LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OBSTACLE 1/INTERPOL

I wish I could eat the salt off your last faded lips
We can cap the old times
Make playing only logical harm
We can cop the old lines
Make playing that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

And we can find new ways of living
Make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times
Clay-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

And it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck
It's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she posed
It's in the things that she puts in my head
Her stories are boring and stuff
She's always calling my bluff
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart
And she gets in my room and she takes it apart
But she puts the weights into my little heart
I said she puts the weights into my little heart
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOUNG AGAIN/PAUL BANKS

Diretto da Sophia Peer

Time is disgraceful
We’re all just watching these things fall apart
And silence seems wasteful
When I know what’s coming for me in the dark

‘Cause I am young again
Thanks a lot
I’ll be young again
Round, round
I am young again
Thanks a lot
I am young again
Round, round

Jobs are disgraceful
Think that they’re suffering from a clark
I size my intention
It just seem small in the wrong rights

‘Cause I am young again
Thanks a lot
I feel young again
Round, round
I am young again
I am young again
I feel young again
Round, round
Thanks for my spot
Thanks for my spot

I am young again
I am young again
I feel young again
Round, round
Thanks for my spot

Feelings over
We mean is over
Feelings too much
Leave me so far

ALBUM: BANKS (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NO MISTAKES/PAUL BANKS

ALBUM: BANKS (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS/INTERPOL

Esattamente dieci anni fa usciva Turn On The Bright Lights degli Interpol.
Come corre il tempo.




I want your silent parts
The parts the birds love
I know there's such a place
I had my back turned
You didn't realize
I'm lonely
You lack the things
To which I relate
But I see no harm
Come wait, come wait, come wait
It's over
One, two, three, do me

When I'm feeling lazy, it's probably because,
I'm saving all my energy to pick up when you move into my airspace
You move into my airspace
And something's coming over me, I see you in the doorway
I can't control the part of me that swells up when you move into my airspace
You move into my airspace

But each night, I bury my love around you
You're linked to my innocence

This is a concept
This is a bracelet
This isn't no intervention
This is a concept
This is a bracelet
This isn't no intervention
This isn't you yet
What you thought was such a conquest
You're hair is so pretty and red
Baby, baby you're really the best

Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
I think so
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?
Can I get there this way?

We should take a trip now to see new places
I'm sick of this town
I see my face has changed
We should take a trip now to see new places
I'm sick of this town
I see my face has changed

Say hello, say hello
Say hello, say hello to the angels

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

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

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE BASE/PAUL BANKS

Julian Plenti è morto? Lunga vita a Paul Banks.




What I drop today
Could we recognize the shape
I spoke to the base
And the base says we wait
So I smoke an old cigar
While they're trying some things
See I spoke to the base
And the base says we wait
The base says we're safe

Now and then can I see the truth above the lies
Now and then oh I feel you're truly amidst the tides
That's why

When I walk today
It's in silence and in rage
Can a man turn the page
While he's trying to amaze (any other)
So I hold my arms apart
And hope to buy you anything (any other)
See I spoke to the base
And the base says we're there
The base says we care

Now and then I can see the truth above the lies
Now and then oh I feel those beauties it's like they're lights
They're like street lights
They tunnel on and on
Into these deep nights
Where the lights circle on
So steep, so steep, so steep, so steep, so steep
(I count the falling stars)
So steep, so steep, so steep, so steep, so steep
(I count the falling stars)
I will not be staying long

Now and then I can see the truth above the lies
Now and then can see those beauties that shine my eyes
That's right

ALBUM: BANKS (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SUMMERTIME IS COMING/JULIAN PLENTI

Summertime is coming, so get out
Forget all those things that do with doubt
Swallow all the animals that hiss we will spend our whole lives like this
Summertime is coming, so get out
So get out
You get out

Summertime is calling for you, child (get, get)
To give you a sense of reliance to feel at home in a crowd (get, get)
The season, the season, is calling, calling
And all of it breaths into one day
Get out
You get out
You get out
You get out

I’m calling (on rain now)
I’m calling (on rain now) you out
I’m calling (on rain now) to find a way back
Somehow to stay back

Summertime is coming for you, child (get, get)
Summer can feel that you’re pliant (pliant)
And that you’re sweet like a peach on the beach
So get out
So get out
You get out
You get out

I’m calling (on rain now)
I’m calling (on rain now) you out
I’m calling (on rain now) to find a way back
Somehow to stay back

(On rain now) We win
(On rain now) We win (I‘m calling)
We win
We win

Is this the right time to know me?
Is this the right time to know?
Is this the right sign to show me?
Is this the right?
Is this the right mind?
Can we waste some more time just colliding in space?
No matter how high we set the bar
No matter how high we set the bar
Can we waste some more time just colliding in space?
No matter how high we set the bar
No matter how high we set the bar
We win

ALBUM: JULIAN PLENTI LIVES... EP (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DYNAMO/BINARY

I nuovi White Lies? O nuovi-nuovi Editors? O nuovi-nuovi-nuovi Interpol? O nuovi-nuovi-nuovi-nuovi Joy Division?




