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Rating:
"Submission is a permanent suicide"
Manu Chao
Manu Chao is not (only) a slick operator, let me make this point.
Even before the album was released, he broke the rules of the music market and made the single Rainin paradize available for free on the internet.
After the events of the G8, he was unanimously consecrated to the pantheon of the "a-lot-of-left" crowd by hordes of long-haired, spaced-out, nu-no-global, fake-no-global types, etc., who flock to his concerts to partake in a tacit 'leftist' collective ritual.
And perhaps even beyond his intentions.
In the end, La Radiolina is a well-made album, slender in terms of creative impulses, despite the vibrant fusion of other genres like uptempo, rumba, rock, and ska. Many prefer to remember him in the previous lineup, as the eternal Mano Negra, for whom the current experience is nothing but a minor "how we were", a constant rehash of themes, and music. In short: with Proxima... estacion... esperanza, he had already overstepped the mark. And by a lot.
The flurry of small controversies and disappointed voices, as read in September's Mucchio Selvaggio, claiming that Manu Chao always makes the same two or three songs "even at the risk of becoming today's Inti Illimani," do not do justice to this latest album. In it, the presence of guitars and rock elements is more significant. Overall, it is an enjoyable record.
21 tracks, many of which are dedicated to themes dear to the genre: political commitment, social denunciation, a measure of self-promoting fellatio, which the multilingual Mr. Chao sings in Castilian, French, Italian, and Spanish. Among the most inspired tracks (oh!) Rainin paradize, already a single with a video directed by Emir Kusturica, Tristezza Maleza, with appropriately sad and gloomy tones, Siberia, copied from Rainin paradize, El Kitapena, copied from Siberia which was copied from Rainin paradize, and La Vida Tombola, dedicated to Maradona.
Like a crayfish, Manu Chao alternates lively episodes with moments of monotony that scrape the bottom of the barrel. Unfortunately, the latter are more frequent than the former.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 13 días (02:36)
Chapulin chao aqui presente
Mi mente demente de risas calientes
Tu eres el componente el que me falta siempre
Tu eres el componente el que me falta siempre
Y ahora que que vamo' hacer
Y ahore que que vamo' hacer que vamo' hacer
Trece dias que no te vi trece dias sin sentido
Trece dias fuera de ti trece dias para olvidar
Trece dias que no te vi trece dias me vuelvo loco
Me hielo en la habitacion
No tengo calefaccion
Me hielo en la habitacion
No tengo satisfaction
Trece dias que no te vi trece dias sin sentido
Trece dias fuera de ti trece dias sin respiro
Cada hora cada dia
Te espero siempre mi amor
Tu eres el componente
Cada hora cada dia
Tu eres el componente
Cada hora cada dia te espero siempre mi amor
Trece dias que no te vi trece dias me vuelvo loco
Trece noches que no dormi trece dias sin avisar
Trece dias que no te vi trece dias sin sentido
Me hielo en la habitacion
No tengo calefaccion
Me hielo en la habitacion
No tengo satisfaction
Chapulin chao aqui presente
Mi mente demente de risas calientes
Tu eres el componente el que me falta siempre
Y ahora que que vamo' hacer
Cada hora cada dia
Y ahora que que vamo' hacer
Tu eres el componente el que me falta siempre
Cada hora cada dia
Tu eres el componente el que me falta siempre
Te espero siempre mi amor
Cada hora cada minuto que yo viva
03 Politik Kills (03:02)
politik kills x9
politik need votes
politik needs your mind
politik needs human beings
politik need lies
thats what my friend is an evidence
politik is violence
what my friend is a evidence
politik is violence
politik kills x6
politik use drugs
politik use bombs
politik need torpedoes
politik needs blood
thats what my friend is an evidence politik is violence
what my friend is a evidence politik is violence
politik need force politik need cries
politik need ignorance politik need lies
politik kills x9
politik kills politik kills
politik kills politik kills
politik need force
poltik need cries
politik need ignorance
politik need lies
politik need force
politik need cries
politik need ignorance
politik need lies
politik kills x4
04 Rainin in Paradize (03:41)
Welcome to paradise (2x)
Today it's raining (4x) (Welcome to paradise)
Today It's raining (Welcome to paradise) (4x)
In Zaire, was no good place to be
Free world go crazy, it's an atrocity
In Congo, still no good place to be
They killed Mibali, it's a calamity
Go Maasai go Maasai be mellow, Go Maasai go Maasai be sharp (2x)
In Monrovia, this no good place to be
Weapon go crazy, it's an atrocity
In Palestina, too much hypocricy
This world go crazy, it's no fatality
Go Maasai go Maasai be mellow, Go Maasai go Maasai be sharp (2x)
Today it's raining (4x), in paradise
Today it's raining (4x)
In Baghdad, it's no democracy
That's just because, it's a US Country
In Fallujah, too much calamity
This world go crazy, it's no fatality
Go Maasai go Maasai be mellow, Go Maasai go Maasai be sharp (2x)
Today it's raining (4x)
In Jerusalem, in Monrovia, Guinea-Bissau, today it's raining (3x)
Welcome to paradise, Come to the fairy lies
Welcome to paradise
Today it's raining (4x)
07 Me llaman calle (03:14)
(Ahi te va, esquina caliente, se fuerza la máquina..)
