LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE/ELVIS PRESLEY

Wise men say only fools rush in
But I can't help falling in love with you
Shall I stay
Would it be a sin
If I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you

Like a river flows surely to the sea
Darling so it goes
Some things are meant to be
Take my hand, take my whole life too
For I can't help falling in love with you
For I can't help falling in love with you

ALBUM: BLUE HAWAII OST (1961)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TELL ME WHAT TO SWOLLOW/CRYSTAL CASTLES

Through the walking, through me
I know he'd never hurt me
Daddy watched me sleeping
Praying for you silently

Daddy's let me sleepwalk
Without him I am secure
The only girl he'd never hurt
The one who smells so pure

ALBUM: CRYSTAL CASTLES (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DADDY'S GONE/GLASVEGAS

How you are my hero
How your never here though
Remember times when you put me on your shoulders
How I wish it was forever you would hold us
Right now I'm too young to know
How in the future it will affect me when you go
You could have had it all
You, me, and mum y'know
Anything was possible

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

All I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
For you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
How I could've been yours, and you be mine
It could've been me and you until the end of time
Do what you want, when you want
Be as fuckin' insincere as you can
What kind of way is that to treat your wife
To see your son on Saturdays
What way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
A fifty year old
Reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
Sitting on my own and sad
Forget your dad, he's gone

ALBUM: GLASVEGAS (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SOUL TO SQUEEZE/RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

I've got a bad disease
But from my brain is where I bleed
Insanity it seems
Has got me by my soul to squeeze

Well all the love from thee
With all the dying trees I scream
The angels in my dreams
Have turned to demons of greed that's mean

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time

Today love smiled on me
It took away my face say please
All that you had to free
You gotta let it be oh yeah

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time

Oh, so polite indeed
Well I got everything I need
Oh make my days a breeze
And take away my self destruction

It's bitter baby
And it's very sweet
I'm on a rollercoaster
but I'm on my feet
Take me to the river
Let me on your shore
I'll be coming back baby
I'll be coming back for more

Doo doo doo doo dingle zing a dong bone
Ba-di ba-da ba-zumba crunga cong gone bad

I could not forget
But I will not endeavor
Simple pleasures aren't as special
But I wont regret it never

Where I go I just don't know
I got to got to gotta take it slow
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna give you some of my good time

Where I go I just don't know
I might end up somewhere in Mexico
When I find my piece of mind
I'm gonna keep you for the end of time

ALBUM: CONEHEADS OST (1993)

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)