En 1992 Iron Maiden grabaron su primer álbum en CD de título Fear of the Dark (EMI, 1992), cuya canción del mismo nombre es la única que tocan de ese álbum hoy en día, como se puede apreciar en el directo que puedes ver en el siguiente vídeo.

Sigue las letras de Fear of the Dark

I am a man who walks alone
And when I’m walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park

When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it’s dark

refrain:
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a constant fear that something’s always near
Fear of the dark, fear of the dark
I have a phobia that someone’s always there

Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you’re searching for the light?
Sometimes when you’re scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You’ve sensed that something’s watching you

refrain

Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no one’s there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you’re sure there’s someone there

Fear of the dark (8x)

Watching horror films the night before
Debating witches and folklore
The unknown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing shadows from behind

refrain

When I’m walking a dark road
I am a man who walks alone

Wolfmother parece una banda de rock de los 70, pero lo cierto es que es una banda australiana formada allá por el 2000 pero que conoció el éxito cinco años después al publicar su álbum de debut, Wolfmother (Modular Rec, 2005), en el que se incluía la canción Woman, un hit en toda regla.

Sigue las letras de Woman.

Woman
You know you’re a woman
You got to be a woman
I got the feeling of love

When you’re talking to me
You see right through me
I got the feeling of love

She’s a woman
You know what I mean
You better listen
Listen to me
She’s gonna set you free

Well you’re kinda looking at me
Like I’ve got to set you free
You know I can’t be nobody

She’s a woman
You know what I mean
You better listen
Listen to me
She’s gonna set you free

Woman
You know you’re a woman
You got to be a woman
I got the feeling of love

When you’re talkin’ to me
You see right through me
I got the feeling of love

She’s a woman
You know what I mean
You better listen
Listen to me
She’s gonna set you free

Poca presentación hay que hacer a Rolling Stones. La canción que presentamos hoy fue compuesta en 1968 y se incluyó en el álbum Beggars Banquet (Decca, 1968) como el tema que lo abría. El vídeo que puedes ver es una versión en directo de esa canción, Sympathy for the Devil.

Sigue las letras de esta mítica canción.

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long long year stolen many a man’s soul and faith
I was around Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate washed his hands and sealed his fate
Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game

Stuck around St. Petersburg when I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tzar and his ministers; Anastaria screamed in vain
I rode a tank held a gen’rals rank when the blitzkrieg
raged and the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you hope your guess my name, oh yeah
Ah what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched the glee while your kings and queens fought for
ten decades for the Gods they made
I shouted out “who killed the Kennedy’s?” when after all it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I lay traps for troubadors who get killed before they reach Bombay

Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game, oh yeah

Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name
But what’s confusin you is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint

So if you meet me Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, um yeah

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down

Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!

Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame

oh, who
woo, woo
Woo, who
Woo, woo
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Oh, yeah

What’s my name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Tell me, sweetie, what’s my name

Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Woo, who, who
Oh, yeah
Woo woo
Woo woo

Soundgarden fue una de las bandas seminales en la creación del movimiento grunge, principalmente junto con Nirvana. Fue una de un número de bandas que firmó con el sello Sub Pop.
En 1994 publicaron su cuarto álbum de estudio, Superunknown (A&M, 1994) en el que se incluía la canción que puedes ver a continuación, Black Hole Sun, una de las más conocidas de la banda.

Sigue las letras de Black Hole Sun.

In my eyes, in disposed,
In disguise:as no one knows
Hides the face Lies
The snake, the sun
In my disgrace
Boiling heat, Summer stench
‘Neath the black
The sky looks dead
Call my name
Through the cream
And I’ll hear you
Scream again

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain

Black hole sun

Won’t you come
Won’t you come

Stuttering
Cold and damp
Steal the warm wind
Tired friend
Times are gone
For honest men

And sometimes
Far too long
For snakes
In my shoes
A-walking sleep
And my youth
I pray to keep
Heaven send, Hell away
No one sings
Like you anymore

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
Won’t you come

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
Won’t you come

Hang my head
Drown my fear
Till you all just
Disappear

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
And wash away the rain

Black hole sun
Won’t you come
Won’t you come

Skid Row es una banda de heavy metal de New Jersey asociada con el llamado glam metal sobretodo debido a los hits emergentes de su primer album, Skid Row (Atlantic Rec, 1989). La canción que puedes ver ahora es el último de esos singles, I Remember You.

