MUSICA: PLAYLIST/MAGGIO

La playlist di Maggio, in anticipo di un giorno, così domani la ascolto in viaggio...


APPLY/GLASSER

01. LOOK INTO THE LIGHT/GRAHAM COXON
(THE SPINNING TOP)
02. A DIAMOND AND A TETHER/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
(THE OPEN DOOR EP)
03. LISZTOMANIA/PHOENIX
(WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX)
04. ANGELA/JARVIS COCKER
(FURTHER COMPLICATIONS)
05. THE LETTER/THE VEILS
(SUN GANGS)
06. PERFECT/DEPECHE MODE
(SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE)
07. BAG OF BONES/THE MACCABEES
(WALL OF ARMS)
08. FRESH BLOOD/EELS
(HOMBRE LOBO)
09. APPLY/GLASSER
(12" A-SIDE)
10. DOORS CLOSING SLOWLY/MANIC STREET PREACHERS
(JOURNAL FOR PLAGUE LOVERS)
11. APRIL/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
(A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY)
12. SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD/MOBY
(WAIT FOR ME)

BONUS TRACKS
HELP I'M ALIVE - ACOUSTIC/METRIC
(FANTASIES PRE-ORDER DIGITAL BUNDLE)
ALL THE BIG TREES/RICEBOY SLEEPS
(RICEBOY SLEEPS)

ASCOLTI: FURTHER COMPLICATIONS/JARVIS COCKER

Direttamente dall'homepage del sito ufficiale, il divertentissimo filmato di Jarvis alle prese con le lettere che compongono il suo nome. Il font è quello usato per il lettering della geniale cover del nuovo album, Further Complications. Ma se l'artwork è un autentico capolavoro nerd, il suono del disco è decisamente più rude: la produzione di Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies) si sente eccome, è addirittura invadente, e spesso sembra rubare la scena ell'ex leader dei Pulp, sovrastando il suo stile elegante ed ironico, e fondamentalmente innocuo. Tra le cose migliori, il singolo Angela (disponibile in download gratuito), la strumentale Pilchard, e la ballata Leftlovers. Decisamente meno godibili, invece, gli episodi più garage (Homewrecker!, Caucasian Blues), nei quali Jarvis sembra un pesce fuor d'acqua.
Decisamente meglio il silenzio del filmato...

FURTHER COMPLICATIONS/JARVIS COCKER ★★

QUALCOSA DEL GENERE: BLUR/BLUR (1997)
BRANO MIGLIORE: PILCHARD

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FRESH BLOOD/EELS

Sun down on the sorry day
By nightlights the children pray
I know you're proably gettin' ready for bed
Beautiful woman, get out of my head
I'm so tired of the same old crud
Sweet baby, I need fresh blood

Whoo! (Howl)

The moon shines on the autumn sky
Growin' cold, the leaves all die
I'm more alone than I've ever been
Help me out of the shape I'm in
After the fires, before the flood
My sweet baby, I need fresh blood

Whoo! (Howl)

Whatever trepidation you may feel
In your heart, you know it's not real
In a moment of clarity
Some little act of charity
You gotta pull me out of this mud
Sweet baby, I need fresh blood

Whoo! (Howl)

ALBUM: HOMBRE LOBO: 12 SONGS OF DESIRE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: JACKIE COLLINS EXISTENTIAL QUESTION TIME/MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Tonight we beg
Tonight we beg the question
If a married man
A married man begs a Catholic
And his wife dies without knowing
Does it make him unfaithful people?

Oh mummy, what's a sex pistol?

Tonight we beg
Tonight we beg the question
If a married man
A married begs a Catholic
Does it mean he has gone to choose?
Or does it mean you owe her nothing?

Oh mummy, what's a sex pistol?


