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Encertar-la a la primera és molt difícil. En el món del pop, pocs grups han iniciat la seva trajectòria amb una obra mestra difícil de superar. Us presentem un grapat de privilegiats que la van clavar de bon principi. 01 The Velvet Underground - "Sunday morning" 02 Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne" 03 The Band - "The weight" 04 King Crimson - "21st century schizoid man 05 Pau Riba - "Kithou" 06 Big Star - "Thirteen" 07 Ramones - "Blitzkrieg bop" 08 Joy Division - "She's lost control" 09 The Strokes - "Last nite" 10 Portishead - "Sour times" 11 Jeff Buckley - "Last goodbye" 12 Arctic Monkeys - "I bet you good look on the dancefloor" 13 Kanye West - "All falls down" 14 Olivia Rodrigo - "Drivers license"

Rebem tal allau de música nova diàriament, que a vegades se'ns fa impossible estar al dia del que es cou en el món del pop. Per això avui hem decidit destriar catorze novetats que no et pots perdre. 01 Vampire Weekend - "Capricorn" 02 Iron & Wine - "All in good time" 03 Carlota Flâneur - "Relate" 04 Maya Hawke - "Missing out" 05 Laufey - "Goddess" 06 Mannequin Pussy - "Sometimes" 07 Ed Harcourt - "Strange beauty" 08 Richard Hawley - "Heavy rain" 09 The Last Whole Earth Catalog - "Have you ever?" 10 Adriane Lenker - "Fool" 11 Juriol - "Em fas millor" 12 Chapell Roan - "Good luck, babe" 13 Eels - "Goldy" 14 Pernice Brothers - "Who will you believe"

Comencem el programa pel final o, el que és el mateix, per una selecció de cançons que van fugir de l'ortodòxia i van apostar per tenir una resolució original i sorprenent. 01 The Beatles - "I want you (she's so heavy)" 02 Pink Floyd - "Have a cigar" 03 Whiskeytown - "Bar lights" 04 Blur - "The heights" 05 Prince - "Dinner with Delores" 06 Janet Jackson - "Miss you much" 07 David Bowie - "It's not game (pt. 1)" 08 10cc - "Don't hang up" 09 Paul Westenberg - "Dirt to mud" 10 Supergrass - "In it for the money" 11 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Night rally" 12 Buzzcocks - "Love you more" 13 Love - "The good humor man he sees everything like this"

Quan ningú donava un duro per la seva trajectòria, els Bee Gees fan de Miami la seva nova residència i, de passada, executen la reinvenció musical més espectacular de la història del pop. 01 "Nights on Broadway" 02 "Jive talkin" 03 "Fanny (be tender with my love)" 04 "Wind of change" 05 "You should be dancing" 06 "Love so right" 07 "If I can't have you" 08 "Night fever" 09 "Stayin' alive" 10 "How deep is your love" 11 "More than a woman" 12 "Love you inside out" 13 "Living together"

L'èxit del "Saturday night fever" va ser tan espectacular com la ressaca posterior. D'un dia per l'altre, els Bee Gees van passar de ser el grup de moda a uns empestats amb veus ridícules. El rebuig va ser tan gran, que l'única manera de sobreviure tota la dècada dels 80 va ser fer cançons per a altres artistes. I quines cançons. 01 Al Green - "How can you mend a broken heart" 02 The Marbles - "Only one woman" 03 P. P. Arnold - "Bury me down the river" 04 Tavares - "More than a woman" 05 Yvonne Elliman - "If I can't have you" 06 Andy Gibb - "I just want to be your everything" 07 Andy Gibb - "Shadow dancing" 08 Frankie Valli - "Grease" 09 Dionne Warwick - "Heartbreaker" 10 Barbra Streisand - "Guilty" 11 Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers - "Islands in the stream" 12 Diana Ross - "Chain reaction" 13 Andy Gibb - "(Love is) Thicker than water" 14 The Staple Singers - "Give a hand, take a hand"

