Arcobaleno Musicale

DIRE STRAITS - Money For Nothing

2008-04-14T10:41:00.001+02:00

Now look at them yo-yos thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and chicks for free
Now that aint workin thats the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys aint dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs

See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy thats his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot hes a millionaire

We gotta install microwave ovesns
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs

I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin in the camera
Man we could have some fun
And hes up there, whats that? hawaiian noises?
Bangin on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Get your money for nothin get your chicks for free

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour tvs, lord

Now that aint workin thats the way you do it
You play the guitar on the mtv
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and your chicks for free
Money for nothin and chicks for free

MARVIN GAYE - What's Going On

2008-04-10T11:05:00.001+02:00

Mother, mother
There's too many of you crying
Brother, brother, brother
There's far too many of you dying
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today - Ya

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we've got to find a way
To bring some lovin' here today

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me, so you can see
Oh, what's going on
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Ah, what's going on

In the mean time
Right on, baby
Right on
Right on

Father, father, everybody thinks we're wrong
Oh, but who are they to judge us
Simply because our hair is long
Oh, you know we've got to find a way
To bring some understanding here today
Oh

Picket lines and picket signs
Don't punish me with brutality
Talk to me
So you can see
What's going on
Ya, what's going on
Tell me what's going on
I'll tell you what's going on - Uh
Right on baby
Right on baby

DIRE STRAITS - Sultans of Swing

2008-04-09T10:43:00.001+02:00

You get a shiver in the dark
Its been raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing dixie double four time
You feel all right when you hear that music ring

You step inside but you dont see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth london town

You check out guitar george he knows all the chords
Mind hes strictly rhythm he doesnt want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And harry doesnt mind if he doesnt make the scene
Hes got a daytime job hes doing alright
He can play honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for friday night
With the sultans with the sultans of swing

And a crowd of young boys theyre fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They dont give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It aint what they call rock and roll
And the sultans played creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
thank you goodnight now its time to go home
And he makes it fast with one more thing
we are the sultans of swing

RAY CHARLES - I Got A Woman

2008-04-08T00:50:00.002+02:00

I've Got A Woman
well
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Say I got a woman way over town good to me oh yeah
She give me money when Im in need
Yeah she's a kind of friend indeed
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah
She saves her lovin early in the morning just for me oh yeah
She saves her lovin just for me oh she love me so tenderly
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

Solo

She's there to love me both day and night
Never grumbles or fusses always treats me right
Never runnin in the streets and leavin me alone
She knows a womans place is right there now in her home

I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Say I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah
Oh she's my baby now don't you understand
Yeah and I'm her lover man
I got a woman way over town that's good to me oh yeah

A Don't ya know she's alright
A Don't ya know she's alright
she's alright she's alright
Whoa yeah oh yeah oh

BLUR - Song 2

2008-04-06T15:05:00.000+02:00

I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasnt easy
But nothing is, no

When I feel heavy metal
And Im pins and Im needles
Well I lie and Im easy
All of the time but Im never sure when I need you
Pleased to meet you

I got my head done
When I was young
Its not my problem
Its not my problem

When I feel heavy metal
And Im pins and Im needles
Well I lie and Im easy
All of the time but Im never sure when I need you
Pleased to meet you

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh, yeah

DROPKICK MURPHYS - I'm Shipping Up To Boston

2008-04-03T23:56:00.002+02:00

I'm a sailor peg
And I lost my leg
Climbing up the top sails,
I lost my leg!

I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping off... to find my wooden leg

I'm a sailor peg
And I lost my leg
Climbing up the top sails,
I lost my leg!

I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping up to Boston (Way Oh)
I'm shipping off... to find my wooden leg

THE WHO - My Generation

2008-04-02T20:24:00.000+02:00

People try to put us d-down (talkin bout my generation)
People try to put us d-down (talkin bout my generation)
Just because we get around (talkin bout my generation)
Just because we get around (talkin bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (talkin bout my generation)
I hope I die before I get old (talkin bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
This is my generation, baby

Why dont you all f-fade away (talkin bout my generation)
Why dont you all f-fade away (talkin bout my generation)
And dont try to dig what we all s-s-say (talkin bout my generation)
And dont try to dig what we all s-s-say (talkin bout my generation)
Im not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (talkin bout my generation)
Im not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (talkin bout my generation)
Im just talkin bout my g-g-g-generation (talkin bout my generation)
Im just talkin bout my g-g-g-generation (talkin bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
This is my generation, baby

Why dont you all f-fade away (talkin bout my generation)
Why dont you all f-fade away (talkin bout my generation)
And dont try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (talkin bout my generation)
And dont try to d-dig what we all s-s-say (talkin bout my generation)
Im not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation (talkin bout my generation)
Im not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation (talkin bout my generation)
Im just talkin bout my g-g-generation (talkin bout my generation)
Im just talkin bout my g-g-generation (talkin bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
This is my generation, baby

People try to put us d-down (talkin bout my generation)
People try to put us d-down (talkin bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (talkin bout my generation)
Just because we g-g-get around (talkin bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (talkin bout my generation)
Yeah, I hope I die before I get old (talkin bout my generation)

This is my generation
This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
This is my generation, baby

JOHNNY NASH - I Can See Clearly Now

2008-03-31T12:06:00.001+02:00

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I’ve been prayin?for
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there’s nothin?but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin?but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

FATBOY SLIM - Right Here, Right Now

2008-03-28T12:52:00.001+01:00

Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here
Here
Here
Here

BEATLES - Twist And Shout

2008-03-27T12:12:00.000+01:00

Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout. (twist and shout)
Cmon cmon, cmon, cmon, baby, now, (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out. (work it on out)

Well, work it on out, honey. (work it on out)
You know you look so good. (look so good)
You know you got me goin, now, (got me goin)
Just like I knew you would. (like I knew you would)

Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout. (twist and shout)
Cmon, cmon, cmon, cmon, baby, now, (come on baby)
Come on and work it all out. (work it all out)

You know you twist your little girl, (twist, little girl)
You know you twist so fine. (twist so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer, now, (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine. (let me know youre mine)

Well, shake it up, baby, now, (shake it up, baby)
Twist and shout. (twist and shout)
Cmon, cmon, cmon, cmon, baby, now, (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out. (work it on out)

You know you twist your little girl, (twist, little girl)
You know you twist so fine. (twist so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer, now, (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine. (let me know youre mine)

BOB DYLAN - Hurricane

2008-03-25T09:50:00.000+01:00

Pistols shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out "My God they killed them all"
Here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For something that he never done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Three bodies lying there does Patty see
And another man named Bello moving around mysteriously
"I didn't do it" he says and he throws up his hands
"I was only robbing the register I hope you understand
I saw them leaving" he says and he stops
"One of us had better call up the cops"
And so Patty calls the cops
And they arrive on the scene with their red lights flashing
In the hot New Jersey night.

Meanwhile far away in another part of town
Rubin Carter and a couple of friends are driving around
Number one contender for the middleweight crown
Had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down
When a cop pulled him over to the side of the road
Just like the time before and the time before that
In Patterson that's just the way things go
If you're black you might as well not shown up on the street
'Less you wanna draw the heat.

Alfred Bello had a partner and he had a rap for the corps
Him and Arthur Dexter Bradley were just out prowling around
He said "I saw two men running out they looked like middleweights
They jumped into a white car with out-of-state plates"
And Miss Patty Valentine just nodded her head
Cop said "Wait a minute boys this one's not dead"
So they took him to the infirmary
And though this man could hardly see
They told him that he could identify the guilty men.

Four in the morning and they haul Rubin in
Take him to the hospital and they bring him upstairs
The wounded man looks up through his one dying eye
Says "Wha'd you bring him in here for ? He ain't the guy !"
Yes here comes the story of the Hurricane
The man the authorities came to blame
For something that he never done
Put in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

Four months later the ghettos are in flame
Rubin's in South America fighting for his name
While Arthur Dexter Bradley's still in the robbery game
And the cops are putting the screws to him looking for somebody to blame
"Remember that murder that happened in a bar ?"
"Remember you said you saw the getaway car?"
"You think you'd like to play ball with the law ?"
"Think it might-a been that fighter you saw running that night ?"
"Don't forget that you are white".

Arthur Dexter Bradley said "I'm really not sure"
Cops said "A boy like you could use a break
We got you for the motel job and we're talking to your friend Bello
Now you don't wanta have to go back to jail be a nice fellow
You'll be doing society a favor
That sonofabitch is brave and getting braver
We want to put his ass in stir
We want to pin this triple murder on him
He ain't no Gentleman Jim".

