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/GENNAIO

La prima playlist del 2012, leggera leggera, per smaltire i chili di troppo.

01. FEAR OF DROWNING/MIRROS
(LIGHTS AND OFFERINGS)
02. MET BEFORE/CHAIRLIFT
(SOMETHING)
03. PELICAN/THE MACCABEES
(GIVEN TO THE WILD)
04. ANTHEM FOR A DOOMED YOUTH/CAVES
(ADOLESCENT DYSTOPIA EP)
05. SEVEN STARS/AIR FEAT. VICTORIA LEGRAND
(LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE)
06. END OF TIMES/AURAL BURROWS
(GRAVITRON EP)
07. GATHERING STORIES/JÓNSI
(WE BOUGHT A ZOO Soundtrack)
08. EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE/LILACS & CHAMPAGNE
(LILACS & CHAMPAGNE)
09. A DULL CITY/YOUAREHERE
(AS WHEN THE FALL LEAVES TREES)
10. ALL THE RAIN/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(STAGE WHISPER)
11. LEFT MYSELF BEHIND/TOY
(LEFT MYSELF BEHIND 12")
12. WAIT/M83
(HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING)

Bonus Tracks

WOLF LIKE ME (Live)/ANNA CALVI
OPEN EYES (Demo)/THE XX

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ALL THE RAIN/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

ALBUM: STAGE WHISPER (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PARADISCO/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

ALBUM: STAGE WHISPERS (2011)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TERRIBLE ANGELS/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

ALBUM: TERRIBLE ANGELS EP (2011)

PLAYLIST/SETTEMBRE

Ed anche quest'estate, ce la siamo lasciata alle spalle.

01. OPIUM/THE NEW DIVISION
(SHADOWS)
02. OLD VOLCANOES/WARM BRAINS
(OLD VOLCANOES)
03. SOLAR/BORN BLONDE
(SOLAR Single)
04. SHUFFLE/BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
(DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX)
05. IN CIRCLES/WOODSMAN
(MYSTIC PLACES)
06. WHAT DO YOU WANT ME FOR?/OVERLORD
(IN SOVIET RUSSIA, MY HEART BREAKS YOU)
07. YELLOW MISSING SIGNS/SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN
(TAPE CLUB)
08. LIIINES/GHOSTPOET
(PEANUT BUTTER BLUES AND MELANCHOLY JAM)
09. RIVER GONE/SOMETHING MEANINGFUL
(SOMETHING MEANINGFUL EP)
10. DYNAMO (Demo)/BINARY
11. WHAT GOES AROUND/PHILIP SELWAY
(RUNNING BLIND EP )
12. BRITTLE HEART/BRETT ANDERSON
(BLACK RAINBOWS)
13. WHAT THE WATER GAVE ME/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
14. VIRUS/BJÖRK
(BIOPHILIA)
15. DOLLS SPINNING WIDE/PHORIA
(BLOODWORKS EP)
16. KEEP YOU CLOSE/dEUS
(KEEP YOU CLOSE)
17. BELIEVE/CANT
(DREAMS COME TRUE)
18. JUDY, JUDY/HOUTAKKER
(CHICAGO CASSETTE COMPILATION)

Bonus Tracks

WHAT YOU WERE (VISIOMENTO SESSION)/THE DRUMS
PRIMAL URGES/THE VACCINES
(NØRGAARD 7" Single)
WHITE TELEPHONE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(STAGE WHISPER)
GET TO FRANCE/MOGWAI
(EARTH DIVISION EP)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WHITE TELEPHONE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

È Charlotte Gainsbourg, ma quasi quasi sembra PJ Harvey.




