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"

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"

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"

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

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

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

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