Además esta melodía me recuerda a la banda sonora de CSI, no me preguntéis por qué. La cuestión es que ha sido el primer single del último disco de esta banda norteamericana. Os dejo con un vídeo estático, porque el videoclip oficial es muy gracioso pero la narración interfiere demasiado en la escucha de la canción:

Letra:

Well, this is just a simple song, to say what you done.
I told you about all those fears, and away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
And you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.

When I was just nine years old, I swear that I dreamt,
Your face on a football field, and a kiss that I kept, under my vest.
Apart from everything, but the heart in my chest.

[estribillo]
I know that things can really get rough, When you go it alone.
Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough, and play like a stone.
Could be there’s nothing else in our lives so critical, as this little home.

My life in an upturned boat, Marooned on a cliff.
You brought me a great big flood, and you gave me a lift.
Girl, what a gift.
Will you tell me with your tongue, and your breath was in my lungs, And we float up through the rift.

[estribillo]

Well, this would be a simple song, to say what you done.
I told you about all those fears, and away they did run.
You sure must be strong,
When you feel like an ocean being warmed by the sun.

Remember walking a mile to your house, aglow in the dark?
I made a fumbling play for your heart, and the act struck a spark.
You wore a charm on the chain that I stole, especial for you.
Love’s such a delicate thing that we do, with nothing to prove,
Which I never knew.

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Blur – Song 2
2. Metric – Help I’m Alive
3. Ash – Polaris

Este es el regalo que nos hizo Foals como primer single de su segundo (y por ahora último) disco “Total Life Forever” (2010).

Por cierto, la melodía, a pesar del título, no tiene ninguna relación con el Sahara. Estos artistas…

Letra:

So I walked into the haze
And a million dirty ways
Now I see you lying there
Like a lilo losing air air

Black rocks and shoreline surf
Still that summer I cannot bear
And I wipe the sand from my eyes
Spanish sahara the place that you´d wanna

Leave the horror here
Forget the horror here
forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It’s future rust and it´s future dust

Forget the horror here
forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It’s future rust and it´s future dust

Now the waves they drag you down
Carry you to broken ground
Though I find you in the sand
Wipe you clean with dirty hands

So god damn this boiling space
Spanish sahara the place that you´d wanna
Leave the horror here
Forget the horror here forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It’s future rust and it´s future dust
I’m the fury in your head
I’m the fury in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head

Cause I am
I’m the fury in your head
I’m the fury in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head

Cause I am
I’m the fury in your head
I’m the fury in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head
Cause I am

Forget the horror here
forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It’s future rust and it´s future dust
Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head

Cause I am
Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head

Cause I am
Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I’m the ghost in the back of your head
Cause I am

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Pixies – Hey
2. Arcade Fire – Wake Up
3. The xx – Crystalised

Hacía tiempo que no rompía mi silencio (problemas de conexión en casa), pero no os quejaréis… porque volver con este himno de The Black Keys bien merece una espera . Sin duda, 2011 ha sido el año de esta banda estadounidense que se ha sacado de la manga un álbum de los que marcan un antes y un después.

No me digáis que tras ver el videoclip no os entran unas ganas tremendas de salir de fiesta, que os pongan esta canción y desataros con esos pasos . El artista en cuestión es Derrick T. Tuggle: actor, músico y guarda de seguridad a tiempo parcial. Dice que sus fuentes de inspiración han sido principalmente John Travolta en Fiebre del sábado noche y el baile de Carlton Banks en El príncipe de Bel Air. Ahí es nada :

Letra:

Well I’m so above you and It’s plain to see
But I came to love you in a way
So you pull my heart out, and I don’t mind bleeding
Any of the time you keep me waiting, waiting, waiting

[estribillo]
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I’m a lonely boy
I’m a lonely boy
Oh oh oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

Well, your mama kept you but your daddy left you
And I should have done you just the same
But I came to love you, am I born to bleed?
Any of the time you keep me waiting, waiting, waiting

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. The Black Keys – Tighten Up
2. The Police – So Lonely
3. The Rolling Stones – Paint In Black

Me encanta el guitarreo inicial y esta estrofa: “Take all the courage you have left wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head“. Y es que como decía mi abuelo, lo más difícil en esta vida es llevarse bien con uno mismo y que nuestros propios demonios no nos machaquen.

Letra:

Weep for yourself, my man,
You’ll never be what is in your heart
Weep Little Lion Man,
You’re not as brave as you were at the start
Rate yourself and rake yourself,
Take all the courage you have left
Wasted on fixing all the problems
That you made in your own head

[estribillo]
But it was not your fault but mine
And it was your heart on the line
I really fucked it up this time
Didn’t I, my dear?
Didn’t I, my…

Tremble for yourself, my man,
You know that you have seen this all before
Tremble Little Lion Man,
You’ll never settle any of your scores
Your grace is wasted in your face,
Your boldness stands alone among the wreck
Now learn from your mother or else spend your days biting your own neck

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Metric – Help I’m Alive
2. The Coral – Dreaming of You
3. The Zutons – Valerie

Banda joven, aunque éste es ya su segundo álbum (Sweet Champagne, 2011) y han tocado en sitios de envergadura como el Rock in Rio Brasil 2011. Recomendable verles y escucharles .

Y de puntillas empieza una nueva semana mientras otra termina.

Letra:

Traffic lights stop, start, and go
Shallow paths made of soft walls
Hide and run, where else to go?
Hit and fall my leaking soul
Silhouettes of thoughts
knocking on my door
Where my goals are set to blow

[estribillo]
Let me rekindle my throne
Trumpets will welcome me home
Dropping the walls and I’m gone
Come take me away
Here I go again

Crying morning
in my new rose garden
Sugar-coated sunlight
warming up my dreams
I’m dodging bright blue flowers
dancing ‘round my knees
While I start tip toeing in paradise

Shift the gear and go again
Left or right stoically mundane
Feeling the aim upon my chest
undo my knot and prepare to rest

[estribillo]

Traffic lights stop, start, and go
Hide and run, where else to go?

