• Voto:
Ebbene si, sono alla mia prima recensione, ma i consigli di voi debaseriani li accetto sempre e volentieri, ma ho notato che nessuno mi ha recensito un grande album live, seppur composto da vari bootleg, ovvero "Past lives" dei Black Sabbath. L'album in questione è doppio e contiene, nel primo disco tutto il "Live at last", mentre nel secondo dei brani registrati nelle varie tournee sabbathiane dei primi anni settanta. Passiamo ora all'analisi dei brani, che sono a mio parere, i migliori di tutta l'era Osbourne; il primo cd si apre con la breve "Tomorrow's Dream", opener track durante tutto l'arco del Sabbath Bloody Sabbath World Tour. La traccia scorre veloce e pura, aprendo la strada a "Sweet Leaf", uno dei miei brani preferiti dei bs, con quel suo riffone micidiale e inossidabile. Si giunge poi alla cupa "Killing Yourself To Live", che io non amo molto, soprattutto per il macabro testo; si arriva a "Cornucopia", tratto da Vol. 4, dove la voce di Ozzy subisce un cambiamento radicale, tanto da confonderlo a Ian Gillan. La quinta traccia è "Snowblind" che spiana la strada alla parte piu' bella del primo cd: ed ecco che giunge "Children Of The Grave", la mia seconda canzone preferita nel reparto Sabba Nero; in sede live è ancora piu' coinvolgente, con quel riff da far girare la capoccia. E signori e signore, ecco a voi la magistrale "War Pigs". Come posso definirla?.........Spettacolare sotto qualsiasi punto di vista, e la performance di Bill Ward è una cosa inimmaginabile. La song si interrompe per lasciar spazio a "Wicked World", uno dei brani piu' sperimentali del gruppo, con la sua durata di 18 minuti, nella quale ogni membro della band sfoggia un proprio capolavoro.......e proprio quando i musicisti sembrano esausti, pronti a fare un break, parte il riff di "Paranoid", ed il pubblico esplode in un boato assurdo: la canzone è velocissima, e dura poco piu di due minuti, ma coinvolge assolutamente. Spettacolare!
Inseriamo il secondo cd, quello mai pubblicato fino ad allora, e subito si torna in un'atmosfera di panico e terrore: "Hand Of Doom", inizia con quel suo canto accompagnato dal suo micidiale arpeggio ed esplode in un hard rock frenetico ed inarrestabile. Dopo gli 8 minuti del brano, Ozzy presenta il brano tratto dal nuovo album dell'epoca, Sabotage, e si tratta di "Hole in the Sky", bellissimo e quasi uguale al successivo "Symptom Of the Universe", se non che la seconda contiene un assolo di Tony Iommi magistrale. Ricordiamo che queste tracce sono tutte tratte dal concerto di Asbury Park del 1975, e a proposito del nuovo album, giungiamo alla mia traccia preferita di questo disco: "Megalomania". Questo brano è una cosa indescrivibile, inizia con quel calmo riff iniziale dove Ozzy parla delle sue manie di grandezza, e poi sfocia nello schitarrio leggendario che durerà ancora per i 10 minuti seguenti, una roba da far diventare schizzofrenici. Davvero!. Poi si torna indietro di cinque anni, e veniamo catapultati all'Olympia Theatre di Parigi, dove i quattro tennero nel 1970 appunto, un leggendario concerto, anche filmato. Si comicia subito con il micidiale riff di "Iron Man", confuso tra le urla del pubblico: esecuzione magistrale, se non che si nota troppo che il brano proviene da un bootleg, come la successiva "Black Sabbath", proveniente dal primo album. Qui invece l'esecuzione è eccezionale, con le urla lancinanti di Ozzy, che si interrompono per far partire la leggendaria "N.I.B", anch'essa dall'album d'esordio. Le ultime due tracce sono "Behind The Wall Of Sleep", che in sede live non mi piace molto, e la stupenda "Faries Wear Boots", traccia principalmente strumentale come tutti saprete, con i rulli di Ward che parlano da soli.
Album dal vivo eccellente, a parte le stonature dei bootleg sopra citate. Tutta la band è comunque mitica e sempre lo resterà. Voto 8.
Elenco tracce e testi
02 Hole in the Sky (04:46)
I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonyms of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
I've seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now I'm living on the profits of pride
03 Symptom of the Universe (04:52)
Take me through the centuries to supersonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Yeah
Yeah
Mother mooch is calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seventh night the unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Yeah
Yeah
Take my hand, my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
When our love will ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies
Yeah
Yeah
Oh my child of love's creation, come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness, you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine fromabove
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
04 Megalomania (09:53)
I hide myself inside the shadows of shame
The silent symphonies were playing their game
My body echoed to the dreams of my soul
It started something that I could not control
Where can I run to now? The joke is on me
No sympathizing 'cos it's insanity, yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Obsessed with fantasy obsessed with my schemes
I meet reality with pseudo mock dreams
The ghost of violence was something I'd seen
I sold my soul to be the human obscene
How could this poison be the dream of my soul?
How did my fantasies take complete control, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Well I feel something's taken me I don't know where
It's like a trip inside a separate night
The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream
Is telling me to leave it all behind
Feel him slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Got to get to happiness
Want no more of sorrow
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Sting me!
Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Beating the demigod, I'm fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel him slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence of sorrow
Was it wise to disguise
How I tried to get away from you now
Is there a way that I can pay
Or is it true I have to stay with you now?
How I lied, went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
Am I right if I fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!
I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
I'll chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
I simply try, but he wants me to fail
Feel him slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, from the depths of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you, yeah
Now I'm free, can't you see
And now instead I won't be led by you now
Free!
05 Iron Man (06:25)
Has he lost his mind
Can he see or is he blind
Can he walk at all
Or if he moves will he fall
Is he alive or dead
Has he thoughts within his head
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care
He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind
Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfurl
Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved
Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge
Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!
06 Black Sabbath (08:23)
What is this that stands before me
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh, no
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flame get higher and higher
Oh, God--please help me
Oh, no--no
Child cries out for its mother
Mother screaming in the fire
Satan points at me again
Opens the door to push me in
Oh, no
Oh, God
Is it the end my friend
Satan's coming 'round the bend
People running 'cause they're scared
You people better go and beware
No, no
Please, God--no
07 N.I.B. (05:32)
Some people say my love cannot be true
Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal
The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
08 Behind the Wall of Sleep (05:03)
Precious cups within the flower
Deadly petals with strange power
Faces shine a deadly smile
Back up on you at your trial
Chill and numbs from head to toe
Icy sun with frosty glow
Why'd you go reaching your sorrow?
Why'd you go read no tomorrow?
Feel your spirit rise with the priest
Feel your body falling to its knees
Take your wall of remorse
Take your body to a corpse
Take your body to a corpse
Take your body to a corpse
If you want all remorse
Take your body to a corpse
Now from darkness, there springs light
Wall of Sleep is cool and bright
Wall of Sleep is lying broken
Sun shines in, you are awoken
09 Fairies Wear Boots (06:39)
Goin' home late last night
Suddenly I got a fright
Yeah I looked through a window
and surprise, what I saw
A fairy with boots tried dancin' with a dwarf
All right now!
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw her, I saw, and I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw her, I saw her with my own two eyes
All right now!
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw her, I saw her, I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw her, I saw her with my own two eyes
All right now!
So I went to the doc' to see what he could give me
He said son, son, you've gone too far
'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do
Yeah!
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