Il secondo capitolo della parabola dei Vast di Jon Crosby è una dichiarazione d'amore a cuore aperto verso al melodia. Ne è intrisa ogni singola nota di questo meraviglioso disco, ancora più pulito e raffinato rispetto all'esordio. A livello musicale si abbandonano i suoni più forti, figli di suggestioni industriali. Nonostante i nomi che girano attorno alla lavorazione del disco sono quelli, tra gli altri, di Alan Moulder (NIN) e David Botrill (Tool) i suoni si fanno più levigati, le chitarre acustiche prendono il sopravvento su quelle elettriche, limitate solo ad un paio di brani, e i toni si fanno in generale molto più positivi.
La rabbia ha lasciato spazio alla gioia. Lo si capisce anche nell'unico brano che si può considerare in linea con l'esordio del '98: "Free". Qui la potenza metallica delle chitarre viene canalizzata in un inno alla libertà, che ben poco ha a che fare con alcune rabbiose performances del passato. Toni potenti si avvertono ancora in "The Gates Of Rock'n'Roll", "Song Without A Name" e in parte in un altro dei brani simbolo, la memorabile "The Last One Alive", dove però sono soprattutto le atmosfere acustiche a condurre le orecchie dell'ascoltatore all'interno del fantastico mondo di "Music For People". La melodia pura e delicata è la protagonista assoluta del resto del disco: alcune canzoni sono davvero indimenticabili: "I Don't Have Anything", "Blue", "A Better Place", "We Will Meet Again" e la conclusiva strumentale dai toni ambient "Lady Of Dreams", tutti episodi che lasciano il segno nel cuore di che ascolta e non possono non provocare un senso di pace interiore. Qui emerge tutto l'amore di Crosby per gli anni '80: The Cure, Depeche Mode, U2, Joy Division ecc.
Due brani si distaccano un po' dai toni del disco: "Land Of Shame", che suona come una canzone country elettrificata, e "My TV And You", un giretto nel vecchio quartiere Industrial dove abitavano Reznor e soci, ma con un'attitudine più da bubblegum, alla Manson da classifica. L'eleganza formale e l'intimità delle melodie fanno di questo lavoro un tentativo verso il raggiungimento di una forma pop-olare di una musica che si presenta comunque alternativa. Tentativo che meglio di così non poteva riuscire, se non fosse che il mondo non se ne sia reso molto conto, e abbia lasciato passare inosservato quello che, in effetti, è un capolavoro, adatto anche ad un orecchio poco allenato a sonorità meno ordinarie.
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02 Free (03:07)
It's time to laugh, it's time to cry
It's time to be what you need to be
It won't be long 'till they are gone
And we can be what we want to be
I'm gonna run from everything
Everything that holds me down
Nothing to win, nothing to lose
You can't tell me what to do anymore
You can't tell me what to do anymore
Now I'm free, now I'm free, now I'm free
I'm gonna run, I'm gonna win
I'm gonna do what I need to do
'cause it's time to be what I need to be
It's time to be what I need to be
You can't tell me what to do anymore
You can't tell me what to do anymore
Now I'm free, now I'm free, now I'm free
I want to hold air in my hand
Own the one thing you can't buy
Nothing to win, nothing to lose
It's time to be what I need to be
I'm gonna run from everythinq
Everything that holds me down
Nothing to win, nothing to lose
It's time to be what I need to be
You can't tell me what to do anymore
You can't tell me what to do anymore
You can't tell me what to do anymore
Now I'm free, now I'm free, now I'm free
03 I Don't Have Anything (03:46)
I stood on mountaintops
That overlooked the world
I can't find anything
Except a void inside
I went to places where
I could forget your name
I can't find anything
Except a void inside
I don't have anything
Because I don't have you
I don't have anything
What can I buy to make
The sky turn blue again
Where can I go to feel
Like I'm alive again
Show me the places
Where I can forget your name
I can't find anything
Except a void inside
I don't have anything
Because I don't have you
I don't have anything
I've been stripped of everything
Except some flesh that bleeds
And I've been robbed of everything
Except a soul, except a soul
That needs...you, sweet you
I don't have anything
Because I don't have you
I don't have anything
04 The Gates of Rock 'N Roll (03:24)
Take me to the places
You keep secret
Into a land of fur and diamonds
Here in my mind
'cause there's a girl I'd like to love
And there's some things I'd like to say
To who is gonna hear
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
Take me to your mansions
Way beyond the gates
I'll do anything to get there
You know I will
'cause there's a man I'd like to be
And there's some things I want to say
To who is gonna care
'cause there's a girl I'd like to love
And there's some things I'd like to say
To who is gonna hear
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
The gates of rock n roll will never close on me
07 Land of Shame (03:26)
Looking out my window staring
At the things that I can't see
If I listen closely,
I can hear a dying dream
I'm wrapped up in the warmth
Of an unforgiving mind
I'm on vacation in another time
And we can thank the TV
We can thank the men of old
For this legacy of hate
Somehow they have sold
I'm wrapped up in the the warmth
Of an unforgiving game
I'm on vacation in the land of shame
When the pigs are flying
And it's freezing cold in hell
Maybe we'll forgive the children, baby
Only time can tell....yeah, yeah
If I listen closely
I can hear a dying dream
I'm on vacation in the land of shame
We'll be alone together
In a world we call our own
We'll be alone together
In a place that doesn't feel like home
I can hear a dying...
We'll be alone together
We'll leave this land of shame
08 A Better Place (03:23)
Days, how many days
Do I have until
I am set free to a better place
A place of love
A place of no tomorrow's
Release me from this need I have of me
Hours, how many hours
Do I have until
I am set free to a better place
A place of no misery
Release me from this need I have of me
When will you believe me
When I say these things to you
No one likes a liar baby
No one at all
When will you receive me
When I say these things to you
No one likes a liar baby
No one at all
I guess I have something to look forward to
I guess I have something to look forward to
When will you belive me
When I say these things to you
No one likes a liar baby
No one at all
When will you receive me
When I say these things to you
No one likes a liar baby
No one at all
No one likes a liar baby
No one at all
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