miércoles, 30 de abril de 2008

Un poco de jazz

Una gran canción por una de las grandes divas del jazz de todos los tiempos. Eunice Kathleen Waymon, que es como conocían en su casa a Nina Simone, consiguió que se convirtiera en un clásico gracias a su característica voz.

Tenía fama de ser una mujer muy temperamental y estuvo involucrada activamente en la lucha pro derechos civiles de los negros en EEUU, hasta el punto de que abandonó su país natal trás el asesinato de Martin Luther King hastiada de una guerra contra la segregación racial que no daba sus frutos. Ella decía que "Jazz es un término de los blancos para definir la música negra. Yo hago música clásica negra".

Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me

My baby don't care for shows
My baby don't care for clothes
My baby just cares for me
My baby don't care for cars and races
My baby don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Lana Turner's smile
Is somethin' he can't see
My baby don't care who knows it
My baby just cares for me

Baby, my baby don't care for shows
And he don't even care for clothes
He cares for me
My baby don't care
For cars and races
My baby don't care for
He don't care for high-tone places

Liz Taylor is not his style
And even Liberace's smile
Is something he can't see
Is something he can't see
I wonder what's wrong with baby
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for
My baby just cares for me


Aquí os dejo el vídeo que es muy chulo, jejeje...

Molino al viento

Una canción estupenda para días de ira acumulada y estrés. Cuando vaya a explotar tu cabeza, cuando tu cuarto se te hace pequeño y te entran ganas de gritar, golpear las paredes o hacer jirones las cortinas, recuerda... Relax and FEEL GOOD!

En próximos capítulos de "NoS AcEcHaN LoS ExÁmEnEs": el remedio de toda la vida "Don't worry, be happy" y el siempre eficaz "Have a nice day"...

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Hahahahahahahahaha,
Shake it, sh-shake it Feel good...

City's breaking down on a camel's back.
They just have to go 'cause they don't know wack
So all you fill the streets it's appealing to see
You won't get out the county, 'cos you're damn as free
You've got a new horizon It's ephemeral style.
A melancholy town where we never smile.
And all I wanna hear is the message beep.
My dreams, they've got to kiss, because I don't get sleep, no...

Windmill, Windmill for the land.
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is sinking, falling down
Love forever love is free
Let's turn forever you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?

Laughing gas these hazmats, fast cats,
Lining them up-a like ass cracks,
Lay these ponies at the track
It's my chocolate attack.
Shit, I'm stepping in the heart of this here
Care bear bumping in the heart of this here
Watch me as I gravitate
Hahahahahahaa.
Yo, we gonna go ghost town,
This motown,
With yo sound
You're in the place
You gonna bite the dust
Can't fight with us
With yo sound
You kill the INC.
So don't stop, get it, get it
Until you're Jet Ahead.
Yo, watch the way I navigate
Hahahahahhaa

Feel good, AHHHHahahahah [x4]

Windmill, Windmill for the land.
Turn forever hand in hand
Take it all in on your stride
It is ticking, falling down
Love forever love is free
Let's turn forever you and me
Windmill, windmill for the land
Is everybody in?

Don't shout, get it, get it
We are your captains in it
Steady,
Watch me navigate,
Ahahahahahhaa.
Don't shout, get it, get it
We are your captains in it
Steady, watch me navigate
Ahahahahahhaa.

Feel good, AHHHHahahahaha
Feel good,
Feel good, AHHHHahahahaha
Feel good....

Por aquí tenéis el vídeo...

lunes, 28 de abril de 2008

Gafapasta

Comenzamos un nuevo curso músical: "Cómo aparentar ser gafapasta y enteder de música de moda". La primera tendencia gafapastera que veremos en la lección 1 de nuestro curso es Coldplay. Este grupo está liderado por Chris Martin, un chuloplaya que canta digamos que bastante bien, pero que ama demasiado el protagonismo para que conozcamos mejor a su grupo. Se hicieron así como famosos allá por el año 2000, consiguiendo vivir bastante mejor que la mayoría de nosotros. Aunque su último disco X&Y pudo decepcionar a muchos seguidores, parece ser que un nuevo disco está en el horno para salir ya mismo y es bastante prometedor, lo malo es que hasta mañana no sale el single para poder juzgarlo por nosotros mismos.

