LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH/METRIC

Hangman we played rubber soul with a razor blade
Behind the church, hiding place
It was a long joke 'til the punch line came
Can you read my mind?
Read my mind
Follow along to the end of the song

Hangman we played double dutch with a hand grenade
Behind the church, hiding place
Apathetic to the devil's face
Wear the sheriff's badge put your toys away
They let us go saying let us pray

Youth without youth
Youth without youth
Youth without youth
Youth without youth

Hangman we played hide and seek on the fire escape
Through the smoke we saw the flame
It was a long wait til the firetruck came
On the count of three
Jump with me on the count of three
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, go

Youth without youth
Youth without youth
(Go, go, go, go)
Go
Youth without youth
Youth without youth
(Go, go, go, go)

Hangman we played blind man's bluff with the 9th Brigade
Throw the brick through the windowpane
Double dutch 'til they stop the game
'Til the cops show up hand cuff stunned
Let us go but we lost one
Hangman we played blind man's bluff
'Til they stopped the game
Youth without youth
Born without time
Youth without youth
Can you read my mind?

Youth without youth
Youth without youth
(My, my, my mind)
My mind
Youth without youth
Youth without youth
(My, my, my mind)

ALBUM: SYNTHETICA (2012)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I BELIEVE/ALL I NEED TO KNOW//DURAN DURAN

The taxman's in the pocketbook
The pressmen are by the bar
And all the world is at your door
It's strange that you should lock it up
And preach an open heart
But you know what they're waiting for

You can turn your face away
And don't think twice
I'm just the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money
Or even your advice
I believe you'll follow me
It's all I need to know
To walk away

I was tempted by the devil
In his deep blue swimming pool
Until the devil's make up ran
And my future's in the strangle hold
Of ever changing rules
I don't intend to understand

You can stop pretending now
That I had you fooled
I'm still the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money
To paralyze my soul
I believe you'll follow me
It's all I need to know
Promise me you'll try to understand before I go
And walk away

You can turn your face away
And don't think twice
I'm just the ordinary guy you used to know
I'm not after your money
Or even your advice
I believe you'll follow me
It's all I need to know
Promise me you'll try to understand before I go

All I need to, all I need to, all I need to know
All I need to, all I need to, all I need to know
All I need to, all I need to, all I need to know
All I need to, all I need to, all I need to know

ALBUM: ALL SHE WANTS IS (7" Single) (1988)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HOLDIN ON TO BLACK METAL/MY MORNING JACKET

It's a darkness you can't deny
But it don't belong in a grown up mind
Distortion finds its place in a youngsters eyes
Coming into life you need its grind
But at a certain point you got to let it go
Or it will cross the permanent threshold
You know you gotta find it out in something else good
Oh, black metal you're so misunderstood!

Holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Black metal you've been holding on too long

Oh, black metal so misunderstood
Deep black service under Lucifer's hood
Black metal steals souls young, enough is enough
Wants refills out of Lucifer's cup
Black metal need to be and your teenage pop
Look at you starchild ur all grown up
But still holdin on to black metal
Still holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Still holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Black metal you've been holding on too long

Catching waves on Lucifer's beach
Taking shade underneath Lucifer's trees
Getting sustenance from Lucifer's peach
Oh, black metal it's a fact in all your speech

Holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Holdin on to black metal
(Black metal)
Black metal you've been holding on too long

(Black metal, black metal)
Oh, bring them to me
(Black metal)
Oh, making me think
(Black metal)
One, two, three, let's rock

ALBUM: CIRCUITAL (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE HELLCAT SPANGLED SHALALALA/ARCTIC MONKEYS

Just when things are getting complicated in the eye of the storm
She flicks a red-hot revelation off the tip of her tongue
It does a dozen somersaults and it leaves you supercharged
Makes me wanna blow her candles out
just to see if you glow in the dark
Shalalala, shalalala, shalalala, shalalala

Home sweet home, home sweet home, home sweet booby-trap
I took the batteries out my mysticism and put 'em in my thinking cap
She's got a telescopic hallelujah hanging up on the wall
For when it gets too complicated in the eye of the storm
Shalalala, shalalala, shalalala, shalalala

And in a hellcat spangled cavern
When your judgement's on the run
And you're acting like a stranger
'Cause you thought it looked like fun
Well did you ever get the feeling
Did you think she set the fall
Her steady hands may well have done the devil's pedicure
What you waiting for?
To sing another fuckin'
Shalalala, shalalala, shalalala, shalalala

ALBUM: SUCK IT AND SEE (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EL DIABLO/ARCADIA

Enter newborn players and gather
Weight their innocence
Only the brightest shine but not forever
Many lights die
Many tears rain
When those tears run dry
On a mountain madness day
You were just in time
For a foolish deal
For love I sold
I Can't stand another howling day
Inside this empty skin

While the beacons burn I'll say
Await return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame

El diablo, el diablo
Won't you sell me back my soul
El diablo, el diablo
Won't you sell me back my soul

Wedding is on the wind
Does she blow my way
She can dance and she can sing
She will tear your heart away

While the promise burns I'll stay
And you will return from so far away

One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame
One life with the devil do I play
For so long el diablo is to blame
One life but the devil is in my way

ALBUM: SO RED THE ROSE (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HONKY'S LADDER/THE AFGHAN WHIGS

Got you where I want you, motherfucker
I got five up on your dime
And if you wanna peep on something
Peep what I got stuck between your eyes
And since I don't believe a word you say
Save it for another baby brother
Swallow time to pay

Up on the ladder they sing how high?
Does a brother have to climb to touch the light
But wait 'till I get done with you
If you tell me
Don't get mixed up with the devil
That's exactly what I'm gonna do

Caught you while you waited
For your boy to come
And fix you up again
Come a little closer baby
I only wanna try to be your friend

Since I ain't got nothing left to lose
Got you where I want you
Motherfucker don't you try to move


Up on the ladder they sing how high?
Does a brother have to climb to touch the light
Won't you take me up there with you?
You said you would
No one ever could shake that ladder like I could

So I wait
And I wait
And I wait
And I wait

Up on the ladder they sing how high?
Does a brother have to climb to touch the light
Won't you take me up there with you?
You said you would
No one ever could shake that ladder like I could

ALBUM: BLACK LOVE (1996)

POST-IT: ARCADE FIRE/THE SUBURBS & MONTH OF MAY

L'avevano annunciato con una cartolina (l'uscita di un EP in vinile 12"), ed ora gli Arcade Fire mettono in streaming sul loro sito ufficiale delle clip di 30 secondi dei due nuovi brani in questione, The Suburbs, e Month Of May. Di per sè, in tempi in cui ormai il download libero e gratuito (e per intero) dei nuovi singoli è consuetudine, non è una gran notizia, ma il modo in cui la band canadese invita ad ascoltare la sua nuova musica è piuttosto divertente: si tratta infatti di un widget da far ruotare col mouse, come una sorta di giradischi virtuale. Si può far girare il disco anche al contrario, ma non c'è traccia di eventuali messaggi satanici...

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN/PIXIES

There was a guy
An underwater guy who controlled the sea
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
From New York and New Jersey

This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven

The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole
Now there's a hole in the sky
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold
Everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns
I'll get mine too

This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
Rock me Joe

If man is five
If man is five
If man is five
Then the devil is six
Then the devil is six
Then the devil is six
And if the devil is six
Then god is seven
Then god is seven
Then god is seven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey's gone to heaven

ALBUM: DOOLITTLE (1989)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEVILS HAIRCUT/BECK

Something's wrong 'cause my mind is fading
And everywhere I look there's a dead end waiting
Temperature's dropping at the rotten oasis
Stealing kisses from the leperous faces

Heads are hanging from the garbage man trees
Mouthwash jukebox gasoline
Crystals are pointing at a poor man's pockets
Smiling eyes ripping out of his sockets

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Love machines on the sympathy crutches
Discount orgies on the dropout buses
Hitching a ride with the bleeding noses
Coming to town with the brief case blues

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Something's wrong 'cause my mind is fading
Ghetto-blasting disintegrating
Rock 'n' roll, know what I'm saying
And everywhere I look there's a devil waiting

Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind
Got a devil's haircut in my mind

Devil's haircut in my mind
Devil's haircut in my mind
Devil's haircut in my mind

ALBUM: ODELAY (1996)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEVIL IN THE DETAILS/PLACEBO

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details
I got no energy to fight
He's a fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details

And he's fixing up to take a bite
I don't see the point in trying
I got the devil in the details
And he's gonna teach me wrong from right
That fucking pal of mine
The devil in the details
I'm gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay

Let me take you far a ride
With the devil in the details
We'll kiss and tremble with delight
Everything is fine
With the devil in the details
We're gonna dance with him tonight

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

All of my wrongs
No more wicked ways
Come back to haunt me, come what may
He wrote the songs
That I hoped to write someday
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay
Looks like the devil's here to stay

I've been wasting all my time
With the devil in the details

ALBUM: BATTLE FOR THE SUN (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHE'S A RAINBOW/ROLLING STONES

ASCOLTA

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Everywhere
She comes in colours

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white, so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colours all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colours everywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

She's like a rainbow
Coming, colours in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colours

ALBUM: THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST (1967)