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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
Studio album by
Released1996
GenreComedy rock, progressive rock
Length55:42
LabelAspirine
Sony BMG
ProducerOtar Bolivecic
Elio e le Storie Tese chronology
Esco dal mio corpo e ho molta paura: Gli inediti 1979–1986
(1993)
Eat the Phikis
(1996)
Del meglio del nostro meglio Vol. 1
(1997)

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]


Songs


As usual for the band, the album lyrics are simultaneously serious and jocular, as they discuss a number of social and personal topics in an ironical tone. On a musical level, the album alludes to several other musical works by other people.


Intentional mistakes in the lyrics of "First Me, Second Me"


"First Me"
"Second Me (The Peak of the Mountain)"

Track listing


  1. "Vincitori o campioni?" – 1:59
  2. "La terra dei cachi" – 4:21
  3. "Burattino senza fichi" – 4:52
  4. "T.V.U.M.D.B." – 5:26
  5. "Lo stato A, lo stato B" – 4:31
  6. "El Pube" – 5:03
  7. "Omosessualità" – 3:34
  8. "Mio cuggino" – 5:36
  9. "First Me, Second Me" – 3:32
  10. "Milza" – 4:34
  11. "Li immortacci" – 4:40
  12. "Tapparella" – 6:31
  13. "Neanche un minuto di non caco" – 1:03

Personnel


Guest musicians


Album title and artwork


During the recording sessions, the album was meant to be called Eat the Khakis, as a reference to "La terra dei cachi". "Cachi" in Italian and "khaki" in English are pronounced the same,[15] however, Vittorio Cosma warned the band that "khakis", outside of Italy, does not refer to the fruits (in fact, they are known as "persimmons" in English),[15] but is instead a common nickname for military uniforms in general, due to their khaki color.[16] Because of this, the band, who were still fond of titling the album after the name of a fruit including an H in it, chose "phikis" as a reference to another album track, "Burattino senza fichi".[2] Later on, the concept of "making everything sweeter", which permeated the lyrics to "La terra dei cachi", extended itself to the cover artwork, where a still frame of a great white shark, taken from a TV wildlife documentary, was re-touched by graphic designer Alex Koban from Milan-based CGI studio Imagic; Koban "sweetened" the shark image by compositing oversized dental braces over its teeth.[2] The artwork is inspired by the cover of the 1994 album Time to Move by H-Blockx.[2]


Footnotes


  1. Other examples include "Uomini col borsello" and "Cartoni animati giapponesi" on their previous album, İtalyan, rum casusu çikti.[4]
  2. Arduini and Jackson were actually alive by the time the song was released (1996).

References


  1. "Album - I numero uno (1995-2006)". IT-Charts. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. "Eat the Phikis". Marok. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  3. Di Mambro, Angelo (2004). L'importanza di chiamarsi Elio. Storia e gloria del più importante gruppo italiano (in Italian). Castelvecchi.
  4. "Italyan, Rum Casusu Çikti". Marok (in Italian). Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  5. Antonelli, Giuseppe. "Il linguaggio degli SMS". Treccani. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  6. "Elio e le storie tese raccontano Naco". PercFest (in Italian). Archived from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  7. "Brevi". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2 July 1996. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  8. James Taylor & Rocco Tanica @ Deejay chiama Italia (Radio broadcast) (in Italian). 24 January 2012. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
  9. "The peak of the mountain". Marok (in Italian). Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  10. Renda, Silvia (27 September 2019). "Spiego agli stranieri cosa significa 'mortacci tua. Per farlo ho lasciato un indeterminato". HuffPost Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 30 September 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  11. Lauretti, Raffaele (4 July 2016). "La storia del Guardiano del Faro, il pioniere del Moog nella canzone italiana". RockIT (in Italian). Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  12. "Il re è buco!". la Repubblica (in Italian). 3 February 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  13. "First Me, Second Me". ElioELeStorieTese.it. Archived from the original on 1 December 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  14. Elio e le Storie Tese - The peak of the mountain (a.k.a. First me Second me) - Live in Loano 1986 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.
  15. "English Translation of "cachi"". Collins Italian-English Dictionary. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  16. "Khaki". Cambridge English Dictionary. Retrieved 19 February 2020.





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