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Complicato per qualcuno accettare l'idea che Peter Tagtgren, vero e proprio re dell'eccesso e del metal estremo, conosciuto per le sue scorribande nelle fila dei Death metaller Hypocrisy, abbia dato libero sfogo ai suoi cromosomi di autentica ecletticità musicale conducendo i Pain, che nel 1996 erano solo una valvola di sfogo, un progetto estemporaneo, al traguardo del quarto studio album quasi dieci anni dopo. Sperimentazione sembra essere la parola d'ordine di Peter, l'unico denominatore che riesca ad accumunare le sue molteplici attività. L'amore per la musica in quanto tale, indipendente dalle sue multiformi espressioni ed elementari catalogazioni è ciò che affiora prepotentemente nel corso dei pezzi che compongono ''Dancing With The Dead''. Una musica elettronica infarcita di tastiere quasi ai confini con la disco e la techno music, accorpata comunque a grondanti distorsioni di chitarra e ad una voce, quella di Tagtgren, che appare ora rabbiosa ora più accattivante, gettando le basi per l'originale mix ostentato dai Pain in questo lavoro.
Malinconica, vivace, sferzante, melodica, gagliarda, ossessiva, destabilizzante, caratterizzata spesso e volentieri da ritornelli di semplice assimilazione e di chiare reminescenze Pop; è questo che contraddistingue la musica realizzata dalla penna di Peter, una musica che mi piace definire ''da macchina'', da viaggio, in due parole: easy listening.
L'opener ''Don't Count Me Out'' e la title-track sono particolarmente massiccie e cattive mentre è con il primo singolo ''Same Old Song'' che si accendono gli animi: suggestiva l'atmosfera tracciata dalle spettrali keyboard, penetranti la voce e i sofferti screaming di Peter; ''Nothing'' e ''The Tables Have Turned'' presentano refrain forse troppo ripetitivi tuttavia maledettamente catchy che ti si stampano in testa dopo due ascolti, ma la palma d'oro per la migliore composizione del platter va a ''Not Afraid To Die'': una canzone che conquista dall'inizio alla fine con il suo divenire Gothic/Pop memore dei Crematory più impavidi. Meritano attenzione, a metà disco, anche l'accoppiata ''Tear It Up'' e ''Bye/Die'', di sicuro le due tracce più bislacche: nella prima le linee vocali principali ricordano non poco Eminem(!), sebbene l'onnipresente distorsione di chitarra pesti duro per mio sommo gaudio; nella seconda si percepisce invece una specie di improbabile fusione tra il Power-Pop dei Terrorvision e il new-punk minimale. L'ultima parte dell'album risulta un pò più scontata e canonica (''My Misery'', ''Stay Away'') anche se, a ben vedere, la tensione ed il sollazzo non calano eccessivamente, neppure quando la ruffiana ''The Third Wave'' pone la parola fine a questi 47 minuti di promiscuità.
''Dancing With The Dead'' conquista ascolto dopo ascolto con la sua disarmante immediatezza, la sua disinvoltura e crescente passione. Non è un'opera da avere ad ogni costo, lo avrete capito, ma per una volta genuinità, progresso, inventiva e coinvolgente songwriting convivono con successo.
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02 Same Old Song (03:59)
You're welcome to my world, dark side of the universe
I'll take you for a spin, the mayhem begins
The media mouth is feeding and chemical youth that's screaming
The circus starts to roll, there's no turning back
You think it's right, you made you're mind
I've seen so many cross that line
I've seen them come, I've seen them go, times will never change
It's the same old song - The same old song
That's playing again - The same old song
Your soul is burning bright, high hopes of future in sight
Beyond the horizon lays a world that's so black
They'll try to shape your mind and make you walk the line
Don't let them steal your dreams, its all that you've got
You start to doubt, you changed your mind
I've seen so many cross that line
I've seen them come, I've seen them go, times will never change
It's the same old song - The same old song
That's playing again - The same old song
Don't wanna hear it no more
Time to do this, time to do that
I've got an offer you can't refuse it
Just stick with me and I'll push you all the way to the stars
I can't take it no more - The same old song
Its playing again - The same old song
Don't wanna hear it no more - The same old song
Its playing again and again and again - The same old song
09 My Misery (03:56)
Did you ever think you could change the world
The world will change you, it will break you down
It's calling me, my misery
what you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
It's hunting me, my misery
what you gonna do, what you gonna do what you gonna do
What is wrong with the world today
If it's all it's gonna be the I don't wanna stay
We don't care, we don't hear, we don't see, we just live our lives in hypocrisy
Blinded by our greediness and our souls filled with emptiness
I had enough, it goes on and on
It's calling me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
It's hunting me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
Did you ever think you could change the world
The world will change you, it will break you down
Is it me, who can't be, that I want to believe
Life's too short to disagree
Fear of living alone, fear of growing up all broke
Over and over again, these scary thought just hunt me down
It's calling me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
It's hunting me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
It's calling me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
It's hunting me, my misery
What you gonna do, what you gonna do, what you gonna do
12 The Third Wave (03:50)
They tried to build a nation, greater than anyone
But what they didn't know was that someone else would have control
The mob starts infiltrating, at gunpoint they will roam
They show no mercy and the government is on their payroll
No compromising, a nation going blind
The leaders are on their knees
The third wave has just begun
The whole world is corrupted, it's spinning out of control
The third wave is on the roll
It's slipping through our fingers and rising to the top
The third wave is on the roll
Roll with me, roll with me
250 million, involved in organized crime
It's growing like a tumour, we need to find the cure in time
It's coming from the east and trying to control the west
It's crawling across the border right up to the leader's nest
Like a spider's web, politicians in their net
Strings are growing strong
The third wave has just begun
The whole world is corrupted, its spinning out of control
The third wave is on the roll
Its slipping through our ringers and rising to the top
The third wave is on the roll
Roll with me
Roll with me
Roll with me
It's on the roll, it's on the roll, it's on the roll
The whole world is corrupted, its spinning out of control
The third wave is on the roll
It's slipping through our fingers and rising to the top
The third wave is on the roll
The whole world is corrupted, it's on the roll
The whole world is corrupted, it's on the roll
The whole world is corrupted, it's on the roll
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