LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MODERN WAY/KAISER CHIEFS

I know cause I've seen it
It was great and I want it
Theres no point sitting
Going crazy on my own
Do you know what
I was put here in the world for?
And could you tell me
In three words or more?

It's the only way of getting out of here
It's the only way of getting out of here

Take a lesson
From the ones who have been there
My brain is not damaged
But in need of some repair
Hold on to the basics
But we can change all our tactics
There's no point sitting going crazy on your own

It's the only way of getting out of here
It's the only way of getting out of here

This is the modern way
Faking it everyday
Taking it as they come
We're not the only ones
Is that what we used to say
This is the modern way

I know where I'm going
And that we are in the knowing
And I will stop at nothing
Just to get what I want

It's the only way of getting out of here
It's the only way of getting out of here

This is the modern way
Faking it everyday
Taking it as they come
We're not the only ones
Is that what we used to say
This is the modern way

ALBUM: EMPLOYMENT (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE FLY/U2

Oh, baby child
It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight
They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by a moon
You know I don't see you when she walks in the room
It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help
It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else
They say a secret is something you tell one other person
So I'm telling you child

(Love, we shine like a burning star, we're falling from)
A man will beg (the sky)
A man will crawl (tonight)
On the sheer face of love
Like a fly on a wall
It's no secret at all

It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest
It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success
Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief
All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief

(Love, we shine like a burning star, we're falling from)
A man will rise (the sky)
A man will fall (tonight)
From the sheer face of love
Like a fly from a wall
It's no secret at all

(Love, we shine like a burning star
We're falling from the sky, tonight)

(Love, we shine like a burning star, we're falling from)
A man will rise (the sky)
A man will fall (tonight)
From the sheer face of love
Like a fly from a wall
It's no secret at all

It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
The universe exploded 'cause of one man's lie
Look, I gotta go, yeah I'm running outta change
There's a lot of things, if I could I'd rearrange

ALBUM: ACHTUNG BABY (1991)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FASCINATION STREET (EXTENDED MIX)/THE CURE

Oh, it's opening time
Down on Fascination Street
So let's cut the conversation
And get out for a bit
Because I feel it all fading
And paling and I'm begging you
To drag you down with me
To kick the last nail in
Yeah, I like you in that
Like I like you to scream
But if you open your mouth
Then I can't be responsible
For quite what goes in
Or to care what comes out
So just pull on your hair
Just pull on your pout
And let's move to the beat
Like we know that it's over
If you slip going under
Slip over my shoulder
So just pull on your face
Just pull on your feet
And let's hit opening time
Down on Fascination Street

So pull on your hair
Pull on your pout
Cut the conversation
Just open your mouth
Pull on your face
Pull on your feet
And let's hit opening time
Down on Fascination Street

ALBUM: MIXED UP (1990)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PALOMINO/DURAN DURAN

She lays on the wall watching the strangers drift away
Midday's ore thick with the sun of Arabia
She surrenders her voices they gather on the wind
Talking, chanting, breathing
Into her body
Yesterdays

Awakened beside the scent of burnt sugar
On her skin
Painting eyes thick
With the colors she brings in
Always sure and strong as the lightening tumbles down
Don't you frown
Everything will be in time for this evening

If there's secrets she has to be party to
Everyone of them
If there's Heaven she gets to the heart
And you know
Just why she said
When I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Now I can run to you
Why she said when I run out of blue
Give me rain instead
Now let me run
(Now let me run)

If there's secrets she has to be party to
Everyone of them
If there's Heaven she gets to the heart
And you know
Just why she said
When I run out of blue help me rise instead
Now I can run to you
Why she said when I run out of blue
Give me rain instead
Now let me run
(Now let me run)

Why she said when I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Now I can run to you
Why she said when I run out of blue
Give me rain instead now let me run to you

Why she said when I run out of blue
Help me rise instead
Now I can run to you
Why she said when I run out of blue
Give me rain instead now let me run to you

ALBUM: BIG THING (1988)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BULLETS/ARCHIVE

Come touch me like Im an ordinary man
Have a look in my eyes
Underneath my skin there is violence
Got a gun in its hand
Ready to make sense of anyone anything
Black holes living in the side of your face
Razor wire spinning around your blistering sky, blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I dont know why
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I dont know why
Personal responsibility
Personal response insanity
Confine me let me be the lesser of a beautiful man
Without the blood on his hands
Come and make me a martyr come and break my feeling
With your violence with the gun to my head
Ready to take out anyone anywhere
Black holes living in the side of your face
Razor wire spinning around your heart
Blistering sky blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I dont know why
Bullets are the beauty of the blistering sky
Bullets are the beauty and I dont know why
Personal responsibility
Personal response insanity

ALBUM: CONTROLLING CROWDS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS/EDITORS

Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Left smashed off the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

ALBUM: AN END HAS A START (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHE CAME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/MEW

