LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE CROWNING/A CAMP

Brighten the corners and clear out the room
Color the flowers in rose and maroon
Light up the fires and season this wine
We're gonna party like it's 1699
Slaughter the rabbits, the ducks and the boares
And lay all the tables and open the doors
Crème de la crème will be waiting on one guest of honor

Up go the curtains and down go the virgines
Oh no, mothers are crying
Ladies of virtue will stand to accuse you of heartbreak and theaft
Bells are gonna ring, birds are gonna sing, let the people begin
The crowning of your big head

Young drunken girls sit in hideous dens
Sing a heart found a meant of a death of romance
Beautiful boys turning offer their cheeks
Preening and prancing the outcome looks bleak
Good times are rolling but outside these walls
Our houses will crumble, this city will fall
But a few broken ponds don't mean nothing to our guest of honor

So let's raise our glasses to murderes asses like you
May you sleep soundly
Once we had laughter you got what you're after
You wear it well
Bells are gonna ring, birds are gonna sing, let the people begin
He had the hearts of hounding
We're all witnessing the crowning
Of your big bleeding head

Bells are gonna ring, birds are gonna sing, let the people begin
He had the hearts of hounding
Your eyes nothing but astounding
We're all witnessing the crowning
On your useless, ruthless head

ALBUM: COLONIA (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CARNIVAL/THE CARDIGANS

I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now
I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now

Carnival came by my town today
Bright lights from giantwheels
Fall on the alleyways
And I'm here by my door
Waiting for you

I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now
I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now

I here sounds of lovers
Barrel organs, mothers
I would like to take you
Down there just to make you
Mine in a merry-go-round

I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now
I will never know
'Cause you will never show
Come on and love me now
Come on and love me now

ALBUM: LIFE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOUR LOVE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH/MANIC STREET PREACHERS FEAT. NINA PERSSON

Your love alone is not enough, not enough, not enough
When times get tough, they get tough, they get tough, they get tough
Trade all your heroes in for ghosts, in for ghosts, in for ghosts
They’re always the one’s who love you most, love you most, love you most

Your love alone is not enough, not enough, not enough
It’s what you felt, it’s what you said, what you said, what you said
You said the sky would fall on you, fall on you, fall on you
Through all the pain your eyes stayed blue, they stayed blue, baby blue

But your love alone won’t save the world
You knew the secret of the universe
Despite it all you made it worse
It left you lonely
It left you cursed

You stole the sun straight from my heart, from my heart, from my heart
With no excuses, just fell apart, fell apart, fell apart
No you won’t make a mess of me, mess of me, mess of me
For you’re as blind as a man can be, man can be, man can be

I could have seen for miles and miles
I could have made you feel alive
I could have placed us in exile
I could have written all your lines
I could have shown you how too cry

Your love alone is not enough
Your love alone is not enough

ALBUM: SEND AWAY THE TIGERS (2007)

