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

PLAYLIST/MAGGIO

DON'T SIT DOWN 'CAUSE I'VE MOVED YOUR CHAIR/ARCTIC MONKEYS

La playlist di maggio.

01. FUTURE STARTS SLOW/THE KILLS
(BLOOD PRESSURES)
02. STEADY HANDS/KNESSET
(COMING OF AGE)
03. MAKE SOME NOISE/BEASTIE BOYS
(HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO)
04. PLEASE ASK FOR HELP/TELEKINESIS
(12 DESPERATE STRAIGHT LINES)
05. JUMP INTO THE FOG/THE WOMBATS
(THE WOMBATS PROUDLY PRESENT... THIS MODERN GLITCH)
06. DON'T SIT DOWN 'CAUSE I'VE MOVED YOUR CHAIR/ARCTIC MONKEYS
(DON'T SIT DOWN 'CAUSE I'VE MOVED YOUR CHAIR 7" Single)
07. WHATEVER HURTS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT/GLASVEGAS
(EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\)
08. YOU ARE A TOURIST/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
(CODES AND KEYS)
09. ALLIGATOR AVIATOR AUTOPILOT ANTIMATTER/R.E.M. FEAT. PEACHES
(COLLAPSE INTO NOW)
10. SUPERCOLLIDER/RADIOHEAD
(SUPERCOLLIDER/THE BUTCHER 12" Single)
11. EXILE VILIFY/THE NATIONAL
(EXILE VILIFY Digital Single)
12. BLUE STAR/SEAPONY
(GO WITH ME)
13. SLOWBOAT/SLOWNESS
(HOPELESS BUT OTHERWISE)
14. LEAVE/WHIRL
(DISTRESSOR)
15. BREATHE THE FIRE/THE SOFT MOON
(THE SOFT MOON)
16. I KNOW PLACES/LYKKE LI
(WOUNDED RHYMES)
17. TWO AGAINST ONE/DANGER MOUSE AND DANIELE LUPPI FEAT. JACK WHITE
(ROME)

Bonus Tracks

MEMOIR/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG "MEMOIR"/VILLAGERS "SET THE TIGERS FREE" Split 7")
EVIL (SILVER ALERT REMIX)/GRINDERMAN FEAT. MATT BENINGER
(EVIL 12" Single)
GIRL PANIC! (DAVID LYNCH REMIX)/DURAN DURAN
(GIRL PANIC! 7")

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EXILE VILIFY/THE NATIONAL

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a triumph?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?

Exile
It takes your mind again
Exile
It takes your mind again

Oh, you miss so much
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a triumph?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a triumph?
Now you're thinking too fast
You're like marbles on glass

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try

You've got sucker's luck
Have you given up?
Does it feel like a triumph?
Does it trouble your mind the way you trouble mine?
Does it feel like a triumph?
Did you fall for the same empty answers again?

Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify
Don't even try
Vilify

ALBUM: EXILE VILIFY (Digital Single) from the game Portal 2 (2011)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: EVIL (SILVER ALERT REMIX)/GRINDERMAN FEAT. MATT BERNINGER

Oh baby, baby, baby
Oh my precious baby

Who needs the TV? You are my TV
Who needs a record player? You are my record player
Cling to me baby in this rented room
Cling to me baby in this rented room
And protect me from this evil

Hear the ringing on the telephone
A voice from a hundred miles away
Its breath is heavy and you're all alone
It's got something that it wants to say
Its breath is heavy and you're all alone
A voice so clear you can feel its breath
Coming down the telephone

Now it is the time that we must speak
They have divided us from our children
Who needs children? You are my child
Who needs children? My little lamb
Who needs children? You are my child
Crying like a demon in your daddy's hands

Oh baby, baby, baby
Oh my precious baby

You are the moon, who needs the moon?
You are the stars, who needs the stars?
You are the sea, who needs the sea?
Cling to me baby in this broken dream
And let me protect you from this evil
Let me protect you from this evil
Let me protect you from this evil

ALBUM: EVIL 12" for RECORD STORE DAY (2011)

PLAYLIST/APRILE

GET OVER/PS I LOVE YOU

Niente pesci d'aprile, qui.

