Metallica

Im wearing my Metallicas shirt to the concert (it fits long and loose but hey its vintage, and its badass) and the mandatory leather jacket, now that rocks indeed fashionable haha. Ive seen them before, and i can tell you they do play good live. I have a story to tell actually, it was about 3 years ago i think, i happened to be in Ireland at the time and they had booked a show in Dublin, to my surprise it was the anniversary of that so acclaimed Master of Puppets record, and well they start the concert and not that it was the first thing James Headfield said but it was very soon when he said: well as i hope you know, tonight we celebrate the anniversary of Master of Puppets and.. if you dont mind, were gonna play it all from track one! They stormed from one to last and squeezing a version of Whisky in the Jar which happens to be an Irish song and a must be played tonight there with all souls singing at once in Dublin.

Yeah a very well known worldwide heavy metal band, they keep on going! I dont remember what i felt the first time i heard them, but i remember back then they were big between the kids, i was very young but at school it became something like a badass band and i had to follow. It didnt go long like that, when you are this young you dont really know whats going on, but after forgetting about them for a few years they came back when i was a little older and i knew my taste better, not that i was really into them but i knew them, and i used to always comment something like: they should go back to their roots, or, i only like them in the 80s/early 90s. Anyway they are back, with a new album that was highly overrated (personal opinion, what you guys think?).

One - Metallica live in 1989



Im gonna sound cliched here: the good old Metallica.

Crystal Castles

They came to Mexico not long ago, and being honest this is about the only track i conserve from their record, i dont really like them that much but i think theyre pretty cool.

I mean i could do that, i could sing to this computer and it would make my voice sound like some Alien/Robot and dance, i already have the outfits and i think i could make a good frontwoman for a band, maybe id be shy at first but ill learn to handle it. So... anybody? What you say, should i start a band?

Im totally stealing her make up.

Crimewave - Crystal Castles live in the UK

The Killers

Hands up and open, spread fingers, big smile, sing!

The first time i heard this track i didnt feel the Killers even played, it sounded very electronic, i couldnt find the sound of the guitar and everything was too bright that it made it feel artificial. Then i started to enjoy the track and i remember later on i had an argument about it, i didnt know where to stand until it was all clear when i heard: youre gonna love it when you listen to it while drunk in the nightclubs, and you will even stand up to dance it if youre sitting. It was very true, the first time i listened to it in a night club i went mad, i really enjoyed it.

The Killers has been this band that makes me recall drunken nights at clubs and they have always been a party band, but they also have nice mellow songs, i think they are good and they deserve to be where they are now. Not my favorite, but i enjoy it a lot, they could make me go crazy and jump.

Such a plastic track like this one, played like that live, i think thats a good job well done, i mean they mastered it, thats a lot of work and i must give recognition to it.

Human - The Killers live at Later... with Jools Holland



What a perfect performance.

Peter Doherty

Musician, Poet, Lover, Drug User, Rockstar, Bohemian, Father, Son, Babyshamble and Libertine. Pete Dohertys actually a very controversial character, and not many people like him, like most of the good old fashioned rockstars. This is the last call for our generation to have an icon like him, as i said controversial, the last rockstar that held the rocknroll flag with debauchery, the rockstar of our generation.

Everybody knows him better for his cooperative work with Carl Barat in the Libertines, but Pete didnt stop after being jailed, kicked out of his band and left out with nothing. He already knew how to make up his way to the press, the media, the fans. Hes indeed as i mentioned first, a musician, and even if hes a fuck up and an addict, hes good.

So now the future gets bright on him, hes trying to wash off the junkie title he earned and that set him where he is now, its funny how we hate him because hes a junkie, but we love him on the cover of magazines and we want to know if hes trying again to give up drugs. But now hes back, with a new solo debut album called Grace/Wastelands, a very personal and unveiling record, where he shows what hes got. I support him because i love his music.

The Last of the English Roses - Peter Doherty at the Late Late Show



I hope hes back with Carl soon.

Radiohead

So they sold out el Foro Sol twice in just two hours, they turned the radio stations into an all Radiohead all week playlist, they made people buy their tickets at 3 times the real price, they also lost the concert and let it fall at the middle of the second date.