Don't touch her there
She's blindfolded
She remembers on the bus
Into my heart, don't remember
Like you left us, without notice
Now you've come back
Like you left us, like you owe us
Into my heart

It's not me
It can't be
It's not you
I can't do what I do if it's you
This is not happening

Don't touch her there
She told me
She remembers how it felt
Into my heart, don't remember
Like you left us, without notice

It's not me
It can't be
It's not you
I can't do what I do if it's you
This is not happening

Come home
Come home

It's not me
It can't be
It's not you
I can't do what i do if it's you
This is not happening

It's not me
It can't be
It's not you
I cant' do what I do if we're through
This is not happening

Don't touch her there
He watched her
She knew his look from behind
When she came home for christmas

ALBUM: FRENGERS (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WAY OF THE WORLD/MAX Q

You are born into this world
Looking down the barrel of a gun
And those who hold the gun
Want you to work fast and die young
And if you don't work
If you don't obey
They'll make you live in fear till your dying day
Those who govern hold the gun to your head
With religions, corporations, proud of blood
They've shed

Whether it's god or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

And the corporate snakes coming in to feed
On that pathetic fact known as human greed
Skin and bone being raked over those hot coals
This dump never seems to give time for human soul
And all those things that we have learnt
No time for questions, you'll just get burnt
You'll just get burnt

Whether it's god or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

And those words crush you flat
Like your skull's under a brick
And the fear's so damnned strong
That it makes you sick
And you can see right through those eyes
That make you fear, that make you lie
And you're taught to hold high
Yet you wonder why
Dumb values forced upon you by the living lie
Whether it's god or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

Whether it's god or the bomb
It's just the same
It's only fear under another name

ALBUM: MAX Q (1989)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EVERY DAY IS EXACTLY THE SAME/NINE INCH NAILS

I believe I can see the future
'Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
Then again that might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
And now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
Sometimes I still pretend

I really don't want them to come around

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I'm writing on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping someday you will find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind

I am still inside here
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could have any other way
But I just don't know
I don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

ALBUM: WITH TEETH (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: APPLY/GLASSER

If the walls were too thin
You would break in
If the walls were too thin
You would break right in

Morning

Out in the thunder
Opens my eyes wide
There is something in my mind
Keeps me up at night

When the window
Let's in hot whips of light
Before I feel it's time
To control my mind

Morning

ALBUM: APPLY EP (2009)

CONCERTI: ARSENICO E VECCHI POST

Recupero un paio di vecchie recensioni, pubblicate nel Marzo 2008 su MySpace: si tratta di un concerto dei Cure al Palalottomatica, e di quello di PJ Harvey alla sala Santa Cecilia dell'Auditorium Parco della Musica.

THE CURE/PALALOTTOMATICA/ROMA, 29 FEBBRAIO 2008

PJ HARVEY/AUDITORIUM PARCO DELLA MUSICA, SALA SANTA CECILIA/ROMA, 09 MARZO 2009

POST-IT: RADIOHEAD NEL 2010?

Ed O'Brien ha rivelato che dall'inizio del prossimo anno, la band tornerà in studio per continuare il lavoro interrotto la scorsa estate, quando venne reso disponibile in download il brano inedito These Are My Twisted Words. Secondo il chitarrista, l'atmosfera all'interno del gruppo è fantastica, anche se molto diversa da quella che, dieci anni fa, portò alla realizzazione di Kid A. Del resto, per fortuna, dai Radiohead non c'è mai da aspettarsi due volte lo stesso disco...

THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2009

IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS


PAPILLON

In tanti non l'hanno capito, soprattutto quelli che si aspettavano una replica di An End Has A Start, un po' come successe ai Radiohead nel 2000 con Kid A (oggi considerato da molti il miglior disco del decennio...), al posto del quale parecchia gente avrebbe preferito una fotocopia di Ok Computer, ma In This Light And On This Evening è un lavoro decisamente importante, oscuro e monumentalmente anni ottanta a partire dalla copertina, illustrata in stile art decò, fino ad ogni singolo suono dei brani che lo compongono. La produzione di Flood c'è e si sente, il talento degli Editors pure, e Papillon è già il nuovo inno dei dancefloor alternativi.
Tra le cose migliori di quest'anno anche Dark Night Of The Soul, il progetto di Danger Mouse con Gli Sparklehorse e l'apporto creativo di David Lynch, ed il ritorno dei danesi Mew, con 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.
Una menzione, infine, per i vincitori del sondaggio del blog: secondo i (pochi) lettori che hanno votato, l'album più bello del 2009 è Fantasies, dei canadesi Metric.


LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS



Un ritornello straripante, di quelli che una volta ascoltati, non si dimenticano più. Dal vivo, poi, è assolutamente dirompente. Il brano che i Depeche Mode non hanno mai scritto. Ma gli Editors sì.

