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Amb només tres discos publicats en vida que van passar totalment desapercebuts, ningú es podia imaginar que l'obra de Nick Drake seria la influència més constant del folk contemporani. Avui hem cercat els seus deixebles més evidents. 01 Nick Drake - "Pink moon" 02 Way Dynamic - "Miffed it" 03 Iron & Wine - "Naked as we came" 04 Alexi Murdoch - "All my days" 05 José González - "Heartbeats" 06 Will Stratton - "Hemet pine singer" 07 Badly Drawn Boy - "The shining" 08 John Martyn - "Solid air" 09 Robyn Hitchcock - "I saw Nick Drake" 10 Kings of Convenience - "I don't know what I can save you from" 11 James Yorkston - "Summer song" 12 Scott Matthews - "Eyes wider than before" 13 Sun Kil Moon - "Among the leaves"

Sí, el futur és negre com la llesca de pa que t'has oblidat a la torradora. Potser que ballem, per si de cas. Sempre ajuda. 01 Ypnosi - "Ballem" 02 Astrud - "Bailando" 03 Alaska y Los Pegamoides - "Bailando" 04 Dinarama - "Deja de bailar" 05 Ramones - "Let's dance" 06 Ànimos Parrec - "Jo vull ballar amb tu" 07 Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing in the dark" 08 Generation X - "Dancing with myself" 09 Black Kids - "I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you" 10 Siniestro Total - "Bailaré sobre tu tumba" 11 Suede - "Dancing with the europeans" 12 Blossoms - "I wanna dance with somebody" 13 Ultravox - "Dancing with tears in my eyes" 14 Guillem Gisbert - "Balla la masurca!"

Mentre John Lennon es va caracteritzar principalment per fer cançons que parlaven d'ell, en Paul McCartney sempre ha tingut la mà trencada inventant-se personatges de ficció que semblen reals i propers. 01 "Hey Jude" 02 "Lady Madonna" 03 "Michelle" 04 "Eleanor Rigby" 05 "Doctor Robert" 06 "Lovely Rita" 07 "She's Leaving Home" 08 "Martha My Dear" 09 "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" 10 "Mrs Vandebilt" 11 "Jenny Wren" 12 "Mr. Bellamy" 13 "Sally G" 14 "Lavatory Lil"

Ho sabem, encara falten mesos perquè s'acabi aquest 2026, però se'ns acumulen tantes bones cançons que hem decidit compartir-ne un bon grapat, no fos cas que t'hagin passat per alt. 01 The Tubs - "Who's gonna love you now?" 02 Youbet - "Undefined" 03 This Is Lorelei - "Billy came back" 04 Mar Pujol - "Mitja vida" 05 Cardinals - "I like you" 06 My New Band Believe - "Love story" 07 Greg Mendez - "Gentle love" 08 Xarim Aresté - "Per exemple tu i jo" 09 Aldous Harding and H Hawkline - "Venus in the Zinnia" 10 Socunbohemio - "Un lloc" 11 Star Moles - "Overdog" 12 Remei de Ca la Fresca - "Aiguaneu / La insurrecció que ve" 13 Wendy Eisenberg - "Take a number" 14 Feeble Little Horse - "Rewind" 15 Guillem Gisbert, Gulietta Vidal - "Les coses anaven bé" 16 Arnau Vallvé - "Mentre el monstre"

Tothom sap de qui parlem, aquests il·lusos que sempre seran el segon o el tercer plat, els que només fas servir quan no tens ningú seriós a la teva vida. Dediquem-los una playlist, que s'ho mereixen. 01 Todo Mal - "Pagafantas" 02 Pet Shop Boys - "You Only Call Me When You're Drunk" 03 Arctic Monkeys - "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" 04 Sebastián Cortés - "Solo me quieres cuando estás triste" 05 Lizzy McAlpine - "What Are We?" 06 Vicentico - "Algo contigo" 07 José Luis Perales - "Isabel" 08 Fountains of Wayne - "Hackensack" 09 Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" 10 Los Rumberos - "Solo amigos" 11 Pearl Jam - "Black" 12 Ketama - "Miénteme" 13 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "I Hate Myself for Loving You" 14 Bon Iver - "I Can't Make You Love Me" 15 Phoebe Bridgers - "Moon Song"

A principis dels 70, una epidèmia anomenada cocaïna va devorar silenciosament l'estil de vida i els costums dels grups de rock. El resultat van ser discos excessius i recuinats que malauradament van tenir una revifalla inesperada durant els 90. 01 Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way" 02 Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" 03 Eagles - "Life in the Fast Lane" 04 Sly & The Family Stone - "Just Like a Baby" 05 David Bowie - "Stay" 06 Oasis - "All Around the World" 07 Blur - "Country House" 08 Andrés Calamaro - "Tuyo siempre" 09 Los Planetas - "Nuevas sensaciones" 10 Depeche Mode - "Policy of Truth" 11 Black Sabbath - "Snowblind"

