El celobert

Tot i que sobretot és conegut per tocar la guitarra amb uns Pulp primerencs, la vàlua musical de Richard Hawley no necessita cap referència als seus coetanis de Sheffield. En reivindiquem el clacissisme pop tot repassant el seu cançoner.

01 "Tonight the streets are ours"

02 "Coming home"

03 "Baby you're my light"

04 "Run for me"

05 "Just like the rain"

06 "Born under a bad sign"

07 "The ocean"

08 "Serious"

09 "For your lover give some time"

10 "Open your door"

11 "Seek it"

12 "Nothing like a friend"

Hi ha molts músics somiatruites que només es preocupen pel seu art, encara que no sigui una font d'ingressos fiable. Això no impedeix que també hi hagi artistes que no tenen cap mania a escampar l'amor que senten pels diners.

01 XTC - "Earn enough for us"

02 Pink Floyd - "Money"

03 Steve Miller Band - "Take the money and run"

04 Frank Ocean - "Super rich kids"

05 Randy Newman - "It's money that matters"

06 Randy Newman - "It's money that I love"

07 Pet Shop Boys - "Opportunities (let's make lots of money)

08 Daryl Hall & John Oates - "Rich girl"

09 Steely Dan - "Black friday"

10 Los Ronaldos - "Adiós, papá"

11 The Clovers - "You're cash ain't nothin' but trash"

12 King Crimson - "Easy money"

13 Madonna - "Material girl"

14 The O'Jays - "For the love of money"

Una de les proves més concloents que la música és medicinal la trobes quan et trenquen el cor i necessites escoltar cançons que t'expliquin el dolor que t'està consumint. Perquè res no acompanya més el mal de cor que una veu emmirallant el teu estat d'ànim.

01 Jimmy Ruffin - "What becomes of the brokenhearted"

02 Billy Holliday - "Good morning heartache"

03 Patsy Cline - "That's how a heartache begins"

04 Whiskeytown - "My heart is broken"

05 Al Green - "How can you mend a broken heart"

06 The Wallflowers - "6th avenue heartache"

07 Tom Petty - "Only a broken heart"

08 Julieta - "Trenca'm el cor"

09 Bonnie Tyler - "It's a heartache"

10 Dan Peralbo i El Comboi - "Cor trencadís"

11 Spiritualized - "Broken heart"

12 Sarah Vaughan - "Broken hearted melody"

13 Noah and the Whale - "My broken heart"

Si ja és prou difícil triomfar en el món del pop, encara ho és més fer-ho en dues o més formacions diferents. Us acostem els genis que van saber reinventar-se de manera sorprenent gràcies al seu talent.

01 Sugar - "If I can't change your mind"

02 Hüsker Dü - "Too far down"

03 Depeche Mode - "Just can't get enough"

04 Yazoo - "Only you"

05 Erasure - "A little respect"

06 The Jam - "The Eton rifles"

07 The Style Council - "Walls come tumbling down"

08 Paul Weller - "Wild wood"

09 Happy Monday - "Step on"

10 Black Grape - "In the name of the father"

11 Nirvana - "All apologies"

12 Foo Fighters - "Everlong"

13 Death Cab for Cutie - "Cath¿"

14 The Postal Service - "Such great heights"

Triar deu discs per il·lustrar tota una dècada és agosarat, ho sabem, però, com que ens va el marro, hem decidit fer la nostra tria i proposar-vos que ens digueu la vostra. Us atreviu?

01 Kate Bush - "Running up that hill"

02 Joy Division - "Twenty four hours"

03 Talking Heads - "Born under punches"

04 The Smiths - "There is a light that never goes out"

05 The Cure - "Pictures of you"

06 De La Soul - "Eye know"

07 Prince - "Sign o' the times"

08 Pixies - "Where is my mind?"

09 Talk Talk - "The rainbow"

10 The Stone Roses - "I am the resurrection"

Si encara no t'has atrevit a capbussar-te en la descomunal discografia d'Elvis Costello, et proposem un tastet amb dotze perles cultivades del seu cançoner.

