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MOTLEY CRUETHEATRE OF PAIN ( 21/06/1985, ELEKTRA ) Nella carriera di una rock band il terzo album rappresenta il momento della verità, costituendo un traguardo fondamentale ed il miglior indice di giudizio per la critica. Nel 1985 i Motley Crue riescono ad incidere un disco superlativo, annoverabile fra gli episodi più memorabili dell’ intero movimento glam, nonostante il singer Vince Neil fosse stato coinvolto in un incidente stradale in cui aveva involontariamente causato la morte dell’ amico e batterista degli Hanoi Rocks Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley (la faccenda si concluse con la condanna per omicidio a Neil che se la cavò, non senza polemiche, con una pesante cauzione e circa 200 ore da dedicare ai servizi sociali). I Crue si presentano all’ appuntamento col successo in piena forma, rimpiazzando la furia cieca che aveva caratterizzato “Shout at the Devil” (1983) con un sound sempre hard ma dai giochi chitarristici più patinati ed eleganti. La scelta della band si rivela decisamente positiva, anche perché sarebbe stato molto difficile eguagliare i livelli di “ Shout at the Devil” restando sugli stessi binari sonori. Ancora una volta il livello delle songs risulta estremamente elevato, rendendo difficile individuare le tracce migliori di questo platter che diviene quattro volte platino e raggiunge in breve tempo la posizione #6 nelle classifiche americane, restando in chart per ben 72 settimane.
L’ouverture del disco è affidata alla trascinante “City boy blues” , in cui Vince Neil si dimostra singer di livello assoluto. Il lavoro prosegue in crescendo con una cover dei Brownsville Station riveduta e corretta, la bellissima “ Smokin’ in the boy’ s room” dove cori e chitarre si intrecciano in un ritmo vorticoso e scanzonato. Questa traccia, aiutata dall’ heavy-rotation di uno dei video più ironici e sarcastici mai realizzati, diviene un vero e proprio hit massivo che culmina alla posizione #16 delle charts statunitensi, guadagnandosi l’ appellativo di inno generazionale per molti teenagers americani e non. Seguono la potente “ Louder than hell” e la sognante power ballad “ Home sweet home”, il cui pregevole videoclip risulta, nel 1985, il più richiesto dai giovani telespettatori di MTV. Il disco ci regala altri pezzi immortali come “ Tonight” e la velocissima “Use it or lose it” finendo col lasciarsi definitivamente andare sulle note delle più ritmate “ Save our souls” e “ Fight for your rights” . Ciò che stupisce di questo album, la cui produzione venne affidata all’ abile Tom Werman, è la capacità di costruire riffs solidi ed eleganti, senza disperdere al vento l’importante lezione melodica di padri putativi come Kiss, Aerosmith ed Alice Cooper. Strizzando l’ occhio alle classifiche ed inquadrando una band decisa a proseguire sul folle e variopinto sentiero intrapreso quattro anni addietro “ Theatre of Pain è l’ album che permette ai Motley Crue di valicare definitivamente i confini degli Stati Uniti esportando il proprio sound elettrizzante in tutto il mondo.
