In this stormy thursday I'm starting to post a song outside from my playlist. Last night, after a weird day, I was having a bit of a sad moment and I went back to listen to some of my best songs of last year's playlists and I got (Neil Young's original version of) the song after a couple of others and it made perfect sense, especially regarding the thoughts that were crossing my mind.
Don't let it bring you down, it's only castles burning,
Just find someone who's turning and you will come around.
It made so much sense that I decided already I would post it and here it is! This morning I started listening to it again and then I reverted to Annie Lennox's cover and I ended up listening to her whole album Medusa. Thus I didn't know which version to post and, well... I'm posting them both! Choose the one you prefer or, even better, listen to them both!
Ok, I know it's almost summer and I am not doing anything that is helping me in this regard, but it happened already: I started losing track of weekdays. Today I'm particularly confused, I keep thinking it's thursday while it's not. It's wednesday. I'm confident I'll remember that at least until I finish writing. And it's wednesday, of course, because it's the third song I'm posting from my playlist! Makes sense. I can do it. I love this time of year, but it always gets me a bit confused! Anyway, back to us. This is kind of an "old" pick, as I got to notice this song when I was still working, as it was in the office playlist. I got it then and kept it aside for my next playlist moment, and here it is! It's one of the (many) music highlights of these past days and it couldn't escape its moment of glory here! I'll be keeping it next to me, don't worry!
Next song from my (once) brand new playlist! It's Tori's turn, so let's talk about Unrepentant Geraldines for a bit. I AM HAPPY! I am so glad that it finally looks like Tori got totally back to her sense and gave us a more than decent album! Don't mistake me, I found lovable stuff in most of her latest albums too, but things didn't feel completely right. Now, it's too early to say but this album sounds very very good as of now (with respect to its immediate predecessors). Tori got a good voice again, no more barbie-like high-pitched tones, it's all very pleasing to hear. Ok, some songs are not unforgettable, but maybe they will grow into me anyway. Some others are pretty, pretty nice! Amongst them I must quote the title-track, which has stuck in my head in the last couple of days. It is a very non-classic song in terms of format, but it is not so very unusual for Tori: the first half of the song, more catchy and up-beat gets you up and then she stops and start the second half with just her and the piano, singing what could be a different song (but it isn't, as the melody and lyrical elements link the two pieces together). And I love it when I get to start singing the song in my car, screaming "Unrepentant Geraldines" as if I were at a rock concert. I mean, what other artist allows you to do that? To have super deep and inspired lyrics with an intellectual tone, put together with very pleasing pop/rock music? Very few, methinks. And this is the real Tori in my opinion, the one that is able to sing about the big problems of life or important issues of society or again artsy/intellectual stuff in a way that talks out the very essence of the problem/issue and lets you analyse it and think about it with her songs, with very pleasant pop/rock music (I know, I'm repeating myself), with the "girl and a piano" thing that (almost) only she has. Unrepentant Geraldines (song) really embodies that Tori and this is almost always a sufficient condition for a great song to come out. This one is no exception. Welcome back Tori!
Hey hey hey! New week, new series of blog posts coming for you! Now that the weekend is over I can finally start posting songs from my new playlist that I really really really like! I'm only a bit sad of having built it now as it's not summer yet, but I'm sure it will put me into summer mood in the blink of an eye (and then hopefully real summer will come too)! This is the first extract of my playlist and it is also (not) coincidentally the first track on it! I've come to love Foster the People in a very very short time and, beyond Pumped up kicks, I'm already in love with 3/4 songs, the ones I put in my playlist. This is the one I'm liking the most as of now, and it's the perfect time to post it! Don't stop enjoying! (Great video by the way, be sure to check it out, it's super fun)!
Being a bad, bad blogger I forgot to take my time and post today too...! Now, thanks to the blogger mobile app I'm writing via my cellphone (goodness bless Google!) and maybe I'll be able to get ready to post (kind of) in time! Today I spent a veri nice, warm and sunny day in Milan at the park, attending a tech festival organized by the Wired magazine, nice day! Now I'm off for an aperitivo with my friend and some colleagues of hers, even if I'm a bit tired! My pick for this sundayrevival, given that I've been listening to a new playlist (that I adore), is a hard one! I think I'll put my trust in PJ's debut album!! Enjoy!
