01. NO ONE CAN EVER KNOW/THE TWILIGHT SAD
02. THE HAUNTED MAN/BAT FOR LASHES
03. THE SHALLOWS/I LIKE TRAINS
04. THEATRE IS EVIL/AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA
05. OSHIN/DIIV
06. AN AWESOME WAVE/ALT-J
07. WITH US UNTIL YOU'RE DEAND/ARCHIVE
08. BLOOM/BEACH HOUSE
09. THE COYOTE/MESITA
10. WIXIW/LIARS
01. WIPED OUT/ARCHIVE
02. DOUSED/DIIV
03. YOUR'RE EARLY/2.54
04. UNDER THE WESTWAY/BLUR
05. MY LOVE IS WINTER/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
06. BRAINS/LOWER DENS
07. MYTH/BEACH HOUSE
08. TESSELLATE/ALT-J
09. DEFAULT/ATOMS FOR PEACE
10. NO.1 AGAINST THE RUSH/LIARS
11. REAL TALK/BLOC PARTY
12. HEAVY IS AS HEAVY DOES/MENOMENA
13. LAURA/BAT FOR LASHES
14. YET AGAIN/GRIZZLY BEAR
15. ALL THE ROWBOATS/REGINA SPEKTOR
16. REYKJAVIK/I LIKE TRAINS
17. CHAINED/THE XX
18. SUNDAY/DEAF CLUB
19. NOT SLEEPING/THE TWILIGHT SAD
20. GROWN MAN CRY/AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA
21. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT/FIONA APPLE
22. EVERYTHING IS BURNING/MESITA
Bonus tracks
MYSTERY COLURS/ASTRONAUTS, ETC.
TO SLEEP: PERCHANCE TO DREAM/MICRO
I just got back from your funeral You were lying on a sheet With some strange man standing over you As though he knew you more than me
But you've still got that body And you can dress it up in black But when I look at you You don't look back
'Cause when I saw you at the spaceship door They were calling you aboard From all the people at your funeral I couldn't take you anymore
But you've still got that body And you'll remind us all of that But when I look at you You don't look back
I would rather give my heart To the travelling band I set out to sail the moon And all that I found was sand I would rather hold your heart In my two hands I set out to sail the moon And I came back a lonely man
I would rather give my heart To the travelling band I set out to sail the moon And all that I found was sand I would rather hold your heart In my two hands I set out to sail the moon And I came back so lonely
I just got back from your funeral You were lying on a sheet With some strange man standing over you As though he knew you more than me
But you've still got that body And you've reminded me of that but when I look at you You don't look back When I look at you You don't look back When I look at you You don't look back
It hid and it hid in his bedroom Psycho killer teen dream action film Gonna show you how we get down in my hood Bubbling bubbling cheap champagne Leyendecker hole wrecker feel no pain Lying face down when I swing your way and what? What's my name, what's my name?
Mary Anna said it's a no-go She don't feel like She don't think so I don't know why I feel like crying Well come on, come on Say come on
They ran and they ran from his classroom Roll another 40, make them scream Gonna show you how we do things in my hood Tripping and a-tripping, erase all tapes John Wayne, Rob Roy feel no pain This is the point where you look the other way You done Lost your mind
Mary Anna said it's a no-go She don't feel like She don't think so I don't know why I feel like crying Well come on, come on Say come on Come on
Mary Anna said it's a no-go She don't feel like She don't think so I don't know why I feel like crying Well come on, come on Say come on Come on
Elegia è un brano dei New Order composto nel 1985 per ricordare Ian Curtis. Originariamente incluso nell'album Low-Life in una versione da 5 minuti, viene ora pubblicato in vinile dall'etichetta Slow To Speak in forma integrale, da quasi 18 minuti.
