Partiamo subito malissimo: il Kubb è un gioco svedese di origine vichinga, a metà fra le bocce e il bowling. Ed io odio entrambi. Mi sembra comunque puerile giudicare male un album solo per una scelta “sbagliata” del nome del gruppo, per questo lo infilo nello stereo e lo ascolto per un giorno intero. Voi non fatelo.
Il pezzo d’apertura, Remain, è davvero brutto e scontato, tanto che mi ritrovo con l’indice della mano destra sul tasto STOP. Ma essendo stupido e cocciuto vado avanti. Segue I dont mind, tema da terza elementare musicato, ed è qui che il mio rapporto con i Kubb inizia pesantemente ad incrinarsi. Continuo ad ascoltare allibito e mi imbatto in Grow, IL capolavoro finale del medley di bassa lega: un cocktail sapientemente miscelato fra il Gospel, il Doo-Wop anni '50, John Lennon alla tredicesima canna e i Take That. All'ottava traccia finalmente la consacrazione finale: Chemical è la goccia che fa traboccare il vaso e l'album collassa su se stesso. Dopo avercela menata sull'amore (e io adoro le canzoni d'amore, pensate un po') su ogni singolo pezzo, un bel testo sulle droghe arrangiato in stile "Volevamo essere i Pink Floyd" fa venire voglia di eroina subito, invece di dissuadere le masse dal consumo di stupefacenti. Come se non bastasse a 4'30'' dall'inizio del brano (che ne dura ben 6) entra un giro di pianoforte quasi interessante, demolito istantaneamente dall'ennesimo coro gospel uscito da Chuck e Nora.
Dopo quindi essermi spaccato le casse (per usare un termine delicato) per tutto l'album, al penultimo pezzo i Kubb tirano fuori gli artigli con Bitch, ma si rompono le unghie. La prima strofa fa presagire l'arrivo di un inferno di distorsione, di quelli che al confronto i Gorgoroth suonano con le chitarre pulite... e invece niente. Non c'è carica neanche quando urlano "puttana" per tutto il ritornello. Deprimente. Per chi mastica l'inglese abbiamo metafore e testi al limite del ridicolo, per chi non mastica l'inglese ma mastica buona musica, abbiamo melodie e arrangiamenti al limite dell'imbarazzante. Diciamolo pure: non esiste una singola idea in tutto l'album. Sarà che sono esigente, ma arrivare al 2007 e trovarsi di fronte rime come soul/control, bad/head, name/game, you/do, in 4/4 con un bel giro di DO sotto, ha il suo bell'effetto. Lassativo intendo. Per essere precisi l'album è del 2006, ma i Kubb non sarebbero dei pionieri neanche se ci trovassimo nel 1965. Questa perla di banalità ben registrata (il suono mi piace molto) è insomma un prodotto di quelli che dici "ma come è successo?" anche se va precisato che la voce cantante (Harry Collier) non è affatto male, mentre il resto è una vera e propria tragedia musicale, un incidente mortale di accordi, un patatrac di scale banali maggiori.
Ma non tutto il male viene per nuocere: cercando i testi on line, mi si è aperto un banner sui voli low-cost per Londra, ed è questa la vera cosa grandiosa di quest'album: me lo ricorderò quando sarò a Piccadilly Circus con i Radiohead nelle orecchie ad un volume da arresto.La prossima volta giuro che recensisco un album, questo è semplicemente un errore.
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01 Remain (03:38)
Here's to the future
Forget about your past
Here's to the man whose life is just a gas
Here's to your sorrow
Oh I'll drink to that
Here's to the lost who have found their way back
Oh as it all begins to fade
I still remain, I still remain
Here's to the father who drowned in a glass
Here's to the teacher who said I wouldn't pass
Here's to the living
And here's to the damned
Here's to the man whose out there making plans
Oh as it all begins to fade
I still remain, I still remain
Remain...
Oh as it all begins to fade
I still remain...
02 I Don't Mind (03:51)
I don't mind
You don't even wanna know my name
That's just fine
You don't even wanna know my name
You (evolve) scenes of you and me in bed
Your legs wrapped around my head
You don't even wanna know my name
Chorus
I don't mind, if U don't mind
I'll do whatever you have in mind.
You and me (we're in this game)
and you don't even wanna know my name.
I don't mind
If your hungry for a bit of strange
That's allright
If your looking for a little change
Can I be (bold) and turn you around instead
I wanna see the back of your head
I don't even wanna know your name
Chorus
Bridge of song
Chorus (repeat)
I don't mind!
03 Somebody Else (02:56)
I don't want somebody else
And I don't need anybody else
You're gonna see that for yourself
And you're gonna feel it in your health
Cos I, don't want somebody else...
Everytime you leave me alone
Girl you know you put me out in the cold
But this time, I'm not gonna break down and cry...
I'd rather die
No more pride taking us down
And no more time workin' it out
I turned all the lights off in this house
And I told all your ghosts to get out
Cos I, don't want somebody else...
Everytime you leave me alone
Girl you know you put me out in the cold
But this time, I'm not gonna break down and cry...