TRACK LIST:
- CITY BOY BLUES
- SMOKIN’ IN THE BOY’ S ROOM
- LOUDER THAN HELL
- KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MONEY
- HOME SWEET HOME
- TONIGHT (WE NEED A LOVER)
- USE IT OR LOSE IT
- SAVE OUR SOULS
- RAISE YOUR HANDS TO ROCK
- FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS
- HOME SWEET HOME (DEMO) - ristampa Crucial Crue
- SMOKIN’ IN THE BOY’ S ROOM (ALTERNATE GUITAR SOLO-ROUGH MIX) - ristampa Crucial Crue
- CITY BOY BLUES (DEMO) - ristampa Crucial Crue
- HOME SWEET HOME (INSTRUMENTAL ROUGH MIX) - ristampa Crucial Crue
- KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MONEY (DEMO) - ristampa Crucial Crue
- TOMMY’ S DRUM PIECE FROM CEROKIEE STUDIOS - ristampa Crucial Crue (versione giapponese)SINGOLI: SMOKIN’ IN THE BOY’ S ROOM / USE IT OF LOSE IT 24/06/1985 HOME SWEET HOME / RED HOT 30/09/1985
Elenco tracce testi e video
02 Smokin' in the Boys Room (03:24)
Sittin' in the classroom thinkin' it's a drag
Listening to the teacher rap-just ain't my bag
When two bells ring you know it's my cue
Gonna meet the boys on floor number 2
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school
Checkin' out the halls makin sure the coast is clear
Lookin' in the stalls-nah, there ain't nobody here
My buddies Sixx, Mick & Tom
To get caught would surely be the death of us all
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school Put me to work the school
book store
Check-out counter and I got bored
Teacher was lookin' for me all around
Two hours later you know where I was found
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
Everybody knows that smokin' ain't allowed in school
One more time
Smokin' in the boys room
Smokin' in the boys room
Teacher don't you fill me up with your rules
05 Home Sweet Home (03:51)
You know I'm a dreamer
But my heart's of gold
I had to run away high
So I wouldn't come home low
Just when things went right
It doesn't mean they were always wrong
Just take this song and you'll never feel
Left all alone
Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And I'm comin' off this
Long & winding road
I'm on my way
Well I'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home sweet home
You know that I've seen
To many romantic dreams
Up in lights, fallin' off
The silver screen
My heart's like an open book
For the whole world to read
Sometimes nothing-keeps me together
At the seams
I'm on my way
Well I'm on my way
Home sweet home
Tonight tonight
I'm on my way
Just set me free
07 Use It or Lose It (02:35)
Ragtime fast lane another overdose
You know James Dean wasn't playing the role
I said hey, you, what-cha gonna do
When time runs out on you
Use it or lose it
Sweet pain is the name of the game
I said hey hey hey hey hey
You better use it before you lose it
You better use it don't throw it away
JFK, Marilyn Monroe
Street walking gypsy-Margaret Trudeau
I said hey, you, what-cha gonna do
Time's run out on you Use it or lose it
Sweet time is it on my side?
I said hey hey hey hey hey
Better use it before you lose it
You better use it don't throw it away
Sweet pain is the name of the game
I said hey hey hey hey hey
Better use it before you lose it
You better use it don't throw it away, hey
Better use it before you lose it
You better use it don't throw it away
Hey hey hey-don't throw it away
Hey hey hey-don't throw it away
08 Save Our Souls (04:10)
Black Angels laughing in the city streets
Street toys scream in pain and clench their teeth
The moonlight spotlights all the city crime
Got no religion, Laugh while they fight
Save our souls for the heavens
For a life so good it sure feels bad
Save our souls for the heavens
Save our souls for the promised land
Sweet tarts play the game and shoot to thrill
Runnin free through the trash, dressed to kill
The midnight show-stoppers, it's a funny money game
A hundred thousand bleeding hearts, put us in our graves Save our souls for the
heavens
For a life so good it sure feels bad
Save our souls for the heavens
Save our souls for the promised land
It s been the hard road, edge of an overdose
No matter how high you re still too low
I've been the dancer, the wicked romancer
09 Raise Your Hands to Rock (02:42)
Sometimes I feel turned around
And upside down
And sometimes maybe I drink too much
But my heart's still in touch
I remember standing tall telling you
I'm gonna be a rock n roll star
When someone said Sit down, boy
"You already are"
So
Raise your hands to rock (rock)
Uh-huh Summertime was always right
Just me and you
Sixteen and dealing with
Those summertime blues
I was Young and restless
Living on the edge of a dream
When someone somewhere said
Ya just gotta believe
10 Fight for Your Rights (03:42)
Can't break the chains
Can't solve the pain
Can't rhyme problem with reason
Not taking sides
Just asking why
Does the pain eat the children
Who wrote the Bible
Who set the laws
Are we left to history's flaws
And if you're out there
Then let me hear (hey)
And take a look in the mirror
Fight fight for your rights
Fight fight for your rights
Can't name no names
Of who's to blame
For cries out in the sky We're all slaves to time
No color's right
Throw our hate into the fire
Martin Luther
Brought the truth
The color of our blood's the same
So break the chains
And solve the pains
And we all become one race
Fight fight for your rights
Fight fight for your rights
Oh people people
Is the scar too deep
You can't hold a man's soul
By the color of his keys
A tear o' blood runs from my eye
But somehow I can never
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