Álbum Ringleader of the Tormentors (Morrissey)

Ringleader of the Tormentors de Morrissey

Álbum de Morrissey

  • Sello Discográfico: Attack Records

Valora este álbum

Ringleader of the Tormentors es un álbum de Morrissey, publicado en 2006 por Attack Records. El disco incluye 12 canciones, entre ellas «I Will See You in Far-Off Places», «Dear God Please Help Me», «You Have Killed Me» y «The Youngest Was the Most Loved».

Sobre el álbum

El álbum Ringleader of the Tormentors de 2006 fue grabado en Roma y producido por el legendario Tony Visconti, colaborador habitual de David Bowie. Esta elección ya anticipa el sonido del disco: grandioso, teatral y con una producción rica en detalles. En este trabajo, Morrissey parece abrazar una nueva faceta, líricamente más abierta y musicalmente más expansiva.

El primer sencillo, "You Have Killed Me", es una pieza de rock potente y directa, que él mismo describió como la continuación sonora de T. Rex. El álbum también contiene momentos de gran belleza orquestal, como "Life Is a Pigsty", gracias a los arreglos del compositor Ennio Morricone.

El disco generó cierta controversia por la letra de "Dear God, Please Help Me", una de las más explícitas y personales de su carrera. Pese a ello, "Ringleader of the Tormentors" es un álbum audaz y texturizado, que muestra a un artista en constante búsqueda, explorando nuevos paisajes sonoros sin perder su esencia.

Listado de Canciones

  1. I Will See You in Far-Off Places4:13
  2. Dear God Please Help Me5:51
  3. You Have Killed Me3:08

    Letra

    Pasolini is me Accattone you'll be I entered nothing and nothing entered me 'Til you came with the key And you did your best but As I live and breathe You have killed me You have killed me Yes I walk around somehow But you have killed me You have killed me Piazza Cavour, what's my life for? Visconti is me Magnani you'll never be I entered nothing and nothing entered me 'Til you came with the key And you did your best but As I live and breathe You have killed me You have killed me Yes, I walk around somehow But you have killed me You have killed me Who am I that I come to be here? As I live and breathe You have killed me You have killed me Yes I walk around somehow But you have killed me You have killed me And there is no point saying this again There is no point saying this again But I forgive you, I forgive you Always I do forgive you
  4. The Youngest Was the Most Loved2:59

    Letra

    The youngest was the most loved The youngest was the shielded We kept him from the world's glare And he turned into a killer Retroussé nose Turned up and mischievous Forget-me-not eyes that cried if we ever left his side There is no such thing in life as normal There is no such thing in life as normal The youngest was the most loved The youngest was the cherub A small boy from a poor house Who turned into a killer A blushed rose if he had to say 'hello' A lopsided grin strained to keep the shyness in There is no such thing in life as normal There is no such thing in life as normal The youngest was the most loved The youngest was the cherub The look was all before him With a lovely wife beside him The youngest was the most loved The youngest was the cherub We kept him from the world's glare And he turned into a killer There is no such thing in life as normal There is no such thing in life as normal
  5. In the Future When All's Well3:54
  6. The Father Who Must Be Killed3:53

    Letra

    Step-child, you have outlived your time You represent embarrassment and failure And the father who must be killed Is the blight upon your blighted life And his might is his legal right To ground you down Step-child, with every petty swipe You just might find you're fighting for your life And the father who must be killed Is a step farther but nonetheless The way he chews his food Rips right through your senses Step-child, there's a knife in a drawer In a room downstairs And you, you know what you must do So the step-child ran with a knife to his Sleeping frame and slams it in his arms, His legs, his face, his neck and says "There's a law against me now" And the father who must be killed With his dying breath, he grabs her hand And he looks into her eyes He says "I'm sorry" and he dies Stepchild, I release you With this broken voice I beseech you Why are lives so short? The step-child thought heart pointing to the sky "No warm to warm me No hand to touch me And no bible-belters to mess with me Mama don't miss me Mama don't miss me This death will complete me But where I go there will be no one to meet me I know there will be no one to meet me" But still the step-child press the knife to her throat Heart pointing to the sky "Just as motherless birds fly high Then... so shall I So shall I So shall I So shall I So shall I..."
  7. Life Is a Pigsty7:22

    Letra

    It's the same old S.O.S. But with brand new broken fortunes And once again I turn to you Once again I do I turn to you It's the same old S.O.S. But with brand new broken fortunes I'm the same underneath But this you, you surely knew Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life, life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty And if you don't know this Then what do you know? Every second of my life I only live for you And you can shoot me And you can throw me off a train I still maintain I still maintain Life, life is a pigsty Life is a pigsty And I'd been shifting gears all along my life But I'm still the same underneath This you surely knew I can't reach you I can't reach you I can't reach you anymore Can you please stop time? Can you stop the pain? I feel too cold And now I feel too warm again Can you stop this pain? Can you stop this pain? Even now in the final hour of my life I'm falling in love again Again Even now in the final hour of my life I'm falling in love again Again Again Again I'm falling in love again Again Again Again
  8. I'll Never Be Anybody's HeroNow4:14
  9. On the Streets I Ran3:51

    Letra

    Oh a working class face glares back At me from the glass and lurches Oh forgive me, on the streets I ran Turned sickness into popular song Streets of wet black holes On roads you can never know You never have them but they always have you Till the day that you croak It's no joke Oh a working class face glares back At me from the glass and lurches Oh forgive me on the streets I ran Turned sickness into unpopular song And all these streets can do Is claim to know the real you And warn if you don't leave you will kill or be killed Which isn't very nice Here everybody's friendly But nobody's friends Oh dear God, When will I be where I should be And when the palmist said "One Thursday you will be dead" I said: "No, not me, this cannot be Dear God, take him, take them, take anyone The stillborn The newborn The infirm Take anyone Take people from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Just spare me!"
  10. To Me You Are a Work of Art4:01

    Letra

    I live a life I feel the pain To sing this song To tell the tale I wish I never even heard the song I see the world It makes me puke But then I look at you and know That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one I see the world It makes me puke But then I look at you and know That somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one, had one To me you are a work of art And I would give you my heart That's if I had one
  11. I Just Want to See the Boy Happy2:59

    Letra

    Lord these words I beg of you As I kneel down at my bed Because soon I will be dead Let's face it soon I will be dead And I just want to I want to see the boy happy With some hope in his pale eyes Is that too much to ask? Before I die I have one final dream For my own life I don't care anything Lord these words I beg of you As I kneel down at my bed Let's face it soon I will be dead And I just want to I want to see the boy happy With his arms around his first love Is that too much to ask? Before I die I have one final dream For my own life I don't care anything And I just want to I want to see this boy happy Why is this such a bad thing?
  12. At Last I Am Born3:34

    Letra

    At last I am born Historians note I am finally born I once used to Chase affection withdrawn But now I just sit back and yawn Because I am born, born, born Look at me now From difficult child to spectral hand To Claude Brasseur Oh-blah blah blah At last I am born Vulgarians know I am finally born I once thought That time accentuates despair But now I don't actually care Because I am born, born, born Look at me now From difficult child to spectral hand To Claude Brasseur Oh-blah blah blah At last I am born At last I am born Leaving the one true free life born I once thought I had numerous reasons to cry And I did, but I don't anymore Because I am born, born, born At last I am born At last I am born It took me a long, long time But now I am born I once was a mess Of guilt because of the flesh It's remarkable what you can learn Once you are born, born, born Born, born, born Born, born, born