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Questa è la mia prima recensione, quindi vi prego di non essere troppo severi nei vostri giudizi.
A due anni dall'ottimo "Infest", il debutto su major che donò al gruppo grande notorietà, i Papa Roach ci riprovano con "Lovehatetragedy". Si nota sin da subito un sostanziale discostamento dalle sonorità rap-metal che caraterrizzavano l'esordio; il combo, infatti, questa volta opta per un sound più rock con sonorità più oscure e il singer Jacoby Shaddix, ad eccezione di "She Loves Me Not", non rappa più, privilegiando la melodia e le parti urlate, queste ultime presenti in maggior quantità rispetto al disco precedente.
Il risultato è un lavoro definibile nu-metal solo in parte, date anche le massicce dosi di punk e grunge avveritibli durante l'ascolto. La miscela però, risulta efficace non in tutti i brani e, se pezzi come "M-80 (Explosive Energy Movement)" (il pezzo più "punk" dell'intero album), "She Loves Me Not", "Life Is A Bullet" e "Time And Time Again" risultano assai convincenti, altri non sono all'altezza di quelli appena citati, pur rimanendo nella maggior parte dei casi abbastanza piacevoli, creando alcune cadute di tono. C'è spazio anche per ritmi più lenti, come nella bella "Decompression Period". Nel complesso, "Lovehatetragedy" può essere definito un disco di passaggio, con il quale i Papa Roach tentano di dare a sè stessi una nuova identità, con tutte le comprensibili incertezze del caso. Un plauso però và fatto al gruppo, per aver comunque cercato di staccarsi dall'asfittico panorama nu-metal, cercando di creare un proprio stile.
I presupposti perchè ci riescano ci sono tutti, a giudicare anche dal lavoro successivo a "Lovehatetragedy", "Getting Away With Murder", del 2004, che porta avanti il processo di maturazione della band. E a breve, uscirà anche il loro nuovissimo disco, "The Paramour Sessions", per il quale chi scrive nutre ottime speranze.
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02 Life Is a Bullet (04:05)
My mind has been shut down
My friends have been let down
What is the reason
There's millions of reasons
Single me out
Tear off my front
Make me expose what I conceal
Life As A Bullet
The bloodstains will prove it
It's tearing through you and me
Not caring about you or me
Now I could explain everything
You cursed the fire
Now fuck the flame
What is the reason
There's millions of reasons
Blindfold me now
Spin me around
Spin me around
Picking me up
When I fall down
Life As A Bullet
The bloodstains will prove it
It's tearing through you and me
Not caring about you or me
Today I feel blue
My head is in the clouds
Separate me
My soul from my body
Today I feel blue
My head is in the clouds
Separate me
My soul from my body
Feeling so lonely
I'm not the only one
Separate me
My soul from my body
'Cause I'm in love with too many things
And I hate every thing
Single me out
Tear off my front
Make me expose what I conceal
Blindfold me now
Spin me around
Spin me around
Picking me up
When I fall down
'Cause Life As A Bullet
The bloodstains will prove it
It's tearing through you and me
Not caring about you or me
I'm in love with too many things
And I hate every thing.
04 Walking Thru Barbed Wire (03:04)
Wish I could see you for one last time
Wish I could say goodbye to you
It's hard to deal with you dying
It's time to say goodbye to you
Bloody-faced
Kissing death
Walking thru barbed wire
I'll let you go
Let me go
Digging thru myself
Good luck in your next life
Walk as tall as the trees
Be gentle as spring winds
And have the warmth of the summer sun
Bloody-faced
Kissing death
Walking thru barbed wire
I'll let you go
Let me go
Digging thru myself
I would die
Die for you
I'd walk right thru barbed wire
I blame myself for your death
It's tearing me apart
I would die
I'd die for you
Yes I would
Yes I would
Yes I would
Let you go
Let me go
Digging thru myself
Bloody-faced
Kissing death
Walking thru barbed wire
05 Decompression Period (03:59)
Here today gone today
Hurry up and wait
I'm never there for you or me
Can't you read the story of our lives
Death to me and life for you
Something isn't right
And I need some space to
Clear my head, to think about
My life
And I can't be alone
I just need some space
To clear my head to think about my life
With or without you
We fight it out
We work it out
Give me some time to unwind [x2]
I must confess
I'm falling apart
Breaking your heart
Crying with you on the phone
We're walking on thin ice
And I hope it doesn't break
And I need some space
to clear my head,to think about my life
with or without you
we fight it out
we work it out
give me some time to unwind
we fight it out
we work it out
give me some time
With or without you
Mile by mile we're farther apart
Now it's one empty bottle
And two broken hearts
Night after night we are falling apart
Now it's two broken bottles
And four empty hearts
Take the Pressure
Depression period
Take the Pressure
Depression period
Take the Pressure
Depression period
And I need some space to clear my head
to think about my life
with or without you...
