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In punta di piedi è arrivato, mi ha fregato. Non me ne sono accorto per niente. Si mi ha fregato. Mi ha fregato due volte , come è successo per How We Operate dei Gomez, ovvero: non c'è traccia dell'album in Italia!!! E questo è molto triste.
Non so come trovai il primo qui a Napoli. Un "miracolo" proprio perchè quell'esordio fu un vero "miracolo", un grande album che mi ha accompagnato per mesi e che in mezzo ai tanti gruppi che conosco continua a farlo oggi.
Io intanto "teng' a capa tost'" come si dice qui da me a Napoli e continuo a non fidarmi dei vari ebay e amazon quindi sono stato costretto a ricorrere ad altri mezzi per procurarmi l'album. E devo dire che questo mezzo non è il più nobile per ringraziare questi "speranza degli stati".
Desidererei odorare le pagine del booklet e inserire l'album nello stereo, girarmi e rigirarmi il cofanetto. NON voglio cliccare ed ascoltarlo, NO. Ma la tentazione è stata fortissima , non potevo non farlo, dovevo ascoltarlo questo LEFT perchè ero sicuro di un altro capolavoro assoluto. Così è stato.
"Seconds" è una traccia inutile, un introduzione scarna e abbastanza scontata. I due singoli "Blood Meridian" e "Sing It Out". Nel secondo c'è odorino di Muse e Placebo nelle chitarre iniziali sopratutto. Non è un singolo scelto bene e non è neppure molto bello, mentre quell'altro, Blood Meridian è autentico stile Hope of the States. Chitarre suonate col pennello, batteria ritmata, violini con ritornello sparato a 1000 molto orecchiabile. Lo stile inconfondibile degli HotS continua a farsi sentire distaccandosi poco dall'esordio anche se ci sono alcune chicche come il coretto simil-canzoni di chiesa in "The Good Fight". Nella title track Samuel Herlihy recita "An argument, an ambulance. The sound of sirens in my head just like you're singing to me" costruendo un'ottima canzone con tanto di pianoforte elettrico, in un crescendo di strumenti. "Industry" è breve e tagliente come una lama ben affilata.
L'opinione generale che si ha di Sam Herlihy è quella che ha una brutta voce e che sia proprio quella a rovinare il gruppo, ma secondo me la sua voce sofferta e rauca anche se non è intonatissima esprime emozioni che molti cantanti non esprimono.
Left alla fine è costruito di canzoni orchestrate benissimo con i violini (talvolta fiati).
Le canzoni che vi consiglio vivamente di ascoltare prima di procurarvi l'album sono: Blood Meridian, Left, Industry, This is a question, Forwardirektion.
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02 Blood Meridian (04:04)
The money's running out
The casino's burning down
The police are getting nervous
The transmission's shot
And the schools are all locked
The offices have shut up shop
It's quiet on the streets today
I think I know what's going on
But I'm too scared to say
In case I got it wrong
And made a bad mistake
Emergency, emergency
Someone acted honestly
You'd better string em up, tie em down
Never let the news get out
Never let it happen again
Emergency, emergency
Someone meant every word they said
You should beat em up, lock em up
Throw away the key and
Never let it happen again
There's a flood coming in
And the snow is coming down
There's fighting on every corner
The troubled little kids
That were bullied at school
This is the only chance you�re getting
To stand up for the put upon
The worried and the anxious
But you're too scared to say
That they got it all wrong
And made a bad mistake
Emergency, emergency
Someone acted honestly
You'd better string em up, tie em down
Never let the news get out
Never let it happen again
Emergency, emergency
Someone meant every word they said
You should beat em up, lock em up
Throw away the key yeah
Never let it happen again
Tell me, would you tell me
How we ended up so cynical?
You should give it up, start again
Make mistakes and try to change
Never let it happen again
Tell me what's wrong with meaning every single thing you do
03 Sing It Out (03:14)
The signs above my head are clear to all
An underachiever but a true believer
Who never had a hope in hell
I am the soldier
I am the soldier
Who fought a war for nothing
I am the damage that a dream does
I am the damage that a dream does
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
If I sing a song for economics
The numbers never add up
I am debt
I am loss
I am written off
Again and again and again and again
So I walk this line alone
I endure 'cause I've always known
The only way things will ever change
Is if I try
And I'm right
And I'm right
And I'm right
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out
Sing it out yr not alone
You are not
You are not the only one
You are lost and now yr found
Sing it out
Sing it out
04 Bonfires (04:23)
It's speeding up around me
But my heart is slowing down until it stops
This train is off the rails
The devil's in the details
No one notices
There's bonfires in my head
There's criminals in my chest
No one notices
And I'm desperate
And I'm lonely
The hospital is empty
No one notices
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
So I saw the houses empty
And the people gathered round
And spat at me
Yr the family we hated
Not the only one who's waiting for the end
There's bonfires in my head
There's criminals in my chest
No one notices
And I'll lead them off the edge
I'll drown them in the Dead Sea
Now they're noticing
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
It's not enough to say I'm sorry
For all the pain and the worry
What are you waiting for?
Give up on me and leave
11 January (04:48)
I want to be a kid again
I want to wash my eyes out
I want to mean everything I say
And never be scared again
I refuse to be ashamed
However many doomed attempts it takes
To forget my history and my mistakes
And everything I waste
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
I hope a day will come
To make me forget everything
When it comes I'll sing it out
And praise the Lord
I saved myself
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
I fell apart in January
But I fixed myself for everybody
I know tomorrow will be better
Without you all I don't know where I'd be
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