Chi sono i Mando Diao ?? Boh, direte voi. Quelli di "Sheep Dog"??.. ah si ora ricordo, quelli pettinati alla Beatles che cantavano "YEAH YEAH YEAH".
Esatto, sono loro, il quartetto svedese rock n roll migliore sulla piazza (e non dite che sono gli Hives per l'amor di Dio) che con l'album d'esordio "Bring 'Em In" (2002) riscossero un certo successo, anche se non abbastanza come meriterebbero. Dopo "Hurricane Bar" (2004) di cui noto con sdegno non esiste recensione (non ci siamo, non ci siamo) ecco che viene alla luce "Ode to Ochrasy"... ma vieni!!! Premessa: io amo le recensioni bizzarre e originali ma per un album come questo vale la pena di fare il tradizionalista dunque mi propinquo (si scrive così???) nella dettagliata analisi track by track, per rendere giustizia a il più sottovalutato gruppo Brit Rock dell'era contemporanea.
1. "Welcome Home, Luc Robitaille" e lo show comincia, bella partenza, non troppo vilenta ma neanche troppo banale.. ottimo il ritornello e strofa scanzonata che ti fà capire da subito che non hai buttato 17 Euro nel cesso. Ma non è ancora niente
2. "Killer Kaczynski" canzone stupenda!!! pieno stile Mando Diao. Niente da dire, pezzo più energico e forse anche più bello di tutto l'album. Stavolta canta Bjorn e tira fuori tutta la sua voce in un ritornello urlato estremamente potente. La canzone è suonata molto grezza e non si può che esaltarsi, visto poi che arriva l atraccia n. . .
3. "Long Before Rock n Roll" primo singolo estratto, suona molto stile Libertines (e scusate se è poco!!!) grazie anche all'alternanza nel cantato di Bjorn e Gustaf e il risultato è perfetto veramete molto bello. Scaricatevi il video al più presto
4. "The Wildfire" dai Libertines si passa agli Strokes ma il risultato stavolta è inferiore rispetto alle tre tracce precedenti.. comunque sufficente
5. "You Don't Understand Me" anche qui ci si scatena, bel testo, bella musica, bello bello bello l'acuto finale quasi a stonare del cantante molto molto rock
6. "Tony Zoulias" gran bel pezzo anche questo, meglio del precedente, ottimi giri di chitarra, ritornello accattivante in pieno stile Mando Diao... si non sono cambiati di una virgola... grazie a Dio.
7. "Amsterdam" qui un pò si cala, anche se la canzone è comunque bella ma forse la mancanza di un ritornello di primo impatto mi fà snobbare un pò il pezzo
8. "TV n Me" qui invece decisamente di siamo, grandissima canzone, grandissima energia, ritmo che ricalca un pò la dance anni 80 ma solo per le orecchie esperte pezzo D'ANTOLOGIA!!!
9. "Josephine" ah ah ah ah carina dai ma niente di più, potevano risparmiarsela
10. "The New Boy" bella bella bella, lenta, delicata, orecchiabile, insomma la nuova "Next to be Lowered". (la nuova chi??direte voi... 'niurant!!)
11. "Morning Paper Dirt" qui si cade un pò nel già sentito, pezzo che non incide più di tanto
12. "Good Morning, Herr Horst" una parola. . . "Coral", precisazione "IL MEGLIO DEI CORAL", canzone geniale
Si chiude con "Song for Aberdeen" (13) e "ochrasy" (14), la prima gradevole e forse un pò sperimentale?? che comunque mantiene un bel ritmo anche se non ha praticamnete ritornello e la seconda ballatona acustica che chiude un gran bel cd di puro rock n roll.
Non sarà il più bello dei Mando ma merita veramente. Sicuramente ha un sound più attuale dei primi 2 album (che erano un pò piu revival anni 60) qui si prende il meglio della scena rock moderna e se amate questo genere non fatevi mancare questo album.
Poi se non mi credete... FUCK FOREVER!!!
