LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LIVE FOREVER/OASIS

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breath
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

Maybe I don't really want to know
How your garden grows
I just want to fly Lately did you ever feel the pain
In the morning rain
As it soaks it to the bone

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I want to be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
We're gonna live forever
Gonna live forever
Live forever
Forever

ALBUM: DEFINITELY MAYBE (1994)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NOT FAIR/LILY ALLEN

Oh, he treats me with respect
He says he loves me all the time
He calls me fifteen times a day
He likes to make sure that I'm fine
You know I've never met a man
Who's made me feel quite so secure
He's not like all them other boys
They're all so dumb and immature
There's just one thing that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed, you're just no good, it's such a shame
I look into your eyes, I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over

It's not fair and I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh, you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream
Oh, it's not fair and it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh, you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah, all you do is take

Oh, I lie here in the wet patch
In the middle of the bed
I'm feeling pretty damn hard done by
I spent ages givin' head
Then I remember all the nice things
That you've ever said to me
Maybe I'm just overreacting
Maybe you're the one for me
There's just one thing that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed you're just no good, it's such a shame
I look into your eyes, I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over

It's not fair and I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh, you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream
Oh, it's not fair and it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh, you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah, all you do is take

There's just one thing that's getting in the way
When we go up to bed you're just no good, it's such a shame
I look into your eyes, I want to get to know you
And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over

It's not fair and I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
I think you're really mean
Oh, you're supposed to care
But you never make me scream
You never make me scream
Oh, it's not fair and it's really not ok
It's really not ok
It's really not ok
Oh, you're supposed to care
But all you do is take
Yeah, all you do is take

ALBUM: IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SE TELEFONANDO/DELTA V

Lo stupore della notte
Spalancata
Sul mar
Ci sorprese che eravamo sconosciuti
Poi nel buio le tue mani
D'improvviso
Sulle mie...
É cresciuto troppo in fretta
Questo nostro
Amor

Se telefonando io potessi dirti addio
Ti chiamerei
Se io rivedendoti fossi certa che non soffri
Ti rivedrei
Se guardandoti negli occhi sapessi dirti basta
Ti guarderei
Ma non so spiegarti
Che il nostro amore appena nato
É già finito
Se telefonando io volessi dirti addio
Ti chiamerei
Se io rivedendoti fossi certa che non soffri
Ti rivedrei
Se guardandoti negli occhi sapessi dirti basta
Ti guarderei
Ma non so spiegarti
Che il nostro amore appena nato
É già finito

ALBUM: SPAZIO (1998)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BROKEN LOVE SONG/PETER DOHERTY

Take a broken love song
Keep it by your side
Never be lonely
Find a place to hide

By the west way
Inside the scrubs
How long must we wait
For they're killing us
Killing us

They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
Still

Through my cell window
Hear the loft boys sing
Come on you r's
Carried on the wind

Every morning
I'll be singing
Like a caged bird who might say
John, Paul, George and Ringo
Help me pass the hours away

Free as a bird
Would I be
Another dawn creeps up on me
On me

They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
Still

Letters from faceless haters
That'd love to
See my swinging in my cell
Oh, I never saw a man
Who looked like such a wistful eye
Upon the little tent of blue prisoners
Call the sky

They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
They are the loneliest
Still

ALBUM: GRACE/WASTELANDS (2009)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/LUGLIO

Mi porto avanti col lavoro: in leggero anticipo, ecco la playlist di Luglio, tanto data ed ora del mio iPod non le ho mai aggiornate, non se ne accorgerà neanche...


RETURN OF THE WHITE RABBIT/ASH

01. FUN THAT WE HAVE/JULIAN PLENTI
(JULIAN PLENTI IS... SKYSCRAPER)
02. UNDERDOG/KASABIAN
(WEST RYDER PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM)
03. BROKEN LOVE SONG/PETER DOHERTY
(GRACE/WASTELANDS)
04. EVERY TIME/OI VA VOI
(TRAVELLING THE FACE OF THE GLOBE)
05. FUNNY THE WAY IT IS/DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
(BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING)
06. THE RAKE'S SONG/THE DECEMBERISTS
(THE HAZARDS OF LOVE)
07. NEW HEAT/STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS
(THE BIRTH)
08. RETURN OF WHITE RABBIT/ASH
(THE A-Z SINGLES SERIES: RETURN OF THE WHITE RABBIT)
09. PEACE/DEPECHE MODE
(SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE)
10. DEVIL IN THE DETAILS/PLACEBO
(BATTLE FOR THE SUN)
11. REVENGE/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS
(DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL)
12. THE LONGING/EELS
(HOMBRE LOBO: 12 SONGS OF DESIRE)
13. THE WHALE SONG/MODEST MOUSE
(NO ONE'S FIRST AND YOU'RE NEXT)
14. CONTROLLING CROWDS/ARCHIVE
(CONTROLLING CROWDS)

BONUS TRACKS

SUNDAY MORNING/BECK
(RECORD CLUB: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO)
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN/NOUVELLE VAGUE
(NOUVELLE VAGUE 3)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PARANOID ANDROID/RADIOHEAD

Diretto da MAGNUS CARLSSON

Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don't you remember my name?
I guess he does

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That's it, sir
You're leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children
God loves his children

ALBUM: OK COMPUTER (1997)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WALKING WITH THEE/CLINIC

As you climb up the stairs and come back forever
Summer's in the house, untamed it was
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee

A million joys, a million joys here
You could set your watch, how untamed it was
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
No
No
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

As you climb up the stairsand come back forever
Summer's in the house, oh untamed it was

Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee

And melody of joys and
You can set your watch
Whil hunting new words

Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee

And with us, oh no
You get good affection
You can set your watch
Or hunting new words

Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
No
No
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

If you climb off the stairs
And come back forever
Someone's in my house or
Hunting new words

Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee
Walking with thee

ALBUM: WALKING WITH THEE (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BAD DAY/R.E.M.

A public service announcement followed me home the other day
I paid it nevermind
Go away
Shits so thick you could stir it with a stick-free Teflon whitewashed presidency
We're sick of being jerked around
Wear that on your sleeve

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord
Count your blesings
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down

Have you ever seen the televised St. Vitus subcommittee prize
Investigation dance
Those ants in pants glances
Well, look behind the eyes
It's a hallowed hollow anesthetized
Save my own ass, screw these guys
smoke and mirror lock down

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord
Count your blessings
The papers wouldn't lie
I sigh, not one more

It's been a bad day
Please don't take a picture
It's been a bad day
Please

We're dug in deep the price is steep
The auctioneer is such a creep
The lights went out, the oil ran dry
We blamed it on the other guy

Sure, all men are created equal
Heres the church, heres the steeple
Please stay tuned-we cut to sequel
Ashes to ashes, we all fall down

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord
Count your blessings
Ignore the lower fear
Ugh, this means war

It's been a bad day
Please don't take a picture
It's been a bad day
Please

Broadcast me a joyful noise unto the times, lord
Count your blessings
We're sick of being jerked around
We all fall down

It's been a bad day

ALBUM: IN TIME: THE BEST OF R.E.M. 1988-2003 (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WOLF LIKE ME/TV ON THE RADIO

Say say my playmate
Won't you lay your hands on me
Mirror my malady
Transfer my tragedy

Got a curse I cannot lift
Shines when the sunset shifts
When the moon is round and full
Gotta bust that box gotta gut that fool

My mind's aflame
We could jet in a stolen car
But I bet we wouldn't get too far
Before the transformation takes
And blood lust tanks and crave gets slaked

My mind has changed
My body's frame, but God I like it
My heart's aflame
My body's strained but God I like it

My mind has changed
My body's frame, but God I like it
My heart's aflame
My body's strained but God I like it

Charge me your day rate
I'll turn you out in kind
When the moon is round and full
Gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your Mongrel mind

