Tralasciando l'omonimo live Ep, è questo il primo album dei newyorkesi Sonic Youth (abbinato all' Ep "Kill Yr. Idols", entrambi del 1983), e la differenza tra ieri e oggi ("Nurse") è abissale: una furia caotica degna del miglior punk permea gran parte dei brani, all'insegna del noise puro ed estremo; dissonanze a tonnellate, muri di chitarre scordate, il tutto contenuto a malapena nei brandelli che rimangono della forma canzone... sembra quasi che gli sbilenchi accenni di struttura siano niente di più che accessori nelle mani di quello che è il vero protagonista, il disordine sonoro.
E quando le atmosfere si fanno più rarefatte (mai pulite comunque) si raggiunge una sorta di ipnosi malata, come in (She's In A) Bad Mood e Protect Me You, veri e propri mantra oscuri, ossessivi.
Voglia di sperimentare dappertutto, del resto siamo a New York nei primi anni '80, periodo in cui fermenta la sottoscena No Wave (DNA, Contortions, Lydia Lunch, ...), e artisti del calibro di Glenn Branca, tra i mentori della gioventù sonica. Certo non c'è la perfetta simbiosi tra rumorismo e pop che rende tali capolavori come "Sister" e ancor di più "Daydream Nation", ma quello che colpisce qui è l'urgenza di esprimersi, che trasuda da ogni singola nota, la quantità di caos contenuta in un dischetto così piccolo... e poi la voce di Kim Gordon, irruenta come poche volte in seguito, basti sentire la live cover della stoogesiana I Wanna Be Your Dog.
Ascoltare questo disco fa male, è nocivo, è una perversione masochistica, ma in fondo il titolo è un' avvertenza: la confusione è sesso. E dovete credergli, ragazzi.
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01 (She's in a) Bad Mood (05:30)
[Thurston]
She's in a bad mood
But I won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But I can't fall for it
She's in a bad mood
But i won't fall for it
I believe all her lies
But i can't fall for it
02 Protect Me You (05:21)
[Kim] Protect me from ravagement I'm ten years old I don't know what to do Protect me myself I'm fourteen There's nothing to do Protect me yourself I'm sixteen Protect me from starving I'm eighteen Protect me you I don't know what to do Protect me demons That come at night I don't know what they say Their whispering Sends the night air away And makes me forget I hope they come Again and again Here they come Again and again I hope they come again Again Again
04 Shaking Hell (03:56)
[Kim]
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
She's finally discovered she's a...
He told her so
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll tell you
Come closer and I'll take off your dress
I'll take off your dress
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
I'll shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Turn around
Turn around
Turn around
Shake
[repeat nine times]
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake off your flesh
Shake shake
[repeat eighteen times]
Shake
05 Inhuman (03:56)
Oi
Aha [repeat ten times]
My body is a pasttime
My mind is a simple joy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
A complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
My body is a past time
My mind is a simplejoy
I learned my lesson
The hardest way
But you don't know me
But you don't know me
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Complete inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhu-inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
Inhuman
07 Confusion Is Next (03:21)
I maintain that
Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Chaos is the future
And beyond it is freedom
Confusion is next and next after that is the truth
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Stick your fingers
In your mouth
Squeeze your tongue
And wrench it out
From its ugly fucking cancer
Its ugly fucking cancer
Root
You gotta cultivate what you need to need
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Sonic tooth
Tell nothing but the truth
08 Making the Nature Scene (02:56)
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene
Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Going back to these origins
The city is a natural scape
order in the details
Confusion uproar in the whole
In nature reality is selection
the tool of critical intervention
Fragmentation is the rule
Unity is not taught in school
You are an unnatural growth
On a funny sunny street
The city has forgotten you
It's symbols of the past
The meaning of its state
Its order of decay
Stand now in a column
And make the nature scene
Standing now in columns
making the nature scene
making the nature scene
waiting to make their pay
There is no resistance to
the signs along the way
standing all in columns
waiting to make their pay
making the nature scene
Waiting for the day
There is no resistance to
There is no resistance to
Salvation means to count on you
It just means to count on you
Make the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
Making the nature scene
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Di ZiOn
"Chaos is the future and behind it is freedom, confusion is next and next after that is the truth..."
"Consiglio davvero a tutti di comprare questo disco ed ascoltarlo, pronti ad essere sconvolti da un sound unico e rivoluzionario."
Di gate
Sono puri deliri di rumore.
Follia, alienazione, caos, odio, furore: ogni singola nota dell'album è intrisa da questi cinque elementi.