Finallyyy! Mission completed! Last night karaoke it was! It's been very nice (my performances apart)! A very very cheerful night in a super small but very nice karaoke bar close to my home with some friends and it was all super nice (again, my singing apart). We had a very good time, at least I did! I really can't wait to do it again!
Soo for today I'm picking one of the songs that I "performed" last night. This was a duet with my dear very-well-able-to-sing-so-thanks-for-covering-me-up friend, and (even though we didn't remember how the song goes for the whole of it) it's been quite nice! Good (humiliating) memories that go in the back of my head together with the the lots that I already have! Still, I would probably dare say that Skye & friends's version is "a bit" better!
Hello guys! Today finally (hopefully) hopefully (finally) I will be going to the karaoke, after more than 3 years that I've been willing to! I won't celebrate until I'm there, as it happened a few times already that I had plans and then they blew up for one reason or another. So I won't linger on that topic, I'll tell you more tomorrow about it. What I wanna linger on today is Arcade Fire's new video (with Andrew Garfield) for the song We exist on their latest album, a video that just came out today. I'm not super eager in following new video releases generally, so I don't have that many to compare it with, but I must say that this is my personal 2014 favourite to date. I love the concept of the video, even if the story is not 100% clear to me yet (which is actually another positive factor, meaning the video has got multiple levels of interpretation), and I think it's a perfect fit for the song. The message is not particularly complicated, rather it feels to me just like two words that discriminated people, belonging to any kind of minority, oftentimes want to scream to the world. Let's stop judging people by how they are, let's give everybody equal opportunities (to study, to work, to rights, to be happy!) and let's stop being afraid of what's different. Because we are all different, and that's why we should all be given equal opportunities.
I drew a map of Canada, oh Canada, with your face sketched on it twice...
A case of you - Joni Mitchell
I think today is the perfect day for posting my favourite Joni Mitchell song, which was playing in my head when I woke up (two minutes ago). Last night I stayed up until past 3 to finish watching the last season of Desperate Housewives and I must say that now I am feeling a bit sad. In fact after 8 seasons of series it would've been quite impossible to not tie with the characters and now I feel that hole inside of me that I always feel when getting to the end of a great and engaging book or series, feeling like a part of your world has ceased to exist. This is the good thing about music, that it doesn't tear you apart like this, because you can always go back and listen to a song or an album! Anyway, this last DH season was not the best one in my opinion, I didn't like some plot twists and it's probably good that they put an end here; yet the finale is fulfilling and satisfactory, if a bit sad, as it reminds you that nothing is forever and that you have to keep moving with your life, you can't take for granted that anything will always be there... remember though that every life is "oh, so wonderful" no matter what!
She ran the risk of passing by unnoticed (and she almost did), but luckily enough this didn't happen! As you might recall, I started listening to Joan just before her concert in Exeter which, for various circumstances (mainly my laziness and not sufficiently developed interest), I didn't attend in the end. I'm not regretting this decision, I wasn't ready for a concert of her then and most probably I wouldn't be now. Yet I'm not implying that I didn't like her music, rather... Ok, she didn't strike me so strong in such a little time, but the number of singers/bands who did is very, very limited. I have just been listening to one album by her (2011's The Deep Field) and some songs did catch my attention after a few plays. This is one of them, actually the last one that got in my mind and one that I still enjoy (a lot) after a few weeks, making it probably the single most important reason why my listening to Joan has been a positive experience. So, well... stand up and be heard!
