LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PARKLIFE/BLUR FEAT. PHIL DANIELS

Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as
(Parklife)
A morning suit can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as
(Parklife)
John's got brewers droop he gets intimidated by the dirty pigeons they love a bit of it
(Parklife)
Who's that gut lord marching you should cut down on your porklife mate get some exercise

All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife
You know what I mean

I get up when I want except on wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen
(Parklife)
I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving the house
(Parklife)
I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too it gives me a sense of enormous well being
(Parklife)
And then i'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it

All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife

It's got nothing to do with vorsprung durch technic you know
And it's not about you joggers who go round and round and round

All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife
All the people
So many people
They all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife

ALBUM: PARKLIVE (2012)

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

PLAYLIST/AGOSTO//MESSAGGIO DI SERVIZIO

Ci scusiamo per la momentanea interruzione, le selezioni riprenderanno mercoledì 1° agosto.
Nel frattempo, con generoso anticipo, la playlist del mese prossimo:

01. BLOOD/PATTERNS
(BLOOD Single)
02. *DREAM-LOVER*/PURO INSTINCT
03. OCTOPUS/BLOC PARTY
(FOUR)
04. UNDER THE WESTWAY/BLUR
(UNDER THE WESTWAY Single)
05. APOCALYPSE DREAMS/TAME IMPALA
(LONERISM)
06. TESSELLATE/ALT-J
(AN AWESOME WAVE)
07. SLEEP PARALYSIS/GABRIEL BRUCE
(SLEEP PARALYSIS Single)
08. HVERING Á Að SÆRA VINI SÍNA/MÚM
(EARLY BIRDS)
09. WEREWOLF/FIONA APPLE
(THE IDLER WHEEL IS WISER THAN THE DRIVER OF THE SCREW, AND WHIPPING CORDS WILL SERVE YOU MORE THAN ROPES WILL EVER DO)
10. EASY UNDERCOVER/2:54
(2:54)
11. MOVING STILL/DEAF CLUB
(MOVING STILL Single)
12. FOLLOW/DIIV
(OSHIN)
13. ARTIFICIAL NOCTURNE/METRIC
(SYNTHETICA)
14. ANGELS/THE XX
(COEXIST)
15. ONE THING ABOUT WAVES/dEUS
(FOLLOWING SEA)
16. NO GOOD/STARRED
(NO GOOD B/W BASTARD 7" Single)

Bonus Tracks

LOVECRIMES/THE AFGHAN WHIGS
PLANET EARTH (Live)/DURAN DURAN
(A DIAMOND IN THE MIND)

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LE CANZONI DEL GIORNO: UNDER THE WESTWAY/THE PURITAN//BLUR

ALBUM: UNDER THE WESTWAY (Digital Single) (2012)

DOWNLOAD

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE MARVELOUS DREAM/DAMON ALBARN

ALBUM: DR DEE (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WHAT'LL IT TAKE/GRAHAM COXON

Ci sono volute le immagini di 82 fan da 22 paesi diversi per montare questo video.



Diretto da Ninian Doff

What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance

I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me

What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance

I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me

What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance
What'll it take to make you people dance

I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
I don't know, I don't know
I don't really know what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me
What's wrong with me, what's wrong with me

ALBUM: A+E (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNDER THE WESTWAY/BLUR

It was a bright day in the city today
Everything was sinking says
Sport would come on sunday
The old school would do
And the traffic grew
Upon the Westway
We all sat watching comets lost in town
Shining up above me
The jet fuel inferno
Clouds above where's the money always come first
And the sirens sing

So here is the day we sweep shaft through the ships
'Cause men in yellow jackets
Putting adverts inside my dreams
And all the ladies fawned
And the whole world gone
Fallen under the spell of the changing ways
We all communicate
So standing out shortwaves
Somewhere here out in space
And the rains hail above
And the hearts on fire
Under the Westway

Give me magic carrot city above
Still standing although it's cold
And the flags coming down
The old row sound
Just like a love song
Falling away I'm feeling down too
Paradise not lost, it's in the earth
I apologize
But I am not a saint
But I am gonna sing

Hallelujah
Singing out loud
And sing it to you
In my lost limousine
And wash me off the Westway

(2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BATTLE/BLUR

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

Concaesing slash
Here I love the bow
See me walk on down to
Adorn myself, it's the end of hell
See me what you think of now

