Penso che il detto "più in alto sali e più ti fai male quando cadi" venga preso troppo sul serio nella vita di tutti i giorni.
Un po' come quando gli INXS si ritrovarono con l'intento di registrare un nuovo capitolo della loro discografia; erano saliti molto in alto. La band australiana aveva salutato gli anni ottanta con l'album manifesto Kick, e soddisfare le aspettative proprie e degli estimatori sembrava assai arduo dopo un disco del genere. Una delle paure più ricorrenti di chi raggiunge vette così elevate (di consenso e vendite) è quella di non sapersi più ripetere. Ma chissenefrega dopotutto.
Al dunque; X non divenne ciò che Kick è tutt'oggi, ma fu comunque un grandioso album che definirei il loro secondo migliore.
X segnò il decimo anniversario dal debutto, ma anche l'inizio di una seconda fase ideale. Si trattò anche dell'ultima collaborazione con il produttore Chris Thomas (uno che ha lavorato, tra i tanti, persino con i Beatles) a cui si deve -in parte- quella ricerca del suono pulito successivamente abolita dal gruppo.
Al sound, Andrew Farris (autore di testi assieme ad Hutchence) propose l'inclusione di Charlie Musselwhite e della sua armonica, rendendo il carattere dei brani più corposo e blues. Il cavallo di battaglia Suicide Blonde risente positivamente delle scelte in studio.
Un ispirato Michael scrive a proposito di una ragazza che si tinge i capelli. Qualcuno avanzò l'ipotesi che la donna del pezzo fosse l'allora fiamma del cantante, Kylie Minogue. Col senno di poi (le vicende personali degli INXS e di Paula Yates), il termine suicide non suona indifferente.
Il ruolo di ballad che la bellissima Never Tear Us Apart ricopriva nel precedente lavoro venne affidato al singolo By My Side; chiaro esempio di quanto dinamica potesse essere l'interpretazione vocale del leader.
Durante i 41 minuti dell'intero X, egli urla, sospira, cammina sui carboni ardenti del blues più passionale; quelli dolorosi e doloranti.
La migliore prova del lotto è sicuramente Faith In Each Other (Mick Hucknall dei Simply Red ucciderebbe per avere questo brano). In essa la band intera da il meglio scatenando un groove assassino avvolto dai vocalizzi di Hutchence; l'anima in tormento che pulsa. Le linee di basso di Gary Beers e le chitarre funky di Kirk Pengilly rubate al miglior Nile Rodgers.
Ne esiste un altro, detto, che al contrario del primo recita "più in alto sali e più lontano vedi", il quale reputo maggiormente nelle mie corde.
La verità, se mai ne esistesse una, sarebbe sicuramente a metà strada.
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01 Suicide Blonde (03:52)
Don't you know what you're doing
You got a death wish
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde
Suicide blonde, was the colour of her hair
Like a cheap distraction
For a new affair
She knew it would finish
Before it began
Woaah baby, you lost the plan
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde
Stripped to the beat
But her clothes stay on
White light everywhere
But you can't see a thing
Such a squeeze
A mad sad moment
Glory to you, glory to you, take me there
Take me there
Got some revelation
Put into your hands
Save you from your misery like rain across the land
Don't you see, the colour of deception
Turning your world, around again
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde
You wanna make
You wanna make
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
You wanna make
That's the story
Everything you wanna be
Everything you are, are
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde, no
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde, yeah
Love devastation
You wanna make her, suicide blonde
Love devastation, suicide blonde
You wanna make her
02 Disappear (04:10)
Say I'm crying
I'm looking at what's on T.V.
