Con il loro terzo lavoro, dopo il doppio platino di "The Colour and the Shape", i Foo si consacrano alla scena internazionale come uno tra i più orginali e potenti gruppi che mantengono ancora alto il nome del Rock.
In questo disco, Dave e compagni raccolgono alcune tra le più belle canzoni della loro carriera musicale, veri e propri pezzi indimenticabili come Learn to Fly, Breakout, Next Year, Generator e Stacked Actors, tuttora presenti nelle scalette dei loro esplosivi concerti.
Con riff chitarristici intrisi di effetti quali Flanger, Wah-wah, distorsori overdrive e chorus, e una voce sempre più adulta e lontana dai periodi giovanili del primo cd post-Nirvana, il frontman Dave Grohl riesce a mettere in piedi canzoni veloci e lente capaci di emozionare e dare la carica allo stesso tempo.
Il primo video promozionale fu per l'appunto quello di Breakout utilizzato per la colonna sonora del film con Jim Carrey "Io me & Irene". Nel comicissimo video musicale (al tempo trasmesso a più non posso da Mtv) appariva Dave e una sedicente bionda che imitavano le scene più rappresentative del film, consacrando la duplice figura (esaltato e serissimo) di mr.Grohl che utilizzerà questo filone di video comici anche per realizzare Lean to Fly, dove la band si traveste da equipaggio e da passeggeri (contemporaneamente) che viaggiano su un aereo che sta precipitando ma che, prontamente viene riportato in rotta dal sagace Dave.
Il video di Next Year invece presentava la band nei panni degli astronauti americani che negli anni 60 colonizzarono la luna, mischiando filmati d'epoca con fotomontaggi impeccabili e toccando tematiche come la guerra e la povertà in un video a sfondo dichiaratamente ironico.
All'epoca della sua uscita il disco in questione si rivelò un enorme successo anche se non toccò i picchi del precedente lavoro che, a mio avviso non lo supera per nulla in qualità sonora.
I testi delle canzoni di There is Nothing left to lose sono per la gran parte a sfondo amoroso, taluni sono del tutto ironici, altri appunto parlano di guerra e politica e altri ancori sono interpretabili come riguardanti la vita di Grohl.
In toto è un disco che non seduce per la sua particolarità o bravura degli artisti (non ci sono assoli nelle canzoni dei Foo) bensi colpisce per il forte impatto che vi cattura anche ad un primo ascolto veloce e distratto.
Il lavoro successivo One by One tenterà di replicare la formula del sopracitato ma fallirà, dando alla luce solo un paio di canzoni memorabili come la rabbiosa All my Life e la poetica Times like these.
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01 Stacked Actors (04:16)
Oh mirror mirror, you're coming in clear
I'm finally somewhere in between
I'm impressed, what a beautiful chest
I never meant to make a big scene
Will you resign to the latest design
You look so messy when you dress up in dreams
One more for hire, a wonderful liar
I think it's time we all should come clean
Stack dead actors, stacked to the rafters
Line up the bastards all i want is the truth
Hey, hey now, can you fake it,
Can you make it look like we want
Hey hey now, can you take it
And we cry when they all die blonde
God bless, what a sensitive mess
Yeah, but things aren't always what they seem
Your teary eyes, your famous disguise
Never knowing who to believe
See through, yeah but what do you do
When you're just another aging drag queen
02 Breakout (03:20)
You make me dizzy
Running circles in my head
One of these days Ill chase you down
Well look whos going crazy now
Were face to face my friend
Better get out
Better get out
You know you make me breakout
Make me breakout
I dont wanna look like that
I dont wanna look like that
Know you make me breakout
You can see this on my face
Its all for you
The more and more I take I break right through
Therapy still scares me
Putting me on my back again
I may be crazy, little frayed around the ends
One of these days Ill phase you out
Burn it in the blast off
Burn it in the blast off
Watch me crawl away
Try to get out
Try to get out
You know you make me breakout
Make me breakout
Breakout!
