UFO - Mr. Freeze

Uma das bandas que chegou ao meu conhecimento, também em 2010, o UFO é uma banda inglesa, surgida no final da década de 60, que influenciou grandes nome do Metal como Metallica e Iron Maiden. Um dos integrantes é o monstro Michael Schenker, que já tocou também com o Scorpions, enfim, só ouvindo para se ter uma idéia da genialidade do som dos caras.
Essa canção é de uma fase mais recente da banda, do seu 19º disco, o You Are Here, de 2004.

Hey now
This year I've been feeling kinda weary
Oh, next year I may not come back at all
Sometimes I hear the angels singing
Or I can hear my mother's call
Give me a cadillac for a carriage
And you'll hear my name
Whispering through the trees
You can call me Mr. Black
You can call me Mr. Grey
Or you can call me simply,
Call me Mr. Freeze
And tonight I'm feeling kinda beautiful
Tonight I'm feeling kinda warm
And there's a touch of humour
In everything I see
Oh there's a touch of scorn
Give me a Mercedes for my baggage
And hear my name on the breeze
You can all me Mr. Black
You can all me Mr. Green
Or you can call me simply,
Call me Mr. Freeze
If you please. Mr. Freeze
Solo
Give me a cadillac for a carriage
And you'll hear my name
Whispering through the trees
You can call me Mr. Black
You can call me Mr. Grey
Or you can call me simply,
Call me Mr. Freeze
Give me a Mercedes for my baggage
And hear my name on the breeze
You can all me Mr. Black
You can all me Mr. Green
Or you can call me simply,
Call me Mr. Freeze
If you please

http://letras.ms/tAj

Midlake - Roscoe (acoustic)

E fechando, aquela que julgo ser a melhor canção da banda, ainda do segundo disco, o The Trials of Van Occupanther, de 2006, porém numa versão acústica, encontrada no EP Oak & Julian, de 2007.
Belíssima!

Stonecutters made them from stones
Chosen specially for you and I
Who will live inside
The mountaineers gathered tender
Piled high
In which to take along.
Driving many miles, knowing they'd get here.

When they got here, all exhausted
On the roof leaks they got started
And now when the rain comes
We can be thankful

Ooh aah ooh
When the mountaineers
Saw that everything fit, they were
Glad and so they took off

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

The village used to be all one really needs
That's filled with hundreds and hundreds of
Chemicals that mostly surround you
You wish to flee but it's not like you
So listen to me, listen to me

Oh, oh, oh and when the morning comes,
We will step outside
We will not find another man inside
We like the newness, the newness of all
That has grown in our garden soaking for so long

Whenever I was a child I wondered what if my name had changed into something more productive like Roscoe
Been born in 1891
Waiting with my Aunt Rosaline

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with

1891
They looked around the forest
They made their house from cedars
They made their house from stones

Oh, they're a little like you, and
They're a little like me
When they're falling me

Thought we were devoid
A change or two
Around this place
(This place)
(This place)

When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with
(When they get back they're all mixed up with no one to stay with)

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/roscoe_lyrics_midlake.html
All about Midlake: http://www.musictory.com/music/Midlake

Midlake - Small Mountain (live)

Após uma longa data sem nada postar, trago a banda que mais me surpreendeu em 2010: Midlake.
Duas canções, uma em cada post, com diferentes versões do que a banda mostrou em studio.
Nessa primeira postagem, Small Mountain, do terceiro disco, o maravilhoso The Courage of Others, de 2010, numa versão ao vivo, tocada em um corredor qualquer de uma das ruas na Austrália.

