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18 marzo 2016

Crimes of passion



A veces esas dinámicas que corren por las redes sociales, en especial por FB, donde se invita a los amigos a enlistar sus diez películas favoritas, libros, autores, artistas y álbums, logran destapar unas cajas de Pandora muy peculiares :) 

Ayer participé en una donde fui invitada por un buen amigo: Tus 10 álbums que más te hayan marcado. Un listado difícil, sí señor, sobre todo para alguien como yo que cada momento de su vida ha sido acompañado por música. Mi soundtrack personal es variado pero muy significativo. Y allá fuí, rascando mucho y tratando de escoger esos álbums que sin pensarlo mucho pudieran ser representativos de muchos otros que han dejado su huella en mi memoria musical y en mi propia vida.
1."Disintegration" - The Cure
2. "Sonic Temple" - The Cult
3.
"Love at the first sting" - Scorpions
4. "First And Last And Always" - Sisters of Mercy
5. "Selected Scenes From the End of The World" - London After Midnight
6. "Girls Girls Girls" - Motley Crue
7. "Blessed Be" - The 69 Eyes
8. "Changesbowie" - David Bowie
9. "Volumen 1" - Caifanes
10. "Crimes of passion" - Pat Benatar

Quizás hay nueve que no resultan 'extraños', sobre todo por aquellos que me conocen bien, pero seguro el décimo resalta demasiado, jojojo.  

A Pat Benatar (conservó el apellido de su primer marido) la conocí quizás como muchos de mi generación con el tema y el vídeo Love is a battlefield (1983). Yo tenía casi doce años y sin entender a la perfección la letra, me sentí identificada con el personaje que la Benatar interpreta en el vídeo: una mujer fuerte, guerrera, valiente (aquí se puede ver)  :) Sin embargo, me tocó un poco la transición de la cantante rock con la baladista pop. Quizás el último tema que conservó la fuerza de sus primeros trabajos fue Invincible que servió como pieza clave del soundtrack de la película The Legend of Billie Jean (1985). Pero poco antes (a pesar de ser uno de sus grandes éxitos) We Belong (1984) ya nos daba pistas sobre el cambio que comenzaba a mostrar. Una especie de 'amansamiento' que quizás alejó a sus primeros fans pero lo compensó con los nuevos que estaba deseosos de baladitas muy ochenteras.

Quizás en 1986 0 1987, mientras buscaba sin mucho afán en una tienda de discos, me encontré de frente con ese gran álbum que es Crimes of Passion que la Benatar había editado en 1980. Diez temas redondos y con fuerza aunque haya algunos que puedan ser considerados power ballads. Inclusive la versión que Benatar hace del tema titulado Wuthering Heights casi logra superar al original interpretado y escrito por Kate Bush. Mis temas favoritos son Treat me right, Hell is for children, Hit me with your best shot, You better run y I'm gonna follow you.

En cuanto regresé a casa me puse a escucharlo y lo repetí un millón de veces, jojojo. Y siempre que me encontraba con la Benatar baladista pop echaba a andar mi estéreo y Crimes of Passion acudía a mi rescate. 

Pat Benatar fue una artista que influyó mucho en mí, sobre todo por su actitud, por su forma de destacar con talento natural y con honestidad. Y sobre todo, por su fuerza.

Aquí dejo el álbum Crimes of Passion en formato playlist :)











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02 enero 2016

Wasting the dawn




"Wasting the dawn" - The 69 Eyes


Been runnin' away
so long from the day
Into the strange night of stone
To fade away
As the light is gently
Bleedin' out of my soul
Penetratin' the evening
As I ride
On this endless road


But you can't turn back the time
It always gonna wait on the line


Some may wish never to be born
Wastin' the dawn
Like a rose growin' from the Christ's thorn
Wastin' the dawn


Been waitin' for you for so long
Little bird of prey
To fly me higher
To the brighter day
Where the Lizard lingers long
Under the sun
Forgettin' the night
Darkest July
Paris '71