Os dejo una de mis canciones favoritas del grupo: The scientist. Y en la próxima lección aprenderemos cómo montar un grupo aprendiendo cuatro acordes y medio en dos tardes con Arctic Monkeys.


agur!!

Coldplay - The scientist

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I've set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles
Comet tails
Heads on the science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing
At numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Come tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
All in a rush to the start

Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Comin' back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I’m going back to the start...

Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh ooh ooh ooh


domingo, 27 de abril de 2008

No te escondas

Esta es una de esas canciones que te alegras de encontrar un día por casualidad. Espero que os guste ;-)

Syntax - Pride

It's made up of lonely moments
There was always a moment there when I knew.
You always gave installments,
Always knew you concentrated and grew.

And I believe in reinvention;
Do you believe that life is holding the clue?
Take away all the lonely moments.
Give me full communication with you.

Your smile, shine a little light, alright?
Don't hide, shine a little light,
Give up on your pride.

Do you believe in reinvention;
Do you believe that life is holding the clue?
Any way to face the silence,
Any way to face the pain that kills you.

Your smile, shine a little light, alright?
Don't hide, shine a little light,
Give up on your pride.

Give up on your pride, the moment's gone;
Give up on your smile, life is long.
So, I seen a bad dream, that you were gone:
I got bitten on the soul, my blood will run.

Give up on your pride, the moment's gone;
Give up on your smile, life is long.
So I seen a bad dream, you were gone:
You're bitter and cold, my blood will run.

Aquí tenéis el vídeo...

jueves, 24 de abril de 2008

Porque yo lo valgo

J.S. Bach - Preludio y Bourree

Esto no tiene letra...

domingo, 20 de abril de 2008

¡Tócala otra vez Rob!

Conoceréis esta canción por pertenecer a la banda sonora de Matrix Reloaded, aunque seguramente, lo que nunca habéis escuchado es esta versión con letra. Lástima que la película no cuajara mucho (nunca segundas partes fueron buenas), aunque está claro que no fue debido a la falta de un buen hilo musical...

Rob Dougan - Furious Angels

Like a sentence of death,
I got no options left,
I've got nothing to show now.

I'm down on the ground,
I've got seconds to live,
and you cannot go now.

'Cause love, like invisible bullet shot me down
and I'm bleeding, yeah I'm bleeding
and if you go, furious angels will bring you back to me.
They will bring you back to me.

You're a dirty needle,
you're in my blood and there's no cure in me, yeah.
I wanna run, like the blood from a wound
to a place you can't see me.
'Cause love, like a blow to the head has left me stunned
and I'm reeling, yeah I'm reeling
and if you go, furious angels will bring you back to me.

You're a cold piece of steel between my ribs
and there's no saving me, yeah.
And I can't get up,
from this wet crimson bed that you made for me.
That you made for me!
'Cause love like a knife in the back has cut me down
and I'm bleeding, yeah I'm bleeding,
and if you go, angels will run to defend me, to defend me.

'Cause I can't get up, I'm as cold as a stone,
I can feel the life fade from me.
I'm down on the ground, I've got second to live,
and what's that waits for me, oh that waits for me!
'Cause love like a sentence of death, left me stunned,
and I'm reeling, yeah I'm reeling,
and if you go, furious angels will bring you back to me.

Aquí tenéis la versión cantada...



Y la instrumental...

jueves, 17 de abril de 2008

House Chills out

Bueno, pues la sintonía original de House es en realidad un temazo de Massive Attack. No es el tipo de música que más me gusta, pero he de reconocer que esta canción en particular me sorprendió gratamente.

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Nine night of matter
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath


Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Stumbling a little
Stumbling a little

Por aquí os dejo el vídeo...

miércoles, 16 de abril de 2008

Jugando con fuego

Esta archiconocida canción de los "chaqueteros" bien sirve para animarle a uno en un día de lluvia, y como parece que estos días lo están siendo, aquí os la dejo.

