a-forest &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://wordpress.com/tag/a-forest/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "a-forest" Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:55:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[In and out]]> http://armchairspasm.wordpress.com/?p=326 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:05:00 +0000 The Armchair Daddy http://armchairspasm.wordpress.com/?p=326 A Forest

Back at home for a short while before heading off to the National Forest Folk Festival. Always happy to keep an open mind about music. The main challenge will be camping with a 10 month old!

Alex Smoke - Never Want To See You Again (Ada Remix)

This Smoke track for 2006 still gives me the tingles. It's a builder and IMHO the best mix Ada has ever produced.

]]> <![CDATA[The Cure ]]> http://pipomoncat.wordpress.com/?p=47 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:36:37 +0000 pipomon http://pipomoncat.wordpress.com/?p=47 Ahir vaig parlar amb el meu amic Roger i em va explicar, tot emocionat, com va gaudir el concert de The Cure (web i wiki) a Barcelona, el 10 de març passat. Es veu que el conjunt que lidera Robert Smith va dedicar més de tres hores a repassar els seus millors àlbums, entre els quals es podrien destacar: Seventeen Seconds (1980), que inclou el tema A Forest; The Head On The Door (1985), amb Close To Me com a cançó estrella, o Disintegration (1989), amb la deliciosa balada Lullaby. Seria un crim fer un post sobre The Cure i no incloure el video d'aquest últim tema (inferior). Tanmateix, he volgut incrustrar una gravació en directe d'una de les meves cançons favorites: A Night Like This (1985 - també inclosa a The Head On The Door)... Bones vacances!

]]> <![CDATA[Musica- The Cure en Madrid 6/03/08, 30 años de musica!! (1)]]> http://rosarusa.wordpress.com/?p=269 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:36:34 +0000 rosarusa http://rosarusa.wordpress.com/?p=269 The Cure arrasó el jueves en Madrid, un concierto con "entradas agotadas" en el Palacio de los Deportes. Mas de tres horas de concierto... mas de tres bises...es decir mas de tres veces que salieron a los bises... mas de 30 exitos (The Cure saca disco este año pero mientras tanto sus conciertos se basan en una gran trayectoria)...

La banda ofreció un gran concierto, hace algunos años se rumoreba que serían sus ultimos conciertos porque se separaban, no daban mas de sí y parecian esas viejas glorias que ya no tiene nada que ofrecer salvo tocar por la pasta y porque en otros tiempos fueron una gran banda. Ahora resurgen de las cenizas, porque ahora lo gotico vuelve con fuerza (aunque para algunos nunca se fué).

Concierto con lleno absoluto y  publico entusiasmado, hacia siete años que no tocaban en Madrid, la ultima vez fué bastante desastrosa a parte de no llenar no estaban en su mejor momento. El concierto de ayer fué muy oscuro, bastante guitarrero y poco pop, creo que será quizas de lo mejor del año en Madrid.

En la pagina oficial del grupo hay algunas descargas interesantes: aqui

(la mejor , para mi gusto la de "Never Enough" en directo; la mas rockera con diferencia)

Discografia:

  • Three Imaginary Boys(1979)
  • Seventeen Seconds (1980)
  • Boys Don't Cry (1980), edición para EE.UU. de Three Imaginary Boys
  • Faith (1981)
  • Pornography (1982)
  • Japanese Whispers (1983)
  • The Top (1984)
  • The Head on the Door (1985)
  • Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me(1987)
  • Disintegration (1989)
  • Mixed Up (1990)
  • Wish (1992)
  • Wild Mood Swings (1996)
  • Bloodflowers (2000)
  • The Cure (2004)

Aqui unas cuantas canciones de distintos discos, distintas epocas, The Cure:

(No son las mejores, ni las mas famosas, ni todas son mis preferidas pero son las que he podido colgar "sin gastar espacio" )

Three Imaginary Boys (1979).
Grupo formado por: Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst, Porl Thompson.