And I'm never there for you or me
Can't you read the story of our lives...
08 Singular Indestructible Droid (03:48)
Blood of my blood
Skin of my skin
A normal human being
Solder and wires
Circuitry
We're far from human beings
He's sick of his skin
It's time to trade it in
A galaxy of emotions
Your soul is what it costs
We walk the same path
No body could get in our way
Dangerously
We passionately never hesitate
Keep the soul
That's control
Keep the soul
That's control
Keep the soul
That's control
S.I.D
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Willing to make the change
Surrender the flesh and bones
Against the grain
Pushing beyond the limits of ourselves
This body is just a cage
You're dead and you're in a grave
We're losing our minds
That's just fine
Living forever
Keep the soul
That's control
Keep the soul
That's control
Keep the soul
That's control
S.I.D
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Bleed out my blood
Skin off my skin
Solder the wire
Transformation
Take my body and
Release me from this cage
You can't put a spirit in a grave
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D.
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D. (Singular Indestructible Droid)
Biological Spiritual Electrical Digital S.I.D. (Singular Indestructible Droid)
09 Black Clouds (04:01)
This is making me crazy
These black clouds following me
So I look for signs of light, but rarely I see them
I return to my shelter and I crawl in a bottle
I'm losing my will for this, so over-emotional
Black clouds, they rain down, but they can't kill the sun
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
Like ashes to ashes, I always seem to fall down
I'm tired of running, it's time to face my demons
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
My emotions are storming
And tears fall just like rain
Pain strikes like lightning, despair is becoming my friend
I return to my shelter and I crawl in a bottle
I'm losing my will for this, so over-emotional
Black clouds, they rain down, but they can't kill the sun (the
Sun)
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
Like ashes to ashes, I always seem to fall down
I'm tired of running, it's time to face my demons
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
Black clouds, they rain down, but they can't kill the son...
Inside
Still looking for signs of life
These black clouds keep following me!
I return to my shelter and I crawl in a bottle
Black clouds, they rain down, but they can't kill the sun
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
Like ashes to ashes, I always seem to fall down
I'm pushing myself to a point of self destruction
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
I'm tired of running, it's time to face my demons
Confession of depression, this life I'm second guessing
Black clouds, they rain down, but they can't kill the son...
Inside
10 Code of Energy (04:04)
I was scatterbrained
When I found the time to find
That times are evil
Sick and disjointed
My skin is thick
Thick and calloused
I'm ready to shed the shell
Ready to shed the shell
So you think you have figured me out
A young man lost in his problems
Some problems aren't that easy to solve
And you can't break our code of energy
I'm bent out of shape
There is no happy ending
I've come to a point
Where I just don't give a fuck
My skin is thick
Thick and calloused
I'm ready to shed the shell
Ready to shed the shell
The code of energy
Hi
I'm paranoid
Goodbye
I'm in the void
Haunted by insecurity
Bipolar asymmetry
Our new vision of passion and obsession
Is planetary ingestion
There is no time for question.....
11 Lovehatetragedy (03:13)
Human behavior
Peculiar it seems
Some thrive on hate
Some love and dream
Everyone's got a purpose
And wants to be loved
I think I found my purpose
I think I found love
Hidden inside myself
Hidden inside, inside myself
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
Hate and destruction
Crashed down on our world
The stars and the stripes
The boys and the girls
It's sad it took a war
Just to bring us together
I believe in love
I believe in forever
Hidden inside ourselves
Hidden inside, inside ourselves
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
You better run
You better run
For your life
For your life
Shed a tear
Shed a tear
Live in fear
You better run
You better run
For your life
For your life
Shed a tear
Shed a tear
Live in fear
You better run
You better run
For your life
For your life
Shed a tear
Shed a tear
Live in fear
Love, hate, tragedy
Love, hate, tragedy
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
Tragedy
Strikes when you least expect it
Tragedy
Tragedy
Tragedy
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