Qué pena Abigail, no sé por qué ha llevado votos desde el princpio.
Me he hecho una lista que voy desordenando y en esta ronda oficialmente ya voy a tener que votar un par de temas que me gustan mucho... En resumen, que me encantan la mitad aprox.
Ale, yo abriendo el fuego, como casi siempre....que no se diga que hago voto útil.
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 1.05 Reno Dakota 1.20 My Sentimental Melody 1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man 2.08 If You Don't Cry 2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 3.08 Bitter Tears
voy a votar ya aunque me duela en el alma comprendo todas las críticas que me puedo llevar pero es que es muy complicado la verdad...
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 2. 11 My Only Friend 3.3 Busby Berkeley dreams 2.08 If You Don't Cry 1.05 Reno Dakota 2.4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old 2.15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Yo también me disculpo por adelantado si a alguien le duelen mis votos peeeeeero es que ya me cuesta mucho. Y qué coño, estáis votando ya algunas de mis favoritas.
1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
2.8 If You Don't Cry 2.11 My Only Friend 2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
3.8 Bitter Tears 3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah! 3.19 The Night You Can't Remember
2. 11 My Only Friend 2. 13 World Love 1. 20 My Sentimental Melody 3. 8 Bitter Tears 2. 6 Grand Canyon 2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 2. 3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
3.19 The night you can't remember 2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 1. 20 My Sentimental Melody 2.12 Promises of Eternity 2.8 If you don't cry 3.3 Busby Berkeley dreams 2.7 No one will ever love you
Assuming this to be New York City, 17th Street runs through the Chelsea district. The choice of 17th Street, rather than, say, 7th Street, disrupts the metre of the line: it has one more syllable than the first line of the second verse ('Dying all day in thousands of little ways').
LD Beghtol writes, "Shirley Simms and I always got kind of misty singing the 'bomp bomp bomps' in the refrain at live shows." And in his book, he directs us to the New York Songlines virtual tour of 17th Street. "
Con 6 votos:
2.11 MY ONLY FRIEND
"'Billie you're a miracle / and God knows I need one Sing me something terrible / that even dawn may come... Hey, Lady Day, / can you save my life this time Can you cry so beautifully / you make my troubles rhyme'
Lady Day is the nickname given to singer Billie Holiday, whose brief and troubled life (1915-59) suffered as a result of drugs, alcohol, and abusive relationships. Lester Young, the saxophonist with whom she worked early in her career gave her the name. "
Con 5 votos:
3.8 BITTER TEARS
"Bitter Tears is recorded in mono. In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt says he wore his Phil Spector Back to Mono pin while mixing it.
LD Beghtol, who sings the song, writes:
Stephin went through a bunch of versions with different instrumentation for this track, and he was getting rather frustrated about it. He played it for me over the phone and I liked it a lot — this was to be my last song for the album — but suggested he leave the busy mix as it was as a mono background, then add ukes and other rhythm tracks in front of that for a really 'deep' aural picture, which worked pretty well.
I recorded the vocal on my lunch hour one afternoon at Mother West (the Flare studio), at the very end of the sessions, with Charles Newman engineering and Claudia Gonson directing. We did two takes: first me singing in big belting baritone voice (Claudia said, "Sing it like Paint your Wagon!, LD") and then I did the little backing vocal "ah's" on the refrains and at the end.
Stephin wasn't expecting my full-throttle baritone on it, but liked it in the end — especially against the psycho backing track that spirals out of control at the end. Live, that's the part Claudia sang with me.
This is the second song in a row that shares a title with someone else's song — in this case INXS. "
"'But my sentimental melody... / will ring in your ears... / bringing a tear to your eye / Goodbye'
My Sentimental Melody is another song which is literally (almost) a song about a song (cf. The Way You Say Good-Night, also sung by LD Beghtol). In this case the love song is an instrument of revenge. It works after, and because, the singer has gone.
The song is driven by a fan organ, the electric motor of which can be heard at the beginning and end of the song.
Apparently the song was written ten years before 69 Love Songs was released.
LD Beghtol, who sings the song, writes:
The vocals were recorded in two takes, since I couldn’t quite get the rhythm right — and never did — on the second verse. Claudia’s "Lawrence Welk Show" backing vocals are a marvel, and I get all tingly when the fan organ clicks off at the very end.
Flare (one of LD's other bands) used to do this song live, right when 69 Love Songs came out, in a terrific string version with a huge piano cadenza. We soon dropped it from our live shows when I burst into tears in the middle of it one night at Mercury Lounge and had to stop the song when I noticed most of the band and the audience (including Stephin Merritt) were sobbing along with me.
American composer Aaron Copland also wrote a piano piece called Sentimental Melody (Slow Dance) in 1926."
1.22 SWEET-LOVIN' MAN
"According to the 69 Love Songs booklet, Sweet-Lovin' Man was written at the time of The Magnetic Fields' 1994 album The Charm of the Highway Strip but didn't fit with the rest of that album.
In several ways this song is consciously out of character with other Stephin Merritt compositions:
"The original idea, probably obvious, was to write a song with a title I would never use." It has a slow fade whereas the majority of songs end more or less abruptly. Notwithstanding the 'million years of rain', the song is happy and positive.
In a feature in the now-defunct Milkmag, Don Leibold wrote:
Claudia Gonson is Stephen [sic] Merritt's longtime friend and manager. She sings six songs on 69 Love Songs, including a soaring number called Sweet-Lovin' Man. Merritt hears the song as a kind of Loretta Lynn tribute, though other ears might hear it as a bombastic eighties ballad à la Bonnie Tyler.
Shirley Simms says that there is general agreement that she should have sung this, but at the time it was assigned to Claudia for reasons of balance of different singers."
2.20 THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE WORLD GOES DANCING
"Stephin Merritt explains in the 69 Love Songs booklet that Chris Isaak was originally invited to sing The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing for an album by The 6ths, but was not available. "
3.19 THE NIGHT YOU CAN'T REMEMBER
"This song brings together the traditions of:
-love during wartime (though with a different twist to Abigail, Belle of Kilronan) -gender switch (it is sung by a man, but clearly with the voice of a woman addressing a man — cf. Acoustic Guitar), and -drinking/intoxication ('the night you can't remember / the night I can't forget').
The combination is exploited for comic effect: 'You said I was terrific, it / meant zilch to you, ah, but I / have our marriage certificate / 'n I'll keep it till I die' and 'you've got vague presentiments / and I've got little Junior.'
The Rockettes are a renowned dance organisation, linked to Radio City Music Hall, which has been around since the 1920s. The line 'It's true, we flew to Paris, dear / aboard an Army jet' might situate the song in the World War Two period since the Rockettes are known to have starred in USO Tours during the war. On a pedantic technicality — since 'jet' is obviously dictated by the rhyme — there were, however, no army jets capable of carrying passengers in service during World War Two. "
^ Hombre...suena a los Vampire Weekend del principio, y eso está bien (aparte de sus frasecitas en castellano....concesión a sus flans españoles). Ahora defiende tú la del pollo decapitado, please.
1.02 I Don't Believe in the Sun 1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 1.05 Reno Dakota 1.06 I Don't Want to Get Over You 2.03 When My Boy Walks Down the Street 2.13 World Love 2.14 Washington, D.C. 2.18 Epitaph for My Heart
Yo del disco 3 ya no toco ninguna. Y queda claro que el disco 1 es el prefe de todos, por si alguien lo dudaba. Si es que hasta ahora no he podido tocar ninguna del primero...
2. 13 World Love 2. 6 Grand Canyon 2. 3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street 1. 4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 3. 3 Busby Berkeley Dreams 2. 14 Washington, D.C. 1. 5 Reno Dakota 2.18 Epitaph for My Heart
Pues estaba pensando dejarlo en standby hasta el lunes porque luego no hay casi nadie. Yo por mí ponía la próxima hasta el domingo pero el pasado fue un poco rollo. ¿Qué te parece mejor a ti?
