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L'album in questione risale al '99, stagione gravida di ottimi album rock. Molti ricorderanno la band soltanto per il video del singolo "Miserabile", in cui i quattro componenti si divertivano a scivolare tra le curve di una Pamela Anderson alla fine fatale per davvero.
Californiani come il genere impone (power-pop/punk sempre molto in voga soprattutto tra i teenager), i Lit hanno conosciuto un discreto seguito in patria, ma qui da noi a parte il video sopracitato e la colonna sonora per un cartoon poi non si è più saputo molto di loro.
All'interno di un genere molto usurato e comunque facile preda degli stereotipi, i Lit hanno però saputo esprimere il loro personale punto di vista proponendo una rilettura dal sapore retrò basata sugli stilemi del rock ‘n roll anni '50-'60. L'atmosfera generale infatti, a partire dalla grafica del booklet e proseguendo nel look dei quattro ragazzi (con tanto di brillantina, pantaloni con la piega e scarpe di pelle tirate a lucido) richiama l'entusiasmo cinematografico dei "fabulous fifties" (non a caso il titolo riprende il film del 1951 con Liz Taylor).
Le canzoni, quasi tutte briose ed easy listening, come dicevo si distinguono dai pezzi di altre band similari grazie al sound ispirato al classic rock delle fm americane. Questo è soprattutto vero per le ritmiche di batteria e chitarra di "Lovely Day", i giri di basso di "Quicksand", il lento da highschool prom di "Perfect One", i fiati rockabilly di "Happy" (il miglior brano del disco insieme a "The Best Is Yet To Come Undone") e i cori della title track in chiusura.
A completare l'opera di revival ci pensano i testi molto semplici, basati sui desideri quotidiani e i puntuali disagi legati al passaggio all'età adulta.
Un album riuscito, con canzoni divertenti, molto orecchiabili e arrangiate in modo non innovativo ma abbastanza originale.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
02 My Own Worst Enemy (02:49)
Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?
I didn't mean to call you that
I can't remember what was said or what you threw at me
Please tell me, please tell me why?
My car is in the front yard
And I'm sleeping with my clothes on
I came in through the window last night
And you're gone, gone
It's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy,
'Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me
The smoke alarm is going off when there's a cigarette
Still burning
Please tell me why
My car is in the front yard
And I'm sleeping with my clothes on
I came in through the window last night
And you're gone, gone
Please tell me why
My car is in the front yard
And I'm sleeping with my clothes on
I came in through the window last night
It's no surprise to me I am my own worst enemy
'Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me
Can we forget about the the things I said when I was drunk
I didn't mean to call you that
04 Miserable (04:16)
You make me come
You make me complete
You make me completely miserable
Stuck to a chair
Watchin' this story about me
Everything goes by so fast
Making my head spin
Used up all my friends
But who needs them
When you mean everything
Well I love the things that we should fear
And I'm not afraid of being here
So much the same
It makes me helpless alone
Nothing to share
Why should I
Care if you're near me
Give up all my plans
But who needs them
When you mean everything
I love the things that we should fear
And I'm not afraid of being here
So much the same
It makes me helpless alone
You make me come
You make me complete
You make me completely miserable
Well I love the things that we should fear
And I'm not afraid of being here
So much the same
It makes me helpless alone
You make me come
You make me complete
You make me completely miserable
06 Zip-Lock (03:32)
I've been stealing
Time where I can get it from
I've been losing
Grip on what I used to hold
If I could get another chance
I'd put it in a zip-loc bag
And keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Tell me
When I start to blow it would you
Show me
What I need to do before you
Hate me
I could never live with that so
Tell me
Before you're better off without me
Before you're better off without me
I've been watching you
Sleeping with a troubled look
I'm sure your bad dreams
Are probably all about me
And better off without me
If I could get another chance
I'd put it in a ziploc bag
And keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Tell me
When I start to blow it would you
Show me
What I need to do before you
Hate me
I could never live with that so
Tell me
Before you're better off without me
Before you're better off without me
Well I've been losing
Grip on what I used to hold
I don't want you
To be better off without me
If I could get another chance
I'd put it in a ziploc bag
And keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Keep it in my pocket
Tell me
When I start to blow it would you
Show me
Tell me
What I need to do before you
Hate me
Tell me
'cause I could never live with that so
Help me
Before you're better off without me
07 Lovely Day (04:06)
