sábado, 4 de agosto de 2012

HEFNER - THE FIDELITY WARS



Si al món de la música els nerds manessin, fossin importants o se’ls respectés una miqueta, Hefner seria un dels grups referencials i el disc The Fidelity Wars estaria encumbrat i tothom parlaria d’ell situant-lo com una de les grans obres d’art de finals del S.XX.

Però això no funciona d’aquesta manera, i els nerds segueixen sent uns pringats tant en el món de la música com en qualsevol altre (bé, exceptuant els que es van dedicar a muntar megamaravelloses companyies informàtiques i s’han forrat els tios).

El capità de l’equip dels nerds musicals és sens dubte Darren Hayman que amb la seva banda Hefner ens va regalar alguns meravellosos discs els darrers anys dels norantes i a l'inici del mil.leni. Destaco especialment The Fidelity Wars  (1999), una absoluta obra mestra dedicada a la ruptura amb la seva parella.

Les lletres del disc traspuen acidesa, mala llet i segones intencions per tot arreu encara que la molt filla de puta de la tal Susan o Helen (ara no recordo com es deia la bitxa aquesta) s’ho devia de merèixer per putejar d’aquesta manera a en Darren. Ell de ben segur que ho va intentar al màxim, almenys això vull creure del nostre amic, ja que per algun motiu ho és i a més el paio em cau força bé.

La llàstima és que en Darren, posteriorment, va trobar alguna altra o altres xicotes i devia de follar molt més i se li va temperar la mala llet, Va deixar de sentir-se la cosa més petitona i desgraciada d’aquest món i suposo que devia començar a sentir-se més o menys feliç. Aquesta felicitat va tenir una relació inversament proporcional a la qualitat de la seva obra posterior ja que els darrers discs de Hefner i els seus en solitari són molt irregulars i molt lluny d'aquesta meravella anomenada The Fidelity Wars.

Que en Darren no canti gaire bé encara ajuda a que el disc sigui millor. No deixo de veure-li un cert paral·lelisme amb el meravellós In the Aeroplane over the Sea dels enormes Neutral Milk Hotel (si algú no ha sentit mai aquest disc ha de reparar-ho amb rapidesa, consell d’amic de veritat).

Amb els anys s’ha anat reivindicant als Hefner i una banda tan interessant com The Wave Pictures reconeixen obertament que són els seus pares putatius.

Amb el temps The Fidelity Wars s'ha convertit en un dels meus discs preferits.

Què potser sóc una mica nerd?

Encara te'n quedaba algun dubte?

HEFNER- THE HYMN FOR THE ALCOHOL


Don't start me on the rum
Just because it makes me numb
Start me on the whiskey
I know whiskey is his drink


You never drank it with me

But now you drink it with him

I'm not good enough for whiskey

Not good enough for you



Let's start drinking wine

We used to all the time

It used to go to our heads

But then you went to his bed



If the wine stains you lips red

Then tonight you might forget

You might not go home to him

You might stay here with me



It is just wishful thinking

That all this hard drinking

Might lure you back

To my ramshackle stable



There's no point in trying

The debutante was lying

When she said that she did something

That your lips could never do



And if you know what's true

Then you know I love you

Its six months since you left

You must be truly blessed



'Cause you look no less pretty

In fact you may be more so

If you reap the seeds that you sow

Oh, we both know
You are going straight to hell


HEFNER- DON'T FLAKE OUT ON ME


Don't flake out on me 
Oh, you promised you'd write before Easter 
And now you damn well know that it's autumn 
And I missed you through those summer months 

Oh, you promised yourself you'd stop drinking 
And I know it's none of my business 
But you were mighty and graceful when sober 
But all that gin, all that wine 

We will always talk this way, tired and slightly jaded 
We will waste our tears and we'll be waiting years 
For the friends who always promised that they'd phone us 

We will always feel this way, faintly optimistic 
But we will speak the truth and we will never lose 
Oh, the feeling that our hearts could be unbroken 

Don't wimp out on me 
Oh, I know you've got the strength of 12 oxen 
I've seen you get through these things before 
Just like you've seen me get through these things before 

We will always talk this way, tired and slightly jaded 
We will waste our tears and we'll be waiting years 
For the friends who always promised that they'd phone us 

We will always feel this way, faintly optimistic 
But we will speak the truth and we will never lose 
Oh, the feeling that our hearts could be unbroken 

Oh, we will always feel dismayed, it will only ever be okay 
What's the point in getting laid? We're waiting for the better days 
We will always feel dismayed but only ever be okay 
What's the point in getting laid? We're waiting for the better days

HEFNER- I LOVE ONLY YOU


In the 1980's I was busy hating, 
All of the intangible, the impossibly impractical ideas I'd never understand. 

And in the 1990's, it was far too exciting for words, 
And now I'm drinking adult drinks and now I have the time too think that sex is so
overrated. 

Who gave you the right to bruise my little heart, 
You tore it right apart, I was saving it for art. 
You knew just what to do, so who gave you the clue, 
I love no-one else, I love only you. 

We will capture all of London, 
With disposable cameras, 
These sights were here before we were born, 
They'll be here when we're dead but they'll remember, 
They're touched by out lives. 

Oh we'll burn all their retinas, 
With our patience and our tolerance, 
Will kick and moan and spew and scream, 
But we'll know exactly what we mean. 

Oh who taught you the knack, was it skill or was it luck, 
You pulled me into pieces and now I'm truly fucked. 
Don't want to be alone, I'm useless on my own I love no-one else, I love only you.

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