CCCP Fedeli alla Linea
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THE REVIEW

Here is a DOUBLE COLLECTION of the most significant (and not) tracks from the career of CCCP Fedeli alla Linea ABSOLUTELY a must-have for all those who have never had the fortune to know this band.
For all those who are satisfied “only” with these 24 songs and do not want to repurchase the entire discography.
There are also some rarities like “TOMORROW” with Amanda Lear and some serious omissions like “AGHIA SOFIA” and “MACISTE CONTRO TUTTI”. The work is structured in 2 CDs.

The first “Danza” is oriented towards tracks considered perhaps lighter, from the electro-reggae rhythms of “And the radio plays” to the very sweet “Annarella”.

The second “MILITANZA” is filled with songs considered true acts of love towards the Soviet empire “A JA LJUBLJU SSSR”, “SPARA JURI” and “CCCP” the drama of the Palestinian situation and the nights lost in the Po Valley fog.

A nice “box set” if you will (with a splendid vaguely Warholian cover) that encloses within it a historical period rich in musical ferment, for this “atypical” band in the Italian scene. This group indeed was born as an element of "rupture" to the underground and imminent rise of the Fabulous 80s with their load of sequins, hedonism, and multicolor farniente.

The group decided to vigorously counteract the European capitalist system based on a light economy through the revival of the "opposite" ideology of statism inherent in the Warsaw Pact (rather than NATO)... but it was more a form of provocation and a way to "come out" rather than a real ideological choice tout court. All the while contaminating and extremizing the melting pot by being fascinated by the Arab world (Allah is great/ Ghedaffi is his prophet.... from the piece "Punk-Islam").

Of course, the 9/11 events were far away, and the current creeping terrorism, and frankly, I don't know if today, certain positions would be all shareable (see the track "Palestina"(DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, but which??) or "Inch'allah- ca va") or even marketable but hearing again the "hardness" of certain verses and the "enlightening suggestive provocation" of certain passages makes one reconsider the group in its entire musical experience lasting ONLY FIVE YEARS IN WHICH THEY REVOLUTIONIZED ALL ITALIAN MUSIC.

The originality of the group then was to invent an "imported punk" tuned to the Italian wavelength and far from the Anglo-Saxon references that gave them birth, placing the red Emilia at the center of their political and social universe. In 1989, they played in Leningrad and Moscow (in their "beloved lands") their last concerts in squares filled with soldiers in uniform.... At the end of the concert, the CCCP sang the Soviet anthem "A Ja Ljublju SSSR" and in front of the entire upright framed arena, the group understood that they reached the end of the line.

"After "A Ja Ljublju SSSR" what else could I ask for? What else could we achieve?» (G.L. Ferretti)
The group disbanded, and from there, in a reverse escalation, came the C.S.I. and the subsequent P.G.R., now almost adrift.

In short... a disc that has the value of a "historical testimony" and makes us understand that in Italy, there was also a moment when one could dare without necessarily aligning with the Italian Sanremo musical industry and sing in the same way "An erection an erection an erection a sad erection /For a nuisance coitus for a modest coitus for a nuisance coitus /Sperms sperms sperms indifferent /For indigestible gulps for indigestible gulps for indigestible gulps" with a consciousness and a lucidity that put in the background the presumed vulgarity of verses absolutely impossible to put in the mouth of any other Italian singer but which pronounced by a diaphanous and hallucinated Ferretti, assumed an aesthetic dignity that still today sets the standard.