El Ipod de Andrea

Kids

2008-11-18T07:32:00.001-08:00

R&K

Cada vez que la escucho, estoy automáticamente de regreso en el 2001. Al ritmo de la pegajosa tonada, los recuerdos adolescentes se suceden como una película en mi mente. Y es que tiene ese espíritu alegre y divertido que tanto me hace recordar a los días del colegio.

El siempre controvertido Robbie Williams se une a Kylie Minogue, una de las mayores intérpretes del pop-dance actualmente, para cantar a dúo Kids, single lanzando en el 2000 en su álbum Singing When You're Winning. La mezcla de sonidos britpop, rock y hip-hop, más la elegante sensualidad de las voces de Robbie y Kylie, hacen de esta una excelente canción.

K: Me no bubbletious
R: Me smoke heavy tar
K: Me be groovin' slowly where you are
R: Notify your next of kin 'cause your never coming back
K: I've been dropping beats since Back in Black
Chorus:And we'll paint by numbers
Till something sticks
Don't mind doing it for the kids
So come on
Jump on board
Take a ride, yeah(You'll be doin' it alright)
Jump on board
Feel the high, yeah
'Cause the kids are alright
K: You've got a reputation
R: Well I guess that can be explored
K: You're dancing with the chairman of the board
R: Take a ride on my twelve cylinder smphony
But if you've got other plans
K: The purpose of a woman is to love her man
And we'll paint by numbers
Till something sticks
Don't mind doing it for the kids
So come on
Jump on board
Take a ride, yeah(You'll be doin' it alright)
Jump on board
Feel the high, yeah'
Cause the kids are alright
I'm gonna give it all of my loving
It's gonna take up all of my love
I'm gonna give it all of my loving
It's gonna take up all of my love (x4)
K: Come down from the ceiling
R: I didn't mean to get so high
K: I couldn't do what I wanted to do when my lips were dry
R: You can't just up and leave me I'm a singer in a band
K: Well I like drummers baby you're not my bag
So come on
Jump on board
Take a ride, yeah(You'll be doin' it alright)
Jump on board
Feel the high, yeah'
Cause the kids are alright x2
I'm an honorary Sean Connery, born '74
There's only one of me
Single-handedly raising the economy
Ain't no chance of the record company dropping me
Press be asking do I care for sodomy
I don't know, yeah, probably
I've been looking for serial monogamy
Not some bird that looks like Billy Connolly
But for now I'm down for ornithology
Grab your binoculars, come follow me

Virtual Insanity

2008-04-01T08:24:00.000-07:00

Jay Kay, líder de Jamiroquai

El mayor exponente del género acid jazz de los últimos tiempos es, sin lugar a dudas, la banda británica Jamiroquai. Fundada en 1993 por el cantante Jay Kay, éste fusionó el nombre de la tribu norteamericana Iroquai (Jay es seguidor de su filosofía) con el término jam (proveniente de jamming) para crear "Jamiroquai". El grupo se haría mundialmente famoso con su tercer álbum Travelling Without Moving (1996). Virtual Insanity fue el primer single, y escaló al #1 de los rankings musicales de muchos países, gracias a su pegajosa tonada groovy. Además, el video-clip se posicionó como uno de los 100 mejores de la historia de MTV.

Oh yeah, what we’re living in, let me tell ya

It is a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we’ll be doing for us

And I’m giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can’t see, I can’t breathe
No more will we be
And nothing’s going to change the way we live’
Cause we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse

See, whoa, it’s a crazy world we’re living in
And I just can’t see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
Useless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground

And I’m thinking what a mess we’re in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the colour of her child
That’s not nature’s way
Well that’s what they said yesterday
There’s nothing left to do but pray
I think it’s time to find a new religion
Whoa, It’s so insane
To synthesize another strain
There’s something in these
Futures that we have to be told

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have foruseless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground
Now there is no sound if we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad
As a man-made man, oh yeah, I know yeah
Ooh

Futures made of virtual insanity now
Always seem to be governed by this love we have for
Useless, twisting, of the new technology
Oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground
Now this life that we live in

It's so wrong
Shout out the window
Do you know that
There is nothing worse than a man-made man
Still there's nothing worse than a foolish man, hey
Virtual insanity is what we're living in
Yeah, it is alright

Change

2008-02-21T15:06:00.000-08:00

Los primeros integrantes de Lightning Seeds

Desde Liverpool, la tierra que vio nacer a The Beatles, llega una de las mejores bandas de pop/rock británico de los últimos tiempos: Lightning Seeds. Fundada en 1989 por el cantante y guitarrista Ian Broudie, el grupo se consolidó a mediados de los 90's como uno de los máximos exponentes del britpop. Change es uno de los singles de su álbum de 1994 Jollification, aclamado por el público y la crítica musical.

