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Hi ha certes veus que tenen el do d'acaronar la teva ment i escalfar-te l'ànima, com si fossin mantes suaus al bo de l'hivern. 01 Elliott Smith - Everything means nothing to me 02 Nick Drake - Northern sky 03 Norah Jones - Don't know why 04 Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of love 05 Suzanne Vega - Caramel 06 Mar Pujol - Caverna 07 Marvin Gaye - Distant lover 08 Ferran Palau - Bang bang 09 Wilco - How to fight loneliness 10 Mazzy Star - Look on down from the bridge 11 Nico - These days 12 Mitski - My love mine all mine 13 James Taylor - Sweet baby James 14 Natalie Merchant - My skin 15 Al Green - How can you mend a broken heart

Com que sabem que has tingut un dia difícil, t'hem preparat una sorpresa: una banyera ben calentona amb força escuma, i després un sopar ben romàntic, tot plegat il·luminat amb espelmes.  01 Inspira - "Com espelmes" 02 Sr. Chinarro - "A la luz de dos velas" 03 Jackson Browne - "Song for Adam" 04 Javier Solís - "Cuatro cirios" 05 The Decemberists - "Grace Cathedral Hill" 06 Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Kiss them for me" 07 Pulp - "Got to have love" 08 Macy Gray - "Still" 09 Neil Young - "Light a candle" 10 Elton John - "Candle in the wind" 11 Sonic Youth - "Candle" 12 Chris Rea - "Candles" 13 Adrianne Lenker - "Candleflame"

Encara que aquest instrument de percussió estarà lligat per sempre al món del flamenc, hi ha artistes pop que han decidit incorporar les castanyoles al seu llenguatge, i se n'han sortit amb nota.  01 The Diamonds - "Little darling" 02 The Ronettes - "Be my baby" 03 The Drifters - "Under the boardwalk" 04 The Beach Boys - "San Miguel" 05 Supertramp - "The logical song" 06 David Bowie - "Golden years" 07 Neil Young - "Eldorado" 08 Mink DeVille - "Just your friends" 09 10cc - "Don't hang up" 10 Carpenters - "Only yesterday" 11 Sidonie - "Todo lo que nos gusta nos va a matar" 12 Bryan Ferry - "Let's stick together" 13 Led Zeppelin - "Bron-Y-Aur stomp" 14 Ringo Starr - "Photograph"

Com deia la Zelda Fitzgerald, la millor manera de no avorrir-se és no ser avorrit. I com que hi estem molt d'acord, hem decidit foragitar la mandra i l'avorriment a cop de cançons entretingudes que parlen de l'avorriment. Foto Elisabet Mateu, Mònica Casugas. 01 The Beaches - "Everything is boring" 02 The Stooges - "1969" 03 Iggy Pop - "I'm bored" 04 Green Day - "Longview" 05 Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing in the dark" 06 U-Tòpics - "Morir i patir d'avorriment" 07 The Clash - "I'm so bored with the USA" 08 Father John Misty - "Bored in the USA" 09 Warren Zevon - "Desperados under the eaves" 10 Billie Eilish - "Bored" 11 Pet Shop Boys - "Being boring" 12 Jo Jet i Maria Ribot - "Per avorriment" 13 Buzzcocks - "Boredom" 14 Tequila - "Necessito un trago" 15 Crash Test Dummies - "Swatting flies" 16 Ramones - "I just want to have something to do"

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"

No hi ha res més difícil i delicat que fer veure a la teva millor amiga que s'ha embolicat amb un nòvio totalment imbècil. Per això us hem preparat una playlist ideal, a veure si agafa la indirecta. 01 The Tuts - "Dump your boyfriend" 02 Obscurest Vinyl - "Your boyfriend is a cunt" 03 Paul Simon - "50 ways to leave your lover" 04 Joe Jackson - "Is she really going out with him?" 05 Joan Armatrading - "Drop the pilot" 06 Black Kids - "I'm not gonna teach him how to dance with you" 07 Neneh Cherry - "Buddy X" 08 Palehound - "Your boyfriend's gun" 09 The Ataris - "Your boyfriend sucks" 10 Meshell Ndegeocello - "If that's your boyfriend (he wasn't last night)" 11 Leona Naess - "Leave your boyfriend" 12 Electric Bongo - "Your boyfriend sucks" 13 Julián Oro Duro - "Tu novio" 14 La Ludwig Band - "Millor amb ell" 15 Timo Sargent - "Your new boyfriend sucks"

