miércoles, 22 de abril de 2009
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band - Outer South
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jueves, 16 de abril de 2009
Conor Oberst y Bob Dylan
Bill Flanagan: A lot of the acts from your generation seem to be trading on nostalgia. They play the same songs the same way for the last 30 years. Why haven't you ever done that?Bob Dylan: I couldn't if I tried. Those guys you are talking about all had conspicuous hits. They started out anti-establishment and now they are in charge of the world. Celebratory songs. Music for the grand dinner party. Mainstream stuff that played into the culture on a pervasive level. My stuff is different from those guys. It's more desperate. Daltrey, Townshend, McCartney, the Beach Boys, Elton, Billy Joel. They made perfect records, so they have to play them perfectly ... exactly the way people remember them. My records were never perfect. So there is no point in trying to duplicate them. Anyway, I'm no mainstream artist.
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martes, 14 de abril de 2009
Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band- Nikorette
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viernes, 3 de abril de 2009
Conor Oberst - Souled Out!!!
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miércoles, 1 de abril de 2009
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
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viernes, 27 de marzo de 2009
Conor Oberst
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viernes, 2 de enero de 2009
Let's Not Shit Ourselves - II
Previamente aquí.
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jueves, 14 de agosto de 2008
Let's Not Shit Ourselves
Le dije que no había ni escuchado su último disco, ni el nuevo disco solista de Conor Oberst, que es básicamente todo el grupo Bright Eyes, así que no sé cuál vendría a ser la diferencia.
En todo caso, me quedé pensando luego en los dos discos que llegué a escuchar bastante del grupo, hablo del "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning", y el espectacular "Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground", y lo mucho que me gustaron en su momento.
Por dicho motivo, me puse a escuchar algunas canciones, en especial la que fue mi favorita, hablo de "Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)". Me puse a revisar, también, la letra en internet, y no pude dejar de notar lo mucho que me recordó a Dylan, en canciones como "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", por ejemplo, aunque salvando las diferencias, claro.
Por ese motivo, la pongo acá, con letra incluída, y si les gusta pueden bajar el disco en otro lado.
Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex,
as I pass in a car buried under the influence.
The city's driving me out of my mind.
I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree
and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
Yeah, next time, neither will I.
Now a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.
Her family's reduced to names on a shopping list.
While, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix.
He knows there's worse things than being alone.
And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.
I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender?
An ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure.
I do not read the reviews.
No, I am not singing for you.
Well I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
With all these wishes I make,
I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home.
Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall of memory,
all those multiple choices I answered so quickly.
And got my grades back and forgot just as easily,
but as least I got an A.
And so I don't have them to blame.
Well I should stop pointing fingers;
reserve my judgment of all those public action figures,
the cowboy presidents.
So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit
when they've made a mistake.
While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen,
he knows he don't have to say it,
so it, it don't bother him.
"Honesty", "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."
And the approval rating's high,
and so someone's gonna die.
Well ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit.
They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split.
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan
on the fast food marquee:
Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues.
Oh and the Blues, I got the Blues! That's me! That's me!
Well, I awoke in relief.
My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and pills,
in a Chicago hospital.
And my father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so far away.
I tried talking, just whispered, "...so sorry...so selfish..."
He stopped me and said, "Child I love you regardless
and there's nothing you could do that would ever change this.
I'm not angry. It happens. But you just can't do it again."
So now I try to keep up, I've been exchanging my currency.
While a million objects pass through my periphery.
Now I'm rubbing my eyes 'cause they're starting to bother me.
I've been staring too long at the screen.
But where was it when I first heard a sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody.
How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery,
to love and to be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.
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