Cousteau - The Last Good Day Of The Year

Song

Their best known song remains the single "The Last Good Day of the Year", from their eponymous debut album. It has featured in advertisements (such as those for Nissan in the United States and Borsci in Italy), films (such as Happily Ever After, with Charlotte Gainsbourg, winner of the Special Selection category at the Toronto Film Festival 2005, and South Kensington with Rupert Everett) and documentaries and television programmes around the world. It also enjoyed radio play on both BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2 in the UK, later becoming a staple of the NPR and AAA networks in the US.

Artist

Cousteau are a London-based band who enjoyed considerable international success, particularly in Italy and the U.S. from 1999 to 2005. The band's sound has been compared to Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker and David Bowie with an updated contemporary edge.

The first release of the 1999 eponymous album was 'home-made' and included many demos produced for various major labels. 3,000 copies of the album were pressed by indie label Global Warming (later to become Series 8) set up by Trevor Holden. The album sold out after receiving good reviews, including a 5-star review in Uncut magazine, and recommended album in Time Out London.

When the band signed to Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures label a decision was made to re-record the majority of the album (two tracks, including 'Last Good Day of the Year', were not changed). On re-release the album was Album Of The Week in The Guardian in the UK, and went on to sell more than 230,000 copies internationally.

I Cousteau sono un gruppo musicale inglese di Londra fondato da Davey Ray Moor alla fine degli anni novanta. La loro musica, non classificabile all'interno di un genere determinato, ha avuto grande successo soprattutto in Italia e negli Stati Uniti. Sono diventati famosi in tutto il mondo con il celebre brano The Last Good Day Of The Year, molto utilizzato in pubblicità e anche al cinema.

Don't tell me
That you get sick of living
When the summer's so forgiving, although we have stolen
All of the things that we thought we had owned then
Have disappeared
All these things in flavour

Won't do you no favours
When the summer's light is fragrant with scents of returning
You relent, you resent, now you're burning
For nothing to change

There's something there
Among the fallen fruit and flowers, won't rest
Only minutes, only hours unless
Now the morning breaks in showers, I guess
We'll remember this all of our lives
On the last good day of the year (x3)

All the leaves are turning
Autumn's fingers burnished
Furnished here in hope and in faith in the meantime
Kinda working my way through a dream I
Was having alone
Was having alone

There's something there
Among the fallen fruit and flowers, won't rest
Only minutes, only hours unless
Now the morning breaks in showers, I'm left
With the north wind breathing down my neck
On the last good day of the year (x3)

Non dirmelo
Che ti stanchi di vivere
Quando l'estate è così clemente, anche se abbiamo rubato
Tutte le cose che pensavamo di aver posseduto
Sono scomparse
Tutte queste cose saporite

Non ti faranno alcun bene
Quando la luce dell'estate è fragrante di profumi andati
Ti stai perdendo, sei risentito, ora stai bruciando
Per niente in cambio

C'è qualcosa lì
Tra i frutti caduti e i fiori, non riposa
Solo minuti, solo ore finchè
Ora il mattino irrompe scrosciando
Ricorderemo questo per tutte le nostre vite
Nell'ultimo buon giorno dell'anno (x3)

Tutte le foglie stanno cambiando
Le dita dell'autunno imbruniscono
Pieno di speranza e fede in questo intervallo di tempo
Sto come lavorando per realizzare il mio sogno
Da solo
Da solo

C'è qualcosa lì
Tra i frutti caduti e i fiori, non riposa
Solo minuti, solo ore finchè
Ora il mattino irrompe scrosciando
Con il vento del nord che mi respira sul collo
Nell'ultimo buon giorno dell'anno (x3)

Cousteau – The Last Good Day Of The Year