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Damon Albarn… Ma Damon Albarn è un genio? Damon Albarn è un genio!
Dove a un certo punto della nostra storia (non solo musicale), l’apparire è diventato più importante dell’essere, le menti geniali di Damon Albarn (cantante dei Blur) e Jamie Hewlett (disegnatore del fumetto cult “Tank Girl”) hanno partorito i Gorillaz, una band virtuale che ha affascinato il mondo col loro primo album che ha venduto più degli ultimi 3 album dei Blur messi assieme.
Un progetto simile non poteva rimanere incatenato ad un singolo episodio, perciò, a quattro anni di distanza da Gorillaz, ecco Demon Days. Per parlare di questo disco (al quale hanno collaborato tanti e illustri ospiti come Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, Tennis Hopper e Ike Turner) bisogna intraprendere un discorso più generale per capire più o meno come vanno le cose.
Prima di tutto il disco più atteso dell’anno (almeno a sentire lo spot pubblicitario), ovvero quello dei Coldplay , nonostante l’immediato successo (primo posto in classifica in più di 20 paesi! E più di 700,000 copie vendute in America solo nella prima settimana!) ha deluso buona parte della critica che al terzo album si sarebbe aspettata un grande capolavoro (penso a Ok computer dei Radiohead o a Parklife dei Blur) o comunque qualcosa che avrebbe definito finalmente il suono della band. Ebbene sì, per quanto riguarda il suono di quel disco, quello è cambiato, è più u2 che Coldplay, ma manca il capolavoro.
Per quanto riguarda invece gli Oasis, il loro ultimo disco si è rivelato un disco migliore del precedente ma non ancora soddisfacente. Con tutto questo intendo dire che queste due band si sono fatte un nome, anche se non grande, nella storia della musica dopo aver esordito con due album straordinari (Definitely Maybe e Parachutes). I Gorillaz, al contrario, hanno esordito con un buon album, hanno venduto sei milioni di copie ma non sono diventati un fenomeno di massa. Di conseguenza, non mi stupirei se il disco dovesse vendere meno del precedente. In conclusione, non sono le vendite a fare il nome, ma il NOME A FARE LE VENDITE, il nome di chi è stato fenomeno in passato. Penso per esempio a quanti dischi i Pink Floyd venderebbero al giorno d’oggi se riunissero di nuovo ma con un disco mediocre.
L’importante è la qualità. E qualità c’e né tanta in Demon Days, qualità e più sostanza rispetto all’opera precedente. Complice il cambio di produzione: a Dan Nakamura subentra DJ Ranger Mouse (l’autore del disco illegale The Grey Album che univa al suono dei Beatles il rap di Jay-Z) la cui produzione risulta molto più efficace.
Sono cambiati i Gorillaz, eccome. Più notturni, meno freschi e meno immediati, ma più compatti e incisivi. Lo si avverte già dall’ “Intro” (In verità il pezzo più insignificante) a cui segue la bellissima “Last Living Souls”, il punto più alto in cui si concretizza maggiormente lo stile musicale che loro chiamano Dark-pop. Segue “Kids With Guns” dove Neneh Cherry viene (mi dispiace dirlo) sprecata. “O Green World” e “El Manana” sono gli episodi più bluriani dell’album, mentre il singolo capolavoro “Feel Good Inc.” si gioca il tormentone con “Dirty Harry” (pezzo infantile con coro di bambini alla Pink Floyd) e la straordinaria dance anni 80 di “DARE” (sarà il prossimo singolo). A chiudere l’album, due perle: “Don’t get lost in Heaven” in cui “i Beach Boys incontrano il musical” (Ciro Frattini) e “Demon Days” in cui viene lasciato ampio spazio alla London Community Gospel Choir.
Quest’opera seconda della band virtuale è uno dei dischi migliori dell’anno, più convincete del primo, più convincente delle (seppur buone) ultime uscite dei Blur, più convincente dei dischi più attesi dell’anno, più convincente di chi fa finta di non riuscire a convincersi.
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02 Last Living Souls (03:11)
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Take a gun
Or how you say
That's no way,to behave
You're on your own,when you begin
To sing a song that doesn't sing
It grows
You know
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last to get away to sing a song another day?
Or do we know
Well, we know
does it seem to be conveyed that way?
Are we, are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
Are we the last living souls?
If your the last living soul
Get up, get up, get up, get up (x13)
What you say?
