| Alzheimer | ||||
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| Studio album by Def Con Dos | ||||
| Released | 1995 | |||
| Genre | rapcore | |||
| Label | P & C Dro | |||
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Alzheimer is a record by Spanish metal rap band Def Con Dos.
Released by P & C Dro, S.A. record company in 1995, it helped Def Con Dos to maintain the popularity they had obtained with Armas pal pueblo and their theme for Álex de la Iglesia's film Mutan Action.
The cover presents DCD's logo under a red paint letter V, probably a reference to V, a TV series from the 1980s. An inner photograph depicted DCD group members with the images of their faces distorted, and the hands in a V sign (palm towards them, as in the British, like in the British insulting sign).
The lyrics were less complex than in previous records, with fewer verbal puns and references to other artists' lyrics. There were however abundant references to recent news.
All themes are composed by Def Con Dos (save Fight For Your Right (Bebe y Lucha) by Beastie Boys and Rick Rubin) and sung in Spanish (save Que te fagorishen and Garaipena).
What do the people say? An intro.
Talks about the mental diseases of some politicians, like Adolfo Suarez from Spain and Reagan, who has Alzheimer
It's all Yoko Ono's fault , blaming Yoko Ono of several problems (like poverty in Spain) without a logical connection to her.
You tell me
Inspired by a TV commercial ad.
Panic to a ridiculous death
My kingdom for... About deposed kings, translation of the refrain is "My kingdom for a bit of horse" (in Spanish slang, as in English, the word for horse can mean both the animal and heroin). It refers to a line of William Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard III.
Little bread The refrain, meaning "little bread and lame circus", is a reference to Satire X's Latin phrase panem et circenses.
Child "A", child "B"
Dead rockstars About rock stars' life, assuring people should not feel sorry for Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious, Freddie Mercury, Johnny Thunders or Kurt Cobain, since they have had the opportunity of a great life.
Connected vessels
Don't follow me, stupid
Not the car This song says: You can burn my house, with my family into all the blames. You can pick up my tracksuit and you want. But don't confuse yourself, don't scratch my car, no! my car no!
The title is a slogan of an old advertising campaign, while the rest of the lyrics tell the actual story of a man stolen by two prostitutes.
Gone hunting About a Vietnam veteran who goes into a McDonald's and massacres the clients.
Smash the noise '95 A metal version of their 1989 theme.
Victory
Drink and fight An instrumental version of Beastie Boys' Fight for your right (to Party). At the beginning of the track, a female voice explains that Beastie Boys have not allowed the recording of this song with the lyrics proposed by Def Con Dos (explicit on drugs, sex and violence), so DCD encourage the listener to sing the lyrics in the booklet.
Soon later in 1995, a new version of the record was released, with Garaipena, a Basque version of Victoria as a bonus-track.
Arreglos: Cortina, The Alcalá-Meco Band