It was amazing, as always.
One of the best things about this band is the love for them shared between me, my mom and my brother. It's a family bond.
Showing posts with label Eddie Vedder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eddie Vedder. Show all posts
26.3.18
29.12.14
23.12.14
Happy birthday, Eddie!
I saw this photo here
Looking great, doing great and sounding great at 50. Well done!
Please come back with your band to Brasil next year. Or alone, I don't mind.
23.11.12
24.10.12
The collection begins
Almost one year after talking (or writing) about this record (here, here and here), it just got here by mail. I'm in such a rush right going to work I will save to break the plastic and see the inside later.
But more important, I finally get to start my vinyl collection. No, it's not hipster anymore so don't judge me. Hipsters are probably collecting tapes (k-7) by now :)
The funny thing is it came before the turntable so I will have to wait a little longer to listen to it...
13.7.12
Top 5 on Friday
According to Last.fm, this top 5 should be filled only by Mark Lanegan and The Twilight Singers... but picking up only one song from each artist, it looks like this:
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4.(wooooooooooow not even I believe!)
(This horrible video must have been so expensive but it's such a good song for dancing.. and the "Pumped up kicks" video is soooooooooo much better..)
5.
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4.(wooooooooooow not even I believe!)
(This horrible video must have been so expensive but it's such a good song for dancing.. and the "Pumped up kicks" video is soooooooooo much better..)
5.
17.4.12
Meu feijão com arroz (my fish n' chips)
You know who they are...
(source: Sombras e árvores altas)
Giving a break form my Lanegan and Dulli overdose (which I'm still gonna write about it) I came back this afternoon to the usual but with a different taste: bootlegs. I got 2 from pearljam.com after buying Backspacer (which I love very much) and put my favorite - Hartford (2008): great setlist, just 27 songs(!) of pure energy, fantastic solos and Eddie.. well let's not make this post too long just to point out how great and lovely he is. He is and if you don't agree I'm sorry for you. Really.
Then I finally remembered to try an old bootleg CD from ZooTv (Stockholm) that's been lost for years under tons of stuff - and it still works! As always I got surprised how U2 was live back in 1992: Bono's voice so clear and strong, reaching high notes with no problem and Edge with so much freedom to play. His solos in Mysterious ways and Bullet the blue sky just blew my mind. So much I came here just to pray for Jimmy Hendrix and all the gods of rock n' roll to help free the Edge again. That man deserves to express all that he can do with a guitar.
And if is not asking too much, please put those 2 bands back in studio soon. I want new songs. Thanks.
3.2.12
Top 5 on Friday
In English
1. U2 - An cat dubh
2. Radiohead - Weird fishes/Arpeggi
3. The Twilight Singers - Blackbird and the fox
4. Pearl Jam - Rats
5. B-52's - Rock Lobster (not my favorite but Peter Griffin's version is pretty good)
Em Português
1. Titãs - Felizes são os peixes
2. Paralamas - O rouxinol e a rosa
3. Madredeus - A andorinha da primavera
4. Rita Lee - Ovelha negra
5. Marisa Monte - Borboleta
(no video available) :(
9.12.11
Top 5 on Friday
So, am I able to define the Top 5 albums of 2011(?)
Well, since I'm not a professional (or amateur) in this business, my choices are defined totally by the city and routine I'm living, and the best soundtrack to them.
I gotta say, this year I've embraced back the idea of playlist, which made me miss my old K7s, and also gave me back the feeling of planning and giving CDs especially made for some people. They were many, even if about one single artist. But that didn't eliminated the pleasure of listen to a whole album, sometimes over and over. And the following ones were almost over played, if this could be possible...
So the Top 5 albums of 2011 for a woman at the first year of doctoral studies, with no money, having music as her best friend and living in São Paulo are
1. The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Took me a while to give this album a chance because I'm a big fan of She loves you and Play Blackberry Belle. The thing is: this album is so fucking good, so much better than the other two, it makes me want to pay Greg Dulli a beer! I think the only song that didn't get me (or that I didn't get) is "Waves". and from "Get lucky" until the end it just keeps getting better. "On the corner" is the lost twin sister of "Esta noche", my two favorites songs.
2. Paul Thomas Saunders - Lilac & Wisteria
Thanks to a PLAGUE of ANGELS I've got to know this guy and bought his EP actually, these 5 fantastic songs. I love the kind of images and places PTS brings me with his songs. Usually I see stories and characters while listen to music, but with him I see hills, mountains, I feel the wind. It's excellent to listen to while taking the bus or any kind of transportation where you can see the landscape. Just be careful with your mood. Once I got into tears in public, inside a bus.
3. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
This is another excellent choice to lose yourself into the wild (yes it's a joke). But really, I've mention (in portuguese) on this post and since that trip I know I've found an album with a rhythm, a tempo like my own. The whole world shuts down, gets into silence. I love how simple, rustic this record is, and subtle at the same time. Things are clear, you feel the sun in the sky no matter how sad you are.