A mitjans dels 80, dos indrets separats per milers de quilòmetres van iniciar una revolució i es van rebel·lar contra la dictadura dels sintetitzadors per apostar pels arpegis de guitarra diàfans i preciosistes, seguint l'estela dels Byrds i Big Star. 01 The Byrds - "Mr. Tambourine Man" 02 Big Star - "September Gurls" 03 R.E.M. - "Talk About the Passion" 04 Let's Active - "Every Word Means No" 05 The dB's - "Black and White" 06 Pylon - "Crazy" 07 The Chills - "Pink Frost" 08 The Someloves - "Know You How" 09 The Bats - "Made Up in Blue" 10 The Smiths - "This Charming Man" 11 The La's - "There She Goes" 12 The Go-Betweens - "Streets of Your Town" 13 Matthew Sweet - "I've Been Waiting" 14 The Sundays - "Here's Where the Story Ends" 15 The Reivers - "Araby" 16 The Verlaines - "Death and the Maiden"

La precarietat laboral ja forma part intrínseca del turbocapitalisme. Avui la cosa va de no trobar feina, o encara pitjor, trobar-la i adonar-te que t'estan explotant. 01 Elvis Costello - "Welcome to the working week" 02 The Clash - "Career opportunities" 03 Mi-te'ls - "No vull treballar" 04 Los Prisioneros - "Canción del trabajo" 05 Courtney Barnett - "Elevator operator" 06 Belle & Sebastian - "Step into my office, baby" 07 Fountains of Wayne - "Bright future in sales" 08 Fountains of Wayne - "Hackensack" 09 The Smiths - "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" 10 Yard Act - "Payday" 11 La Ludwig Band - "Manela, no vull currar per vosté" 12 Bob Dylan - "Maggie's farm" 13 The Kinks - "Get back in line" 14 Dolly Parton - "9 to 5" 15 Mitski - "Working for the knife" 16 Devo - "Working in a coal mine" 17 Dead Kennedys - "Take this job and shove it"

Encetem la setmana amb un recull de cançons dissenyades especialment per treure't de sobre la grisor i posar-te de bon humor. I, si no et funcionen, te les canviem (o et tornem els diners). 01 Dan Peralbo i El Comboi - "Ai ai ai quin goig que fas" 02 The O'Jays - "Love train" 03 The Cure - "Friday I'm in love" 04 Supergrass - "Alright" 05 Dua Lipa - "Don't start now" 06 The Coral - "Dreaming of you" 07 The Doobie Brothers - "What a fool believes" 08 The Waterboys - "The whole of the moon" 09 Olivia Rodrigo - "So American" 10 Antònia Font - "Alegria" 11 Manel - "El Miquel i l'Olga tornen" 12 Bob Dylan - "I want you" 13 Jackson 5 - "I want you back" 14 The Darkness - "I believe in a thing called love" 15 The Foundations - "Build me up, buttercup" 16 ELO - "Mr. Blue Sky"

Si vols afegir un plus sonor amable a les teves cançons, sempre tens un acordió que et reconcilia amb la vida. Foto: Jordi Borràs i Victòria Rovira. 01 El Belda i el Conjunt Badabadoc - "Arrels" 02 Fontaines D.C. - "The couple across the way" 03 The Rolling Stones - "Back street girl" 04 Paul Simon - "The boy in the bubble" 05 k.d. lang - "Constant craving" 06 Elvis Costello - "The long honeymoon" 07 Talking Heads - "Road to nowhere" 08 Beirut - "A sunday smile" 09 Manel - "Els guapos són els raros" 10 Julieta Venegas - "Andar conmigo" 11 Neutral Milk Hotel - "King carrot flowers pt 1" 12 The The - "This is the day" 13 The Decemberists - "Rox in the box" 14 Sanjosex i Carles Belda - "Flors de balandre"

Avui recolectem artistes que juguen a despistar-nos amb cançons de finals tramposos. Foto: Dezo Hoffmann 01 The Beatles - "Strawberry fields forever" 02 Elvis Presley - "Suspicious minds" 03 The Strokes - "Hard to explain" 04 Van Morrison - "Wild night" 05 Four Tops - "Bernadette" 06 The Gentrys - "Keep on dancing" 07 Phoebe Bridgers - "I know the end" 08 The Smiths - "That joke isn't funny anymore" 09 Steve Harley - "Make me smile" 10 Raspberries - "Overnight sensation" 11 Pavement - "Elevate me later" 12 Wild Beasts - "End come to soon" 13 Roxy Music - "In every dream home a heartsache"

Darrerament s'han popularitzat artistes que trenquen el concepte habitual del rol del cantant, xerrant les cançons sense cap voluntat melòdica. Avui posem els exemples més destacats i també els pioners d'aquesta tendència. Foto: Sol Procter-Tarabanov 01 Wet Leg - "Chaise lounge" 02 Dry Cleaning - "Scratched lanyard" 03 Fontaines D.C. - "Boys in the better land" 04 The Hold Steady - "Cattle and the creeping things" 05 Lou Reed - "Coney island baby" 06 The B-52's - "Rock lobster" 07 Squid - "Pamphlets" 08 Cheekface - "I feel so weird!" 09 Talk Show - "Stress" 10 Black Country, New Road - "Good will hunting" 11 Cake - "Never there" 12 St. Vincent - "Pay your way in pain" 13 Mishima - "Neix el món dintre l'ull"

