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Nel 1987 il grande Warren Zevon, forte della presenza di artisti del calibro di Bob Dylan, Neil Young, R.E.M., Brian Setter e David Lindley, incide uno dei dischi fondamentali della sua carriera, pregno di quelle capacità insite nel suo cantautorato, ovvero la proverbiale ironia e la capacità innata di creare delle atmosfere splendide che si accompagnano di volta in volta a tonalità vocali stupende celate sotto una insofferenza solo apparente.
Il disco in questione si caratterizza inoltre per una splendida produzione messa in risalto in particolare da una edizione rimasterizzata che presenta due inediti (la strumentale "Nocturne" e la versione in lingua spagnola di "Leave My Monkey Alone").
Attraverso dieci splendidi brani vengono snocciolati dunque tormenti interiori, pensieri e riflessioni di quello che diverrà il "Mister Cattivo Esempio"; le due canzoni iniziali sono due vere perle della produzione zevoniana: la title-track impreziosita dal superbo assolo del loner canadese e lo stile hard-blues'n'roll di "Boom Boom Mancini", una delle più belle canzoni di sempre inerenti un episodio di pugilato, vanno a rinfrescare un panorama cantautoriale che in quei tempi era davvero asfittico. "The Factory" ricorda non solo nel titolo una canzone dell'amico Bruce Springsteen e vede la presenza all'armonica di un Dylan molto in vena. “Trouble Waiting To Happen” e la lenta e commovente "Reconsider Me" sono due canzoni che muovono da punti di vista prettamente personali per poi presentarsi come dei "moniti universali".
Il rock possente di "Detox Mansion" è perfetto per descrivere i rischi derivanti dall'alcolismo, uno dei problemi che hanno portato Warren allo sfacelo fisico e anticipa "Bad Karma" che già dal titolo accenna alla reincarnazione ponendo l'accento su quella che è la predestinazione alla cattiva sorte e si dipana in un finale quasi casereccio a base di un assolo di sitar. "Even A Dog Can Shake Hands" è una canzone di hard-rock vivace che ironizza nella sua struttura il vacuo mondo hollywoodiano e precede due canzoni del tutto antitetiche sotto l'aspetto musicale, ovvero la ballata bluesy di "The Heartache" resa ancor più struggente dalla voce in sottofondo di Jennifer Warnes e il funky puro di "Leave My Monkey Alone" prodotto da George Clinton, una canzone in cui viene trattato il ruolo che ha ricoperto e ricopre ancora la figura dell' Impero Britannico.
In definitiva fatevi trasportare nel vortice di emozioni che questo artista ha saputo regalare in una carriera interrotta sin troppo presto. Buon ascolto.
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01 Sentimental Hygiene (05:06)
written by Warren Zevon- c. 1987, Zevon Music Inc. BMI
Every day I get up in the morning and go to work
And do my job--whatever
I need some
Sentimental Hygiene
Everybody's at war these days
Let's have a mini-surrender
I need some Sentimental hygiene
Everybody's had to hurt about it
No one wants to live without it
It's so hard to find it
Sentimental hygiene
Every night I come home exhausted
From trying to get along
I need some
Sentimental hygiene
Some nights I drive my car
Up and down the boulevard
It's so hard to find it
Sentimental hygiene
Everybody's had to hurt about it
No one wants to live without it
It's so hard to find it
Sentimental hygiene
Some nights I drive my car
Up and down the boulevard
It's so hard to find it
Sentimental hygiene
Sentimental hygiene
I need some Sentimental hygiene
02 Boom Boom Mancini (04:54)
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
A lightweight contender, like father like son
He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas
And he put him away in round number one
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating
Seven weeks later he was back in the ring
Some have the speed and the right combinations
If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
When they asked him who was responsible
For the death of Duk Koo Kim
He said, "Some one should have stopped the fight
And told me it was him."
They made hypocrite judgements after the fact
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
03 The Factory (02:45)
Written by Warren Zevon
c. 1987 Zevon Music/BMI
I was born in '63
Got a little job in the factory
I don't know much about Kennedy
I was too busy working in the factory
We got a kid that's two, we got another one due
We get by the best we can do
The factory's got a good medical plan
And, cousin, I'm a union man
Saying, Yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir - Work !
I was born in Mechanicsburg
My daddy worked for Pontiac 'til he got hurt
Now he's on disability
And I got his old job in the factory
Saying, Yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir, yes sir, no sir - Work !
Early in the morning I feel a chill
The factory whistle blows loud and shrill
I'd kill my wife or she'd kill me
But we gotta go to work in the factory
Six days a week at the factory
Up early in the morning at the factory
I've been working in the factory
Johnny, I've been working in the factory
Kickin' asbestos in the factory
Punchin' out Chryslers in the factory
Breathin' that plastic in the factory
Makin' polyvinyl chloride in the factory
05 Reconsider Me (03:09)
written by Warren Zevon 1987 Zevon Music Inc. BMI
If you're all alone
And you need someone
Call me up
And I'll come running
Reconsider me
Reconsider me
If it's still the past
That makes you doubt
Darlin', that was then
And this is now
Reconsider me
Reconsider me
And I'll never make you sad again
Cause I swear that I've changed since then
And I promise that I'll never make you cry
Let's let bygones
Be forgotten
Reconsider me
Reconsider me
You can go and be
What you want to be
And it'll be alright
If we disagree
I'm the one who cares
And I hope you'll see
That I'm the one who loves you
Reconsider me
Let's let bygones
Be forgotten
Reconsider me
Reconsider me
And I'll never make you sad again
'Cause I swear I've changed since then
And I'll never make you sorry if you'll try
And I'll never make you sad again
'Cause I swear that I've changed since then
And I promise that I'll never make you cry
06 Detox Mansion (03:15)
written by Warren Zevon & Jorge Calderon 1987
Zevon Music Inc. BMI/ Googoplex Music BMI
Well, I'm gone to Detox Mansion
Way down on Last Breath Farm
I've been rakin' leaves with Liza
Me and Liz clean up the yard
Left my home in Music City
In the back of a limousine
Now I'm doin' my own laundry
And I'm getting those clothes clean
Growin' fond of Detox Mansion
And this quiet life I lead
But I'm dying to tell my story
For all my friends to read
Well, it's tough to be somebody
And it's hard not to fall apart
Up here on Rehab Mountain
We gonna learn these things by heart
Well, I'm gone to Detox Mansion
Way down on Last Breath Farm
I've been rakin' leaves with Liza
Me and Liz clean up the yard
What goes on in Detox Mansion
Outside the rubber room
We get therapy and lectures
We play golf in the afternoon
Well, it's tough to be somebody
And it's hard not to fall apart
Up here on Rehab Mountain
We gonna learn these things by heart
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