Paul Weller
Mejores Canciones Internacionales 2021
1 | CHVRCHES & Robert Smith | "How Not To Drown" |
2 | Cassandra Jenkins | "Hard Drive" |
3 | ABBA | "Don't Shut Me Down" |
4 | Arlo Parks | "Too Good" |
5 | Rachel Love | "No More" |
6 | Low | "Days Like These" |
7 | Paul Weller | "Fat Pop" |
8 | Billy Bragg | "Ten Mysterious Photos That Can't Be Explained" |
9 | Tim Cohen | "Give Me Yours" |
10 | Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen | "Like I Used To" |
11 | Karen Peris | "Superhero" |
12 | The Lodger | "Perfect Fit" |
13 | David Crosby | "River Rise (feat. Michael McDonald)" |
14 | Bernice | "Lone Swan" |
15 | Always You | "Edendale" |
16 | The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness | "Summer" |
17 | Arab Strap | "Here Comes Comus!" |
18 | Daniel Knox | "Vinegar Hill" |
19 | Juliana Hatfield | "Mouthful of Blood" |
20 | Buck Meek | "Cannonball! Pt. 2" |
21 | Capitol | "Always Saying Nothing" |
22 | Ed Dowie | "Then Send Them (feat. Emma Smith)" |
23 | Lia Ices | "Young on the Mountain" |
24 | Caroline Marie Brooks | "Tomorrow" |
25 | Daniel Wylie's Cosmic Rough Riders | "Red Sunset (Green Eyes)" |
26 | DARKSIDE | "The Limit" |
27 | Deacon Blue | "Look Up" |
28 | Emma Russack & Lachlan Denton | "My Best" |
29 | Foreign Correspondent | "Crying In Your Sports Car" |
30 | The Hepburns (Feat. Estella Rosa) | "Mermaid" |
31 | Motorists | "Surrounded" |
32 | Lambchop | "A Chef's Kiss" |
33 | The Laughing Chimes | "The badlands" |
34 | Little Simz | "Introvert" |
35 | Lorde | "Stoned at the Nail Salon" |
36 | Lucy Dacus | "Brando" |
37 | Manchester Orchestra | "Bed Head" |
38 | Massage | "Sticks & Stones" |
39 | Maston | "Souvenir (feat. L'Eclair)" |
40 | Midpoint Union | "Morning Light" |
41 | Mogwai | "Ritchie Sacramento" |
42 | Monnone Alone | "Feel It Disappearing" |
43 | Natalie Bergman | "He Will Lift You up Higher" |
44 | Painted Shrines | "Gone" |
45 | Pearl Charles | "Only for Tonight" |
46 | Portable Radio | "Hot Toddy" |
47 | Quivers | "Hold You Back" |
48 | The War on Drugs | "I Don't Live Here Anymore" |
49 | Yola | "Dancing Away In Tears" |
50 | St. Lenox | "The Great Blue Heron (Song of Solomon)" |
51 | St. Vincent | "Somebody Like Me" |
52 | Teenage Fanclub | "Living with You" |
53 | The Bevis Frond | "My Own Hollywood" |
54 | The Chills | "Hourglass" |
55 | The Coral | "Change Your Mind" |
56 | The Death Of Pop | "Go Back" |
57 | The Reds, Pinks and Purples | "I Hope I Never Fall in Love" |
58 | The Telephone Numbers | "Curtains Close" |
59 | The Weather Station | "Subdivisions" |
60 | Chime School | "Taking Time to Tell You" |
Mejores Discos Internacionales 2020
Mejores Canciones Internacionales 2020
1 | Bill Fay | ''Time's Going Somewhere'' |
2 | Courtney Marie Andrews | ''If I Told'' |
3 | Bob Dylan | ''Murder Most Foul'' |
4 | It's Immaterial | ''Downriver'' |
5 | Paul Molloy | ''My Madonna'' |
6 | Residente | ''René'' |
7 | Bruce Springsteen | ''House Of A Thousand Guitars'' |
8 | Paul Weller | ''Village'' |
9 | A Girl Called Eddy | ''Been Around'' |
10 | Nation of Language | "On Division St." |
11 | Marc Almond | ''Slow Burn Love'' |
12 | Pet Shop Boys | ''Burning the Heather'' |
13 | The Avalanches | ''The Divine Chord (feat. MGMT & Johnny Marr)'' |
14 | Dropkick | ''Catching On'' |
15 | El Goodo | ''The Grey Tower'' |
16 | Elrichman | ''Seeking Grey Skies'' |
17 | Elvis Costello | ''No Flag'' |
18 | Pop Filter | ''Walk It Off'' |
19 | Tim Burgess | ''Lucky Creatures'' |
20 | The Reds, Pinks and Purples | ''Last Summer in a Rented Room'' |