4. Madame Saatan - Peixe Homem
It's not because they're from my hometown and now are living in this city, étrangers like me, but some how this have something to do with it. I think is the lyrics, the way they translate the world. As much as may sound aggressive to a fast or careless listener, it' more like this: when you realize you have to deal with chaos and out-of-your-control conditions as it is, you can see your inside mess as balance. Wanna try?
5. Pearl Jam - Ten
It's easy to put this album here, after 20 years, as it is to criticize everybody who does that. But before you do, let me tell you what I was saving for a post about Ten and now goes here:
Back in 94/95 my friends weren't really into them. People could only talk about Nirvana since Kurt was dead, so I've had to discover this album by my own ways (and without internet, alright? Things like that could take years...) I remember I've had like an afternoon with someone else's CD and I recorded on tape so fast I forced "Oceans" on the A side and it was cut on half. Then I spent years getting angry every time I've heard that hahahaha.
But that's not what I was meaning to tell...
Well back then I couldn't talk or understand anything in English by myself. I'm not pretty sure I can right now but in my something-teens, despite all my denying behavior, I was highly depending on other people or magazines to get the lyrics, so I was mainly defining my taste by sound, melodies. That's how I first liked Pearl Jam. I never thought their sound was commercial or anything like it. When I think about that moment in my life, two bands resume that time for me: Legião Urbana (an Brazilian band inspired by British post-punk like Joy Division) and U2 (all phases), so PJ sound was something completely different. On the radio there was lots of House and Dance music so you see... right?
While years and bands were passing through me, other Pearl Jam material came every once and a while. I was still loving the sound, the English was improving but I still couldn't get what they were talking about. The reason it's very clear to me now: it was never about language but the fact I couldn't really understand some kinds of pain, especially the way Vedder deals with them. It was a matter of perspective. The end of my innocence allowed me to relate and to finally understand a lot of things.
Unaware of the 20th anniversary, this album came back to my life this year, with more intensity after the concert and now the lyrics get me, sometimes literally. I have been teaching to more Jeremies that I would like to tell, I've worried for each one of them and hope they have found their ways through life. Yesterday when I was packing, "Release" started to play. I sang with all my lungs and suddenly I was crying. I've lost my father (in a non dramatic way), but I'm still looking for him and that song explains everything.
I don't know if I should be saying all this, justifying my choice and what I feel. I'm just glad I've got to known Ten once more.
Well, since I'm not a professional (or amateur) in this business, my choices are defined totally by the city and routine I'm living, and the best soundtrack to them.
I gotta say, this year I've embraced back the idea of playlist, which made me miss my old K7s, and also gave me back the feeling of planning and giving CDs especially made for some people. They were many, even if about one single artist. But that didn't eliminated the pleasure of listen to a whole album, sometimes over and over. And the following ones were almost over played, if this could be possible...
So the Top 5 albums of 2011 for a woman at the first year of doctoral studies, with no money, having music as her best friend and living in São Paulo are
1. The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
Took me a while to give this album a chance because I'm a big fan of She loves you and Play Blackberry Belle. The thing is: this album is so fucking good, so much better than the other two, it makes me want to pay Greg Dulli a beer! I think the only song that didn't get me (or that I didn't get) is "Waves". and from "Get lucky" until the end it just keeps getting better. "On the corner" is the lost twin sister of "Esta noche", my two favorites songs.
2. Paul Thomas Saunders - Lilac & Wisteria
Thanks to a PLAGUE of ANGELS I've got to know this guy and bought his EP actually, these 5 fantastic songs. I love the kind of images and places PTS brings me with his songs. Usually I see stories and characters while listen to music, but with him I see hills, mountains, I feel the wind. It's excellent to listen to while taking the bus or any kind of transportation where you can see the landscape. Just be careful with your mood. Once I got into tears in public, inside a bus.
3. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
This is another excellent choice to lose yourself into the wild (yes it's a joke). But really, I've mention (in portuguese) on this post and since that trip I know I've found an album with a rhythm, a tempo like my own. The whole world shuts down, gets into silence. I love how simple, rustic this record is, and subtle at the same time. Things are clear, you feel the sun in the sky no matter how sad you are.
4. Madame Saatan - Peixe Homem
It's not because they're from my hometown and now are living in this city, étrangers like me, but some how this have something to do with it. I think is the lyrics, the way they translate the world. As much as may sound aggressive to a fast or careless listener, it' more like this: when you realize you have to deal with chaos and out-of-your-control conditions as it is, you can see your inside mess as balance. Wanna try?
5. Pearl Jam - Ten
It's easy to put this album here, after 20 years, as it is to criticize everybody who does that. But before you do, let me tell you what I was saving for a post about Ten and now goes here:
Back in 94/95 my friends weren't really into them. People could only talk about Nirvana since Kurt was dead, so I've had to discover this album by my own ways (and without internet, alright? Things like that could take years...) I remember I've had like an afternoon with someone else's CD and I recorded on tape so fast I forced "Oceans" on the A side and it was cut on half. Then I spent years getting angry every time I've heard that hahahaha.
But that's not what I was meaning to tell...
