chav_gecko's Last.fm Journal

What's goin' on? :_S

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:31:59 +0000

I can't get this outta my head! :__S

In love!

Mon, 5 Nov 2007 10:43:59 +0000

Rubies
Diamonds On Fire

Oh no, it's happening again.... : )

Don't you think they sound like something between Cocorosie and Pipas? :)

girls who like boys, who like girls....

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:30:37 +0000

Girls and Boys

The other day I dreamed of this song, somebody was trying to tell me something I really didn't feel like listening at and blur played on my Ipod earphones furiously so as to avoid listening at the other guy.

Clear metaphore, isn't it? I tend to have bizarre dreams!

Streets like a jungle
So call the police
Following the herd
Down to greece - on holiday
Love in the nineties
Is paranoid
On sunny beaches
Take your chances - looking for

Chorus:

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like theyre girls
Who do girls like theyre boys
Always should be someone you really love

Repeat chorus

Avoiding all work
Cos theres none available
Like battery thinkers
Count your thoughts - on one two three four five fingers
Nothing is wasted
Only reproduced
You get nasty blisters
Du bist sehr schen
But we havent been introduced.

Repeat chorus twice
2nd time: always should be someone to really love.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
Looking for...

Repeat chorus four times
Last time: always should be someone to really love.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah

Schloss

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:33:14 +0000

Hidrogenesse
Schloss

"Quedemenos,
olvidate de la agenda,
en el salón de espejos,
se canceló una boda.

En los jardines,
caminos que llevan a escondites
(...)

Una nueva vida,
en un castillo que no fue habitado;
Una vida antigua,
en un castillo que no fue terminado

En linderhof, en herrenchingsee
neues leben in auf den schloss"

Na ja, das wolle ich auch! Eines neues leben in auf den Bayerischen Schloss erbaut bei Ludwig II!

Hidrogenesse is becoming one of my big big favourite groups!! Actually it already was but after breaking the curse on my not being able to see them live last saturday (I had unsuccessfully been about to attend a concert 3 or 4 times :( that's a fact! I sang and danced with their songs till I was too tired to move any longer! (Shame I am such a "chav" not to charge my camera batteries and thus have no pictures or videos or anything like it! :_P)

Nevertheless, this ecstasy mixed with the feeling I tend to have when I've being trying too hard to do something for a long while (see the pacific ocean was another recent example). I figure that it's somehow linked with other facts I have simultaneously being trying to do. As if, when you finally solve the difficulties regarding something, the other problems were linked and solved themselves too.

I guess it's some kind of childish feeling, but nevertheless... aus meines neues leben in auf den Schloss andere Sagen wird auch verguesst!

Without Ipod....

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:31:15 +0000

I usually listen everything via IPOD, which enables me to register almost all the music I spend time with. But last week, after two months of behaving bizarrely; not responding to its wheel, sounding only in one headphone, getting block and unblocked radomly... it passed away.

It's a shame. As it's a shame that the only option Apple gives me is to replace my old IPOD for a "new" (or repaired) one at -almost- the same price as a brand new one. I can't believe they couldn't just replace the piece that has got broken.

Sadly, it all means that I will be much less active here, as only songs that I listen at my home laptop will be reflected on the charts :(. I think I'll get a new IPOD (brighter, bigger, better) ASAP, but meanwhile the charts won't be reliable.

Una furtiva lágrima (Pavarotti).

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:29:35 +0000

Of course, to say that it was too sad for me to know that this man had passed away last tuesday is almost to say nothing as everyone is saying the same thing.

To say that this aria is capable of making me cry... it's just a truth.

Last weekend I had a weding, and while I was driving there my little hommage to him was to listen at this opera, calmly, fully, and clap him.

And probably, if someday I get married (which is not likely at all) I'll get someone sing this:

A tiny hommage. RIP.

Gaetano Donizeti

Summercase

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:05:55 +0000

Last weekend I was in Barcelona at Summercase festival.

