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.
Preciosa canción compuesta junto al letrista y poeta Bernie Taupin, colaborador de Elton John en más de 30 álbumes. Esa canción y el álbum que lo contenía fueron su primer éxito en1970
Canción versionada por muchos artistas, pero quizás la mejor ha sido la realizada por Al Jarreau. No te la pierdas.
Your Song
It's a little bit funny this feeling inside
I'm not one of those who can easily hide
I don't have much money but boy if I did
I'd buy a big house where we both could live
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show
I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song and this one's for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind that I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss
Well a few of the verses well they've got me quite cross
But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
It's for people like you that keep it turned on
So excuse me forgetting but these things I do
You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue
Desde 1991 este grupo nos ha emocionado como pocos. El tándem Beth Gibbons y Geoff Barrownos deja perlas musicales con cuentagotas (para la publicación de “Third” hemos esperado diez años).
Acaban de actuar en el Festival Internacional de Benicasim (FIB) en su XVII edición y a la que han asistido cerca de 200.000 personas.
Han actuado y han barrido con su atmósfera y profesionalidad que ha caracterizado a esta banda en sus diez y ocho años de historia.
Su intimismo, su imagen sobrecogedora agarrada al micrófono como si en ello le fuera la vida, aferrándose a algo material porque lo inmaterial, lo espiritual lo pone Beth con su voz.
Deseamos que vuelvan lo antes posible a España. ¿Se imaginan una actuación de Portishead en un local cerrado, con apenas luz solamente la imagen del grupo iluminada y una buena acústica como telón de fondo?
Jacques Brel, cantante belga fue el compositor, en 1959, de esta canción de amor justo después de la separación de Zizou, aunque paradójicamente fue éste quien la dejó. Versionada hasta la saciedad en diferentes idiomas y por todo tipo de artistas: Sting, Charles Aznavour, Nina Simone (una de las que más me gustan), Frank Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Shirley Horne, Dee Dee Bridgewater o Ray Charles entreoíros muchos.
Rickie Lee Jones es lo que se conoce por una artista de culto.
Su estilo es indefinible. Ha tocado muchos palos, R&B, Jazz, pop…
En sus canciones parece expresar un desgarro interior irreconciliable.
Esta canción es una muestra de ello.
Me encanta el piano, que por cierto interpreta ella.
Estuvo casada con Tom Waits. ¡Cuanta música emanaría de esa relación!.
Eddie's got one crazy eye
that turns him into a cartoon
wahen a pretty girl comes by
and there's nothin' here to do anymore
he sits on the stoop all day
like there's something he's waiting for
Cunt-finger Louie picks up Eddie in the alley
he's got all those guys with him
from that town where they all look like Frankie Valli
they speak fluently blonde
from her legs to her cigarette
and Louie told Eddie that he'd fix him up
but he ain't come back yet
well, you know
It's more trouble than it's worth
it's more trouble than it's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are
Tell him where you are
Zero quit school
and she lost her job again
and then her boyfriend beat her up
and now he won't let her in
so she's walking by his Joint
in a black and blue dress
she looks at Louie who elbows Eddie who says
"don't tell me, lemme guess."
It's more trouble than it's worth
he's more trouble than he's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are –
Oh Wild and the Only ones
Tell him where you are
Well at first when it was this way
when they're the only ones
and you've got all these ideas
you never tell to anyone
there are always magnets
pulling each of you there
living every story you'd dare
to be the only ones
the only ones...
Oh, who are living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we'll be living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
gotta be living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
oh yeah, we're living it up
Louie and Eddie found a reason then and there
carried her over the bridges like fluttering pages they didn't care
in the terminal where dreams
let so many tickets through
when strangers look in faces
and see somebody there they knew
you might meet me tomorrow
as all the lights are blooming green
and you're feeling a little lonely,
a little sad, a little mean
remember a place
inside of that hotel
where you could do anything you want to do
you couldn't tell
If it's more trouble than it's worth
ah, this is more trouble than it's worth
Oh Wild and the Only ones
tell him where you are –
Oh Wild and the Only ones
I'm waiting you Could
tell him where you are –
Oh Wild and the Only ones
why don't you tell him where you are?
Portishead lleva el nombre de la ciudad natal del teclista Geoff Barrow, cofundador junto a Beth Gibbons en 1991 de este grupo enigmático. Geof Barrow antes de formar este grupo lo hizo en Massive Attack y con Tricky.
Beth Gibbons aporta a esta canción, una vez más, su voz rota, dramática creando una atmósfera extraordinaria.
No dejéis de ver el video Portishead in Roseland NYC, en 1997 interpretando Glory Box, grabado un día lluvioso y frío. Beth, pitillo en mano sujetando el micrófono… está fantástica.
Glory Box
I'm so tired of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long
Just...
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
From this time, unchained
We're all looking at a different picture
Through this new frame of mind
A thousand flowers could bloom
Move over and give us some room
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
I just wanna be a woman
[INSTRUMENTAL]
So don't you stop being a man
Just take a little look from outside when you can
Show a little tenderness
No matter if you cry
Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be a woman
It's all I wanna be is all woman
Esta es la canción que estrena este blog. No es ni la que más me gusta de todas las que pasarán por él ni la más especial. Había que empezar con una y ésta ha sido la elegida.
Se encuentra dentro del CD Love Deluxe, que obtuvo el premio a la mejor grabación de R&B en 1994.
Como la mayoría de sus grabaciones es cálida, sensual y emana tristeza a raudales.
Es como todas sus grabaciones de una calidez y sensualidad extremas.
Por cierto, Sade ha publicado recientemente un doble CD titulado “The Ultmate Collection”
Like A Tattoo
He told me sweet lies of sweet love
Heavy with the burden of the truth
And he spoke of his dreams
Broken by the burden
Broken by the burden of his youth
Fourteen years he said
I couldn\'t look into thesun
She saw him laying at the end of my gun
Hungry for life
And thirsty for the distant river
I remember his hands
And the way the mountains looked
The light shot diamonds from his eyes
Hungry for life
And thirsty for the distant river
Like the scar of age
Written all over my face
The war is still raging inside of me
I still feel the chill
As I reveal my shame to you
I wear it like a tattoo
I wear it like a tattoo
I wear it like a tattoo