Show me what to be
Running away
From all you see
Have I met you before?
This time
Am I half a mile?
Am I out of fly?
So I go
Running away from

Tell me secrets
Tell me Lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

Feelings are down
Feelings are guilt
Unable to shout
Or blood spill
Have I felt this before?
This time
Can I reading control?
Can I make this blind?
So I go
Running away from

Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo
Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

Tell me secrets
Tell me lies
Make me hate you
Make me want to despise
You're a dynamo

(2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE NEW/INTERPOL

I wish I could live free
Hope it's not beyond me
Settling down takes time
One day we'll live together
And life will be better
I have it here in my mind
Baby, you know someday you'll slow grow
And baby, my hearts been breaking
I gave a lot to you
I take a lot from you too
You slave a lot for me
Guess you could say I gave you my edge

But I can't pretend
I don't need to defend some part of me from you
I know I've spent some time lying
But I can't pretend
I don't need to defend some part of me from you
I know I've spent some time lying

You're looking all right tonight
I think we should go

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

CONCERTI: INTERPOL/ATLANTICO/ROMA

SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS

Ancora Interpol dal vivo (dopo la data dello scorso Novembre a Milano), stavolta in casa, a Roma. Sarà che l'Atlantico (l'ex PalaCisalfa) è più piccolo del PalaSharp, sarà che a Roma suonano per la prima volta da headliners, ma la band newyorkese sembra in ottima forma, e ne viene fuori uno show davvero speciale, tirato, e molto partecipato dal pubblico. La scaletta è grossomodo la stessa, fatta eccezione per qualche pezzo, come Hands Away e The New. Rest My Chemistry, NYC, Slow Hands vengono letteralmente avvolte dall'entusiasmo dei fan, mentre il picco più alto è l'esecuzione di Lights, da brividi. Il bis si apre con Specialist, e si conclude trionfalmente con Obstacle 1. Paul Banks è ispirato e comunicativo, Daniel Kessler come al solito impeccabile nella sua mise, nonostante il caldo infernale dell'Atlantico, e Brad Truax, il nuovo bassista, è discreto ai limiti dell'invisibile ma molto efficace, con buona pace di David Pajo.


INTERPOL/ATLANTICO/ROMA, 30 MAGGIO 2011

01. SUCCESS
02. SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS
03. NARC
04. HANDS AWAY
05. BARRICADE
06. REST MY CHEMISTRY
07. THE NEW
08. C'MERE
09. LIGHTS
10. SUMMER WELL
11. NYC
12. THE HEINRICH MANUVEUR
13. MEMORY SERVES
14. SLOW HANDS

15. SPECIALIST
16. EVIL
17. NOT EVEN JAIL
18. OBSTACLE 1

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)

VOTA IL MIGLIOR DISCO DEL 2010: I RISULTATI DEL SONDAGGIO

BLOODBUZZ OHIO/THE NATIONAL

I voti dei lettori (pochi, ma buoni) del blog hanno confermato High Violet dei National quale miglior album del 2010.
Ecco i risultati nel dettaglio:

01. HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL (40%)

02. TOTAL LIFE FOREVER/FOALS (20%)

03. INTERPOL/INTERPOL (10%)
MINES/MENOMENA (10%)
CONTRA/VAMPIRE WEEKEND (10%)
EXPO 86/WOLF PARADE (10%)

04. THE SUBURBS/ARCADE FIRE (0%)
PLASTIC BEACH/GORILLAZ (0%)
HELIGOLAND/MASSIVE ATTACK (0%)
THE PLACE WE RAN FROM/TIRED PONY (0%)

THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2010

IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL


ANYONE'S GHOST (Castle Rock Session)

"Ho forse troppa influenza nella band, perché se qualcosa non mi piace non la canto. Questo significa che solo le canzoni che mi piacciono andranno poi sul disco. Non è giusto, ma le cose stanno così."
In questa dichiarazione di Matt Berninger, leader dei National, c'è la chiave di lettura per apprezzare al meglio le qualità di High Violet: elegante e compatto, ma allo stesso tempo sporco ed irregolare, da Terrible Love ad England, passando per Anyone's Ghost, Little Faith, Bloodbuzz Ohio e Conversation 16, il quinto lavoro della band newyorkese è un concentrato incredibile di melodie straordinarie, rese profonde ed avvolgenti dalla voce baritonale del cantante di Cincinnati. Un album eccezionale, uno dei migliori degli ultimi tempi.


LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: LIGHTS/INTERPOL



Da quando gli Interpol l'hanno resa disponibile in download gratutuito sul loro sito ufficiale, nella scorsa primavera, anticipando il nuovo album e di fatto tornando sulle scene dopo tre anni di silenzio, difficilmente riesco ad alzarmi la mattina senza averla in testa, senza intonarne l'attacco. Un pezzo potente, oscuro, evocativo, dal crescendo grandioso. La canzone-simbolo di questo 2010.

LA PLAYLIST DEL 2010

01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL
02. ANYONE'S GHOST/THE NATIONAL
03. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR
04. GIVING UP THE GUN/WAMPIRE WEEKEND
05. READY TO START/ARCADE FIRE
06. THE SHORE/CHAPEL CLUB
07. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
08. ECHOES/KLAXONS
09. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
10. IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MOON/WOLF PARADE
11. WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER/EELS
12. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
13. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK
14. SPANISH SAHARA/FOALS
15. ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ
16. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
17. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
18. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH
19. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
20. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
21. NIGHT & DAY/CHIEF
22. IT'S EASIER/JOHN GRANT
23. THE CURSE/JOSH RITTER

BONUS TRACKS

HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS

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IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)



Non solo e non esattamente un videoclip. Il progetto The Wilderness Downtown, realizzato dal regista Chris Milk per il brano We Used To Wait, è infatti un vero e proprio strumento interattivo che permette di associare la musica della band canadese alle immagini satellitari dei luoghi della memoria dello spettatore: sia che si tratti della via di casa, che del posto che non si è mai visitato. Un po' come Google Maps, ma molto più melodico.


IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: CHAPEL CLUB


FIVE TREES

Può bastare una manciata di ottime canzoni per essere eletti rivelazione dell'anno? Da queste parti, evidentemente si. I Chapel Club vengono da Londra, sono giovanissimi e pubblicheranno il loro primo album alla fine del prossimo mese di gennaio. La sfida ai White Lies nella corsa a nuovi-Editors, o nuovi nuovi-Interpol, e via dicendo fino ai Cure ed ai Joy Division, è già lanciata.


IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: THE NATIONAL (Milano/Alcatraz) 16/11/10; INTERPOL (Milano/PalaSharp) 17/11/2010


EVIL/INTERPOL

Una trasferta memorabile, e due eventi straordinari in 24 ore: perchè sceglierne uno? I concerti dell'anno sono quelli dei National e degli Interpol a Milano, lo scorso 16 e 17 novembre. Caldi, discreti, persino amichevoli i primi, con Matt Berninger che si fa tutta la platea sulla linea finale di Terrible Love; eleganti, precisi, praticamente perfetti Paul Banks e compagni.
Un'esperienza indimeticabile.


IL LIBRO DELL'ANNO: LE HO MAI RACCONTATO DEL VENTO DEL NORD (Gut Gegen Nordwind)/DANIEL GLATTAUER (Feltrinelli)



"Puntiglioso ai limiti del patologico, ma amabilmente attento e corretto".
Romanzo epistolare al tempo di internet, Le Ho Mai Raccontato Del Vento Del Nord è un libro intimo ma discreto, divertente e romantico. Daniel Glattauer, giornalista e scrittore austriaco, fa entrare Emmi e Leo l'una nella vita dell'altro, e li lascia sospesi, leggeri, eppure profondamente legati. In attesa di rincontrarsi nella Settima Onda.


IL FILM DELL'ANNO: IL MALEDETTO UNITED (The Damn United)/TOM HOOPER



Il film racconta in modo divertente ed appassionato l'inizio della carriera dell'allenatore Brian Clough, Mourinho ante litteram che sul finire degli anni '70 guidò il Nottingham Forest (club di una piccola città nel centro dell'Inghilterra, mica uno squadrone pieno zeppo di campioni strapagati) alla conquista di due Coppe dei Campioni consecutive. Storie d'altri tempi, quando il calcio era ancora una favola, e tutto era possibile. La pellicola è stata girata nel 2009, ma nelle sale italiane non è mai arrivata: solo nella primavera di quest'anno la Sony Pictures si è degnata di distribuirla, direttamente in dvd.


LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS


THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY

Trent Reznor, si sa, è un'autorità in fatto di colonne sonore. Con la collaborazione di Atticus Ross, musicista e produttore britannico, costruisce per The Social Network, l'attesissimo lungometraggio di David Fincher su Mark Zuckerberg, l'ideatore di Facebook, un tappeto di suoni elettronici ora di grande ambientazione, ora estremamente potenti, che sottolineano con grande efficacia le scene del film.


IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA


LA MAREGGIATA DEL '66

Nel panorama piuttosto desolato della musica indipendente italiana, divisa tra cantanti troppo scanzonati e gruppi che si prendono maledettamente sul serio, la band piemontese Non Voglio Che Clara riesce miracolosamente a coniugare la passione per la canzone d'autore con arrangiamenti e suoni contemporanei. Qualche momento di compiacimento cantautorale non manca, ma brani come Il Tuo Carattere E Il Mio e La Mareggiata Del '66 sono ottimi esempi di come può suonare, e bene, il rock in lingua italica.


I VINCITORI DEL 2009:

DISCO: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS
CANZONE: EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS
VIDEO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE (Patrick Daughters)
DEBUTTO: WHITE LIES
CONCERTO: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP (Roma/Teatro Tendastrisce) 03/12/09
LIBRO: LA MORTE DI BUNNY MUNRO (The Death Of Bunny Munro)/NICK CAVE (Feltrinelli)
FILM: BASTARDI SENZA GLORIA (Inglourious Basterds)/QUENTIN TARANTINO
COLONNA SONORA: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON/Artisti Vari
DISCO ITALIANO: SOGNANDO CONTROMANO/NEFFA

PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

CRYSTALISED/GORILLAZ

La playlist dell'avvento: una canzone al giorno fino a natale, poi si vedrà.

01. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
(MINES)
02. UNDERTOW/WARPAINT
(THE FOOL)
03. FINGERPRINT/I AM KLOOT
(SKY AT NIGHT)
04. WALLS/SHOUT OUT LOUDS
(WORK)
05. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
(THE KING IS DEAD)
06. SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE/WOLF PARADE
(SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE Digital Single)
07. RANO PANO/MOGWAI
(HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL)
08. ENZYMES/FREELANCE WHALES
(ENZYMES Single)
09. IN YOUR EYES/EDWYN COLLINS FEAT. THE DRUMS
(LOSING SLEEP)
10. MORE THAN A LOVER/THE CORAL
(BUTTERFLY HOUSE)
11. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
(HALCYON DIGEST)
12. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
(MARGINS)
13. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
14. TWIN FLAMES/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
15. WALKING FAR FROM HOME/IRON & WINE
(WALKING FAR FROM HOME)
16. LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY/PANDA BEAR
(LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY 7" Single)
17. TOO MUCH/SUFJAN STEVENS
(THE AGE OF ADZ)
18. KITTY TURN TO CAT/STRANGE HANDS
(DEAD FROZEN DEER EP)
19. TREASURY OF WE/GLASSER
(RING)
20. YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED
(YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE EP)
21. BEYOND REASON/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)
22. SAFE WITHOUT/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)

BONUS TRACKS

WALK OFF/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRYSTALIZED/GORILLAZ

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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: EVIL/INTERPOL

17/11/10 Palasharp/Milano
Video girato da MICRO

Rosemary
Heaven restores you in life
You're coming with me
Through the aging, the fearing, the strife
It's the smiling on the package
It's the faces in the sand
It's the thought that moves you upwards
Embracing me with two hands
Right will take you places
Yeah maybe to the beach
When your friends they do come crying
Tell them now your pleasure's set upon slow-release

Hey wait
Great smile
Sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"

We speaks about travel
Yeah, we think about the land
We smart like all peoples
Feeling real tan
I could take you places
Do you need a new man?
Wipe the pollen from the faces
Make revision to a dream while you wait in the van

Hey wait
Great smile
Sensitive to fate not
Denial
But hey who's on trial?

It took a life spent with no cellmate
To find the long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, you are exotic
You need something for which to care
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"

Leave some shards under the belly
Lay some grease inside my hand
It's a sentimental jury
And the makings of a good plan
You've come to love me lightly
Yeah you've come to hold me tight
Is this motion everlasting
Or do shutters pass in the night?

Rosemary
Oh heaven restores you in life
I spent a lifespan with no cellmate
The long way back
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
You're weightless, semi-erotic
You need someone to take you there
Saying, "why can't we look the other way?"
Why can't we just play the other game?
Why can't we just look the other way?

