to sound confused
Don’t talk about everyone,
I am not amused by you.

Cause I’m gonna lose you,
Yes I’m gonna lose you
If I’m gonna lose you…

Cause I’m gonna lose you,
Yes I’m gonna lose you
If I’m gonna lose you…

I’ll lose you now for good

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Rufus Wainwright – Going To A Town
2. Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky
3. Sara Bareilles – Love Song

Obadiah Parker es un cantautor de Nashville que tiene su página web, sube sus actuaciones a youtube, vende sus discos con paypal, tiene sus canciones en MySpace. Y gracias a esto, mediante twitter descubrí esta estupenda versión del Hey Ya de OutKast.

Letra:

My baby don’t mess around
Because she loves me so
And this I know for shooo..
Uh, But does she really wanna
But can’t stand to see me
Walk out the dooor..

Don’t try to fight the feelin’
Because the thought alone is killing me right now..
Uh, thank god for mom and dad
For sticking two together
‘Cause we don’t know how…

[estribillo]
Hey Ya
Hey Ya
Hey Ya
Hey Ya

You think you’ve got it
Oh, you think you’ve got it
But got it just don’t get it
Till’ there’s nothing at

We get together
Oh, we get together
But seperate’s always better when there’s feelings
Involved

If what they say is “Nothing is forever”
Then what makes, Then what makes, Then what makes
Then what makes, Then what makes love?
Love exception
So why you, why you
Why you, why you, why you are we so in denial
When we know we’re not happy here

[estribillo]

Hey, alright now
Alright now fellas
Now what’s cooler than bein’ cool?
I can’t hear ya’
I say what’s cooler than bein’ cool?
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, Ok now ladies
And we gon’ break this thing down in just a few seconds
Now don’t have me break this thang down for nothin’
Now I wanna see y’all on y’all baddest behavior
Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbor ahh here we go!
Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it
Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture, shake it, shake it
Shh you got to, shake it, shh shake it, shake it, got to shake it
Shake it like a Polaroid Picture

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Radiohead – Creep
2. The Ting Tings – Hands
3. Russian Red – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

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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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Aimee Mann – Wise Up
2. April March – Chick Habit
3. Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky