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Tutti conoscono i grandi successi degli Skunk Anansie ma per conoscere la vera natura del gruppo bisogna ascoltare questo loro debutto.
E' rock alternativo, duro e molto incazzato, sicuramente l'album più tosto e diretto mai scritto da Skin e compagni.
I punti di riferimento? Sicuramente i RATM nel riffing e nel contenuto di alcuni testi, molto politici come ad esempio Little Baby Swastikka, poi il post grunge come nella stupenda Weak che fu anche il primo singolo di successo.
La voce di Skin è maestosa, altissima e tagliente nei brani più duri ma anche soave nelle "ballad" come a rassicurarti che, nonostante nel mondo non tutto giri per il verso giusto, da qualche parte spunta sempre un raggio di sole. Così la bellissima e ironica 100 Ways To Be A Good Girl dove Skin mischia le carte e ad un inizio dolce e pacato contrappone un finale carico di rabbia.
Tra i pezzi migliori da ricordare il primo singolo I Can Dream, Charity e And Here I Stand che si apre con una linea corposa di basso alla RATM e dove si mettono in risalto gli altri validissimi componenti del gruppo, con una sezione ritmica veramente ottima.
Questo è l'album che più ho amato degli Skunk!!
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01 Selling Jesus (03:44)
You kill me with your smelly fingers
Your smelly fingers from the sex you had on Christmas Day
And now you say you're feeling guilty
You're feeling guilty 'cos your god was shining on your face
You go to church and light a candle
And then you're blinded by the light from all the golden pews
The devil's snapping at your toes now
Because the angels can't be bothered to live up to you
They're selling jesus again
They're selling jesus again
They want your soul and your money, blood and your bones
They're selling jesus again
Selling love to you - selling love
You're buying this you're buying that now
You're wishing all the money in the world belonged to you
You're crucified upon your own cross now
You're givin' money to the white men in the white limo
That kind of god is always man-made
They made him up then wrote a book to keep you on your kness
They get their theories from the same place
Then build a church if there's some money left
From lying on the beach
They're selling jesus again
They're selling jesus again
They want your soul and your money, blood and your bones
They're selling jesus again
Selling love to you - selling love
They're selling jesus again
They're selling jesus again
They want your soul and your money, blood and your bones
They're selling jesus again
Selling love to you - selling love
02 Intellectualise My Blackness (03:44)
I hit him with a piece of his philosophy
Anglo-Saxon muck in his type of greed
What did he do to deserve such hate
(He tried to) intellectualise my blackness
He tried to summerize, to institualise
Still I could recognize, he was materialized
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
He's always tryin' to make up for his little slips
The joke about the nigga and the yellow nip
Then he tells me I'm so different from those other shits
(When he tries to) intellectualise my blackness
He tried to summerize, to institualise
Still I could recognize, he was materialized
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
Motherfucker don't you lecture-rise me
Don't you ever try to lecturize me
Motherfucker don't you lecture-rise me
Oh No
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
He tried to intellectualise my blackness
To make it easier for his whiteness
He tried to intellectualise my blackness, save me
03 I Can Dream (03:32)
I'll be your sailor girl
I'll tip my cap to your parade
Life won't be dreary no
I'll be the waves inside your bed
Pain is your beauty
It hurts the vision in our eyes
Your eyes are smiling now
They watch me cry, they watch me die, watch me die
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my darling
Your eyes seep through me
You think you hate the way I mince
I'm screwing yours dreams now
So cynical at your expense
Oh what a sacrifice
All of my dreams will melt away
So who's so special now
No one's more special, more than me, more than me
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
I can dream, I can dream
I can love, I can love
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My darling, my saviour
My darling, my saviour
I'll tip my cap to your parade
Life won't be dreary no
I'll be the waves inside your bed
Pain is your beauty
It hurts the vision in your eyes
Your eyes are smiling now
They watch me cry, they watch me die, watch me die
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my darling
Your eyes seep through me
You think you hate the way I mince
I'm screwing yours dreams now
So cynical at your expense
Oh what a sacrifice
All of my dreams will melt away
So who's so special now
No one's more special, more than me, more than me
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
My saviour, my saviour, my darling, my darling
I can dream, I can dream
I can love, I can love
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
I can dream, I can dream
I can dream that I'm someone else
I can love, I can love
