Ho sempre immaginato i Pixies - "Folletti" - come dei veri e propri folletti strappati al loro mondo e schiaffati in quest'altro non esattamente per loro spontanea volontà. Saranno le voci, sarà la loro musica schizofrenica, nevrotica, sarà che mi sono fatto influenzare dal nome, ma ogni volta che li ascolto li vedo davanti a me, questi 4 piccoletti completamente schizzati che ti travolgono con la loro musica.
"Come on Pilgrim", "Surfer Rosa", "Doolittle" ci avevano narrato le loro nevrosi fuori di testa e spesso sembrava si stessero scannando in studio, vista la quantità di urla e di suoni distorti e apparentemente incoerenti presenti; in questo "Bossanova" i 4 folletti sembrano "rallentati" e l'atmosfera in cui si immergono cambia.
Troviamo infatti pezzi sognanti ("The Happening", "Ana", "Velouria", la conclusiva "Havalina"), stranianti ("Is she weird", "Down to the well", "All over the world" con finale lisergico) e pop-rock ("Dig for fire") senza rinunciare ai loro sbilenchi, isterici, distorti, nevrotici, arrabbiati, catartici gridi di battaglia ("Rock music", "Hang wire", l'iniziale e strumentale "Cecilia Ann"), anche se qui suonano spesso buffi, ironici e maggiormente rilassati rispetto al passato, creando quell'atmosfera particolare tipica di questo disco ("Stormy weather" che inizia incredibilmente "rallentata" appunto per poi esplodere nella seconda parte).
I folletti sfornano un disco nel complesso più raffinato, arricchendolo con sfumature e suoni inediti rispetto ai precedenti. Il successivo ed ultimo "Trompe le monde" li riporterà al loro consueto isterico e grottesco stile; in qualche modo però "filtrato" ed influenzato dalle ottime intuizioni qui presenti.
Spesso dei Pixies vengono citati esclusivamente i primi dischi: niente di più sbagliato, perchè "Bossanova" e "Trompe le monde" sono ugualmente (se non maggiormente) validi.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
02 Rock Music (01:52)
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's a mile away
Your mouth's
On
I'm already gone
Hey you know me, me conoce
Your mouth
Your mouth
Your mouth
Your mouth
Slag
(I don't think anyone really knows exactly what he's saying...)
03 Velouria (03:40)
hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering
travelling career
she can really move
oh velveteen!
my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore you
my velouria
say to me
where have you been
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every summer
every
my velouria
my velouria
forevergreen
i know she's here
in california
i can see the tears
of shastasheen
my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore your
my velouria
04 Allison (01:17)
from distant star to this here bar
the me, the you, where are we now?
hooray the blues of everyone
allison
keeps a smile around a while
he took no fright and jettisoned
we'll go tonight to here him tell
oh well
allison
allison
and when the planets hit the sun
i saw the face of allison
allison
allison
allison
allison
05 Is She Weird (03:01)
I know you're rich in
good clothes and little things
your mind is fancy
(and your car is bitchin')
Is she weird?...
Is she weird?
is she white?
Is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room
Is she weird?
is she white?
Is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room
Is she weird?
is she white?
Is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room
and her head has no room
Your heart is ripshit
Your mouth is everywhere
I'm lyin in it
is she weird?
is she over me?
like the stars and the sun
like the stars and the sun
is she weird?
is she white?
is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room!
is she weird?
is she white?
is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room!
is she weird?
is she white?
is she promised to the night?
and her head has no room!
and her head has no room!
No more of this girl cryin'
I'm here,your big man
you're mine
is she weird, is she white
is she promised to the night
and her head has no room
06 Ana (02:09)
she's my fave
undressing in the sun
return to sea - bye
forgetting everyone
eleven high
ride a wave
07 All Over the World (05:26)
with a pet at my side
God in the sky
snow falling down
freeze my body to the ground
i can't ride
but one more time
i will ride
all over the world
washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different fround
you can't live easily
you can't even speak
but all of them speak
all over the world
i will meet you over there
i am going to meet you over there
washed over the side
top of the sky
slow diver down
two feet land on a different ground
you can't live easily
you can't even speak
fish all of them speak
all over the world
a plain with no herd
not even a bird
when one side is hot
the other side of the moon is not
it's just like a ride
maybe some time
they'll make it a ride
all over the world
i will meet you over there
i am going to meet you over there
time is an arrangement
time is an arranger
i am a derangement
all my thoughts
all i am are my thoughts
all my thoughts
i am all what i'm taught
better call the ranger
got a train derailment
better call the ranger
what i'm taught
all i am are my thoughts
all my thoughts
all i am are my thoughts
what i'm not
08 Dig for Fire (03:02)
there is this old woman,
she lives down the road,
you can'm often find her...
..kneeling inside of her hole
and I often ask her
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then she said
I'm digging for fire (x4)
there is this old man...
...who spent so much of his life sleeping...
...that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years
he resides
on a beach
in a town
where I am going to live
and I often ask him
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then he said...
...
...
I'm digging for fire (x4)
09 Down to the Well (02:29)
betty always knows
betty always tells
she laughing desperately
she said it felt like a river inside her bones
when she went down to the well
i'm gonna be with her
she is gonna take me there
lead me by my hand
her body a rocking chair for my soul
i can hardly wait, baby
i can hardly wait
'til we go down to the well
down to the well
been thinking to myself
and if a life's not long
what matter does it make
if there'll be favorite songs playing in my head
when we go down to the well
i can hardly wait, betty
i can hardly wait
'till we go down to the well
down to the well
10 The Happening (04:19)
they got a ranch they call
number fifty-one
they got a ranch they call
number fifty-one
can't see it all
'less your flying by
just sitting there square
baking in the sun
beneath the sky
they're gonna put it down
right on the strip
they're gonna put it down
on the Vegas strip
they're gonna put it down
and step outside
into the lights
right outta that ship
saying Hi!
i was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake
when they put it on the air i put it in the hammer lane
i soon forgot myeslf and i forgot about the brake
i forgot all laws and i forgot about the rain
they were talking on the 9 and all across the amy band
across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
it got so crowded on the road i started driving in the sand
my head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
the desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard
everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
then i heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
they were getting interviewed by some Goodman whose name was Bill
i'm almost there to Vegas where they're puttin' on a show
they've come so far i've lived this long at least i must just go and say
hello
12 Hang Wire (02:01)
They're going higher
Wind is whistling on the barbs
Your head's a hammer
Hang wire, hang wire
Hang wire
(Meet you at the) hang wire
That man is a liar
The day is like a warm night
Salt rusts the cold line
Hang wire, hang wire
Hang wire
(Meet you at the) hang wire
Every morning and every day
I'll bossanova with ya
If there were a fire
Can we scratch beneath this
Hang wire, hang wire
Hang wire
(Meet you at the) hang wire?
14 Havalina (02:33)
Havalina
Walking in the breeze
On the plains of old Sedona
Arizona
Among the trees
Havalina
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Altre recensioni
Di g.unreal
Prendi Bossanova dei Pixies, come si prende un bicchiere di vino in piena estate, e mandalo giù senza troppe storie.
È fatto di pietre e di velluto... fatti stordire quanto basta da "Rock Music" e "Hang Wire" lasciati incantare da "All Over The World" e "The Happening".
Di masturbatio
Siamo tutti un po' complici della tua morte Piero dei nostri tempi, la droga del XXI secolo è la deresponsabilizzazione.
Metto su il mio disco preferito dei Pixies e ti dedico 'Blown Away'. Chissà se mentre ti buttavi sorridevi.
