Il nome della band di Peter Hayes (guitar, bass, vocals), Robert Turner (guitar, bass, vocals) e Nick Jago (drums) è preso dal film del 1954 di Laslo Benedek con Marlon Brando "The Wild One", Il selvaggio.
La gang di motociclisti di Brando si chiamava "Black Rebels Motorcycle Club".

I B.R.M.C. hanno lasciato cadere la "s" e si sono battezzati. Si sono formati a San Francisco nel 1998 e questo è il loro primo disco (B.R.M.C) ...che cagata... so far so good...

Questo è il disco piú inutile che mi sia mai capitato di ascoltare.
I B.R.M.C. sono la fotocopia fatta con toner scaduto dei Jesus And Mary Chain. Copiano i suoni, nei video copiano l'estetica di "Psychocandy", copiano i tagli di capelli, il modo di cantare.

I B.R.M.C. sono al massimo una "tribute band", ma non la "big thing" annunciata dalla stampa (collusa).
Ma "tribute band" non vogliono essere (mi vengono in mente i No Way Sis, ottima "tribute band" degli Oasis), nelle interviste dicono che i Mary Chain non li hanno ispirati, non li hanno sentiti, ma i Ride.

Valutandoli come "tribute band", può piacere il secondo singolo, prima canzone sull'LP, "Love Burns", = Mary Chain con effetto swoosch sulle chitarre, rimane inclassificabile "Whatever Happened to My Rock'N'Roll (Punk Song)", pessima nel titolo e pessima in assoluto, si può sentire "Rifles".
Si può invece andare a fare una passeggiata.

Il resto cosí. Un disco da buttare nel cesso. La mia copia la ho riportata al negozio, ho detto che me lo hanno regalato ma che non mi piace. Lo ho scambiato con "Hatful of Hollow" degli Smiths che non avevo su cd.

Ah, dimenticavo, non copiano solo i "Mary Chain", ma nell'ultima canzone del disco anche gli Spacemen 3, nella "spirituale" "Salvation", non avvicinandosi neanche un po' alla magnificenza degli Spacemen 3. Una perdita di tempo totale.

Elenco tracce testi samples e video

01   Love Burns (04:05)

02   Red Eyes and Tears (04:00)

03   Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song) (04:38)

04   Awake (06:12)

Wanna feel what I touch
Wanna find what was lost
Wanna be kind

As you see every curse
And in a dream it'll work
Now you'll feel tied

Wanna praise with this life
And conceal without lies
I just need time

Wanna fight every need
Every push every string
Will you stand by?

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held the ground now I'm gaining soul
I bit my tongue through the cold realizations
I've been accused but I've only begun

Wanna speak what I've seen
Wanna reach what I've dreamed
Wanna be kind

Wanna seal what I've cut
Wanna hear without rush
Wanna ease time

With your hand on your loss
Our scene truly cost
No one told you

And we grew from the day
Into night I'm ashamed
I will join you

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held my ground now I'm gaining soul
I bit my tongue through the cold realizations
I've been accused, but I've only begun
Take me on, take me on
I've been awake, shaking to a rage
I've been awake, shaking to a rage

In the end only once
All you need is a touch
Wanna see love

Every thought you'll be shown
Every act will be known
I defend you

We'll awake every sound
Every chance I'll be found
I'll be with you

To the end now you come
Show your hands to the ones
To behold you

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held my ground now I'm gaining soul
I've held my tongue through the cold realisations
I've been accused, but I've only begun
Take me on, take me on
I've been awake, shaking to a rage
(Take me on, take me on)
I've been awake, shaking to a rage

05   White Palms (04:55)

06   As Sure as the Sun (07:27)

07   Rifles (05:29)

Rifles

I see the rifles coming over the hill
And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill
But if you think like me
You'll be as dead as he

I see the lion crawling over your bed
And if you stay he'll make you walk in your bed
To what you're gonna be
It never lets you be

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

I won't let you take him away
And I won't give to you the fires of hate
So I will never see
What you've done to me

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

I see the rifles coming over the hill
And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill
But if you think like me
You'll be as dead as he
Some day

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

08   Too Real (04:55)

Don't want to see what all these people see
They all seem lost with what they've found
Don't want to hear what all these people hear
It seems to tell them there's no sound
Don't want to fight who all these people fight
It's only truth that's been denied

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Don't want to waste away my life-savings
Too many feelings left to save
No need to talk about the other side
We learn to live our happy lives
It's so good, you see- just another day
Learn to savour all the same

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?
Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?
Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Does it feel too real?

09   Spread Your Love (03:45)

10   Head Up High (05:35)

You feel, no one listens, before saying you're through
You fear, nothing takes you as far as you'll go

This song is not about you
The life that stands without you
Your body and blood
Your body and blood
You're leaving us all

I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations

You feel, nothing ever stays the same as it was
You'll take, no more remedies to force yourself true
You say, every motion and fall fail you too

This song is not about you
The life that stands without you
Your body and blood
Your body and blood
You're leaving us all

I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations

11   Salvation (06:05)

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Di  Roberto De Filippis

 I B.R.M.C. fanno musica ispirata, dal suono fresco (quasi freddo) e al contempo chiaroscurale.

 Per i puristi del rock questo disco deve essere assolutamente ascoltato.


Di  CosmicJocker

 Dopo qualche minuto però, grattando un poco la sua logorrea e sicumera, trovo in lui una buona dose di nozionismo senza approfondimento.

 Riprende gli psicodrammi dei personaggi di Dostoevskij... senza averne l’eccezionale capacità di penetrazione psicologica.