PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

CRYSTALISED/GORILLAZ

La playlist dell'avvento: una canzone al giorno fino a natale, poi si vedrà.

01. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
(MINES)
02. UNDERTOW/WARPAINT
(THE FOOL)
03. FINGERPRINT/I AM KLOOT
(SKY AT NIGHT)
04. WALLS/SHOUT OUT LOUDS
(WORK)
05. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
(THE KING IS DEAD)
06. SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE/WOLF PARADE
(SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE Digital Single)
07. RANO PANO/MOGWAI
(HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL)
08. ENZYMES/FREELANCE WHALES
(ENZYMES Single)
09. IN YOUR EYES/EDWYN COLLINS FEAT. THE DRUMS
(LOSING SLEEP)
10. MORE THAN A LOVER/THE CORAL
(BUTTERFLY HOUSE)
11. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
(HALCYON DIGEST)
12. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
(MARGINS)
13. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
14. TWIN FLAMES/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
15. WALKING FAR FROM HOME/IRON & WINE
(WALKING FAR FROM HOME)
16. LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY/PANDA BEAR
(LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY 7" Single)
17. TOO MUCH/SUFJAN STEVENS
(THE AGE OF ADZ)
18. KITTY TURN TO CAT/STRANGE HANDS
(DEAD FROZEN DEER EP)
19. TREASURY OF WE/GLASSER
(RING)
20. YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED
(YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE EP)
21. BEYOND REASON/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)
22. SAFE WITHOUT/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)

BONUS TRACKS

WALK OFF/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRYSTALIZED/GORILLAZ

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TWO DANCERS/WILD BEASTS

I feel as if I've been where you have been
The snow had piled up knee-high in the street
Apart, apart
And dancing on
The wanderer
The squanderer
Our son was dying and we could hardly eat
They dragged me by the ankles through the street
They passed me round them like a piece of meat
His hairy hands
His falling fists
His dancing cock
Down by his knees
I've seen my children turn away from me

Do you want my bones between your teeth?
They pulled me half-alive out of the sea
Apart, apart
And dancing on
Impossible, impossible
I feel as if I've been where you have been
I feel as if I've been where you have been

ALBUM: TWO DANCERS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED

It’s only a matter of time
Before all the springs in the mind
Will start to break like you have broken me
There's silver in your lungs now
All I care about is shapes
All I care about is colours
You said your body is a machine
It will break like you have broken me
And I can’t forget the words
Forgotten promises
Are completely worthless

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

We are influenced
By self love and benevolence
Narcissism is overwhelming
Vanity is quite exhausting
Self indulgent, hedonistic
Blame it all on your upbringing

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

ALBUM: YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE (EP) (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HEAD OVER HEELS/TEARS FOR FEARS

I wanted to be with you alone and talk about the weather
But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
Won't escape my attention
You keep your distance with a system of touch and gentle persuasion
I'm lost in admiration, could I need you this much
You're wasting my time, you're just, just, just wasting time

Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Don't take my heart, don't break my heart
Don't, don't, don't throw it away
(Throw it away, throw it away)

I made a fire and watching it burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
No, no, no, have you no ambitions
(What's the matter with)
My mother and my brothers used to breathing clean air
(Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age)
And dreaming I'm a doctor
(Nothing gets done when you feel like a baby)
It's hard to be man when there's a gun in your hand
(Nothing ever changes when you're acting your age)
I feel so

Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Don't take my heart, don't break my heart
Don't, don't, don't throw it away

And this is my four leaf clover
I'm on the line, one open mind
This is my four leaf clover

In my mind's eye
One little boy, one little man
Funny how time flies

ALBUM: SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DRUNK ON ALUMINIUM/WINTERSLEEP

Oh my, are you the beast again?
Is it the violence you like?
Oh my, give me the words you said
Gnawing, reptilian
In the lost, loney night
I wanna know
Cut out the sickness
Cut it in self defense
Cut the yellowing eyes
Skylines, bloody and cancerous
Color the dead patches
Make it white, make it white

Oh my, are you the beast again?
Is it the violence you like?
Oh my, give me the words again
Paint it aluminium
Make it white, make it white

ALBUM: WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WHO THE FUCK ARE ARCTIC MONKEYS?/ARCTIC MONKEYS

We all want someone to shout for
Everyone wants somebody to adore
But your heroes aren't what they seem
When you've been where we've been
Have I done something to trigger
The funny looks and the sniggers
Are they there at all
Or is it just paranoia?

