sábado, 22 de diciembre de 2007

Kutless - All the Words


Con Kutless estreno un género nuevo; porque a esta banda se la ubica en lo que se conoce como "Christian Rock" o "rock Cristiano"; bastante distinto a lo que estamos acostumbrados a escuchar en la iglesia.

Kutless es una banda con una gran variedad músical, y que ha alcanzado con distintos temas los número 1 del ranking de rock cristiano en los Estados Unidos. El tema que les dejo "All the Words", no es el caso, creo que ni siquiera fue lanzado como corte del disco "Sea of Faces" en el cual estaba incluido. Es un tema que escuché (cuando no) en Scrubs, y la verdad que me llamó la atención; y me parece que iría perfecto para musicalizar algún video casero.

All the Words

How do I speak of the indescribable to You
I will try to explain these feelings that are true
So looking to the sky I will sing and from my heart to You I bring

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship
I worship You

In your presence I forever choose to live
I will praise You for it's all I have to give
So looking to the sky I will sing and from my heart to You I bring

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship

By Your grace You let me come talk to You
It's not that I'm worthy I thank you Jesus
For the love that You have shown

All of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship

With all of the words in all of my life that could never explain and never describe
All of my love, which is nothing to hide so I lift up my hands and I worship
I worship You

Myspace de Kutless

viernes, 14 de diciembre de 2007

Dashboard Confessional - Stolen


Hoy llega "Dashboard Confessional" una ¿banda? de Florida, Estados Unidos. Los signos de interrogación se deben a que parece ser en realidad el nombre de la carrera solista de su principal miembro Chris Carraba, el guitarrista y "frontman" de la banda; por lo que escuché y leí parece que estamos ante la presencia de una especie de "one hit wonder"; aunque en realidad la canción en cuestión alcanzó "nomás" el puesto 44, pero sin impedir que sea un tema, llamativo al menos.
Stolen es una muy buena canción que va construyendo su clima progresivamente a medida que va avanzando la canción, hasta alcanzar lo que en mi opinión es un final más que interesante. Se incluyó dentro del album Dusk and Summer. Una curiosidad de esta canción es que se lanzaron dos versiones de la canción una "slow" (la que les dejo) y una un poco más acelerada en el tempo que es con la cual se hizo el videoclip.

Stolen

We watch the season
Pull up it’s own stakes
And catch the last weekend
Of the last week
Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced
Another sun soaked season fades away

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart

Invitation only
Grand Farewells
Crush the best one
Of the best ones
Clear liquor and cloudy eyed
Too early to say goodnight

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart

And from the ball room floor
We are in celebration
One good stretch before our hibernation
Our dreams assured and we all
Will sleep well
Sleep Well

Sleep Well
Sleep Well
Sleep Well

you have stolen
you have stolen
you have stolen my heart

Watch you spin around
In your highest heels
You are the best one
Of the best ones
We
All
Look
Like
We
Feel

you have stolen my
you have stolen my
you have stolen my heart




Myspace de "Dashboard Confessional"
Videoclip



miércoles, 12 de diciembre de 2007

Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie

Bueno cada vez aparezco más espaciadamente pero acá vuelvo con otra canción, en este caso de la banda americana "Fountains of Wayne". La banda apareció en el año 1996 y ha tenido un par de veces sus "15 minutos de fama" con canciones como "Radiation Vibe" y "Stacy´s mom" (con un videoclip muy gracioso) La canción que acá les dejo no es ninguna de esas, pero al igual que la última aparece en el disco "Welcome Interstate Managers".
El tema en cuestión es la muy simple y pegajosa "Hey Julie"; (nada que ver con la gloriosa "Hey Jude" de los 4 dioses de Liverpool) Instrumentación acústica, y una melodía cautivante es la receta de este tema, que se hizo conocido al público general en un capítulo de la fascinante y comiquísima serie de televisión "Scrubs".