The rise and the fall upon small mountain
Was fair not for all in need
And i with my life has gone
Away from this land of gold

Formed from the seed aligned for all that fortune brings
And all that certain men lay upon it when anger is seen
And it reigns like the others
Giving all what it can
While the days count for nothing
Nothing that one undestands

Upon that road I has struggled to find
A way of life that was common for all
And all that runs on the mountain was mine
A way of life that will surely be gone

Poor lands will grow
Among the weeds among the roads
And all are anxious for song and dance
That will sometimes get old

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/small_mountain_lyrics_midlake.html
All about Midlake: http://www.musictory.com/music/Midlake

Scorpions - Born to Touch Your Feelings

Depois de mais uma parada, por motivos pessoais, estou de volta com um vídeo que traz uma das mais belas canções que tive o prazer de ouvir, diga-se de passagem de uma banda cujos hinos sempre respeitei e venerei, mas imperdoavelmente não conhecia esta obra de arte.
Born to Touch Your Feelings desperta uma mistura de setimentos, que variam com o decorrer de sua melodia, alternando tristeza e renascimento, melancolia e explosão. Ela me lembra bastante a famosíssima Nothing Else Mathers, do Metallica (inclusive eu acho que o Metallica a tomou como base), porém eu arrisco dizer que ela encanta bem mais, até porque poucos sabem encaixar sua doce voz, em meio aos solos e riffs estoneantes de Ulrich Roth e Rudolf Schenker, respectivamente, como Klaus Meine.
A canção se encontra no quinto disco do Scorpions, o Taken by Force, de 1977.

I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling

Close your eyes and I'll try to get in
To waken your heart like the sping
'Cause I was born to touch your feelings

Steal the time, take a song and be glad
Be free as the birds, don't be sad
Your time will come, I'll make you feel it
You're still young like the sun after rain
Follow the light it's not in vain
And you will see I'll touch your feelings

You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right
You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right

You were born just to lose or to win
To be someone's chime in the wind
To live between your mind and feelings
Find your way, check it out
Learn each day
Follow the light, it's not in vain
And you will see I'll touch your feelings

You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right
You've got your songs
They are everyday for awhile
Just the only way to feel all right

I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling
I was born from the sound of the strings
For someone to give everything
To be a song just for your feeling

The Shins - New Slang

Depois de um bom tempo parado, quase que deixando o blog entregue às traças, resolvi voltar a postar, pois estou entrando no período de férias.
Hoje prestei atenção nessa canção dos Shins, essa maravilhosa banda americana e não pude acreditar que nunca tinha postado-a por aqui. É lindíssima, triste e me lembra algumas coisas muito antigas, referentes ao Velho Oeste, só não sei explicar exatamente o que seja.
Ela está no primeiro álbum de carreira da banda, o Oh, Inverted World, de 2001.

Gold teeth and a curse for this tow were all in my mouth
Only, I don't know how they got out, dear
Turn me back into the pet that I was when we met
I was happier then with no mind-set

And if you took to me
Like a gull takes to the wind,
Well, I'd've jumped from my tree
And I'd've danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well

New slang when you notice the stripes,
The dirt in your fries
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall
Never should have called
But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely

And if you took to me
Like a gull takes to the wind,
Well, I'd've jumped from my tree
And I'd've danced like the king of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well

God speed all the bakers at dawn
May they all cut their thumbs
And bleed into their buns 'till they melt away

I'm looking in on the good life
I might be doomed never to find.
Without a trust or flaming fields,
Am I too dumb to refine?

And if you took to me like -
Well, I'd've a danced like the queen of the eyesores
And the rest of our lives would've fared well

The Who - Blue Red and Grey

Uma das mais belas canções já feitas até hoje, de uma das bandas mais influentes de todos os tempos.
Pete Townshend abusa de seu belíssimo vocal, que somado ao simples e belo som de seu ukelele, geram essa transformação mágica que encanta a qualquer um que se der ao luxo de ouvi-la até o final.
A música está no disco The Who By Numbers, de 1975.