Malgrat la dictadura implacable de Barry i el seu "falsetto", els seguidors incondicionals dels Bee Gees saben que la seva arma secreta és la veu extraordinària de Robin Gibb, èpica, melangiosa i absolutament inimitable. 01 "I started a joke" 02 "I can't see nobody" 03 "Holiday" 04 "And the sun will shine" 05 "Massachusetts" 06 "Really and sincerely" 07 "I've got a message to you" 08 "How can you mend a broken heart" 09 "Odessa" 10 "I laugh in your face" 11 "Lamplight" 12 "Country lanes" 13 "Love me" 14 "Juliet"

Després d'enlluernar l'escena anglesa de finals dels 60, els Bee Gees van entrar en una època fosca i difícil salpebrada d'enveges i rivalitats entre Barry i Robin, mentre el pobre Maurice intentava posar pau entre els germans. 01 "Sweet song of summer" 02 "Odessa" 03 "Melody fair" 04 "Lamplight" 05 "First of may" 06 "My life has been a song" 07 "I can bring love" 08 "The greatest man in the world" 09 "How can you mend a broken heart" 10 "Lion in winter" 11 "Mr. Natural" 12 "Throw a penny" 13 "Run to me"

Quan els Bee Gees van deixar, encara adolescents, el seu cau australià i van tornar a la seva Anglaterra natal, en pocs mesos van astorar l'escena local amb una proposta musical que bevia de la tradició pop psicodèlica de l'època, afegint-hi una manera de fer particular i inimitable. 01 "Spicks and Specks" 02 "New York mining disaster 1941" 03 "Turn on the century" 04 "I can't see nobody" 05 "To love somebody" 06 "Please read me" 07 "Every christian lion hearted man will show you" 08 "World" 09 "Massachussets" 10 "And the sun will shine" 11 "The earnest of being George" 12 "Birdie told me" 13 "Idea" 14 "I've got a message to you" 15 "I started a joke" 16 "If only I had my mind on something else" 17 "Bury me down by the river"

En mans de qualsevol altre, fer un disc triple de 69 cançons dedicat íntegrament a l'amor hauria estat una porta directa cap al fracàs. Sort que qui es va autoimposar aquesta tasca impossible va ser Stephin Merritt, un dels millors compositors del pop modern. El resultat és una obra mestra. 01 "I don't believe in the sun" 02 "All my little words" 03 "Reno Dakota" 04 "The luckiest guy on the lower east side" 05 "The book of love" 06 "No one will ever love you like I do" 07 "Grand Canyon" 08 "Papa was a rodeo" 09 "Busby Berkeley dreams" 10 "Acoustic guitar" 11 "Nothing matters when we're dancing" 12 "Sweet-lovin' man" 13 "The death of Ferdinand de Saussure" 14 "I can't touch you anymore" 15 "Love is like a bottle of gin" 16 "Abigail, belle of kilronan" 17 "Epitaph for my heart"

Tenint en compte el guirigall de món que ens estan deixant els déus masculins, potser que donem una oportunitat a les deesses. Segur que ho fan millor. 01 Mercury Rev - "Godess on a highway" 02 Laufey - "Goddess" 03 Bob Dylan - "Isis" 04 Fleetwood Mac - "Rhiannon" 05 Björk - "Aurora" 06 Laura Marling - "Sophia" 07 Honey Gentry - "Aphrodite" 08 Destroyer - "Goddess of drought" 09 Seirena - "Deessa" 10 The Frank and Walters - "Goddess of Athena" 11 Steely Dan - "Aja"

