jueves, 29 de mayo de 2008

The Wallflowers - One Headlight

The Wallflowers es una banda formada en Los Ángeles (EE. UU.) a principios de los 90, compuesta por el vocalista y guitarrista Jakob Dylan (hijo de Bob Dylan), Fred Eltringham (batería), Rami Jaffee (teclado) y Greg Richling (bajo). Practican un rock honesto, con baladas hábiles y perspicaces y fuertes pinceladas de soul.
En 1996 editan Bringing Down the Horse, que consigue en gran éxito en las emisoras independientes con 6th Avenue Heartache; y a finales de 1996, se edita el single One Headlight el cual consiguió llegar a la cima de las listas de ventas. "Bringing Down the Horse"Bruce Springsteen en los MTV Video Music Awards de 1997.

Probablemente sea el ejemplo de un buen artista que tiene que demostrar siempre el doble que los demás, por ser hijo de su padre. Si bien es evidente que Jakob no llega al nivel de "papá Bob", es innegable que a partir de su talento (y el de sus compañeros de ruta) logró hacerse un merecido lugar en el mundo de la música.
les vaió dos premios Grammy, uno por Mejor Interpretación Vocal de un Duo o Grupo de Rock y otro por Vocal en "One Headlight". Este single alcanzó el segundo lugar de las listas y lo cantaron junto con

The Wallflowers
One Headlight

So long ago I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
They said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed like such a waste
She always had a pretty face
I wondered why she hung around this place

Hey come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
Me and Cinderella
Put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

She said it's cold
It feels like Independence Day
And I can't break away from this parade
But there's got to be an opening
Somewhere here in front of me
Through this maze of ugliness and greed
I see the sign up ahead
At the county line bridge
Saying all there's good and nothingness is dead
Run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothing left
She hit the end, it's just her window ledge

Hey come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
Me and Cinderella
Put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

This place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn
It smells of cheap wine and cigarettes
This place is always such a mess
Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn
I'm so alone and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same
But somewhere here in between these city walls of dying dreams
I think her death it must be killing me

Hey, hey, hey come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
Me and Cinderella
Put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

Myspace de "The Wallflowers"
"One Headlight" en vivo

viernes, 23 de mayo de 2008

Haley James Scott - Halo

Con este tema vuelvo al "pop con distorsiones", el que debo reconocer que (escondido en el armario) es una de mis debilidades. "Haley James Scott" es el personaje que interpreta Bethany Joy Lenz en la serie americana para adolescentes "One Tree Hill". Este tema se incluyó en el 2do disco de la banda sonora de la serie llamado "Friends with Benefits", cuya recaudación se destinó en parte hacia una fundación contra el cáncer de mama.
Tuvo la oportunidad de"compartir disco" con algunos artistas de los que ya he hablado anteriormente, como "Nada Surf" o "Hot Hot Heat", y algunos que todavía siguen en el baúl como Tyler Hilton. El lanzamiento del disco, tuvo a Bethany Joy Lenz como participante de una gira nacional que la llevó a recorrer prácticamente todos los Estados Unidos.
Sinceramente no es un tema que pasará a la historia, pero con una energía que te pone bastante arriba.

Halo

I never promised you a ray of light,
I never promised there'd be sunshine everyday,
I gave you everything I have, the good, the bad.
Why do you put me on a pedestal,
I'm so up high that I can't see the ground below,
So help me down you've got it wrong, I don't belong there.

One thing is clear,
I wear a halo,
I wear a halo when you look at me,
But standing from here, you wouldn't say so
you wouldn't say so, if you were me
And I, I just wanna love you,
Oh oh I, I just wanna love you

I always said that I would make mistakes,
I'm only human, and that’s my saving grace,
I fall as hard as I try
So don't be blinded
See me as I really am, I have flaws and sometimes I even sin,
so pull me from that pedestal,
I don't belong there.

