Socialismo Tascabile (Prove Tecniche di Trasmissione)

Track listing

songs written by Collini and Fontanelli, except where indicated.

Thematic Elements

The title can be translated as Pocket socialism (broadcast test techniques).

Collini's lyrics are filled with references to people and places from the past, mostly from the Italian years of lead. Among the political figures mentioned on the album are Enver Hoxha, Georgi Dimitrov, Rosa Luxemburg, Malcolm X, Antonio Gramsci, Alexander Dubček, Maximilien Robespierre, Enrico Berlinguer, Marco Pannella, Ronald Reagan, Karl Marx, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Dolores Ibárruri, Josip Broz Tito, Kim Il Sung and Vladimir Lenin. A range of confectionery products, including Cinnamon-flavoured bubblegum and Tatranky wafers, is also mentioned, carrying several political metaphors: the commercial disappearance of these products is compared to the decadence of communism. Collini cites several musicians, including Mark Lanegan and his band Screaming Trees, the punk band Dead Kennedys, the hard rock band Van Halen and several new wave and synthpop acts such as Depeche Mode, Modern Talking and Nik Kershaw. Actual life happenings are also translated into lyrics in several songs.

1. "Kappler"
2. Herbert Kappler
3. Matura
4. "Enver"
5. Enver Hoxha
6. "Khmer Rossa"
7. Georgi Dimitrov
8. Vladimir Mayakovsky
9. Filippo Turati
10. Pietro Nenni
11. Khmer Rouge, the ruling political party of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
12. The October Revolution
13. Rosa Luxemburg
14. Stalingrad
15. "Cinnamon"
16. Cinnamon-flavoured bubblegum
17. Koper, Slovenia (Italian: Capodistria)
18. The Black Panther Party
19. Malcolm X
20. Stimorol chewing gum
21. Antonio Gramsci
22. Big Babol chewing gum (manufactured by Perfetti Van Melle)
23. "Tono Metallico Standard"
24. Standa, an Italian chain of department stores.
25. Mark Lanegan
26. Screaming Trees
27. Dead Kennedys
28. "Tatranky"
29. Prague
30. Leonid Brezhnev
31. Marxism
32. Modern Talking
33. Samantha Fox
34. Nik Kershaw
35. Al Bano and Romina Power
36. Depeche Mode
37. Alexander Dubček
38. Škoda Auto
39. Tatranky wafers, once produced in the Czech Republic but now manufactured by the Groupe Danone
40. Loacker wafers
41. "Robespierre"
42. Maximilien Robespierre
43. Jacobins
44. Space Invaders
45. Enrico Berlinguer
46. Alberto Juantorena
47. Sandinismo in Nicaragua
48. Marco Pannella
49. Marlboro cigarettes
50. The NSU Prinz
51. Anna Oxa
52. The Festival della canzone italiana
53. Van Halen
54. Jarmila Kratochvílová
55. Toblerone chocolate
56. American bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya, which occurred on 15 April 1986.
57. Ronald Reagan
58. Karl Marx
59. Ho Chi Minh
60. Che Guevara
61. Dolores Ibárruri
62. Stalingrad
63. Josip Broz Tito
64. Vladimir Lenin
65. The village of Cavriago
66. The Italian Communist Party
67. The Democrazia Cristiana party
68. "Piccola Pietroburgo"
69. Italian singer Orietta Berti
70. Vladimir Lenin
71. The village of Cavriago
72. Reggio Emilia
73. Kim Il Sung
74. Enver Hoxha
75. The Festa de l'Unità
76. Jukka Reverberi of the band Giardini di Mirò
77. Civitavecchia
78. Komsomolskaya Pravda
79. Arkhangelsk
80. "De Fonseca"
81. De Fonseca, an Italian brand of slippers

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