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Con questa recensione, vorrei far capire secondo me qual'è la migliore hard rock band dal '75 in su.
Con la fine del prog dei Genesis e Yes (finalmente...), e lo scioglimento o la crisi di vari band underground come Led Zepplin o Black Sabbath, l'hard rock visse un momento di stallo. A distruggere e spazzare via tutto come un onda anomala venne il punk inglese dei Sex Pistols o Clash o americano dei Ramones, Dickies o Germs. Alle loro spalle non lasciarono niente, ma il fenomeno fù talmente distruttivo da durare pochi anni (mesi?). Le uniche alternative era il glam dei Kiss (digli poco) o quello che secondo molti è un hard-rock-blues di Aerosmith e AC/DC.
Io sinceramente, i gruppi hard rock come Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith e anche i Guns n' Roses o glam come Motley Crue o Poison, agli AC/DC in quanto a carisma, produzione e tecnica li vedono con un binocolo, e Let There Be Rock ne é la prova definitiva.
L'album inizia esplodendo subito con una mitica "Go Down", anche se con "Dog Eat Dog" si abbassano i ritmi. "Let There Be Rock" è il capolavoro nel capolavoro: la voce di Bon, accompagnata dal basso, che urla 'let there be guitar' (Angus) and LLLLLETTHREBEROCK!!!! e l'esplosione dei fratelli è fantastica. Si prosegue con "Bad Boy Boogie", altra magnifica song (con il bad boy indovinate chi sarà... il vecchio Bon!) e con "Problem Child". Qui il giro di accordi si ripete ll'infinito. "Overdose" è forse minore alle precedenti, ma si conclude con le due canzoni più cazzoni degli australiani: "Hell Ain't A Bad Place" e la sublime "Whole Lotta Rosie", la migliore dell'album.
Dunque se ai mondiali un po' tifavo per l'Australia, anche contro l'italia, il merito è loro.
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02 Dog Eat Dog (03:34)
Well it's a dog eat dog, eat cat too
The French eat frog, and I eat you
Business man when you make a deal
Do you know who you can trust
Do you sign your life away
Do you write your name in dust
Hey, hey, hey
Every dog has its day
It's a dog eat dog, dog eat dog
Dog eat dog, read the news
Someone win, someone lose
Up's above and down's below
And limbo's in between
Up you win, down you lose
It's anybody's game
Hey, hey, hey
Every dog has its day
It's a dog eat dog, dog eat dog
And it's a eye for eye
Tooth for tooth
It's a lie
That's the truth
See the blind man on the street
Lookin' for somethin' free
Hear the kind man ask his friend
What's in it for me
Hey, hey, hey
Every dog has its day
It's a dog eat dog, dog eat dog
Dog eat dog, Dog eat dog
Dog eat dog, Dog eat dog
Dog eat dog, Dog eat dog
Dog eat dog, Dog eat dog...
03 Let There Be Rock (06:06)
We roll tonight [we're on tonight]
Till the guitar bite
Yeah, yeah, oh
Stand up and be counted
For what you are about to receive
We are the dealers
We'll give you everything you need
Hail hail to the good times
'cause rock has got the right of way
We ain't no legend, ain't no cause
We're just livin' for today
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
We rock at dawn on the front line
Like a bolt right out of the blue
The sky's alight with the guitar fight
Heads will roll and rock tonight
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
Yes we do
For those about to rock, we salute you
Oooh, salute!
Oooh, ooooh yeah
We're just a battery for hire with a guitar fire
Ready and aimed at you
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon
For a twenty-one gun salute
For those about to rock - fire
We salute you
For those about to rock, we salute you
Those about to rock - fire
We salute you
Fire
We salute you
We salute you
Come on, whooa
For those about to rock, we salute you (x4)
Shoot, shoot (x2)
For those of you, for those who
Yeah
(ain't gonna get tired, won't take a break, we salute you.)
We salute you (x3)
Fire
05 Overdose (06:09)
I never smoked me no cigarettes
I never drank much booze
But I'm only a man doncha understand
A man can sometimes lose
You gave me somethin' I never had
Pulled me down with you
Hit me up with a big hunka love
Hope you can pull you through
I overdosed on you
I overdosed on you
Crazy but it's true,
Ain't nothin' I can do
I overdosed on you
Oh woman you give to me
More than I can take
But listen honey
I don't mind
You're a habit I don't wanna break
Don't want me none of that harder stuff
Don't need it anymore
I'm in hell and I'm sinkin' fast
And I don't need no cure
I overdosed on you
I overdosed on you
Crazy but it's true
Ain't nothin' I can do
I overdosed on you
I was as happy as a man can be
To far gone to save
Died of love and plenty of
Just write on my grave
I overdosed on you
I overdosed on you
Crazy but it's true
There's nothin' I can do
I overdosed on you
On you
On you, on you
All over you, all over you, all over
I overdosed, overdosed
Overdosed on you
Overdosed, aaaahhhh
08 Whole Lotta Rosie (05:24)
Wanna tell you a story
'Bout a woman I know
When it comes to lovin'
Oh, she steals the show
She ain't exactly pretty
She ain't exaclty small
42-39-56
You could say she's got it ALLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!
Never had a woman, never had a woman like you
Doin' all the things, doin' all the things you do
Ain't no fairy story
Ain't no skin-and-bones
But you give all you got, weighin' in at nineteen stone
You're a whole lotta woman
A whole lotta woman
I gotta whole lotta Rosie
A whole lotta Rosie
A whole lotta Rosie
I gotta whole lotta woman, yeah-yeah-yeah
Honey, you can do, do it to me all night long
Only one can turn, only one can turn me on
All through the night-time
Right around the clock
To my suprise, Rosie never stops
You're a whole lotta woman
A whole lotta woman
I gotta whole lotta Rosie
A whole lotta Rosie
A whole lotta Rosie
I gotta whole lotta woman, yeah-yeah-yeah
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Di puntiniCAZpuntini
Tu ti sei svegliato figlio di troia, ed è bello sfogare la tua figlioditrioezza nelle maniere più disparate.
Più di 50 anni ed è ancora in giro a fare lo scemo, non soffocate il bambino che c'è in voi.
Di let there be rock
"Let There Be Rock è una dichiarazione di intenti e di guerra al punk."
"Il disco termina con la chitarra isterica di Angus, un vero monumento dedicato al rock. Epico."
Di teenagelobotomy
"7 brani su 8 sono diventati classici, l'album è stato il primo a essere pubblicato negli USA e a entrare nella classifica Billboard."
"Let There Be Rock fu forse l'apice di quella carica aggressiva, un rock'n'roll primordiale e dannatamente vero."
