Ma insomma..perché scegliere "Wild!" per parlare degli Erasure? Beh perché cercare di parlare di un gruppo così significativo nel panorama pop degli ultimi 20 e passa anni necessita parlare del prodotto che meglio ha rappresentato eleganza e stile di un'epoca ingiustamente bistrattata o sentita come pacchiana (almeno musicalmente parlando). "Wild!" non è stato un disco di successo rispetto a "Chorus" o "The innocents", tuttavia nei suoi 39 minuti risulta compatto ed elegante... sin dall'artwork con foto/quadro di Pierre et Giles. Ma le canzoni?! Come sono le canzoni? Indubbiamente avanti per l'epoca. Gli Erasure li si può apprezzare o meno, rimane il fatto che sono stati unici nella loro proposta musicale. Prendete "Drama" col suo incedere valchiriesco o la frizzante "La Gloria". Da non perdere poi i momenti più introspettivi di "How Many Times" e "Piano Song". Ma il capolavoro rimane quella "You Surround Me" che nella versione extended (da recuperare) offre un vortice di emozioni synth che credo pochi altri abbiano proposto. In definitiva "Wild!" è il disco della riflessione sugli Erasure. Niente camp o baracconate da classifica bensì arte analogica che fa bene al cuore ed al cervello. La prossima tappa sarà poi quel "Erasure" del 1995 che qualcuno di voi ha già in queste pagine degnamente onorato.
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02 Blue Savannah (04:27)
Blue Savannah song
Oh blue Savannah song
Somewhere 'cross the desert
Sometime in the early hours
In a restless world
On the open highway
My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you
Blue Savannah song
Oh blue Savannah song
Racing 'cross the desert
At a hundred miles an hour
To the orange side
Through the clouds and thunder
My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you
I'm on my way back and your love will bring me home (Say that your loving will bring me home)
I'm travelling fast and your love will bring me home (Say that your loving will bring me home)
Will I discover that your love will bring me home? (Dream away, darling)
That your love will bring me home? (Yeah)
Somewhere 'cross the desert
Sometime in the early hours
To the orange side
Through the clouds and thunder
My home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you
Home is where the heart is
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you
Savannah song
Sweet to surrender to you only
I send my love to you
Savannah song
To you only
To you only
03 Drama! (04:04)
One rule for us, for you another
Do unto yourself as you see fit for yor brother
Is that not within realm of understanding?
A fifty second capacity of mind, too demanding?
Well the poor unfortunate you
There are a myriad of things that you can do
Like pick up a pen and paper or go and talk to a friend
The history of the future
No violence or revenge
Chorus:
Your shame is never . . . ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows, the infinite complexities of love
We all have the ability
Our freedom is fragile
We all laugh and we cry, don't we?
We all bleed and we smile
Chorus:
Your shame is never . . . ending
Just one psychological drama after another
You are guilty and how you ever entered into this life
God only knows, you're not to sacrifice the art of love
Chorus:
Your shame is never . . . ending
Just one psychological drama after another
We are guilty and how we ever entered into this life
God only knows, the infinite complexities of love
We are guilty and how we ever entered into this life
God only knows, we're not to sacrifice the art of love
We are guilty and how we ever entered into this life
God only knows, the infinite complexities of love
We are guilty and how we ever entered into this life
God only knows, the ultimate necessity of love
05 Star (03:53)
We go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
You got to look real hard
There's a fiery star
Hidden out there somewhere
Not the satellite of love
But a laser
Shooting out its shiny tongue there
God is love, God is war
TV preacher tell me more
Lord redeem me am I pure?
Pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway?
Go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
You got to look real hard
Is it in your heart?
Yeah it's in there somewhere
The power wrapped in your palm
Show it to me
Hit them with your wrath and thunder
What's your pleasure?
Tell it to me
How did you know?
Show your beauty
In you somewhere, somewhere in me
Pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway? (Hours, hours, hours, hours)
Yee-ha
Rolling along through a rose coloured glow
The city looks pretty in pink
Armageddon is here!
Did you ever have a lover
Leave you for another
And take your love and kisses for granted
Never to discover
War is not the answer
Leave you only disenchanted
God is love, God is pure (God is love God is war God is pure as pure as heaven)
T.V. preacher tell me more
Father help me am I pure?