ASCOLTI: DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE

ASCOLTA

Che la EMI, tra le major, sia quella che di internet, del file sharing e delle potenzialità della rete ci ha capito meno (praticamente nulla) di tutte, questo già si sapeva: non a caso i Radiohead, proprio dopo aver lasciato senza rimpianti la casa discografica britannica, pubblicarono in rete (gratis, o quasi) In Rainbows, dimostrando all'industria musicale che nell'era del web si può fare benissimo anche da soli. Questa volta, invece, a farsi beffe delle Electric and Musical Industries, sono gli Sparklehorse: dalla collaborazione tra Mark Linkous e Brian Joseph Burton, al secolo Danger Mouse (ideatore del progetto Gnarls Barkley e produttore, tra gli altri, di Beck), nasce infatti Dark Night Of The Soul, concept album ricco di collaborazioni eccellenti, arricchitto dall'artwork del regista David Lynch. Ma alla EMI, questo incontro di grandi personalità artistiche deve aver messo paura, al punto che, esattamente come aveva fatto qualche anno fa con un'altra iniziativa di Danger Mouse, il bootleg The Grey Album (irriverente mash-up tra il White Album dei Beatles ed il Black Album di Jay-Z), decide di andare per vie legali, impedendo l'uscita del disco. Un vero peccato, devono aver pensato Linkous e Burton, che hanno deciso, con una trovata decisamente geniale, di mettere comunque in vendita la parte visuale di Dark Night Of The Soul, ovvero il libro di foto scattate da Lynch, insieme ad un cd vuoto, da masterizzare sul pc di casa: tanto in rete, si sa, le canzoni si trovano facilmente... Il libro è caro, 50 dollari (ma c'è chi dice che ne valga la pena), ma per 10 verdoni si può avere il poster, sempre corredato da un CD vergine. Ecco quindi che il gioco è fatto: chi lo vorrà potrà comunque ascoltare questo lavoro, con buona pace invece di chi, nel grigio isolamento dei piani alti della City, mantenendo un atteggiamento bieco ed indisponente nei confronti delle nuove possibilità di distribuzione della musica, finirà per rimanerne (giustamente) travolto. Fin qui la storia, una sorta di Davide contro Golia dei giorni nostri, della forma di questo progetto. Ora, perchè no, due parole sul contenuto: probabilmente il miglior disco uscito quest'quest'anno, almeno fino ad adesso. Il folk-rock degli Sparklehorse, impregnato del talento dei Flaming Lips (la splendida ballata Revenge), di Julian Casablancas (Little Girl), di Iggy Pop (Pain), di Nina Persson (Daddy's Gone), di Suzanne Vega (The Man Who Played God), e scandito dai ritmi di Danger Mouse, diventa epico ed evocativo, alternando momenti di cupa durezza ad altri di toccante intimismo, pur mantenendo costantemente un'atmosfera oscura ed intrigante, tanto che sembra di vederle, le immagini di David Lynch, scorrere sullo schermo della mente. Un po' come era accaduto, più di dieci anni fa, con Psyence Fiction degli UNKLE: nonostante dietro ad ogni pezzo ci siano voci e storie diverse, il risultato finale è un'unica, omogenea, compatta sensazione di insieme.

DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL/DANGER MOUSE AND SPARKLEHORSE ★★★★

QUALCOSA DEL GENERE: PSYENCE FICTION/UNKLE (1998)
BRANO MIGLIORE: REVENGE (FEAT. THE FLAMING LIPS)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I NEED SOME FINE WINE AND YOU, YOU NEED TO BE NICER/THE CARDIGANS

Sit, good dog, stay, bad dog, down, roll over

Well here's a good man and a pretty young girl
Trying to play together somehow
I'm wasting my life, you're changing the world
I get drunk and watch your head grow

It's the good times that we share
And the bad times that we'll have
It's the good times
and the bad times that we had

Well it's been a long slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times and the bad times
That we'll have

Sometimes we talk over dinner like old friends
Till I go and kill the bottle
I go off over any old thing
Break your heart
And raise a glass or ten

To the good times that we shared
And the bad times that we'll have
To the good times
And the bad time that we've had

Well it's been a long slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times
And the bad times we know will come
I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer
You need to be nicer
You need

For the good times
And the bad time that we had
Sit

Good times, bad times
Sweet wine, bad wine
Good cop, bad cop
Lapdog, bad dog
Sit

ALBUM: SUPER EXTRA GRAVITY (2005)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

La playlist che girerà sul mio iPod a Febbraio:


STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP

01. FLOWERS AND FOOTBALL TOPS/GLASVEGAS
(GLASVEGAS)
02. LIVE ALONE/FRANZ FERDINAND
(TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND)
03. THE FEAR/LILY ALLEN
(IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU)
04. STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP
(COLONIA)
05. ULTRAVIOLENCE/HEARTSREVOLUTION
(SWITCHBLADE EP)
06. E.S.T./WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
07. LENIN/ARCADE FIRE
(DARK WAS THE NIGHT/Various artists)
08. TOMORROW/CLINIC
(DO IT!)
09. SOMETHING IS SQUEEZING MY SKULL/MORRISSEY
(YEARS OF REFUSAL)
10. YOUR MOUTH/TELEFON TEL AVIV
(IMMOLATE YOURSELF)
11. MITHRIDATE/THE EVPATORIA REPORT
(MAAR)
12. THE KIDS ARE ULTRA-VIOLENT/WINTERSLEEP
(WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/Bonus track)

BONUS TRACK

BROKEN/GORILLAZ
(PHASE 3 DEMOS)