The Cardigans - My favourite game

I don't know what you're looking for
you haven't found it baby, that's for sure
You rip me up and spread me all around
in the dust of the deed of time

And this is not a case of lust, you see
it's not a matter of you versus of me
It's fine the way you want me on your own
but in the end it's always me alone

And I'm losing my favourite game
you're losing your mind again
I'm losing my baby
losing my favourite game


I only know what I've been working for
another you so I could love you more
I really thought that I could take you there
but my experiment is not getting us anywhere

I had a vision I could turn you right
a stupid mission and a lethal fight
I should have seen it when my hope was new
my heart is black and my body is blue

And I'm losing my favourite game
you're losing your mind again
I'm losing my favourite game
I've tried but you're still the same
I'm losing my baby
you're losing a saviour and a saint

El vídeo, que no lo había visto hasta ahora, es un poco macabro...

sábado, 5 de abril de 2008

Sergey vs. Niccolò

Hoy hemos ido una pequeña representación al Auditorio Nacional a "participar activamente" en la escucha de un concierto interpretado, entre otros de mucha menos importancia, por nuestro ilustre primera viola J.P. (Julián Vicente Page ó "Yúlian Vaicent Peich") y nuestra gran percusionista (sin ella hubiera estado todo perdido) Natalia Montoro.

Parecía que el programa de esta ocasión estaba compuesto por obras basadas en otras obras anteriores. Sin duda, la pieza mejor interpretada y en definitiva la mejor acogida por el público ha sido "Rapsodia sobre un tema de Paganini" del gran Rachmaninoff.

Sergey Rachmaninoff, conocido en su pueblo como Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов (1873-1943), era natural de Rusia. Trás la Revolución Rusa acabó por exiliarse a E.E.U.U. y fue allí donde en 1934 compuso esta rapsodia basada en una obra de otro músico italiano, Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840).

Sergey Rachmaninoff - Rapsodia sobre un tema de Paganini

Aquí os dejo una interpretación con un tal Pletnev al piano (de mucha menos categoría que la que hoy hemos presenciado, pero que os ayudará ha haceros a la idea de su grandiosidad). ¡Disfrutadla!, que un poco de música clásica no viene mal de vez en cuando...

PRIMERA PARTE:



SEGUNDA PARTE:



TERCERA PARTE: (incluso aunque no tengáis ni idea de música clásica, seguro que reconocéis los primeros compases)

jueves, 3 de abril de 2008

¡Larguémonos!

Jamiroquai son un grupo de funk-pop, cuyas canciones, pegadizas a la vez que muy elaboradas les han catapultado a la fama, siendo muy respetados en el ambiente funk y archiconocidos para casi todo el mundo. Esta no es una de sus canciones más famosas (Canned Heat, Little L...) pero es mi preferida. Atención al bajo...

Jamiroquai - Runaway

Can you dig it
Something in the air tonight
Got a one way ticket
Baby, don't you wanna ride
Got to make it
Make it to the other side
I've got demons
Snapping at my heels tonight

I just want to runaway
Turn me loose
Got people around running me down I cant stay
WOO
I just want to get away, I just want to get away now
Get them off my back today


Can u feel it
Im stuck inside in a hurricane
Chasing rainbows
Cant u see im going insane
I wanna be a free man
But im spinning on this crazy wheel
Im jumping for the high bar
Cant u dig it
No longer know what I feel
Cant u see

I just want to runaway
Turn me loose
Got people around running me down I cant stay
I just want to get away, I just want to get away now.
Get them off my back today

I just wanna runaway
Turn me loose, turn me loose
Turn me loose, turn me loose

Got to make it, got to make it
Got to break it, got to make it

I just want to runaway
Just want to runaway
Got people around running me down I cant stay
Can't stay here long now
I just want to get away
I just got to get away
Get them off my back today
Wooooo

I just want to runaway
La la la la la la
Just want to get away
La la la la la la
Turn me loose, runaway runaway
Got people around running me down I can't stay
Runaway, runaway

I just want to runaway
La la la la la la
Just got to get away
La la la la la la
Turn me loose, runaway
Get them off my back today