Hey Julie

Working all day for a mean little man
With a clip-on tie and a rub-on tan
He's got me running 'round the office like a dog around a track
But when I get home,
You're always there to rub my back

Hey Julie,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Julie, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through without you around

Hours on the phone making pointless calls
I got a desk full of papers that means nothing at all
Sometimes I catch myself staring into space
Counting down the hours 'til I get to see your face

Hey Julie,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Julie, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through with out you around
No, I'd never make it through with out you around

[Bridge]
How did it come to be
That you and I must be
Far away from each other every day?
Why must I spend my time
Filling up my mind
With facts and figures that never add up anyway?
They never add up anyway

Working all day for a mean little guy
With a bad toupee and a soup-stained tie
He's got me running 'round the office
Like a gerbil on a wheel
He can tell me what to do
But he can't tell me what to feel

Hey Julie,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Julie, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through with out you around
No, I'd never make it through without you around
No, I'd never make it through with out you around

Myspace de "Fountains of Wayne"
Hey Julie en vivo

miércoles, 5 de diciembre de 2007

Five for Fighting - 100 years

Bueno como me quedé con bronca porque la canción de The Fray no se escucha vuelvo a la carga con otra balada al piano. En este caso, Five for Fighting el cual podría ser tranquilamente el nombre de una banda, pero es el nombre artístico del artista de piano rock/pop John Ondrasik; un estadounidense que araña los 40 años y hace 10 que se lanzó profesionalmente a la música; sus influencias pueden ser marcadas para el lado del genial Billy Joel y ciertas cosas de Elton John. Multi-instrumentista (piano, guitarra, voces, armonica) tiene una poderosa habilidad para componer temas profundos y pegadizos como el que les dejo acá.

"100 years" pertenece a su disco de 2004, "The Battle for everything" y cuenta la historia de una relación amorosa que empieza a los 15 y termina a los 100 años; todo esto acompañado por una excelente base de piano de fondo. El tema tuvo una muy buena aceptación, llevando al disco al puesto Nº20 en los Estados Unidos; y siendo utilizada en varios programas de televisión.

"100 Years"

I'm 15 for a moment
Caught in between 10 and 20
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
I'm 22 for a moment
She feels better than ever
And we're on fire
Making our way back from Mars
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to lose
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
I'm 33 for a moment
Still the man, but you see I'm a they
A kid on the way
A family on my mind
I'm 45 for a moment
The sea is high
And I'm heading into a crisis
Chasing the years of my life
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy, Time to lose yourself
Within a morning star
15 I'm all right with you
15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live
Half time goes by
Suddenly you’re wise
Another blink of an eye
67 is gone
The sun is getting high
We're moving on...
I'm 99 for a moment
Dying for just another moment
And I'm just dreaming
Counting the ways to where you are
15 there's still time for you
22 I feel her too
33 you’re on your way
Every day's a new day...
15 there's still time for you
Time to buy and time to choose
Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this
When you only got 100 years to live

Myspace de Five for Fighting
Videoclip

lunes, 3 de diciembre de 2007

Hot Hot Heat - Middle of nowhere


Bueno después de no haber posteado nada el fin de semana; y de luchar para ver si la canción de "The Fray" lograba andar (cosa que no pude) les dejo otra canción.
En esta oportunidad les dejo algo de "Hot Hot Heat" banda canadiense de indie rock de aparición en la escena músical en 1999. La canción "Middle of nowhere" pertenece al disco "Elevator" del 2005; y el tema fue lanzado también como single alcanzando el puesto 23 en el ranking estadounidense, y el 47 en el Reino Unido. También se incluyó en el segundo disco del soundtrack de la serie "One Tree Hill".
La canción en sí es una canción aparentemente bastante alegre, con un teclado pop que se destaca lo suficiente; pero a pesar de esto hay una letra bastante melancólica.
Denle una oída al tema que seguramente les va a llamar la atención.

"Middle Of Nowhere"

Don't get mad if I'm laughing
Blame the caffeine for all the 5 am phone calls
I haven't slept a single night in over a month
And not even once did you start to make sense to me
Well maybe I'm a little bit slow, or just consistently inconsistent
She said, "Unpredictability's my responsibility, baby."

But you're waiting at the door where everybody's hanging out just like they hung out before
You didn't have to do it but you did it to say
That you didn't have to do it but you would anyway

To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere
To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere

They chewed me up and then they spit me out
And I'm not supposed to let it bother me
But maybe I'm a little bit weak - I let my frailty take the wheel
She said, "Maybe there's a bit of me waiting for a bit of you. baby."

