Sunday, November 28, 2010

with two cats in the yard...

This song came once in the radio when I was working in a night shift...

And it caught me by surprise..

Knew Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for Helplessly Hoping and Suite:Jody Blue Eyes..

But Our House became my favorite song of them...

The thing here is that I have my own two cats in the yard ..



Saturday, November 27, 2010

why do you come here ?

more uncomfortable questions

Why do you come here?
And why, why do you hang around?
I'm so sorry, oh, I'm so sorry

Why do you come here
When you know it makes things hard for me?
When you know, oh, why do you come?

Why do you telephone?
And why send me silly notes?
I'm so sorry, oh, I'm so sorry


Thursday, November 25, 2010

Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails




The Stone Roses had a great success with their first album...

Then they got into legal issues with their record company and didn't release their second until 5 years ..

The 1st single of that 2nd album was this loose-bad-ass-zeppelinesque tune... called Love Spreads...

Everybody was expecting them to come again with the dance oriented shoe-gazing rock they were known for..

But instead John Squire decided to show the world how a Les Paul should be played ...

This is one of the songs that will push you to buy a guitar..

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

They say I got a lot of water in my brain ....


Mojo mag this month.. .Freddie !!

As i am going to England with my mates.. I know I'll get it at the airport..


Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Then she slipped into my pocket with my car keys..

Loved this song from day one..

The tribal singing is amazing

the rich girl poor boy classic history ...

This time with the world rhythms and sounds that Paul Simon explored since the 60's with Garfunkel..

The horns and the fret less bass are superb



DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER SHOES

He's a poor boy

Empty as a pocket
Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose
Sing Ta na na
Ta na na na
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

People say she's crazy
She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Well that's one way to lose these
Walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She was physically forgotten
Then she slipped into my pocket
With my car keys
She said you've taken me for granted
Because I please you
Wearing these diamonds

And I could say Oo oo oo
As if everybody knows
What I'm talking about
As if everybody would know
Exactly what I was talking about
Talking about diamonds on the soles of her shoes

She makes the sign of a teaspoon
He makes the sign of a wave
The poor boy changes clothes
And puts on after-shave
To compensate for his ordinary shoes

And she said honey take me dancing
But they ended up by sleeping
In a doorway
By the bodegas and the lights on
Upper Broadway
Wearing diamonds on the soles of their shoes

And I could say Oo oo oo
As if everybody here would know
What I was talking about
I mean everybody here would know exactly
What I was talking about
Talking about diamonds

People say I'm crazy
I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes
Well that's one way to lose
These walking blues
Diamonds on the soles of your shoes

Friday, November 19, 2010

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile ..

Psychedelia at its prime.

1967 ...

San Francisco...

How great if one could go back there for a few weeks...

If I could I would seriously consider staying..

And I would form a band called... the XXIst Century Travelers..



Plastic Fantastic Lover

Her neon mouth with the blinking soft smile
Is nothing but an electric sign
You could say she has an individual style
She's part of a colorful time

Super-sealed lady, chrome-color clothes
You wear 'cause you have no other
But I suppose no one knows
You're my plastic fantastic lover

Your rattlin' cough never shuts off
Is nothin' but a used machine
Your aluminum finish, slightly diminished
Is the best I ever have seen

Cosmetic baby plugged into me
And never ever find another
And I realize no one's wise
To my plastic fantastic lover

The electrical dust is starting to rust
Her trapezoid thermometer taste
All the red tape is mechanical rape
Of the TV program waste

Data control and IBM
Science is mankind's brother
But all I see is drainin' me
On my plastic fantastic lover

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

let's rock till we drop...

The first(and last) vinyl record LP I ever stole was The Stray Cats first album..

Which I still have ...

I just did it for the sake of being a rebel and a rocker ..

This weekend we were at my friend's birthday party and we were playing only old Rock & roll and skiffle tunes.... like I Saw Her Standing There or Man in constant sorrow...

Me I was playing bass at that moment and.. was crazy to play Rock This Town..

even Brian Setzer's guitar parts are the real rocker licks.... playing rockabilly walking bass is great.

is

Monday, November 15, 2010

In dreams you're mine all of the time ...




"He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal... His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttering to yourself something like, 'Man, I don't believe it'"

Bob Dylan

When I read this line in Dylan's Chronicles I underlined it with my pencil...

I remembered Roy's voice ..

I could drive my car over a cliff while this song is playing in the radio...