Baby doll I recognize
You're a hideous thing inside
If ever there were a lucky kind it's
You you you you

I know its strange, another way to get to know you
You'll never know unless we go, so let me show you
I know its strange, another way to get to know you
We've got to move, here comes the moon
So let it show you, show you now

Dream me, oh dreamer
Down to the floor
Open my hands and let them
Weave onto yours

Feel me, completer
Down to my core
Open my heart and let it
Bleed onto yours

Feeding on fever
Down on all fours
Show you what all the
Howlin's for

Hey hey my playmate
Let me lay waste to thee
Burned down their hanging trees
It's hot (here) hot (here) hot (here) hot (here)

Got a curse we cannot lift (We're howling forever)
Shines when the sunshine shifts (We're howling forever)
There's a cure comes with a kiss
The bite that binds the gift that gives (We're howling forever)

Now that we got gone for good
Writhing under your riding hood (We're howling forever)
Tell your gra'ma and your mama too
It's true true true true
We're howling forever

ALBUM: RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ORDINARY WORLD/DURAN DURAN

Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue
Thought I heard you talking softly
I turned on the lights, the TV and the radio
Still I can't escape the ghost of you
What has happened to it all?
Crazy some'd say
Where is the life that I recognize?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Passion or coincidence once prompted you to say
Pride will tear us both apart
Well now pride's gone out the window cross the rooftops
Run away
Left me in the vacuum of my heart
What is happening to me?
Crazy some'd say,
Where is my friend when I need you most?
Gone away

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Just blown away

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Here today
Forgot tomorrow
Here besides the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

But I won't cry for yesterday
There's an ordinary world
Somehow I have to find
And as I try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

Every world is my world
(I will learn to survive)
Any world is my world
(I will learn to survive)

ALBUM: DURAN DURAN (THE WEDDING ALBUM) (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: COFFEE & TV/BLUR

Diretto da HAMMER & TONGS

Do you feel like a chain store?
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full but your empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin' blind
And I'm brain dead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
'Cause of who you are

Your ears are full of the language
There's wisdom there you're sure
'Til the words start slurring
And you can't find the door

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin' blind
And I'm brain dead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin' blind
And I'm brain dead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again
Oh, we could start over again

ALBUM: 13 (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE WHALE SONG/MODEST MOUSE

I guess I am a scout
And I should find a way out
So everyone can find a way out

They keep us in
To pull us out
I'm rising up
Wish I was sinking down
And it's not like
There was warning
We were happy
And it's not like
There was mourning
In the warning

I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

Instead of seeing a neighbour out
God I wish I would've found a way out
It's the last time
That we were happy
Ever happy

I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

Well I know I was a scout
I should've found a way out
So everyone can find a way out

ALBUM: AUTUMN BEDS 7" SINGLE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FUNNY THE WAY IT IS/DAVE MATTHEWS BAND

Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens pass in fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down on a day like this

The evening comes and we're hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing
"Why can't we be friends?"
Someone is screaming and crying in the apartment upstairs

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song

The way your mouth feels in your lover's kiss
Like a pretty bird on the breeze or water to a fish
A bomb blast brings the building crashing to the floor
Hear the laughter while the children play war

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

Watch the sky, a jet plane so far out of my reach
Is there someone up there looking down on me?
A boy sees a bird, so close but every time
He'll never catch her but he can't stop trying

Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out
Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
On a soldier's last breath, his baby's being born

Funny the way it is
Not right or wrong
Somebody's broken heart becomes your favorite song
Funny the way it is
If you think about it
One kid walks ten miles to school, another's dropping out

Standing on a bridge
Watch the water passing underneath
It must have been much harder when there was no bridge, just water
Now the world is small
Remember how it used to be
With mountains and oceans and winters and rivers and stars

ALBUM: BIG WHISKEY AND THE GROOGRUX KING (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEEPER UNDERGROUND/JAMIROQUAI