Here we are, back in Milan! I came back today to finish up some bureaucracy with university and to have dinner with some friends. Weird day today! There has been this storm hanging on our heads all day long, it seems like it's ready to start a disastrous thunder and flood, but (for the time being) it looks like we're good (I even got out without an umbrella and survived without big problems). I'm remembering what it was like one year ago: I was attending my last lectures before the summer break and was waiting for the Kasabian free concert here in Milan, thus listening to their (then) latest album, Velociraptor. While driving down here I got to listen to last year's June playlist and this song was on at one point and it really made sense for me to post it, given that I posted some Kasabian songs but not my favourites yet. Days are forgotten is one of them, and finally here it is given a slot on the blog! Don't forget to sing along: Aaaaaaaaaah aaaahahahahaaaah!
There are so many good songs on Imagine Dragons' debut album Night Visions that I still didn't post, and given that I've been listening to it quite a lot today, it looks like this is a good time to write about one of them at least! This is the closing act of the standard version of Night visions (b-sides and bonus material apart) and it's one that really grew into me with time! I think it's also a great choice for closure, both in terms of message/lyrics and of music. Just don't think this is a way I'm saying goodbye to you, I'll be back tomorrow as usual, I promise!
PS: After a 1 minute break you'll find also the ghost track Rocks, a very good way to make you understand that it doesn't end here!
It's a typical home sunday: at home, Formula 1 GP (such a boooring one, again), football matches, a brief but strong rain followed but a perfect blue sky with a chilly strong breeze... Summer is coming but not fast enough! And then I will complain about the excessive heat, but now this chilly nights are really freaking me out and not helping me recover from my flu at all! All the context is anyway perfect for a sundayrevival post and, given that I've still been focusing on music that I can't post (yet), I decided to go back back back in time to one of the first loves of my "young-adult" musical adventure (i.e. Alanis) and to the album of her I really used to love and now has a little bit faded in me (just a little bit), i.e. So-called chaos. And I'm gonna throw myself on the song that gives the title to the album, one of my favourites on the CD and in the whole music career of Alanis, I dare say. I love everything about this song: the music, the lyrics (I wanna be naked running through the streets, I want to invite this so called chaos, that you’d think I dare not be I want to be weightless, flying through the air , I want to drop all these limitations and return to what I was born to be), the message, the need for total freedom outside the schemes of society, the power in it (a thing that might be lacking to some other tunes on the album) and... I could go on forever! Just listen to it and improve your sunday! See you next week!
The weekend and blogging don't go well together, I always end up having little or no time to write a decent post! Anyway, I'll just pick a great song that doesn't need any comment: an instrumental one, the opening track of Neil Young's debut self-titled album. 'Cos on saturday we all feel the emperors of Wyoming, don't we? (Well, ok, maybe not...!)
Hello guys, hope you are all well (better than me at least)! My health conditions are still not so great, I really hate having the flu, it debilitates me and leaves me weak, dull and weary. I hope the nice, warm sun will speed up the recovery process, as I've had enough already! Today I drove back home and had a nice aperitivo with some friends, so the day was not a bad one all in all. I was then speaking with one of my friends about working in Italy and the possibility/willingness to go abroad and try building a life somewhere else. We say that all the time but then it's easier said than done! Well... never lose hope anyway! Now that our working life has just begun or is about to begin, I think it's the best time to consider stuff like that! The same happens to the guy in the song I'm posting today. His father wants him to go work in the factory, but he wants to see the world. Well... I hope we'll all get our chance to go around and explore!
Hello people! Today's not a good day for me to write a blog post: I'm (hopefully) starting to recover from the flu/cold that struck me a couple of days ago and I feel like my head is the size of a balloon, with every muted sound I hear echoing throughout it. If that was not enough, the music I've been listening to today and I wanted to post has not been released yet, so there's no way for me to find a decent video to put here. So I will just exploit this moment of not-being-well-ness and post a tune that made me feel a little bit the same. Lana released the audio of her new single a few weeks ago, but the official video got out just in the last couple of days. I must say I was not impressed (at all) by it the first time I heard it and the feeling of uneasiness persisted during my second listening yesterday. I'm not saying everything is lost, as I've been practically hating Lana's songs at the beginning, before falling for them, so maybe it's just a matter of time. Anyway this West Coast doesn't get through to me for now: some parts of the verses are nice, but the chorus in particular... it is quite disturbing to me. The video doesn't tell me that much either, and this doesn't help... Hopefully I will get past this and fall in love with the song soon, in the meanwhile I'll leave it here for you to decide whether you like it or not!