I can love - whoa - love someone else
My darling, my saviour
My darling, my saviour
04 Little Baby Swastikkka (04:06)
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
It wasn't very high couldna been more than four years old
That's who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
It wasn't very high couldna been more than four years old
That's who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby nigga-head on the wall
Who put the little baby nigga-head on the wall
The eyes were so big couldna been more than baby scrawls
That's who put the little baby nigga-head on the wall
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
So small, so innocent, so young
So delicately done, grown up in your poison
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
It wasn't very high couldna been more than four years old
That's who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby K's up on the wall
Who put the little baby K's up on the wall
They got em in a line I bet they wished they coulda sprayed up more
That's who put der litlle baby K's on the wall
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
So small, so innocent, so young
So delicately done, grown up in your poison
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
It wasn't very high couldna been more than four years old
That's who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
Who kicked the little baby's head against the wall
Who kicked the little baby's head against the wall
Who kicked the little baby's head against the wall
We kicked the little baby's head against the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
Who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
It wasn't very high couldna been more than four years old
That's who put the little baby swastikkka on the wall
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
You rope them in young
05 All in the Name of Pity (03:22)
I smoked the shit that made you love
Drowned all your problems like a wife
Blanked out your anger with my face
Wasted my days to hide disgrace
I did it all, did it all
All in the name of pity
You loved to taunt me with your sex
Kicked up the memory in my head
Watch my neurosis building up
Swallowed the truth your mind forgot
You did it all, did it all
All in the name of pity
You did it all, did it all
All in the name of pity
In the name of pity
In the name of pity
In the name of pity
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why
You tried and tried to use my life
To keep your aggresion trivalized
Never an ego in control
(But) now who's the shit that sold his soul
You did it all, did it all
In the name of pity
You did it all, did it all
In the name
You did it all, did it all
In the name of pity
In the name of pity
In the name of pity
06 Charity (04:37)
Why do I sense, benevolence
You stand tall at my great expense
Thick words of gratitude, what a price to pay
Stuck in my throat, I sell every word I say
But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down...
Why does your world keep burying
Gorging much deeper, than it's ever been
Rubbing still harder, salt on my hurt
Licking my burns while I grovel in your dirt
But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down...
You pity me with your tasteless gestures
Gratitude for kind
But your bludgeoned, intentioned objectives
Are screwing with my mind, screwing with my mind
But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down...
But I don't want your charity
Twisting me round
I don't want your charity
Keeping me down...
08 Weak (03:31)
Lost in time I can't count the words
I said when I thought they went unheard
all of those harsh thoughts so unkind
'cos I wanted u
And now I sit here I'm all alone
so here sits a bloody mess, tears fly home
A circle of angels deep in war
'cos I wanted u
weak as I am, no tears for u[X2]
deep as I am, I'm not ones fool
weak as I am
So what am I now? I'm loves last hope
I'm all of the soft words I once owned
if I opened my heart, there'd be no space for air
'cos I wanted u
weak as I am, no tears for u[X2]
deep as I am, I'm no ones fool
weak as I am
In this tainted soul }
in this weak young heart } x 2
am I too much for u }
Weak as I am[x4] am, am
Weak as I am }
Am I too much for you } x3
Weak as I am
09 And Here I Stand (05:12)
And here I stand, redskin fist of power
Clawing at the stains of racism
It turns to black, cos you're so very credible
But you keep losing track
'cos You don't, my colour in your melting pot of love
Where everybody is brown
So here I stand, knee deep in your soiled heritage
That's so charmingly underground
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here we stand, I'm looking at my sad, sad eyes
They slowly turn at rage
Oh what a shame, I can't contain my basic nigga-rage
And lust for violence
So here we are, the cry goes out for war
London's east end burning to the ground
So here we stand, blackened fist of power
Same old scarred-up-faces we condemn
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
So here I stand, stand s-t-a-n-d
My nigga-rage, nigga-rage
nigga-rage, nigga-rage
nigga-rage, rage
nigga-rage, rage
rage, rage, rage
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