Everybody's got their box
Doing what they're told
You pushed my faith near being lost
But we'll stick to the guns
Don't care if it's marketing suicidal
Won't crack or compromise
Your do-rights or individes
Will never unhinge us

And there's a couple of hundred
Think they're Christopher Columbus
But the settlers had already settled
Long before you
Just cos we're having a say-so
Not lining up to be Play-Doh
In five years time will it be
Who the fuck's Arctic Monkeys?

'Cause everybody's got their box
Doing what they're told
You pushed my faith near being lost
But we'll stick to the guns
Don't care if it's marketing suicidal
Won't crack or compromise
Your do-rights or individes
Will never unhinge us

All the thoughts that I just said
Will linger round and multiply in their head
Not that mad to start with
I'm not angry
I'm just disappointed

It's not you it's them that are wrong
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
It's not you it's them that are wrong
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
Tell 'em to take out their tongues
And bring on the backlash

Tell 'em to take out their tongues
It's not you it's them that's the fake
I won't mess with your escape
Is this really your escape?

ALBUM: WHO THE FUCK ARE ARCTIC MONKEYS? (EP) (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PROXY/MADRUGADA

Inside this fiery heart
Inside this fiery heart
Sudden change still cool and dark

You're bruised, well so am I
You're bruised, well so am I
I look for things I could not find
Gonna leave that all behind

Well, this is the fog
This is the rain
This is the blues
We do with each other
Whatever we choose

This song, this song, I know very well
This face, this face, I know very well
A shot of blood shoots through my veins
Bloodless, spraining at it's veins
So come on, come on, let me get behind you
Come on, come on now, love, come on
Hey you, hey you, hey, hey you
Alright, alright, alright

Come on
This is the rain
This is the fog
This is the blues

I give you directions, again and again
Come on, come on now
That's it

ALBUM: GRIT (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BEHIND THE DRAPES/MEW

All of us now
Bent as we fall
To amorous light
We call out

Why are we so alone
Even with company
If not the moon
Will us guide
Will then the street light?

All of us now
Breathe it like smoke
To know what it's like
Breathing to choke
Well for nine days
A small moth has
Tried to escape
Our bedroom

Why are we so alone
Even with company
We are the prey
For each day
A striking distance

Why are we so alone
Even with company
If not the moon
Will us guide
Will then the street light?
Why are we so alone
Even with company
We are the prey
For each day
A striking distance

ALBUM: FRENGERS (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WE GOT THE SYSTEM TO FIGHT THE SYSTEM/MASERATI

ALBUM: PYRAMID OF THE SUN (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES

You took the tunnel route home
You've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Apologies on your fingernails
Love flickered in the city of lights
Like good singers on radio waves
I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

You went where the horses cry
You've never taken that way with me before
Did you feel the need for change?
Guilt smeared across your lips
I was tired and cold from the window
You're tired, nothing's came
I don't need your tears
I don't want your love
I just gotta get home

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

And I feel like I'm breaking up
And I wanted to stay
Headlights on the hillside
Don't take me this way
I don't want you to hold me
I don't want you to pray
This is bigger than us

ALBUM: RITUAL (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MUSCLE MUSEUM/MUSE

She had something to confess to
But you don’t have the time so
Look the other way
You will wait until it's over
To reveal what you’d never shown her
Too little much too late

Can you see that I am needing
Begging for so much more
Than you could ever give
And I don’t want you to adore me
Don’t want you to ignore me
When it pleases you
And I’ll do it on my own

I have played in every toilet
But you still want to spoil it
To prove I’ve made a big mistake
Too long trying to resist it
You’ve just gone and missed it
It's escaped your world

Can you see that I am needing
Begging for so much more
Than you could ever give
And I don’t want you to adore me
Don’t want you to ignore me
When it pleases you