Pure as pure as heaven
Sent you money sent you flowers (God is love God is war God is pure as pure as heaven)
Could I worship you for hours
In whose hands are we anyway? (Hours, hours, hours, hours)
Go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
Waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
Go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
Go waiting for the stars
To come showering down
From Moscow to Mars
Universe falling down
06 La Gloria (03:10)
Oh Suzi you're shaking your red hair
Disco diva y flamenco chico
You know the eyes'll all be fixing on you tonight
La bonita a la vista de un marinero
The men in the "casa de rosa"
They have a penchant for living
She'll be dancing till the coca wears off tonight
Who's a bad girl tonight
Tonight she'll be having fun
The likes of which we'll never know
Tonight she'll be having fun
See her go
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Woah estamos en la gloria
Oh Suzi you're shaking you're red dress
Viva tango to revive the bull
She'll be dancing, she'll be clicking her heels tonight
If you see her estrellita, she'll make you king for a day
Ole to the cabaretera
She'll sing all your troubles away
Looking down the barrel of a loaded gun
Pata tendida!
Si no la bandida
She go rattattatta
!Ariba ariba ariba andale!
Kiss all them working day blues away
Till the light of day
Estamos en la gloria
La la la la la la la
La la la la la la la
Woah estamos en la gloria
07 You Surround Me (03:57)
Don't ever let me take you for granted
You've got your finger on the pulse of my soul
Let me place a kiss in the small of your back
Love and protect you from the evils of this world
Oh baby don't ever leave me stranded
Whoever said that the streets were paved with gold
Well I'm afraid that we're all sadly mistaken
There's nothing here 'til you have someone to hold
Bridge:
I love you with all the joy of living
'Til the lights go down in New York City
It's a special love affair
And there's magic in the air
Chorus:
You gotta shake me down
Bring me 'round to my senses
'Til I'm lost and found
And surround me with your senses
If love wasn't here would we reinvent it?
Oh take me down to the very root of my soul
Oh baby say it as if you really mean it
And feel the passion work it's way up through your skin
Bridge
Chorus
Let me take you by the hand
And we can go and find a brand new world
Starlight - starbright
Let me take you by the hand
And lead you to a safe place in this world
Chorus x 6
08 Brother and Sister (03:24)
When I was young
I would scream blue murder
'Til I had my own way
Run from the family
And tell of a story to spite my elders
'Round and 'round, the boy in the garden of lies and science fiction
Chorus:
Brother and sister and father of mine
Keep us together and keep us in line
A lot we depend on, a lot we can do
Send love to mother, I'll be good to you
To pollute the mind of a minor
The only escape from the rigours of life
Pretend we're a family and try to believe in the virtues of truth
'Round and 'round, caught up in the tangle of lies and deception
Chorus
'Round and 'round x 16
Chorus x 2
But still we're going 'round, the boy in the gaden of lies
Chorus x 2
09 2,000 Miles (03:38)
There's something I need to say
I'm not sad you're gone away no way
Won't be calling information
Or waiting at the railway station
You walked out of my front door
I wasn't then but now I'm sure
I need to be at least 2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
Had to get me to the church on time
To say that silly I do I do nursery rhyme
You've been bitching at me for awhile
Say hey now baby don't you cramp my style
Don't go beating me like that
I'm glad you won't be coming back
I need to be at least 2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
2000 miles away from you
10 Crown of Thorns (03:59)
Fire of the sun
Flowers crumble into dust
The seed shall scatter and die
Light in her eyes
Pours black in their lives
We gather 'round a funeral pyre
And here we stand
In old England's land
Shattered glass on the ground
There are no words
To console this earth
To restore old England's pride
Chorus:
Never in a million or so years
Did we suffer so much bloodshed
Here comes the man
With the warm and gentle hands
Her name burnt into his brow
Scorn in her eyes
Her back to the cries
We spit upon the life that never was
And here we stand
In old England's land
The rose is choked by its thorn
She will cast salt for wound
Old England wears no crown
Chorus
Chorus:
Never in a million or so years
We didn't want to hurt you
But it's not over yet
No never in a million or so years
Did we suffer so much bloodshed
11 Piano Song (03:13)
Never get angry at stupid people
Though I go crazy at the dullness of my life
Sit and I stare into a dusty window
An empty face stares back at me and cries
My vulnerability rushes up to me
'Til I'm left here
The rebel without a cause
The deeper I delve into
The consciousness of me and you
The harder it gets
I need to close my eyes
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again
Though I get weary
Doesn't mean that I'm unwilling
My body believes me
I'm of fertile mind
As I grow older
The world forgets me
Or talks to me as if I'm some kind of child
Their insensitivity washes over me
'Til I'm left here
The rebel without a cause
The deeper I delve into
The consciousness of me and you
The harder it gets
I need to close my eyes
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again
The harder it gets
I need to close my eyes
I can't recollect
I'll never see your eyes again
I try to forget
I'll never see your eyes again
What hurts me most
I'll never see your eyes again
Don't
Touch
Me
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