LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: HELP I'M ALIVE/METRIC

I tremble
They're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble
They're gonna eat me alive

Can you hear my heart
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help, I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be solved
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse
The pace is on runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

Help, I'm alive
My heart keeps beating like a hammer
Hard to be solved
Tough to be tender
Come take my pulse
The pace is on runaway train
Help I'm alive, my heart keeps
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

If we're still alive
My regrets are few
If my life is mine
What shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going
I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing
And my heart's still
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer
Beating like a hammer

(2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE NEXT LIFE/SUEDE

See you in your next life when we'll fly away for good
Stars in our own car we can drive away from here

Far away, so far away, down to Worthing and work there
Far away, we'll go far away and flog ice creams til the company's on its knees

See you in your next life when we'll fly away for good

ALBUM: SUEDE (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: INSTANT KARMA/JOHN LENNON

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna look you right in the face
Better get yourself together darlin'
Join the human race
How in the world you gonna see
Laughin' at fools like me
Who in the hell d'you think you are
A super star
Well, right you are

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on

Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Ev'ryone you meet
Why in the world are we here
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on earth are you there
When you're ev'rywhere
Come and get your share

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Come on and on and on on on
Yeah yeah, alright, uh huh, ah

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
On and on and on on and on

Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun

ALBUM: SHAVED FISH (1975)

CONCERTI: CLINIC/INIT/ROMA

I Clinic sono precisi, lineari. Chirurgici. Fanno il loro ingresso nella sala (operatoria per l'occasione) dell'Init, in divisa da infermiere, dottore, o killer seriale, fate un po' voi, ma l'effetto è comunque di grande impatto oculare. Per il resto, sul palco, oltre ai medici ed all'apparato strumentale, non c'è nulla. Il dosaggio minimo indispensabile. La visita della band di Liverpool comincia tardi, come un turno di notte all'ospedale, e dura giusto un'oretta (un intervento di routine, si dirà poi), lasciando tuttavia benefici effetti nella mente: filtrata dalla mascherina di protezione, la voce di Ade Blackburn assume una connotazione lieve, flebile, e terapeutica, mentre il mix di sonorità tradizionali e sperimentali amplifica lo spettro musicale, che si estende senza alcuna controindicazione dai pezzi più intimisti (Corpus Christi) a quelli post-punk (Shopping Bag). E così, poco dopo aver recuperato una vecchia cartella dall'archivio (Walking With Thee), i Clinic, come un'allucinazione, svaniscono nel nulla. L'effetto dell'anestesia è appena finito, ma compaiono già i primi postumi del trattamento: il riff introduttivo di Free Not Free, come un farmaco che non ne vuole sapere di essere eliminato dall'organismo, rimane in circolo... Forse è il caso di fare un controllo.

CLINIC/INIT/ROMA, 15 GENNAIO 2009

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FREE NOT FREE/CLINIC

From the front to in the backyard
Someone fronted on the war tales
When the home is in the mirror
When the home is in the big smile

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known

See yourself outside your skin
See yourself outside you for miles
When the hoax is in the mirror
When the hoax is in the big smile

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known

Give it learning
Cap out share it
See it all before your eyes
Sup it
Cup it
Pity poor
Free not free
A belly full of glee
You live here for your own
And make it known
We'll make it known
We'll make it known
We'll make it...

ALBUM: DO IT! (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SÆGLÓPUR/SIGUR RÓS

Á lífi
Kominn heim
Sæglópur
Á lífi
Kominn heim
það kemur kafari


(Perso nel mare)

Sopravvissuto
Torna a casa
Perso nel mare
Sopravvissuto
Torna a casa
Arriva un tuffatore

ALBUM: TAKK... (2005)

ASCOLTI: YEARS OF REFUSAL/MORRISSEY

SOMETHING IS SQUEEZING MY SKULL

Catturato e messo in rete a tempo di record, parecchi giorni prima dell'uscita ufficiale, prevista tra un mese, arriva il nuovo lavoro di Morrissey, Years Of Refusal. La prima, immediata e piacevole sensazione è che si tratti di un album deciso, a tratti molto veloce e dalla grande personalità, e non una semplice operazione di riciclaggio artistico. Un disco nuovo, a tutti gli effetti, insomma. Brani come Something Is Squeezing My Skull, Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed e When Last I Spoke To Carol testimoniano, se mai ce ne fosse bisogno, quanto Moz abbia ispirato, negli anni, odierne realtà importanti come Kaiser Chiefs e The Last Shadow Puppets. E se la breve e divertente That's How People Grow Up fa il verso al vocal metal, You Were Good In Your Time rivela tutta la classe dell'ex leader degli Smiths. Davvero una bella sorpresa, ritrovare Morrissey ancora così in forma.

YEARS OF REFUSAL/MORRISSEY

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: VICIOUS TRADITIONS/THE VEILS

I'd pull my weight if it made any difference
He gave his life for the nine million others
But on his graves written here lies Joseph
His countrys gun and innocent soldier

Fight your way out of this one

He grew a blood red vision for all their good intentions
He made an easy million from a foreign investment
He danced with the devils in beautiful buildings
Affirmative action for a useful reunion

Hed change his name if it made any difference
Now hes waiting in line for the lasting confession
But on his graves written here lies our son Joseph
His countrys gun and innocent soldier

Well fight your way out of this one
Fight your way out of this one

ALBUM: THE RUNAWAY FOUND (2004)

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)