Eat the Phikis
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| Studio album by Elio e le Storie Tese | ||||
| Released | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 69:45 | |||
| Label | Aspirine Sony BMG |
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| Producer | Otar Bolivecic | |||
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Eat the Phikis is the 1996 album by Italian rock band Elio e le Storie Tese, published after their second-place finish at the Sanremo Music Festival 1996 with the song La terra dei cachi, a humorous take on Italian lifestyle.
Eat the Phikis had a good commercial success in Italy, by keeping the first place in the best-selling album chart (FIMI) for four consecutive weeks.[1]
Track listing
- "Vincitori o campioni?" – 1:59
- "La terra dei cachi" – 4:21
- "Burattino senza fichi" – 4:52
- "T.V.U.M.D.B." – 5:26
- "Lo stato A, lo stato B" – 4:31
- "El Pube" – 5:03
- "Omosessualità" – 3:34
- "Mio cuggino" – 5:36
- "First Me, Second Me" – 3:32
- "Milza" – 4:34
- "Li immortacci" – 4:40
- "Tapparella" – 6:31
Personnel
- Stefano Belisari – lead vocals, transverse flute, electric bass
- Sergio Conforti – vocals, keyboards, electronic drums, piano
- Nicola Fasani – electric bass, backing vocals
- Davide Civaschi – electric guitar, backing vocals
- Christian Meyer – drums, percussions
Allusions
The album alludes to several other musical works.
- The cover is inspired by the cover of Time to Move by H-Blockx.[2]
- At the beginning of Vincitori o campioni? voices by judges of Jeux Sans Frontières are heard. Voices from Teatro Ariston (in which Sanremo Music Festival is host) are coming next.[2]
- In La terra dei cachi there are many citations of Italian and international music like "Papaveri e papere" by Nilla Pizzi, "Una lacrima sul viso" by Bobby Solo, "La donna cannone" by Francesco De Gregori, "Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068" by Johann Sebastian Bach and "In the Flesh?" by Pink Floyd.[2]
- "Burattino senza fichi" is a parody of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio.[2] The title resembles the title of the album Burattino senza fili by Edoardo Bennato. It also refers to "Più ci penso" by Gianni Bella, "Get Back" by The Beatles, the soundtrack of the Italian Pinocchio film and The Adventures of Pinocchio, and "It's a Long Way to Tipperary", a song of World War I sung many times by Snoopy.[2]
- T.V.U.M.D.B. is inspired by Earth, Wind & Fire works. A snippet of the soundtrack of the film Jaws is heard in the song.[2]
- Mio cuggino is a joke about urban legends; there are citations of "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk, the voice of Ike Willis in "Sy Borg" by Frank Zappa, and Tullio De Piscopo's voice.[2]
- "Li immortacci" is sung with Italian singers Giorgia and Edoardo Vianello (who sings on the notes of his own past hit I Watussi) and talks about famous dead rock stars living secretly in a quasi-immortal state ("mortacci" is a mild-to-folkloric roman swear roughly meaning "your damned dead"). "Li immortacci" are Jimi Hendrix ("er Chitara"), Freddie Mercury ("er Mafrodito"), Bob Marley ("er Rastamanno"), Federico Monti Arduini ("er Guardiano der Faro"), Elvis Presley ("er Pelvicaro"), Michael Jackson ("er Thrilleraro"), Jim Morrison ("er Lucertolaro"), John Lennon ("er Quattrocchi Immaginaro"), Luigi Tenco ("er Vedraro"), Ian Curtis ("l'Impiccato"), Kurt Cobain ("er Fucilense"), and Brian Jones ("er Piscina"); the identity of "er Tromba" ("the Trumpet", translated from roman dialect) is uncertain (probable names are Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis or Chet Baker).[2] There are also citations of Lisa Marie Presley and Haile Selassie.[2] Musically, there is a sampling of "We Are the Champions" by Queen (and of Mercury's voice), and in the part dedicated to Jim Morrison, some of the lyrics resembles the lyrics of "The End" by the Doors.[2]
- In "Tapparella" are cited: "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix, "Gente per bene e gente per male" by Lucio Battisti and "Impressioni di settembre" by Premiata Forneria Marconi.[2]
References
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External links
- Eat the Phikis at Discogs
- Eat the Phikis at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
