Line #14 Music/Baustelle


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/baustelle.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Francesco, Rachele and Claudio.]]
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4	->''"I love you. I love you but I hate you but I love you all.''\
5	''Is it good or bad? I don't know."''
6	-->-- "Un romantico a Milano"
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8	Baustelle are an Italian indie rock band originally formed in Montepulciano, a town in the province of Siena, Tuscany. Since 2005 their core lineup has consisted of Francesco Bianconi (lead vocals, keyboards, guitars), Rachele Bastreghi (co-lead vocals, keyboards, drums) and Claudio Brasini (lead guitars).
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11	!!Discography:
12	* ''Sussidiario illustrato della giovinezza''[[note]]Illustrated Textbook of Youth[[/note]] (2000)
13	* ''La moda del lento''[[note]]The Fad of Slow Dancing[[/note]] (2003)
14	* ''La malavita''[[note]]The Underworld[[/note]] (2005)
15	* ''Amen'' (2008)
16	* ''I mistici dell'Occidente''[[note]]Mystics of the West[[/note]] (2010)
17	* ''Fantasma''[[note]]Phantom[[/note]] (2013)
18	* ''L'amore e la violenza''[[note]]Love and Violence[[/note]] (2017)
19	* ''L'amore e la violenza - Vol. 2''[[note]]Love and Violence - Vol. 2[[/note]] (2018)
20	* ''Elvis'' (2023)
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22	!!She left you a child, Foster Wallace, three jumpers, and these tropes:
23	* ArcWords: The words "amore" (love) and "violenza" (violence) reappear in "Betty", "Eurofestival" and "Jesse James e Billy Kid", from ''L'amore e la violenza'' and ''L'amore e la violenza - Vol. 2'' (in the case of "Betty" it's a proper AlbumTitleDrop). They also reappear in "Lili Marleen"[[note]]Despite being a non-album single, it was released shortly before the album[[/note]] and, obliquely, in "Ragazzina" (with the lyric "little soldier of love and war").
24	* BaitAndSwitch: In "Un romantico a Milano":
25	--> Out of the Manzonis, I prefer the true one:\
26	Piero.[[note]]Alessandro Manzoni, author of ''Literature/TheBetrothed'', is one of the most famous authors of Italian literature ever -- and one of the most hated by school students. Piero Manzoni is a much later conceptual artist, a very distant relative of Alessandro, infamous for his ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit Artist's Shit]]''.[[/note]]
27	* CelebritySong:
28	** "La canzone di Alain Delon", "Baudelaire", "San Francesco", "Amanda Lear", "Jesse James e Billy Kid", "Il minotauro di Borges".
29	** For a certain value of celebrity there's "Alfredo", about the real-life story of Alfredo "Alfredino" Rampi, an Italian child who made national news after falling into an artesian well but who tragically died before he could be rescued.
30	** ''La moda del lento'' has a ghost track titled "Beethoven o Chopin?"
31	* CoverVersion:
32	** They covered Music/BillyIdol's "Eyes Without a Face" for a Gucci promotional campaign, a rare full performance in English for a band that usually only sings in Italian.
33	** Bianconi has occasionally performed during concerts the song "Bruci la città", written by himself but originally recorded by singer Irene Grandi.
34	* CrucifiedHeroShot: At the end of "Il vangelo di Giovanni" Jesus is held like this with his arms slung over the shoulders of Claudio and another "apostle", complete with bleeding stab wound in his side and a crown of barbed wire placed on his head by Judas.
35	* DownerEnding:
36	** All the videos from ''L'amore e la violenza'', as well as "Veronica, n. 2" from the following album, end with the protagonist dying ("Amanda Lear" is strangled by a jealous woman; Jesus in "Il vangelo di Giovanni" is unsurprisingly stabbed in the side by Judas; "Betty" and Veronica both commit suicide).
37	** The narrator of "Contà l'inverni" ends up in prison after killing his lover.
38	* DrivenToSuicide:
39	** The protagonist of "La guerra è finita" commits suicide by inhaling gas fumes.
40	** So does "Betty" at the end of the music video, jumping from a highway bridge.
41	** Same for the girl in "Veronica, n. 2" who shoots herself in the head at the end of the video.
