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Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of scintillating senescent songs 1985-2003. Questo è il titolo del nuovo cd dei Yo La Tengo che, da come si è potuto comprendere, non si tratta di un lavoro in studio bensì di un doppia raccolta delle loro migliori canzoni dopo 18 anni di lavoro e una discografia altrettanto corposa.
La band originaria del New Jersey, sempre lontana da grossi clamori, ha rappresentato un punto di riferimento del panorama indie-rock americano al pari di grandi gruppi come i Pavement, risultando però sempre in secondo piano rispetto a band più blasonate. Questo gruppo ha attraversato e segnato indelebilmente il periodo a cavallo tra gli anni ottanta e i novanta apportando ai propri lavori sempre nuova linfa: è difficile infatti trovare nella loro discografia un lavoro che sia stato al di sotto di una certa media.
Durante i novanta mentre gruppi come i Nirvana (giusto per citarne uno) si guadagnano nel giro di poco tempo e con una manciata di dischi il consenso del grande pubblico, gli Yo La Tengo, agendo come al solito dietro le quinte, svolgono il loro sporco lavoro lasciando anche in questo decennio un segno indelebile con le loro sonorità psichedeliche e al tempo stesso dolcissime.
Di chiara discendenza velvettiana, gli Yo La Tengo hanno saputo mescolare rumore, melodia e psichedelia creando un genere tutto loro. Ciò si nota chiaramente ascoltando queste due raccolte: si susseguono in un unico vortice canzoni noise-rock, pezzi psych-rock e splendide ballate, dimostrando in questo ultimo caso una grande propensione a comporre pezzi di una dolcezza unica. Sono tante le perle e mi permetto di citarne alcune: Little Eyes, Did I Tell You, Autumn Sweater, Stockholm Syndrome, Sugar Cube, Tears Are In Your Eyes, Season Of The Shark, per la miseria non mi fermo più.....
Un cd che consiglio a tutti, soprattutto perchè in Italia non si trovano facilmente tutti i loro dischi e quindi avere a portata di mano una raccolta così corposa fa sempre comodo. I fans saranno sicuramente contenti mentre i neofiti avranno l'occasione di avvicinarsi a nuove sonorità e scoprire un grande gruppo.
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02 Sugarcube (03:22)
Whatever you want from me, whatever you want I'll do
Try to squeeze a drop of blood from a sugarcube
Try to be more assured, try to be more right there
Try to be less uptight, try to be more aware
Whatever you want from me, is what I want to do for you
Sweeter than a drop of blood from a sugarcube
And though I like to act the part of being tough
I crumble like a sugarcube for you
Whatever you want from me, whatever you want I'll do
I will try
03 Barnaby, Hardly Working (04:36)
For the moment slipped right through him
Combed his hair, combed his hair
Knew the feeling of contentment
The actors' actor
The actors' actor
Smiled a smile uncomprehending
I took his time, took his time
Wore a hat, so he'd impress her
They took a ride
They took a ride
As I could wait for hours
I could wait and never fall down
Never fall down
Never fall down
He is down beside the river
He is down beside the river
He is down beside the river
He is down beside the river
05 Stockholm Syndrome (02:53)
What's the matter, why don't you answer
What's the matter with me
Cause it's so hard to be
Free and easy, we'll disappear completely
Hardly as I've known it's glad
You're heart is broken, and the doors are open
As you're hoping to be
There's brighter places to see
Hands need warming, early in the morning
Hardly as I've known a surprise
No, don't warn me I know it's wrong
But I swear it won't take long
And I know, you know it makes me sigh
I do believe in love
Another season, but the same old feelings
Another reason to be
I'm tired of aching, summer's what you make it
But I'll believe what I want to believe
06 Our Way to Fall (04:20)
I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you
I remember my face turned red
I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you
I remember pretending I wasn't looking
So try and try even if it lasts an hour
with all our might try and make it ours
cause we're on our way we're on our way
I remember your old guitar
I remember I can't explain
I remember the way it looked around your neck
and I remember the day it broke
I remember the song you sang
I remember the way you look tonight
I remember the way you made me feel
we'll try and try even if it lasts an hour
with all our might we'll try and make it ours
cause we're on our way we're on our way
to fall in love.
You'll try and try even if it lasts an hour
With all our might try and make it ours
cause we're on our way to fall in love.
yeah we're on our way to fall in love.
we're on our way to fall in love.
we're on our way to fall in love.
07 From a Motel 6 (04:11)
you shouldn't hide but you always do
cause even when you're gone, I can see right through
you want disconnection
you want me there enough for two
pull a woollen blanket across my eyes
dream a quiet place for us to fight
oh no, your heart is broken
don't you think that's a little trite?
I climb where I can see
you're close but I won't reach
blank stare at the tv
CNN's on channel 3
in the passing lane on 1 and 9
stuck in sad, car stuck in drive
oh no, your heart is broken
well, you can have what's left of mine
I climb where I can see
you're close but I won't reach
blank stare at the TV
the howling II's on channel 3
oh, I drift off to sleep
while the snow falls on the screen
09 Tom Courtenay (03:32)
Julie Christie, the rumors are true
As the pages turn, my eyes are glued
To the movie star and his sordid life
Mr. Ex and his old-suffering wife
I spent so much time dreaming about Eleanor Bron
In my room with the curtains drawn
See her in the arms of Paul
Say it, I can say no more
As the music swells somehow stronger from adversity
Our hero finds his inner peace
So now I'm looking for a lucky charm
With a needle hanging out of its arm
As time goes by I know it's gonna happen
I know it's going away
Gonna take its toll, gonna take its toll
Gonna take my time
And I'm thinking about the way things are
And I'm thinking about the way things were
Thinking about Eleanor Bron
And I'm thinking about a lucky charm
And I'm thinking about the needle
Oh, I'm thinking about the needle
And I'm thinking about..
13 Did I Tell You (03:28)
Did I tell you of the dark lonely road
I was counting my steps as I made my way home
Days of nothing but time on your hands, weighing on me
Can't deny it, undecided
Whether to count what I felt against what I could say
I try not to wonder, or tell you that I'm not willing to wait
'Cause deep in my heart I'm willing, heart's still willing
Brain's impatient, my heart's still willing to wait.
Our love is so important to me
Starts wherever you land, walks right over to me
Days of nothing but time in between, I'll be asleep
So unwary or uncaring
I try not to be part of that, well, that's easy to say
I try not to wonder, or tell you that I'm not willing to wait
'Cause deep in my heart I'm willing, heart's still willing
Brain's impatient, my heart's still willing to wait.
There's a moment to discover no one can take all the blame
and it's finally clear.
I try not to wonder, or tell you that I'm not willing to wait
'Cause deep in my heart I'm willing, heart's still willing
Brain's impatient, my heart's still willing to wait,
willing to wait, willing to wait
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