#52 The View – Superstar Tradesman

De todas las veces que han detenido a Pete Doherty por posesión o consumo de drogas, hay algunas mas memorables que otras. En las de este año, sin duda esta la ocasión en que, después de comparecer ante un juez y ser condenado a trabajos comunitarios y jurar que no volvería a tomar drogas, fue detenido el mismo día unas horas después, cuando conducía con un amigo en sentido contrario, y drogado hasta la médula. Esta historia nos lleva hasta el amigo que iba con el, que resulto ser el baterista de la banda que estaba abriendo los conciertos de Babyshambles, claro cuando Pete se molestaba en ir. Esa banda era The View, y ese incidente hizo que de repente la prensa se fijara un poco en ellos y vieran que de verdad había melodías detrás de la polémica. Desde las lejanas tierras de Dundee, Escocia, llegan The View y este es su segundo single, Superstar Tradesman.

The View – Superstar Tradesman

Superstar Tradesman,
Stand at the bar,
Get a trade son,
You will go far.

You’ll have a house in the Ferry,
And a new guitar,
That’s never been played before,
And it never will,
Its never been played before,
And it never will.

The weather is sunny,
You’re locked inside,
The weather is sunny oh yes,
I’ve tried and I’ve tried,
To keep me sane,
to keep me sane,
To keep me sane,
to keep me sane.

I don’t want money,
I want happiness,
I don’t want cash and no,
I quite like memories,
To keep us on track,
Will never look back,
Keep us on track,
Lets never look back.

Ha, what would you do,
If I asked you,
What would you do,
If I asked you,
To sail away,
To see some sights,
Sail away with me,
To see some sights,
Sail away,
To see some sights.

Superstar Tradesman,
Stand at the bar,
Get a trade son,
You will go far.

You’ll have a house in the Ferry,
And a new guitar,
That’s never been played before,
And it never will,
Its never been played before
And it never will

#53 Milburn – Send In The Boys


Después de varios años de estar luchando, Milburn por fin logra un poco de reconocimiento el año pasado cuando empiezan a abrir los conciertos de los Arctic Monkeys cuando estos empezaban su fenómeno. Esto logra que sean firmados y lanzan en edición muy limitada a finales del año pasado un single promocional, Showroom. La prensa parece reaccionar bien y Milburn anuncia su primer single, Send In The Boys, para principios de este año, y la canción logra ser un éxito menor, rasguñando el top 20 de las listas británicas y empezaba a crear expectativa por este nuevo grupo.

Milburn – Send In The Boys

He had her down in the cellar with a knife pointing at her throat
He wouldn’t let her go oh no, he wouldn’t ler her go
She kicked and screamed
Someone heard through the walls from next door
‘What’s the crack? what’s the score?’
Next door neighbour gave a call
No one answered, so the boys are coming
The boys are coming for you

They’ll take you on a holiday
Maybe to the seaside, maybe they’ll just give you away
They’ll drop you off and say goodbye
You’re looking pretty dangerous
You’re looking pretty dangerous tonight
And nobody knows just quite what you will do next
So we will send in the boys, the boys are coming for you

Coppers came heavy handed
Closed the street and demanded us to stay at home today
Oh you must stay at home today
Calm him down, reassure him
Leave the girl this is stupid, hold your hands up
We’ll get you through this, yeah we’ll get you through this
So the boys are coming, the boys are coming for you

They’ll take you on a holiday
Maybe to the seaside, maybe they’ll just give you away
They’ll drop you off and say goodbye
You’re looking pretty dangerous
You’re looking pretty dangerous tonight
And nobody knows just quite what you will do next
So we will send in the boys, the boys are coming for you.

#54 Keane – Crystal Ball


Aunque a todas luces se nota que el segundo disco de Keane no es de la misma calidad que el primero, no es para nada malo. Escrito y grabado con granes tensiones entre Tim Rice-Oxley y Tom Chaplin, resulto en algo mas melancólico y obscuro pero aun asi con grandes canciones. Is It Any Wonder pego y Crystal Ball tenía todo para pegar…. hasta que Tom Chaplin entro a rehabilitación y el tren en que Keane iba directo a consolidar su estrellato mundial tuvo que parar. Yet to recover.