But you're waiting at the door where everybody's hanging out just like they hung out before
You didn't have to do it but you did it to say
That you didn't have to do it but you would anyway

To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere
To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere

But you're waiting at the door where everybody's hanging out just like they hung out before
You didn't have to do it but you did it to say
That you didn't have to do it but you would anyway

To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere
To give you something to go on when I go off back to the middle of nowhere
To give you something to go on - to go on back to the middle of nowhere

Myspace de Hot Hot Heat
Videoclip

viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2007

The Fray - How to save a life

The Fray es una banda que representa claramente lo que ahora se conoce como, "piano rock" música girando alrededor de los teclados en vez de las guitarras. La banda es de Denver, Colorado y se forma en el año 2002; siempre se los compara con Coldplay; pero ellos mismos se declaran más cerca de U2, Better than Ezra y Counting Crows.

The Fray alcanzo la masividad sin ningún lugar a dudas con su último disco "How to save a life", y para ser más específico con el single homónimo, durante el año 2006. La canción cuenta una experiencia personal de la voz lider y tecladista de la banda; Isaac Slade cuando trabajó en una especie de centro de rehabilitación para adictos al crack; y su relación con un adolescente al que no pudo salvar de su adicción.
La canción fue muy bien recibida en todo el mundo, alcanzando el Nº1 en varios países, el número 3 en Estados Unidos, el 4 en Inglaterra y también le fue muy bien en territorio español pero por alguna razón la canción no cruzó a este lado del Atlántico.

How to save a life

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

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

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

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

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

Videoclip
MySpace de The Fray

jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2007

Nada Surf - Always Love

Hoy les traigo un tema de Nada Surf, unas de las mejores bandas(sino la mejor) que he conocido a través de internet, y de la que seguramente les iré dejando más temas. Nada Surf pertenece a lo que se denomina como "indie rock"; es un power trío de la ciudad de New York y se caracterizan por la fusión de elementos acústicos con crudas distorsiones.
La banda se junta en 1992; y en 1996 alcanzan una gran popularidad con el tema "Popular" del album "High/Low" en el cual se recomendaba a los jovenes en tono sarcástico, la manera de alcanzar la popularidad en la secundaria. Luego le siguieron "The proximity effect" del 2oo0 y "Let Go" del 2003; en el cual se destacan temas como "Blizzard of 77" y la majestuosa "Inside of Love" de la cual hablaré otro día.
Pero volviendo al tema de hoy, "Always Love" pertenece al muy buen disco lanzado en 2005 "The weight is a gift"; presenta una muy buena combinación de arpegios, coros, letra y guitarras; el tema fue utilizado en varios programas de TV; y fue uno de los puntos altos de un disco que fue aclamado por la crítica y el público.

Always Love

To make a mountain of your life
Is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me
Always love? Hate will get you every time
Always love? Don't wait til the finish line

Slow demands come 'round
Squeeze the air and keep the rest out
It helps to write it down
Even when you then cross it out

But Always Love? Hate will get you every time
Always Love?Even when you wanna fight

Self-directed lives
I want to know what it?d be like to
Aim so high above
Any card that you've been dealt, you...

Always Love? Hate will get you every time
Always Love? Hate will get you?

I've been held back by something
Yeah. You said to me quietly on the stairs,
I've been held back by something
Yeah. You said to me quietly on the stairs.
You said?
Hey, you good ones.
Hey, you good ones.

To make a mountain of your life
Is just a choice
But I never learned enough
To listen to the voice that told me...
Always love? hate will get you every time
Always love? hate will get you?

I've been held back by something
Yeah, You said to me quietly on the stairs,
I've been held back by something
Yeah, You said to me quietly on the stairs
You said..
Hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
Hey, you good ones
I?


Myspace de Nada Surf
Videoclip de "Always Love"

miércoles, 28 de noviembre de 2007

Vega 4 - Life is Beautiful


El tema de hoy es de una banda británica (cuando no) llamada Vega4; si les tengo que decir a que se parece es obvia la comparación con Coldplay o Snow Patrol; la canción que dejo para que escuchen se titula "Life is Beautiful" y pertenece al disco "You & Others" de aparición bastante reciente en el año 2006. La canción ganó en popularidad apareciendo en algunos de los programas de TV más importantes de Estados Unidos como "Grey´s Anatomy" y "One Tree Hill" lo que logró que la banda se diera a conocer entre el público américano. El tema arranca con una sola guitarra bastante tranquila; pero 5 minutos después alcanzando el final de la canción se llega al climax con varias guitarras con distorsión, teclados, y varias voces; logrando un final excelente.

