London Grammar - Wicked Game (2014)

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I'd never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you
I'd never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No I want to fall in love
No I want to fall in love
With you
With you

What a wicked game you played to make me feel this way
what a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you
what a wicked thing to say you never felt this way
what a wicked thing to do to make me dream of you

And I want to fall in love
No I want to fall in love
With you

The world was on fire and no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I'd never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
I'd never dreamed that I'd lose somebody like you

No I want to fall in love
No I want to fall in love
With you
With you
This girl is only gonna break your heart
Nobody loves no one.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Refugee (1980)

We got somethin', we both know it, we don't talk too much about it
Ain't no real big secret, all the same, somehow we get around it
Listen, it don't really matter to me baby
You believe what you want to believe, you see

You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon
Honey, it don't make no difference to me baby
Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

[Chorus:]
You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
No baby you don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)

Baby we ain't the first
I'm sure a lot of other lovers been burned
Right now it seems real to you, but it's
One of those things you gotta feel to be true

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Who knows maybe you were kidnapped tied up,
Taken away and held for ransom
Honey, it don't make no difference to me, baby
Everybody has to fight to be free, you see

[Chorus x2].

Los Lobos - La Bamba (1987)

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa' mí pa' ti
Y arriba y arriba
Ay arriba y arriba
Por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré

Yo no soy marinero
Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán
Soy capitán, soy capitán

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa' mí pa' ti
Ay y arriba y arriba

Para bailar la bamba
Para bailar la bamba
Se necesita una poca de gracia
Una poca de gracia pa' mí pa' ti
Y arriba y arriba
Ay arriba y arriba
Por ti seré, por ti seré, por ti seré

Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba
Bamba, bamba.

Elton John - Tiny Dancer (1972)

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly slowly

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly slowly

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today.

Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974)

)

I'm so tired of working every day
Now the weekend's come
I'm gonna throw my troubles away
If you've got the cab fare, mister, you'll do all right
I want to see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station, don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just won't wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I want to see the bright lights tonight

There's crazy people running all over town
There's a silver band, just marching up and down
And the big boys are all spoiling for a fight
I want to see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station, don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just won't wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I want to see the bright lights tonight

A couple of drunken nights rolling on the floor
Is just the kind of mess I'm looking for
I'm gonna dream 'till Monday comes in sight
I want to see the bright lights tonight

Meet me at the station, don't be late
I need to spend some money and it just won't wait
Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I want to see the bright lights tonight

Take me to the dance and hold me tight
I want to see the bright lights tonight.

Tinariwen - Toumast Tincha (2014)

Walking through it
Walking in the winter
The desert
Then I see it
My beloved
Dancing through fire

Dancing through fire.

Maxïmo Park - Lover, Lover, Lover (2014)

I asked my father,
I said, "Father change my name."
The one I'm using now it's covered up
with fear and filth and cowardice and shame.

He said, "I locked you in this body,
I meant it as a kind of trial.
You can use it for a weapon,
or to make some woman smile."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

"Then let me start again," I cried,
"please let me start again,
I want a face that's fair this time,
I want a spirit that is calm."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

"I never never turned aside," he said,
"I never walked away.
It was you who built the temple,
it was you who covered up my face."

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

And may the spirit of this song,
may it rise up pure and free.
May it be a shield for you,
a shield against the enemy.

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

Yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me
yes and lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover, lover come back to me.

Gary U.S. Bonds - Quarter to Three (1961)

Don't you know that I danced, I danced till a quarter to three
With the help, last night, of Daddy G.
He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could
And I was dancin' all over the room.
Oh, don't you know the people were dancin' like they were mad,
it was the swingin'est band they had, ever had.
It was the swingin'est song that could ever be,
It was a night with Daddy G.
Let me tell you now,
I never had it so good
Yeah and I know you never could
Until you get hip with that jive
And take a band like the Church Street Five.
Oh don't you know that I danced,
I danced till a quarter to three
With the help last night of Daddy G.
Everybody was as happy as they could be
And they were swingin with Daddy G.
Blow Daddy!
Let me tell you now,
I never had it so good
Yeah and I know you never could
Until you get hip with that jive
And take a band like the Church Street Five.
Oh don't you know that I danced,
I danced till a quarter to three
With the help last night of Daddy G.
He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could,
and I was dancin all over the room
Oh don't you know the
Dance, do bee wa dah
Dance, do bee wah dah
You can dance, do bee wah dah,
You can dance, dance, dance.

Paco de Lucía - Entre dos aguas (1976)

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone (1982)

 
On the day I was born
The nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder
At the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up
Said "leave this one alone"
She could tell right away
That I was bad to the bone

Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone

I broke a thousand hearts
Before I met you
I'll break a thousand more, baby
Before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey
That I'm bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone

SOLO

I make a rich woman beg
I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush
And make a young girl squeal
I wanna be yours pretty baby
Yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey
That I'm bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone

SOLO 2

And when I walk the streets
Kings and Queens step aside
Every woman I meet
They all stay satisfied
I wanna tell ya pretty baby
Well Ya see I make my own
I'm here to tell ya honey
That I'm bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone.