I'd rather die
04 Wicked Soul (03:48)
I don't want to watch The Street on TV
I don't want to hear about your day
I've got no time to hear
About how much you care
Shut your mouth and come this way
I'm a weirdo in your bedroom
And I can see you in the dark'
Tonight's the night I shed my wicked soul
I take it out on you and watch you lose control
Tonight's the night I shed my
Tonight's the night I shed my
Tonight's the night I shed my wicked soul
My wicked soul
Let's disconnect all communication
I've told your mother not to call
So lay down on the bed
Cause now I've locked the door
And we don't live out there no more
I'm a weirdo in your bedroom
And I can't see you in the dark
Tonight's the night I shed my wicked soul
I take it out on you and watch you lose control
Tonight's the night I shed my
Tonight's the night I shed my
Tonight's the night I shed my wicked soul
My wicked soul
05 Grow (05:15)
Who said
Broken pieces don't mend
I say
I say to think again
You may
Take advice from all your friends
But I say
That I'm living in your head
Chorus
Just let it grow
Let it grow inside of you
Let it grow
Let it flow inside of you
Let it grow let it grow let it grow
She said that its easy for men
And I said that we all feel the rain
Then she said
Move a little closer then
Who says that broken pieces don't mend
Chorus
'Cause in the garden of reason
You can't change what you're given
But you can go where the river flows
Let it grow grow grow grow
Let it grow grow grow grow
Yeah yeah yeah let it grow
Yeah
Let it grow
Life gives you a hand
You're playing by the rules
You'll never come through it.
Life gives you a hand
You're playing by the rules
You'll never come through it.
('cause in the garden of reason
You can't change what you're given
But you can go where the river flows)
07 Alcatraz (03:20)
Thru the ceiling
They really mean it
She's in Alcatraz
He don't walk it
And she just talks it
And nothing's left unsaid
Bail out I said bail out
And don't look down
Bail out, its only the ground
Under my floor
He's a warlord
And she wants out
Cos when she talks it
He distorts it
And the highway's in her head
Bail out I said bail out
And don't look down
Bail out, its only the ground
And the highway's in her head
Bail out I said bail out
And don't look down
Bail out, its only the ground
08 Chemical (06:08)
All your lives are the best I've ever heard
and all my time spent with you getting wasted I know
and all our tears start to flow when we crash to earth
and all our money spent on drugs getting cooked and burned
nothing will ever be the same
nothing will take away your pain
Chorus
You're love's all good
You're love's all good
it's chemical
I dream of a time when I'm straight and you set me free
but I can't walk away got some kind of dependency
Chorus
Chorus
You're love keeps me breathing
You're love is my healer
You're love keeps me trying
You're love brings me humour
You're love always finds me
You're love gives me meaning
You're love is my master
You're love stops me kneeling
You're Love is my Father
You're love stops me dying
You're love is my brother
You're love has got me on my knees
You're love is my mother
You're love is like my sister
You're love floats around me
You're love is like no other
You're love keeps me breathing
You're love is my healer
You're love keeps me trying
You're love brings me humour
You're love always finds me
You're love gives me meaning
You're love is my master
You're love stops me kneeling
You're love is my father
You're love stops me dying
You're love is my brother
You're love has got me on my knees
09 Sun (03:12)
I think you ought to know
It cuts right to the bone
I went and lost my head
And anything I could get
I'd like to say hello
But I'm hiding from the phone
I cant take it all in
Still reeling from the blow
Chorus
I hope the sun will shine again for me and I will make it in the end
I hope the sun will shine again for me and I will make it in the end
I see you through glass
The price they have to pay
For one sweet taste of you
For me it's not the same
It's time to let you go
I watch you drain away
It's easier on my soul
I'm better off this way
Chorus
I know you'll take me back again to where I was before
But for me this is the end
The end
Chorus
Chorus
10 Without You (03:58)
We used to love each other
And now Im having to discover
That all is not what it seems
And Im bleeding
Its so hard to let you go
No, No, No.
Without You
Without You
No, No, No
I feel a cold wind blow now
But I don't really wanna go now
Just keep holding on
Cause I need You
And I've got to let you know
No, No, No
Without You
Without You
I can't
I can't
I cannot Live without you
I can't without you
and I can't, I cannot live without you
I can't
I can't
I cannot live without you
Without you
11 Burn Again (04:31)
She's got a temper like a hurricane
Like Gasoline to a flame
She set fire to my heart
And then she blew it apart
And now I'm stranded on a love chicane
A cold chill when I hear her name
Cause even though I knew I'd lose
I still went and lit the fuse
Chorus
And so I burn again
I'll wait my turn again
Too young to hold it in
And so I burn again
She's got a head full of novocaine
But underneath still feels the same
She doesn't like it in the dark
Her little demons pull her apart
So now I'm stranded in a love chicaine
A cold chill when I hear her name
Cause even though I knew I'd lose
I still went and lit the fuse
Chorus
And so,so
Chorus
And so. so
Chorus
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