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Tracciare una linea e ricominciare. Così si può efficacemente sintetizzare il significato di questo "The Singles", raccolta delle più belle hits dei gallesi Feeder. La prima parte di carriera di Grant Nicholas e soci, quella più hard-pop/rock, è meno rappresentata (mancano infatti bei numeri quali "Stereo World" e "Tangerine"), mentre ha ampio risalto la tranche più intimista e poppeggiante del percorso musicale dei tre (quella post John Lee, batterista suicidatosi nel 2002).
I Feeder sono infatti un combo sotto certi aspetti anomalo; partiti come guitar band sulla falsariga di gruppi americani del dopo grunge come, tanto per fare un nome, gli Smashing Pumpkins, si sono comunque nello stesso periodo segnalati per la capacità di Nicholas di scrivere ottime gemme pop-rock come la hit "High" o la meno inflazionata "Suffocate", che chiude quest'album. Falsariga che prenderà decisamente piega nel post 2002 del gruppo gallese; dopo la disgrazia di Lee, infatti, se si eccettua qualche sporadico episodio (come le qui presenti "Come Back Around", "Shatter" e "Pushing The Senses"), la band opterà per atmosfere malinconiche e sognanti ("Tumble And Fall" e "Forget About Tomorrow", dove emerge invece il Billy Corgan più delicato) che delineano gemme assolute di pop elegante ed evocativo ("Tender", dove il fantasma di Lennon aleggia indisturbato, o "Just The Way I'm Feeling", forse il pezzo britpop per eccellenza dei Feeder).
Gli inediti sono ben tre, di cui due estratti come singoli; il primo, "Lost & Found", sfodera un bel riffone potente e richiama cose molto vicine ai Grohliani Foo Fighters, mentre l'altro, "Save Us", è una bella ballata elettrica dove le chitarre continuano a spadroneggiare. "Burn The Bridges", rimasta quindi nell'ombra, è forse la migliore delle tre, sempre piacevolmente roccheggiante e melodica. Come confermato dal batterista Richardson, le sonorità dei tre inediti sono indicative riguardo il nuovo lavoro dei Feeder, previsto per inizio 2008.
Rimane ignoto il motivo per cui questa band, se si esclude il Regno Unito, non abbia raggiunto un successo commerciale che altri gruppi della stessa matrice sonora hanno raggiunto. Le potenziali hits ci sono, penso a "Feeling A Moment" o "Just The Way I'm Feeling" ("Buck Rogers" è un caso che non si è più ripetuto), ma in paesi come l'Italia continuano ad essere un fenomeno quasi di nicchia. Meglio così? Forse sì. L'importante è che continuino a sfornare belle canzoni come hanno fatto finora.
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01 Come Back Around (03:12)
Turning into something
Drifting off to old ways
Got to pull myself back in
Holding back the questions
We're bruised with all rejection
Gotta pull myself back in
Suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back around
Come back around
I miss you around
Reaching out for someone
Burning out for so long
Got to pull myself back in
There's no new religion
And there's no real solution
Gotta pull myself back in
Come back around
Come back around
Feel you're going under
So keep on treading water
Got to pull myself back in
Feel no obligation
But no more indecision
Gotta pull myself back in
Suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
To come back
We suffer the breaks
You know I still remember it
It keeps burning away
I know that you may take a while
I know that it may take a while
To come back around
02 Buck Rogers (03:12)
He's got a brand new car
Looks like a jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
We'll start over again
Grow ourselves new skin
Get a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
He's got a brand new car
He's got a brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
03 Shatter (02:57)
Coming around my senses torn
It's no illusion its here everyday I bleed
As long as you see it as long as you know
As long as you fake it nobody know
Break down again I’m suffering
My heads out of sync and I can’t hide the pain
Is this the ending or is this the start
All that we sever all that we are
Communication connected apart
Promises given the cross of a heart
Break down again I’m suffering
My heads out of sync
And I can’t find the way out of it
I can’t find a way out
Break down again I’m suffering
My heads out of sync
And I can’t find the way out of it
I can’t find a way out
Break out
04 Just the Way I'm Feeling (04:18)
Love in, love out,
Find the feeling
Stream in, stream out,
Time for healing
You feel the moment's gone too soon,
You're watching clouds come over you.