But you can't turn back the time
It always gonna wait on the line


...Some may wish never to be born
Wastin' the dawn
Like a rose growin' from the Christ's thorn
Wastin' the dawn...x6


Del álbum "Wasting the dawn" (1999)





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24 enero 2015

Música para vampiros

Temas, dedicatorias, homenajes, películas y fanvideos. Todo cabe dentro del infinito mundo que gira alrededor de la seductora imagen del vampiro :)




"Dark Angel" - Nosferatu

"Dark angel
Give me heaven, give me gold
Take the living, take the old,
Take the knife, break the bone, 
Feel the blade, and feel the stone..."






"Mircalla" - Two Witches

"In a darkness of the night 
A vampire cast her spell 
A full moon's hazy light 
The world returns to hell
In a gothic world of evil  
The undead walks the land 
The shadow of the devil 
The vampire takes your hand
Carmilla, Marcilla, Mircalla... 
It's love at the first bite 
It's lust of a vampire  
A beautiful young Karnstein... Mircalla"



 


"Cry Little sister" - Gerard McMann

 "Blue mascarade
Strangers look on
When will they learn this loneliness?
Temptation heat 
Beats like a drum 
Deep in your veins..."






"We own the night" - The 69 Eyes

"We live where there's no tomorrow
No past no rules to follow
Consumed by the innocence we take
We live out all of our days
In the absence of light
Just for one kiss as the lovers unite
and I feel my temperature rise
We got a get up
Get up
Get out 
C'mon baby..."






"Vampire"- Xandria

"She's a vampire
Desire darker than black
She's a vampire
Reach higher, no turning back
Her wings are curtains of the night
She knows no wrong or right

Dead are the places where this goddess has been
Cold is the skin that this creature has seen
Her universe is an ocean of blood
Her dining table the cradle of mud

She sees the prey and she's aware 
The times are hard but she don't care..." 






"Slept So Long" - Jonathan Davis (Queen of the Damned Soundtrack)

"I see hell in your eyes
Taken in by surprise
Touching you makes me feel alive
Touching you makes me die inside..."



  


"Vollmond" (Full Moon) - In Extremo

Komm schließ die Augen, glaube mir
Wir werden fliegen über`s Meer
Ich bin nach deiner Liebe so krank
Die sich an meinem Blut betrank

Der Tag verschwand
Du wirfst dein Kleid vom Leib
Hast dein weißes Licht mir angezündet
Du mein Abendweib
Mit Wurzelhaar und Tiergesicht
Und immer werden meine Augen weit
Wenn in der Nacht
Mir solch ein Mond erscheint

Komm schließ die Augen ...

Die Bäume wachsen in den Mai
Wer will schon einsam sein
Doch heute in dem mildem Licht
Bist du so nackt und heiß
Mund an Mund die lange Nacht
Der helle Mond zieht seinen Kreis
Auf dem Boden
Da liegt dein weißes Kleid

Komm schließ die Augen ...


Come close your eyes, believe me
We will fly over the sea
I need the love so badly
Which got drunk on my blood

The day ended
You ripped your dress from your body
Lit me with your white light
You are my woman of the night
With hair of roots and animal face
And my eyes always dilate
When in the night
Such a moon appears to me

Come close your eyes ...

The trees grow in May
Who wants to be lonely
But today in the mild light
You are so naked and hot
Mouth on mouth throughout the long night
The bright moon casts its circle
On the ground
Your white dress is lying there

Come close your eyes... 






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhBqZ6fk7w

"Vampire Kiss" - Stellar Corpses

Forever young, forever lost, children of the night,
Avert your eyes from the cross, and scream into the night.
We sleep all day, we party all night, never grow old.
It's fun to be one of us, but how far will you go?










"The Lost Boys" - The 69 Eyes

"We are dead until dark
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
You say
You wanna live like I do
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue

'Cause in the end
We're just reborn again..."