ALBUM: SHOWBIZ (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SORRY FOR LAUGHING/PROPAGANDA

It took ten years to realize
Why the angel stopped crying
When you sail on down the lane
Your happy smile, your funny name
It's so hopeless to define
When you jump to close the blinds
You know I'd help you if I could but
Both my arms are made of wood
I just don't mean the things that I say
It's only cause you're made that way

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening

When we grooved on into town
Charles Atlas stopped to frown
Cause he's not made like me and you
Just can't do the things we do
I'm not being mean so don't take it hard
When I ask you to run round the 

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening

At times like these you don't have to say
So sorry it turned out that way

Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening
Sorry for laughing
There's too much happening


ALBUM: A SECRET WISH (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MR. NOVEMBER/THE NATIONAL

This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
Trying to think of you
This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
The english are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
This is when I need you
The english are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over

I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November

I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders

I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over

ALBUM: ALLIGATOR (2005)

CONCERTI: THE NATIONAL/INTERPOL

Una due giorni milanese straordinaria, probabilmente irripetibile: due concerti eccezionali in appena 24 ore.




1° GIORNO/THE NATIONAL

Quando arriviamo all'Alcatraz la fila per entrare arriva quasi all'angolo dell'isolato, ma è veloce ed ordinata. C'è il tutto esaurito, e questo fa capire come i National, giunti ormai al quinto album, siano passati definitivamente da formazione di nicchia allo status di band mainstream. Il gruppo di supporto, i Phosporescent, stanno già suonando. All'incirca verso le 22:00, Scott Devendorf e compagni salgono sul palco: si inizia sottovoce, con Runaway, poi la splendida Anyone's Ghost. L'ultimo, strepitoso disco, High Violet, viene suonato quasi per intero, ma non mancano riferimenti alla produzione precedente, come Mistaken For Strangers, Apartment Story, Fake Empire. La voce di Matt Berninger è incredibile, profonda, avvolgente; la batteria di Bryan Devendorf sempre prepotentemente in primo piano. Ad essere pignoli, è un peccato che un eccesso di divertissement interrompa l'esecuzione di Conversation 16, uno dei pezzi migliori del repertorio. E proprio quando il concerto si avvia alla conclusione, il colpo di scena che non ti aspetti: Matt Berninger, fin lì estremamente composto, scende in platea percorrendo tutta la sala dell'Alcatraz, letteralemente tutta, ripetendo la linea finale di Terrible Love, "It takes an ocean not to break" come in un mantra, tra il pubblico esterrefatto, compreso il sottoscritto che ad un certo punto se lo ritrova esattamente di fronte. Come dire che aver ascoltato i National è un po' come averli conosciuti, sul serio, personalmente: si fanno ottimi incontri, a Milano.


THE NATIONAL/ALCATRAZ/MILANO, 16 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. RUNAWAY
02. ANYONE'S GHOST
03. MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS
04. BLOODBUZZ OHIO
05. SLOW SHOW
06. SQUALOR VICTORIA
07. AFRAID OF EVERYONE
08. AVAILABLE/CARDINAL SONG
09. CONVERSATION 16
10. SORROW
11. APARTMENT STORY
12. ABEL
13. DAUGHTERS OF THE SOHO RIOTS
14. ENGLAND
15. FAKE EMPIRE
16. ABOUT TODAY

17. LUCKY YOU
18. MR. NOVEMBER
19. TERRIBLE LOVE




2° GIORNO/INTERPOL

All'ingresso del PalaSharp l'atmosfera che si respira è coinvolgente, quasi rituale, un po' come accade ai concerti dei Cure, dei quali gli Interpol per certi versi sono una sorta di eredi. Il gruppo di supporto, i Surfer Blood, ha in comune con i Phosporescent, gli special guest dei National, le camicie a quadri e la sensazione di non incidere molto, nel bene o nel male. Alle 21:30 in punto si spengolo le luci e, quasi in sordina, la band di New York attacca con Success, traccia che apre anche l'ultimo disco, in modo atipico (non è certo un brano con un intro particolare) ma efficace. Giusto il tempo di acclimatarsi, quindi, che si decolla con Say Hello To The Angels. La scaletta alterna in modo eterogeneo la discografia del gruppo, passando con disinvoltura da un album all'altro: Narc, Summer Well, Rest My Chemistry, Slow Hands, NYC, una splendida esecuzione di Take You On A Cruise, fino a Memory Serves, uno dei pezzi più belli dell'ultimo lavoro, del quale viene proposta per intero la prima parte (sicuramente la migliore). La classe di Paul Banks è immutata, la chitarra di Daniel Kessler sempre graffiante, mentre David Pajo al basso fa il suo onestamente. Particolarmente intenso il bis: dopo una suggestiva versione di The Lighthouse, si chiude in crescendo con le taglienti Evil e The Heinrich Manuveur. Precisi ma emozionanti, elegantemente distanti ma incredibilmente coinvolgenti allo stesso tempo, gli Interpol dal vivo sono una macchina perfetta, un'esperienza assolutamente imperdibile.


