Monday, February 23, 2009

Descubriendo y redescubriendo música

El mes pasado decidí subscribirme al Zune Pass y la verdad ha sido una gran inversión. No sólo estoy descubriendo muchísima música, sino que además tengo la posibilidad de redescubrir canciones del pasado.

El Zune Pass funciona de la siguiente manera: es una subscripción que te permite bajar prácticamente millones de canciones a tu computadora y escucharlas ya sea desde tu PC o desde tu Zune. Las canciones son accesibles siempre y cuando estés subscrito, pero cada mes, tienes derecho a elegir 10 canciones y quedártelas continúes o no tu pago. El costo son $15 dólares al mes, que es prácticamente el costo de un disco compacto.

En fin, aquí les comparto cuatro canciones que descubrí y redescubrí con el Zune.

1. Après Moi, por Regina Spektor



I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi, le deluge, after me comes the flood

I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi le deluge, after me comes the flood

Fevrale dostat chernil i plakat
Pisat O Fevrale navsnryd
Poka grohochushaya slyakot
Vesnoyu charnoyu gorit

(Translation:
February. Get ink, shed tears.
Write of it, sob your heart out, sing.
While torrential slush that roars,
burns in the blackness of the spring. 
- Extract from a poem by Boris Pasternak)

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi le deluge, after me comes the flood

I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, It's not my choice

I must go on stan-stan-ding-ding
You can't, can't break that, that 
Which isn't, isn't yours, yours
I'm not, not my own, own
It's not, not my choice, choice


2.  Cologne, por Ben Folds



Here in Cologne,
I know I said it wrong,
I walked you to the train,
And back across alone,
To my hotel room,
And ordered me some food,
And now I'm wondering,
Why the floor has suddenly become a moving target.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go.
I will let go,
If you will let go.
(Four, three, two)

Says here an astronaut,
Put on a pair of diapers,
Drove eighteen hours,
To kill her boyfriend,
And in my hotel room - I'm wondering,
If you read that story too,
And if we both might,
Be having the same imaginary conversation.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go.
I will let go,
If you will let go.
(Four, three, two)

Weightless as I close my eyes.
The ceiling opens in disguise.

Such a painful trip,
To find out this is it,
And when I go to sleep,
You'll be waking up.

Four, three, two, one,
I'm letting you go.
I will let go,
If you will let go.


3. Oh Freedom, por Joan Baez



Oh, freedom, oh, freedom,
Oh freedom over me

And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

No more moanin'

No more weepin'

No more shootin'

There'll be singing


4. Paper Planes por MIA



[x2]
I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make 'em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait

[x2]
Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I'm clocking that game
Everyone's a winner, we're making our fame
Bonafide hustler making my name

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

[x2]
Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bongs
Running when we hit 'em
Lethal poison through their system

[x2]
No one on the corner has swagger like us
Hit me on my Burner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas

[x4]
All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

M.I.A.
Third world democracy
Yeah, I got more records than the K.G.B.
So, uh, no funny business

Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go

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