And my head told my heart 'Let love grow' But my heart told my head 'This time no, this time no...'
Winter winds - Mumford & Sons
Today I finally gave a turn to the music I've been listening to (and the music in the office has changed too finally). I was actually struck by the ease with which I passed from Mumford & Sons to Muse, from other recent pop stuff to These boots are made for walking to finally Natalie Imbruglia (that's what I'm listening to now), all of this without losing even for a second the great pleasure I've been feeling throughout this late morning of music.
Still, I'm sticking to this song for my post of today, first because I really love it, second because it means a lot to me, third because I decided I would post it while listening to it, I don't know why but I feel it is particularly good for today (even if it's not my absolute favourite of the Mumfords, nor the most meaningful and nor even the one giving me the strongest feelings while listening to it today). But, you see... life is seldom about the best, the most, the first, etc. Oftentimes happiness lays in the ability to get satisfied with what is good enough. Isn't it?
In the last few days at work we've been having the same playlist in repeat mode over and over (and over and over) again. Luckily enough most of the songs up there are quite good, but now it's starting to become a little bit too much...! Anyway, there's lots or R.E.M. there, and this has brought me to listen to a lot of R.E.M. myself lately, so it makes sense to feature one of their songs here now. This is one of the songs of the playlist I mentioned and is actually one of their most famous tracks too; it is also my favourite song out of one of my least favourite album of theirs, Green. And just to stick with the colours theme, I've got my Orange crush!
It's sunday again! Time for another sunday revival! It's time to go about 10 years back in time, down to the time when the first Lord of the Rings movie was released. Since yesterday I've been trying to learn how to play this beautiful song by Enya that is part of the original soundtrack of the Fellowship of the Ring. I must confess that my harmonica playing doesn't even come close to the pleasantness of Enya's voice, but I am content anyway, especially having the perspective of improving a little bit with time! For the time being yet I will just leave you with the original and I'll save you from my harmonica cover! Have a merry sunday and a nice start of the new week!
Ups and downs (did I start another post like this? well, whatever...). Ups and downs. Life is full of them, but who-knows-why the downs are the ones we always (or at least often) pay much more attention to. Or at least I do. Maybe I still didn't find a way to recognise the ups, to notice when they're happening, to enjoy them at the fullest. Or maybe they just didn't happen (yet). Not with the same strength as the downs. Well, I don't wanna say that I wanna throw my life in the toilet, not at all. It's just... sometimes I'd like to feel a little happy too. One positive thing I must say is that being a little bit depressed is super fit with the British atmosphere and environment! I'll just picture these moments in my mind and I'll smile when I'll be looking back at them in the merry future that is awaiting me. If it just stopped being future and started being present...
Amsterdam - Imagine Dragons
I must confess that I had many ideas for the song of today, this one was not one of them, but events brought me to change my plans (as usual). I was also thinking of a new-format post, but I decided it's not the right time for it (yet). For the time being just enjoy the time you have in this life in the best way possible.
The first CD I bought here in Exeter, the same day I got here, was OneRepublic's last album, Native. I have never been as much in love with it as I am with their 2 previous records, but step by step I learned to love a good half of the songs on it, which makes it still better than a good 80% of the stuff that is around and better that 50% of what I've been listening to lately. Still, in the (to say the least) controversial relationship I've been having with this album, some of the songs I've fallen for... well, they keep on growing into me, even when I don't listen to them for a while. This is one of them, try to let it grow into you too and maybe you'll be able to tell me how to appreciate this whole album better!
Well... my day didn't start in the best way possible, let's say. Actually, the bad beginning of today was the aftermath of last night, the last message I got before leaving work was not... well, nice. And this morning didn't turn out to be much better: other (mildly) bitter messaging, wrong data, non-working Internet and so on... the little things that all summed up together make your day unpleasant. Well, I'll face it and survive it (hopefully, as given how crazy British drivers are you are never sure you'll make it at home on your own two legs! And they say that we Italians drive badly, I found out... well... what can I say?).