LA PLAYLIST DEL 2009

01. INTRODUCING PALACE PALYERS/MEW
02. NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2
03. EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS
04. HELP, I'M ALIVE/METRIC
05. THESE ARE MY TWISTED WORDS/RADIOHEAD
06. CRYING LIGHTNING/ARCTIC MONKEYS
07. WRONG/DEPECHE MODE
08. BLACK HEARTED LOVE/PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH
09. ONLY IF YOU RUN/JULIAN PLENTI
10. LISZTOMANIA/PHOENIX
11. ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND
12. REVENGE/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS
13. THE LOOK YOU GIVE THAT GUY/EELS
14. THE RAKE'S SONG/THE DECEMBERISTS
15. THE WHALE SONG/MODEST MOUSE
16. MISTAKE/MOBY
17. DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP
18. BROKEN LOVE SONG/PETER DOHERTY
19. UNFINISHED BUSINESS/WHITE LIES
20. VLAD THE IMPALER/KASABIAN
21. APPLY/GLASSER
22. BULLETS/ARCHIVE

BONUS TRACKS

MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
ALL FOR THE BEST/THOM YORKE

DOWNLOAD


IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE (Patrick Daughters)



L'inquietante video di Patrick Daughters per il brano dei Depeche Mode, che mostra un uomo mascherato e legato al posto di guida di un'auto lanciata nel traffico in retromarcia, sembra quasi l'intro di una puntata di CSI: peccato che non ci sia stato alcun seguito, e soprattutto che nessuno ci abbia svelato il colpevole...


IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: WHITE LIES


UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Come successe ad Interpol ed Editors, si sono beccati subito l'etichetta di nuovi Joy Division, ma al di là dei facili paragoni, i giovanissimi White Lies hanno debuttato con un disco di buone canzoni pop dalle atmosfere dark, accuratamente suonato, registrato e prodotto. Il che, al giorno d'oggi, non è affatto cosa da poco.


IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP (Roma/Teatro Tendastrisce) 03/12/09


SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS

Quasi un'insolito quanto apprezzato piccolo festival invernale, quello che si è tenuto lo scorso 3 Dicembre al Teatro Tendastrisce di Roma: tre band di ottimo livello al prezzo (onesto, pergiunta) di una. Wintersleep, The Maccabees, ed infine gli Editors, che hanno portato sul palco il nuovo album In This Light And On This Evening con un'esibizione davvero emozionante, da cantare a squarciagola dal primo all'ultimo pezzo.
Molto bello anche il concerto dei Mogwai all'Auditorium, la scorsa estate.


IL LIBRO DELL'ANNO: LA MORTE DI BUNNY MUNRO (The Death Of Bunny Munro)/NICK CAVE (Feltrinelli)



La versione alcolizzata, lo-fi e meno chirurgica di Chuck Palahniuk: Nick Cave, alla sua seconda opera di narrativa, disegna un personaggio comune e straordinario allo stesso tempo. Bunny Munro è ognuno di noi, riflesso nello specchio, la mattina dopo una sbornia presa per dimenticare uno sbaglio.


IL FILM DELL'ANNO: BASTARDI SENZA GLORIA (Inglourious Basterds)/QUENTIN TARANTINO



La somma del cinema di Tarantino, un film sulla guerra senza neanche una vera scena di guerra, a pensarci bene, ma incredibilmente ricco di citazioni (particolarmente gustosa la battuta di Brad Pitt sui combattimenti negli scantinati...) sfumature linguistiche e dettagli feticisti, attraverso il quale il regista riscrive la storia, dando letteralmente alle fiamme il grande schermo.


LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON/Artisti Vari


MEET ME ON THE EQUINOX/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

Ok, il film sarà pure roba da ragazzini, ma la colonna sonora, curata curata dal musicista francese Alexandre Desplat, è da leccarsi i baffi, anche se sporchi di sangue: dai Death Cab For Cutie ai Grizzly Bear, da Thom Yorke agli Editors, dai Muse ai Killers, tutti presenti con brani inediti.


IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: SOGNANDO CONTROMANO/NEFFA


LONTANO DAL TUO SOLE

Forse non sarà un'opera indimenticabile, ma l'ultimo disco di Neffa è decisamente godibile, e ricco di melodie interessanti. Ascoltate dal vivo, poi, le canzoni di Sognando Contromano assumono ancora più carattere, scrollandosi di dosso quell'aria un po' troppo leccata che purtroppo molto spesso caratterizza le produzioni del pop made in Italy.


