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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OBSERVATIONS/THE RAVEONETTES

To live like other people
I never think I’d do
And see my love I give into this dark
Flowers sing the day time
And this is sure at night
This woman said I’m torn between two lights

Visions of your lover’s holding you some dreadful lights
Wishing they will never be apart
It’s so hard how can I hold on
To someone I can't have
Obsessed with all the things that we could do

Take me on a night drive and take me on again
The quiet trip we’re living it behind
To live like other people
I never think I’d do
And to find someone love me really nice

ALBUM: OBSERVATOR (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: COPY AND PASTE/BOGAN VIA

ALBUM: BOGAN VIA EP (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SO WHAT/THE CURE

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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)

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)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HO MANGIATO LA MIA RAGAZZA/LA SINTESI

Dottore ho urgente bisogno
Di parlare un po' con lei
Ho instaurato un rapporto morboso con la mia ragazza
Ho chiuso tutte le porte con il mondo
Ho dormito abbracciato ai suoi vestiti
Volevo quasi fermarla nell'ambra
Ma poi ho capito che il posto più sicuro era dentro di me

Ho mangiato la mia ragazza
Per la mia voglia di conoscere a fondo la verità
Ho mangiato la mia ragazza
Per contaminare la mia persona con le sue semplici qualità
Qualità

Volevo solo puntualizzare che non è bieca gelosia
Con quella ho sempre più o meno convissuto
Perchè la giudico una debolezza mia
Mi sono chiesto dove avesse l'anima
E non trovando una risposta
Ho pensato io la mangio e il mio metabolismo farà il resto

Ho mangiato la mia ragazza
Per la mia voglia di conoscere a fondo la verità
Ho mangiato la mia ragazza
Per contaminare la mia persona con le sue semplici qualità
Qualità

Volevo quasi fermarla nell'ambra
Ma poi ho capito che il posto più sicuro era dentro di me

Ho mangiato la mia ragazza
Per allargare la mia cultura inglobando la sua
Inglobando la sua

ALBUM: UN CURIOSO CASO (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHUFFLE/BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB

Weight is coming off
Soaring high
Pleading you to stay
Come alive
Say you need to sing it out
Say you wanna try
Say you haven’t had enough
Say you wanna

Once you get the feeling
It wants you back for more
Says it's gonna heal again
You won’t make the call
One step back, you’re leaving it
But now it’s moving on
Why won’t you believe in it
Until it’s gone

Fading out the light
Softly saying
Get it out my mind
Anyway
Say you need to sing it out
Say you wanna try
Say you haven’t had enough
Say you wanna

Once you get the feeling
It wants you back for more
It says it’s gonna heal again
You won’t make the call
One step back, you’re leaving it
Now it’s moving on
Why won’t you believe in it
Until it’s gone

Once you get the feel of it
It wants you back for more
Now it get’s a feel of it
Feeling it on the floor
One step, like you needed it
Jumping at the wall
Why won’t you believe in it
Until it’s gone

You gave to me, all I know
I will stay here
You gave to me, all I know
I will stay here
I will not go

Running out
You can make it through it
Running out
you can make it all

Once you get the feeling
It wants you back for more
It says it’s gonna heal again
You won’t make the call
One step back, you’re leaving it
Now it’s moving on
Why won’t you believe in it
Until it’s gone

Once you get the feel of it
It wants you back for more
Now it get’s a feel of it
Feeling it on the floor
One step, like you needed it
Jumping at the wall
Why won’t you believe in it
Until it’s gone

ALBUM: DIFFERENT KIND OF FIX (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE CIGARETTE DUET/PRINCESS CHELSEA

It's just a cigarette and it cannot be that bad
Honey don't you love me and you know it makes me sad
It's just a cigarette like you always use to do
I was do from then I don't need them to be cool

It's just a cigarette and it hurts your pretty lungs
Well it's only twice a week so there's not much other chance
It's just a cigarette and soon be only ten
Honey can you trust me when I want to stop I can

It's just a cigarette and it's just a Marlboro Light
Maybe but it isn't worth that we fight
It's just a cigarette that I got from Jamie Lee
She's gonna get a smack and I'm gonna give you three

It's just a cigarette and I only did it once
(It's just a cigarette and soon be only ten)
It's just a cigarette and it's only twice a week
(It will make you sick girl, there's not much other chance)
It's just a cigarette and I'm sorry that I did
(It's just a cigarette and we're sorry that we did)
Honey can you trust me when I want to stop I can