"Vampyre's Cry" - Nosferatu

"Starved of blood and sick of head,
Inside her broken doors and shatters,
Kneeling down, cutting sky, 

She cupped her hands and
reached for life..."






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4TMOJhVaAk

"Love song from a vampire" - Annie Lennox (Bram Stoker's Dracula Soundtrack)

Let me be the only one
To keep you from the cold
Now the floor of heaven's lain
With stars of brightest gold







"Bloodletting" - Concrete Blonde

They used to dance in the garden in the
middle of the night
Dancing out in the garden in the
middle of the night
O you were a vampire
and I may never see the light
O you were a vampire
and I may never see the light




 



"If I Was your Vampire" - Marilyn Manson

"If I was your vampire
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other
Until the sun.
If I was your vampire
Death waits for no one
Hold my hands
Across your face
Because I think
Our time has come"






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA

"Moon over Bourbon Street" - Sting

It was many years ago that I became what I am
I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb
Now I can never show my face at noon
And you'll only see me walking by the light of the moon
The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast
I've the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest
Oh you'll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet
While there's a moon over Bourbon Street







"Your Best Nightmare" - London After Midnight

"And then it happened, you were in my arms
your lips on my throat- your hands on my, on my...
two bodies together the intimate sin
the pain and the pleasure could do mortals in
how could you know what I'm thinking of
to me lust can be as beautiful as love
here tonight, your pure heart and soul
untainted passion should have no control"




Somos la reencarnación de oscuras metáforas y deseos inhibidos, aunque también, somos la nobleza en los cuentos de hadas adorados por los niños. Somos una superstición sin base, un género artístico, una condición psicológica, un anhelo hecho carne, una exteriorización de un complejo culpa-lujuria-violencia y muchas otras cosas más.
 



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23 enero 2015

Borderline






Borderline - The 69 Eyes

Did you ever try to understand
What goes inside of a man
That used to hold your hand
Did you ever try to understand
What goes inside of a man
That gives his love in your hands
Some nights we die
Some nights we cry
Don’t push your love over the borderline
Some nights we die
Some nights we cry
Don’t push your love over the borderline
Don’t push your love
Over the borderline
Don’t push your love
Over the line
Don’t you push your love
Did you ever try to understand
What goes inside of a man
That used to hold your hand
Did you ever try to understand
What goes inside of a man
That gives his heart in your hands
Some nights we die
Some nights we cry
Don’t push your love over the borderline
Some nights we die
Some nights we cry
Don’t push your love over the borderline
Don’t push your love
Over the borderline
Don’t push your love
Over the line
Don’t you push your love


Del álbum "X" (2012)


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Algunas noches morimos, algunas noches lloramos...

A treinta días para mi cumpleaños número 43  ;-)






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04 julio 2014

I wanna see you dressed in black



"Black" - The 69 Eyes

Would you tell me that you love me
If you never really cared
Would tell me that you leave me
If no tears were never shared
Don’t you try to tell me
It’s all over again
Don’t try to show me
Loneliness my old friend
Every night I want you back again
Every night I’m in the black
Every night I need your love again
I wanna see you dressed in black
I want you back
In black
I wanna see you dressed in black
Should I stay forever lonely
Like I never really cared
Should I answer when you call me
Like those years were never there
Don’t you try to tell me
It’s all over again
Don’t try to show me
Loneliness my old friend
Every night I want you back again
Every night I’m in the black
Every night I need your love again
I wanna see you dressed in black
I want you back
In black
I wanna see you dressed in black


Del álbum "X" (2012)


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Porque cada noche quiero verte vestida de negro. Porque cada noche quiero que regreses a mí. 