A situation with his sister who is outta control
It separates us with questions in our home

ALBUM: JOURNAL FOR PLAGUE LOVERS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NO KIND WORDS/THE MACCABEES

Diretto da RUTH RENDER & THE MACCABEES

Dear friend of mine has
Broken his union
Broke from tradition
Broken his vision of the future
Alone, alone, alone
Not alone at all

Dear friend of mine is
Testing his body
Tempting disaster, testing water
with another's daughter
Alone, alone, alone
Not alone at all

Dear friend of mine my
Ear is bending
I'm not helping
I'm not telling
I'm not solving
I'm not saying you're pretending
Alone, alone, alone
Not alone at all

Dear friend of mine is
Helpless without helping
Here without
And union fountain

If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all
If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all

ALBUM: WALL OF ARMS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PACKT LIKE SARDINES IN CRUSHD TIN BOX/RADIOHEAD

After years of waiting, nothing came
As your life flashed before your eyes, you realize
I'm a reasonable man, get off, get off, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case
After years of waiting

After years of waiting, nothing came
And you realize you're looking in, looking in the wrong place
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

After years of waiting
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

ALBUM: AMNESIAC (2001)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BANANA CO./RADIOHEAD

Oh, banana co.
We really love you and we need you
And oh, banana co.
We'd really love to believe you, but
Everything's underground
We gotta dig it up somehow

Oh, she said no go
She said she'd like to
She's seen you
But no, banana co.
She knows if you die then we all do
Everything's burning down
We gotta dig it up somehow

Everything's burning down
We gotta put it out somehow

ALBUM: STREET SPIRIT (FADE OUT) (CD2) (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CHEMTRAILS/BECK

I can't believe what we've seen outside
You and me watching the jets go by

Drown by sea, so many people've already drowned
You and me watching a sea full of people
Try not to drown

So many people, so many people
Where do they go?
You and me watching a sky
Full of chemtrails
That's where we belong

All I can take from these skies is hope
But all I can see in this light are boats
Sinking

Down by the sea swallowed by evil
They've already drowned
You and me watching a sea of people
Already drowned

So many people, so many people
Where do they go?
You and me hit by a test of white evil rain
Watching the jet planes go by

You and me watching
You and me watching
The chemtrails is where we belong
That's where we'll be when we die in the slipstream
We'll climb in a hole in the sky

ALBUM: MODERN GUILT (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: COLPO DI PISTOLA/SUBSONICA

Ritorno sui miei passi
E adesso contali bene
Il tempo che è passato
Non è una buona ragione
Ho idea che non mi basti
Lo scambio di un'opinione
E neanche l'imbarazzo
Con cui mi mostri le scuse
La muta del serpente
Nasconde il tuo vero nome
Di chiacchiere suadenti
Sono già stato a lezione
Baciando la fiducia
Con un rasoio a due lame
Hai fatto molta strada
Sacrificato persone

Tutta la tua arrogante danza danza
La sicurezza di chi è sempre a tempo
Il giusto slalom sfavillante e attento
Di chi da sempre intona l'ultima parola

Ti farò male più di un colpo di pistola
È appena quello che ti meriti
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi vergogno dei miei limiti e lividi
Come ti gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi seccare coi tuoi alibi
Alibi

Durante questo tempo
Ho vomitato rancore
Ho ricucito i pezzi
Ricominciato a sperare
Avevi tutto quanto
Anche il mio sogno migliore
Hai preso ciò che serve
Senza ritegno nè onore

Tutta la tua arrogante danza danza
La sicurezza di chi è sempre a tempo
Il giusto slalom sfavillante e attento
Di chi da sempre esige l'ultima parola

Ti farò male più di un colpo di pistola
È appena quello che ti meriti
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi vergogno dei miei limiti e lividi
Come ti gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi seccare coi tuoi alibi
Alibi

Tutta la tua arrogante danza danza
La sicurezza di chi è sempre a tempo
Il giusto slalom sfavillante e attento
Di chi da sempre impone l'ultima parola

Ti farò male più di un colpo di pistola
È appena quello che ti meriti
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi vergogno dei miei limiti e lividi
Come ti gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non mi seccare coi tuoi alibi
Alibi

Come gira dopo un colpo di pistola
Ti vedo un po' a corto di numeri
Ci provo gusto me ne accorgo ed allora
Non ci provare coi tuoi alibi
Alibi

ALBUM: MICROCHIP EMOZIONALE (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHOT IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD/MOBY

Diretto da DAVID LYNCH
DOWNLOAD

ALBUM: WAIT FOR ME (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I WILL LIGHT UP YOUR EYES/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

Won’t you sow
Some light in here
The faintest glow
Is getting near

And I, I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes

And I won’t go
Until I see
The faintest glow
Is enough for me

Cos I, I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes
I will light up your eyes

ALBUM: 12 STORIES DOWN/8 DAYS LATER (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GET IT ON (BANG A GONG)/THE POWER STATION

