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PULSE THE SURPLUS.
Bene. . . direi di tralasciare le solite inutili chiacchere su chi siano i Pink Floyd e Syd Barrett e il Maiale che vola e The Wall e sticazzi e questi altri. Sono cose più che risapute che si trovano oggi pure come stickers nelle confezioni da 6 dei Kinder Cereali della SMA. Vorrei soffermare invece la vostra attenzione (per pochi minuti) su questo doppio DVD musicale, ennesimo Tartufone Semi Natalizio (ma in netto anticipo) per Fans che ripropone - attenzione - quasi lo stesso doppio cd (o quasi) del 1995 MA in versione con immagini tratte da quei famosi concerti: in pratica 2 cd in formato dvd. (Nel 2008 è già in programmazione, per chi non lo sapesse, la versione "Pulse Baby" suonata dai figli di Nason, Wright e Gilmour e nel 2009 il doppio "Pulsatilla", versione degli stessi 2 CD rimasterizzati dalla nuova scrittrice emergente. . . . Sembrano cazzate me vedrete se non sarà così!)
Non sto dicendo che è una brutta testimonianza o un lavoro fatto male, sia mai. . . sono sempre i Pink Floyd e c'è sempre la solita buona musica. . . dico solo che fans, casa discografica e i media stanno spolpando un cadavere (eccellente) come avvoltoi insaziabili disposti a tutto per accaparrarsi quel poco che ancora rimane. Che dire di più? Che ci stanno spezzoni inediti di clip? gallerie fotografiche mai viste, spezzoni di cartoni animati? un raro video di Gilmouur che si taglia le unghie dei piedi? "Wish you where here" cantata con Billy Corgan, "Time" cantata da Iam James, "Money" cantata da Cristiano Malgioglio (no. . . quello ancora no)? i nomi dello stuff del tour?! I nomi dello staff webmaster che ha curato il sito? Insomma. . . Quanto altro c'è da spremere da questi 3 dinosauri ormai prossimi alla pensione? Quanto andrà avanti ancora sto' raschiamento di barile da parte della loro casa discografica?! Quanta altra fuffa dovranno sorbirsi i fans del Fluido Rosa più osannato della Storia del Rock?! E soprattutto: quanti nuovi milioni di euro entreranno nelle casse perennemente a secco della EMI records inglese (e in quelle dei tre fluidificati superstiti ormai rosa sbiadito)?! Perchè tutto (o gran parte in questo inizio secolo) deve ridursi alla mercificazione incontrollata e disparata di prodotti artistici nati con ben altri nobili intenti? Perchè doverci sempre genuflettere a sto cazzo di Global Marketing, vera e propria Peste Occulta degli anni a venire?
Una Proposta: e se invece di ciucciarsi l'ennesimo DVD-SPECIAL-DOUBLE-SOURROND-LAMEROTANT-SUPERCAZZOLA ETC facessimo una colletta tutti insieme, tipo 1 euro cadauno (calcolate che siamo in 20 milioni di giovani solo in Italia, potrebbero bastare no?) e li doniamo alla "povera- sanguisuga-Emi-inglese" non sarebbe un'idea?! Giusto a vedere che effetto che fa come diceva il medico brianzolo nostrano. . . Scriviamo ordunque, in stampatello e in calligrafia ben leggibile:
"Io sottoscritto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nato a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . abitante a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Italy), DONA alla vostra etichetta la somma di Euro 1,00 affinché non ci scassiate più i maroni con raccolte e raccoltine tripli Delux, Gold Platinum Piomb Collection, Live Sticazzi Acoustic etc. Vi prego: beccatevi sti soldi e non ne parliamo più. Arrivederci e grazie. In fede (firma). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "
Spedite tutto a: EMI House, 43 Brook Green, London, W6 7EF
E stiamo a vedere se per Pasqua (almeno), non ci evitiamo il solito pacco promozionale di un "Live Pulse Unglugged Session" con gli stessi brani suonati nei demo di Gilmour e compagni nel garage sotto casa sul solito 4 piste scassato frusciante più di Jack (che è rientrato nel gruppo). Scommettiamo invece 1 euro che da cui a Pasqua esce qualcosa di simile? Dite di no?!? Qua la mano, io ci stò!
Per i maniaci ecco invece la Tracklist completa:
Part 1: Shine On You Crazy Diamond; Learning To Fly; High Hopes; Take It Back; Coming Back To Life; Sorrow; Keep Talking ; Another Brick In The Wall (part 2); One of These Days; Screen Films: ; Shine On You Crazy Diamond; High Hopes; Learning to Fly; Bootlegging the Bootleggers: ; What Do You Want From Me; On The Turning Way; Poles Apart ; Marooned. Videos: Learning To Fly; Take It Back; Tour stuff: Maps, itinerary, stage plans.