Sigue las letras de I Remember You.

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
The wind would whisper and I’d think of you
And all the tears you cried, that called my name
And when you needed me I came through

I paint a picture of the days gone by
When love went blind and you would make me see
I’d stare a lifetime into your eyes
So that I knew you were there for me
Time after time you were there for me

Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand, I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I’d wanna hear you say, I remember you

We spend the summer with the top rolled down
Wished ever after would be like this
You said I love you babe, without a sound
I said I’d give my life for just one kiss
I’d live for your smile and die for your kiss

Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand, I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I’d wanna hear you say, I remember you

We’ve had our share of hard times
But that’s the price we paid
And through it all we kept the promise that we made
I swear you’ll never be lonely

Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
Washed away a dream of you
But nothing else could ever take you away
‘Cause you’ll always be my dream come true
Oh my darling, I love you

Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand, I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I’d wanna hear you say, I remember you

Remember yesterday, walking hand in hand
Love letters in the sand, I remember you
Through the sleepless nights and every endless day
I’d wanna hear you say, I remember you

La band californiana Ugly Kid Joe no es una banda de grunge estrictamente dicho sino que tocan un rango de estilos que van del rock al metal. Formada en 1989, ya en 1992 consiguieron su primer ramalazo de éxito al llegar al número 3 de las listas de UK con la canción que puedes ver a continuación, Everything About You, la cual fue publicada como single (Mercury, 1992).

Sigue las letras de Everything About You.

I, hate the rain and sunny weather,
and I, hate the beach and moutains too;
(and) I don’t like a thing about the city, no, no
and I, I, I, hate the country side too !
and I, hate everything about you !
.. everything about you !
I don’t like a thing about your mother,
and I, I hate your daddy’s guts too,
I don’t like a thing about your sister, no, no
’cause I, I, I, think sex is overrated too.
and I, get sick when I’m around,
I, can’t stand to be around
I, hate everything about you !
everything about you, everything about you,
everything about you
Some day I got a bad attitude,
but that don’t change the way I feel about you,
If you think all this might be bringing me down,
look again cause I ain’t wearin’ no frown !
I don’t really care about your sister
forget the little bitch ’cause I already kissed her
One thing that I did to your lady
put her on the bed and she didn’t say maybe
I know you know everybody knows
the way it comes, the way it goes
you think it’s sad well that’s too bad
’cause I’m havin’ a ball and never cared a thing about
you
Everything about you, everything about you
I get sick when I’m around
I can’t stand to be around
I hate everything about you

Marylin Manson es tal vez la banda más conocida de música metal-industrial también por sus extremas actuaciones. En el año 2003 publicaron el álbum The Golden Age of Grotesque (Interscope, 2003), cuya canción más exitosa siguiendo al single mOBSCENE es la que puedes ver en el siguiente vídeo, “This is the new shit”.
http://www.dailymotion.com/videoxbpp52

Sigue las letras de la canción “This is the new shit“.

Everything has been said before
There’s nothing left to say anymore
When it’s all the same
You can ask for it by name

Babble babble bitch bitch
Rebel rebel party party
Sex sex sex and don’t forget the “violence”
Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
Everybody sing along.
Babble babble bitch bitch
Rebel rebel party party
Sex sex sex and don’t forget the “violence”
Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
Everybody sing,
Are you motherfuckin’ ready
For the new shit?
Stand up and admit,
tomorrow’s never coming.
This is the new shit.
Stand up and admit.
Do we get it? No.
Do we want it? Yeah.
This is the new shit,
Stand up and admit.