L'escena musical contemporània està plena de noves propostes que sovint queden amagades davant de tantíssima oferta. Aquí teniu una selecció d'artistes novells que demanen ser escoltats amb atenció.  01 MJ Lenderman - "Wristwatch" 02 Dove Ellis - "Pale song" 03 Geese - "Au pays du cocaine" 04 Dry Cleaning - "Joy" 05 Wednesday - "Elderberry wine" 06 Chappell Roan - "The subway" 07 Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band - "New threats from the soul" 08 Racing Mount Pleasant - "Your new place" 09 Jensen McRae - "Praying for your downfall" 10 Blood Orange - "Mind loaded" 11 Cameron Winter - "Love takes miles" 12 Water From Your Eyes - "Nights in armor" 13 Anna von Hausswolff - "Aging young women"

Hi ha gent que es pensa que els timbals només serveixen per marcar el ritme d'una cançó. Avui us portem peces que trenquen aquest tòpic i ens demostren que hi ha percussions que manen com si fossin la veu cantant. 01 Paul Simon - "The obvious child" 02 The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the devil" 03 The Cure - "The hanging garden" 04 Phil Collins - "In the air tonight" 05 Adam & the Ants - "Antmusic" 06 Radiohead - "2+2=5" 07 Muse - "Stockholm syndrome" 08 Led Zeppelin - "Baby, since I've been loving you" 09 Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus" 10 Battles - "Atlas" 11 Daughters - "The reason they hate me"

Arriben dies de temperatures baixes i pluges gelades. Per això, avui us portem cançons que escalfen com flassades i esquiven el fred hivernal. 01 Modern Baseball - "It's cold out here" 02 Ray Charles & Betty Carter - "Baby, it's cold outside" 03 Moby - "When it's cold I'd like to die" 04 Blue Noon - "It's so cold" 05 Manel - "Nit freda per ser abril" 06 Alarma - "Frío" 07 Norah Jones - "Wintertime" 08 Jason Isbell - "Cover me up" 09 Bons Nois - "El fred no ens trobarà" 10 Craig Finn - "Blankets" 11 Sui Generis - "Confesiones de invierno" 12 Nick Lowe - "Freezing" 13 Them & I - "My cold bones" 14 Cage the Elephant - "Cold cold cold" 15 Soraya Martínez - "Una manta pal camino"

De totes les marques de cotxe que han sortit al mercat, cap té la mística i el pedigrí rocker del mític Chevrolet. Per demostrar-ho, us hem fet una tria ideal per sortir a la carretera amb la ràdio a tot drap. 01 Spector - "Chevy thunder" 02 Don McLean - "American pie" 03 Prince - "Little red corvette" 04 The Playtones - "Chevy 55" 05 The Wallflowers - "Three Marlenas" 06 The Mountain Goats - "New chevrolet in flames" 07 Bruce Springsteen - "Racing in the street" 08 Wilco - "Bull black nova" 09 Gillian Welch - "455 rocket" 10 The Hotrods - "Santa in a brand new Chevrolet" 11 Neil Young - "Chevrolet"

El 2026 ja és aquí i amb ell arriba una nova remesa de discos incontestables que celebren les noces d'argent. I mira que sembla que fos ahir, eh? 01 Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke" 02 ABBA - "Dancing queen" 03 Eagles - "Hotel California" 04 Sisa - "El cabaret galàctic" 05 ELO - "Livin' thing" 06 Boston - "More than a feeling" 07 Steely Dan - "Kid Carlemagne" 08 Ramones - "Blitzkrieg bop" 09 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "American girl" 10 Al Stewart - "Year of the cat" 11 Iceberg - "Preludi i record" 12 David Bowie - "Station to station"

Tot just ara que fa 10 anys de la desaparició de David Bowie, li volem retre homenatge repassant algunes de les millors cançons no tan conegudes del seu cançoner inabastable. 01 "Slow burn" 02 "Letter to Hermione" 03 "Bombers" 04 "Velvet goldmine" 05 "Sweet head" 06 "All the young dudes" 07 "Who can I be now?" 08 "Sons of the silent age" 09 "Up the hill backwards" 10 "As the world falls down" 11 "Seven" 12 "Everyone says 'hi'" 13 "New killer star"

Una de les claus de l'èxit de "Stranger things" ha estat el protagonisme de les cançons. Avui, encara paint el final, repassem els moments musicals més memorables de la sèrie. 01 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - "Stranger things" 02 Kate Bush - "Running up that hill" 03 Joy Division - "Atmosphere" 04 Modern English - "I melt with you" 05 The Clash - "Should I stay or should I go?" 06 The Police - "Every breath you take" 07 Limahl - "Never ending story" 08 Peter Gabriel - "Heroes" 09 Don McLean - "American pie" 10 Metallica - "Master of puppets" 11 Prince - "When doves cry"