Domenico Modugno - Nel blu dipinto di blu (1958)

Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)
Penso che un sogno così non ritorni mai più
Mi dipingevo le mani e la faccia di blu
Poi d'improvviso venivo dal vento rapito
E incominciavo a volare nel cielo infinito
Volare, oh oh...
Cantare, ohohoho...
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassù
E volavo, volavo felice
Più in alto del sole ed ancora più su
Mentre il mondo pian piano spariva, lontano laggiù
Una musica dolce suonava soltanto per me
Volare, oh oh...
Cantare, ohohoho...
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassù
Ma tutti i sogni nell'alba svaniscono perché
Quando tramonta, la luna li porta con sé
Ma io continuo a sognare negli occhi tuoi belli
Che sono blu come un cielo trapunto di stelle
Volare, oh oh...
Cantare, ohohoho...
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
Felice di stare quaggiù
E continuo a volare felice
Più in alto del sole ed ancora più su
Mentre il mondo pian piano scompare negli occhi tuoi blu
La tua voce è una musica dolce che suona per me
Volare, oh oh...
Cantare, ohohoho...
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
Felice di stare quaggiù
Nel blu degli occhi tuoi blu
Felice di stare quaggiù con te
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Blue painted in the blue (Flying)
I think such a dream will never come back
I painted my hands and my face blue
Then suddenly I was ravished by the wind
And I started flying in the infinite sky
Flying, oh oh...
Singing, ohohoho...
Blue painted in the blue
Happy to be up there
And I was flying, flying happily
Higher than the sun and even higher
While the world was slowly disappearing, far beneath
A soft music was playing just for me
Flying, oh oh..
Singing, ohohoho...
Blue painted in the blue
Happy to be up there
But all the dreams fade away at dawn, because
While setting, the moon takes them away
But I keep dreaming in your beautiful eyes
Which are as blue as a sky quilted with stars
Flying, oh oh...
Singing, ohohoho...
In the blue of your blue eyes
Happy to be down here
And I keep flying happily
Higher than the sun and even higher
While the world is slowly disappearing in your blue eyes
Your voice is a soft music playing for me
Flying, oh oh...
Singing, ohohoho...
In the blue of your blue eyes
Happy to be down here
In the blue of your blue eyes
Happy to be down here with you

David Bowie - Absolute Beginners (1986)

BBC 2000, LIVE

I've nothing much to offer
There's nothing much to take
I'm an absolute beginner
And I'm absolutely sane
As long as we're together
The rest can go to hell
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
With eyes completely open
But nervous all the same

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Could laugh at the ocean
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true

Nothing much could happen
Nothing we can't shake
Oh we're absolute beginners
With nothing much at stake
As long as you're still smiling
There's nothing more I need
I absolutely love you
But we're absolute beginners
But if my love is your love
We're certain to succeed

If our love song
Could fly over mountains
Sail over heartaches
Just like the films
There's no reason
To feel all the hard times
To lay down the hard lines
It's absolutely true.

Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello - The ghost of Tom Joad (2009)

Men walkin' 'long the railroad tracks
Goin' someplace there's no goin' back
Highway patrol choppers comin' up over the ridge

Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretchin' 'round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleepin' in their cars in the Southwest
No home no job no peace no rest

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls a prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waitin' for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box 'neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathin' in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
Where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Waitin' on the ghost of Tom Joad

Now Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beatin' a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fightin' for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helpin' hand
Wherever somebody's strugglin' to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

Well the highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

Ελευθερία Αρβανιτάκη - Γελαστή φωτογραφία (1994)

Στίχοι: Μιχάλης Γκανάς
Μουσική: Ara Dinkjian
   
Κι αν σου μιλώ ψιθυριστά
κι αν σ’ αγαπώ συλλαβιστά
είναι που σε βλέπω
στ’ όνειρό μου κάτι βράδια
να με ντύνεις χάδια μεταξωτά.
Είναι που φοβάμαι
μην ξυπνήσω και σε χάσω
μήπως σε ξεχάσω, οριστικά.

Κι αν σου μιλώ με μια φωνή
που δεν ακούν οι ουρανοί
είναι που `χεις γίνει
γελαστή φωτογραφία
έγχρωμη απουσία, όλο νερά.
Είναι που χαϊδεύω
το σακάκι σου τα βράδια
και φορώ τα χάδια, μαύρα κουμπιά.

Είναι που δε βρίσκω
σε κανένα μονοπάτι
ένα χαλικάκι του γυρισμού.

Γίνε φωτιά να σε κοιτώ
γίνε τραγούδι στο στόμα
γίνε γιορτή να ξεχαστώ
κρύψου παντού να σε βρω.

