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L'eclosió del rock californià a principis dels 70 va crear un seguit d'icones del rock confessional com Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt i Jackson Browne. Entre ells, de manera discreta i allunyada dels grans escenaris, un cantautor va cedir el seu talent i les seves cançons per nodrir les carreres dels seus amics. Es deia J.D. Souther, i sense ell, els Eagles no serien el que són.

01 J D Souther - "You're only lonely"

02 J D Souther - "Jesus in 3/4 time"

03 Eagles - "Best of my love"

04 Eagles - "The best of my love"

05 Jude Sill - "jesus was a cross maker"

06 Linda Ronstadt - "Faithless love"

07 J D Souther - "Your turn now"

08 The Souther-Hillman - "Trouble in paradise"

09 Linda Ronstadt - "Prisioner in disguise"

10 Eagles - "New kid in town"

11 James Taylor - "Her town too"

12 Don Henley - "The heart of the matter"

13 J D Souther - "Faithless love"

Sí, ja sabem que queda una mica carrincló, però no ens podem estar de dir-ho: no hi ha res més encisador que els arbres mig despullats i les fulles de colors caient quan arriba la tardor.

01 Simon & Garfunkel - "Leaves that are green"

02 Yves Montand - "Les feuilles mortes"

03 Paolo Nutini - "Autumn"

04 Anímic - "Les fulles fan d'ocell"

05 Van Morrison - "When the leaves come falling down"

06 Sun Kil Moon - "Among the leaves"

07 June Tabor - "The leaves of life"

08 Ella Fitzgerald - "Lullaby of the leaves"

09 Darryll-Ann - "The leaves"

10 Paul Lindsay - "Autumn song (the leaves on the trees are falling)"

11 Colapesce - "Le foglie appese"

12 Madison Beer - "Envy the leaves"

13 The Transports - "The leaves in the woodland"

14 This Pine Box - "The leaves"

15 Mansions On The Moon - "Leaves fall"

A principis dels 70, el fenomen del glam rock va omplir les llistes de vendes i les portades de les revistes especialitzades amb els looks mes andrògins del pop. El que poca gent recorda és que la immensa majoria de les cançons que va popularitzar aquest moviment eren obra de dos compositors desconeguts amb una habilitat inèdita per fer himnes trepidants.

01 Sweet - "The ballroom blitz"

02 Sweet - "Blockbuster"

03 Suzi Quatro - "Can the can"

04 Suzi Quatro - "Devil gate drive"

05 Mud - "Tiger feet"

06 Sweet - Teenage Rampage"

07 Suzi Quatro - "48 crash"

08 Smokie - "Living next door to Alice"

09 Smokie - "Pass it around"

10 Racey - "Some girls"

11 Spider - "Better be good to me"

12 Toni Basil - "Mickey"

13 Exile - "Kiss you all over"

14 Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro - "Stumblin' in"

Avui el programa és una llàntia màgica on s'amaga un geni entremaliat. Potser que ho aprofitem preguntant quins són els desitjos més inconfessables dels nostres artistes preferits.

01 The Avett Brothers - "I wish I was"

02 Tia Blake - "I wish I was single again"

03 Claud - "Wish you were gay"

04 MJ. - "I wish I were a boy"

05 Lesley Gore - "Sometimes I wish I were a boy"

06 Of Montreal - "Tim, I wish you were born a girl"

07 beabadoobe - "I wish I was Stephen Malkmus"

08 Suu - "Tant de bo"

09 Neko Case - "I wish I was the moon"

10 Sandi Thom - "I wish I was a punk rocker"

11 Frightened Rabbit - "I wish I was sober"

12 Scouting For Girls - "I wish I was James Bond"

13 Silvio Rodriguez - "Ojalá"

14 The 1975 - "Tonight (I wish I was your boy)"

15 Mott The Hoople - "I wish I was your mother"

16 Pink Floyd - "Wish you were here"

En el món del pop existeix des de sempre un fenomen desconcertant però força més freqüent del que ens pensem. Es tracta de la relació d'amor-odi que tenen els artistes amb les cançons més populars del seu repertori.

01 Radiohead - "Creep"

02 R.E.M. - "Shiny happy people"

03 Lou Reed - "Sally can't dance"

04 Blur - "Country house"

05 Bobby McFerrin - "Don't worry, be happy"

06 The Police - "Every breath you take"

07 Billy Joel - "Just the way you are"

08 Nirvana - "Smells like teen spirit"

09 Ben Folds - "One down"

10 Oasis - "D'you know what I mean?"

11 Jackson Browne - "Stay"

Com que ahir ens van quedar un munt de cançons a la butxaca, hem decidir fer-vos una segona part plena de peces curtes, glorioses i directes a la jugular.