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

Can turn your sights
Kill until sub-zero
See me
Oh, it turns you on
Give me foil
It's the end of your
See me overcome

Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone
Battle, battle, battle, battle, battle
Battle someone

ALBUM: 13 (1999)

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: HE THOUGHT OF CARS/BLUR

Moscow's still red
The young man's dead
Gone to heaven instead
The evening news
Says he was confused
The motorways will all merge soon
Lottery winner buys the moon
They've come to save us
The space invaders are here

He thought of cars
And where
Where to drive to
Who to drive them with
There, there was no-one
No-one

There's panic at London Heathrow
Everybody wants to go
Up into the blue
But there's a ten year queue
Columbia is in top gear
It shouldn't snow this time of year
America's shot
She's gone and done the lot

He thought of planes
And where
Where to fly to
And who to fly there with
And there, there was no-one
No-one

He thought of cars
And where
Where to drive to
Who to drive them with
There, there was no-one
No-one

ALBUM: THE GREAT ESCAPE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: AT THE INDIE DISCO/THE DIVINE COMEDY

We go down to the indie disco every thursday night
Dance to our favourite indie hits until the morning light
At the indie disco
The indie disco
At the indie disco

We've got a table in the corner that is always ours
Next to the poster of Morrissey with a bunch of flowers
We drink and talk about stupid stuff
Then hit the floor for Tainted Love
You know I just can't get enough
At the indie disco
The indie disco
At the indie discor
Give us some Pixies and some roses and some valentines
Give us some Blur and some Cure and some Wannadies
And now we're moving to the beat
And staring at each others feet
I wonder if she fancies me
At the indie disco
The indie disco
At the indie disco

And when it's over and I'm freezing on the night-bus home
I think of her and I sing the words to my favourite song
She makes my heart beat the same way
As at the start of Blue Monday
Always the last song that they play
At the indie disco
The indie disco
At the indie disco

ALBUM: BANG GOES THE KNIGHTHOOD (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I'M JUST A KILLER FOR YOU LOVE/BLUR

I heard a man who had no lungs
He took me in and made me lunch
Told me how I'd lost a friend
He smiled at me, that was the end

And I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love

Cut my hair off in the road
I tear my coat off, drop my load
Wipe my hands on the grass
'Cos now I know nothing will last

And I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love

ALBUM: BLUR (1997)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: STEREOTYPES/BLUR

The suburbs they are dreaming
They're a twinkle in her eye
She's been feeling frisky since her husband said goodbye
She wears a low cut t-shirt
Runs a little B&B
She's most accomodating when she's in her lingerie
Wife-swapping is your future
You know that it would suit you

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know you should be
Going on another bender

The suburbs they are sleeping
But he's dressing up tonight
She likes a man in uniform
He likes to wear it tight
They're on the lovers' sofa
They're on the patio
And when the fun is over
Watch themselves on video
The neighbours may be staring
But they are just past caring

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you
Stop dreaming
Time to time you know
You're going on another bender
Yes there must be more to life
Than stereotypes

Wife-swapping is your future
You know that it would suit you

Yes they're stereotypes
There must be more to life
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know you should be
Going on another bender
Yes there must be more to life
Than stereotypes
All your life you're dreaming
And then you stop dreaming
From time to time you know
You should go on another bender
Before you come to an end

ALBUM: THE GREAT ESCAPE (1995)

MESSAGGIO DI SERVIZIO

Ci scusiamo per l'interruzione, dovuta ad un piano di manutenzione programmata, fisica e cerebrale. Le selezioni riprenderanno il più presto possibile. Nel frattempo, una playlist con le migliori canzoni di questa prima metà del 2010.

01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL
02. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
03. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR
04. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. HOPE SANDOVAL
05. ANYONE'S GHOST/THE NATIONAL
06. READY TO START/ARCADE FIRE
07. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
08. ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ
09. WRITTEN IN REVERSE/SPOON
10. GIVING UP THE GUN/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
11. PETER PAN R.I.P./KULA SHAKER
12. HEAVEN AND EARTH/BLITZEN TRAPPER

BONUS TRACKS

BLACK SHEEP/METRIC
HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
AIN'T NO GRAVE/JOHNNY CASH

DOWNLOAD
(link rimosso a causa di un reclamo da parte della DMCA)

PLAYLIST/MAGGIO

THE CAVE/MUMFORD & SONS

Il ritorno degli Interpol, la reunion estemporanea dei Blur, e poi Editors, Gorillaz con Lou Reed, Pineapple Thief, The National, Thom Yorke... Una delle migliori playlist di sempre.

