• Voto:
"Ebbene dicono che a loro piace, ma che sul mercato
Potrebbe non andar bene perchè è troppo rètro
C'è bisogno di più un pà-pà, niente di simile
a Frank Zappa"
da"Blood From A Clone"
"Somewhere In England" vede la luce nel '81 e per Harrison la sua realizzazione è stata molto faticosa. I primi versi della canzone d'apertura, "Blood From A Clone" spiegano già molto. George s'è visto rifiutare la prima versione del disco dalla Warner perchè di scarso appeal commerciale, scottato e deluso ha così inciso nuovi brani più facili per rendere il disco più vendibile. Il risultato è un lavoro di compromesso con alcune cose buone e molta maniera che lascia trasparire la grossa delusione di Harrison. "Blood From A Clone" è però un brano piacevole, una ritmica sbarazzina, una pop song easy con qualche ritaglio per la chitarra di Harrison. Nonostante tutto George riesce a salvare una canzone spirituale incisa per la prima versione del disco, "Life Itself". Un canto lento scandisce i tipici versi riflessivi harrisoniani, "Tu sei l'assoluto/Tu sei il mio amore/Tu decidi l'arrivo della pioggia e porti il sole/Vivi in solitudine e riveli la verità/Tu sei il respiro della stessa vita", è una canzone molto bella, calma e accogliente con un assolo finale di chitarra molto interessante. La cosa che più sorprende è che in "Somewhere In England" George registri due cover di Howard Carmichael, autore popolare USA tra i più importanti; "Baltimore Oriole" e "Hong Kong Blues" sono brani piacevoli ma non portano sostanza al disco. Anche brani come "Writing's On The Wall" e "Teardrops", quest'ultima molto orecchiabile con una trama al synt di facile presa, non sollevano il lavoro da una mediocrità che tradisce la svogliatezza di Harrison di realizzare un disco in parte diverso da come l'aveva concepito. Ma "Somewhere In England" si rivela un grande successo commerciale grazie al singolo di traino "All Those Years Ago". Dedicata a Lennon e registrata con i contibuti di Ringo Starr, Paul e Linda McCartney e Denny Laine (non si sono però mai trovati insieme in studio), è una canzone che ricorda l'amico scoparso con versi evocativi e diretti, "Ora siamo qui tristi e senza parole/Per colpa di qualcuno, il migliore amico del diavolo". Una melodia piacevole e armoniosa ha contibuito a farne una Hit di successo.
L'anno successivo George deciderà di realizzare un disco senza fare nessuna promozione. "Gone Troppo" si rivelerà un fiasco notevole e Harrison abbandonerà la musica per il cinema.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Blood From a Clone (04:04)
They say they like it, now, but in the market it
May not go well as it's too laid back.
You need some oomph-papa, nothing like
Frank Zappa
And not New Wave they don't play that crap
Tyr beating your head on a brick wall
Hard like a stone
Don't have time for the music
They want the blood from a clone
I hear a clock ticking
I feel the nitpicking
I almost quit kicking at the wall
There seems a confusion, under the illusion
That they know just what will suit you all
Beating my head on a brick wall
Hard like a stone
Ain't got time for the music
They want the blood from a clone
There is no sense to it
Pure pounds and pence to it
They're so intense too makes me amazed
Don't want no music but, they're making you
sick with
Some awful noises that may get played
By beating their heads on a brick wall
Hard like a stone
Ain't no messing 'round with music
Give them the blood from a clone
Where will it all lead us
I thought we had freed us
From the mundane seems I'm wrong again
Could be they lack roots, they're still wearing
jack boots they're
Marching somewhere in the pouring rain
Beating my head on a brick wall
Hard like a stone
Don't have time for the music
They want the blood from a clone
04 All Those Years Ago (03:47)
I'm shouting all about love
While they treated you like a dog
When you were the one who had made it so clear
All those years ago
I'm talking all about how to give
They don't act with much honesty
But you point the way to the truth when you say
"All you need is love"
Living with good and bad
I always looked up to you
Now we're left cold and sad
By someone, the devil's best friend
Someone who offended all
We're living in a bad dream
They've forgotten all about mankind
And you were the one they backed up to the wall
All those years ago
You were the one who imagined it all
All those years ago..
(All those years ago)
(All those years ago)
Deep in the darkest night
I send out a prayer to you
Now in the world of light
Where the spirit free of lies
And all else that we despised
They've forgotten all about God
He's the only reason we exist
Yet you were the one that they said was so weird
All those years ago
You said it all though not many had ears
All those years ago
You had control of our smiles and our tears
All those years ago..
All those years ago ...
All those years ago ...
All those years ago ...
05 Baltimore Oriole (03:59)
Baltimore Oriole
Took one look at that mercury, forty below
No life for a lady
To be draggin' her feathers around in the snow
Leaving me blue, off she flew
To the Tangipaho - down in Louisiana
Where a two - timin' Jaybird
Met the divine Miss O
I'd like to ruffle his plumage
That Baltimore Oriole
Messed around with that big guy
Till he singed her wings
Forgivin' is easy - it's a woman like, now and then
Could happen to thing
Send her back home
Home ain't home without her warbling
How she can sing
Make a lonely man happy, Baltimore Oriole
Come down from that bough
Fly to your daddy now
06 Teardrops (04:09)
Teardrops - I've had my share of crying buckets
full of
Teardrops - so hard to take - I got a soaking
with those
Teardrops - and it feels like I have taken over from
the rain.
In the heart of the lonely man
In and out of love more often where most others can
He walks the streets like the losers in some
lovers game
He talks so sweet but the news is always much
the same.
Teardrops - I've had my share of crying buckets
full of
Teardrops - so hard to take - I got a soaking
with those
Teardrops - and it feels like I have taken over from
the rain.
In the eyes of the lonely one
Everything is cold and hopeless that he looks
upon
He needs a friend a lover who can comfort him
His deeds offend he knows that he has brought
on him.
Teardrops - I've had my share of crying buckets
full of
Teardrops - so hard to take - I got a soaking
with those
Teardrops - and it feels like I have taken over from
the rain.
08 Writing's on the Wall (04:01)
The writing's on the wall brother
Your life is in your hands
It's up to you to see the writing's on the wall.
It looks you in the eye mister
It's time we stand up tall
Go see and understand the writing's on the wall.
Strange we hold on to things that have no grace
or power
While death holds on to us much more with every
passing hour
And all the time you thought it would last
Your life, your friends would always be
'Til they're drunk away or shot away or die away
from you.
There's nothing that you need sister
The Lord is in you all
Life is designed to see the writing's on the wall.
The music's in the air mothers
You may have heard it call
To you that you may see the writing's on the wall.
Be careful going home sister
Be watchful down that road
You've got a lot of love sister
More to grow.
The writing's on the wall brothers
Your life is in your hands
It's up to you to see the writing's on the wall
I hope that you may see the writing's on the wall.
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