I Rapture erano attesi da una prova importante dopo l'interessante (anche se non privo di difetti) 'Echoes' e dopo 3 anni c'era la curiosità di scoprire che direzione avrebbe preso la loro musica. Ebbene questa è la versione spolpata, senza osso, illanguidita, annacquata della musica dei Rapture.
I Rapture che fanno un bagno nel mainstream e ne escono svuotati, i rapture MTVizzati. Se c'era una qualità che li contraddistingueva era l'aggressività, l'entusiamo, l'irruenza giovanile di chi vuol conquistare il mondo. Con questo 'Pieces of the People We Love' son direttamente passati dall'entusiamo giovanile al disco della senilità: si perche se questa collezione di inanità dovrebbe essere la versione matura dei Rapture non ci siamo proprio: 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. Nessun problema perchè qui di idee ce ne sono davvero poche: i ritmi sembran la versione attutita, sincopata di quelli di una volta, un triste riflesso, le melodie sono totalmente assenti, le canzoni si trascinano stancamente senza scopo apparente, dopo 1 minuto circa di ogni canzone si è già capito tutto.
Per chiudere il cerchio ci pensa una produzione piatta, banalmente Disco, dove le chitarre scompaiono nel mix ridotte a un inutile cicaleccio. Per carità, forse tra i fumi dell'alcool, se uno sopprime ogni capacità d'analisi, uno può pure ritrovarsi a muoversi al ritmo del pop stitico del nuovo singolo "Get Myself Into It" prima di tornare però lucido e rendersi conto che è un pezzo blando, di una mediocrità raccapricciante, in definitiva brutto. Non val nemmeno la pena di analizzare canzone per canzone, sarebbe meglio sorvolare sui gridolini michaeljacksoneschi di "The Devil", sull'insensatezza di "Calling Me", si salva solo l'orrendamente titolata "Whoo Alright Yeah.. Uh Uh" (qui un vaffanculo ci sta pure bene!) e "The Sound", che cerca di rinverdire i fasti dei furiosi assalti del passato. Solo che basta andarsi a risentire un vecchio pezzo come "Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks" per capire quanta acqua (sporca) è passata sotto i ponti.
L'impressione è che questo 'Pieces of the People We Love' è il classico prodotto che affollerà i negozi di cd di seconda mano (se ancora ci saranno negozi di cd). Inutile e spesso irritante.
Provateci ancora, magari senza ascoltare i consigli di chi vuol farvi essere cool a tutti i costi.
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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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