Ci sono dischi che vengono dimenticati o peggio, sottovalutati senza valide ragioni, magari senza ascolto. Questo è uno di questi.
Siamo nel 1994.
La storiella è: Prince ha pubblicato un disco brutto perchè è l'ultimo con la sua odiata casa discografica, la Warner; vuole "vendicarsi" consegnandole una "schifezza". Che storia assurda! Mai un vero artista, come quello in oggetto, sarebbe capace di sfregiare la propria arte, rilasciando un opera di cui non è convinto. Di fatto, la storia viene tramandata fino ai giorni nostri, il disco fu un flop commerciale, credo il disco meno venduto di Prince.
Come, è un pezzo Jazz dal forte accento funky e RnB, guidato da una sezione fiati e da un basso strepitosi:11.13minuti di genio.
Loose, è un funky-rock, cattivo, Prince canta in modo insolitamente aggressivo e sprezzante. Non manca nenache di "liberare" la sua chitarra in un assolo velocissimo e bellissimo.
In Papa, Prince sfodera un pezzo dai connotati blues, ma allo stesso tempo psichedelico ed oscuro, con un finale rock, improvviso, inatteso e spiazzante.
Dark è un blues, d'altri tempi, suonato con stile ed equilibrio, basso , sezione fiati, Prince che canta da Dio, con un falsetto penetrante, da brivido, e si lascia andare sul finale ad un breve assolo di acustica: pochi tocchi, a ricordarci che stiamo ascoltando uno dei migliori chitarristi di tutti i tempi. Nessuno nel 1994 scriveva e suonava musica di questo tipo.
Race e Letitgo sono due funky, il nuovo ed il vecchio insieme, elementi RnB e Jazz si stratificano sulla base funky, in uno stile Urban di grande effetto e modernità; ascoltate l'assolo di chitarra elettrica "Jazz " sul finale di Letitgo, ennesimo "zampino" del genio di Prince .
Solo, è un emozionante assolo di voce, dal sapore vagamente soul-gospel, con una tastiera in sottofondo, volutamente dissonante, a "sporcare" la bellezza della voce.
Un disco sontuso, senza nessuna concessione al commerciale, da parte di chi fino a quel momento, aveva rilasciato capolavori, ma era anche stato attento a produrre opere in grado di scalare le classifiche, sia pure di qualità fuori dal "comune" pop.
A parere mio, il miglior Prince di sempre.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
02 Space (04:28)
T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on
Switching command 2 internal
Switching command 2 internal
[Missile..Internal..]
Affirmative
Ready
Check
Affirmative
Affirmative
Space
I never been 1 2 hide my feelings
Baby, u blow my mind
I painted your face upon my ceiling
I stare at it all the time
I imagine myself inside your bedroom
Oh I imagine myself in your sky
(U) U are the reason there's bass in my boom
(Oh u) U are the reason I'm high
If u and I were just ten feet closer
Then i'd make u understand
That everything i wanna do 2 your body, baby
I would do 2 your head
Then u'd be hip 2 the deep rush
Deeper than the boom of the bass
With every other flick of the pink plush
The closer we get 2 the space (The closer we get 2 the space)
(The space)
(The space)
(The space)
Don't u want 2 go? (The space)
Where the souls go (The space)
Where the tears flow (The space)
Where the love grows
Do u want 2 go?
I never been 1 4 this thing obsession
But just keep your eye on my hips
The circles they may be my confession
Just say the word and I'll strip
I've had dreams of us cuddling on the planet mars
Then when i wake up, I'm all covered in sex
With eyes that fall somewhere between rubies and stars
Don't look at me baby or I'll flex
If u and I were just ten feet closer
Then I'd make u understand
That everything I wanna do 2 your body, baby
I would do 2 your head
Then u'd be hip 2 the deep rush
Deeper than the boom of the bass
With every other flick of the pink plush
The closer we get 2 the space
(The space)
Go (The space)
Flow (The space)
Grow
Do u want 2 go?
(The space)
Where the souls go (The space)
Where the tears flow (The space)
Where the love grows
Do u want 2 go?
Bass
T-minus 60 seconds and counting
Arm light on
The space, the space, the space, the space
Switching command 2 internal
Switching command 2 internal
[Missile..]