Some people seem so obsessed with the morning
Get up early just to watch the sun rise
Some people like it more when there's fire in the sky
Worship the sun when it's high
Some people go for those sultry evenings
Sipping cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day

I like every second, so long as you are on my mind
Every moment has its special charm
It's all right when you're around, rain or shine
I know a crowd who only live after midnight
Their faces always seem so pale
And then there's friends of mine who must have sunlight
They say a suntan never fails
I know a man who works the night shift
He's lucky to get a job and some pay
And I like every minute of the day

I dig every second
I can laugh in the snow and rain
I get a buzz from being cold and wet
The pleasure seems to balance out the pain

And so you see that I'm completely crazy
I even shun the south of France
The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy
But when they sleep, I sing and dance
Some people have to have the sultry evenings
Cocktails in the blue, red and grey
But I like every minute of the day

I like every minute of the day

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - This Summer's Been Good from the Start

Depois de uns dias sem postar, voltei.
Ontem eu estava procurando algum vídeo dessa canção e não achei, daí construí meu próprio vídeo, que se não é uma maravilha de produção, pelo menos serviu para que eu postasse a música pra vocês, de quebra acompanhada da letra.
Ela faz parte do sétimo disco da banda, o maravilhoso Blue Trees, de 2000.

Well this summer's been good from the start
And it looks like we never shall part

Where are we going ? I don't know
How do we get there ? So and so

Well this summer's been good from the start
Yes, this summer's been good from the start

Well we slept underneath all the stars
And we talked about girls seen from afar

What's her name now ? I don't know
How do I get to know ?

Well this summer's been good from the start
Yes this summer's been good from the start

And years from now why am I dreaming
Of a time when I'll be leaving
Yesterday has not gone easy
But it's you I believe in

Well we're drinking the dew off the leaves
And the sun's come easy like you would not believe

Where are we going? I don't know
How do we get there? So and so

Well this summer's been good from the start
Yes this summer's been good from the start.

A-HA - Foot Of The Mountain

Por fim, a maravilhosa canção que leva o nome do álbum.
Vai ser arrepiante ver e ouvir isso ao vivo, logo mais.
Bom, não me restam mais palavras, agora é só esperar chegar a hora de sentir o A-HA tomar conta de nossos corações, presentes no espetáculo.
Até mais, galera!

Keep your clever lines
Hold your easy rhymes
Silence everything
Silence always wins
It's a perfect alibi
There's no need to analyze
It will be all right
Through the longest night
Just silence everything

But we could live by the foot of the mountain
We could clear us a yard in the back
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
We could stay there and never come back

Learn from my mistake
Leave what others take
Speak when spoken to
And do what others do
Silence always wins
So silence everything

It will be all right
In the morning light
Just silence everything

But we could live by the foot of the mountain
We could clear us a yard in the back
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
We could stay there and never come back
We could stay there and never come back

You know it
We could live tonight

But we could live by the foot of the mountain
We could make us a white picket fence
Build a home by the foot of the mountain
we could stay there and see how it ends
We could stay there and see how it ends

A-HA - The Bandstand

É hoje!
Às 22h, estarei frente a frente com a maior banda norueguesa de todos os tempos.
Como fora prometido, fechando as postagens que passeiam pela discografia da banda, hoje vos trago o último disco até então, lançado oficialmente: Foot of the Mountain, de 2009.
Um álbum recheado de canções fora de série, relembrando os melhores tempos da banda, lá pela década de 80.
Não hesitei em escolher as duas canções que certamente abrirão o show de logo mais, que são perfeitas em todos os aspectos.

you stand in the doorway
a block up the street
ringing the doorbell
there´s tapping of feet
high yellow hair
and worn brown suit
enter,and break the news

now tell me the story
i give it the time
no need to worry
everything´s fine
i´ll take you away
from this name-calling scene
sure...you can bring your magazine

cold and windblown on the old bandstand
you and i walking hand in hand
a neon glow shining
down on us
don´t wait up for us
don´t wait up for us

now tell me the story
i give it the time
when you stop looking
then you will find
i´ll take you away
from this name calling scene
just bring your magazine


cold and windblown on the old bandstand
you and i walking hand in hand
a neon glow shining
down on us
don´t wait up for us
don´t wait up for us

A-HA - Keeper of the Flame

A segunda postagem traz um som mais romântico do disco, que inclusive é recheado de canções assim.
Os arranjos são sublimes, como sempre, e a voz do Morten impecável.

