Bill Conti - Adrian

Song: Adrian
Artist: Bill Conti
Album: Rocky III
Genre: Soundtrack, Instrumental, Score
Year: 1990

There are a lot of Rocky [wiki] movies (maybe more than necessary), but there will be just one unique Bill Conti [filmography]. He can be considered one of the bests film-scores composers of the 20th century.

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The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit

Song: The Bagman's Gambit
Artist: The Decemberists
Album: Picaresque
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2005

The third album from this band was released last year. And if you haven't listened it, you can't miss the opportunity of doing it. Very imaginative on every way. Check out the lyric of this track (as the rest of the songs that compose the collage of this particular album).

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Maria Callas - Un Bel Di Vedremo

Song: Un Bel Di Vedremo
Artist: Maria Callas
Album: Madama Butterfly
Genre: Opera
Year: 1997 (remastered)

This woman is the voice of century. You may love opera music or hate it, but there's no doubt about it. She's perfect, she's brilliant, she's... just she. The only one. No one ever singed Madama Butterfly [wiki] from Puccini [wiki] as she did. No one will never sing as she did.

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Goldfinger - Counting The Days

Song: Counting The Days
Artist: Goldfinger
Album: Stomping Ground
Genre: Punk
Year: 2000

Everyone has a punk season at teenage time (almost everyone). You feel as a real unruly child, and the music you listen must be equitable. At this album you'll find too a version from Nena [wiki] - 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons).

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Modjo - Music Takes You Back

Song: Music Takes You Back
Artist: Modjo
Album: Modjo
Genre: Electronic, Pop-House
Year: 2000

Today I feel happy (I don't know why because the university examns I've already done hasn't been as I expected... but I do). I just wanna party all night but I can't (study time), so I please myself thinking that I am doing it. It isn't the same... but it works!

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Weezer - My Best Friend

Song: My Best Friend
Artist: Weezer
Album: Make Believe
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2005

I've been expecting this album for three long years, and it didn't dissapointed me at all. They are still full of vitality and good ideas, as their fans are used to. Rivers Cuomo [wiki] could be considered as a genious!

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The Clash - London Calling

Song: London Calling
Artist: The Clash
Album: London Calling
Genre: Rock
Year: 1979

The last time I posted an epic song was some long time ago. One of those songs that you must have on your cd shelves. And if it's an original record, much better (this is not my case, but I would like to...).

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Silence - Larmes

Song: Larmes
Artist: Silence
Album: L'autre Endroit
Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Year: 2005

"If you love music you must share it", that's what I've always said. And at Jamendo.com [link], hopefully, everybody thinks the same. I guess that if someone is able to compose songs like this one [Jamendo.com link]... it worths it.

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Calexico - Pepita

Song: Pepita
Artist: Calexico
Album: Feast of Wire
Genre: Alternative Rock, Instrumental
Year: 2003

I still remember when Adidas [wiki] did an incredible tv spot with Muhammad Ali [wiki], he was training surrounded by those new sport figures. Not only the awesome editing of it fascinated me, but the music played too. Impossible Is Nothing [link - spanish version].

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Paul Schwartz - Metamorphosis 2: Danae

Song: Metamorphosis 2: Danae
Artist: Paul Schwartz
Album: Aria 3: Metamorphosis
Genre: Instrumental
Year: 2004

Following the essence of E.S.Posthumus [prev|wiki], I decided to investigate (long time ago) other similar composers and, lucky of me, I bumped into this man. This is the best song of his last album - at least that's what I think -.

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Jack Johnson - Staple It Together

Song: Staple It Together
Artist: Jack Johnson
Album: In Between Dreams
Genre: Rock
Year: 2005

How many hawaian singer-songwriters do you know? If you just need one hand to count them, check this one. And if, as seen on Wikipedia, he achieved #2 U.S., #3 Canada, #10 UK, #1 Australia and #1 New Zealand, the album can't be so bad, isn't it?

