Se Black Sabbath e Pink Floyd avessero potuto dare alla luce un bastardo, l’avrebbero chiamato Kyuss.
Una creatura sfornata nel cuore degli anni novanta, goffa, allucinata ed anche nana, sulle spalle di quel gigante che per il rock rappresentarono i seventies. Ma c’è di più. Homme e company non furono mai originali. Pure gli artworks (e l’omissione di riferimenti d’ogni tipo nei booklet) li scopiazzarono dai Led Zeppelin. Giusto per tagliare la testa al toro, aggiungeremo che non hanno mai posseduto neanche un gran talento tecnico-esecutivo. E proprio quando il tifone Nirvana (sulla scia dei suddetti dictat) stava per affossare una volta per tutte un genere, ecco che compare “Blues For The Red Sun” (1992). Fu così che Homme, Garcia e quell’altro tossico decerebrato di Olivieri, lasciate perdere le tedianti storie sul male di vivere, decisero di (re)insegnarci a vivere per farci del male.
“Wretch” (1991) purtroppo, non arriva ai loro più altisonanti capolavori (che erano ahimè tutti abbondantemente recensiti). Si tratta di un album che testimonia l’assurdo percorso di questa band, partita da un abusato hard ‘n’heavy di eco “hatfieldiano”, ed “evolutasi a ritroso” sino a maturare una verve retrò-artistica sulla quale ha fondato un (sotto)genere: lo Stoner. Ironia della sorte, adesso sono proprio i Metallica che li emulano: alcuni brani di “St. Anger” potrebbero tranquillamente entrare in questo “Wretch” (e viceversa). Una tappa di passaggio dunque, con cui la band si è concessa il tempo di crescere. L’impeto (a tratti fine a se stesso) di tracks come “The Law”, “Son Of A Bitch”, e “Love Has Passed Me By” ne sono la riprova. L’approccio di “Isolation” e “I’m Not”, supportato dal classico quattro quarti cassa-rullante made in U.S.A. (se portato da uno Yankee anche il tempo può assumere connotazioni rozze, almeno per il sottoscritto), verrà successivamente rispolverato dagli Unida di Garcia. In “Stage III” comincia a far capolino qualche accenno più sperimentale, quasi però a livello di sfogo. Lo stesso si potrebbe dire di “Deadly Kiss”.
Sulla base dei suoni e dei pezzi che “Wretch” contiene, verrà successivamente innestato l’elemento desertico ed allucinogeno che caratterizza la band. La formula non è ancora completa quindi, mancando il “quinto elemento”. E cioè il produttore Chris Goss, che provvederà ad ovattare e limare l’affilatura delle taglienti Les Paul di quest’album.
Comunque sia, nel suo piccolo, anche “Wretch” ha contribuito a rinviare di qualche anno le celebrazioni per i funerali del rock. Lo danno sempre tutti per spacciato ma fino ad ora li ha seppelliti tutti, pure quel fesso di Cobain.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 [Beginning of What's About to Happen] HWY 74 (04:43)
In the middle of the Highway,
As you ride down the road,
Just get that feeling,
It's all so black and bald.
And then theres my face,
When you're drivin the desert sand,
Well open my hand,
Well open up the land.
Yeah.
Well everyone now bring your car to me.
From the mother of earth to the depth of the sea.
Well dont raise any hand for me,
When ya na na na na need me.
Yeah.
In the middle of the Highway,
As you ride down the road,
Just get that feeling,
It's all so black and bald.
And then theres my face,
And a-drivin the desert sand.
Well open my hand,
Well open up the land.
Yeah.
Well everyone now bring your car to me,
From the mother of earth to the depth of the sea.
Well dont raise any hands for me,
no no,
When ya na na na na need me.
Yeah.
02 Love Has Passed Me By (03:12)
Do I look blind?
or deaf?
or dumb to you?
Do you see burning pictures on my face?
It didnt take long
To figure out whats wrong with you
Fuck Off, well I'll put you in your place
Could it be,
That love has passed me by?
And could it be,
You're just a thorn in my side?
And all I see
Is that your walking away from me?
And all I know
Is that you'll never change me.
This hate in me,
Well it's burning in my veins.
I'm gonna' take it out on you,
Well and make you feel my pain yeah.
Cold carresses,
Well as you walk away.
Baby, things arent,
supposed to be that way, no no.
Could it be,
That love has passed me by?
And could it be,
You're just a thorn in my side?
And all I see
Is your walking away from me?
And all I know
That you'll never...
Do I look blind?
or deaf?
or dumb to you?
Do you see burning pictures on my face?
It didnt take long,
To figure out, whats wrong with you.
Fuck Off, well I'll put you in your place yeah.
03 Son of a Bitch (06:03)
Goddamn son of a bitch (5x)
Goddamn son of a bitch
See the young ones play
And say what you want to hear
You have long legs, long hair
Big tits, you got a big arse
Your pot will never last, never last
Goddamn son of a bitch (4x)
Goddamn son of a bitch
See the young ones say, well and play
What they want to hear, from you
You say you're not fucking with them
You say they're not fucking with you
Compete with them and you'll never win, never win
Goddamn son of a bitch (4x)
Well its cold where we come from
But not to make me freeze
I look around me at what I see
The world deeper than before
There's been a change in me
Things are looking pretty blurry
I keep a wishing she would wake me
And tell me it was just a bad dream
But I guess you're gonna be awakened
Well your already wakened to reality yeah
Goddamn son of a bitch (4x)
04 Black Widow (02:44)
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me away.