I VINCITORI DEL 2008:

DISCO: THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT/THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
CANZONE: UNDERNEATH THE STARS/THE CURE
VIDEO: HOUSE OF CARDS/RADIOHEAD (James Frost)
DEBUTTO: GLASVEGAS
CONCERTO: SIGUR RÓS/(Roma/Auditorium)/12/07/08
LIBRO: NINNA NANNA PER PICCOLI CRIMINALI (Lullabies For Little Criminals)/HEATHER O'NEILL (Mondadori)
FILM: IL TRENO PER IL DARJEELING (The Darjeeling Limited)/WES ANDERSON
COLONNA SONORA: THERE WILL BE BLOOD/JOHNNY GREENWOOD
DISCO ITALIANO: AMEN/BAUSTELLE

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SUPERVIXEN/GARBAGE

Come down to my house, stick a stone in your mouth
You can always pull out if you like it too much

Make a whole new religion
A falling star that you cannot live without
And I'll feed your obsessions
There'll be nothing but this thing that you'll never doubt

A hit is hard to resist and I never have missed
I can take you out with just a flick of my wrist

Make a whole new religion
A falling star that you cannot live without
And I'll feed your obsessions
There is nothing but this thing that you'll never doubt
This thing you'll never doubt

And I'll feed your obsessions
The falling star that you cannot live without
I will be your religion
This thing you'll never doubt
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

Bow down to me

ALBUM: GARBAGE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OUT OF CONTROL/THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS

Out of control

Sometimes I feel that I'm misunderstood
The river's running deep right through my blood
Your naked body's lying on the ground
You always get me up when I'm down
And it always seems we're running out of time
We're out of control
Out of control
Out of control
It may be that I'm just scared of losing you
Or maybe it's the things you make me do
It seems to me we both should hang around
And raise the population of this town
And it always seems we're running out of time
We're out of control
Out of control
Out of control
Out of control
But it doesn't mean we're too far down the line
We're out of control
Out of control
We're out of control
Out of control

ALBUM: SURRENDER (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: POSTER OF A GIRL/METRIC

Can't stand by myself
Hate to sleep alone
Surprises always help
So I take somebody home
To find out how I feel
Feel like just a baby
Portrait of a lady
Poster of a girl

Satisfy myself
Avoid beginners
Who long to shut my mouth
Till I take one of them home
'Cause I know how it feels
Filling in the blanks
Looking on the bright side
When there is no bright side
Coming in your pants
For the off chance
With a poster of a girl

ALBUM: LIVE IT OUT (2005)

POST-IT: OASIS 2.0

Ok, ad essere sinceri Liam Gallagher l'aveva detto che se non ne avrebbe trovato un altro degno di nota, sarebbe andato avanti col nome Oasis, ma a quanto pare non deve essersi sforzato molto: la rinnovata band, si fa per dire, quella senza il fratello Noel, si chiamerà Oasis 2.0. Speriamo almeno che le tre nuove canzoni che il cantante di Manchester afferma di aver già scritto siano più creative dell'epiteto scelto il gruppo...

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GIVE IT UP/TALK TALK

From the place that I stand to the land that is openly free
Watching rivers run black by the trees
That are vacant to greed

Gotta give it up
Gotta get a second chance
And the tunes just started
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?

How can I learn if I don't understand what I see
If I'm giving this mess
Take a walk through a nightmare so real

Gotta give it up
Gotta get a second chance
And the tunes just started
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Or tell me why I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
When you've never been without?

Give it up, give it up
Give it up
Gotta give it up
Give it up, give it up
Gotta give it up
Tell me if I'm so wrong
Where does love come from
If you've sold your reasoning out?
Or tell me if I'm so wrong
Where does luck come from
When you've never been without?

ALBUM: THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH/THE CARDIGANS

Hey baby, come 'round
Keep holding me down
And I'll be keeping you up tonight

A 4-letter word got stuck in my head
The dirtiest word that I've ever said
It's making me feel alright

For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do

For what it's worth, I'm gonna run, run, run
Till the sweetness gets to you
And what is worse, I love you!

Hey, please baby, come back
There'll be no more loving attacks
And I'll be keeping it cool tonight
The 4-letter word is out of my head
Come on around, get back in my bed
Keep making me feeling alright

For what it's worth, I like you
And what is worse, I really do
Things have been worse
And we had fun, fun, fun
Till I said I love you
And what is worse, I really do

For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do

For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do, oh
For what it's worth, I love you
And what is worse, I really do

ALBUM: LONG GONE BEFORE DAYLIGHT (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK/RADIOHEAD

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get where I belong

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

I will see you in the next life

ALBUM: KID A (2000)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOST IN HOLLYWOOD/SYSTEM OF A DOWN

I’ll wait here, you're crazy
Those vicious streets are filled with strays
You should have never gone to Hollywood
They find you, two time you
Say you’re the best they’ve ever seen
You should have never trusted Hollywood

I wrote you, and told you
You were the biggest fish out here
You should have never gone to Hollywood

They take you and make you
They look at you in disgusting ways
You should have never trusted Hollywood

I was standing on the wall
Feeling ten feet tall
All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard
This is my front page
This is my new age
All you bitches put your hands and wave them like you just don’t care
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Sunset Boulevard
All you bitches put your hands and wave them like you just don’t care

Phony people come to pray
Look at all of them beg to stay
Phony people come to pray
The lines in the letter said
We have gone to Hackensack
Look at all of them beg to stay
Phony people come to pray