Hi ha vocalistes que, en un moment puntual de pura joia, són incapaços de dissimular la seva eufòria quan enregistren una cançó, i sense voler deixen escapar una rialla ben sonora i icònica. Foto: Matthew Rolston. 01 Bob Dylan - "Bob Dylan's 115th dream" 02 The Surfaris - "Wipe out" 03 Rick James - "Super freak" 04 Pink Floyd - "Brain damage" 05 Gorillaz - "Feel good inc." 06 The Police - "Roxanne" 07 Joni Mitchell - "Big yellow taxi" 08 The Beatles - "And your bird can sing" 09 Deep Purple - "Speed king" 10 Duran Duran - "Hungry like a wolf" 11 Beyoncé - "Drunk in love" 12 Michael Jackson - "Rock with you" 13 Frank Sinatra - "That's life" 14 Bobby Hanna - "Everybody needs love"

Acusats, sovint amb raó, de ser una manera mandrosa de fer diners, els discos en directe també ens han regalat obres capitals de la història del pop. Avui en fem la nostra tria particular. 01 James Brown - "Try me" 02 Johnny Cash - "Folsom prison blues" 03 Bruce Springsteen - "No surrender" 04 Peter Frampton - "Show me the way" 05 The Who - "Young man blues" 06 Ramones - "Rockaway beach" 07 Little Feat - "Fat man in the bathtub" 08 Deep Purple - "Highway star" 09 Thin Lizzy - "The boys are back in town" 10 Talking Heads - "Take me to the river" 11 Cheap Trick - "I want you to want me" 12 Van Morrison - "These dreams of you" 13 Wilco - "Shot in the arm"

Hi ha gent que no descansa ni quan dorm. A mitja nit s'aixequen del llit i passegen per la casa de manera generosa. No us espanteu, no us faran res dolent. 01 The Kinks - "Sleepwalker" 02 Lily Allen - "Sleepwalking" 03 XTC - "The somnambulist" 04 Ultravox - "Sleepwalk" 05 Scott Walker - "Sleepwalker's woman" 06 Julie Byrne - "Sleepwalker" 07 Destroyer - "Somnambulist blues" 08 Better Oblivion Community - "Sleepwalkin" 09 Camera Obscura - "Sleepwalking" 10 Modest Mouse - "Sleepwalking (Couples only dance prom night)" 11 Echo & The Bunnymen - "The somnambulist" 12 The Como Brothers - "Sleepwalking in the moonlight" 13 They Might Be Giants - "Sleepwalkers" 14 The Raveonettes - "Sleepwalking"

Com que ens agrada complicar-nos la vida, avui hem buscat cançons que tenen un moment puntual en què els instruments callen i deixen que les veus ens regalin un instant màgic. 01 Kansas - "Carry on wayward son" 02 Mr. Big - "Green-tinted sixties mind" 03 En Vogue - "My lovin'" 04 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - "Find the cost of freedom" 05 Eagles - "Seven bridges road" 06 The Doobie Brothers - "Black water" 07 fun. - "Some nights" 08 Haim - "Forever" 09 Haim - "The wire" 10 Earth, Wind & Fire - "Shining star" 11 The Avett Brothers - "Living of love" 12 Fleet Foxes - "Helplessness blues" 13 The Beatles - "Nowhere man" 14 Yes - "I've seen all good people"

Ja la tenim aquí, dissenyada per fer-nos oblidar la xafogor dels dies estivals. Ha arribat la tardor i ens encanta. 01 Paolo Nutini - "Autumn" 02 Socunbohemio - "Conte de tardor" 03 Iron & Wine - "Autumn town leaves" 04 The Shins - "September" 05 Ernest Crusats - "Fulles als ulls" 06 The Kinks - "Autumn almanac" 07 La Ludwig Band - "La tardor que ens vam conèixer" 08 Yo La Tengo - "Autumn sweater" 09 Mishima - "En arribar la tardor" 10 Fiona Apple - "Pale september" 11 U2 - "October" 12 Girl in Red - "We fell in love in october" 13 The White Stripes - "Dead leaves and the dirty ground" 14 Tom Waits - "November" 15 Manic Street Preachers - "Autumn song"

De tot l'esclat del pop psicodèlic californià a mitjans dels 60, un grup multiracial va destacar de manera brillant i malauradament breu. Reivindiquem els meravellosos Love i el seu líder, Artur Lee. Foto: Elektra Records. 01 "Everybody's gotta live" 02 "Alone again or" 03 "My little red book" 04 "No matter what you do" 05 "Seven and seven is" 06 "Orange skies" 07 "She comes in colors" 08 "Andmoreagain" 09 "Maybe the people" would be the times or between Clark and Hildale" 10 "A house is not a motel" 11 "The red telephone" 12 "Always see your face" 13 "I still wonder" 14 "Five string serenade" 15 "August"

