The thin man

Yesterday I bought Hellville DeLuxe, the latest Enrique Bunbury's album. It was released in Septembre 2008.

I heard its first 2 singles before buying this disc:
El hombre delgado que no flaqueará jamás
Hay muy poca gente

By listening both singles I thought this disc will be plenty of new rythms or at least different rythms that Bunbury didn't use in his previous discs, but it was not the case. The singles are not the complete picture of the LP itself, it also includes Bunbury's own style that have created in his previous works, so that you will hear songs slow songs.

Sincerely Bunbury is not one of my favorite artists but he has 2 of my top 25 songs (lady blue, el rescate), so that this time I give him another opportunity but unfortunately I have to still saying that I'm not a fan.

The songs are quiet and have a characteristic rythm, additionally the voice is the well-know-voice from Heroes del Silencio, you will not hear any surprise or a new way to perform a song.

There is not much to say about this disc, if you are a Bunbury's fan then you will like this disc, if you are not, maybe you should hear its songs before buying this disc, because its style is a little bit hard to like. On the other hand, if you buy this disc you'll be able to get access to additional material by accessing a web site and using your original CD, the additional material includes videos, posters and an interview.

Below you'll find a video from youtube and a link to iLike where you can watch and listen a part of Hellville DeLuxe.


No hay mas gente - Video

• El Hombre Delgado Que No Flaqueara Jamas by Bunbury

More Bunbury music on iLike

Please leave your comments about it.




Have a nice day

Diegue

Nightmare Revisited

  This Christmas I bought a CD according to the season (or maybe not :-P ), I got the Nightmare Revisited. It is a remake of the original A Nightmare before Christmas' Soundtrack, the main difference in this remake is that the songs are performed by other artists than Danny Elfman, in this disc you can hear themes played by Marilyn Manson, DeVotchka, The All-American Rejects and more (you can read the complete track list at the end of this post).

  The new way to perform the classic songs from the original Nightmare is very good, but I was waiting for a better performance of certain songs, basically it don't deserves a 5 stars classification because lack of inventive (my point of view) from certain bands. Many tracks are instrumental (for example Ooogie Boogie's song) where originally there were characters saying their dialogues. The songs that I don't like are: Ooogie Boogie's song, Nabbed, Christmas eve montage, to the rescue (it sounds like a song from a SNES videogame like a midi format). On the other hand songs like This is halloween, Jack's lament, What's this?, town Meeting song, Jack's obsession, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, Making Christmas, Sally's song and Poor Jack sound incredible.

This disc is a Must-Have to every fan of Burton and/or Nightmare before Christmas, it really sounds very good and it's a new way to hear classic songs, yeah!

Additionally there are certain songs performed by another artists that are not included in this album, like "Sally's song" performed by London After Midnight (one of my top 50 favorite songs), if you know about another song from this awesome Nightmare performed by any one else just let me know.

The following is the track list of this album:

1. "Overture" (DeVotchKa) – 2:36
2. "Opening" (Danny Elfman) – 1:00
3. "This Is Halloween" (Marilyn Manson) – 3:22
4. "Jack's Lament" (The All-American Rejects) – 3:15
5. "Doctor Finkelstein/In The Forest" (Amiina) – 3:17
6. "What's This?" (Flyleaf) – 3:20
7. "Town Meeting Song" (The Polyphonic Spree) – 8:55
8. "Jack and Sally Montage" (The Vitamin String Quartet) – 5:44
9. "Jack's Obsession" (Sparklehorse) – 5:32
10. "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" (Korn) – 3:37
11. "Making Christmas" (Rise Against) – 3:27
12. "Nabbed" (Yoshida Brothers) – 7:34
13. "Oogie Boogie's Song" (Rodrigo y Gabriela) – 2:48
14. "Sally's Song" (Amy Lee) – 3:02
15. "Christmas Eve Montage" (RJD2) – 3:46
16. "Poor Jack" (Plain White T's) – 2:34
17. "To the Rescue" (Datarock) – 3:34
18. "Finale/Reprise" (Shiny Toy Guns) – 3:06
19. "Closing" (Danny Elfman) – 1:24
20. "End Title" (The Album Leaf) – 3:46

Bonus tracks

21. "Oogie Boogie's Song" (Tiger Army) (iTunes Store bonus track) – 3:02
22. "Sally's Song" (Scott Murphy) (Japanese bonus track) –

Have a happy New Year.

Diegue


(The image was taken from Amazon)

Prince of Persia 4

Tonight I just found the trailer of Prince of Persia 4, the new graphics that you can see are awesome (I really like its new style), when I was watching the trailer I noticed the background music is so great, I really like it.