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25 febrero 2013

I could not forget you when you're Rosary Blue



"Rosay Blue" - The 69 Eyes feat. Kat Von D


I'm under the water just listening
I've been on the fast line 'til you came in
But now things are different, it's all upside down
And I'm all around
I'm trying to go back and turn it around

Oh, I could not forget you
I could not forget you
I could not forget you when you're Rosary Blue
I could not forget you
I could not forget you
I could not forget you, you're Rosary Blue
I'm trying to forgive you

God, I'm lonely here if that's what you're hoping
I've been the last one since the world began
But now things are different, it's all upside down
And I'm all around
I'm trying to reach that and turn it around

Oh, I could not forget you
I could not forget you
I could not forget you when you're Rosary Blue
I could not forget you
I could not forget you
I could not forget you, you're Rosary Blue

I tried to show you
I tried to convince you
But no words can ever tell you
Rosary Blue
I tried to forget you
I tried to forgive you
But the words could never tell you
How much I still miss you
How much I still miss you

No one could ever tell you
How much I still miss you
My Rosary Blue
My Rosary Blue
How much I still miss you
You're Rosary Blue
How Much I still miss you
Rosary Blue


Del álbum "X" (2012)







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13 noviembre 2012

Graveland



"Graveland" - The 69 Eyes



Down by the riverbank in the old bayou
I'm digging a grave into mud just for you
And the hardest rains always come from Tupelo
The hardest rains always come from Tupelo
Blinded by the moonshine from Mexico
I'm singing my blues waiting for the death row
And the hardest rains always come from Tupelo
another dead baby born in Tupelo

Do you believe in God? Do you believe in Jesus Christ?

Have mercy on me lord I must have been blind
Got a beast inside that I sometimes just can't hide
When the wolfsbane blooms and shadows come alive
Death will be my bride 



Del álbum Blessed Be (2000)








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30 octubre 2011

Música para vampiros

Temas, dedicatorias, homenajes, películas y fanvideos. Todo cabe dentro del infinito mundo que gira alrededor de la seductora imagen del vampiro :)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjkTxZcqB0s

"Dark Angel" - Nosferatu
 
"Dark angel
Give me heaven, give me gold
Take the living, take the old,
Take the knife, break the bone, 
Feel the blade, and feel the stone..."






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHAeuGICEFo

"Mircalla" - Two Witches

"In a darkness of the night 
A vampire cast her spell 
A full moon's hazy light 
The world returns to hell
In a gothic world of evil  
The undead walks the land 
The shadow of the devil 
The vampire takes your hand
Carmilla, Marcilla, Mircalla... 
It's love at the first bite 
It's lust of a vampire  
A beautiful young Karnstein... Mircalla"



"Cry Little Sister" - Gerard McMann

"Blue mascarade
Strangers look on
When will they learn this loneliness?
Temptation heat 
Beats like a drum 
Deep in your veins..."





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGO4wul0kdY

"We own the night" - The 69 Eyes

"We live where there's no tomorrow
No past no rules to follow
Consumed by the innocence we take
We live out all of our days
In the absence of light
Just for one kiss as the lovers unite
and I feel my temperature rise
We got a get up
Get up
Get out 
C'mon baby..."





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7chgR6Ia2Kc

"Vampire"- Xandria

"She's a vampire
Desire darker than black
She's a vampire
Reach higher, no turning back
Her wings are curtains of the night
She knows no wrong or right

Dead are the places where this goddess has been
Cold is the skin that this creature has seen
Her universe is an ocean of blood
Her dining table the cradle of mud

She sees the prey and she's aware 
The times are hard but she don't care..."






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7m0LFs-us4

"Slept So Long" - Jonathan Davis (Queen of the Damned Soundtrack)

"I see hell in your eyes
Taken in by surprise
Touching you makes me feel alive
Touching you makes me die inside..."




 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtiEzLVRuQ

"Vollmond" (Full Moon) - In Extremo

Komm schließ die Augen, glaube mir
Wir werden fliegen über`s Meer
Ich bin nach deiner Liebe so krank
Die sich an meinem Blut betrank

Der Tag verschwand

Du wirfst dein Kleid vom Leib
Hast dein weißes Licht mir angezündet
Du mein Abendweib
Mit Wurzelhaar und Tiergesicht
Und immer werden meine Augen weit
Wenn in der Nacht
Mir solch ein Mond erscheint

Komm schließ die Augen ...