Se'ns ha trencat el piano, però no patiu, fins i tot esquerdat ens regala cançons inoblidables. Foto: Sachyn. 01 Tom Waits - "The piano has been drinking" 02 Teen Suicide - "Afterlife darling" 03 Sleigh Bells - "Rill rill" 04 Phoebe Bridgers - "You missed my heart" 05 Sufjan Stevens - "Fourth of July" 06 Ethan Gruska - "The valley" 07 Arliston - "What did I think would happen?" 08 Lana Del Rey - "Hope is a dangerous thing for a girl like me" 09 Fiona Apple - "Under the table" 10 Lullatone - "Corduroy" 11 Daniel Johnston - "Some things last a long time" 12 Patrick Watson - "Je te laisserai des mots" 13 Elliott Smith - "In the lost and found" 14 Elliott Smith - "Junk bond trader"

Aquí estem, mirant el mòbil compulsivament, esperant desesperadament una trucada que no acaba d'arribar. Paciència, segur que truquen. 01 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "No action" 02 Blondie - "Hanging on the telephone" 03 Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman" 04 Joan Miquel Oliver - "Ai las!" 05 Rufus Wainwright - "Vibrate" 06 Death Cab for Cutie - "A lack of color" 07 Jorge Drexler - "La infidelidad de la era informática" 08 Maria Jaume - "Més minuts que paraules" 09 Phoenix - "Long distance call" 10 Eels - "Bird girl on a cell phone" 11 The Replacements - "Answering machine" 12 M-Clan - "Comunicando" 13 Teràpia de Shock - "20 minuts d'espera" 14 Dr. Hook - "Sylvia's mother" 15 Saint Etienne - "He's on the phone"

A principis dels 70, David Geffen va crear un segell que va representar com cap altre el boom dels cantautors confessionals i el nou so de Califòrnia. 01 Eagles - "Take it easy" 02 Joni Mitchell - "Free man in Paris" 03 Judee Sill - "Crayon angels" 04 Judee Sill - "The kiss" 05 Tom Waits - "Rosie" 06 Jackson Browne - "Late for the sky" 07 Warren Zevon - "Desperados under the eaves" 08 Bob Dylan & The Band - "Don't think twice, it's alright" 09 Gene Clark - "Some misunderstanding" 10 Linda Ronstadt - "Willin'" 11 John Prine - "That's the way that that the world goes round" 12 Joni Mitchell - "Amelia"

Digues autoafirmació o ego desbocat, però hi ha grans icones del rock que han necessitat fer una cançó per parlar de qui són i, sobretot, de com es diuen. 01 Prince - "My name is Prince" 02 Immaculate Fools - "Immaculate Fools" 03 Bo Diddley - "Bo Diddley" 04 Chaka Khan - "I feel for you" 05 La Rauxa - "Benvingudes" 06 Bad Company - "Bad Company" 07 Mott the Hoople - "Ballad of Mott the Hoople" 08 Big Country - "In a big country" 09 Kiko Veneno - "Veneno" 10 Kool & the Gang - "Kool & the Gang" 11 Wilco - "Wilco (the song)" 12 They Might Be Giants - "They might be giants" 13 The 1975 - "The 1975"

Qui ho diu, que els músics no necessiten petons? Aquí teniu tot un exèrcit d'artistes que te'ls demanen sense cap vergonya. 01 Sixpence None the Richer - "Kiss me" 02 Lucinda Williams - "Passionate kisses" 03 Anna Roig i l'Ombra de ton Chien - "Petons entre camions" 04 Manel - "Fes-me petons" 05 Betty Everett - "It's in his kiss" 06 Lucy Dacus - "Kissing lessons" 07 Mazoni - "Un petó per cada cicatriu" 08 The Drifters - "Kissing in the back row of the movies" 09 The Shangri-Las - "Give him a great big kiss" 10 Jimmie Rodgers - "Kisses sweeter than wine" 11 The Shins - "Kissing the lipless" 12 Lefty Frizzell - "Always late (with your kisses)" 13 Nyandú - "Fes-me un petó" 14 Sanjosex - "Et menjaria a petons" 15 Elvis Presley - "Kissin' cousins" 16 Billy Boy Arnold - "Kissing at midnight" 17 Miquel & Socunbohemio - "La fi del món"

Hi ha cançons que no tenen pressa per introduir la veu principal, peces hipnòtiques i atmosfèriques que semblen instrumentals, però no ho són. 01 The Cure - "Alone" 02 The Temptations - "Papa was a rollin' stone" 03 Death Cab for Cutie - "I will possess your heart" 04 U2 - "Where the streets have no name" 05 Sigur Rós - "Svefn-g-englar" 06 Pink Floyd - "Shine on you crazy diamond" 07 The Cure - "Pictures of you"

De la mateixa manera que els rellotges aturats et donen l'hora correcta un cop al dia, els artistes que no t'agraden et poden sorprendre amb una gran cançó. Avui ens mullem i expliquem les nostres fílies i fòbies. 01 Queen - "Somebody to love" 02 U2 - "One" 03 Elvis Presley - "Jailhouse rock" 04 Lenny Kravitz - "It ain't over till it's over" 05 Dire Straits - "Wild west end" 06 Arcade Fire - "The suburbs" 07 Jamiroquai - "Cosmic girl" 08 Guns N' Roses - "Patience" 09 Taylor Swift - "August" 10 J Balvin & Bad Bunny - "La canción" 11 Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication"

