Liberation Frequency

Nb — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:51:33 +0000

We want the airwaves back. Ese es el grito de guerra, para todos los que no escuchamos música en la radio, para los que no queremos que nos digan lo que debemos escuchar, sino lo que queremos escuchar, no queremos Madonna’s con conciertos plásticos, con álbumes donde los singles aparecen como islas en un mar de canciones que nunca pasaran a la historia, sino que queremos los Goldfinger’s donde cualquier canción puede ser tu favorita. No queremos LUN ni EMOL, queremos Germenterror y el Salón del Mal. No queremos ropa de marca, queremos Asunto Polera.

Pero, ¿valdra la pena?, cuanto tenemos de que Tila Tequila se hace famosa en myspace y se gana un reality, o cuantas bandas malas que ahora tienen acceso a todo fácil sacan música mas desechable que antes, o incluso, que ignorantes como yo se sientan con autoridad para hablar de música y les impongan lo que deben escuchar. ¿Sabe el publico lo que quiere? Alan Moore dice:

It is not the job of the artists to give the audience what the audience wants
If the audience knew what they needed
Then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist
It is the job of the artist to give what the audience need

Liberation Frequency – Refused
[audio:liberation_frequency.mp3]

Letra

It’s coming through the air for all of us to hear
Could it be the sounds of liberation or just the image of detention?
We want the airwaves back
We want the airwaves back
We don’t just want airtime
We want all the time all of the time
We want the airwaves back
We want the airwaves back
We don’t just want transmission
We want…

What frequency are you getting?
Is it noise or sweet, sweet music?
On what frequency will liberation be?
On what frequency will liberation be?

It’s coming through the air for all of us to hear
Could it be the sounds of liberation or just the image of detention?
Control my flower, business, news, all ready to devour
Who’s in charge and what does he say?
Is he playing the alternative or does it sound the same old way?
We want the airwaves back
We want the airwaves back
We want transmission for the people
We need…

We wanted everything
We needed everything
We needed everything

What frequency are you getting?
Is it noise or sweet, sweet music?
On what frequency will liberation be?
On what frequency?
On what frequency?
What frequency are you getting?
Is it noise or sweet, sweet, sweet, sw-sweet?
On what frequency will liberation be?
On what frequency?
On what frequency?
On what frequency?

We want the airwaves back
We want the airwaves back
We don’t just want airtime
We want all the time all of the time

What frequency are you getting?
Is it noise or sweet, sweet music?
On what frequency will liberation be?
On what frequency will liberation be?
What frequency are you getting?
Is it noise or sweet, sweet, sweet?
On what frequency will liberation be?
On what frequency?
On what frequency?

We got more comin’ right now
There’s more coming
We’re gonna get, gonna get a little sort of a session goin’ here
A bit of a session
A session that will feature the rhythm section

New Noise

Pxpx — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:22 +0000

El otro día escuchando música sentado en el patio de la universidad se me acerca un compañero y me pregunta, “¿Qué estay escuchando?”, “Refused”- le conteste. Busco New Noise, sexto track del disco The Shape Of Punk To Come, y le paso un audífono para que los escuche. Para mi sorpresa mi amigo me dice: “Esto es Lostprophets”.

Luego de explicarle que Refused era una banda de Umea, Suecia formada en 1991, me quedo pensando lo adelantado que estaba este grupo musicalmente. Ya van más de 15 años desde su origen y su sonido es perfectamente confundible con el de bandas contemporáneas.

New Noise es un tema visionario con sintetizadores, gritos de su vocalista Dennis Lyxzèn y una creatividad musical envidiable para el año 1998. Para mí, esta canción es una radiografía de la situación musical actual que vemos reflejada en pokemones y hardcoritos y su coro me trae a la cabeza bandas como MCR, FOB, Panda, The Academy Is… y otras que nacen de “las compañías que promueven el Punk como alguna especie de producto para ser ingerido”, cómo dice Greg Griffin en su Manifesto Punk.

Vean esta declaración de su vocalista y contrástenla con la letra de esta canción, ¡Notable! “Lostprophets”, dijo mi amigo… yo le digo, “¡gracias!”

“We made this album wanting to challenge peoples preconceptions of what a Punk band could be and what it could play, because Punk is the most conservative musical form there is. Even in Hardcore, there are so many rules about what is and what is not acceptable, and that completely negates the whole spirit of the original idea.”

- Dennis Lyxzén / Refused.

New Noise – Refused
[audio:new_noise.mp3]

Letra

Can I scream? Yeah!
We lack the motion to move to the new beat
We lack the motion to move to the new beat

It’s here for us to admire if we can afford the beauty of it
Can afford the luxury of turning our heads
Adjust that thousand dollars smile and behold the creation of man
Great words won’t cover ugly actions – good frames won’t save bad paintings

We lack the motion to move to the new beat. Yeah!
We lack… motion
When the day is over – Hey! – the doors are locked on us
Money buys the access – and we can’t pay the cost
And how can we expect anyone to listen if we are using the same old voice?
We need new noise – new art for the real people

We dance to all the wrong songs
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We’re not leading
We dance to all the wrong songs
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We’re not, we’re not, we’re not, we’re not, we’re not, we’re not…
Leading

We dance – all the wrong songs
We enjoy – all the wrong moves
We dance – all the wrong songs

We dance – all the wrong songs
We enjoy – all the wrong moves
We dance – all the wrong songs

Here we go!

We dance to all the wrong songs
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We’re not leading. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

The new beat! The new beat! The new beat! The new beat!
The new beat! The new beat! The new beat! The new beat!
The new beat! The new beat! The new beat! The new beat!
The new beat! The new beat! The new beat! The new beat!
Thank you.

Musicosis » Refused

Liberation Frequency

New Noise