Cuando Fran Healy de Travis hizo llorar a Liam Gallagher

   Según cuenta el mismo Fran Healy de su amistad con los Gallaghers:

   “Esto fue lo que rompió el hielo en nuestra relación.

   Estábamos de gira con Oasis y una noche en el backstage de Aberdeen Liam estaba sentado tocando la guitarra.       

Me pidió que le tocara alguna canción y le toqué "Luv", y entonces él se despachó con que sonaba como a John Lennon, y a cómo se imaginaba el video. Le di un demo de la canción y el volvió como veinte minutos después con los ojos rojos de haber llorado y me dijo que yo era extraordinario.

   Luego Liam le hizo escuchar la canción a Bonehead (en ese entonces guitarrista de Oasis), quien también lloró al oírla, tanto que para ocultarlo se metió en un armario…”

   Healy escribió "Luv" en 1995 cuando una novia lo dejó y se fue a la Universidad.

   Cuando terminó la canción, hizo un demo de cuatro tracks y se lo envió a ella.
   El tema en cuestión y un mini-Recital de cuatro temas más para hacerle justicia a esta gran banda escocesa.

Letra de Luv

What's so wrong

Why the face so long?

Is it over?

And where you going that

you no longer belong here?

And distance tells you that

distance must come between love

Where have you been, Luv?

When the mistake we made

Was in never having planned to fall in love, Luv

Singing this song

Singing along

Makes it easier for me to see you go

But in doing so

In letting you goIt only serves to show me

that I'm still in love with you

Singing this song

Singing along

Makes it easier for me to see you go

But in doing so

It only serves to show me

that I'm still in love with you

So what's so wrong

Why the face So long?

Are you changing?

And where you been to that

you no longer remember?

And distance tells you that

distance must come between love

Where have you been, Luv?

It's just the chance we took

Having never ever planned to fall in love, Luv

It's just the chance we took

Having never ever planned to fall in love, Luv

It's just the chance we tookHaving never ever planned to fall in love, Luv

Luv 

KAPOW!!:"...It's just the chance we took / Having never ever planned to fall in love, Luv..."

Jukebox: Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz

   "Mercedes Benz" es una canción a capella grabada por Janis Joplin el 1 de octubre de 1970. Ese día también grabó un "Happy Birthday" para John Lennon y esos fueron sus últimos tracks grabados ya que falleció tres días después. La canción aparece en el album Pearl de 1971.

   Va por dos: la grabación original y un excelente remix lanzado años más tarde.

Letra
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?
Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me.
I wait for delivery each day until three,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a color TV ?

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?
I'm counting on you, Lord, please don't let me down.
Prove that you love me and buy the next round,
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town ?

Everybody!
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends,
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,
So oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?

That's it! 

Mini-Recital: The Shins

    The Shins, originalmente James Mercer, Dave Hernandez, Eric Johnson, Joe Plummer y Ron Lewis, una gran banda de indie rock formada en Albuquerque, New Mexico y que luego hizo base en Portland, Oregon.
   Con tres albums: Oh, Inverted World (2001), Chutes To Narrow (2003) y Wincing The Night Away (2007) y otro prometido para el 2012, además de un album del 2010 Broken Bells, colaboración de James Mercer con Danger Mouse (para mí de lo mejor del año pasado).


ZOOCK!!: "...And if you'd took to me like a gull takes to the wind..."

THE SHINS

Gone For Good (A Call For Apathy)

Untie me, I've said no vows
The train is getting way too loud
I gotta leave here my girl
Get on with my lonely life

Just leave the ring on the rail
For the wheels to nullify

Until this turn in my head
I let you stay and you paid no rent
I spent twelve long months on the lam

That's enough sitting on the fence
For the fear of breaking dams

I find a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And go out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That'll never elope
So get used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don't leave me no phone number there

It took me all of a year
To put the poison pill to your ear
But now I stand on honest ground, on honest ground

You want to fight for this love
But honey you cannot wrestle a dove
So baby it's clear

You want to jump and dance
But you sat on your hands
And lost your only chance

Go back to your hometown
Get your feet on the ground
And stop floating around

I find a fatal flaw
In the logic of love
And go out of my head

You love a sinking stone
That'll never elope
So get used to the lonesome
Girl, you must atone some
Don't leave me no phone number there

Mini-Recital: The Vaccines

   Justin Young, Árni Hjörvar, Freddie Cowan y Pete Robertson son The Vaccines, banda inglesa de rock indie formada en Londres en el 2010. Su album debut, What did you expect from The Vaccines? salió a principios de este año y cumplió ampliamente con las expect-ativas.

THE VACCINES

A lack of understanding
It's only been a year
But it feels like a lifetime here
How's it been for you?
Does it feel like a lifetime too?
What would you do now in light of it all?
I don't regret it in spite of it all
If I can't convince you then nobody can I guess

I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand

Would I make it right?
Would it make you less uptight?
What would it achieve?
What should I put up my sleeve?
What did you think would come out of it all?
That we'd quit pretending we doubted it all?
Oh you don't make me nervous, hell nobody does these days

I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand

Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready for this?
Should I shake your hand or should I give you a kiss?
Is this everything you always hoped it would be?
We'll see...

I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand
I've got too much time on my hands
But you don't understand
Or you won't understand

Superhéroes del Rock - The Who/The Jam/The Ramones

   Los dos mejores temas originales de series de TV (para mí, amante de los superhéroes) son sin duda el tema de Batman de la serie de 1966 con Adam West y el de Spider-Man de los dibujitos de 1967.
   Las dos grandes canciones, reconocibles de inmediato y que no por coincidencia han sido versionadas por grandes bandas de rock.
     En el caso de Batman, podemos escuchar además del tema original de la serie, una versión de los ingleses The Who y otra de los también ingleses The Jam. 

   La canción de Spider-Man original está acompañada de una versión de los americanos/casi-argentos The Ramones.

¡Puro arte-Pow!

Mini-Recital: The Postal Service

   The Postal Service es un proyecto musical de la llamada escena indietrónica americana formado por el cantante Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) y el productor Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel, Headset y Figurine). Además han colaborado con ellos Jenny Lewis (cantante solista y vocalista de Rilo Kiley), Jen Wood y Chris Walla (productor de Death Cab for Cutie)

   El único álbum, Give Up, se publicó en el 2003. El disco fue producido por Chris Walla, que a su vez tocó la guitarra y el piano en varios de los temas del disco. Jenny Lewis también colaboró con su voz en varios temas del disco. 

   Actualmente Tamborello está buscando vocalista para un nuevo proyecto.

KAPOW!: "...I have to speculate that God himself Did make us into corresponding shapes like Puzzle pieces from the clay"

Such Great Heights
I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles
In our eyes are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate that God himself
Did make us into corresponding shapes like
Puzzle pieces from the clay
True, it may seem like a stretch, but
Its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
Head when you're away when I am missing you to death
When you are out there on the road for
Several weeks of shows and when you scan
The radio, I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great
Heights, 'come down now,' they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'come down now,' but we'll stay...

I tried my best to leave this all on your
Machine but the persistent beat it sounded
Thin upon listening
That frankly will not fly. you will hear
The shrillest highs and lowest lows with
The windows down when this is guiding you home