The concert I enjoyed most was these guys':

The Whitest Boy Alive(It was their first time in Spain! =).

Thought "the most magical moment" to record was at James concert, when a star appeared accross the clouds and a shooting star shone trough.

Ocean of noise (lyrics and video)

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:32:01 +0000

Ocean of Noise

My recently "fav-ed" group is arcade fire. I'm looking forward to seeing them live (perhaps at summercase next july?) =). Most of all after I've known that they play many instruments as diverse as violins, violas and other medieval ones (which name I don't know in English, it's spanish zanfona). And this track out of their last album "The Neon Bible" is one of their best from my very personal point of view.

In an ocean of noise
I first heard your voice
Ringing like a bell
As if I had a choice, oh well!

Left in the morning
While you were fast asleep
Into an ocean of violence
A world of empty streets

You've got your reasons
And me I've got mine
But all the reasons I gave
Were just lies to buy myself some time

In an ocean of noise
I first heard your voice
Now who hear among us
Still believes in choice?
Not I!

No way of knowing
What any man will do
An ocean of violence
Between me and you

You've got your reasons
And me I've got mine
But all the reasons I gave
Were just lies to buy myself some time

I'm gonna work it out
Cause time wont work it out
I'm gonna work it out
Cause time wont work it our for you
I'm gonna work it on out

Hidrogenesse interview

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:03:50 +0000

Hidrogenesse
Hidrogenesse is the name of a shower gel here at spain.
It's also the name of an electropop duo from Austrohungaro.
And, from my personal point of view, the most smart and ironic of every electropop groups that nowadays show themselves at spanish electropop scene.
I'm looking forward to seeing them live! (already have been about to... 3 times but still haven't been able! :S).

This interview at Mondosonoro reveals some of the clues from their latest release (Animalitos).

Tigres y perezosos
Son uno de los grupos más inclasificables del pop nacional, siempre han ido a su aire y por eso, desde la independencia creativa más absoluta, los catalanes han dado con un grupo fiel de seguidores que hemos acogido “Animalitos” (Austrohúngaro) como el Santo Grial que llevábamos años esperando. No hay problema, aun está permitido subirse al carro.

Estaba claro que Hidrogenesse eran grandes hace tiempo. Singles como “Eres PC/Eres Mac” o “Así se baila el siglo XX”, y su debut en formato largo, “Gimnàstica passiva”, se encargaban de demostrarlo. Pero, no me pregunten el porqué, aun no se les tomaba en serio entre los sectores más respetados de la crítica especializada. Se les seguía considerando un grupo de broma, y les calificaban erróneamente de divertimento liviano y paralelo de Genís Segarra (Astrud) y Carlos Ballesteros (uno de los capos de Austrohúngaro). Todo esto ha empezado a cambiar con “Animalitos”, un inteligentísimo tratado de pop posmoderno que, a pesar de tener otras motivaciones y tomar otros caminos estilísticos, nada tiene que envidiar a lo mejor de Astrud

