08 dezembro 2012
Earth & Fire - Weekend
08 março 2012
21 novembro 2007
Holding back the years
Simply Red - Holding back the years (1985).
Uma das bandas pop minhas preferidas da década de 80. Embora com bastante sucesso, este grupo irlandês nunca foi um fenómeno de popularidade como os seus compatriotas U2 ou os ingleses Duran Duran. O seu álbum de estreia, em 1985 (esse ano!), ao qual pertence este Holding back the years, esteve nos tops bastante tempo. Hoje, esta canção não é das minhas preferidas pois, entretanto, fizeram mais e melhor; ao contrário da maioria, a banda de Mick Hucknall conseguiu manter um nível constante de qualidade ao longo de mais de 20 anos. A prova de como é possível fazer boa música num registo comercial.
Thinking of the fear I’ve had so long
When somebody hears
Listen to the fear that’s gone
Strangled by the wishes of pater
Hoping for the arms of mater
Get to me the sooner or later
Holding back the years
Chance for me to escape from all I’ve known
Holding back the tears
Cause nothing here has grown
I’ve wasted all my tears
Wasted all those years
And nothing had the chance to be good
Nothing ever could yeah
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
So tight
I’ve wasted all my tears
Wasted all of those years
And nothing had the chance to be good
Cause nothing ever could oh yeah
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
I’ll keep holding on
Holding, holding, holding
That’s all I have today
It’s all I have to say
12 novembro 2007
1985
Corria o ano de 1985, ano extraordinário. 1985 foi um daqueles anos raros em que se sentiu a História a acontecer. Tal como sentiram os que viveram o ano de 1939 e todos sentimos em 2001.
Mikhail Gorbachev assumia o puder supremo do Império Soviético e lançava a Perestroika. Nada seria como dantes e nós percebemos isso.
Elton John compunha Nikita, aquela canção deliciosamente banal que andou nos ouvidos e na boca de toda agente. Nikita era aquela moça de olhos transparentes que guardava uma fronteira, mas era também o nome próprio de Krushov... «Oh Nikita you will never know, anything about my home... And if there comes a time Guns and gates no longer hold you in And if you're free to make a choice Just look towards the west and find a friend».
E o Live Aid! Esse concerto único, acompanhado gulosamente pela televisão, em que uma geração de adolescentes que crescia já em liberdade e pouco dada a ideais, teve o seu momento idealista, o seu cheirinho de anos 60, de peace and love, de Woodstock.
Eu, caloira em História, vivia a crise da Livre (a única universidade privada de então) e tentava concentrar-me para as frequências, enquanto os alunos das públicas - principalmente da Clássica - não tinham mais que fazer que manifestações contra o ensino superior privado. Eles, que podiam passar oito ou dez anos nos copos a fingir que faziam o curso porque, nessa época, não o pagavam, ao contrário de nós que pagávamos os nossos e os deles. Adiante, o que lá vai, lá vai...
Esquerda e Direita, Leste e Ocidente, «Progresso» e «Reacção», era essa a dicotomia neste já longínquo ano de 1985. Os russos - essa diabólica ameaça! - invadiam países estrangeiros para lhes imporem governos favoráveis. Nada que aconteça hoje, não senhor.
Realmente, eu fui daqueles que respiraram de alívio, que viram uma luz ao fundo do túnel, que imaginaram um futuro risonho, um longo período de paz e prosperidade para a espécie humana, quando finalmente caísse o Império Soviético.
Enquanto isso, Sting lembrava que os nossos «inimigos» também amam os seus filhos. Mas alguém se lembra disso?...
30 agosto 2007
Don't you (forget about me)
SIMPLE MINDS - Don't you (forget about me)
Pois, ando fugida mas não se esqueçam de mim. Em vez de pobres textos, deixo-vos boa música!
Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing you know it baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out and
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby
Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me
Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Will you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down
26 junho 2007
Gente di mare
Umberto Tozzi e Raf - Gente di mare
Festival Eurovisão 1987.
Há vinte anos! Meu Deus, como o tempo passa!!!...
A noi che siamo gente di pianura
navigatori esperti di citta'
il mare ci fa sempre un po' paura
per quell'idea di troppa liberta'.
Eppure abbiamo il sale nei capelli
del mare abbiamo le profondita'
e donne infreddolite negli scialli
che aspettano che cosa non si sa.
Gente di mare
che se ne va
dove gli pare
dove non sa.
Gente che muore
di nostalgia
ma quando torna
dopo un giorno muore
per la voglia di andare via.
E quando ci fermiamo sulla riva
lo sguardo all'orizzonte se ne va
portandoci i pensieri alla deriva
per quell'idea di troppa liberta'.
Gente di mare
che se ne va
dove gli pare
dove non sa.
Gente corsara che non c'e' piu'
gente lontana che porta nel cuore
questo grande fratello blu.
Al di la' del mare
c'e' qualcuno che
c'e' qualcuno che non sa
niente di te.
