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TRASH (1989, S0NY)
TRACK LIST:
01) POISON
02) SPARK IN THE DARK
03) HOUSE OF FIRE
04) WHY TRUST YOU
05) ONLY MY HEART TALKIN’
06) BED OF NAILS
07) THIS MANIAC’S IN LOVE WITH YOU
08) TRASH
09) HELL IS LIVING WITHOUT YOU
10) I’M YOUR GUN
“Trash” è il disco con cui Alice Cooper si rilancia definitivamente dal punto di vista commerciale, tornando ad ottenere il (meritato) successo di pubblico che già gli aveva arriso nella prima metà degli anni ’ 70 grazie a dischi come “Killer”, “School’s Out” e “Billion Dollar Babies” (culminato alla posizione # 1 in America nel 1974).
Regalandoci pezzi memorabili creati ad hoc per inondare l’etere, quest’opera incarna alla perfezione la seconda giovinezza del grande incantatore sintetizzando la sua ritrovata vena compositiva nell’ eclatante singolo “Poison”, una hit song presente nelle Top 10 di tutto il globo. Dopo due granitici album come “Constrictor” (1985) e “Raise your fist and yell” (1986) che potremmo definire prove generali per un capolavoro, il rocker di Detroit decide di fare le cose in grande: affiancato da artisti d’eccezione quali Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Steve Lukather, Richie Sambora, Jon Bon Jovi e Joan Jett, il leggendario cantante dà alla luce un disco ad alta gradazione rock equamente diviso fra sferzate di irrefrenabile energia ed una propensione alla melodia veramente sopraffina. Il cocktail funziona a meraviglia e ciò che fornisce una marcia in più all’album è da ricercarsi nelle scelte stilistiche dettate dalla magniloquente produzione del demiurgo Desmond Child, senza dubbi di sorta autore e produttore principe della scena a cavallo fra gli anni ’80 e ‘90.
A distanza di quasi due decenni dalla sua uscita sul mercato possiamo individuare in “Trash” un’opera in grado di competere senza timori reverenziali con la produzione degli anni ’70 targata Alice Cooper: è proprio grazie ad alcuni slanci compositivi presenti in questo platter che la figura di Vincent Fournier ha ottenuto un rilancio importante per la propria carriera, coinvolgendo nella propria musica una generazione che rischiava seriamente di non beneficiare del suo talento. I critici musicali etichettarono il songwriting dell’album come orientato ad un “less gore more whore” (meno sangue, più sesso), notando come la scelta stilistica di Alice si fosse orientata verso tematiche più vicine a quelle trattate da glam–bands anni ottanta quali Motley Crue, Ratt e Bon Jovi, piuttosto che alla sua precedente discografia, colma di riferimenti agli horror movies. L’osservazione è opinabile, dato che il cantante aveva già percorso simili strade in album memorabili come il già citato “Billion Dollar Babies” e “Muscle of love”, ma tutto sommato appare discretamente calzante: pur non trattandosi di un campo assolutamente nuovo per lui, è innegabile che il cocker di Detroit abbia decisamente puntato su argomenti inerenti al sesso, componendo vere e proprie canzoni a tema (vedi “Spark in the Dark”, o “Bed of Nails”).
Oltre alla già citata “Poison”, “Trash” si ricorda per hits che sono entrate di diritto fra le grandi canzoni del rock: ne sono un fulgido esempio “House of fire” (impossibile non rammentarne il ritornello), le graffianti “Spark in the dark” e “Bed of Nails”, “Only my heart talkin’”, ballad dolce ed elegante, “Why trust you” e “This maniac’ s in love with you”.
Una curiosità: della sensazionale e spettacolare tournee di supporto al platter (con i Great White in qualità di opener) si ricordano due date memorabili: una alla Wembley Arena di Londra e l’altra allo Hallenstadion di Zurigo, colmo fino all’inverosimile. Gli anni sono trascorsi impietosi per molte produzioni anni ’80, ma “Trash” resta un album da possedere a tutti i costi, che ancora oggi colpisce al cuore l’ascoltatore cullandolo in un caldo e sensuale abbraccio.
