31/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RE-WIRED/KASABIAN
Buon 2012 da RYKJVK. Maya permettendo.
Diretto da Thomas Carty
I feel like the time has come
A fearless rescue from everyone
Who made you the master?
The lady caster
I found you looking for a good time
I was out in exile perfecting my style
I knew you wanted a reaction
Hit me harder
I'm getting re-wired
I flip the switch that make you feel electric
Even faster than before
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
Try to keep up you scatter brain
She will enter through your vein
Who was your creator?
The one who made you
The flame I need to heat the silver
You'd bring gods to their knees
Pick out the bad seeds
Relieve the generals of theirs duties
Hit me harder
I'm getting re-wired
I flip the switch that make you feel electric
Even faster than before
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
Who made you the master?
The Lady caster
I found you looking for a good time
Now this blood and glitter
It tastes so bitter
There's no retreat for I surrender
Hit me harder
I'm getting re-wired
I flip the switch that make you feel electric
Even faster than before
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
I'm gonna light 'em up with you
ALBUM: VELOCIRAPTOR! (2011)
30/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CHRISTMAS IN WHOSBEKISTANSTANSTAN/LOTUS PLAZA
Dopo Atlas Sound, un altro spin-off dei Deerhunter.
ALBUM: ROAM FOR THE HOLIDAZE, VOL. 3 (2011)
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29/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: END OF AN ERA (OUTRO)/CAVES
Sbaglio o l'organo che apre e chiude questo pezzo l'ho già sentito da qualche parte?
ALBUM: ADOLESCENT DYSTOPIA EP (2011)
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28/12/11
27/12/11
26/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OPEN EYES (Demo)/THE XX
Open eyes, see for me
Undisguised please help see
It’s enough, it’s too much
No, I lost faith
I found love
Tonight I could lose the fight
But with you by my side
Everything will be alright
Closed my mouth, words fall out
Come and save, words and bout
You can tell if something’s wrong
I’ve been here but I’ve been gone
And the skies
Don’t seem so bright
With you by my side
Everything will be alright
(2011)
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25/12/11
24/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WAYS TO AN END/MIRRORS
I, I found some warmth in another
And I, I found some grace in a child
Red lights falling around me
And I'm feeling reckless and wild
Because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
Fall, fall for another
Her magic is growing inside
Let's run, let's run for cover
It's easy to hold on to a lie
Because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
Time, time is a number
And mine, mine has cut like a knife
I'm dreaming, dreaming of conquest
Her pale skin praying such on my mind
Because there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ways to an end here
ALBUM: LIGHTS AND OFFERINGS (2011)
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23/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GATHERING STORIES/JÓNSI
Questa si che è natalizia.
Diretto da Crush Creative
And then I heard you
You made me long for
To be a part of
Something that I can’t see
I let this be
Something that I can’t fear
To be a part of
The story belongs to you
Something you said was
About a pen and a paper
You cannot always write in
Is something you have to do
Gathering stories
The story belongs to you
Say that it's gone
You know that I disappear
Then I hear you
Say that it's gone
You put me into
A radio
You are the radio
You are my
You are my favourite song
Something is growing
On little pieces
And into the moment
So keep from falling
All the stars
All the nights
All the rain
All the bones
All the days
All the sphears
All the stars
All the nights
All the tides
All the rain
All the cheers
All the nights
I keep saying
All the nights
All the stars
Of your life
ALBUM: WE BOUGHT A ZOO (Soundtrack) (2011)
22/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FUNERAL MARCH/TIGER WAVES
When you lie I still want try
You're writing letters in my hand
If you want I still write home
I'll make you on you hand
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you
I know that this is not your favourite time
I'll show that this is not your new compathy
I know that this is not your favourite colour
I know that this is not your way to be kind
And when you sign it's in your eyes
You're writing something on my hand
Don't chase away, just let me stay
I'll make myself more tolerable
I know that this is not your favourite time
I'll show that this is not your new compathy
I know that this is not your favourite colour
I know that this is not your way to be kind
ALBUM: ONLY GOOD BANDS HAVE ANIMAL NAMES (2011)
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21/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SO WHAT/THE CURE
Cake icing and decorating set
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With this superb decorating set
I'm not meant to be here
But so what?
