22/12/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FUNERAL MARCH/TIGER WAVES





When you lie I still want try
You're writing letters in my hand
If you want I still write home
I'll make you on you hand
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you
I would not, I would not believe you

I know that this is not your favourite time
I'll show that this is not your new compathy
I know that this is not your favourite colour
I know that this is not your way to be kind

And when you sign it's in your eyes
You're writing something on my hand
Don't chase away, just let me stay
I'll make myself more tolerable

I know that this is not your favourite time
I'll show that this is not your new compathy
I know that this is not your favourite colour
I know that this is not your way to be kind

ALBUM: ONLY GOOD BANDS HAVE ANIMAL NAMES (2011)

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21/12/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SO WHAT/THE CURE





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I'm not meant to be here
But so what?
And nobody's
Nobody's taken your place
Nobody's taken your place

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A nine-inch icing bag
With six high definition nozzles and adaptor
And a fifteen inch food decorating bag
With three piping nozzles
Please send off this leaflet
Post it today
And if you knew nothing could replace you
If you were sane your heart wouldn't ache
But so what?
So what?
So what?

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When I told you what I
And I, and I wouldn't ask you to pretend
That we were one
And still another time
Forget all the lies
Forgive me the wounds
And all the world was used to love
And yes we'd still be happy in another time
But so what?
So what?

So please send me icing and decorating sets
I enclose a cheque and postal order number
So what?

ALBUM: THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (1979)

19/12/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PELICAN/THE MACCABEES




Diretto da David Wilson

So soon we, so soon we, so soon we, too old to carry
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little while
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking over
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know, they pair and pair

To have it all, to have it all, to have it all, and still want more
One thing's for sure, one thing's for sure, one thing's for sure, we’re all getting older
So we take a lover, so we take a lover, so we take a lover, waitin’ in the corner
And before you know it, before you know it, before you know we’re pushing up the daisies

And we’re going back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again we go

In the end, in the end, in the end, nothing comes easy
So you find a way, so you find a way, so you find a way to take a little with you
For the ones you love, for the ones you love, for the ones you love, are there if they need to
The hero, the hero, the hero
They’re not coming with you

Go back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again
Go

So soon we, so soon we, so soon we too old to carry
And we knew we, and we knew we, and we knew we only had a little while
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle, just keep ticking over
Before you know it, before you know it, before you know they pair and pair
And go back to where we came from
For those we fall and those to come and owe
Is the effort and the more
And again and again and again and again
Go

ALBUM: GIVEN TO THE WILD (2012)

18/12/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WAIT/M83





Send your dreams
Where nobody hides
Give your tears
To the tide

No Time
No Time

There's no end
There is no goodbye
Disappear
With the night

No Time
No Time

ALBUM: HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING (2011)

17/12/11

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: RED SONG/SUUNS





Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color

Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color

Red song
Do you know?
Shake along
Sing your love
Louder than mine
Love from beside
Come too closer
Evil color

ALBUM: BAMBI (2011)

15/12/11

THE RYKJVK AWARDS 2011



IL DISCO DELL'ANNO: LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY


ALL AND EVERYONE

L'ottavo album della musicista del Dorset è un disco che vive di contrasti: testi dolorosi incentrati principalmente sul tema della guerra dispiegati su melodie folk, aritmiche (The Glorious Land, la splendida All And Everyone), a volte quasi scanzonate (The Last Living Rose, The Words That Maketh Murder). Un atto d'accusa e d'amore allo stesso tempo verso la propria terra, e più in generale riguardo i tempi bui che viviamo, con tutta la classe e l'intenstità di Polly Jean Harvey.

I risultati del sondaggio:

1. LET ENGLAND SHAKE/PJ HARVEY (28%)
2. THE KING OF LIMBS/RADIOHEAD (23%)
VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (23%)
4. FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST/GIRLS (9%)
SMOTHER/WILD BEASTS (9%)
WOUNDED RHYMES/LYKKE LI (9%)
7. I AM VERY FAR/OKKERVIL RIVER (1%)
VIOLET CRIES/ESBEN AND THE WITCH (1%)
9. BUILD A ROCKET BOYS!/ELBOW (0%)
HARBORED MANTRAS/WATER BORDERS (0%)
SKYING/THE HORRORS (0%)
THE FUTURE IS MEDIEVAL/KAISER CHIEFS (0%)



LA CANZONE DELL'ANNO: CODEX/RADIOHEAD



Basterebbe quell'attacco con la voce leggermente roca di Thom Yorke per innamorarsi di questo pezzo al primo ascolto, senza contare il giro di pianoforte, semplice ed eterno, ed il testo, una piccola elegia, magnetico e rassicurante.