Cause all I had sung
I got it down and wrong
I see myself to get
The Lord, seeing all now
Can you take us in
The part that comin' on
The coldest man doesn't see it's all
We go to the car
I see you walk to the far
And when you get there do you see
You fit the last you need on me
Cause we're the last living souls
We're the last living souls
Yeah, we're the last living souls
We're the last living souls
03 Kids With Guns (00:21)
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Taking over
They won't belong
They're mesmerized
Skeletons
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental
Drinking out (Push it, push it real)
Pacifier (Push it, push it real)
Demon souls (Push it, push it real)
Street desire (Push it, push it real)
Doesn't make sense to (Push it, push it real)
But it won't be long (Push it, push it real)
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental
And they're turning us into monsters
Turning us into fire
Turning us into monsters
It's all desire
It's all desire
It's all desire
Drinking out
Pacifier
sinking souls
There you are
Doesn't make side to
But it won't be long
Cause kids with guns
Kids with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they've got something to say mental
And they're turning us into monsters
Turning us into fire
Turning us into monsters
It's all desire
It's all desire
It's all desire
Push it real, push it,(its real) is this real? (push it, push it real)
Push it real, push it,(its real) is she real? (push it, push it real)
Push it real, push it, is this real? (push it, push it real)
Push it real, Push it reaaal
04 O Green World (04:32)
O Green World,
Don't desert me now
Bring me back to fallen town
Where someone is still alive
Fighting for something new in this
When no one needs the heart of me and I'll
Get out somewhere other than me before...
(than me before...)
O Green World
Don't desert me now
I'm made of you and you of me
But where are we?
Oh no
Sells to lie
from the darkest stars
Suppose you
Down when you're in fast
Cause it seems so little to you
But I know you now, I know
You know, me too
You know, me too
I hope sex and drugs rust into my self, only
It feels, only
It feels like you're with your father in the place you love...
07 El Mañana (03:49)
Summer don't know me no more
Eager man, that's all.
Summer don't know me
He just left me low in my soul
But I too know love,
from you that
Just died. Yeah.
I saw that day,
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
Don't stop the buck when it comes
It's the dawn, you'll see
Money won't get there
Ten years gone and now
You'll flee
If you do that
I'll beat the sun
To find you
I saw that day,
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
I saw that day,
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
And in time
You'll want to be mine
08 Every Planet We Reach Is Dead (04:53)
I lost my leg like I lost my way
So no loose ends
Nothing to see me down
How are we going to work this out
Dreams aren't bad, I had turned back
I love the gun
But God only knows it's
Getting hard to see the sun coming through
I love you...
But what are we going to do?
Picture on the dreamer
I'll take you deeper
Down to the sleepy glow
Time is a low...
Don't you know
What are we going to do?
When you go back
All the second selfless days
You're in love with him
I want to see you again
I love you...
But what are we going to do?
11 White Light (02:09)
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
White light
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
White light
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
White light
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
White light
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
(Music stops)
White light
White light
White light
Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, white light
14 Don't Get Lost in Heaven (02:05)
Got off a plane to the countryside
I drove to the mountain and holding the ground
There was crack on the corner and someone dead
And fire coming out of the monkey's head
Don't get lost in heaven
They got locks on the gate
Don't go over the edge
You'll make a big mistake
Put me in a cab to suburbia
I just took a line but I wasn't with you
There was more of it there, when I got back home
But you had left me, you don't know my soul...
You're a hoe, yeah, you're a hobo one...
Don't get lost in heaven
They got locks on the gate
Don't go over the edge
You'll make a big mistake
Aaaah...
15 Demon Days (04:24)
In demon days, it's cold inside
You don't get nobody, people sigh
It's so bad, lasting far, but love yourself
Hiding in a hole in there
All the glasses are too big
Bring it back, got to hold it back
To let you do that yet you don't want me back
Before it fall down, falling down falling down
Falling out to go far from the sun
In these demon days it's so cold inside
So hard for a good soul to survive
You can't even trust the air you breathe
Cause Mother Earth wants us all to leave
When lies become reality
You numb yourself with drugs and TV
Pick yourself up it's a brand new day
So turn yourself round
Don't burn yourself, turn yourself
Turn yourself around into the sun!
In these demon days it's so cold inside
So hard for a good soul to survive
You can't even trust the air you breathe
Cause Mother Earth wants us all to leave
When lies become reality
You numb yourself with drugs and TV
Pick yourself up it's a brand new day
So turn yourself round
Don't burn yourself, turn yourself
Turn yourself around into the sun!
To the sun, to the sun...
To the sun, to the sun...
17 Rock the House (04:08)
I know you like that
You wanna try that
It's like a flashback
So shake your ass crack
I got the balls to
Rock the salsa
Funka blues-a
Any groove to
Make you move cause
Taking you to
Another landscape
Is my mandate
I'm highly animated even though I'm decomposing
So if your feet is frozen I'm a try to see you ropin'
And when the M.C. rhyme and the D.J. spin
I want y'all to just get down
Now when the M.C. rhymin' and the D.J. cuttin'
I want y'all to just get down
And when the M.C. rhyme and the D.J. spin
I want y'all to just get down
Now when the M.C. rhymin' and the D.J. cuttin'
I want y'all to just get down
Tap your toes and slap some ass
How many people ready to rock the house?
Come on trace the globe and ass
How many people ready to rock the house?
Just twist your hip and do the dip
How many people ready to rock the house?
Come on shake and bake do whatever it takes
How many people ready to rock the house?
