martes, 10 de marzo de 2009

richard thompson: mock tudor




1. Cooksferry Queen
2. Sibella
3. Bathsheba Smiles
4. Two-Faced Love
5. Hard On Me
6. Crawl Back (Under My Stone)
7. Uninhabited Man
8. Dry My Tears And Move On
9. Walking The Long Miles Home
10. Sights And Sounds Of London Town
11. That's All, Amen, Close The Door
12. Hope You Like The New Me


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Richard Thompson: Mock Tudor

sábado, 7 de marzo de 2009

sleeping beauty



Flaming June, 1895
Frederic Leighton




The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881-98 (detail)
Sir Edward Burne-Jones


La bella durmiente — Pintura victoriana del Museo de Arte de Ponce

Museo Nacional del Prado
24 febrero - 31 mayo 2009

miércoles, 4 de marzo de 2009

the springfields: on an island of dreams, disc 1




1. Dear John
2. I Done What They Told Me To
3. Breakaway
4. Good News
5. Wimoweh Mambo
6. The Black Hills Of Dakota
7. Row Row Row
8. The Green Leaves Of Summer
9. Silver Dollar
10. Allentown Jail
11. Lonesome Traveller
12. Dear Hearts And Gentle People
13. They Took John Away
14. Eso Es El Amor
15. Two Brothers
16. Tzena Tzena Tzena
17. Bambino
18. Goodnight Irene
19. Far Away Places
20. Silver Threads And Golden Needles
21. Aunt Rhody
22. Swahili Papa
23. Gotta Travel On


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The Springfields: On An Island Of Dreams, Disc 1

lunes, 23 de febrero de 2009

the creation of the world



The Creation of the World, closed doors of the triptych 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', c.1500
Hieronymus Bosch

miércoles, 4 de febrero de 2009

helen shapiro: at abbey road, 1961 to 1967




1. Don't Treat Me Like A Child
2. You Don't Know
3. Walkin' Back To Happiness - (take 2)
4. Walkin' Back To Happiness - (take 13 master)
5. Kiss 'N' Run
6. I Wanna To Be Happy
7. Let's Talk About Love
8. Tell Me What He Said
9. Little Miss Lonely
10. A Teenager Sings The Blues
11. I Can't Say No To Your Kiss
12. Sometime Yesterday
13. I Don't Care
14. Basin St. Blues
15. Every One But The Right One
16. Keep Away From Other Girls
17. A Dozen Other Boys
18. Queen For Tonight
19. Time And Time Again
20. Look Who It Is
21. Fever
22. Look Over Your Shoulder
23. It's In His Kiss
24. I Wish I'd Never Loved You
25. Shop Around
26. Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
27. You're My Remedy
28. I'm Going Out (The Same Way I Came In)


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Helen Shapiro: At Abbey Road, 1961 to 1967

jueves, 29 de enero de 2009

the flying saucer (parts 1 & 2)



Buchanan & Goodman
The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 & 2)


We interrupt this record
To bring you a special bulletin
The reports of a flying saucer
Hovering over the city
Have been confirmed
The flying saucers are real!

(Too real when I feel
What my heart can't conceal)

That was The Clatters recording, "Too Real"

We switch you now to our
On the spot reporter downtown

(Come on, baby
Let's go downtown)

Take it away
John Cameron Cameron

This is John
Cameron Cameron downtown
Pardon me, madam
Would you tell our audience
What would you do if
The saucer were to land

(Duck back in the alley)

Thank you and now
That gentleman there

(What I'm gonna do
Is hard to tell)

And the gentleman
With the guitar
What would you do, sir

(Just take a walk
Down lonely street)

Thank you
We return you now...

