LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DO IT WITH A ROCKSTAR/AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA

Diretto da Wayne Coyne ed Amanda Palmer

Now I lay me down to sleep
Do you wanna dance?
Do you wanna fight?
Do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?
Knowing what's the price of leave?

Do you wanna dance?
Do you wanna fight?
Do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?
Do you wanna smoke till our throats are sore?
Make out and then talk and then make out some more?
Do you wanna dance?
Do you wanna fight?
Do you get drunk and stay the night?
Do you wanna know all the things I do
Where I'm all alone and thinking about you?
Do you wanna? Do you wanna? Do you wanna? Do you wanna?
Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you?
Do you? Do you? Do you? Do it

Do you wanna go back home?
Your animals are all alone
And there's a chicken waiting on the stove
And your cousin left his DVD of Swinging In The 70s
And do you wanna go back home?
Check your messages and charge your phone
Are you really sure you wanna go?
When you could do it with a rockstar
Do it with a rockstar?

Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Fine in a minute

I don't want your body just a part to listen to INXS
All the practice in the world
Won't get me good at loneliness, less
loneliness, less, loneliness, less, less, less, less

Do you wanna dance?
Do you wanna fight?
Do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?
Do you want to see all my cavities?
Talk about the crisis in the Middle East?
Do you wanna get really terrified?
Th'icecaps are all melting and we're gonna die
Do you wanna cry?
I can make you cry
Do you wanna hit me baby one more time?
Do you wanna? Do you wanna? Do you wanna? Do you wanna?
Do you? Do you? Do you? Do you?
Do you? Do you? Do you? Do it

Do you wanna go back home?
Your animals are all alone
And there's a chicken waiting on the stove
And your cousin left his DVD of Swinging In The 70s

And do you wanna go back home?
Check your messages and charge your phone
Are you really sure you wanna go?
When you could do it with a rockstar
Do it with a rockstar?

Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Wait, wait, wait
I'll be fine in a minute
Fine in a minute, fine in a minute, fine in a minute
Fine in a minute, fine in a minute, fine in a minute
Fine in a minute, fine in a minute, fine in a

ALBUM: THEATRE IS EVIL (2012)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE FIRST TIME I EVER SAW YOUR FACE/THE FLAMING LIPS AND AMANDA PALMER

Erykah Badu si è tirata indietro. Amanda Palmer invece ha il pelo sullo stomaco, e non solo li.



Diretto da Wayne Coyne

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies, my love
To the dark and the endless skies, my love

The first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last 'til the end of time, my love
And last 'til the end of time

The first time ever I saw your face
Your face, your face, your face, your face
Your face, your face, your face, your face

ALBUM: THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS (2012)

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: SEX CHANGES/THE DRESDEN DOLLS

Dear Mr. and/or Mrs. sender
We're pleased to inform you that your applications been accepted
Starting from the time you get this letter
Your life will be one never-ending “hope you're feeling better”
You get your choice of an aesthetic
We'll need to chop your clock off (tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock)
It might not be what you expected
There is no money back once you've been ripped off, ripped off, ripped off
Today's a very special day
The boys'll murder for it but what will the neighbors say
It leaves you feeling pretty hollow
It might be nice to look at
Don't forget you're stuck with it tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

You're big enough to stop pretending
You'll start to really show within a week or so
So don't go saying it's just come to your attention
You'll get more than you're asking for without the right protection
Today's a very special day
And how you'd love to have a little thing with which to play
But love won't get you very far
Today be still your beating heart
You'll have to keep on feeding it tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

Boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys will be boys
Will be girls with no warning
Girls will be girls will be guys will be boys that don't cry over toys that they use to beat girls they despise by the morning
They always said that sex would change you, change you, change you, change you

No second thoughts the knife is nearing
You'll never hear the little pitter, patter, pitter, patter
Of this little feat of engineering
Of course I love you and of course it's what's inside that matters
But I think the whole charade is ending
It seems to me to be the only way to keep from getting
Caught up in a long life of regretting
The doctors said that once you get a taste for it you'll keep on cutting

But while you happen to be here
Why don't you whisper all those sweet forevers in my ear
Stiff upper lip for all this sorrow
Hurry up and stick it in
You never when it will end
Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow
Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow
Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow
Tomorrow or tomorrow or tomorrow
They always said that sex would change you, change you, change you, change you

ALBUM: YES, VIRGINIA... (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NIKOLA TESLA/8IN8

8in8 è un supergruppo composto da Amanda Palmer, dal suo compagno, lo scrittore Neil Gaiman, da Ben Folds e da Damian Kulash degli Ok Go. Nighty Night è il loro progetto: un'album scritto e registrato in una sola notte.