Shake it up and throw it
Roll it up and smoke it
No one knows what it's worth
Where it's going
Tired moneymakers
Boring conversators, keep it up
We all know where you blow it
And now I live in a world that I call my own
It's always nice when no one's home
Give it a time and a place if you don't ask what it's for
It's another world but it's something more than ordinary
And I live in a world that I call my own
It's always nice when no one's home
Give it a time and a place if you don't ask what it's for
It's another world but it's something more than ordinary
Such a lovely day and it's nothing more than ordinary
It's another world but it's something more than ordinary
Such a lovely day and it's nothing more than ordinary living
That you're living
Such a lovely day and it's nothing more than ordinary living
That you're living
Waking up and rollin'
Loaded up and flowing creeping out
We all know
Where you're going
Trying to ignore it
What you're looking for and no one knows
What its worth
Where it's going
And now I live in a world that I call my own
It's always nice when no one's home
Give it a time and a place if you don't ask what it's for
It's another world but it's something more than ordinary
Such a lovely day and it's nothing more than ordinary
It's another world but it's something more than ordinary living
That I'm living
09 Quicksand (03:17)
When I bring it up
You shut me out
So I keep on writing letters to myself
Are you doing alright
Are you burning out
Are you happy with the way it turned out
Running out of you
Running out of you
And I know you'll be running out of me
Are you holding up
Are you caving in
Are you happy with the way things have been
Running out of you
Running out of you
And I know you'll be running out of me
When it starts sinking in
Like quicksand
I can't stand
Watching the best of me
Go down with
The worst of you
Are you doing alright
Are you burning out
Are you happy with the way things turned out
Running out of you
Running out of you
And I know you'll be running out of me
10 Happy (02:51)
It wouldn't be so bad
If I could take a good thing and make it last
Money for the rent
Time that I spent, me and my girlfriend
My heart is broken down again
I blame it on myself
It wouldn't be so bad
If I could take a good thing and make it last
Money in the bank
Gas in the tank, me and my girlfriend
I'm crawling through the crowd again
And I'm looking for myself
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy so bad
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy so bad
You don't even care
Stepping out
Take it in
Starting over again Falling out
Starting over
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy so bad
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy so bad
It makes me mad
'cause I wanna be happy so bad
It makes me mad
I wanna be happy so bad
It makes me mad
I wanna be happy so bad
11 The Best Is Yet to Come Undone (04:31)
It's behind you and
It's in your face
Close your eyes
Selling years of their
Smoke and mirrors and
Open minds
And they try to find a way to make me something that
I'm not
I touched the world
I felt the sun
I know the best is yet to come undone
I looked around
At everyone
I know the best is yet to come undone
The best is yet to come undone
It's so obvious
That the promise
Keeps me here
Painting pictures where
All the colors Disappear And they try to find a way to make me something that I'm not
I touched the world
I felt the sun
I know the best is yet to come undone
I looked around
At everyone
I know the best is yet to come undone
The best is yet to come undone
The best is yet to come undone
And I find my way out
And I find my way out
It's so obvious
That the promise
Keeps me here
Painting pictures where
All the colors Disappear
And they try to find a way to make me something that I'm not
I touched the world
I felt the sun
I know the best is yet to come undone
I looked around
At everyone
I know the best is yet to come undone
Touched the world
Felt the sun
I know the best is yet to come undone
I looked around
At everyone
I know the best is yet to come undone
The best is yet to come undone
The best is yet to come undone
12 A Place in the Sun (04:21)
Gotta get that feeling
God I love this feeling
Someone come and stop me 'cause this I'm winning
I should have left you when I was up
I should have left you when I was up
I should've had enought sense to
Get up and leave this town
I should've had enough sense to
It was a turn around
Walking through the golden sands I'm quenching my thirst
Jump into the fountain and I'm going head first
Lost in a place in the sun
And it's going down
It's going down
It's going down
It's going down
I should have left you when I was up
I should have left you when I was up
I should've had enought sense to
Get up and leave this town
I should've had enough sense to
It was a turn around
I should've had enought sense to
Get up and leave this town
I should've had enough sense to
It was a turn around
Lost in a place in the sun
And it's going down
It's going down
It's going down
It's going down
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