LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE MARVELOUS DREAM/DAMON ALBARN

ALBUM: DR DEE (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HYMN/EMILY KOKAL

(2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THIS IS WHY WE FIGHT/THE DECEMBERISTS

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell
Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight
When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell
Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight
And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

ALBUM: THE KING IS DEAD (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RECKLESS SERENADE (ACOUSTIC)/ARCTIC MONKEYS

Topless models doing semaphore
Wave their flags as she walks by and get ignored
Illuminations on a rainy day
When she walks her footsteps sing
A reckless serenade

I've been trying to figure out exactly what it is I need
Call up to listen to the voice of reason
And got his answering machine

The type of kisses
Where teeth collide
When she laughs the heavens hum
A stun-gun lullaby
Those twinkling vixens
With the shining spiral eyes
Their hypnosis goes unnoticed
When she's walking by

I've been trying to figure out exactly what it is I need
Call up to listen to the voice of reason
And got the answering machine
I left my message but did he fuck get back to me
And now I'm stuck still wondering
How it's meant to be

Singing a reckless serenade
Reckless serenade
Reckless serenade
Reckless serenade

ALBUM: SUCK IT AND SEE (2011)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SET FIRE TO THE RAIN/ADELE

I let it fall my heart
And as it fell you also claim it
It was dark and I was all right
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they're strong, but my knees were far too weak
Stand in your arms without falling into your feet

But there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you say, they were never true, never true
And the games you play, you would always win, always win

But I set fire to the rain
Watch it pour as I touched your face
Let it burn while I cry
'Cause I heard it screaming at your name, your name

When I'm with you, I could stay there
Close my eyes, feel you're here forever
You and me together, nothing is better

'Cause there's a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you say, they were never true, never true
And the games you play, you would always win, always win

But I set fire to the rain
Watch it pour as I touched your face
Let it burn while I cry
'Cause I heard it screaming at your name, your name
I set fire to the rain
And I feel lost into the phase
And it felt something nice
'Cause I knew that that was the last time, last time

Sometimes I wake up by the door
And hope you're gone, must be waiting further
Even that when it's already over
I can't help myself from looking further

I set fire to the rain
Watch it pour as I touch your face
Let it burn when I cry
'Cause I heard it screaming at your name, your name
I set fire to the rain
And I feel lost into the phase
And it felt something nice
'Cause I knew that that was the last time
The last time
Let it burn
Let it burn
Let it burn

ALBUM: 21 (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: APPLE CARTS/DAMON ALBARN

L'opera prima di Damon Albarn, ovvero la sua prima opera teatrale. Del resto, dai Blur in poi, tutto quello che tocca (dai Gorillaz a The Good, The Bad & The Queen) se proprio non diventa oro, quantomeno riluce.




(Jonn Dee)

ALBUM: DR DEE: AN ENGLISH OPERA (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MORNING MR MAGPIE/RADIOHEAD

La prima versione di Morning Mr Magpie del 2002, quando neanche gli stessi Radiohead pensavano che sarebbe finita su un disco intitolato The King Of Limbs.




You know you should
But you don’t
You know you should
But you don’t
You got some nerve coming here
You got some nerve coming here

Good morning Mr Magpie
How are we today?
Now you’ve stolen all the magic
Took my melody

ALBUM: THE KING OF LIMBS (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IF I WERE GOING/THE AFGHAN WHIGS

What should I tell her?
She's going to ask
If I ignore it
It gets uncomfortable
She'll want to argue about the past
Still I think she believes me
Every word I say
I think I'm starting to believe it all myself
Go ask the gentlemen who play it
But hate to pay

And it don't bleed and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart
It's in our heads
It's in our love
Baby, it's in our bed

It holds my arms down
Sits upon my chest
It waves its finger at me every night and day
And it don't rest

And it don't breathe and it don't bleed
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's all a lie
It's nearly dead
It's in our hope
Baby, it's in our bed