I met Nikola Tesla in a diner in New York
He was eating cotton candy in the dark
I sat down at his table and I asked him for a light
When his eyes met mine I thought I felt a spark
His glance was like and x-ray and he looked me to the bone
A touch from him my blood began to boil
It was the 24th of March he had a really cute moustache
And then he kissed me in an alley and I felt my insides coil

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious gesture
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you
Sweetheart

I’d dreamed of someone like you ever since I was a girl
A mystery man inventing something new
Just a guy with a transformer who could make me something warmer
Who could open up my circuitry and make me someone new
When Edison got angry my Nikola only grinned
And explained that wireless power was the way
He’d overturn thesystem there was no way to resist him
And he kissed me one more time and told me he’d come back one day

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious jester
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you
Sweetheart

Edison’s enemy
Man who gave us AC
He’ll always be to me
My little serb
Voice on the radio
I’m looking high and low
Here in the afterglow
Send me a word

So I waited while the valves inside my heart all dimmed and chilled
He had secrets that he stored inside eight chests
And he took his many mysteries and walked off into history
And he left me with a fading sort of feeling in my breast
I’ve been waiting here for decades, just a dusty afterthought
I’ve been waiting for Nikola to come back
It is painful and ironic not to mention electronic
That he’d vanish in a crackle, into air and fade to black

Nikola Tesla
I wish you’d invent a
Current that could activate my heart
Mysterious jester
I do not expect you
Come back from 1932
I’ll always burn a light for you

ALBUM: NIGHTY NIGHT (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: AUSTRALIA/AMANDA PALMER

I could do the dishes while talking on the phone
I could ask you for an answer but you want to be alone
I can never do the dishes a single dish at a time
It's too much of a commitment so I lie my mouth and fire

I could calamine your insides
I could wind them all around me I could
I could tiptoe on a tightrope made of fear and looking down see
All the people do they see me I can wave or I can carry
All the dishes I'm holding that is keeping me steady

Or I could go to Australia
And carry a bowie knife
And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
And learn card tricks and buy
Everyone drinks and take boxing and write
Songs about my bowie knife
I could do these dishes
I could try to do these dishes
Time to decide

I could make a cake
My kitchen is small but I could clear the space
I could write my name
'Cause practice makes perfect yes that's what they say
I could make a button out of plaster
That said finished I could nail it in my closet
To the left side of the lightswitch
I could walk down to a Colombus and try drinking to forget it
But then come home less afraid and then press it and press it

Or I could go to Australia
Carry a bowie knife
And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
And learn card tricks and buy
Everyone drinks and take boxing and try
Eating things only with chopsticks and write
Songs about my bowie knife
I could do these dishes
I could try to do these dishes
I could sigh to do these dishes
Time to decide
Or I could go to Australia
And carry a bowie knife
And wear my hair like Hepburn parted on the side
And learn card tricks and physics and buy
Everyone drinks and take boxing and try
Eating things only with chopsticks and finally
Be like a person I think you might like

I could do these dishes
I could try to do these dishes
I could decide to do these dishes
I shoud decide to do these dishes
Time to decide
Fuck it
I'm gonna go to Australia
I'm gonna go to Australia
I'm gonna go to Australia

ALBUM: GOES DOWN UNDER (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOOD DAY/THE DRESDEN DOLLS

So you don't want to hear about my good song
You don't want to hear about how I am getting on
With all the shit that I can get done
The sun is in the sky and I am by my lonesome
So you don't want to hear about my good day
You have better things to do than to hear me say

God it's been a lovely day
Everything's going my way
I took out the trash today
And I'm on fire

So you don't want to hear about my good friends
You don't have the balls to take the truth or consequence
Success is in the eye of the beholder
And it's looking even better over your cold shoulder

I'm not suggesting
You get and line me up for questioning
But Jesus think
About the bridges you are burning and I'm betting
That even though you knew it from the start
You'd rather be a bitch than be an ordinary broken heart

So go ahead and talk about your bad day
I want all the details of the pain and misery
That you are inflicting on the others
I consider them my sisters and I want their numbers

God it's been a lovely day
Everything's going my way
I took up croquet today
And I'm on fire

I picked up the pieces of my broken ego
I have finally made my peace as far as you and me go
But I'd love to have you up to see the place
I'd like to do more than survive
I'd like to rub it in your face

Hey, it's been a lovely day
Everything's going my way
I had so much fun today
And I'm on fire
God it's been a lovely day
Everything's going my way
Ever since you went away
And I'm on fire

I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on

I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on fire
I'm on
So you don't want to hear about my good day

