Daughters of the Soho Riots
”You were right about the end
It didn’t make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong”
The National
”Daughters of the Soho Riots”
Alligator (2005)
08 Jul 2010
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Jag försöker krossa ditt hjärta
”Let’s forget about the tongue-tied lightning
Let’s undress just like cross-eyed strangers
This is not a joke, so please stop smiling
What was I thinking when I said it didn’t hurt?”
Wilco
”I Am Trying to Break Your Heart”
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
22 Jun 2010
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Amerikansk slang
”There are no reasons to believe
I buried my faith in another plot
Where your heart and your claws will not find”
Efter trettiofyra minuter klingar skivan ut. Jag vet inte om American Slang hann nå de höga höjderna eller om det ens var meningen. Brian Fallon sjunger sämre än på föregångaren, The ’59 Sound, och det känns mer äkta. Det är någonstans här han befinner sig: fångad mellan talang, vilja och insikten om att inte vara fulländad.
The Gaslight Anthem släpper sin tredje platta i dag och den är fulländad. De första nio spåren slår följe med sommarens ljusa kvällar. Det är passionerat, lortigt och väldigt amerikanskt. Bruce Springsteen väntar runt hörnet i hemstaden New Jersey och flickorna står på rad.
Sedan kommer det tionde spåret, We Did It When We Were Young, och energin försvinner. Solen har gått ned, publiken har åkt hem. Kvar är endast smaken av ett antiklimax.
Och det blir inte bättre än så här.
”I cannot hold a candle for every pretty gun
We were strangers many hours
And I missed you for so long
When we were lions, lovers in combat
Faded like your name on those jeans I burned”
14 Jun 2010
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00-talet är väl retro nu?
”I had seven faces
Thought I new which one to wear
But I’m sick of spending these lonely nights
Training myself not to care”
Interpol
”NYC”
Turn On the Bright Lights (2002)
28 Maj 2010
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Bobby och Johnny
”From the crossroads of my doorstep
My eyes they start to fade
As I turn my head back to the room
Where my love and I have laid
An’ I gaze back to the street
The sidewalk and the sign
And I’m one too many mornings
An’ a thousand miles behind”
– Bob Dylan, One Too Many Mornings
06 Maj 2010
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High Violet
De senaste dagarna har jag toktwittrat om samma sak. Om och om igen. Att jag inte har tappat followers får ses som en seger i det lilla.
Orsaken till mitt maniska beteende är The Nationals nya platta, High Violet.
Du vet, ibland händer det.
Ibland kommer det ett album utan ett enda svagt spår. Ibland släpps musik som beskriver allt du tänker, känner och vägrar drömma om.
Och mitt i den perfekta symfonin hittar du tonerna som ändå lyckas sticka ut. Du hittar orden som säger inget och mer därtill.
Du hittar spåret Conversation 16.
I’m a confident liar
Have my head in the oven so you know where I’ll be
I try to be more romantic
I wanna believe in everything you believe
I was less than amazing
I do not know what all the troubles are for
I fall asleep in your branches
You’re the only thing I ever want anymore
Now we’ll leave the silver city
Cuz all the silver girls gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city
To all the silver girls
Everything means everything
I was afraid I’d eat your brains
I was afraid I’d eat your brains
Cause I’m evil
Uppdaterat: Låten ”Conversation 16” är bortplockad från Youtube. I väntan på en återkomst har jag ersatt den med en trailer för hela albumet – definitivt värd att kolla på.
Uppdaterat 2: Albumet finns nu på Spotify. Lyssna här.
04 Maj 2010
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Troublesome Houses
”I once loved a girl, but she couldn’t take
that I visited troublesome houses.
She’d say, when I got home, to leave her alone.
She could taste trouble on my mouth.
When she was gone I missed her, I did …
And still went to troublesome places.”
Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang
”Troublesome Houses”
The Wonder Show of the World (2010)
Fotnot: Rykande färskt album, här är din chans att upptäcka det innan alla andra gör det. (Nå väl, Will Oldham kommer aldrig ta världen med storm.) Frånvaron av en riktig musikvideo får du stå ut med.
Fotnot 2: Undrar du hur jag spenderar en långfredag som denna? Albumet ovan går på repeat medan Richard Dawkins fyller mitt huvud med evolutionslära. Vissa ägnar sina fredagskvällar åt att praktisera naturligt urval, jag nöjer mig med att läsa om det.
02 Apr 2010
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Finish
We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting
– Charles Bukowski
Varje söndag är förlamande lång tid, ögon som öppnas i gryningen, rader som faller mellan raderna, en mobil som aldrig blinkar och böcker som hånflinar åt mig – alltmedan kuken dinglar obesudlad.
Sedan jag slutade supa hatar jag söndagar.
Basattuvet.