You know they gonna bring him down
They gonna wreck it down
Something's come to rock me
And I can't keep my head
I get nervous in the New York City streets
Where my legacy treads
I know I'm better off standing in the shadows
Far from humans with guns
But now it's too late, there's no escape
From what they have done, c'mon

I'm going deeper underground
There's too much panic in this town
I'm going deeper underground
There's too much panic in this town
I'm going deeper underground
But I got to go deeper, got to go much deeper
They gonna wreck it down
Step do
Hey we're gonna bring it down

Some people with a pocket full of money
And an eye full of hate
Take a pleasure in destruction
Of the very thing that they tried to create
Somebody tell me why does all
Mankind only tamper and touch
Have a habit where they bite off
More they can chew
And now it's too much

I'm going deeper underground
There's too much panic in this town
I'm going deeper underground
There's too much panic in this town
I'm going, I'm going, I'm going
Deeper underground
I'm going, I'm going, I'm going
Deeper underground

Something's come to rock me
And I can't keep my head
I get nervous in the New York City streets
Where my legacy treads
I know I'm better off standing in the shadows
Far from humans with guns
But now it's too late, there's no escape
From what they have done

I'm going deeper underground
I'm going, I'm going
I'm going deeper underground
Got to go deep
I'm going deeper underground
Got to get down now
I'm going, I'm going

ALBUM: GODZILLA: THE ALBUM (1998)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STRIPPED/DEPECHE MODE

Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You're breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you speaking just for me)
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you crying just for me)

ALBUM: BLACK CELEBRATION (1986)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE

Diretto da PATRICK DAUGHTERS

Wrong
Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong

There’s something wrong with me
Cannot be something wrong with me
Inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong jeans
I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
It was the wrong plan
In the wrong hands
With the wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong lies, on the wrong vibes
The wrong questions with the wrong replies
Wrong
Wrong

I was marching to the wrong drum
With the wrong scum
Pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines
And the wrong signs
With the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
Made the wrong move, every wrong night
With the wrong tune played till it sounded right yeah
Wrong
Wrong

Too long
Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique

ALBUM: SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GLÓSÓLI/SIGUR RÓS

Diretto da ARNI & KINSKI

Nú vaknar þú
Allt virðist vera breytt
Ég gægist út
En er svo ekki neitt

Úr-skóna finn svo
Á náttfötum hún
Í draumi fann svo
Ég hékk á koðnun

Með sólinni er hún O
Og er hún, inni hér

En hvar ert þú?

Legg upp í göngu
Og tölti götuna
Sé ekk ert út
Og nota stjörnurnar
Sit ur endalaust hún
Og klifrar svo út

Glósóli-leg hún
Komdu út

Mig vaknar draum-haf
Mitt hjartað, slá
Úfið hár

Sturlun við fjar-óð
Sem skyldu-skrá

Og hér ert þú

Fannst mér

Og hér ert þú
Glósóli

Og hér ert þú


(Sole Ardente)

Ora sei sveglia
Tutto sembra diverso
Mi guardo intorno
Ma non c'è niente

La trovo scalza
Lei è ancora in pigiama
Poi in un sogno
Mi appendo ad una delusione

Lei è con il sole
Ed è qui, dentro

Ma dove sei?

Parte per un viaggio
Vaga per le strade
Non riesce a vedere la via d'uscita
E così interroga le stelle
Lei si siede ed aspetta l'eternità
E poi sale

Sole ardente, come lei
Usciamo

Mi sveglio sognando l'oceano
Il mio cuore batte
I capelli scompigliati

Una grande pazzia
A cui non posso rinunciare

E tu ci sei

Io sento

E tu ci sei
Sole ardente

E tu ci sei

ALBUM: TAKK... (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNBELIEVABLE/EMF

You burden me with your questions
You'd have me tell no lies
You're always asking what it's all about
But don't listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough
But when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

The things you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say
You're unbelievable

You burden me with your problems
By telling me more than mine
I'm always so concerned
With the way you say
You've always go to stop
To think of us being one
Is more than I ever know
But this time, I realize
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