01. BRICK BY BRICK/ARCTIC MONKEYS
(LAST NIGHT ON EARTH)
02. ANTI-D/THE WOMBATS
(THE WOMBATS PROUDLY PRESENT... THIS MODERN GLITCH)
03. TRUST ME/THE STREETS
(COMPUTERS AND BLUES)
04. MACHU PICCHU/THE STROKES
(ANGLES)
05. LOST AT SEA/PURO INSTINCT
(HEADBANGERS IN ECSTASY)
06. WAKE AND BE FINE/OKKERVIL RIVER
(I AM VERY FAR)
07. GET OVER/PS I LOVE YOU
(MEET ME AT THE MUSTER STATION)
08. JESUS IS A ROCHDALE GIRL/ELBOW
(BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!)
09. STATE OF COLLIDING/BOAS
(GRAVE DREAMS)
10. SEPARATOR/RADIOHEAD
(THE KING OF LIMBS)
11. ALBATROSS/WILD BEASTS
(SMOTHER)
12. THE PAST, THE PRESENT & THE POSSIBLE/THAITI 80
(THE PAST, THE PRESENT & THE POSSIBLE)
13. BELONG/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
(BELONG)
14. THE MAN WHO STOLE A LEOPARD/DURAN DURAN
(ALL YOU NEED IS NOW)
15. WAR IN HEAVEN/THE RAVEONETTES
(RAVEN IN THE GRAVE)
16. I FEEL WRONG ((HOMOSEXUALITY PT.1))/GLASVEGAS
(EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\)
17. EGO/BURIAL + FOUR TET + THOM YORKE
(EGO/MIRROR 12")

Bonus Tracks

GLASS IN THE PARK/ALEX TURNER
(SUBMARINE Soundtrack)
THINK YOU CAN WAIT/THE NATIONAL
(WIN WIN SOUNDTRACK)
ROADS/CHAPEL CLUB
(iTUNES LIVE SXSW)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THINK YOU CAN WAIT/THE NATIONAL

I was drifting, crying
I was looking for an island
I was slipping under
I'll pull the devil down with me one way or another

I'm out of my mind
Think you can wait?
I'm way off the line
Think you can wait?

We've been running a sleepless run
Been away from the baby way too long
We've been holding a good night gone
We've been losing our exits one by one

I'm out of my mind
Think you can wait?
I'm way off the line
Think you can wait?

Did I?
(All I have is all)
Think you can wait?
Did I?
(All I have is all)
Think you can wait?

What I'm thinking is simple
I'll sell apples and ice water at the temple
I won't make trouble
I'll pull the devil down with me one way or another

We've been running a sleepless run
Been away from the baby way too long
We've been holding a good night gone
We've been losing our exits one by one

I'll try
I'll try, but I couldn't be better
(All I have is all)
I'll try, but I couldn't be better
(All I have is all)
I'll try, but I couldn't be better
(All I have is all)

ALBUM: WIN WIN (Soundtrack) (2011)

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VOTA IL MIGLIOR DISCO DEL 2010: I RISULTATI DEL SONDAGGIO

BLOODBUZZ OHIO/THE NATIONAL

I voti dei lettori (pochi, ma buoni) del blog hanno confermato High Violet dei National quale miglior album del 2010.
Ecco i risultati nel dettaglio:

01. HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL (40%)

02. TOTAL LIFE FOREVER/FOALS (20%)

03. INTERPOL/INTERPOL (10%)
MINES/MENOMENA (10%)
CONTRA/VAMPIRE WEEKEND (10%)
EXPO 86/WOLF PARADE (10%)

04. THE SUBURBS/ARCADE FIRE (0%)
PLASTIC BEACH/GORILLAZ (0%)
HELIGOLAND/MASSIVE ATTACK (0%)
THE PLACE WE RAN FROM/TIRED PONY (0%)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TERRIBLE LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)/THE NATIONAL

It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with
It’s quiet company
It’s quiet company

It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking in
It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking in
It’s quiet company
It’s quiet company
It’s quiet company

And I can’t fall asleep
Without a little help
It takes awhile to settle down
My ship of hopes
Wait 'til the past lets by

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
Company
It’s quite company
It’s quiet company

But I won’t follow you
Into the rabbit hole
I said I would but then I saw
Your shivered bones
They didn’t want me to

It’s a terrible love and I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking here
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking with spiders
It’s a terrible love that I’m walking here

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break


ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (Expanded Edition) (2010)

THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2010

IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL


ANYONE'S GHOST (Castle Rock Session)