INTERPOL/PALASHARP/MILANO, 17 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. SUCCESS
02. SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS
03. NARC
04. LENGHT OF LOVE
05. SUMMER WELL
06. REST MY CHEMISTRY
07. SLOW HANDS
08. C'MERE
09. NYC
10. BARRICADE
11. TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE
12. LIGHTS
13. PDA
14. MEMORY SERVES
15. NOT EVEN JAIL

16. THE LIGHTHOUSE
17. EVIL
18. THE HEINRICH MANUVEUR

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EVIL/INTERPOL

17/11/10 Palasharp/Milano
Video girato da MICRO

Rosemary
Heaven restores you in life
You're coming with me
Through the aging, the fearing, the strife
It's the smiling on the package
It's the faces in the sand
It's the thought that moves you upwards
Embracing me with two hands
Right will take you places
Yeah maybe to the beach
When your friends they do come crying
Tell them now your pleasure's set upon slow-release

Hey wait
Great smile
Sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"

We speaks about travel
Yeah, we think about the land
We smart like all peoples
Feeling real tan
I could take you places
Do you need a new man?
Wipe the pollen from the faces
Make revision to a dream while you wait in the van

Hey wait
Great smile
Sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
To find the long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, you are exotic
You need something for which to care
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"

Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
You've come to love me lightly
Yeah you've come to hold me tight
Is this motion everlasting
Or do shutters pass in the night?

Rosemary
Oh heaven restores you in life
I spent a lifespan with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, semi-erotic
You need someone to take you there
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
Why can't we just play the other game?
Why can't we just look the other way?

ALBUM: ANTICS (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OBSTACLE 1/INTERPOL

I wish I could eat the salt off your last faded lips
We can cap the old times
Make playing only logical harm
We can cop the old lines
Clay-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

And it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

We can find new ways of living
Make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times
Clay-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

And it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck
But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she posed
It's in the things that she puts in my head
Her stories are boring and stuff
She's always calling my bluff
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart
And she gets in my room and she takes it apart
She puts the weights into my little heart
I said she puts the weights into my little heart
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: AFRAID OF EVERYONE/THE NATIONAL

Venom radio and venom television
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
Lay the young blue bodies
With the old red violets
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

I defend my family
With my orange umbrella
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my shiny new starspangled tennis shoes on
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PDA/INTERPOL

Yours is the only version of my desertion
That I could ever subscribe to
That is all that I can do
You are a past dinner, the last winner
I'm raping all around me
Until the last drop is behind you
But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear
You're so cute when you're sedated, dear

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

You are the only person who's completely certain
There's nothing here to be into
That is all that you can do
You are a past sinner, the last winner
And everything we've come to makes you
You
But you cannot safely say that while I will be away
You will not consider sadly
How you helped me to stray
And you will not reach me
I am resenting a position that's past resentment
And now I can't consider
And now there is this distance, so

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

(PDA)

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LAST CHANCE ON THE STAIRWAY/DURAN DURAN

I don't remember quite how I met you, wasn't long ago
Just get a picture of sun, in your eyes
The waves in your hair
Maybe it's something said in a movie or you could've said last night
Just took me out on a limb
And I don't really know what I'm doing here

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time, can you look at me
I'm out of reach, I'll talk if it feels right
I've had my last chance on the stairway

Funny it's just like a scene out of Voltaire, twisting out of sight
'Cause when all the curtains are pulled back
We'll turn and see the circles we traced?
Ain't no game
When you're playing with fire
It doesn't seem right that we fight
So the party runs on all night

