LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DEBONAIR/THE AFGHAN WHIGS

Hear me now and don't forget
I'm not the man my actions would suggest
A little boy, I'm tied to you
I fell apart
That's what I always do

This ain't about regret
My conscience can't be found
This time I won't repent
Somebody's going down

Feel it now and don't resist
This time the anger's better than the kiss
I must admit when so inclined
I tend to lose it than confront my mind

Cause it don't bleed and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart
It's in our head
It's in our love
Baby it's in our bed

Tonight I go to hell
For what I've done to you
This ain't about regret
It's when I tell the truth

And once again the monster speaks
Reveals his face and searches for release
A little boy is tied to you
Attracted only 'til it comes unglued

Cause it don't bleed and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart
It's in our head
It's in our love
Baby it's in our bed

Tonight I go to hell
For what I've done to you
This ain't about regret
It's when I tell the truth
Tonight I go to hell
For what I've done to you
This ain't about regret

ALBUM: GENTLEMEN (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: DISARM/THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

Disarm you with a smile
And cut you like you want me to
Cut that little child
Inside of me and such a part of you
The years burn
The years burn

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my choice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you

Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who's left alone
The years burn
The years burn, burn, burn

I used to be a little boy
So old in my shoes
And what I choose is my voice
What's a boy supposed to do?
The killer in me is the killer in you
My love
I send this smile over to you

The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you
The killer in me is the killer in you
Send this smile over to you

ALBUM: SIAMESE DREAM (1993)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PAY FOR ME/WHALE

Please give up skin, when you forgive and believe me
Always waiting to shock (shock)

So for gods sake, live in me
Sugar daddy (ooh daddy daddy daddy)
A walking, talking, im low
Do what you want honey bow with your pain

Loving summer, you are spring coz your my Santa Claus machine
(love me)
Sugar daddy, hope you know i really think you gotta
pay for me

Blow up my chair
Go ahead suffer, dance around my handbag

What is love? but total affection
24 hours utter protection

Loving summer you are spring coz your my Santa Claus machine
(believe me)
Sugar daddy hope you know i really think you gotta pay for me

I'm so glad you ashamed
Running kula shaker birthday, the mix
When gravity kicks my ass you better pay (oh money money)
For my tits to be fixed

Loving summer you are spring coz your my Santa Claus machine
(leave me)
Sugar daddy hope you know i really think you gotta pay for me

Loving summer, you are spring coz your my Santa Claus machine
(love me)
Sugar daddy, hope you know i really think you gotta pay for me

ALBUM: WE CARE (1995)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: THE ZOOKEEPER'S BOY/MEW

Are you my lady, are you?

If I don't make it back from the city then
It is only because I am drawn away
For you see, evidently there's a dark storm come
And the chain on my swing is squeaking like a mouse

So are you my lady, are you?
The rain, the rain, the rain is falling down
The cars remain

You're tall just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find its head
But if there's a glitch
You're an ostrich
You've got your head in the sand

In a submersible I can hardly breathe
As it takes me inside, so the light sings
Answer me truthfully, do the clouds kiss you
With meringue-coloured hair I know they cannot

So are you my lady, are you?
The rain, the rain, the rain is falling down
The cars remain

Santa Ana winds bring seasickness
Zookeeper hear me out
How dare you go?
Cold in the rain

Tall just like a giraffe
You have to climb to find its head
But if there's a glitch
You're an ostrich
You've got your head in the sand

Are you my lady, are you?
The rain, the rain, the rain is falling down
The cars remain

I could not be seen with you
Working half the time and looking fine
In cars re-made

ALBUM: AND THE GLASS HANDED KITES (2005)

POST-IT: MEW LIVE

Nei giorni scorsi, si era sparsa la voce di un album live dei Mew, disponibile esclusivamente in versione digitale. Attraverso il proprio sito ufficiale, la band danese, che quest'anno ha pubblicato l'ottimo No More Stories... (il titolo, per esteso, è chilometrico), ha invece smentito la notizia, scusandosi con i fan per eventuali malintesi. Tuttavia il concerto in questione, registrato al Palladium di Hollywood lo scorso 2 Settembre, è finito ugualmente in rete.
Questa è la scaletta:

01. INTRO
02. THE CIRCUITRY OF THE WOLF
03. CHINABERRY THREE
04. AM I WRY? NO
05. 156
06. HAWAII
07. A DREAM
08. SPECIAL
09. THE ZOOKEEPER'S BOY
10. SOMETIMES LIFE ISN'T EASY
11. COMFORTING SOUNDS

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LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: PILOT/THE NOTWIST

He's living next the rails
He can tell you things
Of different cars and trains
Now he's trying the whole day
To switch off time
By causing train-delay

Could be enough
If only he's the pilot
Once a day

Not a word to compensate
Not a sentence to describe
This desperate state
Not a picture to compare
We step into a room
Of opaque air

Could be enough
If only we are pilots
Once a day
Could be enough
If only we are pilots
Once a day

Not a word to compensate
Not a picture to compare
We step into a room
Of opaque air

Could be enough
If only we are pilots
Once a day
Could be enough
If only we are pilots
Once a day

ALBUM: NEON GOLDEN (2002)

