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12/08/12

LA CLASSIFICA DEL GIORNO: THE PEOPLE'S LIST/TOP ALBUMS 1996-2011





Un modo simpatico di passare la domenica pomeriggio, su Pitchfork.
La mia (sudatissima) classifica:

1. IN RAINBOWS/RADIOHEAD
2. OK COMPUTER/RADIOHEAD
3. ()/SIGUR RÓS
4. KID A/RADIOHEAD
5. TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHT/INTERPOL
6. VARIATIONS ON A DREAM/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
7. AN END HAS A START/EDITORS
8. HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL
9. ÁGÆTIS BYRJUN/SIGUR RÓS
10. BLUR/BLUR
11. IS THIS DESIRE?/PJ HARVEY
12. ANTICS/INTERPOL
13. HAIL TO THE THIEF/RADIOHEAD
14. IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS
15. OUR LOVE TO ADMIRE/INTERPOL
16. ODELAY/BECK
17. TAKK/SIGUR RÓS
18. BLOODFLOWERS/THE CURE
19. NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI/R.E.M.
20. THE ERASER/THOM YORKE
21. MEZZANINE/MASSIVE ATTACK
22. 13/BLUR
23. FINALLY WE ARE NO ONE/MÚM
24. STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA/PJ HARVEY
25. YES, VIRGINIA/THE DRESDEN DOLLS
26. HOMOGENIC/BJÖRK
27. SEA CHANGE/BECK
28. HAPPY SONGS FOR HAPPY PEOPLE/MOGWAI
29. NEON BIBLE/ARCADE FIRE
30. NO, VIRGINIA.../THE DRESDEN DOLLS
31. YESTERDAY WAS DRAMATIC - TODAY IS OK/MÚM
32. IRM/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
33. LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY
34. WITHOUT YOU I'N NOTHING/PLACEBO
35. THE SUBURBS/ARCADE FIRE
36. ABSOLUTION/MUSE
37. PSYENCE FICTION/UNKLE
38. AND THE GLASS HANDED KITES/MEW
39. YOU ALL LOOK THE SAME TO ME/ARCHIVE
40. EMPLOYMENT/KAISER CHIEFS
41. EMPIRE/KASABIAN
42. THE AGE OF UNDERSTATEMENT/THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
43. THINK TANK/BLUR
44. WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP EVER SANK/MODEST MOUSE
45. ALL IS VIOLENT, ALL IS BRIGHT/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
46. THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP/GRANDADDY
47. ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY/MUSE
48. ADORE/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
49. MR. BEAST/MOGWAI
50. ELEGIES TO LESSONS LEARNT/I LIKE TRAINS
51. ULTE/DEPECHE MODE
52. PARACHUTES/COLDPLAY
53. DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE
54. DEMON DAYS/GORILLAZ
55. GET READY/NEW ORDERr
56. MEDS/PLACEBO
57. LUST LUST LUST/THE RAVEONETTES
58. THIS IS MY TRUTH TELL ME YOURS/MANIC STREET PREACHERS
59. THIRD/PORTISHEAD
60. PLANS/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
61. FORGET THE NIGHT AHEAD/THE TWILIGHT SAD
62. WALKING WITH THEE/CLINIC
63. BECOMING X/SNEAKER PIMPS
64. STRANGE MERCY/ST. VINCENT
65. WOUNDED RHYMES/LYKKE LI
66. A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD/COLDPLAY
67. SUN GANGS/THE VEILS
68. HURBAN HYMNS/THE VERVE
69. PORTISHEAD/PORTISHEAD
70. GORILLAZ/GORILLAZ
71. TIDAL/FIONA APPLE
72. LIVE IT OUT/METRIC
73. INTIMACY/BLOC PARTY
74. FANTASIES/METRIC
75. HATE/THE DELGADOS
76. MURDER BALLADS/NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
77. THE FRAGILE/NINE INCH NAILS
78. CONTROLLING CROWDS/ARCHIVE
79. TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND/FRANZ FERDINAND
80. VECKATIMEST/GRIZZLY BEAR
81. HALCYON DIGEST/DEERHUNTER
82. UP/R.E.M.
83. VANTAGE POINT/dEUS
84. VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN
85. VIOLET CRIES/ESBAN AND THE WITCH
86. HOMBRE LOBO: 12 SONGS OF DESIRE/EELS
87. HUMBUG/ARCTIC MONKEYS
88. AMONG MY SWAN/MAZZY STAR
89. BOXER/THE NATIONAL
90. TIGHTLY UNWOUND/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
91. ORION/LIMP
92. SCARY WORLD THEORY/LALI PUNA
93. THE INVISIBLE BAND/TRAVIS
94. RUNAWAY FOUND/THE VEILS
95. MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE/KLAXONS
96. RETURN TO COOKIE MOUNTAIN/TV ON THE RADIO
97. LADYHAWKE/LADYHAWKE
98. TOTAL LIFE FOREVER/FOALS
99. MIRRORED/BATTLES
100. WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/WINTERSLEEP