And nobody's
Nobody's taken your place
Nobody's taken your place
Each set includes a turntable
A nine-inch icing bag
With six high definition nozzles and adaptor
And a fifteen inch food decorating bag
With three piping nozzles
Please send off this leaflet
Post it today
And if you knew nothing could replace you
If you were sane your heart wouldn't ache
But so what?
So what?
So what?
Order now
Allow twenty-one days for delivery
The offer closes 31st December 1979
British sugar bureau
When I told you what I
And I, and I wouldn't ask you to pretend
That we were one
And still another time
Forget all the lies
Forgive me the wounds
And all the world was used to love
And yes we'd still be happy in another time
But so what?
So what?
So please send me icing and decorating sets
I enclose a cheque and postal order number
So what?
ALBUM: THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (1979)
19/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PELICAN/THE MACCABEES
Diretto da David Wilson
So soon we, so soon we, so soon we, too old to carry
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little while
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking over
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know, they pair and pair
To have it all, to have it all, to have it all, and still want more
One thing's for sure, one thing's for sure, one thing's for sure, we’re all getting older
So we take a lover, so we take a lover, so we take a lover, waitin’ in the corner
And before you know it, before you know it, before you know we’re pushing up the daisies
And we’re going back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again we go
In the end, in the end, in the end, nothing comes easy
So you find a way, so you find a way, so you find a way to take a little with you
For the ones you love, for the ones you love, for the ones you love, are there if they need to
The hero, the hero, the hero
They’re not coming with you
Go back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again
Go
So soon we, so soon we, so soon we too old to carry
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little while
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking over
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know they pair and pair
And go back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again
Go
ALBUM: GIVEN TO THE WILD (2012)
18/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WAIT/M83
Send your dreams
Where nobody hides
Give your tears
To the tide
No Time
No Time
There's no end
There is no goodbye
Disappear
With the night
No Time
No Time
ALBUM: HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING (2011)
17/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RED SONG/SUUNS
Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color
Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color
Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color
ALBUM: BAMBI (2011)
16/12/11
15/12/11
THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2011
IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY
ALL AND EVERYONE
L'ottavo album della musicista del Dorset è un disco che vive di contrasti: testi dolorosi incentrati principalmente sul tema della guerra dispiegati su melodie folk, aritmiche (The Glorious Land, la splendida All And Everyone), a volte quasi scanzonate (The Last Living Rose, The Words That Maketh Murder). Un atto d'accusa e d'amore allo stesso tempo verso la propria terra, e più in generale riguardo i tempi bui che viviamo, con tutta la classe e l'intenstità di Polly Jean Harvey.
I risultati del sondaggio:
1. LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY (28%)
2. THE KING OF LIMBS/RADIOHEAD (23%)
VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (23%)
4. FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST/GIRLS (9%)
SMOTHER/WILD BEASTS (9%)
WOUNDED RHYMES/LYKKE LI (9%)
7. I AM VERY FAR/OKKERVIL RIVER (1%)
VIOLET CRIES/ESBEN AND THE WITCH (1%)
9. BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!/ELBOW (0%)
HARBORED MANTRAS/WATER BORDERS (0%)
SKYING/THE HORRORS (0%)
THE FUTURE IS MEDIEVAL/KAISER CHIEFS (0%)
LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: CODEX/RADIOHEAD
Basterebbe quell'attacco con la voce leggermente roca di Thom Yorke per innamorarsi di questo pezzo al primo ascolto, senza contare il giro di pianoforte, semplice ed eterno, ed il testo, una piccola elegia, magnetico e rassicurante.