ALBUM: LIL' GOLDEN BOOK (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SUCCESS/INTERPOL

Dreams of long life
What safety can you find
See the great unknown
That's shade for miles
Good eye
I'm a good guy

Dreams of long life
What safety can you find
If the sea was that strong
Maybe we had
Maybe we had to fly
Was a good try
I'm a good guy

As high as the day
I read the papers
Before crime will pay
I'll learn to bury most things

I have succeeded
I won't compete for long
I'm not supposed to show you
I've got two secrets
But I only told you one

Dreams of long life
What safety can you buy
If the sea was that strong
Maybe we had
Maybe we had to fly
Somebody make me say no, no
Somebody make me say no, no
Somebody make me say no, no
Somebody make me say no, no, no, yes

I have succeeded
I won't compete for long
I'm not supposed to show you
I've got two secrets
But I only told you one

I'm not supposed to show you
I'm not supposed to
I'm not supposed to show you
I'm not supposed to

ALBUM: INTERPOL (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ITCHIN ON A PHOTOGRAPH/GROUPLOVE

(2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WATCHING ME FALL/THE CURE

I've been watching me fall for it seems like years
Watching me grow small, I watch me disappear
Slipping out my ordinary world, out my ordinary eyes
Slipping out the ordinary me into someone else's life
Into someone else's life

There's a thin white cold new moon and the snow is coming down
And the neon bright Tokyo lights flicker through the crowd
I've been drifting around for hours and I’m lost and I’m tired
When a whisper in my ear insatiable breathes
Why don't you follow me inside?

Yeah, the room is small, the room is bright
Her hair is black, the bed is white
And the night is always young
Is always young, always young
The night is always young

I’ve been seeing them strip to the bone in the mirror on the wall
Seeing her swallow him whole like it's not me at all
She holds out her hands and I follow her down to my knees
And the sucking inside insatiable smiles
You will forget yourself in me

Yeah, the room is small, the room is bright
Her eyes are black, the bed is white
And the night is always young
And the night goes on and on
And the night is always young
And the night is never over and over and over and over and over
And then it's gone
And then it's gone
Yeah then it's gone

It's a cruel mean cold new day and outside the snow is still coming down
And in the blood red Tokyo bed I watch me coming round
She pulled him down for hours
Deeper than I’ve ever been
And as I fall in the mirror on the wall
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream
I'm watching me scream

I’ve been watching me go for it must be years
Watching me get slow, I watch me disappear
And one day, I know, I won't come back at all
And always over and over in his ordinary eyes
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall
I'm watching me fall

ALBUM: BLOODFLOWERS (2000)

MESSAGGIO DI SERVIZIO

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GLASS IN THE PARK/ALEX TURNER

There's glass in the park
Darling, I can't help but keep making appointments
To sweep beneath the climbing frame

If the sun's in your eyes,
I'll tighten your blindfold, baby
Don't worry your foot won't get cut
Strut carelessly

And when you say that you need me tonight
I can't keep my feelings in disguise
The white parts of my eyeballs illuminate

And I'll wait for you
As if I'm waiting for a stone to stop
I've heard them talking
About how I'm gonna put you off

There's glass in the park
And now that I'm up off my knees
I've picked up the speed
To jump your palaces

And I shoot through the night
And suddenly all those once lost concoctions froth
And chase the day away

When you say that you need me tonight
I can't keep my feelings in disguise
The white part of my eyeballs illuminate

And I'll wait for you
As if I'm waiting for the stone to stop
I've heard them talking
About how I'm gonna put you off

You tell me, how can I put you off when you're a matter of urgency?
I've got a million things that I need to do, but they're all secondary
Make sure you're not followed
Meet me by the Death Balloon

Paraselene woman, I'm your man on the moon
And like a grain of diamond dust, you float
And my devotion's outer crust' cracks

ALBUM: SUBMARINE (Soundtrack) (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HOPE IS NOT ENOUGH/I LIKE TRAINS

Our star burns bright
As we curse it for the final time
And we forget to breathe
And we regret
The process of our age
Progress, stagnation and decay
And we breathe deep

