s15e19 | Bombolone - San Giuseppe, Memphis Soul & Rosalia's LUX coming to town

Thursday afternoons in Madrid. Vincenzo has been doing this for fifteen seasons — Lisbon first, then Scotland, Amsterdam, London, Dubai, a detour through Venice, another through Beirut, and for the last eight years, here. Every week, an hour of music and the kind of observation you only get from someone who's been watching a city long enough to stop being impressed by it.

This week: Al Green dismantling the Beatles in slow motion. The Specials making a 1950 novelty song feel like a warning. The quiet side of the Stone Roses' debut. Cocteau Twins. Soundgarden. Spiritualized refusing to end. And the story of Linda Lyndell, who recorded What A Man in 1968, watched it disappear, and had to wait for Salt-N-Pepa to remind the world she existed.

Madrid dispatches along the way — Rosalía coming home for four nights, almond trees in bloom in a park most people walk past without stopping, Zelensky at the Moncloa. News from Trieste and Pordenone, where spring arrives with documentary films and, apparently, Judas Priest.

In Italian. On Radio Fragola Trieste, 104.5/104.8 FM, every Thursday at 14:00. Everywhere else as a podcast.

Tracklist

1. Al Green - I Want to Hold Your Hand
2. The Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
3. Nilüfer Yanya - Like I Say (I runaway)
4. Linda Lyndell - What A Man
5. Phoenix - Love Like a Sunset, Pt. II
6. The Stone Roses - Shoot You Down
7. Faithless - Baseball Cap
8. Beach House - Myth
9. Buddy Holly - Mailman Bring Me No More Blues
10. Geese - I See Myself
11. Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
12. Cocteau Twins - Cherry-coloured Funk
13. Spiritualized - I Want You
14. Mirage - Let's Kiss