MUSICA: PLAYLIST/GENNAIO

La prima playlist del nuovo anno:


DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP

01. ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND
(TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND)
02. GOOD DAYS BAD DAYS/KAISER CHIEFS
(OFF WITH THEIR HEADS)
03. LIFE IN TECHNICOLOR II/COLDPLAY
(PROSPEKT'S MARCH)
04. I'M JIM MORRISON I'M DEAD/MOGWAI
(THE HAWK IS HOWLING)
05 DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP
(WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY)
06. FAMILY TREE/TV ON THE RADIO
(DEAR SCIENCE)
07. BIKO/BLOC PARTY
(INTIMACY)
08. TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
09. MY DELIRIUM/LADYHAWKE
(LADYHAWKE)
10. ECHOES/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
(GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT)
11. DIFFERENT WORLD/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
(TIGHTLY UNWOUND)
12. HOPE MOUNTAIN/ANTHONY & THE JOHNSONS
(ANOTHER WORLD)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was always careless as a child
And there's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
But a desperate fear flows through my blood
That our dead loves buried beneath the mud

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

I said I've got no time I have to go
And I was more right then now I'll ever know
He said my heart is faint, will minds regret
And left him crying next to the chapels steps

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said

Let's grow old together
And die at the same time
Let's grow old together
And die at the same time

He said

He said to lose my life or lose my love
That's the nightmare I've been running from
So let me hold you in my arms a while
I was careless as a child
There's a part of me that still believes
My soul will soar above the trees
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud
A desperate fear flows through my blood
Our dead loves buried beneath the mud

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE
(2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ECHOES/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

ALBUM: GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FAMILY TREE/TV ON THE RADIO

Under my love
Wake up to your window
The day calls in billows
It’s echoing moonlight on to the blue nightmare of your heart
In cosy red rainbow
It’s shaking off halos
And the memory of our sacred so and so’s


Oh take my hand sweet
Complete your release and bury your feet
And married we'll be
Alone in receiving ours is a feeling not that they would see
They don’t know that we could be
That way your cradle escaped the sea
And your raven haired Mama cought told you so's


Were laying in the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young


Ah me all mine
Is it safe to say that we’ve waited patiently
Call me on time
And recall the tune that has place us gracefully
All into line
There's the garden grave and a place they've saved for you
I'll fall by your side
Though your silver haired Mama throws told you so's


Were laying in the shadow of your family tree
Your haunted heart and me
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the gallows of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep it young


And now we’ll gather in the shadow of your family tree
In haunted harmony
Brought down by an old idea whose time has come
And in the shadow of the valley of your family tree
There's a hundred hearts soar free
Pumping blood to the roots of evil to keep us young

ALBUM: DEAR SCIENCE (2008)

ASCOLTI: GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT, WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/WINTERSLEEP

OBLIVION/WINTERSLEEP

Una delle ultime (ma solo in ordine di tempo) cose interessanti dell'anno che sta per finire, ed un'anteprima di quello che sta per arrivare. Uscito nella rete a Novembre (ma nei negozi dal prossimo mese di Gennaio), l'album omonimo della formazione irlandese resta nel solco dell'eccellente produzione dei God Is An Astronaut: le tessiture strumentali coinvolgono, catturano ed emozionano, a partire dalle introduzioni dei brani, che si mantengono costantemente oscure ed intimistiche (con qualche rimando alla new wave dark anni ottanta, come in Zodiac e Shores Of Orion), fino alle esplosive aperture ed ai crescendo finali. Insomma un disco che non tradisce, anche se dopo averlo ascoltato, alla luce dell'esplosione di questo genere di post-rock strumentale (dal manifesto Mogwai alle recenti scoperte ed affermazioni di Russians Circle, The Evpatoria Report, This Will Destroy You), mi chiedo: cosa diventerebbe tutta questa grande musica, se ci fossero anche delle melodie all'altezza? Poi mi rispondo che è per questo che hanno inventato band come i Radiohead.
I Wintersleep arrivano dal Canada, e sono alla loro terza prova. Ascoltando alla radio il singolo che lo anticipa, Weightly Ghost, ho pensato ad un gruppo folk, un po' come i Fleet Foxes, per intenderci. Invece Welcome To The Night Sky, che in Europa uscirà a Gennaio, è un lavoro completo, se vogliamo magari non originalissimo, ma decisamente buono. I riferimenti vanno dai R.E.M. (Astronaut) agli Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Oblivion), passando per gli Okkervil River, mentre la splendida Miasmal Smoke & The Yellow Bellied Freaks cita proprio il post rock degli stessi God Is An Astronaut. Il tutto, però, assemblato con grande cura e con ottime intuizioni. Anche se il 2009 deve ancora cominciare, questo album entra già a far parte della rosa dei migliori dischi dell'anno. Buona fine, quindi, e buon principio.