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time can you look at me
I'm out of reach I'll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say, tell me can't you see
If you want I'll fall out forever
I can't say no more, babe dance with me
And please don't say leave till later
I've had my last chance on the stairway

Wonder why
What makes me rise so high
Maybe it's something they put in your perfume
Or the look in your eyes
It could be the atmosphere sinking
I don't even know what you're thinking
Don't even know what you're drinking
But it keep this heaven alive

And sometimes I'm caught in a landslide
My beat's so in time can you look at me
I'm out of reach I'll talk if it feels right
So nervous to say, tell me can't you see
If you want I'll fall out forever
I can't say no more, babe dance with me
And please don't say leave till later
I've had my last chance on the stairway

ALBUM: RIO (1982)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER

Take my hand and pray with me
My final days in company
The devil now has come for me
And helicopters circling the scene

And I pray for rest
Could you pray for us
We know he loves you the best
We know he loves you the best

The lights inside my cave
I’m tired of my ‘cades

These drugs they played on me
These terrible ways
They don’t pay like they used to pay
I used to make it day-to-day

No one cares for me
I keep no company
I have minimal needs
And now they are through with me

Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me

ALBUM: HALCYON DIGEST (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RUN ME THORUGH/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

It's warm in here
I see you
Come over here
And run me through

You're so near
But so long
I won't fear
'Cause you're gone
Gone

You are too real
Won't you stay
I can almost feel
Your sharpened blade

You're so near
But so long
I won't fear
When you're gone
Gone

ALBUM: VARIATIONS ON A DREAM (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PLAY DEAD/BJÖRK

Darling stop confusing me
With your wishful thinking
Hopeful embraces
Don't you understand?
I have to go through this
I belong to here
Where no-one cares and no-one loves
No light, no air to live in
A place called hate
The city of fear

I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
And the hurting stops
It's sometimes just like sleeping
Curling up inside my private tortures
I nestle into pain
Hug suffering
Caress every ache
I play dead
It stops the hurting

ALBUM: DEBUT (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOING INSIDE/JOHN FRUSCIANTE

You don't throw your life away
Going inside
You get to know who's watching you
And who besides you resides
In your body
Where you're slow
Where you go doesn't matter
'Cause there will come a time
When time goes out the window
And you'll learn to drive out of focus of you
And if anything unfolds
It's supposed to

You don't throw your time away sitting still
I'm in a chain of memories
It's my will
And I had to consult some figures of the past
And I know someone after me
Will go right back
I'm not telling a view
I've got this night to unglue
I moved this fight away
By doing things there's no reason to do

ALBUM: TO RECORD ONLY WATER FOR TEN DAYS (2001)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SIRENSONG/THE CURE

It could’ve been her golden hair
That turned my head
I didn’t want to stare
Like I was hypnotized
But I was fixed
Without a name or memory
I waited there
Too scared to even breathe
And I was tricked

It could’ve been her silver skin
That drew me on
I didn’t want to spin
Like I was mesmerised
But I was rapt
Without a name or memory
I waited there
Too scared to even breathe
She sang, she sang

Tell me you love me
And beg me to stay
Tell me you love me
Before it’s too late
Give me your life
Or I must fly away
And you will never hear this song again

It could’ve been her crystal eyes
That made me stop
I didn’t want to sigh
Like I was stupefied
But I was thrown
Without a name or memory
I waited there
Too scared to even breathe
Or mine alone
She sang, she sang

Tell me you love me
And beg me to stay
Tell me you love me
Before it’s too late
Give me your life
Or I must fly away
And you will never hear this song

ALNUM: 4:13 DREAM (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STARS/WARPAINT

Wonderful one
Why are you like that?
Wonderful one
Why are you like that?
Glow in the darkness
That's how you do it
Glow in the darkness
That's how we do it
Just like the stars
Upon your ceiling
That put you to sleep after

Wonderful one
Why are you like that?
Wonderful one
Why are you like that?
Glow in the darkness
That's how you do it
Glow in the darkness
That's how we do it
Just like the stars
Upon your ceiling
That put you to sleep after
Just like the stars
Upon your ceiling
That put you to sleep after
Put you to sleep after
Put you to sleep after