21 Feb 2010
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Geniala rader #35
”How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don’t know
This weakness I feel I must finally show”
Mumford & Sons
”Awake My Soul”
Sigh No More (2009)
02 Dec 2009
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Geniala rader #34
”Everywhere I am is just another thing without you in it”
The National
”Fashion Coat”
Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003)
16 Okt 2009
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Geniala rader #33
”Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don’t see why I should even care
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there”
Bob Dylan
”Not Dark Yet”
Time Out of Mind (1997)
01 Okt 2009
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Geniala rader #32
”Well I have a good time
when I go out of my mind.
And it’s a wonderfull place
and I can’t wait to be there.
And I hear beautiful sounds
coming outa the ground.
Gonna take us a while
but we’ll go hundreds of times.”
Talking Heads
”Pull Up the Roots”
Speaking in Tongues (1983)
15 Sep 2009
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Geniala rader #31
”I always kinda, sorta wished I looked like Elvis
and in my head there’s all these classic cars
and outlawed cowboy bands
I always kinda, sorta wished I was someone else”
The Gaslight Anthem
”High Lonesome”
The ’59 Sound (2008)
08 Sep 2009
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Geniala rader #30
”Sometimes when you’re doing simple things around the house
Maybe you’ll think of me and smile
You know I’m tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for while”
Warren Zevon
”Keep Me In Your Heart”
The Wind (2003)
Fotnot: Warren Zevon spelade in The Wind efter att han hade diagnosticerats med en obotlig typ av lungcancer. Albumet släpptes 26 augusti 2003. Två veckor senare, 7 september, avled han.
28 Aug 2009
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Geniala rader #29
”Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it”
Bob Dylan
”Visions of Johanna”
Blonde on Blonde (1966)
12 Aug 2009
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Geniala rader #28
”Your world is in danger
But your world isn’t real
You see what is imagined
Dreaming what you feel”
Joseph Arthur
”I Am”
Our Shadows Will Remain (2004)
08 Aug 2009
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Geniala rader #27
”She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
So he’s hanging on to half her heart
He can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind”
Warren Zevon
”Hasten Down the Wind”
Warren Zevon (1976)
31 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #26
”Somliga säger ‘vi lever i evighet’,
fast döden är det sannaste som de vet.
Andra säger ‘lyckan finns i ett ögonblick’,
fast de aldrig hann i fatt det de fick.”
Peter R. Ericson (till Cornelis Vreeswijk)
”Sommarkort (En stund på jorden)”
Eldorado – Äventyret fortsätter (1987)
28 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #25
”Lost in fog and love and faithless fear
I’ve had kisses that make Judas seem sincere”
The Hold Steady
”Citrus”
Boys and Girls in America (2006)
25 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #24
Lord: it is time. The huge summer has gone by.
Now overlap the sundials with your shadows,
and on the meadows let the wind go free.
Command the fruits to swell on tree and vine;
grant them a few more warm transparent days,
urge them on to fulfillment then, and press
the final sweetness into the heavy wine.
Whoever has no house now, will never have one.
Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander on the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
”Autumn Day”
The Book of Pictures (1902)
Översatt från tyska av Stephen Mitchell
21 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #23
”I keep drinking the ink from my pen
and I’m balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
‘If you love something give it away’”
Bright Eyes
”Landlocked Blues”
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005)
17 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #22
”One more drink and I’ll be fine
One more girl to take you off my mind”
The Magic Numbers
”The Mule”
The Magic Numbers (2005)
15 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #21
”I drink good coffee every morning
Comes from a place that’s far away
And when I’m done I feel like talking
Without you here there is less to say”
Colin Hay
”I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You”
Transcendental Highway (1998)
12 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #20
”Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one
Anymore”
The Smiths
”There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”
The Queen Is Dead (1986)
08 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #19
”I don’t care what you do, I don’t care what you say
I don’t care where you go or how long you stay
Someday baby, you ain’t gonna worry po’ me any more”
Bob Dylan
”Someday Baby”
Modern Times (2006)
Fotnot: po’ är kort för poor.
04 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #18
”I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all”
Joni Mitchell
”Both Sides, Now”
(1968)
01 Jul 2009
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Geniala rader #17
”There is no knowledge but I know it
There’s nothing to learn from that vacant voice
That sails to me across the line
From the ridiculous to the sublime
It’s good to hear you’re doing so well, but really
Can’t you find somebody else that you can ring and tell?”
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
”Far From Me”
The Boatman’s Call (1997)
30 Jun 2009
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Geniala rader #16
”I’ve been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they’re real
I’ve been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures are
All I can feel”
The Cure
”Pictures of You”
Disintegration (1989)
28 Jun 2009
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Geniala rader #15
”Turn the light out, say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let’s not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky”
The National
”Fake Empire”
Boxer (2007)
26 Jun 2009
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Geniala rader #14
”She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin’ away
I heard her say over my shoulder,
‘We’ll meet again someday on the avenue,’
Tangled up in blue.”
Bob Dylan
”Tangled Up In Blue”
Blood on the Tracks (1975)
Mhm. Två Dylan i rad. Lev me’t.
24 Jun 2009
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