01 Caroline Polachek - "The gate"

02 The Magnetic Fields - "Very funny"

03 Okkervil River - "Black sheep boy"

04 Matthew Sweet - "Over it"

05 The Clash - "White riot"

06 Sufjan Stevens - "The greatest gift"

07 Guided by Voices - "End it with light"

08 Hüsker Dü - "Never talking you again"

09 Nick Drake - "Harvest breed"

10 Randy Newman - "Political science"

11 Buddy Holly - "(Ummm, oh yeah) Dearest"

12 The Shins - "The celibate life"

13 The Zombies - "The way I feel inside"

14 Death Cab for Cutie - "You can do better than me"

15 Simon & Garfunkel - "We've got a groovy thing goin'"

16 El Petit de Cal Eril - "Quan estic amb tu"

17 Paul Westenberg - "Even here we are"

18 The La's - "Feelin' "

19 The Lemonheads - "Being around"

20 Ramones - "Havana Affair"

21 Tom Waits - "Bend down the branches"

22 The Hives - "Trapdoor solution"

23 The Beach Boys - "This whole world"

24 St Vincent - "The sequel"

25 Pau Vallvé - "Aquest cop sí"

26 Low - "Dark"

27 Nick Lowe - "I don't want the night to end"

28 The Jesus And Mary Chain - "Taste of cindy"

Ja ho diuen que al pot petit hi ha la bona confitura. En el món del pop, per exemple, hi ha un fotimer de cançons majestuoses que no necessiten grans solos ni introduccions ampul·loses per emocionar-nos.

01 Big Star - "I'm in love with a girl"

02 The Lemonheads - "Bit part"

03 The Box Tops - "The letter"

04 Ramones - "Cretin Hop"

05 Mitski - "A burning Hill"

06 Lucy Dacus "Kissing lessons"

07 The Smiths - "Please, please, please, let me get what I.."

08 Teenage Fanclub - "What you do to me"

09 Tom Waits - "Johnsburg, Illinois"

10 Elvis Costello - "Welome to the working week"

11 The Undertones - "Here comes the summer"

12 The Beatles - "I'll follow the sun"

13 Tame Impala - "Disciples"

14 The Byrds - "Renaissance Fair"

15 Mitski - "A burning Hill"

16 Radiohead - "I will"

17 Myracle Brah - "I'm in love"

18 The Jam - "Boy about town"

19 Death Cab For Cutie - "Steadier footing"

20 The Wannadies - "Soon you're dead"

21 The Clash - "Career opportunities"

22 The Shins - "Weird Divide"

23 They Might Be Giants - "Letterbox"

24 Galgo Lento - "Copilot"

25 Massaviu - "Bon dia tristesa"

26 Super Furry Animals - "Torra fy ngwallt yn hir"

Els anglesos són molt seus, aixo ja ho sabem: condueixen al revés i ni tan sols ho mesuren en quilòmetres. Avui us parlem de cançons que no paren de córrer, però, això sí, ho fan en milles. Foto: Alysse Gafkjen.

01 Jason Isbell and the 400 unit - "Milles"

02 Vanessa Carlton - "A thousand miles"

03 Edwin Starr – "Twenty five miles"

04 The Proclaimers – "I'm gonna be (500 miles)"

05 The Rolling Stones – "Moonlight mile"

06 Jesse Woods - "A thousand (miles from nowhere)"

07 Pretenders -" 2000 Miles"

08 Mary Chapin Carpenter - "10000 Miles"

09 Ride - "1000 Miles"

10 Ben Harper -" How many miles must we march"

11 Traffic - "Many a mile to freedom"

12 The Byrds - "Eight miles high"

Després de la desaparició de The Clash, un desencantat Joe Strummer va decidir fugir d'Anglaterra i refugiar-se a la ciutat de Federico García Lorca. Allà va deixar una empremta inoblidable, algunes anècdotes hilarants i un record que encara dura.

01 The Clash - "I fought the law"

02 The Slits - "I heard it through the grapevine"

03 The Clash - "Spanish Bombs"

04 The Clash - "Police on my back"

05 091 - "En la calle"

06 Radio Futura - "No tocarte"

07 Radio Futura - "Han caído los dos"

08 091 - "Cuando pierdo el equilibrio"

09 Paco Ibañez - "Andaluces de Jaén"

10 Juan Perro - "José Rasca"

11 The Clash – "Straight to Hell"

12 The Pogues - "Fiesta"

13 Joe Strummer, The mescaleros - "Mondo bongo"

Poques històries són mes tràgiques que la de Doug Hopkins, el líder i compositor dels Gin Blossoms, un dels grans grup de rock americà de principis dels 90.