Hey guys! I think I enjoyed my first days back in Italy a bit too much... In particular I think I overestimated the weather and temperature gap, with the result than now I got a (kind of) flu going on. Well, I hope I'm gonna get past it quickly, I don't wanna waste a minute of this super enjoyable spring-time! Back to the music. I got to know Sia while I was staying in England in the past months because she contributed to the soundtrack of the Catching Fire movie. I tried to listen to a couple of her older albums on Spotify, they were enjoyable but didn't light up any spark in me, probably I have to devote a little bit more attention to her. This is very new instead, it's the leading single of her upcoming album. The first time I listened to it (in the lyrics video version) I didn't enjoy it that much either, but now, be it because of the amazing video, be it because I got into the song or be it whatever else, I am starting to really enjoy it! I hope you will enjoy it too!
I think we all have some albums that we associate to a particular time of year. Well, when spring starts to be on its way to summer and the days get pleasantly warm, I have a favourite album to listen to. Given that this (awesome) time of year has come for me again now that I'm back in Italy, the urge to listen to my springy album is irresistible! The album I'm talking about is Lonely Letters by the swiss band Lunik, a CD that I utterly love and that always reminds me of my favourite time of year (this one, indeed). Do you love me? has been the first song I got to know by Lunik, I remember it was playing on the radio in the time just before my high school graduation and I've been listening to it ever since! The lyrics feel particularly accurate today as I found myself lingering in some thoughts about past times... I know you will love it too!!
Hello everybody! Strange as it seems, today I'm finally posting on time! This morning I woke up with a song in my head, a very weird one picked by my subconscious (of course it is the one I'm posting about)! My relationship with The Raveonettes has always been quite weird: I remember that PJ Harvey was having a concert in New York one of the few times I was there and I really wanted to go. When I asked the group of people who were coming with me whether there was anybody willing to come with me (I believe it was 2011 and I was taking part in a United Nations simulation program), somebody told me that the Raveonettes were playing too in the same night at a different club. Out of curiosity I started listening to them (I think that happened in Canada, so almost a year later) and I didn't dislike their album Chain gang of love, though not feeling so inspired by it to listen to other stuff from them or so. Yet sometimes it comes back, like today, and what the hell, why not post this song? There are actually two of them I really like, one is this and the other one is my favourite. I wanted to post the other one, but I decided it will have to wait a little longer, as today is the Love Gang's day!
Today I'm late for my post agaaain! But I'm here before midnight, it's already an improvement! I had something in mind but it wouldn't be a good fit for a sundayrevival post, so I had to find something else suitable enough! And, given that I started listening to my summer (actually "Eté") playlist that I've been building up over the years, it makes perfect sense to pick from there!
I should be in Milan in this exact moment, but, after a very pleasant day in the countryside at my grandma's enjoying the sun, I surrendered to the huge traffic and decided I would wait a few more hours to get there! So here I am, (kind of) burned face, first (disappointing) Italian ice-cream of the season in my belly, talked pleasantly with one of my bests and ready to see more of my dear ones tomorrow! In the meanwhile... start dancing with Madonna!
Shame on me, it's not even two days since I got back home and I already forget to post on time...! In my defense, first I still haven't gone to sleep, so it counts as yesterday and second I've been a bit dazed and confused by the whole moving back thing (lame, ain't it? ok, let's get to the post)!
I've been almost running out of the whole string of songs I had ready to post (almost, but not yet!) and I'm drawing from there for this post. I don't know exactly why I've recently been getting back to some sad songs from albums that I used to listen a while ago... it's probably because I was about to leave new great friends and so they made good sense. This one actually is more love-life oriented, but it is still a great one that I didn't value enough until a few weeks ago. Try not to get too sad too and more news to come soon!
