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What Do I Get? - Buzzcocks (1977)

2009-12-18T05:11:00.000-08:00

I only get sleepless nights

Alone here in my half-empty bed
For you things seem to turn out right
I wish they'd only happen to me instead

What do I get
Oh oh what do I get
What do I get
Oh oh what do I get

I just want a lover like any other
What do I get
I only want a friend who will love to the end
What do I get

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Wonderful - Beach Boys (1967)

2009-12-16T15:16:00.000-08:00

She knew how to gather the forest when
God reached softly and moved her body
One golden locket quite young
And loving her mother and father
Farther down the path was a mystery
Through the recess the chalk and numbers
A boy bumped into her
Won- won- won- wonderful

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Cry For a Shadow - Beat Happening (1991)

2009-12-14T06:09:00.000-08:00

They don't deserve yr priceless tears
And the whisper
Fill yr ears
A reflection of a love long due
Can you cry for a shadow
Can you cry for a heart crying out to you?

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Bad Baby - PIL (1979)

2009-12-13T13:43:00.000-08:00

Nearly ten thirty
I'm rising early
I've got an eye to buy the best
Before the rush
Someone left a baby
In the car part
Never any reason
Don't you listen
One more sob story
Someone is calling
Seen through the window
Calling through mirrors
Don't you listen
Don't interfere
Ignore it and
It will go away
Someone is calling

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Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid to Know About - Tullycraft (1999)

2009-12-11T14:36:00.000-08:00

True he likes the Breeders
He thinks Green Day's pretty swell
But what about the Bartlebees and Neutral Milk Hotel?
It's okay for a sunny day but that Sting album won't do
So when I play you Allen Clapp, you'll know baby I love you!

(...)

Sure he buys you records
If you like them by U2
But if you want the Pastels
Baby, here's what you should do
Get on your bike and take a hike
and meet me at our spot
Just you and me and Halo Benders
Hey that's pretty hot

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My Woodie - The Trashmen (1964)

2009-12-10T14:43:00.000-08:00

She's a full out scavenger with racin' slicks
And when I'm lightin' the skins I really get my kicks
Uh well she's chopped and a'channeled and she's stroked and bored
A big rubber daddy with a four on the floor

(Sim, este vídeo é realmente deste ano - eles ainda estão em atividade.)

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Train in Vain - The Clash (1979) & No Action - Elvis Costello and the Attractions (1978)

2009-12-09T08:49:00.000-08:00

Esqueci de postar ontem, por esse motivo hoje tem duas canções. E temos alguma novidades:

1) Por conta da minha vergonhosa falta de habilidade para redigir as pequenas resenhas, de hoje em diante elas estão extintas. No lugar delas entrarão links para a Wikipedia e AllMusic com informações sobre o álbum no qual a canção se encontra.

2) Este blog agora tem um "irmão" no Tumblr, voltado para as fotos de performances ao vivo dessas bandas que nós amamos. É aqui, ó: A Pop Song Saved My Life.

É isso.

Now I got a job

But it don't pay

I need new clothes

I need somewhere to stay

But without all of these things I can do

But without your love I won't make it through

But you don't understand my point of view

I suppose there's nothing I can do

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He's got the keys to the car.

They are the keys to the kingdom.

He's got ev'rything you need.

It's a shame that he didn't bring them.

I'm not a telephone junkie.

If I'm inserting my coin I'm doing just fine.

And the things in my head start hurtin' my mind.

And I think about the way things used to be,

knowing you with him is driving me crazy.

Sometimes I phone you when I know you're not lonely,

but I always disconnect it in time.

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Terms of Psychic Warfare - Hüsker Dü (1985)

2009-12-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

Now all the silver you can steal

Can't buy a piece of what I feel

It's sad but the means they just don't justify the ends

To be forever haunted by the ghosts of all your friends

Painful, yeah that's the way you've chosen it to be

C'mon can't you think of anyone besides me?

Houve um tempo no qual o Hardcore era inteligente, fugia do chororô em que se transformou o estilo hoje em dia, as guitarras realmente dialogavam com as linhas de baixo originais e com a bateria que fugia do padrão conhecido do Hardcore. O Hüsker Dü é um dos melhores exemplos disso e seu New Day Rising (1985) figura entre os melhores álbuns dessa época de ouro.

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No Depression - Uncle Tupelo (1990)

2009-12-06T14:47:00.000-08:00

I'm going where there's no depression

To a better land that's free from care

I'll leave this world of toil and trouble

My home's in heaven

I'm going there

No Depression é a canção que dá nome ao primeiro disco do Uncle Tupelo, banda que criou o alt. country e que mais tarde deu origem ao Wilco. É um country que levíssimas puxadas ao punk, com um violão que se destaca e domina a faixa.

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The Ballad of el Goodo - Big Star (1972)

2009-12-05T08:47:00.000-08:00

There's people around who tell you that they know

The places where they send you, and it's easy to go

They'll zip you up and dress you down

Stand you in a row

But you know you don't have to

You can just say no

And there ain't no one gonna turn me 'round

Lançada no primeiro disco do Big Star (#1 Record, 1972), The Ballad of el Goodo se tornou uma das músicas mais conhecidas da banda. Base melódica que remete a Beach Boys que encontra abrigo na guitarra meio-country-meio-hard. Power Pop de primeira linha.

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Teenage Kicks - The Undertones (1978)

2009-12-04T06:52:00.000-08:00

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat

Everytime she walks down the street

Another girl in the neighbourhood

Wish she was mine, she looks so good

I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight

Get teenage kicks right through the night

Lançada em single no ano de 1978 e como quinta faixa no primeiro LP do Undertones em 1979. Canção favorita do DJ John Peel, constante recebe o título de mais perfeita da história.

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