The new version of this classic game seems to be so good, I just played its first version to 486 and 586 computers (chuckle) when I was younger :-P.

I'll look for more information about this new game, by the way if anybody knows something about the song of its trailer (artist, album, song's name) please leave me a comment and tell me about it, I really really really like that song.


Have a great weekend

Diegue

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August 1st

Today is August 1st (nothing new), a date that I can't forget just because somebody once told me: "... it's in August 1st, the first day of the month so that you won't forget it", chuckle.

It's been a long time and I still remember this date, hehe, sometimes I look back and only can say: "c'mon man, let it go, it wasn't your time nor the correct person".

This is something hard to forget, because when you try to forget, you are remembering more and more and more.

By the way, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you ;-)

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Listening music and iLike

This week I just found iLike page and services, the basic idea behind iLike is just a web site that is feedback by iTunes, Windows media player or the user itself with the information about songs, artists and albums that he/she likes listening, a pretty simple idea, but it's too interesting.

Having all (or almost all) the information about the music you like, iLike will show you Related music you may want and free downlodable MP3 from new artists (I can't use this functionality :-S ).

Additionally you have access to the latest activity of your favorite artists (if they are registered in iLike and are updating their information), look for friends, send messages, look for related artists, publish a profile and pictures, etc.

It's a good application and it's database is huge but not complete, for example, OST information or indie bands are not registered there (like CatPeople)

Additionally you can publish the iLike widget whitin your Hi5, Facebook, MySpace, etc. profile, so that all your current friends from any social network will know what are your music tastes.

This application is interesting, I'll be trying to get in touch with people with similar music taste, so that I'll get more albums in my Buy List :-P

If you have created your profile you can search for me as "Diegue B" and send me a friend request or just check out my favorite artists, songs and albums :-D.


Have a nice weekend.

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Get blog back

The last year I changed from job and since then I've been busier than before :-S.

Finally I'm getting more free time to have fun and blog my life is a part of it.

I have new music, bands, artists and events to talk about (and I hope since now I'll have enough time to write about it :-P)

Have a great middle week.




Diegue

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New year and life goes on.

Well, 2007 is another year that comes to its end and from now we are begining 2008.

It was a pretty good year, there were a lot of new disc, concerts, new bands, driving experiences, trips, maps, etc., and to finish this year in the best way ever I just received my Box Set of Radiohead, In Rainbows. It's so cool, it worths every cent (or pound) that I pay for it, hehehehehe. It has 2 discs, 2 CDs (the second CD is only available if you buy this box set), one book with the lyrics of all the songs and another book with art made for this disc. I couldn't listen the second CD because I had to clean the house and prepare everything to the dinner :-P, I hope to listen it tomorrow and I'll write a review about it too.

Let's begin 2008 in the best way ever, and I hope that this year has a lot of surprises and good news.



Have a great 2008.

Diegue

In Rainbows

This week (10/10) was released the new disc of Radiohead named: In Radiohead.

4 years after released the "Hail to the thief" Radiohead has this new album in their records. I downloaded this new album from their site: www.radiohead.com and I don't have words to describe it, they are back in a pretty good shape, their sound is more solid and it's a good disc to be heard any time.

My favorite tracks are:
Bodysnatchers
Nude
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
All I need.

As an additional data (if you don't know), Radiohead has implemented a new way to buy their disc, and it is by letting you pay as much as you consider their music worths :-D, additionally you can pay for a Special Edition that I hope it will be delivered to me in January 2008 or december of this year. This edition includes 2 vinyl discs of 12", 2 cds (In rainbows and an additional CD no available to be downloaded) and a book with pictures and lirycs of the songs.

This is a good album to be bought and as I said before you can pay anything that you want, so that it's easy to pay a fair price for it.


Leave me your comments about this new disc, and what do you think about its new way to pay for it.




Have a great week

Las de la intuición by Shakira

The past friday I just watched the musical video of "Las de la intuición" or "Pure intuition" by Shakira.

I have to admit neather I'm a pop fan nor a fan of Shakira, but this song (in the same way as "Moscas en la casa") has something that hooked me on :-P. I don't know, maybe there's a secret pop fan in my dark side, chuckle.

Here's the video, maybe the only element left in this video is the singular movement of her humps :-P (that's the Shakira's personal sign).

Enjoy it ;-)

Pure intuition




Las de la intuición

Porter

Hey, it's been more than a month that I don't write anything, I apologize for not updating this blog but I had personal appointments and issues.

On the other hand and about more interesting things, this post is to comment about Porter a mexican band from Guadalajara, Jalisco that is currently having a great grow in Mexico. They are considered as an Indie Rock band but as they say in their space their genre is: Undefined :-P, and this is because when you listen their songs you'll find several kind of sounds, silences and rythms so that they are not easy to be cataloged.

Porter are:

• Giovanni Paolo Lechatelli (Drums)


• Villor (Guitars, Piano)


• Juan Son (Vocals)


• F-Air (Guitars)


• Bacter (Bass, synthetizer)

Up to date they only have one LP (Atemahawke) and one EP (Donde los ponys pastan). I bought the LP and it's a very good disc, they need more time to grow up as a band and be more mature with their sound and lyrics, despite this elements they have a very good sound and a good concept as an indie band.

Additionally and as many mexican bands are doing up to date they have songs in two languages English and Spanish, maybe two or three are in a combination of spanish and english (not spanglish at all)

These are two videos, listen them to know what I'm talking about when they say: Experimental (Specially with the first one where you can see that cats are able to sing with them in a good way :-P )

Host of a ghost - Atemahawke.



Daphne - Donde los ponys pastan.




They are having a very active year with too many concerts and presentations, even they have a tour date for USA (12 oct 2007, 8:00pm, Porter @ L.A. Ford Amphitheater, Los Angeles), and several tour dates in Mexico, if you have the oportunity to go to any of their concerts I really suggest you to go and enjoy it (this is a wise decision if you like indie music).


Let me know your comments about this band, they deserve an opportunity in this commercial music world.

Satin Dolls

One month ago I found Karen's Space, she is the vocalist of Satin Dolls, a Mexican rock band with a singular sound and composition. Karen has a pretty voice, her tones, screams and words give a special taste to their songs.

This monday I just find their first E.P., if you are looking for a retro soft punk sound you should get it.

They have 2 versions of many songs, one in english and other in spanish, for example: Vuelve (Spanish version) is Maybe (English version)

I really like very much their song named: "Vuelve". The electro sounds and Karen's voice are a pretty good combination.

This year the Satin Dolls have been playing in several places in Mexico, for example: Bulldog, Hard Rock Live and Pasaguero. And they are working on their first album.

By the way, after you saw the pictures of Karen, you will understand why I found her in MySpace, hehehe, she is so pretty and sexy, there's no doubt about it.

I leave you two videos of their songs:

Vuelve by Satin Dolls (Maybe - english version)





Dulce Obsesión by Satin Dolls (Sweet Lust - english version)





Have a great Friday.

The Cure in México

Hey, this is one of the best news that I got this week.

THE CURE IN MEXICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After 3 years of their last visit, Robert Smith and company come back to Mexico.

3 Dates, a new double album, too much fans, and a depresive sound, that's what is going to come with them next October :-D

It will be an awesome concert I can bet it.

If you want to join Mexico The Cure Fan Club (a.k.a. Mexicure) you can go to:
http://www.thecure.com.mx
http://mx.groups.yahoo.com/group/mexicure/




Have a great week.

Transformers

By Michael Bay, this is a movie of the Transformers a cartoon of 1980's, it's an amazing film with impressive visual effects and a good story. The best parts are all the scenes were Megan Fox shows up, wow she is really a beauty.

Here's the trailer of this movie. If you have the oportunity to go to the cinema and watch this film you should, it worths too much.




Transformers movie's theme




P.S. Don't drink too much water or soda before watching the film, its duration is about 2 hours and 20 min, and if you drank too much then you'll miss a great part of that movie.

A little green bag

Who doesn't remember this song? well, maybe not all of you know the name, but this is the first song played in Reservoir Dogs a film by Quentin Tarantino.

This weekend I bought the soundtrack of this film, it's nothing but awesome, I just began to listen this disc and a lot of old memories came to my mind, wooowww an incredible amount of sounds and images that were buried for a long long time.

Listening "Stuck in the middle with you" you'll automatically will remember that "ear cut" scene, and the singular movements of Mr Yellow, chuckle. I really love this movie, Reservoir Dogs is a master piece by Tarantino, you don't know what is going to happen in the next scene up to you are watching the credits and you begin to link all the stories.

Here's the promotional trailer of this film, if you haven't watched it, you should. It's a good movie, and as any movie directed by Tarantino, it has a lot of violence and blood (one of the Tarantino's sign)




Have a great weekend.

Diegue.

PS "Out of sight in the night out of sight in the day, Lookin' back on the track gonna do it my way."

PSS The image was taken from Wikipedia.org.

This is called: The Black Magic Show

As the title says, the latest album of Elefant is named: The Black Magic Show.

Elefant is an Indie Rock Band, their members are:
Diego García - Vocals
Jeff Berrall - Bass
Mod - Guitars
Kevin McAdams - Drums

They have a good sound, and several songs have a characteristic rythm that you want to hear again, again and again. Many lyrics are existencialist and this is like the sign of Elefant for each song.

I just listened this disc and inmediatly this band got a place on my 40 best rock bands :-D. They are a very new band, their first album was released on April 2003, The black magic show was released on April 2006 (3 years later), you can find a difference between their discs, not a big one but it's notorios the band's grew up.

Their vocalist Diego Garcia is being considered as a new sex symbol of rock, just a curious note, I don't know if really it is or just their fans consider him in that way.

As usual, I leave you a video of one of their songs, this time it's "Lolita" from "The Black Magic Show", listen them and let me know your opinions.




Personally my favorite songs from this band are:

1. My Apologies


2. Black Magic Show


3. Sunlight makes me paranoid


4. Lolita


5. The clown


6. Make up


7. Now that I miss her

Have a nice week.



Diegue

Vicious Delicious

The last wednesday I bought Vicious Delicious by Infected Mushroom, they are an Israeli duo, their music style is psychedelic trance or sounds like pyscho. Infected Mushroom are: Erez Eizen (I.Zen) and Amit Duvdevani (Duvdev) both from the city of Haifa, located in the northern parts of Israel.

I knew them by listening their albums: Im the supervisor and Classical Mushroom and I really like them since the first time that I listen their songs. They have an original sound and use different kinds of rythms to make their psycho sound better in each disc.

Vicious Deliciuos is not the exception for they singular rythms, sounds and silences, they are serious when doing music. My favorite songs for this disc are:

1. Forgive me


2. Becoming insane


3. Artillery

This new disc comes in a great time, when they are touring around the world and after a period of 3 years without a new release since Im the supervisor in 2004, I just can say: "It was a worth waiting :-D".

I leave a video from youtube.com of their first track from this album: Becoming insane.




This disc is a five stars worth buy if you like of electronic and psycho music ;-), if you don't maybe you should listen many songs from their space and then get your own decision about if you like them or not.

If you have listened Infected Mushroom, please leave a comment and tell me what do you think about them and their sound.


Have a great week.

Diegue

Cuando tienes un sueño y haces todo para conseguirlo.

Navengado por Internet me encontré con la siguiente animación, es bastante buena y me dejó sin palabras la primera vez que la vi, sinceramente es bastante emotiva.

En pocas palabras: Cuando tienes un sueño debes hacer todo lo que es posible para conseguirlo, no importa hasta donde te lleven tus sueños.

Tal vez con eso se puede explicar el porque me comporto de cierta manera en diversas ocasiones.

When you look for a dream and you must get it.

Today I was surfing at Internet and I found the following video, it´s great and I hope you find it as good as I do.


In resume: when you look for a dream, you must do anything to achieve it, it doesn´t matter where your dream will take you :'-)

We are dangerous and we are moving

Chuckle, the last weekend I went to a world of magic and fantasy, it was great, obviously, with a trip there's always good music to listen.

This time I began it listening the tATu girls, I like them more than their music, and I have to admit that they sound pretty good, well the first song was:

Dangerous and moving



Then the random played other songs of theirs, but I don't know how to write their name because they are in russian :-S, I only can say that those songs are from their debut album at Russia.

After these songs, I listened Streetcar by Funeral For a Friend



Then Duran Duran was played and their more famous songs: Come undone, Ordinary World, Too Much Information, etc.




then I cannot remember the songs that were played, but they were adhoc to the moment, I just was seeing the sky and the stars, as I said a trip to a world of magic and fantasy.

Turismo Cup, Mexico

First of all I apologize for not posting these days but, you know, when you have business to do you have to take time from another hobbies.

Well, today I was at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez, it was another date for Turismo Cup Mexico (Copa Turismo México), this Cup has many categories, there are a category with stock cars (1.6 liters, 100 HPs) like Chevy (Corsa B in Europe made by Opel), Chevy C2 (exclusive mexican car made by Chevrolet, mine is one of them), Mexican Pointer (made by VolksWagen) and Beetle (the old one by VolksWagen). I like these races because you can see everything that a daily car can do in certain conditions. In certain categories the cars are just modified from their suspension and tires ONLY. In other categories many cars are tubulars and have awesome engines.

Here are many videos that I got from there, but it´s better to be there :-D, unfortunately I had issues with YouTube.com and I couldn't upload more videos :-S, I´ll post them ASAP.

Videos about Stock Categories