Here we are! Back to Italy, back home! I am practically done unpacking and I'm taking advantage of the whole moment and mood ti put some order in my wardrobe(s), to change clothes for the warm season, to give something away and to throw some stuff away! The feelings are weird and mixed still, it feels like I'm still in Exeter with my new friends, that I'm gonna see them in the next days, but it also feels like I've never felt Italy (even if none of my friends are around this weekend). Weird feelings that are actually all overwhelmed by my crises of abstinence of (piggy) food! It's really hard to stop when you're used to eat the whole day long...! I'll do my best to close the mouth of my stomach anyway! And I'll try to be happy with just the crumbs...! (And I really feel blessed for being so lucky to have all the food I want at hand).
So, here we are. When this is gonna be posted it means I'll have found a goodness-blessed internet connection while walking through Bristol or at the airport, ready to take my flight back. I am writing in advance because of course I will not have time in the crazy day that.. today is. (Wow, that sounds weird, I'm messing out with the temporal factor again!).
EDIT: [Actually not, I'm posting live now! I didn't take into account that I would go to sleep so late!]
Anyway, my British experience has ended (for now at least), and I must say it has been much better than I thought it would've been! Ok, I'm still kind of stuck with the sides of my life I was stuck in already before leaving, but this doesn't mean I enjoyed this beginning of 2014, rather... I really did! Especially thanks to the wonderful people that have shared these moments with me! Now it really does feel like the circle is closing and my student time is really going to come to an end very soon too...! I don't know if I'm ready for that, but I think it has already started happening, so I need to come to terms with it!
Anyway, it's weird how I just noticed this song now: first I have to say I really like it and its kind of sad tone and turning-the-page lyrics are matching quite well my current feelings. Moreover, I was listening to this album when I came back from Canada two years ago, so here we are! Circle is closed, let's turn the page and start a new chapter!
Thanks to all of you who made the last one a great and super enjoyable one!
Hello people! It's the last day of my internship and things are spiralling into craziness! Tonight there's gonna be a goodbye meeting, I still have to finish packing, tomorrow I'm gonna be in Bristol spending my day exploring the city (under the rain probably) and... woah, everything's messing up even inside me, I'm excited to get back home but at the same time sad 'cause I don't wanna leave the people from here... it's a very messy and exciting day, but I'm confident everything's gonna turn out just fine. Luckily enough under the musical point of view I'm not having many problems, there are still lots of songs I want to post! Here is today's, which actually I started listening to together with yesterday's, as I found out about them thanks to the office playlist. Hope you enjoy, I'll be back in a hopefully less stressful moment! Cheers!
Hellooo! My time in England is coming closer and closer to the end and I start feeling a little bit sad for the things (and people... especially people) I'm gonna be leaving behind. This time of new beginnings is also characterized by a lot of new music coming to me all at once, overwhelming me once again! Not that I complain, rather... I'm only glad to find new sources of inspiration for stuff to share with you! This has been called for for quite a long time now: I've had some of you on Google+ suggesting I should listen to Foster the People, I've had some colleagues who asked me to put them in the office playlist and... here we are in the end! As promised, I started listening to them and, as expected, I already like them! Just enjoy their biggest hit for now and wait for more of their stuff to be featured here soon!
Hello my dear crowd, I hope that your week started well! Mine (kind of) did, especially thanks to what I am posting now, which has been a very good tool to fight the sleepiness caused by the coming of spring! I have loads of songs that have been champing at the bit to be posted here, but they will have to wait for a while longer, as this post is due! Together with my (awesome) teammates and colleagues at my company we have been working on this project in the past few weeks and finally it is ready to share with the world! We have done our best lip syncing to Pharrell's hit Happy, doing our best to look happy be happy and, most importantly, make other people as much happy as we were while shooting! Whether we succeeded... well, it's for you to tell! Let us know what you think! Hope you enjoy!