L'ottavo album della musicista del Dorset è un disco che vive di contrasti: testi dolorosi incentrati principalmente sul tema della guerra dispiegati su melodie folk, aritmiche (The Glorious Land, la splendida All And Everyone), a volte quasi scanzonate (The Last Living Rose, The Words That Maketh Murder). Un atto d'accusa e d'amore allo stesso tempo verso la propria terra, e più in generale riguardo i tempi bui che viviamo, con tutta la classe e l'intenstità di Polly Jean Harvey.
I risultati del sondaggio:
1. LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY (28%)
2. THE KING OF LIMBS/RADIOHEAD (23%)
VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (23%)
4. FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST/GIRLS (9%)
SMOTHER/WILD BEASTS (9%)
WOUNDED RHYMES/LYKKE LI (9%)
7. I AM VERY FAR/OKKERVIL RIVER (1%)
VIOLET CRIES/ESBEN AND THE WITCH (1%)
9. BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!/ELBOW (0%)
HARBORED MANTRAS/WATER BORDERS (0%)
SKYING/THE HORRORS (0%)
THE FUTURE IS MEDIEVAL/KAISER CHIEFS (0%)
LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: CODEX/RADIOHEAD
Basterebbe quell'attacco con la voce leggermente roca di Thom Yorke per innamorarsi di questo pezzo al primo ascolto, senza contare il giro di pianoforte, semplice ed eterno, ed il testo, una piccola elegia, magnetico e rassicurante.
LA PLAYLIST DEL 20011
01. HOME IS A FIRE/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
02. CRYSTALLINE/BJORK
03. JUMP INTO THE FOG/THE WOMBATS
04. UBERLIN/R.E.M.
05. I KNOW PLACES/LYKKE LI
06. ALL IN WHITE/THE VACCINES
07. COMING UP FOR AIR/KAISER CHIEFS
08. MYMA/GIRL
09. SUZANNE AND I/ANNA CALVI
10. DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN/KASABIAN
11. STILYAGI/PURO INSTINCT FEAT. ARIEL PINK
12. FOREST/SHORE//DEAF CLUB
13. SUMMON THE SOUND/S.C.U.M.
14. DIVE IN/THE HORRORS
15. PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES
16. PLAYTHING/WILD BEASTS
17. CODEX/RADIOHEAD
18. WOLF/TROPHY WIFE
19. ALL AND EVERYONE/PJ HARVEY
20. WARPATH/ESBEN AND THE WITCH
21. TAMER ANIMALS/OTHER LIVES
22. WHITE TELEPHONE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
23. TAPE/YOUAREHERE
24. TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT/LOW ROAR
25. HANGING FROM A HIT/OKKERVIL RIVER
Bonus Tracks
RAZZI ARPIA INFERNO E FIAMME/VERDENA
EXILE VILIFY/THE NATIONAL
IODINE AND IRON/THE VEILS
L'irresistibile danza scomposta di Thom Yorke nel video diretto da Garth Jennings è piaciuta così tanto che in rete sono addirittura spuntati dei tutorial per imparare i passi del balletto. Della serie come essere la più grande band del pianeta e riuscire comunque a prendersi poco sul serio.
LA COPERTINA DELL'ANNO: VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (Aitor Throup)
Da un album che si chiama come un dinosauro ci si aspetta una copertina capeggiata da un enorme lucertolone preistorico, ed invece nel progetto grafico ideato dall'illustratore argentino (ma inglese d'adozione) Aitor Throup non c'è traccia di enormi animali estinti. Tuttavia il grido ancestrale che si percepisce dalle figure neanderthaliane ripetute agli angoli dell'immagine riesce perfettamente nell'intento di comunicare la forza primitiva del disco, nonchè la vena psichedelica della musica dei Kasbaian. Un capolavoro.
La minuta artista anglo-italiana fatica a trovare scarpe della sua misura (pare porti addirittura il numero 34) ma non certo consensi, tanto che la stampa specializzata britannica l'ha subito eletta a nuova PJ Harvey, e non è un caso che Nick Cave, che Polly Jean la conosce bene, l'abbia scelta per aprire i concerti dei Grinderman.
