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Visto la recensione recente di BASTARDS (1993), vorrei recensire questo album uscito un anno prima, per inquadrare il periodo artistico di LEMMY e soci.
Finiti gli anni '80 con il bistrattato da critica e pubblico "ROCK'N'ROLL" (1987), rivalutato dagli stessi MOTORHEAD di recente riproponendo in sede live alcuni pezzi,entrarono nel nuovo decennio con il buon "1916" (1991). I dischi che usciranno in questo periodo, tre in tre anni, sono caratterizzati da una vena piu' hard rock in sostituzione della velocita' di esecuzione e dell'imediatezza classica motorhediana.
"MARCH OR DIE" esce un anno dopo"1916" con una piccola variazione in formazione.Abbandona la batteria lo squilibrato PHILTY ANIMAL TAYLOR e entra al suo posto il "MASTINO" MIKKEY DEE, per restarci fino ai giorni nostri.
Apre il disco l'hard rock STAND un mid tempo classico alla MOTORHEAD, si prosegue con la buona cover di CAT SCRATCH FEVER, cavallo di battaglia di quel pazzo di TED NUGENT.
Ancora un mid tempo con BAD RELIGION, poi la velocita' sale con la piu' veloce JACK THE RIPPER.
Alla quinta traccia una piccola sorpresa, una ballad, I AIN'T NO NICE GUY , cantata da LEMMY insieme all'amico OZZY OSBOURNE. Da questo disco in avanti le canzoni piu' lente e acustiche inizieranno a comparire piu' sovente nelle tracks-list degli album, anche se non sempre, la "vociaccia" di LEMMY si adattera' nei migliori dei modi.
Per ribadire il forte legame che lega LEMMY ad OZZY,la traccia numero sei e' quella HELLRAISER scritta dai due insieme a ZAKK WYLDE e gia' presente su NO MORE TEARS (1991) del MADMAN. La canzone diventera' una piccola hit del periodo.
ASYLUM CHOIR e TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE sono due buone hard-rock'n'roll songs,YOU BETTER RUN poggia su un classico quanto banale giro blues, NAME IN VAIN e' la piu' veloce del disco che si conclude con la marcia di guerra scandita dal vocione del buon Lemmy.
Disco di transizione dunque, se cosi' si puo' dire di un gruppo come i MOTORHEAD, che non mai ceduto a cambiamenti radicali del proprio sound salvo alcune lievi modifiche a volte mal accolte. Seguira' BASTARDS (1993) e il buonissimo SACRIFICE (1995) a mio parere il picco artistico degli anni novanta.
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05 I Ain't No Nice Guy (04:16)
When I was young I was the nicest guy I knew
I thought I was the chosen one
But time went by and I found out a thing or two
My shine wore off as time wore on
I thought that I was living out the perfect life
But in the lonely hours when the truth begins to bite
I thought about the times when I turned my back & stalled
I ain't no nice guy after all
When I was young I was the only game in town
I thought I had it down for sure,
But time went by and I was lost in what I found
The reasons blurred, the way unsure
I thought that I was living life the only way
But as I saw that life was more than day to day
I turned around, I read the writing on the wall
I ain't no nice guy after all
I ain't no nice guy after all
In all the years you spend between your birth and death
You find there's lots of times you should have saved your breath
It comes as quite a shock when that trip leads to fall
06 Hellraiser (04:37)
I'm living on an endless road
Around the world for rock and roll
Sometimes it feels so tough
But I still ain't had enough
I keep saying that it's getting to much
But I know I'm a liar
Feeling all right in the noise and the light
But that's what lights my fire
Hellraiser, In the thunder and heat
Hellraiser, Rock you back in your seat
Hellraiser, And I'll make it come true
Hellraiser, I'll put a spell on you
Walking out on another stage
Another town, another place
Sometimes I don't feel right
Nerves wound up to damn tight
Don't you tell me it's bad for my health
'Cos kicking back don't make it
Out of control, I play the ultimate role
Don't know how to fake it
Hellraiser, In the thunder and heat
Hellraiser, Rock you back in your seat
Hellraiser, And I'll make it come true
Hellraiser, I'll put a spell on you
(Repeat first verse)
Hellraiser, In the thunder and heat
Hellraiser, Rock you back in your seat
Hellraiser, And I'll make it come true
Hellraiser, I'll put a spell on you
(Repeat Chorus)
07 Asylum Choir (03:40)
Gone out of sight there's only darkness in my eyes
Hey, hey, where are the loosers now
Gone inside outlaws every day a losing streak
Every day they tell us lies
The sky, the sky is crushing you
The wall, the walls are touching you too
Even the floor is clutching you
And all the eyes that ever closed are open,
and they're watching you
Blind justice hears the voice of bribery all right,
Hey, hey, but she don't see the joke
There's only treason left when you put out the light
You can't see who it was that spoke
The sky, the sky is crushing you
The wall, the walls are touching you too
Even the floor is clutching you
And all the eyes you ever closed are open,
and they're watching you
There ain't no windows in the hallways anymore
Hey, hey, the news is awful bad
Two schizophrenics but I can't see them at all
Anymore and I'll go mad
The sky is crushing you
And now the walls are closing in on you
Even the floor is tripping you
And all the eyes you ever closed are open,
and they're watching you
08 Too Good to Be True (03:36)
I saw some sad times I said
I'd had enough of heartbreak
I told myself that I could never fall again
Then sure as fate she came, I,
Just had to get to her and,
She gave me all her numbers, gave me all her names
Cold and lonely without you
Don't know if I can make it through,
Maybe you'll hear this song
You been gone way too long,
Too good to let it go, too good to be true
We left and we went home,
Unbelievable,
I looked into her eyes, thunder in my heart,
And we were joined forever
Our bodies slick together,
I told her everything, confessions in the dark
Cold and lonely without you
Don't know if I can make it through,
Maybe you'll hear this song
You been gone way too long,
Too good to let it go, too good to be true
She painted inspiration
Onto my fractured soul, I
Was never sure she knew how much she meant to me
She never trusted me, I know she didn't see
The night she left she killed the heart inside of me
Cold and lonely without you
Don't know if I can make it through,
Maybe you'll hear this song
You been gone way too long,
Too good to let it go, too good to be true
Cold and lonely without you
Don't know if I can make it through,
Maybe you'll hear this song
You been gone way too long,
Too good to let it go, too good to be true
10 Name in Vain (03:06)
Don't you say a word to me
Always barking up my tree
I don't need no more grief, no more third degree
Turn sunshine into rain
Turn pleasure into shame
Turn everything I say, inside out again
It seems, it seems the same
It seems, I ain't to blame
It seems, that you're insane
Don't you take my name in vain
Tell me what a dog I am
Tell me it's 'cause I'm a man
Tell you what, who gives a damn
Just another scam
Ain't me that's wrong this time
Ain't me that's out of line
Ain't me, it ain't my crime
Your rap, 'cause it ain't mine
It seems, it seems the same
It seems, I ain't to blame
It seems, that you're insane
Don't you take my name in vain
Seems like you know the rules
I know you ain't no fool, you think you're somethin' else,
You look pretty cool,
You ought to reconsider, I ain't no Indian giver
I been as fair as I know how so shut your mouth
You know it all seems
It's only in your dreams
I'm getting sick to death of swimming up the stream
I'm gonna ask you nice, and then I'll ask you twice
If that don't work you get your ass back in your jeans
Seems to me, seems the same
Seems to me, I ain't to blame
Seems to me that you're insane
Don't you take my name in vain
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