Signori e signore, vi presento uno degli albums migliori in assoluto dei Killing Joke.
Voi mi chiederete, ma più bello dell’omonimo debutto? Vi rispondo: dischi completamente diversi, belli entrambi, ma personalmente ascolto molto più spesso questo e 'Night Time'. E voi replicherete: ma come, Scaruffi gli appioppia un bel 5 e tu lo definisci uno degli episodi più riusciti della loro discografia? Io vi rispondo: Scaruffi e tutti quelli come lui che pretendono di oggettivizzare la musica rendendola una questione freddamente tecnicistica, possono dire quello che vogliono.
Il merito maggiore di questo “Brighter Than A Thousand Suns” è soprattutto quello di contenere la canzone più bella dello “scherzo che uccide”, ossia la meravigliosa “Adorations”, song di apertura dell’opus. Onirica, forse, è il termine giusto per definirla. Non ho mai ascoltato sino ad adesso una canzone più eterea ed onirica di questa. Una miscela assolutamente affascinante tra il basso sempre in corda, arpeggi chitarristici delicati e sognanti, synth penetranti e la magnifica voce di Coleman quando ancora cantava e non grugniva come fa adesso facendo sembrare la voce di Lemmy Kilmister quella di un soprano. Solo l’ascolto di questa canzone da sola, varrebbe l’acquisto a scatola chiusa dell’album. Ma tutta l’opera vale sicuramente un posto d’onore e di rispetto nell’ambito della loro produzione, a prescindere dall’importanza storica del disco di debutto.
Siamo a metà degli anni 80, e si sente, dato che “Brighter Than A Thousand Suns” è sicuramente il disco più new wave della band e quello classificato come più commerciale. Suoni wave sempre melodici e coinvolgenti, mai banali. Ascoltare, ad esempio, la dolce e raffinata “Sanity”, per credere. O la magnifica “Chessboards”, classico esempio di canzone difficilmente descrivibile per le emozioni che fa scaturire. Canzone che, insieme ad “Adorations”, dà al disco la massima votazione. “Brighter Than A Thousand Suns” è costellato da momenti come questi, anche se dall’ascolto finale potrebbe sembrarvi di aver assistito ad uno spettacolo bellissimo ma, in sé, un po’ ripetitivo. Ma è proprio questo il suo punto di forza, ossia l’oniricità, l’impercettibilità e la cosmicità che ne contraddistinguono quasi tutti i pezzi. Caratteristiche che si ritrovano anche in “Love of The Masses” , nella danzereccia “Victory”, nell’ inno di “Rubicon”, nell’oscura e decadente “Goodbye To The Village” .
In conclusione, a chi dareste ascolto, al buon Scaruffi o alle vostre sensazioni ed emozioni?
P.S.
Questa recensione è più un pretesto per ringraziare De Baser e i suoi utenti per essere stata una presenza assidua in questi mesi per me di duro studio e lavoro. Una presenza che mi ha fatto affezionare al sito che considero essere stato un mio compagno di viaggio. E’ anche una recensione che dedico a me stesso, perché ogni tanto i sogni si realizzano. Saluti a tutti.
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01 Adorations (04:42)
Adorations
Courage and Cowards move, heroes to ecstasy
Welcomes of war and wounds, vigil and victory
Structures of atoms dance, sugar towards the taster,
Prey to the predator, love as we're falling down
Through light and laughter flow, to dirge and death we go,
Mindless processions move, lanterns of burning towns,
Welcome to fray and feast, bliss in all sorrows found,
Rhythms and random moves and waves of adorations.
Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.
Deserts are paradise, awake to genocides.
Delight and suffering, these roles that we have found
Nourished by food we eat, hungered by waste excrete
From apes or sons of god, let every act be sacred.
Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.
02 Sanity (04:45)
All across the scenes the statues crumble
We cherished the seconds, counted the days
And people move with lines across their faces
Embracing each other with a smile
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
We'll remember distant times and places
We'll remember summer sun that yields
Shed our bodies heart and soul for love's sake
Civilizations wax and wane.
Inocence will fade away like Autumn
Likewise the dream of youth, the task
And we shall be at peace upon our parting
With the thoughts of loved ones in our hearts
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
So let the sunrise light up the distnat shores
And we'll remember last days of Rome again.
03 Chessboards (05:51)
We in our infancy, led down shining paths Shine, shine, shining paths, divine our disillusion Face our imperfection, I begin to wonder Onion peelings scattered, we've been crying crying. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. Look at our condition, stand on concrete dias Lovers frail and naked move like pawns on chessboards I had no idea, I had no conception Where have we all come from? Where are we all going? Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down. All these changes we shall witness I will try to understand Share your grief and your confusion, compassion in us cries No divine intervention, only moves on black and white Great schemes, great schemes are also made of these. Open our eyes and tears run down I open my eyes and tears run down I look through your mind and tears run down And under the skies and tears run down.
07 Victory (07:11)
Across the sand under a crescent moon
In celebration of our feards
And rumours circulating in the street
The candle burns the world awaits
We ask is this some kind of victory?
Where is the dream, where is the sanity?
As crying echoes down the corridors
The child comes running to his mother's arms
And all the things I hold so dear to me
I love my wife, I love my family
Raise up your heads and voices
The promise of beyond
With courage face the moment
Remember who you are!
A frightened people losing dignity
The shadow of an island in their minds
While fools are bent on making history
With nothing gained, is this our destiny?
09 Rubicon (07:03)
The age of miracles, assent of man in strident tones
Realms of fantastic have been forged by folly speed and steel
Out of the cones stream forth, creation is not yet complete
New species come, old species fall to nature once again.
Now that I've found god on every side - and in every legion
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
The shipyards blaze, vibrant arsenals wait their turn
Idols of rational worlds to worship power, to worship strength
Great crowds excited by riot, pleasure, work
Insane crusades, destructive gesture of the freedom bringers
And all the bells shall toll, as holy banners fly
And all with talk of freedom
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
Let rage and hate of races run from Adam down
The magic of our science shines brighter than a thousand suns
Liberty in new dimensions ruthless and spectacular
Obliteration shall be poetry of 'Golden Dwans'
And as the people thrill, I stand and comprehend upon the threshold.
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
11 Exile (06:38)
Outside the boundaries where all the streets are empty
In such a lonely moment we reach the same conclusion
Chants of cathedral choirs, stations of iron cogs grind
Primeaval screams we heard.
Release cannot be found, no
You'll never see that water flow
You'll never see the water flowing
We that have tasted such beauties of corruption
Triumphal arches raised designed to fall again
My kingdom and place of exile
You'll never see the water flowing.
Your shouts of righteousness jaded our contributions
Too scared for anger, the cause without a rebel
No revolutions in four four time
You'll never see that water flowing.
I walk down amongst the ruins and past glories shattered me
Elysian decays, answers that we are finding
Waters of perfection fade
You'll never see the water flow
You'll never see the water flow
You'll never see the water flowing.
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