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Possono essere - di fatto sono - eccelsi e terribilmente noiosi nel breve volgere di un cambio di traccia.
Di fatto questo è considerato uno dei migliori album degli Stereolab, e ne contiene le due anime principali.
La prima è fatta di melodie inconfondibili, che richiamano la migliore tradizione pop transalpina - non foss'altro per l'autenticità di mademoiselle Sadier - che si mescolano con atmosfere tipicamente lounge, nel senso di anni '50-'60, e non di balearico.
L'altra di sperimentazioni di fatto semplificate e comunque a mio avviso un po' presuntuose: nulla di atonale o dissonante, qui si gioca sulle ripetizioni.
Se non si è capito, è quando centrano le prime che diventano veramente invidiabili, mentre risultano noiosetti quando si inerpicano lungo le seconde.
Qui abbiamo fulgidi esempi di pop songs à la Stereolab, alcune delle quali diventate standards nel repertorio della band, quali le note Wow and Flutter e Ping Pong.
Altri picchi si raggiungono con la ballata elettronica Des ètoiles electroniques - mi si scusi la ripetizione -, International Colouring Contest e la Three-Dee Melodie di apertura.
Altre cose si ascoltano con piacere e curiosità - ad esempio la lounge-issima chiusura di Fiery Yellow - mentre non mancano gli episodi trascurabIli quando non evidentemente tediosi come "Anamorphose".
Prendere o lasciare?
Meglio un ascolto preliminare, se possibile, con conseguente playlist del meglio su IPod o, diversamente, spazio ricavato sullo scaffale tra Stairs e Sting.
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
02 Wow and Flutter (03:08)
I didn't question I didn't know
As far as I'd seen life was endless
When I realised I had to let go
We are mere mortals
As to the rest
It's not eternal, imperishable
While on the move
It's not eternal, interminable
Progress is the clue
I though IBM was born with the world
The US flag would float forever
The cold opponent did pack away
The capital will have to follow
It's not eternal, imperishable
Oh yes it will go
It's not eternal, imperishable
The dinosaur law
Look at the symbols, they are alive
They move evolve and then they die
05 Ping Pong (03:02)
it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
you see the recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
it's alright recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry if things can only get better
there's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents
there's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
don't worry be happy things will get better naturally
don't worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
06 Anamorphose (07:33)
Il n�y a rien de
De plus vrai que
De plus vrai que le
Plus vrai que le souffle
Il n�y a rien de
Plus vrai que le souffle
Anamorphose
There is nothing
More real than
More real than the
More real than the breathing
There is nothing
More real than the breathing
09 International Colouring Contest (03:47)
Into outer space with Lucia Pamela
The moon is the place where there's space for Lucia
Into outer space with Lucia Pamela
The moon is the place where there's place for Lucia
Before armstrong took his steps
She'd been there with friends
They took all instruments and
Recorded on the moon
Gathered variety of sound
From where the air is different
I'm so full of ideas
And here is a good one
Lucia has a dream
A dream that comes in colour of
International colouring
For your entry she's waiting
Into outer space with Lucia Pamela
The moon is the place where there's space for Lucia
Into outer space with Lucia Pamela
The moon is the place where there's space for Lucia
12 L'Enfer des formes (03:53)
De la m阭e mani鑢e,
Que des filles un peu na飗es,
On se laisse faire,
Par la t阾e du pays,
On s'en va comme des poltrons,
Vivant mal leur �?art鑜ement,
Entre 閙otion et indiff閞ence,
Entre r関olte et d閞ision,
On a le d閟ir, on se dit il faut agir,
Mais cette l鈉het⌦ㄲ㬸 inavouable,
Nous rend bien trop gouvernables,
On s'en va comme des poltrons,
Vivant mal leur �?art鑜ement,
Entre 閙otion et indiff閞ence,
Entre r関olte et d閞ision.
(Whispered at the end of the song...)
on s'en va...
Hell Of Forms
In the same manner,
As girls a bit naive,
We are manipulated,
By the head of the(our)country,
We're behaving like cowards,
Ill at ease because of the separation,
Between emotion and indifference,
Between revolt and derision,
We feel the desire, we tell ourselves we must react,
But this shameful cowardness,
Makes us too easy to be controlled,
We're behaving like cowards,
Ill at ease because of the separation,
Between emotion and indifference,
Between revolt and derision.
(Whispered at the end of the song...)
we're going away...
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