Hey yo! I don't think I mentioned you that I started playing the Harmonica lately, about a week ago. I am slowly slowly improving step by step, now I'm starting to try out whole songs. It's getting better and I'm really happy I finally got to start playing an instrument! I'm not gonna talk about the songs I'm playing now (just know that they are a small step beyond Jingle Bells!), rather I'll give you one song that I've been keeping on draft for weeks! Just because the harmonica is bringing me back in time a little bit and Patti's career beginning is kind of back in time too. I know, that's not a plausible connection, come on, I was just trying to make sense out of a post that doesn't have much of it!
Today it's been kind of a REM day for me. Time to get back to the (almost) origins! I've been through Reckoning and Fables of the reconstruction, and sure enough I'll pick what is probably my favourite of the whole mid-80s period. So, I'm sorry (for the others), but for now I'm gonna pick Central rain!
Well... until 1 minute ago I was planning to post something else here today, but this image here on the left I found on my Facebook wall made me change my mind. Today it's been one of the first days I've not been listening to the entire Night visions on my iTunes, yet it has been fully played in the office, so I didn't miss my daily dose of Imagine Dragons. I guess I just can't help posting On top of the world today, given my inspiration.
"It's a revolution I suppose." They say.
"I take it in but don’t look down." I say. 'Cause I'm on top of the world.
I hope you are all having a good sunday! I am still recovering from yesterday's intensive bike trip, but in the end sunday is the day of resting, isn't it? Anyway, I just wanted to explain a little bit the concept behind my #sundayrevival, to you (and also to myself, 'cause you can never be clear enough). Sundayrevival is my chance to leave room on this blog to my favourite songs, the ones I have been in love with for quite a while and whose posting is not really linked to what I've been listening to lately or to old songs that have come back in fashion. The sundayrevival songs are ALWAYS in fashion for me!
Today's is one of the most beautiful songs I know, quite sad and melancholic, but very powerful and emotional. It is a b-side (goodness only knows how such beauty could be left out of an album) of the 'Is this desire?' era, perfect for a rainy-February-sunday remembrance (and anticipation) of summer days.
Note: I wrote this post at 1 o'clock last night, almost 24h ago and I only got Internet working now, I trust it will still be "fresh" enough!
Just dance - Lady Gaga
Well guys, Internet is failing me now, so I suppose this post won't see light until morning, but now it's
past 1 at night. I felt the urge to write it now as it does make sense, I waited long enough already.
If you were walking in Exeter a few hours ago and you have seen a crazy guy shaking and moving weirdly, like if he was suffering of some kind of mental illness, well… it was me! You might have noticed me in Milan too. I know, it will probably look very bad and weird from the outside, but from time to time I can't help myself while walking in the streets listening to music, if the vibe is good I need to shake it! This time felt somehow different (it's the first time I'm doing it here) and liberating (it was the first I've done it here indeed)! Well, that's just it. In the end, who cares about what people who walk near you think about it? Just enjoy your life and express yourself! (And maybe make sure that no one you know is around, you might want to put a little break on your creativity)…!
All of this makes sense in my head but not in yours if I don't explain myself… The beat I was dancing to tonight was Just Dance (ironic, don't you think?), picked by the shuffle mode of my iPod. Well, what can I say? Good timing!
I see I am in the mood for "talkative" songs in these days! After Talk to me yesterday, another Talk today! No, it's not Coldplay's song (that one was featured here). Now it's (again) Kodaline time! The guys are quite good, I've started listening to them recently and they're getting a quite good (and deserved) level of attention, I think. Give them a try if you don't know them, and even more so if you do know them already!
New day, new post! Today I'm featuring a song by one of the most influential singer/songwriters of last century, Joni Mitchell. The song is taken out of her 1977's album Don Juan's reckless daughter. Enjoy!
A few days ago U2 took part to the umpteenth social campaign, this time for AIDS prevention. U2 made available this song for free download on iTunes in collaboration with Bank of America, which donated 1$ for every download to Red, an organization co-founded by Bono to fight AIDS. I can't say how happy I am that people such as Bono and many others make such a good use of their fame to try and help others. I think that, besides U2's (many) music-related merits, this attachment to social causes and campaigning makes Bono & friends worthy of mention.