Tothom sap què és un "one hit wonder", aquest artista conegut per només una cançó. El que ja és més difícil de trobar són els "two hit wonders", aquests que han repetit èxit dues vegades i prou. Ens ha costat, però els hem trobat. 01 Men at Work - "Who can it be now?" 02 Men at Work - "Down under" 03 Suzanne Vega - "Luka" 04 Suzanne Vega - "Tom's diner" 05 Peter Frampton - "Show me the way" 06 Peter Frampton - "Baby, I love your way" 07 Don McLean - "American pie" 08 Don McLean - "Vincent" 09 The Left Banke - "Walk away Renee" 10 The Left Banke - "Pretty ballerina" 11 The Romantics - "What I like about you" 12 The Romantics - "Talking in your sleep" 13 The Foundations - "Build me up, buttercup" 14 The Foundations - "Baby, now that I found you"

Desenganyem-nos, per molts anys que hagin passat, l'evolució del mico a l'home no és tan evident com ens pensem. Ves que aquest no sigui el motiu per trobar tantes cançons protagonitzades per primats. 01 The Monkees - "I'm a believer" 02 Pixies - "Monkey gone to heaven" 03 The Specials - "Monkey man" 04 The Rolling Stones - "Monkey man" 05 Arctic Monkeys - "I wanna be yours" 06 Ian Brown - "Corpses in their mouths" 07 Beck - "Loser" 08 Los Coyotes - "El mono" 09 The Beatles - "Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey" 10 Gorillaz - "On melancholy hill" 11 James Taylor - "Gorilla" 12 Peter Gabriel - "Shock the monkey" 13 The Kinks - "Apeman" 14 Bloodhound Gang - "The bad touch" 15 Steely Dan - "Monkey in your soul"

Clicar els dits pot semblar una tasca senzilla, però requereix una habilitat especial. Aquí teniu els millors exemples d'aquest tipus de percussió tan rudimentària en el món del pop. 01 Peggy Lee - "Fever" 02 Tennessee Ernie Ford - "Sixteen tons" 03 Roger Miller - "King of the road" 04 HeathsHuman - "Addams family theme" 05 Queen & David Bowie - "Under pressure" 06 Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - "Your precious love" 07 Mary Guy - "My guy" 08 The Shangri-Las - "Remember (walking in the sand) 09 Leonard Bernstein - "Cool" 10 Serge Gainsbourg - "Le clacqueur de doigts" 11 Billy Joel - "The longest time" 12 The Dave Clark Five - "Catch us if you can" 13 The Monkees - "(Theme from) The Monkees" 14 Frank Sinatra - "Nice 'n' Easy" 15 The Tymes - "So much in love" 16 Lorde - "Royals" 17 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Murder on the dancefloor" 18 Perfume Genius - "Fool"

Fastball no ha estat mai un grup gaire popular, ni va omplir grans estadis, però el seu cançoner ha fet companyia als gurmets del power pop vitaminat. 01 "The way" 02 "Are you ready for the fallout?" 03 "Are your mama proud" 04 "Nothing" 05 "Warm fuzzy feeling" 06 "Out of my head" 07 "Better than it was" 08 "Love is expensive and free" 09 "You're an ocean" 10 "I get high" 11 "Drifting away" 12 "The malcontent" 13 "Rampart street" 14 "I will never let you down" 15 "White collar" 16 "The help machine" 17 "Real good problem to have"

La història del rock ens ha regalat testaments musicals que, per sort, han esdevingut epílegs gloriosos que recorden l'obra dels grans artistes. 01 Joy Division - "Love will tear us apart" 02 Elliott Smith - "A fond farewell" 03 Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee" 04 Jimi Hendrix - "Somewhere" 05 Gram Parsons - "Return of the grievous angel" 06 Nirvana - "You know you're right" 07 Roy Orbison - "You got it" 08 John Lennon - "I'm stepping out" 09 George Harrison - "Stuck inside a cloud" 10 Townes Van Zandt - "Dollar bill blues" 11 Johnny Cash - "God's gonna cut you down" 12 Leonard Cohen - "The goal" 13 Otis Redding - "(Sittin on) The dock of the bay" 14 David Bowie - "Lazarus"