Me llaman calle
Pisando baldosas
La revoltosa y tan perdida
Me llaman calle
Calle de noche
Calle de día
Me llaman calle
Hoy tan cansada
Hoy tan vacía
Como maquinita por la gran ciudad
Me llaman calle
Me subo a tu coche
Me llaman calle de malegría
Calle dolida
Calle cansada de tanto amar
Voy calle abajo
Voy calle arriba
No me rebajo ni por la vida
Me llaman calle
Y ese es mi orgullo
Yo se que un día llegará
Yo se que un día vendrá mi suerte
Un dia me vendrá a buscar
A la salida un hombre bueno
Para toda la vida y sin pagar
Mi corazón no es de alquilar
Me llaman calle
Me llaman calle
Calle sufrida
Calle tristeza de tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle más calle
Me llaman Calle
la sin futuro
Me llaman Calle
la sin salida
Me llaman Calle
calle más calle
las tres mujeres de la vida
suben pa'bajo
bajan pa'rriba
como maquinita por la gran ciudad.
Me llaman calle
me llaman calle
calle sufrida
calle tristeza de tanto amar
Me llaman calle
Calle más calle.
Me llaman siempre
y a cualquier hora,
me llaman guapas
siempre a deshora,
me llaman putas
también princesas
me llaman calle sin nobleza.
Me llaman calle
calle sufrida,
calle perdida de tanto amar.
Me llaman calle
me llaman calle
calle sufrida
calle tristeza de tanto amar.
(A la Puri, a la Carmen, Carolina, Bibiana, ...)
Me llaman calle
me llaman calle
calle sufrida
calle tristeza de tanto amar.
Me llaman calle
me llaman calle
calle sufrida
calle tristeza de tanto amar.
Me llaman calle
me llaman calle
calle sufrida
calle tristeza de tanto amar.
08 A cosa (02:14)
TC: Che cosa?
TC: Che cosa?
Che cosa vuoi da me?
Che cosa vuoi ancora?
Che cosa vuoi di più?
Che cosa vuoi da me? (TC repeats)
Che cosa posso dare? (TC repeats)
Che cosa inventare?
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi di più? (TC repeats)
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi provare?
Che cosa vuoi tentare?
Che cosa vuoi spezzare?
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi di più? (TC repeats)
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi?
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi sognare? (TC: Che cosa vuoi lasciare?)
Che cosa vuoi tentare? (TC: Che cosa inventare?)
Che cosa vuoi ancora? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi capire? (TC: Che cosa vuoi ancora?)
Che cosa vuoi tentare? (TC: Che cosa?)
Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi? (TC repeats)
Che cosa vuoi di più? (TC repeats)
(Female voice) Qu'est ce que tu veux de moi?
TC: Todos, todos.
Por tuo amor, por tuo amor,
todo lo daría.
(Female voice & TC repeat & fade)
19 Siberia (02:04)
SIBERIA
I BELIEVE IN YOU
I BELIEVE IN LOVE
I BELIEVE IN HOPE
WAITIN FOR YOUR CALL
I BELIEVE IN...LOVE
Siberia en mi cama
Siberia en la habitacion
Siberia en tu mirada
Siberia en tu corazon
Toda Siberia
entre tu y yo.
Toda Siberia
So pa tu y yo
siberia de noche
siberia tan fria
siberia tan blanca
siberia vacia
Toda Siberia
entre tu y yo.
Toda Siberia
So pa tu y yo
siberia tan grande
siberia tan fria
I BELIEVE IN...LOVE X2
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