Coming to the song, it is quite good too and it also makes sense for the occasion: the lines "I’m more than you know, I’m more than you see here, More than you let me be", "You don’t see me but you will I am not invisible" and "There is no them, There’s only us" can be interpreted as a loud condemnation of discrimination of any kind. It just comes natural (to me) to apply them to gay people, the ones whose discrimination is most often linked to AIDS. And all of this happening during the olympic games in Sochi, with all the fuss that is taking place in Russia. Is it just a coincidence? I'd like to believe that it isn't. As it's never too early to dream of a world with no unjust, bad and unjustified discrimination and violence. And the sooner we dream of it, the sooner the dream will become reality.
Ups and downs... you can't escape them. And the moments of down are always so damn powerful and frequent. Luckily enough, there is a great weapon to help you fight them: music. The songs you love, the ones whose lyrics mean the world to you, the ones that are able to describe perfectly your current mood and you get to ask yourself how the hell the songwriter could make it so and if he/she is by any chance reading your mind.
Well, I want to thank you, music, for being of great comfort in these moments.
Another day is passing by, very slowly, hour by hour, minute by minute, second by second... well, I think you guessed already that today it seems like time is never passing by! To improve our day a little bit, I'll share another one of the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack songs. Another one by a singer (actually a whole team of them) I have not really been into before. But here it is, enjoy this Elastic Heart!
Dear guys, I owe you another post today, at least to try to compensate my missed post of yesterday. What I'll give you is something special: this song comes out of the only CD I think I have ever preserved in my life, meaning that I tried not to listen to it too much. The story of it is that I got interested in it looking at its beautiful cover on iTunes and when I listened to it, I understood that it was a perfectly relaxing and focusing music for me. I have thus decided to use it only while studying in noisy places to isolate my mind and focus myself on studying. And it worked. Until I started really getting the songs in my head... now I like them a lot and kind of remember them, so it's not working as well as it used to, as I'm more concentrated on the music than on what else I should do. But this brings it back to a whole new level of liking. And this transition is taking its complete form with this post.
This post is for the whole Sirens of the Sea CD; the song I have chosen is still one of my favs of the whole album.
PS: For the optimization of G+ previews of my posts I will start putting a picture of the CD or the artist or anything else relevant to the song/post of the day. Let's hope it's gonna work!
Hey guys! Yesterday I didn't post, I'm very sorry but I went to Plymouth with the other guys working with me, it's bee a very awesome trip with a beautiful sunny day we enjoyed till the end! Sadly enough, I was so tired that I realised just today that I didn't post anything. Anyway, yesterday my colleague T. withdrew a keyboards set in Plymouth, my other work mate H is about to buy a guitar and I felt excluded, so I decided to order a Harmonica on Amazon, a thing I have been planning for quite a long time. And so it is! I've been listening to Alanis Morissette today to refresh the songs I wanna learn to play, and in the end I'm posting a song that has no harmonica in it, but... it's so funny I know you'll love it anyway!
I've been keeping a couple of songs on the side for quite a few days and I was almost ready to start posting one today, but I changed my mind at the last moment. As I realised that I still haven't posted anything of Kodaline. Luckily enough, one of their songs popped out a few seconds ago from my last playlist and it occurred to me that it makes sense. So it is, and so it should be. Enjoy!
Woah, another working week has gone by! It's been really tough until the last moment, up to the point that the (British) driver of the (British) bus complimented with us (foreigners) for being able to stand at the (British) bus stop and not being carried away by the (British) worst wind I've ever experienced in my whole life, obviously together with a bit of (British) rain, 'cause we don't want to lack for anything. Goddamn! Goddamn Britain and its weather!
We will survive.
Back to us, the song of today is something powerful and cheerful and has in itself all the best and happy and positive things I can think about. As I really need it.