Torn in two,
You close your eyes for someplace new,
Torn in two
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Glow in, burn out,
Lost the feeling
Bruise in, you bruise out,
Nurse the bleeding
Torn in two,
Each time we bruise
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel we're going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Two different views,
As words confuse and break
I can't get out,
There's no way out of here,
I can't get clear.
Love in, love out,
Find the feeling.
And I feel it's going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
I'm waiting for your healing hand,
One touch could bring me round
I feel we're going down,
Ten feet below the ground,
It's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
Yeah yeah, it's just the way I'm feeling.
06 Just a Day (03:45)
dododododo......
Waking up at twelve in my clothes again,
Feel my head explode from a night of gin,
Another night out late.
I don't wanna drink,
Don't wanna be a clown,
Gotta get my feet back on the ground
Before it pulls me in
How come we've ended up like this?
And who's gonna catch me
When I'm coming down to hit the ground again?
All by myself (Waking up at twelve in my clothes again)
Cos' I don't wanna drag you down,
Hold you down,
Cos' you're a friend,
I blame myself, (Feel my head explode from a night of gin)
I guess you think it's funny now,
Funny now.
Dododododododododo.....................
On the underground,
With the freaks and frowns,
Looking at the world,
Through silver clouds,
But then it all came down.
I've gotta rise above
The emotional flood,
Gotta cut these ropes around my hands,
Pull myself around.
How come we've ended up like this?
And who's gonna be there
When I've lost control and I'm heading to crashland?
All by myself (Waking up at twelve in my clothes again)
Cos' I don't wanna drag you down,
Hold you down,
Cos' you're a friend,
I blame myself, (Feel my head explode from a night of gin)
I guess you think it's funny now,
Funny now.
All by myself,
Cos' I don't wanna drag you down,
Hold you down,
Cause you're a friend,
I blame myself,
I guess you think it's funny now,
Funny now.
It's such a shame.
All by myself, (Waking up at twelve in my clothes again)
Cos' I don't wanna drag you down,
Hold you down,
Cos' you're a friend,
I blame myself, (Feel my head explode from a night of gin)
I guess you think it's funny now,
Funny now.
It's such a sin.
All by myself, (Waking up at twelve in my clothes again)
Cos' I don't wanna drag you down,
Hold you down,
Cos' you're a friend,
I blame myself. (Feel my head explode from a night of gin)
I guess you think it's funny now,
Funny now.
Dododododododo....
07 High (04:33)
Guess I'm stuck in a dream
Surrounded by coloured leaves on the ground
As I stare at the trees
I see one fall down on my hand
As I start to explore
I can't ignore a man
He turns his head around
His face was all worn by the sun
I'm going out for a while
So I can get high with my friends
I will
I'm going out for a while
Don't wait up cause I won't be home
Today
Drifting down a road
Losing myself in a dream
Feel my hands getting cold
Sat in a boat on a lake
I'm going out for a while
So I can get high with my friends
I will
I'm going out for a while
Don't wait up cause I won't be home
Today
Climbing up trying my best
As I sink
Climbing up trying my best
As I sink again
Lying back on the floor
Reaching up high into space
See myself in a glass
I'm counting the lines on my face
Again
I'm counting the lines on my face
Again
I'm going out for a while
So I can get high with my friends
I will
I'm going out for a while
Don't wait up cause I won't be home
Today
I'm going out for a while
So I can get high with my friends
I will
I'm going out for a while
Don't wait up cause I won't be home
Today
Today, Today, Today, Today,
Today............
