Piero Merola Awards 2010

Album del 2010: I 50 must-have

1. KANYE WEST – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Benvenuti negli anni Dieci.
2. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Before Today
Quello che Neon Indian rappresentava per gli anni 80, Ariel lo ripropone per il pop psichedelico di un decennio prima. Con additivi kitsch e funky che non guastano
3. SUFJAN STEVENS – The Age Of Adz
The Age Of Adz : Sufjan Stevens = Kid A : Radiohead
4. DEERHUNTER – Halcyon Digest
Bradford Cox e soci fanno sul serio. Al netto di creatività, droga e Factory, si candidano a Velvet Underground dei nostri tempi.
5. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – This Is Happening
Quando si inizierà a insegnare gli LCD nelle scuole?
6. BEACH HOUSE – Teen Dream
Fiochi intermittenti bagliori in solitarie riprese notturne tra Baltimora e Norvegia.
7. TAME IMPALA – Innerspeaker
In Australia si prova a rinverdire la Summer Love tra psichedelia e Beatles post-65. Eppure suona tutto così attuale.
8. NO AGE – Everything In Between
Hardcore-punk onirico non è più un ossimoro.
9. THE NATIONAL – High Violet
Senza di loro forse le foglie nemmeno cadrebbero.
10. CARIBOU – Swim
Quel nerd di Snaith a differenza nostra ha capito tutto della vita.
11. BEST COAST – Crazy For You
La strana coppia: una demente e un metallaro per un miracolo di pop rumoroso e caramelloso da sussidiario della West Coast.
12. TWIN SHADOW – Forget
Sembravamo esserci sbarazzati degli anni ’80. Un dominicano baffone trapiantato a Brooklyn smentisce tutto.
13. SURFER BLOOD – Astro Coast
I Dinosaur Jr incontrano i Weezer in Florida per un tributo ai Pavement. Ed è festa.
14. TITUS ANDRONICUS – The Monitor
Un concept sulla guerra civile americana partorito da hipster punkettoni andrebbe evitato come la peste. E invece no.
15. SLEIGH BELLS – Treats
Meno strana coppia e meno derivativi dei Best Coast. I loro suoni sono orribili, a tratti insostenibili, ma una voce stupida tra M.I.A. e anime è la sublimazione dal retrogusto pop di certi frastuoni d’annata.
16. RADIO DEPT – Clinging To A Scheme
Anche gli svedesi a modo loro hanno un’estate.
17. HOT CHIP – One Life
Il manuale del cazzeggio da dancefloor.
18. WILD NOTHING – Gemini
La C86 che manda i Radio Dept in spiaggia.
19. WAVVES – King Of The Beach
Il fattissimo ripetente shit-gaze finalmente passa l’esame decisivo.
20. GORILLAZ – Plastic Beach
Anche questa volta gli special guest caricano di fascino l’ineffabile dimensione-Gorillaz.

21. ARCADE FIRE – The Suburbs
22. FOUR TET – There Is Love In You
23. FLYING LOTUS – Cosmogramma
24. JANELLE MONAE ArchAndroid
25. HOW TO DRESS WELL – Love Remains
26. LIARS – Sisterworld
27. DELOREAN – Subiza
28. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – Forgiveness Rock Record
29. JOANNA NEWSOM – Have One On Me
30. VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Contra
31. THE WALKMEN Lisbon
32. MORNING BENDERS – Big Echo
33. CRYSTAL CASTLES – Crystal Castles
34. MGMT – Congratulations
35. YEASAYER – Odd Blood
36. PANTHA DU PRINCE – Black Noise
37. OWEN PALLETT – Heartland
38. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH – The Wild Hunt
39. SPOON – Transference
40. DAS RACIST Shut Up, Dude And Sit Down, Man
41. MATTHEW DEAR – Black City
42. FOALS – Total Life Forever
43. INFINITE BODY – Carve Out The Face My God
44. THE FRESH & ONLYS – Play It Strange
45. EMERALDS – Does It Look Like I’m Here?
46. BELLE & SEBASTIAN Write About Love
47. THE SONNETS – Western Harbour Blue
48 .ERYKAH BADU New America pt.2: Return Of The Ankh
49. THE BLACK ANGELS – Phosphene Dream
50. GRINDERMAN – Grinderman 2

