"Bohemian Like You" vi dice qualcosa? Chi dimentica è complice, sappiatelo.
I Dandy Warhols in realtà sono molto di più di quel singolo: personalmente sono un amante dei primi dischi, quelli più dannatamente psichedelici, e sono proprio su quelli che il quartetto da il meglio di sè. Seguirono comunque degli ottimi dischi.
Avrei volentieri recensito uno di quelli ma, purtroppo o per fortuna, sono arrivato tardi ma trovando campo libero per questo disco live.
Premetto che i live dei Dandy Warhols non erano mai riusciti pienamente a soddisfarmi, ma ecco qui l'eccezione.
La tracklist consiste semplicemente in "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" (2000) nella sua completezza.
L'album non ha bisogno di presentazioni, fu il disco che li consacrò al grande pubblico.
Seguendo l'ordine esatto, parte subito il combo "Godless" + "Mohammed" + "Nietzsche": leggermente più lente delle originali, si fanno campo con il loro caratteristico lento, appunto, andante tra chitarre acustiche, dai sentori Western (memorabili trombe in "Godless"), inebriate dalla vocalità trasandata ed intontita di Taylor-Taylor. Di una profonda e semplice psichedelia.
Si alzano i bpm man mano che scaletta prosegue. Arriva il turno di "Country Leaver", atto di Country psichedelico, e un altro combo composto da "Solid" + "Horse Pills" + "Get Off": meno psichedelia e più distorsione per un Alternative Rock un po' più classico.
Tutto procede che è una meraviglia e infatti arriva il momento di "Sleep", che riprende il lento andante delle prime tracce e con qualche accordo di chitarra acustica ti culla gentilmente.
Questa è proprio la peculiarità dei Dandy Warhols: la capacità di sfornare brani dalla struttura semplicissima, speziati con quella psichedelia stordita, che funzionano in modo perfetto.
Potrebbero essere la colonna sonora di un cowboy rimasto a piedi per lande deserte, sfinito per il caldo e con le allucinazioni. Quell'illusione di trovare una fonte da cui dissetarsi.
Procediamo con "Cool Scene", si prende velocità e si riprende qualche sonorità Country, per arrivare poi al classicone "Bohemian Like You": è un pezzo che gasa, inevitabile. Purtroppo proprio nella suddetta troviamo l'unico "passo falso" del concerto, ovvero la vocalità che stavolta vede Taylor-Taylor in notevole difficoltà.
Mi sento, però, di sorvolare tranquillamente. Son sicuro che anche il pubblico presente l'ha fatto, sicuramente impegnato a salterellare.
Segue "Shakin'", un po' sulla falsa riga della precedente, e "Big Indian", dove le vocalità diventano più limpide, più chiare e meno effettate, tornando nuovamente a quella euforizzante e piacevolmente fiacca psichedelia. Il pezzo con la miglior prestazione vocale.
Chiude questo bellissimo flashback al 2000 una delle tracce che preferisco, vale a dire "The Gospel". Ancora più lenta dell'originale, dove la malinconia "evangelizzante" fa da padrona assieme all'ottima prova chitarristica.
Caspita se ne è valsa la pena. Perfetto per chi avesse intenzione di rivalutare "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia".
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Nietzsche (06:37)
I want a god who stays dead
not plays dead
I, even, I, can play dead
I want a god who stays dead
not plays dead
I, even I, can play dead
I want a god who stays dead
not plays dead
I, even I, can play dead
02 The Gospel (06:30)
My sweet love, I'll take you there
comin for to carry you home
I'll take you down to water
comin for to carry you home
no more weary, no more tired
comin for to carry you home
my sweet love, I will take you there
comin for to carry you home
I will take you home
I will take you home
my darling, I will shelter you
comin for to carry you home
I'll lay you down still water
comin for to carry you home
no more weary, no more tired
comin for to carry you home
I will take you home
I will take you home
I will take you home
I will take you home
03 Godless (06:08)
Hey I said you're godless and
it seems like you're a souless friend
as spotless as you were back then
I swear that you are godless
hey I guess you're lonely when
I gave you all it took so then
a stranger there is ever been
I guess, it's what you wanted
it seems lonely I would be
I begged, I plead
but this is all that I have gotten
hey as for the day my friend
to hope that you could ever bend
I swear you are, I swear you are
I swear, that you are godless
hey I said you're godless
hey and you're a souless friend
hey I said you're heartless
and I swear, I swear
godless
godless
you're godless
04 Bohemian Like You (03:42)
You've got a great car
Yeah, what's wrong with it today?
I used to have one too
Maybe I'll come and have a look
I really love your hairdo, Yeah
I'm glad you like mine too
See what lookin' pretty cool will get ya
So what do you do?
Oh yeah I wait tables too
No I haven't heard your band
Cause you guys are pretty new
But if you dig on Vegan food
Well come over to my work
I'll have them cook you something that you'll really love
Cause I like you
Yeah, I like you
And I'm feelin so Bohemian like you
Yeah, I like you
Yeah, I like you
And I feel wahoo, wooo
Ooh, ooh, ooooh X4
Wait
Who's that guy
Just hanging at your pad
He's looking kinda hoar
Yeah, you broke up that's too bad
I guess its fair if he always pays the rent
And he doesn't get bent about sleeping on the couch when I'm there
Cause I like you
Yeah I like you
And I'm feeling so Bohemian like you
Yeah I like you
Yeah I like you
And I feel wahoo, woooo
Ooh, ooh, ooooh X3
I'm getting wise
And I'm feeling so Bohemian like you
It's you that I want so please
Just a causal, casual easy thing
Is it? It is for me
And I like you
Yeah I like you
And I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you, I like you
I like you
And I feel wahoo, woooo
Ooh, ooh, ooooh X4
05 Horse Pills (03:29)
So your ex got a mansion where you kick it on the hill
your boy comes to see you, he's your hollywood thrill
he's a Spanish fly, bucks like a stallion
in the suits that you got him, he looks more Italian
you worry bout your tan when the weather's gettin clammy
summer in the city and winters in Miami
you get so high on the high life pills
cruisin and boozin and rockin on the horse size pills
you could even take more thrills
you could even take more spills
pills, thrills, chills and ills man, kills
and rockin on the horse size
butt's gettin bigger
do you think he'll notice maybe?