Pocs discos han estat rebuts amb tanta anticipació com "Lost weekend", el darrer treball de Phoebe Bridgers. Han estat sis anys de silenci, però han valgut la pena, és una obra mestra. 01 "Lost boys" 02 "Kill me" 03 "The governor's waltz" 04 "Bobby" 05 "Motion sickness" 06 "Funeral" 07 "You missed my heart" 08 "Kyoto" 09 "Garden song" 10 "I know the end" 11 "Me & my dog" 12 "Emily, I'm sorry" 13 "I can't wait"

De tant en tant, trobes cançons que et donen bons consells per navegar els entrebancs de la vida quotidiana. 01 The Rolling Stones - "You can't always get what you want" 02 Peter Gabriel - "Don't give up" 03 R.E.M. - "Everybody hurts" 04 The Supremes - "You can't hurry love" 05 Stephen Stills - "Love the one you're with" 06 Beck - "Everybody's gotta learn sometimes" 07 Steve Miller Band - "Take the money and run" 08 Van Morrison - "Don't look back" 09 Manel - "Els guapos són els raros" 10 Graham Parker & The Rumour - "You can't be too strong" 11 Nina Simone - "Don't smoke in bed" 12 Arctic Monkeys - "Don't forget whose legs you're on" 13 Journey - "Don't stop believin'"

Diuen que és, probablement, el nom de dona més musical que existeix. Avui el programa va dedicat a totes les Júlies, Julietes i Julianes que ens han robat el cor. 01 La Ludwig Band - "Júlia" 02 The Beatles - "Julia" 03 Iván Ferreiro - "Palabras para Julia" 04 Fountains of Wayne - "Hey Julie" 05 Dire Straits - "Romeo and Juliet" 06 Robin Gibb - "Juliet" 07 Little Feat - "Juliette" 08 The B-52's - "Juliet of the spirits" 09 The Clash - "Julie's been working for the drug squad" 10 Lax'n'Busto - "Júlia" 11 Socunbohemio - "Júlia" 12 Belle and Sebastian - "Juliet naked" 13 Horsegirl - "Julie" 14 Jens Lekman - "Julie" 15 Julieta - "Avions volant"

Es fan estimar tant que avui els toca ser els protagonistes. Hem sortit a passejar els gossos més estimats dels nostres artistes preferits. 01 Jane's Addiction - "Been caught stealing" 02 La Iaia - "El meu gos se'n va" 03 The Beatles - "Hey bulldog" 04 The Beatles - "Martha my dear" 05 Boygenius - "Me and my dog" 06 Lobo - "Me and you and a dog named Boo" 07 Dolly Parton - "Cracker Jack" 08 Harry Nilsson - "The puppy song" 09 Neil Young - "Old king" 10 Norah Jones - "Man of the hour" 11 Keren Ann - "Le chien d'avant-garde" 12 Rufus Thomas - "Walking the dog" 13 John Hiatt & The Goners - "My dog and me" 14 Jane Siberry - "Everything reminds me of my dog" 15 The Byrds - "Old blue" 16 Pink Floyd - "Seamus" 17 Eels - "Dog's life"

Passen els anys i la fascinació per The Smiths creix de manera imparable. Avui esbrinem els motius d'aquest fenomen amb una tria de les seves catorze millors cançons. 01 "There is a light that never goes out" 02 "Half a person" 03 "This charming man" 04 "Please, please, please, let me get what I want" 05 "How soon is now?" 06 "Heaven knows I'm miserable now" 07 "Nowhere fast" 08 "The headmaster ritual" 09 "Ask" 10 "Panic" 11 "Asleep" 12 "The boy with the thorn in his side" 13 "Cemetry gates" 14 "Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me"

Celebrem la gosadia d'aquests artistes que han decidit ser músics malgrat tenir un pare famós, una ombra allargada. 01 Loudon Wainwright III - "Dead skunk" 02 Rufus Wainwright - "Cigarettes and chocolate milk" 03 Simon & Garfunkel - "America" 04 Harper Simon - "Wishes and stars" 05 Adam Cohen - "What other guy" 06 Leonard Cohen - "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye" 07 Frank Sinatra - "Nancy (with the laughing face)" 08 Nancy Sinatra - "These boots are made for walking" 09 The Wallflowers - "One headlight" 10 Bob Dylan - "I want you" 11 Caïm Riba - "Ja ho tens" 12 Pau Riba - "Cançó 7a en colors" 13 Ben Taylor - "Nothing I can do" 14 James Taylor - "Sweet baby James"

No surten mai a les fotos, però, sense ells, ni tu ni jo podríem anar de concert. 01 La Ludwig Band - "Xavier, el tècnic de so" 02 Jackson Browne - "The load out/Stay" 03 Dr. Hook - "Roland the roadie and Gertrude the groupie" 04 Neil Young - "Tonight's the night" 05 The Byrds - "B.B. class road" 06 Pata Negra - "Los managers" 07 Frank Turner - "Road crew" 08 Motörhead - "(We are) the roadies" 09 Noel Gallagher - "The dying of the light" 10 Smash Mouth - "Road man" 11 Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Free bird"

