Secondo voi quali sono gli attacchi più da "colpo al cuore" della storia del Rock? Per quanto riguarda gli anni '90, il mio podio personale è occupato dal riff nervoso e disperato di Smells Like Teen Spirits e dal caos surreale dei turbinii di feedback di Only Shallow.
Il primo posto se lo becca DeBaser.
Kim Deal parte decisa con il giro di basso perfetto, seguito da un riff carico e potente e da un testo alquanto criptico (as ever) strillato dalla voce degenerata di Frank Black. E' irresistibile, ragazzi. E' già classe. E siamo solo al primo pezzo.
Tempo di godersi il Punk agosciante e sgangherato di Tame, letteralmente ruggita da Frank, che siamo già al Secondo Capolavoro: Wave Of Mutilation. Pop rumoroso e illuminato con una melodia killer.
Seguono l'andamento ipnotico e minaccioso di I Bleed, l'adorabile Here Comes Your Man, ballata molto '60, tra il Surf e il Pop di alto livello di quel periodo (Beatles, Beach Boys, ok, ci siamo capiti) e la nervosa Dead: chitarre distorte e dissonanti che nel ritornello cambiano completamente registro e si trasformano in un riff festaiolo.
E' passato un quarto d'ora da quando abbiamo messo il disco nello stereo.
Terzo Capolavoro. Aka Monkey Gone To Heaven.
Tre accordi in croce, basso sempre in risalto, sporadica comparsa di archi. Tutto qui. Frank non canta. Recita i versi. Evocativi, malinconici, criptici. Tre accordi intensi come non mai.
(Belli i versi finali riguardo l'uomo che è 5, il diavolo che è 6 e via dicendo che, a qualsiasi cosa si riferiscano, suonano convincenti.)
Subito dopo si torna alle composizioni sbilenche e molto Arty tipicamente Pixies Style. Ci sono Mr. Grieves, tra Ska e Psychobilly e la furiosa Crackity Jones. Schizofrenia pura. Puro stile Cramps.
La La Love You. passo falso. Sorvoliamo.
Dopo N. 13 Baby e There Goes My Gun, ecco la ballata da infarto Hey. Melodia strappalacrime, chitarra e basso super eleganti e versi intensissimi. "Must be a devil between us or whores in my head... We're chained".
I Pixies, a mezz'ora dall'attacco, si preparano all'uscita di scena.
Silver, nenia Country con tanto di chitarra slide e cantato alienato è magnetica, bella, ma posta in chiusura lascierebbe un po' l'amaro in bocca. E a Frank & Company, ovviamente, non passerebbe neanche per l'anticamera del cervello di deluderci. Devono chiudere con stile. Esattamente come hanno iniziato.
Gouge Away è l'urlo definitivo, sgraziato, straziante.
Liberatorio.
Devastante.
Brani distorti, mezzi sghembi, deformati, spigolosi, abrasivi. Talmente belli che mi viene voglia di impararmi a memoria ogni singolo strumento.
"Il confine tra genialità e follia è molto sottile."
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Debaser (02:52)
Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovie
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho
Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha ho
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
02 Tame (01:55)
Got hips like Cinderella
Must have been having a good shame
Talkin' sweet about nothing
Cookie I think you're tame
I'm making good friends with you
When you're shaking your good frame
Fall on your face in those bad shoes
Lyin' there like you're tame
03 Wave of Mutilation (02:04)
Cease to resist, giving my goodbye
Drive my car into the ocean
You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away
On a wave of mutilation
A wave
Wave
I've kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño
Walked the sand with the crustaceans
Could find my way to Mariana
On a wave of mutilation,
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave of mutilation
Wave
04 I Bleed (02:34)
As loud as hell
A ringing bell
Behind my smile
It shakes my teeth
And all the while
As vampires feed
I bleed
Prithee, my dear,
Why are we here?
Nobody knows
We go to sleep
As breathing flows
My mind secedes
I bleed
There's a place
In the buried west
In a cave with a house in it
In the clay the holes of hands
You can place a hand in hand
I bleed
05 Here Comes Your Man (03:21)
Outside there's a boxcar waitin'
Outside the family stew
Out by the fire breathin'
Outside we wait 'til face turns blue
I know the nervous walkin'
I know the dirty beard hangs
Out by the boxcar waitin'
Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x3)
Big shake on the boxcar movin'
Big shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowin'
A big, big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x4)
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x4)
06 Dead (02:21)
you crazy baby bathsheba, i wancha
you're suffocating you need a good shed
i'm tired of living, shebe, so gimme
dead
we're apin' rapin' tapin' catharsis
you get torn down and i get erected
my blood is working but my, my heart is
dead
hey
whaddyah know?
you're lovely
tan belly
is starting to grow
uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
dead
07 Monkey Gone to Heaven (02:56)
There was a guy, an underwater guy who controlled all the sea,
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
The creature in the sky got sucked in a hole,
Now there's a hole in the sky.
