Teenage Fanclub
Mejores Canciones Internacionales 2023
1 | Depeche Mode | "Ghosts Again" |
2 | The Reds, Pinks and Purples | "Ghosts Again" |
3 | The Lemon Twigs | "In My Head" |
4 | Oracle Sisters | "RBH" |
5 | RVG | "Midnight Sun" |
6 | The Beatles | "Now And Then" |
7 | Blur | "Barbaric" |
8 | The Reds, Pinks and Purples | "I Still Owe You Everything" |
9 | Robert Forster | "The Roads" |
10 | Lankum | "Clear Away in the Morning" |
11 | BC Camplight | "Kicking Up a Fuss" |
12 | PJ Moore & Co | "Good Until Gone" |
13 | ANOHNI | "It Must Change" |
14 | Lana Del Rey | "A&W" |
15 | Big Thief | "Born For Loving You" |
16 | Belle and Sebastian | "Juliet Naked" |
17 | Amber Arcades | "Diamond Road" |
18 | Teenage Fanclub | "Tired of Being Alone" |
19 | The Apartments | "Something to Live For (2023 Remaster)" |
20 | bar italia | "Jelsy" |
21 | Blonde Redhead | "Snowman" |
22 | The Bluebells | "Stonehouse Violets" |
23 | boygenius | "Emily I'm Sorry" |
24 | The Brights | "Waiting" |
25 | The Church | "A Strange Past" |
26 | The Clientele | "Lady Grey" |
27 | Cut Worms | "Ballad of the Texas King" |
28 | Daughter | "Be On Your Way" |
29 | Devendra Banhart | "Fireflies" |
30 | Dexys | "Coming Home" |
31 | Eddie Chacon | "The Morning Sun" |
32 | Everything But the Girl | "Nothing Left To Lose" |
33 | James Yorkston, Nina Persson & The Second Hand Orchestra | "Hold Out For Love" |
34 | Golden Hours | "Japan on My Mind" |
35 | Gonzalez Smith & Jay Gonzalez | "She's My Girl" |
36 | Jessie Ware | "Begin Again" |
37 | Jonathan Wilson | "Ol Father Time" |
38 | King Krule | "If Only It Was Warmth" |
39 | Kitty Fitz | "Malibu" |
40 | Kristin Hersh | "Dandelion" |
41 | Lloyd Cole | "On Pain" |
42 | Mac DeMarco & Ryan Paris | "Simply Paradise" |
43 | Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band | "Ciao Ciao Bambino" |
44 | Marc Almond & Mike Garson | "My Death" |
45 | Marta Del Grandi | "Chameleon Eyes" |
46 | Mega Bog | "Cactus People" |
47 | The Milk Carton Kids | "All of the Time in the World to Kill" |
48 | Model Shop | "Six Day Sunday" |
49 | Mull Historical Society | "Anaglypta" |
50 | Murray A. Lightburn | "Dumpster Gold" |
51 | The National | "The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)" |
52 | Neil Young | "Before and After, Pt. 1: Im The Ocean/Homefires/Burned" |
53 | Nicholas Krgovich | "Coyote" |
54 | Panic Pocket | "Mad Half Hour" |
55 | Peter Gabriel | "I/O (Bright-Side Mix)" |
56 | PJ Harvey | "A Child's Question, August" |
57 | Red Pants | "Crimson Words" |
58 | Rickie Lee Jones | "Here's That Rainy Day" |
59 | Sam Burton | "My Love" |
60 | Slowdive | "chained to a cloud" |
61 | Spice World | "Decorated Boy Scout" |
62 | The Coral | "Child Of The Moon" |
63 | Sufjan Stevens | "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" |
64 | Summer Salt | "Carry On" |
65 | Swans | "Paradise is Mine" |
66 | Tough Age | "Give It a Day" |
67 | Van Morrison | "Shakin All Over" |
68 | The War and Treaty | "The Best That I Have" |
69 | Wilco | "Sunlight Ends" |
70 | Yo La Tengo | "Miles Away" |
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 Canciones Internacionales de 2016
1 | Teenage Fanclub | "I'm In Love" |
2 | Leonard Cohen | "You Want It Darker" |
3 | David Bowie | "Lazarus" |
4 | Andy Shauf | "The Magician" |
5 | case/lang/veirs | "Delirium" |
6 | Angel Olsen | "Never Be Mine" |
7 | Frank Ocean | "Ivy" |
8 | Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | "Rings of Saturn" |
9 | Van Morrison | "Every Time I See A River" |
10 | PJ Harvey | "The Community Of Hope" |
