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Piccola premessa: chi scrive è uno che ha ascoltato fino allo sfinimento album come Worst Case Scenario e Ideal Crash, uno che l'anno scorso è andato all'indipendent days a Bologna per vederli ed è rimasto inculato (sono stati cancellati all'ultimo minuto); insomma un fan sfegatato di Barman e co.
Il mio grosso problema è che, nonostante tutto, conservo sempre una capacità di valutazione critica e razionale che mi permette di non farmi influenzare troppo dai rapporti di fiducia che ho verso un gruppo che stimo e apprezzo da parecchi anni.
In due parole: questa volta hanno toppato.
Pocket Revolution è in pratica la brutta copia di Ideal Crash con canzoni qualitativamente inferiori.
Basta ascoltare la prima traccia "Bad Timing" che è praticamente identica, a livello strutturale, a "Put the freaks up".
Io non sono uno che si aspetta che un gruppo lo sorprenda sempre album dopo album con nuovi suoni o arrangiamenti particolari ma neanche uno che si aspetta di sentire, a distanza di anni, la stessa identica cosa.
Con questo non voglio dire che l'album è brutto: per carità alcuni pezzi sono molto carini ma nonostante tutto non all'altezza della fama di questi ragazzi che, evidentemente, mi avevano abituato troppo bene.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Bad Timing (07:07)
Everything is quiet
There, in a pool of light
I would have sworn that she had died
I'm telling you
In all that i will say
In every move i'll make
You'll see that i don't fake Even if i wanted to
She passed it on to me
She walked into my life
The ridiculous and sublime
Beneath the lowered sky
She fell in love
And passed it on to me
I threw it all away
Like a record that you don't play
And all the hurt i saved
Well, time had come
I passed it on to her
Do you realize
Do you realize
To look into her eyes
And to let her go
To pass it on to him
Now everything was quiet
I would have sworn that she had died
And i didn't even try....
(Was it bad timing?)
Now all you want to hear
Is everything you fear
So don't you come too near
Cause everything you need
You'll get from her
02 7 Days, 7 Weeks (03:53)
Sister love why don't you break it up
You got to let someone look into your heart
Sister love how do you keep it up
If you don't let no-one look into your heart
As a kid you couldn't live it up
You were so serious but always so smart
As a kid you couldn't keep it up
And we were never close, so much apart
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue
There'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
There was a time when you were being so proud
Could have been anything that you aspired
There was a time when you were never around
When someting good happened, something good happened right?
So sister love I'll help you off the ground
You got to let someone look into your heart
You got to turn this situation around
You got to turn this, turn this around
Here comes the sun smiling
How long have you been blue
There'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling you girl
You'll look at them and smile
7 days you should be giving yourself
All your belongings, all that you treasure
7 weeks you think of nobody else
Is this what you want
Is this what you are?
How did it come this far?
Here comes the sun smiling
The only thing that's true
There'd ever be a time for us to recapture
All the time we lose
Cause it's plain to see
A storm is not the weather
And I'm telling your girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling your girl
You'll look at them and smile
And I'm telling your girl
You'll look at them and smil
03 Stop-Start Nature (04:28)
Camelot
In smithereens
Your kingdom
Has gone down my friend
Camelot
In washed out jeans
Your staying power
Has come to an end
The sweetest stroke
Went up in smoke
And love's a joke
Or a spaceship
Or a plant
Or a tubezipper
It's what you want it to be
It must have crossed your mind
You run a little behind
With all schemes and programs
You have 'em built in
Need a small device to screw it out
And unlearn the craft
You been drilled in
(It's too late, you are now becoming) NATURE
Backdated trip
Backfired whip
You bite your lip
But do what you want
And then a shoulder to cry
Makes your eyes run dry
Stop-start nature
I wish you all you wish for
And when i walk i will stumble no more
It's a new beginning
It's a new dawn
And all the magic you missed
And all the days you squandered
And all the nights you passed out
Countless are the nights you wandered
It's as good as you can handle
It's as good
It's what you want it to be
It must have crossed your mind
You run a little behind
Stop-start nature
I wish you all you wish for
And if i run i will hurry no more
It's a new beginning
It's a new....
Stop!
I got some fine reasons to get out of there
Great motivation to go back in
I know i repeat myself
But that ain't a sin
If it's like a nature
Like nature
05 What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love) (04:48)
What we talk about,
When we talk about love
Talk about a shot from the hip
And the sky above
Talk about the glow on the lip
What the moon’s made of
Talk about things you can’t see
When you talk about me...
Do you talk about love?
What we talk about
When we talk about love
Gimme something I can feel
Not a mystery
Gimme something I can touch
Not a fantasy
Gimme something real, baby
When you talk about love...
Do you talk about me?
(Choir) Get off that slumber
Come on down get of that train
A bend is easy to take.