"Ho forse troppa influenza nella band, perché se qualcosa non mi piace non la canto. Questo significa che solo le canzoni che mi piacciono andranno poi sul disco. Non è giusto, ma le cose stanno così."
In questa dichiarazione di Matt Berninger, leader dei National, c'è la chiave di lettura per apprezzare al meglio le qualità di High Violet: elegante e compatto, ma allo stesso tempo sporco ed irregolare, da Terrible Love ad England, passando per Anyone's Ghost, Little Faith, Bloodbuzz Ohio e Conversation 16, il quinto lavoro della band newyorkese è un concentrato incredibile di melodie straordinarie, rese profonde ed avvolgenti dalla voce baritonale del cantante di Cincinnati. Un album eccezionale, uno dei migliori degli ultimi tempi.


LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: LIGHTS/INTERPOL



Da quando gli Interpol l'hanno resa disponibile in download gratutuito sul loro sito ufficiale, nella scorsa primavera, anticipando il nuovo album e di fatto tornando sulle scene dopo tre anni di silenzio, difficilmente riesco ad alzarmi la mattina senza averla in testa, senza intonarne l'attacco. Un pezzo potente, oscuro, evocativo, dal crescendo grandioso. La canzone-simbolo di questo 2010.

LA PLAYLIST DEL 2010

01. LIGHTS/INTERPOL
02. ANYONE'S GHOST/THE NATIONAL
03. FOOL'S DAY/BLUR
04. GIVING UP THE GUN/WAMPIRE WEEKEND
05. READY TO START/ARCADE FIRE
06. THE SHORE/CHAPEL CLUB
07. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
08. ECHOES/KLAXONS
09. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
10. IN THE DIRECTION OF THE MOON/WOLF PARADE
11. WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER/EELS
12. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
13. PARADISE CIRCUS/MASSIVE ATTACK
14. SPANISH SAHARA/FOALS
15. ON MELANCHOLY HILL/GORILLAZ
16. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
17. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
18. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH
19. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
20. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
21. NIGHT & DAY/CHIEF
22. IT'S EASIER/JOHN GRANT
23. THE CURSE/JOSH RITTER

BONUS TRACKS

HEAVY IN YOUR ARMS/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS

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IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)



Non solo e non esattamente un videoclip. Il progetto The Wilderness Downtown, realizzato dal regista Chris Milk per il brano We Used To Wait, è infatti un vero e proprio strumento interattivo che permette di associare la musica della band canadese alle immagini satellitari dei luoghi della memoria dello spettatore: sia che si tratti della via di casa, che del posto che non si è mai visitato. Un po' come Google Maps, ma molto più melodico.


IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: CHAPEL CLUB


FIVE TREES

Può bastare una manciata di ottime canzoni per essere eletti rivelazione dell'anno? Da queste parti, evidentemente si. I Chapel Club vengono da Londra, sono giovanissimi e pubblicheranno il loro primo album alla fine del prossimo mese di gennaio. La sfida ai White Lies nella corsa a nuovi-Editors, o nuovi nuovi-Interpol, e via dicendo fino ai Cure ed ai Joy Division, è già lanciata.


IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: THE NATIONAL (Milano/Alcatraz) 16/11/10; INTERPOL (Milano/PalaSharp) 17/11/2010


EVIL/INTERPOL

Una trasferta memorabile, e due eventi straordinari in 24 ore: perchè sceglierne uno? I concerti dell'anno sono quelli dei National e degli Interpol a Milano, lo scorso 16 e 17 novembre. Caldi, discreti, persino amichevoli i primi, con Matt Berninger che si fa tutta la platea sulla linea finale di Terrible Love; eleganti, precisi, praticamente perfetti Paul Banks e compagni.
Un'esperienza indimeticabile.


IL LIBRO DELL'ANNO: LE HO MAI RACCONTATO DEL VENTO DEL NORD (Gut Gegen Nordwind)/DANIEL GLATTAUER (Feltrinelli)



"Puntiglioso ai limiti del patologico, ma amabilmente attento e corretto".
Romanzo epistolare al tempo di internet, Le Ho Mai Raccontato Del Vento Del Nord è un libro intimo ma discreto, divertente e romantico. Daniel Glattauer, giornalista e scrittore austriaco, fa entrare Emmi e Leo l'una nella vita dell'altro, e li lascia sospesi, leggeri, eppure profondamente legati. In attesa di rincontrarsi nella Settima Onda.