Let's hope for better. Never let go of hope.
Happy friday to y'all!
As you may have noticed, I pushed London Grammar quite a bit lately. Well, I think I didn't push them enough actually. I think they're preeetty good and if you don't know them yet, give them a try (or two). This is one the last single extracted from their debut album. Enjoy!
Today is a very hard day, I'm having difficulties in concentration, my head is a bit annoying and... wow, everything seems so blurred. I started listening to Enya to try and find some peace: the result is that now it feels like I'm running through green meadows, with butterflies and unicorns and sun and... well you got the point. Like I was stoned, even if I'm not (and I've never been actually). You can imagine how good a day today is being for me!
Hi there! Hope you are well, I am kind of tired after this beginning of working week, but the weekend is getting closer and closer! I actually thought about posting this song yesterday, as it would've made much more sense, but in the end I got busy and decided to postpone it a few hours, so as to be able to write a decent comment to it (which is not gonna happen, I know). Anyway, yesterday they played this song while I was getting out of the office and I must confess it cheered me up quite a bit! I mean, how can you not be amused by this one? Ok, I know... it's not a thing for all tastes, so BEWARE! Just watch the video only if you are open-minded enough (and wanna have some fun). I can only say this is probably the most Scissor Sisters-style video of them all!
Hey guys! Hope your week started well, mine is ok but I'd rather be home wasting my time or, better, doing some trip. It's hard to say goodbye to weekends, as they are soo far away from one another! Anyway, back on track. Lately I've been listening to the new Hunger games film (Catching Fire methinks) soundtrack: lots of big names on it and a really nice one I must say. The best thing about it is that I discovered other songs I would've never got close to otherwise. And I'm actually liking some of them better than the ones by my favourite artists (for now). One of them is this one, and I really suggest you shouldn't miss it out, 'cos it just sticks in your head and doesn't go away!
This sundayrevival's post has a strong correlation between past and present: it is one of the first songs of Tori I have listened to and fallen for when I started discovering her music in 2009. Moreover, after moving to England recently (I'm in Exeter, which I believe is not very far from Tori's Cornwall house), I think I can understand and share Tori saying "You gotta bring your own sun". Ok, the first days were actually better than I thought, but the last week / 10 days have been pretty much awful in terms of weather and I'm starting to suffer a bit from it. Luckily enough, I couldn't really bring my own sun as in Italy the weather was as bad as here, so it's been relatively less worse. Anyway, I think I might as well deserve my own Welcome to England.
Hey everybody!
Great news for A song (or two) per day! The blog finally has its own Google+ page! Check it out at A song (or two) per day G+ page and make sure you follow so as you don't miss anything! It will also feature content exclusive to G+, so you don't really wanna miss it! The page is still in its building-up phase, so be patient if there's anything still not 100% working.
In the meantime enjoy one of my favourite instrumental songs, Canvas by the awesome Imogen Heap!
Good morning people! Today I had to wake up pretty early for a job interview (it's saturday, I know, but the business world never rests!). This morning we already got sudden changes of weather, from full sun to mini-storm to sun again now, it's getting crazier every day. We actually tried to plan a trip out of the city for this weekend, but in the end being late and not having a good weather forecast, we decided to stay in town and we'll see what happens. So, as a soundtrack of this weird but productive (?) morning I'm having the Magnetic Zeros: enjoy them too!
Awesome music today at the office, I got loads of inspiration for posts! I really enjoyed work today, the music was good (so good that I didn't even put my own earplugs on), the tasks were diverse and the atmosphere relaxed and enjoyable, you gotta love fridays! Today's song is one of the few we got more than one time (there must've been some kind of weird repeat mode on), but this is one of the great songs that you don't mind listening more than one time a day! Have a good friday night! Cheers!
Hey guys! I hope your thursday went well! Mine did, I had a pleasant day at work. Yet, from time to time, each day in the office has a moment of alienation I think. This is where my mind went today during one of these moments!
