This song is very difficult to understand for those who are not Italian. It speaks in an ironic way of the concert that take place in Rome every year on May 1st, the Labor Day. The song is full of musical references to the artists who take part in it. For example Goran Bregović, a Serbian artist who offers popular music from the Balkans (ex Yugoslavia), but there are many references to artists who usually participate in the event. Of course, as it is Labor Day, there are also references to politics, but these are treated with irony and not seriously, as in the style of this band.

Simply, this song is a mockery of the totally stereotypical political bands that were presented every year at the concert on May 1st (a big event in Rome that has been held every year for 30 years). Elio just copies these bands playing their genre much better than the originals, pointing out their political and musical contraddictions. And how old their messages are (that's why the video is in black and white with russian movies) It is difficult to understand if you have not undergone this torture every year ... Please note that Elio was banned from that concert a lot of years ago because he simply sang a song citing the names of corrupt politicians who used their power to avoid being jailed. EDIT: and please note... Elio presented this song AT THAT CONCERT, insulting all the other bands and their fans ! 😂🤣

@victorfries8859

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Elio.

Very hard for you to react to such songs. The lyrics is the key and it's in a foreign language full of references, ideas and stereotypes of a different culture. Twice bravo Ang.

I think you have to listen to "neanche un minuto di non caco", that is a live version of "la terra dei cachi" they brought in Sanremo in 1996. The first is nearly the entire second song played in only 1 minute. The bass line is simply AMAZING! Their ability is absolutely Amazing!

Sorry if it's long but it's important because I've read many comments where they simply said inaccuracies. For example, it can be confusing to call it "Labor Day" since in the US it's September 5, while in the rest of the world we celebrate International Workers' Day and it's May 1, which gives more insight into the socialist political orientation. There are serious inaccuracies when it is said that Elio e le storie tese make fun of other groups and their fans, or that they make fun of messages considered old, also because the Concertone is not 'anti-capitalist' or communist, but is contradictory and they make a critical examination of the cultural and musical world of the Italian left from which they come - in this sense they parody an anti-capitalist discourse, also suggesting that there is often a certain demagogy and rhetoric behind it. A criticism from within. Maybe they have changed, and I can't presume their political orientation. This song is only understandable if you are familiar with the May Day Concert held in Rome since 1990 and organised by the three main Italian trade unions: Cgil (Communist Party and main trade union), Cisl (Christian Democracy, second largest trade union) and Uil (Socialist Party). The context in this case is more important than anything else. Italy is a complicated and conflictual country, with a historically strong left wing. The May Day festival was somehow meant to sanction a collaboration between the three major unions at a time when Italy was changing politically: the main parties were breaking up (DC and PCI) to create new political entities. So it was a complicated festival anyway because it was contradictory: left-wing for sure. It is no coincidence that the choice was Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, the square of the Italian left, and that the strongest organising union was the CGIL. In the 1990s, the gradual dissolution of the parties led to new alliances: the ex-communists who in the experience of the Democratic Party of the Left (later the Democrats of the Left, now the Democratic Party) abandoned Marxism-Leninism and collaborated with what was the internal left of the Christian Democrats (the Italian centre-left, the Ulivo for example). The fact is, however, that political tensions remained (and still remain today). The Concertone encompasses all these contradictions: the fact that it is institutional and broadcast live on RAI, a great festival where many souls of the Italian left meet, because even if among the organisers there are old Christian Democrats, there remains a leftist soul. But political contradiction is also social and cultural, and therefore musical. A contradictory galaxy made up of young people of the alternative radical left linked to the autonomous social centres, but also to the metalworkers. A gigantic square which, precisely because it is so enormous, contains so many fragmented stories and contradictions (the invectives against capitalism? But then the Cisl of the ex-Democrats?) and so this song tries to parody that world, a world to which Elio e le Storie tese belong. A contradictory world divided between those who organise (the trade unions who are now fully integrated into the state machine), those who participate and those who sing. They parody a more or less committed Italian music that stops at clichés and rhetoric. In that square they are all there. Elio e le Storie Tese do not offend, but they parody. They are two different things. They are not making fun of the fact that they are very good and the others are not and that they suck, but they are making a critical examination of that cultural galaxy, a galaxy to which they belong. They have participated at least four times (1991, 1996, 2008, 2013). In 1996 they had problems because precisely because of this tension/contradiction that I tried to recount earlier, they clearly attacked the state and its branches, the RAI itself (state television) but also people like Cossiga (former President of the Republic) and Andreotti (many times prime minister), very important Christian Democrat politicians who have a role in many unpleasant events that have happened in Italy. These contradictions often explode; in 1991, just before Elio, Gang performed another song, Socialdemocracy, in which they criticised this rapprochement between political and trade union forces and the cultural and political state of the country.