ALBUM: GENTLEMEN (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GIVE UP THE GHOST/RADIOHEAD

Don't haunt me
Don't haunt me

Gather up the lost and sold
In your arms
In your arms

Gather up the pitifull
In your arms
In your arms

What seems impossible
In your arms
In your arms

I think I have had my fill
In your arms
In your arms

I've been told to give up the ghost
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms
In your arms

ALBUM: THE KING OF LIMBS (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ALL THE EASTERN GIRLS/CHAPEL CLUB

My mind is a night garden
Heavy with shadow it stares
Your eyes adjust to the dark
All the eastern girls
Are wondering back from St. Martins
Skin all pale
I'm sold out in every department
Got nothing left for the world
Eyes won't adjust to the light

But all the eastern girls
They arrive like a king's pardon
To the sound of bells
Only just getting to know you
Running the flag up to mean it
Acted like I was you saviour
The shepard instead of the lamb

Night falls in and the skyline hardens
Colours dissolving untill
Faces are lost among the stars
All the eastern girls
Are like stars as the night sharpens
They remind me of
Let's just wait and see if we take things too far
I think we should wait and see how we feel apart
Did I mean that or didn't i?
Did I know what I was saying?
One decade down and I just

Only just getting to know you
Running the flag up to mean it
Acted like I was you saviour
The shepard instead of the lamb
Been walking around with my eyes closed
Keeping away from your windows
Fearful eviction horizons
But you took my life in your hands
All the eastern girls passing by
All the eastern girls remind me that
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song
This is a love song

Only just getting to know you
Running the flag up to mean it
Acted like I was you saviour
The shepard instead of the lamb
Been walking around with my eyes closed
Keeping away from your windows
Fearful eviction horizons
When you took my life in your hands

ALBUM: PALACE (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DIFFERENT STARS/TRESPASSERS WILLIAMS

So you'd sing a lullaby to get me to sleep
So it's no surprise my eyes are never heavy
For I've not seen you in the flesh for so long
That I'm not sure we would know each other at all

The weight it must be light wherever you are
And I know you don't think twice wherever you are
The weight it must be light wherever you are
And I know you don't think twice wherever you are

So I will hum alone, too far from you
All that I say now is nothing to you
We will lie under different stars
I am where I am and you're where you are
You're where you are

The weight it must be light wherever you are
And I know you don' t think twice wherever you are
And I'd ask if you're all right wherever you are
And do you think of me, you might, wherever you are

ALBUM: DIFFERENT STARS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ENGLAND/THE NATIONAL

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

You put an ocean and a river between everybody else
Between everything, yourself and home
Put an ocean and a river
Between everything, yourself and home

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BUTTERCUPS/FRAN HEALY

It never rains but it pours
Do keep the wolf from the door
I see him sitting in silence
Outside my house
Quiet as a mouse

I tried to buy you roses but all the stars were closed
And if I had a diamond ring I’d wear it through my nose
But I can’t dance and I can’t sing
A loser I suppose
So all I have is buttercups
All I have is buttercups
What is wrong with buttercups
Who knows

You said to have and to hold
Do let me in from the cold
I see you sitting in silence
Inside your house
Quiet as a mouse

I tried to buy you roses but all the stars were closed
And if I had a diamond ring I’d wear it through my nose
But I can’t dance and I can’t sing
A loser I suppose
So all I have is buttercups
All I have is buttercups
What is wrong with buttercups
Who knows
Who knows

And this could be life as we know it
How can I see if you never show it
I tried to buy you roses
But all the stars were closed

I tried to buy you roses but all the stars were closed
And if I had a diamond ring I’d wear it through my nose
But I can’t dance and I can’t sing
A loser I suppose
So all I have is buttercups
All I have is buttercups
What is wrong with buttercups
Who knows
Who knows
Who knows
Who knows

ALBUM: WRECKORDER (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BIG EMPTY/STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

Driving faster in my car
Falling farther from just what we are
Smoke a cigarette and lie some more
These conversations kill
Falling faster in my car

Time to take her home, her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride that leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home her lazy head is conscience laden
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long