This is Drak
Your outer space disc jockey
With a request for earth

(Earth angel, earth angel)

That was The Pelicans outer
Space recording, "Earth"
I've just been handed a bulletin
The flying saucer has just landed
We switch you again downtown

Here we are again
We have with us Professor
Sir Cedric Pentingmode
Of the British Institute
And the professor is approaching
The saucer to see if there's
Possibly any sign of life aboard

Well, I'm sure something
Are you there

(I hear you knocking,
But you can't come in)

That was Laughing
Lewis's record, "Knocking"

This is John Cameron
Cameron on the spot
And now I believe we're
About to hear the words of
The first spaceman ever
To land on Earth

(Womp bop a loo bop a lomp bam boom)

And now here are the ball scores
Four to three, six to two
And eight to one

The impact of seeing
The first spaceman has
This reporter reeling

(Here I go reeling
Uh-oh, uh-oh...)

That was The Clatters again
With their big one, "Uh-Oh"

This is John Cameron
Cameron again downtown
The spaceman has returned
To his ship and is taking off
We return you now to our studios

The flying saucer has gone
There is no threat of an invasion
However, the flying saucers
Are still around

(Still around)

We are not going
To interrupt this record
Yes, we are

The flying saucer
Has landed again
Washington, the Secretary
Of Defense has just said

(Ain't that a shame)

That was Skinny Dynamo's
Record, "That's A Shame"

This is John Cameron
Cameron, part two
Gathered around me are
Several of the spacemen
Tell us, have you come
To conquer the world

And now would you
Repeat that in English

(Don't want the world
To have and hold)

Hey, why don't you go back where you came from

(Don't be angry
And drive me away)

We return you now to our studios

Here is a news item
From Washington
The President has just
Issued a statement to the
Spacemen and we quote

(You can do anything
But lay off of my
Blue suede shoes)

That was Pa Gherkins record, "Shoes"
We switch you again downtown

This is John Cameron
Cameron downtown
Professor Sir Cedric
Of the British Institute
Tell us how were
The saucers able to land

Well, you see..

(The motor cooled down
The heat went down)

That was Huckle Berry's recording
"The Moter Cooled Down"

This is John Cameron
Cameron again
I believe the spaceman
Has a final parting word

(See you later, alligator)

We return you now
To our studios

The spacemen have gone again
But look to the skies
The saucers will
Always be there

(Always be there)

Goodbye, earth people

ricky nelson: ricky sings again / songs by ricky




Ricky Sings Again
1. It's Late
2. One Of These Mornings
3. Believe What You Say
4. Lonesome Town
5. Tryin' To Get To You
6. Be True To Me
7. Old Enough To Love
8. Never Be Anyone Else But You
9. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
10. You Tear Me Up
11. It's All In The Game
12. Restless Kid

Bonus Tracks
13. I Got A Feeling
14. Never Be Anyone Else But You (Alternate Version)
15. Lonesome Town (Alternate Version)
16. Gloomy Sunday
17. Brand New Girl

Songs By Ricky
18. You'll Never Know What You're Missin'
19. That's All
20. Just A Little Too Much
21. One Minute To One
22. Half Breed
23. You're So Fine
24. Don't Leave Me
25. Sweeter Than You
26. A Long Vacation
27. So Long
28. Blood From A Stone
29. I've Been Thinkin'

Bonus Tracks
30. Just A Little Too Much (Alternate Version)
31. Sweeter Than You (Alternate Version)
32. I've Been Thinkin' (Alternate Take)





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Ricky Nelson: Ricky Sings Again / Songs By Ricky

jueves, 8 de enero de 2009

the definition of love



Love, 1895
Gustav Klimt


The Definition of Love
Andrew Marvel

My Love is of a birth as rare
As ’tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

Magnanimous Despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing,
Where feeble Hope could ne’er have flown
But vainly flappt its Tinsel Wing.

And yet I quickly might arrive
Where my extended soul is fixt,
But Fate does Iron wedges drive,
And alwaies crouds it self betwixt.

For Fate with jealous Eye does see
Two perfect Loves; nor lets them close:
Their union would her ruine be,
And her Tyrannic pow’r depose.

And therefore her Decrees of Steel
Us as the distant Poles have plac’d,
(Though Loves whole World on us doth wheel)
Not by themselves to be embrac’d.