The things you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say
You're unbelievable

Seemingly lastless, don't mean
You can ask us
Pushing down the relative
Bringing out your higher self
Think of the fine times
Pushing down the better few
Instead of bringing out the clues
To want the world and everything your asked to
Brace yourself with the grace of ease
I know this world ain't what it seems

You burden me with your questions
You'd have me tell no lies
You're always asking what it's all about
But don't listen to my replies
You say to me I don't talk enough
But when I do I'm a fool
These times I've spent, I've realized
I'm going to shoot through
And leave you

The things you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say
It's why I love you more
The things you say
Your purple prose just gives you away
The things you say
You're unbelievable

You're so unbelievable

ALBUM: SCHUBERT DIP (1991)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RAPE ME/NIRVANA

Rape me
Rape me my friend
Rape me
Rape me again

I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one

Hate me
Do it and do it again
Waste me
Rape me my friend

Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?

My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open sores
Appreciate your concern
You'll always stink and burn

Rape me
Rape me my friend
Rape me
Rape me again

I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one

Rape me

ALBUM: IN UTERO (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WALK AWAY/FRANZ FERDINAND

I swapped my innocence for pride
Crushed the end within my stride
Said I'm strong now I know that I'm a leaver
I love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds a blackened tear
And I am cold
Yes, I'm cold
But not as cold as you are
I love the sound of you walking away

Why don't you walk away?
Why don't you walk away?
No buildings will fall down
Why don't you walk away?
No quake will split the ground
Why don't you walk away?
The sun won't swallow the sky
Why don't you walk away?
Statues will not cry
Why don't you walk away?

I cannot turn to see those eyes
As apologies may rise
I must be strong and stay an unbeliever
And love the sound of you walking away
Mascara bleeds into my eye
I'm not cold
I am old
At least
As old as you are

As you walk away?
As you walk away?
My headstone crumbles down
As you walk away
The Hollywood winds a-howl
As you walk away
The Kremlin's falling
As you walk away
Radio Four is static
As you walk away

The stab of stiletto
On a silent night
Stalin Smiles
Hitler laughs
Churchill claps
Mao Tse Tung
On the back

ALBUM: YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ARMY OF ME/BJÖRK

Diretto da MICHEL GONDRY

Stand up
You've got to manage
I won't sympathize
Any more

And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me

You're alright
There's nothing wrong
Self-sufficience, please
And get to work

And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
Army of me

You're on your own now
We won't save you
Your rescue squad
Is too exhausted

And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me

And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
And if you complain once more
You'll meet an army of me
Army of me

ALBUM: POST (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: COLD/THE CURE

Scarred
Your back was turned
Curled like an embryo
Take another face
You will be kissed again
I was cold as I mouthed the words
And crawled across the mirror

I wait
Await the next breath
Your name
Like ice into my heart

A shallow grave
A monument to the ruined age
Ice in my eyes
And eyes like ice don't move
Screaming at the moon
Another past time

Your name
Like ice into my heart

Everything as cold as life
Can no-one save you?
Everything
As cold as silence
And you will never say a word

Your name
Like ice into my heart

ALBUM: PORNOGRAPHY (1982)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE RAKE'S SONG/THE DECEMBERISTS

I had entered into a marriage
In the summer of my twenty-first year
And the bells rang for our wedding
Only now do I remember it clear
Alright, alright, alright

No more a rake and no more a bachelor
I was wedded and it whetted my thirst
Until her womb start spilling out babies
Only then did I reckon my curse
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

First came Isaiah with his crinkled little fingers
Then came Charlotte and that wretched girl Dawn
Ugly Myfanwy died on delivery
Mercifully taking her mother along
Alright, alright, alright

What can one do when one is a widower
Shamefully saddled with three little pests
All that I wanted was the freedom of a new life
So my burden I began to divest
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove
Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath
Isaiah fought but was easily bested
Burned his body for incurring my wrath
Alright, alright, alright