30/03/12

PLAYLIST/APRILE





01. ALL THE ROWBOATS/REGINA SPEKTOR
(WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS)
02. MYTH/BEACH HOUSE
(BLOOM)
03. TRINITY/COMPUTER MAGIC
(ORION)
04. LEPÄÄN AALLOILLA/REGINA
(SOITA MULLE)
05. NIGHT COMES OUT/THE RAVEONETTES
(INTO THE NIGHT)
06. BLOOD FOR POPPIES/GARBAGE
(NOT YOUR KIND OF PEOPLE)
07. STRANGERS/LOTUS PLAZA
(SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE)
08. TALL SHADOWS/WORLD'S MOST
(TALL SHADOWS/HONEY EYED Single)
09. ASHES IN THE AIR/THE FLAMING LIPS FEAT. BON IVER
(THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS)
10. WEIGHTS & MEASURES/DRY THE RIVER
(SHALLOW BED)
11. ANOTHER STORY TO TELL/CRYSTAL VOYAGER
(DEMOS)
12. EVERYTHING IS BURNING/MESITA
(THE COYOTE)
13. THE MARVELOUS DREAM/DAMON ALBARN
(DR DEE)
14. TALLER/FLIGHTS
(ANYWHERE BUT WHERE I AM)
15. EKKI MÚKK/SIGUR RÓS
(VALTARI)

Bonus Tracks

ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER/ARCADE FIRE
(THE HUNGER GAMES Soundtrack)
WATERLIGHT PARK (Demo)/CHAPEL CLUB
LOOKING FOR A SIGN/BECK
(JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME Soundtrack)

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22/03/12

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOOKING FOR A SIGN/BECK





If I ever think about you
If I ever call your name
I’ll put my empty arms around you
Let them every die away

Looking out for a sign
How can I tell what’s right
Changing my ways to spite myself
'Cause I still want you

If I ran across your picture
If I called you bout to stay
and if I ask someone about you
it’s a habit I can’t break

Looking out for a sign
How can I tell what’s right
Changing my ways to spite myself
'Cause I still want you

ALBUM: JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME (Soundtrack) (2012)

24/01/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LITTLE ONE/BECK





Go to sleep
We're so tired now
Altogether in a snake pit of souls
New days
To throw your chains away
To try to hang your hopes on the wind

Little one
Just a little way
Today all we need is waiting

Night rise
Like the evening prize
In a turnstile backwards we fly
Cold bones
Tied together by
Black ropes we pulled from a swing

Little one
Just a little way
Today all of the dreams are waking

Can't stand on crooked legs
I'm cross-eyed to the wall
In these harbor lights
Satellites explode

Drown, drown
Sailors run aground
In a sea change nothing is safe
Strange waves
Push us every way
In a stolen boat we'll float away

Little one
Just a little way
Today all we need is waiting
Little one
Just a little way
Today all of the dreams are waking
Little one
Hold on, hold on
Today all of the dreams are waking

ALBUM: SEA CHANGE (2002)

27/07/10

PLAYLIST/AGOSTO




AM/FM/!!!