Well you're dirty and sweet
Clad in black
Don't look back
And I love you
You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah
Well you're slim and you're weak
You got the teeth
Of the hydra upon you
You're dirty sweet
And you're my girl

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

You're built like a car
You got a hubcap diamond star halo
You're built like a truck, oh my
You're an untamed youth
That's the truth
With your cloak full of eagles
You're dirty sweet and you're my girl

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on
Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

Get it on
Bang a gong
Get it on

ALBUM: THE POWERSTATION 33⅓ (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHAKE THE DISEASE/DEPECHE MODE

I'm not going down on my knees begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery and torture for me
When I misunderstood try as hard as you can
I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see how important it is for me

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Understand me
Understand me
Understand me
Understand me

Some people have to be permanently together
Lovers devoted to each other forever
Now I've got things to do and I've said before
That I know you have too when I'm not there
In spirit I'll be there

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Understand me
Understand me
Understand me
Understand me

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these

ALBUM: SHAKE THE DISEASE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GODLESS/THE DANDY WARHOLS

Hey I said you're godless and
It seems like you're a soulless friend
As spotless as you were back then
I swear that you are godless
Hey I guess you're lonely when
I gave you all it took so then
A stranger there is ever been
I guess, it's what you wanted
It seems lonely I would be
I begged, I plead
But this is all that I have gotten
Hey as for the day my friend
To hope that you could ever bend
I swear you are, I swear you are
I swear, that you are godless
Hey I said you're godless
Hey and you're a soulless friend
Hey I said you're heartless
And I swear, I swear
Godless
Godless
you're godless

ALBUM: THIRTEEN TALES FROM URBAN BOHEMIA (2000)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HELP I'M ALIVE - ACOUSTIC/METRIC

DOWNLOAD

I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive

Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help, I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be solved
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse
The pace is on runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still beats
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help, I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be solved
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse
The pace is on runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still beats
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer

TRATTO DA THE RAWSIDE OF...



HELP I'M ALIVE (ALBUM VERSION)

ALBUM: FANTASIES (2009)

ASCOLTI: SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE/DEPECHE MODE

Ho letto tante cose in rete, a proposito del nuovo album dei Depeche Mode: si va, inevitabilmente, da (quasi) capolavoro a disco terribile, passando per ogni possibile diversa sfumatura. In tanti lamentano una mancanza di sperimentazione, di ricerca di nuove trame musicali, mentre altri, altrettanto numerosi, lodano il ritorno a certe atmosfere anni ottanta. Fondamentalmente, credo che dopo tanti anni di carriera, quello che alla fine ci si aspetti davvero da gruppi storici come U2, Cure, ed appunto, Depeche Mode, siano delle belle nuove canzoni da aggiungere al repertorio, da imparare a memoria e magari intonare al prossimo concerto (a giugno, allo stadio Olimpico), ed in questo, i suoni dell'universo, nonostante il titolo un po' megalomane (per la verità vezzo antico di Dave Gahan e Martin Gore), riescono perfettamente: da In Chains al singolo Wrong, da Perfect a Miles Away/The Truth Is, si ascolta, si canta, si sogna. E per me, va bene così.

SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE/DEPECHE MODE ★★★

QUALCOSA DEL GENERE: MUSIC FOR THE MASSES/DEPECHE MODE (1987)
BRANO MIGLIORE: PERFECT

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LISZTOMANIA/PHOENIX

So sentimental
Not sentimental no
Romantic not discussing it
Darling I’m down and lonely
When were the fortunate only?
I’ve been looking for something else
These days it comes it comes
It comes it comes it comes and goes

A Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a ride, like a ride
Not easily offended
Know how to let it go
From the mess to the masses

A Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a ride, like a ride
Not easily offended
Know how to let it go
From the mess to the masses

Fall on this cast in steel
Discuss, discourage
On this best dressed weekend
Ending this love for gentlemen only
Wealthier gentlemen only
Now that you’re lonely
Too late too late too late
She’ll be late too late too late
So go slowly discourage
We’ll burn the pictures instead
When it’s all over we can barely discuss
For one minute only
Not where the fortunate only
But I better be something else
These days it comes it comes
It comes it comes it comes and goes

A Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a ride, like a ride
Not easily offended
Know how to let it go
From the mess to the masses

A Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a ride, like a ride
Not easily offended
Know how to let it go
From the mess to the masses

This is show time, this is show time, this is show time
This is show time, this is show time, this is show time
Time, time is your love, time is your love, yes time is your
Time, time is your love, time is your love, yes time is your

