"When you get what you whant but not what you need"... Questo potrebbe essere il sunto di quest'album. Ma forse anche di tanti altri.
Questo lavoro di Chris Martin non è una pietra miliare, non è un cd che si DEVE acquistare per volontà divina. Chi ama la band inglese, amerà "X & Y". Chi non la ama, secondo me, è inutile che attacchi quest'album tanto per il piacere di farlo, come se esistesse solo il rock anni '70, solo la sperimentazione musicale dei Radiohead (li adoro) o l'immensità della musica dei Sigur Ròs (li venero).
E' come se vedessi "Matrix" sapendo di cosa si tratta e poi mi mettessi a ridere sarcasticamente nel vedere Trinity che corre per il soffitto. Stay away.
Esiste anche un altro tipo di espressione. E in questo settore "pop-rock-melanconico", i Coldplay sono i migliori. Certo, non ci sarà una "Politik" che fa mancare il respiro, ma la dolcezza di "Fix you" (il finale della canzone è splendido), la malinconia di "What if", i riff di chitarre di "Talk" e il "remiano" jingle - jangle di "The hardest part" possono bastare e far godere chi si aspettava un'involuzione rispetto a "A rush of blood...".
Non credo ci siano passi falsi, in quest'ultimo lavoro dei britannici Coldplay. I testi ermetici e la splendida voce di Martin ci sono. Gli arrangiamenti (ottimi) pure. Storceranno il naso coloro i quali si aspettavano una sorta di "update" del precedente album: la malinconia è la stessa, ma si avverte una sorta di voglia di "osare" di più (vedi "Square One"), con qualche spruzzatina di elettronica qua e là.
In definitiva un buon album, ben confezionato e con delle ottime ballate ("X & Y",ad esempio), che piacerà a coloro i quali non si aspettino un nuovo "Ok Computer", un secondo "Automatic for the people" o un nuovo lavoro dei Beatles.
Questi sono i Coldplay, ottimi ma senza eccedere (e qui le citazioni ad una canzone dell'album si sprecano, si faccia avanti chi ha capito ;D).
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03 White Shadows (05:28)
When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
And I wanna feel like that
Little white shadows blink and misten
Part of a system I am
If you ever feel like something's missing
Things you'll never understand
Little white shadows sparkle and glisten
Part of a system, a plan
All this noise, I'm waking up
All this space I'm taking up
All this sound is breaking up
Maybe you get what you wanted
Maybe you stumbled upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state
Maybe you'll know when you see it
Maybe if you say it you'll mean it
And when you find it you keep it
In a permanent state
A permanent state
When I was a young boy
I tried to listen
Don't you wanna feel like that
We're part of the human race and
All of the stars and the outer space
Part of the system plan
All this noise, I'm waking up
All this space I'm taking up
All this sound is breaking up
I cannot hear, you're breaking up
Maybe you get what you wanted
Maybe you'll stumble upon it
Everything you ever wanted
In a permanent state
Maybe you'll know when you see it
Maybe if you say it you'll mean it
And when you find that you keep it
In a permanent state
A permanent state
I'm swimming on a sea of faces
Tired of the human races, oh
An answer now is what I need
See it in a new sun rising
See it breaking on your horizon, oh
Come on love, stay with me
04 Fix You (04:54)
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
High up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I...
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will learn from your mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I...
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
05 Talk (05:11)
Oh brother I can't I can't get through
I've been tryin' hard to reach you 'cause I don't know what to do
Oh brother I can't believe it's true
I'm so scared about the future and I want to talk to you
Oh I want to talk to you.
You can take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or write a song nobody had sung
Or do something that's never been done
Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how you feel
Well I feel like they're talkin' in a language I don't speak
And they're talkin' it to me
So you take a picture of something you see
In the future where will I be?
You can climb a ladder up to the sun
Or a write a song nobody had sung or do
Something that's never been done, do
Something that's never been done
So you don't know where you're goin'
And you want to talk
And you feel like you're goin' where you've been before
You tell anyone who'll listen, but you feel ignored
But nothing's really makin' any sense, let's talk
Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk.
[Robot whistles]
07 Speed of Sound (04:48)
How long before I get in
Before it starts, before I begin
How long before you decide
Before I know what it feels like
Where to, where do I go
If you never try then you'll never know
How long do I have to climb
Up on this side of this mountain of mine
Look up, I look up at night
Planets are moving at the speed of light
Climb up, up in the trees
Every chance that you get is a chance you seize
How long am I going to stand
With my head stuck under the sand
I'll start before I can stop
Before I see things the right way up
All that noise and all that sound
All those places I got found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
Ideas that you'll never find
All the inventors could never design
The buildings that you put up
Japan and China all lit up
The sign that I couldn't read
All the light that I couldn't see
Some things you have to believe
But others are puzzles, puzzling me
All that noise and all that sound
All those places I got found
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
Oh, when you see it then you'll understand
All those signs, I knew what they meant
Some things you can't invent
Some get made and some get sent
And birds go flying at the speed of sound
To show you how it all began
Birds came flying from the underground
If you could see it then you'd understand
Oh, when you see it then you'll understand
08 A Message (04:45)
My song is love
Love to the loveless shown
And it goes on
You don't have to be alone
Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see you clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own
And I'm not going to take it back
Oh I'm not going to say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
Got to get that message home
My song is love
My song is love unknown
But I'm on fire for you clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own
And I'm not going to take it back
Oh I'm not going to say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
And I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home
And I'm not going to stand and wait
Not going to believe it until it's much too late
On a platform I'm going to stand and say
That I'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home
My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home
09 Low (05:32)
You see the world in black and white
No colour or light
You think you'll never get it right
But you're wrong. You might
The sky could fall, could fall on me
The parting of the sea
But you mean more, mean more to me
Than any colour I can see
All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
All you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down or as up as us
You see the world in black and white
Not painted right
You see no meaning to your life
You should try
You should try
All you ever wanted was love
But you never looked hard enough
It's never gonna give itself up
All you ever wanted to be
Living in perfect symmetry
Nothing is as down or as up
Don't you want to see it come soon
Floating in a big white balloon
Come give her your own silver spoon
Don't you want to see it come down
There for throwing your arms around
And say "You're not a moment too soon"
Cause I feel low, cause I feel low
Ooooh...