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Marlango – It’s All Right
2. Beirut – Goshen
3. Belle & Sebastian – I Want The World To Stop

Para ello, he decidido invitar a este blog a los neoyorkinos The Walkmen que, con el single de su tercer álbum (Bows + Arrows, 2004), tocaron el cielo. Guitarreo puro y canción de las que se berrean con ganas a determinadas personas .

Atención a la raruna versión que hizo Florence + The Machine.

Letra:

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
I know we’ve been through this before
Can’t you hear me, I’m calling out your name?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
Can’t you hear me, I’m bleeding on the wall?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

Can’t you hear me when I’m calling out your name?

When I used to go out, I would know everyone that I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all

When I used to go out I’d know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all
When I used to go out I’d know everyone I saw
Now I go out alone if I go out at all

You’ve got a nerve to be asking a favor
You’ve got a nerve to be calling my number
I’m sure we’ve been through this before
Can’t you hear me, I’m beating on your wall?
Can’t you see me, I’m pounding on your door?

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Jet – Look What You’ve Done
2. The Killers – Read My Mind
3. The Unfinished Sympathy – Spin In The Rye

Eso sí, seguro que muchos el primer día de trabajo os habréis sentido como Dave Grohl en este videoclip al más puro estilo “Un día de furia“. Un videoclip en el que intervienen todos los miembros de la banda (que se lo pasan pipa últimamente grabando).

Wasting Light es el séptimo y, por ahora, último álbum de la banda y lo defienden de muerte en todos los planos: el musical, el artístico y por supuesto, el directo (muchos rezamos para que los trajeran al BBK Live, pero este año no se escucharon nuestras súplicas).

Un poco de energía para arrancar el mes de Septiembre. Toca andar y repetirse: No me quiero morir nunca (“I never wanna die“):

Letra:

A million miles away
Your signal in the distance
To whom it may concern
I think I lost my way
Getting good at starting over
Every time that I return

[estribillo]
I’m learning to walk again
I believe I’ve waited long enough
Where do I begin?
I’m learning to talk again
Can’t you see I’ve waited long enough
Where do I begin?

Do you remember the days
We built these paper mountains
And sat and watched them burn
I think I found my place
Can’t you feel it growing stronger
Little conquerors

[estribillo]

Now
For the very first time
Don’t you pay no mind
Set me free again

To keep alive a moment at a time
But still inside a whisper to a riot
To sacrifice but knowing to survive
The first to climb another state of mind
I’m on my knees, I’m praying for a sign
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I never wanna die
I’m on my knees
I never wanna die
I’m dancing on my grave
I’m running through the fire
Forever, whenever
I never wanna die
I never wanna leave
I never say goodbye
Forever, whenever, forever, whenever

[estribillo]

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Foo Fighters – Best Of You
2. Crystal Fighters – Champion Sound
3. Lou Reed – Walk On the Wild Side

Eso sí, lo dimos todo con Ready to Start (que fue la primera canción), No Cars Go o la canción que hoy traigo, con imágenes del documental de Spike Jonze de fondo. Por cierto, ¿soy la única que cree que la voz de Regine es horrible?

De teloneros tuvimos pequeñas esencias: L.A. y The Walkman. Y con este concierto doy por finalizado el maratón musical del mes de Julio .

Letra:

Something filled up
my heart with nothing,
someone told me not to cry.

But now that I’m older,
my heart’s colder,
and I can see that it’s a lie.

Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.

If the children don’t grow up,
our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
We’re just a million little gods causing rain storms turning every good thing to rust.

I guess we’ll just have to adjust.

With my lightnin’ bolts a glowing
I can see where I am going to be
when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

With my lightning bolts a glowing
I can see where I am going
With my lightning bolts a glowing
I can see where I am, go-go, where I am

You’d better look out below

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
2. Arcade Fire – Ready to Start
3. Thirteen Senses – Into The Fire

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

Pero hay un grupo que me despierta especial interés: The Twilight Singers. La banda de Greg Dulli lleva sin sacar disco desde 2006, pero tiene temazos como esta declaración de amor. Es una versión de la canción de Massive Attack. En esta cover la voz tan personal la pone Mark Lanegan. Dado que es una banda tan voluble (los músicos cambian disco a disco y gira a gira a excepción de Dulli), no sé si mañana podré escuchar esta canción. Por si acaso, la dejo aquí .

Letra:

It don’t matter
When you turn
Gonna survive
Live and learn
I’ve been thinking about you baby

By the light of dawn
And in my blues
Day and night
I been missing you
I’ve been thinking about you baby
Come and live with me

Either way
Win or lose
When you’re born into trouble
You live the blues
I’ve been thinking about you baby
See it almost makes me crazy child

[estribillo]
Nothing’s right if you ain’t here
I’d give all that I have
Just to keep you near
I wrote you a letter
I tried to make it clear
You just don’t seem to think
That I’m sincere

I’ve been thinking about you baby…
Come live with me

Plans and schemes
Hopes and fears
Dreams I’ve denied
For all these years
I’ve been thinking about you baby
Makes me wanna…
Ooo child
Ooo child

[estribillo]

I’ve been thinking about you baby
Come live with me
Come live with me
Come live with me

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Canciones relacionadas:

1. Coldplay – Fix You (BBK Live 2011)
2. La semana de… Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever
3. The Strokes – You Only Live Once [Recomendación]