ALBUM: THE DRESDEN DOLLS (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HIGH AND DRY/AMANDA PALMER

Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy
Flyin' on your motorcycle
Watching all the ground beneath you drop
You'd kill yourself for recognition
Kill yourself to never ever stop
You broke another mirror
You're turning into something you are not

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation
You will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces
You just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you
When you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you
You will be the one screaming out

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you've ever had
The best thing you've had has gone away

Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high
Don't leave me dry

ALBUM: AMANDA PALMER PERFORMS THE POPULAR HITS OF RADIOHEAD ON HER MAGICAL UKULELE (2010)

POST-IT: AMANDA PALMER, I RADIOHEAD E L'UKULELE MAGICO

Amanda Palmer, voce dei Dresden Dolls, ha pubblicato un album di cover di brani dei Radiohead, suonati principalmente con l'ukulele... altro che vuvuzelas!
La copertina del disco, poi, realizzata in stile hawaiano anni '50, è davvero uno spasso.

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE MOUSE AND THE MODEL/THE DRESDEN DOLLS

Nothing is certain at this time of day
You could reverberate you could decay
The mouse and the model are laughing at us
We'll risk it we're desperate for someone to trust

Let's start a new heart the new charts are in
We'll take them we'll break them we'll make them give in

By counting your blessings you wind up in debt
It starts with your family and ends in your bed
You Jekyll and Hide it when you could have left
Your guard down your dress up you must be upset

Let's start a new heart the new charts are in
We'll take them we'll break them we'll make them give in

It's dark over here on the flipside of reason
The teaser could be something easy like they did it in a book
You're a crook you're a fake you committed
If you did it say you did it if you didn't suck it up and say you did

Let's start a new heart the new charts are in
We'll tax them relax them and make them forfeit
The vote by a landslide the Jekyll and Hide
Mackenzie macabre she's Bonnie and Clyde

ALBUM: NO, VIRGINIA... (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NIGHT RECONNAISSANCE/THE DRESDEN DOLLS

Nothing is crueler than children who come from good homes
God will forgive them, I guess, but whose side are you on?
Driving around the old town, I remember it all
Dropping my lunchbox and Tampax all over the hall
And they said

You are a socialist cokehead, we know from your clothes
You are a satanist worshipper, oh, that's evil
You think you're poet, a folksinger? A poser, nuh-oh
A volleyball player? You've got to be kidding us all

So we hide from the guns
On a night reconnaissance
Steal flamingos and gnomes
From the dark side of the lawn

No one can stop us
The script is a work of genius
No one has bought the rights yet but
We're not giving up
Every unwanted lawn jockey fits in the script
Directed by Spielberg and starring the masochist club

Mary, you look like hell
You're stuck in that ridiculous shell
Give us some light and god's pure love
We know what you've been dreaming of
Give us some light and god's pure love
We know what you've been dreaming of
Give us some light and god's pure love
We're taking you to Hollywood
Hollywood

And we hide from the guns
On a night reconnaissance
Steal flamingos and gnomes
From the dark side of the lawn

One plays a socialist cokehead we dress in my clothes
One plays a satanist worshipper of things evil
One plays a poet who starts up a band of his own
One is a volleyball player with both of wrists broke

And we hide from the guns
On a night reconnaissance
Steal flamingos and gnomes
From the dark side of the lawn

And we give them good homes
Give them love they've never known
In the loft, in the barn
In the town where I was born
In the loft, in the barn
In the town where I was born
In the loft, in the barn
In the town where I was born

ALBUM: NO, VIRGINIA... (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE GARDENER/THE DRESDEN DOLLS

Sorry for the setback
I know I let it down
Turn back the clocks and step back
And spring might come around

My little miss forgotten
You're quite a stubborn bud
If we cant make you open
We will take it out in blood

We'll make a man out of you yet
We will plant brambles in your bed
Just close your eyes and count to ten
This is as good as it will get

And there's our little willow weeping
A flutter to your knees
They hung two things before me
Oh the possibilities

Thank you for the warning
But I still see the sun
A little global warming
Never hurt no one

We'll make a man out of you yet
A crown of thorns around your head
Get off your knees and have a look
This is as good as it will get

At last my little flower
Is getting getting put to use
You've always been a failure
But now you're bearing strange new fruit

The insides are all useless
But the rest is fertile soil
I'll take the belt from off the hook
And watch the garden grow

We'll make a man out of you yet
You won't know what will hit you next
The gardener's coming to collect
You wanted love that's what you'll get

The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect
The gardener's coming to collect

ALBUM: NO, VIRGINIA... (2008)