All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Sunset Boulevard
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Hollywood Boulevard
You should have never trusted Hollywood
You should have never gone to Hollywood
All you bitches put your hands and wave them like you just don’t care

You should have never trusted Hollywood

ALBUM: MESMERIZE (2005)

VIDEO: PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK

PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK

Arriva il primo video per promuovere il nuovo album dei Massive Attack, Heligoland, in uscita il prossimo Febbraio, ed è un'inzio shock: il filmato, infatti, diretto da Toby Dye e realizzato come supporto visivo al brano Paradise Circus (che vede la partecipazione, come vocalist, di Hope Sandoval), è una sorta di intervista alla ex pornostar Georgina Spelvin, e contiene immagini (molto esplicite) tratte dal film hard del 1973 The Devil in Miss Jones.
Sempre a proposito di Heligoland, in rete cominciano a circolare alcuni brani, come Pray For Rain, traccia di apertura nella quale compare Tunde Adebimpe dei Tv On The Radio.

PRAY FOR RAIN/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. TUNDE ADEBIMPE

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE 13TH/THE CURE

"Everyone feels good in the room" she swings
"Two chord cool in the head" she sings
"A-buzz a-buzz a-buzzing like them killer bees"
Tell me this is not for real
Please tell me this is not for real

From time to time her eyes get wide
And she's always got them stuck on me
I'm surprised at how hot honey-coloured and hungry she looks
And I have to turn away to keep from bursting
I feel that good
She slips from the stage
A foot no more
But it seems to take an hour for her to reach the floor
And the two chord cool still grooves
As she slides towards me smooth as a snake
I can't swallow I just start to shake
And I just know this is a big mistake
But it feels good

Do it to me, do it to me, do it to me, o it to me
Do it to me, do it to me, do it to me

"If you want I can take you on another kind of ride"
"Believe me I would but..."
Deep inside the but is please
I am yearning for another taste
And my shaking is yes

"You will be all the things in the world you've never been
See all the things in the world you've never seen
Dream all the things in the world you've never dreamed"
But I think I get a bit confused
Am I seducing or being seduced?

I know that tomorrow I'll feel bad
But I really couldn't care about that
She's grinning singing spinning me round and round
Smiling as I start to fall
Her face gets big her face gets small
It's like tonight I'm really not me at all
And it feels good

Do it to me, do it to me, do it to me, o it to me
Do it to me, do it to me, do it to me

It feels good

ALBUM: WILD MOOD SWINGS (1996)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FINAL STRAW/R.E.M.

As I raise my head to broadcast my objection
As your latest triumph draws the final straw
Who died and lifted you up to perfection?
And what silenced me is written into law

I can't believe where circumstance has thrown me
And I turn my head away
If I look I'm not sure that I could face you
Not again, not today, not today

If hatred makes a play on me tomorrow
And forgiveness takes a back seat to revenge
There's a hurt down deep that has not been corrected
There's a voice in me that says you will not win

And if I ignore the voice inside
Raise a half glass to my home
But it's there that I am most afraid
And forgetting doesn't hold, it doesn't hold

Now I don't believe and I never did
That two wrongs make a right
If the world were filled with the likes of you
Then I'm putting up a fight
I'm putting up a fight
Putting up a fight
Make it right
Make it right

Now love cannot be called into question
Forgiveness is the only hope I hold
And love, love will be my strongest weapon
I do believe that I am not alone

For this fear will not destroy me
And the tears that have been shed
It's knowing now where I am weakest
And the voice in my head, in my head

Then I raise my voice up higher
And I look you in the eye
And I offer love with one condition
With conviction, tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
Look me in the eye
And tell me why

ALBUM: AROUND THE SUN (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NIGHT BOAT/DURAN DURAN

Standing on the edge of the quay
No light flashes on the water for me
Fog in my mind darkens in my eyes
Silently screaming for a distant sound
Ripple river yellows
Rising for a breath of breeding and drowns
Stillness overcomes me in the night
Listen to the rising water moan

Waiting, Waiting for the night boat
I'm waiting, waiting for the night boat

Shadows all through me
Shudder away
Echo me Echo me
Am I alone
Or is the river alive
'Cause it echoes me echoes me echoes me

I'm waiting, waiting for the night boat
I'm waiting, waiting for the night boat

Waiting, waiting for the night boat
I'm waiting
I'm waiting, waiting for the night boat
I'm waiting for the night boat

ALBUM: DURAN DURAN (1981)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FRENCH DISKO/STEREOLAB

Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be living in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal

I've been told it's a fact of life
Men have to kill one another
Well I say there are still things worth fighting for

La Resistance

Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be living in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal

It said human existence is pointless
As acts of rebellious solidarity
Can bring sense in this world

La Resistance
La Resistance

ALBUM: REFRIED ECTOPLASM: SWITCHED ON, VOL. 2 (1995)

POST-IT: GORILLAZ/PLASTIC BEACH COVER ART

Il blog australiano della EMI, The In Sound From Way Out, ha svelato la cover art del terzo album dei Gorillaz, Plastic Beach, in arrivo nel corso del 2010. Il puzzle comincia a prendere forma.

