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Volevo aprire una piccola parentesi intitolata "Basta Tristezza" indispensabile dopo le ultime recensioni di Cranes e Cocteau Twins! Si, è vero che sono "dark inside" ma non solo.
Sabato durante la solita, periodica, riclassificazione cd mi è capitato questo degli Stereo MC's per le mani ed un bel sorriso pieno di gioia mi si è dipinto sul volto. "Connected" rappresenta una splendida fusione fra Hip Hop, Funky, Rap, un capolavoro, quando ancora questi generi non erano monopolio di qualche scalzacane con i catenoni ed i pantaloni larghi.
È pura gioia di vivere, non un pezzo fuori posto, non una pausa.
Il disco si apre così proprio con "Connected", AhhhhhhA? Un muggito? ed un attacco fulminante "Something ain't right/I'm gonna get myself/I'm gonna get myself/I'm gonna get myself connected/I ain't gonna go blind/For the light which is reflected /I see thru you" nessun muscolo può sottrarsi al movimento.
Segue la funkyssima "Ground Level".
Tutte le tredici tracce sono amalgamate perfettamente per non dare mai spazio ad un cedimento: "Everything", "Sketch", "Fade Away" ci accompagnano piene di ritmo a "Step It Up", "To the left/to the right/Step it up/Step it up/It’s alright"... positivismo eccessivo? Perché no! Se "Creation" è la traccia più morbida ed ipnotica del disco "The End" chiude il cerchio piena di carica e la tentazione di premere il repeat è assolutamente irresistibile.
Emotivamente posso sintetizzare quello che è per me "Connected" nello spazio di una serata... ad una festa, una di quelle feste dove c'è l’amico che ha l’impianto e si mette su la musica che piace a tutti, una di quelle serate perfette qualche mese prima di diventare "grande", di assumerti delle responsabilità lavorative ed affettive...
Ricordo che "Connected" girò tutta la sera ed io non volevo più smettere di ballare e non volevo che diventasse più giorno!
A dire il vero quell'emozione mi arriva ora che sto scrivendo come una coltellata... oddio mi sono intristita... Sindrome di Peter Pan? Mi sa che ce l'abbiamo in parecchi!
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Connected (05:14)
Ah ah
Something ain't right
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself connected
I ain't gonna go blind
For the light which is reflected
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
Ya dirty tricks
Ya make me sick
I see thru you
I see thru you
I'm gonna do it again
I'm gonna do it again
Ah ah
I'm gonna do it again
Gotta do right
'Cause something ain't right
Gotta do right
Come on
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Ah ah
Ain't gonna go blind
I see thru you
I see thru you
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself connected
I ain't gonna go blind
For the light that is reflected
Hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
Ya terrified
Ain't gonna go blind
Ain't gonna go blind
Here we go
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Hear me out
Stumble you might fall
Interstate 5
Stayin' alive
Won't someone try
Open up your eyes
You must be blind
If you can't see
The gaping hole
Called reality
Wanna do it again
I gonna gonna do it again
I wanna do it again
Come on
I'm gonna do it again
Hear me out
Terrified
Something ain't right
Here we go
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
02 Ground Level (04:13)
It just depends how close to ground level you are
It just depends how close to ground level you are
Can you see the hurt, can you see the pain?
Can you feel the rain comin' like a train of thought?
It just depends how close to ground level you are
Whether rain or shine, whether yours or mine
Say I won’t go blind for no Philistine no more
It just depends how close to ground level you are
So get on train of thought, so get on train of thought
We're sick of seein' poverty
We're sick of seein' misery
We're sick of the fatality
In every locality
Are we just killing time, waiting for a sign
Like a battle cry or a long goodbye, no no
It just depends how close to ground level you are
So get on train of thought
It just depends how close to ground level you are
They'll use you as artillery
They want you in the milit'ry
You gotta know your enemy
But we all know the killer be
They act so viciously
Wearin' pure diguise, they camouflage their eyes
All around there's spies, no one realise, no no
It just depends how close to ground level you are
So get on train of thought (so get on train of thought)
We're sick of seein' proverty
We're sick of seein' proverty
We're sick of seein' proverty
Are just killing time, waiting for a sign
Like a battle cry or a long goodbye, no more
It just depends how close to ground level you are
So get on train of thought
07 Step It Up (05:01)
To the left to the right
Step it up, step it up it’s alright
To the left and to the right
Check the new ride out it’s alright
Silence ain’t in season
Cos there ain’t no good in grief
Can’t stop my mouth form breathin’
Or seein’ what I see
Curves with destinations
Poetic symmetry
Ya cause an inflammation
In my anatomy – don’t you see
Yeah yeah yeah – you can’t send a forget-me-not
Yeah yeah yeah – but I’ll still reach up to the top
Yeah yeah yeah – until the last day that I drop
Yeah yeah yeah – this is something you can’t stop
From infancy I grown