There’s a road up ahead
And it’s not that far
There’s a road up ahead
And it ain’t that far
Down the road you just don’t know
What it is you’ll find
Down the road, it’s a fact babe,
You might as well be blind
It’s an odyssey and please,
When you reach that road...
Don’t leave me behind.
(Choir) Get off...
Deep as the ocean
Wide as the sea
I’m talking about low visibility...
High as mountain
And harder to climb
It is in what you seek
Not in what you find
When you say things soft
You know they ring so true
When you say things loud
They don’t sound like you
Like it when you shake that thing
With the finest touch
Like it when you talk so little
And say so much
City girls they like to get rough
But when you talk about love...
They don’t hold no grudge.
(Choir) Get off...
06 Include Me Out (05:02)
Where have i seen this before?
When will i feel it again?
Somebody opened a door
I’m afraid to walk in
Imagination will kill
If imagination stands still
I read it in open book
Read it in open book
Oh man, i read it in books of laughter
Oh man, i read it in books of pain
What are you talking to me
Cause i’m not really there
Like a spirit that’s free
I’m as light as the air
Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Take me on
Where the fire winds blow
Or where a fallen leaf stays
for days
on your shoulder
Cause all i need
Is to find my own
And that summering drone
Illicit and golden
Oh lord where have is seen this before
Oh lord when will i feel it again
Read it in every move
Read it in every game
Read it in what you do
Read it in everything
Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Oh man, as light as the air and floating
Take me on
Where the fire winds blow
Cause when time stands still
I wait until
It’s over
And all i need
Is to find my own
And that summering drone
Illicit and golden
07 Pocket Revolution (06:01)
There’s no rules here
I been making stuff up from the beginning
How i feel today
Is it the price i pay
For all my sinning
I’m just a lonely boy
Would you be my enemy
I’m finding little joy in repetition
This routine they call destiny
When you put me down
Revenge is the first thing on my mind
But that’s just stupid, man
I need a better plan
Delicate and refined
Between thunder and lightning
There is a gap
I should have listened to the warning
I would have seen the trap
Can you feel it
When all is stuck, right
In front of you
Can you heal it
It’s gonna take a revolution now
To get through to you
You don’t know what you’re destroying
I got all qualities of a stalker
I’m right behind you
Don’t dare me now
I’m a faster walker
I’m right on top of you
I’m just a lonely boy
Would you keep me company
You keep me on my toes
You get me going
When i’m weak
Can you feel it
When all is stuck
In front of you
Can you heal it
It’s gonna take a revolution now
To get through to you
Can you see it
The sky has lit up
Exposing you
Can you heal it
Are you gonna be found out
Or is it something new
You don’t know what you’re destroying
Watch me wallowing in sweet denial
Teach me to win and lose
I been waiting it’s a slow arrival
Wash it over me
And clean my soul
I give control...
08 Nightshopping (04:03)
Both sides of happy
Both sides of grief
Man, they’re staring at you
It’s beyond belief
Both sides you kick it
Both sides you hide
Both side you’ll never see
However hard you try
Both sides of politics
Both sides of shame
Was it the good side of you
That took the blame
Both sides of secrecy
Both sides of spying
I’m hearing ten sides now
They’re multiplying
Both side of trouble
And if that’s the price
Take your time to stand up
And get organized
Cause i been away
But i feel i’m back
You can find me at the mothership
I’ll be dressed in black
This ain’t no time now
To go pick a fight
To investigate both sides
We got all night
You got me all wound up now, kick it
Now it ain’t hard falling in love
With you baby
Got me all wound up
Your both sides are driving me crazy
Don’t let the pressure drop
Having my way makes me lazy
12 Nothing Really Ends (05:35)
The plan it wasn't much of a plan
I just started walking
I had enough of this old town
and nothing else to do
It was one of those nights
you wonder how nobody died
we started talking
You didn't come here to have fun
you said: "well I just came for you"
Do you still love me?
do you feel the same
Do I have a chance
of doing that old dance
with someone I've been
pushing away
And touch we touched the soul
the very soul, the soul of what we were then
With the old schemes of shattered dreams
lying on the floor
You looked at me
no more than sympathy
my lies you have heard them
My stories you have laughed with
my clothes you have torn
And do you still love me?
do you feel the same
And do I have a chance
of doing that old dance again
Is it too late for some of that romance again
Let's go away, we'll never have the chance again
You lost that feeling
You want it again
More than I'm feeling
you'll never get
You had a go at
all that you know
You lost that feeling
so come down and show
Don't say goodbye
let accusations fly
like in that movie
You know the one where Martin Sheen
waves his arm to the girl on the street
I once told a friend
that nothing really ends
no-one can prove it
So I'm asking you now
could it possibly be
that you still love me?
And do you feel the same
Do I have a chance
of doing that old dance again
Or is it too late for some of that romance again
Let's go away, we'll never have the chance again
I take it all from you
I take it all from you
I take it all from you
I take it all from you
I take it all from you
I take it all from you
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