And the ground's not cold, and if the ground's not cold,
Everything is gonna burn, we'll all take turns.
I'll get mine, too.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
Rock me, Joe...
If man is five,
If man is five,
If man is five,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
And if the devil is six,
Then god is seven,
Then god is seven,
Then god is seven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
08 Mr. Grieves (02:05)
hope everything is alright
hope everything is alright
what's that floating in the water
oh neptune's only daughter
i believe
in mr. grieves
pray for a man in the middle
one that talks like doolittle
i believe
in mr. grieves
do you have another opinion
do you have another opinion
la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la
got bombed got frozen
got finally off to a finally dozing
i believe
in mr. grieves
do you have another opinion
opinion
do you have another opinion
do you have another opinion
you can cry you can mope
but can you swing from a good rope
oh i believe
in mr. grieves
hope everything is alright
hope everything is alright
09 Crackity Jones (01:24)
Jose Jones told me alone his story
He got friends like Paco pico piedra la muneca
He receives on his set
Crack crack crackity Jones
Please forgive me Jose Jones
You need these walls for your own
I'm moving out of this hopedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy
Thirty miles by by hundred miles by stinking island oh
Por goofiar en crushing automovil
Chasing voices he receives in his head
Crack crack crackity Jones
10 La La Love You (02:43)
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
[whistle] Yeah.
[whistle] Yeah.
[whistle] Yeah.
I love you,
I love you,
I love you,
I do.
I love you.
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
First base
Second base
Third base
Home run
[whistle] Yeah.
[whistle] Yeah.
[whistle] Yeah.
I love you,
I love you,
I love you,
I do.
I love you.
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying Pretty Baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying Pretty Baby.
11 No. 13 Baby (03:51)
got hair in a girl
that flows to her bones
and a comb in her pocket
if the wind gets blown
stripes on her eyes when she walks slow
but her face falls down
when she go, go, go
black tear falling on my lazy queen
gotta tattooed tit say number 13
viva
dont want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
im in a state
viva
dont want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
im in a state
choir in the yard in the house next door
where her grandma brought
some songs from the shore
six foot girl
gonna sweat when she digs
stand close to the fire
when they light the pig
standing in her chinos
shirt pulled off clean
gotta tattooed tit
say number thirteen
viva
dont want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
im in a state
viva
dont want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
im in a state
13 Hey (03:31)
Hey
been trying to meet you
mmm..
hey
must be a devil between us
or whores in my head
whores at the door
whore in my bed
but hey
where
have you
been
if you go i will surely die
we're chained
we're ch-ained
we're chained
uh
said the man to the lady
mmm
uh
said the lady to the man she adored
and the whores like a choir
uh uh all night
and mary ain't you tired of this
uh
is
the
sound
that the mother makes when the baby breaks
we're chained
we're ch-ained
we're chained
14 Silver (02:25)
in this land of strangers
there are dangers
there are sorrows
i can't see this lady
it is shady
i am leaving tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow
even there's a reason
it's silver
it's gone
in this land of strangers
there are dangers
there are sorrows
sorrows
sorrows
sorrows
15 Gouge Away (02:44)
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Missy aggravation, some sacred questions
You stroke my locks, some marijuana if you got some
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms, you spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Chained to the pillars, a three-day party
I break the walls and kill us all with holy fingers
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
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Altre recensioni
Di easycure
I Pixies sono stati una delle interpretazioni più folli e geniali che si siano mai avute del Rock.
Schizofrenico, distorto, atipico, caleidoscopico, unico, perciò bellissimo.
Di sexyajax
La musicalità intrepida dei Pixies resta nella storia come un supremo esempio del potere incantatorio della musica, oltre la superficie dell'ovvio.
Tutto è il contrario di tutto, e tutto in un disco... e tutto questo nel 1989... splendido.
Di Laggio
I Pixies stavano cambiando le coordinate del garage secondo una maniera musicale che avrebbe influenzato enormemente il decennio seguente.
L’album è trascinante per chi è abituato ai suoni ruvidi e martellanti del rock, quasi inascoltabile per chi la domenica pomeriggio guarda CD Live!
Di gmetti
Perché questo disco è fondamentale? Perché è semplicemente da innamoramento immediato!
Il Genio è sempre però Joey Santiago, colui che tesse le melodie di tutte le canzoni, colui che dà il marchio di fabbrica al tutto.
Di lester69
Con i Pixies ci è voluto una decina di ascolti. Poi ci sono scivolato dentro e non ne sono più uscito.
Il problema (e la delizia) di questo disco è che non arrivi a capirlo mai fino in fondo.