11 | ANOHNI | "Drone Bomb Me" |
12 | Car Seat Headrest | "Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An)" |
13 | Cass McCombs | "Laughter Is the Best Medicine" |
14 | The Goon Sax | "Susan" |
15 | Julia Brown | "Without You (full)" |
16 | Marissa Nadler | "Janie in Love" |
17 | Blood Orange | "Best to You" |
18 | Billy Bragg and Joe Henry | "Hobo's Lullaby" |
19 | C Duncan | "The Midnight Sun" |
20 | Bon Iver | "33 “GOD”" |
21 | Fear of Men | "Island" |
22 | The Divine Comedy | "To The Rescue" |
23 | El Perro del Mar | "Breadandbutter" |
24 | Bat for Lashes | "Joe's Dream" |
25 | Gregory Porter | "In Fashion" |
26 | Kevin Morby | "I Have Been to the Mountain" |
27 | King Creosote | "Wake up to This" |
28 | Michael Kiwanuka | "Falling" |
29 | Karl Blau | "Fallin' Rain" |
30 | Kyle Craft | "Lady of the Ark" |
31 | Mull Historical Society | "Build Another Brick" |
32 | Paul Simon | "Stranger To Stranger" |
33 | Pet Shop Boys | "The Pop Kids" |
34 | The Radio Dept. | "This Thing Was Bound to Happen" |
35 | Radiohead | "True Love Waits" |
36 | Solange | "Cranes in the Sky" |
37 | Woods | "Creature Comfort" |
38 | Bear's Den | "Red Earth & Pouring Rain" |
39 | Tindersticks | "Like Only Lovers Can" |
40 | Wild Nothing | "Japanese Alice" |
41 | Suede | "I Can't Give Her What She Wants" |
42 | The Yearning | "When I Lost You" |
43 | ALA.NI | "One Heart" |
44 | Alex Cameron | "Mongrel" |
45 | The Avalanches Feat. Danny Brown & MF Doom | "Frankie Sinatra" |
46 | Big Thief | "Vegas" |
47 | Cullen Omori | "Hey Girl" |
48 | Damien Jurado | "A.M. AM" |
49 | Devendra Banhart | "Fancy Man" |
50 | Empire of the Sun | "High and Low" |
51 | Grumbling Fur | "Strange the Friends" |
52 | Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam | "A 1000 Times" |
53 | The Hidden Cameras | "Day I Left Home" |
54 | The Last Shadow Puppets | "Aviation" |
55 | Lambchop | "Old Masters" |
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The Ladybug Transistor – «Can’t Wait Another Day»
The Ladybug Transistor eran ya un grupo veterano cuando los conocí, «Can’t Wait Another Day» era su sexto disco. Estamos al final del verano de 2007, la vuelta al trabajo aquel año estaba siendo especialmente dura, y entre los mil millones de correos electrónicos pendientes de leer uno de los chicos de Green Ufos con sus novedades, una de ellas este disco, me llama la atención porque creo recordar que lo recomiendan a fans de Belle and Sebastian y eso es más que suficiente para que me haga con el disco, a ciegas prácticamente. El disco me alegró gran parte del otoño, probablemente no sea un disco excelso, pero a mi me sonaba a un cruce entre Belle and Sebastian (quizás no tan hábiles con la melodía) y Teenage Fan Club (no tan intensos), esto más algunas canciones que se quedaron atrapadas en mi cabeza ayudaron a superar el trauma post-vacacional. Algunas de esas canciones siguen ahí, «Always On The Telephone», «Broken Links», «In Between»….
I didn’t notice that you slipped so far away
The beauty’s there, but the love’s just ended.
I didn’t mean to blow you all away..
Forgot to mention that the gun was loaded.So blind, so blind, so blind, i pray
That maybe for a little while you won’t stray.I don’t know what led us here today
Didn’t think that we were undevoted.
If i could only find my way,
I feel so weak and my spirit’s bending.
So blind, so blind, so blind, you stray
You just push the hair from your face
And don’t say.I finally noticed that you slipped so far again
And knowing that makes my heart beat faster.
