Gracias @elek! Me había mantenido al margen hasta ahora, pero entro a matar para que no se vayan las que quiero que ganen, aunque algunos de los votos me duelan...
Lo decía porque leí hace bastantes años una crónica de un concierto que dio en Barcelona, en la que, según parece, terminó como una cuba arrastrándose literalmente por el suelo y pidiendo como un poseso más vodka con naranja. Incluso recuerdo haber visto una foto del amigo Stephin en pleno furor etílico.
Ufff, lo siento @Noir, no me parece justo, la gente elabora sus estrategias según lo que han votado los demás, si te dejo cambiar a ti tengo que dejarle cambiar a todo el mundo.
Es verdad, yo descubrí el vodka con naranja por él y cuando tengo que pedir una copa, me pido eso, es de lo poco que más o menos me gusta porque el vodka no sabe a nada.
"'He's always right, He's always patient / I pinch myself — It's like I'm dreaming it / He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it'
If you're selective in quoting from the lyrics of Kiss Me Like You Mean It, you can almost see how a jewelry company, Helzberg Diamonds, came to use the song as backing for a TV commercial.
Meanwhile in the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt says the song is "more about a B & D (bondage and domination) relationship".
The title was also appropriated by Chris Chibnall for the title of his 2001 play, though there was no further connection (and, yes, Chibnall confirmed separately that he took the title from The Magnetic Fields and not from the Air Supply song with the same title).
mym adds: I like the subversiveness of this song, the Christian imagery and language suddenly switched to individual arousal. "
Con 9 votos:
2.10 (CRAZY FOR YOU BUT) NOT THAT CRAZY
"In which the singer details many things he is crazy enough to do, but never reveals the implicit request that he is not crazy enough to carry out.
'You were my glass menagerie / Did you not find that odd'
In Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, the collection of little glass animals that the main character keeps and fusses over are an expression of her own fragility and the imaginary world that she creates to hide in.
'I performed acts of devotion / as if you were Ganesh'
Ganesh is a Hindu elephant-headed god, known as as the Remover of Obstacles, the god of domestic harmony and success. He is still the focus of festivals and worship."
Con 5 votos:
1.1 ABSOLUTELY CUCKOO
"Written with an eye on being the opening track on the album in a couple of senses: firstly, Absolutely Cuckoo is one of the vestiges of the early conceit to have the whole album run in alphabetical order (Zebra, the final track on Volume 3 is obviously another). Secondly, the first lines — 'Don't fall in love with me yet / We only recently met' — could be heard as an address to the listener.
This is one of a couple of songs that have two parts, both of which are sung by Stephin Merritt on the recorded version. "The character being cuckoo could be multiple personalities," says Stephin in the 69 Love Songs booklet. In live performance, where it would be impractical for one person to sing both parts because of the lack of breathing opportunities, Claudia Gonson takes one of the parts. (The other song where this happens is Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget.) "
2.7 NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU
"No One Will Ever Love You is, in Stephin Merritt's account, an attempt to distil Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album into a single song. This applies not just to the composition and arrangement, but to the lyrics as well, which are obliquely styled to hint at desires, passions and tensions without ever quite naming them ('Where is the madness that you promised me?').
Stephin was at one time lined up to write a book on Tusk as part of Continuum's 33⅓ series but this did not happen for reasons unknown.
In live performance of the song, Stephin has been known to introduce singer Shirley Simms as Shirley Nicks. "
3.12 MEANINGLESS
"'Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless Yes yes yes effervescently meaningless Yes yes yes it was beautifully meaningless Yes yes yes it was profoundly meaningless Yes yes yes definitively meaningless Yes yes yes comprehensively meaningless Yes yes yes magnificently meaningless Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless Yes yes yes unprecedentedly meaningless Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless Yes yes yes unbelievably meaningless Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless'
In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt explains he was hoping to conjure 26 lines like the above for the fadeout of this song, with qualifiers running from A to Z, right up to 'zealously meaningless'. He didn't.
'Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless'
LD Beghtol adds:
This contains a reference to Psychedelic Furs vocalist Richard Butler’s trademark sneering "Ha ha ha!” from the song India and others. I'm a terriffic Furs fan (especially the eponymous first album and Forever Now) and Stephin and I have often discussed why and how they were good, and why and when they sucked. So that line is Stephin's sly homage to '80s icon, Mr Butler."
@Caotico "Vodka es lo que beben las senoras por q no huele el aliento" las señoras de verdad son de gin por que recuerda a colonia (alguna más que otra) Todos los que hemos bebido vodka alguna vez lo hemos hecho porque sabe a casi nada. Yo no pedía gin porque era totalmén queenmom...
Ya, muy bien el top 20-25, pero esto está quedando raro al final. Yo estas canciones no las veo muy top 10 (son mis votos). Y me quedo con las ganas de votar una 4ª...
1 21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing 1 7 Come Back From San Francisco 1 11 I Think I Need A New Heart
Comentarios
alguien sabe cuál es la bebida favorita de Stephin?