Por mi genial porque a esta ronda ya no llegaré, tengo la mañana apretadita y necesito estudiar bien las canciones que cada vez está más chunguer todo.
1.4 a chicken with.. 3.3 busby berkley dreams 1.5 reno dakota 2.4 time enough for rocking when... 2.15 long forgotten.. 2.13 world love 2.6 grand canyon 1.2 i don´t belive in the sun
No os está pasando que escucháis algunas canciones para ver cuáles elimináis y ya dejáis 20-30 canciones sonando? Me lo estoy pasando pipa con este survivor, aunque no estemos siendo muy expresivos.
Llevo 254 escuchas de Magnetic en las últimas 2 semanas.
Ya, hombre. Y que diga mi bro @cao que The Book of love is long and boring, con esos 2:42... y que no se jarte de votarla en cada ronda. Amos amos... amos
Comentarios
Disco 1:
1 Absolutely Cuckoo
2 I Don't Believe in the Sun
3 All My Little Words
4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5 Reno Dakota
6 I Don't Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
11 I Think I Need A New Heart
12 The Book of Love
15 The One You Really Love
20 My Sentimental Melody
21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
Disco 2
3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
6 Grand Canyon
7 No One Will Ever Love You
8 If You Don't Cry
10 (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
11 My Only Friend
12 Promises of Eternity
13 World Love
14 Washington, D.C.
15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
18 Epitaph for My Heart
20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
Disco 3
3 Busby Berkeley Dreams
8 Bitter Tears
10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
12 Meaningless
19 The Night You Can't Remember
Eliminamos 7 (ojo, 7) hasta mañana a las 17:00h (no como en casa, por eso se atrasa la ronda).
Me he hecho una lista que voy desordenando y en esta ronda oficialmente ya voy a tener que votar un par de temas que me gustan mucho... En resumen, que me encantan la mitad aprox.
edito: soy torpe. lo de guay es por promises of eternity
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
1.05 Reno Dakota
1.20 My Sentimental Melody
1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
2.08 If You Don't Cry
2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
3.08 Bitter Tears
2 I Don't Believe in the Sun
9 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
12 The Book of Love
Disco 2
8 If You Don't Cry
11 My Only Friend
Disco 3
10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
19 The Night You Can't Remember
"...You said, Nobody loves me
and I said, wanna bet?
the night you can't remember
the night I can't forget..."
Por favor...el mejor estribillo de todo 69LS
Disco 1:
20 My Sentimental Melody
22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
Disco 2:
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
11 My Only Friend
13 World Love
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Disco 3:
8 Bitter Tears
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
2. 11 My Only Friend
3.3 Busby Berkeley dreams
2.08 If You Don't Cry
1.05 Reno Dakota
2.4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
2.15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
1.5 Reno Dakota
2.6 Grand Canyon
2.8 If You Don't Cry
2.13 World Love
2.14 Washington, D.C.
2.16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
2.8 If You Don't Cry
2.11 My Only Friend
2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
3.8 Bitter Tears
3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
3.19 The Night You Can't Remember
2. 11 My Only Friend
2. 13 World Love
1. 20 My Sentimental Melody
3. 8 Bitter Tears
2. 6 Grand Canyon
2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
2. 3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
2.12 Promises of Eternity
2.8 If You Don't Cry
2.11 My Only Friend
3.8 Bitter Tears
3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
3.19 The Night You Can't Remember
Fuera ya Promises of Eternity qué suplicio
3.19 The night you can't remember
2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
1. 20 My Sentimental Melody
2.12 Promises of Eternity
2.8 If you don't cry
3.3 Busby Berkeley dreams
2.7 No one will ever love you
Y cerramos la ronda.
Con 7 votos:
2.8 IF YOU DON'T CRY
"'Softly the crystals falling on 17th Street'
Assuming this to be New York City, 17th Street runs through the Chelsea district. The choice of 17th Street, rather than, say, 7th Street, disrupts the metre of the line: it has one more syllable than the first line of the second verse ('Dying all day in thousands of little ways').
