[1997]
Album: L'altra faccia della riviera

Dal disco "MalaGang" (2007)
in collaborazione con Gang

Album: Folk Randagio

[2007]
Songwriters: Justin Sullivan, Nelson, Michael Dean, Dean White and Marshall Gill.
Album: High

Dall'album Controentu

[2009]
Lyrics & Music by Mason Jennings
Album: Blood of Man

[1998]
Lyrics and music by George Glenn Jones
Album: The George Jones Collection

[2004]
Lyrics and Music by Brandon Flowers
Album: Hot Fuss

This song appears on the Killers’ debut album "Hot Fuss". It was released as the third single in 2004 in the U.K. and as the fourth single in the States. The single peaked at 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at 18 in the UK Singles Chart. It was the only song the band performed at Live 8. The song features an extended refrain of "I got soul, but I'm not a soldier", a phrase now associated with it: Robbie Williams incorporated this refrain into his own performance. Coldplay and U2 followed suit and, at their separate concerts played in Las Vegas, with The Killers in the crowd, incorporated the line into their songs "God Put a Smile upon Your Face" and "Beautiful Day", respectively.
It was featured in the closing credits of the 2005 film The Matador, as well as the 2007 movie Southland Tales as a crucial part of the storyline in... (continuer)

[1978]
Lyrics and Music by Warren Zevon and Jorge Calderon
Palabras y Música por Warren Zevon y Jorge Calderon
Album: Excitable Boy

El álbum "Excitable Boy" de Warren Zevon incluye una canción llamada "Veracruz" en referencia a la ocupación estadounidense de 1914.
Describe la batalla y caos desde el punto de vista de un residente de Veracruz. En el último verso, en español traducido al inglés, el personaje dice: "Aquel día yo juré / hacia el puerto volveré / aunque el destino cambio mi vida / en Veracruz moriré".

[2004]
Lyrics and Music by Willie Adler
Album: Ashes of the Wake

[1986]
Album: Master Of Puppets

[2001]
Lyrics & Music by Tuomas Holopainen
Album: Over the Hills and Far Away (EP)

[1997]
Album: XXX

"Ho imparato a sognare" è il quarto ed ultimo singolo estratto da XXX, il terzo album della rock band Negrita. Il trio comico Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo ha scelto questa canzone per la colonna sonora del loro primo film Tre uomini e una gamba uscito nelle sale cinematografiche alla fine del 1997. Grazie al brano, XXX ha superato le 100.000 copie, diventando disco di platino.
La canzone è stata reinterpretata nel 2009 da Fiorella Mannoia ed estratta come primo singolo dall'omonimo album di cover. Il singolo è entrato in rotazione radiofonica a partire dal 6 novembre 2009. Del brano è stato realizzato anche un videoclip per la regia di Gaetano Morbioli.

[2006]
Album: For Blood and Empire

[2009]
Songwriters: Billie Joe Armstrong, David Bowie, Michael Pritchard, Frank E. Wright III;
Album: 21st Century Breakdown

"21 Guns" was released to modern rock radio stations on May 25, 2009, although it had already been played on some radio stations, such as KROQ in Los Angeles and 101.9 in New York City. In the radio edit, the song is over forty seconds shorter than the album version because the guitar solo is shortened and the beginning is cut out. The CD single and clear 7" single were released on July 14, 2009.
The song is featured on the soundtrack to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which was released on June 23, 2009. It became available for download on the music video game series Rock Band on July 7, 2009, along with the songs "East Jesus Nowhere" and "Know Your Enemy".
A live version was also released on 21 Guns Live EP in September 2009.

[1959]
Lyrics by Norman Buchan
Music: traditional (to the tune known as "Skippin Barfit Thro The Heather")

The Bonnie Pit Laddie (1975)

In September 1959, 47 men lost their lives in a coal mine near the town of Auchengeich when a faulty fan purifying the air in the colliery went on fire due to an electrical fault. The men were in bogies travelling to the coal face to start work, and due to the intense smoke they were abandoned just a few hundred yards from safety. The mine was eventually flooded to put out the fire; there was only one survivor from the crews. The Mining accident was one of the worst within the UK in the 20th century, widowing 41 women and leaving 76 children without a father.

In September 2009, a memorial was erected by the Auchengeich Miners Welfare honouring the forty-seven men who lost their lives in the Auchengeich mining disaster of 18 September, 1959. In the early hours of 19 November, 2009, part of the memorial – an uninsured bronze representation of a miner, worth between £35,000 and £40,000 – was stolen…

Les Routes Parfumées

Canzone léviane – Les Routes Parfumées – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2010
Cycle du Cahier ligné – 87

Les Routes Parfumées est la huitante-septième chanson du Cycle du Cahier ligné, constitué d'éléments tirés du Quaderno a Cancelli de Carlo Levi.

