Enzo Jannacci
Parlare con i limoni

And here he is again, the one who swamped Debaser with Jannacci. Yes, here I am again talking about Enzo.

When I decided to start writing again about Jannacci's albums, I intended to review "E allora concerto", but by some strange quirk of fate, I ended up writing about this album, Parlare con i limoni. Disclaimer: I consider this album Enzo's worst for various reasons you'll see later, but know that it's not to be discarded (and it's worth 3 stars, so it's not too bad).

It starts off with a bang, "Parlare con i limoni" is one of the most important songs of/for Enzo: it talks about old age, madness, and Luigi Tenco: beautiful.

"Due gelati" surely gave all Jannacci's avid listeners goosebumps: the musical base is the cleanest and most refined on the album, and it talks about LOVE in a text that, although surreal, between ice creams and balilla, manages to be SWEET AND ROMANTIC (pure anomaly). The perhaps most underrated song on the album is "Il castello dei Ma", but I don't underestimate it at all: I consider it an excellent piece that talks about an indifferent society, a true bijou. But the best is found in the fourth track, "Senza parole", the music is danceable and the lyrics are very well written (obviously, it doesn't surpass that of the title track). And we arrive at the most famous song on the album, "Poveri cantautori", which announces the end of singer-songwriting over a jazzy tune (stolen from Joe Cocker, for heaven’s sake). And so far, so good, then comes "La fine della storia" with its syrupy music and slightly more than mediocre lyrics, managing to ruin an album that was beautiful up to that point. Well, let's overlook it and take a look at "Il futuro", where vibrating saxophones accompany lyrics that seem more like a tongue twister, especially the chorus: but the message is clear, if we don't pay our debts, our children will have to. The atmosphere drops with the short two minutes of "Souvenir", where we find melancholic lyrics set to music that doesn't do justice to these strange and beautiful words.

In short, a good album but at certain moments Enzo goes a bit astray. The album can be skipped, but if you're curious, give it a listen.