LA PLAYLIST DEL 20011

01. HOME IS A FIRE/DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
02. CRYSTALLINE/BJORK
03. JUMP INTO THE FOG/THE WOMBATS
04. UBERLIN/R.E.M.
05. I KNOW PLACES/LYKKE LI
06. ALL IN WHITE/THE VACCINES
07. COMING UP FOR AIR/KAISER CHIEFS
08. MYMA/GIRL
09. SUZANNE AND I/ANNA CALVI
10. DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN/KASABIAN
11. STILYAGI/PURO INSTINCT FEAT. ARIEL PINK
12. FOREST/SHORE//DEAF CLUB
13. SUMMON THE SOUND/S.C.U.M.
14. DIVE IN/THE HORRORS
15. PEACE & QUIET/WHITE LIES
16. PLAYTHING/WILD BEASTS
17. CODEX/RADIOHEAD
18. WOLF/TROPHY WIFE
19. ALL AND EVERYONE/PJ HARVEY
20. WARPATH/ESBEN AND THE WITCH
21. TAMER ANIMALS/OTHER LIVES
22. WHITE TELEPHONE/CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
23. TAPE/YOUAREHERE
24. TONIGHT, TONIGHT, TONIGHT/LOW ROAR
25. HANGING FROM A HIT/OKKERVIL RIVER

Bonus Tracks

RAZZI ARPIA INFERNO E FIAMME/VERDENA
EXILE VILIFY/THE NATIONAL
IODINE AND IRON/THE VEILS

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IL VIDEO DELL'ANNO: LOTUS FLOWER/RADIOHEAD



L'irresistibile danza scomposta di Thom Yorke nel video diretto da Garth Jennings è piaciuta così tanto che in rete sono addirittura spuntati dei tutorial per imparare i passi del balletto. Della serie come essere la più grande band del pianeta e riuscire comunque a prendersi poco sul serio.


LA COPERTINA DELL'ANNO: VELOCIRAPTOR!/KASABIAN (Aitor Throup)



Da un album che si chiama come un dinosauro ci si aspetta una copertina capeggiata da un enorme lucertolone preistorico, ed invece nel progetto grafico ideato dall'illustratore argentino (ma inglese d'adozione) Aitor Throup non c'è traccia di enormi animali estinti. Tuttavia il grido ancestrale che si percepisce dalle figure neanderthaliane ripetute agli angoli dell'immagine riesce perfettamente nell'intento di comunicare la forza primitiva del disco, nonchè la vena psichedelica della musica dei Kasbaian. Un capolavoro.


IL DEBUTTO DELL'ANNO: ANNA CALVI



La minuta artista anglo-italiana fatica a trovare scarpe della sua misura (pare porti addirittura il numero 34) ma non certo consensi, tanto che la stampa specializzata britannica l'ha subito eletta a nuova PJ Harvey, e non è un caso che Nick Cave, che Polly Jean la conosce bene, l'abbia scelta per aprire i concerti dei Grinderman.


IL CONCERTO DELL'ANNO: PRIMAL SCREAM (Auditorium Parco della Musica/Roma) 22/07/11



Già di per sé i Primal Scream che dopo vent'anni suonano dal vivo per intero Screamadelica, disco simbolo degli anni '90, sarebbe un evento. Se poi ci mettiamo che i fan sul finire dello show fanno invasione di campo (pacifica) costringendo alla resa gli uomini della security e regalando ai posteri una versione memorabile di Rocks, la data romana del tour della band scozzese diventa addirittura leggendaria.


LA COLONNA SONORA DELL'ANNO: SUBMARINE/ALEX TURNER



Uscita in punta di piedi, quasi come un prologo del quarto album degli Arctic Monkeys, Suck It And See (tanto che la ballata Piledriver Waltz ci è finita pari pari dentro), la colonna sonora della pellicola indipendente britannica Submarine rivela un Alex Turner più intimista e minimale, ma di certo non meno ispirato della versione leader della band.


IL DISCO ITALIANO DELL'ANNO: WOW/VERDENA





Dopo quasi quattro anni di silenzio, i Verdena tornano con un disco ambizioso, complesso, forse fin troppo lungo, ma di sicuro coraggioso ed intraprendente, impreziosito dal singolo di anticipazione Razzi Arpia Inferno e Fiamme, uno dei pezzi in italiano (seppur non comprensibilissimo) più belli degli ultimi tempi.


I VINCITORI DEL 2010:

DISCO: HIGH VIOLET/THE NATIONAL
CANZONE: LIGHTS/INTERPOL
VIDEO: WE USED TO WAIT/ARCADE FIRE (Chris Milk)
DEBUTTO: CHAPEL CLUB
CONCERTO: THE NATIONAL (Milano/Alcatraz) 16/11/10; INTERPOL (Milano/PalaSharp) 17/11/2010
COLONNA SONORA: THE SOCIAL NETWORK/TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS
DISCO ITALIANO: DEI CANI/NON VOGLIO CHE CLARA

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: ASYNDETON/YOUAREHERE





(Asyndeton)

ALBUM: AS WHEN THE FALL LEAVES TREES (2011)

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