LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TEN STOREY LOVE SONG/THE STONE ROSES

When your heart is black and broken
And you need a helping hand
When you're so much in love
You don't know just how much you can stand
When your questions go unanswered
And the silence is killing you
Take my hand baby I'm your man
I got love enough for two

Ten storey love song
I built this thing for you
Who can take you higher
Than twin peak mountain blue
Oh, well I built this thing for you
And I love you true

There's no sure fire set solution
No short cut through the trees
No breach in the wall
That they put there
To keep you from me
As you're lying awake in this darkness
This everlasting night
Someday soon
Don't know where or when
You're gonna wake up and see the light

Ten storey love song
I built this thing for you
Who can take you any higher
Than twin peak mountain blue
Oh, well I built this thing for you
And I love you true

ALBUM: SECOND COMING (1994)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I WANNA BE ADORED/THE STONE ROSES

I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I don't need to sell my soul
He's already in me
I wanna be adored
I wanna be adored

I don't
I wanna be adored
You adore me
You adore me
You adore me
I wanna I wanna I wanna be adored
I wanna I wanna I wanna be adored
I wanna I wanna I wanna be adored
I wanna, I gotta, I wanna be adored

ALBUM: THE STONE ROSES (1989)

ASCOLTI: A BRIEF HISTORY OF LOVE/THE BIG PINK

DOMINOS/THE BIG PINK

Non c'è che dire: a scuola, la lezione sul Brit Pop i Big Pink l'hanno imparata proprio bene. Nell'album d'esordio della band inglese, infatti, si distinguono riferimenti neanche troppo velati agli Stone Roses, agli Oasis, ai Verve, sapientemente amalgamati e rielaborati con una punta di suoni elettronici. Un'operazione che ricorda, seppur in modo più concreto e meno eccentrico, i lavori dei dei Kasabian. The Brief History Of Love ha un andamento piuttosto coerente: l'intro deciso di Crystal Visions, la convincente At War With The Sun, il nuovo singolo Dominos (un potenziale inno, col suo ritornello "these girls fall like dominos") e le già note hit Velvet e Too Young Too Love, perfettamente inserite nel contesto, la rumorosa Frisk e la ballata Love In Vain, forse il brano più riuscito. Un disco che di certo non brilla per originalità, e che nulla toglie e nulla aggiunge al panorama musicale britannico, ma che tutto sommato si lascia ascoltare con piacere.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LOVE/THE BIG PINK ★★½

QUALCOSA DEL GENERE: KASABIAN/KASABIAN (2004)
BRANO MIGLIORE: LOVE IN VAIN

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LOVE SPREADS/THE STONE ROSES

Love spreads her arms, waits there for the nails
I forgive you boy, I will prevail
Too much to take, some cross to bear
I'm hiding in the trees with a picnic, she's over there

She didn't scream, she didn't make a sound
I forgive you boy, but don't leave town
Cold black skin, naked in the rain
Hammer flash in the lightning
They're hurting her again

Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man she's my queen
Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man she's my queen

I have a dream, I've seen the light
Don't put it out, say she's alright
She's my sister

She didn't scream, she didn't make a sound
I forgive you boy, but don't leave town
Cold black skin, naked in the rain
Hammer flash in the lightning
They're hurting her again

Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man she's my queen
Let me put you in the picture
Let me show you what I mean
The messiah is my sister
Ain't no king man she's my queen

I have a dream, I've seen the light
Don't put it out, say she's alright
She's my sister

ALBUM: SECOND COMING (1994)