One thing is clear,
I wear a halo,
I wear a halo when you look at me,
But standing from here, you wouldn't say so
you wouldn't say so, if you were me
And I, I just wanna love you,
Oh oh I, I just wanna love you

Why you think that you know me
But In your eyes
I am something above you
It’s only in your mind
Only in your mind
I wear a
I wear a
I wear a Halo

One thing is clear,
I wear a halo,
I wear a halo when you look at me,
But standing from here, you wouldn't say so
you wouldn't say so, if you were me
And I, I just wanna love you,
Oh oh I, I just wanna love you

Haaaa ha-ha halo(x9)

Myspace de Bethany Joy Lenz

lunes, 12 de mayo de 2008

Jack Savoretti - Between the minds

Jack Savoretti ha logrado con su disco debut "Between the minds" convertirse en un suceso en Inglaterra. Pero su éxito dista de lo comercial (el disco alcanzó "solamente" el puesto 70), con solo 24 años ha logrado que la crítica lo comparara con Simon & Garfunkel, y algunos lo describen como el nuevo Bob Dylan. Si está a la altura de estas opiniones solo el tiempo y los discos lo dirán, lo cierto es que Savoretti tiene una facilidad para retratar en tono acústico las fragilidades humanas con la que muy pocos artistas cuentan. Habrá que manterle el oído encima para ver si se mantiene por esta senda...



Between The Minds
Jack Savoretti

I’ve never been the one to shout because I listen
I don’t like to raise my voice
Maybe I should learn to lose my inhibitions
and let my feelings make some noise
You don’t know what I’m going through
When silence is all I give to you

So hear me, if you’re out there
Take these words and try to understand
That I want you, and I need you, to take the hand of a quiet man

I love the way you hear the words unspoken
It’s like you read between the minds
You know before the silence has been broken
Well, at least most of the time
But I don’t know what you’re going through
It must be something I didn’t say to you

So hear me, if you’re out there
Take these words and try to understand
That I want you, and I need you, to take the hand of a quiet man
Of a quiet man

So hear me, if you’re out there
Take these words and try to understand
That I want you, and I need you, to take the hand of a quiet man
Of a quiet man

lunes, 5 de mayo de 2008

Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Apologies

"Grace Potter & The Nocturnals"; es una banda de formación relativamente reciente (2004), en la zona de Vermont, bien al norte de Estados Unidos. Comandados en la voz (maravillosa por cierto) y teclados hammond por Grace Potter, en estos años fueron teloneros de varias bandas, siendo probablemente su punto más alto el haber compartido un escenario con "Dave Matthew´s Band". El resto de la banda se compone de Matt Burr, Scott Tournet y Bryan Dondero.
La canción "Apologies" estuvo sonando en series como "One Tree Hill" y "Kyle XY", de esta manera lograron un poco más de repercusión en el ambiente musical norteamericano.


Apologies

Yesterday he said my eyes
Were fading fast away
I said well what do you expect
You asked me not to stay and if it had all been for the best
I wouldn't feel this way
And he said

Oh he said it's crazy
How love stays with me
You know it hurts me
Cause I don't wanna fight this ear
It's amazing to see me reading through this scene
Of love and fear and apologies

My love is like a blanket
That gets a little bit too warm sometimes
I wanna wrap somebody in it
Who can hold me in his arms
Cause when it got a little too hot in there
He was always stepping out for air and he froze
Oh he froze

He said it's crazy
How love stays with me
You know it hurts me
Cause I don't wanna fight this ear
It's amazing to see me reading through this scene
Of love and fear and apologies

Yesterday he looked at me
With a tear in his eye and said
I'll always tell you you're my friend
I hope i don't have to lie
Cause it's clear you love another man
I said you're damn right

And he said
He said it's crazy
How love stays with me
You know it hurts me
Cause I don't wanna fight this ear
It's amazing to see me reading through this scene
Of love and fear and apologies
He said it's crazy
How love stays with me
You know it hurts me
That i didn't figure it out before
And now it's too late for a soliloquy
It's way too late for dignity
It's time for apologies



 
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