2 | Matt Berninger | ''Distant Axis'' |
22 | JARV IS... | ''House Music All Night Long'' |
23 | H.C. McEntire | ''Hands for the Harvest'' |
24 | The Explorers Club | ''One Drop of Rain'' |
25 | Ezrat | ''Endless Holiday'' |
26 | Fiona Apple | ''Fetch The Bolt Cutters'' |
27 | Fleet Foxes | ''Maestranza'' |
28 | The Strokes | ''The Adults Are Talking'' |
29 | Bananagun | ''Out of Reach'' |
30 | Woods | ''Where Do You Go When You Dream?'' |
31 | The Parson Red Heads | ''All I Wanted'' |
32 | The Psychedelic Furs | ''This'll Never Be Like Love'' |
33 | Brian Campeau | ''Bennys Song'' |
34 | Cornershop | ''St Marie Under Canon'' |
35 | Dead Famous People | ''Safe And Sound'' |
36 | Angel Olsen | ''Waving, Smiling'' |
37 | Thibault | ''Centrelink'' |
38 | 171 | ''Photograph'' |
39 | The Waterboys | ''The Soul Singer'' |
40 | Gary Olson | ''Navy Boats'' |
41 | The Rhythm Method | ''I Love My Television (Lockdown Mix)'' |
42 | Milky Wimpshake | ''King Of Clubs'' |
43 | Moses Sumney | ''Cut Me'' |
44 | My Morning Jacket | ''Still Thinkin'' |
45 | Marc Almond | ''Chaos'' |
46 | Ben Watt | ''Hand'' |
47 | The Jayhawks | ''Living in a Bubble'' |
48 | Jonathan Wilson | ''10. Platform'' |
49 | Gregory Porter | ''Phoenix'' |
50 | I Break Horses | ''I'll Be the Death of You'' |
51 | Bill Callahan | ''Pigeons'' |
52 | Mary Halvorson's Code Girl | ''Lemon Trees'' |
53 | The Radio Dept. | ''You're Lookin' at My Guy'' |
54 | Pete Molinari | ''I'll Take You There'' |
55 | Eels | ''I Got Hurt'' |
56 | Daniel Romano | ''Amaretto and Coke'' |
57 | Algiers | ''We Can't Be Found'' |
58 | TOPS | ''Colder & Closer'' |
59 | M. Ward | ''Unreal City'' |
60 | It's Immaterial | ''The Gift Of Rain'' |
Mejores Discos Internacionales de 2018
Mejores Canciones Internacionales de 2018
1 | Jonathan Wilson | ''Over the Midnight'' |
2 | Elvis Costello, The Imposters | ''Stripping Paper'' |
3 | Beach House | ''Lemon Glow'' |
4 | Young Scum | ''Sloth'' |
5 | MGMT | ''When You Die [Explicit]'' |
6 | Okkervil River | ''Famous Tracheotomies'' |
7 | Ólafur Arnalds | ''saman'' |
8 | Low | ''Dancing and Blood'' |
9 | Father John Misty | ''God's Favorite Customer'' |
10 | Arctic Monkeys | ''Four Out Of Five'' |
11 | Belle and Sebastian | ''I'll Be Your Pilot'' |
12 | Cur de pirate | ''Carte blanche'' |
13 | David Byrne | ''Gasoline and Dirty Sheets'' |
14 | Natalie Prass | ''Short Court Style'' |
15 | Paul Weller | ''Aspects'' |
16 | Courtney Barnett | ''Charity'' |
17 | Mitski | ''Nobody'' |
18 | Elvis Costello, The Imposters | ''Photographs Can Lie'' |
19 | Eels | ''Bone Dry'' |
20 | The Fernweh | ''One Hundred Flowers Bloom'' |
21 | Suede | ''Wastelands'' |
22 | First Aid Kit | ''Rebel Heart'' |
23 | Foxwarren, Andy Shauf & Darryl Kissick | ''Everything Apart'' |
24 | Tahiti 80 | ''Hurts'' |
25 | Jon Hopkins | ''Echo Dissolve'' |
26 | Yo La Tengo | ''For You Too'' |
27 | Thom Yorke | ''Unmade'' |
28 | Villagers | ''Again'' |
29 | Cat Power | ''Woman (feat. Lana Del Rey)'' |
30 | Lucy Dacus | ''Night Shift'' |
31 | Tracyanne & Danny | ''Home & Dry'' |
32 | Hurry | ''Every Little Thought'' |
33 | Melody's Echo Chamber | ''Quand Les Larmes D'un Ange Font Danser La Neige'' |
34 | In Tall Buildings | ''Overconscious'' |
35 | Lord Huron | ''Never Ever'' |
36 | Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever | ''Talking Straight'' |
37 | The Tallest Man On Earth | ''Forever Is a Very Long Time'' |
38 | Stone Foundation | ''Next Time Around'' |
39 | Typhoon | ''Remember'' |
40 | Kamasi Washington | ''Street Fighter Mas'' |
Mejores Canciones Internacionales de 2017