Keane – Crystal Ball

Who is the man I see
where I’m supposed to be?
I lost my heart, I buried it too deep
under the iron sea.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Lines ever more unclear,
I’m not sure I’m even here,
The more I look the more I think that I’m
starting to disappear.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I’m fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.

I don’t know where I am,
and I don’t really care,
I look myself in the eye,
there’s no one there.
I fall upon the earth,
I call upon the air,
but all I get is the same old vacant stare.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I’m fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.

#55 Guillemots – We’re Here


Para nada los Guillemots son una banda convencional. Desde el estilo hasta el look. Sus canciones son como grandes landscapes, muchos sonidos por aquí y por alla y a veces se exceden un poco, pero cuando le atinan, le atinan, como en esta llamada We’re Here tomada de su disco Through The Windowpane. Excelente video el de esta canción por cierto.

Guillemots – We’re Here

The world is our carpet now
The world is our dancefloor now
Remind me how to dance again
The world is our carpet now

The world is just waiting now
No staring out windows now
Our train stopped moving hours ago
We’re here, we’re here, we’re here

Yes we’re here
Free to laugh and cry
Obliged to try
And nothing here’s worth winning without a fight

When I can’t move
I’ll enjoy the still for a while
And lose myself in waves
And mountains and the sky
And I’m back here quick as lightning

‘Cause we are just seconds
Seconds in a day

It’s a dancefloor now
No staring out windows now
Our train stopped moving
Hours ago
We’re here, we’re here, we’re here
What do I do? / ? ?

Free, free to run and cry
Obliged to try
And nothing is worth winning without a fight
Oh yes we’re here
Free to go insane
Joy and pain are fighting in the corridors inside

When I can’t move
I’ll savour the pause for a while
And lose myself in waves
And mountains and the sky
And I’m back here quick as lightning
‘Cause we are just seconds
Seconds in a day

#56 Muse – Knights of Cydonia


Cydonia es una región que se encuentra en Marte, donde se especula pudo haber vida en algún momento del pasado. La portada del nuevo disco de Muse se supone muestra a caballeros jugando juegos de mesa en Cydonia, decidiendo el futuro del mundo. Una de las tantas teorías que Matt Bellamy cree que hay en el universo y nadie las sabe. Como sea, la canción es muy buena y es el 3er single del fabuloso Black Holes And Revelations.

Muse – Knights of Cydonia

Come ride with me
Through the veins of history
I’ll show you how God
Falls asleep on the job

And how can we win
When fools can be kings
Don’t waste your time
Or time will waste you

No one’s gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

No one’s gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

No one’s going to take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

#57 Dirty Pretty Things – Wondering


Hace poco mas de un año, Carl Barat anunciaba que su nueva banda se llamaría Dirty Pretty Things y anunciaba a Didz Hammond de The Cooper Temple Clause, como el último en sumarse a la banda. Después de debutar en Milan y Paris, la banda sorpresivamente visitó México, sin siquiera haber editado un single. Casi un año después, han tenido un gran éxito con su disco Waterloo To Anywhere y con cada uno de sus singles, incluido este que en el concierto de México era de las que se quedaban grabadas en la memoria. Wondering.

Dirty Pretty Things – Wondering

We were so pretty now is this it
You and I are too young for this
No blood no lust or spit
But still there is something there to play upon
A flash of instant thereabouts youll miss it and its gone
But still its good to be in love with someone
When you’ve always had to be with no one.
She said everyones a story of their own
But if we don’t leave now well find ourselves with no way home
And so we strolled on all bangered and confused
At first it wasn’t pretty but we soon undid that rouse so
Now we got something in many other ways
All the boys together and a knees up on the way
Still its good to be in love with someone
When you’ve always had to be with no one.
She said everyone’s a story of their own
But if we dont leave now well find ourselves with no way home
Find ourselves with no way home
And it occurred to me, I think on Lambeth Road
There’s no more need to question life
Or cry for what I’m owed
And now its over so now its done
The English sun is setting and the rude boys on the run oh
Still its good to be in love with someone
When you’ve always had to be with no one.
Still I need you to remind me every day
The lives and loves weve lost and broken on the way
Heres to tomorrow and the lonely streets well roam
But if we don’t leave now well find ourselves with no way home
Just to think were almost home

