martes, 4 de mayo de 2010

Esos raros peinados nuevos(Charly Garcia )

Buena época de García , de 1983, sacado de Piano Bar, quizás el disco que más me atrae de Charly, después de “Películas “, de “La Máquina de hacer Pájaros”(Ver entrada anterior).
“No quiero ver al doctor/sólo quiero ver al enfermero” A menos que sea House, …….no mejor la dra Allison Cameron

Hocus, Pocus (Focus)

De esta canción tanque, en versión un tanto acelerada en vivo. Thijs van Leer el tecladista y flautista, toca y arregla el disco de Roque Narvaja “Un amante de cartón”

Martha (Tom Waits)

De 1973, el album debut de Tom, “Closing time”,cuando su voz no sonaba tan de ultratumba, todavía tocaba en bares y cabarets, lo cual impregna la temática del disco. Me atrae este romance abatido : "Operator, number, please:/it's been so many years/Will she remember my old voice/while I fight the tears?/Hello, hello there, is this Martha?/this is old Tom Frost,/And I am calling long distance,/don't worry 'bout the cost./'Cause it's been forty years or more,/now Martha please recall,
Meet me out for coffee,/where we'll talk about it all./And those were the days of roses,/poetry and prose and Martha/all I had was you and all you had was me./
There was no tomorrows,we'd packed away our sorrows/And we saved them for a rainy day./And I feel so much older now,/and you're much older too,/How's your husband?
and how's the kids?/you know that I got married too?/Lucky that you found someone
to make you feel secure,/'Cause we were all so young and foolish,/now we are mature./
And those were the days of roses,/poetry and prose and Martha/all I had was you and all you had was me./There was no tomorrows,/we'd packed away our sorrows/And we saved them for a rainy day/And I was always so impulsive,/I guess that I still am,/And all that really mattered then/was that I was a man./I guess that our being together/was never meant to be./And Martha, Martha,/I love you can't you see?/And those were the days of roses,/poetry and prose and Martha/all I had was you and all you had was me./There was no tomorrows,/we'd packed away our sorrows/
And we saved them for a rainy day./And I remember quiet evenings/trembling close to you.
Para escuchar en días de nubes bajas y plomizas, como diría el amigo Edgar Allan,en La casa Usher.

The sage-Blues Variation (Emerson,Lake&Palmer)

Del live de “Pictures at an Exhibition”, del cantante de boleros del grupo, conocido como Gregorio Lagos.Luego lo que más me gustaba del disco: “Blues variation”



domingo, 2 de mayo de 2010

Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)

Lo estuve repasando del album “Relics” cuya tapa fue dibujada por el batero Mason, la canción originalmente fué un lado “B” en 1968.
El tema es de Roger Waters, y me gusta ese aire de alucinación :
Will the misty master break me
Will the key unlock my mind
Will the following footsteps catch me
Am I really dying
Julia dream, dreamboat queen, queen of all my dreams

Have you ever seen the rain (Credence Clearwater revival)

Cuando en primero de la secundaria, hacía la pantomima de tocar en un garage de Torcuato, “Proud Mary” nos empinaba. Recuerdo algún verano, haber visto en casa de mis primos “Willy and the poor boys” , pero no le presté atención. A partir de tocar “Orgullosa Mary”, me compré un “Grandes Exitos” e inmediatamente me atrajo este tema.
I WANT TO KNOW,
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN?
I WANT TO KNOW,
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN
COMIN´ DOWN ON A SUNNY DAY

Two Weeks(Grizzly Bear )

La banda del oso pardo, otro de los nuevos para mi, el video tiene la cuota de humor que me gusta

I And Love And You (Live on The Interface)(The Avett Brothers

Los hermanos de North Caroline, de lo nuevo que estoy escuchando, me enganchó

sábado, 1 de mayo de 2010

I´m sorry (Brenda Lee)

Otro disco 45 rpm que se pierde en "el horizonte de sucesos"de mi infancia, lo canta Brenda a sus 16 años, en 1960

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