And as we realise
That hope is not enough
Our game is up
So caught up in the whens and whys
We forget to breathe
Breathe in, breathe out, breathe deep

Well for a year we lived as kings
We had everything that we could ever need
And we slept
We slept soundly in our royal beds
As the walls came crashing down
Around our ears

And as we realise
That hope is not enough
Our game is up
So caught up in the whens and whys
We forget to breathe
As we realise
That hope is not enough
Our game is up
So caught up in the whens and whys
We forget to breathe

ALBUM: HE WHO SAW THE DEEP (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GET SOME/LYKKE LI

Don't pull your pants before I go down
Don't turn away, this is my time
Don't make demands, I don't take none
Just say a prayer that it gon' get done
Don't pull your pants before I go down
Don't turn away, this is my time
Like a shotgun needs an outcome
I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some
Like a shotgun needs an outcome
I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some

Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no harm
Go ahead, go way low in my honey lovin' arms
Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lover's charm
Like a lonely lover's charm

And 'cause I can go, I'm gon' go west
Just like a man, I'm the fortress
Like a shotgun, I can't be outdone
I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some
Like a shotgun needs an outcome
I'm your prostitute, you gon' get some

Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no harm
Go ahead, go way low in my honey lovin' arms
Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lover's charm
Like a lonely lover's charm

Go ahead, go

Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no harm
Go ahead, go way low in my honey lovin' arms
Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lover's charm
Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no harm
Go ahead, go way low in my honey lovin' arms
Go ahead, go way low, where I can do no wrong
Got you around my finger like a lonely lover's charm
Like a lonely lover's charm
Like a lonely lover's charm

ALBUM: WOUNDED RHYMES (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED

It’s only a matter of time
Before all the springs in the mind
Will start to break like you have broken me
There's silver in your lungs now
All I care about is shapes
All I care about is colours
You said your body is a machine
It will break like you have broken me
And I can’t forget the words
Forgotten promises
Are completely worthless

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

We are influenced
By self love and benevolence
Narcissism is overwhelming
Vanity is quite exhausting
Self indulgent, hedonistic
Blame it all on your upbringing

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

I feel you beating in my chest
I feel you screaming in my lungs
You are heavy but your beats in time
I feel the crimson on my lips
Now my stomachs lined with gold
I'm broken hearted but my beats in time

ALBUM: YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE (EP) (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MUSCLE MUSEUM/MUSE

She had something to confess to
But you don’t have the time so
Look the other way
You will wait until it's over
To reveal what you’d never shown her
Too little much too late

Can you see that I am needing
Begging for so much more
Than you could ever give
And I don’t want you to adore me
Don’t want you to ignore me
When it pleases you
And I’ll do it on my own

I have played in every toilet
But you still want to spoil it
To prove I’ve made a big mistake
Too long trying to resist it
You’ve just gone and missed it
It's escaped your world

Can you see that I am needing
Begging for so much more
Than you could ever give
And I don’t want you to adore me
Don’t want you to ignore me
When it pleases you

ALBUM: SHOWBIZ (1999)

CONCERTI: THE NATIONAL/INTERPOL

Una due giorni milanese straordinaria, probabilmente irripetibile: due concerti eccezionali in appena 24 ore.




1° GIORNO/THE NATIONAL

Quando arriviamo all'Alcatraz la fila per entrare arriva quasi all'angolo dell'isolato, ma è veloce ed ordinata. C'è il tutto esaurito, e questo fa capire come i National, giunti ormai al quinto album, siano passati definitivamente da formazione di nicchia allo status di band mainstream. Il gruppo di supporto, i Phosporescent, stanno già suonando. All'incirca verso le 22:00, Scott Devendorf e compagni salgono sul palco: si inizia sottovoce, con Runaway, poi la splendida Anyone's Ghost. L'ultimo, strepitoso disco, High Violet, viene suonato quasi per intero, ma non mancano riferimenti alla produzione precedente, come Mistaken For Strangers, Apartment Story, Fake Empire. La voce di Matt Berninger è incredibile, profonda, avvolgente; la batteria di Bryan Devendorf sempre prepotentemente in primo piano. Ad essere pignoli, è un peccato che un eccesso di divertissement interrompa l'esecuzione di Conversation 16, uno dei pezzi migliori del repertorio. E proprio quando il concerto si avvia alla conclusione, il colpo di scena che non ti aspetti: Matt Berninger, fin lì estremamente composto, scende in platea percorrendo tutta la sala dell'Alcatraz, letteralemente tutta, ripetendo la linea finale di Terrible Love, "It takes an ocean not to break" come in un mantra, tra il pubblico esterrefatto, compreso il sottoscritto che ad un certo punto se lo ritrova esattamente di fronte. Come dire che aver ascoltato i National è un po' come averli conosciuti, sul serio, personalmente: si fanno ottimi incontri, a Milano.