1 | Lorde | "Green Light" |
2 | Slowdive | "Sugar for the Pill" |
3 | Future Islands | "Shadows (feat. Debbie Harry)" |
4 | Saint Etienne | "Dive" |
5 | Jens Lekman & LouLou Lamotte | "Evening Prayer" |
6 | The War On Drugs | "Nothing To Find" |
7 | Business of Dreams | "Repossessed" |
8 | Paul Weller | "Long Long Road" |
9 | Destroyer | "Tinseltown Swimming in Blood" |
10 | Father John Misty | "Total Entertainment Forever" |
11 | Cigarettes After Sex | "Young & Dumb [Explicit]" |
12 | Ray Davies | "The Deal" |
13 | Hand Habits | "Flower Glass" |
14 | Billy Bragg | "Saffiyah Smiles" |
15 | The xx | "Say Something Loving" |
16 | Trevor Sensor | "The Reaper Man" |
17 | Van Morrison | "Broken Record" |
18 | Randy Newman | "It's a Jungle out There" |
19 | Fleet Foxes | "I Should See Memphis" |
20 | BNQT | "100 Million Miles" |
21 | Michael Nau | "I Root (Trio Version)" |
22 | The National | "Day I Die" |
23 | Beck | "No Distraction" |
24 | Dams of the West | "Youngish Americans" |
25 | Dan Auerbach | "King of a One Horse Town" |
26 | Hurray for the Riff Raff | "Living in the City" |
27 | Declan McKenna | "Humongous" |
28 | Iron & Wine | "Thomas County Law" |
29 | LCD Soundsystem | "american dream" |
30 | Thundercat | "Show You the Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)" |
31 | Zebra Hunt | "I Won't Blame You" |
32 | Vagabon | "Cold Apartment" |
33 | Alvvays | "Dreams Tonite" |
34 | Belle and Sebastian | "We Were Beautiful" |
35 | Father John Misty | "Pure Comedy" |
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The Style Council – «Our Favourite Shop»
Uno de los discos de mi vida. Así de claro. Junto con el primero y el último de mi lista de 366 los que más veces he escuchado en estos 47 años que tengo. «Our Favourite Shop» de The Style Council, del que ya conté casi todo hace unos años, significa mucho para mí, fue la llave que abrió muchas puertas. Mi copia del disco dice que lo compré en Octubre de 1985, la primera edición del disco, la que no incluía «Shout To The Top» que tuve comprar en su versión maxisingle en Inglaterra al verano siguiente, una edición con triple portada con Paul Weller y Mick Talbot en primer plano. Creo que fue el primer disco al que le dediqué tiempo de verdad, tiempo para entender las letras, para escuchar cada una de las canciones, para explora los distintos estilos….. Por eso digo que fue la llave que abrió muchas puertas, desde ahí llegué a The Jam por ejemplo. El disco no es de los que aparece en las listas, tampoco creo que sea la mejor obra de Weller, pero a mí me marcó y mucho, imagino que llegó en el momento justo. Es un disco combativo y político, Weller estaba en plena batalla anti Thatcher, y lleno de SOUL y pop del bueno. Yo me lo llevaría a una isla desierta, eso seguro.
As the rain comes down, upon this sad sweet earth
I lie awake at nights and – think about me
All those usual things like what a fool I’ve been
I curse the awful way – that I let you slip away
For what was forged in love, is now cooling down
With only myself to blame for playing that stupid game
I thought I need only call and you would run
But that day you never showed honey – well I sure learnt –That it seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way –
Now it’s far too late – an’ I’ve lost this time –
Like the Boy who cried WolfAn’ yes – I know it’s far too late
To ever win you back –
No tale of nightmare’s at my gate –
Could make you turn –
My lost concernAnd now the night falls down, upon my selfish soul
I sit alone and wonder – where did I go wrong?