Il nuovo singolo degli Interpol, il ritorno dei Grinderman di Nick Cave, i Tired Pony con Tom Smith degli Editors, la collaborazione tra Björk ed i Dirty Projectors, il debutto da solista di Phil Selway dei Radiohead... Il tempo di ascoltare, e l'estate sarà quasi finita.

01. TROUBLE IN MIND/ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL
(ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL)
02. ECHOES/KLAXSONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
03. AM/FM/!!!
(STRANGE WEATHER, ISN'T IT?)
04. BARRICADE/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)
05. AT THE INDIE DISCO/THE DIVINE COMEDY
(BANG GOES THE KNIGHTHOOD)
06. HEATHEN CHILD/GRINDERMAN
(GRINDERMAN 2)
07. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH
(THE PLACE WE RAN FROM)
08. WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE
(THE SUBURBS)
09. NO EMBRACE/DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJÖRK
(MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA)
10. TOMBOY/PANDA BEAR
(TOMBOY Single)
11. OUTER LIMITS/SLEEP ∞ OVER
(OUTER LIMITS Single)
12. CONVERSATION 16/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET)
13. BY SOME MIRACLE/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)


BONUS TRACKS

SUMMERTIME/BECK
(SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Soundtrack)
IT'S WORKING (AIR REMIX)/MGMT
(IT'S WORKING)

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09/06/10

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MYSTIFY/BECK'S RECORD CLUB





All veils and misty
Streets of blue
Almond looks
That chill devine
Some silken moment
Goes on forever
And we're leaving
Broken hearts behind
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me

I need perfection
Some twisted selection
To make every moment come alive
All those stars that shine upon you
And they kiss you every night
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me

You're eternally wild with the power
To make every moment come alive
All those stars that shine upon you
They kiss you every night
All veils
And misty streets of blue
Almond looks
That chill devine

Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me
Mystify
Mystify me

You're eternally wild
Make a, make a...
And they kiss you every night

All veils
And misty streets of blue
Almond looks
That chill devine
Some silken moment
Goes on forever
And we're leaving
We're leaving
Broken hearts behind

ALBUM: KICK (2010)

01/03/10

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: JACK-ASS/BECK





I been drifting along
In the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying a noose
In the back of my mind
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together
It's a strange invitation

When I wake up
Someone will sweep up my lazy bones
And we will rise in the cool of the evening
I remember the way that you smiled
When the gravity shackles were wild
And something is vacant
When I think it's all beginning

I been drifting along
In the same stale shoes
Loose ends tying the noose
In the back of my mind
If you thought that you were making your way
To where the puzzles and pagans lay
I'll put it together
It's a strange invitation

ALBUM: ODELAY (1996)

26/01/10

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LA COLLECTIONNEUSE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG FEAT. BECK





I collect many things
And keep them all close to me
To the celing from the floor
I'm tripping on them constantly

Pixelated faces play
On a blown out TV screen
Footage from a camera
These days I'm fast fowarding

I see a pattern start to form
Over time it's surfacing
Like a face I recognize
It never says anything

I add up all theses moments
In along narrow ledger
Decimals of pain
Intergers of pleasure
The sum of all these parts
I don't how to measure
They keep on adding up
They just keep on adding up

The collector
La collectionneuse

J'ai ceuilli ce brin de bruyère
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur Terre
Odeur du temps Brin de bruyère
Et souviens toi que je t'attends

J'ai eu le courage de regarder en arrière
Le cadavre de mes jours

Que lentement passent les heures
Comme passe un enterrement
Tu pleureras l'heure ou tu pleures
Qui passera trop vitement
Comme passent toutes les heures

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu
Comme un guetteur mélancolique
J'observe la nuit et la mort