42	* DrugsAreGood: The ending of "Un romantico a Milano":
43	--> Weed harms you if you smoke it without class.
44	* FaceOnTheCover:
45	** The only album cover on which the three members of the band appear together is ''I mistici dell'Occidente'', among a larger group of unrelated people to purposely confuse those who aren't familiar with their faces.
46	** The cover of ''Amen'' is a close-up of Rachele's eye.
47	* GratuitousGerman:
48	** The band name, which means "construction site".
49	** The ending of "Il vangelo di Giovanni" has undistinct chatter in German between a man and a woman.
50	* LyricalColdOpen: The original version of "Gomma", and "Il vangelo di Giovanni".
51	* MomentOfSilence: In the video for "Il vangelo di Giovanni", the music temporarily cuts off as Judas suddenly stabs the Jesus character in the side.
52	* MurderBallad: "Contà l'inverni".
53	* TheNounAndTheNoun: ''L'amore e la violenza''.
54	* NumberedSequels:
55	** ''L'amore e la violenza - Vol. 2''.
56	** The same album contains "Veronica, n. 2". WordOfGod says that it's the sequel to an earlier "Veronica" song that got scrapped.
57	* OneManSong: "Sergio".
58	* OneWomanSong: "Martina", "Cristina", "Betty", "Veronica, n. 2", "Perdere Giovanna" ("Losing Joan").
59	** Subverted with "Maya colpisce ancora" ("Maya Strikes Again"), where "Maya" is the Sanskrit word for "illusion", other than a reference to the Maya civilisation and their apocalyptic prophecies.
60	* ParentalLoveSong: "Ragazzina" is one, directed by Bianconi towards his young daughter.
61	* PunnyName: They chose "Baustelle" -- "construction site" in German -- as the band name after coming across it in an Italian-German vocabulary. Bianconi stated that it caught their attention because it contains the words "stelle" ("stars" in Italian), "elle" ("her" in French) and "bau" (the Italian onomatopoeia for a dog's bark, like "woof").
62	* {{Sampling}}: The first few notes of "Basso e batteria" are taken from the theme song of the 1976 TV adaptation of ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'', which was wildly popular in Italy.
63	* SelfDeprecation: In "Veronica, n. 2":
64	--> It's the dog who writes my songs, for better or for worse.
65	* SharpDressedMan: Francesco Bianconi. That's what happens when your stage suits are provided by fashion house Gucci.
66	* ShoutOut: Almost every song has one or more, covering the fields of literature, philosophy, art, pop culture, history, and so on. To name just a few:
67	** "Charlie fa surf" is named after an artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, ''Charlie Don't Surf'' (whose title is a ShoutOut in itself to ''Film/ApocalypseNow'').
68	** "Gli spietati" ("The Ruthless") is the Italian title of ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}''.
69	** "Il minotauro di Borges" is inspired by Creator/JorgeLuisBorges's short story ''Literature/TheHouseOfAsterion''.
70	* SiblingTeam: Francesco Bianconi's brother Ettore is part of the live lineup, handling keyboards and synths.
71	* TheSomethingSong: "La canzone di Alain Delon" ("The Song of Alain Delon"); "La canzone della rivoluzione" ("The Revolution Song").
72	* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Their core lineup of Francesco Bianconi, Claudio Brasini and Rachele Bastreghi.
73	* UnexplainedAccent: Bianconi sings "Contà l'inverni" in a [[UsefulNotes/{{Rome}} Roman accent]], despite being from Tuscany. That's because the track is inspired by an older song, "Lella", by Roman singer-songwriter Edoardo De Angelis.
74	* VocalEvolution: Both Francesco and Rachele's voices got deeper as time went by, but while his voice became bolder and less whispery, hers went more or less the opposite way. Compare [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iPQNYqgGYE the original version of "Gomma"]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYGAhCXo2dc&ab_channel=baustelleofficial the 2010 remake]].
75	* VocalTagTeam: Francesco Bianconi is usually the lead voice, but sometimes he duets with Rachele Bastreghi and other times Rachele has the lead for a full song.
76	* WordSaladLyrics: They lampshade their own tendency to abuse this trope in "Basso e batteria":
77	--> She left you a child, [[Creator/DavidFosterWallace Foster Wallace]], three jumpers\

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