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Un disco composto e suonato in uno stato di grazia. Uno dei pochi dischi che si identificano in un epoca, un suono, un mood ben definito. Solare, scintillante, tagliente. Tradotto, seppur retoricamente, in immagini efficaci nel video di "Glittering Prize", nel quale tutto (dai fondali, agli strumenti alle facce dei musicisti) è "dorato". E non per niente, sul retro della copertina, si legge un "made in Summer 82", proprio per identificarlo in una stagione particolare.
Un produttore, Peter Walsh, che cerca, anche manipolando direttamente il mixer, di "scupire" il suono, fino ad allora debitore verso certi stilemi a-la Kraftwerk, e renderlo più aperto, più dichiarato. Un uso finalmente sapiente dell'elettronica (Mike McNeill non è mai stato così padrone dei suoi sintetizzatori), un ammiccamento a ritmiche in 4 (l'apertura della title track, "New Gold Dream", è emblematica in tal senso...), un Charles Burchill che ricama in buon ordine, staccandosi dal clichè del "chitarrista rock", e sostituendosi molte volte ai fraseggi ricamati dalle tastiere.
Un altro elemento di indubbio valore sono i pattern creati al basso da un Derek Forbes mai così creativo (sicuramente un discepolo di scuole bassistiche tipo Percy Jones e del contemporaneo Mick Karn... certo uno dei bassisti più sottovalutati dell'intero pianeta rock): insieme al Prophet 5 di McNeill, le parti di basso sono quanto di più memorabile registrato in questo disco.
La voce di quel vecchio marpione di Kerr è volutamente lasciata quasi in background, o sicuramente al livello degli altri strumenti: effettatissima, lugubre e minacciosa, evocativa. Un piccolo esempio di come sfruttare bene le non eccelse qualità vocali.
Il resto? Un mucchio di buone e "classiche" canzoni, oramai non più etichettabili come "new wave" o elettro-pop, ma veri e propri classici senza tempo.
Abbagliante la cantabilità di "Promised you a miracle", nonostante una stranissima struttura compositiva; l'ondeggiante groove di "Big Sleep" (ovvero, come suonare il basso slap e non suonare in un gruppo funky...); il beat box stile disco che viene sopraffatto da un effluvio di tastiere nella title track "New Gold Dream", e la progressione che trasforma la canzone in un vero e proprio "inno" (ricordo un bootleg dove la stessa song veniva cantata a braccetto con... guarda un po', il solito Bono Vox!).
Ripeto, un disco in uno stato di grazia, dove quattro musicisti in piena maturità creativa s'incontrano, in una calda estate dell'82, in uno studio di registrazione, assecondati da un produttore attento, e tirano fuori un capolavoro pieno di gemme... scintillanti.
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01 Someone Somewhere in Summertime (04:37)
Stay
I'm burning slow
With me in the rain
Walking in the soft rain
Calling out my name
See me burning slow
Brilliant days
Wake up on brilliant days
Shadows of brilliant ways will change all the time
Memories
Burning gold memories
Gold of day memories change me in these times
Somewhere there is some place
That one million eyes can't see
And somewhere there is someone
Who can see what I can see
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Moments burn
Slow burning golden nights
Once more see city lights
Holding candles to the flame
Brilliant days
Wake up on brilliant days
Shadows of brilliant ways will change me all the time
Somewhere there is some place
That one million eyes can't see
And somewhere there is someone
Who can see what I can see
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
Someone Somewhere In Summertime
02 Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel (03:49)
Belle
Never turn your back
Great times attack
Inexpensive thrills
And I said Belle
Of all the friends who care
Some should be seen
But never heard
Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel
Poor girls cry
In the beauty of both worlds
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Out of the Sky
Belle
When the pulses rise
Love will tranquilize
Just before it kills
And I said Belle
You turn them on
With your reflection
I know so well
Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel
Poor girls cry
In the beauty of both worlds
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Out of the Sky
Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel
Poor girls cry
In the beauty of both worlds
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Catch a boy
Fell falling
Fall in Love
Fell falling
Out Of The Sky
Colours Fly and Catherine wheels
Some girl cry
Over her boyfriend
03 Promised You a Miracle (04:27)
Promised you a miracle.
Belief is a beauty thing.
Promises promises,
As golden days break wondering.
Chance as love takes a train.
Summer breeze and brilliant light.
Only love she sees,
He controls on love,
Love sails to a new life.
Promised you a miracle.
Belief is a beauty thing.
Promises promises,
As golden days break wondering.
Only love she sees.
He controls on love.
Life mirrors a cure.
Everything is possible,
With promises.
Everything is possible.
Oh no.
I promised you a miracle.
Belief is a beauty thing.
Promises promises,
As golden days break wondering.
Chance reflects on them a while,
Love screams so quietly.
Slipping back on golden times,
Breathing with sweet memories.
Promised you a miracle.