Die Bäume wachsen in den Mai

Wer will schon einsam sein
Doch heute in dem mildem Licht
Bist du so nackt und heiß
Mund an Mund die lange Nacht
Der helle Mond zieht seinen Kreis
Auf dem Boden
Da liegt dein weißes Kleid

Komm schließ die Augen ...



Come close your eyes, believe me
We will fly over the sea
I need the love so badly
Which got drunk on my blood

The day ended

You ripped your dress from your body
Lit me with your white light
You are my woman of the night
With hair of roots and animal face
And my eyes always dilate
When in the night
Such a moon appears to me

Come close your eyes ...


The trees grow in May

Who wants to be lonely
But today in the mild light
You are so naked and hot
Mouth on mouth throughout the long night
The bright moon casts its circle
On the ground
Your white dress is lying there

Come close your eyes... 






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSRxW9YNAY

"The Lost Boys" - The 69 Eyes

"We are dead until dark
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
You say
You wanna live like I do
But that's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue

'Cause in the end
We're just reborn again..."





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6AyBFUb-yc

"Vampyre's Cry" - Nosferatu

"Starved of blood and sick of head,
Inside her broken doors and shatters,
Kneeling down, cutting sky, 

She cupped her hands and
reached for life..."




Somos la reencarnación de oscuras metáforas y deseos inhibidos, aunque también, somos la nobleza en los cuentos de hadas adorados por los niños. Somos una superstición sin base, un género artístico, una condición psicológica, un anhelo hecho carne, una exteriorización de un complejo culpa-lujuria-violencia y muchas otras cosas más.




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25 febrero 2011

Star of Fate



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEha7QpiYtI


"Star of Fate" - The 69 Eyes


As I seal your lips
With good-night's kiss, my love
I feel that I'd miss
That longing deep inside my heart
But I have to go,
Before the morning grows too old now.
The second star from the right
Is the one I use as my guiding light.

Tonight I cast my spell
And I wish upon a star
Star of fate keeps me moving along
Follow the dream of my heart

As I seal your lips
With a good-bye kiss, my love
It's been hit and miss
Hurting deep inside my heart
But I have to go
Before we grow too old now
That second star form the right
Is the one always shining there by my side

Every night I cast my spell
And I wish upon a star
Star of fate keeps me moving along
Follow the dream of my heart

Tonight I cast my spell
And I wish upon a star
Star of fate keeps me moving along
Follow the dream of my heart.


Del álbum "Angels"


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Porque eso de cumplir años es emocionante y parte fundamental de la ley de vida, pero en el fondo quisiéramos ser eternamente jóvenes y bellos, jejeje. Porque cuesta mirar atrás y ver todo lo que hemos vivido y todo lo que quizás hemos dejado en el camino. Porque hay presencias que echamos de menos de forma física, porque extrañamos sus voces, sus risas y la forma en que nos acunaban en sus brazos. Porque a veces no es suficiente conservar la esperanza de que perviven dentro de nosotros.

Porque hay momentos en que quisiéramos vivir por siempre jamás en la segunda estrella a la derecha :)





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05 marzo 2010

La gente es rara



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ZCTQ3ut4k

"People are strange" - The 69 Eyes (Acoustic)


People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange

When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange



Original de The Doors incluida en el álbum "Strange Days" (1967)

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Justo veinte años después de su lanzamiento People are strange fue homenajeada por la banda Echo and the Bunnymen en una versión bastante fiel (casi podríamos decir idéntica) que fue incluida en el soundtrack de la peli The Lost Boys.

La mayoría podrá recordar que con esta versión se iniciaba la peli justo cuando la familia de Michael viaja de Arizona a Santa Carla, California mejor conocida como Murder Capital of the World, hahaha, por aquello de las misteriosas desapariciones de niños y adultos que ocurren todos los días. People are Strange era un buen indicativo de lo que nos aguardaba tras los créditos iniciales y aquel muestrario natural de la fauna que habitaba Santa Cruz, como se llama en realidad la población donde se filmó la peli.