Roy said this song came to him while sleeping, he dreamed that the radio was announcing a new Elvis song .. then he woke up and wrote it..

The images in the video are from David Lynch's movie Blue Velvet, which I hadn't seen yet..

The producer was Dino de Laurentiis who passed away last week..

Little homage here to all of them..



In Dreams

A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
"Go to sleep, everything is all right"

I close my eyes, then I drift away
Into the magic night, I softly say
A silent prayer like dreamers do
Then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you

In dreams I walk with you
In dreams I talk to you
In dreams you're mine all of the time
We're together in dreams, in dreams

But just before the dawn
I awake and find you gone
I can't help it, I can't help it, if I cry
I remember that you said goodbye

It's too bad that all these things
Can only happen in my dreams
Only in dreams
In beautiful dreams

Friday, November 12, 2010

Seems that my pockets were filled up with gold...

I really believe there's nothing one can comment about this song...

Just give yourself a present today..

listen to this song as many times as you want..

then you'll feel a whole lot better..



My head is spinning round, my heart is in my shoes, yeah
I went and set the thames on fire, oh, now I must
come back down
She’s laughing in her sleeve boys, I can feel it
in my bones
Oh, but anywhere I’m gonna lay my head, I’m gonna
call my home

Well I see that the world is upside-down
Seems that my pockets were filled up with gold
And now the clouds, well they’ve covered over
And the wind is blowing cold
Well I don’t need anybody, because I learned, I
learned to be alone
Well I said anywhere, anywhere, anywhere I lay my
head, boys
Well I gonna call my home

Thursday, November 11, 2010

How the hell did you get here...

....semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.
Hard to find more cynical or sweet lyrics than those written by Jarvis Cocker...



UNDERWEAR

Why don't you shut the door,
and close the curtains,
cos you're not going anywhere.
He's coming up the stairs,
and in a moment he'll want to see your underwear.

You couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here.
Semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

If fashion is your trade,
then when you're naked,
I guess you must be unemployed yeah.
Cos once it's underway,
there's no escaping,
the fact that you're a girl and he's a boy.

You couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here.
Semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

If you close your eyes and just remember,
that this is what you wanted last night.
So why is it so hard for you to touch him.
For you to go and give yourself to him?

I couldn't stop it now.
There's no way to get out.
He's standing far too near.
How the hell did you get here,
semi-naked in somebody else's room.
I'd give my whole life to see it.
Just you,
stood there,
only in your underwear.

Do, do do do do. Do, do. Do, do. Do, do, do, do, do. Do, do. Do, do.
Oh yeh,
I want to see you.
Want to see you only in your underwear.

Monday, November 8, 2010

I woke up this morning ... worried in my mind


the voice of a worried guy ...

Almost 90 years ago...




I woke up this morning ... worried in my mind
Thinking about ... that girl I left behind
I'm worried now ... I won't be worried long


The brownie I love ... makes me sing this song

If the blues don't kill me ... they will drill me through and through
Woman I love ... don't know what to do


There's one thing in this world ... I cannot understand

That's a bow‑legged woman ... crazy about a cross‑eyed man

...I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary 'bout Uncle John

My and my good mate Luis.. went to see Lemmy's Documentary..

was OK.. but what I'd like was when he and Dave Grohl started talking about Little Richard.. and I remember a rock'n roll oldies record my parents had..

My favorite song was "Long Tall Sally" because it's like a lightning bolt..

The Beatles and Led Zeppelin covered the song later on...
and his style was copied from Bowie to Hendrix to Prince..

But nobody could sing like Little Richard.. not even today..

Friday, November 5, 2010

How go forward into something we're not sure of? ...



Sometimes when we look for answers we only find more questions...



How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
How can I go forward when I don't know which way to turn?
How can I go forward into something that I'm not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I have feeling if I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel,
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?
How can I give love when I just don't know how to give?
How can I give love when love is something I aint never had?
Oh no,
Oh no,

You know life can be long,
And you have got to be so strong,
And the world is so tough sometimes I feel I have had enough,
Oh no,
Oh no,

How can we go forward when we don't know which way we're facing?
How can we go forward when we don't know which way to turn?
How go forward into something we're not sure of?
Oh no,
Oh no

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

What do you think they would say...



...
if I stood up and I walked away
Nobody here really understands me,
and so I'll wave goodbye I'm fine
and I'm fine



Well that was Shannon Hoon did more or less 15 years ago..

Though this is quite a feel-good song.. that could have been the long lost B side from Led Zeppelin III

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