(Enrico Rosticci)
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Poison (04:29)
Your cruel device
Your blood like ice
One look could kill
My pain your thrill
I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don't touch)
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison running through my veins
You're poison, and I don't wanna break these chains
Your mouth so hot
Your web I'm caught
Your skin so wet
Black lace on sweat
I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (and pins)
I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
Don't wanna touch you, but you're under my skin (deep in)
I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison running through my veins
You're poison, I don't wanna break these chains
Poison
:Guitar solo:
One look could kill
My pain, your thrill
I wanna love you, but I better not touch (don't touch)
Just wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
You're poison running through my veins
You're poison, I don't wanna break these chains
Poison (Yeah)
I wanna love you, I better not touch (don't touch)
I wanna hold you, but my senses tell me to stop
I wanna kiss you, but I want it too much (too much)
I wanna taste you but your lips are venomous poison
I don't wanna break these chains, I'm poison(poison)
Burning deep inside my veins
Burning deep (poison) inside my veins
Poison, I don't wanna break these chains
Poison
02 Spark in the Dark (03:52)
Welcome to the party
It's only me and you
Tell the world to go away, babe
And I'll tell you what to do
Come over here and kiss me
I want to pull your hair
Turn out the lights and hold me
I want to touch you everywhere
We don't need nobody, baby
We don't need champagne
I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest, lovers' lane
For a little spark in the dark
Just a little spark in the dark
Don't matter where we sleep
Don't matter where we park
All we need is a spark, spark
Spark in the dark
Just a little spark in the dark
Come around midnight
We'll be crawlin' on the floor
Burnin' with the fever
And yellin' out for more
But don't you write it in your diary, baby
Don't blab it on the phone
Cuz if your mom and dad find out
They'll skin me to the bone
Now we don't need instructions, baby
Don't you be afraid
It takes a little friction
That's how our love is made
From a little spark in the dark
Just a little spark in the dark
Don't matter what you say
No matter what you do
As long as it is me and you
We got a spark in the dark
Just a little spark in the dark, yeah
We don't need nobody, baby
We don't need cocaine
I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lovers' lane
Spark in the dark
Just a little spark in the dark
Don't matter where we sleep
Don't matter where we park
All we need is a spark, spark
Spark in the dark
03 House of Fire (03:47)
House of fire
House of fire
Yeah!
Let's build a house of fire, baby
Not one of wood or stone
Walk through my door of desire, baby
Come on in and make it your home
Don't need a window to watch you, baby
Don't need no roof overhead
Don't need no key to unlock ya, baby
I'll use my lovin' instead
I won't tire
Take me higher
Building a house of fire, baby
Buildin' it with our love
We are buildin' a house of fire every time we touch
House of fire
House of fire
We ain't gotta pay rent now, baby
No landlord to throw us out
I want to play in your garden, baby
When you want it give me a shout
I won't tire
Take me higher
Building a house of fire, baby
Buildin' it with our love
We are buildin' a house of fire every time we touch
We are building this house together, baby
Standing on solid ground
We are building a house of fire that you can't tear down
Brick by brick the flames get higher
Build it strong with our desire
Building a house of fire, baby
Building it with our love
We are building a house of fire every time we touch
We are building this house together, baby
Standing on solid ground
We are building a house of fire that you can't tear down
Building a house of fire, baby
Building it with our love
We are building a house of fire every time we touch
04 Why Trust You (03:12)
You come on strong with a great big smile
But your teeth are as sharp as a crocodile
You promised me the moon and the stars and the sun
But you never did nothin' for anyone
Can't look me in the face or straight in the eye
I'd buy the movie rights to your alibi
I wonder how low you will go
I wonder how high your head will blow
You're a psychopathic liar
Your soul is on fire
You're bluffin' with nuthin'
While the stakes are gettin' higher
Why trust you
You never made a dream come true
Why trust you
Give me one good reason, one good reason why
You come to me all teary-eyed
With your big tall tale way up in the sky
Begging on your knees for another chance
But everybody knows that's a song and a dance
There used to be a time when you were the best
You had the fastest tongue in the west
Ya gave a look and a line like nobody else
You'd try to sell the Bible to the Devil, himself
You sadistic little liar
You're walkin' on the wire
You're bluffin' up with nothin'