POST-IT: PORTISHEAD/CHASE THE TEAR

Nel 2008, dopo oltre 10 anni di silenzio, i Portishead pubblicarono il loro terzo album. Ora, ad appena 18 mesi dall'evento, tornano con un nuovo brano, Chase The Tear, scritto appositamente per Amnesty International, molto più veloce del resto della produzione della band. Un'eccezione che conferma la regola, quindi, anche se girano voci di un possibile nuovo disco in arrivo al più presto a fine 2010. Forse a Bristol, in questo periodo, vanno di fretta...

CHASE THE TEAR/PORTISHEAD

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ANOTHER BUS/THE TWANG

Jumping on another bus
I don't need this rush no more
Take your hands out of your pockets
Turn the lights on.
I've been loosing too much time
Taking back what once was mine
This is never gonna do
Always thought I'd miss you

On and on, on and on and on and on

Saw the girl the other day
Couldn't bring myself say
That the straw that broke the camels back
Has fallen
She'd been loosing too much time
Sick and tired of towing the line
This is never gonna do
Always thought she'd want you

On and on, on and on and on and on

We never really tried
I guess we'll never know
Some things are better left alone

ALBUM: JEWELLERY QUARTER (2009)

CONCERTI: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP/TEATRO TENDASTRISCE/ROMA

AN END HAS A START

La curiosità di ascoltare dal vivo i nuovi brani degli Editors era grande: qualcuno, di fronte alle sonorità anni ottanta, ha storto il naso, ma a giudicare dalla gente che ha gremito il Tendastrisce per l'occasione, devono essere una minoranza. Si parte, e non potrebbe essere altrimenti, con la title-track dell'ultimo album. Poi però, a seguire, An End Has A Start ed All Sparks, e da lì in avanti, la band attinge senza soluzione di continuità dall'intera discografia, a conferma del fatto che le suggestioni new wave di In This Light And On This Evening legano alla perfezione con i tratti più rock degli lavori precedenti: e così si va dall'esplosiva Bullets all'alienante The Big Exit, dalla stroboscopica Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors all'onirica Like Treasure, dall'emozionante When Anger Shows alla monumentale Bricks And Mortar senza che l'intensità cali anche solo per un istante. Il gioco di luci ed immagini sullo sfondo dona geometria alla musica, e la teatralità (meno statica che in passato) di Tom Smith ne fa sempre più l'erede mediatico, oltre che vocale e compositivo, di Dave Gahan. Ce n'è un po'per tutti, come si legge a chiare lettere durante l'esecuzione, splendida, di Eat Raw Meat = Blood Drool: dai fan della prima ora, premiati con il b-side You Are Fading, a quelli che li hanno scoperti da poco, magari con Papillon, l'unica canzone, da anni a questa parte, in grado di togliere lo scettro di pezzo più suonato nei dancefloor alternativi a Love Will Tear Us Apart dei Joy Division, passando per quelli più distratti, che avranno gradito Munich, forse a tutt'oggi la hit più famosa del gruppo.
Due parole infine, per i supporter (di lusso): i candesi Wintersleep, decisamente interessanti e da approfondire, ed i Maccabees, simpatici, ma un po' ripetitivi.

CONCERTI: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP/TEATRO TENDASTRISCE/ROMA, 03 DICEMBRE 2009

01. IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING
02. AN END HAS A START
03. ALL SPARKS
04. YOU DON'T KNOW LOVE
05. BONES
06. BULLETS
07. THE BOXER
08. THE BIG EXIT
09. ESCAPE THE NEST
10. EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL
11. SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS
12. LIKE TREASURE
13. WHEN ANGER SHOWS
14. THE RACING RATS
15. YOU ARE FADING
16. BRICKS AND MORTAR

17. WALK THE FLEET ROAD
18. MUNICH
19. PAPILLON
20. FINGERS IN THE FACTORY

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

Di solito, in questo periodo, di novità interessanti ce ne sono poche: escono solo greatest hits e raccolte varie, destinate a finire sotto l'albero. Ecco comunque qualcosa di buono, per arrivare incolumi sino a Natale...


