Fatidico e memorabile resta per me il giorno in cui conobbi la grandezza dei Pearl Jam.
Ben due anni fa in un giorno non qualunque di Settembre, a casa di una mia amica mi si presentò davanti un cd esteticamente affascinante. La copertina di cartone, un artwork penetrante e le stupende foto: questi furono in un primo momento gli unici e veri motivi che mi indussero ad ascoltare "Yield".
Feci ritorno a casa e mi bastò, sempre nello stesso giorno, un solo ascolto per trarre le felici conclusioni su Vedder e co. In quel giorno, proprio mentre il mondo veniva sconvolto, mentre l’America veniva brutalmente ferita al cuore, mentre lo spettro del terrorismo diveniva reale. Proprio in quel tragico 11 Settembre 2001 io mi innamorai di questa band e della loro musica.
Venni subito colpito dalla tensione espressiva dell'album. "Yield", quinto lavoro della band, è un disco riflessivo pieno di spiritualità e di momenti musicali affascinanti. Puro rock con pochissimi schizzi di grunge. Il disco mantiene la costante anima ruvida che contraddistingue i dischi targati PJ e segna un ritorno alle origini dopo le "sperimentazioni" di "No Code".
La musica viene trascinata da un crescendo di magica energia che ogni pezzo presente nel cd riesce ad esprimere.
Semplicemente stupende le ambientazioni che invitano a guardare al di là dell'orizzonte, riuscendo a ricreare atmosfere vertiginosamente rilassanti.
L'eterogeneità di "Yield" è dovuta soprattutto all'evoluzione che avanza tramite l'idea di "viaggio metafora di vita", nel cercare la così tanto voluta pace dei sensi.
Le tracce scorrono fluide e melodiche e la ricerca interiore diviene il filo conduttore di tutto il disco.
Disco che incomincia con "Brian of J", che dapprima ringhia per poi irrompere successivamente. L'aggressivo testo di "Faithfull" viene sorretto dal perfetto lavoro della base ritmica. La scura "No Way" anticipa la dolce ballata liberatoria "Given To Fly".
"Wishlist" emoziona ogni qual volta viene udita. La dolce melodia di "Pilate" invecchia e cresce nel tirato ritornello. Alzi la mano chi non si mette a gridare "It's Evolution, Baby!!" quando ascolta l'energica "Do The Evolution". Dopo lo stacco con "MFC" si arriva al vero capolavoro con "Low Light", a mio parere una delle più belle canzoni scritte dal gruppo. "In Hiding" esprime maggiormente il senso di ricerca interiore che il disco possiede. Quasi come se fosse intrappolata nel suo stesso bridge avanza con le sue sonorità taglienti la strana "Push Me, Pull Me".
A conclusione troviamo la gentile e delicata "All Those Yesterdays", brano che porta con sé un messaggio di speranza per un futuro migliore.
"Let it wash away... all those yesterdays..."
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Brain of J. (02:59)
Who's got the brain of JFK?
What's it mean to us now, yeah?
Pause, it sounds distrust.
I can tell ya this is no lie
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
You, you been taught, whipped into shape
Now they've got you in line
Stand behind the stripes
That will be yours; so give it good mind
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
(Slow Part)
Lend my name
The name they gave me
The name I'm letting go..
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
The whole world will be relieved
The whole world will be different
The whole world will be relieved
The Whole world will be different soon
SOON!
02 Faithfull (04:18)
Plaque on the wall says that no one's slept here
It's rare to come upon a bridge that has not been around
Or been stepped on
Whatever the notions, we laced in our prayers
The man upstairs is used to all of this noise
I'm through with screaming
And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
Like echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes
We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it (4X)
And echoes nobody hears, it goes, it goes, it goes (2X)
We're faithful, we all believe, we all believe it (3X)
So faithful, we all believe, we all believe it
M.Y.T.H. is
Belief in the game controls that keeps us in a box of fear
We never listen
Voice inside so drowned out
Drowned you are, you are, you are everything
And everything is you
Me you, you me, it's all related
What's a boy to do?
Just be darling and I will be too
Faithful to you
04 Given to Fly (04:01)
He could have tuned in, tuned in, but he tuned out
a bad time, nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out
he got up out of there, ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean
had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up, set him down on his knee
Wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw,
Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at me now..."
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh, oh oh...
He's flying! Woah!
Whole! Woah! Oh...
Floated back down 'cause he wanted to share
his key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped, and then he was stabbed
by faceless men, well...fuckers, he still stands.
And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
the love he recieves is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
a human being that was given to fly
Flying! Woah...
Whole! Flying! Woah...
Flying Woah...
Oh Woah...
