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Llegan a España este mes: No hay fechas para Valencia

Odio al tío ese de LCD Soundystem; sólo hace que copiarme y luego todo el mundo dice que es buenísimo (Mark E. Smith de The Fall)

La canción suena 100 % Saint Etienne. Incluso la letra parece un pastiche de ellos: Una estación de tren, líneas como “and I begin to cry/then the rain come down” y el final de la letra: “I´ve been once before/forgot to say goodbye...” El single se publica el Lunes en UK

Es la canción que abre el lp, una canción triste que repite unas frases sobre el manto de guitarras acústicas, el pálpito rítmico constante y bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla... (uffffffff)

Juan Vitoria en su libro Discos Ocultos

Like a summer rose
It needs the sun and rain
Oh, I need your sweet love
To beat all the pain

Hal David en estado puro. Por algo le llaman el mejor letrista del pop

And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain

A Everything But The Girl parece que les gusta mucho Hal David... Esa línea está muy inspirada en él, ¿verdad?

En la vida James Dean se hubiera imaginado que alguien le hiciera un tributo semejante... Amor de fan

No son los Four Tops, ¡son Orange Juice!

Ayer estuve viendo el episodio final de los Soprano y sonó de fondo esta canción, un clásico doo wop, “Denise” de Randy & The Rainbows, que en los 70 versionearon Blondie con el título de “Denis”. Prefiero OÍR la versión original pero me gusta más VER la segunda, aunque sorprende un poco el excesivo rol sexy de Debbie Harry. Claro, eran los 70 y las feministas no tenían mucho peso, parece. Hoy sería políticamente incorrecto...

Uno leyendo una biografía de los Pet Shop Boys y el otro un NME con Morrissey en la portada. Pura iconografía de los 80

“There is no chicago urban blues, more heartfelt than my lament for you.”

(When Prefab Sprout Wrecked My Mind ... que dirían los suecos Blind Terry)

Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo
You're living in your own Private Idaho
Living in your own Private Idaho
Underground like a wild potato.

This was inspired by a 1970 Temptations song called "Psychedelic Shack," which had the refrain: "Psychedelic Shack, that's where it's at."

The lyrics are fun and harmless, but they can be interpreted as being about a place where people go to have sex. At Disney World, you will never see Mickey Mouse dancing to it.

Nile Rodgers and Don Was produced this.

This was the B-52's first Top 10 hit in the US.

The group performed this on an episode of The Simpsons as "Glove Slap."

The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together

Love Shack baby

She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?"

.....

And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

I could never make it alone
I always wanna be by your side
I´ve been lost but I believe in you

...

I wanna thank you
I wanna thank you ´cause you light up my life

“Siempre escribo canciones de amor muy serias, pero a menudo hay un sentimiento soterrado de humor o ironía. Encuentro muy interesante la combinación de lo serio y lo ridículo. Todos mis compositores favoritos hacen eso, más o menos intencionadamente. En Irene todos somos muy sinceros y nos encantan las canciones de amor tontas”

“Scott Walker could sing “Happy Birthday” and make it seem like the only song in the world” (Marc Almond)

The Bodines were probably the most exciting of last year's fresh indie crop. They released three great slabs of melodic pop on Creation Records, put meaning back into the fringe haircut, starred on an rm EP... and now prepare to release their first major label single. Will they score heavily in the pop charts, or are they condemned to cultdom?
Story: Andy Strickland  (SI, EL MISMO ANDY STRICKLAND QUE FUE MIEMBRO DE THE LOFT Y THE CARETAKER RACE ) entrevista a The Bodines en http://www.btinternet.com/~birdpoo/bodines/rminterv.htm

Hoy como todos los años, The Godfathers dan su concierto tradicional del día de San Valentín en el que conmemoran una matanza entre bandas de gansters tal día como hoy y al que se le dio el nombre de St Valentine´s day massacre y a una película con el mismo título. En honor a todo ellos escribieron lo que yo creo que es sus mejor canción: “Love is Dead”

Así empieza Baby Stones (imaginaros como acaba...)

