ASCOLTI: TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND/FRANZ FERDINAND, TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

ULYSSES/FRANZ FERDINAND

Un atteso ritorno, ed una novità assoluta: Franz Ferdinand e White Lies. Tonight: Franz Ferdinand annuncia il terzo capitolo della storia della band scozzese, in uscita a fine mese. Alex Kapranos, in fase di lavorazione, lo aveva definito come un disco più lento, ma al tempo stesso anche più dance dei precedenti. Al primo ascolto, l'impressione è che si tratti di un album più completo e maturo, nel quale l'attitudine rock anni sessanta tipica del gruppo lascia spesso la scena a sonorità diverse: dall'elettronica quasi trance di Lucid Dreams all'elegante brit pop di Live Alone (che ricorda i Pulp di Jarvis Cocker), passando per l'atmosfera eighties di Can't Stop Feeling. Intendiamoci, si tratta di musica decisamente furba, quasi ruffiana, ma proprio per questo estremamente godibile. In più, va detto, Ulysses è davvero un gran singolo.
I White Lies, invece, sono la prima, grande novità annunciata del 2009, se non altro perchè vengono pubblicati dalla Fiction, la prima, storica etichetta dei Cure. Ma per quanto le tinte restino comunque oscure, ed i testi risultino particolarmente cupi, la giovanissima band inglese s'inserisce piuttosto nel solco tracciato dai Joy Division, di recente riportato alla luce con grande successo dagli Interpol prima e dagli Editors poi. Forse Harry McVeigh e compagni non saranno dotati di altrettanto talento, ma meritano comunque un ascolto: i signoli Death e To Lose My Life, grazie al passaparola su internet, sono già dei piccoli cult, ed anche pezzi come A Place To Hide e E.S.T. si lasciano ascoltare con piacere.

TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND/FRANZ FERDINAND
TO LOSE MY LIFE/WHITE LIES

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: E.S.T./WHITE LIES

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

You can tie my hands to the walls
But you can't tie my dreams to this place
I might fall like a rock from your heart
But you won't see me fall from grace

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

If you tell me to jump then I'll die
In my dreams I'm there
I always hoped that I'd learn how to fly
In my dreams I'm there

I leave my memoirs in blood on the floor
And my fears with the nurse on the stairs
I'm only going where you'll be some day
So don't say rest in peace in your prayers

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

Fate always loses hope
Like electric sparks in my heart
Fate always loses hope
Now be a good girl and do what you're told

I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never forget about me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you, never pretend for me
I hope you, remember me
I hope you

ALBUM: TO LOSE MY LIFE (2009)

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)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE FEAR/LILY ALLEN

I want to be rich and I want lots of money
I don’t care about clever I don’t care about funny
I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds
I heard people die while they are trying to find them

I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
‘Cuz everyone knows that’s how you get famous
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah I’m on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Life’s about film stars and less about mothers
It’s all about fast cars cussing each other
But it doesn’t matter cause I’m made of plastic
and that’s what makes my life so fucking fantastic

And I am a weapon of massive consumption
and its not my fault it’s how I’m programmed to function
I’ll look at the sun and I’ll look in the mirror
I’m on the right track yeah we're on to a winner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cuz I’m being taken over by The Fear

Forget about guns and forget ammunition
Cause I’m killing them all on my own little mission
Now I’m not a saint but I’m not a sinner
Now everything's cool as long as I’m getting thinner

I don’t know what’s right and what’s real anymore
I don’t know how I’m meant to feel anymore
When do you think it will all become clear?
‘Cause I’m being taken over by fear

ALBUM: IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NEED/PACIFIC UV

ALBUM: LONGPLAY 2 (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ALL SPARKS/EDITORS

You're answering questions that have not yet been asked
All sparks will burn out in the end
You burn like a bouncing cigarette on the road
All sparks will burn out in the end

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

You're casting opinions at people who need them
All sparks will burn out in the end
Well be careful Angel, this life is just too long
All sparks will burn out in the end

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

You burn like a bouncing cigarette

All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
All sparks will burn out
In the end

ALBUM: THE BACK ROOM (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UNTITLED/INTERPOL

Surprise sometimes
Will come around
Surprise sometimes
Will come around
I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around
I will surprise you sometime
I'll come around
When you're down

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DIGITAL SUICIDE/HEARTSREVOLUTION

Sonic youth with sonic dreams, suicidal tendencies
Sonic youth with sonic dreams, suicidal tendencies
I left a trail of pills to find my broken heart in your lost mind
? ...all for you
Catch me in the middle of the night
With dreams so fierce I hold you tight
It's the very thing that I'm bound to love
And I hate this game and I wanna get off tonight
Stop the world, stop the world, stop the world
I wanna get off

Sonic youth in your tears, sonic youth in your fears
Sonic youth with sonic dreams and suicidal tendencies

ALBUM: SWITCHBLADE EP (2008)

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)