Yes - Drama (1980)
Agosto 1980 esce Drama per la Atlantic Records. Dimenticate Fragile e Close to the edge o voi che entrate: questo è il più bell'album degli Yes anni 70, sdoganati per le preziose orecchie della studiosa gioventù del tempo, indovinate da chi? Dai Buggles!
Sì sì proprio loro, il duo techno-pop che furoreggiava coi suoi video, quelli dell'hit planetario-e forse pure oltre il sistema solare- di Videomar-no pardon Video killed the radio star. Perché questa rece mi dorete voi, che c'azzecca col prog il Valerio nazionale? C'entra perché finalmente gli Yes se possono sentì per un'oretta senza rompersi coi virtuosismi. Perché con il tocco magico di Trevor Horn e Geoff Downes of The Buggles non si rimpiangono poi così tanto Rick Wakeman e la voce frocio-plastik di Jon Anderson, partiti per carriere soliste.
C'entra perché a proposito di Video killed.. stamane ho ritrovato e poi portato a riparare dal mio tecnico old school il mio Brionvega Tesi 4 di fine 70ies, per riportarlo in vita: ha una frattura laterale- un Drama!! e te credo pesa un quintale-e quando l'abbiamo acceso, era ancora vivo, così mi è venuta una lacrimuccia di commozione a vedere i fotoni impazziti nello schermo senza immagini: ci ho proiettato dentro tutte le trasmissioni e i filmati musicali di allora. E tra queste, alzi il dito, senza fare gestacci chi non ricorda la mitica Does it really happen? Quel giro di basso totally killer di Squire e il video sigla di Discoring di allora. Che pezzone, struggente, epico marziale, indimenticabile.
Ah che bei tempi. Tra le songs tutte di altissimo livello, ci piace porre l'accento sulla suite Machine messiah, con un intro quasi Sabbath, figlia degli incubi tecnologici di Trevor Horn, Into the lens, Run through the light.
Insomma un 33 giri che, come direbbe il buon Elio delle Storie tese, si poteva pure regalare ad una festa senza tema di essere considerati reazionari intellettualoidi tardo rokkettari. Del secondo millennio.
Memories how they hide so fast...I'm a camera.
P.s. non buttate le Vs. old tellyes, tra un pò varranno soldi, perché Lcd e plasma costano tanto e si rompono presto.
Elenco tracce testi e video
01 Machine Messiah (10:26)
PART 1
Run down a street where the glass shows that summer has gone
Age in the doorways, resenting the pace of the dawn.
All of them standing in line
All of them waiting for time.
From time, the great helaer,
The machine messiah is born.
Cables that carry the life to the cities we build
Threads that link diamonds of light to the satanic mills
Ah, to see in every way
That, we feel it every day, and know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons and alter our stance.
PART 2
Friends make their way into systems of chance
Friends make their way of escape into systems of chance
Escape to freedom, I need to be there
Waiting and watching, the tables are turning
I'm waiting and watching
I need to be there.
I care to see them walk away
And, to be there when they say
They will return.
Machine, machine messiah
The mindless search for a higher controller
Take me to the fire and hold me
Show me the strength of your singular eye.
PART 3
History dictating symptoms of ruling romance
Claws at the shores of the water upon which we dance
All of us standing in line
All of us waiting for time
To feel it all the way
And to be there when they say they know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons and alter our stance.
Machine, machine messiah
Take me into the fire.
Hold me, machine messiah
And show me
The strength of your singular eye.
02 White Car (01:23)
I see a man in a white car
Move like a ghost on the skyline
Take all your dreams
And you throw them away
Man in a white car.
04 Into the Lens (08:35)
Memories, how they fade so fast
Look back, that is no escape
Tied down, now you see too late.
Lovers, they will never wait.
I am a camera
Take heart, I could never let you go
And you, always let the feeling show
Love us all, how you never broke your heart
You lose them
If you feel the feeling start.
I am a camera, camera, camera
And you, may find time will blind you
This to just remind you
All is meant to be.
Here, by the waterside
There, where the lens is wide
You and me
By the sea
Taken in tranquility.
Taken, taken so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transform, to transfer, to energy.
Taken, taken, so easily
To pass into glass reality
Transformer, transferring energy.
05 Run Through the Light (04:44)
I asked my love to give me shelter
And all she offered me were dreams
Of all the moments spent together
That move like never ending streams.
Run to the light
Everything is alright
Run thro' the light of day
You run to the light of night
And every movement made together
Till every thought was just the same
And all the pieces fit forever
In the game.
Welcome to the light
Now everything is okay
Run thro' the light of night
You run to the light of day.
06 Tempus Fugit (05:16)
(Yes, yes)
(Yes, yes)
(Yes, yes)
Born in the night, she would run like a leopard
That freaks at the sight of a mind close beside herself
And the nearer I came, how the country would change
She was using the landscape to hide herself
More in the mind than the body this feeling
A sense at the end like a circular line
That is drawn at an angle I see when I'm with you
To navigate waters and finally answer to yes
If you were there you would want to be near me
Innocence, you could hold the materials
And though nothing would really be living
It would shock your fall into landing light
In the north sky, time flies fast to the morning
The cold of the dawn, it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation, an answer to yes
(Yes, yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, yes) From the moment you tell me yes
If you could see all the roads I have travelled
Towards some unusable last equilibrium
Run like an athlete and die like a dead beaten speed freak
An answer to all of your answers to yes
In the north sky, time flies faster than morning
The cold of the dawn it meant nothing to us
You were keeping your best situation, an answer to yes
(Yes, yes) And the moment I see you
(Yes, yes) It's so good to be near you
(Yes, yes) And the feeling you give me
(Yes, yes) Makes me want to be with you
(Yes, yes) If we wait for an answer
(Yes, yes) Will the silence be broken
(Yes, yes) Should we wait for an answer
(Yes, yes) Do we leave it unspoken
(Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes . . .)
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Altre recensioni
Di London
I due Buggles sono sempre stati fans degli Yes, e questo agevola il compito, inoltre sono ottimi musicisti con buone idee, il risultato sorprende.
White e Squire tanto che verrà inclusa nell'ultimo tour de 2003.
Di Ilovemusic
Drama, uno dei numerosissimi capolavori nella loro lunga discografia.
Qui abbiamo a che fare sì col rock sinfonico tipico degli Yes, ma in 'salsa' anni Ottanta.