@MadAng66

2 жыл бұрын

Wow lol that is a lot but I definitely appreciate the time and effort you took to write this for me. Thank you so much

Elio e le storie tese are a group that even if they make cheerful and ironic music is made up of top-level musicians, Elio the singer is also a great musician and has a very varied way of singing, he doesn't have a single way of singing.

This isn't a political song, this is a song that makes fun of political songs. It is a song full of Italian cultural references, it can hardly be understood by those who aren't Italian.

i think is so hard for non italian people to grasp the meaning of Elio's songs. I mean, for the most is hard even for italian people.

@rougeebk858

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣vaglielo a spiegare a 'sti geni...

why don't you react on EPICS Elio e le storie tese songs? like "PAGANO", "ABATE CRUENTO", "TAPPARELLA" (better if LIVE version with Carlos Santana) and more...

You should react to “il vitello dai piedi di balsa”

Wow, this is a tough one for non-Italian speakers (it's also one of my favourite song ever): a round of applause for you!

To better understand the references: In the first part of the song the style and even the voice are a mockery of a band named 99 Posse, a ragamuffin/hip hop band who was very active in 90's, 99 Posse are from Naples and one of their iconic songs is Curre Curre Guagliò, what does it mean "Run Run Boy", guagliò in Naples slangs is "boy, kid", and the song is about the Social Centres or Squat House, so when Elio says "curre lu guaglione dentro u' centro sociale" it's a specific parody of 99 Posse (edit: Elio and 99 Posse are friends), the first folk part of the song is a mockery of Goran Bregovic,as bosniac musician, but in general a mockery of all the Balkans Music,that they simply say it is all the same and it's a pain in the ass when you listen it for longer. The political speech is a parody of the usual political speeches on the stage of the first may concert but in general of the left political speeches against capitalism made in a generic and stereopyed way. The two-voice part is a references of Linea 77, an alternative metal/nu metal band of Turin, whose one of the two historical singer has left the band. They joke about the fact that the separation occurred because each of the two wanted to sing more than the other. Then they joking about the bands "that enhance the territory", (ethnic music band) that usually always make the usual agreements that to be more ethnics have a percussionist from Ghana even if they're from Apulia and it has nothing to do with it. The second folk part of the song is a parody of Davide Van Der Sfroos, a folk-punk songwriter from Monza, in Lombardy, and that line is singing with many terms in lombards slang and a reference from a popular nursery-rhyme called "Ambarabaccicocò" In the end they quote Jovanotti and Negramaro, the so-called "big fishes" of the festival. Jovanotti is a famous songwriter and disc-jockey, in whose career went from making stupid hit with idiotic lyrics to being a socially engaged artist (in my opinion he is always a jerk) but he is an idol for the masses so in a festival like the 1st May he is the principal star, Negramaro are a pop rock band (a pain in the ass) and they're idolized by teenager. The songs it's not an "anti-left" song, Elio E Le Storie Tese just made irony about the stereotypes of the 1st May, an event born to celebrate the labor day but become the parody of itself, so basicallu they don't even need of satirize it, it is as if they were photographing it with a bit of humor. Also they play this at the Concert itself.

When you say that you don't like "some" of the vocals, be aware that those vocals you don't like (when the main musical theme changes) were performed that way on purpose to make fun of some other artists. Then, as almost everyone said, it's impossible for non-Italians to understand several references, and the references found in the song are cultural, political and there are even references to other songs.

Just an add: Elio and le storie tese participated at the Concert of 1st of May and got censored because they "sung" an article about corrupted Italians politicians.

Thank you for reacting^^ Actually the song is not very politic. On contrary it makes a mockery of the Event that made music something politcally focused. Elio e le Store Tese here are laughing of those habits and parodying the political speech against capitalism, and other things that use to happen at the annual event. Most of the song is indeed a mockery of lots of genre: this is why you hear them exagerrated in any way, and so different. But if you're not fan of the comedian aspect, you'd have liked even less going through the lyric ahahah I m happy you reacted to it. I was curious of your view of it. Just that :D You can't and dont' have to love everything. Im make sure to not suggest stuff from them in the future and pick something else ;)

Grandi .

this song like "La canzone Mononota" it's a musical joke but kind of smart funny joke

Elio e le storie tese is a band who did great music. You can enjoy much more of songs such Serví della gleba or Licantropo Vegano but as I told you wehen you listened the first song of them is not enough a translation you need to be Italian to appreciate how much they are ironic and also sarcastic. Thank you.