Unless the giddy Heaven fall,
And Earth some new Convulsion tear;
And, us to joyn, the World should all
Be cramp'd into a Planisphere.

As Lines so Loves oblique may well
Themselves in every Angle greet:
But ours so truely Paralel,
Though infinite can never meet.

Therefore the Love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debarrs,
Is the Conjunction of the Mind,
And Opposition of the Stars.


La definición del Amor

Un nacimiento tan raro mi Amor tuvo
igual que su objeto es extraño y elevado:
engendrado fue por la Desesperación
uniéndose a la Imposibilidad.

Solamente la magnánima Desesperación
pudiera mostrarme algo tan divino,
allí donde la débil Esperanza no ha volado nunca,
sino que vanamente agitó su Ala de Oropel.

Y, sin embargo, yo podría llegar veloz
donde mi Alma extendida se fija:
pero el Destino clava cuñas de Hierro,
y siempre se interpone.

Si el Destino con Ojo celoso ve
dos Amores perfectos, no les permite estar juntos:
pues la unión de ellos sería su ruina,
y depondría su poder Tiránico.

Y, por tanto, sus Decretos de Acero
nos han situado tan distantes como los Polos
(aunque el Mundo del Amor sobre nosotros gire),
que no pueden abrazarse uno a otro.

A no ser que cayera el vertiginoso Cielo,
y una nueva Convulsión quebrase la Tierra;
y, para unirnos, el Mundo por completo
se apretara en un
Planisferio.

Como las Líneas, los Amores oblicuos a veces
se saludan en cada Ángulo:
pero el nuestro, tan
Paralelo de cierto,
aunque infinito, no puede encontrarse.

Por tanto, el Amor que hemos atado,
y que el Destino tan envidiosamente desbarata,
es la Conjunción del Pensamiento
y Contrario a las Estrellas.



Traducción de niki

jueves, 1 de enero de 2009

duane eddy: twang thang - the duane eddy anthology, disc 2




1. Dance With The Guitar Man
2. Ballad Of Paladin
3. Boss Guitar
4. Sugar Foot Rag
5. The Window Up Above
6. Crazy Arms
7. One Mint Julep
8. Hard Times
9. Swanee River Rock
10. Buckaroo
11. Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar
12. Roadhouse Boogie
13. Zephyr Cove
14. Road Race
15. Peter Gunn - Twang Mix, with Art Of Noise
16. The Trembler
17. Rockestra Theme


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Duane Eddy: Twang Thang - The Duane Eddy Anthology, Disc 2

duane eddy: twang thang - the duane eddy anthology, disc 1




1. Moovin' 'N' Groovin'
2. Stalkin'
3. Rebel Rouser
4. Ramrod
5. Cannonball
6. The Lonely One
7. Detour
8. Three-30-Blues
9. I Almost Lost My Mind
10. Yep!
11. Forty Miles Of Bad Road
12. Have Love Will Travel
13. Quiniela
14. Peter Gunn
15. Some Kinda Earthquake
16. First Love, First Tears
17. Shazam!
18. Tiger Love And Turnip Greens
19. Trambone
20. Route Number 1
21. Because They're Young
22. Kommotion
23. Pepe


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Duane Eddy: Twang Thang - The Duane Eddy Anthology, Disc 1

miércoles, 24 de diciembre de 2008

fabrizio de andré: in direzione ostinata e contraria, cd 3




1. Fiume Sand Creek
2. Hotel Supramonte
3. Se Ti Tagliassero A Pezzetti
4. Creuza De Mä
5. Sidún
6. Â Duménega
7. La Domenica Delle Salme
8. 'A Çimma
9. Don Raffaè
10. Khorakhané
11. Prinçesa
12. Ho Visto Nina Volare
13. Anime Salve
14. Smisurata Preghiera
15. Cose Che Dimentico


