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At that time we were all princes of the wave clubs...
Each with their own type of dance...
Some would float like a fish out of water, others would draw helical shapes, and some, leaning against the column, would barely move their eyes.
I, a lanky stick figure, would instead showcase a prodigious stationary dance.
The cause of that dance was the materialization on the Rimini seafront of a huge guy, just like the Viking angel from that Dylan Dog story...
You might not know, but back then it always felt like being in a B movie, and everything was teeming with semi-divine dark wave fans.
The Viking was just one of many.
Tall, around two meters/two and a half meters, he wore a standard black duster and had the late freak anomaly of long, very blonde hair.
But, above all, he swayed...
He swayed stationary to the dreamiest Tuxedo tunes...
A Nureyev playing the game of musical statues, mind you.
It was an epiphany.
And it led me to abandon the jumping dance which, yes, was good for punk, but for wave, well for wave, something more aesthetic was required.
So, all this to tell you that “My Blues is You” must be danced standing still, so keep that in mind. It's an important detail. Very important.
“My Blues is You”
Shades between black and blacker. Gray is just a tear.
Perfect stuff for the times when we would view anything that evoked even a hint of warmth with suspicion.
Not that there shouldn't have been warmth. It absolutely had to be there, but it first had to take a trip to the icebox...
And anyway, Neon, the corporate reason, says it all with just one word.
Not to mention a perfect title like “my blues is you.”
Stuff that if you keep even ten percent of the promises you've got half a masterpiece in your pocket...
"My Blues is You," obsessive and hypnotic like everything we liked back then, is a dark ballad with a fabulous and not even too icy tum-tum dance rhythm.
And above all, it's a kind of anthem...
Our damn “Saturday Night Fever”...
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PS. Neon is an Italian band. And once upon a time, they would absolutely crush it live.
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