Lately I have been completed Phoenix's discography by listening to her last album, Bamkrupt! I must say their best work, in my opinion, is still the first one of theirs I've listened to, i.e. 2009's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Which I've been listening to lately. And, guess what? This comes from there. I was actually somehow disturbed by this song at the beginning, especially its weird and untuned part in the middle; yet I remember listening to it in a yogurt shop in New Orleans last year, and that was the moment when the spark took place and I started loving it!
So, time has come for the tunes I put aside on sunday, at least for one of them. On saturday, as I mentioned already methinks, I bought two new CDs and one of them is Lana's Born to die - Paradise edition. My relationship with Lana has been pretty peculiar, at first I didn't like her at all, then I started being interested in her music with Young & Beautiful, the song she composed for the Great Gatsby's soundtrack, and from that moment on my liking has been growing and growing. To the point that around new year's I was listening back to some music I have been loving in 2013 and I came to realize just how much I've been listening to Lana's album last year. And now I'm still pleased to give it a listen or two form time to time. This time I've decided to post one of my personal favs (nothing new for the blog...!).
You remember that yesterday I told you I had some tunes ready for the blog already? Well... they'll have to wait a bit more! Today at work I've been listening to Florence and it occurred to me (again) just how much I love her and her band (not to say that I need to listen to her to remember!). This is actually what has been for a long time my least favourite song on Ceremonials, her last album. I started coming to terms with it when it has been used as the soundtrack for a Game of Thrones trailer, than a friend of mine got close to Florence through it and so on... in a few words I ended up falling in love with this one too. So now I don't have any least favourite song on Ceremonials. Cool. 'Cos such an album doesn't deserve to have something as bad as a least favourite song!
Today I have been taking a trip to Exmouth to be on the sea at least a little while. It's been totally worth it, notwithstanding the wind it wasn't too cold, the sun was actually warm and the weather was fine! While walking on the sea front, I also had the chance to listen to some good music and I got inspired for some tunes to put up here, yet none of them fit for the sundayrevival theme. I'll just keep them warm for the next few days!
One of the albums I've been listening to is Natalie Imbruglia's last one, Come to life, which dates back to 2009 (hey Natalie, isn't it time to record some more music?). The first single out of that album was Want, a song I like but I've never been in love with. The third verse of it is actually a quote from a Natalie's older song, the one I'm featuring here now, that was on her Greatest hits Glorious. Enjoy!
This year has begun just a little while ago but I have bought a lot of CDs already (9 of them! and people start mocking me for still buying CDs...!). I guess I'm giving my support to the music industry as well as I can. Anyway, today I have bought another couple: one of them is Imagine dragons's debut CD, which I've been willing to buy for almost a week. This (longed for) purchase has made me understand (not that I really needed a proof of it) how much I value my free time and how much a normal working time kills me, especially in a town where even big shops are not open after 6 p.m. I really need 24/7 in my life! And I'm gonna work freelance..!
Last week I got to listen to the original version of this song by Robert Palmer and I already had Florence's cover in my playlists, so it seemed a very good convergence of factors pointing me towards posting it here! It took a few days as I've been having lots of great and fitting content lately, but now the time has come to become addicted to love.
Recently one of the best albums by one of my favourite singer/songwriters (i.e. Under the pink by Tori Amos) has turned 20 years old, so I thought I'd be nice to celebrate its birthday with a post up here! This is one of the less radio-friendly songs of Tori, but one of the most beautiful in my opinion: its more than 9 minutes of length blend up perfectly some classical music-like melody with clever lyrics, creating an outstanding atmosphere that brings you back in the Russia of the first 20th century. The song is about Anastasia Romanov, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia and here is a quote from Tori about it:
"And that night came, as she softly sings the line “‘We’ll see how brave you are,’ and that was really about the whole record. That came just about before everything. And whenever I sing that chorus, ‘we’ll see how brave you are,’ it means so many different things to me. It’s part of my self, my spirit self saying to the rest of myself, ‘if you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself. The funny thing is that Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia, died very close to where I was playing, an hour or so from there in the 80s. The feeling I got that Anna Anderson was Anastasia Romanov."