Rubin could take a man out with just one punch
But he never did like to talk about it all that much
It's my work he'd say and I do it for pay
And when it's over I'd just as soon go on my way
Up to some paradise
Where the trout streams flow and the air is nice
And ride a horse along a trail
But then they took him to the jailhouse
Where they try to turn a man into a mouse.

All of Rubin's cards were marked in advance
The trial was a pig-circus he never had a chance
The judge made Rubin's witnesses drunkards from the slums
To the white folks who watched he was a revolutionary bum
And to the black folks he was just a crazy nigger
No one doubted that he pulled the trigger
And though they could not produce the gun
The DA said he was the one who did the deed
And the all-white jury agreed.

Rubin Carter was falsely tried
The crime was murder 'one' guess who testified
Bello and Bradley and they both baldly lied
And the newspapers they all went along for the ride
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand ?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land
Where justice is a game.

Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell
That's the story of the Hurricane
But it won't be over till they clear his name
And give him back the time he's done
Put him in a prison cell but one time he could-a been
The champion of the world.

WHITE TOWN - Your Woman

2008-03-23T10:07:00.001+01:00

Just tell me what you've got to say to me,
I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth,
It comes as no surprise at all you see,
So cut the crap and tell me that we're through.

Now I know your heart, I know your mind,
You don't even know you're being unkind,
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways,
Just use me up and then you walk away,
Boy you can't play me that way.

Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.

When I saw my best friend yesterday,
She said she never liked you from the start,
Well me, I wish that I could claim the same,
But you always knew you held my heart.
And you're such a charming handsome man,
Now I think I finally understand,
Is it in your genes?, I don't know,
But I'll soon find out, that's for sure,
Why did you play me this way?.

Well I guess what you say is true,
I could never be the right kind of girl for you,
I could never be your woman.

Well I guess what they say is true,
I could never spend my life with a man like you,
I could never be your woman.

COLDPLAY - Yellow

2008-03-21T11:21:00.001+01:00

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I came along,
I wrote a song for you,
And all the things you do,
And it was called "Yellow".
So then I took my turn,
Oh what a thing to have done,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
You know, you know I love you so,
You know I love you so.
I swam across,
I jumped across for you,
Oh what a thing to do.
Cos you were all "Yellow",
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you,
Oh what a thing to do,
And it was all "Yellow."
Your skin,
Oh yeah your skin and bones,
Turn into something beautiful,
And you know,
For you I'd bleed myself dry,
For you I'd bleed myself dry.
It's true,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine for you,
Look how they shine.
Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And all the things that you do.

PETER, PAUL AND MARY - Puff the Magic Dragon

2008-03-19T11:43:00.002+01:00

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on puffs gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow wheneer they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN - Black Star

2008-03-19T11:36:00.001+01:00

JEFF BUCKLEY - Hallelujah

2008-03-17T01:24:00.003+01:00

Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya?
Well it goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well baby I've been here before
I know this room and I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew ya
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Well maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who'd OUT DREW YA
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Have you ever seen the rain?

2008-03-11T23:50:00.001+01:00

Someone told me long ago theres a calm before the storm,
I know; its been comin for some time.
When its over, so they say, itll rain a sunny day,
I know; shinin down like water.

Chorus:
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain?
I want to know, have you ever seen the rain
Comin down on a sunny day?

Yesterday, and days before, sun is cold and rain is hard,
I know; been that way for all my time.
til forever, on it goes through the circle, fast and slow,
I know; it cant stop, I wonder.

QUEEN - Somebody To Love

2008-03-11T00:58:00.001+01:00

Can anybody find me somebody to love?
Each morning I get up I die a little
Can barely stand on my feet
Take a look in the mirror and cry
Lord what you're doing to me
I have spent all my years in believing you
But I just can't get no relief, Lord!
Somebody, somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

I work hard every day of my life
I work till I ache my bones
At the end I take home my hard earned pay all on my own -
I get down on my knees
And I start to pray
Till the tears run down from my eyes
Lord - somebody - somebody
Can anybody find me - somebody to love?

(He works hard)

Everyday - I try and I try and I try -
But everybody wants to put me down
They say I'm goin' crazy
They say I got a lot of water in my brain
Got no common sense
I got nobody left to believe
Yeah - yeah yeah yeah

Oh Lord
Somebody - somebody
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I'm ok, I'm alright
Ain't gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
Someday I'm gonna be free, Lord!

Find me somebody to love
Can anybody find me somebody to love?

JOAN OSBORNE - One Of Us

2008-03-07T10:27:00.002+01:00

If God had a name, what would it be
And would you call it to His face
If you were faced with Him in all His glory
What would you ask if you had just one question

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home

If God had a face, what would it look like
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets and...

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home

Tryin' to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

What if God was one of us
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home

Just tryin' to make his way home
Like a holy rolling stone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make his way home
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

BON JOVI - Keep The Faith

2008-03-06T11:20:00.001+01:00

Mother mother tell your children
That their time has just begun
I have suffered for my anger
There are wars that cant be won

Father father please believe me
I am laying down my guns
I am broken like an arrow
Forgive me
Forgive your wayward son

Everybody needs somebody to love
mother, mother
Everybody needs somebody to hate
please believe me
Everybodys bitching
cause they cant get enough
And its hard to hold on
When theres no one to lean on

Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith

Tell me baby when I hurt you
Do you keep it all inside
Do you tell me als forgiven
And just hide behind your pride

Everybody needs somebody to love
mother, father
Everybody needs somebody to hate
please dont leave me
Everybodys bleeding
cause the times are tough
Well its hard to be strong
When theres no one to dream on

Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Now you know is not too late
Oh you got to keep the faith
Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Keep the faith
Lord we got to keep the faith

Walking in the footsteps
Of societys lies
I dont like what I see no more
Sometimes I wish that I was blind
Sometimes I wait forever

To stand out in the rain
So no one sees me cryin
Trying to wash away the pain
Mother father

Theres things Ive done I cant erase
Every night we fall from grace

Its hard with the world in yours face
Trying to hold on, trying to hold on

Faith: you know youre gonna live thru the rain
Lord you got to keep the faith
Faith: dont let your love turn to hate
Right now we got to keep the faith
Faith: now its not too late
Try to hold on, trying to hold on
Keep the faith

BLUR - Coffee & TV

2008-03-04T10:26:00.001+01:00

Do you feel like a chain store?
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full but your empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
Cos of who you are

Your ears are full of the language
There's wisdom there you're sure
'Til the words start slurring
And you can't find the door

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

So give me Coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again
Oh...we could start over again

SPECIALE SANREMO 2008

2008-03-02T12:07:00.001+01:00

Risposta di Tricarico a insulti di Chiambretti: STRONZO!

REM - Losing My Religion

2008-03-02T11:42:00.001+01:00

Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

SPECIALE SANREMO 2008

2008-02-27T10:05:00.002+01:00

Le migliori canzoni della seconda serata:

Sergio Cammariere - L'Amore Non Si Spiega
Loredana Bertè - Musica E Parole

SPECIALE SANREMO 2008

2008-02-26T12:55:00.002+01:00

Le migliori canzoni della prima serata:

Giua - Tanto non vengo
Max Gazzè - Il Solito Sesso
L'Aura - Basta
Tricarico - Vita Tranquilla
Frank Head - Para parà ra rara

THE WHO - Behind Blue Eyes

2008-02-24T18:46:00.001+01:00

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you

No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through

But my dreams
They aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be

I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

2008-02-24T18:40:00.001+01:00

The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
Even though I know-I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold-like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show
And what do you want, I want to change
And what have you got
When you feel the same
Even though I know-I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold-like old job
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was the only son for you
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
And I still believe that I cannot be saved

NIRVANA - Heart Shaped Box

2008-02-24T18:35:00.001+01:00

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been buried inside your Heart Shaped box, for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey
wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

...your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel Hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
...Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could Eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey!
wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice

CAROLE KING - You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman

2008-02-24T18:30:00.001+01:00

Looking out on the morning rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Lord, it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
but your love was the key to my peace of mind

cause you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

And when my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it
I didn't know just what was wrong with me
till your kiss helped me name it

now I'm no longer doubtful
of what I'm living for
cause if I make you happy I don't need to do more

you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

oh baby what you've done to me (what you've done to me)
you make me feel so good inside (good inside)
and I just wanna be (wanna be)
close to you you make me feel so alive

you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural, natural woman

you make me feel
you know you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

you know you
you make me feel
you make me feel
you make me feel
like a natural woman

natural woman

CALEXICO - The Black Light

2008-02-24T18:21:00.000+01:00

Leave the heart of the city
For the hert of the world
Leave the heart of this city
Love the way her trust unfurls
Follow her hand to the dark end of the street
Cross in the night, invisible to the electric eye
Sippin' on a little Night Train
Slippin' in to the car to stay warm
Keep moving, keep moving
Sleep by day, move at night
Keep moving
Follow her hand to the dark end of the street
Cross in the night
Become invisible in a blink of an eye
Out past the border patrol
Who's thunderbird's no match
A helicopter shadow follows you
Way out past the downtown city glow
Cross the Santa Cruz and I-10
Past the cancerous sprawl into fields of thorn
Through the Rincon Mountains and Cochise
Stronghold South of the Chiricahuas
Drifting and drifting

BOB DYLAN - Mr. Tambourine Man

2008-02-23T19:43:00.001+01:00

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though I know that evenin's empire has returned into sand,
Vanished from my hand,
Left me blindly here to stand but still not sleeping.
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet,
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip,
My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels
To be wanderin'.
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way,
I promise to go under it.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Though you might hear laughin', spinnin', swingin' madly across the sun,
It's not aimed at anyone, it's just escapin' on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facin'.
And if you hear vague traces of skippin' reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind,
I wouldn't pay it any mind, it's just a shadow you're
Seein' that he's chasing.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you.

GUNS N'ROSES - November Rain

2008-02-22T12:29:00.001+01:00

When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same

'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain

We've been through this such a long long time
Just tryin' to kill the pain

But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away

If we could take the time
to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain

Do you need some time...on your own
Do you need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...
on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone

I know it's hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you

Sometimes I need some time...on my
own
Sometimes I need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...
on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone

And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain

Don't ya think that you need somebody
Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

2008-02-22T12:26:00.001+01:00

Blood sugar sucker fish
In my dish
How many pieces
Do you wish
Step into a heaven
Where I keep it on the soulside
Girl please me
Be my soul bride
Every woman
Has a piece of Aphrodite
Copulate to create
A state of sexual light
Kissing her virginity
My affinity
I mingle with the gods
I mingle with devinity

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Glorious euphoria
Is my must
Erotic shock
Is a function of lust
Temporarily blind
Dimensions to discover
In time
Each into the other
Uncontrollable notes
From her snowwhite throat
Fill a space
In which two bodies float
Operatic by voice
A fanatic by choice
Aromatic is the flower
She must be moist

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar crazy
She has it
Sex magik sex magik
Blood sugar baby
She's magik
Sex magik sex magik

RADIOHEAD - Karma Police

2008-02-22T12:20:00.001+01:00

Karma police, arrest this man, he talks in maths
He buzzes like a fridge, hes like a detuned radio
Karma police, arrest this girl, her hitler hairdo, is making me feel ill
And we have crashed her party
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us

Karma police, Ive given all I can, its not enough
Ive given all I can, but were still on the payroll
This is what you get, this is what you get
This is what you get, when you mess with us
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

TRAFFIC - Dear Mr. Fantasy

2008-02-21T13:23:00.001+01:00

Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy
You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years

BEATLES - Love Me Do

2008-02-19T01:24:00.000+01:00

Love, love me do.
You know i love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

Love, love me do.
You know i love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

Someone to love,
Somebody new.
Someone to love,
Someone like you.

Love, love me do.
You know i love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.

Love, love me do.
You know i love you,
I'll always be true,
So please, love me do.
Whoa, love me do.
Yeah, love me do.
Whoa, oh, love me do.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - My Friends

2008-02-16T20:42:00.001+01:00

My friends are so depressed
I feel the question
Of your loneliness
Confide... `cause Ill be on your side
You know I will, you know I will

X girlfriend called me up
Alone and desperate
On the prison phone
They want... to give her 7 years
For being sad

I love all of you
Hurt by the cold
So hard and lonely too
When you dont know yourself

My friends are so distressed
And standing on
The brink of emptiness
No words... I know of to express
This emptiness

Imagine me taught by tragedy
Release is peace
I heard a little girl
And what she said
Was something beautiful
To give... your love
No matter what

GIOVANNI ALLEVI - Go With The Flow

2008-02-16T13:24:00.000+01:00

CAT POWER - New York

2008-02-14T11:49:00.002+01:00

Start spreading the news
I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York

These vagabond shoes
Are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York

I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep
To find the cream of the crop at the top of the heap

These little town blues are melting away
I'll make a brand new start of it
In old New York
If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
New York

It's up to you
New York

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

2008-02-12T23:30:00.000+01:00

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

What a curious life we have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds
Anne's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through
Your mouth to make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
And now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don't even know his name

What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all round the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL - La Storia

2008-02-12T23:26:00.000+01:00

Durante gli anni Novanta, un genio della pop music emerse dalle terre musicalmente depresse della Louisiana: no, non Britney Spears, ma Jeff Mangum, l’uomo dietro i Neutral Milk Hotel, presto destinati a divenire una delle guide della rinascita pop con Apples In Stereo e Olivia Tremor Control. I Neutral Milk Hotel debuttarono con tre cassette, Yourself A Shortcake (Elephant 6, 1991), Beauty (Elephant 6, 1992), Hype City Soundtrack (Elephant 6, 1993) e il singolo leggendario Everything Is (Cher Doll, 1994), un accattivante ritornello guidato da un semplice ritmo. Le chitarre sfocate fanno pensare a dei discepoli dei Jesus And Mary Chain, una percezione che il suono caliginoso dell’album On Avery Island (Merge, 1996) riconferma. Nonostante i memorabili ganci di Song Against Sex e Naomi, nonostante i bizzarri arrangiamenti à la Brian Wilson e Van Dyke Parks (trombone, xylophone, organ), a metà tra i Salvation Army e la musica classica, i brani migliori sono lo strumentale heavy di feedback Marching Theme e il tour de force dadaista/psichedelico di Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye.

Una migliore produzione (e una vera band) su In the Aeroplane Over The Sea (Merge, 1998) cambiano radicalmente la percezione senza cambiare radicalmente il contenuto melodico e presentano Mangum come un moderno Tom Rapp che esegue cover di Buddy Holly (ma anche del Frank Zappa di Freak Out). The King Of Carrot Flowers e Two Headed Boy sono ninnananne paradisiache.

Il collaboratore di Mangum, Julian Koster, pubblica il singolo Please Hear Mr Flight Control (Elephant 6, 1998) e l’album 1st Imaginary Symphony For Nomad (Merge, 1999) sotto la sigla Music Tapes, un album che è una sorta di collage folle e gigantesco nella vena di Virgin Forest dei Fugs.

Il batterista dei Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeremy Barnes, forma i Bablicon con Dave McDonald e Griffin Rodriguez, un trio d’avanguardia che registra In a Different City (Misra, 1999), uno strepitante, spastico, psichedelico esperimento jazz-rock che richiama Captain Beefheart (meno la voce e il blues), seguito dal più calmo mini-album Orange Tapered Moon (Misra, 2000) e A Flat Inside a Fog, the Cat That Was a Dog (Misra, 2001), un estratto gloriosamente incoerente di cacofonia ambient.

Live At Jittery Joes (2001 - Orange Twin, 2005) è un set acustico dal vivo del solo Mangum.

A Hawk And A Hacksaw è il progetto solista di Jeremy Barnes, batterista dei Neutral Milk Hotel, originario del New Mexico e poi residente in Gran Breatagna. A Hawk And A Hacksaw (2004) e Darkness At Noon (Leaf, 2005) è ispirato al folk etnico con il genere di attitudine ubriaca inventata da Tom Waits. Dopo essersi ritrasferito in New Mexico, Barnes registra The Way The Wind Blows (Leaf, 2006), che ospita il violinista klezmer Heather Trost, una collezione che prosegue il programma pan-etnico, con un tono solamente più profondo. Lo strumentale da camera The Way The Wind Blows fa perno su un toccante violino e su una melodia di fisarmonica. Fernando's Giampari è un’esuberante fantasia post-moderna di musica klezmer e di assorta danza folk. Altri pezzi sono più direttamente collegati a questa o quell’altra tradizione folk. In particolare, In The River per corni, organo, violino e fisarmonica suona come una marcia funebre slava.

tratto da www.scaruffi.com

YANN TIERSEN - Le Valse D'Amelie

2008-02-12T23:21:00.000+01:00

YANN TIERSEN - La Storia

2008-02-12T14:57:00.000+01:00

Biografia
Tiersen è nato a Brest e vive a Parigi. Da ragazzo ha studiato musica classica presso alcune accademie musicali francesi (Rennes, Nantes, Boulogne e altre), e più tardi ha fatto parte di alcune rock band. Prima di pubblicare il suo primo album, ha registrato per qualche tempo musiche di fondo per cortometraggi.