Yeah I feel low
Oh no... oooh
Cause I feel low, cause I feel low
Oh...
Yet I feel low
Oh no... oooh
10 The Hardest Part (04:25)
And the hardest part
Was letting go, not taking part
Was the hardest part
And the strangest thing
Was waiting for that bell to ring
It was the strangest start
I could feel it go down
Bittersweet, I could taste in my mouth
Silver lining the cloud
Oh and I
I wish that I could work it out
And the hardest part
Was letting go, not taking part
You really broke my heart, oh
And I tried to sing
But I couldn’t think of anything
And that was the hardest part, oh, oh
I could feel it go down
You left the sweetest taste in my mouth
You're a silver lining the clouds
Oh and I
Oh and I
I wonder what it’s all about
I wonder what it’s all about
Everything I know is wrong
Everything I do, it just comes undone
And everything is torn apart
Oh and it’s the hardest part
That’s the hardest part
Yeah that’s the hardest part
That’s the hardest part
11 Swallowed in the Sea (03:58)
You cut me down a tree
And brought it back to me
And that's what made me see where I was going wrong
You put me on a shelf
And kept me for yourself
I can only blame myself
You could only blame me
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well, that's where I belong
And you belong with me
And I could write it down
Or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
Or get swallowed in the sea
You put me on the line
And hung me out to dry
And darling that's where I
Decided to go to see you
You cut me down to size
And opened up my eyes
Made me realize
What I could not see
And I could write a book
The one they'll say that shook
The world, and then it took
It took it back from me
And I could write it down
Or spread it all around
Get lost and then get found
And you'll come back to me
Not swallowed in the sea
Oh...
And I could write a song
A hundred miles long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
The streets your walking on
A thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Oh what good is it to live
With nothing left to give
Forget but not forgive
Not loving all you see
All the streets your walking on
A thousand houses long
Well that's where I belong
And you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
You belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
Yeah, you belong with me
Not swallowed in the sea
12 Twisted Logic (05:01)
Sunlight, opened up my eyes
To see for the first time
You'll open them up
And tonight, rivers will run dry
And not for the first time
Rivers will run
Hundreds of years in the future
It could be computers
Looking for life on earth
Don't fight for the wrong side
Say what you feel like
Say how you feel
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go forwards again
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go
Created, then drilled and invaded
If somebody made it
Someone will mess it up
And you are not wrong to
Ask who does this belong to
It belongs to all of us
You'll go backwards, but then
You'll go forwards again
You'll go backwards, but then
you'll go forwards
You'll go backwards, but then
you'll go forwards again
You'll go forwards again
You'll go forwards
13 Til Kingdom Come (04:11)
One... two...
Steal my heart... and hold my tongue
I feel my time... my time has come
Let me in... unlock the door
I never felt this way before
And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummer begins to drum
I don't know which way I'm going
I don't know which way I've come
Hold my head... inside your hands
I need someone... who understands
I need someone... someone who hears
For you I've waited all these years
For you I'd wait... 'Til Kingdom Come
Until my day... my day is done
And say you'll come... and set me free
Just say you'll wait... you'll wait for me
In your tears... and in your blood
In your fire... and in your flood
I hear you laugh... I heard you sing
I wouldn't change a single thing
And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummers begin to drum
I don't know which way I'm going
I don't know what I've become
For you I'd wait... 'Til kingdom come
Until my days... my days are done
Say you'll come... and set me free
Just say you'll wait... you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait... you'll wait for me
Just say you'll wait... you'll wait for me
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Altre recensioni
Di NickGhostDrake
Non una melodia che si distingua dalle altre, non un salto nel vuoto, non uno spigolo pronto a ferire - tutto questo è la rappresentazione artistica dell'incapacità di reinventarsi.
Se apri il giornale sono proprio bravi, ci scrivono Dylan-style, a volte Beatles-style, ieri c'era scritto Coldplay-style, ed evidentemente mi sono perso qualcosa.
Di Stephen Write
X & Y non può definirsi certo un capolavoro ma è un gran bel disco.
Come ironicamente ha sottolineato Chris Martin in una recente intervista ad Mtv: "It's not Shit!"
Di AR (Anonima Recensori)
Quel giorno è finalmente arrivato! Venerdì scorso quando sul lettore scorrevano le prime note di "Square One" qualcosa dentro di me è scattato...
La musica di questo disco è epica, calda ed imponente ed in grado di avvolgere completamente l’ascoltatore!
Di Moretto1
X&Y è una sequenza di brani piacevoli, ma che suonano da un po' come il 'braccino' tennistico, la paura di osare, paura di rischiare.
Il disco sembra essere uscito da un garbato lavaggio del cervello, la linea sul monitor risulta piatta e i picchi si contano sulla punta delle dita.
Di Liamyes
La carattersitica che contraddistingue a mio avviso i Coldplay è quella di saper scrivere ottime melodie immediate e dirette, senza tuttavia essere mai banali.
Piccolo capolavoro del disco è "Fix you", delicata ballata a colpi d'organo, dove la splendida voce di Chris Martin finisce in un corale davvero notevole.