Tracklist Concert - Part 2: Speak To Me; Breathe; On The Run; Time; The Great Gig In The Sky; Money; Us And Them; Any Colour You Like; Brain Damage; Eclipse; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb; Run Like Hell. Screen Films: Speak To Me (graphic); On The Run; Time 1994; The Great Gig in the Sky (wave); Money; Us And Them 1987 - Brain Damage -Eclipse; Alternate Screen Films: ; Speak to Me 1987; Time (Ian Eames); The Great Gig In The Sky (animation); Money (Alien) -Us And Them 1994; Behind the Scenes Footage: ; Goodbye To Life As We Know It ; Photo Gallery; The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony (US 1996) - Wish You Were Here with Billy Corgan.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
02 Astronomy Domine (04:19)
Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda
And Titania, Neptune, Titan.
Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap,
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground
Lime and limpid green
The sounds surrounds the icy waters underground.
04 Learning to Fly (05:16)
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted, just an earth-bound misfit, I
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
05 Keep Talking (06:53)
For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk
There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now
I can't seem to speak now
My words won't come out right
I feel like I'm drowning
I'm feeling weak now
But I can't show my weakness
I sometimes wonder
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here
It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
What are you feeling
I feel like I'm drowning
You know I can't breathe now
We're going nowhere
We're going nowhere
07 Hey You (04:38)
Hey you! Out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me?
Hey you! Standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me?
Hey you! Don't help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.
Hey you! Out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone, would you touch me?
Hey you! With your ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out, would you touch me?
Hey you! Would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home
But it was only a fantasy
The wall was too high as you can see
No matter how he tried he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain.
Hey you! Out there on the road
Always doing what you're told, can you help me?
Hey you! Out there beyond the wall
Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me?
Hey you! Don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
''{spoken} [Click of TV being turned on]
Well, only got an hour of daylight left. Better get started.
Isn't it unsafe to travel at night?
It'll be a lot less safe to stay here. You're father's gunna pick up our trail before long
Can Loca ride?
Yeah, I can ride... Magaret, time to go! Maigret, thank you for everything.
Goodbye Chenga.
Goodbye miss...
I'll be back''
09 Sorrow (10:47)
The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land
Plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky:
A man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers,
But awakes to a morning with no reason for waking
He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise
In his youth or a dream, he can't be precise
He's chained forever to a world that's departed
It's not enough, it's not enough
His blood has frozen & curdled with fright
His knees have trembled & given way in the night
His hand has weakened at the moment of truth
His step has faltered
One world, one soul
Time pass, the river rolls
And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication
And silent replies that swirl invitation
Flow dark and troubled to an oily sea
A grim intimation of what is to be
There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night
And there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight
And silence that speaks so much louder that words,
Of promises broken
10 High Hopes (07:52)
Beyond the horizon of the place
we lived when we were young
in a world of magnets and miracles.
Our thoughts strayed constantly
and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun.
Along the long road and on down the causeway
Do they still meet there by the cut?
There was a ragged band
that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures
trying to tie us to the ground
to a life consumed by slow decay.
The grass was greener.
The light was brighter.
With friends surrounded.
The nights of wonder.
Looking beyond the embers
of bridges glowing behind us
to a glimpse of how green it
was on the other side
Steps taken forwards
but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide.
At a higher altitude
with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights
of that dreamed of world.
Encumbered forever
by desire and ambition
There's a hunger
still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still
stray to the horizon
Though down this road
we've been so many times.
The grass was greener.
The light was brighter.
The taste was sweeter.
The nights of wonder.
With friends surrounded.
The dawn mist glowing.
The water flowing.
The endless river.
Forever and ever.
11 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (07:06)
The opening quote is from the 1933 light heavyweight boxing match between Max Baer and Max Schmeling
We don't need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We don't need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Spoken:
'Wrong, Do it again!
Wrong, Do it again!
If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?
You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddie!'
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Altre recensioni
Di aniel
Questo disco è l’ultima vera testimonianza della musica "viva" e pulsante dei Pink Floyd.
Il live è perfetto, ed anche la videocassetta corrispondente regala emozioni non da poco se siete fan affezionati di questi eroi del rock.
Di Lord DarthVader
Pulse non è altro che un riassunto alla fine di un libro che rappresenta un capitolo nella storia della musica moderna.
La classe non si può recensire ed esportare agli altri, la classe è destinata a far discutere perché non tutti riescono a coglierla.
