The state i am in - Belle and Sebastian week! (1)
(si, este post tendria que haber aparecido ayer (lunes), pero no tuve tiempo)
Si todo sale bien voy a colgar temas de Belle and Sebastian esta semana y la que viene va a ser Guided by Voices. Más que nada por que la idea es que el mini-maratón gbv va a ser con otro colega fan bloggero y hay que organizar las cosas.
Asi que bueno, por ahora, vamos con la banda de Stuart Murdoch.
Punk as Fuck!
Los Belle and Sebastian (que, por si no lo sabian, sacan su nombre de una vieja serie de novelas para niños francesa, luego convertida a serie de TV y Anime animado) empezaron simplemente como un proyecto para un curso de Music Business, reclutando en un café a los primeros 7 miembros. Como tésis del curso sacaron su primer disco, Tigermilk, el primero que escuché, y repleto de canciones completamente geniales, con uno o dos puntos bajos. Incluye alguna curiosidad como Electronic Renaissance, un tema basicamente synth-pop, territorio que (por quien sabe que razón) nunca más fue visitado por la banda.
El tema que elegi es Expectations, que es un buen ejemplo de lo que es un tema de Belle and Sebastian , especialmente en la lírica. La música de Belle and Sebastian puede ser delicada y bella, las letras tambien, pero lo que relatan son historias bastante reales y sórdidas, sin caer en convertir el contraste con la música en tonta ironía. Son historias felices-tristes de personajes, que estaran (suponiendo) en sus 20s , con conflictos para comunicarse con la gente, refugiandose en pasiones, y muy dificilmente cayendo en la obviedad y el cliché, dandose el lujo de nombrar a la Velvet Underground de una forma muy simpática.
Monday morning wake up knowing that you’ve got to go to school
Tell your mum what to expect, she says it’s right out of the blue
Do you went to work in debenham’s, because that’s what they expect
Start in lingerie, and doris is your supervisor
And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the velvet underground in clay
In the queue for lunch they take the piss, you’ve got no appetite
And the rumour is you never go with boys and you are tight
So they jab you with a fork, you drop the tray and go berserk
While your cleaning up the mess the teacher’s looking up your skirt
You’ve been used, you’re confused
Write a song, I’ll sing along
Are you calm? settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
You’re on top of the world again
Monday morning wake up knowing that you’ve got to go to school
Mum said she had little choice when she was young, so why should you?
Do you went to work in c&a, ’cause that’s what they expect
Move to ladieswear and take a feel off joe the storeman
Tell veronica the secrets of the boy you never kissed
She’s got everything to gain ’cause she’s a fat girl with a lisp
She sticks up for you when you get aggravation from the snobs
’cause you can’t afford a blazer and you’re always wearing clogs
At the interval you lock yourself away inside a room
Heed of english gets you, asks you, what the hell do you think you’re doing?
Do you think you’re better then the other kids? well get outside.
You’ve got permission, but you’ve got to make the bastard think he’s right
You’ve been used, you’re confused
Write a song, I’ll sing along
Are you calm? settle down
Soon you will know that you are sane
You’re on top of the world again
Belle and Sebastian - Expectations
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