Graviational pull
I have you making a fool
Out of yourself on the dance floor
Doing back spins running man and more
Party down with Vigga and Candor
Coming to the jam
Or look like a landlubber
And do the aqua boogie
Win lots of goodies maybe
Pop a Gucci wallet turntables is talking to me
It's awfully groovy
Seeing all the treasure and the body
I wanna get down lower than Atlantis
Going toe to toe with an enchantress
Get funkier than funkedelic
While you eggheads is on the wall preparin' answers
Sharing transcripts while we over here
Dipping and dancin'
Rhythm romancin'
Wallflowers
Giving no action no
All hours we chillin' and max the flow
Relaxing
Opposites attracting
I'ma toss my hat in
Floss when the track spin
Like I'm on a crack bend
Jiggiling and wiggling
Freakin' booties speakin' to the cuties so belligerence
No religion just bump the feed on
You'll feel reborn
Negativity we just dead it like decoy
Better lift your feet and just measure the beat on
The pulse when in respond.
20 Slow Country (03:35)
City life.
Calling me all the time
And my soul
Geared to attack
Never get a better chance
So what you doing?
Gotta get money.
ain't quite what you're doing.
(I) can't stand the loneliness.
can't stand your loneliness
can't stand your loneliness
can't stand loneliness
(I) Should not lie,
I'm tryin' not to laugh though,
You won't get money
from doing what you're loving
I'm moving out of city
Victor of a second chance,
Got a lot of problems,
Gotta get rid of 'em
I can't stand the loneliness.
can't stand your loneliness
can't stand your loneliness
can't stand loneliness
la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la la la
laaa lalalala laaa la la la la
mmm mmm
Can't stand the lonliness,
can't stand the lonliness
Can't stand the lonliness
Can't stand the lonliness...
(doo doo...doo doo...doo doo...doo doo)
21 New Genious (Brother) (03:56)
Dream of my world.
I live on my world.
Going off my head, down to, somewhere.
I'm going on a dance all tune.
I'm in a pressure today.
I blew a bad man away, today.
Higher ground, had to be told.
I blew a man away.
Brother sister too.
Do what you must do.
Don't trust people you meet.
They may promise you,
that the river ain't deep.
Dream of a street.
People passing through me,yes they do.
Want my friend,
want my heart mend.
I'm going to bring it all back to you.
Brother sister too.
Do what you must do.
Don't trust people you meet.
They may promise you,
that the river ain't deep.
22 19-2000 (03:27)
The world is spinning too fast
I buy lead Nike shoes
To keep myself tethered
To the days I try to lose
My mama said to slow down
You must make your own shoes
Stop dancing to the music
Of gorillas in a happy mood
Keep a mild groove on
They do the bump X7
There you go!
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine! x4
There's a monkey in the jungle
Watching a vapor trail
Caught up in the conflict
Between his brain and his tail
And if time's elimination
Then we got nothing to lose
Please repeat the message
It's the music that we choose
Keep a mild groove on
They do the bump X7
OK, bring it down, yeah, we gonna break out.
Get the cool!
Get the cool shoeshine! x4
They do the bump X4
23 Clint Eastwood (05:34)
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
Aww... Yeah... Ha Ha!
Finally someone let me out of my cage
Now, time for me is nothing 'cause I'm counting no age
Nah I couldn't be there - nah you shouldn't be scared
I'm good at repairs and I'm under each snare
Intangible - bet you didn't think so I command you to
Panoramic view - look I'll make it all manageable
Pick and choose sit and lose All you different crews
Chicks and dudes - who you think is really kickin' tunes?
Picture you gettin' down in a picture tube
Like you lit the fuse - You think it's fictional?
Mystical? Maybe. Spiritual hearable
Appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy
Lifeless To know the definition for what life is
Priceless for you because I put you on the hype shit
You like it? Gunsmokin' Righteous with one token
Psychic among those possess you with one go
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
It's coming on
The essence the basics without it you make it
Allow me to make this childlike in nature
Rhythm - You have it or you don't that's a fallacy
I'm in them every sprouting tree every child of piece
Every cloud and sea, you see with your eyes
I see destruction and demise, corruption in disguise
From this fucking enterprise, now I'm sucked into your lives
Through Russel, not his muscles, the percussion he provides
with me as a guide
Ya'll can't see me now 'cause you don't see with your eye
You perceive with your mind
That's the inner
So I'ma stick around with Russ and be a mentor
Bust a few rhymes so mother fuckers remember
where the thought is - I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless
Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead
No squealing, remember (that it's all in your head)
I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad
I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
The future is coming on
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I got sunshine, in a bag
I'm useless, but not for long
My future is coming on
Is coming on
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Di mantaray
Damon Albarn è un genio! Damon Albarn è un genio? Damon... furbo lo è, su questo non discutiamo nemmeno.
Fatta la tara alla furberia dell'operazione, mi sono altrettanto divertito: il senso del gioco, la melodia, una gioiosa libertà permeano questo lavoro.
