He de reconocer que el zulla de Tex Perkins, cantante de los míticos Beasts of Bourbon y de Cruel Sea, en esta ocasión me ha sorprendido.
Ahora se nos desmarca con un disco de versiones divertidísimo y totalmente auto-paródico, donde incluso ha elaborado una especie de anuncio de tele-tienda, explicando por qué tenemos que comprarnos el disco de Tex Perkins and His Ladyboyz. Y bueno, el texto de su MySpace tampoco tiene desperdicio...
Hi, my name’s Tex Perkins and I was huge during the early 90’s (a golden period for scumbag indi rockers). Having endured a 25 year career in the music biz, I’ve done and seen it all. So here we are at the beginning of the new century and the record industry is on its knees, ravaged by years of careless self indulgent big spending and a complete inability to understand the potential of the new technologies, poor fools. It was within this context that I began work on my last contracted recording for Universal music(...).
It was then we came upon THE IDEA: I would record an album of classic cover versions, songs so good, so irresistible, so well known, so...classic, that the general public would have no choice but to hunt down, buy and love a bunch of songs that they can hear on Gold fm pretty much every day of the week anyway..... hmmm…. (...) The meeting then erupted into unbridled celebrations; champagne was opened, oral sex was offered, but for me it was time to get to work.
Una de las versiones que hace el bueno de Tex es la sorprendente (por su elección) "I'm not in love", de los afortunadamente semi-olvidados 10cc. No puedo poneros el genial vídeo de los Ladybozys (pinchad el link, desde Youtube sólo dejan incrustar la parodia de tele-tienda y no la canción entera), así que os paso la original. Es un tema muy divertido, en el que se detecta como el sufrido protagonista intenta convencerse a sí mismo que no está enamorado... y Tex lo clava, todo hay que decirlo.
Ahora se nos desmarca con un disco de versiones divertidísimo y totalmente auto-paródico, donde incluso ha elaborado una especie de anuncio de tele-tienda, explicando por qué tenemos que comprarnos el disco de Tex Perkins and His Ladyboyz. Y bueno, el texto de su MySpace tampoco tiene desperdicio...
Hi, my name’s Tex Perkins and I was huge during the early 90’s (a golden period for scumbag indi rockers). Having endured a 25 year career in the music biz, I’ve done and seen it all. So here we are at the beginning of the new century and the record industry is on its knees, ravaged by years of careless self indulgent big spending and a complete inability to understand the potential of the new technologies, poor fools. It was within this context that I began work on my last contracted recording for Universal music(...).
It was then we came upon THE IDEA: I would record an album of classic cover versions, songs so good, so irresistible, so well known, so...classic, that the general public would have no choice but to hunt down, buy and love a bunch of songs that they can hear on Gold fm pretty much every day of the week anyway..... hmmm…. (...) The meeting then erupted into unbridled celebrations; champagne was opened, oral sex was offered, but for me it was time to get to work.
Una de las versiones que hace el bueno de Tex es la sorprendente (por su elección) "I'm not in love", de los afortunadamente semi-olvidados 10cc. No puedo poneros el genial vídeo de los Ladybozys (pinchad el link, desde Youtube sólo dejan incrustar la parodia de tele-tienda y no la canción entera), así que os paso la original. Es un tema muy divertido, en el que se detecta como el sufrido protagonista intenta convencerse a sí mismo que no está enamorado... y Tex lo clava, todo hay que decirlo.
I'm not in love, so don't forget it
It's just a silly phase I'm going through
And just because I call you up
Don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made
I'm not in love, no-no
(It's because...)
I like to see you, but then again
That doesn't mean you mean that much to me
So if I call you, don't make a fuss
Don't tell your friends about the two of us
I'm not in love, no-no
(It's because...)
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