Abram Alas P'ro Meliante

Um blog diletante e pobrezinho sobre música , artes e a poesia contida na vida.

sexta-feira, janeiro 18, 2008

Músicas de 2007 (IV)

Para terminar, que isto dos anos passam a correr e já começa a haver aí novas e interessantes coisas para ouvir, e o ano passado já é história, um gajo com uma história do caraças: O sempre irrequieto Neil Young que relançou o ano passado um álbum que nunca foi lançado.

Não sou um enorme fã do Neil Young, embora ache que o seu melhor é incontornável. O que acho, sem dúvida, é que ele é o último sobrevivente dos verdadeiros Rock n' Rollers, pelo menos dos que alcançaram grande projecção. Num tempo em que os Stones são uma máquina de fazer dinheiro ou o próprio Dylan se aburguesou um pouco.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiEZU_UuTwo

segunda-feira, janeiro 14, 2008

Elvis! H'is still alive!


Toda a gente sabe que o Elvis está vivo e vive no Alentejo mas, durante um tempo ele viveu em Galsgow!

Aqui está a prova irrefutável: "A Century of Elvis" pelos Belle and Sebastian.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7zniGcM1k


We were sitting in the living room on the sofa,
the wrong way round, looking out the window.
It was quiet, and then in the car park across the road
we saw Elvis - look, there beside the postman's van,
and he was walking round the postman's van,
looking in the open door.

He looked as if he was thinking about getting in,
but then the postman came back,and he swaggered off,
walked past the window and down the stairs,
and then at the bottom of the stairs right
by the caretaker's office,
he started licking the pavement.

Every night now since we moved in that new house
there's this noise outside the door at just about half seven
or eight o' clock every night.

And if we go and look outside the door,
Elvis'll be standing there waiting to be let in.
And then he wanders into the living room,
maybe sits down on one of the chairs
or even lies down on the floor.

He doesn't say much,
he just stays there for an hour or two, watching the TV.
We talk to him a bit,
and then around ten o' clock, he'll go away again,
and not come back until the next night.

There's a lot of lanes and stuff around here,
around the house - although it's right in the middle
of the city it seems quite like the country,
it's dead hidden - safe I suppose, made for night living.
There's a lot of squirrels and birds,
and Stuart says he's seen about nine foxes
there when he's jumped over the fence on
his way to Prior's Road.

Sometimes you can go out walking,
and when you've been out for a wee while even you don't know
where you are anymore,
so it would be pretty hard for anyone else to find you.
I suppose that's why he spends so much time there,
that's why he's come to live there, or maybe it's
just the squirrels.
I read about somewhere that he likes squirrels quite a lot.
There's these two videos that we got for wedding presents -
called the e-files, e-files one and e-files two about how Elvis is
supposed to be still alive.

And one time when he came round we were watching one of
those, but he didn't say anything he just sat on the armchair.
He was playing with his collar a bit, and we watch
edit right through and then when it finished he just
got up and walked off into the mist and didn't say anything.
the first few times he came round I didn't speak to him at all,
I wasn't really sure what to say.
And Karen spoke to him quite a lot -
she seemed to know what to do more than I do.
He had quite a strange manner though,
he'd go into your stuff and look through it, then he'd maybe
pick something up and play with it for a wee while,
but he'd never make any comment about any of it.
Seemed pretty rude to me. I just watched whatever Karen did,
and listened to how she talked to him and then,
after a while I started to copy that, and tell him a few things,
not really bothered about whether he
responded or said anything back or not. I think the first time
I spoke to him we were sitting up on the mezzanine and
I said that I would tell him about me and wee Karen,
and how it was that we'd come to be living there.
I thought he probably liked the fact that we were
living there because he came round so much, so
I thought he might want to know how it was that it came about.
We did it all over backwards, I told him.
First of all we got to know each other,
and then a while after that we met,
and when we'd known each other for
about seven years we decided to have an anniversary,
and that went quite well,
so after the anniversary we had a honeymoon,
and that went well too,
so after that we decided that we would get married.
That's why we're living there now.
I used to think my dad was
Elvis, but I haven't told him that yet. I haven't told my dad either...

Músicas de 2007 (III)

Uma das melhores músicas do ano re-interpretada pelos sempre altamente recomendáveis Franz Ferdinand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tagO7EL6siQ

segunda-feira, janeiro 07, 2008

Músicas de 2007 (II)

Ao 7º álbum os irmãos Pace e a vocalista Kazu Makino, mostraram as virtudes da persistência, e seguramente ganharam mais uns seguidores com o excelente novo álbum dos Blonde Redhead, "23". O tema que dá título ao álbum é para mim um dos melhores do ano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7FqUNlEdwA

Esta é também a banda que tem um álbum, para mim, com um dos mais fantásticos títulos de todos os tempos: "Fake Can Be Just as Good"

sexta-feira, janeiro 04, 2008

Musicas de 2007 (I)

Início aqui uma série de posts sobre as músicas de 2007 que me ficaram no ouvido.

Começo pelo "Atlas" dos "Battles". Momento de puro génio. Na minha modesta opinião a música que melhor descreve o som de 2007. E o vídeo, partindo de uma ideia extremamente simples, está seguramente também entre os melhores do ano.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZnG129-lE

KEXP 90.3 Seattle

Aqui vos deixo a lista dos melhores álbums da KEXP, de Seattle. Uma das últimas rádios independentes dos EUA. Nestas listas anuais fui descobrindo muita coisa boa para ouvir ao longo dos últimos anos.

http://www.kexp.org/programming/charts.asp?chart=10&chartDate=Now

Se quiserem ouvir umas amostras podem ouvir o programa em que foi divulgada a lista no "Streaming Archive".

http://www.kexp.org//streamarchive/archive_time.asp?fldDate=12/28/2007&fldHour=10&fldMinute=00&fldAmPm=am