LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NYC/INTERPOL

I had seven faces
Thought I knew which one to wear
But I'm sick of spending these lonely nights
Training myself not to care

The subway is a porno
And the pavements they are a mess
I know you've supported me for a long time
Somehow I'm not impressed

New York Cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

Subway she is a porno
And the pavements they are a mess
I know you've supported me for a long time
Somehow I'm not impressed

It's up to me now, turn on the bright lights
It's up to me now, turn on the bright lights

New York Cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)
New York Cares
(Got to be some more change in my life)

It's up to me now, turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)
Oh, it's up to me now, turn on the bright lights
(Got to be some more change in my life)

ALBUM: TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (2002)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: IRONIC/ALANIS MORISSETTE

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic
Don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought
It figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
Well isn't this nice
And isn't it ironic
Don't you think?

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought
It figures

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face

A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic
Don't you think?
A little too ironic
And yeah I really do think

It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
And who would've thought
It figures

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out

ALBUM: JAGGED LITTLE PILL (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE BITTER PILL/THE PINEAPPLE THIEF

And time stands still
Oh, no
A bitter pill, we know
And never fill, this hole

We'll breath again
We'll leave you in the end

And it's not dark, we're made for this
But it's a part, we'll always miss

ALBUM: VARIATIONS ON A DREAM (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: UP ON THE LADDER/RADIOHEAD

I'm stuck in the tardis
Trapped in hyperspace
One minute snake charming
The next in a motorcade

All the right moves
And in the right percent
Watch me dance
I'm a puppet
You can almost see the strings

Give me an answer
Give me a sign
I've been climbing up this ladder
I've been wasting my time

Up on the ladder
My time to escape
Up on the ladder
Away from your mistake
Up on the ladder
Try to call out your name
Up on the ladder
You're all the fucking same

ALBUM: IN RAINBOWS (Special Edition) (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I AM THE WALRUS/BONO AND THE SECRET MACHINES

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
I'm crying

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man, you've been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long

I am the Eggman
They are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
Goo goo g'joob

Mister city, policeman sitting, pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the Sky, see how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying
I'm crying
I'm crying

Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye
Crab locker fishwife, pornographic priestess
Boy, you've been a naughty girl, you let your knickers down

I am the Eggman
They are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
Goo goo g'joob

Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun
If the sun don't come you get a tan from standing in the English rain

I am the Eggman
They are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
Goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob

Expert texpert, choking smokers
Don't you think the Joker laughs at you?
Ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha
See how they smile like pigs in a sty, see how they snide
I'm crying

Semolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should've seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe

I am the Eggman
They are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
Goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob
Goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob
Goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob
Juba, juba, juba
Juba, juba
Juba, juba
Juba, juba, stick it up your jumper
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper
Everyone's got one
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper
Everyone's got one
Everyone's got one
Everyone's got one
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper
Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumper

Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse
If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body
And give the letters which you find'st about me
To Edmund, Earl of Gloucester
Seek him out
Upon the English party
O, untimely death!
Death! (He dies)

I know thee well: a serviceable villain
As duteous to the vices of thy mistress
As badness would desire

What, is he dead?

Sit you down, father
Rest you

ALBUM: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (Soundtrack) (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: NAKED COUSIN/PJ HARVEY

My naked cousin
I see him running
All over headland
Scared as his shit as he's running
His naked skin fries
Fries in the sun, oh my
My naked cousin can cook till he's good
Good and done
I hate his smell and I hate his company
But, but most of all I hate that he looks just just like me
His naked skin fries
Fries in the sun my my
But my naked cousin can cook till he's
Good and done
He's running

He run from burning bushes
He run from bank of senate
He run from everything that upsets his masterplan
And if he flips
And I am as good as done
My, my naked cousin
He'll just keep keep a'running
He's running

Running naked through the trees
Scared the shit right out of me
Bought my ticket, take my ride
Take me to the sunny side
Running naked through the trees
Scared the shit right out of me
Bought my ticket, take my ride
Begging all to please
He's running

ALBUM: THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS (Soundtrack) (1996)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE KIDS ARE ULTRA-VIOLENT/WINTERSLEEP