1.8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
1.12 The Book of Love
1.15 The One You Really Love
1.21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
2.17 Papa Was a Rodeo
1.1 Absolutely cuckoo
2.7 No one will ever love you
2.15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
2.16 Kiss me like you mean it
3.13 Meaningless
Con 11 votos:
2.16 KISS ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT
"'He's always right, He's always patient / I pinch myself — It's like I'm dreaming it / He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it'
If you're selective in quoting from the lyrics of Kiss Me Like You Mean It, you can almost see how a jewelry company, Helzberg Diamonds, came to use the song as backing for a TV commercial.
Meanwhile in the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt says the song is "more about a B & D (bondage and domination) relationship".
The title was also appropriated by Chris Chibnall for the title of his 2001 play, though there was no further connection (and, yes, Chibnall confirmed separately that he took the title from The Magnetic Fields and not from the Air Supply song with the same title).
mym adds: I like the subversiveness of this song, the Christian imagery and language suddenly switched to individual arousal. "
Con 9 votos:
2.10 (CRAZY FOR YOU BUT) NOT THAT CRAZY
"In which the singer details many things he is crazy enough to do, but never reveals the implicit request that he is not crazy enough to carry out.
'You were my glass menagerie / Did you not find that odd'
In Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, the collection of little glass animals that the main character keeps and fusses over are an expression of her own fragility and the imaginary world that she creates to hide in.
'I performed acts of devotion / as if you were Ganesh'
Ganesh is a Hindu elephant-headed god, known as as the Remover of Obstacles, the god of domestic harmony and success. He is still the focus of festivals and worship."
Con 5 votos:
1.1 ABSOLUTELY CUCKOO
"Written with an eye on being the opening track on the album in a couple of senses: firstly, Absolutely Cuckoo is one of the vestiges of the early conceit to have the whole album run in alphabetical order (Zebra, the final track on Volume 3 is obviously another). Secondly, the first lines — 'Don't fall in love with me yet / We only recently met' — could be heard as an address to the listener.
This is one of a couple of songs that have two parts, both of which are sung by Stephin Merritt on the recorded version. "The character being cuckoo could be multiple personalities," says Stephin in the 69 Love Songs booklet. In live performance, where it would be impractical for one person to sing both parts because of the lack of breathing opportunities, Claudia Gonson takes one of the parts. (The other song where this happens is Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget.) "
2.7 NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU
"No One Will Ever Love You is, in Stephin Merritt's account, an attempt to distil Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album into a single song. This applies not just to the composition and arrangement, but to the lyrics as well, which are obliquely styled to hint at desires, passions and tensions without ever quite naming them ('Where is the madness that you promised me?').
Stephin was at one time lined up to write a book on Tusk as part of Continuum's 33⅓ series but this did not happen for reasons unknown.
In live performance of the song, Stephin has been known to introduce singer Shirley Simms as Shirley Nicks. "
3.12 MEANINGLESS
"'Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless
Yes yes yes effervescently meaningless
Yes yes yes it was beautifully meaningless
Yes yes yes it was profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes definitively meaningless
Yes yes yes comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless'
In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt explains he was hoping to conjure 26 lines like the above for the fadeout of this song, with qualifiers running from A to Z, right up to 'zealously meaningless'. He didn't.
'Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless'
LD Beghtol adds:
This contains a reference to Psychedelic Furs vocalist Richard Butler’s trademark sneering "Ha ha ha!” from the song India and others. I'm a terriffic Furs fan (especially the eponymous first album and Forever Now) and Stephin and I have often discussed why and how they were good, and why and when they sucked. So that line is Stephin's sly homage to '80s icon, Mr Butler."
Disco 1:
3 All My Little Words
6 I Don't Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
11 I Think I Need A New Heart
12 The Book of Love
15 The One You Really Love
21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
Disco 2
15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
Nos hemos quedado sin disco 3
Eliminamos 3 hasta mañana a las 14:00 h.
las señoras de verdad son de gin por que recuerda a colonia (alguna más que otra)
Todos los que hemos bebido vodka alguna vez lo hemos hecho porque sabe a casi nada. Yo no pedía gin porque era totalmén queenmom...
1.8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
1.12 The Book of Love
2.17 Papa Was a Rodeo
1.7 Come Back From San Francisco
1.15 The One You Really Love
1.21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
1 21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
1 7 Come Back From San Francisco
1 11 I Think I Need A New Heart
The book of love
The luckiest guy
Sorry, Elek
1.12 The Book of Love
2.17 Papa Was a Rodeo
1.15 The One You Really Love
2.17 Papa Was a rodeo
ya estoy llorando por the luckiest...madita sea y encima estoy enferma, dejar de votarla por un alma moribunda
1.06 I Don't Want to Get Over You
1.15 The One You Really Love
2.17 Papa Was a Rodeo
6 I Don't Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
15 The One You Really Love
But I, I love it when you sing to me
And you, you can sing me anything
1.21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
2.15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
1.15 The One You Really Love
1.21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing