LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TENDER MERCY/AU PALAIS

Sometimes is good to be a killer
Work without remorse
Sometimes it's good to be heartless
Let nature take it's course
And I don’t need tender mercy
Just someone by my side
I leave the gentle things behind

Sometimes the guide light is flickering
And the theme lost in the swell
Sometimes you have to live without it
Let the hearts lie still
And I don’t need tender mercy
Don't tie me to the mast
I let that tenderness go past
I let that tenderness go past

Don't want closer
Don't want nice
Love is a lonely ghost
Gone from my life

ALBUM: TENDER MERCY EP (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE GLOAMING/RADIOHEAD

Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Genie let out of the bottle
It is now the witching hour
Murderers, you're murderers
We are not the same as you
Genie let out of the bottle
Funny how
Funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
With your breathing

They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
They will suck you down to the other side
To the shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
Shadows blue and red
Shadows blue and red
Your alarm bells
Your alarm bells
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
They should be ringing
This is the gloaming

ALBUM: HAIL TO THE THIEF (2003)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WAKE UP AND BE FINE/OKKERVIL RIVER

Someone said to me
I'm coming to your dream
And speaking to you
I already knew
I found her in an attic
Where dramatically
She leaned into to me
She whispered these lines

Wake and be fine
You still got time
To wake and be fine

Graces me with more
Embraces in the streets
Say help me to stranger
Grab on to me
Carrying their years around
It's all been chasing down as we rot
Here at the same time

Can we wake and be fine
We still got time
To wake and be fine

Feelings on the creek
The killers in the crowd
I'm coming apart
A child in house
Lovers in the sheets
Dreaming lovers
Sweetly turning asleep
Along the same beats
Everybody's crashing
The world is calling around
The cupboard and things
The cat couldn't sleep
Someone said to me
It's just a dream
Why don't you wake up and you'll see
It's fine

An the miles racing over
endless fields of snow
You've already heard
You already know
Rescue car finally
lost their heart
And then they shattered their bones
Died all alone
Ships on broken beach
Pirates sails for water
Hot afternoons
Goodbye and good news
Dreams above ahead
Clouds are hard to crash
Loudly and so
Rocks and go survive

Wake and be fine
You've still got time
To wake and be fine

You can be fine
Be fine
Be fine

ALBUM: I AM VERY FAR (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I'M JUST A KILLER FOR YOU LOVE/BLUR

I heard a man who had no lungs
He took me in and made me lunch
Told me how I'd lost a friend
He smiled at me, that was the end

And I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love

Cut my hair off in the road
I tear my coat off, drop my load
Wipe my hands on the grass
'Cos now I know nothing will last

And I said
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love
I'm just a killer for your love

ALBUM: BLUR (1997)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PSYCHO KILLER/TALKING HEADS

I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I can’t relax
I can’t sleep, cause my bed’s on fire
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire

Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away

You start a conversation you can't even finish it
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?

Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away

Ce que j'ai fait, ce soir-là
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir-là
Réalisant mon espoir
Je me lance vers la gloire okay
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite

Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better
Run run run run run run run away

ALBUM: TALKING HEADS: 77 (1977)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SLOW HANDS/INTERPOL

Yeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappears in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living thats surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet blaze

Can't you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, we slow hands
Put the weights all around yourself
We spies, we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice cause the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You makes me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad of ways that I love you

Can you see what you've done to my heart, and soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies, we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies, we slow hands
Killer for hire, you know not yourself

We spies, we slow hands
You out the weights all around yourself
We spies, we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies, intimate slow hands
Killer for hire you know not yourself
We spies, intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around the self

ALBUM: ANTICS (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BURN/NINE INCH NAILS

This world rejects me
This world threw me away
This world never gave me a chance
This world's gonna have to pay
I don't believe in your institutions
I did what you wanted me to
I'm like the cancer in the system
I've got a little surprise for you

Something inside of me, has opened up its eyes
Why did you put it there? Did you not realize
This thing inside of me, it screams the loudest sound
Sometimes I think I could
Burn
Burn

I look down there where you're standing
Flock of sheep out on display
With all your lies propped up around you
I can take them all away

Something inside of me, has opened up its eyes
Why did you put it there? Did you not realize
This thing inside of me, it screams the loudest sound
Sometimes I think I could
I'm gonna burn this whole world down

I never was a part of you (burn)

I am your savior (burn)
I am corruption (burn)
I am the angel (burn)
Of your destruction (burn)
I am perversion (burn)
Secret desire (burn)
I am your future (burn)
Swallowed up in fire

ALBUM: NATURAL BORN KILLERS (Soundtrack) (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PARANOID ANDROID/RADIOHEAD

Diretto da MAGNUS CARLSSON

Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What's that? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Off with his head, man
Off with his head, man
Why don't you remember my name?
I guess he does

Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That's it, sir
You're leaving
The crackle of pigskin
The dust and the screaming
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit
The panic, the vomit
God loves his children
God loves his children

ALBUM: OK COMPUTER (1997)

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