Somebodies fucked up kids
They're ruining everything
Tiny effervescent virulent eyes
Ripped out the sockets in the middle of the night
The night, the night, the night
The night, the night

Could have been some kind of chemical reaction
Could have been the drugs I don't know what it could have been
Were sick of our skin but in the dark it felt nice
In the dark in the dark in the dark its so fuckin' nice
The night, the night, the night
The night, the night

ALBUM: WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY (Bonus Tracks) (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: I NEED SOME FINE WINE AND YOU, YOU NEED TO BE NICER/THE CARDIGANS

Sit, good dog, stay, bad dog, down, roll over

Well here's a good man and a pretty young girl
Trying to play together somehow
I'm wasting my life, you're changing the world
I get drunk and watch your head grow

It's the good times that we share
And the bad times that we'll have
It's the good times
and the bad times that we had

Well it's been a long slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine, and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times and the bad times
That we'll have

Sometimes we talk over dinner like old friends
Till I go and kill the bottle
I go off over any old thing
Break your heart
And raise a glass or ten

To the good times that we shared
And the bad times that we'll have
To the good times
And the bad time that we've had

Well it's been a long slow collision
I'm a pitbull, you're a dog
Baby you're foul in clear conditions
But you're handsome in the fog

So I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer
For the good times
And the bad times we know will come
I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer
You need to be nicer
You need

For the good times
And the bad time that we had
Sit

Good times, bad times
Sweet wine, bad wine
Good cop, bad cop
Lapdog, bad dog
Sit

ALBUM: SUPER EXTRA GRAVITY (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOLDFINGER/ASH

Move closer, set my mind on fire
Taking over, the world seems so alive
The world seems so alive
She slips into the night, and she is gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her
Down in the basement, listening to the rain
Thinking things over. I think it over again
I think it over again
She slips into the night, and she was gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her
I'm riding it down, listen to the rain
She'll be here soon, I lie back and drift away
I lie back and drift away.
She slips into the night, and she was gone
Gone to settle the score, gone into the town
Rain shining in her eyes
Her brother started school
Again today, a thought to pass the time
To occupy my mind, while I'm waiting for her
I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real
On a stormy night, the rain is coming down
Rain like never before
I've got some records on, some bottles of wine
On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down
And I'm waiting for her

ALBUM: 1977 (1996)

MUSICA: PLAYLIST/FEBBRAIO

La playlist che girerà sul mio iPod a Febbraio:


STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP

01. FLOWERS AND FOOTBALL TOPS/GLASVEGAS
(GLASVEGAS)
02. LIVE ALONE/FRANZ FERDINAND
(TONIGHT: FRANZ FERDINAND)
03. THE FEAR/LILY ALLEN
(IT'S NOT ME, IT'S YOU)
04. STRONGER THAN JESUS/A CAMP
(COLONIA)
05. ULTRAVIOLENCE/HEARTSREVOLUTION
(SWITCHBLADE EP)
06. E.S.T./WHITE LIES
(TO LOSE MY LIFE)
07. LENIN/ARCADE FIRE
(DARK WAS THE NIGHT/Various artists)
08. TOMORROW/CLINIC
(DO IT!)
09. SOMETHING IS SQUEEZING MY SKULL/MORRISSEY
(YEARS OF REFUSAL)
10. YOUR MOUTH/TELEFON TEL AVIV
(IMMOLATE YOURSELF)
11. MITHRIDATE/THE EVPATORIA REPORT
(MAAR)
12. THE KIDS ARE ULTRA-VIOLENT/WINTERSLEEP
(WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY/Bonus track)

BONUS TRACK

BROKEN/GORILLAZ
(PHASE 3 DEMOS)

