Mecano for Three Tune Tuesday, Week 81 [Esp/Eng]

Saludos nuevamente comunidad Music, hoy martes 13 de Diciembre 2022, estoy de vuelta para un nuevo Three Tune Tuesday, la mejor iniciativa de música en la blockchain Hive, espacio creado por @ablaze, para todos los que amamos la música, así no seamos músicos. Y bueno, como ya es costumbre, pues les traigo otro de mis vinilos, y esta vez es el turno de una gran banda española, se trata de Mecano.

Greetings again Music community, today Tuesday December 13, 2022, I am back for a new Three Tune Tuesday, the best music initiative on the Hive blockchain, a space created by @ablaze, for all of us who love music, even if we are not musicians. And well, as usual, I bring you another of my vinyls, and this time it's the turn of a great Spanish band, it's Mecano.

I think that in Spain and in all of Latin America there will hardly be someone who grew up in the 80's who does not know Mecano, because this pop-rock band had a long career that spanned practically the entire decade of the eighties and early nineties. The aesthetics of the band, the characteristic voice of its main vocalist, Ana Torroja; the stupendous lyrics and the unique and to some extent experimental melodies greatly enriched the music scene of this fabulous decade, and was part of the soundtrack of many people's lives.

I heard Mecano for the first time on a radio station in my city, and if I remember correctly the first song I heard from them was “It's so hard for me to forget you”, a beautiful ballad that talks about heartbreak, mourning What does it feel like when love doesn't give for more? Later, I got to know “Cruz de Navajas”, and also “Son of the Moon”.

This acetate that I am sharing with you today is the fourth production by Mecano, and is entitled “Between the sky and the ground”, an exceptionally good album, both musically and lyrically, and with an Ana Torroja with a more mature and beautiful voice (of course, without losing her characteristic tone). This particular vinyl is a gift that was given to me in 1986, the year of its release; and if you look at its aesthetics it is very particular, because there is a photo of the three members of the band, in gray and blue tones, which occupies the entire cover, and on the right, in longitudinal letters, is the name of the band and the album.

By turning the cover, we can see a white background, where a column made up of photos of the three members of Mecano stands out on the left, starting with Ana Torroja, below is José María Cano and lastly Nacho Cano. Next to the photos, the ten songs of the album are listed, differentiating with huge light yellow letters, Side A and Side B. It also has data on the manufacture of the disc, which as we can see was manufactured by Rodven Discos (in Venezuela ), under license from the Ariola record label, which was Spanish. We can also see the edition date (year 1986), and other data of a legal nature, although this cover is deteriorated as you can see, in fact, the disc, for having lent it, they returned it to me (after much insistence), in a sorry state, including the acetate itself. This taught me that records don't lend.

For today I also wanted to do an exercise in modern archaeology, calculating the cost of the album in US dollars, but this time it won't be possible because the price is illegible, since it was crossed out when he gave it to me. Here you can see that the disc is not in the best condition, however I still keep it because it is a nice memory.

Ahora vamos con mis canciones / Now let's go with my songs

This record is one of Mecano's best, perhaps because at this point, the musical maturity of its three members had reached another level, and they already had accumulated experience in various musical settings in their native Spain and in Europe in general, although they later They projected to all of Latin America. I start my trilogy of songs with the theme Son of the Moon, which tells the story of a pact that a gypsy woman made with the Moon to be able to marry a member of another tribe, a pact that was successful and they married. However, the agreed price was the first-born son of the couple, who at birth did not have the characteristics of either the father or the mother, for which the husband thought it was the result of infidelity, for which he killed the woman and threw the child into the mountains. A tragic story, sung beautifully and poetically, which I really liked for its theme, since at that time I really liked the gypsy people. Here I share a little piece of the lyrics and I leave the video.

My next song is the beautiful “50 words, 60 words or 100”, a delicate ballad in which Ana Torroja's voice is the backing vocals, although Nacho Cano is the main voice. The masterful use of synthesizers and keyboards, plus the game of voices, create something that for me is sublime. This song was almost a premonition of my subsequent divorce, a stage in which I heard it many times (sometimes one self-flagellates). Here I share part of the lyrics, and the audio of the original song under study, the one on the album. There are live versions, but I think Los Mecano got too experimental with it and it doesn't sound as good as the original.

And closing my trio of songs, I have brought you “This cemetery is not serious” , a very good song, whose theme seemed very original and even funny when I heard it for the first time, and the music is great. I remember singing it a lot, and obstinate my parents with the record, because they played it on the record player and if I heard it on the radio, I also turned it up and sang it. Here I also leave a part of his lyrics and the official video, so you can enjoy it.

Este ha sido mi aporte para esta buena iniciativa del amigo @ablaze en su edición número 81, a manera de homenaje a una gran banda española, que hizo muy buena música, con grandes letras, un sonido muy original y experimental, aportando una estética genial durante los 80’s, como fue “Mecano”.

This has been my contribution to this good initiative of my friend @ablaze in its 81st edition, as a tribute to a great Spanish band, who made very good music, with great lyrics, a very original and experimental sound, providing a great aesthetic during the 80's, as was “Mecano”.