Teenage Fanclub – “Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds”
La verdad es que no presté atención a Teenage Fanclub a pesar de las buenas críticas de sus primeros discos, lo intenté, pero quizás la intensidad de sus canciones no me cogieron en el momento idóneo para que pudiera conectar con ellas. Fue mientras leía el libro de Nick Hornby “31 Songs”, en el invierno de 2004. Dos de esas treintaiuna canciones eran de Teenage Fanclub, “Ain’t That Enough” y “Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From”, sentí curiosidad y las escuché. Está vez sí, me deje atrapar por el indie-rock y el power-pop de los escoceses, con sus armonías vocales cercanas a los Beach Boys, especialmente por aquellas canciones alejadas del ruido de sus primeros discos y mas cercanas al pop, “The Concept”, “Did I Say” o la ya mencionada “Ain’t That Enough.
“Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds”, la duración del álbum, es un recopilatorio perfecto para adentrarse en el mundo de Teenage Fanclub, a mi me sirvió.
Here is a sunrise Aint that enough
True as a clear sky, ain’t that enough
Toy town feelings here to remind you
Summers in the city do what you gotta doTime can only make demands
Fill it up with grains of sand
Bring your loving over
Highlights glisten
Silence listens
Days that found you
Embrace that found you
Bonus Puestos a elegir un libro que hable de las canciones favoritas de un escritor, a pesar que este de Nick Hornby cumplió su propósito, me quedo mucho antes con los “1000 Violines” de Kiko Amat. Gran lectura.
Mejores canciones internacionales de 2010
- Horchata – Vampire Weekend
El año pasado Vampire Weekend hicieron uno de los discos del año, en este 2010 era difícil que sorprendieran de nuevo, pero esta «Horchata» me calentó el corazón el invierno pasado y lo sigue haciendo en este. Un pedazo de canción, sí señor!!
» In December drinking horchata…» - I Want the World to Stop – Belle & Sebastian
«I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
Give me the morning (give me the understanding)
I want the world to stop (I want the world to stop)
Give me the morning, give me the afternoon
The night, the night»
¿Hace falta explica más? - What’s In It For? – Avi Buffalo
El disco de debut de Avi Buffalo es una de las grandes sorpresas del año y esta repleto de grandes canciones, pero «What’s In It For?» no se te va de la cabeza desde la primera vez que la escuchas. - Dilly – Band Of Horses
En un mundo ideal esto debería ser un hit, pero no, no lo será. Da igual, es tremenda. - Baby Lee – Teenage Fanclub
Este año ha vuelto unos de los grupos más tremendos que han salido de las islas británicas en años. Unos maestros en esto de hacer grandes canciones y esta «Baby Lee» está a la altura de sus mejores composiciones.
«Baby Lee I’m only trying to remind you
They had me in mind oh yeah when they designed you
And baby lee I’m always watching from a distance
Oh marry marry me oh baby now I am insisting» - Anyone’s Ghost – The National
Perfecta declaración de independencia / dependencia
«Didn’t want to be your ghost
Didn’t want to be anyone’s ghost
Didn’t want to be your ghost
Didn’t want to be anyone’s ghostBut I don’t want anybody else
I don’t want anybody else» - Double Happiness – Lloyd Cole
Que LLoyd Cole siga haciendo grandes canciones no es raro, lo que es raro es que muchos no se enteren
«How am I going to deal with
the Double Despair?Double Happiness»
- It’s Working – MGMT
Sí!! Funciona!! son MGMT y dentro del «mainstream» pocos hacen canciones como estas. - Assume The Perpendicular – The Divine Comedy
Neil Hannon es otro de mis artistas favoritos y lo reconozco, no soy objetivo, pero esta me parece un pedazo de canción. Asumamos la perpendicular, nos irá mejor.
«I can’t abide a horizontal life
It’s time to rise, assume the perpendicular
Jump up and down, make complimentary sounds
And talk about nothing in particular» - Stylo – Gorillaz Feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def
Fui seguidor, fan sería decir demasiado, de Blur y lo de Gorillaz al principio me pareció una broma de Damon Albarn, pero no, no lo era, Gorillaz se ha convertido en su vía para hacer cosas distintas y como es el caso de su último disco muy apetecibles. «Stylo» es un hitazo, sin duda.
Seguro que hay más y mejores, pero estas son mis favoritas. Es lo que hay.
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- Todas menos «What’s in it for» de Avi Buffalo, los chicos de Spotify no los tienen en su catalogo. Una pena↩