Som uns enamorats del baix, aquest instrument tan imprescindible com descuidat. Per això, us demanem que apugeu els greus del vostre reproductor i escolteu aquests himnes on hi regna el baix de manera gloriosa. 01 Lou Reed - "Walk on the wild side" 02 The Temptations - "Papa was a rollin' stone" 03 Sly & The Family Stone - "If you want me to stay" 04 The O'Jays - "For the love of money" 05 The Jam - "Down in the tube station at midnight" 06 Wings - "Silly love songs" 07 Cake - "I will survive" 08 The Stranglers - "Peaches" 09 Joe Jackson - "Fools in love" 10 The Strokes - "Is this it? 11 The Clash - "The guns of Brixton" 12 Yes - "Roundabout"

Avui hem cercat cançons que han tingut vides paral·leles a través de dues interpretacions amb personalitat pròpia, personals i intransferibles. 01 David Bowie - "China girl" 02 Iggy Pop - "China girl" 03 Fun Boy Three - "Ouor lips are sealed" 04 The Go Go's - "Our lips are sealed" 05 Terry Hall - "Sense" 06 The Lightning Seeds - "Sense" 07 Patti Smith - "Because the night" 08 Bruce Springsteen - "Because the night" 09 The Doobie Brothers - "What a fool believes" 10 Kenny Loggins - "What a fool believes" 11 Eagles - "Take it easy" 12 Jackson Browne - "Take it easy" 13 Crosby Stills & nash - "Wooden ships" 14 Jefferson Airplane - "Wooden ships"

No només de cançons d'amor es nodreix l'univers de la música popular. De tant en tant, ens calen cançons ben vitriòliques per expulsar la mala llet que amaguem. 01 CeeLo Green - "Fuck you" 02 Elvis Prestley - "Hound dog" 03 Lily Allen - "Smile" 04 John Lennon - "How do you sleep?" 05 Alanis Morrisette - "You oughta know" 06 Paquita la del Barrio - "Rata de dos patas" 07 Elvis Costello - "Tramp the dirt down" 08 The Smiths - "Frankly, Mr. Shankly" 09 Rage against the Machine - "Killing in the name" 10 Caryl Simon - "You're so vain" 11 Quico Pi de la Serra - "Si els fills de puta volessin no veuríem mai el sol" 12 Bob Dylan - "Idiot wind" 13 Pet Shop Boys - "Give stupidity a chance"

Si ets un amant del pop melòdic, si t'enamora l'obra dels Teenage Fanclub i Big Star o si et desfàs amb els mitjos temps de Badfinger i Fountains of Wayne, estàs d'enhorabona. Aquí tens un altre grup per afegir al prestage dels discos dels teus ídols del power pop. Es diuen Pernice Brothers i t'enamoraran. 01 "Crestfallen" 02 "Overcome by happiness" 03 "Chicken wire' 04 "Working girls" 05 "She heightened everything" 06 "Cronulla breakdown" 07 "The weakest shade of blue" 08 "Baby in two" 09 "Judy" 10 "Amazing glow" 11 "Saddest quo" 12 "Somerville" 13 "Conscience clean (I went to Spain)" 14 "The end of faith" 15 "The loving kind" 16 "I don't need that anymore"

Tenim una playlist farcida d'actors reconeguts que en algun moment de la seva carrera van treure el cantant que porten amagat dins els pulmons. 01 Jeff Daniels - "Days like these" 02 Joe Pesci - "Wise guy" 03 Brad Pitt - "Midtown" 04 Robert Downey Jr. - "Man like me" 05 Jeff Bridges - "What a little love can do" 06 Dead Man's Bones - "My body's a zombie for you" 07 Jamie Foxx - "Just like me" 08 Tony Perkins - "Moonlight swim" 09 Steve Martin - "Daddy played the banjo" 10 Christopher Walken - "Timeless to me" 11 Clint Eastwood - "Bouquet of roses" 12 Jim Carrey - "Cold dead hand" 13 Adam Sandler - "Werewolves of London" 14 William Shatner - "Common people"