LD Beghtol writes, "Shirley Simms and I always got kind of misty singing the 'bomp bomp bomps' in the refrain at live shows." And in his book, he directs us to the New York Songlines virtual tour of 17th Street. "
Con 6 votos:
2.11 MY ONLY FRIEND
"'Billie you're a miracle / and God knows I need one
Sing me something terrible / that even dawn may come...
Hey, Lady Day, / can you save my life this time
Can you cry so beautifully / you make my troubles rhyme'
Lady Day is the nickname given to singer Billie Holiday, whose brief and troubled life (1915-59) suffered as a result of drugs, alcohol, and abusive relationships. Lester Young, the saxophonist with whom she worked early in her career gave her the name. "
Con 5 votos:
3.8 BITTER TEARS
"Bitter Tears is recorded in mono. In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt says he wore his Phil Spector Back to Mono pin while mixing it.
LD Beghtol, who sings the song, writes:
Stephin went through a bunch of versions with different instrumentation for this track, and he was getting rather frustrated about it. He played it for me over the phone and I liked it a lot — this was to be my last song for the album — but suggested he leave the busy mix as it was as a mono background, then add ukes and other rhythm tracks in front of that for a really 'deep' aural picture, which worked pretty well.
I recorded the vocal on my lunch hour one afternoon at Mother West (the Flare studio), at the very end of the sessions, with Charles Newman engineering and Claudia Gonson directing. We did two takes: first me singing in big belting baritone voice (Claudia said, "Sing it like Paint your Wagon!, LD") and then I did the little backing vocal "ah's" on the refrains and at the end.
Stephin wasn't expecting my full-throttle baritone on it, but liked it in the end — especially against the psycho backing track that spirals out of control at the end. Live, that's the part Claudia sang with me.
This is the second song in a row that shares a title with someone else's song — in this case INXS. "
Con 4 votos:
1.20 MY SENTIMENTAL MELODY
"'But my sentimental melody... / will ring in your ears... /
bringing a tear to your eye / Goodbye'
My Sentimental Melody is another song which is literally (almost) a song about a song (cf. The Way You Say Good-Night, also sung by LD Beghtol). In this case the love song is an instrument of revenge. It works after, and because, the singer has gone.
The song is driven by a fan organ, the electric motor of which can be heard at the beginning and end of the song.
Apparently the song was written ten years before 69 Love Songs was released.
LD Beghtol, who sings the song, writes:
The vocals were recorded in two takes, since I couldn’t quite get the rhythm right — and never did — on the second verse. Claudia’s "Lawrence Welk Show" backing vocals are a marvel, and I get all tingly when the fan organ clicks off at the very end.
Flare (one of LD's other bands) used to do this song live, right when 69 Love Songs came out, in a terrific string version with a huge piano cadenza. We soon dropped it from our live shows when I burst into tears in the middle of it one night at Mercury Lounge and had to stop the song when I noticed most of the band and the audience (including Stephin Merritt) were sobbing along with me.
American composer Aaron Copland also wrote a piano piece called Sentimental Melody (Slow Dance) in 1926."
1.22 SWEET-LOVIN' MAN
"According to the 69 Love Songs booklet, Sweet-Lovin' Man was written at the time of The Magnetic Fields' 1994 album The Charm of the Highway Strip but didn't fit with the rest of that album.
In several ways this song is consciously out of character with other Stephin Merritt compositions:
"The original idea, probably obvious, was to write a song with a title I would never use."
It has a slow fade whereas the majority of songs end more or less abruptly.
Notwithstanding the 'million years of rain', the song is happy and positive.
In a feature in the now-defunct Milkmag, Don Leibold wrote:
Claudia Gonson is Stephen [sic] Merritt's longtime friend and manager. She sings six songs on 69 Love Songs, including a soaring number called Sweet-Lovin' Man. Merritt hears the song as a kind of Loretta Lynn tribute, though other ears might hear it as a bombastic eighties ballad à la Bonnie Tyler.