08 Comfort in Sound (03:37)
We fall right in and suffer the sins
Try to pull things round when the air starts to thin
We nurse regrets, restricted in our own belief
A new disease
We shake new hands, the victims of fate
We tread new ground misfortune conveys
You tear yourself apart
Wishing to be born again
A different man
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now
Comfort in sound
We suffer love together as one
An empty heart with nowhere to turn
We find ourselves looking back another way
A brand new day
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now - yeah
Solution gone, emotions ablaze
A life so strong just faded away
You find yourself searching for a quick release
A new belief
Comfort in sound
Its all around
Ease back the strain
Come heal your pain
Comfort in sound
Its all around you now
Comfort in sound
10 Burn the Bridges (03:37)
Fool yourself, it's not a trend
You're a lover, you're not a friend
You bring new life to aching bones
Give me strength to carry on
Send the whole thing back to me
Sow me up where wounds still bleed
All forgotten by the way, she understands
She understands
She understands
She understands
'cause maybe I just don't believe, they all stay around
I burn the bridges to the ground
They're all still around
I can't decide, I can't pretend
Bring the summer back again
All forgotten by the way, she understands
She understands
Complicated and intense, just the faintest circumstance
All forgotten by the way, she understands
She understands
She understands
She understands
'cause maybe I just don't believe, they all stay around
I burn the bridges to the ground
They're all still around
Fool yourself, it's not a trend
You're a lover, you're not a friend
You bring new life to aching bones
Give me strength to carry on
Send the whole thing back to me
Sow me up where wounds still bleed
All forgotten by the way, she understands
She understands
She understands
She understands
'cause maybe I just don't believe, they all stay around
I burn the bridges to the ground
They're all still around
An maybe I just don't believe
Stay around
12 Forget About Tomorrow (03:51)
Calling, distorting
Reach the ends for you
Put a hole right through
Talking, we keep talking
Fill an empty space
In this lonely frame
As the image fades in to one
Today it all feels fine
An' a sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow ...
Twisting, constricted
On the edge for you
You know I'd jump right through
Falling, we keep stalling
I can see the ground
Someplace new to land
As the image fades into one
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow
Can't think about tomorrow ...
Because you, feel yourself
Fall apart again
You hold your face inside your aching hands
The angels just come flooding down again
Bring us back again
Yearning, returning
To this empty street
As the city sleeps
Tearing, despairing
As the day comes in
As the morning sings
As the image fades into one
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Just breathe the air inside
And bring on back that lonely smile
Can't think about tomorrow
Today it all feels fine
A sense of freedom fills your mind
Can't think about tomorrow
Can't think about tomorrow
13 Tender (04:16)
Ache, can't watch you break and shatter
Saved, new lives to make us better
I'm letting you know, cleansing my soul
Been letting you know, for days ...
Turn over everything
Time can heal us again
I'm tender in your arms
Reaching inside of me
Bringing the love I need
The loneliness has gone
Faith, new roads to take together
Days, lying awake, remember
I'm letting you know, cleansing my soul
Been letting you know, for days ...
Turn over everything
Time can heal us again
I'm tender in your arms
Reaching inside of me
Bringing the love I need
The loneliness has gone
I'm letting you know, cleansing my soul
Been letting you know, for days ...
Turn over everything
Time can heal us again
I'm tender in your arms
Reaching inside of me
Bringing the love I need
The loneliness has gone ...
The loneliness has gone
14 Pushing the Senses (03:27)
Feelings you never knew
Pulling you under now
Your fighting the undertow
Before it sucks you down
Pushing the senses
It's pushing the senses now
Come on come on what are you going to do
You can't find another day
Come on come on you're pushing the senses
You're pushing the senses through ...
Always, I can depend on you
But sometimes, it's burning a hole right through
Let's talk about it ...
Staring at photographs
Posted on the wall
Images smiling down
The face of a lonely soul
Come on come on, what are you going to do
You can't find another day
Come on come on you're pushing the senses
You're pushing the senses through ...
Always 'cause I can depend on you
But sometimes, I'm finding it hard to choose
Let's talk about it ...
Always I can depend on you
Sometimes, It's burning a hole right through
Let's talk about it ... (x2)
Always, I can depend on you
But sometimes, sometimes ...
Always, I can depend on you
But sometimes, It's burning a hole right through
Let's talk about it ...
Always, I can depend on you
But sometimes, It's burning a hole right through
Keep pushing the senses through
Let's talk about us ...
