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"The principle of moments", secondo album di Robert Plant, esce nel 1983 e vede proseguire lo stesso discorso musicale iniziato col suo primo album solista "Picture of the eleven", ovvero una formula di rock'n roll\blues classico, soltanto un po' più "elettronico" e "tastieroso"... La band di supporto del musicista è molto valida, con il fido amico d'infanzia Robbie Blunt alla chitarra, Paul Martinez al basso, Jezz Woodruffe alle tastiere, e sua maestà Phil Collins alla batteria (coadiuvato dall'altro grande mostro Barriemore Barlow dei Jethro Trull in due tracce dell'album).
L'album, come detto, si muove sul filone rock and blues, caratteristico della prima parte della carriera degli ormai sciolti Led Zeppelin, senza però averne la carica incendiaria e distruttiva, ma mantenendosi suppergiù per tutto l'album, su toni calmi e molto "easy", ad eccezione forse della traccia d'apertura "Other amrs" che sembra riverdire per qualche minuto i fasti zeppeliniani, anche se affiorano echi Aor qui e là. Altre tracce interessanti sono "In the mood", allegra e rock'n'roll al tempo stesso, la sognante cavalcata rock "Horizontal departures" (la migliore canzone dell'album, a mio giudizio) e la misteriosa e inquietante "Big log" che sarà proposta anche come singolo, carica di atmosfere soffuse, ma coinvolgenti. La voce di Plant fa un buon lavoro e si mantiene sempre a livelli alti per tutto album e conserva sempre quell'attitudine "irriverente" e ammiccante dei tempi dei Led e che sarà poi tanto imitata dai suoi vari epigoni degli anni novanta, Axel Rose dei Guns and Roses su tutti.I musicisti di supporto sono tutti molto validi, come detto, in special modo il tastierista Jezz Woodruffe che nel pezzo "Thru with the two steps" la fa da padrone con le sue tastiere quasi new age, in un pezzo elettronico ed elegiaco in cui la voce di Plant si muove in modo molto malinconico, accompagnata dalla chitarra di Blunt, sempre all'altezza (così come nell'ottimo pezzo finale "Big Log", in cui si produce in un buon assolo di Telecaster).
In conclusione "The principle of moments" è un ottimo album di sano e caldo rock'n'roll vecchio stile, uscito tra l'altro in un periodo in cui stava esplodendo dappertutto il fenomeno new wave-elettronico: e questo, per me, è un ulteriore merito del vecchio Robert Plant, che neanche in quel periodo si è saputo piegare alle mode e alle manie del momento musicale corrente, se non quel tanto che bastava per "aggiornare" e rinverdire la sua musica.
Nota: nell'edizione rimasterizzata del 2007 sono riproposte quattro bonus track, ovvero le versioni live di "In the mood", "Thru with the two steps", la cover live di "Lively up yourself" di Bob Marley, e l'inedito "Turnaround", pezzo discreto.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Other Arms (04:19)
Lay down your arms
Oh, now baby let me sleep at night
Lay down your arms Baby, oh,
I'll make everything all right Words you been using
Hurtin' me so Some day your gonna regret
Way friends are talkin' I guess you never know [This battle aching in there??]
[It's better late than when yet?]
Lay down your arms baby, oh, oh
When the deal is done Lay down your arms child Good [Used?] to be your only one
That thing your using, Is hurtin' me bad
What do you hope to achieve
Fussin' and fightin' Is leaving me sad
That's not the way it should be
So if I find a love Oh, if I find a way
Oh, we'll find a dream
Oh, if I find a way You know, that I will, yes you know.
Lay down your arms, Oh, please release me let me go
Lay down arms, baby, Now, surrender to me don't you know [girl?]
If I find a love, Oh, oh, if I find a way,
Oh, oh, if I find a dream, Oh, oh, if I find a way
You know that I, you know that I You know I will, but you know
Oh, she's gone, she's gone I'm not a prisoner I'm the big parade
She's gone, gone, gone man, gone I'm not a prisoner I'm the big parade
She's gone, she's gone I'm not a prisoner I'm the big parade
She's gone, she's gone Not I'm not, no I'm not
Oh, oh my baby's gone
Lay down your arms
I don't know where I'm gonna find her
'Cos my baby's gone
Lay down your arms
Is she here, is she there, is she here, yes I know
Oh, I gotta find her
Oh, is she here, is she there, I really wanna know
I wanna find my babe.
Lay down your arms,
Mmm, your arms child,
Oh, just lay down your arms.
02 In the Mood (05:21)
I'm in the mood for a melody I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood
I'm in the mood for a melody I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood
I'm in the mood for a melody I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood
I can make you dance, I can make you sing
I can make you dance, I can make you sing If you want me too
Oh, I can make you dance, I can make you sing
I can make you dance, I can make you sing If you want me too
Oh, I can make you dance, I can make you sing
I can make you dance, I can make you sing If you want me too
Any little song that you wanna to sing,
A little song that you wanna to sing
Song will do [Sung in lieu?]
