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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"