Life is Beautiful

life is beautiful
we live until we die

when you run into my arms
we steal a perfect moment
Let the monsters see you smile
let them see you smile
and do i hold you too tightly
when will the hurt kick in

life is beautiful
but it's complicated
we barely make it
we don't need to understand
there are miracles
miracles

your life is beautiful
our hearts they beat and break
when you run away from harm
will you run back into my arms
like you did when you were young
will you come back to me
and i will hold you tightly
when the hurting kicks in

life is beautiful
but it's complicated
we barely make it
we don't need to understand
there are miracles
miracles

stand where you are
we let all these moments pass us by

it's amazing where i'm standing
there's a lot left we can give

this is ours just for a moment
there's a lot left we can give

it's amazing where i'm standing
there's a lot left we can give

this is ours just for a moment
there's a lot left we can give


MySpace de Vega4

martes, 27 de noviembre de 2007

The Fratellis - Whistle for the Choir

En este caso les dejo un tema the "The Fratellis", una de las bandas más importantes de la nueva "British Invasion". "Whistle for the choir", pertenece a la, hasta ahora, única placa de la banda "Costello Music", la cual fue muy bien recibida por la crítica y el público, llegando al 2do puesto en el "UK Top 40". El tema en sí es una suerte de canción unplugged, donde predomina la guitarra acústica; y una melodía muy pegajosa.


Whistle For The Choir

Well it's a big big city and it's always the same
Can never be too pretty, tell me your name
Is it out of line if I were simply bold and say "would you be mine"?

Because I may be a beggar and you may be the queen
I know I may be on a downer I'm still ready to dream
Now it's 3 o'clock the time is just the time it takes for you to talk

And so if you're lonely why'd you say you're not lonely
Oh you're a silly girl, I know I heard it so
It's just like you to come and go
And know me no you don't even know me
You're so sweet to try, oh my, you caught my eye
A girl like you's just irresistible

Well it's a big big city and the lights are all out
But it's as much as I can do you know to figure you out
And I must confess, my heart's so broke in pieces and my heads a mess

And it's 4 in the morning, and I'm walking along
Beside the ghost of every drinker here who's ever done wrong
And it's you, woo hoo, that's got me going crazy for the things you do

So if you're crazy I don't care you amaze me
But you're a stupid girl, oh me, oh my, you talk
I die, you smile, you laugh, I cry
And only, a girl like you could be lonely
And it's a crying shame, if you would think the same
A boy like me's just irresistible

So if you're lonely, why'd you say you're not lonely
Oh you're a silly girl, I know I heard it so
It's just like you to come and go
And know me, no you don't even know me
You're so sweet to try, oh my, you caught my eye
A girl like you's just irresistible

MySpace de la banda
Videoclip

lunes, 26 de noviembre de 2007

Dishwalla - Angels or Devils


El tema que inaugurá a este blog, es "Angels or Devils" de Dishwalla, una banda de rock alternativo de California, Estados Unidos. Dishwalla se forma en el año 1994; y un año después ya conocían el éxito con su single "Counting Blue Cars" el cual tuvo muy buena aceptación en suelo norteamericano. Luego sacaron un disco bastante intrascendente como lo fue "And You Think You Know What Life's About" de 1998. Pero sin dudas, su mayor éxito es el tema que acá les dejo "Angels or Devils", el cual se incluye en su disco del año 2002 "Opaline"
El tema es lo que se conoce como una "power ballad" con buenos arreglos de cuerdas que le van dando ambiente, y donde la voz del vocalista JR Richards le cuadra perfectamente a la canción.

Angels or Devils

This is the last time
That I'm ever gonna come here tonight
This is the last time I will fall
Into a place that fails us all - inside

And I can see the pain in you
And I can see the love in you
But fighting all the demons will take time
It will take time

The angels they burn inside for us
And are we ever
Are we ever gonna learn to fly
The devils they burn inside of us
Are we ever gonna come back down
Come around
I'm always gonna worry about
The things that could make us cold

This is the last time
That I'm ever gonna give in tonight
Are there angels or devils crawling here?
I just want to know what blurs and what is clear to see

Well I can see the pain in you
And I can see the love in you
But fighting all the demons will take time
It will take time

The angels they burn inside for us
And are we ever
Are we ever gonna learn to fly
The devils they burn inside of us
Are we ever gonna come back down - come around
I'm always gonna worry about the things
That could break us

And if I were to give in
I'll give it up - and then
I'll take a breath - make it deep
'Cause it might be the last one you get
Be the last one
That could'nt make us cold
That could'nt make us cold

I'm always gonna worry about
The things that could make us cold


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