ALBUM: STAGE WHISPER (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MEMOIR/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

The city lights are beckoning
Their sirens softly call
All the fantacists and fetishist
Are preparing their ball
We've been stuck here on the doorstep
With nothing to forsake
But we might as well be anyone's to take

So I give myself to strangers
Like I gave myself to you
The tenderness I felt
Has been replaced by something new
And in the end I can vaguely hear an outline of your call
But I may as well be any words at all

Every memory is sailing to the kingdom of your soul
As you patiently await
I lose my sense of self-control
You put the lighthouse to my broken boat
But I left you behind
Now I might as well be anyone's to find

Take my body
Take it from me
It is no warning
Of your memory

Remember you undressing
As I set myself on fire
And the funeral was quick
As I lay lifeless on you part
And it's a kind of desperation
And it's just something you can't fake
How we might as well be anyone's to take

So, I give myself to strangers
Like I gave myself to you
But the unity I felt
Has been replaced by something new
And I hang like Mary Jane
I know that I'm am poor
But I may as well be anyone at all
Yes, I may as well be anyone at all
No, I may as well be anyone at all
No, I may as well be anyone at all

ALBUM: CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "MEMOIR"/VILLAGERS "SET THE TIGERS FREE" Split 7" for RECORD STORE DAY (2011)

PLAYLIST/MARZO

MOUSE, BIRD, DOG/THOM YORKE

La playlist di marzo, col ritorno degli Unkle, i nuovi singoli di Broken Social Scene, Japandroids, e She & Him, le canzoni di Franz Ferdinand e Robert Smith dei Cure per la colonna sonora parallela di Alice In Wonderland di Tim Burton, e per finire un brano inedito di Thom Yorke.

01. PRAY FOR RAIN/MASSIVE ATTACK
(HELIGOLAND)
02. WORLD SICK/BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
(FORGIVENESS ROCK RECORD)
03.GO DO/JÓNSI
(GO)
04. NATURAL SELECTION/UNKLE
(WHERE DID THE NIGHT FALL)
05. ART CZARS/JAPANDROIDS
(ART CZARS 7")
06. TRICK PONY/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(IRM)
07. TREMEL/GLASSER
(TREMEL 12")
08. YOUR HANDS (TOGETHER)/THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
(TOGETHER)
09. THIEVES/SHE & HIM
(VOLOME TWO)
10. I SAW THE LIGHT/SPOON
(TRANSFERENCE)
11. SHADOWS HIGH MESETA/SIVERT HØYEM
(MOON LANDING)
12. PARADISE BLUES/EELS
(END TIMES)


BONUS TRACKS

ELECTROCUTION/NADA SURF
(IF I HAD A HI-FI)
VERY GOOD ADVICE/ROBERT SMITH
(ALMOST ALICE)
THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE/FRANZ FERDINAND
(ALMOST ALICE)
MOUSE, BIRD, DOG (Live)/THOM YORKE

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PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

DRUMMING SONG/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

Nuove band (Delphic, Bombay Bicycle Club, Two Door Cinema Club) e grandi ritorni (Gorillaz, Smashing Pumpkins, Richard Ashcroft) nella playlist di febbraio. Inoltre, il brano scritto dai Franz Ferdinand (ed interpretato da Marion Cotillard) per lo spot del nuovo profumo della maison Dior.

01. STYLO/GORILLAZ FEAT. MOS DEF & BOBBY WOMACK
(PLASTIC BEACH)
02. GIVING UP THE GUN/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
(CONTRA)
03. ARE YOU READY?/UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND
(REDEMPTION)
04. DRUMMING SONG/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
(LUNGS)
05. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
(ALCOLYTE)
06. THE MISTERY ZONE/SPOON
(TRANSFERENCE)
07. IN MY YOUNGER DAYS/EELS
(END TIMES)
08. A SONG FOR A SON/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
(TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE)
09. THE HILL/BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
(I HAD THE BLUES BUT I SHOOK THEM LOOSE)
10. THIS IS THE LIFE/TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
(TOURIST HISTORY)
11. SATURDAY COMES SLOW/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. DAMON ALBARN
(HELIGOLAND)
12. REMEMBER/LALI PUNA
(OUR INVENTIONS)
13. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(IRM)

BONUS TRACKS

THE EYES OF MARS/FRANZ FERDINAND FEAT. MARION COTILLARD
MY BODY IS A CAGE/PETER GABRIEL
(SCRATCH MY BACK)

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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)

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

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)

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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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...