It always worked before you kept the wolf from my door
But one day you never showed and honey – Now I’m not so sure –That is seems I need you more each day
Heaven knows why that it goes that way –
Now it’s far too late – an’ I’ve lost this time –
Like the Boy who cried Wolf
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Bonus Mis copias de «Our Favourite Shop» y el maxi de «Shout To The Top»
Robert Wyatt – «Comicopera»
Robert Wyatt, es uno de los grandes, pero de los grandes de verdad, empecemos por eso, con una carrera extensísima iniciada en los años 60 como batería de varios grupos de rock progresivo, entre ellos Soft Machine, el grupo por excelencia de rock progresivo. En 1973 su vida cambió para siempre cuando cayó desde la ventana de un cuarto piso y su cuerpo quedó paralizado de cintura para abajo de por vida, sus pies nunca volverían a tocar una batería. Mr. Wyatt inició una brillante carrera en solitario. Yo le conocí gracias a uno de mis músicos favoritos, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt hizo famosa una versión de «Shipbuilding», una canción protesta contra la guerra de las Malvinas. Cuando a mediados de los 90 tuve mi fase de exploración «costelliana» esa canción de su disco «Punch The Clock» me encantaba y descubrí que Wyatt había hecho una versión que mejoraba la original, ahí empezó todo. Hasta llegar a este «Comicopera» (2007), el que, salvo que el cambié de opinión, será también su último disco. Un álbum precioso e inclasificable, otro de mis discos nocturnos, que mezcla el jazz, el rock, la política (enorme su versión del «Hasta Luego Comandante» de Carlos Puebla) y la voz de Robert Wyatt, esa voz, su mejor instrumento. Por si fuera poco la nómina de colaboradores del disco es brutal de Brian Eno a Paul Weller. Cualquiera de los discos de Robert Wyatt merece la pena, pero empezar por el último puede tener sentido. «Comicopera» es una maravilla.
It’s that look in your eyes
Telling me lies
So many promises broken
What can I do?
What should I do?
Try to love you just as you are‘Cause I’m never going to change a thing about you
Never ever going to change a thing
Try to love you just as you areShould I leave, should I stay
Should I call it a day
There’s so much to say that’s unspoken
In your way you’ve been true
But all I can do
Try to love you just as you are‘Cause I’m never going to change a thing
No I’ll never ever change a thing about you
Try to love you just as you areIt’s that look in your eyes
I know you despise me
For not being stronger
What can I do?
What should I do?
I’ve always loved you just as you areAnd I never tried to change a thing
Never tried to change a thing about you
Always loved you just as you areWill you leave, will you stay?
There may come a day
When I’m weak and I’m stupid no longer
In my way I’ve been true
I’ve lived just for you
I’ll always love you just as you areI never tried to change a thing
Never tried to change a thing about you
Always loved you just as you are
Paul Simon – «Graceland»
En otoño de 1986, cuando se editó «Graceland» , para mi Paul Simon era dos cosas, el bajito de Simon & Garfunkel y el ex marido de la princesa Leia (Carrie Fisher). La ignorancia es atrevida, como todo el mundo sabe, y ninguna de las cosas me parecían importantes, la primera porque no había conectado con su música y la segunda porque realmente no era importante. En cualquier caso esos eran los datos que tenía de él y entonces en aquel otroño todo el mundo se puso a hablar de «Graceland», para bien y para mal. Para bien, porque la mayoría de la críticas que leí y escuché alababan el gusto de Simon, yéndose a Sudáfrica para grabar rodeado de músicos sudafricanos y haciendo un disco radicalmente distinto a todo lo que había hecho hasta entonces, y para mal porque algunos de los artistas mas combativos, entre los que estaban mis siempre adorados Paul Weller y Billy Bragg, veían en la grabación un ataque a la lucha anti-apartheid, saltándose el boycott cultural al que se había sometido al régimen racista de la época. Yo escuché el disco empujado por todas estas informaciones y reconozco que me quedé cautivado por la belleza de aquellas canciones, un disco «redondo» de los de verdad. Desde las más accesibles «You Can Call Me Al» (la de veces que la habré tarareado), «The Boy In The Bubble» o la propia «Graceland» (la historia de su viaje a la mansión de Elvis, acompañado de su hijo, para superar su divorcio de Leia ;–)) ), hasta las canciones más lentas como «Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes» o «Homeless» (está última a capella). Un disco precioso, eso me lo parece cada vez que vuelvo a él , pero que por una extraña razón, que no consigo discernir, no tengo la necesidad de escuchar a menudo, imagino que su sobre-exposición es la causa. En cualquier caso un disco que ha sido influencia para muchos, por ejemplo Vampire Weekend, y muy pero que muy disfrutable.
The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil warI’m going to Graceland
Graceland
In Memphis Tennessee
I’m going to Graceland
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I’ve reason to believe
We both will be received
In GracelandShe comes back to tell me she’s gone
As if I didn’t know that
As if I didn’t know my own bed
As if I’d never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blowI’m going to Graceland
Memphis Tennessee
I’m going to Graceland
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to GracelandAnd my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I’m looking at ghosts and empties
But I’ve reason to believe
We all will be received
In GracelandThere is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I’m falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Oh, so this is what she means
She means we’re bouncing into Graceland
And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blowIn Graceland, in Graceland
I’m going to Graceland
For reasons I cannot explain
There’s some part of me wants to see
Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there’s no obligations now
Maybe I’ve a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland