Songs You May Have Missed #830

No Te Va Gustar and Julieta Venegas: “Chau” (Live) (2019)

No Te Va Gustar (“You Won’t Like It”) might be the best band name of all time.

On the occasion of the Uruguayan band’s 25th anniversary they released Otras Canciones, an intimate, acoustic-leaning live performance album remixing their past material with help from plenty of guest stars.

“Chau”, featuring Latin pop legend Julieta Venegas, was a single that preceded the album’s release.

Don’t pass up the video. These guys are tight, the arrangement is punchy, and it’s a joy to watch pros like them and Venegas nail this live performance.

You will like it.

Lyric translation:

We were both looking at the sea
When the afternoon died
How our thing died I swear I didn’t know

I looked to my right
I saw you disappear
I screamed with all my might
And I noticed you couldn’t hear me

I stayed all night in the sand
I tried to make something worthwhile
I can’t get, change, or correct
What runs in my veins

Heart
Today don’t stop beating
You walked away one day
Now, you decided to come

It’s been more than a year and you’re not there
I would have given my life and so much more
Just to see you again

I couldn’t afford
to give in to your crying
I’m not going to open the wounds
Of having loved you so much

I listened, but I let it go
I remembered, how free I was
I can’t get, change, or correct
What runs in my veins

Heart
Today don’t stop beating
You walked away one day
Now, you decided to come

Heart
Today don’t stop beating
You walked away one day
And now, you decided to come

Heart
You walked away one day
Heart
You walked away one day
Heart

Bye

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Recommended Albums #111

Lily Allen: West End Girl (2025)

Lily Allen returns after a seven-year musical hiatus with an emotionally direct–even blunt–breakup record.

In fact it’s so emotionally direct that we’ll make the editorial choice here of sparing you the more bruising (perhaps cringe-inducing) portions of the story, which details the demise of her relationship with American actor David Harbour.

The “palace” she refers to in multiple songs is a fairly accurate description of the house she and Harbour offered a tour of for Architectural Digest.

As a songwriter, Allen is gifted with an arch sense of humor that can mold even the emotional distress of a breakup into worthwhile entertainment, as she’s done on the highlights we include.

The parts of the album one imagines were difficult to write would also be difficult to listen to repeatedly, the pain being almost too real at times. But the musical hooks make the songs irresistible nonetheless.

Listening to the cheekily-titled highlight “4Chan Stan” is like walking in on a marital spat. Allen isn’t one to dress up pain in cliche, generality or indirect reference. The unflinching detail makes it real, immediate. It’s great songwriting, provided you have the stomach for it.

Allen has experienced tragedy and trauma of many types in her life, and it seems much of her best work was made as a response to it.

Here’s hoping there’s lots of great music ahead–informed by happier times rather than chaos.

Listen to: “4Chan Stan”

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Listen to: “Just Enough”

Listen to: “Dallas Major”

Listen to: “Fruityloop”

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Songs You May Have Missed #829

Pet Shop Boys: “I Get Along” (2002)

One may speculate that the title of Pet Shop Boys’ 2002 Release album is a reference to letting go of hipness for maturity.

Certainly their electronic disco pop sound–the one that made them seem like trend setters across the two previous decades–is muted here.

And the record’s lyrics generally reflect a more experienced, worldly point of view.

Where their previous album or two had seen them growing a bit stale, Release shows them reinventing themselves a bit for a new decade. And as it turns out, some of their best work was ahead of them.

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Songs You May Have Missed #828

Ruben Romero: “Fe (Faith)” (1997)

As the title of Ruben Romero’s Flamenco Southwest suggests, the virtuoso flamenco guitarist fuses the genre’s traditional Spanish technique with Native American traditions.

He’s collaborated with the Denver Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra and accompanied flamenco dancers in competitions.

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