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I Rush sono una delle migliori cose che la musica contemporanea ha dato alla luce. Decidere di puntare l'obiettivo su un loro album è tremendamente difficile, data la vasta e variegata discografia che hanno prodotto.
Siamo nel 1975 e la band è al suo secondo disco. L'omonimo del 1974, prima loro pubblicazione, ha il sapore dei seventies ma qualcosa che manca: nonostante le capacità tecniche e compositive del leader Geddy Lee (bassista-cantante) i brani non si caratterizzano del tutto, pur volendo uscire da quel terribile buco del sentito e ripreso (era il periodo d'oro dei Led Zeppelin, e gli schiamazzi di Lee su quella base settaniana lo rendeva troppo simile a Plant).
In Fly By Night c'è una novità: entra nella formazione un nuovo batterista, Neil Peart, mostro sacro delle percussioni (e tuttora ritenuto uno dei batteristi piú bravi ed eclettici del rock). Ed è tutta un altra musica! I Rush acquistano vitalità, come se avessero incontrato l'amore della loro vita ("azz... sai che ti vedo proprio bene? che hai fatto?"). Anthem, l'opening track, è sorprendente. Il sound non rinnega i seventies, ma è incredibilmente maturato. La batteria sostiene energicamente gli strumenti, che, come se avessero preso sicurezza, si abbandonano a composizioni strutturate ed esaltanti.
Il basso di Geddy Lee, la chitarra di Alex Lifeson e la batteria di Peart amoreggiano in continui menage a trois come "Best I Can" o "Beneath, Between & Behind". È in "By-Tor & The Snow Dog" e nel suo orientamento progressive che si legge il futuro della band, dominato da stacchi, tempi composti e sperimentazioni. Segue la title track "Fly By Night", incredibilmente affascinante con la sua genuinità e quel giro di basso che sbarra la via a tutte le sue "impossibili" varianti.
Quello è, e quello resterà per sempre. Fly By Night è sicuramente un ottimo disco per cominciare a conoscere questi tre "geniacci".
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01 Anthem (04:27)
Know your place in life is where you want to be
Don't let them tell you that you owe it all to me
Keep on looking forward, no use in looking 'round
Hold your head above the crowd and they won't bring you down
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
We marvel after those who sought
The wonders in the world, wonders in the world
Wonders in the world they wrought
Live for yourself
There's no one else more worth living for
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
We marvel after those who sought
The wonders in the world, wonders in the world
Wonders in the world they wrought
Well, I know they've always told you
Selfishness was wrong
Yet it was for me, not you
I came to write this song
Anthem of the heart and anthem of the mind
A funeral dirge for eyes gone blind
We marvel after those who sought
The wonders in the world, wonders in the world
Wonders in the world they wrought, wrought, wrought
02 Best I Can (03:28)
I've got a livin' that's rough, a future that's tough
You know what I mean
Blankers and boasters, all the bluffers and posers
I'm not into that scene
You can tell me that I got no class
Look around, you'll see who's laughin' last
Don't give me speeches 'cause they're oh so droll
Leave me alone, let me rock and roll
Got an itchin' to rock, a hate for small talk
I'm funny that way
Got my sights on the stars, won't get that far
But I'll try anyway
I just like to please, I don't like to tease
I'm easy like that
Don't like long rests, I must confess
I'm an impatient cat
I do the best that I can
I'm just what I am
I do the best I can
Well, I know what I am
Rock and roll-in's a scream, makin' millions my dream
Well, I do that a lot
I'll just give it a try, won't let good times pass me by
They're all I've got
03 Beneath, Between & Behind (03:05)
Ten score years ago, defeat the kingly foe
A wondrous dream came into being
Tame the trackless waste, no virgin land left chaste
All shining eyes, but never seeing
Beneath the noble bird
Between the proudest words
Behind the beauty, cracks appear
Once with heads held high
They sang out to the sky
Why do their shadows bow in fear?
Watch the cities rise
Another ship arrives
Earth's melting pot and ever growing
Fantastic dreams come true
Inventing something new
The greatest minds, and never knowing
Beneath the noble bird
Between the proudest words
Behind the beauty, cracks appear
Once with heads held high
They sang out to the sky
Why do their shadows bow in fear?
The guns replace the plow, facades are tarnished now
The principles have been betrayed
The dreams's gone stale, but still, let hope prevail
History's debt won't be repaid
Beneath the noble bird
Between the proudest words
Behind the beauty, cracks appear
Once with heads held high
They sang out to the sky
Why do their shadows bow in fear?
04 By-Tor & The Snow Dog: I. At the Tobes of Hades / II. Across the Styx / III. Of the Battle / IV. Epilogue (08:39)
05 Fly by Night (03:25)
Why try? I know why
This feeling inside me says it's time I was gone
Clear head, new life ahead
It's time I was king, now not just one more pawn
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
Moon rise, thoughtful eyes
Staring back at me from the window beside
No fright or hindsight
Leaving behind that empty feeling inside
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
Start a new chapter
Find what I'm after
It's changing every day
The change of the seasons
Is enough of a reason
To want to get away
Quiet and pensive
My thoughts apprehensive
The hours drift away
Leaving my homeland
Playing a lone hand
My life begins today
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
Fly by night, away from here
Change my life again
Fly by night, goodbye my dear
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
My ship isn't coming and I just can't pretend
06 Making Memories (03:04)
There's a time for feeling as good as we can
The time is now, and there's no stopping us
There's a time for living as high as we can
Behind us you will only see our dust
You know we're having good days
And we hope they're gonna last
Our future still looks brighter than our past
We feel no need to worry
No reason to be sad
Our memories remind us, maybe road life's not so bad
Just keep smiling, move onward every day
And try to keep our thoughts away from home
We're traveling around, no time to settle down
And satisfy our wanderlust to roam
Well from sea to shining sea, and a hundred points between
Still we go on digging every show
The cities in the land all extend a welcome hand
Till morning when it's time for us to go
07 Rivendell (04:59)
Sunlight dances through the leaves
Soft winds stir the sighing trees
Lying in the warm grass
Feel the sun upon your face
Elven songs and endless nights
Sweet wine and soft relaxing lights
Time will never touch you
Here in this enchanted place
I've traveled now for many miles
It feels so good to see the smiles of
Friends who never left your mind
When you were far away
From the golden light of coming dawn
Till the twilight when the sun is gone
We treasure every season
And every passing day
You feel there's something calling you
You're wanting to return
To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn
A place you can escape the world
Where the dark lord cannot go
Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow
We feel the coming of a new day
Dark gives way to light a new way
Stop here for a while until the world
The world calls you away
Yet you know I've had the feeling
Standing with my senses reeling
This is the place to grow old 'til
I reach my final day
You feel there's something calling you
You're wanting to return
To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn
A place you can escape the world
Where the dark lord cannot go
Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow
08 In the End (06:48)
Well, I can see what you mean
It just takes me longer
And I can feel what you feel
It just makes you stronger
Chorus
I know, I know, I know
Oh, the feeling grows
I see, I see, I see
It's got to be
You can take me for a little while
You can take me, you can make me smile in the end
Well, I can do what you do
You just do it better
And I can cry like you cry
It just makes me sadder
Chorus
Well, I can shine like you shine
It doesn't make me brighter
But if I think like you think
It don't make my load much lighter
Chorus
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