Tiersen ha raggiunto il successo in Francia nel 1998, con la pubblicazione del suo terzo album Le Phare, mentre la popolarità all'estero non è arrivata fino a quando non ha composto le musiche per il film francese Il favoloso mondo di Amélie nel 2001 (utilizzò alcune delle sue vecchie canzoni così come altre composte per il film).

Anche i film francesi La Vita Sognata degli Angeli (1998, Erick Zonca), Alice e Martin (1998, André Téchiné) e Qui Plume la Lune? (Christine Carrière, 1999), così come il film tedesco Good Bye, Lenin! (2003, Wolfgang Becker), hanno musiche composte da Tiersen.

Nei suoi album, alcune canzoni sono pezzi strumentali, mentre altre sono cantate dallo stesso Tiersen o da artisti ospiti. La lista di collaboratori di Yann Tiersen è cresciuta album dopo album (vedi la Discografia per ulteriori dettagli). Mentre componeva il suo quinto album, L'absente, Tiersen ha collaborato con Françoiz Breut e con Les Têtes Raides nei loro rispettivi album. Il suo album del 2005 Les Retrouvailles ha visto la partecipazione di Stuart A Staples, di Tindersticks e di Elizabeth Fraser, precedentemente dei Cocteau Twins; Tiersen ha suonato il piano anche nell'album solista di Staples Lucky Dog Recordings 03-04.

Le sue esibizioni dal vivo variano molto l'una dall'altra. Alcune volte è accompagnato da un'orchestra e da molti collaboratori ospiti. Altre volte, invece, offre le più frequenti sessioni minimaliste, spesso accompagnato solo da un percussionista e da un chitarrista, alternandosi continuamente tra il piano, la fisarmonica e i violini per le canzoni più melodiche, e con la chitarra elettrica per i suoi pezzi più duri. Occasionalmente, nei suoi tour, Yann Tiersen si serve dell'aiuto di Dominique A, ogni volta che questi non è occupato con i suoi lavori dal vivo o di registrazione.

tratto da it.wikipedia.org

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - Candyman

2008-02-12T10:52:00.000+01:00

Sickly sweet, his poison seeks
For the young ones who don't understand
The danger in his hands
With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink
Oh trust in me my pretty one
Come walk with me my helpless one

Candyman

Syrup lies upon your tongue
Gelatin saliva spills
A flash of a guillotine a smile

Candyman - oh Candyman

No pity for him, their misery screams
Unspeakable things

A cool missile, yes it's in his smile
With open arms to welcome you
Beware the masked pretender
He always lies, this candyman
Those lips conspire in treachery
To strike in cloak and dagger, see!

Candyman - oh Candyman

And all the children, he warns Don't tell,
Those threats are sold
With their guilt and shame they think they're to blame
For Candyman - oh Candyman

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - La Storia

2008-02-12T10:35:00.000+01:00

Gli inizi
Guidati dall'iconica Siouxsie Sioux, i Banshees hanno mosso i primi passi dal famoso "Bromley Contingent", il gruppetto di fans che seguiva i Sex Pistols. Il gruppo nacque per riempire un posto lasciato vuoto nel primo «Festival Internazionale del Punk Rock», e tenne il suo primo concerto, di cui esiste una registrazione non ufficiale, al «100 Club» di Malcolm McLaren, a Londra, il 20 settembre 1976. La formazione originaria consisteva in Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin, Marco Pirroni (che poi entrerà negli Adam and the Ants) e Sid Vicious (poi nei Sex Pistols). Spettatori presenti hanno descritto il concerto come "terribile" e "una tortura".

Nel febbraio del 1977, il gruppo, che ruotava attorno al nucleo centrale composto da Siouxsie e Severin, era diventato ormai una solida realtà nel panorama punk londinese, tanto da ottenere, quasi per acclamazione popolare, un contratto discografico con la Polydor. Nel 1978, la band pubblica il primo singolo, Hong Kong Garden (che raggiungerà la top 10 inglese, arrivando esattamente al Numero 7 - soltanto la cover di Dear Prudence dei Beatles, nel 1983, riuscirà a fare di meglio, piazzandosi sul gradino più basso del podio, al Numero 3), a cui fa sùbito séguito l'album di debutto "The Scream", contenente una rivisitazione piuttosto originale di un altro pezzo dei Beatles, Helter Skelter, e il singolo tedesco, dedicato a John Heartfield, Metal Postacard/Mittageisen.

Il titolo in lingua di quest'ultimo gioca sull'assonanza tra le parole Essen ("pasto") e Eisen ("ferro"), per cui Mittagessen, "pranzo", letteralmente "pasto di mezzogiorno", diventa Mittageisen, "ferro di mezzogiorno", canzone di evidente protesta, con un incipit piuttosto forte: «Reunion begins with a glass of mercury», "La riunione ha inizio con un bicchiere di mercurio" - non bisogna dimenticare che il padre di Siouxsie perse la vita durante la guerra nella Germania nazista, evento che ossessionerà sempre l'artista, ispirandole alcuni dei suoi pezzi migliori.

Il secondo album, "Join Hands", viene pubblicato nel 1979, e include la versione completa (lunga circa 20 minuti) di The Lord's Prayer, una canzone che i Banshees avevano proposto anche nel loro primo concerto, in una versione assolutamente caotica e improvvisata, mischiando testi di canzoni famose come Smoke on the Water e Twist and Shout. Due giorni prima del debutto del tour promozionale per l'album, due componenti (John McKay e Kenny Morris), lasciano all'improvviso il gruppo, costringendo i rimanenti a reclutare in tutta fretta Robert Smith, chitarrista del gruppo di supporto The Cure, e Budgie, precedentemente nei The Slits e nei Big in Japan. Budgie non lascerà mai più i Banshees, mentre Robert Smith alla fine del tour verrà sostituito da John McGeoch.

Gli anni ottanta
Ad ogni modo, la relazione di Smith con il gruppo sarà complessa e molto prolungata: infatti, Robert tornerà nel 1982, a causa delle gravi condizioni fisiche di McGeoch, dopo la pubblicazione degli album "Kaleidoscope" (1980), "Juju" (1981), "A Kiss in the Dreamhouse" (1982), eclettica trilogia che produce una manciata di singoli tra i più amati dai fans (basti solo ricordare Christine, Happy House, Arabian Knights, Spellbound e Melt!), nessuno dei quali entra però nella Top 20, fatto che non sembra però preoccupare troppo il gruppo, come testimonia un'accesa discussione, che si consuma, in un continuo ed appassionante botta e risposta, sulla carta stampata, tra i membri dei Banshees, guidati da Siouxsie, e quelli del gruppo pop del momento, i Culture Club, capitanati dall'androgino Boy George, anche lui, peraltro, un ex punk.[1]

Nel 1983, il gruppo si prende una pausa, dividendosi in due coppie: Siouxsie e Budgie formeranno il progetto The Creatures, pubblicando l'album, "Feast", mentre Steven Severin forma il duo The Glove con Robert Smith, pubblicando il long playing "Blue Sunshine". Successivamente, la band torna a lavorare congiuntamente, producendo il live "Nocturne" (doppio vinile, uscito nel 1983, poi ristampato su un unico CD) e l'album "Hyaena" (1984), da cui vengono estratti Dazzle e Swimming Horses. Alla fine del 1984, Smith se ne andrà di nuovo, per concentrarsi definitivamente sulla sua band, The Cure, che attraversava all'epoca una fase di acuta crisi, arrivando a un passo dallo scioglimento, costringendo i Banshees a cercare un nuovo chitarrista: alla fine, Robert verrà sostituito da John Valentine Carruthers.

Nel 1986, viene pubblicato "Tinderbox", il lavoro che dà a Siouxsie and the Banshees una prima vera visibilità popolare al livello nazionale anche in Italia, soprattutto grazie ai due singoli Cities in Dust e Candyman. Nel 1987, escono invece il singolo isolato Song From the Edge of the World (Smith torna di nuovo per una partecipazione sporadica) e l'album di cover "Through the Looking Glass", da cui vengono estratte This wheel's on fire di Bob Dylan e The Passenger di Iggy Pop. Il long playing contiene anche rivisitazioni di pezzi di Kraftwerk, Billie Holiday, The Doors e Roxy Music, nonché la chicca rappresentata da una versione gothic della canzone della colonna sonora del film di Walt Disney "Il libro della giungla", Trust in Me, cantata, nella pellicola, dal personaggio del serpente Kaa (doppiato da Sterling Holloway).