01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL
02. PETER PAN R.I.P./KULA SHAKER
(PILGRIM'S PROGRESS)
03. BLOODBUZZ OHIO/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET)
04. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR
(FOOL'S DAY 7" Single For Record Store Day)
05. 3000 DAYS/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
(SOMEONE HERE IS MISSING)
06. ASTRAL PLANES/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
(TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE)
07. REDEMPTION DAY/JOHNNY CASH
(AMERICAN VI: AIN'T NO GRAVE)
08. THE CAVE/MUMFORD & SONS
(SIGH NO MORE)
09. SOME KIND OF NATURE/GORILLAZ FEAT. LOU REED
(PLASTIC BEACH)
10. DEBUTANTE/65DAYSOFSTATIC
(WE ARE EXPLODING ANYWAY)
11. LAST DAY/EDITORS
(LAST DAY 7" Single For Record Store Day)
12. EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS/LALI PUNA
(POUR INVENTIONS)
13. APOCOLIPS/TURIN BRAKES
(OUTBURSTS)
14. TUNGLIð/ÓLAFUR ARNALDS
(...AND THEY HAVE ESCAPED THE WEIGHT OF DARKNESS)
15. CELESTICA/CRYSTAL CASTLES
(CRYSTAL CASTLES)
16. ...AND THE WORLD LAUGH WITH YOU/FLYING LOTUS FEAT. THOM YORKE
(COSMOGRAMMA)


BONUS TRACK

A WALK DOWN THE STAIRCASE (Live)/THOM YORKE

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FOOL'S DAY/BLUR

Wake up straight called out by the sun
On the first day of april out of bed
Lord, it was a plane crash
But I’m sure that I was dreaming TV on
Of course caffeine and signs
Of submission again another day
On this little island
Just a bell hangs on

Porridge done i take my kid to school
It was the pound shop
Woolworth’s under bridge
Where the subway sees the daytime
And the Westway flies by then on my bike
Down the Ladbroke Grove
To the forthcoming dramas
The studio and a love of all sweet music
We just can’t let go
Let go, let go, let go

So meditate on what we’ve all become
On a cold day in springtime
Civil war is what we all were born into
Raise your left hand, right, sing
Don’t capitulate to the forces of the market place
They’re long departed, consolidate
The love we’ve had together
On a cold day in springtime

ALBUM: FOOL'S DAY (7" Single For Record Store Day) (2010)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MR. ROBINSON'S QUANGO/BLUR

Mr. Robinson
And his quango
Dirty dealer
Expensive car
Runs the buses and the Evening Star
He got a hairpiece
He got herpes
His private life is very discreet
A nicer man, no, you're never gonna meet
He's the self-confessed saviour of the dim right wing
He got respiratory problems and a mason's ring

Mr. Robinson
And his quango
Drinks with generals and county wives
The family business is doing alright
They're doing tangos
Down in the quangos
He makes them tick
He makes them tock
And if you don't fit
He put you in the dock
He just sits in his leather chair and twiddles his thumb
Gets his secretary in and pinches her bum

He ran into the toilets in the town hall
He got his biro out and wrote on the wall
I'm wearing black French knickers under my suit
I've got stocking and suspenders on
I'm feeling rather loose
I'm a naughty boy
I'm a naughty, naughty boy

He's the self-confessed saviour of the dim right wing
He got respiratory problems and a mason's ring

I'm a naughty boy
I'm a naughty, naughty boy
I'm a naughty boy
I'm a naughty, naughty boy

ALBUM: THE GREAT ESCAPE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SING/BLUR

I can't feel
'Cause I'm numb
I can't feel
'Cause I'm numb
So what's the worth?
In all of this?
What's the worth?
In all of this?
Sing to me
Sing to me
So what's the worth in all of this
If the child in your head
If the child is dead
Sing to me
Sing to me

ALBUM: TRAINSPOTTING (Soundtrack) (1996)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SATURDAY COME SLOW/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. DAMON ALBARN

Lost in the magic
From the last time
This town turning
My rose to desire

Saturday come slow
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Is there nothing there

In the limestone caves
In the southways lands
One time in the kingdom
Belief is on the stand

Saturday come slow
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Is there nothing there

Saturday come slow
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
Is there nothing there

ALBUM: HELIGOLAND (2010)

POST-IT: BLUR/NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN

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