Hello guys! Yesterday has been a pretty intense day, so good enough that I posted just after midnight rang before going to bed! I took a very nice trip south of Exeter with some friends and, even though the weather was not so good, I really enjoyed it! But it didn't end up there... after a swift dinner we went to have a goodbye-weekend party at some friends' house and then out to dance in an alternative rock club, our favourite in Exeter (I'm not a fan of discos but this one is enjoyable from time to time). I had a good time once again, just a little bit sad because it's gonna be the last one. It's not time for goodbyes still, but I'm starting to realise that my time here is coming to an end... And it has been very funny to kind of close a circle: this song is the first one I've listened to as soon as I arrived in Montréal two years ago and the last one that played last night in the club, kind of the goodbye to Exeter and to my university times abroad. I'm a bit scared, but mostly curious to see how my life's gonna develop in the next few months! But for now, let's just enjoy the present!
While making sure that I didn't post this song already, I noticed that I have been posting at least one Florence song every month since November (practically since the beginning of the blog), that making her probably the most constant presence here! Well, I must say I'm not surprised of that, given my utmost and endless love for her! Tonight, coming back home under the pouring rain (yes England, I know you're giving me your best just before I go away), I was listening to an old playlist and suddenly this song turned up. Well, it just did make perfect sense to do the only thing that can make you enjoy pouring rain at night: dance-walking and lip-syncing the songs, like if you were shooting a video (PS: more on that soon!). That is a thing I really really love doing, especially at night, when it's dark and (a bit) less embarrassing. Just a bit. But who cares? Enjoy music, enjoy your life, enjoy Florence (and enjoy your lovers, if you're lucky enough to have them)!
My day started weirdly under a musical point of view: I got to listen to a couple of songs from the office playlist that I had in my library and that were kind of lost in it. The first one was a country songs I found in a random Spotify playlist and I added (with many others) to my personal country playlist. The second one was actually one of Fifa 09 soundtrack songs, actually one (of the few) I still didn't have in my library! Listening to that unexpectedly made me want to listen to the whole playlist and this is the result, one of its sisters is on here today!
Problem is that I got a little bored even by listening to the Fifa 09 soundtrack playlist, which I usually enjoy a lot... Guess today is really not a good day for me!
Hello guys! Hope you are all well, I am a bit dizzy but overall ok. Last night I went to sleep earlier than usual to rest better and this morning I felt even worse, with swollen eyes and a confused mind. What got me through this hard morning has mainly been good music, I've been gladly getting lots of songs from my personal contribution to the office playlist and this really helped cheer myself up! One of the songs we got this morning (and also quite often lately) is this one, so I felt like posting it wouldn't hurt at all! Moreover I was listening to Amy two years ago too, when I was about to leave Canada and get back home from my exchange, so things kind of come back!
Lunch time, here we are! I'm soo hungry (as usual), and I must say I don't really care about consequences of my unconstrained and often not-so-healty eating! Ok, maybe that's not 100% true, but let's just say I am doing my best to exploit this phase of my life with a super-fast metabolism. All in all I can safely assume I tend to eat 24/7, there's no escaping! I just hope I won't become a big big girl soon, but still, I'd be beautiful anyway, right?
Hey ya! Finally here I am, ready to write a serious and decent post after a couple of convulse days! But first a few words about my London easter weekend: I must say the outcome has been mixed. Everything started well, it looked like my relationship with London was getting better, the premises were there and then... things stopped improving. It felt like I reached the limit of my liking, all the things I've seen and done were nice and ok but, to put it like this, the sparkle didn't light up. Well, at least now I feel safe in giving a more thorough evaluation of London after spending a few days there. Of course living there would be a totally different experience, but let's say it would also be a (very, very) expensive one! So here I am, back to Exeter in a limbo-like situation. Today was the last day me and the guys going away with me in about a week spent with our boss, as she's taking a trip abroad and this looks like the beginning of the end. Things are weird, I have been waiting for the time to head back home for a while and now I have a really hard time cutting (or at least loosening) the ties with the people that I've shared this time of my life with, and a little bit with Exeter too, for as strongly as I have tried to oppose my feeling at home here, I have probably dug some roots in this ground. And this is a good thing I guess, as it means I enjoyed my time here, so I am a bit sad that now my internship is coming to an end. Yet I don't have much time to feel nostalgic: I wanna enjoy my last moments here until the very end and spring is finally finding its way here too, with a warm sun and beautiful blossoming trees. From here my need to listen to cheerful music (i.e. Scissor Sisters), and this song in particular as the mentioning of San Francisco reminds me (a lot) of the nostalgic feeling that fills me up when I'm about to leave a place I love.