And that's how I came your humble narrator
To be living so easy and free
I expect that you think that I should be haunted
But it never really bothers me
Alright, alright, alright
Alright, alright, alright

ALBUM: THE HAZARDS OF LOVE (2009)

ASCOLTI: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE

ASCOLTA

Che la EMI, tra le major, sia quella che di internet, del file sharing e delle potenzialità della rete ci ha capito meno (praticamente nulla) di tutte, questo già si sapeva: non a caso i Radiohead, proprio dopo aver lasciato senza rimpianti la casa discografica britannica, pubblicarono in rete (gratis, o quasi) In Rainbows, dimostrando all'industria musicale che nell'era del web si può fare benissimo anche da soli. Questa volta, invece, a farsi beffe delle Electric and Musical Industries, sono gli Sparklehorse: dalla collaborazione tra Mark Linkous e Brian Joseph Burton, al secolo Danger Mouse (ideatore del progetto Gnarls Barkley e produttore, tra gli altri, di Beck), nasce infatti Dark Night Of The Soul, concept album ricco di collaborazioni eccellenti, arricchitto dall'artwork del regista David Lynch. Ma alla EMI, questo incontro di grandi personalità artistiche deve aver messo paura, al punto che, esattamente come aveva fatto qualche anno fa con un'altra iniziativa di Danger Mouse, il bootleg The Grey Album (irriverente mash-up tra il White Album dei Beatles ed il Black Album di Jay-Z), decide di andare per vie legali, impedendo l'uscita del disco. Un vero peccato, devono aver pensato Linkous e Burton, che hanno deciso, con una trovata decisamente geniale, di mettere comunque in vendita la parte visuale di Dark Night Of The Soul, ovvero il libro di foto scattate da Lynch, insieme ad un cd vuoto, da masterizzare sul pc di casa: tanto in rete, si sa, le canzoni si trovano facilmente... Il libro è caro, 50 dollari (ma c'è chi dice che ne valga la pena), ma per 10 verdoni si può avere il poster, sempre corredato da un CD vergine. Ecco quindi che il gioco è fatto: chi lo vorrà potrà comunque ascoltare questo lavoro, con buona pace invece di chi, nel grigio isolamento dei piani alti della City, mantenendo un atteggiamento bieco ed indisponente nei confronti delle nuove possibilità di distribuzione della musica, finirà per rimanerne (giustamente) travolto. Fin qui la storia, una sorta di Davide contro Golia dei giorni nostri, della forma di questo progetto. Ora, perchè no, due parole sul contenuto: probabilmente il miglior disco uscito quest'quest'anno, almeno fino ad adesso. Il folk-rock degli Sparklehorse, impregnato del talento dei Flaming Lips (la splendida ballata Revenge), di Julian Casablancas (Little Girl), di Iggy Pop (Pain), di Nina Persson (Daddy's Gone), di Suzanne Vega (The Man Who Played God), e scandito dai ritmi di Danger Mouse, diventa epico ed evocativo, alternando momenti di cupa durezza ad altri di toccante intimismo, pur mantenendo costantemente un'atmosfera oscura ed intrigante, tanto che sembra di vederle, le immagini di David Lynch, scorrere sullo schermo della mente. Un po' come era accaduto, più di dieci anni fa, con Psyence Fiction degli UNKLE: nonostante dietro ad ogni pezzo ci siano voci e storie diverse, il risultato finale è un'unica, omogenea, compatta sensazione di insieme.

