LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DON'T LET IT GET TO YOU/ROSTAM

Rostam Batmanglij è uno componenti dei Vampire Weekend, e si sente.




(2011)

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%)

PLAYLIST/GIUGNO

NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

La playlist che ci conduce all'estate, con i nuovi pezzi di Arcade Fire, God Is An Astronaut, Klaxons, Wintersleep, ed ancora Gorillaz, The National, The Pineapple Thief, i Vampire Weekend dala colonna sonora del terzo capitolo della saga di Twilight, ed una rarità dall'archivio di Robert Smith...

01. TERRIBLE LOVE/THE NATIONAL
(HIGH VIOLET)
02. NOTHING AT BEST/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
(SOMEONE HERE IS MISSING)
03. NEW INHERITORS/WINTERSLEEP
(NEW INHERITORS)
04. RIHNESTONE EYES/GORILLAZ
(PLASTIC BEACH)
05. BUTTERFLY HOUSE/THE CORAL
(BUTTERFLY HOUSE)
06. MONTH OF MAY/ARCADE FIRE
(THE SUBURBS/MONTH OF MAY 12 Single)
07. FACTORY/BAND OF HORSES
(INFINITE ARMS)
08. DEATH BY DIAMOND AND PEARLS/BAND OF SKULLS
(BABY DARLING DOLL FACE HONEY)
09. FLASHOVER/KLAXONS
(SURFING THE VOID)
10. AFTER GLOW/FOALS
(TOTAL LIFE FOREVER)
11. NO SUMMER/NO JOY
(NO JOY)
12. COME TO ME/65DAYSOFSTATIC FEAT. ROBERT SMITH
(WE ARE EXPLODING ANYWAY)
13. LOST KINGDOM/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
(AGE OF THE FIFTH SUN)


BONUS TRACKS

JONATHAN LOW/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
(TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE Soundtrack)
DEAR BOY/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
(DEAR BOY EP)
DELIRIOUS NIGHT - ROUGH MIX (VOCAL)/THE CURE
(DISINTEGRATION Deluxe Edition)

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PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

DRUMMING SONG/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

Nuove band (Delphic, Bombay Bicycle Club, Two Door Cinema Club) e grandi ritorni (Gorillaz, Smashing Pumpkins, Richard Ashcroft) nella playlist di febbraio. Inoltre, il brano scritto dai Franz Ferdinand (ed interpretato da Marion Cotillard) per lo spot del nuovo profumo della maison Dior.

01. STYLO/GORILLAZ FEAT. MOS DEF & BOBBY WOMACK
(PLASTIC BEACH)
02. GIVING UP THE GUN/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
(CONTRA)
03. ARE YOU READY?/UNITED NATIONS OF SOUND
(REDEMPTION)
04. DRUMMING SONG/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
(LUNGS)
05. SUBMISSION/DELPHIC
(ALCOLYTE)
06. THE MISTERY ZONE/SPOON
(TRANSFERENCE)
07. IN MY YOUNGER DAYS/EELS
(END TIMES)
08. A SONG FOR A SON/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
(TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE)
09. THE HILL/BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
(I HAD THE BLUES BUT I SHOOK THEM LOOSE)
10. THIS IS THE LIFE/TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB
(TOURIST HISTORY)
11. SATURDAY COMES SLOW/MASSIVE ATTACK FEAT. DAMON ALBARN
(HELIGOLAND)
12. REMEMBER/LALI PUNA
(OUR INVENTIONS)
13. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
(IRM)

BONUS TRACKS

THE EYES OF MARS/FRANZ FERDINAND FEAT. MARION COTILLARD
MY BODY IS A CAGE/PETER GABRIEL
(SCRATCH MY BACK)

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HORCHATA/VAMPIRE WEEKEND

In december drinking horchata
I'd look psychotic in a balaclava
Winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals

In december drinking horchata
Look down your glasses at that orxata
With lips and teeth to ask how my day went
Boots and fists to pound on the pavement
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

You'd remember drinkin horchata
You'd still enjoy it with your foot on masada

Winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
You had it but oh no you lost it
Lookin back you shouldn't have fought it