Gli ultimi lavori
Dopo un'altra pausa, in cui i The Creatures pubblicano intanto "Boomerang", i Banshees cominciano la parte finale della loro carriera, in cui hanno raggiunto ormai una elevata notorietà, pubblicando i tre album "Peepshow", nel 1988 (collezione di gioiellini acustici, che contiene uno dei brani più famosi in assoluto della band, la percussiva Peek-a-Boo,[2] e gli altri due singoli estratti, The Killing Jar e The Last Beat of My Heart), "Superstition", nel 1991 (prodotto da Stephen Hague, maggiormente orientato verso ritmi quasi ballabili e melodie più aperte, al punto che dei tre singoli, Kiss Them for Me, Shadowtime e Fear (Of the Unknown), quest'ultimo esce in una versione remix addirittura techno) e "The Rapture", nel 1995 (l'ultimo album di inediti di studio realizzato dal gruppo, prima dello scioglimento, l'anno successivo, con i singoli O Baby e Stargazer, e una delle migliori interpretazioni in assoluto di Siouxsie, l'amara ballad intitolata Sick child, indubbiamente un singolo mancato). Questi ultimi tre lavori, così come il singolo isolato Face to Face, inserito nella colonna sonora del film "Batman - Il ritorno", vengono realizzati tutti con la formazione composta, oltre che da Siouxsie, Severin e Budgie, dal tastierista e violoncellista Martin McCarrick e dal chitarrista Jon Klein.

Attività dopo lo scioglimento
Nell'aprile del 1996, il gruppo decide di sciogliersi, in polemica risposta al revival punk che sta prendendo forma in quel periodo, testimoniato anche dal riformarsi dei Sex Pistols di Johnny Rotten. Siouxsie e Budgie, sposatisi nel frattempo, nel 1991, si concentrano a tempo pieno sul loro progetto The Creatures, mentre Severin fonda la propria etichetta, RE:, per la quale produce lavori sperimentali, colonne sonore di opere cinematografiche e teatrali, nonché dischi per altri artisti.

Nel 2002, però, un invito a suonare da parte del Coachella Music & Arts Festival, che si tiene annualmente in California, ha dato vita a un tour con la formazione originale, chiamato «Seven Year Itch Tour», accompagnato successivamente da un "Best Of" e dal CD/DVD, registrato nelle serate di Londra, intitolato "The Seven Year Itch", che ripropone, a sorpresa, brani meno noti del repertorio della band.

La tournée non porta però alla riunione della band, anzi, avviene esattamente l'opposto: il giorno dopo la conclusione dell'ultimo concerto, Siouxsie e Budgie si chiudono in studio, e cominciano a lavorare al successivo, terzo album dei The Creatures, "Hai!", specie di concept dai temi nipponici (il primo "Feast" era invece improntato a sonorità hawaiane), che esce nel 2003 - l'edizione limitata contiene anche un DVD intitolato «Tokyo Drum Session», che riprende, in modo piuttosto statico, peraltro, una lunga improvvisazione del batterista con un ospite locale d'eccezione; con divertita curiosità, una Siouxsie dai capelli cortissimi si limita a guardare, fuori scena, il compagno al lavoro.

Nel 2004, esce l'attesissimo "Downside Up", un cofanetto di 4 CD, contenente lati B e rarità, come l'EP The Thorn, del 1984. Nel 2005, ha avuto invece inizio il progetto discografico delle ristampe digitali, che vedrà periodicamente ripubblicato ogni album di studio del gruppo, a partire da "The Scream", ciascuno dei quali arricchito da contenuti speciali, demo e inediti.

Il 10 settembre 2007, Siouxsie Sioux ha pubblicato il suo primo album solista, intitolato "Mantaray", per l'etichetta Universal, contenente 10 nuovi brani. Della band fanno parte, tra gli altri: Steve Evans, alle chitarre e alla programmazione, Charlie Jones, al basso, al piano Rhodes e ai sintetizzatori, Clive Deamer, alla batteria, oltre, ovviamente, Siouxsie alla voce. Le canzoni sono state scritte tutte dalla cantante assieme ai vari componenti della band (tranne One mile below, che ha realizzato da sola), e prodotte da Steve Evans e Charlie Jones, attivi nell'album, oltre che come musicisti, anche nella co-composizione dei brani.

Per promuovere l'album, l'artista ha scelto di utilizzare il solo nome d'arte, Siouxsie, mettendo da parte sia il cognome fittizio, Sioux, che il suo nome di battesimo, Susan Janet. Tra l'altro, alcune volte, i Banshees hanno realizzato dei concerti in incognito, proprio sotto il nome di «Janet and the Icebergs».

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DIAFRAMMA - Siberia

2008-02-12T10:32:00.000+01:00

Il ghiaccio si confonde
con il cielo, con gli occhi
e quando il buio si avvicina
vorrei rapire il freddo
in un giorno di sole
che potrebbe tornare in un attimo solo.

Forse stanotte,
se avro' attraversato
la strada che non posso vedere
poi in un momento
copriro' le distanze
per raggiungere il fuoco
vivo sotto la neve.

I nostri occhi impauriti
nelle stanze gelate,
al chiarore del petrolio bruciato
e oltre il muro il silenzio,
oltre il muro solo ghiaccio e silenzio.

Aspettero' questa notte pensandoti,
nascondendo nella neve il respiro,
poi in un momento diverso dagli altri
io copriro' il peso di queste distanze...
di queste distanze... di queste distanze...
Di queste distanze...

DIAFRAMMA - La Storia

2008-02-12T10:16:00.000+01:00

I Diaframma sono uno dei gruppi più rappresentativi della famosa scena fiorentina degli anni ottanta.

Sono arrivati fino ai giorni nostri dopo numerosi cambi di formazione e un temporaneo scioglimento: tuttora l'unico componente rimasto è il cantante, chitarrista e autore Federico Fiumani, perno da sempre della formazione. Da ricordare anche il primo cantante Nicola Vannini e il secondo Miro Sassolini, quest'ultimo voce nei primi tre album della band: Siberia, 3 Volte Lacrime e Boxe.
Dalla darkwave degli esordi, i Diaframma si sono via via orientati verso un punk rock cantautoriale. Durante i vari cambi di formazione, diversi musicisti hanno contribuito alla vita della band, sia in studio che in tour: Daniele Trambusti, Alessandro Gerbi, Gianni Cerone, Alessio Riccio (batteria), Simone Giuliani (tastiere/voce), Alessandro Gherardi (tastiere), Guido Melis, Riccardo "Foggy" Biliotti (basso).

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JANIS JOPLIN - La Storia

2008-02-12T01:40:00.000+01:00

Biografia
Il padre della Joplin era un'ingegnere della Texaco, mentre la madre era impiegata di un college. La famiglia era composta anche dai fratelli Michael e Laura. Da giovane divenne amica di Jim Langdon e Grant Lyons. Lyons fu il primo a farle conoscere il blues. Iniziò quindi a cantare nel coro cittadino e ad ascoltare artisti come Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Odetta e Big Mama Thornton. Durante la frequentazione della Thomas Jefferson High School il suo interesse primario era il disegno, e solo successivamente iniziò a cantare blues e folk insieme ad alcuni amici, accompagnandosi con l'autoharp nei club di Austin, Beaumont e dintorni. Si diplomò nel 1960 e si iscrisse alla Università del Texas di Austin, anche se alla fine non ottenne nessuna laurea. In quel periodo visse in una costruzione comunemente chiamata "The Ghetto" che si trovava al 2812 1/2 di Nueces Street. L'affitto era di 40 dollari al mese.

Lo stile emancipato che la Joplin ostentava in quel periodo era ispirato principalmente dalle sue cantanti blues preferite e dai poeti beat. A venti anni si trasferì in California, a San Francisco, vivendo prima a North Beach e successivamente a Haight-Ashbury, inseguendo gli ideali di Peace & Love che a breve avrebbero portato all'esplosione del movimento Hippy. A Haight-Ashbury visse nello stessa abitazione insieme al campione di scacchi Jude Acers. Il 25 giugno del 1964, la Joplin ed il futuro chitarrista dei Jefferson Airplane Jorma Kaukonen registrarono alcuni standard blues, dove in sottofondo si può sentire una macchina da scrivere (la moglie di Kaukonen stava scrivendo, da qui il titolo del bootleg: The Typewriter Tape) Queste session vennero incise con un registratore a bobine mono, e includevano sette brani: Typewriter Talk, Trouble In Mind, Kansas City Blues, Hesitation Blues, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy e Long Black Train Blues. Altre registrazioni di quei primi anni si possono trovare nella raccolta Janis, The Early Performances del 1974 e Janis del 1993, incluse le tracce What Good Can Drinkin' Do, Mary Jane e No Reason For Livin'.