ISLANDS/XX

01. CONTENDER/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
(THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART)
02. CATAPULT/ARCTIC MONKEYS
(CORNERSTONE Single)
03. AUDIENCE OF ONE/COLD WAR KIDS
(BEHAVE YOURSELF)
04. RUN CHICKEN RUN/THE FELICE BROTHERS
(YONDER IS THE CLOCK)
05. I FELT STUPID/THE DRUMS
(SUMMERTIME)
06. WRITTEN IN REVERSE/SPOON
(TRASFERENCE)
07. LIKE TREASURE/EDITORS
(IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING)
08. LITTLE BIRD/EELS
(END TIMES)
09. ISLANDS/THE XX
(XX)
10. BOY LILIKOI/JÓNSI
(GO)
11. WHAT WOULD I WANT? SKY/ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
(FALL BE KIND EP)
12. THAT ROOM/THE TWILIGHT SAD
(FORGET THE NIGHT AHEAD)

BONUS TRACKS

MAPS/ARCADE FIRE
SPECIAL/MEW
(LIVE FROM THE HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM)
CHEMTRAILS/BECK
(MODERN GUILT ACOUSTIC)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PICTURES OF YOU/THE CURE

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you
That I almost believe that they're real
I've been living so long with my pictures of you
That I almost believe that the pictures are
All I can feel

Remembering
You standing quiet in the rain
As I ran to your heart to be near
And we kissed as the sky fell in
Holding you close
How I always held close in your fear
Remembering
You running soft through the night
You were bigger and brighter and wider than snow
And screamed at the make-believe
Screamed at the sky
And you finally found all your courage
To let it all go

Remembering
You fallen into my arms
Crying for the death of your heart
You were stone white
So delicate
Lost in the cold
You were always so lost in the dark
Remembering
You how you used to be
Slow drowned
You were angels
So much more than everything
Hold for the last time then slip away quietly
Open my eyes
But I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you

Looking so long at these pictures of you
But I never hold on to your heart
Looking so long for the words to be true
But always just breaking apart
My pictures of you

There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
All my pictures of you

ALBUM: DISINTEGRATION (1989)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LIKE A PRAYER/MADONNA

Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone
I hear you call my name
And it feels like home

When you call my name it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I want to take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there

I hear your voice, it's like an angel sighing
I have no choice, I hear your voice
Feels like flying
I close my eyes, oh God, I think I'm falling
Out of the sky, I close my eyes
Heaven help me

When you call my name it's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees, I want to take you there
In the midnight hour I can feel your power
Just like a prayer, you know I'll take you there

Like a child you whisper softly to me
You're in control just like a child
Now I'm dancing
It's like a dream, no end and no beginning
You're here with me, it's like a dream
Let the choir sing

Just like a prayer
Your voice can take me there
Just like a muse to me
You are a mystery
Just like a dream
You are not what you seem
Just like prayer
No choice
Your voice can take me there

Just like a prayer
I'll take you there
It's like a dream to me

ALBUM: LIKE A PRAYER (1989)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SPECIAL/MEW

You're special
You're like a rocket through me
Oh, you're special
You're a rocket to me
And I cannot this time

Agarina
You can't say no
Agarina
This time you will go

You're special
You're like a rocket through me
Oh, you're special
You're a rocket to me
And I cannot this time

There's a taste that you can't shake
But you can't seem to let them go awry
I know you're special
(What did I say now?)
You're a rocket to me
At this surprised
All the time

I know you said to me
I don't care at the same time
But I'll take you up and down
Address it to you

(Honey bee)
I know you said to me
(I don't look back)
I don't care at the same time
(Singing a song)
And what do you stay to do?
I saw the worst of you

ALBUM: AND THE GLASS HANDED KITES (2005)

POST-IT: JÓNSI (SIGUR RÓS)/BOY LILIKOI

Un altro impegno parallelo per Jónsi Birgisson, leader dei Sigur Rós: dopo il progetto Riceboy Sleep, realizzato col compagno Alex Somers, ora è la volta del primo disco da solista, intitolato Go, che uscirà il 22 Marzo per la XL Recordings. Attraverso il sito ufficiale jonsi.com si può già scaricare un brano, Boy Lilikoi, cantato in inglese, il cui stile ricorda molto da vicino quello delle tracce più pop dell'ultimo lavoro della band islandese, Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust.

BOY LILIKOI/JÓNSI

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE LETTER/PJ HARVEY

Put the pen
To the paper
Press the envelope
With my scent
Can't you see
In my handwriting
The curve Of my g?
The longing

Who is left that
Writes these days?
You and me
We'll be different
Take the cap
Off your pen
Wet the envelope
Lick and lick it

I need you
The time is running out
Oh baby
Can't you hear me call?

It turns me on
To imagine
Your blue eyes
On my words
Your beautiful pen
Take the cap off
Give me a sign
And I'd come running

It's you
I want you
It's you

ALBUM: UH HUH HER (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BULLETS/EDITORS

If something has to change then it always does
If something has to change then it always does
You don't need this disease, not right now
No, you don't need this disease, not right now

You don't need this disease you don't

If something has to give then it always will
If something has to give then it always will
You don't need this disease, not right now
No, you don't need this disease
Not right now
No, no, not right now

You don't need this disease you don't

Would you fall down
Would you fall down

You don't need this disease you don't
You don't need this disease you don't know
Won't fall down

You don't need this disease you don't

ALBUM: THE BACK ROOM (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE BIG EXIT/EDITORS