Encetem la temporada acomiadant el mes d'agost amb la protagonista indiscutible d'aquest estiu: l'onada de calor. 01 Martha & The Vandellas - "Heatwave" 02 Amics del Bosc - "Dies de massa calor" 03 Mr. Freak Ska & Skatalà - "Onada de calor" 04 Cooper - "Ola de calor" 05 Jeanne Cherhal - "Canicule" 06 Radio Futura - "Escuela de calor" 07 Antònia Font - "Fa calor" 08 Renaldo & Clara - "L'amor fa calor" 09 Sly & The Family Stone - "Hot fun in the summertime" 10 Grupo de Expertos Solynieve - "Ola de calor" 11 Kiko Veneno - "Hace calor" 12 Remigi Palmero - "La caló" 13 Unperro andaluz - "Canícula en el cerro" 14 The Blue Nile - "Heatwave"

La infidelitat i els amors prohibits, per motius obvis, han estat des de sempre un dels temes més recurrents en l'univers pop. Avui hem decidit destriar els exemples més destacats en forma de cançó. 01 George Michael - "Careless whisper" 02 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Accidents will happen" 03 Billy Paul - "Me and Ms. Jones" 04 La Ludwig Band - "Enganyar-te" 05 Billie Eilish - "When the party is over" 06 Marvin Gaye - "I heard it through the grapevine" 07 Squeeze - "Tempted" 08 Crowded House - "Into temptation" 09 Kelsea Ballerini - "The other girl" 10 Beyoncé - "Hold up" 11 Dolly Parton - "Jolene" 12 Millie Jackson - "If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right" 13 The Temptations - "Papa was a rollin' stone" 14 Steely Dan - "Dirty work"

Diuen que fins i tot els rellotges parats marquen l'hora exacta un cop al dia. Això es podria aplicar també als músics que, encara que no ens agradin gens, un cop a la vida regalen una gran cançó. 01 Billy Idol - "Dancing with myself" 02 Plain White T's - "Hey there Delilah" 03 Don Henley - "The boys of summer" 04 The Bravery - "An honest mistake" 05 Phil Collins - "Against all odds" 06 Train - "Drops of Jupiter" 07 Vanessa Carlton - "A thousand miles" 08 Ted Nugent - "Cat scratch fever" 09 Hanson - "MMMBop" 10 Nacho Cano - "Vivimos siempre juntos" 11 Snow Patrol - "Chasing cars" 12 Soul Asylum - "Runaway train"

Diuen que qui té boca s'equivoca. En el cas del rock, ple d'artistes amb l'ego inflat i afany de protagonisme, encara és més evident. Avui la cosa va de bocamolls sense fronteres. 01 The Smiths - "Bigmouth strikes again" 02 Oasis - "My big mouth" 03 Julian Cope - "World shout your mouth" 04 Meat Loaf - "You took the words right out of my mouth" 05 Ben Howard - "Rivers in your mouth" 06 Björk - "Sun in my mouth" 07 Ian Brown - "Corpses in their mouth" 08 Los Rodriguez - "Copa rota" 09 João Gilberto - "Morena boca de ouro" 10 Net Flanders - "Bocamoll" 11 Garbage - "Shit your mouth" 12 Ramones - "Loudmouth" 13 Christina Rosenvinge - "Tu boca" 14 Gram Parsons - "Big mouth blues"

En aquests temps convulsos i frustrants que estem vivint, necessitem més que mai cançons que ens convidin a lluitar contra el poder establert. 01 Public Enemy - "Fight the power" 02 Bob Marley & The Wailers - "Get up, stand up" 03 Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the name" 04 Nina Simone - "Revolution" 05 Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' bout the revolution" 06 Billy Bragg - "There is a power in a union" 07 Victor Jara - "A desalambrar" 08 Sam Cooke - "A change is gonna come" 09 Patti Smith - "People have the power" 10 Edwin Starr - "War" 11 Lluís Llach - "Cançó sense nom" 11 The Clash - "Know your rights" 12 Gil Scott-Heron - "The revolution will not be televised" 13 The Isley Brothers - "Fight the power"

D'acord, només portem la meitat d'aquesta dècada, però no ens podem estar de destriar els discos que en aquest punt fan tota la pinta d'esdevenir clàssics indiscutibles de la història del pop. Aquí teniu la nostra aposta. 01 Fontaines D.C. - "Jackie down the line" 02 Wunderhorse - "Midas" 03 Geese - "Au pays du cocaïne" 04 Alvvays - "After the earthquake" 05 Fiona Apple - "I want you to love me" 06 Mitski - "My love mine all mine" 07 Charli XCX - "360" 08 Waxahatchee - "Fire" 09 MJ Lenderman - "Wristwatch" 10 Low - "Days like these" 11 Anjimile - "Rust & wire" 12 Jessica Pratt - "Life is" 13 Jessie Ware - "The kill" 14 Rosalía - "Memoria" 15 Wednesday - "Chosen to deserve

