America - Simon & Garfunkel

America

"Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together."
"I've got some real estate here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And we walked off to look for America

"Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful his bowtie is really a camera"

"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

"Kathy, I'm lost," I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all gone to look for America
All gone to look for America
All gone to look for America

Wonderful Tonight

Ontem foi Valentine's day aqui no Brasil, e pra aproveitar vou colocar essa foto que daria um quadro e a letra de Wonderful Tonight. O romance de Clapton e Patty Boyd não durou muito tempo, mas não importa. Poderia até ter duarado apenas essa festa em que ambos se sentiam "wonderful" - porque eles eram, o talvez ainda sejam- no fundo tudo isso é redundância. O que importa é o que eles viveram.


Wonderful Tonight

It's late in the evening
She's wondering what clothes to wear
She puts on her make up
And brushes her long blonde hair
And then she asks me
Do I look all right
And I say yes, you look wonderful tonight

We go a party
And everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady
That's walking around with me
And then she asks me
Do you feel all right
And I say yes, I feel wonderful tonight

I feel wonderful
Because I see the love light in your eyes
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don't realize
How much I love you

It's time to go home now
And I've got an aching head
So I give her the car keys
She helps me to bed
And then I tell her
As I turn out the light
I say my darling, you were wonderful tonight
Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight

New York Stories - Life Lessons

O filme é feito de três pequenas estórias cujo tema central, óbviamente, é a cidade de New York. A primeira estória chama-se "Life Lessons", escrita por Richard Price e Dirigida por Martins Scorcese. Aqui temos dois persona(gens centrais, Paullete (Rosanna Arquette) uma pintora iniciante) e Lionel (um pintor famoso). Ambos jogam com interesses, ele para satisfazer seu ego e ela para tentar entrar nas altas rodas do mundo das artes em New York. Por fim ela desiste ao perceber que não tem talento ao mesmo tempo em que ele também já não precisa mais dela e no dia da sua vernissage conhece outra artista iniciante.

Surfer Girl

Surfer Girl
Well, East coast girls are hip,
I really dif those styles they wear,
And the Southern girls with the way they talk, they knock me out when I'm down there.
The Midwest farmers' daughter really makes you feel alright,
And the Northern girls, with the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends warm at night.
I wish they all could be California, (wish they all could be California)
I wish they all could be California girls.
The West coast has the sunshine and the girls all get so tan,
I dig a french bikini on Hawiian Island dolls,by a palm tree in the sand.
I been all round this great big world and I seen all kinds of girls, yeah,
but I couldn't wait to get back in the states, back to the cutest girls in the world.

Bob Erzin - O Homem por detrás do som

Esse é o "cara"!
Bob Ezrin nasceu em 1949 em Toronto, Ontario (Canada). É na minha opinião o melhor produtor musical desde os anos 70.
O que é que Lou Reed, Kiss e Pink Floyd têm em comum? Nada?? Não. BOB ERZIN!
Essa cara genialmente produziu discos prá todo esse pessoal com estilos diferentes e sempre com resultados incríveis. Os arranjos dele são fantásticos, sem falar nas mixagens e a concepção do trabalho como um todo. Vamos apenas citas dois "clássicos" produzidos por ele: The Wall (Pink Floyd) e Berlin (Lou Reed)
Compare as cordas em "Sad Song" com as cordas de "Confortably Numb", você vai notar que é praticamente a mesma melodia!!! Em dois discos completamente diferentes. Isso é só prá assinar a obra, mas ele trabalha dos detalhes até uma visão panorâmica.

Bauhaus - Who killed Mr. Moonlight

Who Killed Mr. Moonlight?

Consider green lakes
And the idocy of clocks
Someone shot nostalgia in the back
Someone shot our innocence

A broken arrow in a bloody pool
The wound in the face
Of midnight proposals
Someone shot nostalgia in the back
Someone shot our innocence

In the shadow of his smile
In the shadow of his smile
In the shadow of his smile
In the shadow of his smile

All our dreams have melted down
We are hiding in the bushes
From dead men
Doing Douglas Fairbanks' stunts

All our stories burnt
Our films lost in the rushes
We can't paint any pictures
As the moon had all our brushes

Extracting wasps from stings in flight
Who killed Mr. Moonlight?
Who killed Mr. Moonlight
In the shadow of his smile
Who killed Mr. Moonlight
In the shadow of his smile