"Compra questa raccolta! Ci sono due inediti e due splendidi rifacimenti, uno di "Temple of Love" ed uno di "Alice". Ma ci sono anche delle versioni alternative delle canzoni che già hai su cd!"
Con queste parole un mio caro amico, molto tempo fa, mi persuase e mi spinse a spendere ben 20 euro per una raccolta dei Sisters of Mercy. Gruppo che, per diritto di cronaca, mi piace non poco e del quale possiedo tutti i (pochi) dischi pubblicati durante il corso della loro insolita e bizzarra carriera.
Ma quale delusione mi colpì quando infilai il CD nel lettore ed inziai ad ascoltarlo! Tutto qua?? Sì, tutto qua! Una raccolta di brani, molti dei quali ben noti anche se leggermente diversi da quelli presenti sulle releases ufficiali, con l'aggiunta di due banalotti inediti e di due rifacimenti commerciali di due grandiose canzoni del gruppo di Leeds.
Andrew caro, ma perchè ci hai fatto questo? Ti mancavano forse dei soldi?
Cerco di essere buono ma proprio non ci riesco! Come si fa a metallizzare "Temple Of Love" ficcandoci dentro la voce di Ofra Haza (r.i.p.) nel tentativo di conquistare i cuori di quei "gotici" che il buon Eldritch, oggi più di ieri, afferma di disprezzare? E perchè operare una scelta non molto dissimile con un brano di grande intensità come "Alice"?
Non parliamo, poi, della patetica "Under The Gun", cantata dal nostro affezionatissimo in compagnia di Terri Nun dei Berlin, fiera delle banalità e dei sentimentalismi di serie zeta.
L'unica traccia che, se considerata con attenzione, si salva in questo mediocre compilation è "Body & Soul". Intendiamoci: nulla di eccezionale e nulla di paragonabile alle vecchie songs dei Sisters ! Tuttavia, nella sua semplicità e nella sua tiepida malinconia, riesce a farsi apprezzare.
Per il resto si tratta, come già scritto, di vecchi brani della bands, alcuni "alternativi" ed altri identici alle versioni che già avete (si spera!) su disco.
Andrew, lo ripeto, per me tu sei un grande ma, mettendocela tutta, proprio non capisco il perchè di pubblicazioni come questa!
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Under the Gun (05:43)
you don't have to say you're sorry
to look on further down the line
into the sun
too close at heaven
love is fine
but you can't hold it like a ...
two worlds apart and two together
into that good night kiss away
one takes the hard
one the other
kiss a way
are you living for love?
are you living for love?
when the road gets too tough
is your love strong enough?
(are you living?)
(are you living for love?)
do you feel your head is full of thunder?
questions never end?
empty nights alone? no wonder
it all comes back again
are you living for love?
are you living for love?
I've been under the gun
I've lost and I've ...
(one, two, three, four ...)
forget the many steps to heaven
it never happened and it ain't so hard
happiness is a loaded weapon and a
short cut is better by far
explosive bolts, ten thousand volts
at a million miles an hour
abrasive wheels and molten metals
it's a semi-automatic, get in the car
corrosive heart and frozen heat
we're worlds apart where we could meet
where the street fold round and the motors start
and the idiot wields the power
where the chosen hold the highest card
on the field of honour where the ground is hard
so the highest hand is joking wild
and the house soon fold and no-one stand
I put my finger on and dialled
the tower, the moon, the gun, and
nine nine nine, singer down
cloudburst and all around
the first are last, the blessed get wired
the best is yet to come
I put my finger on and fired
heat-seeking, out of the sun
you can set the controls for the heart or the knees
and the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
everything under the gun
04 Detonation Boulevard (03:50)
On Detonation Boulevard...
Through the angel rain
Through the dust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
Just tell me where the manholes steam
A little girl waits on my station
With a new machine
On Detonation Boulevard...
I got wrecked out here
In a Eldorado
I got wired, white-walled
This hot-wired sedan
I caught something weird in Encenada
I've a brother of sorts in Torquemada
Long distance information
Disconnect me if you can
On Detonation Boulevard...
Pink noise, white noise,
And a violet whining sound
It burns inside this car
No cops, no signs, no left, no right
No stops, no turning round
Well you can run but you can't ride
You won't get far
On Detonation Boulevard..
Bang Bang
On Detonation Boulevard...
Through the angle rain
Through the rust and the gasolene
Through the cruelty of strangers
To the neon dream
Long distance information
I'll take the same
I got the fuel for the transformation
I'm a naked flame
On Detonation Boulevard...
Bang Bang
06 Lucretia My Reflection (08:45)
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down
I hear empire down
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Love lost, fire at will
Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear
Dive, bombers, and
Empire down
Empire down
I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me
We look hard
We look through
We look hard to see for real
Such things I hear, they don't make sense
I don't see much evidence
I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel
A long train held up by page on page
A hard reign held up by rage
Once a railroad
Now it's done...
I hear the roar of a big machine
Two worlds and in between
Hot metal and methedrine
I hear empire down...
We got the empire, now as then
We don't doubt, we don't take reflection
Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me...
08 This Corrosion (10:17)
Gimme the Ring, kissed and toll'd
Gimme something that I missed (Gimme the ring)
A hand to hold, wild and what it seems(Gimme the ring)
Kill the king, when love is the law,
And the we'll turn round... (Gimme the ring)
Gimme dream child
And do you hear me call? (Gimme the ring)
On the loan and on the level
...still on the floor (Gimme the ring)
Sing dream child
And do you hear at all?
CHORUS
(Sing)
(Sing)
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing This Corrosion to me
Hey now, hey now now, sing...
Gimme siren, child and do you hear me?
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
Sing, child, of right and wrong
Gimme things that don't last long
Gimme siren, child, and do you hear me call?
CHORUS
On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees
Living on if and if I tried,
Somebody send me... please...
Dream wars and a ticket to seem
Giving out and in
Selling the don't belong
Well, what do you say
D'you have a word for Giving Away?
Got a song for me?
CHORUS
I got nothing to say I ain't said before
I bled all I can, I won't bleed no more
I don't need no one to understand
Why the blood run hold
The hired hand
On heart
Hand of God
Floodland and Driven Apart
Run cold
Turn
Cold
Burn
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
Like a healing hand
09 No Time to Cry (03:58)
It's just a feeling
I get sometimes
A feeling
Sometimes
And I get frightened
Just like you
I get frightened too
but it's...
CHORUS
(no no no) No time for heartache
(no no no) No time to run and hide
(no no no) No time for breaking down
(no no no) No time to cry
Sometimes in the world as is you've
Got to shake the hand that feeds you
It's just like Adam says
It's not so hard to understand
It's just like always coming down on
Just like Jesus never came and
What did you expect to find
It's just like always here again it's...
CHORUS
Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep
[repeat]
No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry
CHORUS
10 Walk Away (03:24)
And in the summer when the clouds show through
I might go the same way too if
You and I could talk together
Well what am I supposed to do with
You and I would walk together
Then with always close around and
Now you gaze toward the doorway
When the weather comes falling down
CHORUS
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away
(away) (away) away away (away) away
away away walk away
Would you choose to walk away
And when the rain comes down
Would you choose to walk or stay
Would you choose to walk
Would you choose to stay
Would you
Walk walk walk walk walk away
Though when the day is nearly
Through I might see the same way too if
You would name the things
That bring you down on me so I could say it's
Not quite true if you don't really
Know or understand the circumstance
Behind then I might clear your
Mind and you won't have to go so
CHORUS
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