El segundo trabajo largo de los catalanes es el que mejor plasma el universo “Hidrogenesse”; ese que casa la “alta” y la “baja” cultura de forma natural, ese que se mueve por choque de contrarios (Gary Glitter vs Klaus Dinger, Passolini vs Guillermina Mota), ese en el que no pueden faltar Rubí y los caballitos pony,
y ese que acaba calando gracias a contar un buen número de rompepistas (algunos de ellos ya himnos como “Disfraz de tigre” o “El poder de mis tejanos”). “Queríamos hacer un disco que sonara como un Top Of The Pops de 1974. Eso es una locura y obviamente no lo hemos conseguido. Somos demasiado continentales (nostálgicos, decadentes, cursis y pretenciosos). Es una pena. Lo que sí hemos conseguido, al poner el ritmo en un primer plano, es hacer un disco muy de sábado noche. También nos hemos esforzado mucho en que las canciones sean buenas, y en las letras (algo que Gary Glitter no tenía tan en cuenta)”. Sin duda alguna, el gusto de los catalanes es exquisito. Lo demuestra el hecho de que sean uno de los pocos grupos que reivindiquen (a nivel planetario, casi me atrevería a decir) como se merece a una de las figuras más singulares del pop británico más a contracorriente. Hablamos de Lawrence Hayward, alma mater de dos de los grupos más inclasificables del pop raro, Felt y Denim. “Lawrence es un santo, le tenemos auténtica devoción. El año pasado fuimos a verle en directo, en París. Lo que hizo en los noventa, los tres discos de Denim, son insuperables y no hay nada que se les pueda comparar. Además, el cambio que hizo de Felt a Denim es un ejemplo para todo el mundo que haga música. Es como si hubiera escrito un libro de auto-ayuda. A la altura de Lawrence sólo están Andy Warhol, Gustave Flaubert y Gainsbourg. Nosotros, como Jarvis Cocker o Luke Haines, seguiremos intentando seguir sus pasos”. De Hayward han heredado una particular manera de aproximarse a la música. Una manera que nunca sabes muy bien si es irónica o inocente. Bienintencionada o cargada de mala leche. Canciones como “Los perezosos”, “Disfraz de tigre” o “Vamos a casarnos”, ¿son dardos cargados de veneno o sencillas tonadas de humor blanco? “Nosotros intentamos combinar el chascarrillo con el cariño más sincero, y por eso a veces provocamos una sensación de media sonrisa que puede parecer irónica, pero no creemos que se trate de eso. Lo nuestro es más bienintencionado”. Y es que uno acaba pensando que Hidrogenesse son un grupo inteligente y superdotado que, como Hayward hizo con Denim y ahora con Go Kart Mozart, les gusta hacerse los tontos, y así reírse de todos aquellos que les acusan de ser un combo frívolo, sin importancia... Eso sí, tal operación tiene algunos peligros. “Nos gustaría que se nos hiciese más caso, porque no somos una broma, ni nuestros grupos son anécdotas salidas de una noche. Pero estamos muy contentos de que haya un público que nos permita sobrevivir, seguir publicando discos y haciendo conciertos y fiestas”. Otra cosa que define a Hidrogenesse es que son agradecidos con sus maestros. En “Animalitos” participa Alfonso Melero, batería de Hello Cuca, uno de los creadores del sello Spicnic, uno de los primeros sellos españoles por apostar por otra clase de pop y principal referente de Austrohúngaro, su digno sucesor. “Cuando nos conocimos todos los que hicimos ´Lujo y Miseria´, teníamos en común que nos gustaban los grupos de Spicnic, aunque a diferentes niveles: a unos Astrogirls, a otros Meteoro, a otros Terry IV... Que Alfonso toque la batería en el disco es un homenaje a Alfonso en sí mismo, a su sabiduría y a su trayectoria de batería, teclista, caja de ritmos, ideólogo... desde Terry IV hasta Hello Cuca”.

Hands in the snow (HELP with lyrics!)

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:28:08 +0000

Hands In The Snow

I have been trying to find out the lyrics of this (SOOOOO GREAT) song but can't find them! And this is my best guess. Any help with the missing parts, would be most welcome! ;D

By the time
you read this words
I will be gone
and I don't know
if I'll be back
so before you ask
just remember
that we've been here before.

I see your windows hindering?
to all the languages but behind
and I watch you drink
invisible ink.
So I won't know
when you shallow your words

I won't be there

So watch it all unrevealed
so watch the union common dot.

The end can come at anytime
with heart **** is eviased?
and the scientists
know the way it is
and we all know that we follow them down.

I hear you talking my *** dream?
I confess you can way to explain
but the dignifault?
such specially slow
and I don't have the heart
so you want who you are

I won't be there

So watch it all unrevealed,
so watch the union common dot.

By the time you hear this strain?
I'll be gone
and I won't be back
so don't even ask.
'Cause we all know
and we follow
with our eyes on the sky
and our hands in the snow.