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Now an album like this would be unthinkable, for its content, rhetoric, references, and iconoclastic force.
The phrase that captures the sense of the work's psychedelic neorealism is "yesterday's newspaper reports him dead, rusted. The gravediggers often collect them, among the people who let themselves be rained on."
It's a mirror of a country that believed it was something it never became, of music that was culture even before it was made, the metatext of an aborted revolution, and in its embryo, it already sees along the horizon the shadow with reinforced shoulders of the eighties.
Textbook.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Introduzione (01:42)
Lottavano così come si gioca
i cuccioli del maggio era normale
loro avevano il tempo anche per la galera
ad aspettarli fuori rimaneva
la stessa rabbia la stessa primavera...
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By francescogenovese
Story of an Employee is perhaps the most beautiful album by De André... a De André who speaks anarchistically, talks politically.
The employee would like to change, to be like them... the kids from the student protests, but he can't because his life is now 'marked.'
By mangoni
The music ranges from folk ballads to the almost progressive 'Ora di libertà,' a supreme celebration of De Andrè’s anarchism.
An indispensable album: times have changed, but some reflections, properly updated and contextualized, cannot leave one indifferent.
By enbar77
De André attacks with quick thrusts and with skilled mono-tone basses that which the law would like to conceal or highlight the exceptional difference between judge and condemned.
An album to be listened to with extreme attention, in even religious silence, if possible, both to musically gather the testimony of those years, and to understand the power of the lyrics.
By majortom79
"He has a story and truly bites," and in this case, the story bites fiercely and sparks intense debates.
It is not an exhortation to violence, nor a blessing of terrorism, but the exact opposite—a cold and very harsh analysis of the social and psychological implications behind such actions.
By POLO
De André doesn't sing but humbly and self-effacingly serves the word.
Fabrizzzioneeeee, on the other hand, sings with his gum raised to the left because who knows, maybe it's chic, but who cares really.
