LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SPECIALTY/HOWARD JONES

Don't chop off his head
To make yourself look tall
Don't tear a strip off
To make yourself feel wonderful
Who wants to compare
As if this was a competition
Leave that to teachers at school
Must preserve their tradition

'Bout time you realized
You are a specialty
There is no one like you
Spend your life worrying
'Bout what you could have been
Can't you like being you

Don't need a scalp
Don't need to be a juror
Take care of yourself
No need to feel so insecure
Waste of energy
To prove a holier than him
Waste of energy
To find out who commits what sin

'Bout time you realized
You are a specialty
There is no one like you
Spend your life worrying
'Bout what could have been
Can't you like being you

ALBUM: DREAM INTO ACTION (1985)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THINK OF ENGLAND/IAMX

In the grip of a winter came, love and greed
Insane with faith, I took the driving front seat
In the lowlight comfort of Berlin streets
The calm from emptiness duetted with my body heat

I was alone at the front line
The message I was told was to try and find
The joy of a lifetime

I just can't think of England
I can't see the picture
I'm still running from the fire, the fire

I just can't think of England
I can't see the picture
I'm still running from the fire, the fire, the fire

In the twilight hours of nervous rest
I bought the beast before believing the threats
In a foreign field I cut all regrets
But the poisoned stories just repeat themselves in fucked-up mess

I was alone for the first time
The message I was told was to try and find
The joy of a lifetime

I just can't think of England
I can't see the picture
I'm still running from the fire, the fire

I just can't think of England
I can't see the picture
I'm still running from the fire, the fire

I just can't think of England
Can't see the picture

ALBUM: KINGDOM OF WELCOME ADDICTION (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: WRONG/DEPECHE MODE

Wrong
Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong

There’s something wrong with me
Cannot be something wrong with me
Inherently
The wrong mix in the wrong jeans
I reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
It was the wrong plan
In the wrong hands
With the wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong lies, on the wrong vibes
The wrong questions with the wrong replies
Wrong
Wrong

I was marching to the wrong drum
With the wrong scum
Pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines
And the wrong signs
With the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
Made the wrong move, every wrong night
With the wrong tune played till it sounded right yeah
Wrong
Wrong

Too long
Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place at the wrong time
For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day of the wrong week
I used the wrong method with the wrong technique

ALBUM: SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: BALLATA PER LA MIA PICCOLA IENA/AFTERHOURS

Lei rise. Non era una risata piacevole. "Vuoi fermarti un po' con me, prima? Sono educativa. Sai che cosa dicono... Non esiste niente di più magro, di più cattivo, e di più osceno di Iena."
ANANSI BOYS (I Ragazzi di Anansi)/NEIL GAIMAN




L'autista che ti guida ha una sola mano
Ma vede cio che credi invisibile
Nel tuo piccolo mondo fra piccole iene
Anche il sole sorge solo se conviene
Fra piccole iene, solo se conviene
Mia piccola iena, solo se conviene
L'amore rende soli, ma è ben più doloroso
Se per nemici e amici non sei più pericoloso
La testa è così piena che non pensi più
Ti si aprono le gambe oppure le hai aperte tu?
Aiutami a trovare qualcosa di pulito
Uccidi ma non vuoi morire
Uccidi ma non vuoi morire
Fra piccole iene, solo se conviene
Mia piccola iena, solo se conviene
Non puoi scordare dove son state le tue labbra
Sai già come sarà, ma non sai più chi sei
La testa è così piena, non riesci più a pensare
Che anche senza te si possa ancora respirare
Quello che hai appena fatto
Ti ha fatto stare meglio
Chi uccide poi non vuol morire
Uccidi ma non vuoi morire
Fra piccole iene, solo se conviene
Fra piccole iene, solo se conviene
Mia piccola iena, solo se conviene
Mia piccola iena, solo se conviene

ALBUM: BALLATE PER PICCOLE IENE (2005)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DOG DAYS ARE OVER/FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

Happiness hit her like a train on a track
Coming towards her stuck still no turning back
She hid around corners and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fled
With every bubble she sank with her drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your loving, your loving behind
You cant carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come

And i never wanted anything from you
Except everything you had and what was left after that too, oh
Happiness hit her like a bullet in the head
Struck from a great height by someone who should know better than that

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your loving, your loving behind
You cant carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses?
'Cause here they come

The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are coming
So you better run

ALBUM TBA

ASCOLTI: TWO SUNS/BAT FOR LASHES, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2

GET ON YOUR BOOTS/U2

Bat For Lashes è Natasha Khan. Non un gruppo, quindi, ma una giovane musicista inglese, di origine pakistana. Dopo l'ottimo esordio con Fur & Gold del 2006 ed il tour a supporto dei Radiohead l'anno scorso, ecco il nuovo album, Two Suns. Sin dall'inizio, dalla splendida Glass, una gemma a partire dal titolo, si ha l'impressione di ascoltare una versione moderna di Kate Bush, magari incrociata con Björk, tanto per intenderci. E la formula funziona: dalle sofisticate sonorità eighties di Daniel e Two Planets alla delicatezza di Moon And Moon e Travelling Woman, passando per i cori Gospel di Peace Of Mind, Two Suns si rivela un album maturo e completo, che conferma appieno tutto il talento di Natasha.
Gli U2, invece, non hanno certo bisogno di conferme, ma semmai di ritrovare loro stessi, e sembra proprio questo il punto di fuga dal quale si proiettano le canzoni che compongono No Line On The Horizon: già dalla title-track, e dalla successiva Magnificient, appare infatti evidente il ritorno alle sonorità più classiche della band, dai tipici riff di di Edge (fin troppo fedeli a se stessi) alle melodie di Bono, che ritrova almeno in parte quella certa vocazione all'inno, al coro da arena. E non manca una piccola perla, la conclusiva Cedars Of Lebanon. Ne viene fuori un disco sincero, che magari susciterà un pizzico di nostalgia nei fan della prima ora, ma che appare decisamente migliore degli ultimi due lavori del quartetto irlandese. Sinceramente pensavo peggio...