Già di per sé i Primal Scream che dopo vent'anni suonano dal vivo per intero Screamadelica, disco simbolo degli anni '90, sarebbe un evento. Se poi ci mettiamo che i fan sul finire dello show fanno invasione di campo (pacifica) costringendo alla resa gli uomini della security e regalando ai posteri una versione memorabile di Rocks, la data romana del tour della band scozzese diventa addirittura leggendaria.
LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: SUBMARINE/ALEX TURNER
Uscita in punta di piedi, quasi come un prologo del quarto album degli Arctic Monkeys, Suck It And See (tanto che la ballata Piledriver Waltz ci è finita pari pari dentro), la colonna sonora della pellicola indipendente britannica Submarine rivela un Alex Turner più intimista e minimale, ma di certo non meno ispirato della versione leader della band.
Dopo quasi quattro anni di silenzio, i Verdena tornano con un disco ambizioso, complesso, forse fin troppo lungo, ma di sicuro coraggioso ed intraprendente, impreziosito dal singolo di anticipazione Razzi Arpia Inferno e Fiamme, uno dei pezzi in italiano (seppur non comprensibilissimo) più belli degli ultimi tempi.
DISCO: HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL
CANZONE: LIGHTS/INTERPOL
VIDEO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)
DEBUTTO: CHAPEL CLUB
CONCERTO: THE NATIONAL (Milano/Alcatraz) 16/11/10; INTERPOL (Milano/PalaSharp) 17/11/2010
COLONNA SONORA: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS
DISCO ITALIANO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA
In the center of the city was a statue and her twin And together they watched over everything They saw me when I stumbled and they watched you help me stand I'd swear Cecelia and her sister had it all planned Then one morning I was walking from my window to your door Well I nearly hit the ground with what I saw Cecelia had been broken while her sister had been spared And the vandals had scattered the pieces everywhere
And all it made me wonder what kind of twisted mind Would ever hurt her so thoughtless and unkind But a monster so cruel can't be that hard to find boys
So I started wearing warpaint and I gathered all my friends For Cecelia we'd be hunters 'till the end She was built for a perfect picture but she came to represent Though I guess I never understood exactly what it meant I know Cecilia and her sister were just statues made of stone But I still missed her and now her sister's all alone No that just won't do So let's raid the vandal's homes boys
So we ventured out at sunrise with our torches and our spears And our shotguns and our fears and our carefully hidden tears For Cecelia, Cecelia Now I'm thinking of the moment when we can look them in the eye And make them sorry 'cause tonight they're gonna die We'll shoot them up dead Leave their bodies where they lie boys
So now we're following the pieces of Cecilia to the door Every shattered limb repeatedly reminding us of what we're searching for And the sleepers have woken for now they have an aim Yes they're quite aware of the cold hard fact That the city's loss could be their gain They are dreaming of, the feeling of a trophy in their arms A hero's welcome claiming women with their charms I'm sorry if I hurt you You know I swear I meant no harm baby
So the trail keeps on turning as we wonder through the streets I keep looking at the pieces of Cecelia at my feet But the strangest thing occurs to me When I stop to look around Oh I'd swear we are returning to the center of the town Yes we're back here where we started Where Cecelia used to stand but her sister looks different Please, tell me boys if you can Is that a smile on her face? Is that a hammer in her hand?
Why do you come here? And why do you hang around? I'm so sorry I'm so sorry
Why do you come here When you know it makes things hard for me? When you know Why do you come ? Why do you telephone? And why send me silly notes? I'm so sorry I'm so sorry
Why do you come here When you know it makes things hard for me? When you know Why do you come?
You had to sneak into my room Just to read my diary It was just to see Just to see All the things you knew I'd written about you Oh, so many illustrations Oh, but I'm so very sickened I am so sickened now
It was a good lay, good lay It was a good lay, good lay It was a good lay, good lay
It was a good lay, good lay It was a good lay, good lay It was a good lay, good lay