You say you want take a lover

Although you´re satisfied with me

We have to open our horizons my love we can

But you´ll do it without me

Yo can call me old fashioned

You can call me straight of lace

I´m not going to sit here

And let another man take my place

“We came back from Christmas in New York having lost our record company somewhere along the way. I wrote this in inmigration having been refused entry to the United Kingdom. The first person who heard the song was my sister. She said that Marianne Faithful should sing it” (Grant McLennan en las notas interiores de “The Go Betweens 1978-1990”)

En Marzo Rough Trade editará el primer lp de este galesa producida por Bernard Butler. Canta soul como los ángeles y tiene una voz tan buena como la de Amy Winehouse, aunque afortunadamente su imagen y actitud no tienen nada que ver con la patética ganadora de los últimos Grammys. Cuelgo las dos versiones que he encontrado de “Mercy”. La segunda es en directo en el programa de Jools Holland

Pese a ocupar lugar muchas semanas en los charts, Billy Fury nunca 

alcanzó un número uno. Sin embargo, Fury tuvo en los  60, más éxitos

en el top 20, que la mayoría  de los otros grupos e intérpretes, sólo

superado por los Beatles, Cliff  Richard y Elvis Presley.

Curiosa historia. “Cruel To Be Kind” originalmente fue una cara B...

On this date in 1978, Nick Lowe released his fifth single, "Little Hitler". It was backed by "Cruel To Be Kind". The A side appeared on his debut U.K. album, Jesus Of Cool, as well as his debut U.S. album, Pure Pop For New People. The B side did not. The single did not chart but the B side was re-released the following year as an A side and reached the #12 spot on the U.K. singles chart. It was included on his second album, Labour Of Lust.

Maravillosa canción. Dudo mucho que exista un vídeo original, así que pego esto con imágenes de la película “Tienes un email” que alguien ha colgado en youtube Por cierto, llegó al ¡número 67 de las listas en UK! Y la letra tiene menciones a Isabelle Adjani y Mel Gibson

Esto suena como los Buzzcocks, canciones de 2 minutos en plan new wave.

Correcto are Danny Saunders, Richard Wright, Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand) and Patrick Doyle (The Royal We).

Bonita canción que ahora se ha visto reeditada.

Mavericks, the 1991 duo album by Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey (members of the dB's in the early '80s), will be reissued on January 15, 2008 on Collectors' Choice Music. The re- mastered new version of the album will contain six previously unreleased tracks. Holsapple and Stamey produced the album themselves and welcomed several guest musicians of note: Jane Scarpantoni, (Tiny Lights, Bruce Springsteen, R.E.M.), Chris Butler (The Waitresses and veteran producer), Gene Holder (The dB's), Dave Schramm (The Schramms), Ilene Markell (7 Deadly 5, Wednesday Week) and Michael Blair (Tom Waits).

“Mavericks is the product of an old friendship having new parameters," says Holsapple. “Chris and I have worked together since we were teenagers, and this album is certainly one of the finest we've ever made. In part due to its comparative placidity (compared to a dB's record, that is) and also its lyrical maturity, Mavericks is rightly considered an acoustic rock treasure by lots of people. I have always loved the buoyant harmonies and intriguing arrangement moves throughout this record. Stripped of the powerhouse rhythm section of the dB's, Chris' and my songs and vocals retain their strength; the album is a quiet gem, not without its rockers, but focusing on the more intimate and peaceful side of our writing."

The core album contains 12 tracks. The two best known are the lead track, “Angels," and the Holsapple song “She Was the One." Eleven of the songs are originals and one ("Here Without You") was penned by Gene Clark and originally recorded by the Byrds. Other tracks of note include Stamey's “Geometry" and “I Want to Break Your Heart," as well as Holsapple's “Anymore."

The Collectors' Choice reissue of Mavericks adds six previously unreleased bonus tracks: the original version of “Angels," plus “Hollywood Waltz" (bringing the album's total number of waltzes to two), a more ornate arrangement of “Close Your Eyes," an acoustic remix of “Here Without You," an electric remix of “Anymore" and an instrumental, “I Knew You Would."

Holsapple and Stamey are at work on a long-awaited “sequel" duo album titled Here & Now, due for release in 2008.

Jamás Sarah Nelson ni Massive Attack volverán a hacer una canción tan buena como ésta...

Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart
I'm missing every part

Other Music es el Rough Trade Neoyorkino, más o menos. Aquí hay más apariciones live: (¡The Clean!)

http://digital.othermusic.com/wp/?cat=13

First record bought: Race With the Devil by Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
Favourite film: Blue Velvet
Record to grab in an emergency: Link Ray (1970)
Inspiration: My father, my uncle and my grandfather
Recent discovery: Sigur Ros