Hey guys, I'm very sorry but last night I've been betrayed by my internet connection at home... I will make it up now for you!
This is a song I have been already willing to post, so I was ready!
This is another song from Imagine Dragons, enjoy!
I've been recently creating a new playlist, the first one since I've come to Exeter. Even though it is filled up with lots of songs by each of the few bands/singers I'm listening to right now, it (unexpectedly) turned out to be quite cool. The song here is quite an exception, as there are not sisters of her in this playlist, but I'm sure they will be featured soon. In the meantime I'll just share with you this awesome little spell that will envelop your heart!
I have been experiencing this since the time of my exchange semester in Canada, and now that I am sending tons of mails to unknown people every day, it's coming back with more and more strength: Anglo-saxon and German speaking people call me Frederico all the time. And even if I'm (kinda) getting used to it, I want to underline... that's not my name!
Guess what I've just been eating? Well, in such a cold (and lonely, why not?) night like this, what better than a warm pancake with maple syrup? And, given that I've not been doing the #sundayrevival last week either, it seemed like a good idea to me to pick this one song for the blog. Careful, this is one of my most beloved songs ever: super meaningful lyrics (that actually don't have much to do with pancakes) and great music, I just love it so much! So why don't you enjoy a pancake too? (be it a real one or this song, or maybe both of them!)
Today I have bought tow more CDs for my collection (used and refurbished CDs at 1£ were an irresistible temptation, I'm actually surprised I didn't buy more of them!) and I realised that I still hadn't unpacked (they were wrapped actually), opened and checked out the two I bought last weekend. So I did! And among these two there is the one this song comes from. And, still aware of all of its trashiness, I couldn't help recalling the good moments we spent together and the liking I've always had for it. So here it is! I hope you'll forgive me (hey, oh oh). [Ok I could've spared you this]
Hey guys, I hope your weekend started well! Mine did, last night I've been out for drinks with some new fun and friendly colleagues! And in one of my first pub-nights in Exeter I got to listen one of Amy's songs, her most famous I'd dare say (This is the life). And this made me want to listen to her whole first album. Which I've been doing. And in the end, it came to my mind (again) why I love so much this (other) song!
I can't take this song out of my head. I just can't. It has been obsessing me for the last few hours. Even when I was listening to other songs I still had this in mind, which is kind of rare! I think this little girl is calling loudly for a place here, so I'll give it to her. Here it is. Now. Even if she would wait a million years. But she'll love me 'til the end of time and I can't wait for it to happen!
Hi there! Time to celebrate, today the blog reached 1000 pageviews! Yay! Thank you all for this! I hope we'll get to celebrate more and more of these milestones!
The song I'm posting is one I've discovered last year thanks to my friend E. She directed me towards some Pilot Speed songs and I must say I really got to love some of them! I hope you'll enjoy this one too!
Today's song comes out of one of the most surprisingly pleasant albums I discovered in the end of last year. This particular one, I've been having it for quite a while in my library but it never did catch my attention until lately. Better late than never, I'd say.
Today I'm gonna give another pick I've been exposed to in my office lately. Yet this one is also among the songs I'm currently getting to know better. This is radioactive, the (I believe) first single out of Imagine Dragons's debut album. I've been having big expectations for this album and the first times I listened to it I was startled as it was not really like I had imagined it would sound like. Yet after a few listenings I am starting to appreciate and value some of the songs and I have the feeling that going on with it will just keep on increasing my perception of its value. Stay tuned and if you'll see more Imagine Dragons here, well... you'll know it did get me in the end!
I'm super late today (tonight actually)... I thought I had posted already but I didn't! My bad! Today I'll feature some more Lana del Rey, as this song of hers was broadcasted in my office today and it urged me to listen to her whole CD, so just ride and have a good night!
Hey guys! First day of work today, it's getting pretty busy, then I went grocery shopping on my way home, had dinner and got out for a drink right after! Little time to post for me, and little chances to get to listen to some good music today...! I'll have to pick another one of my songs from the new January playlists: this one is coming out of Neil Young's "Tonight's the night album", I think I already posted another song out of it a few days ago. This is Albuquerque, enjoy and have a good night!