Nel 1966 entrò a far parte della band Big Brother and the Holding Company, un gruppo di musicisti della bay area che cercava una cantante. Dopo diversi concerti effettuati in vari locali della California, nel giugno del 1967 con la partecipazione al Festival Pop di Monterey avviene il trionfo dell'artista che eseguì con personalità e spirito infuocato un'indimenticabile versione del brano Ball and Chain (Big mama Thornton).

Oltre ad uno stile originale di canto, ispirato dalle grandi cantanti nere di blues, e mediato dall'incredibile personalità vocale dell'artista, dotata di una voce potente, abrasiva,appassionata e struggente, capace di escursioni vocali incredibili, la Joplin, trasformava i brani fino a stravolgerli (ascoltare la versione della pop song dei Bee Gees To Love Somebody, per esempio) offrendo delle interpretazioni assolutamente sincere, cariche di dolore, gioia, melanconia, passione, rabbia furente, senza mediazioni, se non la voce: una voce alla cartavetrata, fortemente emotiva e assolutamente commovente, una voce che toccava e tocca le corde profonde dell'animo umano per la sua sensibilità per il suo provenire direttamente dal cuore e arrivare al cuore e all'anima dell'ascoltatore. Come disse un suo amico: una volta che ascolti quella voce, non la potrai più dimenticare.

Nessuno poteva resistere a quella voce, e il pubblico e la critica di Monterey furono il contesto adeguato perché la voce e la presenza scenica di quella ragazza venuta dal Texas fossero riconosciute e apprezzate. Da quel momento la scalata nel firmamento rock fu quasi immediata: Joplin fu la prima donna a infrangere la cultura "prevalentemente maschile" che troneggiava nel mondo del rock. Nel 1968 incise Cheap Thrills, secondo album del gruppo (tra i brani una cover di Summertime di Gershwin e Piece of my Heart) che entrò velocemente nella classifica di Billboard, raggiungendo il n. 1 e mantenendo tale posizione per otto settimane.

L'anno seguente si mise in proprio scegliendo un nuovo gruppo d'accompagnamento, la Kozmic Blues Band, con il quale pubblicò l'album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! in cui la Joplin fa mostra della propria grandezza di performer e in alcuni brani raggiunge vette interpretative da brivido (Kozmic blues, Little girl blue, Maybe, Work me Lord). Poi cambiò ancora gruppo scegliendo la Full-Tilt Boogie Band: l'album Pearl fu pubblicato postumo nel gennaio 1971, entrò subito in classifica al n. 1 mantenendo tale posizione per 9 settimane. Il primo singolo tratto dall'album fu Me and Bobby McGee che raggiunse il primo posto nella classifica dei singoli, ma vi sono altri brani di rara bellezza e intensità, Cry baby, Get it while you can, Mercedes Benz, Trust me, My baby. Pearl è il testamento di una grande performer, un'artista unica, irripetibile, tutt'ora riconosciuta come la più grande cantante bianca di blues di tutti i tempi. Il 4 ottobre 1970 Janis Joplin fu trovata morta nella stanza di un motel di Los Angeles, stroncata da una overdose di eroina in seguito alla quale cadde a faccia in terra rompendosi il volto. Riconosciuta e ricordata per la sua grandezza e unicità di performer, nel 1995 e' stata inserita nella Rock and Roll Hall of fame e nel 2005 è stata insignita del Grammy Award alla carriera.

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AEROSMITH - Pink

2008-02-11T13:04:00.000+01:00

Pink its my new obsession
Pink its not even a question,
Pink, on the lips of your lover, cause
Pink is the love you discover

Pink as the bing on your cherry
Pink cause you are so very
Pink its the color of passion
cause today it just goes with the fashion

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do...

Tonight you could be my flamingo
coz pink is the new kinda of lingo
Pink like a deco umbrella
Its kink - but you dont ever tell her

Pink it was love at first sight, and
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink gets me high as a kite
And I think everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

I want to be your lover
I wanna wrap you in rubber
As pink as the sheets that we lay on
Pink its my favorite crayon, yeah

Pink it was love at first sight
Pink when I turn out the light
Pink its like red but not quite
And I think, everything is going to be all right
No matter what we do tonight

AEROSMITH - La Storia

2008-02-11T12:20:00.000+01:00

Esordi
Il gruppo si forma nel 1969 a Sunapee, nel New Hampshire (U.S.A), dall'incontro di Joe Perry e Tom Hamilton con Steven Tyler. La prima formazione del 1970 vede Steven Tyler (voce), Joe Perry (chitarra), Tom Hamilton (basso), Joey Kramer (batteria), e Ray Tabano (chitarra). Nel 1971 Brad Whitford subentra a Ray Tabano, anche se Tabano resterà vicino alla band disegnandone anche il logo. Il debut-album omonimo della band esce negli U.S.A. il 13 gennaio 1973, album tra hard rock e blues rock, che contiene già grandi classici come Mama Kin e la ballata Dream On. L'esordio è seguito nel 1974 da Get Your Wings tra i primi esempi di hard rock americano.

Il successo
Ma è nel 1975 che gli Aerosmith esplodono anche sotto il profilo commerciale, esce Toys in the Attic (11° posto negli States). L'album che ad oggi ha venduto circa 8 milioni di copie è il primo capolavoro della band ed include classici come Sweet Emotion e Walk this Way. Nel 1976 gli Aerosmith scrivono un'altra pagina della storia della musica Hard Rock, esce "Rocks" che arriva al 3° posto di Billboard, viene considerato da artisti quali Slash dei Guns N' Roses, uno dei più grandi album di tutti i tempi e grande fonte di ispirazione. Il successo dei due capolavori porta gli Aerosmith a diventare nella Columbia Records, tra gli artisti più importanti del tempo ed ad avviare una tournee in stadi e arene degli States. Nel 1977 esce Draw the Line album buono, ma non ai livelli dei due precedenti, e che comunque vende 3 milioni di copie negli States, tra i brani spicca la traccia omonima all'album.

Gli Aerosmith tornano in tour ma iniziano a passare agli onori della cronaca anche per la droga della quale fanno sempre più uso, in modo particolare i due front-men del gruppo Steven Tyler e Joe Perry che verrano denominati The Toxic Twins (i gemelli tossici). Al termine di un estenuante tour nell'ottobre 1978 esce il primo live della band Live! Bootleg. Nel 1979 esce Night in the Ruts sesto album in studio della band, nella line-up che appare sul disco è ancora presente Joe Perry ma in realtà il chitarrista dopo un litigio con gli altri membri della band, lascia il gruppo e buona parte delle registrazioni vengono fatte dal suo sostituto Jimmy Crespo e dall'amico compositore della band Richie Supa. Tranne qualche episodio, tipo Chiquita e la cover Remember, l'album è piuttosto deludente anche se comunque raggiunge il 14° posto negli States.

Gli anni della crisi
Nuovo tour ma anche tanti problemi di droga per i membri. Joe Perry nel frattempo esce con un album solista, Let the music do the talking (marzo 1980) che riscuote un discreto successo. Da solista Joe Perry con il suo Project (The Joe Perry Project è il nome della sua band), sfornerà altri due album nel 1981 e 1983 entrambi meno fortunati dell'esordio. Nell'ottobre del 1980, gli Aerosmith tornano a cavalcare le classifiche esce il Greatest Hits, ad oggi solo negli States ha venduto circa 10 milioni di copie. Nel 1981 anche Brad Whitford lascia la band per un progetto solista viene rimpiazzato da Rick Dufay. Dopo varie peripezie nel 1982 esce il settimo album in studio della band, il primo con i due nuovi chitarristi, Rock in a Hard Place, album duro con degli ottimi episodi ma che comunque non riporta ai fasti della metà degli anni settanta la band sia sotto il profilo di vendite che sotto il profilo compositivo. Il tour dell'album viene soprattutto ricordato per un collasso sul palco del cantante Steven Tyler.

