Kalporz Awards 2004

PACCA SULLA SPALLA (3 voti)

Air – Talkie Walkie

CLAP CLAP (2 voti)

Devendra Banhart – Rejocing in the Hands
Elliott Smith – From a Basement on the Hill
Franco Battiato – Dieci stratagemmi
Hives – Tyrannosaurus Hives
Lali Puna – Faking The Books
Liars – They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
Lucamor – Mistic Turistic
Manu Chao – Sibérie m’était contée
Morrissey – You Are The Quarry
N.E.R.D. – Fly Or Die
Paolo Benvegnù – Piccoli fragilissimi film
Paolo Conte – Elegia
Radio Dept. – Lesser matters
Sondre Lerche – Two way monologue
Xiu Xiu – Fabolous Muscles

DAI, GLI AVVERSARI ERANO FORTI (1 voto)

Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Auf Der Maur – Auf Der Maur
Badly Drawn Boy – One plus one is one
Bees – Free The Bees
Bjork – Medulla
Black Forest/Black Sea – Forcefields and Constellation
Black Keys – Rubber Factory
Califone – Heron King Blues
Chiara Mastroianni & Benjamin Biolay – Home
Cocorosie – La maison de mon reve
Comets on Fire – Blue Cathedral
Dears – No cities left
Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo – L’irrréparable
Go! Team – Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Goodmorningboy – Hamletmachine
Graham Coxon – Happiness In Magazines
Ikara Colt – Modern Apprentice
Iron and Wine – Our Endless Numbered Days
Ivan Segreto – Porta Vagnu
Ivano Fossati – Tour Acustico
Jens Lekman – When I said I wanted to be your dog
Kasabian – Kasabian
Keane – Hopes And Fears
Kings Of Convenience – Riot On An Empty Street
Marianne Faithfull – Before the poison
Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum
Massimo Zamboni – Sorella sconfitta
Massive Attack – Danny The Dog
Modest Mouse – Good News For People Who Love Bad News
Mùm – Summer make good
Nada – Tutto l’amore che mi manca
Pinback – Summer in Abaddon
Pink Mountaintops – The Pink Mountaintops
Seu Jorge – Cru
Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
Soulwax – Any Minute Now
Tara Jane O’Neil – You Sound, Reflect
Thomas Fersen – La Cigale des grands jours
Tom Waits – Real Gone
Two Lone Swordsmen – From the Double Gone Chapel
U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

Le porzioni più abbondanti (3 voti) sono per i Cure (“The Cure”) e iR.E.M. (“Around The Sun”). Segue un bollito particolarmente amaro, il giovane Ed Harcourt, vincitore dei MusiKàl! Awards 2001 con ed ora meritatamente (2 voti per “Strangers”) qui accanto ai Keane (“Hopes and Fears”), ai deludenti Tortoise “It’s All Around You” e al bollito nostrano, l’incomprensibile lavoro di Gianni Maroccolo & Friends(“A.C.A.U. La nostra meraviglia”).

Un voto a testa per tutti gli altri qui sotto:

!!! – Louden Up Now
Black Dice – Creature Comforts
Divine Comedy – Absent Friends
Duran Duran – Astronaut
Libertines – The Libertines
Marlene Kuntz – Fingendo la poesia
Nouvelle Vague – Nouvelle Vague
PGR – D’Anime e D’Animali
Prodigy – Always Outnumbered (Never Outgunned)
Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
Thrills – Let’s Bottle Bohemia
U2 – How to dismantle an atomic bomb