Another song from my new playlists for you today! I also found it as a soundtrack to a party in a Desperate Housewives first season episode... because everything is aligned! Have a good night.
Hey everybody! Big travelling today, I am moving to the UK for a few months, I don't think I mentioned it to you already! Anyway, I am still looking for a home, hopefully gonna find it tomorrow! As of today, I'll share with you a song I've been listening to quite a while lately, a b-side of PJ Harvey that has been serving as the opener of my first playlist of the year. I had never paid attention to that song until I listened to it casually a couple of weeks ago and I realised how beautiful it is!
I know I shouldn't, but I got some much into OneRepublic's second album that today it's practically all I've listened to (that's a lie, but it is indeed what I've been listening to most passionately). This is anyway a live cover of Tears for fears, so it does count only as a half OneRepublic song! Anyway, as I was driving back from Milan to home for the last time in a few months (big life change starting tomorrow!) I was singing the songs (this one in particular) in a loud voice and really enjoying it all, actually I was, well... shouting too. Let it all out you too!
Hey guys, last night I couldn't sleep and I started listening to my playlist for hard moments (or just, for every moment), with some of my favourite songs ever! Today I am gonna post one of them. Or maybe not. Maybe I will keep them for another moment! I'll post another one of my fav, which should actually stay on that playlist. This is one of the least known songs of OneRepublic, a b-side on their second album Waking up.
"... and you're not a foolish one at all..."
London Grammar are my most recent discovery: I have heard them being mentioned here and there lately but I wasn't able to find their album. Yet, I found a performance of them on KEXP (goodness bless them and their radio) and I was, together with the radio host, stunned with my jaw wide open after the first song, Hey now, which I'm featuring here now. Be careful with your jaws when you listen!
Last year I started listening to Phoenix and I liked them, in particular I've been in love with their 2009 album. Then, while I was listening to their older stuff, they came out with a new work that I had the occasion to listen to only recently. Not bad I'll say for now. While waiting for new developments about my liking of it, this is the one that is now most impressed in my memory.
Hey guys, second sunday with a #sundayrevival themed post! The song of today has been ready in my mind for at least a couple of days! While taking a shower I played an April 2012 playlist that I used to listen to (also) when I was in Toronto on Easter of that year. In particular there are a couple of songs on that playlist that instantly bring me back memories of that awesome trip and one of them is of course this. I remember vividly walking down Church street from my hotel to the lakefront listening to Annie Lennox. Awesome.
It seems like yesterday when I started this blog. It seems like a life ago that I started this blog.
The contradiction within these two thoughts that come to mind together explains perfectly well the fucked-up-conception of time passing by that I have in this moment of my life. Well, be it yesterday or a life ago that I started, I have already (/finally?) reached the first important milestone, this is the 100th post of the blog! You'll say: well... and so? Your comment is legitimate. I tend to agree.
Yet I wanted to do something special to celebrate to this moment. This song is not at all what I had in mind, but it is very special to me in its own way. It comes out of my favourite album of the Scissor Sisters (Scissters for friends), the one that got me very close to their music. And it has been with me ever since. I mean, if I'm driving you somewhere with my car, just don't put this record on if you care for your life: the dancing comes unstoppable. "Hands on the wheel!" is just something that doesn't apply, especially with this song!!
Sooo, happy 100th post to you, I hope you had fun up to now and will keep on having more and more fun in the future! Have a good night!! (or day, or whatever time of the day it's where you are!) Cheers!
In the last few weeks I had been listening to a bit of German music (pop stuff mainly) to improve my listening skills in preparation of the exam I took yesterday. Some stuff was pretty cheesy or anyway it didn't really... take my breath away, let's say. Yet I also found some valuable stuff. Hoping that all that helped, I anyway have something new and cool to listen to and, why not?, to post here! Enjoy one of the pieces I got to favour, it's called Teil von Mir (Part of me) by Silbermond (Silvermoon).