Well back then I couldn't talk or understand anything in English by myself. I'm not pretty sure I can right now but in my something-teens, despite all my denying behavior, I was highly depending on other people or magazines to get the lyrics, so I was mainly defining my taste by sound, melodies. That's how I first liked Pearl Jam. I never thought their sound was commercial or anything like it. When I think about that moment in my life, two bands resume that time for me: Legião Urbana (an Brazilian band inspired by British post-punk like Joy Division) and U2 (all phases), so PJ sound was something completely different. On the radio there was lots of House and Dance music so you see... right?
While years and bands were passing through me, other Pearl Jam material came every once and a while. I was still loving the sound, the English was improving but I still couldn't get what they were talking about. The reason it's very clear to me now: it was never about language but the fact I couldn't really understand some kinds of pain, especially the way Vedder deals with them. It was a matter of perspective. The end of my innocence allowed me to relate and to finally understand a lot of things.
Unaware of the 20th anniversary, this album came back to my life this year, with more intensity after the concert and now the lyrics get me, sometimes literally. I have been teaching to more Jeremies that I would like to tell, I've worried for each one of them and hope they have found their ways through life. Yesterday when I was packing, "Release" started to play. I sang with all my lungs and suddenly I was crying. I've lost my father (in a non dramatic way), but I'm still looking for him and that song explains everything.
I don't know if I should be saying all this, justifying my choice and what I feel. I'm just glad I've got to known Ten once more.
2.12.11
Top 5 on Friday
Yes, it's Friday! A very important day indeed! Thanks again to The Music Memoirs today we're gonna rank the
Top 5 songs of 2011 (!!!)
Too many songs have helped me to get throught this year, others came to me so suddenly they almost slapped me in the face. Some are kind of recent and others are brand new... (you gotta understand, I'm an historian so everything from this year is brand new to me hehehe) But to avoid too much suffering, and based a little bit on my Last.fm, the songs are:
4.
5.
I think this list makes justice to 2011.. there was much more but these ones definitely deserved to be here.
Top 5 songs of 2011 (!!!)
Too many songs have helped me to get throught this year, others came to me so suddenly they almost slapped me in the face. Some are kind of recent and others are brand new... (you gotta understand, I'm an historian so everything from this year is brand new to me hehehe) But to avoid too much suffering, and based a little bit on my Last.fm, the songs are:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
I think this list makes justice to 2011.. there was much more but these ones definitely deserved to be here.
22.11.11
Vida, viagens e um novo vício
Vida. Tanta coisa acontece que fica difícil manter a narrativa.
Nesse intervalo tivemos o show do Pearl Jam em São Paulo. Que show maravilhoso!
Ele merecia um post digno, enorme, contando detalhes do sufoco que foi chegar no estádio enfrentando a hora do rush das sextas-feiras paulistanas; das milhões de memórias que brotaram a cada música; de como Jeremy é uma música muito foda e o excesso de repetições em rádio e na MTV durante todos os anos 90 acabaram ofuscando a porrada que é essa música; como Black é absolutamente arrepiante cantada com um coral de 68 mil vozes (eu tenho o vídeo ainda esperando para ser carregado no youtube), enquanto Last kiss é a prova de que toda banda precisa de uma balada, que ponha um riso fácil na cara dos fãs (mesmo dos que alegam odiar a música); de como eu queria que eles tivessem tocado Daughter...
Como acontece em todo show de bandas que eu gosto, a repetição exaustiva dos cds acontece depois dos shows e não antes, como é padrão para o resto do mundo. Mas eis que nesse processo de ficar revivendo o show através dos álbuns, eu me apaixonei de vez pelo segundo trabalho solo do Eddie Vedder: Ukulele Songs. Esse disco foi trilha da noite mais bonita do ano, onde a lua banhou de prata todo um trajeto da minha viagem... e desde então não paro mais de ouvi-lo.
16.12.05
Top 5: shows que eu perdi (infelizmente)...
1- Pearl Jam (ingressos se esgotaram mais rápido que água no deserto enquanto eu tentava convencer alguém ir comigo... como as pessoas podem ter dito não a esse show???)
2- White Stripes (faltou grana)
3- Moby (não sou fã o suficiente pra dar 140 reais no ingresso)
4- Madredeus (caríssimo tb...)
5- Strokes (esse eu acho que foi azar mesmo.. já num lembro =)
É assim.. vc passa anos dizendo que se morasse em tal cidade seria diferente e passa por isso no fim das contas: é pobre demais, besta demais ou azarada demais pra não ir onde quer.
Deus tem que ajudar....
2- White Stripes (faltou grana)
3- Moby (não sou fã o suficiente pra dar 140 reais no ingresso)
4- Madredeus (caríssimo tb...)
5- Strokes (esse eu acho que foi azar mesmo.. já num lembro =)
É assim.. vc passa anos dizendo que se morasse em tal cidade seria diferente e passa por isso no fim das contas: é pobre demais, besta demais ou azarada demais pra não ir onde quer.
Deus tem que ajudar....
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