From the mess to the masses
A Lisztomania
Think less but see it grow
Like a ride, like a ride
Discuss, discuss, discuss, discuss, discuss
Discourage

ALBUM: WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT/THE SMITHS

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see lights
Driving in your car
Oh please, don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their home
And I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought: Oh God, my chance has come at last!
But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask

Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Oh I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

There is a light that never goes out

ALBUM: THE QUEEN IS DEAD (1986)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN

Face check I walk this beach
I'm frying in the heat in the cauldron stir me
Chomp down my diamond teeth I ain't got
The simple things in life I feel like
You have got to witness
This is your last retreat
My last repeat

All my friends are as sharp as razors
Cut you down if you touch the faders
High class girls hung in elevators
Now we have got the floor

Get loose get loose

You can't miss me I'm still alive
Snake skin shoes I'm pleading homicide
Come on and feel this I'm still alive
Joker meet you on the other side

Banshie I hear you call
We need to raise the dead
We need to raise the people
Cut throat this blood runs thick
It is true the simple things in life have been lost
You have got to witness
We are the last beatniks
The lost heretics

All my friends are as sharp as razors
Cut you down if you touch the faders
Listen up all you masqueraders
Now we have got the floor
Now we have got the floor

Get loose get loose

You can't miss me I'm still alive
Snake skin shoes I'm pleading homicide
Come on and feel this I'm still alive
Joker meet you on the other side

ALBUM: WEST RYDER PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES

Just give me a second, darling, to clear my head
Just put down those scissors, baby
On the single bed
The sand in the hour glass is running low
I came through thunder, the cold, wind, the rain and the snow
To find you awake by your window sill
A sight for saw eyes, and a view to kill

I broke down in horror at you standing there
The glow from the moon shone through cracks in your hair
I shouted with passion “ I love you so much”
But feeling my skin, it was cold to the touch
You whispered where are you?
I questioned your doubt
But soon realized you were talking to God now

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

I looked in the mirror, but something was wrong
I saw you behind, but my reflection was gone
There was smoke in the fireplace as white as the snow
A voice then came gently “Now it’s time to go”
That record you played, as you beg for forgiveness
“Don’t touch me” I screamed
I’ve got unfinished business

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

You got blood your hands
And I know it’s mine
I just need more time
So get of your low, let’s dance like we used to
But there’s a light in the distance, waiting for me
I will wait for you
So get of your low, let’s kiss like we used to

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OCEAN OF NOISE/ARCADE FIRE

In an ocean of noise
I first heard your voice
Ringing like a bell
As if I had a choice
Well

Left in the morning
While you were fast asleep
Into an ocean of violence
A world of empty streets

You've got your reasons
And me I've got mine
But all the reasons I gave
Were just lies to buy myself some time

In an ocean of noise
I first heard your voice
Now who here among us
Still believes in choice?
Not I

No way of knowing
What any man will do
An ocean of violence
Between me and you

You've got your reasons
And me I've got mine
But all the reasons I gave
Were just lies to buy myself some time

I'm gonna work it out
'Cause time won't work it out
I'm gonna work it out
'Cause time won't work it out for you
I'm gonna work it on out

ALBUM: NEON BIBLE (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MAGNIFICIENT/U2

Magnificent
Magnificent

I was born
I was born to be with you
In this space and time
After that and ever after I haven't had a clue
Only to break rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar

I was born
I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice but to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar

Justified till we die, you and I will magnify
The Magnificent
Magnificent

Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love unites our hearts

Justified till we die, you and I will magnify
The Magnificent
Magnificent
Magnificent

ALBUM: NO LINE ON THE HORIZON (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PERHAPS VAMPIRES IS A BIT STRONG BUT.../ARCTIC MONKEYS

I've seen your eyes as they fix on me what is he doing what on earth is the
Plan has he got one
You better give me some pointers since you are the big rocket launcher and
I'm just the shot gun
I aint got no dollar signs in my eyes that might be a surprise but its true
I'm not like you and I don't want your advice or your praise or to move in
The ways you do

All you people are vampires
All your stories are stale
Though you pretend to stand by us
Though you're certain we'll fail

I've seen you're eyes as they fix on me full of confusion your snarl is just
So condescending
Trying to explain that we're on to a win if the fee we get in near recoups
What we're spending
He said I can't believe that you drove all that way well how much did they
Pay ya how much did they pay ya, you'd have been better to stay round our way
Thinking about things but not actually doing things

