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Wednesday, March 20, 2013





(CBS, 1981)



JOAQUIN SABINA, ALBERTO PEREZ Y JAVIER KRAHE




Después de oir este pequeño e insignificante (para la casa disquera CBS) álbum en vivo, llegamos a la conclusión de que Joaquín Sabina se ha pasado toda su carrera tratando de repetir este recital, con algunos aciertos y otros desbarajustes.



El disco deja boquiabierto a cualquer hispanohablante y nos fuerza a oírlo una y otra vez hasta memorizarnos las canciones de tres verdaderos trovadores y cantautores. Sabina, El Poeta convertido en superestrella del rock and roll tiene su momento cumbre en un disco en el cual los dos instrumentos predominantes son las guitarras acústicas y los kazoos (las cornetitas esas de fiesta). Pareciera increíble, pero están ahí para acompañar a tres voces de compositores que nunca se comprometieron con nada para cantar lo que tienen dentro, una visión extremadamente irónica de la sociedad madrileña postfranquista y pre-movida de inicios de los ochenta.




Los tres artistas son de vanguardia, pero cada uno apunta con su misma voz ácida a diferentes blancos de la psique humana. Sabina es melancólico y con una filosofía extremadamente irónica de la vida, y siente que está cansado de vivir a sus aproximadamente 32 años (en 1981). Lanza canciones al viento como "Pongamos Que Hablo De Madrid," en donde está tan deprimido por tanto tiempo de vivir en una ciudad tan sórdida que termina enamorándose de ella, al sentirse incapaz de sentir lo que le dijeron que era la felicidad. Al parecer no le pasa a cualquiera, pero igual terminamos amando la canción. Vendría una puya al Caudillo y su reciente fallecimiento, "Adivina Adivinanza" en donde Sabina, furioso y cáustico, nos hace saber quiénes lloraron la muerte de Francisco Franco y cómo se celebró -y lamentó- la partida del dictador. Sobrecogedor tema considerando que hasta ahora hay gente que canta "Cara Al Sol".






Sabina nos explicará sobre su ironía frente a la muerte en "Pasándola Bien," aunque en verdad estará ocultando su pavor frente a ella y su asombro de haber sobrevivido a varios encuentros con la pelona. Él representa a Tánatos en el trío; mientras que Krahe es Eros, el pervertido mujeriego y libador. Se obsesiona por el tamaño de su miembro, por las hembras que lo ignoraron y amaron en un "yo-yo" emocional interminable y también se da el lujo de cantar un poco desafinado. Cantará temas sobre erecciones, descendencia y usará la palabra "gilipollas" en el tema "Marieta" (de Georges Brassens) lo suficiente como para provocar censura en algunas radios. Krahe cuenta también la leyenda de un pueblo llamado "Villatripas" en donde hostia la gente anda bien cachonda, tío.



El que realmente se roba el espectáculo es Alberto Pérez, un verdadero genio cuya diferencia con Sabina y Krahe es que presenta una introspección más profunda en la represión conservadora de la Iglesia Católica. Pareciera que es un poeta rebelde pero al mismo tiempo se pregunta con mucha culpabilidad, "¿No habrán sido los largos años de Franco una cosa normal para España...?" Ahí está la canción "Un Santo Varón" en donde se entrega totalmente a la virtud divina para evitar las tentaciones del cuerpo de la mujer. Pero en verdad el punto más alto del disco es la versión suya de "La Tormenta" de Brassens, traducida por el mañosón Krahe. De contarles de qué trata, les arruinaría la sorpresa.

Monday, March 4, 2013







Gilbert O'Sullivan is, no questions asked, one of the greatest singer/songwriter of the seventies. I have to say seventies because I haven't heard anything lately from him and that's a shame, because I really love his work. It's not a matter of good or bad music or what is right or wrong with the lyrics or chords. Mr. Sullivan has produced a brilliant body of work for our souls, and every song seems to be better than the previous one. In order to tell us intimate, sad stories by looking like a clown, he's also the ultimate Rock And Roll Jester.



Now, this is serious 70's shit: The first time I listened to a Gilbert O'Sullivan song was in 1990, on a car AM radio. It was "Alone Again (Naturally)," and I thought "hey, this must be the new Paul McCartney single or something". The truth is, both Macca and Gilbert have pretty similar voices and their compositions are, say, beatlesque.



Gilbert O'Sullivan deserved more hits on U.S. and a career like Elton John's. He had a lot of hits in UK, but sometimes America "makes" the artists to be successful in England; i.e. Beatles and Stones. Gilbert is still an unknown troubadour for many Classic Rock fans, and if they know him, they do because of his "Alone Again (Naturally)", a depressing song about an orphaned and dumped-at-the-wedding guy who wants to kill himself, and "Claire", a tune about a girl who plays house with her uncle. Uh-huh, the puritans from the West weren't ready for this kind of humor, therefore, Gilbert was a bigger success on the other side of the Atlantic.



O'Sullivan is just amazing in single form: "Nothing Rhymed", "Out Of The Question", "Get Down", "Ooh Baby", "Happiness is Me and You" were charted singles in U.S.A., along with "Clair" and the #1 hit "Alone Again (Naturally)". In the U.K. he was bigger, and he is deeply loved in Japan. Try finding his records and you'll get just expensive Japanese imports.



1991's Best Of Gilbert O'Sullivan is one of the best CDs ever assembled in the short history of compact disc manufacturing. Every song is, as I said, better than the one before and the album maintains a consistency based on the songs, little three-minute operas with an intimate look at the human being but with an ironic twist. On "Matrimony," Gilbert tells his fianceé he's her new daddy, and he knows how to rock, even tho they hid the relationship from their parents. I am totally identified with Gilbert in songs like "No Matter How I Try" and "Out Of The Question," where the beautiful piano chords just send us right into complicated relationships that make us think about how we measure love in real life: is it by the number of tears we shed? Or is it by those joyful but forgettable moments? Somehow Gilbert holds the key to help us with depression.




I would love to sit down and talk to Mr. O'Sullivan and ask about his songs, about his work and how was he inspired to create such human songs. When he dresses with a Chaplin jacket and trousers and sings "Nothing Rhymed" he might look funny, but his songs are deep serious analysis of the human pathos, with lots of sugar in it and a McCartney touch. That's why every time after I listened to his "Best Of" CD I feel I grew up a little more as a person.



Sunday, March 3, 2013


Paul McCartney, 1976 02




Superb article written by Joel Achenbach (@joelachenbach) and published on The Miami Herald back in April 1990 (20 years after the Beatles' official breakup and a few days before Macca's concert in Miami). Read it and discover more about Paul McCartney and his amazing creativity.



http://www.miamiherald.com/1990/04/08/3905263/beatle-juice.html




Plus, essential McCartney listening:




Wingspan, Hits & History (MPL, 2001)

Wild Life (Apple, 1971)

Band On The Run (Apple, 1974)
Tug Of War (Columbia, 1982)
Flowers In The Dirt (MPL/ EMI, 1989)
Anything by the Beatles! (1962 - 1970)



The Beatles Store on Amazon.com

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