10:15 Saturday night (la canción que abre el album de 1979)[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/aa5283aea2c82b7a7ef97cd9415a308a.mp3]Three Imaginary boys (la canción que lo cierra, en el disco original de 1979 hay otra despues que no aparece listada y es una sorpresa)

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/6d97f2bc7cb6cc2af418ff7114f173bd.mp3]

Seeventeen Seconds (1980)

Grupo formado por: Robert Smith, Matthieu Hartley,Laurence Tolhurst, Simon Gallup.

A Forest (uno de los temas de mas exito de este disco, ya un clasico de The Cure)
[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst/a707d7a085290fb0f98e46b61ff6c442.mp3]









Boys Don't Cry (1980)

Boys Don't Cry (1980, esta canción de las mas conocidas fué single del disco). El disco Boys Don´t Cry es muy similar a Seeventeen seconds se cambian 4 canciones por otras, en este esta la polemica "Killing an Arab" que como a veces es mal interpretada en algunos conciertos The Cure ha cambiado la letra.

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/bd3e894df5f41904fc030c3c43f2eaf8.mp3]

Faith (1981)
Grabado por Simon Gallup,Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst.

All cats are grey (1981)[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/a46cd427fbcc11365613910100c7a73c.mp3]The Funeral Party(1981)[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/b65730ec560c79af5e1f133c81c8a342.mp3]Faith (1981) la canción que cierra el disco, aunque en el casette lo cierra Carnage Visors.[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst3/ee87b3f205ff59584759b95dc977f4ec.mp3] 

Pornography (1982) desde mi punto de vista el mejor disco junto con The head on the door.
Grabado por Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Laurence Tolhurst.

One hundred Years

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/94260aa0306f19ac3dca6e1d288dc57b.mp3]

 Siamese Twins

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/f5a4b9d1c46a5e8cbab6a348628d271c.mp3]

The Figurehead

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst3/abd1ce5fc41cb590dc3391069a4850e7.mp3]

A Strange Day (este es uno de mis temas preferidos de toda la discografia)

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/dcb58978057edb943007494213f18cec.mp3]

Cold

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst4/090278be9a485ddfe7375c7c75b13e51.mp3]

Pornography

[audio=http://www.goear.com/files/sst3/e6b04a60a2422106c6fdceeabf663c9c.mp3] 

Mas canciones de los demas discos en otro post....

]]> <![CDATA[The Cure in Berlin]]> http://kenny1987.wordpress.com/?p=59 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:35:56 +0000 kenny1987 http://kenny1987.wordpress.com/?p=59 Gestern war ich mal wieder auf einem Konzert undzwar bei The Cure im Velodrom in Berlin. Wir kamen so gegen 20:00 an und waren 20:15 in der Halle, so dass wir von der Vorband nichts mitbekommen haben - es hat sich aber von der Garderobe aus ganz gut angehört.

Gegen 20:30 kamen dann nachdem eine Zeitlang Meeresrauschen und Delphingeräusche eingespielt wurden (was auch immer das sollte) The Cure auf die Bühne. Am Anfang spielten sie einige ihrer neueren Lieder (die ich leider nicht kannte). Stück für Stück war eine Steigerung zu spüren, so dass spätestens ab der Mitte keiner mehr ruhig stehen bleiben konnte (zumindest in der Halle - Es gab ja auch Sitzplätze) und die meisten richtig abgingen.

Das Konzert endete nach 3.5h mit der Zugabe von der Zugabe von der Zugabe (soll heißen sie haben 3 Zugaben gespielt) um circa 00:06. Ich persönlich war danach einfach nur fertig und habe mich gefragt wie die Band das geschafft hat so eine Leistung über dreieinhalb Stundne zu bringen.