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE ★★★★

QUALCOSA DEL GENERE: PSYENCE FICTION/UNKLE (1998)
BRANO MIGLIORE: REVENGE (FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOVE YOU BETTER/THE MACCABEES

Better
Get another coal on the fake fire cover on the wet tiles
On the wet tiles
Better
Running out of of time is gonna cost you more than just your sweet smile
To a sweet smile

And I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

Headway
Learn to love a thriller so the words you leave me on my pillow read better
Cheap card forever
Headway
Can pull it apart and in time you see it's going better than ever
It's going better than ever harder for safe guard in your bed clothes

I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better
I will love you better

And the thought and the thought and the thought of you
I thought we'd be doing the fateful few together, together
And I'd thought that you might feel the same
With your insect skin and my lions mane
And be you
To be you

And the thought of you was crystal clear
I could warn myself or bin you dear
It could of been you, could of been you

To be you

ALBUM: WALL OF ARMS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: REVENGE/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS

Pain
I guess it's a matter of sensation
But somehow
You have ways of avoiding it all

In my mind
I have shot you and stabbed you through your heart
I just didn't understand
The ricochet is the second part

Cause you can't hide
What you intend
It glows in the dark
Once you've sought
The path of revenge
There's no way to stop
And the more I try to hurt you
The more that it hurts me

Strange
It seems like a character mutation
Though I have all the means
of bringing you fuckers down
I can't make myself
To destroy upon command
Somehow forgiveness
lets the evil make a loss

No you can't hide
What you intend
It glows in the dark
Once we become
The thing we dread
There's no way to stop
And the more I try to hurt you
The more it backfires
The more it backfires
The more that it backfires

ALBUM: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WHERE I END AND YOU BEGIN/RADIOHEAD

There's a gap in between
There's a gap where we meet
Where I end and you begin

And I'm sorry for us
The dinosaurs roam the earth
The sky turns green
Where I end and you begin

I am up in the clouds
I am up in the clouds
And I can't and I can't come down

I can watch but not take part
Where I end and where you start
Where you, you left me alone
You left me alone

X will now mark the place
Like the parting of the waves
Like a house falling into the sea
Into the sea

I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive

There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies

I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive

And there'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies

I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive
I will eat you all alive

ALBUM: HAIL TO THE THIEF (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EVERY TIME/OI VA VOI

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Every time I see your face I know the love that lies and waits for me
And every time I look at you your eyes they say the same thing back to me
And every time I look above
I see and learn and know there's something waiting for me

Every tear in your eye
Is a drop in my mind
As I know that you love
As I know that you love

Every time you go away I lie beside a cold and empty space
And every time I turn a page your hands begin to fall down from your face
And every time I look above
I see and learn and know there's something waiting for me

Every tear in your eye
Is a drop in my mind
As I know that you love
As I know that you love

ALBUM: TRAVELLING THE FACE OF THE GLOBE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: INTRODUCING PALACE PLAYERS/MEW

All I say we do
Whatever you said that you do
You gotta get back up yourself
We know so much
So much we do
No answer
In a word you were told
That he fixed your shaky hand
And what got made was broken too
Just to field with you
Switching seats with you
Tears us apart
I don't want it to
So peculiar
Fix the two of us
I am not yourself
I don't want it to

Every night turned on grey
What is it that you do?
You gotta get back up yourself
We know so much
So much we do
No answer
In a word you were told
That he fixed your shaky hand
And what got made was broken too
Just to field with you
Switching seats with you
Tears us apart
I don't want it to
So peculiar
Fix the two of us
I am not yourself
I didn't want it to

Just to grieve with you
Switching seats with you
Tears us apart
I didn't want it to

What are we going to do?
I'd really like if you
Turn out the lights as we planned
It's gonna hurt
I don't want it to

Why did you go?
Lots of different reasons
Does this mean you can't even come?
You think this way
Jumping off the see-saw
Company just wanting to be

Why did you go?
Lots of different reasons
Does this mean you can't even come?
You think this way
Jumping off the see-saw
Company just wanting to be

ALBUM: NO MORE STORIES ARE TOLD TODAY I'M SORRY THEY WASHED AWAY
NO MORE STORIES THE WORLD IS GREY I'M TIRED LET'S WASH AWAY (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEVIL IN THE DETAILS/PLACEBO

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
I got no energy to fight
He's a fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details

And he's fixing up to take a bite
I don't see the point in trying
I got the devil in the details
And he's gonna teach me wrong from right
That fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details
I'm gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Let me take you far a ride
With the devil in the details
We'll kiss and tremble with delight
Everything is fine
With the devil in the details
We're gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details

ALBUM: BATTLE FOR THE SUN (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IMITATION OF LIFE/R.E.M.