IL FILM DELL'ANNO: IL MALEDETTO UNITED (The Damn United)/TOM HOOPER



Il film racconta in modo divertente ed appassionato l'inizio della carriera dell'allenatore Brian Clough, Mourinho ante litteram che sul finire degli anni '70 guidò il Nottingham Forest (club di una piccola città nel centro dell'Inghilterra, mica uno squadrone pieno zeppo di campioni strapagati) alla conquista di due Coppe dei Campioni consecutive. Storie d'altri tempi, quando il calcio era ancora una favola, e tutto era possibile. La pellicola è stata girata nel 2009, ma nelle sale italiane non è mai arrivata: solo nella primavera di quest'anno la Sony Pictures si è degnata di distribuirla, direttamente in dvd.


LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS


THE GENTLE HUM OF ANXIETY

Trent Reznor, si sa, è un'autorità in fatto di colonne sonore. Con la collaborazione di Atticus Ross, musicista e produttore britannico, costruisce per The Social Network, l'attesissimo lungometraggio di David Fincher su Mark Zuckerberg, l'ideatore di Facebook, un tappeto di suoni elettronici ora di grande ambientazione, ora estremamente potenti, che sottolineano con grande efficacia le scene del film.


IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA


LA MAREGGIATA DEL '66

Nel panorama piuttosto desolato della musica indipendente italiana, divisa tra cantanti troppo scanzonati e gruppi che si prendono maledettamente sul serio, la band piemontese Non Voglio Che Clara riesce miracolosamente a coniugare la passione per la canzone d'autore con arrangiamenti e suoni contemporanei. Qualche momento di compiacimento cantautorale non manca, ma brani come Il Tuo Carattere E Il Mio e La Mareggiata Del '66 sono ottimi esempi di come può suonare, e bene, il rock in lingua italica.


I VINCITORI DEL 2009:

DISCO: IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS
CANZONE: EAT RAW MEAT = BLOOD DROOL/EDITORS
VIDEO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE (Patrick Daughters)
DEBUTTO: WHITE LIES
CONCERTO: EDITORS + THE MACCABEES + WINTERSLEEP (Roma/Teatro Tendastrisce) 03/12/09
LIBRO: LA MORTE DI BUNNY MUNRO (The Death Of Bunny Munro)/NICK CAVE (Feltrinelli)
FILM: BASTARDI SENZA GLORIA (Inglourious Basterds)/QUENTIN TARANTINO
COLONNA SONORA: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON/Artisti Vari
DISCO ITALIANO: SOGNANDO CONTROMANO/NEFFA

PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

CRYSTALISED/GORILLAZ

La playlist dell'avvento: una canzone al giorno fino a natale, poi si vedrà.

01. QUEEN BLACK ACID/MENOMENA
(MINES)
02. UNDERTOW/WARPAINT
(THE FOOL)
03. FINGERPRINT/I AM KLOOT
(SKY AT NIGHT)
04. WALLS/SHOUT OUT LOUDS
(WORK)
05. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DECEMBERISTS
(THE KING IS DEAD)
06. SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE/WOLF PARADE
(SEMI-PRECIOUS STONE Digital Single)
07. RANO PANO/MOGWAI
(HARDCORE WILL NEVER DIE, BUT YOU WILL)
08. ENZYMES/FREELANCE WHALES
(ENZYMES Single)
09. IN YOUR EYES/EDWYN COLLINS FEAT. THE DRUMS
(LOSING SLEEP)
10. MORE THAN A LOVER/THE CORAL
(BUTTERFLY HOUSE)
11. HELICOPTER/DEERHUNTER
(HALCYON DIGEST)
12. OUR LADY OF LOURDES/PAUL SMITH
(MARGINS)
13. BIGGER THAN US/WHITE LIES
(RITUAL)
14. TWIN FLAMES/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
15. WALKING FAR FROM HOME/IRON & WINE
(WALKING FAR FROM HOME)
16. LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY/PANDA BEAR
(LAST NIGHT AT THE JETTY 7" Single)
17. TOO MUCH/SUFJAN STEVENS
(THE AGE OF ADZ)
18. KITTY TURN TO CAT/STRANGE HANDS
(DEAD FROZEN DEER EP)
19. TREASURY OF WE/GLASSER
(RING)
20. YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE/THE GOOD NATURED
(YOUR BODY IS A MACHINE EP)
21. BEYOND REASON/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)
22. SAFE WITHOUT/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)

