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The Stone Roses & The Resurrection Blues

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“When we have blanket acceptance in all areas of the mainstream media that the key moments of recent times are the Pulp and Blur revivals and now The Stone Roses, culture is clearly in a particularly bad place. The ability of new ideas to break through to the general public is stifled by endless waves of shallow nostalgia polluted by financial imperatives and waved through by a compliant and toothless set of critics and commentators who either want the world to stop so they can pretend to be 20 for eternity or are part of the marketing team and thus totally unable to pass any kind of meaningful comment on what is happening.”

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Veja bem, não quer dizer que eu não goste de Stone Roses e Pulp – Blur já é outra história – mas o cara tem razão.

E o texto todo serve como um belo contraponto a todo o hype que chega quando as bandas, independente de sua qualidade musical, resurgem.

Leia.

Faixa na faixa

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E prá quem tem esse desejo de ter álbuns das bandas prediletas lançados todo mês, não basta só esperar pelo High Violet do The National. Tem também que esperar o novo disco do Interpol.

Prá acalmar a ansiedade, tem faixa para download do Interpol.

Coisa soturna. Coisa fina.

Interpol – Lights

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Cópias, releituras, covers e afins

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“Ministry did more than any other band to popularize industrial-metal, injecting large doses of punky, over-the-top aggression and roaring heavy metal guitar riffs that helped their music find favor with metal and alternative audiences outside of industrial’s cult fan base.”

O que isso significa? Que Cover Up, o disquinho recente do Jourgensen (Ou como quer que se escreva o sobrenome dele, já que até uma busca simples a preguiça está impedindo) e colegas tem três das mais belas canções de barulho suportáveis para muitos daqueles seus conhecidos que, sejamos francos, não tem ouvidos à prova de bala.

Não, nem todas as onze faixas são grandes covers. Under My Thumb, Bang a Gong e Space Truckin’ são as três boas, muito, muito boas; sem fugirem tanto assim das originais, (como também acontece com Roadhouse Blues, que vem com cover até do discurso da apresentação clássica do Hollywood Bowl) são coisas inteiramente novas. Dá para entender? Não, mas é assim. Sábia decisão colocar estas três entra as quatro primeiras do disco.

A já citada Roadhouse Blues e Lay Lady Lay são decentes, boas mesmo para criar massa e encher o disco: não são excepcionais, mas não comprometem.

Todas as outras, com uma exceção, poderiam ou não existirem: são ok e nada mais que isso.

E a exceção é What a Wonderful World. É uma droga.

Once & Never Again, Long Blondes

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19. you’re only 19 for God’s sake,
Oh, you don’t need a boyfriend.
19. you’re only 19 for God’s sake,
Oh, you don’t need a boyfriend.

Look what he’s made you do to your arm again,
He said he’d come round but he’s gone out with his friends,
And I know how it feels to be your age
and feel the world is caving in.

Another drama by the kitchen sink tonight,
You said you’d cut yourself whilst washing up the knives,
Another week off school won’t do you any good,
And I know how it feels to be your age.

19. you’re only 19 for God’s sake,
Oh, you don’t need a boyfriend.
19. you’re only 19 for God’s sake,
Oh, you don’t need a boyfriend.

Come back with me, and find out what you really want,
Come home with me you’ll only have to do it once,
‘cause I know what it feels like to be your age,
You only have to do it once,
And never again.

Another drama by the kitchen sink tonight,
You said you’d cut yourself whilst washing up the knives,
Another week off school won’t do you any good,
And I know how it feels to be your age.

You know I’m not so young,
I spend an hour getting ready every day,
And still I end up looking more or less the same,
But I could show you,
a thing or two.

Oh, I could show you the ropes,
Yes I could show you the ropes,
And I would cut my hair for you,
‘Cause I know how it feels.

I know how it feels to be your age,
I know how it feels to be your age,
Oh, how I’d love to feel a girl your age,
Your age,
Once and never again