15 Save Us (03:50)
Face against the ground
Torn, but you can stand
Your will is strong, but you have now
I know you can save us
Faith is on your side
Fears you can't deny
It's burned a hole, right through your soul
But I know you can save us
Save us now
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
Don't wave goodbye
But nothing can brake us
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
You can bring us back again
Born to be as one
Turn to face the sun
Your will is strong, but you have now
I know you can save us
Save us now
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
Don't wave goodbye
But nothing can brake us
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
You can bring us back again
You can bring us back again
Face against the ground
Torn, but you can stand
Your will is strong, but you have now
I know you can save us
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
Don't wave goodbye
But nothing can brake us
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
You can bring us back again
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
Don't wave goodbye
But nothing can brake us
Don't say goodbye
I know you can save us
You can bring us back again
You can bring us back again
17 Insomnia (02:52)
Reading magazines and counting sheep to pass the time away
Hoping that tomorrow's gonna bring a smile back home again
Images of palm trees sway in the wind on south beach
Takes me back to better days, summer rays, the everglades in june
My brain, man my brain
My brain, my poor brain
Drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
Flying high in golden skies, i'm flicking channels in my mind
Finding my utopia a different chapter in a book
Thinking back to younger days as i escape in coopers break
Takes me back to 84, the future's knocking at my door
My brain, man my brain
My brain, my poor brain
My brain, man my brain
My brain, my poor brain
Drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
Turning off the switch inside me
Leaving all the stress behind me
Flying over streets and houses
Passing over the wye valley
Takes me back to 84
The future's knocking at my door
My brain, man my brain
Drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
I'm drinking myself to sleep again
Night nurse pills to keep me sane
Drinking myself to sleep again
Insomnia
18 Turn (04:30)
Seeing things going places
Living out of suitcases
Every day's like a dream
I find myself talking to shadows
Taking the train of youth back home again
Cause I don't want to be a hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
Seeing things going places
Meeting all kinds of faces
Every day's like a scene
I find myself going through phases
Trying to find somewhere that I can be me
Cause I don't want to be your hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
So come on, give in, there's no beauty in this pain
So come on, connect, we've got to find ourselves again
Cause I don't want to be your hero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
And I don't...
19 Yesterday Went Too Soon (04:17)
Sitting in today
watching traffic passing by
and faces nosing in.
A victim of regret
it glitters then it fades away
like silver turning grey.
Washed it all away
waiting for this dream to end
before it sucks me in.
I'm climbing high
up above the streets and rows of neon lights,
I'm holding out my hand but I'm alone
Wish I could show you,
wish you could see through my eyes.
Tomorrow shines through
but I'm missing yesterday,
Crashing on the ground
the silence seems to suffocate
and bury me again.
Waiting for a taste
of happiness to lift me free
and carry me away.
I'm climbing high
up above the streets and rows of neon lights
I know it's just a dream but I'm alive.
Wish I could show you,
wish you could see through my eyes.
Tomorrow shines through,
but I'm missing yesterday,
I'm still missing yesterday.
Lost another week
feeling like a leper in
a world of vanity.
It's killing me today
addiction pulls you down you know,
and she's the drug I need.
Wish I could show you,
wish you could see through my eyes.
Tomorrow shines through,
but I'm missing yesterday.
Wish I could show you,
wish you could see through my eyes.
Tomorrow shines through,
but I'm missing yesterday.
20 Suffocate (04:43)
Show it to me one way I've got to see it all scientific radar
Reaching through the storm there's got to be hope
As people move on we've got to keep on believing
It's the time to give it everything a world unite let us in
Hear me hear me cry suffocate let them die
A better life say goodbye hear me hear me cry
I see everything silver and gold way up I'm reaching out clouds white as snow
There's got to be hope as people move on and on and on
It's the time to give it everything aworld unite let us in
Hear me hear me cry suffocate let them die
A better life say goodbye hear me hear me cry
Hear me cry why don't you hear me why don't they hear me
Suffocate let them die abetter life say goodbye
Give give enough I care
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Di bepperock
"Il bello di 'The Singles' sta nella varietà."
"La più bella, a mio avviso, è Lost & Found, ottima canzone punk."
Di Gallagher87
«La musica cambia lo stato d’animo, lo stato d’animo cambia le persone e le persone cambiano nel tempo.»
«La vita continua, la musica anche, le persone cambiano, diamo solo tempo al tempo.»
