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When Rock was that MUSIC

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Just looking for some U2 stuff I ran into this video of one of my favourites songs ever done. It's a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Apart from the great song itself, watching this video reminded me what music used to be: art.
It seems like there's not too much of that these days. The speech at the beginning is good, but what Bono says to the crowd just before the fourth minute is unvaluable...

I was just guessing, what would happen if a group had so much speech and politics in a concert nowadays? Probably they would be calified as "tiring", "pain in the ass" or some other delightful adjective.

Well, here it is, judge by yourself:

 
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Not too much "esperanza" left...

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Long time withouth posting... I just saw something today that drove me so mad I had to tell.

Many people may have heard the song "Infinitza Tristeza" by Manu Chao. In it, there's a remixed extract of a "Metro de Madrid" informative message. It exactly is this short 3 seconds message "Próxima estación... Esperanza", as the record's title. If you know just a little bit of Spanish you might have realized what phrase it is. It's a phrase that comes out of the speakers when you're approaching the metro station called "Esperanza" (which translation to English is "hope"). It's just the same kind of phrase that all metros, undergrounds, subways (whatever is your choice) around the world have, sounding thousands of times a year throughout all this years. Just the same kind of phrase as "Next station... Grand Central Station" in NYC. That's it.

Well... not too much deal, is it? All right here it's the DEAL. As said on Barrapunto (the Spanish version of Slashdot), it turns out the people who recorded the phrase for "Metro de Madrid" sued Manu Chao for intelectual property infrigment. Not that amazing these days... many people wanna get rich doing as little as possible, and extreme intelectual property rights have enhanced that. The scary part is... the judge's ruling have given reason to the claimants oblying Manu Chao to pay an unveiled economic quantity and write a public apology saying what he did was bad... almost like if he was a little child. Amazing... just amazing how intelectual property is being treated and how law and judges are getting it free of any context and rationality. Also as scary as that is seeing possitively voted comments on Barrapunto justifying the sentence. Is it me or people is leaving their thinking to what puts on a paper? Is this really the way we wanna go? Is this the law we want to live by? I guess the answer is... it's all right for too many people, even if it's really not.
I don't have too much "esperanza" right now for this to change...

Be careful... exacerbated intelectual property is round there, keep an eye on it or you may be the next one...

Quote of the day: (this time in Spanish as I didn't find the exact quotation in English) «En todas las cosas sólo una es imposible - ¡racionalidad!» - Friedrich Nietzsche

 
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Inlogic: or how to enjoy a concert

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Just got back from an outstanding concert!

Inlogic is the band a friend of mine plays in, formed here, in Madrid. They sing in English (yay!), and produce quite an easy-to-listen rock. From happy songs to some other deeper ones, absolutely everyone is excellent and authentic.
That's one of the things I appreciate more of them, their authenticity. Being in one of their concerts is like going out with friends to just have fun. Oscar, the lead singer, and from whom I knew about the band makes the people be part of the concert, always encouraging the people to move, sing and the most important part: have fun. And they all really achieved that this night.
They were presenting their first released record and played all the songs from it, plus two new songs and three outstanding versions of very well known songs.
Oh! And we also could watch their first videoclip, from the song "Sweet little girl". Really, it was an amazing piece of fun and good music tonight.

The concert was held in "Sala Moby Dick" one of Madrid's most important ones, and it was full of people, press, and friends. It's a shame I didn't take any picture, but I promise to do it next time.

Hope this is just the beginning of a long road... They really deserve it. You can listen to some of their songs in their official webpage and their myspace.

Rock on!

Quote of the day: "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream,
and he sometimes wondered whose it was, and whether they were enjoying it." - Douglas Adams

 
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Tegan and Sara: Canada at its best

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Tegan and Sara are pretty well-known in the U.S. and Canada (Canada, oh Canada, I love Canada!), and nearly all English-spoken countries, but not so recognized outside those places.
They are two Canadian twins who have been seriously rocking the world for about 6 years now.
They offer more than just concerts, interacting with the croud, giving hilarious speeches (well, except when they came to Spain as the people couldn't understand them, *sigh*), and making feel like you just spent a good time altogether.

I know thery're cute, but you guys better look somewhere else as they're both proud lesbians. They have already had problems with that and some stupid managers, and their condition shouldn't be mentioned at all (as I didn't do, but at least you'll understand the beginning of the first video below).

I love their rock-songwriter style, specially when they go acoustic.
The tones and lyrics are just impressive and let you deep in feelings, from love to hate to a wide range of diverse visions about simple and not so simple life aspects.

A couple of days ago a personal argument with a very special person reminded me of the title of this song: Where does the good go?

Direct link to the video [youtube]
Here I let you some of my preferred songs available in youtube:
Walking with a ghost
I know, I know, I know

If you haven't listened to them, you should really give'em a try. Hope you enjoy!


Quote of the day: "You can't hide from life. Eventually, you gotta live it".

 
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