LA PLAYLIST DEL 20011
01. HOME IS A FIRE/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
02. CRYSTALLINE/BJORK
03. JUMP INTO THE FOG/THE WOMBATS
04. UBERLIN/R.E.M.
05. I KNOW PLACES/LYKKE LI
06. ALL IN WHITE/THE VACCINES
07. COMING UP FOR AIR/KAISER CHIEFS
08. MYMA/GIRL
09. SUZANNE AND I/ANNA CALVI
10. DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN/KASABIAN
11. STILYAGI/PURO INSTINCT FEAT. ARIEL PINK
12. FOREST/SHORE//DEAF CLUB
13. SUMMON THE SOUND/S.C.U.M.
14. DIVE IN/THE HORRORS
15. PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES
16. PLAYTHING/WILD BEASTS
17. CODEX/RADIOHEAD
18. WOLF/TROPHY WIFE
19. ALL AND EVERYONE/PJ HARVEY
20. WARPATH/ESBEN AND THE WITCH
21. TAMER ANIMALS/OTHER LIVES
22. WHITE TELEPHONE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
23. TAPE/YOUAREHERE
24. TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT/LOW ROAR
25. HANGING FROM A HIT/OKKERVIL RIVER
Bonus Tracks
RAZZI ARPIA INFERNO E FIAMME/VERDENA
EXILE VILIFY/THE NATIONAL
IODINE AND IRON/THE VEILS
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IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: LOTUS FLOWER/RADIOHEAD
L'irresistibile danza scomposta di Thom Yorke nel video diretto da Garth Jennings è piaciuta così tanto che in rete sono addirittura spuntati dei tutorial per imparare i passi del balletto. Della serie come essere la più grande band del pianeta e riuscire comunque a prendersi poco sul serio.
LA COPERTINA DELL'ANNO: VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (Aitor Throup)
Da un album che si chiama come un dinosauro ci si aspetta una copertina capeggiata da un enorme lucertolone preistorico, ed invece nel progetto grafico ideato dall'illustratore argentino (ma inglese d'adozione) Aitor Throup non c'è traccia di enormi animali estinti. Tuttavia il grido ancestrale che si percepisce dalle figure neanderthaliane ripetute agli angoli dell'immagine riesce perfettamente nell'intento di comunicare la forza primitiva del disco, nonchè la vena psichedelica della musica dei Kasbaian. Un capolavoro.
IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: ANNA CALVI
La minuta artista anglo-italiana fatica a trovare scarpe della sua misura (pare porti addirittura il numero 34) ma non certo consensi, tanto che la stampa specializzata britannica l'ha subito eletta a nuova PJ Harvey, e non è un caso che Nick Cave, che Polly Jean la conosce bene, l'abbia scelta per aprire i concerti dei Grinderman.
IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: PRIMAL SCREAM (Auditorium Parco della Musica/Roma) 22/07/11
Già di per sé i Primal Scream che dopo vent'anni suonano dal vivo per intero Screamadelica, disco simbolo degli anni '90, sarebbe un evento. Se poi ci mettiamo che i fan sul finire dello show fanno invasione di campo (pacifica) costringendo alla resa gli uomini della security e regalando ai posteri una versione memorabile di Rocks, la data romana del tour della band scozzese diventa addirittura leggendaria.
LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: SUBMARINE/ALEX TURNER
Uscita in punta di piedi, quasi come un prologo del quarto album degli Arctic Monkeys, Suck It And See (tanto che la ballata Piledriver Waltz ci è finita pari pari dentro), la colonna sonora della pellicola indipendente britannica Submarine rivela un Alex Turner più intimista e minimale, ma di certo non meno ispirato della versione leader della band.
IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: WOW/VERDENA
Dopo quasi quattro anni di silenzio, i Verdena tornano con un disco ambizioso, complesso, forse fin troppo lungo, ma di sicuro coraggioso ed intraprendente, impreziosito dal singolo di anticipazione Razzi Arpia Inferno e Fiamme, uno dei pezzi in italiano (seppur non comprensibilissimo) più belli degli ultimi tempi.