In december, drinkin horchata
I'd look psychotic in a balaclava
Winter's cold is too much to handle
Pincher crabs that pinch at your sandals
Years go by and hearts start to harden
Those palms and firs that grew in your garden
Falling down and nearing the rose beds
The roots are shooting up through the tool shed
Those lips and teeth that asked how my day went
Are shouting up through cracks in the pavement

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
You had it but oh no you lost it
You understood so you shouldn't have fought it

Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on
Here comes a feeling you thought you'd forgotten
Chairs to sit and sidewalks to walk on

ALBUM: CONTRA (2010)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GIVING UP THE GUN/VAMPIRE WEEKEND

Your sword’s grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It’s locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it’s done
And though it’s been a long time
You’re right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you’re giving up the gun

When I was 17
I had wrists like steel
And I felt complete
And now my body fades
Behind a brass charade
And I’m obsolete
But if the chance remained
To see those better days
I’d cut the cannons down
My ears are blown to bits
From all the rifle hits
But I still crave that sound

Your sword’s grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It’s locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it’s done
And though it’s been a long time
You’re right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you’re giving up the gun

I heard you play guitar
Down at a seedy bar
Where skinheads used to fight
Your Tokugawa smile
And your garbage style
Used to save the night
You felt the coming wave
Told me we’d all be brave
You said you wouldn’t flinch
But in the years that passed
Since I saw you last
You haven’t moved an inch

Your sword’s grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It’s locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it’s done
And though it’s been a long time
You’re right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you’re giving up the gun

I see you shine in your way
Go on, go on, go on

Your sword’s grown old and rusty
Burnt beneath the rising sun
It’s locked up like a trophy
Forgetting all the things it’s done
And though it’s been a long time
You’re right back where you started from
I see it in your eyes
That now you’re giving up the gun

ALBUM: CONTRA (2010)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/NOVEMBRE

Con il freddo e la pioggia, arriva anche la playlist di Novembre, che inizia e finisce con uno strappo alla regola, una doppietta per gli Editors, decisamente la band del momento: si apre con la title-track dell'album In This Light And On This Evening, e si chiude con il brano incluso nella colonna sonora di New Moon. Nel mezzo The Twilight Sad, Muse, Air, Arctic Monkeys, Thom Yorke...


CORNERSTONE/ARCTIC MONKEYS

01. IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING/EDITORS
(IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING)
02. REFLECTION OF THE TELEVISION/THE TWILIGHT SAD
(FORGET THE NIGHT AHEAD)
03. RIVER OF BRAKELIGHTS/JULIAN CASABLANCAS
(PHRAZES FOR THE YOUNG)
04. UNDISCLOSED DESIRES/MUSE
(THE RESISTANCE)
05. FORESTCARE/BURIAL
(5: 5 YEARS OF HYPERDUB)
06. SO LIGHT IS HER FOOTFALL/AIR
(LOVE 2)
07. HIGHER THAN THE STARS/THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
(HIGHER THAN THE STARS EP)
08. IRM/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG FEATURING BECK
(IRM)
09. HORCHATA/VAMPIRE WEEKEND
(CONTRA)
10. THERE ARE LISTED BUILDINGS/LOS CAMPESINOS!
(ROMANCE IS BORING)
11. CORNERSTONE/ARCTIC MONKEYS
(HUMBUG)
12. I WILL NEVER LOVE YOU MORE/SOKO

BONUS TRACKS

HEARING DAMAGE/THOM YORKE
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)
SLOW LIFE/GRIZZLY BEAR
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)
NO SOUND BUT THE WIND/EDITORS
(THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Soundtrack)

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POST-IT: VAMPIRE WEEKEND/CONTRA

La band newyorkese ha annunciato l'uscita dell'atteso secondo lavoro, Contra, prevista per il 12 Gennaio 2010 su etichetta XL Recordings (la stessa di Radiohead e Sigur Rós, per intenderci). Il disco segue l'ottimo album di debutto del 2008, intitolato semplicemente Vampire Weekend. Questa è la scaletta:

01 HORCHATA
02 WHITE SKY
03 HOLIDAY
04 CALIFORNIA ENGLISH
05 TAXI CAB
06 RUN
07 COUSINS
08 GIVING UP THE GUN
09 DIPLOMAT'S SON
10 I THINK UR A CONTRA