05 Wishlist (03:26)
I wish I was a neutron bomb
for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice
but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental
ornament you hung on
the Christmas tree, I wish I was
the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence
I wish I was the grounds
for fifty million hands upraised and opened toward the sky
I wish I was a sailor with
someone who waited for me
I wish I was as fortunate
as fortunate as me
I wish I was a messenger
and all the news was good
I wish I was the full moon shining
off a Camaro's hood
I wish I was an alien
at home behind the sun
I wish I was the souvenir
you kept your house key on
I wish I was the pedal break
that you depended on
I wish I was the verb to trust
and never let you down
I wish I was a radio song
the one that you turned up
I wish ...
06 Pilate (03:00)
Talk of circles, punching out
Looking in, drawing circles down
Falling off the south marking ground
Talking out of turn, drawing circles down
Like Pilate, I have a dog
Like Pilate, I have a dog
Walks me out of town, still one's a crowd
Making angels in the dirt, looking up, looking all around
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves)
Stunned by my own reflection
It's looking back, sees me too clearly
And I swore I'd never go there again
Not unlike a friend that
Politely drags you down, you down, you down, you down
Like Pilate, I have a dog (obeys, listens, kisses, loves) }x4
07 Do the Evolution (03:54)
I'm ahead, I'm a man
I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah
I'm at peace with my lust
I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah
It's evolution, baby
I'm at peace, I'm the man
Buying stocks on the day of the crash, yeah
On the loose, I'm a truck
All the rolling hills, I'll flatten them out, yeah
It's herd behavior, uh huh
It's evolution, baby
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, he's my clone
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah
This land is mine, this land is free
I'll do what I want but irresponsibly
It's evolution, baby
I'm a thief, I'm a liar
There's my church, I sing in the choir:
Hal-le-lu-jah
Hal-le-lu-jah
Admire me, admire my home
Admire my son, admire my clones
Cause we know, appetite for a nightly feast
Those ignorant Indians got nothing on me
Nothin', why?
Because, it's evolution, baby!
I am ahead, I am advanced
I am the first mammal to make plans, yeah
I crawled the Earth, but now I'm higher
2010, watch it go to fire
It's evolution, baby
It's evolution, baby
Do the evolution!
Come on
C'mon, c'mon!
09 MFC (02:27)
Sliding out of reverse into drive, this
Wheel will be turning right, then straight
Off in the sunset she'll ride
She can remember a time denied
Stood by the side of the road, spilled like wine now
She's out on her own and I'm high
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
She's disappeared
They said that timing was everything
Made him want to be everywhere
There's a lot to be said for nowhere
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
He's disappeared
There's no leaving here
Ask- I'm an ear
Fuck it- we've disappeared
11 In Hiding (05:00)
I shut and locked the front door
No way in or out
I turned and walked the hallway
And pulled the curtains down
I knelt and emptied the mouth of every plug around
But nothing's sound, nothing's sound
I stayed where my last cap left me
Ignored all my rounds
Soon I was seeing visions and cracks along the walls
They're upside down
I swallow my words to keep from lying
I swallow my face just to keep from biting, I, I..
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, diving
I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened
Now...I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding
It's been about three days now
Since I've been aground
No longer overwhelmed and it seems so simple now
It's funny when things change so much
It's all state of mind
I swallowed my words to keep from lying
I swallowed my face just to keep from biting, I, I
I swallowed my breath and went deep, I was diving, I was diving
I surfaced and all of my being was enlightened
Now I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
Now I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding, yeah
I'm in hiding...
12 Push Me, Pull Me (02:28)
I had a false belief; I thought I came here to stay.
We're all just visiting, all just breaking like waves.
The oceans made me, but who came up with love?
Push me, pull me, push me, but pull me out.
So if there were no angels would there be no sin?
You better stop me before I begin.
But let me say:
If I behave, can you arrange a spacious hole in the ground?
Somewhere nice, make it nice
Where the land meets high tide.
Push me, pull me, or pull me out.
Like a cloud dropping rain I'm discarding all thought.
I'll dry up leaving puddles on the ground.
I'm like an opening band for the sun.
Push me, pull me, or just pull me out out out ..
I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine.
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Altre recensioni
Di TheBlackAngelsDeath
Furore è ciò di cui l'album deficita, ma non sempre è un male.
Rock è ciò che l'album conserva. Il rock puro che ci fa sentire un unico corpo, un unico sentimento.
Di Goodwolf
"Yield dei Pearl Jam è il miglior disco da strada mai pubblicato al mondo."
"Accendi il motore, premi play e 'Brain of J' ti fa aumentare la velocità di 40 km all’ora."
Di Hungry
Yield è uno dei dischi che personalmente preferisco.
Vedder si conferma un cantante capace di ipnotizzare come non si sentiva dai tempi di Morrison.