The world is full of fools
who never get it right
You don't know what to do
so you do anything you like
[put your foot down and drive]
Oh you're a silly thing
[put your foot down and drive]
You're such a pretty thing
[put your foot down and drive]
You're never going to be like all those fools
You're coming out tonight
There's nothing to lose
You're going to give it all a try
Don't ever change
Don't ever change [never change]
No never change [never change]
Never change
[don't ever change]
The world is full of fools
take wisdom to the wise
And thank your lucky stars
for coming out tonight
[put your foot down and drive]
Oh you're a silly thing
[put your foot down and drive]
You're such a pretty thing
[put your foot down and drive]
Don't ever change
Don't ever change [never change]
No never change [never change]
Never change
[don't ever change]
When tearful eyes
Are open wide
They're still to blind to see
A change in style
For a little while
Is only make believe
[put your foot down and drive]
Oh you're a silly thing
[put your foot down and drive]
You're such a pretty thing
[put your foot down and drive]
You're never satisfied
So look for something new
There's nothing to hide
And nothing you can do
Don't ever change
Don't ever change [never change]
No never change [never change]
Never change
[don't ever change]
Oh you fool you've got me started
Oh you fool you've got me started
Oh you fool you've got me started
[Don't you ever change]
Oh you fool you've got me started
[Don't you ever change]

Show Me Love

2008-02-21T13:13:00.000-08:00

Robyn, la excéntrica princesa del pop sueco

Desde las frías tierras escandinavas llega esta dulzona y pegajosa canción. Considerada la capital mundial del pop, Suecia es cuna de grandes artistas del género como ABBA, The Cardigans y Ace of Base, sólo por nombrar algunos. Robyn, considerada la Britney Spears sueca, lanzó Show Me Love como single de su álbum de 1997 Robyn Is Here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Always been told that I've got too much pride

Too independant to have you by my side

But my heart said all of you will see

Just won't live for someone until he'll live for me

Never thought I would find love so sweet

Never thought I would meet someone like you

Well now I've found you and I'll tell you no lie

This love I've got for you

Could take me 'round the world

Now show me love

Show me love, show me life

Baby show me what it's all about

You're the one that I ever needed

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Don't waste this love

I wanna give it to you

Tell me what you got, show me what you can do

Show me love, show me everything

I know you've got potential

So baby let me in and show me love

Show me love, show me life (alright)

Baby show me that it's all about

You're the only one that I ever needed (show me love)

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Show me love, show me life

Baby show me what it's all about

You're the one that I ever needed

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Show me love baby

Show me everything you've got and show me life

Show me love baby

Show me everything and what it's all about

You're the one, the only one I ever needed

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

I'll love you

I'll miss you

I'll make sure

Everything will be alright

I'll give you my heart if you just give me love

Every day and every night

Show me love, show me life (alright)

Baby show me what it's all about

You're the one that I ever needed

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Show me love, show me life (alright)

Baby show me what it's all about

You're the one that I ever needed

Show me love and what it's all about, alright

Los Languis

2008-02-07T23:10:00.000-08:00

Soda Stereo en los 80's

Me verás volver... sí, volvamos al pasado. Gus la tenía bien escondida. Pero sus intentos fueron en vano: al final la descubrí. En pocas palabras, Los Languis es una canción alucinante, una inteligente fusión de jazz, rock y funk, la perfección hecha sonido por un soñado trío: Gustavo Cerati, voz y guitarra, Zeta Bosio, bajo, y Charly Alberti, batería. Una vez más, los Soda Stereo han demostrado por qué son la mejor banda de rock sudamericana de todos los tiempos.

Solo una hora mas en silencio
El tiempo para firmar
Mi nombre en tu cuello
Dejarte una marca
Un tatuaje eterno
Antes que todos vuelvan
A hablar de dinero

Porque
Cuando se acabe la fiesta
La tribu estara sedienta
Sera el momento del baile
De los languis

Hay solo una hora para algo prohibido
Un tiempo de blandos
Un tiempo de rigidos
Quisiera encontrar
El golpe preciso
El lugar en tu piel
Para hincar mis colmillos

Cuando se acabe la fiesta
La tribu estara sedienta
Sera el momento del baile
De los languis

Languidos

You Get What You Give

2008-02-05T22:18:00.000-08:00

Los revolucionarios New Radicals

¿Te suena conocida? Lo más probable es que sí. No es otra que la canción de la campaña publicitaria de Movistar de este año, aunque la escuchamos por primera vez en 1998. A fines de los noventa los New Radicals, haciendo honor a su nombre, se proclamaron los revolucionarios del rock moderno en los Estados Unidos. Razones no les faltaba, ya que su primer - y único - álbum Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too fue éxito de ventas instantáneo y aclamado unánimamente por la crítica musical. El compositor Gregg Alexander y la cantante Danielle Brisebois, líderes de la banda, nos entregan 12 mágnificos tracks cargados con un sonido fresco y toneladas de diversión.

Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age 14 we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Fri - enemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes - Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give
Four a. m. we ran a miracle mile
Were flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial

This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok follow your heart
You're in harms way
I'm right behind
Now say youre mine

Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
Just dont be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion mag shoots
With the aid of 8 dust brothers Beck, Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in!
Don't let go
One dance left

A New Flame

2008-02-05T14:41:00.000-08:00

Mick Hucknall y los Simply Red

El grupo de soul y pop británico Simply Red lanzó esta pegajosa canción que da el título a su álbum de 1989 A New Flame. La banda, fundada por Mike Hucknall en 1984 en Manchester, alcanzó la fama con la conocida balada ochentera Holding Back The Years.

I was bowled out
I was sold down the river
But her warm heart
Would turn me forever

Shes turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do can do me wrong

I am stern now
Petty words
Dont believe me
But her warm smile
Is never gonna leave me

Shes turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do can do me wrong

Wrong oh no
Wrong oh no

Shes made of real glass
She got real real emotion
But my heart laughs
I have that same sweet devotion

Shes turned me round
A new flame has come
And nothing she can do can do me wrong

Wrong oh no
Wrong oh no
Nothing she can do can ever do me wrong

Georgy Porgy

2008-02-05T09:55:00.000-08:00

Los integrantes originales de Toto en los 70's

El reconocido grupo estadounidense Toto, famoso por sus excelentes combinaciones de rock, blues, pop, jazz y funk, incluyó esta canción en el concierto que ofreció en París en 1990. La virtuosidad de David Paich en los teclados, junto a la magnífica voz y guitarra de Steve Lukather, la energía destilante de Jeff Porcaro en la batería y la precisa marcación del ritmo de Mike Porcaro en el bajo, hacen de Georgy Porgy un deleite para los oídos.

(Con mucho cariño dedico esta canción a mi querido amigo Koki Romero, excelente tecladista y músico trujillano, quien me la dedicó en el Tributo a Toto del año pasado. Ahora es mi turno, jeje xD)

Well I'm walking in my sleep
Well I'm talking baby can't you see
Well all we need is a simple song
For people that wanna dance
All we need is a simple song
So people let me hear you say
Na na na na na

It's not your situation
I just need contemplation over you
I'm not so systematic
It's just that I'm an addict for your love

I'm not the only holds you
I never ever should have told your my only girl
I'm not the only hold you
I never ever should have told your my only world

Just think how long I've known you
It's wrong for me to own you lock and key
It's really not confusing
I'm just the young illusion can't you see

I'm not the only holds you
I never ever should have told your my only girl
I'm not the only hold you
I never ever should have told your my only world

Georgy Porgy
Puddin' Pie
Kissed the girls and made them cry

[Repeat]

You Don't Know My Name

2008-02-05T09:10:00.001-08:00

Alicia Keys y el piano: un sólo ser

Alicia Keys se luce con esta electrizante canción muy al estilo de Diana Ross y del sonido Motown. Fiel a su onda R&B y soul, la talentosa intérprete y compositora neoyorkina lanzó está canción como single de su álbum del 2003 The Diary Of Alicia Keys. ¿Quién no ha tenido un amor platónico? Tus suspiros, tus miradas y tus deseos son también los nuestros, Alicia.

Baby, baby, baby
From the day I saw you
I really really want to catch your eye
There's something special 'bout you
I must really like you
Cause not a lotta guys are worth my time
Ooo baby, baby, baby
It's gettin kind of crazy
Cause you are takin over my mind
And it feels like oooooo
But you don't know my name
And I swear it feels like ooooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)

Oh baby baby baby
I see us on our first date
You're doin everything that makes me smile
And when we had our first kiss
It happened on a Thursday
Ooooo it set my soul on fire
Ooo baby baby baby
I can't wait for the first time
My imagination's runnin wild
It feels like ooooo
You don't know my name
And I swear it baby, it feels like oooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)

"I'm sayin, he don't even know what he's doin' to me
Got me feelin' all crazy inside
I'm feelin like"
Owww! Ooooo Oooooo
Doin more than I've ever done for anyone's attention
Take notice of what's in front of you
Cause did I mention you're 'bout to miss a good thing
And you'll never know how good it feels to have all of my affection
And you'll never get a chance to experience my lovin'
Cause my lovin' feels like ooooooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know
And I swear it feels like oooo ooooo ooooo ooooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
Ohhh

Will you ever know it, no no no no no
Will you ever know it?

