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"Sabotage": UN ALBUM CAPOLAVORO, e voi sapete tutti che definire capolavoro un disco con Ozzy Osbourne alla voce mi costa lacrime e sangue.
"Sabotage" (1975) segna una svolta netta nel sound dei Black Sabbath, che passano dal doom condito di riff lenti e pesanti spesso pallosi e fine a se stessi (Leggi Warning piuttosto che Hands Of Doom o tutto "Vol.4") dei primi dischi a uno stupendo heavy metal/hard rock davvero da sballo, con alcune geniali intuizioni dell'immenso Tony Iommi (sempre sia lodato).
L'opener "Hole In The Sky" è già devastante di per se: un riff al fulmicotone che nobilita questi quattro minuti di totale headbanging che sfumano inaspettatamente nel breve strumentale acustico "Don't Start (Too Late)", che fa da anticamera ad una delle canzoni più geniali dei Black Sabbath e dal rock in generale: "Symptom Of The Universe" riff terremotante e stacchi di batteria formidabili per metà della canzone, per poi passare senza preavviso a sonorità acustiche e psichedeliche, il tutto condito da un testo stupendo (se volete sentire questa magnifica poesia cantata come Dio comanda vi consiglio caldamente la cover dei Sepultura) "Megalomania" è se possibile alcora più "fuori" nove intensi minuti che alternano sonorità cope e rarefatte ad imprvvise impennate hard rock. Geniale l'introduzione sfumata e riverberata (si sa, per dare un minimo senso alla voce di Ozzy bisogna farlo biascicare o al limite sussurrare, impedendoglia tutti i costi di cimentarsi in acuti che la sua modestissima estensione vocale trasforma in irritanti versi animaleschi) "Thrill Of It All" è un autentico monumento al genio del Pelè dei chitarristi Antonino Iommi: fraseggi ed assoli continui e ben raccordati, avrebbe potuto essere uno dei migliori strumentali della storia del rock.
Uno dei migliori strumentali della storia del rock è invece "Supertzar" tre minuti di riffone granitico di Iommi a cui fanno eco solenni cori maschili e famminili che si alternano e rincorrono a vicenda. La mancanza di Ozzy è un'autentica mano santa per questo esperimento epico e solenne, perfettamente riuscito. "Am I Going Insane (Radio)" è una canzone di 4 minuti dalle sonorità molto acide e psichedeliche, personalmente mi ricorda parecchio le L7 di "Pretend We're Dead". Il masterpiece si chiude con l'altra traccia fiume "The Writ" (8 minuti) pittosto simile a "Megalomania", ma meno cupa e più freak. Gran bella canzone che chiude un disco davvero splendido, in cui le immense capacità di Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler e Bill Ward raggiungono l'apice.
Copertina tra le più orripilanti della storia.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Hole in the Sky (03:59)
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 (06:28)
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 (09:40)
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 The Thrill of It All (05:54)
Inclination of direction, walk the turned and twisted rift
With the children of creation futuristic dreams we sift
Clutching violently we whisper with a liquefying cry
Any deadly final answers that are surely doomed to die
Won't you help me Mr. Jesus, won't you tell me if you can?
When you see this world we live in, do you still believe in Man?
If my songs become my freedom, and my freedom turns to gold
Then I'll ask the final question, if the answer could be sold
Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it
'Cause I've got no reason to lie, yeah
Forget your problems that don't even exist
And I'll show you a way to get high, oh yeah
Oh yeah!
So come along, you know you matter to me
Remember freedom is not hard to find, yeah
Time to stop all your messing around
Don't you think that I know my own mind, oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Why can't you believe, it's not here to perceive
Do you always have to be told, yeah
For you have been taught that if your mind has been bought
Life's entire answer was sold, oh yeah
Oh yeah!
07 Am I Going Insane (Radio) (04:15)
Everybody's looking at me, feeling paranoid inside
When I step outside I feel free, think I'll find a place to hide
Tell me people, am I going insane?
Tell me people, am I going insane?
Every day I sit and wonder how my life it used to be
Now I feel like going under, now my life is hard to see
So tell me people, am I going insane?
Tell me people, am I going insane?
So I'm telling all you people, listen while I sing again
If I don't sound very cheerful, I think that I'm a schizo brain
So tell me people, am I going insane?
Tell me people, am I going insane?
08 The Writ (08:10)
The way I feel is the way I am
I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you
Just to you
What kind of people do you think we are?
Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you
Just for you
The faithful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you
Yeah for you
The shot troopers laying down on the floor
I wish they'd put an end to my running war with you
Yeah with you
Are you metal, are you man?
You've changed in life since you began
Yeah began
Ladies digging gold from you
Will they still dig now you're through
Yeah you're through
You bought and sold me with your lying words
The voices in the deck that you never heard came through
Yeah came through
Your folly finally got to spend with a gun
A poisoned father who has poisoned his son, that's you
Yeah that's you
I beg you please don't let it get any worse
The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you
Yeah curse you
All of the promises that never came true
You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true
Ah, that's true
Are you Satan, are you man?
You've changed in life since it began
It began
Vultures sucking gold from you
Will they still suck now you're through
(Cats, Rats)
The search is on, so you just better run
And find yourself another way
Probably dead, they don't feel a thing
To keep them living for another day
(Rats, Rat)
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a victim of a thing unknown
A mantle picture of a stolen soul
A fornication of your golden throne
A smiling face, it means the world to me
So tired of sadness and of misery
My life it started some time ago
Where it will end, I don't know
I thought I was so good
I thought I was fine
I feel my world is out of time
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't I think I'll lose my mind
I know, I know, I know, yeah yeah I know
Listen to me while I sing this song
You might just think the words are wrong
Too many people advising me
But they don't know what my eyes see
But everything is gonna work out fine
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Di Darksoul
Black Sabbath: coloro che, per primi, hanno esplorato la parte più estrema del Rock, valicando il confine dell’Hard Rock dei Seventies per arrivare a quello che in seguito sarà chiamato Metal.
Un album fondamentale seppur leggermente inferiore rispetto alle altre cinque pietre miliari del gruppo ma, considerato anche il periodo storico, qualcosa di davvero stupefacente.