ALBUM: ANTICS (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: OBSTACLE 1/INTERPOL

I wish I could eat the salt off your last faded lips
We can cap the old times
Make playing only logical harm
We can cop the old lines
Clay-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

And it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this face again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

We can find new ways of living
Make playing only logical harm
And we can top the old times
Clay-making that nothing else will change
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
She's bad

And it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck
But it's different now that I'm poor and aging
I'll never see this place again
You go stabbing yourself in the neck

It's in the way that she posed
It's in the things that she puts in my head
Her stories are boring and stuff
She's always calling my bluff
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart
And she gets in my room and she takes it apart
She puts the weights into my little heart
I said she puts the weights into my little heart
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away
She packs it away

It's in the way that she walks
Her heaven is never enough
She puts the weights in my heart
She puts, she puts the weights into my little heart

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PDA/INTERPOL

Yours is the only version of my desertion
That I could ever subscribe to
That is all that I can do
You are a past dinner, the last winner
I'm raping all around me
Until the last drop is behind you
But you're so cute when you're frustrated, dear
You're so cute when you're sedated, dear

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

You are the only person who's completely certain
There's nothing here to be into
That is all that you can do
You are a past sinner, the last winner
And everything we've come to makes you
You
But you cannot safely say that while I will be away
You will not consider sadly
How you helped me to stray
And you will not reach me
I am resenting a position that's past resentment
And now I can't consider
And now there is this distance, so

Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tight, grim rite
We have two hundred couches where you can
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight
Sleep tonight

(PDA)

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

PLAYLIST/NOVEMBRE

BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO

Una playlist leggera leggera, per arrivare all'inverno in scioltezza (ma occhio alle bonus track).

01. THE BOMB SONG/DARWIN DEEZ
(DARWIN DEEZ)
02. GLAD/GLASSER
(RING)
03. SUN DEMON/STEREOLAB
(SUN DEMON)
04. BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO
(POP NEGRO)
05. DONCAMATIC/GORILLAZ FEAT. DALEY
(DONCAMATIC Single)
06. TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES)/THE WOMBATS
[TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES) Single]
07. YOUR PURE SOUL/THE CHARLATANS
(WHO WE TOUCH)
08. IN MY TIME/KURT VILE
(IN MY TIME Single)
09. GET SOME/LYKKE LI
(GET SOME Single)
10. NOT IN LOVE/CRYSTAL CASTLES FEAT. ROBERT SMITH
(NOT IN LOVE Single)
11. HOLIDAY/FRAN HEALY
(WRECKORDER)
12. LOUDER THAN EVER/COLD WAR KIDS
(MINE IS YOURS)
13. THE IMMORTALS/KINGS OF LEON
(COME AROUND SUNDOWN)

BONUS TRACKS

TERRIBLE LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRIMEWAVES/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL) (Exclusive iTunes pre-order Track)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE/INTERPOL

I'm timeless like a broken watch
And make money like Fred Astaire
I see that you've come to resist me
I'm a pitbull in time
The pretence is not what restricts me
It's the circles inside
An anatomy of kisses
And a teacher who tries
And knows how we'll disappear
Would you like to be my missus
And a future with child
You know we can't get back from here
We can get away

Baby won't you try to find me
Baby won't you try to fight
Baby won't you try to find me
Maybe it will be alright

Along the way
Tears drown in the wake of delight
There's nothing like this built today
You'll never see a finer ship in your life
We sail today
Tears drown in the wake of delight
There's nothing like this built today
You'll never see a finer ship
Or see a better tip in your life

I am the scavenger
Between the sheets of union
Lately I can't tell for sure
Whether machines turn anyone
Are you the scavenger?
Between the sheets of union
Lately I can't tell for sure
Whether machines turn anyone

Lady won't you try to find me
Lady there is no need to fight
Lady won't you try to find me
Lady it will be alright

We sail today
Tears drown in in the wake of delight
There's nothing like this built today
You'll never see a finer ship in your life
Along the way
The sea will crowd us with lovers at night
There's nothing like this built today
You'll never see a finer ship
Or receive a better tip in your life

I see that you've come to resist me
I'm a pitbull in time

White goddess, red goddess
Black temptress of the sea, you treat me right
Black goddess, red goddess
White temptress of the sea, you treat me right

All my love is sailing to Norway
All my love we're leaving tonight
All my love is sailing to Norway
All my love we're leaving tonight

ALBUM: ANTICS (2004)