BONUS TRACKS

WALK OFF/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRYSTALIZED/GORILLAZ

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MR. NOVEMBER/THE NATIONAL

This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
Trying to think of you
This is nothing like it was in my room
In my best clothes
The english are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
This is when I need you
The english are waiting
And I don't know what to do
In my best clothes
I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over

I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November

I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders

I'm the new blue blood
I'm the great white hope
I'm the new blue blood

I won't fuck us over
I'm Mr. November
I'm Mr. November
I won't fuck us over

ALBUM: ALLIGATOR (2005)

CONCERTI: THE NATIONAL/INTERPOL

Una due giorni milanese straordinaria, probabilmente irripetibile: due concerti eccezionali in appena 24 ore.




1° GIORNO/THE NATIONAL

Quando arriviamo all'Alcatraz la fila per entrare arriva quasi all'angolo dell'isolato, ma è veloce ed ordinata. C'è il tutto esaurito, e questo fa capire come i National, giunti ormai al quinto album, siano passati definitivamente da formazione di nicchia allo status di band mainstream. Il gruppo di supporto, i Phosporescent, stanno già suonando. All'incirca verso le 22:00, Scott Devendorf e compagni salgono sul palco: si inizia sottovoce, con Runaway, poi la splendida Anyone's Ghost. L'ultimo, strepitoso disco, High Violet, viene suonato quasi per intero, ma non mancano riferimenti alla produzione precedente, come Mistaken For Strangers, Apartment Story, Fake Empire. La voce di Matt Berninger è incredibile, profonda, avvolgente; la batteria di Bryan Devendorf sempre prepotentemente in primo piano. Ad essere pignoli, è un peccato che un eccesso di divertissement interrompa l'esecuzione di Conversation 16, uno dei pezzi migliori del repertorio. E proprio quando il concerto si avvia alla conclusione, il colpo di scena che non ti aspetti: Matt Berninger, fin lì estremamente composto, scende in platea percorrendo tutta la sala dell'Alcatraz, letteralemente tutta, ripetendo la linea finale di Terrible Love, "It takes an ocean not to break" come in un mantra, tra il pubblico esterrefatto, compreso il sottoscritto che ad un certo punto se lo ritrova esattamente di fronte. Come dire che aver ascoltato i National è un po' come averli conosciuti, sul serio, personalmente: si fanno ottimi incontri, a Milano.


THE NATIONAL/ALCATRAZ/MILANO, 16 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. RUNAWAY
02. ANYONE'S GHOST
03. MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS
04. BLOODBUZZ OHIO
05. SLOW SHOW
06. SQUALOR VICTORIA
07. AFRAID OF EVERYONE
08. AVAILABLE/CARDINAL SONG
09. CONVERSATION 16
10. SORROW
11. APARTMENT STORY
12. ABEL
13. DAUGHTERS OF THE SOHO RIOTS
14. ENGLAND
15. FAKE EMPIRE
16. ABOUT TODAY

17. LUCKY YOU
18. MR. NOVEMBER
19. TERRIBLE LOVE




2° GIORNO/INTERPOL

All'ingresso del PalaSharp l'atmosfera che si respira è coinvolgente, quasi rituale, un po' come accade ai concerti dei Cure, dei quali gli Interpol per certi versi sono una sorta di eredi. Il gruppo di supporto, i Surfer Blood, ha in comune con i Phosporescent, gli special guest dei National, le camicie a quadri e la sensazione di non incidere molto, nel bene o nel male. Alle 21:30 in punto si spengolo le luci e, quasi in sordina, la band di New York attacca con Success, traccia che apre anche l'ultimo disco, in modo atipico (non è certo un brano con un intro particolare) ma efficace. Giusto il tempo di acclimatarsi, quindi, che si decolla con Say Hello To The Angels. La scaletta alterna in modo eterogeneo la discografia del gruppo, passando con disinvoltura da un album all'altro: Narc, Summer Well, Rest My Chemistry, Slow Hands, NYC, una splendida esecuzione di Take You On A Cruise, fino a Memory Serves, uno dei pezzi più belli dell'ultimo lavoro, del quale viene proposta per intero la prima parte (sicuramente la migliore). La classe di Paul Banks è immutata, la chitarra di Daniel Kessler sempre graffiante, mentre David Pajo al basso fa il suo onestamente. Particolarmente intenso il bis: dopo una suggestiva versione di The Lighthouse, si chiude in crescendo con le taglienti Evil e The Heinrich Manuveur. Precisi ma emozionanti, elegantemente distanti ma incredibilmente coinvolgenti allo stesso tempo, gli Interpol dal vivo sono una macchina perfetta, un'esperienza assolutamente imperdibile.


