Ten Songs (I) Nick Hornby, author of
"High Fidelity" (the film version is one of my favorite movies), also wrote
"31 Songs" . A book that gives look at important moments of his life with the sound of thirty-one songs in the background.
This theme is recurrent in Hornby, and in
"High Fidelity" actors do lists for different circumstances: the top five for your funeral, top five to start a Monday, etc. It also inspired the guonistas of "Lost" to the penultimate chapter of the third season, "Greatest Hits. "
Everyone has a soundtrack in your life , songs and melodies that help evoke passages with extraordinary clarity, more than any other sensory perception (with the permission of odors and flavors). I also , and without much pretense, let me present my top ten in order of appearance. They are not the best, but the most representative.
1) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: Tightrope "Flamenco nooo Rocanrol ! , a rallying cry to cut the roll to my father and his friends in full flamenco party, that would stop clapping and singing with
quejío and verifications that ELO album on the turntable. I was three, and as I told in another entry in this blog, the rock began to fill my life. While my classmates were growing and Petete Parcheesi, was in the electric guitars that musicians inspired children's time I could offer.
At that time I learned to read and write, that when eating in public is not picked up from a common dish or first or last, you have to give thanks and ask "please", that girls were another world and lentils, spinach and chickpeas were the most cruel form of punishment that a mother could invent.
2)
Alan Parsons Project: Prime Time point I have many memories from when I was a kid. If I had to write my memoirs would have it hard, is more akin to an album of Lomographs, diffuse and altered to enhance their impressions. For example, I remember nothing of the video for "Prime Time" unless the scene of the girl cornered by the mannequins in the alley. I had to watch it now and get to the scene to verify that was what I remembered.
hate dummies and clowns
. Specifically some clowns who had to endure during my student days at school. I made life impossible. Fortunately reached age 14 and thus, school and education to exclusively male and repression of a college of priests.
also hate priests.
3)
LOQUILLO: Garage Rhythm time I had a rockabilly
. In the search for identity, I was attracted to the rebelliousness of rock as Loquillo or Carlos Segarra, genuine leaders of the revolution. Even during a time I took a bow tie and steel nails Texan on the collars of the shirt. When I save the picture to become a parent, my children will lose their fear of ridicule from time to time.
Over time I discovered things about my musical idols. For example, that the Confederate flag that was venerated as the symbol of the oppression of the southern states of North America against black slaves. And to have a toupee as they had to be condemned to lose hair cuarentaypocos years. The points and the tie ended in the trash, and with them, the rebellion of many leaders of leverage and hypocrisy more popularly accepted.
4)
FUTURE RADIO: Annabel Lee "La Bola de Cristal" was a visual and cultural revolution. Its director,
Lolo Rico, gave spot on the program, which in time Saturday morning (I remember you now have CallTV, zappings and yellow tabloid programs) taught us that sometimes children just can not, but friends do, and that if you had wanted to be a hillbilly read.
Many English musical artists of the moment, the absence of Internet users to be punished by their greed tax collection, set about putting excellent soundtrack to this project: Radio Futura (which I discovered thanks to the program), Loquillo, Alaska or Toreros Muertos, to name a few.
The video for "Annabel Lee" aroused my interest in the large literature of terror, as
Lovecraft or Poe
, or even the very
Becquer. A genre that I'm 34 years cultivating.
By then, the idiot box is worried because we were a little smarter. Just the opposite now.
5)
Smiths: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out How great they were! Study recorded four previous albums, and withdrew when they could not do anything better, short-term cultured songs when radio formula pricked everyone's heritage endless circumlocutions
post punk, sung to the anguish of youth and sexuality when no one else dared and made the stars in decline your corporate image. Manchester was a father who had just buried his son
cried and two youths, one of them
with a particular voice and a talent for writing and other
with an enviable technique when playing riffs
and composing, decided he had to be replenished soon. The Smiths
accompanied me during the last years of high school and throughout college, while completing my studies in computer engineer (it was just a short time, who says it's "a race of three years" will challenge the made in six ...). In fact, follow me. I changed the tape on the iPod, but I'm listening to whenever I can. Still do not know what I like about his music, maybe the issues addressed in his lyrics, in which Morrissey stripped all the concerns of a young twenties, sensitive and self-education with a solid based on books (
"there's more in life Than books, you know, But not much more" ). Or perhaps by that sound dirty, hypnotic and enveloping twilight. Anyway, I've spent hours, days, listening to one after the other themes of The Smiths, singing them, translating them and feel them. Her songs
owe much of my English. Not only grammar
man lives ...
"I wish it would rain coffee in the campooo Irish ..."
Tomorrow or write the second part of this microdiario intimate. If something or someone does not stop me before.
A preliminary greeting.