Diretto da HAMMER & TONGS

Charades, pop skill
Water hyacinth
Named by a poet
Imitation of life

Like a coin in a frozen pond
Like a goldfish in a bowl
I don't want to hear you cry

That sugarcane that tasted good
That's cinnamon, that's Hollywood
Come on, come on
No one can see you try

You want the greatest thing
The greatest thing since bread came sliced
You've got it all
You've got it sized

Like a Friday fashion show
Teenager freezing in the corner
Trying to look like you don't try

That sugarcane that tasted good
That's cinnamon, that's Hollywood
Come on, come on
No one can see you try

No one can see you cry

That sugarcane that tasted good
That's freezing rain, that's what you could
Come on, come on
No one can see you cry

This sugarcane, this lemonade
This hurricane, I'm not afraid
Come on, come on
No one can see me cry

This lightning storm, this tidal wave
This avalanche, I'm not afraid
Come on, come on
No one can see me cry

That sugarcane that tasted good
That's who you are, that's what you could
Come on, come on
No one can see you cry

That sugarcane that tasted good
That's who you are, that's what you could
Come on, come on
No one can see you cry

ALBUM: REVEAL (2001)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/GIUGNO

Puntualissima, la playlist di Giugno, anche se fuori piove...


MASTER AND SERVANT/NOUVELLE VAGUE

01. FIRE/KASABIAN
(WEST RYDER PAUPER LUNATIC ASYLUM)
02. HEAVY CROSS/GOSSIP
(MUSIC FOR MEN)
03. LEE MAJORS COME AGAIN/BEASTIE BOYS
(CHECK YOUR HEAD COLLECTOR'S VINYL)
04. LAST CHOICE/LOVE IS ALL
(LAST CHOICE EP)
05. INTRODUCING PALACE PLAYERS/MEW
(NO MORE STORIES ARE TOLD TODAY I'M SORRY THEY WASHED AWAY
NO MORE STORIES THE WORLD IS GREY I'M TIRED LET'S WASH AWAY)
06. THE LOOK YOU GIVE THAT GUY/EELS
(HOMBRE LOBO)
07. SATELLITE SKIN/MODEST MOUSE
(SATELLITE SKIN 7" SINGLE)
08. CANDY/PAOLO NUTINI
(SUNNY SIDE UP)
09. LIGHT TRAVELS/SIMPLE MINDS
(GRAFFITI SOUL)
10. KINGS OF SPEED/ARCHIVE
(CONTROLLING CROWDS)
11. TWILIGHT GALAXY/METRIC
(FANTASIES)
12. COME BACK/DEPECHE MODE
(SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE)

BONUS TRACKS

MASTER AND SERVANT/NOUVELLE VAGUE FEAT. MARTIN GORE
(NOUVELLE VAGUE 3)
LOVE LIKE A SUNSET/PHOENIX
(WOLFGANG AMADEUS PHOENIX)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: KINGS OF SPEED/ARCHIVE

Please don't come any closer to me
I feel old like a withered tree
These days are passing eternally
You won't ask me to slow it down
Blurred emotions in the crown of the kings of speed
And all we see in full motion collection
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
Just speed
Silence is golden and seems so pretend
The towering of war machines and men
The falling of lives as we wait in line
We are fading to nothing
Losing the race as they steam ahead
Leaving the trail of the living dead
Moving away
Broken frames push forward then play
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
It's all we're knowing
Silence is golden and seems so pretend
The towering of war machines and men
The falling of lives as we wait in line
We are fading to nothing
Losing the race as they steam ahead
Leaving the trail of the living dead
Moving away
Broken frames push forward then play
Time isn't slowing
Just speed
It's all we're knowing

ALBUM: CONTROLLING CROWDS (2009)