Hello there! Weekend's over, I'm yet again late with my post but I am really really tired and need to go take some sleep, tomorrow I'm back to work (I have to hang on, just about 10 days and I'll be done with my internship)! I'll leave you quickly again and promise tomorrow I'll be back for real and tell you all about my London easter break! Have a good night with one of my favourite PJ songs!
Hello everybody, sorry for being late, happy (late) easter! My long weekend in London has almost come to an end and I didn't post today/yesterday, so I'll make it up now with one song that I already wanted to post earlier on: enjoy Patti and see you tomorrow/today!
Today I've been wandering through London and I must say I'm slowly (even not too much so) fixing my relationship with it! I met my parents (and friends) again after a while, which was nice, and I really got the chance to get a hold of the main London spots, so that I have the time to explore thoroughly a bit more areas in the time I've got left! Tomorrow we'll be heading to the Leeds castle out of town and in the evening I'll hopefully be able to arrange dinner with some friends from work, so I guess I won't have much free time on the computer! Moreover I've been singing/mumbling this song for a great part of the afternoon/evening walk, so what better fit?
(Hoping that the lyrics of the song won't be happening to me anytime soon!)
Hello people, hope your easter weekend has started in the best way possible! I'm on my way to London (goodness bless wifi on buses) enjoying my trip and waiting to meet my parents after 3 months. It is finally the chance for me to review my relationship with London, a city that I've never particularly liked (even though I only spent an afternoon there) and that everybody (well, almost) has been telling me great things about. So here I am, with an open mind and trained legs ready to roam around for a few days! I hope I will be able to post daily, hopefully at night, as I didn't prepare anything for you in advance. Carpe diem, as they say!
For now, I'll just leave you with the song that just started playing on my iPod. I've actually been into the various versions of this song I know for the last couple of weeks: the original has been playing in the office, Patti Smith's is the first one I've listened to (and liked), this is the one I'm listening to the most lately, so here it is: go and find your way to rule the world!
Another day, another (great) song. Today I've been listening to stuff quite randomly and after getting Home from the office playlist, I moved my attention to the Magnetic Zeros for a couple of (my favourite) songs (by them). And I realised I still didn't post one of them. Time has come for the desert song! I am realizing now I reached and passed another milestone (200 posts), I'm so glad that I've been able to find the strength of will to keep posting, and this is also (mainly, actually) thanks to you! So thank you for being such an awesome audience, can't wait to share a lot more great tunes with you! One step at a time. And today's step is a very good one. Don't miss out!
PS: More updates on my easter weekend to come!
Run to the desert, you will see all that you need to see
Run to the desert, you will be all that you need to be
Hi audience, I am feeling a bit lost today at work: LinkedIn, my main means of work, is in redirect loop and I don't know what to do! I'll get to post my article in advance so! The song has been ready since yesterday, so I'm super ready to give it back! It's been one of my Ting Tings' favourites (their whole second album, Sounds of nowheresville, is worth listening if you don't know it!) for quite a while now and since somebody added it to the office playlist and it's been on a couple of times lately, I kind of got back into it. Listen to it and spread the word!
Hey guys!! Premise: it should be illegal to set an alarm clock on your birthday. Apart from that, I must say my day has been good until now and the plans for its continuation sound at least as good! So, I am now faced with the dilemma of choosing a song for this special day. First I must say it doesn't feel real that it's mid-April already! Come on, time flies so fast sometimes and passes by so slow some other times...! Everything is weirdly messed up! The only certainty is that I'm getting older and older and this 24 is something it'll take a while for me to get used to...! It makes sense to pick a good one, a very good one so. Change of plans. I'll keep for tomorrow the song I wanted to post today and I'll give you one of my all-time favourites, one of the songs I've been in love with for a long long time.
