So, how is it that a group of Argentinians can capture a place and time that has nothing to do with them, and everything to do with me and life on the border. Just check out the lyrics to "Yoli" by Babasonicos. These dudes do not only talk about a reality very much alive where I grew up, but they have managed to put music to it. And the sound. Oh, the sound! It's the sound of Sunday afternoon in Juarez-El Paso. It's just haunting. Seriously.
Yoli
lleva en su bolsillo una pistola
y una pestaña calva
furia escurre su puño apretado
carga balas con mala saña
la llamaran: narcocorrido, la llamaran yoli
en su bolso esconde una peluca
unos calmante y una navaja
pinta un maquillaje deslucido
no durmio bien, no durmio nada
la llamaran: narcocorrido, la llamraan yoli
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
short, texanas, gel y un gran escote
en tetas falsas lleva las sustancias
piedra y horizonte anaranjado
medias corridas, sed de venganza
la llamaran: narcocorrido, la llamran yoli
ir de pueblo en pueblo a pleno sol
agotador, quebranta
si la muerte embosca su destino
quiere morir en Tijuana
la llamaran: narcocorrido, la llamran yoli
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
casi nada en ella es natural
todo artificio engaña
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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Wait, is this a song about a girl who smuggles drugs in her boobs, or is my Ethpanish getting rusty?
The song that always best captured a formative time in my life is Amadeus, by the one and only Falco.
Uhng-hung der hooberspar
Und vas is nighty-night
Razzmatazz, choorypout
Alz zie vomen cool shnout!
Ooh, rock me, Amadeus
Ooh, rock me, Amadeus
Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus,
Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus,
Oh oh oh Amadeus.
Man...that still chokes me up. Falco, this one's for you homie. [Pours peach Schnapps onto ground.]
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