POST-IT: MASSIVE ATTACK/HELIGOLAND

L'attesa sta per terminare: Heligoland, il nuovo album dei Massive Attack, sarà pubblicato il prossimo 8 di Febbraio, a 6 anni di distanza da 100th Window del 2003 (se si esclude la colonna sonora di Dannny The Dog, dell'anno successivo). Come si conviene ad un collettivo come quello di Bristol, le collaborazioni eccellenti si sprecano: si va Damon Albarn ad Hope Sandoval, da Martina Topley Bird a Tunde Adebimpe dei Tv On The Radio. E come se non bastasse, sembra probabile l'uscita di un'edizione speciale, che potrebbe accogliere altre tracce realizzate assieme a personaggi del calibro di Stephanie Dosen, Elizabeth Fraser, Mike Patton e Beth Orton. La copertina del disco è stata disegnata da 3D-Robert Del Naja, che del resto è stato un autorevole esponente della stessa generazione di graffitari dalla quale è venuto fuori un certo Banksy...
Ecco la tracklist della versione "normale" di Heligoland:

01. PRAY FOR RAIN (FEAT. TUNDE ADEBIMPE)
02. BABEL (FEAT. MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD)
03. SLITTING THE ATOM (FEAT. GRANT MARSHALL AND HORACE ANDY)
04. GIRL I LOVE YOU (FEAT. HORACE ANDY)
05. PSYCHE (FEAT. MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD)
06. FLAT ON THE BLADE (FEAT. GUY GARVEY)
07. PARADISE CIRCUS (FEAT. HOPE SANDOVAL)
08. RUSH MINUTE
09. SATURDAY COME SLOW (FEAT. DAMON ALBARN)
10. ATLAS AIR

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SMOKERS OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL DOORS/EDITORS

Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them ever again

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'

I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Left smashed off the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor

Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts smashed off the floor)

ALBUM: AN END HAS A START (2007)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: A SORT OF HOMECOMING/U2

And you know it's time to go
Through the sleet and driving snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
And you hunger for the time
Time to heal, desire, time
And your earth moves beneath
Your own dream landscape

On borderland we run
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
A high road
A high road out from here

The city walls are all pulled down
The dust, a smoke screen all around
See faces ploughed like fields
That once gave no resistance
And we live by the side of the road
On the side of a hill
As the valleys explode
Dislocated, suffocated
The land grows weary of its own

Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I
Oh come away, oh come away
Oh come, oh come away, say I

On borderland, we run
And still we run
We run and don't look back
I'll be there
I'll be there
Tonight
Tonight

I'll be there tonight, I believe
I'll be there, somehow
I'll be there, tonight
Tonight

Oh come away, I say, say oh my
Oh come away, I say

The wind will crack in winter time
This bomb-blast lightning waltz
No spoken words, just a scream

Tonight we'll build a bridge
Across the sea and land
See the sky, the burning rain
She will die and live again
Tonight

And your heart beats so slow
Through the rain and fallen snow
Across the fields of mourning
Lights in the distance
Don't sorrow, no don't weep
For tonight, at last
I am coming home
I am coming home

ALBUM: THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE (1984)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: MRS. COLD/KINGS OF CONVENIENCE

Hey baby, Mrs. Cold
Acting so tough
Didn't know you had it in you so be hurt at all
You waited too long
You should've hook me
before I put my raincoat on

Ok I get it
Ok can I see
You were fronting because
You knew you'd find yourself vulnerable around me
Ok I get it
Ok I see
You feel vulnerable around me

Hey baby
what’s going on?
You lost control and you lost your tongue
You lost me
Deaf in my ear
Nothing you can say is gonna change the way I feel

Ok I get it
Ok I see
You were fronting because
You knew you find yourself vulnerable around me

Ok I get it
Ok I see
I step too close to your boundaries

You wanted nobody around to see
You feel vulnerable around me

Hey baby
What is love?
It was just a game
We're both playing and we can’t get enough of
We're both playing and we can’t get enough of
We're both playing and we can’t get enough of

ALBUM: DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE (2009)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: GOLD LION/YEAH YEAH YEAHS

Gold lion's going to tell me where the light is
Gold lion's going to tell me where the light is
Take our hands out of control
Take our hands out of control
Now tell me what you saw
Tell me what you saw
There was a crowd of seeds
Inside
Outside
I must have done a dozen each
It was the height I grew
The weight
The shell was crushing you
I've been around a few
Tell me what you saw
I'll tell you what too

Gold lion's going to tell me where the light is
Gold lion's going to tell me where the light is
Take our hands out of control
Take our hands out of control

Outside
Inside
This is a moon without a tide
We'll build a fire in your eyes
We'll build a fire
When the colors
Getting brighter
Cold desire
Makes the moon without a tide
Tell me what you saw
I'll tell you what too

ALBUM: SHOW YOUR BONES (2006)

LA CANZONE DEL GIORNO: SHE WANTS TO MOVE/N.E.R.D.

Shake it up
Shake it up girl
Shake it up bass
Hey Shake it up
Shake it up

She makes me think of lightning in skies
She's sexy
How else is God supposed to write
She's sexy
Move, she wants to move
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
She wants to move
She wants to move
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her

Mister! Look at your girl, she loves it
I can see it in her eyes
She hopes this lasts forever

Her off beat dance makes me fantasize
She's sexy
Her ass is a spaceship I want to ride
She's sexy
Move, she wants to move
But you're hogging her, and guarding her
She wants to move
She wants to move
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her

Mister! Look at your girl, she loves it
I can see it in her eyes
She hopes this lasts forever

This is your part girl
This is your part girl
C'mon
Man
But you're hogging her, you're guarding her
Beat it

Mister! Look at your girl, she loves it
I can see it in her eyes
She hopes this lasts forever
Mister! Look at your girl, she loves it
I can see it in her eyes
She hopes this lasts forever

Somebody get us some water in here
Cause it's hot

ALBUM: FLY OR DIE (2005)