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08 junio 2022

Love Reign O´er Me - The Who

Este temazo incluido en el álbum Quadrophenia contiene todo lo que podía ofrecer el grupo The Who: épica, lirismo y rock. La voz de Roger Daltrey y los arreglos hacen brillar esta composición de Pete Townshed, guitarrista y principal compositor del grupo.

Quadrophenia fue la segunda ópera rock del grupo y fue todo un éxito de ventas. También tuvo muy buena acogida por parte de la crítica y se realizó una película que hoy día se considera un clásico.

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Only love can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea
Only love can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers layin' in the fields

Love, reign o'er me
Love, reign o'er me
Rain on me, rain on me

Only love can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky
Only love can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high

Love, reign o'er me
Rain on me, rain on me
Love, reign o'er me
Rain on me, rain on me

On the dry and dusty road
The nights we spend apart alone
I need to get back home to cool, cool rain

I can't sleep, and I lay, and I think
The night is hot and black as ink
Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain

Love, reign o'er me
Reign o'er me, o'er me, o'er me
Love, reign o'er me, o'er me
Love

04 junio 2022

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran

Pues hoy volvemos a hablar de otro de los pioneros de eso que luego se llamó rock´n roll y el que fue uno de los primeros guitar hero.   

Incluso en unos lejanos años 50 se nota la fuerza que ya tenía este tipo de música que, aunque algo rudimentaria, logró espolear a la juventud de la época comenzando un movimiento que no dejaría de crecer hasta nuestros días.

Eddie Cochran tuvo una carrera fugaz pues falleció con tan sólo 21 años y este hecho agrandó su estatus hasta convertirlo en un mito. Quizás se pueda encontrar un extraño y trágico paralelismo entre su fallecimiento y el de sus amigos Buddy HollyRitchie Valens y The Big Bopper tan sólo un año antes de su muerte.

Apenas pudo saborear las mieles del éxito pero conviene remarcar el hecho de que tuvo más éxito en Reino Unido que en su América natal. Y no es ésta cuestión baladí teniendo en cuenta que buena parte de la evolución del rock´n roll se gestó en las islas británicas: The Beatles o The Who dan buena fe de ello. Estos últimos realizaron una potente versión del tema que nos ocupa en su disco Live at Leeds publicado en 1970.

Nuestro protagonista también tuvo un papel importante en la evolución de los sonidos de la guitarra eléctrica pues cacharreaba mucho con su Gretsch G6120 probando todo tipo de cuerdas y grosores y modificando las pastillas. También experimentaba con las incipientes técnicas de grabación; además tocaba varios instrumentos.

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I'm a-gonna raise a fuss
I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About workin' all summer
Just-a trying to earn a dollar

Every time I call my baby
Try to get a date
My boss says "No dice, son
You gotta work late"

Sometimes I wonder
What I'm a-gonna do
But there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

Well my mama and papa told me
"Son, you gotta make some money
If you wanna use the car
To go a-ridin' next Sunday"

Well, I didn't go to work
Told the boss I was sick
"You can't use the car
Cause you didn't work a lick"

Sometimes I wonder
What I'm a-gonna do
But there ain't no cure
For the summertime blues

14 marzo 2016

Baba O´Riley - Blueman Group


Out here in the fields 
I farm for my meals 
I get my back into my living. 
I don't need to fight 
To prove I'm right 
I don't need to be forgiven. 
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 

Don't cry 
Don't raise your eye 
It's only teenage wasteland 

Sally, take my hand 
We'll travel south cross land 
Put out the fire 
And don't look past my shoulder. 
The exodus is here 
The happy wolds are near 
Let's get together 
Before we get much older. 

Teenage wasteland 
It's only teenage wasteland. 
Teenage wasteland 
Oh, yeah 
Teenage wasteland 
They're all wasted!

13 diciembre 2015

Summertime Blues




I'm gonna raise a fuss, i'm gonna raise a holler
about a workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar
every time i call my baby, and ask to get a date
my boss says, "no dice son, you gotta work late"
sometimes i wonder what i'm a gonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
Well my mom and pop told me, "son you gotta make some money"
if you want to use the car to go ridin' next sunday
well i didn't go to work, told the boss i was sick
"well you can't use the car 'cause you didn't work a lick"
sometimes i wonder what i'm a gonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
I'm gonna take the weeks, gonna have a fine vacation
i'm gonna take my problem to the united nations
well i called my congressman and he said "whoa!"
"i'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote"
sometimes i wonder what i'm a gonna do
but there ain't no cure for the summertime blues

28 junio 2015

I Can See For Miles - The Who


I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played
And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

You took advantage of my trust in you when I was so far away
I saw you holding lots of other guys and now you've got the nerve to say

That you still want me
Well, that's as may be
But you gotta stand trial
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise
I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes

I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Oh yeah

The Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal are mine to see on clear days
You thought that I would need a crystal ball to see right through the haze

Well, here's a poke at you
You're gonna choke on it too
You're gonna lose that smile
Because all the while

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
And miles and miles and miles

I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles
I can see for miles and miles