ALBUM: WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHE'S A RAINBOW/ROLLING STONES

ASCOLTA

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Everywhere
She comes in colours

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white, so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colours all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

ALBUM: THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST (1967)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: A DIAMOND AND A TETHER/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

ASCOLTA

Pity, take pity on me
Because I'm not half the man that I should be
I'm always turning to run
From the people I should not be afraid of
And darling, you should know
That I have fantasies about being alone
It's like love is a lesson
That I can't learn
So I make the same mistakes at each familiar turn

I know you can't hold out forever
Waiting on a diamond and a tether
From a boy who won't swim
But who will dip his toe in
Just to keep you here with him

I've got this habit I abhor
When we go out, I'm always watching the door
As if there's someone I'm going to see
Who could out-do the things that you do to me

I know you can't hold out forever
Waiting on a diamond and a tether
From a boy who won't fly
But who will take to the skies
If he thinks you're about to say goodbye

Pity, take pity on me
Because I'm not half the man that I should be
And I don't blame you, you've had enough
With all these empty promises and countless bluffs

I know you can't hold out forever
Waiting on a diamond and a tether
From a boy who won't jump
When he falls in love
He just stands with his toes on the edge
And he waits for it to disappear again

ALBUM: THE OPEN DOOR EP (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WE CLOSE OUR EYES/GO WEST

Inside everyone hides one desire
Outside no one would know
Danger close to edge of the knife
Safer not to let go
And while we miss chances
You can almost hear time slipping away

We close our eyes, we never lose a game
Imagination never lets us take the blame
We close our eyes to see the final frame
We close our eyes to time slipping away

No show, Wednesday girl waits with the wine
She knows just what to say
While no one listens
You can almost hear time slipping away

We close our eyes, we never lose a game
Imagination never lets us take the blame
We close our eyes to see the final frame
We close our eyes and

We can talk to strangers
We are burning with the spark
And we can walk on water
We are tigers in the dark
We are burning

We close our eyes

Heroes never give into the night
He knows how far he can run
And as he surrenders
You can almost hear time slipping away

We close our eyes, we never lose a game
Imagination never lets us take the blame
We close our eyes to see the final frame
We close our eyes

We close our eyes, we never lose a game
Imagination never lets us take the blame
We close our eyes to see the final frame
We close our eyes

We close our eyes, we walk on water
Lets us take the blame
We are burning
Talk to strangers

ALBUM: GO WEST (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ESCAPE THE NEST/EDITORS

Buildings in clouds here
Our time and our place dear
Theres life in us yet love
These walls we will climb above

We really our ants now
Escape the nest somehow
I ache for a feeling
You came and you poured it in
It in

Buildings in clouds here
Our time and our place dear
There's life in us yet love
These walls we will climb above
Above

Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights from the town

I'm drained and I'm empty
I've still got love in me
There's eyes in the sky tonight
Watching us lose the fight

We really are ants now
Escape the nest somehow
I ache for a feeling
You came and you poured it in
It in

Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights from the town

Look up
Through the trees to feel as small as you can
You hear the clocks counting down
The nights are longer now than ever before
But now you see the lights of the town

ALBUM: AN END HAS A START (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PERFECT/DEPECHE MODE

On another world by another star at another place and time
In another state of consciousness in another state of mind

Everything was almost perfect
Everything fell into place
That you may reach a different verdict
Before the judge dismissed the case

In a parallel universe that’s happening right now
Things between us must be worse but it’s hard to see just how

And everything could have been perfect
Everything in the right place
Then I wouldn’t have to play the suspect
Accused, abandoned and disgraced

I didn’t choose, I didn’t pull the trigger
It wasn’t me, I’m just a plain and simple singer
I heard the sound, I turned my head around
To watch our love shot down

In a parallel universe that’s happening right now
Things between us must be worse but it’s hard to see just how

And everything is almost perfect
Everything is almost right
There are never any conflicts
There are never any fights

ALBUM: SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STREETWALKER/DELTA SPIRIT

Streetwalker knows how to strut right
She knows the truth
Bad boys walking through the corridor
God knows what they're gonna do

Darkness paraded across the headlines
Little girl stolen from her bedroom
Homeless, beat to death, or put out
Hopeless
Greedy and cruel

Oh why can't I feel for you?
My heart is so black to you

Her head was spinning like a hurricane
Tina was singing her name
Old men like to rape her in the red light
She's too young and numb to complain

Little boy bought at the age of six
Down the street he's wearing a dress
Look at his face, you won't see no innocence
He's got so much experience

Oh why can't I feel for you?
They lie, what can I do?

