JULY 2007
1. David Guetta - Love is gone
2. Promiseland - I just wanna rock
3. Arno Cost & Arias - Magenta
4. Mendonca Del Rio - Magalenha 2007
5. Dj Ross - To the beat

Italian Dance Chart - JUNE 2007

1. Global Deejays feat. Technotronic - Get Up
2. Danijay & Provenzano - Catch Me
3. Davide Guetta - Love is gone
4. Dj Ross - To the beat
5. Prezioso feat. Marvin - Touch Me

Songs Danced to the most, played the most and listened to the most!
Ecco la classifica dei brani dance più ballati, trasmessi e suonati in Italia questo mese:

MAY 2007
1. Dj Ross vs DY - To the beat
2. David Guetta - Love is gone
3. Danijay & Provenzano - Catch Me
4. Robbie Williams - She is Madonna Chris Lake rmx
5. Bob Sinclair - I feel for you (Axwell Rmx)

I couldn't live without music.. could You?
What do you think about italian music?

I think that many CANTAUTORI (story tellers) are first of all poets and then singers... as for example the great "Fabrizio De Andrè" who died some years ago but who's still a legend in the italian music.
His songs were poems, tears, hidden smiles, cruel and sweet histories...simply true life!

Little Star, I believe in my heart that yes! You are correct about these artists.......I believe that the ones that can carry on even when they pass on, have touched the hearts of others and when this happens its mighty hard to shake them off! The only way they achieve this.... is to have dug down into their souls and pulled out what is clear and true and real.:p passion with honesty and giving people...true artists do not perform for money and attention, but for sheer joy...and satisfaction. Do you think that the Rolling Stones need to perform at seventy years old in search for money or attention?

I am probably too old to understand the junk-shitty-songs above.

Well since this forum will not include Pink Floyd's repertoire I will start by adding a few songs by one of my Italian preferred cantautori at the following post:

http://my.lifeinitaly.com/showthread.php?t=1344

I do like your random pictures!
and I do think that the guys and gals that love to dance these days, would not agree that it's sh**** like you say, I put it on for them. I prefer this Italian song; because the one you placed is sort ..out of my league;)
Alan Sorrenti: Figli delle stelle:
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And this one I have been in love with for years! Thank God for i Napoletani! (and I Saleritani!)iywDAnvOVA8

Jaqueline
To be honest I was probably inappropiate in my comment. I made it more because it sounded funny rather than anything else.
Anyway guccini is a very important cantautore and his ongs really meant something. I will add more youtube staff in the future to finish the category with De Andre' de Gregori Dalla etc etc.


Paolo

Jacqueline, thanks for the post, I keep hearing the song now whenever I am on the forum. Can I download it somehow into my comp?

Paolo, Thanks for your posts too, but unfortunately I am not very good with my Italian yet, and the concert recordings are not very clear. Is there any way I can find the songs on the internet as they were originally studio-recorded? Thanks in advance!

Suggestions for any other singer that I can download from the internet and record on my mp3 player would also be welcome.

And yeah, I love the random pictures, as well as the fact that the forum excerpts can now be seen on the home page!

Paolo, great choice!
Guccini is one of the best cantautore in Italian music history!

I leave here a beautiful song of Guccini... written in 1968: it's still a cult-song in Italy: also young people know and song this masterpiece


- DIO E’ MORTO (Francesco Guccini - Nomadi)
Ho visto
La gente della mia età andare via
Lungo le strade che non portano mai a niente
Cercare il sogno che conduce alla pazzia
Nella ricerca di qualcosa che non trovano nel mondo che hanno già
Lungo le notti che dal vino son bagnate
Dentro le stanze da pastiglie trasformate
Lungo le nuvole di fumo, nel mondo fatto di città,
Essere contro od ingoiare la nostra stanca civiltà
E un Dio che è morto
Ai bordi delle strade Dio è morto
Nelle auto prese a rate Dio è morto
Nei miti dell'estate Dio è morto.
Mi han detto che questa mia generazione ormai non crede
In ciò che spesso han mascherato con la fede
Nei miti eterni della patria o dell'eroe
Perché è venuto il momento di negare tutto ciò che è falsità
Le fedi fatte di abitudini e paura
Una politica che è solo far carriera
Il perbenismo interessato, la dignità fatta di vuoto
L'ipocrisia di chi sta sempre con la ragione e mai col torto
E un Dio che è morto
Nei campi di sterminio Dio è morto
Coi miti della razza Dio è morto
Con gli odi di partito Dio è morto.
Ma penso
Che questa mia generazione è preparata
A un mondo nuovo e a una speranza appena nata
Ad un futuro che ha già in mano, a una rivolta senza armi
Perché noi tutti ormai sappiamo che se Dio muore è per tre giorni
E poi risorge
In ciò che noi crediamo Dio è risorto
In ciò che noi vogliamo Dio è risorto
Nel mondo che faremo
Dio è risorto.



- GOD IS DEAD (Francesco Guccini - Nomadi)
I have seen
The people of my age goes away
Along the roads that don’t lead never to nothing
To search the dream that drives to the maddness
In the search of something that don’t find in the world that they already have
Along the nights that from the wine are weted
Into the rooms by changed tablets
Along the clouds of smoke, in the world makes of towns,
Being against or to swallow our tired civilization
It is a dead God
On the edges of the streets God is dead
In the cars bought by instalments God is dead
In the myths of Summer God is dead.
They have said me that this my generation by now don’t believe
In what they have veiled by the faith
In the eternal myths of the country or of the hero
Because it has arrived the time to deny all what is falsity
The faiths makes of habits and fear
A politic that is only make career
The self-serving respectability, la dignity makes of void
The hypocrisy of who is always with the reason and never with the wrong
It is a dead God
In the dead camps God is dead
With the myths of the race God is dead
With the hate of party god is dead.
but I think
That this my generation is prepared
To a new world and to a just born hope
To the future that already have in its hand, a rebellion without arms
Because all us know that if God dies is for 3 days
And after he rises again
In what we believe God is risen
In what we want God is risen
In the world that we make
God is risen


maybe the translation is not perfect..anyway you will be able to understand the meaning of this beautiful incredible song


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You have to Love MINA


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Mina is definitely the greater singer in Italy ... she's absolutely the best!!!

Too many beautiful songs... a great incredible voice :)

http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=d3407b793522dbc0d453bca8201df1da

This song "Domo vida mea" is performed by Eros Ramazzotti and "Tazenda" (a sardinian musical group"). The song (really sweet) is in italian and sardinian dialect.

The video shows the amazing landscapaes of Sardinia Island! Enjoy it!

http://video.libero.it/app/play/index.html?id=14adc0c2b88fb5661c59dbc151b89d84

Pino Daniele and Giorgia togheter singing "Vento di passione" - Passion wind

Romantic song...quite easy to understand

I really am up on Pino Daniele and like him alot, but Eros makes me cringe--I guess we are all different. I like Zucchero alot though

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The top 10 according to the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana

1. Non siamo soli - EROS RAMAZZOTTI
2. Gimme more - BRITNEY SPEARS
3. No one - KEYS ALICIA
4. Living darfur - MATTAFIX
5. Taking chances - CELINE DION
6. Disincantatamente - LA DIFFERENZA
7. Cambiare pagina - PAOLA&CHIARA
8. Vasco extended play - VASCO ROSSI
9. Inconsolable - BACKSTREET BOYS
10. Rule the world - TAKE THAT