I VINCITORI DEL 2010:
DISCO: HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL
CANZONE: LIGHTS/INTERPOL
VIDEO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)
DEBUTTO: CHAPEL CLUB
CONCERTO: THE NATIONAL (Milano/Alcatraz) 16/11/10; INTERPOL (Milano/PalaSharp) 17/11/2010
COLONNA SONORA: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS
DISCO ITALIANO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA
14/12/11
13/12/11
12/12/11
11/12/11
10/12/11
09/12/11
08/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: KILLED BY THE BOOM/THE VEILS
He stared at the skyline with a look of avarice
He smelled the diesel of a passing train
He fell with both hands still in his pockets
Killed by the boom and washed away
Oh no, what a tragedy
Say what you want about him
I say god damn
He wasn't no drug dealer momma
He was a dancer
With the dull eyes of a steer and a lions mane
Bear me no public opinion it never answers
Whatever intuition cannot explain
Oh no, what a tragedy
Say what you want about him
I'll say god damn
No recognition by the state nor senate
No epitaph to sing aloud his sweet name
No fourteen stations and the nineteenth sonnet
Ne weren't no wealthy man but he was a man all the same
Oh no, what a tragedy
Say what you want about him
Oh no, what a fucking tragedy
Say what you want about him
I say god damn
It weren't the rain that killed him
And it weren't his muddy ears
It weren't the rain that killed him
He was killed by the boom
He was killed by the boom
ALBUM: SUN GANGS (2009)
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07/12/11
06/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE SAME THING/CASS McCOMBS
Like a ring
Gone down the drain
Our love in sunlight
At evening pain
Like vermin
Roman sewers bring
Pain and love
Are the same thing
Are the same thing
In my opinion we are the red birth mark
From the old storybook
Equal light, equal dark
Now let’s flip a coin to see now who’s yin and who is yang
It defies opinion whether they’re the same thing
Nothing in common
Our blood thicker than broth
We’re cut from different sides of the same cloth
Our love in sunlight
Our pain at evening
Have nothing in common yet they’re both the same thing
The same thing
The same street
The same address
The same white hair
The same black dress
The same sameness
From opposites cling
Pain and love
Are the same thing
Are the same thing
In my opinion a line is never crossed
Until now I was my inner feelings were always lost
Through spirit or season
Does the human voice does sing?
Death and opinion they are the same thing
Nothing in common
Our blood thicker than broth
We’re cut from different sides of the same cloth
Our love in sunlight
Our pain at evening
Have nothing in common yet they’re both the same thing
The same thing
Nothing in common
Our blood thicker than broth
We’re cut from different sides of the same cloth
Our love in sunlight
Our pain at evening
Have nothing in common yet they’re both the same thing
The same thing
ALBUM: HUMOR RISK (2011)
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05/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: KNOTS/LISA HANNIGAN
Diretto da Myles O'Reilly
It was early in the morning
We were sitting on the stoop
There wheeled away a starling
And I thought that I would too
For all I knew
I was lost through and through
In my high heels and my old dress
With my new keys in the wrong city
I tie the knots to remember in my heart
So I choke and I sputter to a stop
I am a borrower and lender of the lot
I walk away asleep
And chalk an outline round the scene
This shadow play of whiskey talk
A heavy denier dream
Let it be
I was lost in him and me
In my high heels and my old dress
With my new keys in the wrong city
I tie the knots to remember in my heart
So I choke and I sputter to a stop
I am a borrower and lender of the lot
In my high heels and my old dress
With my new keys in the wrong city
In my high heels and my old dress
With my new keys in the wrong city
