Cosa faresti se la tua band facesse un album che non è un capolavoro?
Forse il successivo lo faresti riflettendo sul fatto che non sei un dio, quindi puoi sbagliare e devi darti meno arie… gli Oasis no! Dopo “Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants” (che non è andato benissimo) pubblicano questo live registrato a Londra e, se girate la confezione, troverete uno scritto in cui la band in poche parole si autoproclama a “migliore rock and roll band al picco della loro forma”; tutti sappiamo che in un periodo come quello non potevano permettere di fare certe affermazioni.
Comunque questo album presenta prevalentemente canzoni di repertorio e solo quattro tracce estratte dall’ultimo album. Su tutto regna il forte impatto live (un po’ arruginito) che i Gallagher Bros sanno ancora regalare, ma sicuramente non come gli esordi. Si parte con la strumentale (presa direttamente dal cd in studio) “Fuckin In The Bushes”, la band entra, Liam saluta tutti con un azzardato “Hello Manchester!” e si becca una valanga di fischi; si prosegue con “Go Let It Out” che dal vivo è meno pop e più rock, arricchita da assolo finale psichedelico.”Who Feels Love?” è fedele alla versione studio; dopo un siparietto, dove Liam incita il pubblico ad urlare il suo nome, c’è “Supersonic” che suona inutile: non da emozioni rispetto al passato, cosi come “Shakermaker”. Fortuna che “Acquiesce” riesce sempre a dare la scossa e qui la voce di Noel (molto più in forma del fratello) da il massimo. Liam lascia il posto al fratellone per il rock di “Step Out” ma ritorna per la stupenda e infinita (8 minuti) “Gas Panic!” che incanta soprattutto in quel finale velocissimo. “Roll With It” e “Stand By Me” portano alla favolosa “Wonderwall” che incanta tutte le 75.000 anime presenti. Eccoci alla immancabile “Cigarettes & Alcohol” dove la band suona i Beatles per introdurla ed i Led Zeppelin per chiuderla: unica! “Questa è per tutti quelli che hanno il pisello piccolo” dice Noel prima di attaccare con “Don’t Look Back In Anger” che, come al solito, non si commenta per quanto sia bella anche dopo centinaia di ascolti; vale lo stesso per “Live Forever” e “Champagne Supernova”. Dopo “Hey Hey, My My” di Neil Young tocca a “Rock And Roll Star” chiudere la serata, e lo fa in maniera eccezionale.
Mancano delle grandi canzoni come “Sunday Morning Call” o “Hello” ma in definitiva la scaletta non è male.
L’album non aggiunge nulla di nuovo alla discografia dei Mancuniani, è solo una tappa che ogni gruppo ormai sente di dover fare: consigliato solo ai veri fan.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Fuckin' in the Bushes (03:04)
We put this festival on you bastards, with a lotta love.
We worked one year for you pigs
And you want to break our walls down?
And you wanna destroy us?
Well you go to hell!
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
I love it!
Ah, ah, ah ah
Ah, ah, ah ah
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
Kids are running around naked, fuckin' in the bushes.
I love it! Room for everybody here
Yes, sort of welcome!
Yes indeed, I love them!
Fun! Nice! Life! Youths! Beautiful!
I'm all for it
I love it! Room for everybody here
Yes, sort of welcome!
Yes indeed, I love them!
Fun! Nice! Life! Youths! Beautiful!
I'm all for it
02 Go Let It Out (05:32)
Paint no illusion, try to click with whatcha got
Taste every potion cos if yer like yerself a lot
Go let it out, go let it in, go let it out
Life is precocious in a most perculiar way
Sister psychosis don't got a lot to say
She go let it out, she go let it in, she go let it out
She go let it out, she go let it in, she go let it out
Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
And ordinary people that are like you and me
We're the keepers of their destiny
I'm gonna leaving this city, I'm gonna drivin' outta town
And your comin' with me the right time is always now
To go let it out, and go let it in, and go let it out
To go let it out, to go let it in,and go let it out
Is it any wonder why Princes and Kings
Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings
Cos ordinary people that are like you and me
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
We're the builders of their destiny
So go let it out - go let it in
Go let it out - don't let it in
Go let it out - go let it in
Go let it out - don't let it in - don't let it in -don't let it in
03 Who Feels Love? (05:59)
Found what I lost inside
My spirit has been purified
Take a thorn from my pride
And hand in hand we'll take a walk outside
Thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
Leaving all that I see
Now all my emotions fill the air I breathe
Now you understand that this is not the Promised Land
They spoke of..
There's nothing more to be
If you could be the remedy who heals love
I thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
I thank you for the sun
The one that shines on everyone
Who feels love
Now there's a million years
Between my fantasy and fears
I feel love
04 Supersonic (04:30)
I need to be myself
I can't be no one else
I'm feeling supersonic
Give me gin and tonic
You can have it all, but how much do you want it?
You make me laugh
Give me your autograph
Can I ride with you in your BMW?
