Bienvenidos a SpecialMood

Todos tenemos canciones que nos producen un estado de ánimo especial. Alegrías o cicatrices imborrables.
Aquí van algunas de ellas.
Si no son las tuyas, óyelas en cualquier caso y hazlas coincidir con momentos especiales. Te atraparán.

lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2011

George Michael: Brother can you spare a dime? (CD: Songs from the last century)


“Brother (o Buddy) can you spare a dime?”, es una bonita canción, que forma parte de las canciones compuestas en la época de la Gran Depresión iniciada en el año1929.

Interpretada con el sentimiento habitual en las baladas de George Michael. Ha sido objeto de muchas versiones. Desde artistas de jazz como Ike Quebec, Dave Brubeck o Abbey Lincoln, hasta artistas del pop como Tom Jones o Barbara Streisand, pasando por el incalificable genio de Tom Waits  






Brother can you spare a dime?

Once I built a railroad, made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a rairoad, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits
Gee, we looked swell
Full of that yankee Doodle De Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through hell
I was the kid with the drum
Say don't you remember, they called me Al
It was Al all the time
Say don't you remember, I'm your pal!
Buddy can you spare a dime?

Once I built a railroad, made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a rairoad, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother can you spare a dime?

Once in khaki suits
Gee, we looked swell
Full of that yankee Doodle De Dum
Half a million boots went slogging through hell
I was the kid with the drum
Say don't you remember, they called me Al
It was Al all the time
Say don't you remember, I'm your pal!
Buddy can you spare a dime?

sábado, 3 de diciembre de 2011

TOM WAITS: Blue Valentines (CD: Blue Valentine)



Precioso tema melancólico nos trae a la memoria esas noches en solitario, marcadas por el alcohol.
De alguna forma es un previo a la banda sonora que Waits hizo para la película Corazonada.
Waits volverá a este blog en más de una ocasión.











Blue Valentines

She sends me blue valentines
all the way from philadelphia
to mark the anniversary
of someone that I used to be
and it feels just like there's
a warrant out for my arrest
got me checkin' in my rearview mirrror
and I'm always on the run
thats why I change my name
and I didn't think you'd ever find me here


to send me blue valentines
like half forgotten dreams
like a pebble in my shoe
as I walk these streets
and the ghost of your memory
is the thistle in the kiss
and the burgler that that can break a roses neck
it's the tattooed broken promise
that I hide beneath my sleeve
and I see you every time I turn my back


she sends me blue valentines
though I try to remain at large
they're insisting that our love
must have a culogy
why do I save all of this madness
in the nightstand drawer
there to haunt upon my shoulders
baby I know
I'd be luckier to walk around everywhere I go
with a blind and broken heart
that sleeps beneath my lapel


she sends me blue valentines
to remind me of my cardinal sin
I can never wash the guilt
or get these bloodstains off my hands
and it takes a lot of whiskey
to make these nightmares go away
and I cut my bleedin' heart out every nite
and I die a little more on each st. valentine day
remember that I promised I would
write you...
these blue valentines
blue valentines
blue valentines