Give it up for rock'n roll
Give it up for rock
Give it up for how it made you feel

Give it up for vinyl days
Kicking back from school
Turning out to make it real sweet

Give it up for rock'nroll
Give it up for bob
Give it up for how it made you see

Give it up for silvertone
Give it up for golden
Adolescent daydreams

Incidental incidents
Instrumental instruments
A plan evolves too grand to entertain

Monumental monuments
Sentimental sentiments
You could've been the keeper of the flame

Incidental incidents
Instrumental instruments
Swallowed by the place from which you came

Monumental monuments
Sentimental sentiments
You should've been the keeper of the flame

Give it up for summer days
Laying in the grass
Everything is happening in your head
You raise your fist up in the air
Clench your teeth and say
Four more years and I'm outa here

Give it up
Give it up
Give it up
Four more years and I am outa here!

A-HA - Analogue

O penúltimo dia de postagens do A-HA, também coincidindo com a véspera de minha viagem pro show, traz o penúltimo disco da banda, até então.
Eu gosto bastante do Analogue, lançado em 2005. É um disco ousado, assim como fora o anterior, porém mais próximo do ponto certo, encontrado justamente no disco posterior, sobre o qual falaremos amanhã.
A canção que abre o dia é a homônima Analogue, que inclusive eles irão tocar amanhã: muito legal.

Come back, my darling one
I'm calling on you
The road ahead is long
And I must warn you

I wonder
Where did she go?
If I failed you
I tell you right now

All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you

Come back, my fallen son
Don't let them fool you
Cos when the day is done
They’ll never move you

Lay down your senseless pride
(Got more than you)
Put out your mournful tones
I tell you right now

All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel
Feel

(Lay down your senseless pride
You travelled once too often, yeah)

I tell you right now
All I want you to know; I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel

All I want you to know I love you
All I need is the time to show you how I feel

(Come back, my analogue
I hardly knew ya
the high end sloping off
a thing of beauty
take hold, my little ones
my minor key sonatas
show forth your looping grace
no one here can take your place)

A-HA - Forever not Yours

Fechando o dia com a segunda canção do álbum Lifelines, trago outra bela música.
Os arranjos são bem interessantes (com destaque pro teclado, com som de piano, ao fundo), a batida bem envolvente e ela certamente fica como um dos grandes hits do A-HA, nessa década que se passou.

Hold me tight, this is a lonely night
And I’ve hurt you baby, 'cause you're my light
Make me strong, just like you make me weak
And your hands reach out for me
Even in your sleep

I'll soon be gone now
Forever not yours
It won't be long now
Forever not yours

Memories they keep coming through
The good ones hurt more than the bad ones do
The days were hot, and the nights were deep
And I miss you, baby
I miss you, baby

I'll soon be gone now
Forever not yours
It won't be long now
Forever not yours

I'll soon be gone now
It won't be long now
Forever not
Forever not yours

I'll soon be gone now
Forever not yours
It won't be long now
Forever not yours
I'll soon be gone now
Forever not yours
It won't be long now
Forever not yours

A-HA - Lifelines

Começando as postagens do dia, mais um disco, o Lifelines, de 2002.
Um disco mais uma vez arriscado, que apresenta certa queda em relação ao anterior, mas um bom disco. O sétimo na carreira da banda.
A primeira canção que posto é a mais bela do álbum, a homônima Lifelines.
O vídeo é dividido em duas partes, uma traz a canção na versão original e a outra é numa versão um pouco diferente.
As imagens são de um filme norueguês, de 1991, de 12 minutos de duração, dirigido por Morten Skallerud: A Year Along the Abandoned Road.