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

ALBUM: IRM (2009)

16/01/10

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WHERE IT'S AT/BECK





There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow
Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans just clap your hands
Just clap your hands

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

take me home with my elevator bones
that was a good drum break

Pick yourself up off the side of the road
With your elevator bones and your whip-flash tones
Members only hyponotizers
Move through the room like ambulance drivers
Shine your shoes with your microphone blues
Hirsutes with your parachute fruits
Passing the dutchie from coast to coast
Like my man Gary Wilson rocks the most

Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at
I got two turntables and a microphone

What about those who swing both ways?
AC-DC's?
Let's make it out, baby

There's a destination a little up the road
From the habitations and the towns we know
A place we saw the lights turn low
The jig-saw jazz and the get-fresh flow
Pulling out jives and jamboree handouts
Two turntables and a microphone
Bottles and cans and just clap your hands
And just clap your hands

Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone
Where it's at!
I got two turntables and a microphone

ALBUM: ODELAY (1996)

07/01/10

PLAYLIST/GENNAIO



La prima playlist del 2010, con alcune novità importanti (Massive Attack, Portishead, Eels) e le cose migliori della fine dello scorso anno...


TWO WEEKS/GRIZZLY BEAR

01. CHASE THE TEAR/PORTISHEAD
02. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. HOPE SANDOVAL
(HELIGOLAND)
03. LE CHAT DU CAFÈ DES ARTISTES/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG FEAT. BECK
(IRM)
04. THE HIGH ROAD/BROKEN BELLS
(BROKEN BELLS)
05. DOUBT/DELPHIC
(ALCOLYTE)
06. YOU DON'T KNOW LOVE/EDITORS
(IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING)
07. HOOTING & HOWLING/WILD BEASTS
(TWO DANCERS)
08. MANSIONS OF LOZ FELIZ/EELS
(END TIMES)
09. LITTLE LION MAN/MUMFORD AND SONS
(SIGH NO MORE)
10. IS THERE NOTHING WE COULD DO?/BADLY DRAWN BOY
(IS THERE NOTHING WE COULD DO?)
11. TWO WEEKS/GRIZZLY BEAR
(VECKATIMEST)
12. COLOURING OF PIGEONS/THE KNIFE FEAT. MT. SIMS AND PLANNINGTOROCK
(TOMORROW, IN A YEAR)

BONUS TRACK

MONEY/THE FLAMING LIPS FEAT. HENRY ROLLINS
(THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON)

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05/01/10

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LE CHAT DU CAFÉ DES ARTISTES/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG



Charlotte Gainsbourg - Le chat du café des artistes


Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurai coupé la ficelle
Mettez-moi dans une poubelle
Laissez-moi faisander un mois
Et de là jetez-moi au chat
Qu'il refuse ma rate et mon foie
Mais choisissez l'heure pour qu'il me mange le cœur
Et je reste encore avec vous
Sur vos épaules et vos genoux
Que je sois puisqu'il faut qu'on existe
Le Chat du Café des Artistes

Et si le pain vient à manquer
Je serai là et n'hésitez pas
Brisez-moi les pattes et le cou
Et puis mangez-moi à même le chat

Ce ne sera pas la première fois
Qu'on aura mangé un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurais coupé la ficelle
Mettez moi dans une poubelle

Et puis ils m'ont oublié là
Comme ils ont oublié le chat
Comme ils oublieront ma tête et mes chansons

Ce ne sera pas la dernière fois
Que l'on oubliera un artiste

Quand on est mort c'est qu'on est mort
Quand on ne rit plus, c'est qu'on ne vit plus
Quand j'aurais coupé la ficelle
Mettez moi dans une poubelle
Et puis ils m'ont oublié là

ALBUM: IRM (2009)

09/12/09

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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03/11/09

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/NOVEMBRE

Con il freddo e la pioggia, arriva anche la playlist di Novembre, che inizia e finisce con uno strappo alla regola, una doppietta per gli Editors, decisamente la band del momento: si apre con la title-track dell'album In This Light And On This Evening, e si chiude con il brano incluso nella colonna sonora di New Moon. Nel mezzo The Twilight Sad, Muse, Air, Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke...