Cross the lighting darkness in your arms
In your arms
In your arms
Headache damn it at your talk, talk, talk
Hanging with your feet, feet, feet
Hanging with your feet
Here we are apart
But not again
And again
And again
And again
That doesn't make sense

And in the end they ask you for
Your reply
Don't you tell them
What you found out
There is time

ALBUM: EXQUISITE CORPSE [6 TRACKS] (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE EDGE OF AMERICA/DURAN DURAN

Walk the edge of America
A concrete beach to scrape my head
Inside the subway stinking fear and shame
Becomes the violent breath
Vigilantes out on dawn patrol
But now there's nothing left to hide
I'm just a number on the metal fence
Which marks the great divide
(Sing it)

Hey boy, give your dreams a rest
If you're tired of searching
This is where it ends
Here's nothing left to lose
Nothing to protest
Learn to love your anger now
Anger here is all you possess
Welcome to the edge

Below the towers of the citadel
Seems someone overlooked the cost
Forgotten soldier of paradise
Now paradise is lost
Recognition never realised
Salvation lost among the crowd
So tell me here beside the sterile sea
Where is your nation now?
(We say)

Hey boy, give your dreams a rest
If you're tired of searching
This is where it ends
Here's nothing left to lose
Nothing to protest
Learn to love your anger now
Anger here is all you possess
Welcome to the edge

ALBUM: BIG THING (1988)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA

I get so caught up in my ways
Sometimes I overlook the simple plains
I feel like certain times in my life
Are met with certain times for pain to thrive
You're five foot five, not a hundred pounds
I'm scared to death of every single ounce
And worst of all is when it's calm
'Cause I know the sea won't be calm for long

You bring me down

I walked right in through the rabbit's door
And walked right into the rabbit's hole
I made myself an open book
I made myself a sitting duck

I don't know how I missed the signs
I must have passed by them a hundred times
You barely notice what I say
You're busy looking round the room instead
I get so caught up in my ways

I walked right in through the rabbit's door
And walked right into the rabbit's hole
I made myself an open book
I made myself a sitting duck
I'm walking down this rabbit trail
My feet grow heavy with every step
I stop to eat and take a nap
And now I can't find my way back

You bring me down
You bring me down
So down
So down

Rabbit's door
Rabbit's hole
Open book
Sitting duck
Rabbit's door
Rabbit's hole
Open book

ALBUM: MINES (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNO/MUSE

This means nothing to me
'Cause you are nothing to me
And it means nothing to me
That you blew this away
'Cause you could've been number one
If you only found the time
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the chance

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

You're still nothing to me
And this is nothing to me
And you don't know what you've done
But I'll give you a clue
You could've been number one
If you only had the chance
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the time

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away
You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

ALBUM: SHOWBIZ (1999)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ALL MY LOVE/LED ZEPPELIN

Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light
To chase a feather in the wind
Within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight
There moves a thread that has no end
For many hours and days that pass ever soon
The tides have caused the flame to dim
At last the arm is straight, the hand to the loom
Is this to end or just begin?

All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now
All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now

The cup is raised, the toast is made yet again
One voice is clear above the din
Proud aryan, one word, my will to sustain
For me the cloth once more to spin

All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now
All of my love
All of my love
Yes, all of my love to you just

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time
His is the force that lies within
Ours is the fire, all the warmth we can find
He is a feather in the wind

All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now
All of my love
Yes, all of my love to you now
All of my love
All of my love
All of my love
Love
Sometime, sometime
Sometime, sometime

All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now
All of my love
All of my love
All of my love to you now
I get a little bit lonely
Just a little, just a little

ALBUM: IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR (1979)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: INCLUDE ME OUT/DEUS

Where have I seen this before?
When will I feel it again?
Somebody opened a door
I'm afraid to walk in
Imagination stands still
I read it in open book
Read it in open book

Oh man, I read it in books of laughter
Oh man, I read it in books of pain

What are you talking to me
Cause I'm not really here
Like a spirit that's free
I'm as light as the air

Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Oh man, as light as the air and floating

Take me on
Where the fire winds blow
Or where a fallen leaf stays for days
On your shoulder
'Cause all I need
Is to find my own
And that summering drone
Illicit and golden

Oh lord, where have is seen this before?
Oh lord, when will I feel it again?
(Read it in every move)
Oh lord, where have is seen this before?
(Read it in every game)
(Read it in what you do)
Oh lord, when will I feel it again?
(Read it in everything)
(Read it in everything)

Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Oh man, as light as the air and floating

Take me on
Where the fire winds blow
'Cause when time stands still
I wait until
It's over
And all I need
Is to find my own
And that summering drone
Illicit and golden

ALBUM: POCKET REVOLUTION (2006)

PLAYLIST/NOVEMBRE

BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO

Una playlist leggera leggera, per arrivare all'inverno in scioltezza (ma occhio alle bonus track).