INTERPOL/PALASHARP/MILANO, 17 NOVEMBRE 2010

01. SUCCESS
02. SAY HELLO TO THE ANGELS
03. NARC
04. LENGHT OF LOVE
05. SUMMER WELL
06. REST MY CHEMISTRY
07. SLOW HANDS
08. C'MERE
09. NYC
10. BARRICADE
11. TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE
12. LIGHTS
13. PDA
14. MEMORY SERVES
15. NOT EVEN JAIL

16. THE LIGHTHOUSE
17. EVIL
18. THE HEINRICH MANUVEUR

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: AFRAID OF EVERYONE/THE NATIONAL

Venom radio and venom television
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
Lay the young blue bodies
With the old red violets
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

I defend my family
With my orange umbrella
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my shiny new starspangled tennis shoes on
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone
With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul
Your voice is swallowing my soul

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

PLAYLIST/NOVEMBRE

BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO

Una playlist leggera leggera, per arrivare all'inverno in scioltezza (ma occhio alle bonus track).

01. THE BOMB SONG/DARWIN DEEZ
(DARWIN DEEZ)
02. GLAD/GLASSER
(RING)
03. SUN DEMON/STEREOLAB
(SUN DEMON)
04. BOMBAY/EL GUINCHO
(POP NEGRO)
05. DONCAMATIC/GORILLAZ FEAT. DALEY
(DONCAMATIC Single)
06. TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES)/THE WOMBATS
[TOKYO (VAMPIRES AND WOLVES) Single]
07. YOUR PURE SOUL/THE CHARLATANS
(WHO WE TOUCH)
08. IN MY TIME/KURT VILE
(IN MY TIME Single)
09. GET SOME/LYKKE LI
(GET SOME Single)
10. NOT IN LOVE/CRYSTAL CASTLES FEAT. ROBERT SMITH
(NOT IN LOVE Single)
11. HOLIDAY/FRAN HEALY
(WRECKORDER)
12. LOUDER THAN EVER/COLD WAR KIDS
(MINE IS YOURS)
13. THE IMMORTALS/KINGS OF LEON
(COME AROUND SUNDOWN)

BONUS TRACKS

TERRIBLE LOVE (ALTERNATE VERSION)/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET Expanded Edition)
CRIMEWAVES/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL) (Exclusive iTunes pre-order Track)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS/THE NATIONAL

You have to do it running but you do everything that they ask you to
'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture as long as you look faraway
As long as you look removed
Showered and blue-blazered
Fill yourself with quarters
Fhowered and blue-blazered
Fill yourself with quarters

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights
Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
You wouldn't want an angel watching over
Surprise, surprise they wouldn't wannna watch
Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
So you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
So you swear you just saw a feathery woman
Carry a blindfolded man through the trees
Showered and blue-blazered
Fill yourself with quarters
Fhowered and blue-blazered
Fill yourself with quarters

You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights
Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
You wouldn't want an angel watching over
Surprise, surprise they wouldn't wannna watch
Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
When you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights
Arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
You wouldn't want an angel watching over
Surprise, surprise they wouldn't wannna watch
Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults

ALBUM: BOXER (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ENGLAND/THE NATIONAL

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

Someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today
Summer sent a runner
For the feeling that I lost today

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

You put an ocean and a river between everybody else
Between everything, yourself and home
Put an ocean and a river
Between everything, yourself and home

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking merrily
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
I'm in a Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singing airheads sing for me

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
Stay the night with the sinners
Afraid of the house
'Cause they're desperate to entertain

ALBUM: HIGH VIOLET (2010)

PLAYLIST/SETTEMBRE

BORN AGAIN/RPA & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND

L'estate sta per finire, con tutti i pro ed i contro della situazione: è partito il campionato, ma si riprende anche a lavorare, e fa più fresco la sera, ma è aumentato pure il traffico. In attesa di capire se esserne contenti o meno, ascoltiamo la playlist di settembre...