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Fabrizio De André: In direzione ostinata e contraria, CD 3

lunes, 22 de diciembre de 2008

fabrizio de andré: in direzione ostinata e contraria, cd 2




1. La Collina
2. Un Giudice
3. Un Ottico
4. Il Suonatore Jones
5. Introduzione
6. Canzone Del Maggio
7. Il Bombarolo
8. Verranno A Chiederti Del Nostro Amore
9. La Cattiva Strada
10. Giugno '73
11. Canzone Per L'Estate
12. Amico Fragile
13. Andrea
14. Volta La Carta
15. Titti
16. Una Storia Sbagliata
17. Geordie


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Fabrizio De André: In direzione ostinata e contraria, CD 2

viernes, 19 de diciembre de 2008

fabrizio de andré: in direzione ostinata e contraria, cd 1




1. Amore Che Vieni Amore Che Vai
2. La Città Vecchia
3. Via Del Campo
4. Bocca Di Rosa
5. La Canzone Di Marinella
6. Ballata Dell'Amore Cieco O Della Vanità
7. Carlo Martello Ritorna Dalla Battaglia Di Poitiers
8. La Guerra Di Piero
9. La Ballata Dell'Eroe
10. Il Pescatore
11. Canzone Dell'Amore Perduto
12. La Ballata Del Miché
13. Preghiera In Gennaio
14. Valzer Per Un Amore
15. Si Chiamava Gesù
16. Il Sogno Di Maria
17. Ave Maria
18. Il Testamento Di Tito
19. Inverno
20. Girotondo
21. Terzo Intermezzo
22. Recitativo (Due Invocazioni E Un Atto Di Accusa)
Corale (Leggenda Del Re Infelice)


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Fabrizio De André: In direzione ostinata e contraria, CD 1

domingo, 16 de noviembre de 2008

nick lowe en la riviera







Nick Lowe en La Riviera
Madrid, viernes 14 de noviembre de 2008


Fotos de niki

sábado, 15 de noviembre de 2008

super hits of the '70s - have a nice day, vol. 25




1. Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet
2. How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
3. Shake It - Ian Matthews
4. Falling - LeBlanc & Carr
5. I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
6. 5.7.0.5. - City Boy
7. New York Groove - Ace Frehley
8. My Angel Baby - Toby Beau
9. Love Takes Time - Orleans
10. Get Used To It - Roger Voudouris
11. Lead Me On - Maxine Nightingale
12. Oh Well - The Rockets


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Super Hits Of The '70s - Have A Nice Day, Vol. 25


martes, 11 de noviembre de 2008

nat king cole: the singer




1. That "Please Be Mine-Able" Feeling
2. Vom, Vim, Veedle
3. Beautiful Moons Ago
4. Straighten Up And Fly Right
5. Sweet Lorraine
6. Katusha
7. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
8. I'm An Errand Boy For Rhythm
9. I'm In the Mood For Love
10. Route 66
11. Could 'Ja
12. The Best Man
13. The Christmas Song
14. That's What
15. When I Take My Sugar To Tea
16. The Trouble With Me Is You
17. Ke Mo Ki Mo
18. Nature Boy
19. Little Girl
20. I've Got A Way With Women
21. Lulubelle
22. Exactly Like You
23. I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again
24. Destination Moon


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Nat King Cole: The Singer

jueves, 23 de octubre de 2008

jeri southern: the very thought of you




1. You Better Go Now
2. The Very Thought Of You
3. It's De-Lovely
4. Dancing On The Ceiling
5. All In Fun
6. When I Fall In Love
7. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
8. Remind Me
9. I Don't Know Where To Turn
10. He Was Too Good To Me
11. If I Had You
12. I Remember You
13. Every Time We Say Goodbye
14. My Ship
15. An Occasional Man
16. Someone To Watch Over Me
17. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
18. Close As Pages In A Book
19. No Moon At All
20. You're Nearer
21. Nobody's Heart


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Jeri Southern: The Very Thought of You - The Decca Years, 1951-1957

jueves, 16 de octubre de 2008

the jumblies



Edward Lear
William Holman Hunt


De veras, no conzoco otro autor al que esté la mitad de agradecido por mis ratos de esparcimiento que a Edward Lear. Lo pondré en el primer lugar de mis cien autores.