10 videoclip

1) KANYE WEST Runaway

2) FLAMING LIPS Powerless

2010 Flaming Lips – Powerless from George Salisbury on Vimeo.

3) LIARS Scissor

4) BEST COAST When I’m With You

5) M.I.A. Born Free

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

6) HOT CHIP I Feel Better

7) GRINDERMAN Heathen Child

8 ) TAME IMPALA Solitude Is Bliss

9) LADY GAGA ft. BEYONCE’ Telephone

10) ARCADE FIRE Ready To Start

100 canzoni random

ARCADE FIRE Sprawl II
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Round And Round
AZARI & III feat. TENSNAKE Reckless
BEACH FOSSILS Vacation
BEACH HOUSE Silver Soul
BEAT CONNECTION In The Water
BEST COAST Boyfriend
BELLE & SEBASTIAN Come On Sister
THE BLACK ANGELS Telephone
BRIAN ENO Two Forms Of Anger
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE All To All
CARIBOU Odessa
CEO Come With Me
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG & BECK Heaven Can Wait
THE CORAL 1000 Years
CONGOROCK Babylon
CROCODILES Hearts Of Love
CRYSTAL CASTLES feat. ROBERT SMITH Not In Love
CULTS Go Outside
CUT COPY Where I’m Going
DEERHUNTER Revival
DELOREAN Real Love
DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES While We’re Young
DUM DUM GIRLS Jail La La
THE DRUMS Let’s Go Surfing
ERYKAH BADU Windowseat
FLYING LOTUS MmmHmm
FOALS This Orient
FOUR TET Love Cry
GIL-SCOTT HERON New York Is Killing Me
GIRL UNIT Wut
GIRLS Carolina
GLASSER Home
GOLDFRAPP Rocket
GOLD PANDA You
GORILLAZ Glitter Freeze
HERE WE GO MAGIC Collector
HOT CHIP One Life Stand
HOW TO DRESS WELL Ready For The World
HURTS Wonderful Life
JAMES BLAKE I Only Know (What I Know Now)
JAMES T. COTTON On Time
JAMIE LIDELL I Can Love Again
JANELLE MONAE Cold War
JAPANDROIDS Art Czars
JOANNA NEWSOM Good Intentions Paving Company
KANYE WEST Dark Fantasy
KEEPAWAY Yellow Wings
KNIFE Colouring Of Pigeons
KYLE HALL Tomorrow Is The Day
LADY GAGA feat. BEYONCE Telephone
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM All I Want
LIARS Proud Evolution
M.I.A. Born Free
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS You Must Be Out Of Your Mind
MALE BONDING Year’s Not Long
MATTHEW DEAR Black City
MGMT Brian Eno
MNDR I Go Away
MIAMI HORROR Look To You
THE MORNING BENDERS Promises
THE NATIONAL I’m Afraid Of Everyone
NEON INDIAN Sleep Paralysist
NO AGE Glitter
OFF! Upside Down
P.S. I LOVE YOU Face Love
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART Heart In Your Heartbreak
PANDA BEAR Slow Motion
PJ HARVEY Written In The Forehead
PLAN B. Prayin’
PORTISHEAD Chase The Tear
PROFESSOR GREEN I Need You Tonight
RADIO DEPT. Heaven On Fire
REAL ESTATE Out Of Tune
ROBYN Dancing On My Own
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS Windstorm
SHE & HIM In The Sun
SHOUT OUT LOUDS Walls
SLEIGH BELLS Crown On The Ground
THE SMITH WESTERNS Weekend
THE SONNETS No Hollywood Ending
SPOON Written In Reverse
SUFJAN STEVENS The Age Of Adz
SUFJAN STEVENS I Want To Be Well
SURFER BLOOD Harmonix
TAKESHI KOUZOUKI Mr.Peanut
TAME IMPALA Solitude Is Bliss
TEENGIRL FANTASY Cheaters
TELEKINESIS Dirty Thing
THESE NEW PURITANS We Want War
TITUS ANDRONICUS A More Perfect Union
TWIN SHADOW When We’re Dancing
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Holiday
WALKMEN Angela Surf City
WAVVES Post-Acid
WILD NOTHING Summer Holiday
WOMEN Narrow With The Hall
YEASAYER O.N.E.
YUCK Rubber
ZOLA JESUS Night

10 concerti

1. Grizzly Bear @ Primavera Sound, Barcelona

2. Pavement @ Primavera Sound, Barcelona

3. Hot Chip + Simian Mobile Disco @ Brixton Academy, London

4. Belle & Sebastian @ Play Art Festival, Arezzo
5. Pixies @ Primavera Sound, Barcelona
6. Caribou + Four Tet @ Link, Bologna
7. Fuck Buttons @ Primavera Sound, Barcelona
8. LCD Soundsystem + !!! @ Ferrara Sotto Le Stelle
9. No Age @ Covo, Bologna
10. Japandroids @ Primavera Sound, Barcelona

5 EP

1. JAMES BLAKE – CMYK
2. GIRLS – Broken Dreams Club
3. ROBYN – Body Talk (part 1 & part 2)
4. CEO – Come With Me
5. TELEKINESIS Parallel Seismic Conspiracies

PERSONAGGI FEMMINILI

1) Lady Gaga

2) Zooey Deschanel (She & Him)

3) Erykah Badu

PERSONAGGI MASCHILI
1) Kanye West

2) George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow)

3) Ariel Marcus Rosenberg (aka Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti)

AMARCORD (10,20,30,40 anni fa…)

1970
1) NEIL YOUNG After The Gold Rush
2) NICO Desertshore
3) SYD BARRETT Barrett
4)THE STOOGES Funhouse
5) THE BEATLES Let It Be

1980
1) JOY DIVISION Close
2) TALKING HEADS Remain In Light
3) SOUND Jeopardy
4) KILLING JOKE Killing Joke
5) GUN CLUB Fire Of Love

1990
1) NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS The Good Son
2) RIDE Nowhere
3) FUGAZI Repeater
4) PUBLIC ENEMY Fear Of A Black Planet
5) ROYAL TRUX Twin Infinitives

2000
1) RADIOHEAD Kid A
2) GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven
3) MODEST MOUSE The Moon & Antarctica
4) CLINIC Internal Wrangler
5) THE AVALANCHES Since I Left You

(Piero Merola)

Collegamenti su Kalporz:
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Piero Merola Awards 2006

31 dicembre 2010