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I Dream Theater: una garanzia. Grandi in studio, grandi nei live. Potrei lodare all'infinito i miei dioli, ma quando esagerano e toppano di brutto, bisogna ammetterlo. E questa coverizzazione del celebre "Master Of Puppets" è una reale inutilità se non fosse per pochi aspetti positivi.
Gli aspetti positivi? I membri originali dei Dream Theater. Ovvero: Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci e John Myung. Sono loro che tengono duro durante il concerto e gli unici che lo rendono godibile.
Portnoy non sbaglia un colpo di batteria, sembra che non si sforzi neanche. In fondo le parti di batteria di questo capolavoro in confronto alle sue sono semplice allenamento. Myung fa il suo solito lavoro, zitto e fermo violenta il suo basso. Petrucci come sempre è superlativo: gli assoli li esegue perfetti, con qualche variazione e da solo potrebbe coprire i due chitarristi dei Metallica, con il suo suono potente e con la sua tecnica sovraumana.
Ma gli altri aspetti dolenti sono quelli che pesano di più: un LaBrie che non c'entra niente con i Metallica. La sua voce, per quanto stupenda nell'ambiente Dream Theater, oltre che davvero fuori luogo e poco cattiva per un disco così, è anche in profonda difficoltà, a volte stona,a volte non ci arriva, a volte si ferma. E poi Rudess. Grande tastierista, ma le sue parti di tastiera mi sembrano fuori luogo e rovinano quanto di straordinario stanno facendo quei tre mostri lì.
"Battery" scialba, "Master Of Puppets" appena decente, "The Thing That Should Not Be" rovinata da Labrie che canta malissimo. La vera perla è forse "Orion", vista la natura strumentale è forse la più congeniale per il teatro dei Sogni. Ed esce bene anche perchè non c'è Labrie che canta. "Damage Inc." invece continua la seria nera.
Non lo capisco, va benissimo coverizzare i dischi storici del metal e del rock. Ma non si rendono conto di averne le capacità ma non i mezzi. Senza Rudess e con un cantante più aggressivo sarebbe stata un'esibizione memorabile, così com'è è inascoltabile.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Battery (05:15)
ashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery
Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery
Circle of Destruction, Hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, Dominating flurry
We create the Battery
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery
02 Master of Puppets (08:45)
End of passion play, crumbling away
Im your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
[chorus:]
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Youre dedicated to
How Im killing you
Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master
Master of puppets Im pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you cant see a thing
Just call my name, `cause Ill hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause Ill hear you scream
Master
Master
[end chorus]
Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
[chorus]
Master, master, wheres the dreams that Ive been after?
Master, master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
SPEAK TO ME!!
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
[chorus]
[fade out with evil laughter].
05 Disposable Heroes (08:11)
Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
a servant `til I fall
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
bodies fill the fields I see
the slaughter never ends
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Why, Am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, Hell is here
I was born for dying
Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
had no chance to see myself, molded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Back to the front.
06 Leper Messiah (05:58)
Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain
Taken by his glamour
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Bow to Leper Messiah
Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
set the trap, hypnotize
now you follow
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Lie.
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