"Now dissolve me, two tabs on your tongue"
Tomorrow I have 3 exams, the only thing in the world I would like to do now is dissolving...!
Have a good day people!
Hey everybody! Today I'm posting I song I had already up in my sleeve since... well, last year! I've started listening to Franco Battiato lately (for those who don't know him, he's an Italian singer-songwriter who started his career in the 70s, pretty intellectual but one of the most famous players of the Italian music scene of the last XXth century). Yet I have already been knowing this song since 2008, when it came out. I think I have listened to it on the radio while driving to school, when I still listened to the radio (ah, good old times...!). The presence of one of the other most talented Italian singer-songwriters (dear Carmen) makes it even more precious!
No post again yesterday, I'm getting bad at fulfilling my duties as a blogger! Yesterday has been a sleep-day actually, I think I've passed more time in bed than out of it...! But, whatever... the new year has been underway for a few days now, but (at least here in Italy) for many people today is the first day of work after the holidays, so it's symbolically another "beginning of the year". To celebrate this I'll post something unusual for this blog, that is strictly related to the real new year's day. Let's get into some classical with the super traditional new year's day concert in Wien.
I'll leave you with yet another pearl in this gloomy end-of-holidays sunday. I've gone back listening again to one of Patti's latest albums and I realised that there are few songs on this one that I really like but that have never had the chance to get enough of my attention. This is not one of them. Or, at least, to this one I have devoted a good deal of attention and love, I still don't know if it's enough!
And I just realised that this is the first Patti Smith post on the blog. Shame on me for waiting so long!
I actually made up my mind about formalizing the #sundayrevival theme for the blog, so expect more of my own personal classics to come!
Have a good end of holidays and be strong!
I realise that the very structure of this blog tends to give room to what I am currently listening to or to what I have been listening to recently, leaving my good (great) old glories aside. But sometimes they find their own room! I should maybe devote at least one day per week to songs I've been knowing for a long time and which I love! For now I'll start with one. So, what can I pick? It's definitely gonna be something by Tori, as she's not been up here for quite a while...! Ok, I got it. Well, I mean... so many great tunes all together! Anyway, today I think it makes sense to leave some room to the first Tori song I've fallen for, which is also pretty coherent with the time of year!
Notwithstanding the fact that the piano section just before the last chorus is practically identical to the one that Isabella "the Machine" plays live during Rabbit heart, or maybe just because of that, this is still one of the most likable new songs I've been listening around on the radio and on TV lately!
I think we are finally all the way into the new year, so it's time to start with posts about what's happening now to my music world! I have started my way through Neil Young's discography a few months ago, I am now listening to his eight album, Tonight's the night (and I'm just close to getting a quarter of the job done, you can imagine how many albums he released!). I must confess I'm really enjoying this one, it's probably gonna be among the top three of what I've listened to up to now. The title track is divided in two parts, one is the opening track and the second one is the closing. Even though I prefer part II, I could only find the opening one on Youtube; they're anyway pretty similar to each other, so no big deal!
So, here we are. I promised a story and a story you'll get! One year ago I was celebrating the new year, getting ready for my first Master of science exam session and everything. But, differently from this year, there was a thing bothering me to uneasiness. I had been having in my mind a bass motive, similar to the one of Another one bites the dust by Queen (with the first three beats ta ta ta), but then different (it went like tananananananana going down of one tone each beat, not following the Queen). I knew it belonged to a song that I knew from my childhood, but I hadn't been able to find it. I had been singing this bass pattern to practically all the people I knew and all of them knew it as well but weren't able to tell me the song. I had also been looking for info on the Internet, Yahoo answers and everything, but no clue. Until one day (I think it was around January/February), when my mostly beloved friend B. wrote me a message, saying that it came to her mind! It was Need you tonight by INXS. And it was indeed. It's probably been one of the most relieving moments of my life. It was the stupidest thing, but it bothered me for like 6 months! Now, problem solved thanks goodness!
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