#58 Editors – All Sparks


Al igual que Morning Runner, Editors repiten en la lista después de haber estado el año pasado, y nada menos que con 3 canciones el año pasado. Aunque Munich fue lanzada (por 3ra vez!) este año, no califica porque estuvo en la lista del año pasado, incluso siendo top 5, aunque parece que este año es el que se han vuelto famosos, pero pues ya tiene mas de un año que salio el disco y de hecho All Sparks es el último single, después de que The Back Room dio para lanzar 3 veces Munich, 2 Blood y una vez Bullets y esta gran canción, que es All Sparks.

Editors – All Sparks

You’re answering questions
That have not yet been asked
All sparks will burn out in the end
You burn like you’re bouncing
Cigarettes on the road
All sparks will burn out in the end

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

You’re casting opinions
At people who need them
All sparks will burn out in the end

Well, be careful angel
This life is just too long
All sparks will burn out in the end

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

You burn like a bouncing cigarette

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

#59 Morning Runner – The Great Escape


Uno de los 8 grupos que estuvieron en la lista del año pasado y repiten en esta (el año apsado con Gone Up In Flames), Morning Runner parecían tener todo para el estrellato. Promocionados hasta el cansancio por Chris Martin y alabados por la crítica con sus primeros singles y EPs. Vino Burning Benches, top 20 hit, y luego el disco Wilderness Is Paradise Now. Y. Y nada. Así como vino se fue. Después salio The Great Escape (excelsa canción), pero parece que el momento paso para Morning Runner. Ojala no sea así. Por cierto pueden dejar sus comentarios y gracias a las personas que visitan y bajan regularmente las canciones.

Morning Runner – The Great Escape

Babe,
I love your dreams,
Come drift away with me

Babe,
I love your dreams,
Come drift away with me

Stay with me,
Like a letter unsent,
There’s no need to return
There’s no need to return

And all I ask
Is that I hide with you
And never leave me
And never leave me

And when I’m lying in bed
Trying to sleep instead
Just to escape it
Escape it

Oh dear,
Its me I fear,
I need a helper
I need a helper

Of ability,
What do you see in me?
I need a helper
I need a helper

Stay with him,
Like a leaving guest.
There’s no need to give up
There’s no need to give up

And all I ask
Is that I hide with you
And never leave me
And never leave me

And when I’m lying in bed
Trying to sleep instead
Just to escape it
Escape it

And all I ask
Is that I hide with you
And never leave me
Leave me

And when I’m lying in bed
Trying to sleep instead
Just to escape it
Escape it

#60 Eskobar – Devil Keeps Me Moving


¿Que habrá en el agua de Suecia que salen tantas bandas buensa de rock y aparte brit-oriented? A lo largo de los ultimos diez años o mas han salido tantas que se pierden y siguen saliendo. Y solo pasa en Suecia de los países de Escandinavia. Eskobar no es de los nuevos, es de los primeros pero no por eso no son buenos al contrario, este año sacaron su cuarto disco y aquí el segundo single, que yo creo de la lista es la canción mejor producida de todas, escuchenla con audífonos para poder apreciar bien todos sus detalles.