John Ruskin


The Jumblies
Edward Lear

I

THEY went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, “You’ll all be drowned!”
They called aloud, “Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!”
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


II

They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a ribbon by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said who saw them go,
“O won’t they soon be upset, you know!
For the sky is dark and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!”
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


III

The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, “How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!”
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


IV

And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
“O Timballoo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar.
And all night long, in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!”
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


V

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


VI

And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, “How tall they’ve grown!
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore!”
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
And every one said, “If we only live,
We, too, will go to sea in a Sieve,–
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!”
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.







Los Jumblies

I

Se fueron al mar en un Tamiz, pues sí,
al mar se fueron en un Tamiz:
¡pese a lo que sus amigos dijeran,
una mañana de invierno, un día tormentoso,
al mar se fueron en un Tamiz!
Y cuando el Tamiz empezó a dar vueltas y vueltas,
y todos gritaban: «¡Que os vais a ahogar!»,
ellos exclamaron: «¡Nuestro Tamiz no es grande,
pero nos importa un comino! ¡Nos importa un bledo!
¡En un Tamiz iremos al mar!».
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.


II

Navegaron en un Tamiz, pues sí,
en un Tamiz navegaron deprisa,
con sólo un bonito trapo de color verde guisante,
atado, a modo de vela,  con una cinta
al mástil de una pequeña pipa de tabaco;
y cuantos los veían marchar decían:
«¡Oh, se van a cansar pronto, ya sabes!
Pues el firmamento está oscuro, y el viaje es largo,
y pase lo que pase, ¡es un absoluto error
navegar tan deprisa en un Tamiz!».
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.


III

Enseguida entró el agua, pues sí,
el agua enseguida entró;
y para estar secos, se cubrieron los pies
con un papel rosa bien plegado,
y lo abrocharon con un alfiler.
Y pasaron la noche en un tarro de loza,
y todos dijeron: «¡Qué listos somos!
¡Aunque el firmamento esté oscuro, y el viaje sea largo,
nunca creeremos que fuimos imprudentes y nos equivocamos,
mientras giremos en nuestro Tamiz!».
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.


IV

Y navegaron toda la noche;
y cuando se puso el sol,
silbaron y trinaron una canción de luna
al sonido retumbante de un gong de cobre,
bajo la sombra de las montañas pardas.
«¡Oh Timballo! ¡Qué felices somos,
viviendo en un Tamiz y en un tarro de loza,
y toda la noche, a la pálida luz de la luna,
navegamos con una vela de color verde-guisante
bajo la sombra de las montañas pardas!».
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.


V

Navegaron hacia el Mar del Oeste, pues sí,
a una tierra cubierta toda de árboles,
y compraron una Lechuza y una útil Carreta,
y una libra de Arroz, y una Tarta de Arándano,
y una colmena de Abejas plateadas.
Y compraron un Cerdo, y algunas Grajillas verdes,
y un bonito Mono con patas de pirulí,
y cuarenta botellas de Ring-Bo-Ree,
y un sinfín de Queso de Stilton.
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.


VI

Y a los veinte años regresaron,
a los veinte años o más,
y todos dijeron: «¡Qué altos se han hecho!
Pues han estado en los Lagos, y en la Zona Torrible,
¡y en las colinas del Chankley Bore!».
Y bebieron a su salud, y les ofrecieron una fiesta
con pasteles hechos de hermosa levadura;
y todos dijeron: «¡Si vivimos,
también nos iremos al mar en un Tamiz,
¡a las colinas del Chankley Bore!».
Lejanas y escasas, lejanas y escasas,
son las tierras donde los Jumblies viven;
sus cabezas son verdes, sus manos azules,
y se fueron al mar en un Tamiz.



Traducción de niki

miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2008

boys in a pasture



Boys in a Pasture, 1874
Homer Winslow