Here's a little song that you wanna to sing,
A little song that you wanna to sing Song for you
A little song that you wanna to sing,
A little song that you wanna to sing Happy or blue
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood
Why'd I end up doin' it, doin' it, doin' it
Do anything that you want me for
If you want me to
Do it right, gonna do it wrong,
Cause a matter of fact it'll turn out to be strong
If you want me to If you want me to
Oh, if you want me to If you want me to If you want to
03 Messin' With the Mekon (04:38)
Oh, don't cross your fingers, cross your heart and soul
Don't ask me the question 'cos I just don't know
Sold by my intentions got my emotions on hold
So don't ask me why
You ask how I feel, and what it's like inside
I'm hot in pursuit, I'm bearing down on your hide
Involved in a recovery tryin' to save my pride
Don't ask me again
Wound up in circumstance beyond my control
Affairs of the heart no longer leave me cold
Oh, what a feeling such a long time ago
Don't ask me again
Get down baby, you're out of control
You leave be my side or you leave on your own
I gotta know what I should know,
Don't ask me again
So don't you ask me how I feel and what it's like inside
'Cos in the circumstances babe you don't mess with my pride
It's just recovery babe, just recovery babe
Meet me in the middle, please some give and take
Alternative arrangements are there to be made
A new proposition's not a piece of cake
So don't you ask me
Wound up in circumstance beyond my control
Affairs of the heart no longer leave me cold
Oh what a feeling such a long time ago
Don't ask me again
06 Horizontal Departure (04:21)
And you said you'd never leave me
In fact you said you'd be my only one
I said you'd never grieve me baby
For things do when you are only having fun, fun.
You said you'd cry a river
I thought you meant you'd cry a river of tears
You'd rather die than live without me baby
But little girl you're so insincere
You know you count your blessings
But now I find that you were counting sheep, counting sheep
And then I try to court your feelings
I caught your eye and then you caught my cheek
All the trees [prisoners?] must come to view [feed?] now
And there you stood so proud the apple of my eye
You said you'd never leave me baby
But little girl that's the reason why
Whoa, that's why I have to leave you all alone
Whoa, that's why you have to leave me all alone
Let's go collect our prize now
So entertaining we were no-one no-one [number one, number one?]
The judge is hypnotized now
But after all we both fooled [bought the fool] for so damn long
So face the crowd and take a bow now, bow now
'Cos one more time and it will all be done
'Cos I must have been a show to you now baby
My next performance has just begun
Whoa, that's why I have to leave you all alone
Whoa, that's why you have to leave me all alone
Whoa, that's why I have to leave you all alone
Whoa, that's why you have to leave me all alone
Oh, Stop and think for a minute baby
As they bring the curtain down
Another drink then another, maybe
The toast might not make rounds [To do so nothing rhymes?]
I chose the style, the duck and the weaving [wheel?]
We were famous for And here's to him, and here's to yours and
You can thank me for the floor [... take the floor the floor]
Whoa, that's why I have to leave you all alone
Whoa, that's why you have to leave me all alone
I don't know, so you turned around and found another fool
I don't know, so you turned around and found another
I don't know, so you turned around and found another fool
I don't know, so you turned around and found another
07 Stranger Here... Than Over There (04:19)
Down, down, down - always make the same mistakes, again
Down, down, always down - always make the same mistake
Talk is cheap, but you're talking fast
Never take the time to think of where it will end
Walk and talk and don't look back
I don't know which way it's gonna lead me baby
I try so hard but I can't understand - lead me baby
Just help me get my feet on the ground
Down, down, down - wanderin' through the places that we both used to go
Round, round always round - chase me and sedate me now but don't let me go
Restless sleep, locked in my lonely room
Empty arms are waiting for the morning to come
In the deep, where my dreams come true
Take care now - I'll keep you now, but lead me baby
I try so hard but I can't understand - lead me baby
Help me get my feet on the ground - help me baby
I can't stay down for too long now baby
I can't stay down for too long now my baby
If I'm crying, well it's 'cause I'm lonely
You know I'm only ever lonely without you
If I cry, well it's 'cause I'm lonely
'Cause I can be so lonely, I can be, I can be, I can be
08 Big Log (05:02)
My love is in league with the freeway
Its passion will ride, as the cities fly by
And the tail-lights dissolve, in the coming of night
And the questions in thousands take flight
My love is a-miles in the waiting
The eyes that just stare, and the glance at the clock
And the secret that burns, and the pain that grows dark
And it's you once again
Leading me on - leading me down the road
Driving beyond - driving me down the road
My love is exceedingly vivid
Red-eyed and fevered with the hum of the miles
Distance and longing, my thoughts do provide
Should I rest for a while at the side
Your love is cradled in knowing
Eyes in the mirror, still expecting they'll come
Sensing too well when the journey is done
There is no turning back - no
There is no turning back - on the run
My love is in league with the freeway
Oh the freeway, and the coming of night-time
My love is in league with the freeway
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