2017
Tre volte dieci

[Senpre ottònbre 2022]
Sull'aria de / To the tune of: Fabrizio De André, Il bonbarolo Il bombarolo

[2013]

Film / Movie / Elokuva:
Bill Condon
The Fifth Estate / Il quinto potere / Le Cinquième Pouvoir / Viides valta

Il genere del film è biopic, cioè film biografico, su Julian Assange. La critica non lo accolse favorevolmente, anche al botteghino non andò bene. “The story itself lacks drama”, la sceneggiatura stessa è carente di risvolti drammatici, commentò il Guardian all’uscita del film.
Sotto il profilo artistico può lasciare delle perplessità ma il suo valore documentario rimane, anche se Julian Assange ebbe a dire: "depicts me and my work in a negative light".
Si propone uno spezzone del film con alcune dichiarazioni di Assange intervistato.Notevole quella finale.
[Riccardo Gullotta]

1996
100celle City Rockers

[Ottònbre 2022]
Sull'aria / To the tune of: Fabrizio De André, Canzone del Maggio

1996
100celle City Rockers

Questa canzone ha conosciuto nuova notorietà grazie a quel piccolo capolavoro di poesia che è "Strappare Lungo i Bordi" di Zerocalcare

(1996)
Testo e musica di Gianluca Grignani
dall'album "La fabbrica di plastica"

La storia è fin troppo nota. Gianluca Grignani, cantante pop sanremese che grazie alle canzonette del primo album (Destinazione paradiso, La mia storia tra le dita...) aveva conquistato le vette delle classifiche italiane e il cuore di fin troppe ragazzine pronte a idolatrare il belloccio di turno, con il suo secondo disco spiazza tutti.

La fabbrica di plastica è un disco ruvido, pieno di chitarre elettriche distorte, che musicalmente si rifà al grunge ma anche al brit-pop, che allora spopolava nella scena internazionale. Con un sound che sapeva unire il rock alla melodia (i detrattori dicono che sempre di canzonette si trattava, solo nascoste sotto un muro di chitarre elettriche) il ragazzo - allora appena ventiquattrenne - dimostra sicuramente di avere qualcosa da dire, al di là della classica canzone... (Continues)

(2021)
Album: FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (2022)

‘There Were Bells’ was written by Brian Eno for a performance by him and his brother Roger at UNESCO World Heritage site, the Acropolis in August 2021. It was 45 degrees in Athens on the day of the concert with wildfires raging just outside the city, prompting his introductory comment “I thought, here we are at the birthplace of Western civilization, probably witnessing the end of it.” There Were Bells is taken from Eno’s new album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE and provides a poignant reminder of the current climate emergency, a theme that is explored throughout the record.
Genius

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Scritta nel 2021 per una performance all’Acropoli: il giorno del concerto, ricorda, la temperatura ad Atene era di oltre 43 gradi e gli incendi divampavano intorno alla città: “eccoci nel luogo dov’è nata la civiltà occidentale, e probabilmente ne stiamo testimoniando la fine”.
Brian Eno, il nuovo album. Ascolta e guarda il video del singolo There Were Bells - RUMORE

(1999)
Album: Big Redemption

(1966)
Auteurs compositeurs : Laurent Malek - Gérard Manset

Testo da Bide et Musique

Album: City Slicker (1985)
feat. Jan Hammer

Belgium released protest record, probably late 1960s. The label was based in Schaerbeek, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. The a-side "Le longue marche" is an anti-atomic, Cold War protest song, referencing the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. The b-side was a protest against the Vietnam War, "Avec Toi, Vietnam" ("With You, Vietnam") (Selection Records # S 5062) with lyrics composed by Guy Decembre, and music by Remy Gillis, focused on the horrors of war and its impact on people, "crying, a mother... dying, a child... horror, misery... these waves of blood".

Vietnam War Songs Project - European Songs

1966

"Ring, Ring I've Got to Sing" is a 1966 protest song composed and performed by Ferre Grignard.

It became an international hit. The song criticizes racism and war through an African-American who doesn't want to fight for his country, because of the way black people are treated in the United States.

1966

Canzone sarcastica cantata in inglese del cantante belga (di Antwerp) Ferre Grignard. Un hippie eccentrico, Grignard provò a trasferirsi negli USA ma fu espulso in quanto anarchico. Negli anni '70 visse in una sorta di comune hippie. Dimenticato dai fan e con gravi problemi economici, morì ancora giovane di cancro nel 1982.

1972

Testo incompleto

The obscure psychedelic rock group Children of the Morning, formed in Italy, released the song "Hey America, America" which criticised the US government for the Kent State killings.

Shel Shapiro, who led the group, composed the song. He had previously played with the British beat group The Rokes (1950s-60s). The narrator questioned the validity / plausibility of the argument that the National Guard fired in self defense: "government pretends that it was self defense". The lyrics then suggested that the killings harmed the reputation of the US: "America you're fucking up", which could have repercussions: "hey America don't push you luck".

The song ended with a general anti-war message, complaining that the "war in Vietnam continues", in which the soldiers "kill woman and children".

Vietnam War Songs Project

(1966)

The track "Please Mr. President" (Kent Records # K 45x446) by the blues man King Soloman, apparently based on the West Coast, recording with the Los Angeles label Kent (this is a different artist than the well-known soul singer Solomon Burke, ending with a "mon" rather than "man", also sometimes referred to as "King Solomon"). Released in 1966 with Lyndon Baines Johnson in the White House, the narrator of the song bitterly complained to the president about being sent to Vietnam. He loved his country and "never did get the notion to burn up my draft card", yet he warned the women of American that "Uncle Sam...sure can take your man". At the end of the song the soldier takes to hugging his pack and rifle to comfort him.

Vietnam War Songs Project

Album: No Rest for the Wicked (1988)

The song refers to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

In 1985, after a teenager killed himself while listening to Ozzy’s song Suicide Solution, Swaggart went on a crusade against rock music and took every opportunity to point out Osbourne’s depravity. Ozzy got the last laugh in 1987 when Swaggart was caught with a prostitute and admitted an addiction to pornography. Swaggart became known as one of the biggest hypocrites ever to walk the earth.

La canzone si riferisce al "teleevangelista" Jimmy Swaggart.

Nel 1985, ins seguito al suicidio di un adolescente che si tolse la vita mentre ascoltava la canzone di Ozzy Suicide Solution, Swaggart iniziò una crociata contro la musica rock cogliendo ogni occasione per sottolineare la depravazione di Osbourne.

Ozzy ha avuto la sua rivincita nel 1987 quando Swaggart è stato fotografato con una prostituta e ha ammesso una dipendenza dalla pornografia. Swaggart da allora è annoverato tra i più grandi ipocriti della storia.

(2022)

It was after scrolling through the news about another round of war between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza that Gliksberg found inspiration for "Cover Up." Gliksberg shares, "I'm from the Middle East so I was used to seeing this kind of trauma on TV, but this time, I suddenly realized that we've been through this exact scenario many times before."

Gliksberg adds, growing increasingly weary of the constant strife, that the song at its core, is anti-war. "Growing up in Israel, I have seen, firsthand, that war is the definition of insanity. We keep expecting a different result, and nothing changes. It keeps happening, cyclically and seasonally this cold winter of humanity keeps coming back. War is not a solution. It won't solve your problems. In a bird's eye view, everyone will lose and nobody will win until we decide war itself is over."
Late Sea Share New Anti-War Protest Single 'Cover Up'