One time to know that it's real
One time to know how it feels
that's all
One call
Your voice on the phone
One place
a moment alone
that's all
What do you see, what do you know?
One sign: what do I do?
Just follow your lifeline through
What if it hurts, what then?
What do we do, What do you say?
Don't throw your lifelines away

One time
just once in my life
yeah One time
to know it can happen twice
One shot
of a clear blue sky
one look
I see no reasons why we can't
One chance
to go back to the point
where everything starts
one chance
to keep it together when
things fall apart
Just one sign
to make us believe it's true
What do you see,
Where do we go?
One sign: how do we grow?
by letting your lifelines show
What if we do, what now?
What do you say?
how do i know?
Don't let your lifeline go

A-HA - Summer Moved On

Fecho o dia com a segunda canção, porém de uma forma brilhante, não apenas pela qualidade dela, que é incontestável, mas pelas condições climáticas encontradas pelo Morten, para interpretá-la, devido o frio intenso da Alemanha, em 2001. É uma aula de falsetes e explosão vocal, capazes de arrepiar tranquilamente qualquer um que esteja habituado a ouvir os mais conceituados vocalistas do Planeta.
Os 20 segundos de "Stay", no refrão, lá pelos 3:30 do vídeo, representam muito bem a perfeição da voz desse cidadão.

Summer moved on
And the way it goes
You can't tag along
Honey moved out
And the way it went
Leaves no doubt

Moments will pass
In the morning light
I found out
Seasons can't last
And there's just one thing
Left to ask

Stay
Don't just walk away
And leave me another day
A day just like today
With nobody else around

Friendships move on
And until the day
You can't tag along
Handshakes unfold
And the way it goes
No one knows

Moments will pass
In the morning light
I found out
Seasons can't last
And there's just one thing
Left to ask

Stay
Don't just walk away
And leave me another day

Stay
A day just like today
With nobody else around

Stay
Don't just walk away
With nobody else around

Seasons can't last
And there's just one thing
Left to ask

Stay
Don't just walk away
And leave me another day
A day just like today

Stay
Don't just walk away
With nobody else around

Summer moved on

A-HA - Velvet

E hoje é dia de entrarmos na segunda fase do A-HA, que após sete anos sem gravar nenhum disco, resolveram lançar esta obra-prima: Minor Earth Major Sky, de 2000.
O disco quebra com toda aquela expectativa de que a banda não mais voltasse ou viesse sem o impacto causado 15 anos antes.
Desconheço uma canção que seja mediana nesse disco, pois adoro todas elas, daí a dificuldade em selecionar duas pra hoje, mas abro as postagens do dia com essa que é disparada a mais bela do álbum.
O clipe é intrigante e fica a critério de cada um interpretá-lo da melhor maneira possível.

Her skin is like velvet
Her face cut from stone
Her eyes when she's smiling
Will never reach home
But hear how she sings

Her touch would be tender
Her lips would be warm
But when we're together
I'm always alone
But hear how she sings

Her skin is like velvet
So I went to her home
Her place like a palace
With things you can't own

Her skin is like velvet
And hear how she sings
Hear how she sings...
Yaeh, she sings
And hear how she sings
Hear how she

A-HA - Move to Memphis

Como segunda postagem do dia, uma canção absolutamente diferente da anterior. Um contrabaixo maravilhoso, bem acima dos demais instrumentos, uma guitarra bem "swingada" e uma batida pra lá de dançante. Não é uma obra-prima, não está entre as melhores deles, longe disso, mas é de se tirar o chapéu esses detalhes, por terem sido bem colocados, segundo a proposta que eles tinham ao gravá-la.

Walked around no one around
You were the one who taught me
better
This old town brings me down
You were the one who told me
You've got to

Move to Memphis
That's what I'll do
Move to Memphis and follow you
Trace that highway
Down to your doorway
Move tho Memphis and be with you

On the day you walked away
I was the one who said
You'd better stick around stay in town
You were the one who told me
You've got to

Move to Memphis
That's what I'll do
Chase the shadow that follows you
Trace that highway
Down to your doorway
Move to Memphis
And be with you

That's what I'll do
Move to Memphis to be with you
I'm gonna be with you
I'm gonna be with you
Gonna move to Memphis!

A-HA - Dark is the Night for All

Abrindo o dia com mais um disco, o quarto na carreira da banda: Memorial Beach, de 1993.
É o álbum mais fraco dessa primeira fase (se é que podemos dividir a discografia em duas partes). Confesso que não gostei muito dessa tentativa deles em arriscar, mas tudo bem, o disco tem boas canções e um exemplo disso é essa que trago agora. Bela, como já é de costume, com o Morten esticando a voz nas alturas e os sintetizadores muito bem colocados nos arranjos.