TWO SUNS/BAT FOR LASHES
NO LINE ON THE HORIZON/U2

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GLASS/BAT FOR LASHES

ASCOLTA

ALBUM: TWO SUNS (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: TRUTH GOODNESS AND BEAUTY/THE CURE

I've been waiting for the lies to end
Holding for the bad to go
I've been hanging for the ugliness to change
Waiting for a world too true
Holding for a world too good
Hanging for a world too beautiful

Wishing for a girl too true
Hoping for a girl too good
Hungry for a girl too beautiful
All I say is a lie, she sighs
Nothing I say is true
And all I do is bad, she cries
Nothing I do is good
And yeah all I am is ugly
Nothing I am is beautiful at all

Don't get this world
I don't get this girl

So look, but you won't see it
Listen, and you won't hear it
Reach out, and you won't hold it
You can't know it, but you can free it
You can't name it, but could feel it

I've been waiting for the lies to end
Holding for the bad to go
I've been hanging for the ugliness to change
Waiting for a world too true
Holding for a world too good
Hanging for a world too beautiful

Wishing for a girl like you
Hoping for a girl like you
Hungry for a girl like you
No, not like you
You

ALBUM: THE CURE (Bonus Track) (2004)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEAD LETTER & THE INFINITE YES/WINTERSLEEP

I found a letter it read
"Our existence has serious side effects"
Turned on, turn on the television
And It's telling me the world is collapsing
I think it's coming and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
And I don't know why it is
Our bodies are dead, why you look so sad?

And my therapist said
"We've evolved through a series of accidents"
There's been talk of chemical imbalances
Restless sense of detachment, nausea and or violence

I think it's coming oh and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
And I don't know why it is
I feel it coming, I think it's real and significant
I think I think I think a little too often
That's what my therapist said
We're alone in this wilderness
Left to choke on the pills and to feed on the viruses
I think it's coming oh and it comes so fast

I think it's coming and it comes so fast
I'm hearing whispers of an infinite yes
Our bodies are dead, why you look so sad
Our bodies are dead, why you look so sad

ALBUM: WELCOME TO THE NIGHT SKY (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: FALLING DOWN/OASIS

A summer sun that blows my mind
Is falling down on all that I've ever known
Time to kiss the world goodbye
Falling down on all that I've ever known
Is all that I've ever known

A dying scream, it makes no sound
Calling out to all that I've ever known
Here am I, lost and found
Calling out to all

We live a dying dream
If you know what I mean
All that I've ever known
It's all that I've ever known

Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly
I cried the rain that fills the ocean wide
I tried to talk to God to no avail
Calling my name from out of nowhere
I said if you won't save me, please don't waste my time

Catch the wheel that breaks the butterfly
I cried the rain that fills the ocean wide
I tried to talk to God to no avail
Calling my name from out of nowhere
I said if you won't save me, please don't waste my time

Summer sun that blows my mind
Is falling down on all that I've ever known
Time to kiss the world goodbye
Falling down on all that I've ever known
Is all that I've ever known

ALBUM: DIG OUT YOUR SOUL (2008)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: CRYSTAL/NEW ORDER

We're like crystal
We break easy
I'm a poor man
If you leave me
I'm applauded
Then forgotten
It was summer
Now it's autumn

I don't know what to say
You don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage
With a girl I betrayed
Here comes love
It's like honey
You can't buy it with money
You're not alone anymore
Shock me to the core
You shock me to the core

We're like crystal
It's not easy
With your love
You could feed me
Every man
And every woman
Needs someone
So keep it comin', keep it comin', keep it comin'
Keep it comin', keep it comin', keep it comin'

I don't know what to say
You don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage
With a girl I betrayed
Here comes love
It's like honey
You can't buy it with money
You're not alone anymore
Shock me to the core
You shock me to the core

ALBUM: GET READY (2001)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SIT AND WONDER/THE VERVE

I sit and wonder, I often wonder
I sit and wonder about the things she does
I sit and wonder, I often wonder
I've been waiting for this moment to come

And shes the teacher and I'm the pupil but I ain't learning anything at all
Now I'm falling into the black hole and I can barely feel the sun

Yeah I sit and wonder, I fall to pieces
I've been waiting for her to come
A bed of roses, her cheeks like peaches
Yeah I ain't going to wait no more

Lord give me some light
Oh give the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

The rights of passage, we all must take them
Yeah some are going to break in the storm
The door is open and I am reaching
Yeah it looks like right at the sun

Yeah give me some light
Give the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

I've been havin' trouble in my head Lord
I've been havin' Demons in my mind Lord

Lord give me the light
Oh give me the light
Yeah give me some light
Give me some light

Ive been havin' trouble in my head Lord
I've been havin' Demons in my mind Lord
Somethings going wrong inside my head Lord
Somethings going wrong inside my head Lord

I could be searching all my life, searching all my life
Keep that candle on at night, candle on at night
Keep that candle on at night, candle on at night
I could be hurtin all the while, hurtin' all the while
Lord give me the light

ALBUM: FORTH (2008)