Ci sono alcuni album che ancor prima di uscire sono predestinati ad esser presi a ceffoni dai critici di mezzo mondo, professionisti e non.
Indipendentemente dal loro valore, diventeranno capri espiatori per sancire la fine della presunta scena musicale di turno, scorticatoi morali su cui accanirsi con commenti spazianti tra lo sberleffo alla sardonica presa per il culo, fino alle male parole.
"Pieces Of The People We Love" è uno di questi dischi.
Si potrebbero citare tanti altri album dallo stesso destino, a me vengono in mente i Warlocks di "Surgery" o gli Air di "1000Hz Legend", ma di esempi ve ne sono a bizzeffe.
Capita spesso che dopo un album spacca charts, che attira su di sè l'interesse del piccolo e grande pubblico, e diventa portabandiera di una "nuova scena"(in ormai TUTTI i casi tale processo è veicolato a tavolino e non ha quasi alcun riscontro nel reale, ma prendiamolo per buono), il successivo, se poi giunge dopo tre anni di silenzio, sarà considerato al 90% una immondizia. Le ragioni sono a volte di natura oggettivamente musicale, altre volte dipendono dallo stato di salute della "nuova scena" di cui il gruppo in questione era alfiere.
Visto che la scena cosiddetta punk funk non va più giù a molte riviste e si stà ammosciando su sé stessa (però attenzione questi sono i momenti in cui escono i dischi migliori), è ovvio che il secondo disco dei Rapture sia massacrato. Insomma se Dio vuole tuo figlio Isacco dagli una capra che va bene lo stesso, quindi perchè rinunciare al linciaggio rituale e annunciato dei Rapture?
Essere atei in questo caso aiuta.
Non voglio affermare che "Pieces… " sia chissà che capolavoro, ma se non siete molto adusi ai suoni anni'80 un po' disco(ring), un po' dancehall di periferia, o anzi li considerate cadaveri da lasciar riposare in pace, l'album ha il merito di miscelarli a volte talmente bene da renderli più che digeribili.
È il caso di "Gotta Get Myself Into It", pezzo di un ruffiano mostruoso destinato ad inondare le sale da ballo "alternative". Scordatevi le chitarre spigolose di "Echoes", semi appese al chiodo in favore di un approccio quasi totalmente danzereccio e una produzione stile "Confessions" di Madonna.
Scelta paracula di sicuro, ma in alcuni frangenti azzeccata. Come nell'andamento tribal-DFA della titletrack o nel semi plagio dei Gang Of Four con chitarra funky di "The Devil" oppure nel basso profondo di "Don Gon Do It". Strano a dirsi ma proprio i brani dall'alto tasso chitarristico sono i peggiori, tra la patetica ballata "Live In Sunshine" e il robot-rock di "The Sound", non si riesce a scegliere di quale male morire.
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01 Don Gon Do It (04:35)
High... High ask they sky.
Low... low as it goes.
Purple dragons fly into your eyes.
Milkshake shimmy cry and cry and cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
High... High as the sky.
Low... low as it goes.
Words that cut, slash, rip and hypnotize...
why'd you say those things, why'd you lie?
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
Hiiiiiigh.... Hiiiiiigh.
Knobs, knobs to turn.
Love, love that burns.
Paint over this broken hearted life.
You are so fucked up... I wish you'd die.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
Hiiiiigh.... Hiiiiiigh
03 Get Myself Into It (04:42)
Holiday, Get away.
I feel Funny.
Children's money
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Don't be late.. at Gods gate.
Don't talk shit... out with it!
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime
On the train feel insane.
What the fuck? Just bad luck
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime
Don't you tell me that I'm fine
Cause I'll show you that you're blind.
Don't you tell me that I'm fine
Cause I'll show you that you're blind.
04 First Gear (06:23)
First gear OW!
First gear OH!
First gear don't you get me down, nuh-uh.
I'm overlord in a my-m-my-m M-Mustang Ford OW!
Can I ask you a question?
Can I bear the reply?
First gear... second chance...
it's the third time's charm for new romance, oh...
I wanna brake it with you.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good--good to you?
OH... First gear... I feel alright, I say all my friends gonna right tonight.
Headlights... can't you see that it's all green lights for you and me?
I'm fired up... the engine is ruinning.
All my charm and all my cunning GIRL... I wanna brake it with you.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good... good to you?
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my M-M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my M-M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good... good to you?
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes
07 Calling Me (03:46)
Whatever's dangerous to you
You plunge yourself into
Never stop to realise
Sometimes a man can't know his pain
Til someone probes the wound
And satisfies his mind
And when you make up your own rules
With no regard for what you lose
You make mistakes of youth
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
You're not a prince
You are a son
You're not the only one
You see before your eyes
And when you take up too much space
Put a frown upon my face
Don't believe your own lies
My anger left without a trace
Leaving me with bitter taste
I had lost so much time
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
08 Down for So Long (03:47)
Because a cynic told me
The best is yet to come
The day we all die on our backs
Out in the sun
And now the dawn time shadows haunt my every thought
I've been lost in blind drunk photo phobia
I've been searching so long...
Then an analyst said, "why fret finality?"
Cos looking up, ain't nothing looking down on me
and if the man upstairs don't care what's going on
Then we can find out for ourselves what's right and wrong
I've been searching so long...
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
Cos we can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
10 Live in Sunshine (03:59)
love and hope and trust today
is what i think i'd like to say
can you see me standing here?
can you help me with my fears?
is there a way to come to you?
live forever, just we two
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
don't ever give up your dreams
and all good things will come to thee
don't give up your ever hope
life is laughing
can you cope?
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
if you're lost and you can't live
alone inside your tiny head
if you call and no-one comes
look to me
i'm in the sun
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be there
songs i long lost gave to you
in your heart
and in your shoes
left a passion
pent up pain
songs in motion
songs in vain
this i cannot give to you
all together, all with glue
valentines and shopping malls
when you left me, i was small
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be there
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Di northernsky
I Rapture che fanno un bagno nel mainstream e ne escono svuotati, i rapture MTVizzati.
Questa è la versione da casa di cura, da sanatorio, o da fighetto che mentre sorbisce il suo Martini non vuole le orecchie disturbate da qualche idea.