And the bills are gettin' higher
Why trust you
Give me one good reason, one good reason why
Trust you
The noose is getting tighter
Your face is turning whiter
You can stuff it up your muffin and go stick it in the fire
Why trust you
You never made a dream come true
Why trust you, give me one good reason, one good reason
Why trust you, you never made a dream come true
Why trust you, give me one good reason, one good reason
Why trust you, why trust you
Why trust you, why trust you
Why trust you
05 Only My Heart Talkin' (04:47)
Anybody's dream can fall apart
Anybody's mask can break
Couldn't tell you how I wanted you
Enough to make you want to stay
I never said the words out loud
I guess I couldn't get 'em straight
Baby, give me one more chance
Before you walk away
It's only, only, only, only my heart talkin'
Yeah, it's only, only, only, only my heart talkin'
Sayin' things I never thought I'd say
Can't you hear me knocking
Tried to fool you but it wouldn't play
Cuz my heart it's talkin', it's talkin'
Baby, it's talkin'
Talkin' to you
Everytime I take it to the edge
Everytime I'm so afraid
Don't you know I cry my eyes out, babe
Everytime you look away
Oh, I almost dropped a tear
But I caught it just in time
I'd say those things you want to hear
If you'd help me, help me, help me try
It's only, only, only, only my heart talkin'
Yeah, it's only, only, only, only my heart talkin'
Sayin' things I never thought I'd say
Can't you hear me knocking
Tried to fool you but it wouldn't play
Cuz my heart it's talkin', it's talkin'
Baby, it's talkin'
Talkin' to you
Well, I don't want to hide away
Hide away without you, baby
Don't you go and run away
Come and help me, baby
Just a little help, baby
Oh, my little baby
06 Bed of Nails (04:20)
I love the way you hurt me.
My tears your wine.
Your thoughts would draw my plan for a cruise in vain.
Like talons in the pale moon shine above us.
My gained pleasure in pain is slowly vanished when
You sink deeper and deeper into a void you are venomous love.
Yeah, we're gonna fight
We do it every night
Baby, when you scratch
You know I'm gonna bite
You can make me die
I can make you cry
Opposites attract
That's the reason why
No one else could make you feel
Like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you
As I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
First we're gonna kiss
Then we're gonna say
Dirty little words
Only lovers say
Rockin' through the night
Rollin' on the floor
When they hear us screamin'
They'll be breakin' down the door
No one else could make you feel
Like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you
As I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed on nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Bed of nails, bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh yeah
No one else could make you feel
Like I do, I do, I do
No one ever gets as deep inside you
As I do, baby
Our love is a bed of nails
Love hurts good on a bed of nails
I'll lay you down and when all else fails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Bed of nails, get on my bed of nails
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow
Gonna drive you like a hammer
Baby, put me in your slammer, oh yeah
I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nails
08 Trash (04:01)
It ain't the way you crawl across the Cathouse floor
It ain't the way you curse me when you slam the bedroom door
It aint the way you sweat me for a handful of easy cash
It's just the way you love me when you turn to trash
Trash
It's not the way you dress when you socialize, oh those eyes
It ain't the diamond rock or that Rolls you drive
You can walk the streets with all your uptown flash, such flash
But when you hit the sheets you just turn to trash
You're such trash
I love the way you look
You're such a high class tramp
It's not the way you touch me when you... ooh yeah
You're daddy's dream, you're a peach in cream
And you're ripe at last
But when you hit the sheets you just turn to trash
Trash
I love the way you look
You're such a high class tramp - oh like a tramp
It's not the way you touch me when you... ooh
Make me understand - oh yeah
You're daddy's dream, you're a peach in cream
And you're finally ripe at last
But when you hit the sheets you just turn to trash
You know you're mighty cool
You know you're mighty wild
Come on down here with that Penthouse smile
Trash - dirty baby.
Maybe you went down low as you can get
Been dripping hard and put away wet - yeah
Trash.
What you want, What you want, What you want, and got it.
What you want, What you want, What you want, and got it.
Hey baby what's your name?
Ah she's trash - uh ah - street trash
How low can you go? Low!
My love is like a lollypop
Would you lick it?
All the way to the chewy center
Oh yeah.
Trash
Trash
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Di cloe
Poison accalappiacani, impossibile resistergli!
La verità è che la gonnella è sì lunga e viziosa ma bisogna aver un grande coraggio per alzarla prendendosene la piena responsabilità.