Frank Zappa school

Try to listen "Pagano" from album "CICCIPUT"

😂😂😂

Sarebbe interessante spiegargli il doppio senso di 'complesso' nel titolo, ma si aprirebbero faide politiche

I don't know who reccomended this song to you, but I think that understanding this song is almost impossible for non italian people, but also for young italians (and even for not so young italians that are not to much inside music). "Complesso del primo maggio" means something like "1st may band" and it's probably a reference to the concert that each year take place in Rome since many years (sometime also the pope assisted to this event). In the song there are really a lot of recerences to italian culture, italian bands and singers, either from the previous decades or bands and singer that are not so well known, even in Italy, that its really difficult also for me to understand what they are talking about. I'm 55 years old, so I can understand certain references to some italian "folk" or popular songs like "Sciur padrun da li beli braghi bianchi", that is a northen Italy popular song but probably there are many italian people from south or even centre of Italy that cannot fully understand the lyrics of songs like that. Under 30 or may be also under 40 italian people may have never listened songs like "Sciur padrun da li beli braghi bianchi", especially if they come from southern Italy. There are also some references to bands that are not main stream, like the linea77 band, that I had never heard until I whatched your video (indeed, I knew "Elio e le storie tese" band, but I never heard the song "Complesso del primo maggio"). Idem for some references to artists parecipating in the concert of may 1st events. Ok, I'm not so inside music, so may be that people that know music better then me know bands like linea77 or artists partecipating to che 1st may concert, even if they are not mainstream, , but I think that most people in Italy don't know them.

Off topic: still waiting for dance gavin dance reaction 🤣🤣🤣

Mad Ang : Elio vs Lucio Dalla kzread.info/dash/bejne/pX-fma9thNq7nc4.html

make fun of the musical groups that take the stage at the concert on May 1st in Rome

Non credo possa arrivare a capire questo pezzo

Crezy🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mad Ang: Elio vs Santana kzread.info/dash/bejne/c5aiu6ibqsncqsY.html

Ehy man, you should react to “Vieni a Salvarmi” from Andrea Lazslo De Simone. Trust me it’s incredible. Of course italian😂

@nelsonhaxhija8893

2 жыл бұрын

sei serio?

@tetomariano

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonhaxhija8893 ovvio

Music is from donatella by donatella rettore

@shalottsmirror

2 жыл бұрын

Just one sentence is from that song. They often quote other artists

Please please please react to Evviva/La visione by Elio e le storie tese

Did my first comment disappear...!???

@MadAng66

2 жыл бұрын

KZread blocks some comments I’m not sure

@victorfries8859

2 жыл бұрын

@@MadAng66 :(

Please! Don’t misunderstand Elio e Le Storie tese. They’re are very serious! They talk a comic language, but they talk and critycize important themes. In this particular song… they laugh about bands performance in “primo maggio festival” that is a political music festival. They’re not a political band, they are joking and criticyze that world. They change music styles all over the song to imitate that band who performed in that concert. Please… change your mind about this Band. Elio e le storie tese are by far the best rock band in Italy. Trust in me

sono i migliori trova altri che suonano così.... partiture assurde... l'aspetto comico complica le cose .... quindi per me sono dei maestri

I don’t like the fact that someone is suggesting songs from Elio e Le storie tese that are only enjoyable if you can understand the context and the lyrics… An example of a great song of them which doesn’t implies to understand the lyrics are songs like “il congresso delle parti molli” or “Supermassiccio”, “Tapparella”, “Rock and Roll”…or even “la canzone mononota” but explaining the gig

@LUC4POISON

2 жыл бұрын

EELST ist my favorite band and even though they do a lot of comedy, they are exceptionally talented as musicians

This is a song that makes fun of the kind of band that play at the 1st of May concert, tipically a politically type of band. It is difficult to understand and appreciate this song if you are not italian

This song is an entire joke on some bands that play every year at the traditional 1st of May concert (a "political" music concert), because they sound always the same so Elio sing making fun of these bands. You're right when you say that the vocals are a lot funny and the music is hot, they are all very talented musicans and they used to write complex lyrics, because of this I like only few Elio e le Storie Tese's songs and they aren't in my everyday playlist.

@julyriver8851

2 жыл бұрын

May 1st not May 5th 🙂

@Sdlilu90

2 жыл бұрын

@@julyriver8851 è vero, ho scambiato il numero del giorno col numero del mese 😅, vado a correggere

Mad me piace ELIO E LE STORIE TESE ma questa canzone no per tanti motivi e il perchè è scritto ai commenti

Don't listen to Elio e le storia tese...it's too hard to understend for those who are not Italian. Sometimes even if you are Italian.

you were wrong, this is not a song, it was made for an event, it is not their song, ps please react to ciao by Lucio dalla

@MadAng66

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a song to me 😂