Shirley Simms says that there is general agreement that she should have sung this, but at the time it was assigned to Claudia for reasons of balance of different singers."
2.20 THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE WORLD GOES DANCING
"Stephin Merritt explains in the 69 Love Songs booklet that Chris Isaak was originally invited to sing The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing for an album by The 6ths, but was not available. "
3.19 THE NIGHT YOU CAN'T REMEMBER
"This song brings together the traditions of:
-love during wartime (though with a different twist to Abigail, Belle of Kilronan)
-gender switch (it is sung by a man, but clearly with the voice of a woman addressing a man — cf. Acoustic Guitar), and
-drinking/intoxication ('the night you can't remember / the night I can't forget').
The combination is exploited for comic effect: 'You said I was terrific, it / meant zilch to you, ah, but I / have our marriage certificate / 'n I'll keep it till I die' and 'you've got vague presentiments / and I've got little Junior.'
The Rockettes are a renowned dance organisation, linked to Radio City Music Hall, which has been around since the 1920s. The line 'It's true, we flew to Paris, dear / aboard an Army jet' might situate the song in the World War Two period since the Rockettes are known to have starred in USO Tours during the war. On a pedantic technicality — since 'jet' is obviously dictated by the rhyme — there were, however, no army jets capable of carrying passengers in service during World War Two. "
Disco 1:
1 Absolutely Cuckoo
2 I Don't Believe in the Sun
3 All My Little Words
4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5 Reno Dakota
6 I Don't Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
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
3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
6 Grand Canyon
7 No One Will Ever Love You
10 (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
12 Promises of Eternity
13 World Love
14 Washington, D.C.
15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
18 Epitaph for My Heart
Disco 3
3 Busby Berkeley Dreams
10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
12 Meaningless
Eliminamos otras 8 para así quedarnos ya con el top 20 hasta mañana a las 14:00 h.
Ahora defiende tú la del pollo decapitado, please.
Por cierto, @elektrolu: 28-7: Top 21
Ronda 1: eliminamos 9 quedan 60
Ronda 2: eliminamos 10 quedan 50
Ronda 3: eliminamos 8 quedan 42
Ronda 4: eliminamos 8 quedan 34
Ronda 5: eliminamos 7 quedan 27
Ronda 6: eliminamos 7 quedan 20
Por cierto soy lo peor, se me ha pasado votar la última ronda
EN LA SIGUIENTE RONDA TENEMOS QUE VOTAR 8, NO 7 PARA QUEDARNOS EN EL TOP 20.
1.02 I Don't Believe in the Sun
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
1.05 Reno Dakota
1.06 I Don't Want to Get Over You
2.03 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
2.13 World Love
2.14 Washington, D.C.
2.18 Epitaph for My Heart
1.8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
1.12 The Book of Love
1.21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
2.4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
2.6 Grand Canyon
2.13 World Love
3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
1 Absolutely Cuckoo
7 Come Back From San Francisco
15 The One You Really Love
21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
Disco 2
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
13 World Love
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
18 Epitaph for My Heart
Yo del disco 3 ya no toco ninguna. Y queda claro que el disco 1 es el prefe de todos, por si alguien lo dudaba. Si es que hasta ahora no he podido tocar ninguna del primero...
2. 6 Grand Canyon
2. 3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
1. 4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
3. 3 Busby Berkeley Dreams
2. 14 Washington, D.C.
1. 5 Reno Dakota
2.18 Epitaph for My Heart
Come back from San Francisco me ha dolido más a ti que a mi, @caliope...
3.3 busby berkley dreams
1.5 reno dakota
2.4 time enough for rocking when...
2.15 long forgotten..
2.13 world love
2.6 grand canyon
1.2 i don´t belive in the sun
dureza...le he dado mil vueltas
Llevo 254 escuchas de Magnetic en las últimas 2 semanas.