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT/GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT
WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/WINTERSLEEP

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)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DOWN FROM DOVER/MARIANNE FAITHFULL

ASCOLTA

I know this dress I'm wearing doesn't hide the secret I have tried concealing
When he left he promised me that he'd be back by the time it was revealing
The sun behind a cloud just casts the crawling shadow o'er the fields of clover
And time is running out for me I wish that he would hurry down from Dover

He's been gone so long when he left the snow was deep upon the ground
And I have seen a spring and summer pass and now the leaves are turning brown
And any time a tiny face will show itself 'cause waiting's almost over
But I won't have a name to give it if he doesn't hurry down from Dover

My folks weren't understanding when they found out they sent me from the home place
My daddy said if folks found out he'd be ashamed to ever show his face
My mamma said I was a fool and she did not believe it when I told her
That everything would be all right 'cause soon he would be coming down from Dover

I loved him more than anything and I could not refuse him when he needed me
He was the only one I'd loved and I just can't believe that he was using me
He couldn't leave me here like this I know it can't be so it can't be over
He wouldn't make me go through this so long, oh he'll be coming down from Dover

My body aches the time is here it's lonely in this place where I'm lyin'
Our baby has been born but something's wrong it's much too still I hear no cryin'
I guess in some strange way she knew she'd never have a father's arms to hold her
And dying was her way of telling me he wasn't coming down from Dover

ALBUM: EASY COME EASY GO (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOD ONLY KNOWS/THE BEACH BOYS

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
Ill make you so sure about it

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Well life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows

ALBUM: PET SOUNDS (1966)

SULLA CANZONE DEL GIORNO

Perché alcune canzoni ci rimangono sempre nella testa?
Questo fenomeno si verifica con una frequenza e un'intensità molto variabili da individuo a individuo, anche se a tutti è capitato, almeno una volta, di essere osessionati da un motivetto. Non esiste una spiegazione scientifica univoca del perchè accada. Diversi psicologi si sono interessati al problema concludendo che l'area del cervello coinvolta è quella che processa le informazioni verbali, in cui si "incastra" il ritornello della canzone come se il cervello cercasse di completarne le parole o il fraseggio ritmico. Il fenomeno in inglese è detto earworm ("verme dell'orecchio"), dal tedesco ohrwurm, anche se esistono diverse proposte alternative: una di queste è quella del noto neurologo Oliver Sacks, che propone di chiamarlo "involuntary musical imagery" (immagine musicale involontaria). Come liberarsene? Ascoltando una canzone diversa oppure abbandonandosi al tormentone, cantandolo ad alta voce, dall'inizio alla fine, fino a stancarsene.

(Tratto da FOCUS, N. 194 - Dicembre 2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MAGIC/LADYHAWKE

You came to my show, and i saw you in the crowd
I didn`t know your name, i didn`t know your name
I asked all my friends who you were and your story
They told me the same, they told me the same

I`ve left my heart to you, but it`s not fair
Coz you`re taking me for granted baby
I made a start with you, but it`s not fair
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you, but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic

You stayed in my head where i saw you all the time
I didn`t think you care, i didn`t think you care
I found you one day with a mouth full of attitude
And you stole me away, you stole me away

I`ve left my heart to you, but it`s not fair
Coz you`re taking me for granted baby
I made a start with you, but it`s not fair
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby
One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you, but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic

Coz your over the atlantic baby
And you`re taking me for granted baby
Coz you`re over the atlantic baby

One journey for you but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic
One journey for you, but it`s worth it
One life here with me and it`s magic

ALBUM: LADYHAWKE (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WEIGHTY GHOST/WINTERSLEEP

I got out of bed today, swear to god I couldn’t see my face
I got out of bed today staring at a ghost
Who forgot to float away, didn’t have all that much to say
Wouldn’t even tell me his own name
Where’d my body go

Where oh where’d my body go?
Africa or Mexico?
Where or where’d my body go?
Where’d my body go?

Have you seen my ghost?
Staring at the ground?
Have you seen my ghost?
Sick of those goddamn clouds

Are you some kind of medicine man?
Cut the demons out of my head
You can’t kill something that’s already dead
Just leave my soul alone
I don’t need no surgery
Take those knives away from me
Just wanna die in my own body
A ghost just needs a home

ALBUM: WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND

While I sit in here, a sentimental face stares
And a voice says hi so
So what you gotta what you gotta disdain
C’mon let’s get high
C’mon look so, you got next oh
Walk twenty five miles oh
Well I’m bored I’m bored
C’mon let’s get high

C’mon let’s get high
C’mon let’s get high
High

Well I found a new way
I found a new way
C’mon doll and use me
I don’t need your sympathy

La, la la la la
Ulysses
I’ll find a new way
I’ll find a new way, baby

My Ulysses, My Ulysses
No, bet you are now, boy
So sinister, so sinister
Last night was wild
What’s a matter there, feeling kinda anxious?
That heart that grew cold
Yeah everyone, everybody knows it
Yeah everyone, everybody know it
Everybody knows I

La, la la la la
Ulysses
I’ll find a new way
I’ll find a new way, baby

La, la la la la
Ulysses
I’ll find a new way
Well I’ll find a new way, baby oh

Oh, then suddenly you know
You’re never going home
You’re never you’re never you’re never you’re never you’re never you’re never
You’re never going home

Not Ulysses, baby.
No, la la la la whooo whoo
You’re not Ulysses, whooo whoo
La la la la, whooo whoo

ALBUM: TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND (2009)