Gente di mare
che se ne va
dove gli pare
dove non sa.
Noi prigionieri in questa citta'
viviamo sempre di oggi e di ieri
inchiodati dalla realta'...
e la gente di mare va.
Gente di mare
che se ne va
dove gli pare
dove non sa.
Noi prigionieri in questa citta'
viviamo sempre di oggi e di ieri
inchiodati dalla realta'...
e la gente di mare va.
03 maio 2007
Planet Earth
Voltando à banda sonora da minha vida. O que eu gostava destes rapazes de anquinhas! 1979 ou 1980, salvo erro, tinha eu 12 ou 13 anos.
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
Only came outside to watch the night fall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Like some new romantic looking for the tv sound
You'll see I'm right some other time
Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
My head is stuck on something precious
Let me know if you're coming down to land
Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I can't see you
Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
Is is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
This is planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
This calling planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
This looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop
This is planet earth
07 março 2007
If you don't know me by now
Simply Red - If you don't know me by now
If you dont know me by now
You will never never never know me
All the things that weve been through
You should understand me like I understand you
Now girl I know the difference between right and wrong
I aint gonna do nothing to break up our happy home
Oh dont get so excited when I come home a little late at night
Cos we only act like children when we argue fuss and fight
If you dont know me by now (if you dont know me)
You will never never never know me (no you wont)
If you dont know me by now
You will never never never know me
Weve all got our own funny moods
Ive got mine, woman youve got yours too
Just trust in me like I trust in you
As long as weve been together it should be so easy to do
Just get yourself together or we might as well say goodbye
What good is a love affair when you cant see eye to eye, oh
If you dont know me by now (if you dont know me)
You will never never never know me (no you wont)
If you dont know me by now (you will never never never know me)
You will never never never know me (ooh)
17 fevereiro 2007
Eros Ramazzotti - Adesso tu
Eros Ramazzotti - Adesso tu
Quem se lembra dele tão novinho? Eu lembro-me, tenho esta mesma gravação em vídeo, do tempo em que eu esperava ansiosamente, ano após ano, pelo Festival de Sanremo. Devo ter cantarolado esta canção umas 3000 vezes, só naquele ano de 1986.
15 fevereiro 2007
Your latest trick
Dire Straits - Your latest trick
Esta é dedicada a uma certa pessoa que sabe que esta lhe é dedicada...
Souvenir
OMD - Souvenir
O que eu gostava desta música nos meus 14 anos!
14 fevereiro 2007
Take this waltz
Leonard Cohen - Take this waltz
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the gallery of frost
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallways where loves never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea
There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
Theres a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz its been dying for years
There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Ay, ay, ay, ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its I'll never forget you, you know!
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a rivers disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Oh my love, oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now. It's all that there is.
30 janeiro 2007
Why worry?
Decididamente, estou a ficar velha...
Dire Straits - Why worry
Dire Straits - Why worry
I see this world has made you sad
Some people can be bad
The things they do, the things they say
But baby,
I'll wipe away those bitter tears
I'll chase away those restless fears
That turn your blue skies into grey
Why worry?
There should be laughter after the pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So why worry now?
Baby,
when I get down I turn to you
And you make sense of what I do
I know it isn't hard to say
But baby,
Just when this world seems mean and cold
Our love comes shining red and gold
And all the rest is by the way
So, why worry?
There should be laughter after pain
There should be sunshine after rain
These things have always been the same
So, why worry now?
Why worry now?
26 janeiro 2007
Queen - Let Me Live
Queen - Let Me Live
(Take a piece of my soul)
(Let me live)
Why dont you take another little piece of my heart
Why dont you take it and break it and tear it all apart
All I do is give
And all you do is take
Baby why dont you give me a brand new start
So let me live (so let me live)
Let me live (leave me alone)
Let me live, oh baby
And make a brand new start
Why dont you take another little piece of my soul
Why dont you shape it and shake it till you're really in control
All you do is take
And all I do is give
All that I'm askin is a chance to live
(so let me live) so let me live
(leave me alone) let me live, let me live
Let me live
Why dont you let me make a brand new start
And its a (long hard struggle)
But you can always depend on me
And if you're (ever in trouble) - hey
You know where I will be
Why dont you take another little piece of my life
Why dont you twist it and turn it and cut it like a knife
All you do is live
All I do is die
Why cant we just be friends stop livin' a lie
So let me live (so let me live)
Let me live (leave me alone)
Please let me live
(why dont you live a little) Oh yeah baby
(why dont you give a little love...? )
Let me live
Please, let me live
Oh yeah, baby, let me live
And make a brand new start
Let me live
(Let me live, let me live)
In your heart, oh baby
(take another piece, take another piece)
Please let me live
(take another piece, take another piece)
Why dont you take another piece
Take another little piece of my heart
Oh yeah, baby
Make a brand new start
All you do is take
Let me live!