01. THE BOMB SONG/DARWIN DEEZ
(DARWIN DEEZ)
02. GLAD/GLASSER
(RING)
03. SUN DEMON/STEREOLAB
(SUN DEMON)
04. BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO
(POP NEGRO)
05. DONCAMATIC/GORILLAZ FEAT. DALEY
(DONCAMATIC Single)
06. TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES)/THE WOMBATS
[TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES) Single]
07. YOUR PURE SOUL/THE CHARLATANS
(WHO WE TOUCH)
08. IN MY TIME/KURT VILE
(IN MY TIME Single)
09. GET SOME/LYKKE LI
(GET SOME Single)
10. NOT IN LOVE/CRYSTAL CASTLES FEAT. ROBERT SMITH
(NOT IN LOVE Single)
11. HOLIDAY/FRAN HEALY
(WRECKORDER)
12. LOUDER THAN EVER/COLD WAR KIDS
(MINE IS YOURS)
13. THE IMMORTALS/KINGS OF LEON
(COME AROUND SUNDOWN)

BONUS TRACKS

TERRIBLE LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRIMEWAVES/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL) (Exclusive iTunes pre-order Track)

DOWNLOAD

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOUDER THAN EVER/COLD WAR KIDS

All my window are barred
The sun makes stripes to shade
I was sitting round like a zombie
Feeling my own face
I was carrying my cheek
I was digging my strange
I was taking you for granted
You were hole in the rains

But I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me
Help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
That I can hear you louder than ever

It's a slippery slope
Like that mouth strap game
Inside my eternal vision
You stepped on my train

But I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me
Help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
That I can hear you louder than ever

I don't wanna ignore
You were the past of my feelings
We're probably gonna get out of this
Just bail me out anyway
The darkness knockin'
And now I've doubted all my promises
Don't try to pull me out of this
Just lay down by me and wait

But I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me
Help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
That I can hear you louder than ever

I can hear you louder than ever
I can hear you louder than ever
I can hear you louder than ever
I can hear you louder than ever

ALBUM: MINE IS YOURS (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LET'S DANCE TO JOY DIVISION/THE WOMBATS

I'm back in Liverpool
And everything seems the same
But I worked something out last night
That changed this little boys brain
A small piece of advice
That took twenty-two years in the make
And I will break it for you now
Please learn from my mistakes
Please learn from my mistakes

Let's dance to Joy Division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy
Let's dance to Joy Division
And raise our glass to the ceiling
'Cause this could all go so wrong
But we're so happy
We're so happy

So if you're ever feeling down
Grab your purse and take a taxi
To the darker side of town
That's where we'll be
And we will wait for you and lead you through the dancefloor
Up to the DJ booth
You know what to ask for
You know what to ask for

Let's dance to Joy Division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy
Let's dance to Joy Division
And raise our glass to the ceiling
'Cause this could all go so wrong
But we're so happy
We're so happy

So let the love tear us apart
I've found the cure for a broken heart
Let it tear us apart
let the love tear us apart
I've found the cure for a broken heart
Let it tear us apart
So let the love tear us apart
I've found the cure for a broken heart
Let it tear us apart
So let the love tear us apart
I've found the cure for a broken heart
Let it tear us apart
Let it tear us apart
Let it tear us apart

Let's dance to Joy Division
And celebrate the irony
Everything is going wrong
But we're so happy
Let's dance to Joy Division
And raise our glass to the ceiling
'Cause this could all go so wrong
But we're so happy
We're so happy
So happy
We're so happy
So happy
We're so happy

ALBUM: A GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS & DESPERATION (2007)