01. BORN AGAIN/RPA & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND
(RPA & THE UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND)
02. VENUSHIA/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
03. LAREDO/BAND OF HORSES
(INFINITE ARMS)
04. I'M LEAVING YOU FOR SOLITUDE/MANIC STREET PREACHERS
[(IT'S NOT JUST WAR) JUST THE END OF LOVE Single]
05. THROUGH THE IRON GATE/WILD BEASTS
(WE STILL GOT THE TASTE DANCIN' ON OUR TONGUES EP)
06. I'M AWARE/CLINIC
(BUBBLEGUM)
07. BABY LOVES ME/EELS
(TOMORROW MORNING)
08. MEMORY SERVES/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)
09. MODERN MAN/ARCADE FIRE
(THE SUBURBS)
10. SET NO SUN/UNKLE
(LIVES OF THE ARTISTS II: FOLLOW ME DOWN)
11. YOU WERE A KINDNESS/THE NATIONAL
12. DOWN BY THE WATER/THE DRUMS
(THE DRUMS)

BONUS TRACKS

I WANNA BE ADORED/THE RAVEONETTES
(50 YEARS OF DR. MARTENS)
HIGH AND DRY/AMANDA PALMER
(AMANDA PALMER PERFORMS THE POPULAR HITS OF RADIOHEAD ON HER MAGICAL UKULELE)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FAKE EMPIRE/THE NATIONAL

Stay out super late tonight
Picking apples, making pies
Put a little something in our lemonade
And take it with us
We're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire

Tiptoe through our shiny city
With our diamond slippers on
Do our gay ballet on ice
Bluebirds on our shoulders
We're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire

Turn the light, out say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once
It's hard to keep track of you
Falling through the sky
We're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire

ALBUM: BOXER (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: YOU WERE A KINDNESS/THE NATIONAL

I was in a fog I didn't notice everything
It's coming all apart inside of me
There wasn't anyway for anyone to settle in
You made slow disaster out of me
There's a radiant darkness upon us
But I don't want you to worry
I was careful but nothing is harmless
Baby you better hurry

You were a kindness when I was a stranger
But I wouldn't ask for what I didn't need
Everything's weird and we're always in danger
Why would you shatter somebody like me?
It doesn't work that way
Wanting not to want you won't make it so
It doesn't work that way
Don't leave me here alone

I'll do what I can to be confident wreck
Can't feel this way forever I mean
There wasn't any way for anyone to settle in
You made slow disaster out of me
There's a radiant darkness upon us
But I don't want you to worry
I was careful but nothing is harmless
Baby you better hurry

You were a kindness when I was a stranger
But I wouldn't ask for what I didn't need
Everything's weird and we're always in danger
Why would you shatter somebody like me?
It doesn't work that way
Wanting not to want you won't make it so
It doesn't work that way
Don't leave me here alone
It doesn't work that way
Wanting not to want you won't make it so
It doesn't work that way
Don't leave me here alone

Performed live in The Current Studios (2010)

PLAYLIST/AGOSTO

AM/FM/!!!

Il nuovo singolo degli Interpol, il ritorno dei Grinderman di Nick Cave, i Tired Pony con Tom Smith degli Editors, la collaborazione tra Björk ed i Dirty Projectors, il debutto da solista di Phil Selway dei Radiohead... Il tempo di ascoltare, e l'estate sarà quasi finita.

01. TROUBLE IN MIND/ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL
(ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL)
02. ECHOES/KLAXSONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
03. AM/FM/!!!
(STRANGE WEATHER, ISN'T IT?)
04. BARRICADE/INTERPOL
(INTERPOL)
05. AT THE INDIE DISCO/THE DIVINE COMEDY
(BANG GOES THE KNIGHTHOOD)
06. HEATHEN CHILD/GRINDERMAN
(GRINDERMAN 2)
07. THE GOOD BOOK/TIRED PONY FEAT. TOM SMITH
(THE PLACE WE RAN FROM)
08. WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE
(THE SUBURBS)
09. NO EMBRACE/DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJÖRK
(MOUNT WITTENBERG ORCA)
10. TOMBOY/PANDA BEAR
(TOMBOY Single)
11. OUTER LIMITS/SLEEP ∞ OVER
(OUTER LIMITS Single)
12. CONVERSATION 16/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET)
13. BY SOME MIRACLE/PHILIP SELWAY
(FAMILIAL)


BONUS TRACKS

SUMMERTIME/BECK
(SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Soundtrack)
IT'S WORKING (AIR REMIX)/MGMT
(IT'S WORKING)

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