Citizen of the planet

Vaya peazo de tema, el Citizen of the Planet, que arranca el nuevo trabajo de Alanis Morisette: Flavors of Entanglement.

Alanis Morissette es una de esas artistas que nunca han acabado de gustarme del todo. Tampoco es que me disgustara.
He de reconocer que se ha sabido mantenerse en el “candelabro” despues de aquel magnifico “jagged little pill“. Y que sus 12 trabajos la avalan como la gran artista que es.

Pero es que el Citizen of the Planet es sencillamente genial.

Os lo cuelgo para que lo valoréis vosotr@s mismos.

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Letra en inglés

I start up in the north
I grow from a special seed
I sprinkle it with sensibility
From French and Hungarian snow
I linger in the sprouting
Until my engine’s full

Then I move across the sea
To European bliss
To language of poets
As I cut the cord of home
I kiss my mother’s mother
Look to the horizon

Wide eyed, new ground
Humbled by my new surroundings

I am a citizen of the planet
My president is Kwan Yin
My frontier is on an airplane
My prisons, homes for rehabilitating

Then I fly back to my rest
I fly back with my nuclear
But everything is different
So I wait
My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond

So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred

I am a citizen of the planet
My laws are all of attraction
My punishments are consequences
Separating from source the original sin

I am a citizen of the planet
Democracy’s kids are sovereign
Where the teachers are the sages
And pedestals filled with every parent

And so the next few years are blurry
The next decade’s a flurry
Of smells and tastes unknown
Threads sewn straight through this fabric
Through fields of every color
One culture to another

And I come alive
And I get giddy
And I am taken and globally naturalized

I am a citizen of the planet
From simple roots through high vision
I am guarded by the angels
And my body guides the direction I go in

I am a citizen of the planet
My favorite pastime edge stretching
Besotten with human condition
These ideals are born from my deepest within

REM: Accelerate

Llevo unos días escuchando Accelerate el nuevo trabajo de REM, y tengo que decir que me ha dejado un pelín decepcionado.

Supongo que debe ser porque llevo tanto tiempo esperado un trabajo similar al «Out of time» o al «Automatic for the people«, que cualquier trabajo que no vaya en esa linea no me acaba de convencer.

Encuentro demasiada estridencia en la mayoria, que no todos, de los temas del nuevo album.
Me faltan los «momentos melódicos». Los «momentos REM».

Un ejemplo de lo yo considero (y sobretodo me gusta) el sonido REM lo tenemos en el septimo tema; «Until the day is gone«. Pero incluso en este tema, la mandolina parece apagada. Como si quisieran evitar ese sonido que les hace tan caracteristicos.

Y por último el precio. Me parece obsceno pagar casi 19€ por este último trabajo, sobretodo teniendo en cuenta lo fácil que puede ser encontrarlo por la red.

Os cuelgo el séptimo tema para que juzguéis vosotros mismos.

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Until the day is gone

Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on
Until the day is done
Until the day is done

As we’ve written our stories to entertain
These notions of glory and bull market gain
The teleprompt flutters, the power surge brings
An easy speed message falls into routine

Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on
Until the day is done
Until the day is done

A voice whispers «Son,
The blessed vision comes.»
What have I done
What have I done

So hold tight your babies and your guns
Forgive us our trespasses, father and son
Providence blinked, facing the sun
Where are we left to carry on

Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done
Until the day is done

Jack Johnson: Sleep Through The Static

Definitivamente, oir a Jack Jonhson es ponerse de buen humor. Es escuchar música repleta de buenas vibraciones y buenos sentimientos que te impregnan y te llenan de felicidad.
Ya sé, que suena un poco cursi, pero es así, no se definirlo de otro modo. Buen rollo!

Éste último trabajo del músico hawaiano mantiene la linea a la que nos tenia acostumbrado. A caballo entre el folk y el rock suave con pinceladas hawaianas.

Para que opinéis os dejo un par de temas

Hope

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Shadow walks faster than you
You don’t really know what to do
Do you think that you’re not alone?
You really think that you are immune to
Its gonna get that the best of you
Its gonna lift you up and let you down
It will defeat you then teach you to get back up
After it takes all that
You learn to love

Your reflection is a blur
Out of focus
But in confusion
The frames are suddenly burnt
And in the end of a roll of illusion
A ghost waiting its turn
Now I can see right through
It’s a warning that nobody heard

It will teach you to love what you’re afraid of
After it takes away all that
You learn to love
But you don’t
Always
Have to hold your head
Higher than your heart

You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better be hoping you’re not so…
Du du rut
Hope you’re not alone
Hmm hmm humm

Your –
Your echo comes back out of tune
Now you can quite get used to it
Reverb is just a room
The problem is that there’s no truth to it
It’s fading way too soon
The shadow is on the move
And maybe you should be moving too
Before it takes away all that you learned to love
It will defeat you and then teach you to get back up
Cause you don’t
Always
Have to hold your head
Higher than your heart

You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better be hoping you’re alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not alone
You better hope you’re not so…
Du ru ru ru ru
Hope you’re not alone
Hmm hmmm hmmmm
Better hooope
Huuu huuu hmmm
Better hope you’re not alone
Huuu huuu hmmm
Hooope

If I had eyes

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If I had eyes in the back of my head
I would have told you that
You looked good
As I walked away

If you could’ve tried to trust the hand that fed
You would’ve never been hungry
But you never really be

The more of this or less of this or is there any difference
or are we just holding onto the things we don’t have anymore

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not at all
Just stand still
While we fall
In or out of love again I doubt I’m gonna win you back
When you got eyes like that
It won’t let me in
Always looking out

Lot of people spend their time just floating
We were victims together but lonely
You got hungry eyes that just can’t look forward
Can’t give them enough but we just can’t start over
Building with bent nails we’re
falling but holding, I don’t wanna take up anymore of your time
Time time time

Sometimes time doesn’t heal
No not all
Just stand still
While we fall
In or out of love again I doubt I’m gonna win you back
When you got eyes like that
It won’t let me in
Always looking out
Always lookin

Espero que te guste, y si es asi d‚jame un comentario.

Vocal Sampling desde Cuba

A veces sin querer llegas a descubrir verdaderas joyas, y cuando las descubres te quedas embobado escuchando.

Eso es lo que me pasó el otro día cuando escuche por primera vez a este grupo cubano,Vocal Sampling. Que está integrado por 6 músicos cuyo único instrumento es la boca.

Se trata del archiconocido tema de los Eagles Hotel California, interpretado a capella por esta formación cubana.

Sencillamente alucinante. Sobretodo los sonidos de guitarras eléctricas.

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Tan sólo anotar que se trata de una actuación en directo, y el sonido esta bastante sucio. Yo escuché la versión de estudio y es para quitarse el sombrero.

Chapeao!

La mujer más fea del mundo

Verla no la he visto, pero si he oído la canción que le han dedicado. Y a tenor de la letra de la canción, tiene que ser fea con ganas.

Opinad vosotros

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La canta un tal Fernando Alvarez, y los chistes alguien llamado Alfredo. No tiene desperdicio, sobretodo los chistes que cuentan en medio de la canción.

Me la envió Rocio