Just take your chances and find your place in the world: this is the message I got from it, and I will do my best to follow the advice!
I promised myself I wouldn't post this (again) until I finished listening to all of their discographies. Now a few years have past and, taking out Bjork's latest album (that came out after my decision anyway), I got through the whole experience.
I take the occasion and exploit this chance to make myself a birthday gift and I'll share this with you now! Also, almost 20 years have past since the article was written, but it is still so up-to-date and so relevant to their music and to the music industry panorama that it really makes you realize just how great and true their work has been and still is.
These ladies have been one (well, actually three) of the most awesome music discoveries and their songs will stay with me for my whole life. I hope you enjoy my favourite music-related interview ever.
Gosh, this day has been so weirdly intense that I forgot to post at all (until now)! Just in time! Ok, so it's been my first day off since I started working here in England and I must say it's been a pretty wise choice, a monday just after a weekend trip and just before my birthday, awesome choice! I still can't believe I'm getting older tomorrow...! Anyway, back to music. In the lat couple of days I have been listening a lot to songs that I have already posted here, so that puts me a little bit in a hard spot for picking a song, and it is the first time this happens even if I am well-inspired. Too bad I get into songs more than once. Of course I'm joking.
Oceania - Bjork
Well, I think that another big milestone has been past today with me barely noticing it. I have (kinda) finished listening to Bjork's discography (excluding her latest album, that anyway was released after I started). She has been the one who made me change my way of approaching new music (you might remember something about it in an R.E.M.-related post) and not in a positive way, as at one point I got stuck with her and for a long time I haven't been able to proceed. I have never processed her album Vespertine, which made me stop listening to her whatsoever. I have recently approached Volta and my impression was a little bit more positive, even though I'm not fully convinced I really like it either. Considering the fact the I had bought the album between these two (Medulla) even before starting with her and that I have listened to it sporadically (with more pleasure than the other two anyway), I feel safer picking from it, as a kind of beginning and end of a chain. This is one of the songs I can safely say I like on Medulla, it's still very experimental but, to me at least, enjoyable!
Hello everybody! Here I am again, after a very tiring (ok, come on, not THAT much) but very very enjoyable (yes, THAT much) trip! Cornwall has been quite different from what I expected it to be, or at least the tiny part of it I've visited has. I enjoyed the whole of the trip: the company, the towns that have disappointed my expectations (Penzance) and those that have overcome them (St. Ives), unforgettable places (Land's end) that stimulated my thinking about the big questions of the world and places that I still have not been to (but I hope I will, i.e. Falmouth). Yes, I enjoyed also the seagull that landed on my head and stole half of my cornish pasty. That's part of the experience too!
Anyway, the highlight of our short journey has been for sure St. Ives with its beautiful beaches and its astounding tides. Tides that have (of course) suggested to me the music to listen to on the train and (of course) to post on the blog now! I enjoyed tides a lot (both the water movements and the music), hope you will too! Have an awesome beginning of the new week!
As I already anticipated a few hours ago, the weekend in front of me is gonna be very intense and I won't access my computer anytime before sunday night, so I think I'd best post now for today and make peace with it. I'll just give you the song I'm listening to in this exact moment, which makes a lot of sense for the time it is (friday night) but not for me (as I have to wake up at 6.40 a.m., that is in too few hours!). Stay awake with(out) me and enjoy your night and weekend!
Another week is coming to an end so quickly! This coming weekend is gonna be hyper, I hope I'll get the chance to post a couple of songs anyway! But let's focus on today now, one thing at a time. I'm stumbling on the choice of the song for the first time this week, but I have many alternatives available, so I'll just pick one. I have started listening to Joan recently, after noticing that she is going to play a venue in Exeter at the end of the month. I still didn't make up my mind about whether I'll be going to this gig or not, but in the meanwhile I started taking a liking for her music, in particular a couple of songs, among which there is this! You never know where you can find your magic...!
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