Belief is a beauty thing.
Promises promises,
As golden days break wondering.
Only love she sees.
He controls on love.
Life mirrors a cure.
Everything is possible in the game of life.
Everything is possible.
Oh no.
Chance lost pearls of great price,
Take care of family,
Only aches for love,
Love waits for fame,
In chance, in chance, they'll see.
I promised you a miracle.
Belief is a beauty thing.
Promises promises,
As golden days break wondering.
Only love she sees.
He controls on love.
Life throws a cure.
Everything is possible in the game of life,
A burning dream.
You can be Queen.
Everything is possible
04 Big Sleep (05:00)
So where did you go?
Where do you go in the big sleep?
Going out in the deep sleep.
Is where you're wandering now?
So where did you go?
When you're in the big sleep?
Drifting in wildlife,
And still you're wandering now.
We were on the top and the world was spinning,
We were only young in the whirlpool of warning.
Communication lost in the thundering rain style,
A shelter from the storm in the early beginning,
Going out in the big sleep, out in the big sleep,
Could have been years, you know it could have been years,
Or only seconds ago.
Big Sleep, deep sleep.
Where are you now?
Now that you're up in big sleep.
Valuable friend,
They saw you leaving this way.
We were on the top and the world was spinning,
We were only young in the whirlpool of warning.
Communication lost in the thundering rain style,
A shelter from the storm in the early beginning.
Where did you go?
Immaculate friend.
For a lifetime I'm grateful,
And it's only seconds away.
Big Sleep, deep sleep.
For evermore.
If only you could see me,
If only you could see me,
If only you could see,
Forever.
Coming home in the big sleep,
Coming home.
05 Somebody Up There Likes You (05:00)
Instrumental
Words & Music : Simple Minds (C) EMI Publishing Ltd Reproduced without permission
06 New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (05:39)
New Gold Dream
She is the one in front of me, the siren and the ecstasy
New Gold Dream
Crashing beats and fantasy, setting sun in front of me
New Gold Dream
And the world goes hot
And the cities take
And the beat goes crashing
All along the way
She is your friend until the ocean breaks
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me
81 - 82 - 83 - 84
81 - 82 - 83 - 84
New Gold Dream
Sun is set in front of me, worldwide on the widest screen
New Gold Dream
Burning bridge and ecstasy, crashing beats and fantasy
Dream in the dream with
And the world goes hot
And the cities take
And the beat goes crashing
All along the way
She is your only friend until the ocean breaks
And when you dream, dream in the dream with me
And when we dream, dream in the dream with me
81 - 82 - 83 - 84
81 - 82 - 83 - 84
New Gold Dream
The siren and the ecstasy, she's the one in front of me
New Gold Dream
...
Words & Music : Simple Minds (C) EMI Publishing Ltd Reproduced without permission
07 Glittering Prize (04:33)
Shine on, shine the light on me,
In all of my life so that much more I see
In the light of his ove
In the light of reflection
Oh what a world
Or sometimes oh so it seems
Eyes in the skies
In that silver gift friendship
A glittering prize
Is it the prize of lost loves
They can remember quiet sides of midnight
They can remember the attraction of fame
Like a glittering prize
I saw up on a clear day
First taking hearts
Then our last breath away
Always came a time - time was on our side
We were spending time - we were staring out
Catch me in a dream - captured all in heart
We were spending time - we were staring out
Could there ever be - ever more than one
It's called an act of love
Can you you never stop?
Shine on, shine the light on me,
In all of my life
So much more I see
Like a glittering prize
I saw you up on a clear day
First taking heart then our last breath away
Only on a clear day coming into our lives
See it in the eye - satellite skies
We were spending time - we were staring out
Take in, take in more - the endless breath away
We were spending time - we were staring out
Could there ever be - ever more than one
It's called an act of love
Can you you never stop?
Always on a clear day
Crashing into our lives
Is it the price of love
Like a glittering prize
Always on a clear day
Crashing into our lives
With your love
Only on a clear day
09 King Is White and in the Crowd (07:02)
Talking by the pool of light, language from America.
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
They are not a melting pot, say no, say no tapestry
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
She takes his hand and she says you'll stay
She's lost in the crowd
King
Wire them up, fire them up
The life and times, the art and talk
Wire them up, fire them up
The life and times, the art and talk
Lovers run camp Africa, Bars in town are civilised
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
Panorama, Citylife
Youth's dance proud from the waist down
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
Shot from where the action is, a rhapsody in black and blue
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
Love lies under western eyes, powerful yet transient
She puts on the film of him, King is white and in the crowd
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Di AR (Anonima Recensori)
È la magia di un epoca, la musica di una generazione che si identifica in suoni e colori di cui New Gold Dream degnamente ne rappresenta l'espressione.
Grazie Simple Minds, grazie per farci vivere continuamente questo sogno... l'eternità degli ideali e della giovinezza!