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Mojo Project - Good Luck

Song: Good Luck
Artist: Mojo Project
Album: Taste The Mojo
Genre: Funky
Year: 2005

When I listen to this track I can't stop thinking on it's alike with Jamiroquai [wiki]. The similities are quite evident, but when you rip the surface off there are some differences, mainly because they are Spanish while Jamiro is British. The Latin rhythm always takes place inside the blood.

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Curtis Mayfield - Little Child Runnin Wild

Song: Little Child Runnin Wild
Artist: Curtis Mayfield
Album: Superfly
Genre: Soundtrack, R&B
Year: 1972

I've been a long time waiting to post this song to show what black music really is (most of you will already know it) and not what sounds on radio stations nowadays. The perfect management of Rhythm & Blues that this guy shows on this track is amazing. Get this soundtrack (yes, it's a soundtrack from an old film [wiki] ), no matter how.

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Meredith Brooks - What Would Happen

Song: What Would Happen
Artist: Meredith Brooks
Album: Bluring The Edges
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 1997

When I was young, I was addicted to Dawson's Creek [wiki] (for the first tree seasons; after that I stopped watching it, it began quite repetitive). But on first season, on a crucial moment, this song began to sound on background... while I got shocked. I couldn't imagine such a perfect song for what was happening on tv and it became my favourite love song ever. I have listened a lot of love songs that are brilliant but they never reached as far as this song did on my heart once. The lyrics [link], the music, the composition, the environment, the voice.... everything is perfect to make love by. Believe me.

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Toad The Wet Sprocket - Rings

Song: Rings
Artist: Toad The Wet Sprocket
Album: Coil
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 1997

Maybe we should look back to 90's, when pop-rock music was at plenty of faculties. Nowadays, except some strange cases, it's too much comercial. And this band is a great exaple how this genre must be.

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Patrick Wolf - Don't Say No

Song: Don't Say No
Artist: Patrick Wolf
Album: Lycanthropy
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2004

It's not easy to be a young composer and have the critics at your feet after your first album. But if you have a tremendous composition skill and you do amazing songs like this one... there's no other way how things must go through.

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My Morning Jacket - Anytime

Song: Anytime
Artist: My Morning Jacket
Album: Z
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie
Year: 2005

It's interesting what you can discover by accident surfing on Inernet and that surprises you enough to investigate about it. That's exactly what happened with this album a few weeks ago.

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Seal - Crazy

Song: Crazy
Artist: Seal
Album: Best (1991 - 2004)
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 2004

I'm realy glad for the return of this great man. There were many songs that I wanted to post (Kiss From A Rose, Waiting For You, Future Love Paradise, Killer - one of the best 90's hits - , My Vision, Fly Like An Eagle, Get It Together, Heavenly, Loneliest Star, Tinsel Town, Prayer For The Dying, Human Beings ... ) but I just can post one of them! And I thought I should let people know that the recent Alanis Morrisette version of this song is very very ugly.

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Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere, but Not Here

Song: Arriving Somewhere, but Not Here
Artist: Porcupine Tree
Album: Deadwing
Genre: Alternative Rock.
Year: 2005

You don't expect what sounds in the middle-end of this twelve minutes song the first time you hear it. The change of registry is absolutely brutal but on a continuously way, and I wouldn't be wrong if I assures that sometimes it is near Metal (check the song Shallow too).

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Erik Satie - 1st Gymnopedie

Song: 1st Gymnopedie
Artist: Erik Satie
Album: Satie: Piano Works
Genre: Instrumental, Classical
Year: 1992

You are walking on a meadow, near the lake. Birds are singing around you while wind blows smoothly and the water flows on its direction. Everything is calm. No one is around you because you are all alone, you want to be alone, you just need to reflect on that bad thing that has just happened.

That's what shows on my mind when I'm listening this song. Thanks a lot, Satie [wiki].