THE NATIONAL/ALCATRAZ/MILANO, 16 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. RUNAWAY
02. ANYONE'S GHOST
03. MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS
04. BLOODBUZZ OHIO
05. SLOW SHOW
06. SQUALOR VICTORIA
07. AFRAID OF EVERYONE
08. AVAILABLE/CARDINAL SONG
09. CONVERSATION 16
10. SORROW
11. APARTMENT STORY
12. ABEL
13. DAUGHTERS OF THE SOHO RIOTS
14. ENGLAND
15. FAKE EMPIRE
16. ABOUT TODAY

17. LUCKY YOU
18. MR. NOVEMBER
19. TERRIBLE LOVE




2° GIORNO/INTERPOL

All'ingresso del PalaSharp l'atmosfera che si respira è coinvolgente, quasi rituale, un po' come accade ai concerti dei Cure, dei quali gli Interpol per certi versi sono una sorta di eredi. Il gruppo di supporto, i Surfer Blood, ha in comune con i Phosporescent, gli special guest dei National, le camicie a quadri e la sensazione di non incidere molto, nel bene o nel male. Alle 21:30 in punto si spengolo le luci e, quasi in sordina, la band di New York attacca con Success, traccia che apre anche l'ultimo disco, in modo atipico (non è certo un brano con un intro particolare) ma efficace. Giusto il tempo di acclimatarsi, quindi, che si decolla con Say Hello To The Angels. La scaletta alterna in modo eterogeneo la discografia del gruppo, passando con disinvoltura da un album all'altro: Narc, Summer Well, Rest My Chemistry, Slow Hands, NYC, una splendida esecuzione di Take You On A Cruise, fino a Memory Serves, uno dei pezzi più belli dell'ultimo lavoro, del quale viene proposta per intero la prima parte (sicuramente la migliore). La classe di Paul Banks è immutata, la chitarra di Daniel Kessler sempre graffiante, mentre David Pajo al basso fa il suo onestamente. Particolarmente intenso il bis: dopo una suggestiva versione di The Lighthouse, si chiude in crescendo con le taglienti Evil e The Heinrich Manuveur. Precisi ma emozionanti, elegantemente distanti ma incredibilmente coinvolgenti allo stesso tempo, gli Interpol dal vivo sono una macchina perfetta, un'esperienza assolutamente imperdibile.


INTERPOL/PALASHARP/MILANO, 17 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. SUCCESS
02. SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS
03. NARC
04. LENGHT OF LOVE
05. SUMMER WELL
06. REST MY CHEMISTRY
07. SLOW HANDS
08. C'MERE
09. NYC
10. BARRICADE
11. TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE
12. LIGHTS
13. PDA
14. MEMORY SERVES
15. NOT EVEN JAIL

16. THE LIGHTHOUSE
17. EVIL
18. THE HEINRICH MANUVEUR

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PLAY DEAD/BJÖRK

Darling stop confusing me
With your wishful thinking
Hopeful embraces
Don't you understand?
I have to go through this
I belong to here
Where no-one cares and no-one loves
No light, no air to live in
A place called hate
The city of fear

I play dead
It stops the hurting
I play dead
And the hurting stops
It's sometimes just like sleeping
Curling up inside my private tortures
I nestle into pain
Hug suffering
Caress every ache
I play dead
It stops the hurting

ALBUM: DEBUT (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNO/MUSE

This means nothing to me
'Cause you are nothing to me
And it means nothing to me
That you blew this away
'Cause you could've been number one
If you only found the time
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the chance

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

You're still nothing to me
And this is nothing to me
And you don't know what you've done
But I'll give you a clue
You could've been number one
If you only had the chance
And you could've ruled the whole world
If you had the time

You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away
You could've been number one
And you could've ruled the whole world
And we could've had so much fun
But you blew it away

ALBUM: SHOWBIZ (1999)