I'm turning in my skin
Alcoholic din, fills the room we're in
Girl, I think it's time we leave
Like a thief on christmas eve
Take and you shall receive

No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside

Won't crowd amongst the shadows
See how much our love grows
Reflected in shop windows
I love you as my blood flows
As the rain ruins my best clothes
you're a secret only I know

No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside
No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside

Death at passing hours, dampness of a flower
They took what once was ours

No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside
No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside

They took what once was ours

No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside
No need to ask
You already know the way I feel inside

ALBUM: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE BOXER/EDITORS

A bruised full moon play fights with the stars
This place is our prison, it’s cells are the bars
So take me to town, I want to dance with the city
Show me something ugly and show me something pretty

Damn this place, makes a boy out of me
The ring meets my face by the count of three

An unwanted son pulls rank in the sky
The boxer isn’t finished, he’s not ready to die
I’m attracted to the light, I am attracted to the heat
It’s a violent night, there are boxers in the streets

Damn this place, makes a boy out of me
The rain meets my face by the count of three
Damn this place, makes a boy out of me
The rain meets my face, I’m a fallen oak tree

Dazed in the final count
Dazed in the final count
Dazed in the final count
Dazed in the final count

ALBUM: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DRINKING IN L.A./BRAN VAN 3000

Hi, my name is Stereo Mike

Yeah, we got three tickets to the Bran Van concert happening this Monday night at the Pacific Pallisades
You can all dial in if you want to answer a couple of questions, namely, what is Todd's favourite cheese
Jackie just called up and said it was a form of Roquefort
We'll see about that
Give us a ring-ding-ding! It's a beautiful day
Yeah Todd, this is Liquid ring-a-ding-a-dinging, want those three Bran Van tickets man
Waddya think? Todd, you there?

I woke up again this morning with the sun in my eyes
When Mike came over with a script surprise
A Mafioso story with a twist
A "Too Wong Foo, Julie Newmar" hitch
Get your ass out of bed, he said
I'll explain it on the way
But we did nothing, absolutely nothing that day, and I say
What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?
I got the fever for the flavour, the payback will be later, still I need a fix

And the girls on the bus kept on laughing at us
As we rode on the ten down to Venice again
Flaring out the G-Funk,
Sipping on a juice and gin
Just me and a friend
Feeling kinda groovy
Working on a movie yeah right
But we did nothing, absolutely butkis that day, and I say
What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?
With my mind on my money and my money on my beer, beer
I know that life is for the taking, so I better wise up, and take it quick
Yeah, one more time at Trader Vic's

Some men there wanted to hurt us
And other men said we weren't worth the fuss
We could see them all bitching by the bar
About the fine line, between the rich and the poor
Then Mike turned to me and said
What do you think we got done son?
We've got a conclusion, and I guess that's something, so I ask you
What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?
I got the fever for the nectar, the payback will be later, still I need a fix.
We need to fix you up, call me Monday and maybe we'll fix it all up

Hell-A-L.A., Hell hell-A-L.A.
So I ask you:
What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?

Hell-A-L.A., Hell hell-A-L.A.

ALBUM: GLEE (1998)

POST-IT: SPOON/WRITTEN IN REVERSE

Written In Reverse è il nuovo singolo degli Spoon. E suono molto Spoon, con quegli accordi di piano a scandire la ritmica, il cantanto scanzonato, e tutto il resto.
L'album, Trasference, arriva il 19 Gennaio.

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POST-IT: BLUR/NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN

Se ne parlava giusto ieri, della reunion dei Blur a Glastonbury, la scorsa estate. Per celebrare l'evento, il 19 Gennaio è prevista l'uscita di un documentario, che verrà proiettato nelle sale cinematografiche britanniche, intitolato No Distance Left To Run, il che non lascia molto spazio ad ulteriori sviluppi: "the Blur years were over", si sente dire nel trailer ufficiale. È arrivata l'ora di farsene una ragione...

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TOMORROW COMES TODAY/GORILLAZ

Everybody's here with me
We got no camera to see
Don't think I'm not all in this world
The camera won't let me go
And the verdict doesn't love our soul
The digital won't let me go

Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today

Stereo I want it on
It's taken me far too long
Don't think I'm not all in this world
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long
I don't think I'll be here too long

Yeah yeah yeah
I'll pay
When tomorrow
Tomorrow comes today

ALBUM: GORILLAZ (2001)

POST-IT: GORILLAZ/PLASTIC BEACH

L'attesissimo terzo capitolo della storia della band a cartoni animati ha finalmente un titolo: Plastic Beach, ed uscirà nel corso del prossimo anno. Lo ha rivelato Damon Albarn, aggiungendo di aver assorbito una grande energia positiva dalla reunion dei Blur a Glastonbury, e di aver completamente smesso di bere, all'inizio della scorsa estate.
Chissà cosa dobbiamo aspettarci da questa versione analcolica dei Gorillaz...