It’s time we said goodbye
Time now to decide
Oh don’t you feel so small
Dark is the night for all

It’s time we moved out West
This time will be the best
And when the evenings fall
Dark is the night for all

It’s time … yeah, to break free
It’s time to pull away
For you and me

It’s time … yeah, to break free
We need to celebrate the mystery

It’s time we said goodbye
Time for you and I
Oh don’t you feel so small
Dark is the night for all

A-HA - Early Morning

A segunda canção do dia, também desse quarto álbum, é bastante especial pra mim, por ser uma das que mais me recordo daquela época e por ainda ser uma das que mais me tocam, pela suavidade, melodia e por esse contrabaixo belíssimo que segue durante a canção inteira.
Esse vídeo é da turnê pelo América do Sul, em 1998.

Early morning
8:00 precise
I see the lonely
August sun arise.

Say you know you will
Move like you do
Out in the fields...
Waited the whole night through
Early morning...
Early morning...
Yeah...

Ran the whole way
Down to the tracks
Through the doorway
Then a last look back.

Say you know you will
Save me like you do
Out in the fields...
I've waited the whole night through
Early morning...
Early morning...
Yeah...

Out in the fields...

I climbed all the stairways
To find the rooftop clear
Got a shotgun
Lying with me here.

Say you know you will
Save me like you do
Out in the fields...
You know how it feels, yeah...
Early morning...
Early morning...

Early morning
8:00 precise...

A-HA - Crying In The Rain

Hoje é dia de entrarmos no quarto disco da banda e primeiro da década de 90, o sucesso East of the Sun, West of the Moon, de 1990.
Um disco repleto de excelentes canções, que também me deixou confuso na hora de optar por apenas duas, mas como aqui a coisa é bem pessoal, optei pelas duas faixas iniciais, que estão seguramente em meu Top 10 da banda.
Essa canção que abre o dia foi originalmente gravada pelos Everly Brothers, como single, em 1962, numa versão mais simples, bem folk, diferente do que o A-HA fez 20 anos atrás, com sample de som de chuva e demais acréscimos intrumentais.
Sem dúvidas uma música lindíssima.

I'll never let you see
The way my broken heart is hurting in me
I've got my pride and I know how to hide
All my sorrow and pain
I'll do my crying in the rain

If I wait for stormy skies
You won't know the rain from the tears in my eyes
You'll never know that I still love you so
Only heartaches remain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Raindrops falling from heaven
Could never take away my misery
Since we're not together
I pray for stormy weather
To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

Someday, when my crying is done
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
I may be a fool but 'till then
Darling, you'll never see me complain
I'll do my crying in the rain

Since we're not together
I pray for stormy weather
To hide these tears I hope you'll never see

Someday when my crying is done
I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun
I may be a fool but till then
Darling, you never see me complain
I'll do my crying in the rain ...

A-HA - You Are the One

Como o A-HA mescla muito bem a melodia com a levada dançante, achei interessante trazer na segunda postagem, diferente da primeira, uma canção que tivesse como principal característica essa sonoridade, digna dos melhores setlists de boates dos anos 80, também presente no terceiro disco da banda.
Impossível ficar parado!

You are the one who has done me in
Guess you knew from the start
I call again, but there's no one in
Don't know where, with whom you've been
But I do love you
Anyway you want me to

You are the one now the state I'm in!
Catching you was so hard
I fought for you, did you let me win?
Don't even care
You don't care where I've been
But I do love you
Anyway you want me to

I've done all I can do
All the letters I've sent through
Put my life in the palms of your hands
Maybe now you can see
That it's got to be me
But if you leave me
I'll understand, yeah
If you leave me, I'll understand

Girl!!!
You are the one who has done me in
Guess you knew from the start
I call your friends, but there's no one in
Catching you is so hard
You are the one!