Here he is, once again, with his absolute masterpiece. That's right, at number 19 we have
CAPAREZZAVERITA' SUPPOSTERap-based everything, 2003 You know, each Capa album has a theme or a concept (reincarnation, huge mindfucks, heresy and art) but this album doesn't. Verità Supposte has no theme. BUT. EACH. SONG. IS.
FLAWLESSIMO this album is his most sarcastic work. And that's saying a lot. Each song is ridicolous but it has a really strong message behind the sarcasm and playfulness. Il Secondo Secondo Me (The Second One According To Me) opens the album with a funkadelic groove, with lyrics about clichès. Nessuna Razza (No Race) is the album's most serious song and it has a strong groove with beautiful lyrics about honesty and humility. After track 2, the album goes completely nuts. La Legge Dell'Ortica (The Napple Law) combines lyrics about Capa's will to make people use their heads, with a nice 4/4 groove, with folk influences. And those sound effects
- Track 4, Stango E Sbronzo (Tired And Drunk) is a nice tango piece about the effects of being drunk. Quite nice to sing along to, and I love how Capa can change his vocal tone in this song. Limiti is next, and it might be my favorite in the album. It's a slow-tempo dance song in which Capa retraces his years as a child, with a strong description of italian 70's pop culture. Even though I can't relate really to the lyrics of this song, being born in the 00's practically, the concept of it is nostalgia, and how it can eat us up everyday, and how in the end living in the past can be awful. The awfulness is told by the music in a really nice heavy metal section (yes, from dance to metal.), which is one of my favorite moments in any of his albums
Vengo Dalla Luna (I Come From The Moon) is one of Capa's classic pieces. He played it in every concert, and it's really well-known (and I appreciate that). The lyrics take an alien as a metaphor to speak about immigrants and their disadvantages, and the chorus is really anthemic. Nice rock tune, too.
The album goes on with Dagli All'Untore, a really dark song about pest infectors in the '500, Fuori Dal Tunnel (Out Of The Tunnel), which is Caparezza's most known song, with its marching band sound - I really relate to the lyrics of this one. It talks about how someone can have fun with simple things, like being with friends, watching a movie or just eating pizza. Giuda Me is a description of Southern Italy's conditions (still very relevant today), also another funkadelic tune. Nel Paese Dei Balordi is a realistic version of Pinocchio, whilist L'Età Dei Figuranti critiques reality shows, with very fun sound effects and change of moods in the song, and a really huge chorus.
The last three songs are godly.
Dualismi reminds me strongly of Korn. It revolves around the concept of duality and bipolar disease, and it has a very haunting sound, with an exceptional chorus and great guitar solo in the end.
Follie Preferenziali is the other serious tune in the record, a strong critique towards war. The lyrics here are just
The last track, Jodellavitanonhocapitouncazzo (try reading that), is a jodel-based song about Caparezza's carreer essentially.
So yeah, Verità Supposte is a strong description of what Capa is and what he does (even though, once again, this album isn't a concept album, like all of his other ones) and I really love the fact that it is his most popular album, because of that. Very fun, but really thought-inducing listen.
Once again, I invite you to listen to one of those songs and tell me what you think.
Tracklist:
Il Secondo Secondo Me
Nessuna Razza
La Legge Dell'Ortica
Stango E Sbronzo
Limiti
Vengo Dalla Luna
Dagli All'Untore
Fuori Dal Tunnel
Giuda Me
Nel Paese Dei Balordi
L'Età Dei Figuranti
Dualismi
Follie Preferenziali
Jodellavitanonhocapitouncazzo--Performed by Caparezza (vocals, keyboards, other strange things) Alfredo Ferrero (guitars) Rino Corrieri (drums) Giovanni Astorino (bass) Carlo Ubaldo Rossi (guitar, recorder, harp) and many other people--