Ara que, un cop més, l'imperialisme ha decidit utilitzar les bombes per solucionar problemes polítics, necessitem més que mai cançons que reneguin de les guerres. 01 Edwin Starr - "War" 02 XTC - "Generals and majors" 03 Bob Marley & The Wailers - "War" 04 The Jam - "Little boy soldiers" 05 Manel - "La cançó del soldadet" 06 Kate Bush - "Army dreamers" 07 The Kinks - "Some mother's son" 08 Robert Wyatt - "Shipbuilding" 09 Extremoduro - "Otra inútil canción para la paz" 10 Lluís Llach - "Cançó sense nom" 11 Manic Street Preachers - "If you tolerate this your children will be next" 12 Phil Ochs - "I ain't marchin' anymore" 13 Bob Dylan - "Masters of war" 14 Nacho Vegas - "N V por la paz mundial"

Avui ens ha sortit un programa ple de pistolers fora de la llei i altres personatges a punt de prémer el gallet. 01 Pistones - "El pistolero" 02 Nancy Sinatra - "Bang bang" 03 Bob Marley & The Wailers - "I shot the sheriff" 04 Warren Zevon - "Lawyers, guns and money" 05 Matthew Sweet - "Someone to pull the trigger" 06 Dirty Projectors - "Gun has no trigger" 07 The Beatles - "Happiness is a warm gun" 08 Los Secretos - "Ráfagas" 09 The Boomtown Rats - "I don't like Mondays" 10 Sidonie - "Carreteras infinitas" 11 Foster the People - "Pumped up kicks" 12 Galgo Diamante - "Pistola" 13 Elton John - "I feel like a bullet (in the gun of Robert Ford)" 14 Tori Amos - "Me and a gun"

Tot just quan ja ens havíem resignat a la desaparició progressiva dels grups de rock amb guitarres i actitud, arriben els Fontaines D.C. i tot plegat torna a tenir sentit. 01 "Favourite" 02 "Boys in the better land" 03 "Roy's tune" 04 "Liberty Belle" 05 "I don't belong" 06 "Oh such a spring" 07 "No" 08 "I love you" 09 "Jackie down the line" 10 "The couple across the way" 11 "Strabuster" 12 "Here's the thing" 13 "Horsness is the whatness" 14 "Bug"

Quan va ser l'últim cop que vas escoltar música sense fer absolutament res més? Ni te'n recordes, oi? Aquí tens tot un seguit de perles cultivades del pop que et reconcilien amb la mandra i amb aquest verb tan revolucionari que es diu badar. 01 The Specials - "Do nothing" 02 The Beach Boys - "Busy doin' nothin'" 03 of Montreal - "Doing nothing" 04 Talking Heads - "Heaven" 05 The Evaporators - "Busy doing nothing" 06 The Donnas - "Nothing to do" 07 Men at Work - "Stay at home" 08 Rilo Milo - "Dolce far niente" 09 The Boomtown Rats - "Nothing happened today" 10 Kate Bollinger - "Feel like doing nothing" 11 Xiula - "No fer res" 12 Elton John - "Sitting doing nothing" 13 Liannallull - "No fer res" 14 Dennis Brown - "Stay at home" 15 Amanda - "No hacer nada" 16 The Isley Brothers - "Nothing to do but today" 17 King Hannah - "New york, let's do nothing"

Dins la història del pop, la zona morta és el període de temps entre el 1960 i el 1962, just quan els grans del pop (Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley...) van desaparèixer de l'aparador musical per motius diversos i els Beatles encara no havien arribat. Avui volem recuperar aquest període tan oblidat amb clàssics que el reivindiquen. 01 Maurice Williams - "Stay" 02 The Everly Brothers - "Cathy's clown" 03 Roy Orbinson - "Only the lonely" 04 Dion - "The wanderer" 05 Etta James - "Something's got a hold on me" 06 The Miracles - "You've really got a hold on me" 07 The Shirelles - "Will you love me tomorrow" 08 Sam Cooke - "Chain gang" 09 Ray Charles - "You don't know me" 10 William Bell - "You don't miss your water" 11 Frankie Valli & The Four Tops - "Big girls don't cry" 12 The Crystals - "He's a rebel" 13 Bobby Vee - "The night has a thousand eyes" 14 Del Shannon - "Runaway" 15 Johnny Kid & The Pirates - "Shakin' all over" 16 Tommy Roe - "Sheila" 17 The Olympics - "Big boy pete '65" 18 Frankie Lemon &…

No sabem si és el clima o les pintes de Guinness, però Irlanda sempre ha estat un dels millors planters del rock i el moment actual no és una excepció. Liderada per Kneecap i Fontaines D.C, l'escena del país de James Joyce i Bono està llançant al món les propostes més engrescadores. 01 Fontaines D. C. - "Favourite" 02 Cardinals - "St Agnes" 03 Inhaler - "My honest face" 04 EFÉ - "2000SEVEN" 05 Chalk - "Static" 06 Martina and the Moons - "Dixon avenue" 07 Sprints - "Little fix" 08 Hotgirl - "Sisyphus" 09 Basht. - "Tomorrow" 10 The Rosecaps - "Ocean floor" 11 NewDad - "Angel" 12 The Drive - "Mossbawn" 13 Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler - "Footnotes on the map" 14 Kneecap - "Guilty conscience" 15 Soda Blondie - "Suit & tie"