Affirmative
Ready
Ready
Check
Check
Affirmative
The space, the space, the space, the space
The space, the space, the space, the space
Closer we get 2 the space
The space, the space, the space, the space
03 Pheromone (05:08)
Come. Lie down beneath my shadow.
Lie down beneath my shadow with great delight
And your fruit will be sweet to me. Come.
My left hand under your head
While my right embraces time
Therein my virgin, love's wine.
L is 4 Lust
O is 4 Obsession
V is 4 the Vast way u
Envelop my soul
This is crazy. This is crazy.
I could die from the pheromone.
I can see the castle. I can see the throne.
I can see the beloved and she's not alone.
But it's cool like that cuz I'll be diggin' her just the same.
I can see the curtain wrestled from the wall
I can see her hands tied, I can see it all
And he pulls a gat. This is how they play the game.
And I'm around the back, cuz curiosity it knows no shame.
Pheromone. Rush over me like an ocean.
Pheromone. Controlling my every emotion.
Pheromone. I'm helpless as a pet.
Pheromone. When your body's wet, body's wet, body's wet, body's wet
I can feel the tension thru the crack in the door
He begs for love while she's disgusted more and I'm on fire
Cuz I've never seen her nude b4
I want to save her! I want to watch (watch)
All my vital signs go up a couple of notches when he unties her
And she runs 2 the open door
He trips and grinds her (grinds her), right there, all on the floor
She's so close, I can touch her (touch her)
Pheromone. Rush over me like an ocean.
Pheromone. Controlling my every emotion.
Pheromone. I'm helpless as a pet.
Pheromone. When your body's wet, body's wet, body's wet, body's wet
Her eyes are closed but there's no penetration
He just makes her point the pistol to his nose while he masturbates
And I see a tear headed down towards her smile
What happens next?
It all depends upon u're style.
Oh this is crazy baby!
Pheromone. Rush over me like an ocean.
Pheromone. Controlling my every emotion.
Pheromone. I'm helpless as a pet.
Pheromone. (Pheromone) When your body's wet
Pheromone. Rush over me like an ocean.
Pheromone. Controlling my every emotion.
Pheromone. I don't really wanna go crazy but I'm helpless as a pet.
Pheromone. When I see your naked body's wet, hey, hey
Pheromone. When I see your naked body's wet, Mmm
Pheromone. When I see your naked body's wet, body's wet, body's wet
Pheromone. And I'm helpless as a pet
When I see u naked baby, when your body's wet, body's wet, body's wet
Pheromone. Pheromone. Pheromone. Pheromone.
04 Loose! (03:26)
Hey, whoop it up, y'all!
1-2-3-4! {x3}
(Loose!) {repeat throughout song}
Everybody wants 2 know what's wrong witchu
They see U actin' like a crazy fool
When the music hits U don't know what 2 do
Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do loose!
Fuckin' 'do Loose!
Bangin' gangs, slangin' wangs and rocks
Won't get U nothin' but an angry cop
Get your education first and buy a pair of shoes
Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do loose!
Guitar solo
How the hell U gonna tell me what 2 do?
I've got the clothes, I got the bank and the crew
If U look real close, I even got your garden tool
Push your way up 2 the front and shake your motherfuckin' 'do loose!
C'mon everybody - loose!
Tommy and Sonny
Turn around!
Guitar solo
Turn around again {x2}
On the one
Cool!
06 Race (04:28)
Lie down, [fair 1//pheromone], and come away
Till the rain is over and gone
G-G-Gimme the beat now (Face the music)
Lead line (Face the music)
If the air is a little thick in this room 2nite
I reckon it's the result of an onslaught of separatist rookies
Overcome by this colorful sight
Talkin' so fast that even they
Talkin' so fast that even they
Don't know what they mean
Of all the things that base a rhyme
How is it that U everytime
Regurgitate the racist lines that keep us apart?