Damon Gough hauria de ser un dels cantautors més prestigiosos del pop folk alternatiu. Té talent per donar i vendre i un cançoner impactant. Malauradament, la seva carrera està plena d'autosabotatges i actituds erràtiques a dalt de l'escenari.  01 "Is this a dream?" 02 "Once around the block" 03 "Magic in the air" 04 "The shining" 05 "A minor incident" 06 "Something to talk about" 07 "You were right" 08 "All possibilities" 09 "Year of the rat" 10 "Born in the UK" 11 "Let it rain" 12 "I'll keep the things you throw away" 13 "I just wanna wish you happiness"

Com si es tractés d'un picalletres o un gran dictat, us proposem un curs accelerat de lletrejar com cal. El guanyador tindrà premi. 01 The Cure - "Fire in Cairo" 02 Aretha Franklin - "Respect" 03 Tammy Wynette - "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" 04 Van Morrison - "Gloria" 05 Pulp - "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E." 06 Ian Brown - "F.E.A.R." 07 The Kinks - "Lola" 08 XTC - "Your dictionary" 09 Noah and the Whale - "L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N." 10 Daryl Hall & Oates - "Method of modern love" 11 Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback girl" 12 Arctic Monkeys - "Dangerous animals" 13 John Legend, Sufjan Stevens - "L-O-V-E" 14 Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y."

És potser l'onomatopeia més ie-ie que mai s'ha fet servir en el món de la música pop. Avui reivindiquem els "dabadabadàs" més reeixits que coneixem.  01 Francis Lai - "Un homme et une femme" 02 Burt Bacharach - "South American getaway" 03 The Swingle Singers - "Prelude no. 9" 04 The Swingle Singers - "Ciao, bella, ciao" 05 Alfonso Santisteban - "Manías de María" 06 Alfonso Santisteban - "Sunday samba" 07 Professor Popsnuggle - "Sor Citroën" 08 Los Stop - "El turista 1.999.999" 09 Mocedades - "Tómame o déjame" 10 Barbara Moore - "Hot heels" 11 Keren Ann - "Paris amour" 12 Florent Pagny - "C'est comme ça" 13 Nancy Sinatra - "Day tripper" 14 Armando Trovajoli - "Shabadabada" 15 Alfonso Santisteban - "Persecución" 16 The Swingle Singers - "Fugue in D minor"

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"

La relació entre el whisky i el rock és tan perillosa com evident. Avui hem decidit convidar les cordes vocals més amarades d'aquest destil·lat, veus rasposes i crues com un bon glop de bourbon. 01 Tommy McClennan - "Whiskey headed woman" 02 The Rolling Stones - "Before they make me run" 03 Tom Waits - "Jockey full of bourbon" 04 Dennis Wilson - "Pacific Ocean blues" 05 AC/DC - "Rock 'n' roll singer" 06 Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack lightnin'" 07 Lucinda Williams - "Car wheels on a gravel road" 08 Janis Joplin - "Cry baby" 09 Motörhead - "Overkill" 10 The Pogues - "A pair of brown eyes" 11 Marianne Faithfull - "Broken English" 12 The Tams - "Be young, be foolish, be happy" 13 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Trouble" 14 Chris Rea - "On the beach"

En aquest món apressat que hem d'entomar obligatòriament, cada cop costa més aprendre a fer una pausa i fugir del soroll. Ho intentem. 01 Simon & Garfunkel - "The sound of silence" 02 The Tremeloes - "Silence is golden" 03 Depeche Mode - "Enjoy the silence" 04 Betty Hutton - "It's oh so quiet" 05 David Bowie - "Sons of the silent age" 06 Japan - "Quiet life" 07 Keane - "Silenced by the night" 08 Haim - "Found it in silence" 09 Frank Turner - "The quiet one" 10 Supertramp - "Even in the quietest moments" 11 Maig - "El silenci d'un record" 12 Josep Thió - "Silencis" 13 Adriana Valera - "Me gustas cuando callas" 14 Portishead - "Silence"

Hi ha treballs discogràfics que deuen bona part del seu encant al seu so matusser i precari. Són obres crues i sense filtres, clàssics del "low fi", i per això ens fascinen. 01 The Sonics - "Have love will travel" 02 The Rolling Stones - "Happy" 03 The Stooges - "Search and destroy" 04 The Band - "Katie's been gone" 05 The Velvet Underground - "What goes on" 06 Hüsker Dü - "Don't want to know if you are lonely" 07 The Modern Lovers - "Roadrunner" 08 Sly & The Family Stone - "Just like a baby" 09 Bruce Springsteen - "Johnny 99" 10 The Mummies - "Stronger than dirt" 11 R.E.M. - "Talk about the passion" 12 Guided by Voices - "The golden mountain" 13 The Green Fuz - "Green fuz" 14 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - "Cinnamon girl" 15 The Saints - "(I'm) stranded" 16 The Sonics - "Psycho"