So i did go to both days, and i dont know what you guys think but, i believe the first one had:

- Better sound
- Better response from the audience
- More songs (or at least it felt like it was longer)

But the second one had:

- Better set list selection (they played all my favorite songs on this one, almost! they couldnt go on with Exit Music, wtf?) which its very important for me, they pleased me and that its not likely to happen.

So they lost their concert at the middle and they couldnt recover the power, which was like.. i mean its Radiohead, they have enough songs to play and make the people cry, scream, all that!

Ok ill tell you my fave Radiohead songs:

Talk Show Host
Karma Police
Exit Music
All I Need
How To Disappear Completely

Remember Romeo & Juliet? well that was my first time listening to this Radioheads song, i loved it, i think that moment in the movie was sexy, was decadent, but it made you get into the mood, the moment, at Verona beach that afternoon.



I love this movie, one of my favorite ones, excellent Radioheads intervention here. The relation between Radiohead and Romeo & Juliet its very strong, it creates this atmosphere that i really relate to.

The Verve

The first time i listened to this track was back then around 98, i was in the car with my dad driving from Puerto Vallarta to Nuevo Vallarta. So im riding shotgun and scanning the radio seeking a good song, and i stopped at this nice violin sound, i sat back and looked forward with my eyes up to the sky, it made me feel good, it sounded real, it sounded glorious. When the song was over i was fascinated.

Then the guy from the radio station said he loved the track and he wanted somebody to call and sing it, so you hear this woman trying to come up with a version of the song but with no success or whatsoever. Then he said, ok im gonna play the song again so pay attention. He comes back and people tried to match the lyric of the song, again with no success, then he said, im gonna play this song until somebody calls and sings it, i dont care if i have to listen to it all afternoon, i love it! He ended up playing it around 7 times, and nobody could still match the lyric, after all it was a new track. I remember my dad having to listen to me singing it, plus the song, plus the people calling. So it was my first time listening to it but after around 7 times played one after each other over the way home in the car, i knew the lyric already. So i decided to call, and well i was the girl that stopped the Verves Bitter Sweet Symphony riot over that radio station that afternoon, i think it was something like 89.5 (yeah a little local sister station to Radio Activo back then).

Urban Hymns was pretty much my soundtrack around those years, i spent many afternoons going through it back and forth. Bitter Sweet Symphony was indeed one of my Urban Hymns.

For Lovers

I literally was seduced with this song. Its a pretty song with the beautiful kid alike voice of Peter Doherty (by the way hes coming out with his new solo album) and a romantic piano to match the slow dance tempo for lovers to start PDAing everybody at the party. The song was written by Wolfman but brought to us by Pete, and he did finely with a perfect performance at TOTP.

For Lovers - Wolfman, ft Pete Doherty live at Top Of The Pops

Coldplay

Remember Yellow? Yeah! ...and it was all yellowww (guitar riff)

Well not that i used to like them that much but now this new Viva La Vida records lovely. They indeed achieved to create one of this glorious songs again, an anthem for the fans to sing, a song that could sold out stadiums. It has that feeling of glory that makes you a sound track for a trip, those songs you would like to listen when you wake up early on a Saturday for some special occasion or catch a flight, those songs you want to put when you start a new adventure, they are company to "that whole new feel of a start".

Songs like Bitter Sweet Symphony, Champagne Supernova, I Am The Walrus make good examples. Its the violins, the choirs, the easy listening and easy singing choruses, the perfect tempo, the lights they make you feel and listen.

I have this small play list over my shuffle now, with a few songs i found that make me feel a little like that at the moment.

Time To Pretend - MGMT
Death - White Lies
Human - The Killers
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Black Magic - Jarvis Cocker
The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Dont Look Back Into The Sun - The Libertines
A Song For The Lovers - Richard Ashcroft
All You Do Is Talk - BRMC
Daddys Gone - Glasvegas
I Am The Walrus - The Beatles
Crimson And Clover - Tommy Jammes and The Shondells
Albion - The Babyshambles

And yeah my friends, i didnt forget to post the video.

Viva La Vida - Coldplay live at the BBC



Yup, that makes my day.