Babble babble bitch bitch
Rebel rebel party party
Sex sex sex and don’t forget the “violence”
Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
Everybody sing along.
Everything has been said before
There’s nothing left to say anymore
When it’s all the same
You can ask for it by name,
Are you motherfuckin’ ready
For the new shit?
Stand up and admit,
tomorrow’s never coming.
This is the new shit.
Stand up and admit.
Do we get it? No.
Do we want it? Yeah.
This is the new shit,
Stand up and admit.

And now it’s “you know who”
I got the “you know what”
I stick it “you know where”
You know why, you don’t care.
And now it’s “you know who”
I got the “you know what”
I stick it “you know where”
You know why, you don’t care.

Babble babble bitch bitch
Rebel rebel party party
Sex sex sex and don’t forget the “violence”
Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
Everybody sing.

Are you motherfuckin’ ready
For the new shit?
Stand up and admit,
tomorrow’s never coming.
This is the new shit.
Stand up and admit.
Do we get it? No.
Do we want it? Yeah.
This is the new shit,
Stand up and admit.

So,
LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
LET US ENTERTAIN YOU…
Blah blah blah blah everybody sing along

Smells like teen spirit fue el primer single del segundo álbum de Nirvana, Nevermind (Geffen Rec, 1991). Fue le inesperado éxito de este single a finales de 1991 lo que propulsó Nevermind a lo más alto de las listas en 1992 y es considerado como el punto donde el rock alternativo entró en el mainstream.

Sigue las letras de Smells like teen spririt a continuación:

Load up on guns and bring your friends
It’s fun to lose and to pretend
She’s over-bored and self-assured
Oh no, I know a dirty word

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey, yay

I’m worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah, hey, yay

And I forget just why I taste
Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it’s hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind

Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello, how low?
Hello, hello, hello

With the lights out, it’s less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido

A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial

Pearl Jam publicó en 1994 el que era su tercer álbum de estudio, Vitalogy (Epic Rec., 1994), que se convertiría en el segundo álbum más rápido vendido en la historia en formato CD. Aunque no fue publicada en single, la canción Nothingman es muy conocida por los seguidores de la banda y, de hecho, incluida en su álbum de grandes éxitos en 2004. Aquí te ofrecemos una versión extendida del tema con arreglos orquestales en el primer minuto.

Sigue las fantásticas letras de Nothingman

once divided…nothing left to subtract…
some words when spoken…can’t be taken back…
walks on his own…with thoughts he can’t help thinking…
future’s above…but in the past he’s slow and sinking…
caught a bolt ‘a lightnin’…cursed the day he let it go…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
she once believed…in every story he had to tell…
one day she stiffened…took the other side…
empty stares…from each corner of a shared prison cell…
one just escapes…one’s left inside the well…
and he who forgets…will be destined to remember…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
oh, she don’t want him…
oh, she won’t feed him…after he’s flown away…
oh, into the sun…ah, into the sun…
burn…burn…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
nothingman…
coulda’ been something…
nothingman…
oh…ohh…ohh…

La banda californiana Queens of the Stone Age alcanzó en 2002 un pico en su carrera con la publicación del disco “Sons for the Deaf” (Interscope, 2002), con Dave Grohl, ex de Nirvana, como batería invitado. El primer single de este álbum fue “No one knows“, vídeo que puedes ver a continuación.

Sigue las letras de la canción “No one knows”

We get some rules to follow
That and this
These and those
No one knows

We get these pills to swallow
How they stick
In your throat
Tastes like gold

Oh, what you do to me
No one knows

And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
Ahh

I journey through the desert
Of the mind
With no hope
I found low

I drift along the ocean
Dead lifeboats in the sun
And come undone

Pleasently caving in
I come undone

And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
Ahhh

Heaven smiles above me
What a gift there below
But no one knows

A gift that you give to me
No one knows