that's ok, don't worry bout it baby
cause everybody knows he pumps you for your money
that's alright, don't worry bout it honey
in your itsy bitsy teenie weenie riding up your butt bikini
keepin on the heels cause you're saggin just a teenie bit
more than the girls he pretends he doesn't thrill
rubbin on the lotion, and rockin on the horse size pills
you could even take more thrills
you could even take more spills
pills, thrills, chills, and ills man, kills
and rockin on the horse size
sometimes you feel like Moses
that's when you're toasted
yeah kick it
yo bitch
that's right
rockin on the horse size
06 Shakin' (03:54)
Oh you got me shakin
oh you got me high
I'm getting nowhere now
I'm not that good
but you were drinking
and thinking all night
you were hot so you thought
you didn't want to try
you were getting older
I was getting wiser not
you could see no reason to be any nicer
but I still can't seem to help but want you back back back back back
you said I'm lazy
well maybe you're right
I turned around and said
hey man turn that shit off
maybe baby you act like a star
you did not. anything. who did you think you are?
you were getting older
I was getting wiser not
you could see no reason to be any nicer, but
well you get what you got and you learn how to like it
but I can't seem to help but want you back back back back back
you were getting older
I was getting wiser not
say you will but you wont but you did but you don't
ahh ahhh ahhh
well you get what you got and you learn how to like it
ahhh hahaha ahhh hahaha
you can see no reason to be any nicer
but anyway you slice it I just don't get no wiser
but I still can't seem to help but want you back back
07 Country Leaver (03:26)
Well I'm going to see you soon in Amsterdam
I can't believe I can get there but I can
man
I hope when I see you that you're still likin' who I am
I am
but if you don't baby well I'll still tell you that
I understand
I'll tell you
I I I understand
I'm going to see you in a foreign land
I'll pack my bags, oh lord
I'm a travelin man's
man
I hope when I see you that you're still likin' who I am
oh yeah
but if you don't baby
well I'll still tell you that
I understand
I I I understand
if you don't baby well I'll still tell you that
I understand
I'll tell you
I I I understand
08 Solid (03:21)
Well I must have a door in the back of my head
where I dump out all the crap so I can just feel solid again
no more sittin around thinkin about your hair
cause I must have a door in the back of my, back of my head
I got a beautiful new Asian girlfriend
she comes over and hangs around for days in my bed
you can't seriously believe I'm thinking about you man
cause I must have a door in the back of my, back of my head
well it's a brand new day and I'm walking around old town
I feel cool as shit cause I got no thoughts keeping me down
I'm thinking blah de blah blah blah to your trip
cause I must have a door in the back of my, back of my head
back of my head
must have a door there
09 Sleep (05:30)
Well I could sleep forever
but it's of her I dream
if I could sleep forever
I could forget about everything
if I could sleep forever
if I could sleep forever
if I could sleep forever
10 Get Off (03:04)
Yeah like it or not
like a ball and a chain
all I wanna do is get off
I feel it for a minute babe
hot diggity dog
I love god all the same
but all I wanna do is get off
I feel it I feel it I feel it babe
baby, come on
if you have a hard time gettin there
maybe you're gone
if you find, you find yourself
against yourself
yeah maybe I fought
once thought I was sane
but all I wanna do is get off
and feel it for a minute
like the real thing baby, i guess
I already forgot
what I thought I would say
but all I wanna do is get off
I feel it I feel it I feel it babe
baby, come on
if you have a hard time gettin there
maybe you're gone
if you find, you find yourself
against yourself
hey, come on
if you have a hard time gettin there
maybe you're gone
if you find, you find yourself
against yourself
and like it or not
like a ball and a chain
all I wanna do is get off
and feel it for a minute like the real thing baby, oh yes
I already forgot
what I thought I would say
but all I wanna do is get off
I feel it I feel it I feel it babe
baby, come on
if you have a hard time gettin there
maybe you're gone
if you find, you find yourself
against yourself
11 Mohammed (05:51)
Again and again I get up and say
I only want to get it right.
I only want to do the right thing,
but are these demons, I ask myself.
I wonder today, I'm alone, but then
No one can make their own life.
No one can say that they're an island
When all this freedom that you get is a lie.
12 Big Indian (03:36)
Well my friends do me so right
I'm lucky this far
maybe it's karma
I get over them, but
only at times
and I thank my lucky stars
I wish I may, I wish that I might
just keep an open mind
all of the time
my old man told me one time
you never get wise, you only get older
and most things, you never know why
but that's fine
when the future is frightening
and I seem to be fighting it
well soon as it's brightening
then I, I feel fine, and then I
I feel fine
well my friends do me so right
I'm lucky this far
maybe it's karma
I get over them, but
only at times
well the future is frightening
and I seem to be fighting it
but soon as it's brightening
well the future is brightening
the future is frightening, but I
I feel fine
oh yes I, I feel fine
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