La banda oriunda de Finlandia, The 69 Eyes, posee un personal frikismo por The Lost Boys (no olviemos que han escrito una canción con el mismo nombre a modo de homenaje) y en cierta medida también por los Doors o en todo caso, por Jim Morrison, no sabemos si debido al peculiar homenaje que los guionistas de The Lost Boys rinden al Rey Lagarto en la peli (aquel retrato enorme que adorna la cueva donde se ocultan los vampiros o el cierto parecido físico de Jason Patric que interpreta a Michael) o por todo lo que representa como un gran artista a pesar de todos sus excesos. Así que, Jyrki, cantante de los 69 Eyes, ha decidido rendirle un pequeño homenaje en uno de los directos acústicos que la banda ha ofrecido en locales pequeños. Quizá en un futuro no muy lejano, decidan grabarlos.

Aquí también un homenaje que Jyrki ha ofrecido a otro de sus ídolos: Elvis Presley ;-)

29 mayo 2009

Toque aterciopelado



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kyIat9-7WA

"Velvet Touch" - The 69 Eyes


The autumn came took you away
I never expected you to stay
Black tears falling in the cold rain
I woke up one night into the darkest dream
Your pretty ghost whispering to me
Just one drop and I'll give you eternity

I'm looking at you I'm looking for love
Never get enough when push comes to shove

Try look at me tell me what you see
You let fantasy become reality
when the night is calling pretty baby screams

I buried my heart into the deepest seas
When the blood runs cold I feel hot in heat
the red moon rising over you and me

I'm looking at you I'm looking for love
Never get enough when push comes to shove

I never believed we would meet again
Start it all over till the very end
Give me velvet touch
Give me a kiss of death



Del álbum "Blessed Be" (2000)

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Qué grandes son... ;-)



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09 mayo 2007

Perdidos




(Nothing's gonna make you stop)
You wanna rock
(Everybody knows you're lost)

Morning light hurts your eyes
But it's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
Blind boys never lie
But it's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind shades of blue

'Cause in the end
You're just reborn again

You wanna rock (rock)
And nothing's gonna make you stop
And nothing's gonna break you up
Everybody knows you're lost
In the night time, honey
(Lost boys)

We are dead until dark
But it's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue
You say
You wanna live like I do
But it's another thing
Nothing really matters
Behind the shades of blue

'Cause in the end
We're just reborn again

Lost Boys,
The 69 Eyes

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The Lost Boys (Los muchachos pérdidos en México, Jóvenes Ocultos en España) es una de mis películas de vampiros favoritas de todos los tiempos. Aún me tocó verla en estreno en la pantalla grande y la disfruté como pocas veces. No tiene un gran argumento, podría pasar por una simple peli para teenagers, pero fue una forma innovadora de darle sangre nueva al cine de vampiros. Además, el soundtrack es uno de los más recordados ya que cuenta con colaboraciones del calibre de INXS, Echo & the Bunnymen (cuya versión de People are strange de los Doors es sublime, jejeje), o Lou Graham (cantante de Foreigner) quien canta el tema Lost in the shadows) o Roger Daltrey (vocalista de The Who) interpretando el mítico tema Don't let the sun go down on me de Elton John así como Gerard McMann, un casi desconocido al que siempre recordaremos por la rola más emblemática de esta peli: Cry little sister. Y no, no es el mítico Andrew Eldtrich (voz y cerebro de Sisters of Mercy) quien la interpreta como se hace creer por la Red

Por cierto, aún está en disputa si el XX aniversario se celebra este año o debió hacerse el pasado. De cualquier forma, David y sus secuaces, así como Michael, Star, el Granpa, los hermanos Frog y todos los demás aún siguen siendo vigentes ;-)



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