Give me a fucking reason, i reason i should stay!
Built for buisness or for pleasure,
Anyway you choose.
It doesn't matter how or why,
'Cos either way you lose.
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me now,
Give me away.
Give me a fucking reason, i reason i should stay!
Built for buisness or for pleasure,
Anyway you choose.
It doesn't matter how or why,
'Cos either way you lose.
Yeah, Yeah.
05 Katzenjammer (02:23)
I want a girl and not a pearl.
I want a girl who'll take me home.
A kind is nice and will get me
where i want to go. yeah.
Theres been a lover to ignore me,
To ask me the one who knows.
If I tell the car, run the other,
Will it end from there?
Take a look underneath the hood,
And I won't be friends.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
Blue Shaddows on the track.
Run your fingers through my hair,
Use my Dodger to get me there.
Line my seats with everybody there.
Oh my god then baby will last,
Its got little hands and baby blue eyes,
Mine who will last when my baby will lie.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
Baby in my motor,
Make my blood boil,
Be on her.
yeah.
06 Deadly Kiss (05:04)
Look into my face now
Stare into my eyes
Hellfire in my veins
in my veins
in my veins
in my vein, yeah.
I can see through your eyes,
Its no disguise to me,
I can see through the lies,
No one can make a fool of me.
Drowning in your lonliness,
Want to bring me down with you.
No one buys your innocence,
Gonna' break your walls in two.
Well in two,
Well in two.
No one buys it,
No one wanted to,
With you,
You,
Fuck you.
Dig your grave for two.
Walk my way,
Get out of my way.
Well I wanted you,
I saw right through ya.
Well I'm your man,
You'll understand,
You'll pay the price,
To live in a-paradise.
Look into my face now,
Stare into my eyes.
Hellfire in my veins,
In my veins,
In my veins,
In my vein yeah.
I can see through your eyes,
Well its no disguise to me.
I can see through the lies,
No one can make a fool of me.
I'm drowning in your lonliness,
Want to bring me down with you.
No one buys your innocence,
Gonna break your walls in two.
Well in two,
Well in two.
Well no one buys it,
No one wanted to,
With you,
You,
Fuck you.
Dig your grave for two.
07 The Law (07:52)
Darkness, imprisoning me.
Feeling, that darkness in me.
Me and it's you, and I run over you.
So let me be.
Swing low,
Into the blood off of me.
Me and lie on the streets of law,
Breaking down the road.
So bringing me down,
Well in to the ground.
No one sees me, and no one talks,
Cuz we all know it to be mine.
Me and lie on the streets of law,
Breaking down the road.
So bringing me down,
Well in to the ground.
No one sees me, and no one talks,
Cuz we all know it to be mine.
yeah.
yeah.
yeah.
[whispered]
yeah, spend
spend yeah.
yeah, spend
yeah, spend
yeah.
yeah.
yeah.
yeah.
[whispered]
Yeah.
Darkness imprisoning me,
Feeling, that darkness in me.
Me and it's you, and I run over you.
So let me be.
Swing low,
Into the blood off of me.
09 I'm Not (04:39)
I'm not,
Ready to leave this world.
Bring as big a people,
Well no one told me about them.
Sometimes, well it doesnt seem to matter,
But I'll make mine a good one.
Up with the clouds of hate.
Only,
time,
will tell,
Time, will tell.
Will tell.
I'm not,
Ready to leave this world.
Bring as big a people.
Well no one told me about them.
Sometimes, well it doesnt seem to matter,
But I'll make mine a good one.
Up with the clouds of hate yeah...
Well only,
Time,
Will tell,
Well only
Time, will tell.
Well only time.
Well only time will tell.
Takin' it yourself,
Well only time will tell.
Yeah.
Only.
Time
Will tell
Only,
Time, tell.
Well only time will tell.
Well only time will tell.
Well I'm not,
Ready to leave this world.
Bring as big a people,
Well no one told me about them.
Sometimes, well it doesnt seem to matter,
But I'll make mine a good one.
Up with the clouds of hate yeah...
Only.
Time
Will tell
Only,
Time, will tell.
Only, time.
10 Big Bikes (05:01)
Here she comes a ridin
Well burning down the street.
Here she comes a fucking the boy,
Hear the New York street
Cuz I want some pussy,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
From a bad bitch
well on a big bike,
big bike yeah.
He is feelin' nasty,
She is feelin' nice tonight.
Hey baby, well, I want to cool you down.
I need something tonight
Cuz I want some pussy,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
From a bad bitch
On a big bike,
Big bike yeah.
Here she comes a ridin
Well burning down the street.
Here she comes a fucking the feet boy,
Hear the New York street
Cuz I want some pussy,
Yeah yeah yeah yeah.
From a bad bitch (mmm)
On a big bike,
Big bike....
Big bike.
Whose the?
Yes you think it wide?
Yes you,
Yes you,
Yes you CK...
*Yeah*
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