martes, 26 de febrero de 2008

The All-American Rejects - It ends tonight


En este caso "It ends tonight" de The All American Rejects un tema pop (las distorsiones no lo pueden ocultar del todo); podríamos llamarlo power pop o rock pop, pero no por eso deja de ser una canción que en su momento se pegó como pocas. La canción en cuestión perteneció a su segundo disco "Move Along" del año 2005, y significó el despegue en el mercado anglosajón para esta banda de Oklahoma, con el cual alcanzaron el top10 en varios rankings de Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido.
"It ends tonight" arranca solo con un piano y la voz de Tyson Ritter (vocalista lider y bajista); para luego de una primera estrofa dar paso a las distorsiones que prevalecerán durante practicamente toda la canción.
Si, una balada pop, distorsiones y algunos falsetes de voz conforman una receta para crear una canción; por lo menos en mi caso, definitivamente pegadiza.

"It Ends Tonight"

Your subtleties
They strangle me
I can't explain myself at all.
And all the wants
And all the needs
All I don't want to need at all.

The walls start breathing
My mind's unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight
It ends tonight.

A falling star
Least I fall alone.
I can't explain what you can't explain.
You're finding things that you didn't know
I look at you with such disdain

The walls start breathing
My mind's unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.

When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.

Now I'm on my own side
It's better than being on your side
It's my fault when you're blind
It's better that I see it through your eyes

All these thoughts locked inside
Now you're the first to know

When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends

When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.

Tonight
Insight
When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight.


Myspace de "The all american rejects"
Videoclip de "It ends tonight"

domingo, 17 de febrero de 2008

The Honorary Title - Stay Away


Por 3ra vez he cambiado el reproductor de mp3, vamos a ver si de una vez por todas me conforma alguno. Ahora, empiezo a contarles un poco de la canción en cuestión:
"The Honorary Title"; otra de esas bandas que descubro gracias a "One Tree Hill" (serie que me ha traído grandes satisfacciones músicalmente hablando) se apega a la estética de típica banda indie estadounidense de hoy en día; mezclando elementos acústicos con algunos eléctricos y moviendose entre el rock independiente y el pop comercial (o tal vez rock comercial y pop independiente... quien sabe) Es una banda de reciente aparición, y que lanzó su primer disco en el año 2004, y durante 2007 nos entregó su "Scream and Light Up the Sky" en la cual se incluye la canción "Stay away". Como ya resulta una constante en las "entregas" anteriores del blog, en mi supercalificada y (y humilde, jaja) opinión lo que destaco es el final de la canción cuando practicamente todos los instrumentos se enmudecen y solo queda la voz de Jarrod Gorbel y su "stay away from me".

The Honorary Title - Stay Away

Are you not the slightest bit confused?
Just the truth
The speed at which we move blends so well
It's too soon

Separate yourself from what compels you to relinquish us
Push your way on to me, entirely
Stay away from me, stay away from me now
Less you gonna see, less you gonna see me out

No, I can't dance less it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go

Trust me when I say just a few more weeks
Don't move
Resist temptation
Or do you see fit, just choose

Separate yourself from what compels you to relinquish us
Push your way on to me, entirely
Stay away from me, stay away from me now
Less you gonna see, less you gonna see me out

No, I can't dance less it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go

No, I can't dance less it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go

No, I can't dance less it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go

Stay away from, stay away from, stay away from me
Stay away from, stay away from, stay away from me
Stay away from, stay away from, stay away from me


Video "Stay away" en vivo, filmado con una cámara digital
Myspace de "The Honorary Title"

domingo, 3 de febrero de 2008

Nada Surf - Inside of Love

Después de un tiempo más que largo de vacaciones (tanto reales como del blog) vuelvo a dejarles un tema. Por primera vez voy a repetir una banda, (y si voy a hacerlo que sea una que lo justifique), por eso vuelvo a elegir a Nada Surf; banda de la que ya les había hablado acá; por lo que no voy a comentar mucho sobre ellos. La principal novedad desde ese día hasta hoy es que han sacado un nuevo (y en mi caso, esperado) disco llamado Lucky.
Volviendo al tema de hoy, es la instrospectiva "Inside of Love", la cual venía incluída en el disco del año 2003 "Let Go" Con un sonido muy "radioheadizado"otros quizás lo encuentren un poco más cerca de Coldplay. Como la gran mayoría de las composiciones de esta banda americana, presenta unas líneas de bajo que cumplen un papel más que destacado en la estructura del tema, acompañado por una voz sin muchos matices, pero que en este caso es la interpretación perfecta para una letra que sabe conjugar lo agridulce y melancólico que resulta el amor.

Inside of Love

Watching terrible tv
It kills our thoughts
Getting spacier than
An astronaut

Making out with people
I hardly know a lot.
I can't believe what I do
Late at night

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
Standing at the gates,
I see the beauty above

Only when we get to see
The aerial view
Will the patterns show
We'll know what to do

I know the last page so well
I can't read the first
So I just don't start
It's getting worse

I wanna know what it's like On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what it's like
On the inside of love
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
I can't find my way in
I try again and again

I'm on the outside of love
Always under or above
Must be a different view
To be a me with a you

I wanna know what its like
On the inside of love
I'm standing at the gates
I see the beauty above

I wanna know what its like
On the inside of love

Of course i'll be alright
I just had a bad night
I had a bad night

Myspace de Nada Surf
Videoclip de "Inside of Love"
 
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