Sunday Bites a) #1 a #7

• Sunday Bites #1: Radiohead High and Dry
• Sunday Bites #2: Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town
• Sunday Bites #3: Alice in Chains - Would?
• Sunday Bites #4: Pearl Jam & U2 - Rocking in a Free World
• Sunday Bites #5: The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
• Sunday Bites #6: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
• Sunday Bites #7: Bush - The Chemicals Between Us

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Sunday Bites #7: Bush - The Chemicals Between Us

Os Bush, liderados pelo vocalista Gavin Rossdale, foram mais uma das bandas que marcaram positivamente os anos 90. Muitas vezes mais falados por causa da relação do vocalista com Gwen Stefani (vocalista dos No Doubt) do que propriamente pela sua música de elevada qualidade, os Bush deixaram uma série de músicas que não dá para esquecer.
Talvez a mais conhecida e que tenha atingido maior sucesso tenha sido The Chemicals Between Us, música que os lançou definitivamente para a ribalta.
 
I want you to remember
A love so full it could send us all ways
I want you to surrender
All my feelings rose today
And I want you to remain
The power of children can amaze
I'll try not to complain
I know that's a pisser baby

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

I want you to remember
Everything you said
Every driven word
Like a hammer, hell, to my head

The chemicals between us
The walls that lie between us
Then lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier face
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
Lying in this bed

We're the hollow men
We are the naked ones
We never meant you harm
Never meant you wrong
I'd like to thank
All of my lovers, lovers, lovers, lovers, lovers

The chemicals between us
The army of achievers
Lying in this bed
The chemicals displaced
There is no lonlier state
Than lying in this bed

The chemicals between us
The chemicals between us
The chemicals

The chemicals between us

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Sunday Bites #6: Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Hallelujah é certamente uma das músicas com mais versões no mundo, e esta de Jeff Buckley é simplesmente brilhante.

Jeff Buckley, falecido aos 30 anos por afogamento, foi um dos músicos que marcou os anos 90. A sua morte prematura chocou os fãs e provocou uma grande perda para a boa música.

Well I heard there was a secret chord
that David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this :
The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

(Yeah but) Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor, (You know)
I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah...

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallelujah... [Instrumental]

Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu...
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah

Hallelllluuuuuujjaahh...Hallelllluuuuuujjaahh 

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Sunday Bites #5: The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Bullet With Butterfly Wings faz parte do duplo álbum de originais mais vendido dos anos 90: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, dos The Smashing Pumkins.

Para muitos fãs dos The Smashing Pumpkins esta é A música. Eu gosto tanto de tantas que não me atrevo a defini-la assim, ainda que não me choque nada isso. Uma coisa é certa: é uma obra de arte.

the world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do I get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
but can you fake it, for just one more show
and what do you want, I want change
and what have you got
when you feel the same
even though I know-I suppose I'll show
all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son yeah
tell me I'm the chosen one
jesus was an only son for you

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

tell me I'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was an only son for you

and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved
and I still believe that I cannot be saved

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Sunday Bites #4: Pearl Jam & U2 - Rocking in a Free World

A fusão das bandas tem identidade. Como diz Bono durante a música: "Pearl Jam and U2. We are for you... UJam".

Esta música fez parte do concerto "Make Poverty History" [fazer da pobreza história] que decorreu em Melbourne em Novembro de 2006. Original de Neil Young, esta música tem sido um hino ao longo dos tempos e interpretada por diversas bandas. Desta feita foram os Pearl Jam em conjunto com os U2 que lhe pegaram.

E que dizer desta interpretação? Simplesmente fenomenal.

Aqui fica a letra original de Rocking in a Free World:

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes
But there's a warnin' sign
on the road ahead
There's a lot of people sayin'
we'd be better off dead
Don't feel like Satan,
but I am to them
So I try to forget it,
any way I can.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away,
and she's gone to get a hit
She hates her life,
and what she's done to it
There's one more kid
that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love,
never get to be cool.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive.

Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world
Keep on rockin' in the free world,
Keep on rockin' in the free world.

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Sunday Bites #3: Alice in Chains - Would?

Would? é uma música de 1992, lançada no álbum Dirt e fez parte da banda sonora do filme Vida de Solteiro.

A música foi escrita por Jerry Cantrell (guitarrista e vocalista da banda) em memória de Andrew Mood dos Mother Love Bone que havia falecido (overdose de heroína) em 1990.
Uma overdose, desta feita de uma combinação de heroína e cocaína, viria também a dar uma machadada final no grupo, provocando a morte de Layne Staley, vocalista da banda, em 5 de Abril de 2002. Desde aí a banda renasceu mais que uma vez, encontrando-se actualmente a promover o novo álbum Black Gives Way to Blue com William DuVall como vocalista da banda, no lugar do insubstituível Layne Staley.

Know me broken by my master,
Teach thee on child of love hereafter,

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Drifting body, its sole exertion.
Flying, not yet quite the notion.

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
And left you here alone

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home, yeah
Have I gone?
And left you here alone

If I would, could you?

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Sunday Bites #2: Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town

Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town é uma música dos Pearl Jam lançada em 1993 no álbum Vs., onde figuravam outras músicas ainda hoje muito requisitadas como por exemplo Animal, Daughter e Dissident.

Os Pearl Jam fizeram enorme furor nos anos 90 mas ainda continuam a ser uma banda de referência para muitas pessoas. Se alguém os quiser ouvir ao vivo, terá oportunidade de o fazer no dia 10 de Julho no passeio marítimo de Algés, no festival Optimus Alive!10.

I seem to recognize your face
Haunting, familiar yet, I can't seem to place it
Cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
Lifetimes are catching up with me
All these changes taking place, I wish I'd seen the place
But no one's ever taken me
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)

I swear I recognize your breath
Memories like fingerprints are slowly raising
me, you wouldn't recall, for I'm not my former
It's hard when you're stuck upon the shelf
I changed by not changing at all, small town predicts my fate
Perhaps that's what no one wants to see
I just want to scream...hello...
My god its been so long, never dreamed you'd return
But now here you are, and here I am
Hearts and thoughts they fade...away...

Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (2x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...fade away...
Hearts and thoughts they fade, fade away... (3x)
Hearts and thoughts they fade...

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Sunday Bites #1: Radiohead - High and Dry

High and Dry (do álbum The Bends) é um dos sucessos mais relevantes dos Radiohead. Contudo há a curiosidade de os Radiohead não a tocarem ao vivo há mais de 10 anos.

A explicação será a opinião de Thom Yorke, o vocalista da banda, na qual ele considera esta música horrível. Há no entanto quem não concorde e há uns anos personalidades da música como Courtney Love e Moby lamentaram que os Radiohead não tivessem mais músicas no género de High and Dry. Será caso para dizer nem tanto ao mar, nem tanto à terra.
A música não é horrível, muito (mesmo muito) pelo contrário, mas os Radiohead têm igualmente outros grandes temas.

Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy?
Flying on your motorcycle,
Watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition,
Kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror,
You're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation,
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces,
You just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you,
You will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing that you ever, ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing you ever had has gone away

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

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Sunday Bites

A partir de agora, aos domingos haverá um post com música. Isto porque eu não passo um único dia sem música e este blog já teve muito tempo música permanentemente pronta a tocar, assim os visitantes lá clicassem. Desde que mudei o template há um mês que retirei isso por achar que o formato vídeo já não se enquadrava na nova barra lateral.
Assim, aos domingos será publicado um post com uma música que virá sempre acompanhada da letra e em alguns casos de algumas curiosidades sobre a mesma. Para não criar muita poluição visual a quem se está a marimbar para isto, os posts serão publicados no formato resumo, pelo que os interessados poderão expandir o post, os que não se interessam por isto, podem simplesmente passar ao post seguinte. Começa já este domingo.

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