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Rating: I want to drag Ornella Muti under a plaid
I want to enter the Hit Parade in first place
I want to visit a UFO
I want the bank account of the Bee Gees
Capittoooooooooooooooooo!!
I would really like to know if the national Cats, Smaila, Calà, and company, now rich and high-society, recognize themselves in this 1976 album, full of politically engaged lyrics, fantasized occupations of schools and homes, as well as hippie returns to the countryside. On the back, there is a critical musico-eschatological messianic preface by Maurizio Costanzo (sic) - who then, as now, pontificated on everything.
Well orchestrated, perhaps overly so, it is their almost introdurso-progressive album, in which the Cats under the aegis of Smaila have peaks of true symphonic pop class, with superb choruses and baptismal cresimal choirs, zero electric guitars, and a lot of Smaila's piano, a great fan of Elton Johnna. But did they really believe it? Were they swept away by the backlash? Shortly thereafter, they would soar on TV and the single hit parade with various catchy tunes cash in 4 and go with the charleston by the maestro Pino Calvi: I’m talking about the ingenious - Capito?, and Ciao - which had a deadly success, blending the late cabaret of Cochi e Renato with melodies similar to Zappa's trash disco music from the Sheikyerbouti period or Elio's Pippero period.
They flopped in the cinema with the film Arrivano i Gatti by a director, Vanzina, then specialized in musical films. Now, the songs: Quanto vale un uomo is a FIERCE workers’ anthem, Buona terra is late psychedelic, talking about rural communes and late hippie returns to group agriculture, and I dare to say it wouldn't look out of place on Meddle perhaps as an outtake; Uomini, bambini, angeliis a sort of post-beat massrumored to have been on the verge of being covered in metal by Richard Benson in his Madre Tortura period, La leggenda della donna is a pearl of a romantic song, Padroni di noi stessi is a dream of social struggle against the masters who feed off the people, Dedicata al Veneto is a strange LSD satellite that orbits the album, bipping a confused drift to the right! of our heroes, who go haywire about the Veneto of the Doges, almost prophesying the advent of the Lega Nord. Well.
Un amico in più is the anthemic celebration of social solidarity and the warm welcome you could find in communes, When New Eyes is about life reborn and generational change, Vittoria! another potential workers’ anthem, It's time to think is a gem of melodic and lyrical postal card. It is an album not to be underestimated, not to be discredited, well quoted in the vinyl market and boasts quotes even on the website of political and social protest songs IL DEPOSITO, because of the wonderful song La Leggenda della donna, which we gladly reproduce here:
La leggenda della donna
Sempre ho bevuto la leggenda che
nasco dal tuo fianco e poi
come l'acqua fresca che esce dalla fonte
per amore mi sono fatta bere da te.
Sopra un piedistallo comodo per te
tu mi hai messo e hai detto che
compagna nella gioia e nel tuo dolore
anche se il dolore lo coltivo io.
Spingi l'aratro ma dietro di te
pianto il seme e sai perché
compagna del tuo desco dividiamo il pane
anche se i tuoi piatti poi li lavo io.
Caldo il tuo volto dentro gli occhi miei
io li chiudo e sai perché
compagna nelle notti del nostro amore
anche se il tuo letto poi lo faccio io.
Sai che il futuro muore insieme a te
se non lo trasmetti a me
compagna nel creare una nuova vita
anche se poi nel farlo pago solo io.
E pensare che nasci tu da me
sono io che faccio te
son io che ti faccio soffro e ti rifaccio
e pensar che da sempre nasci tu da me.
v.r.
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