LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SLEEPWALKER/MOON DUO

ALBUM: CIRCLES (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LAST DESIRE/COVES

(2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DIE LIFE/THE SOFT MOON

ALBUM: ZEROS (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MEMORIES OF SWEAT/HOLOGRAMS

ALBUM: HOLOGRAMS (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SELF IMMOLATION FAMILY/SELF DEFENSE FAMILY

Ad ascoltarlo non si direbbe, ma questo pezzo è stato registrato nello studio dei Sigur Rós.




ALBUM: SELF IMMOLATION FAMILY 7" (ICELAND SERIES) (2012)

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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: THE WORLD IS YOURS/GLASVEGAS

Mr. Mojo's rising
I took a ride from the alley out and through the town
To get you and see you as mine
I dreamt you were mine

Since my eyes saw yours
If am your world then the world is yours
If my lips kissed yours
If am your world then the world is yours

Talk’s expensive and subtlety’s run blind
Don’t let a bad time be the cost of our love and lust
A crippling shyness butchering love all the time
Please, please god pull the stars to align

Let’s not wait until another time
Remember in the midst of my dreams when I dreamt that you were mine
Letters of love saying the worst
In the right order can be all tough
Time is learn straight to I express how I desire you
It’s something I don’t know how to
The fear of losing you is elevating me on through
Whilst the unavoidable truth is alive and true

You don’t need me as much as I need you
You don’t need me as much as I need you

The tables have turned to my staggering and still
When we do my mind will rest and love

ALBUM: EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\ (2011)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MEATHOOK/THE CURE

I went into the butchers
I said wanted wanted wanted some meat
I said pass me some of that steak over there
It looks so sweet
I lost my heart to a meathook

That butcher man was some lady
You know he really stole my heart
He hung me up on his meathook
A real piece of slaughterhouse art
I lost my heart to a meathook

I got a meathook in my heart
Tearing me all apart
Ripping out my insides
But I just can't get away
I can't leave my meathook

ALBUM: THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (1979)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LIFE IN A DAY/SIMPLE MINDS

Life in a day
The price that you pay
For time that you spent
It's such a fatal event
Take a look at my watch
There is no time to wait
Take a look deep inside
There's no escape from this day
Life in a day
Life in a day
Take a look around you
Is it true what they say
Life in a day
Life in a day
No sence in looking for you
For sure they'll get you one day

Can you see how they run
Do you believe what they say
They'll soon be looking for you
For sure they'll get you one day
The premonition came true
Look all around and you'll see
Some say it takes two to know
Or could it all just be me
Life in a day
Life in a day
I love to see how they run
They came a running this way
Life in a day
Life in a day
Is there no place to hide
Could there be some other way

ALBUM: LIFE IN A DAY (1979)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DADDY'S GONE/GLASVEGAS

CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI/ROMA, 11 MAGGIO 2009

How you are my hero
How your never here though
Remember times when you put me on your shoulders
How I wish it was forever you would hold us
Right now I'm too young to know
How in the future it will affect me when you go
You could have had it all
You, me, and mum y'know
Anything was possible

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

All I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
For you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
How I could've been yours, and you be mine
It could've been me and you until the end of time
Do what you want, when you want
Be as fuckin' insincere as you can
What kind of way is that to treat your wife
To see your son on Saturdays
What way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

ALBUM: GLASVEGAS (2008)

CONCERTI: GLASVEGAS/CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI/ROMA

Sono passate da poco le 22 quando, per la felicità di tutti i social workers presenti (parecchi, il concerto è sold out), i Glasvegas attaccano con Geraldine. Fa caldo, e James Allan, con la sua canottiera sbracciatissima, occhiali scuri e ciuffo, somiglia un po' al Joe Strummer dei primi anni '80, e scusate se è poco. Le grezze pareti del Circolo degli Artisti sembrano contenere a fatica tutta l'energia dei cori da stadio di inni istantanei come It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry, Fuck You It's Over (un'inaspettato regalo dall'EP di Natale, sebbene il testo non si possa definire esattamente festivo...), Flowers And Football Tops e Go Square Go, ed è proprio lì, nei grandi spazi, che presto, prestissimo ti immaggini di veder suonare questi quattro ragazzi delle Lowlands. Anche sul palco, come sul disco d'esordio, la sostanziosa batteria di Caroline Mckay sostiene a meraviglia le canzoni, che mantengono inalterata tutta la loro intensità. Giusto il tempo di ringraziare, con un perentorio "I fucking love you, Roma", in perfetto stile classe operaia di Glasgow, e si chiude con Daddy's Gone (e come, sennò), con tutto il pubblico a cantare, al punto che il nostro James sembra quasi commuoversi di tanta partecipazione.
Non c'è che dire: l'impatto dal vivo con la band scozzese è notevole, e mantiene tutte le aspettative di quanti, e sono numerosi, considerano i Glasvegas la rivelazione dello scorso anno.

GLASVEGAS/CIRCOLO DEGLI ARTISTI/ROMA, 11 MAGGIO 2009

GERALDINE
LONESOME SWAN
IT'S MY OWN CHEATING HEART THAT MAKES ME CRY
POLMONT ON MY MIND
FUCK YOU, IT'S OVER
FLOWERS AND FOOTBALL TOPS
ICE CREAM VAN
GO SQUARE GO

S.A.D. LIGHT
PLEASE COME BACK HOME
DADDY'S GONE

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GERALDINE/GLASVEGAS

When your sparkle evades your soul
I'll be at your side to console
When you're standing on the window ledge
I'll talk you back, back from the edge
I will turn, I will turn your tide
Be your shepherd, I swear, be your guide
When you're lost in your deep and darkest place around
May my words walk with you home safe and sound

When you say that I'm no good and you feel like walking
I need to make sure you know it's just the prescription talking
When your feet decide to walk you on the wayward side
Climbing up upon the stairs and down the downward slide
I will turn, I will turn your tide
Do all that I can to heal you inside
I will be the angel on your shoulder
My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker

I see you
Need me
I know you do

I see you
Need me
I know you do
I know you do

I will turn, I will turn your tide
Do all that I can to heal you inside
I will be the angel on your shoulder
My name is Geraldine, I'm your social worker

ALBUM: GLASVEGAS (2008)

CONCERTI: CLINIC/INIT/ROMA

I Clinic sono precisi, lineari. Chirurgici. Fanno il loro ingresso nella sala (operatoria per l'occasione) dell'Init, in divisa da infermiere, dottore, o killer seriale, fate un po' voi, ma l'effetto è comunque di grande impatto oculare. Per il resto, sul palco, oltre ai medici ed all'apparato strumentale, non c'è nulla. Il dosaggio minimo indispensabile. La visita della band di Liverpool comincia tardi, come un turno di notte all'ospedale, e dura giusto un'oretta (un intervento di routine, si dirà poi), lasciando tuttavia benefici effetti nella mente: filtrata dalla mascherina di protezione, la voce di Ade Blackburn assume una connotazione lieve, flebile, e terapeutica, mentre il mix di sonorità tradizionali e sperimentali amplifica lo spettro musicale, che si estende senza alcuna controindicazione dai pezzi più intimisti (Corpus Christi) a quelli post-punk (Shopping Bag). E così, poco dopo aver recuperato una vecchia cartella dall'archivio (Walking With Thee), i Clinic, come un'allucinazione, svaniscono nel nulla. L'effetto dell'anestesia è appena finito, ma compaiono già i primi postumi del trattamento: il riff introduttivo di Free Not Free, come un farmaco che non ne vuole sapere di essere eliminato dall'organismo, rimane in circolo... Forse è il caso di fare un controllo.

CLINIC/INIT/ROMA, 15 GENNAIO 2009

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FREE NOT FREE/CLINIC

From the front to in the backyard
Someone fronted on the war tales
When the home is in the mirror
When the home is in the big smile

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known

See yourself outside your skin
See yourself outside you for miles
When the hoax is in the mirror
When the hoax is in the big smile

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known
We'll make it known
We'll make it known
We'll make it...

ALBUM: DO IT! (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DADDY'S GONE/GLASVEGAS

How you are my hero
How your never here though
Remember times when you put me on your shoulders
How I wish it was forever you would hold us
Right now I'm too young to know
How in the future it will affect me when you go
You could have had it all
You, me, and mum y'know
Anything was possible

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

All I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
For you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
How I could've been yours, and you be mine
It could've been me and you until the end of time
Do what you want, when you want
Be as fuckin' insincere as you can
What kind of way is that to treat your wife
To see your son on Saturdays
What way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

ALBUM: GLASVEGAS (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FUCK YOU, IT'S OVER/GLASVEGAS

ALBUM: A SNOWFLAKE FELL (AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS) (2008)

MUSICA: ASCOLTI MULTIPLI

BATCAT/MOGWAI


Sto ascoltando un sacco di musica nuova, in questo scorcio di fine estate. Tutta piuttosto interessante. È un buon periodo. Mi piacciono i Glasvegas. Sono giovanissimi, vengono da Glasgow, città dalla scena molto fertile, ultimamente. Magari non inventano nulla, in giro per la rete li definiscono i nuovi Manic Street Preachers, ed in effetti l'intensità della voce di James Allan ricorda quella di James Dean Bradfield, ma ascoltarli è davvero un piacere. Mi piace il nuovo album dei Verve, Forth: è rilassato e rilassante, scorre via tranquillo, e lascia il segno. Mi piacciono anche i Kings Of Leon (il singolo Sex On Fire funziona così bene da rischiare la sovraesposizione), ed i Mogwai, che non tradiscono mai, e stavolta aggiungono un tocco di durezza alle loro trame strumentali (come nella potentissima Batcat, primo singolo estratto dall'album). E mi piacciono gli Okkervil River, con le loro ballate da saloon pungenti e malinconiche. Non mi dispiacciono neanche gli I Was A Cub Scout: ironicamente si definiscono una boy band, ma le loro tastiere intriganti hanno qualcosa in più. Del nuovo album di Peter, Bjorn And John mi è rimasto in testa il primo pezzo, Inland Empire, il resto non mi ha colpito granchè. L'elettronica dei Glass Candy è divertente, ma niente di speciale. Gli Absentee sono profondi, ma alla lunga mi stancano. Anche i Metronomy li ho trovati un po' noiosi. I Ra Ra Riot mi sembrano roba da ragazzini. Infine, mi hanno deluso Born Ruffians e Late Of The Pier: ne avevo letto molto bene in giro, ma non mi sono sembrati all'altezza. Ma mi ripropongo di riascoltarli, promesso.
Per ora, nell'iPod, ci sono i Mogwai.

VICTORY SHORTS/ABSENTEE
RED, YELLOW & BLUE/BORN RUFFIANS
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE/I WAS A CUB SCOUT
BEAT BOX/GLASS CANDY
GLASVEGAS/GLASVEGAS
ONLY BY THE NIGHT/KINGS OF LEON
FANTASY BALCK CHANNEL/LATE OF THE PIER
NIGHTS OUT/METRONOMY
THE HAWK IS HOWLING/MOGWAI
THE STAND INS/OKKERVIL RIVER
SEASIDE ROCK/PETER, BJORN AND JOHN
THE RHUMB LINE/RA RA RIOT
FORTH/THE VERVE