Décidément, Marco Valdo M.I. mon ami, les titres de tes canzones sont souvent bien étranges ou inattendus... Celui-ci est porteur d'une poésie lointaine qui me ravit tellement... On a comme une sensation d'immenses espaces un peu déserts et où le vent ramasse en un parfum unique le thym, la menthe, le pin, la rose et l'odeur puissante de la lavande et du mimosa. Mille couleurs envahissent ma bouche et mille saveurs tourbillonnent en ma pauvre tête d'âne soudain éwaré. D'où peuvent-elles bien venir tes routes parfumées que j'ai l'impression de sillonner depuis l'aube des siècles...

Elles viennent, Lucien l'âne mon ami, via Carlo... (continuer)

[1962]
Edizioni del Gallo, Milano 1962
Scritte tra il 1957 e il 1960
EP “Ballate della violenza” (I Dischi del Sole DS19)
Testi e musica:
Vitavisia (Giovanna Marini)
Ezio Cuppone
Ivan Della Mea



La grande e la piccola storia, la grande e la piccola violenza...

“[...] Fra il '57 e il '60, vengono alla luce le ballate de “La grande e la piccola violenza”. E' questo il momento in cui Della Mea [...], scandagliando con impietoso impeto tra ricordi ed immagini scolpitegli addosso dall'irrompere feroce dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza, fustigate dalla furia bellica e dalle ferite post-belliche, dà un'impronta precisa al proprio impegno politico ed artistico.

Attraverso le vicende familiari ("la piccola violenza") – dove il padre, brigadiere fascista, rivive nei suoi momenti d'esultanza e in quelli di sconfitta [...], fino alla morte – egli riesce a costruire un magistrale affresco... (continuer)

[1964]
Canzone contenuta in “The Travelling People”, l’ultima delle “Radio Ballads”, gli audio-documentari che Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, e Charles Parker realizzarono tra il 1958 e il 1964 per la BBC, tra le prime trasmissioni radiofoniche a raccogliere direttamente sul campo le voci della gente comune: macchinisti, operai, pescatori, minatori ma anche adolescenti delle periferie, disabili affetti da poliomelite, pugili e – come in questo brano – “gypsies” che nel Regno Unito e in Irlanda sono non solo e non tanto i Roma ma piuttosto le diverse e distinte comunità di English, Scottish e Irish Travellers, tra cui i Romanichals (arrivati dall’Ungheria nel 16° secolo), i Welsh Kale (nel Galles dal 1700) e i Pavees irlandesi, presenti anche negli USA, discendenti di coloro che nel 19° secolo furono cacciati dalle loro terre dalle armate di Cromwell e dalla “Potato Famine”.
Inutile dire... (continuer)

[2007]
Lyrics by Mark Gunnery, Brenna Sahatjian and Adhamh Roland
Music: to the tune of Joe Hill's "The Preacher And The Slave"
Album: You're Alive

[2004]
Lyrics & Music by Adhamh Roland
Album: Abandoned Cities

[2006]
Lyrics & Music by Victor René Sadot
Album: 9/11 Truth & Justice Songs

"When I wrote this song about Pat Tillman the big news was that it was a death by "friendly fire" that had been covered up. His parents were not told even while the military participated in an elaborate funeral. It took 4 different investigations and Congressional hearings to get to the fact that there was a cover-up at the highest levels.

Then came the July 26, 2007 article by the Associated Press based on coroner reports that said that Pat Tillman was shot with 3 bullets to the forehead at a range of about 10 yards! Was this story picked up by your local newspaper, or not? The headline in Editor & Publisher, America’s Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry: "Was Pat Tillman Murdered? AP Gets New Documents". Check it out! This news was dropped like a lead balloon!"

[2007]
Album "White Moth"

[2002]
Album "To Let"

[2004]
Album "Solace"

Una canzone sulla condizione di discriminazione in cui vivono gli aborigeni australiani.

[This song] "was played by Rudd in front of live crowd and told them he didn't have a name for it yet. After the show a fan went up to him and said he thought he had a good name for the song. He said 'A Fourth World' because there's a third world, but there's also a fourth world where people who don't have an existence, who are sort of trapped." (en.wikipedia)

[1973]
Album "Living In The Material World"

[1981]
Album "Somewhere In England"

[1972]
Album "Back to Country" (1975)

La "pillola", o dell'emancipazione femminile...

Il tempo passa ma - specie qui da noi, sfortunati che viviamo col papa sulle croste - c'è sempre qualcuno che, volendo impedire alle donne di essere padrone del proprie corpo, si scaglia contro la "pillola" di turno...

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[1970]
Album "Back in the USA"