Tony Tammaro
The Dark Side of the Moonnezz

THE REVIEW

The Dark Side of the Moonnezz 2005.

Warning to all Tamarri: Tony Tammaro is out in record stores! Wow, but this record is really amazing! Yes, Tony has really blown us away. What’s different compared to the "Prima Cassetta di Musica Tamarra" or "Se Potrei Avere Te"? Almost everything.

First of all, you can't play it in a cassette player because it's a CD. Secondly, the musical level has risen by at least a couple of meters and you just need to listen to it to realize it. What hasn't changed is the price, which has always been less than popular. The lyrics, too, are just as you remember them; they make us burst out laughing, yet they also make us think, especially Vito, who sometimes even gets emotional in the car, and above all, they are topical lyrics, meaning they talk about what could happen to you, your friends, and all the tamarri you know or will know. The first track "Non chiamarmi Annarella" talks about a troubled romantic relationship between Carmine and his girlfriend, lived under the shadow of the myth of Gigi D'Alessio, who every year in the south causes more victims than road accidents. "Questione di gel" is a protest song, dealing with the irreconcilability between the helmet mandate and the gel needs of young tamarri. "A munnezz d'a gente" is a snapshot of the modern tamarro family, while "Pe' salvà o cellulare" unveils the secrets of survival in the Neapolitan urban jungle.

Masterpiece is "Supersantos", the story of every child's best friend, the ball, which coincidentally, always got lost when you played with it, and the game became risking your life to retrieve it. Finally, with "Amico che compri i miei dischi", he makes a bittersweet appeal to the conscience of consumers of pirated discs who enrich the pirates, to the extent that when Vito heard it, he went and bought it original!

What would rock be without the tamarro spirit? What would Elvis be without gel, or Ringo Starr without a mustache, or Ligabue without big boots?
From the dark side of the trash, it's all clear.

"Lately, I went on a car trip listening to a Tony Tammaro CD. I had a blast. When I'm feeling down, I often listen to Tony Tammaro's records. They help me think that life isn’t so bad after all" -Tony Tammaro-