The message that I’m givin’
You don’t have to be alone - no you don’t
Cos days may come and go - come and go
You’ll see no sight or sound
But when your mind is willing
You’ll find that I’ll be around
Hear me sayin’, hear me sayin’
Yeah yeah yeah – you can’t send a forget-me-not
Yeah yeah yeah – but I’ll still reach up to the top
Yeah yeah yeah – until the last day that I drop
Yeah yeah yeah
To the left to the right
Keep it goin’ keep it goin’ it’s alright
To the left to the right
Step it up, step it up it’s alright
We want flesh
We want flesh
We want flesh
Ah ah ah
All you gotta do is bounce it
To see just what goes where
There ain’t no way around it
So I have come well prepared
Don’t you know
I’m in you form the outset
Hip to hip and dome to dome
We reach the outer limits
Bring the boogie boogie home
Back home
Yeah yeah yeah – you can’t send a forget-me-not
Yeah yeah yeah – but I’ll still reach out to the top
Yeah yeah yeah – we’re goin’ right around the clock
Yeah yeah yeah
To the left to the right
Step it up, step it up it’s alright
To the left to the right
Check the new ride out it’s alright
See how we are livin’ (8x)
You’ll hear me sayin’
Yeah yeah yeah – you can’t send a forget-me-not
Yeah yeah yeah – but I’ll still reach up to the top
Yeah yeah yeah – until the last day that I drop
Yeah yeah yeah – this is something you can’t stop
Yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah
To the left to the right
Keep it goin’ keep it goin’ it’s alright
To the left to the right
Step it up, step it up it’s alright
It's alright (x5)
09 Pressure (03:50)
If you don't know what to say
Then keep your mouth shut out the way
You'll get no flattery
If you know the time of day
Then why'd you let yourself go gray
You need a battery
'Cause every moment counts
As the watchdog waits to pounce
But he ain't smart as me
With the Bible on his lips
And a pistol on each hip
But he ain't blindin' me
So just remember
Don't believe all you see
Things aren't always how they're meant to be
Some come as villain, dressed as virtue
But all they really wanna do is hurt you
And that's reality
Gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We're gonna keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
So when it feels like a sit 'n' slide
I treat each day as a brand new ride
Let it all come down on me
You could be north, you could be east
You could be beauty, you could be beast
It don't mean a thing to me
You could be movin', you could be still
As long as it's of your own free will
Don't be a target, see
Well save our souls, Saints preserve us
Hold on tight now, but don't get nervous
Bring it on quick before the light fade
There live a lover, comin' out the shade
At first you act like you don't know me
And all you seem to care about is mourning
And every day it seem to get harder
I don't know how we're gonna reach it farther
Gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We gotta keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
We're gonna keep it up, keep it up
Keep up the pressure
Don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me how to live my life
I won't respond to you
You may have my rank, have my file
But I'll resist you like the Nile
Don't matter what you do
Gonna keep it up
Gotta keep it up
Keep up the pressure
11 Creation (05:04)
Ooh yeah... yeah yeah (x3)
Talking ‘bout creation
I’m talking ‘bout relations
I’m talking ‘bout creation
We need a combination
Gimme no slack and I bring it right back
Cos the punch I pack’s gonna come with a smack
Cos I’m like that, exactly like that
And if I slip there’s no excuse for that
It gets deep but I can’t control
The road is steep and full of pit holes
Cheap and nasty sophistication
But all I seein’ is pure creation
A solo station for civilization
Congregating in another dimension
Don’t ask me why I don’t understand it
It’s just the way nature planned it
I’m talking ‘bout creation
I’m talking ‘bout relations
I’m talking ‘bout creation
We need a combination
Ooh yeah... yeah yeah
To a hairs breath how we gonna do it
You want to look but you knew it you blew it
Out of proportion no I don’t think so
This thing’s bigger than both of us so
Drop your anchor and weigh your thoughts
Like mega ton bombs droppin’ on your front porch
A real summer breeze that’s gonna be
When they don’t exist and neither do we
I’m talking ‘bout creation
I’m talking ‘bout relations
I’m talking ‘bout creation
We need a combination (x2)
I don’t shirk the work come strong like Hercules
Till I seize your heartbeat and make it freeze
So you know I’m authentic
And when I said that I don’t let up I really meant it
I’m full of beans co s I eat my greens
I’m like Mr Lean I love the way you scream
I see jungles forests rivers streams
Grand Canyon mountains seas and livin’ beings
Sweet dreams are made of these things
And the power to raise up my limbs
To all these gifts I wanna dedicate
Every hour I spend and every second I take
Cos I’m talking ‘bout creation
I’m talking ‘bout relations
I’m talking ‘bout creation
We need some combination
Ooh yeah... yeah yeah (x2)
That's the way nature planned
I'm talking 'bout creation
I'm talking 'bout relation
I'm talking 'bout creation
We need some motivation
Ooh yeah... yeah yeah
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