Il momento negativo della band ed i non ottimi risultati dei progetti solisti di Joe Perry e Brad Whitford fecero riavvicinare il nucleo storico della band nel 1984. Era il 14 febbraio quando Perry e Whitford a sorpresa visitarono il resto della band dopo un concerto a Boston[13], portando a uno storico e magico ricongiungimento. Steven Tyler ricorda: "Avreste dovuto provare quella sensazione nel momento in cui tutti e cinque ci trovammo insieme nella stessa stanza di nuovo per la prima volta. Iniziammo tutti a ridere — era come se quei cinque anni non fossero mai passati. Sapevamo che era la scelta giusta". Presto la band partì in tour con il "Back In The Saddle Tour". Nello stesso anno la band lascia la sua etichetta storica la Columbia e passa alla Geffen. L'esordio in Geffen non è dei migliori, Done with Mirrors non è un brutto album, anzi la critica lo elogia ma il riscontro commerciale non arriva. Intanto la Columbia lancia sul mercato due live della band: Classics Live! I e Classics Live! II (Columbia 1986 e 1987). La svolta per la band arriva nel 1986, il gruppo rap Run DMC ripropone un classico degli Aerosmith, Walk this Way, riconosciuto come uno dei primi pezzi crossover/rap rock, al video partecipano anche Tyler e Perry, è il rilancio della band.

Svolta sonora
Dopo il rilancio, la carriera degli Aerosmith è nettamente in ascesa, nel 1987 esce Permanent Vacation, che connota un chiaro sound sulle scie del hair metal, genere che domina gli anni ottanta. Questo album sarà il primo di una serie di questo genere, seguito da Pump (1989) e Get a Grip (1993) entrambi ottimi album, e riconosciuti come tra i più acclamati del gruppo. Sarà un buon periodo per la band che nel 1997 con Nine Lives, comincia a variare il sound riconducendosi a sonorità più moderne e rafforzando la presenza di elementi pop rock, distinguendosi sempre più dai precedenti. Le vendite del gruppo infatti caleranno. Nel 1998 partecipano alla colonna sonora del film Armageddon nel quale recita Liv Tyler figlia di Steven, la ballad I don't want to miss a thing, brano principale di tutta la colonna sonora, sarà numero 1 negli States per 4 settimane e sarà il primo singolo in assoluto della band a raggiungere la vetta di Billboard. Nella colonna sonora del film ci sono altre 3 tracce della band Sweet Emotion, Come Together cover dei Beatles e l'inedita What kind of love are you on. Segue l'album Just Push Play (2001), anch'esso un album sulla scia del precedente, forse con un ulteriore presenza Pop rock sul commerciale che lascia perplessi i vecchi sostenitori del gruppo. Nel 2004 esce Honkin' on Bobo, un album composto da cover di artisti Blues/Blues Rock degli anni settanta, l'album si contrappone quindi ai due precedenti dal sound pop, per tornare sulle orme del vecchio Blues Rock di un tempo.

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AC/DC - Back in Black

2008-02-10T12:40:00.000+01:00

Back in black, I hit the sack,
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm let loose from the noose,
That's kept me hangin' about
I been livin like a star 'cause it's gettin' me high,
Forget the hearse, 'cause I never die
I got nine lives, cat's eyes
abusing every one of them and running wild

'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!

Back in a band,i got Cadillac,
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
Yes I'm in a band with a gang,
they gotta catch me if they want me to hang
'Cause I'm back on the track and I'm beatin' the flack,
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now, I'm just a makin' my pay,
Don't try to push your luck, just get outta my way

'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yeah, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!
Let's go!

[Solo]

Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black-ow!

Aww yeah! Let's go!
Keep on goin'! Yeah yeah!
Yeah... aww yeah yeah!
Here we go!

Well, I'm baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (Well, I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack...
Yes, back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black...

Outta sight!

WHITESNAKE - Here I Go Again

2008-02-10T12:33:00.000+01:00

I dont know where Im going
But, I sure know where Ive been
Hanging on the promises
In songs of yesterday
An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time
But, here I go again
Here I go again

Tho I keep searching for an answer,
I never seem to find what Im looking for
Oh lord, I pray
You give me strength to carry on,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

Im just another heart in need of rescue,
Waiting on loves sweet charity
An Im gonna hold on
For the rest of my days,
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go...

An Ive made up my mind,
I aint wasting no more time

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
cos I know what it means
To walk along the lonely street of dreams

An here I go again on my own
Goin down the only road Ive ever known,
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
An Ive made up my mind
I aint wasting no more time...

But, here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go again,
Here I go,
Here I go again...

GUNS N'ROSES - Don't Cry

2008-02-10T12:22:00.000+01:00

Talk to me softly
There is something in your eyes
Don't hang your head in sorrow
And please don't cry
I know how you feel inside I've
I've been there before
Somethin is changin' inside you
And don't you know

Don't you cry tonight
I still love you baby
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

Give me a whisper
And give me a sign
Give me a kiss before you
tell me goodbye
Don't you take it so hard now
And please don't take it so bad
I'll still be thinkin' of you
And the times we had...baby

And don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
Don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry tonight

And please remember that I never lied
And please remember
how I felt inside now honey
You gotta make it your own way
But you'll be alright now sugar
You'll feel better tomorrow
Come the morning light now baby

And don't you cry tonight
And don't you cry tonight
And don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight
Baby maybe someday
Don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry
Tonight

LED ZEPPELIN - Stairway To Heaven

2008-02-10T12:04:00.000+01:00

There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying the stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying the stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying the stairway to heaven.

BJORK - It's Oh So Quiet

2008-02-10T12:00:00.000+01:00

it's. oh. so quiet
it'a oh. so still
you're all alone
and so peaceful until...

you fall in love
zing boom
the sky up above
zing boom
is caving in
wow bam
you've never been so nuts about a guy
you wanna laugh you wanna cry
you cross your heart and hope to die

'til it's over and then
it's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot

you blow a fuse
zing boom
the devil cuts loose
zing boom
so what's the use
wow bam
of falling in love

it's. oh. so quiet
it's. oh. so still
you're all alone
and so peaceful until...

you ring the bell
bim bam
you shout and you yell
hi ho ho
you broke the spell
gee. this is swell you almost have a fit
this guy is "gorge" and i got hit
there's no mistake this is it

'til it's over and then
it's nice and quiet
but soon again
starts another big riot

you blow a fuse
zing boom
the devil cuts loose
zing boom
so what's the use
wow bam
of falling in love

the sky caves in
the devil cuts loose
you blow blow blow blow blow your fuse
when you've fallen in love

ssshhh...

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Give It Away

2008-02-10T11:53:00.000+01:00

What I've got you've got to give it to your mamma
What I've got you've got to give it to your pappa
What I've got you've got to give it to your daughter
You do a little dance and then you drink a little water

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
What I've got you've got to get it put it in you
Reeling with the feeling don't stop continue

Realize I don't want to be a miser
Confide w/sly you'll be the wiser
Young blood is the lovin' upriser
How come everybody wanna keep it like the kaiser

[Chorus]
Give it away give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away give it away now
Give it away give it away give it away give it away now
I can't tell if I'm a kingpin or a pauper

Greedy little people in a sea of distress
Keep your more to receive your less
Unimpressed by material excess
Love is free love me say hell yes

I'm a low brow but I rock a little know how
No time for the piggies or the hoosegow
Get smart get down with the pow wow
Never been a better time than right now

Bob Marley poet and a prophet
Bob Marley taught me how to off it
Bob Marley walkin' like he talk it
Goodness me can't you see I'm gonna cough it

[Chorus]

Lucky me swimmin' in my ability
Dancin' down on life with agility
Come and drink it up from my fertility
Blessed with a bucket of lucky mobility

My mom I love her 'cause she love me
Long gone are the times when she scrub me
Feelin' good my brother gonna hug me
Drink my juice young love chug-a-lug me

There's a river born to be a giver
Keep you warm won't let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
Come on everybody time to deliver

[Chorus]

MUSE - New Born

2008-02-10T11:47:00.000+01:00

Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like a birth squeeze
The love for what you hide
The bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born
When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Hopeless time to roam
The distance to your home
Fades away to nowhere
How much are you worth
You can't come down to earth
You're swelling up, you're unstoppable

'cause you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting our last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
'cause I'm drifting away
Away from you

Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like it's a birth squeeze
And the love for what you hide
And the bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born

When you've seen, seen
Too much, too young, young
Soulless is everywhere

Destroy the spineless
Show me it's real
Wasting their last chance
To come away
Just break the silence
'cause I'm drifting away
Away from you

PORTISHEAD - Glory Box

2008-02-10T11:37:00.000+01:00

I'm so tired, of playing
Playing with this bow and arrow
Gonna give my heart away
Leave it to the other girls to play
For I've been a temptress too long

Just. .

Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be, a woman
I just wanna be a woman

From this time, unchained
We're all looking at a different picture
Thru this new frame of mind
A thousand flowers could bloom
Move over, and give us some room

Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be, a woman
I just wanna be a woman

[INSTRUMENTAL]

So don't you stop, being a man
Just take a little look from our side when you can
Sow a little tenderness
No matter if you cry

Give me a reason to love you
Give me a reason to be, a woman
Its all I wanna be is all woman

For this is the beginning of forever and ever

Its time to move over...

SAMUELE BERSANI - Giudizi Universali

2008-02-09T21:54:00.000+01:00

Troppo cerebrale per capire che si può star bene senza complicare il pane,
ci si spalma sopra un bel giretto di parole vuote ma doppiate
Mangiati le bolle di sapone intorno al mondo e quando dormo taglia bene l'aquilone,
togli la ragione e lasciami sognare, lasciami sognare in pace
Liberi com'eravamo ieri, dei centimetri di libri sotto i piedi
per tirare la maniglia della porta e andare fuori,
come Mastroianni anni fa, come la voce guida la pubblicità
ci sono stati dei momenti intensi ma li ho persi già.

Troppo cerebrale per capire che si può star bene senza calpestare il cuore
ci si passa sopra almeno due o tre volte i piedi come sulle aiuole
Leviamo via il tappeto e poi mettiamoci dei pattini per scivolare meglio sopra l'odio
Torre di controllo, aiuto, sto finendo l'aria dentro al serbatoio

Potrei ma non voglio fidarmi di te
io non ti conosco e in fondo non c'è
in quello che dici qualcosa che pensi
sei solo la copia di mille riassunti
Leggera leggera si bagna la fiamma
rimane la cera e non ci sei più...

Vuoti di memoria, non c'è posto per tenere insieme tutte le puntate di una storia
piccolissimo particolare, ti ho perduto senza cattiveria
Mangiati le bolle di sapone intorno al mondo e quando dormo taglia bene l'aquilone
togli la ragione e lasciami sognare, lasciami sognare in pace
Libero com'ero stato ieri ho dei centimetri di cielo sotto ai piedi
adesso tiro la maniglia della porta e vado fuori
come Mastroianni anni fa, sono una nuvola, fra poco pioverà
e non c'è niente che mi sposta o vento che mi sposterà

Potrei ma non voglio fidarmi di te
io non ti conosco e in fondo non c'è
in quello che dici qualcosa che pensi
sei solo la copia di mille riassunti
Leggera leggera si bagna la fiamma
rimane la cera e non ci sei più, non ci sei più, non ci sei.

FRANCO BATTIATO - Voglio Vederti Danzare

2008-02-09T21:52:00.000+01:00

Voglio vederti danzare
come le zingare del deserto
con candelabri in testa
o come le balinesi nei giorni di festa.
Voglio vederti danzare
come i Dervisches Tourners
che girano sulle spine dorsali
o al suono di cavigliere del Katakali.
E gira tutt'intorno la stanza
mentre si danza, danza
e gira tutt'intorno la stanza
mentre si danza.
E Radio Tirana trasmette
musiche balcaniche, mentre
danzatori bulgari
a piedi nudi sui braceri ardenti.
Nell'Irlanda del nord
nelle balere estive
coppie di anziani che ballano
al ritmo di sette ottavi.
Gira tutt'intorno la stanza
mentre si danza, danza.
E gira tutt'intorno la stanza
mentre si danza.
Nei ritmi ossessivi la chiave dei riti tribali
regni di sciamani
e suonatori zingari ribelli.
Nella Bassa Padana
nelle balere estive
coppie di anziani che ballano
vecchi Valzer Viennesi

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Only Shallow

2008-02-09T21:43:00.000+01:00

Sleep
Like a pillow
Down(ward)
And

(Where)
She won't care
Anyway (where)

Soft
As a pillow
Touch her there
Where she won't dare
Somewhere
Sleep
Like a (royal)
(subject)

Think
That you grew
Stronger there

Speak
Your trouble(s)
She's not sc(ared)
Soft like there's silk
Everywhere
Sleep
(is a) pillow
Come

Where she won't dare
Anyway (where)

(Look)
In the mirror
She's not there
Where she won't care
Somewhere

PIXIES - Where Is My Mind

2008-02-08T12:59:00.000+01:00

Oh - stop

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
But there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind
Where is my mind
Where is my mind

Way out in the water
See it swimmin'

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except the little fish
But they told me, he swears
Tryin' to talk to me, coy koi.

Where is my mind
Where is my mind
Where is my mind

Way out in the water
See it swimmin' ?

With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse
If there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself

Where is my mind
Where is my mind
Where is my mind

Oh
With your feet in the air and your head on the ground
Oh
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Oh
Oh

PATTI SMITH - People Have The Power

2008-02-08T12:49:00.000+01:00

I was dreaming in my dreaming
of an aspect bright and fair
and my sleeping it was broken
but my dream it lingered near
in the form of shining valleys
where the pure air recognized
and my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
that the people / have the power
to redeem / the work of fools
upon the meek / the graces shower
it's decreed / the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
and bending low as if to hear
and the armies ceased advancing
because the people had their ear
and the shepherds and the soldiers
lay beneath the stars
exchanging visions
and laying arms
to waste / in the dust
in the form of / shining valleys
where the pure air / recognized
and my senses / newly opened
I awakened / to the cry

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
like cream the waters rise
and we strolled there together
with none to laugh or criticize
and the leopard
and the lamb
lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
to recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
god knows / a purer view
as I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power
People have the power ...

AEROSMITH - Dream On

2008-02-07T13:13:00.000+01:00

Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It goes by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life
is in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dreams come true
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dream comes through
Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream On Dream On
Dream On Dream On

Sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET - Take Five

2008-02-07T12:56:00.000+01:00

RADIOHEAD - Idioteque

2008-02-07T12:44:00.000+01:00

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first
Women and children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker
I've seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen enough
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time
Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both

Ice age coming, ice age coming
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time
Background:
The first of the children

SUPERTRAMP - Breakfast In America

2008-02-06T16:44:00.000+01:00

Take a look at my girlfriend
Shes the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot

Take a jumbo across the water
Like to see america
See the girls in california
Im hoping its going to come true
But theres not a lot I can do

Could we have kippers for breakfast
Mummy dear, mummy dear
They got to have em in texas
Cos everyones a millionaire

Im a winner, Im a sinner
Do you want my autograph
Im a loser, what a joker
Im playing my jokes upon you
While theres nothing better to do

Dont you look at my girlfriend
Shes the only one I got
Not much of a girlfriend
Never seem to get a lot

Take a jumbo cross the water
Like to see america
See the girls in california
Im hoping its going to come true
But theres not a lot I can do

THE CLASH - London Calling

2008-02-06T16:38:00.000+01:00

London calling to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared-and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls
London calling, now dont look at us
All that phoney beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we aint got no swing
cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

(Chorus)
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, an go it alone
London calling upon the zombies of death
Quit holding out-and draw another breath
London calling-and I dont wanna shout
But when we were talking-i saw you nodding out
London calling, see we aint got no highs
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

(Chorus)

Now get this
London calling, yeah, I was there, too
An you know what they said? well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, wont you give me a smile?

I never felt so much a like

POGUES - Dirty Old Town

2008-02-06T14:36:00.000+01:00

I met my love by the gas works wall
Dreamed a dream by the old canal
Kissed a girl by the factory wall
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Clouds a drifting across the moon
Cats a prowling on their beat
Springs a girl in the street at night
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Heard a siren from the docks
Saw a train set the night on fire
Smelled the spring on the smoky wind
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

Im going to make me a good sharp axe
Shining steel tempered in the fire
Will chop you down like an old dead tree
Dirty old town
Dirty old town

VELVET UNDERGROUND - Sunday Morning

2008-02-06T14:26:00.000+01:00

Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

JANIS JOPLIN - Summertime

2008-02-06T13:32:00.001+01:00

Summertime, time, time,
Child, the living’s easy.
Fish are jumping out
And the cotton, Lord,
Cotton’s high, Lord, so high.

Your daddy’s rich
And your ma is so good-looking, baby.
She’s looking good now,
Hush, baby, baby, baby, baby, baby,
No, no, no, no, don’t you cry.
Don’t you cry!

One of these mornings
You’re gonna rise, rise up singing,
You’re gonna spread your wings,
Child, and take, take to the sky,
Lord, the sky.

But until that morning
Honey, n-n-nothing’s going to harm you now,
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Don’t you cry,
Cry.