Pain and suffering
And the struggle
To be free
It can't ever be denied and I
Never will ignore
But when I see you coming
I can take it all
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
Say you're mine
And give yourself to the
Feelings that you know
I'm needing
All that you can give me
All the things
That you do so well
Words are healing
Sweet anticipation
Making spells
As the shadows close in
Fall across all our yesterdays
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Disappear
Say if I could
Look into myself and reason
But I could never never see or
Make sense of the dealings
Turn around
Am I looking at salvation
Make me realise all that I am
You put the light inside this man
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
You're so fine
Lose my mind
And the world seems to disappear
All the problems
All the fears
And the world seems to disappear
03 The Stairs (04:56)
In a room above a busy street
The echoes of a life
The fragments and the accidents
Separated by incidents
Listened to by walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other
Listened to by walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
The nature of your tragedy
Is chained around your neck
Do you lead or are you led
Are U sure that you don't care
There are reasons here to give your life
And follow in your way
The passion lives to keep your faith
Though all are different all are great
Climbing as we fall
We dare to hold on to our fate
And steal away our destiny
To catch ourselves with quiet grace
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs
Listened to by walls
We share the same spaces
Repeated in the corridors
Performing the same movements
Storey to storey
Building to building
Street to street
We pass each other on the stairs
04 Faith in Each Other (04:09)
All the people
In this world
All the people
In this world
I gotta tell you
It's alright
Look at the cover
Of a magazine
The pride of a nation
They're down on their knees
I got to tell you
Let the people speak
I got to tell you
Yeah you got to have faith
In each other
All you ever
All you ever have for each other
They give us a reason
To go on living
It's all in the choices
That you have to make
I got to tell you
You better make them good
I got to tell you
All you got to have faith
In each other
All you ever
All you ever have for each other
All you got to have faith
In each other
All you ever
All you ever have for each other
All the people
In this world
All the people
In this whole wide world
I got to tell you
Let the people speak
I got to tell you
All you got to have faith
In each other
All you ever
All you ever have for each other
Faith in each other
Faith in each other
05 By My Side (03:06)
In the dark of night
Those small hours
Uncertain and anxious
I need to call you
Rooms full of strangers
Some call me friend
But I wish you were so close to me
In the dark of night
Those small hours
I drift away
When I'm with you
In the dark of night
By my side
In the dark of night
By my side
By my side
By my side
I wish you were
I wish you were
Here comes the clown
His face is a wall
No window
No air at all
In the dark of night
Those faces they haunt me
But I wish you were
So close to me
By my side
By my side
I wish you were
I wish you were
By my side
In the dark of night
Those faces they haunt me
I wish you were so close to me
Yes I wish you were
By my side
06 Lately (03:37)
I never knew much
Enough was enough
The reasons were not always there
But the look in your eyes
Hides that surprise
I would never have counted on this
Well lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're doing
Yeah lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're seeing
What you're doing
The taste of your freedom
Was sweeter than love
'Cause you never had a chance to live
Your blue sky calls
To seduce and bewitch
And give you the wings of your fate
Well lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're doing
Yeah lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're seeing
What you're doing
I never knew much
Enough was enough
The reasons were not always there
But the look in your eyes
Hides that surprise
I would never have counted on this
Well lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're doing
Yeah lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're seeing
What you're doing
Well lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're doing
Yeah lately
You look around
You're wondering what you're seeing
What you're doing
What you're seeing
08 Know the Difference (03:17)
You're driving all over town
In your big car
Windows down
Sweet perfume trails behind
The impression is in my mind
It's crazy how much I ache
For the moments we could make
Your girlfriends the like to talk
Yeah they told me about your boy
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
Could I show you what's in store
Cause I know you'll be wanting more
You're the kind of girl who knows
What you want and where it goes
You got instinct
You got class
Why don't you leave that guy on his ass
Good intentions are not enough
We should join hands and rise above
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
It's crazy how much I ache
For the moments we could make
Your girlfriends the like to talk
Yeah they told me about your boy
You're driving all over town
In your big car
Windows down
Sweet perfume trails behind
The impression is in my mind
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
What you do and what you say
Do the know the difference anyway
11 Hear That Sound (04:10)
So your time has come
Children watch the fools
Don't let anyone tell you
What you must do
Do you like what you see
Or does it make you cry
Use your imagination
And start a fire
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
And my selfish ways
Disappeared one day
With the realization
Of a new way
Images of the free
Coming into view
Our hearts full of promises
Of all we can do
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
So your time has come
Children watch the fools
Don't let anyone tell you
What you must do
Do you like what you see
Or does it make you cry
Use your imagination
And start a fire
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
Hear that sound
There's a voice to be found
Making changes go round
Hear that sound
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