Oh Love, set me free
Set me free
Come on and set me free

Oh Lord, set me free
Set me free
Come on and set me free

Underground
The german Casanova
Underground
The panamanian queen
He whispers
Down here, the law will never find you
Down here I am your god and king

It's a sin to sit and just do nothing
There's a special place in hell for me
Oh God I just gotta do something
I swear to God this is happening

Oh Love, set me free
Set me free
Come on and set me free

Oh Lord, set me free
Set me free
Oh, it could have been me

Oh Lord, set them free
Set them free
It could have been me

ALBUM: ODE TO SUNSHINE (2008)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/APRILE

La playlist della primavera, speriamo...


VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN

01. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2
(NO LINE ON THE HORIZON)
02. DANIEL/BAT FOR LASHES
(TWO SUNS)
03. INVADERS MUST DIE/PRODIGY
(INVADERS MUST DIE)
04. VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN
(WEST RYDER PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM)
05. TRASHCAN/DELTA SPIRIT
(ODE TO SUNSHINE)
06. OH! VANITY/THE CHARLATANS
(YOU CROSS MY PATH)
07. BATTLE FOR THE SUN/PLACEBO
(BATTLE FOR THE SUN)
08. UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
09. BLACK HEARTED LOVE/PJ HARVEY
(A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY)
10. BLINDNESS/METRIC
(FANTASIES)
11. MANY SHADES OF BLACK/THE RACONTEURS FEATURING ADELE
(MANY SHADES OF BLACK/SINGLE)
12. KISS MY NAME/ANTHONY AND THE JOHNSONS
(THE CRYING LIGHT)

BONUS TRACKS

VENETIAN HAUTBOY/BEATRICE ANTOLINI
(IL PAESE È REALE)
RUNNING TO STAND STILL/ELBOW
(WAR CHILD PRESENTS HEROES)

ASCOLTI: A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH

Parliamoci chiaro: per me recensire un nuovo disco di PJ Harvey è un po' come dare un giudizio sul nuovo vestito della tua fidanzata: non le diresti mai che non è bello, e che non le sta bene. Quindi sarò fazioso, lo confesso sin da subito. Detto questo, A Woman A Man Walked By, secondo capitolo della collaborazione con John Parish (dopo Dance Hall At Louse Point del 1996), regala emozioni sin dall'inizio, a cominciare dal primo singolo, Black Hearted Love, che riporta alla mente il suono di metà anni novanta di To Bring You My Love, fino alle variazioni sul tema folk di Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen e The Soldier, con quel banjo che sembra arrivare da New Orleans, o giù di lì. Sui tappeti musicali stesi da Parish, la nostra si diletta con tutto ciò di cui la sua voce è capace: dalla dolcezza di April alla rabbia di Pig Will Not, dall'intensità di Passionless, Pointless alla schizofrenica isteria della title-track, in un'alternanza senza soluzione di continuità di pezzi lenti e riflessivi e veloci e trascinanti. Ecco, l'ho detto, questo vestito le sta d'incanto: come sempre, Polly Jean è bellissima.

A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SOUND AND VISION/DAVID BOWIE

Don't you wonder sometimes
About sound and vision?

Blue, blue, electric blue
That's the color of my room
Where I will live
Blue, blue
Pale blinds drawn all day
Nothing to do, nothing to say
Blue, blue
I will sit right down
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision
And I will sing
Waiting for the gift of sound and vision
Drifting into my solitude
Over my head

Don't you wonder sometimes
About sound and vision?

ALBUM: LOW (1977)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BLACK HEARTED LOVE/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH

Diretto da THE CHAPMAN BROTHERS

I think I saw you in the shadows
I move in closer beneath your windows
Who would suspect me of this rapture?

And who but my black hearted love
And who but my black hearted love

When you call out my name in rapture
I volunteer my soul for murder
I wish this moment here forever

And you are my black hearted love
And you are my black hearted love
In the rain, in the evening I will come again

I'd like to take you
I'd like to take you to a place I know
My black hearted

ALBUM: A WOMAN A MAN WALKED BY (2009)