City
I tie the knots to remember in my heart
So I choke and I sputter to a stop
I am a borrower and lender of the lot
I tie the knots to remember in my heart
I tie the knots to remember in my heart
So I choke and I sputter to a stop
ALBUM: PASSENGER (2011)
04/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WOLF LIKE ME/ANNA CALVI
Say say my playmate
Won't you lay your hands on me
Mirror my melody
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 fish
We could jet in a stolen car
But I bet we wouldn't get too far
Before the transformation takes
Its bloodlust tanks and
Crave gets slaked
My mind has changed
My body's framed
But god I like it
My heart's aflame
My heart is strained
But god I like it
My mind has changed
My body's framed
But god I like it
My heart's aflame
My heart is strained
But god I like it
Charge me your day rate
I don't let you out in time
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 come
It's you, you, you, you
My mind has changed
My body's framed
But god I like it
My heart's aflame
My heart is strained
But god I like it
My mind has changed
My body's framed
But god I like it
My heart's aflame
My heart is strained
But god I like it
My mind has changed
My body's framed
But god I like it
My heart's aflame
My heart is strained
But god I like it
Dream me oh, dreamer
Down to the floor
Open my hands and let them
Weave onto yours
Feeding on fever
Down on all fours
Show you what all the
howling's for
(2011)
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03/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE GLOAMING/RADIOHEAD
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how
Funny how
When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
To the shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
This is the gloaming
ALBUM: HAIL TO THE THIEF (2003)
02/12/11
LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SIDEWALK SAFARI/CHAIRLIFT
All of the bones in your body
Are in way to few pieces for me
Time to do something about it
If you know what I mean
I'm on a sidewalk safari
If I see you on the street you'd better run
Away from my all terrain weapon
In your direction
In your direction
In your direction
In your direction
I'm on a sidewalk safari
If I see you on the street you'd better run
You should have taken a taxi
In your direction
'Cause I'm gonna run you down
In your direction
I'm gonna hunt you down
In your direction
I'm gonna run you down
In your direction
I'm gonna hunt you down
I'm bad with bows and arrows
I'm not so good at guns
Poison seems old-fashioned
And hired help's no fun
But I do know how to drive a car
Faster than a man can run
'Cause I'm gonna run you down
I'm gonna hunt you down
I'm gonna run you down
In your direction
I'm gonna hunt you down
In your direction
ALBUM: SOMETHING (2011)
01/12/11
PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE
La playlist da regalare a Natale.
01. BACK IN BLOOM/SULK
(BACK IN BLOOM Single)
02. DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU/ROSTAM
03. SOMETIME/DIVE
(SOMETIME 7" Single)
04. GREEN LIGHT/LEISURE
(PLASTIC SOUL)
05. NEEDLES AND PINS/HOWTH
(NEEDLES AND PINS)
06. I HEAR VOICES/KASABIAN
(VELOCIRAPTOR!)
07. I'LL NEVER LET GO/SNOW PATROL
(FALLEN EMPIRES)
08. LAWRENCE/GIRLS
(FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST)
09. FOREST/SHORE//DEAF CLUB
(LULL EP)
10. GOT A HOLD/2:54
(SCARLET EP)
11. GET IT RIGHT/TASHAKI MYAKI
(TASHAKI MIYAKI EP)
12. PARALLAX/ATLAS SOUND
(PARALLAX)
13. I THOUGHT I WAS AN ALIEN/SOKO
14. WHITE NIGHT/LITTLE GIRLS
(CULTS)
15. TIME TRAVEL/BLOUSE
(BLOUSE)
16. GOLDEN/GLASS VAULTS
(INTO CLEAR EP)
Bonus Tracks
A KINGDOM YOU DESERVE/I LIKE TRAINS
(THIS SKIN FULL OF BONES)
ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING/MGMT
(LATE NIGHT TALES)
REQUIEM ON WATER/IMPERIAL MAMMOTH
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, PT. 1 Soundtrack)
LÚPPULAGIð/SIGUR RÓS
(INNI)
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