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Welcome Home, Luc Robitaille (04:33)
Smile you're on tv again
You must put up a happy face
Your mother told you to on Christmas day
Oh you must do what they say
Now you're thinking of happy thoughts
Like no one did you harm and it was all
Life's so brilliant but why? I'm not sure
You remember the day
You remember the package
Where he used to spend his years
And now you found him or was it him that found you
It feels like you already knew
Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away
This must be the worst thing I've done
I don't know even why I wrote this song
There's so much more to him than that paper card
Look at him crossing the line oh it's so hard
To define the moves inside my head it's all just
Blood blood sweat sweat tears tears behind all fears
Now it seems so clear everything falls into place
This mathematic maze and now you found me
Or was it me that found you it feels like you already knew
Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away
I threw the others away
Smile you're on tv again you must put up a
Happy face your mother told you to
And now you see you found him or was it
him that found you
It feels like you already knew
Life is sweet when he is back so I just say
Welcome home, Luc Robitaille there's so much
That you missed I'm old but I need you as much as yesterday
Oh Mr. Robitaille stay
I threw the others away
02 Killer Kaczynski (02:31)
Bombs over the street bombs all over the subway
Bombs on your mind when there's noone around
In your garden there was never a problem but
Now you're standing on the street
Bombs for your dad bombs for your mommy
Bombs that passed a long time ago
And in your childhood there was never a problem but
Now you're standing on the street
And you wish there was something you could do
To win back that feeling that was new and fresh but
Bombs over the street bombs all over the subway
Bombs on your mind and the people around
It's such a shame now this game you play now
You're standing lonely on the street
With bombs tied on to your feet
Blood all over the street blood all over your body
Blood on your mind and the people around
And in your garden there was never a problem but
Now you're standing on the street
And you wish there was something you could do
To win back that feeling that was new and fresh but
Bombs over the street all over the subway...
03 Long Before Rock 'n' Roll (02:49)
She said I like just lying on the bed
Beneath the ceiling with her head
Upon my pillow there's nothing
Else I'd rather do and I said I'd
Rather do it on the couch or in
The kitchen where about
You seem so down child
Like nothing could destroy
Your world
But I never ever wanted to
You would never let me to
I would but you must wait until it gets dark
So what is it that you want me to
I can make it if it's good for you
So play me some from 1954
Before rock'n'roll
Well later she came with
Flowers in her arms said
We can do it in the car
My brother owns it
The driver seat is made
For us I said I'd rather grab
A bite to eat there is a
Diner down the street
Let's take it easy and
Join this loverly harmony
But I never wanted to...
04 The Wildfire (If It Was True) (04:25)
Well there's something in the way
she said I hate you cause you breathe
it's not the first time I heard it
but it's one that's out of reach
I've got my mind set on destruction
and if it will strike me hard
will you remember me?
O its in the way you set your life
on your alarm and hit the snoozer
you wast your life expectancy
you throw away your hopes and dreams
the night will never end, it will stay forever
while the dark will eat you up inside...
So I smile and shed a tear
and said when will you go away
she said who cares you're not entitled
to ask those things today
don't let the salt get in your eyes
don't let the ghost get in your heart
there were sweet memories
in the corner of my mind
they were telling me to throw up
all the things I want to hide
Now were having fun in the daytime
we chase the stars in the nighttime
we catch the sun in the morning
we just don't care if they see us fall
if it was true
well today I bought the paper by myself
And cried because everyone was happy
And on the streets well they where dancing
To some kind of Puerto Rican music
That we would hate But we would just move along to
so if you're driving in your car
and hear this song on radio one
Well I know that it sound silly
Cause you don`t have a car
But I just read it in a book
That these things happen in the fictive world
so I smile and shed a tear
and said when will you go away
she said who cares you're not entitled
to ask those things today
don't let the salt get in your eyes
don't let the gost get in your heart
there were sweet memories
in the corner of my mind
they were telling me to throw up
all the thing I want to hide
Now were having fun in the daytime
we chase the stars in the nighttime
we catch the sun in the morning
we just don't care if they see us fall
just don't care just don't care at all
if it was true
well there's something in the air
that makes it difficult to live
The way we lived back in the days
When we had all the time to kill
It's just the wildfire burning
There's no way to put it out
Just a wildfire spreading
Through my days and throug my nights
Don't ask no questions
Don't ever tell no lie
I'm so tired of explaining
The Every minor detail of my life
were having fun in the daytime
we chase the stars in the nighttime
we catch the sun in the morning
we just don't care if they see us fall
were having fun in the daytime
we chase the stars in the nighttime
we catch the sun in the morning
we just don't care if they see us fall
just don't care just don't care at all
if it was true
05 You Don't Understand Me (04:09)
You came a long way you didn't know my name girl
You thought that I was just a gigolo
And you told all your friends that I was strange and weird
But that's a lie that I'm sure you know
So I'm telling you where to start
But you're not interested at all
'Cause you, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
You, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
Ohhh... What Ive been through
It's such a shame I'm wasting all my talent
Writing songs to you without feelings
You didn't want the heaven by your side
That's too bad you'll see 'cause I'm warm and nice
And now you're telling me where to go
I wish that I cared but I don't
'Cause you, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
You, you don't understand me
You don't understand what
What I've been through
Ohhh...