CORNERSTONE/ARCTIC MONKEYS

01. IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS
(IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING)
02. REFLECTION OF THE TELEVISION/THE TWILIGHT SAD
(FORGET THE NIGHT AHEAD)
03. RIVER OF BRAKELIGHTS/JULIAN CASABLANCAS
(PHRAZES FOR THE YOUNG)
04. UNDISCLOSED DESIRES/MUSE
(THE RESISTANCE)
05. FORESTCARE/BURIAL
(5: 5 YEARS OF HYPERDUB)
06. SO LIGHT IS HER FOOTFALL/AIR
(LOVE 2)
07. HIGHER THAN THE STARS/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
(HIGHER THAN THE STARS EP)
08. IRM/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG FEATURING BECK
(IRM)
09. HORCHATA/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
(CONTRA)
10. THERE ARE LISTED BUILDINGS/LOS CAMPESINOS!
(ROMANCE IS BORING)
11. CORNERSTONE/ARCTIC MONKEYS
(HUMBUG)
12. I WILL NEVER LOVE YOU MORE/SOKO

BONUS TRACKS

HEARING DAMAGE/THOM YORKE
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)
SLOW LIFE/GRIZZLY BEAR
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)
NO SOUND BUT THE WIND/EDITORS
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)

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12/10/09

POST-IT: CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (E BECK)




Charlotte Gainsbourg di mestiere fa l'attrice, ma è anche una cantante, e sta per pubblicare un nuovo disco, intitolato IRM. Inserendo un indirizzo e-mail sul suo sito ufficiale, si può scaricare gratis la title-track del disco, che non è affatto male, anzi: la produzione di Beck (nel frattempo ancora impegnato nel suo progetto Record Club) c'è, e si sente...

04/09/09

POST-IT: BECK'S RECORD CLUB/SUZANNE





Non c'è voluto molto tempo per conoscere il successore di The Velvet Underground & Nico, primo disco registrato da Beck per il suo progetto Record Club: si tratta di Songs Of Leonard Cohen, primo, storico album del compositore canadese. Questa volta, oltre a Brian Lebarton e Bram Inscore, i compagni di avventura di Mr. Hansen sono Devendra Banhart, Ben Goldwasser, Andrew VanWyngarden e Matt Asti degli MGMT, Andrew Stockdale dei Wolfmother e Binki dei Little Joy. Il primo brano ad essere pubblicato, in rigoroso ordine di scaletta, è Suzanne.

27/08/09

POST-IT: BECK'S RECORD CLUB



BECK'S RECORD CLUB/THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO

Manca un solo tassello del puzzle, e poi The Velvet Uderground & Nico, il primo dei dischi del progetto Record Club, con il quale Beck, assieme ad un manipolo di amici fidati (Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker, Giovanni Ribisi, Brian Lebarton, Bram Inscore, Yo, Chris Holmes e la cantante islandese Thorunn Antonía Magnusdottir), intende rileggere alcune pietre miliari del rock registrando tutti i pezzi in una sola sessione, sarà ultimato. Negli ultimi due giorni, infatti, l'eclettico e prolifico (contemporaneamente sta lavorando anche alla replica acustica di Modern Guilt) musicista americano ha pubblicato sul suo sito ufficiale le cover di I'll Be Your Mirror e The Black Angel's Death Song. Aspettiamo quindi European Son per completare l'album, mentre in rete si parla già di Evol dei Sonic Youth ed Oar di Skip Spence come possibili nuovi capitoli del Beck's Record Club: si accettano scommesse...

BECK'S RECORD CLUB/I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
BECK'S RECORD CLUB/THE BLACK ANGEL'S DEATH SONG