01 "Veronica"

02 "Watching the detectives"

03 "Alison"

04 "Oliver's army"

05 "New lace sleeves"

06 "The long honeymoon"

07 "Brilliant mistake"

08 "I want you"

09 "Jacksons, Monk and Rowe"

10 "Shipbuilding"

11 "God give me strenght"

12 "Broken bicycles/Junk"

13 "Paint the red rose blue"

Diuen que les segones parts mai són bones, però nosaltres opinem diferent i per això hem buscat cançons que en realitat són continuacions de peces anteriors, i tanmateix tenen una personalitat pròpia i intransferible.

01 David Bowie - "Space oddity"

02 David Bowie - "Ashes to ashes"

03 The Beatles - "I am the walrus"

04 The Beatles - "Glass onion"

05 Eric Clapton - "I shot the sheriff"

06 Eric Clapton - "Don't blame me"

07 Buddy Holly & The Crickets - "Peggy Sue"

08 Buddy Holly & The Crickets - "Peggy Sue got married"

09 Neil Sedaka - "Oh Carol"

10 Carole King - "Oh Neil"

11 Otis Redding - "Fa fa fa fa (sad song)

12 Otis Redding - "The happy song"

13 Chuck Berry - "Johnny B Good"

14 Chuck Berry - "Bye bye Johnny"

15 Fito Paez - "11 y 6"

16 Fito Paez - "El chico de la tapa"

Fart del Tinder? Si busques parella, hi ha maneres millors de trobar una ànima bessona. Aquí tens tretze artistes que et donen la seva fórmula per aparellar-te i no morir en l'intent.

01 Sam Cooke - "Another saturday night"

02 Billy Bragg - "A new England"

03 Rod Stewart - "Atractive female wanted"

04 Matthew Sweet - "Girlfriend"

05 Todd Rundgren - "We gotta get you a woman"

06 The Mr. T Experience - "Even Hitler had a girlfriend"

07 The Intruders - "I wanna know your name"

08 Joe Jackson - "Is she really going out with him"

09 Nick Love - "Has she got a friend?"

10 The Replacements - "Achin' to be"

11 Tom Waits - "Invitation to the blues"

12 Depeche Mode - "Somebody"

13 Tom T Hall - "Tulsa telephone book"

14 Clyde McPhatter - "I gotta get myself a woman"

Per culpa de dives del R&B comercial com Mariah Carey o Christina Aguilera, la tècnica del melisme s'ha identificat amb exercicis onanistes i banals de gimnàstica vocal. Trenquem aquest dogma musical i reivindiquem el bon us d'aquest recurs tan particular.

01 Whitney Houston - "I will always love you"

02 Christina Aguilera - "Beautiful"

03 Mariah Carey - "Always be my baby"

04 Stevie Wonder - "As"

05 Linda Jones - "Not on the outside"

06 Ella Fitzgerald - "Summertime"

07 Aretha Franklin - "You are my sunshine"

08 Pink Floyd - "The great gig in the sky"

09 Luther Vandross - "A house is not a home"

10 Al Green - "Let's stay together"

11 Thee Midnighters - "The town I live"

12 Otis Redding - "Try a little tenderness"

13 Aretha Franklin - "Amazing grace"

Pobret meu, allà tancat entre quatre parets tot el sant dia, sense queixar-se mai, rebent-te amb un amor que en realitat no et mereixes. Potser que li regalis un grapat de bones cançons, no trobes?

01 Led Zeppelin - "Black dog"

02 Cat Stevens - "I love my dog"

03 John Hiatt - "My dog and me"

04 Norah Jones - "Man fo the hour"

05 Jane Siberry - "Everything reminds me of my dog"

06 Johnny Cash - "Dirty old egg-sucking dog"

07 Boygenius - "Me and my dog"

08 Tom Waits - "Rain dogs"

09 Lobo - "me and you and a dog named boo"

10 The Beatles - "Martha my dear"

11 Dr. John - "How come my dog don't bark (when you come around)

12 The Antlers - "Putting the dog to sleep"

13 Nick Drake - "Black eyed dog"

14 George Clinton - "Atomic dog"