You can sail with me in my yellow submarine
You need to find out
'Cause no one's gonna tell you what I'm on about
You need to find a way for what you want to say
But before tomorrow
'Cause my friend said he'd take you home
He sits in a corner all alone
He lives under a waterfall
Nobody can see him
Nobody could ever hear him call
Nobody could ever hear him call
You need to be yourself
You can't be no one else
I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
And she makes me laugh
I've got her autograph
She done it with a doctor on a helicopter
She's sniffin in her tissue
Sellin' the big issue
When she finds out
No one's gonna tell her what I'm on about
You need to find a way for what you wanna say
But before tomorrow
'Cause my friend said he'd take you home
He sits in a corner all alone
He lives under a waterfall
Nobody can see him
Nobody could ever hear him call
Nobody could ever hear him call
05 Shakermaker (05:13)
I'd like to be somebody else and not know where I've been
I'd like to build myself a house out of plasticine
Ah, shake along with me
Ah, shake along with me
I've been driving in my car with my friend Mr. Soft
Mr. Clean and Mr. Ben are living in my loft
Ah, shake along with me
Ah, shake along with me
I'm sorry but I just don't know
I know you said I told you so
But when you're happy and you're feeling fine
Then you'll know it's the right time
Then you'll know it's the right time
To shake along with me
Shake along with me
Shake along with me
Shake along with me
Mr. Sifter sold me songs when I was just sixteen
Now he stops at traffic lights, but only when they're green
Ah, shake along with me
Ah, shake along with me
Ah, shake along with me
Ah, shake along with me
Shake along with me
Shake along with me
Shake along with me
Shake along with them
Shake along with me
Shake along with them
Shake along with me
06 Acquiesce (04:18)
I don't know what it is
That makes me feel alive
I don't know how to wake
The things that sleep inside
I only wanna see the light
That shines behind your eyes
I hope that I can say
The things I wish I'd said
To sing my soul to sleep
And take me back to bed
You want to be alone
When we could be alive instead
Because we need each other
We believe in one another
And I know we're going to uncover
What's sleepin' in our soul
Because we need each other
We believe in one another
I know we're going to uncover
What's sleepin' in our soul
What's sleepin' in our soul
There are many things
That I would like to know
And there are many places
That I wish to go
But everything's depending
On the way the wind may blow
I don't know what it is
That makes me feel alive
I don't know how to wake
The things that sleep inside
I only wanna see the light
That shines behind your eyes
Because we need each other
We believe in one another
And I know we're going to uncover
What's sleepin' in our soul
Because we need each other
We believe in one another
And I know we're going to uncover
What's sleepin' in our soul
What's sleepin' in our soul
What's sleepin' in our soul
What's sleepin' in our soul
'Cause we believe
'Cause we believe
Yeah, we believe
'Cause we believe
'Cause we believe
'Cause we believe
Because we need
Because we need
07 Step Out (04:05)
What she said
She said to me
Take me high on a mountain side
She was dressed up in leopard skin
And her soul would never be denied
I met her down the disco in a beat up car
She was burning down the road
She looked just like a star in a Jaguar
She needs to lighten her load
And when you might
Think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
You might
Think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
What I said I said to her
I'm alive when you walk that way
Can you hear what I can hear?
It's the sound of a brand new day
She met me down a disco in a beat up car
I was burning down the road
I can be a star in my Jaguar
I need to lighten my load
Because you might think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
You might
Think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
My whole life's still sinking in the water
Yea you're my bitch c'mon rescue me tonight
You might
Think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
You might
Think you're gonna cry
It will be alright
Step out tonight
08 Gas Panic! (08:01)
What tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains?
Sailing on a sea of sweat on a stormy night
I think he don't got a name but I can't be certain
And in me he starts to confide
That my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And if you hear me tap on your window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
My pulse pumps out a beat to the ghost dancer
My eyes are dead and my throat's like a black hole
And if there's a god would he give another chancer
An hour to sing for his soul
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on yer window
Then you get on your knees and you better pray
Cos my family don't seem so familiar
And my enemies all know my name
And when you hear me tap on your window
Yer better get on yer knees and pray panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
Panic is on the way
09 Roll With It (04:43)
You gotta roll with it.
You gotta take your time.
You gotta say what you say don't let anybody get in your way 'cause it's all too much for me to take.
Don't ever stand aside.
Don't ever be denied.
You wanna be who you'd be if you're comin' with me.
I think I've got a feeling I've lost inside.
I think I'm gonna take me away and hide.
I'm thinking things that I just can't abide.
I know the roads down which your life will drive. (life will drive)
I find the key that lets you slip inside. (slip inside)
Kiss the girl, she's not behind the door. (behind the door)
But you know I think I recognize your face, but I've never seen you before.
You gotta roll with it.
You gotta take your time.
You gotta say what you say don't let anybody get in your way 'cause it's all too much for me to take.
I know the roads down which your life will drive. (life will drive)
I find the key that lets you slip inside. (slip inside)
Kiss the girl, she's not behind the door. (behind the door)
But you know I think I recognize your face, but I've never seen you before.
You gotta roll with it.
You gotta take your time.
You gotta say what you say don't let anybody get in your way 'cause it's all too much for me to take.
Don't ever stand aside.
Don't ever be denied.
You wanna be who you'd be if you're comin' with me.
I think I've got a feeling I've lost inside. (so take me away) [x8]
10 Stand by Me (05:49)
Made a meal and threw it up on Sunday I`ve -
Got a lot of things to learn
Said I would and I believe in one day -
Before my heart starts to burn
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new... don't you know
The cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go away
Times are hard when things have got no meaning
I've found a key upon the floor
Maybe you and I will not believe in the things we find
Behind the door
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new... don't you know
That cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go away
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows, yeah, nobody knows the way it's gonna be
If you're leaving will you take me with you
I'm tired of talking on my phone
There is one thing I could never give you
My heart will never be your home
So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new... don't you know
That cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go away
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows, yeah, nobody knows the way it's gonna be
The way it's gonna be, yeah
Baby, I can see, yeah... don't you know
That cold and wind and rain don't know
They only seem to come and go away
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows the way it's gonna be
Stand By Me - nobody knows, yeah, God only knows the way it's gonna be
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