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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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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Songs You May Have Missed #827

The End of America: “Canyon” (2021)

Philly-area folk pop band The End of America take their name from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and their three-part harmony, it would seem, from CSN.

No Depression magazine named their Night is Alive Best Alt Country Album of 2021.

Songs You May Have Missed #826

Tenpole Tudor: “Love and Food” (1981)

Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary’s corking “Swords of a Thousand Men” was backed with a catchy B-side in “Love and Food”.

The band sometimes performed in medieval garb, with lead singer Edward Tudor-Pole even donning a full suit of chain mail armour.

Their messy musical mayhem was a welcome rarity: punk music that sounded more like a party than impending fisticuffs.

“Love and Food”, if anything, owes more to the British pub rock movement than the Sex Pistols.

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Songs You May Have Missed #825

Pluto Gang: “Plasmodesmata” (2020)

Having had their first regional tour interrupted by the COVID pandemic, Carolina sextet Pluto Gang convened in a cabin in the Carolina mountains to create their genre-blurred Better Out Here LP,

Their sound is something the band calls “high energy jam soul”. Works for me.

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