Zusammenfassed kann ich sagen, dass ich echt begeistert war. Zumal ich vor wenigen Wochen auf dem Konzert der Babyshambles in der Columbiahalle war, wo es eng und stickig war und man sich nicht bewegen konnte. Das war hier vollkommen anders. In der Halle war vernünftig Platz und man hatte (wahrscheinlich dadurch dass das Publikum doch etwas älter ist :D ) auch nicht ständig einen Ellenbogen in der Rippe. Vielleicht zum Schluss noch eine kleine Auswahl der Songs, die sie gespielt haben (und die ich kannte)

So - mal als kleines Updates die Videos die es vom Konzert schon bei YouTube gibt:

]]> <![CDATA[sleep talking]]> http://piqued.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/sleep-talking/ Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:10:10 +0000 piqued http://piqued.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/sleep-talking/ I remembered at school aged 10 the teacher wanted us to describe strange words through the power of art. My best mate Jim had ‘somnambulist’ and I had ‘grotesque’. After learning the about the definitions of the words the class set to work on their pieces. For some reason known only to myself, I decided to portray a fat middle-aged bald man in a dirty vest, sat on a toilet in a cubicle littered with syringes and old beer cans. Being rather deft with a brush the resulting piece was rather effective, I found out later (much later, about ten years ago) that my parents had been called into the school and interrogated about my frame of mind by a social worker. According to my mum one of the teachers was very upset about the piece concluding that the artist was ‘deeply disturbed’ which was utter twaddle, of course...

I was thinking about this last night in bed during another bout of self-imposed insomnia, ‘self imposed’ because I abstained last night. The word ‘somnambulist’, or rather the act of somnambulism is something that has always terrified the shit out of me. As a small child one of my key fears was to meet my parents whilst they were sleep walking, of course this phenomenon is the fundamental chill factor in zombie movies (in addition to being a key catalyst of surrealism –something familiar devoid of its expected characteristics) so as fears go, it’s far from unique, I’d even argue it’s innate in everyone.

So, I pondered this, I began thinking how I’d feel if I found Myfwt sleep walking, no, I most certainly wouldn’t like that… idiotically I found myself downloading my childhood fears into the present, with the barrier of booze removed my mind was able to cheerfully bat these ideas about while I quietly panicked in the dark. Myfwt slept like a top, I went to sleep at 3 after having gone to bed at 10.30 to watch (a not up to par) Curb Your Enthusiasm prior to turning off the light.

Waking up without a hangover is certainly preferable to waking up with one; it’s helping me to stick to my 2 days off a week and contributing to a bit of control when I’m having days on. I’m meeting Frank for a couple tonight but after that I may see if I can hold out until Friday… we’ll see.

Another key factor in all this is the whole food/wine thing. If I eat a roast or a pie or employ anything with a cheese and tomato sauce I find denying myself wine almost impossible. But stick to stir-fries with chilli, salmon, prawns etc., and you’ve a meal that doesn’t lend itself well to red wine (though very arguably with white and beer, both surmountable as I don’t crave them like I do the sweet, sweet red) either in eating or preparation.

That’s got to be a top tip right there, surely.

]]> <![CDATA[The Cure / A forest ]]> http://dailytrackreport.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-cure-a-forest/ Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:19:17 +0000 ricky http://dailytrackreport.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-cure-a-forest/ TITOLO: A forest
AUTORE: The cure
ALBUM: Seventeen seconds (1980)
ASCOLTALA!: http://www.musicwebtown.com/jacopax/162395

Pochi gruppi hanno marcato un genere così a fondo da diventarne una sorta di prototipo universalmente riconosciuto. Se si pensa al dark-punk, il nome dei Cure viene in mente istantaneamente: meritatamente o meno -non importa - il gruppo inglese ha costituito il punto di riferimento obbligato per chiunque si sia cimentato con quel genere. Di certo, al di là della qualità della proposta musicale, a tratti veramente eccellente ma nel complesso molto discontinua, i Cure devono la propria fama e la propria influenza alla carismatica leadership del frontman Robert Smith. Con il suo aspetto (le sue occhiaie, il viso pallido, i capelli perennemente sconvolti), con il suo abbigliamento, con il suo modo di stare in scena, Smith ha iscritto sul proprio corpo e consegnato all'eternità tutto ciò che ha significato, significa e significherà il movimento dark.

LINK: monografia su Ondarock, testo della canzone

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