The devil keeps me moving, I can’t stay in one place
And after a while, when enough is done, I move from first to second base
And all the trust that I’m loosing, I have to build it back up
so at my new home, I behave, until i drop

Then I go down, down, down like I always do
i try to stop, this evil flow, but it runs right thru
and I go down, down, down like I always do
ive given up, and i take a bow, to the same old view

The devil keeps me moving, just like a rolling stone
surface somewhat clear, but inside this rock, the trouble’s grown
and the direction I’m goin, you say it is my own choice
and then to me it’s clear, you’ve never felt the strengt, of this inner voice

Then I go down, down, down like I always do
i try to stop, this evil flow, but it runs right thru
and I go down, down, down like I always do
ive given up, and i take a bow, to the same old view

#61 The Automatic – Recover


Gales se ha caracterizado por dar buenas bandas a la escena del rock británico. Manics, Stereophonics, Super Furries, Catatonia, Feeder, pura calidad. Ya había tiempo sin que hubiera una banda galesa que impactara a los ingleses hasta que llego The Automatic, de Cowbridge, Gales. Este fue su primer single (muy limitado) y este año, después de su éxito, fue relanzado. Recover. Yeah

The Automatic – Recover

Can’t fight! There’s no escaping the facts
I tried to help but I failed
To solve the problems so much
Of good intentions

I want my wasted hours back
And I want my head to clear
And I have this bad taste in my mouth
From late nights and bad films

Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!

I’m drip fed these pictures
And now my words abandon me
The fraction that still me
Said this lives not all it could be

Now did you catch what I said?
Did you catch what I said?
One by one my ideas fade
And there’s nothing left to say

Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!

Can’t fight, decide a future
Let’s dance, you’re so robotic
Times up, refill the meter
This disappointment’s so electric

Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!
Get up! Recover! Cause you’ll never dance again!

#62 Cerys Matthews – Open Roads


El primer single del segundo disco de la ex-cantante de Catatonia, ahora con un estilo no tan folk como su disco debut y que la verdad me gusta un poquito mas aunque el primero no es para nada malo. Si tan solo Catatonia volviera… pero eso no pasara así que disfrutemos lo que hay ahora. De esta si ni letra y el video no es el oficial pero bueno algo es algo no?

Cerys Matthews – Open Roads

#63 The Zutons – Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love?


Hace unos pocos años, empezaron de repente a salir muchas bandas de Liverpool, en general con un sonido muy reminiscente de los 60 y un poco de psicodelia. Ahi teniamos a The Coral, The Bandits o The Stands y claro, a The Zutons. Avanza el tiempo y The Stands y The Bandits han desaparecido, The Coral se preguntan en que fallaron y The Zutons disfrutan un sorpresivo éxito en el cual su segundo disco, Tired of Hanging Around, duro meses en el top 40 de Inglaterra. Y este fue el sencillo que lo impulso, Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love? Por cierto, excelente video.

The Zutons – Why Won’t You Give Me Your Love?

What can I do, what can I say
To make you want me more
To have your love and show you more
That’s all I’m asking for,
I’ve been around the block so many times
And I need a place to stop

I only want whats right for you
And you could be right for us
I hear the same thing all the time
And you know that I don’t care
I don’t like the way your hanging around
And I sure don’t like your hair

Ooo oooh
Why won’t you give me your love?
Ooo oooh
Why won’t you give me your love?

I chain you up I make you mine I keep you
Locked downstairs with all the bugs
And all the rats I’ll feed you rodent hair
I’ll keep you in my celler safe
And I’ll keep you there ‘till dawn
I’ll wait until the sun comes up
Then I’ll poke and prod you more into your tired
And your having a date
But that don’t mean much to me
And when I see you out in town
I’m gonna hide so you can’t see

Ooo oooh
Why wont you give me your love?
Ooo oooh
Why wont you give me tour love?

Why wont you give me your love,
Why wont you give me your love,
Why wont you give me your love,
Why wont you give me your love (give me your love)
Why wont you give me your love (give me your love)
Why wont you give me your love?

#64 The Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes


La camaleónica banda de Manchester, lidereada por Tim Burgess, nos sorprendió en el 2005 con su nuevo disco, Simpatico. Y digo sorprendió porque después de haber empezado en la escena baggie, pasado por el brit pop, rock, un poco de electrónica, folk, e indie, decidieron probar suerte con un poco de… reggae. Combinado con rock y ska y cosas raras. En pocas palabras, Simpatico fue una decepción. Pero por suerte siempre de menos tienen algo interesante y eso fue el primer single del disco, Blackened Blue Eyes, como en sus mejores épocas. Incluida también en su compilación «Forever» que acaba de salir al mercado.

