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Album del 1968. TEST – PRIMO ASCOLTO
Nei primi cinque secondi di ascolto mi viene subito da pensare a Sergent Pepper dei Beatles ma dopo le cose cambiano. La personalità del disco si rivela subito fortissima e quando inizia il quarto brano, "Draft Morning", mi è facile pensare che i Pink Floyd abbiano preso da qui l’atmosfera musicale del loro "Us And Them" di The Dark Side Of The Moon. Il sesto ed il nono brano mi stupiscono piacevolmente con il suo 5/4, tempo in cui non è facile comporre qualcosa di avvincente. Il disco finisce prima che me lo aspetti, lasciandomi ancora affamato.
Lo rimetto da capo per la seconda volta, lo riascolto, rimetto da capo per la terza volta, e lo riascolto nuovamente tutto... Queste sono state le impressioni ed i fatti di quando lo ascoltai per la prima volta. Da allora il gusto nel sentirlo si è approfondito notevolmente percependone la profondità della personalità e delle infinite sfumature. Solo dopo mi sono reso conto che probabilmente ero uno degli ultimi appassionati di musica rock a non averlo mai sentito. Mi sono accorto che questo capolavoro era lì da più di trent’anni e io non ne avevo mai approfittato. Ora che lo riascolto è come incontrare un vecchio amico e fa sempre piacere, scalda il cuore. Be, ora capisco perchè il mio amico Roberto mi disse che mi sarebbe piaciuto da matti, e come poteva non piacermi? E' semplicemente fantastico. Lascio questa recensione incompiuta ed aperta. Ci sono io e ci siete voi, siamo in un pub e ci beviamo una birra. Fuori nevica e i Byrds ci tengono compagnia. Aiutatemi a finirla, parliamone...
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01 Artificial Energy (02:18)
Written by McGuinn, Hillman, Clarke
Sitting all alone now
I took my ticket to ride
Just a matter of time now
Til i'll be up in the sky.
Coming up on me now
I'm king for a night
What's it gonna be now?
How willful things are building insight
Do you think it's really the trip that you seek?
I've got my doubts it's happened to me.
Artificial energy
Is racing in my mind
I've got a strange feeling
I'm going to die before my time
Cause i'm coming down off amphetamines
And i'm in jail 'cause i killed the queen.
03 Natural Harmony (02:19)
Fallin' free, me and you
Happenin' so graciously
You can't hurry natural harmony
Feel so free, wider than me
Seems just like the day of birth
Our first awakening to this earth
Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide
Going home, almost gone
Merging with a grain of sand
Try hard to catch us if you can
Dancing through the streets side by side
Head thrown back, arms open wide
04 Draft Morning (02:33)
Sun warm on my face, I hear you
Down below movin' slow
And it's morning
Take my time this morning, no hurry
To learn to kill and take the will
From unknown faces
Today was the day for action
Leave my bed to kill instead
Why should it happen?
05 Wasn't Born to Follow (02:04)
Written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin
Oh I'd rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent's glowing and
Run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And Wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no-one knows the names of
And when it's time I'll go and wait
Beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected
In it's clear and jeweled waters
And if you think I'm ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another
I will watch her dive beneath
The white cascading waters
She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I'll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn't born to follow
07 Change Is Now (03:21)
(Hillman / McGuinn)
Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
All is now, all is now
The time that we have to live
Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love's sweet plan
Truth is real, truth is real
That which is not real does not exist
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone
Gather all that we can
Keep in harmony with love's sweet plan
Change is now, change is now
Things that seemed to be solid are not
In and out roundabout
Dance to the day when fear it is gone
Fear it is gone
Fear it is gone
11 Space Odyssey (03:52)
In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
This beacon had a field of force, that circled all around
And not a man could get inside, no way could be found
It was here for thousands of years before our life began
Waiting very patiently for evolving man
When the galaxy was young they looked upon the earth
and saw that its position was promising for birth
They searched for life but finding none they left a beacon bright
Its signal had not been disturbed in the eternal light
How wise they were to choose this place, they knew when we arrived
That our atomic energy, we'd harnessed and survived
I look out on the milky way for people of the dawn
I know that they will come some day but will our wait be long?
In nineteen and ninety-six we ventured to the moon
Onto the the Sea Of Crisis like children from the womb
We journeyed cross the great wall plain beneath the mountain range
and there we saw the pyramid, it looked so very strange
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