London Grammar - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

2013: Best Albums, 30 της Εκπομπής του Γιάννη Πετρίδη στο ΒΗΜΑ FM

London Grammar - Strong

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires In The City

2. Kanye West - Yeezus

3. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle

4. M.I.A - Matangi

5. Arctic Monkeys - Am

6. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Pack

7. Eminem - The Marshal Mothers Lp 2

8. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

9. Drake - Nothing Was The Same

10. London Grammar - If You Wait

11. James Blake - Overgrown

12. Laura Mvula - Sign To The Moon

13. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

14. Disclosure - Settle

15. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual

16. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

17. Rudimental - Home

18. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

19. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady

20. Kurt Vile - Walkin On A Pretty Daze

21. Chvrches - The Bones Of What You Believe

22. Foals - Holy Fire

23. Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork

24. My Bloody Valentine - Mbv

25. Atoms For Peace - Amok

26. Danny Brown - Old

27. Lorde - Pure Heroine

28. Elvis Costello And The Roots - Wise Up Ghost And Other Songs

29. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away

30. Bill Callahan - Dream River

31. David Bowie - The Next Day

32. Sky Ferreira - Night Time My Time

33. Haim - Days Are Gone

34. Daughter - If You Leave

35. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

36. Migos - Young Rich Nigas

37. Kelela - Cut 4 Me

38. John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts

39. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

40. Jon Hopkins - Immunity

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Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans (1972)

Illinois Central Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

[Chorus]
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of Pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.

[Chorus]

Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.

Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.

2013: Best Albums, 25 του metacritic.com

Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels

1. Deafheaven - Sunbather

2. Julia Holter - Loud City Song

3. My Bloody Valentine - m b v

4. Jason Isbell - Southeastern

5. Tim Hecker - Virgins

6. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

7. Touché Amoré - Is Survived By

8. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle

9. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

10. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

11. Beyoncé - Beyoncé

12. William Tyler - Impossible Truth

13. Guy Clark - My Favorite Picture of You

14. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

15. Patty Griffin - American Kid

16. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

17. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

18. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

19. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

20. The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

21. Kanye West - Yeezus

22. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You

23. Mikal Cronin - MCII

24. Pet Shop Boys - Electric

25. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

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2013: Best Albums, 50 του pitchfork.com

Disclosure - Latch feat. Sam Smith

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

2. Kanye West - Yeezus

3. Disclosure - Settle

4. My Bloody Valentine - mbv

5. Danny Brown - Old

6. Deafheaven - Sunbather

7. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

8. Majical Cloudz - Impersonator

9. Savages - SIlence Yourself

10. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

11. Darkside - Psychic

12. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap

13. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze

14. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

15. Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time

16. Bill Callahan - Dream River

17. Haim - Days Are Gone

18. Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady

19. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

20. Jai Paul - Jai Paul

21. Blood Orange - Cupid Deluxe

22. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

23. DJ Rashad - Double Cup

24. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven

25. Drake - Nothing Was the Same

26. James Blake - Overgrown

27. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight...

29. Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels

29. The Haxan Cloak - Excavation

30. Deerhunter - Monomania

31. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety

32. DJ Koze - Amygdala

33. Burial - Truant / Rough Sleeper

34. Forest Swords - Engravings

35. Phosphorescent - Muchacho

36. Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe

37. Jon Hopkins - Immunity

38. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

39. A$AP Rocky - LongLiveA$AP

40. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

41. Mutual Benefit - Love's Crushing Diamond

42. Rhye - Woman

43. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

44. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

45. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

46. M.I.A. - Matangi

47. The Range - Nonfiction

48. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana

49. Julia Holter - Loud City Song

50. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name

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2013: Best Albums, 50 του περιοδικού NME

Savages - Shut Up

1. Arctic Monkeys - AM

2. Kanye West - Yeezus

3. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

4. Foals - Holy Fire

5. Savages - Silence Yourself

6. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

7. Arcade Fire - Reflektor

8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

9. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle

10. David Bowie - The Next Day

11. Jon Hopkins - Immunity

12. M.I.A. - Matangi

13. Drenge - Drenge

14. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

15. Peace - In Love

16. Jagwar Ma - Howlin

17. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt

18. Hookworms - Pearl Mystic

19. Disclosure - Settle

20. The National - Trouble Will Find Me

21. Iceage - You're Nothing

22. Deerhunter - Monomania

23. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe

24. Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold

25. Haim - Days Are Gone

26. Factory Floor - Factory Floor

27. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

28. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds

29. My Bloody Valentine - m b v

30. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

31. Merchandise - Totale Nite

32. Palma Violets - 180

33. Tegan and Sara - Heartthrob

34. Janelle Monáe - The Electric Lady

35. Bill Callahan - Dream River

36. Deap Vally - Sistrionix

37. Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze

38. Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: The Sea of Split Peas

39. The Julie Ruin - Run Fast

40. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus

41. The Strokes - Comedown Machine

42. Cate Le Bon - Mug Museum

43. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

44. Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana

45. Future of the Left - How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident

46. Primal Scream - More Light

47. King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath the Moon

48. Pusha T - My Name Is My Name

49. Daughter - If You Leave

50. James Blake - Overgrown

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