PARALLELI: TALK TALK/RADIOHEAD

La scorsa estate, nel mio vecchio, delirante blog, avevo scritto che, negli anni '80, i Radiohead erano i Talk Talk, anche se in molti non se ne sono accorti. Già, perchè il cammino delle due band, per certi versi, è stato molto simile, per fortuna non fino alla fine. Ma andiamo per gradi. Da piccolo ero un ascoltatore precoce: se ripenso a quando avevo dieci, dodici anni, ed acquistavo album come It's My Life e The Colour Of Spring, mi sento quasi un predestinato. Certo, all'epoca, mentre mettevo le cuffie e consumavo vinili, mi lasciavo cullare dalle melodie perfette di Such A Shame e Living In Another World senza approfondirne le ritmiche, i testi, e tutta l'introspettiva complessità di quelle canzoni. Tanto che, quando uscì The Spirit Of Eden rimasi, giustamente, piuttosto spiazzato. Ora, a distanza di 25 anni, il percorso intrapreso dai Talk Talk non è più un sentiero misterioso, ma un viale lastricato di grandi intuizioni, ed è qui, all'incrocio con la musica odierna, che naturali confronti con i Radiohead si fanno strada. Dal disco d'esordio, con qualche concessione alle mode del momento (pop new wave per Mark Hollis e compagni, post-grunge rock per la band di Oxford) e soprattutto alla casa discografica (in entrambi i casi, purtroppo, la EMI), ma che lasciava comunque intravedere tutto il talento potenziale, al secondo lavoro, che metteva subito le cose in chiaro (cos'altro aggiungere su It's My Life e The Bends?) ed al terzo che li consacrava stelle di prima grandezza (The Colour Of Spring ed OK Computer), pur mantenendo un atteggiamento di basso profilo. Ma non è finita qui: si, perchè proprio sul punto più alto e luminoso della notorietà, i Talk Talk escono con un disco difficile (The Spirit Of Eden, appunto), di soli 6 pezzi dalle melodie rarefatte ma ricchi di dettagli incredibili, ed altrettanto fanno i Radiohead con Kid A, album straordinario e straordinariamente controcorrente, nel quale esplorano e rielaborano territori nuovi e distanti tra loro, dall'elettronica al jazz, rinunciando persino a far uscire dei singoli. Risultato: l'industria musicale mainstream si dimentica di loro, mentre la scena alternativa li elegge ad icone. Ed i successivi Laughing Stock ed Amnesiac non fanno che rafforzare questa convinzione. E se le somiglianze tra le due band sono notevoli, quelle tra i relativi frontman lo sono ancora di più: Mark Hollis e Thom Yorke appaiono entrambi bruttini, a dire il vero, con il loro campionario di orecchie a sventola e denti storti, ma traboccano fascino quando sono chinati su di un pianoforte, ricurvi come se volessero cantare direttamente nei tasti, oppure quando si agitano appesi all'asta di un microfono come buste di plastica in balia dal vento. Tutti e due hanno anche all'attivo un notevole album solista (intitolato semplicemente Mark Hollis, per il primo; The Eraser per Thom Yorke), ma le analogie, e questo è il lieto fine, si fermano qui: a questo punto, infatti, i Talk Talk spariscono improvvisamente nel nulla, senza lasciare più alcuna traccia (se si eccettua la collaborazione del bassista Paul Webb con Beth Gibbons dei Portishead nell'album Out Of Season del 2002, sotto lo pseudonimo di Rustin Man), mentre la storia dei Radiohead, grazie al cielo, non ha ancora finito di essere scritta...


TALK TALK


LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT

THE PARTY'S OVER (1982)
IT'S MY LIFE (1984)
THE COLOUR OF SPRING (1986)
SPIRIT OF EDEN (1988)
LAUGHING STOCK (1991)

MARK HOLLIS/MARK HOLLIS (1998)


RADIOHEAD


ALL I NEED

PABLO HONEY (1993)
THE BENDS (1995)
OK COMPUTER (1997)
KID A (2000)
AMNESIAC (2001)
HAIL TO THE THIEF (2003)
IN RAINBOWS (2007)

THE ERASER/THOM YORKE (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TOMORROW STARTED/TALK TALK

Don't look back until you've tried
A line so openly a lie
Outside of you, it's just tomorrow starting

I've said I'm wrong when I've been right
I've seen times when I've been sure but still I find
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use

It's just tomorrow starting

Don't look back until you've tried
With time you'll endlessly arrive
Outside of use
With just tomorrow starting

See my eyes tell me I'm not lying
I'm just the first that you take
Are there reasons everybody pays
They never seem to be any use

It's just tomorrow started

ALBUM: IT'S MY LIFE (1984)