Manu Chao

[Hippie]

hello everybody ....i`ve just joined this comunity ..like i found a home here :)

i don`t know if it was talking before about this amazing guy, Manu Chao but he`s definatly worth to discuss about his music ...his activizm ...what he have to say through his lyrics is an extra important

this is one of my favourites songs from his first album, Clandestino ....

Solo voy con mi pena
sola va mi condena
correr es mi destino
para burlar la ley
Perdido en el corazón
de la grande Babylon
me dicen el clandestino
por no llevar papel

Pa’ una ciudad del norte
yo me fui a trabajar,
mi vida la dejé
entre Ceuta y Gibraltar.
Soy una raya en el mar
fantasma en la ciudad
mi vida va prohibida
dice la autoridad

Solo voy con mi pena
sola va mi condena
correr es mi destino
por no llevar papel
Perdido en el corazón
de la grande Babylon
me dicen el clandestino
yo soy el quiebra ley

Mano Negra clandestina,
Peruano clandestino,
Africano clandestino,
Marijuana ilegal.

Solo voy con mi pena
sola va mi condena
correr es mi destino
para burlar la ley
Perdido en el corazón
de la grande Babylon
me dicen el clandestino
por no llevar papel

Argelino clandestino,
Nigeriano clandestino,
Boliviano clandestino,
Mano Negra ilegal.



hugs to all ......siempre, paz y amor

[CheGuevara]

Hi,
Welcome to the community. Yeah, that is a good song, as are most of his songs from the Clandestino album, which I think is his best ever. Did you by any chance happen to see him at NYC during the summer? I saw him(only for the last encore song though, it was so fucking crowded they wouldn't let us and thousands of other people in). I was outside listening for most of the concert.

[LiZ]

Welcome Hippie!

you´re absolutely right: Manu Chao is one hell of a great person.
And his great weapon is music!

I´ve tried to study some spanish to understand more Manu and more Che...

I like La Marea, Me gustas tú....and of course King of bongo bong...
I haven´t got his record yet, but I´m searching....


me gustas tú

me gustan los aviones, me gustas tú
me gusta viajar, me gustas tú
me gusta la mañana, me gustas tú
me gusta el viento, me gustas tú
me gusta soñar, me gustas tú
me gusta la mar, me gustas tú
que voy a hacer - je ne sais pas
que voy a hacer - je ne sais plus
que voy a hacer - je suis perdu
que horas son, mi corazón
me gusta la moto, me gustas tú
me gusta correr, me gustas tú
me gusta la lluvia, me gustas tú
me gusta volver, me gustas tú
me gusta marihuana, me gustas tú
me gusta colombiana, me gustas tú
me gusta la montaña, me gustas tú
me gusta la noche, me gustas tú
que voy a hacer - je ne sais pas
que voy a hacer - je ne sais plus
que voy a hacer - je suis perdu
que horas son, mi corazón
me gusta la cena, me gustas tú
me gusta la vecina, me gustas tú
me gusta su cocina, me gustas tú
me gusta camelar, me gustas tú
me gusta la guitarra, me gustas tú
me gusta el regaee, me gustas tú
que voy a hacer - je ne sais pas
que voy a hacer - je ne sais plus
que voy a hacer - je suis perdu
que horas son, mi corazón
me gusta la canela, me gustas tú
me gusta el fuego, me gustas tú
me gusta menear, me gustas tú
me gusta la coruña, me gustas tú
me gusta malasaña, me gustas tú
me gusta la castaña, me gustas tú
me gusta guatemala, me gustas tú
que voy a hacer - je ne sais pas
que voy a hacer - je ne sais plus
que voy a hacer - je suis perdu
que horas son, mi corazón


What a great man! he´s trying to make this place anti-violent...
Ít´s pretty ironic, because people came with guns in to his show at Columbia......
I wasn´t there, I´m finnish..

[Hippie]

hola ..thanks for welcome :)

i didn`t saw Manu in NYC but i have the gig recorded (mp3) ...some friend of mine sent to me ....i can hear (feel) a great positive vibes on the stage, as always anyway .....i`ll have to chance to see Manu in my country (Serbia) ..he`s coming here with Radio Bemba in june 01. this year ..still can`t believe he`ll come here :)

and yes ..Manu Chao is the best thing that is happening in this world right now .....me gustas tu is a great great song too ....i like Denia ...ofcourse King of the Bongo is kind of his hymn ;)

hugs to all

(Edited by Hippie at 12:42 am on Mar. 21, 2002)

[azwethinkweiz]

yes, manu is quite amazing. itseems to be just me, but i personally like proxima estacion better than clandestino... hmmmm.....
recently i just returned form a trip to paris and heard "mr. bobby" in a sidewalk cafe. it being my favorite song, caused a large amount of excitement on my part.

[Ho]

Hi hippie read my post on punk and youll see my response to these se ya

[Maaja]

Do you know in which language Denia is? I really like this song, although I don't understand it's words.

[Hayduke]

I greet you comrade.........

Cheers

D-Day

[CheGuevara]

I haven't looked into this intensively, so I'm not sure if it's right, but I've heard that Denia is in Arabic, and that it means 'poor.' You can definitely make out the word 'Algeria' in the song, so that makes a bit of sense, singing 'poor Algeria'.

[Maaja]

Thanks. I am going to listen it carefully now. Actually I think that it doesn't sound very much like Arabic, I do have Arab music at home and the pronounciation etc is different... I thought myself that maybe it's some slavic language, not Russian of course but another. I have to find it out!

[CheGuevara]

Yeah, I originally thought it was Russian too. I JUST looked around on the internet, and most places say that it's in Arabic. Hehehe, we have to remember that it's a Spaniard who grew up in France singing in Arabic, so....

[Maaja]

... so his pronounciation can be weird and very wrong! It's extremely difficult to pronounce Arabic without having it as your first language, I guess...

[Vertigo]

It's an amazing song an amazing album, although I better liked 'Clandestino', didn't you?