Blog: Rock de siempre (Now and Always Rock)

+ Beginning of the eighties. U2 and Simple Minds are also starting out. Near Manchester, in Middleton, 4 young men begin a long time career . Their name, The Chameleons , later with the acronym UK added. John Peel gave them a hand at that time. + They do not have, not even by far, the success of those artists. But they deserve a space in this blog and in your ears, if you dare to listen good old new wave rock. * Up the [...]

+ This is what I'm doing, listening to songs fellas are posting in webjay . There you can find wonderful playlists of any imaginable type. + For instance, of my type: * Zing's October 2k3 Mix . * m_u_s_i_c . * Glorious Noise MP3s . * Bartonvan 's playlist . * viciouslove1980's playlist . + I will select some of the songs I like, of my type: * Paul Westerberg - Dirty Diesel . * [...]

+ Ok, refresh it, baby! * The Beatles - Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight, The End . * The Beatles - Sgt's Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band . * The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night . * The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand . * The Beatles - Revolution . * The Beatles - [...]

+ Tomorrow I will be, I hope so, in a Robert Cray concert . + I have known the man since the 80's, probably since his (their) first album, strong persuader, and liked throughout all these years his wonderful voice, of course his guitar, but mainly his voice, his soulful voice, his histories of love and not love... + He's got a new album, twenty, devoted to war, iraq's war. You shoulda listen carefully, he's got the things cristal clear and delivers it straight to you. Read [...]

+ The gentleman I bring you today is well known for many of us. It is one of the pioneers of the new jamaican music and composer of one of their classic songs, the isrealites . But that was at the end of 60's. It took him almost 10 more years to reach some success again, mainly because of the the british ska movement. + So, by this time you should know that this gentleman is Desmond Dekker , who in 1980 published his famed album Black and Dekker [...]

+ Doll by Doll was a group that came with the new wave-punk scene that had a very reduced success at that time (beginning of the eighties). + Doll by Doll made some records and soon its front man, a scottish guy called Jackie Leven , started his own career . He's had quite a career!. * In 1982, they published this single I bring you today: - Under my thumb (a classic Jagger/Richards' early piece). - Eternal (a slow Leven composition). [...]

+ I have been posting about a year or so at ya.com, but I have been experiencing too many problems during the last days/months. So, I decided to move to other place. Lets' see how it goes. + So, update your bookmarks, your feeds reader or whatever you use to visit this blog.

+ The Beat was the band that played with power-pop enthusiast Paul Collins (madrileño de adopción, if you don't know, favorite friend of Madrid's pop and rock). + But The Beat was also the name of a ska group. In fact, still it is the name of a ska band. But, it is difficult to find the early vinyls, not even the covers (i'll try to get pictures space soon). But, worry not, I have the songs. + They say that ska is reggae [...]