Album: "Out Of Exile" (2005)
Lyrics by Chris Cornell
Music by Audioslave
The song was inspired by the 1980s song "People Who Died," by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim Carroll, who also wrote the autobiographical The Basketball Diaries. As Chris Cornell explained: "It's a bunch of references to people that I knew that ... were younger than me who've been dead for years and years, up to a couple of years ago."it is also about people who killed themselves before their time has come."
The lyrics also make a reference to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ("...I've seen fifty-thousand names all engraved on a stone..."). As Cornell has put it: "And then just kind of that juxtaposition of, even though it seems a lot for one person, a young healthy person, to have lost all these friends through various means of stupidity... (continua)
Now one fell asleep in the street and he never woke up (continua)
da "Revelations" (2006)
Parole di Chris Cornell
Musica degli Audioslave
Wide Awake, che Tom Morello ha definito la "più politica delle canzoni degli Audioslave", è un violento attacco all'amministrazione Bush per la gestione dell'emergenza a New Orleans colpita dall'Uragano Katrina, ma non manca un riferimento alla guerra in Iraq (trading lives for oil).
You can a look a hurricane right in the eye. (continua)
Directed by Chris Milk, the award-winning music video for "Doesn't Remind Me" starts off with a blurred image of an Uncle Sam poster tacked to a wall of a young boy's bedroom, as he innocently plays with a toy fighter plane.
This boy is played by Vinny Intrieri, a six-year old boxer from Philadelphia, who lives with his mother and sister, known better by his fight name, Kid Vicious. Shot in a documentary-like style, this fictional story explores the world of Vinny's character.
Throughout the video, Vinny enjoys playing with military planes and dedicates most of his free time to his boxing training. His obsession with planes becomes clearer when the audience sees a portrait of his father, an Air Force pilot, who died fighting in the Iraqi war. As a result, his widowed mother has been forced to raise him and his little sister.
"We were... (continua)
I walk the streets of Japan till I get lost (continua)
In the here and the now I'll wait down among the young and the old (continua)
inviata da Alessandro 11/8/2009 - 23:30
È morto Chris Cornell, voce dei Soundgarden e degli Audioslave
Il rocker aveva 52 anni ed era in tour con la storica band grunge di Seattle. Ignote le cause. L'agente: "Evento improvviso e inaspettato"
Il mondo del rock è sotto choc per la morte “improvvisa e inattesa” di Chris Cornell, il cantante degli Audioslave e dei Soundgarden. Il musicista è morto nella notte a Detroit, mentre si trovava in tour con i Soundgarden. Ne ha dato notizia il suo agente Brian Bumbery, parlando con l’agenzia americana Associated Press. Cornell aveva 52 anni. Non ci sono dettagli sulle cause della morte mentre la famiglia chiede di rispettare la sua privacy aggiungendo che “collaborerà a stretto contatto con le autorità mediche per stabilire le cause del decesso”. Nei giorni scorsi era già circolata la notizia della morte di Cornell, poi smentita.
Sì, ok, però a parte che così va a finire che al gigidalèssio gli allungate la vita e ve lo ritrovate bello arzillo fino a 95 anni, ci sarebbe pur da dire che séguitano a campare pure parecchi rocchettari tritapalle®, poppettari fracassagònadi® nonché bands di very successful riportati dalla piena® che non vengono mai nominati manco mezza volta che sia una. Quanto al testé defunto di questa pagina, confesso candidamente di aver appreso oggi non soltanto della sua dipartita, ma anche della sua esistenza in vita fino a questo momento. Quindi evito accuratamente di pronunciarmi, e che riposi in pace. Saluti.
Sembra proprio che si sia impiccato.... che tristezza. E oggi mi sono tornati in mente i versi di questa canzone:
There was a man who had a face that looked a lot like me
I saw him in the mirror and I fought him in the street
Then when he turned away, I shot him in the head
Then I came to realize, I had killed myself...
Il ritorno dei Soundgarden, a 13 anni di distanza da "Down on the Upside" e dopo tre album solisti di Chris Cornell e lo scioglimento degli Audioslave.
Una canzone in puro stile Black Sabbath con un testo horror ma pienamente contro la guerra.
[2002]
Parole di Chris Cornell
Musica degli Audioslave
Dal loro debut album, l’eponimo “Audioslave”
Al giovane amico Cesare, che oltre alla grande cultura musicale ha pure un cervello più analitico di uno scanner, è bastato un attimo per accorgersi che nel pur immenso database delle CCG/AWS mancano ancora alcune canzoni degne di nota, come per esempio questa della band di Chris Cornell, Tom Morello e soci.
Per il percorso sul genocidio dei nativi americani.
Grazie Cesare!
“Cochise was the last great American Indian chief to die free and absolutely unconquered. When several members of his family were captured, tortured, and hanged by the U.S. Cavalry, Cochise declared war on the entire Southwest and went on an unholy rampage, a warpath to end all warpaths. He and his warriors drove out thousands of settlers. Cochise the avenger, fearless and resolute, attacked everything... (continua)
da "The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz" (1974)
Scritta da Nick Lowe per il suo gruppo, Brinsley Schwarz, la canzone è universalmente nota grazie alla versione di Elvis Costello & The Attractions che la incisero nel 1979.
La canzone è stata incisa anche da Curtis Stigers (la sua versione fa parte della colonna sonora del film "The Bodyguard") dai Wallflowers e recentemente cantata addirittura dagli Audioslave.
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding is a song written by English musician Nick Lowe. The song was originally released in 1974 on the album The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz by Lowe's band Brinsley Schwarz.
The cover by Elvis Costello & The Attractions is the version of the song that most people know but, strictly speaking, Elvis Costello & The Attractions never recorded this song. It was originally the B side of Lowe's American Squirm and... (continua)
Lyrics by Chris Cornell
Music by Audioslave
The song was inspired by the 1980s song "People Who Died," by The Jim Carroll Band, an emotional salute to the casualties of New York drug culture written by poet and singer Jim Carroll, who also wrote the autobiographical The Basketball Diaries. As Chris Cornell explained: "It's a bunch of references to people that I knew that ... were younger than me who've been dead for years and years, up to a couple of years ago."it is also about people who killed themselves before their time has come."
The lyrics also make a reference to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ("...I've seen fifty-thousand names all engraved on a stone..."). As Cornell has put it: "And then just kind of that juxtaposition of, even though it seems a lot for one person, a young healthy person, to have lost all these friends through various means of stupidity... (continua)