Too much walking shoes worn thin
Too much tripping and my soul's worn thin
Time to catch a ride it leaves today
Her name is what it means
To much walking shoe's worn thin

Time to take her home, her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride that leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home her lazy head is conscience laden
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long

Conversations kill
Conversations kill
Conversations kill

Time to take her home, her dizzy head is conscience laden
Time to take a ride that leaves today no conversation
Time to take her home her lazy head is conscience laden
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long
Time to wait too long

Conversations kill
Conversations kill
Conversations kill

ALBUM: PURPLE (1994)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BY SOME MIRACLE/PHILIP SELWAY

As I gave in to temptation
I've straighten across the line
Keep it under wraps in the cold store
Put it to the back of your mind
Put it to the back of your mind

But by some miracle
I've just got away with it
I've clawed it back again
By some miracle
I've just got away with it
I've clawed it back
I'm crawling back again

As a black dog down in the basement
Is barking out my name
Snapping at my heels when I falter
Kick it but it won't go away
Kick it but it won't go away

But by some miracle
I've just got away with it
I've clawed it back again
But by some miracle
I've just got away with it
I've clawed it back
I'm crawling back again

Put it back, put it back, put it where you found it
Put it back, put it back, put it where you found it
Put it back, put it back, put it where you found it

ALBUM: FAMILIAL (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SOCIETY/EDDIE VEDDER

It's a mystery to me
We have a greed with which we have agreed
And you think you have to want more than you need
Until you have it all you won't be free

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me

When you want more than you have
You think you need
And when you think more than you want
Your thoughts begin to bleed
I think I need to find a bigger place
Because when you have more than you think
You need more space

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me

There's those thinking more or less, less is more
But if less is more how you keeping score?
Means for every point you make your level drops
Kinda like you're starting from the top
You can't do that

Society, you're a crazy breed
Hope you're not lonely without me
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me
Society, have mercy on me
Hope you're not angry if I disagree
Society, crazy indeed
Hope you're not lonely without me

ALBUM: INTO THE WILD (Soundtrack) (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ROAD TO NOWHERE/NOUVELLE VAGUE

There's a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
And it's all right
And it's very far away
But it's growing day by day
And it's all right

We're on a road to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride
I'm feelin' okay this morning
And you know
We're on the road to paradise
Here we go, here we go

We're on a ride to nowhere
Come on inside
Takin' that ride to nowhere
We'll take that ride
Maybe you wonder where you are
I don't care
Here is time is on our side
Take you there, take you there

There's a city in my mind
Come along and take that ride
and it's all right
And it's very far away
But it's growing day by day
And it's all right
Would you like to come along
and you could help me sing this song?
And it's all right
They can tell you what to do
But they'll make a fool of you
And it's all right
It's all right
We're on a road to nowhere

ALBUM: NOUVELLE VAGUE 3 (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SUZANNE/TORI AMOS

Suzanne takes you down to her place by the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
She gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
You want to travel blind
You know that she will trust you
For she touched your perfect body with her mind

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said all men shall be sailors
Then until the sea shall free them
There are, yes there are sailors they sit
All men shall be sailors
Then until the sea shall free them
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
You think that you'll trust him
For he touched your perfect body with his mind
With his mind
With his hands

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
You want to travel blind
You know that you can trust her
For she touched your perfect body with her mind
Suzanne
Suzanne
Suzanne

(2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HIGH AND DRY/AMANDA PALMER

Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy
Flyin' on your motorcycle
Watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition
Kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror
You're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
You just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you
You will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing you've had has gone away

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

ALBUM: AMANDA PALMER PERFORMS THE POPULAR HITS OF RADIOHEAD ON HER MAGICAL UKULELE (2010)

POST-IT: AMANDA PALMER, I RADIOHEAD E L'UKULELE MAGICO

Amanda Palmer, voce dei Dresden Dolls, ha pubblicato un album di cover di brani dei Radiohead, suonati principalmente con l'ukulele... altro che vuvuzelas!
La copertina del disco, poi, realizzata in stile hawaiano anni '50, è davvero uno spasso.