The Charlatans – Blackened Blue Eyes

A charlatan I
Noble and wild
Hustlin for tricks to help you feel loved
And we all need a shoulder to cry on
Once in a while

And there won’t be a dry eye
In the house tonight

Blackened blue eyes
I don’t care too much for your
Circumstances or you
Situation wise

A charlatan I
Will blossom and die
One day you’ll find a real need for love
Or you live with the fear for
The rest of your life

And there won’t be a dry eye
In the house tonight

Blackened blue eyes
I don’t care too much for your
Circumstances or you
Situation wise

The one thing I hate
The numb and the fake
The gutless who rape
The jaws of a snake
We all need a best friend
We can trust with our lives til the end

And there won’t be a dry eye
In the house tonight

Blackened blue eyes
I don’t care too much for
Second chances
Blackened blue eyes
I don’t care too much for
Final chances

Ride out into a world of random prostitutes
I’ll show you some fantastic scenes
And it will be alright

Blackened blue eyes
Blackened blue eyes
Blackened blue eyes

#65 Brakes – All Night Disco Party


De las cenizas de British Sea Power surge hace dos años Brakes, con la simple propuesta de divertirse y compartir su música con el público. En el 2005 sacan su primer disco, Give Blood, que incluía un par de canciones que duraban menos de 20 segundos, y otras como esta, All Night Disco Party, lanzada como single a principios del 206 la canción perfecta para cualquier fiesta. Por cierto, el nuevo disco de Brakes ya esta a la venta, The Beatific Visions.

Brakes – All Night Disco Party

All night disco party
it’s an all night disco party
all night disco party
a super non-stop uber-rocking disco party
All night disco party
it’s an all night disco party
all night disco party
a super non-stop uber-rocking disco party

east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam
east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam

All night disco party
it’s an all night disco party
all night disco party
a super non-stop uber-rocking disco party

east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam
east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam

All night disco party
it’s an all night disco party
all night disco party
a super non-stop uber-rocking disco party

east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam
east west
north south
left right
croque monsieur, croque madam

#66 Graham Coxon – Standing On My Own Again


Después de que Graham dejó a Blur apenas empezadas las grabaciones del Think Tank, se concentró en grabar el que sería su disco más exitoso como solista, Happiness In Magazines. Graham encontró éxito inusitado, altas ventas y aceptación del público y la crítica. La mayoría de la gente pensaba que era su primer disco como solista cuando en realidad era el cuarto, solo que era el primero que tenía canciones mas accesibles por decirlo de una forma. Menos de un año después, Graham ya tenía listo el sucesor, llamado Love Travels At Illegal Speeds, pero decidió esperar otro año para sacarlo. Este es el primer single de ese disco y aunque muy similar al anterior, aun asi bueno. Blur nunca sera lo mismo sin el y su locura.

Graham Coxon – Standing On My Own Again

Standing on the shore watching our ship go down
Sinking in the sand and I can’t turn around
Future’s looking black and it’s a sight to see
Just a thousand grey waves crashing over me
Just a thousand grey waves breaking over me

Now it’s happening to me
Why can’t I ever see?
Am I gonna let you leave without a sound?
Watching ‘til you’re out of sight
Dreaming I did something right
Standing on my own again

Water in my lungs and it’s a pain to breathe
Salt is in my eyes and it’s a pain to see
I can’t stand the pressure though you think I can
Just don’t wanna see it going down the pan
Just don’t wanna see it going down the pan

Now it’s happening to me
Why can’t I ever see?
Am I gonna let you leave without a sound?
Pushing you to your wit’s end
Guess I’m gonna lose a friend
Standing on my own again

Now it’s happening to me
Why can’t I ever see?
Am I gonna let you leave without a sound?
Watching ‘til you’re out of sight
Dreaming I did something right
Standing on my own again

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