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Peter Frank Santovito - Laying Down A Pattern

Song: Laying Down A Pattern
Artist: Peter Frank Santovito
Album: Letters To My Love
Genre: Rock
Year: 2003

Independent and self-produced music is a difficult way to go through. But if you are able to do it, the final result is as clean as your imagination. There is no finger prints of those big producer-firms that try to change your compositions to approach it a little bit more to what public wants. It's just what you want to do... when you want to do it.

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The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed

Song: The Laws Have Changed
Artist: The New Pornographers
Album: Electric Version
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2003

Never is a bad time to make a retro pop traveling and much better if you can do it withouth moving from your home comfort instead of having to go back on time to those cool years. So... ready to be at 60's?.

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Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)

Song: Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Artist: Arcade Fire
Album: Funeral
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2004

I've recently discovered this song but I'm sad for not knowing about it last year. Why I didn't hear it before? And have you seen the video of it? You can't miss it.

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Steve Jablonsky - This Tongue Thing's Amazing

Song: This Tongue Thing's Amazing
Artist: Steve Jablonsky
Album: The Island
Genre: Soundtrack, Score
Year: 2005

I had no idea who was Steve Jablonsky until I saw The Island (wiki), but I've seen that this is not the first score he composes (link). You can recognize everywhere the unmistakable touch of Hans Zimmer (wiki), any one would talk about it because he is the producer of this soundtrack. If you have seen the film, you'll realize soon where it exactly sounds. If you have not, try guessing it by reading again its title.

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Seatbelts - Road To The West

Song: Road To The West
Artist: Seatbelts
Album: Cowboy Bebop: Blue
Genre: Soundtrack, Instrumental
Year: 1999

Today it is supposed to be a day full of joy and happiness. A day where everybody is happy after having his presents. A day where all the kids are smiling because they have played all afternoon with their new toys. But I am sad while outside it's cold and raining. I can't understand it.

Seatbelts (info / wiki) it's a band formed by the incredible Yoko Kanno (web / wiki).

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U2 - New Years Day

Song: New Years Day
Artist: U2
Album: The Best Of 1980 - 1990
Genre: Rock
Year: 1998

I guess that this post goes to Sonia (consider it my pressent for "El día de los Reyes Magos"), because she's a huge fan of this band. And I know that she gets angry when I give my opinion about U2, but I'm gonna do it (sorry!). This a incredible band, one of the biggest bands nowadays, but.. have you ever listened a hole album just at once? I can't! I get bored. It's a pitty because they are able to compose amazing songs but not a hole good album from the beginning 'till the end. That's the reason why the album posted is the compilation of his bests tracks.

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Elastica - 2:1

Song: 2:1
Artist: Elastica
Album: Elastica
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 1995

This is a special song for me because it was one of the first alternative-rock tracks I heard when I was a kid and, maybe, the reason why I wasted so much time learning about this genre.

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Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Song: John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Album: Illinoise
Genre: Folk
Year: 2005

Today I was watching some posts from Alt1040 when I found a entrie about the bests ten albums of 2005. This one was the most rated but I had no idea about its existance so I got it (as I always do). Surprisingly, after listening crefully to it, now I realize why it was the first one. I gave in to its beauty, to the feelings that enveloped me and let my mind go away. I was suddenly immersed on a road movie and I don't wanted to wake up. I wanted not to realize that there was another world than the one Sufjan Stevens was describing me (with it's good and bad things). But everything has an end, and after 22 tracks the music stoped and I came back to reality, looking foward to listen the hole album again.

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JJ72 - Willow

Song: Willow
Artist: JJ72
Album: JJ72
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2000

This song has always attracted my attention. I don't know really why but I think it's the message expressed on it. Or maybe it's how they do it: on a magical way.

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Soulwax - Krack

Song: Krack
Artist: Soulwax
Album: Any Minute Now
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2005

Good alternative rock on this track you'll find (Yoda version).

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Jem - They

Song: They
Artist: Jem
Album: It All Starts Here
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 2003

It's not usual to find an album with less than ten songs nowadays and it's the second time that a post a song from an album that does. This time, it has five songs.

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