But I will alway be the one that holds you in the end...
07 Amsterdam (03:23)
I was down in Amsterdam
Almost hurt myself to death
I pushed myself so hard just like the redlight girls
Well I cried and stopped to smile
I thought my career is over
And the dealer boys they had to bring me water
I stumbled over mountains
And the shadows of the street
I fell into the river
I cried and begged for mercy
And I talked to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
When I came to in Amsterdam
The hotel showed a movie
With Marlon Brando and his friend Pacino
Well I thought that this is nice
And I'm sure I can relax now
But suddenly the room was full of demons
I escaped through the window
Almost ran a mile away
I had nowhere to go
So I cried and begged for mercy
And I talked to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
But nothing seems to matter
In this lonesome dirty town
But for a short brief moment
I thought she was the one
And she and I were fighting
About sex, love and TV
That's why I had to get down
And talk to God on the telephone
But I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
No I really can't tell you what he told me
But it was a lie
08 TV & Me (03:46)
Gunned down in a fight
It was a bloody pleasure
Though I couldn't walk
I'm not dead I smell the pavement
At the end there's a light
And so pretty women
Though I couldn't see
I'm not blind and inside my mind
Fright night on the radio starving Junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's conan something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & Me
Lift off into space
It's all on discovery
I don't understand why it takes
So long for me to turn
So long for me to turn it off
Fright night on the radio starving Junkies on the TV
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
While there's conan something
MTV's burning up from lack of fever
I ain't got nothing against them brother
I just sit and hang around
I just wish there was something more to this
TV & Me
09 Josephine (02:40)
Josephine is not your kind she believes in magic & rhymes
You tried hard to make her fine but she sleeps with acid
Do her parents know it's for real
When she asks them to be high I don't know
But they sure will be aware of it
She smokes clouds every single night
Should be glad that she's alive
In her head she sees butterflies with pistols
Josephine is not your kind she believes in ravers with dimes
You tried hard to see her eyes but they're made for others
She runs to the club with some cash and spends them
Taking care of her gets the very best of a man
And pays him with a laugh don't you see
She's not a mystery
11 Morning Paper Dirt (02:30)
You smacked her right between her blue eyes
You didn't think ahead, yeah that was what he said
Then everyone of us just turned our backs to him and said
That was not a nice thing to do yeah
I can't believe that he was so cruel
But you love your brother
No matter what they say
Yeah you love your brothers
No matter what kind of games you play
And it's gonna rain that's what they say
And we're just gonna cover our heads
And we ain't coming out 'till we're dead, oh no
And It's gonna drown all of our sins
But we don't wanna loose what we've got
No we don't wanna loose what we own, oh no
This stinking alley's full of old cats and dogs
They got no money and they got no home
Oh I was once one of them but now I'm on my own
And it feels so good to be an outlaw
In your perfect world
‘Cause you love your brothers
No matter what they say
Yeah you love your brother
No matter what kind of games you play
(Oh Yeah)
It's gonna rain that's what they say
And we're just gonna cover our heads
And we ain't coming out 'till we're dead, oh no
And It's gonna drown all of our sins
But we don't wanna loose what we've got
No we don't wanna loose what we own, oh no
And It's gonna rain and that's for sure
It's gonna rain and that's for sure...
14 Ochrasy (03:17)
I feel dizzy all laid back and I'm too blind to see
What's going on outside my lonely window
I'm turning on the TV screen watch the news for a while
Then I fall back to sleep again
And I'm dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it
I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This world is full of misery, the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream
I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it
Now they come again all these soldiers without shame
Dressed in black an equipped with fire
They can stop our happy days and put us in the graves
But never reach the ochrasy
I was dreaming 'bout times, times that are gone
Times when I lived alone in my own land called ochrasy
That place was everything to me
The world I made it up you see
It's all there in my fantasy
And I believe it
I'm waking up again and see that war on screen again
And it makes me want to go and hide
This world is full of misery the anger is too big to see
That's why I had to dream this dream
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