"I'm gonna have to just go ahead and call this boy.
Hello? Can I speak to -- to Michael?
Oh hey, how you doin?
Uh, I feel kinda silly doin' this,
But um, this is the waitress from the coffee house on 39th and Lennox
You know, the one with the braids?
Yeah, well I see you on Wednesdays all the time
You come in every Wednesday on your lunch break, I think
And you always order the special, with the hot chocolate
And my manager be tripping and stuff
Talking bout we gotta use water
But I always use some milk and cream for you
Cause I think you're kinda sweet.
Anyway you always got on some fly blue suit
'n your cufflinks are shining all bright
So, whatchu do? Oh, word? Yeah, that's interesting
Look man, I mean I don't wanna waste your time but
I know girls don't usually do this,
But I was wondering if maybe we could get together
Outside the restaurant one day
Cause I do look a lot different outside my work clothes
I mean we could just go across the street to the park right here
Wait, hold up, my cell phone's breakin up, hold up
Can you hear me now? Yeah
So, what day did you say?
Oh yeah, Thursday's perfect, man:."

And it feels like oooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
Baby Baby I swear it's like oooooo
You don't know my name, no no no
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)
And it feels like oooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know)

And I swear on my mother and father it feels like
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
Oooo ooo oooo ooo ooo ooo
You don't know my name
(round and round and round we go, will you ever know?)

Just The Way You Are

2008-01-23T21:36:00.000-08:00

Billy Joel y su ahora ex-esposa, la top model Christie Brinkley

Sin lugar a dudas, una de las canciones de amor más bellas de todos los tiempos. La compuso el talentoso cantautor norteamericano Billy Joel, como single de su álbum de 1977 The Stranger. Cada vez que escucho la perfecta armonía del saxo y el piano, tan característicos del sonido neoyorkino, aunado a la melodiosa voz de Billy desnudando su alma frente a su amada, se me escarapela toda la piel junto con una lágrima traicionera. Sólo una. Sólo una. Sólo una...

Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times, I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are

Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care

I don't want clever conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.

I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.

I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are.

Cry

2008-01-21T23:38:00.000-08:00

Chris Duffy y Phil Cilia de Waterfront

Corría el año 1989, y mientras el verano transcurría apacible en Gales, un grupo de jóvenes músicos se unieron y crearon Waterfront. Chris Duffy, Phil Cilia, Chris Childs y Greg Haver firmaron un contrato con la poderosa disquera Polydor, y poco después lanzaron al mercado su primer álbum Waterfront. Debutaron con el single Cry, que alcanzó el #10 en el Hot 100 Chart del Reino Unido.
Esta pegajosa canción cuenta las penurias de un joven enamorado de una adolescente:

Please don’t apologize
Just let me wipe the tears away
Don’t mean to act surprised
If it’s all right I’d like to stay, yeah

I know that you are not a child
But there’s one thing that I love about you
Your style
Cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry

I know you’re just sixteen
But looking all of twenty-one
(Twenty-one, you’ll be married with a gun)
Daddy would go to jail for you
If he thought you were having the wrong sort of fun

I know that you are not a child
But there’s just one thing I love about you
Your style
Cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry

The moment that you’ve gone
You know that they will talk
But they’re wrong, and it makes me happy
Even when you’ve gone, you know I’ll carry on
‘Cos I’m strong, and it makes me happy

I know that you are not a child
But there’s one thing that I love about you
Your style
Don’t cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry

(sax solo)

Cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry
Cry, please don’t cry
(Cry, cry, cry…)

FADE:
Cry, please don’t cry

Presentación

2008-01-21T23:01:00.000-08:00

¡Hola!
En este blog encontrarás una amplia gama de música y videos a los que soy adicta desde que cayó en mis manos (mas bien, en mis oídos) un ejemplar del famoso Ipod. Este novísimo aparatito, como un Alejandro Magno en su vasto imperio digital, ha revolucionado el concepto del mundo (y el mio) tal y como lo conocíamos; ahora es un lugar sin fronteras ni diferencias establecidas, donde todos tenemos un sólo propósito: disfrutar de una placentera experiencia audiovisual.
Gracias totales, Steve Jobs.