Go, go, go
03 Learn to Fly (03:55)
Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
'Cause this one is a lie
I sat around laughing and watched the last one die
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for complication
Looking 'cause I'm tired of lying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
I think I'm done nursing patience
It can wait one night
Give it all away if you give me one last try
We'll live happily ever trapped if you just save my life
Run and tell the angels that everything's all right
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try to make this life my own
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try to make this life my own
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking cause I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to
I'm looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something to help me burn out bright
I'm looking for a complication
Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to fly
Make my way back home when I learn to
04 Gimme Stitches (03:42)
I can be your right of way
So we can get out of here
I'll always be the one who runs from everyone
Cause everyone's just too weird
Sink with someone tied to me
I'm making you volunteer
Another one has come and gone
They crawl along, make them disappear
Dress me up in stitches it's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dress me up in stitches it's now or never
Dying to get my blood on you
Take another stab at me, I promise in time I'll heal
But yesterday went on and on a bit too long
I waited out on high street
There's nothing to find out here
Another day has come and gone
They crawl along, wasting all these years
Dress me up in stitches it's now or never
Tired of wearing black and blue
Dress me up in stitches it's now or never
Dying to get my blood on you
How can you go on when you're murdering someone
Killing me like you do
Gimme stitches now or never
Before I get my blood on you
05 Generator (03:49)
Lately I'm getting better
Wish I could stay sick with you
But there's too many egos left to bruise
Call it sin, you can call it whatever,
Eating deep inside of you
Well if it were me it's all I'd ever do
Steal me now and forever
I'll steal something good for you
The criminal in me is no one new
Till you find something better
When there's nothing left to use
And everything starts going down on you
I'm the generator, firing whenever you quit
Yeah whatever it is, you go out and it's on
Yeah can't you hear my motored heart
You're the one that started it
Send me out on a tether
Swing it round I'll spin your noose
You let it down
I'll hang around with you, till you find someone better
When there's no one left to use, and everyone keeps going down
06 Aurora (05:51)
You believe there's something else
To relieve your emptiness
And you dream about yourself
And you bleed and breathe the air
And it's on and on
I just kinda died for you
You just kinda stared at me
We will always have the chance
We can do this one more time
Hell yeah, I remember aurora
All this time
Take me now, we can spin the sun around
And the stars will all come out
Then we'll turn and come back down
You believe there's somewhere else
Where it's easier than this
And you see outside yourself
And you buy the hole you'll fill
And it's on and on
On and on aurora wait for everyone
Wait till the last one's done
08 Next Year (04:38)
I'm in the sky tonight,
There I can keep by your side
Watching the wide world riot and hiding out
I'll be coming home next year
Into the sun we climb
Climbing our wings will burn white
Everyone strapped in tight
We'll ride it out
I'll be coming home next year
Come on get on get on
Take it till life runs out
No one can find us now,
Living with our heads underground
Into the night we shine
Lighting the way we glide by
Catch me if I get too high
When I come down
I'll be coming home next year
I'm in the sky tonight
There I can keep by your side
Watching the whole world wind around and round
I'll be coming home next year
Come on get on get on
Take it till life runs out
No one can find us now,
Living with our heads underground
I'll be coming home next year
I'll be coming home next year
Everything's alright up here
If I come down
I'll be coming home next year
Say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye
I'll be coming home next year
I'll be coming home next year
Everything's alright up here
If I come down
I'll be coming home next year
I'll be coming home next year...
09 Headwires (04:37)
Have you been headwired
Were you satisfied
Did it free the feelings in your spine
Sleeping way inside all this time
Will you meet your mind where the night collides
Will you greet yourself when the sun arrives
I'll just stay behind, I've met mine
Better than a bullet being fired
Tangled in your headwires now
Help you feed the wires when your head unwinds
And if our headlines become entwined
You can have all mine, I'll be fine
There's a reason why keeping me alive
There's a cure in me that I wish were mine
As long as I can fight, I'll survive
Stationed on the wire, one day I'll let go
Tell them all hello
The sun is on
Arlandria, headwire
11 M.I.A. (04:03)
Call and I'll answer at home in the lost and found
You say that I'm much too proud
Someone who's taking pleasure in breaking down
Nevermind the mannequins, drunk in their hollow town,
Drinking their spoils down, cheap imitations
The revelation is now.
You wont find me I'm going mia
Tonight I'm leaving going mia
Getting lost in you again is better than being numb
Counting every minute till the feeling comes crashing down
Run when it hit's the ground, I'm good at escaping
But better at flaking out
Calling unanswered the center becomes blown out
Stuck on the inside now
It's fear I'm embracing
I never could face you down
Red, red, laced around your head
Cold and rescued
You wont find me I'm going mia
Tonight I'm leaving going mia
So you don't find me I'm going mia
Tonight I'm leaving going mia
Say good-bye to me I'm going mia
I can find relief I'm going mia
Getting lost in you again is better than being numb
Better than playing dumb
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