Thank God this ain't Monopoly
U'd make us all go back 2 start
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red
I gotcha
Race
Race
Check it
Three seats over there's a lady black
Entrusted 2 her care is a little white girl
And the fact of the matter is
Before her momma or another kid at school
Tells her about the fallacy that 1 race rules over the other
She'd be a much-better-off-left fool (Face the music)
If we never heard about the evils that those before us committed
Then how my dear, tell me now how my dear, tell me now how now would we know
And then the band say
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red
I gotcha
Race
Race
(Face the music)
D-d-down with H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and all this BS propagandi
Keepin U from me and me from U as we grow
I don't wanna know (I don't wanna know)
Why those before us hated each other
I'd rather believe they never did
I'd rather believe (I'd rather, I'd rather believe)
That there's hope 4 a kid
And if he imitates the best
I guess that's what I'll try 2 be
And I will let the rest dissolve with my guitar underneath the sea
Race
(Face Face Face Face Face)
Face the music (Face the music)
Face the music
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Race
Face the music
We all bones when we dead
Race
In the space I mark human (Face the music)
Cut me, cut U
Both the blood is red
Get it?
Race
Got it
Race
Face the music
Race Race
(Face Face Face the music)
Race Race
(Face Face Face the music)
Race Race
Race Race
(Face-F-Face the music)
Race
07 Dark (06:10)
I wanna top the rose petals that whisper sweet
Come on
So dark, dark, so dark
So dark, dark, so dark
Inside lookin' out my window
I don't see nothin' but rain
Sun up in the sky just a shinin' (just a shinin')
Still I'm lost in my shadow of pain
Like an innocent man that's on death row
I don't understand what made u go
And wanna leave me baby
Leave me in the dark
Can u tell me, tell me?
U took my sex and my money (money)
Took all my self esteem, yes u did
U had the nerve 2 think it was funny (funny)
I never knew a bitch so mean, yes sir
U absolutely drove a man 2 tears
All I really know is that u sincerely
U wanna hurt me baby, oh yes u do
U wanna hurt me in the dark
(Sunshine) Somebody make the sun shine
(Dark cloud) Somebody take this dark cloud away
Just as sure as Noah built the ark
That's how sure
That's how sure I am u broke my heart
How could u baby, leave me in the dark?
Baby, so dark
So dark, dark, so dark
Feel like the sun ain't never gonna shine
U left me in the dark
So dark, dark, so dark
I don't know, I don't know why we ever had 2 part
Baby, can't see a damn thing out my window it's so dark (so dark)
(So dark, dark, so dark)
Sometimes I want 2 curse the ground u walk on
Even when I know that everything u feel I feel it 2
I wanna curse u baby
U left me in the dark
And now I want 2, I wanna curse u baby
4 leavin' me alone, alone, alone
U left me in the dark, yes u did
And now all I wanna say is
In the dark
Ow, u left me
Ow, u left me
It's like being on death row (In the dark)
I don't understand why u had 2 go
I don't understand why u (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why u (hurt me in the dark)
Don't understand why u hurt me (hurt me, hurt me)
Hurt me (hurt me in, hurt me in)
Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me (hurt me in the dark)
Just leave me
In the dark
In the dark
So dark, dark, so dark (In the dark)
So dark, dark, so dark
In the dark
09 Letitgo (05:32)
Ready or not, here I come
(Come on)
(Come on)
All my life I've kept my feelings deep inside
Never was a reason 2 let somebody know
Lover here, lover there - Who cried? Who cared? Foolish pride
Never was a good seat at any of this man's shows
Until now all I wanted 2 do is
Do do do what I do, and
Bang bang bang on the drummer
And love so-and-so
But now I've got 2 letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let the vibe just flow
I wanna just letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let my feelings show
(letitgo)
I'm ready 4 the real
Give me something I can feel
All my life this heart's been under lock and key
My curtains were drawn there wasn't nobody home
Trigger here, Trigger there - everybody's high except 4 me
Better off dead if I couldn't be alone
Until now all I wanted 2 do is
Do do do what I do, and
Bang bang bang on the drummer
And love so-and-so
But now I've got 2 letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let the vibe just flow
I wanna just letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let my feelings show
I, I'm ready 4 the real
Give me something I can feel
4teen years and tears I've longed 2 sing my song
But a horse couldn't drag your ass 2 put me on
But now I've got an army and we're three million strong
This song will ring in your ears when we are gone
Until now all I wanted 2 do is
Do do do what I do, and
Bang bang bang on the drummer
And love so-and-so
But now I want 2 letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let the vibe just flow
Said I want 2 letitgo (letitgo)
Lay back and let the feelings show
I am ready 4 the real (Come a little closer)
(letitgo)
(Lay back an' let the vibe just flow)
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