LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TROUBLE IN MIND/ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL

Last night I dreamt when we were young
Out in the fields I saw you run
Trouble in mind
Trouble in soul
Won’t you let your feelings go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

I took a walk down your old street
Down past the places we used to meet
Trouble in mind
Trouble in souls
Won’t you let your feelings go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

Your father’s house never felt so cold
What once was new now over grown
Oh pharaoh, oh pharaoh
Won’t you let your children go

I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I had to
I didn’t mean to disappoint you
I’m just sorry that I did

ALBUM: ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL (2010)

POST-IT: UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND

ARE YOU READY?

Nuovo progetto e nuovo video per Richard Ashcroft: il gruppo si chiama nientemeno che United Nations Of Sound, mentre il primo singolo s'intitola Are You Ready? ed anticipa l'uscita dell'album Redemption, atteso per fine marzo. Gli altri componenti della band? Sembra che l'unico membro sia lo stesso leader dei Verve...

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: THE DRUGS DON'T WORK/THE VERVE

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down
And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
'Cause I passed down my old street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, if heaven calls
I'm coming too
Just like you said
You leave my life
I'm better off dead

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, if heaven calls
I'm coming too
Just like you said
You leave my life
I'm better off dead
But if you wanna show
Just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

I'm never going down, I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

ALBUM: URBAN HYMNS (1997)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SIT AND WONDER/THE VERVE

I sit and wonder, I often wonder
I sit and wonder about the things she does
I sit and wonder, I often wonder
I've been waiting for this moment to come

And shes the teacher and I'm the pupil but I ain't learning anything at all
Now I'm falling into the black hole and I can barely feel the sun

Yeah I sit and wonder, I fall to pieces
I've been waiting for her to come
A bed of roses, her cheeks like peaches
Yeah I ain't going to wait no more

Lord give me some light
Oh give the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

The rights of passage, we all must take them
Yeah some are going to break in the storm
The door is open and I am reaching
Yeah it looks like right at the sun

Yeah give me some light
Give the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

I've been havin' trouble in my head Lord
I've been havin' Demons in my mind Lord

Lord give me the light
Oh give me the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

Ive been havin' trouble in my head Lord
I've been havin' Demons in my mind Lord
Somethings going wrong inside my head Lord
Somethings going wrong inside my head Lord

I could be searching all my life, searching all my life
Keep that candle on at night, candle on at night
Keep that candle on at night, candle on at night
I could be hurtin all the while, hurtin' all the while
Lord give me the light

ALBUM: FORTH (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: LONELY SOUL/UNKLE Feat. RICHARD ASHCROFT

God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls

I believe there's a time and a place
To let your mind drift and get out of this place
I believe there's a day and a place
That we will go to, and I know you wanna share

There's no secret to living
Just keep on walking
There's no secret to dying
Just keep on flying

I'm gonna die in a place that don't know my name
I'm gonna die in a space that don't hold my fame

God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls

I believe there's a time when the cord of life
Should be cut, my friends
I believe there's a time when the cord can be cut
And this vision ends

But I'm gonna die in a place that don't know my name
And I'm gonna cry in a space that don't hold my fame

Walking in the cold
Just keep on flying
There'll be a searchlight
On the mountain high
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
God knows you're lonely souls
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I'm a lonely soul

I'm gonna die in a place that don't know my name
I'm gonna die in a place that don't know my name

God knows you are lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
Lonely souls
I'm a lonely soul

So long, little chapel
Pack up your light
Pack up your light
Say goodbye to the holy water life

ALBUM: PSYENCE FICTION (1998)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/DICEMBRE

La playlist di Natale:


SPANISH METAL/KAISER CHIEFS

01. SIT AND WONDER/THE VERVE
(FORTH)
02. SPANISH METAL/KAISER CHIEFS
(OFF WITH THEIR HEADS)
03. JUNGLE DRUM/EMILIANA TORRINI
(ME AND ARMINI)
04. FUCK YOU, IT'S OVER/GLASVEGAS
[A SNOWFLAKE FELL (AND IT FELT LIKE A KISS)]
05. COME ON SANTA/THE RAVEONETTES
(WISHING YOU A RAVE CHRISTMAS)
06. THE REAL SNOW WHITE/THE CURE
(4:13 DREAM)
07. OLD ENOUGH/THE RACOUNTEURS
(CONSOLERS OF THE LONELY)
08. GLASS OF WATER/COLDPLAY
(PROSPEKT'S MARCH)
09. BLUE TULIP/OKKERVIL RIVER
(THE STAND INS)
10. I'M OUTTA TIME/OASIS
(DIG OUT YOUR SOUL)
11. GOODNIGHT, TRAVEL WELL/THE KILLERS
(DAY & AGE)
12. FOK/ÓLAFUR ARNALDS
(VARIATIONS OF STATIC)

MUSICA: ASCOLTI MULTIPLI

BATCAT/MOGWAI


Sto ascoltando un sacco di musica nuova, in questo scorcio di fine estate. Tutta piuttosto interessante. È un buon periodo. Mi piacciono i Glasvegas. Sono giovanissimi, vengono da Glasgow, città dalla scena molto fertile, ultimamente. Magari non inventano nulla, in giro per la rete li definiscono i nuovi Manic Street Preachers, ed in effetti l'intensità della voce di James Allan ricorda quella di James Dean Bradfield, ma ascoltarli è davvero un piacere. Mi piace il nuovo album dei Verve, Forth: è rilassato e rilassante, scorre via tranquillo, e lascia il segno. Mi piacciono anche i Kings Of Leon (il singolo Sex On Fire funziona così bene da rischiare la sovraesposizione), ed i Mogwai, che non tradiscono mai, e stavolta aggiungono un tocco di durezza alle loro trame strumentali (come nella potentissima Batcat, primo singolo estratto dall'album). E mi piacciono gli Okkervil River, con le loro ballate da saloon pungenti e malinconiche. Non mi dispiacciono neanche gli I Was A Cub Scout: ironicamente si definiscono una boy band, ma le loro tastiere intriganti hanno qualcosa in più. Del nuovo album di Peter, Bjorn And John mi è rimasto in testa il primo pezzo, Inland Empire, il resto non mi ha colpito granchè. L'elettronica dei Glass Candy è divertente, ma niente di speciale. Gli Absentee sono profondi, ma alla lunga mi stancano. Anche i Metronomy li ho trovati un po' noiosi. I Ra Ra Riot mi sembrano roba da ragazzini. Infine, mi hanno deluso Born Ruffians e Late Of The Pier: ne avevo letto molto bene in giro, ma non mi sono sembrati all'altezza. Ma mi ripropongo di riascoltarli, promesso.
Per ora, nell'iPod, ci sono i Mogwai.

VICTORY SHORTS/ABSENTEE
RED, YELLOW & BLUE/BORN RUFFIANS
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE/I WAS A CUB SCOUT
BEAT BOX/GLASS CANDY
GLASVEGAS/GLASVEGAS
ONLY BY THE NIGHT/KINGS OF LEON
FANTASY BALCK CHANNEL/LATE OF THE PIER
NIGHTS OUT/METRONOMY
THE HAWK IS HOWLING/MOGWAI
THE STAND INS/OKKERVIL RIVER
SEASIDE ROCK/PETER, BJORN AND JOHN
THE RHUMB LINE/RA RA RIOT
FORTH/THE VERVE