Si l'essència del rock és el soroll, el seu principal ambaixador seria el pedal de "fuzz", aquest efecte que transforma la guitarra en una màquina esquerdada i mortífera. 01 The White Stripes - "Seven nation army" 02 The Rolling Stones - "Satisfaction" 03 Jimi Hendrix - "Foxey lady" 04 The Stooges - "I wanna be your dog" 05 T Rex - "Metal Guru" 06 David Bowie - "Moonage daydream" 07 Norman Greenbaum - "Spirit in the sky" 08 Curtis Mayfield - "Freedy's dead" 09 The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Just like honey" 10 Muse - "Plug in baby" 11 Edwyn Collins - "A girl like you" 12 St. Vincent - "Rattlesnake" 13 Suede - "Animal nitrate" 14 Tame Impala - "Elephant" 15 The Black Keys - "The breaks"

Diuen que cada moment important està lligat a un indret determinat, i el mateix passa amb moltes cançons. Avui us hem triat les que et donen l'adreça concreta per tal de ser visitades quan ens vingui de gust. 01 The Pixies Three - "442 Glenwood avenue" 02 Crowded House - "Weather with you" 03 The Richard Wolfe Children's Chorus - "1432 Franklin pike circle hero" 04 Pulp - "59 Lyndhurst grove" 05 Ian Hunter - "23A Swan hill" 06 Eric Clapton - "Let it grow" 07 REO Speedwagon - "157 Riverside avenue" 08 The Divine Comedy - "Birds of paradise farm" 09 Saint Etienne - "Milk bottle symphony" 10 Harry Chapin - "Taxi" 11 Robert Pollard - "1000 royalty street" 12 Frank Sinatra - "The girl next door" 13 The Outcasts - "1523 Blair" 14 Michael McDermott - "620 W surf"

Treu el coloret del calaix, agafa el rímel i fes punta al llapis d'ulls. Avui serem andrògins a cop de sabates de plataforma, lluentons, guitarres salvatges i els millors discos de glam rock. 01 David Bowie - "Ziggy Stardust" 02 T. Rex - "Metal guru" 03 Sweet - "Fox on the run" 04 Slade - "Gudbuy t' Jane" 05 Roxy Music - "Do the strand" 06 Mott the Hoople - "All the way from Memphis" 07 Sparks - "This town ain't big enough for the both of us" 08 New York Dolls - "Personality crisis" 09 Lou Reed - "Vicious" 10 Alice Cooper - "Under my wheels" 11 Be-Bop De Luxe - "Adventures in a Yorkshire landscape" 12 Wizzard - "See my baby jive" 13 Jobriath - "I'm a man" 14 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - "Mr. Soft"

Passaran els anys i anirem oblidant rostres i veus, però seguirem recordant aquell dia a escola quan, de manera inesperada, ens vam enamorar per primer cop. 01 Van Morrison - "Brown eyed girl" 02 Fountains of Wayne - "Hackensack" 03 Big Star - "Thirteen" 04 Ron Sexsmith - "Strawberry blonde" 05 Billy Bragg - "The saturday boy" 06 Billy Bragg - "Walk away renee" 07 Elvis Costello - "Alison" 08 Pulp - "Disco 2000" 09 Ben Folds - "Kristine from the seventh grade" 10 Blue Rodeo - "Bad timing" 11 Belle and Sebastian - "We ruled the school" 12 Mamá - "Hora punta en el metro" 13 Bruce Springsteen - "Rosalita"

Encara que ho sembli, no tothom està enamorat de l'estiu. Aquí teniu un recull d'artistes malagradosos que es pensen passar tots aquests mesos de calor tancats a casa i ben lluny del xiringuito de la platja. 01 Elvis Costello - "The other side of summer" 02 Lana Del Rey - "Summertime sadness" 03 Death Cab for Cutie - "Summer skin" 04 Happy Mondays - "Holiday" 05 The Divine Comedy - "The pop singer's fear of the pollen count" 06 The Decemberists - "Anti-summersong" 07 The Decemberists - "July! July!" 08 Cracker - "Cruel August" 09 Family - "El bello verano" 10 Bright Eyes - "June on the west coast" 11 McEnroe - "Agosto del 94" 12 Green Day - "Wake me up when September ends" 13 Belle and Sebastian - "A summer wasting" 14 The Magnetic Fields - "Summer lies" 15 Los Planetas - "La playa" 16 Crim - "Estiu de merda"

Una de les proves més fefaents que el temps passa volant és mirar enrere i fer un repàs de les cançons que fan 30 anys. Avui repassarem el millor del 1996, amb la ressaca del britpop a punt d'arribar i l'Eurocopa de futbol més musical del segle passat. 01 Ocean Colour Scene - "The riverboat song" 02 Manic Street Preachers - "A design for life" 03 Lightning Seeds - "Three lions" 04 Beck - "Where it's at" 05 Suede - "Beautiful ones" 06 The Wallflowers - "One headlight" 07 Eels - "Novocaine for the soul" 08 The Bluetones - "Slight return" 09 Kula Shaker - "Hey dude" 10 The Cardigans - "Lovefool" 11 The Beautiful South - "Rotterdam (or anywhere)" 12 Spice Girls - "Wannabe" 13 Underworld - "Born slippy - Nuxx"