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WhiteWinter

0/5

“Pas d’avis pour le moment.”

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Infos générales

Anthony Phillips et Joji Hirota : tous les instruments
Martin Robertson : saxophone soprano (12, 13)
Laura Melluish : violon (43)

Produit par Anthony Phillips et Joji Hirota.

Seb

2/5

Voilà une grande déception… J’ai eu beau donner plusieurs chances à cet album, rien à faire, je n’accroche pas. Et j’ai vraiment insisté, parce que ça m’ennuie (pour rester poli) de ne pas aimer un album de Ray… Mais je crois que je ne lui pardonnerai jamais la partie rap de Sick and Tired… J’ai un problème avec la production de cet album. Le son de la batterie et le son de certaines guitares clichées sont beaucoup trop Hard Rock FM US… À tel point que je me prend souvent à me dire “mais si c’était pas Ray, jamais je n’aurais écouté ce disque jusqu’au bout… et encore moins acheté”… Mélodiquement, les chansons se ressemblent beaucoup avec des refrains très linéaires avec des choeurs identiques… Il n’y a que le premier single qui semble tiré de Change que j’adore sans mesure… La seconde me gonfle par ses côtés clichés (notamment le verset de l’apocalypse qui est lu à la fin…) et également par le vers “I must be crazy in the head”. “Je dois être fou dans ma tête” ah ah ah… ridicule. Show me the way est sympa, sauf que la partie batterie ne va pas bien avec ce morceau… Fame est rigolote (si on met de côté le son et le jeu de la gratte). Surtout pour le discours de la fille au début. Mais le refrain linéaire (Fame… Fame…) vient tout gâcher. Some of All My Fears…. oui, mais non… C’est quasi la dixième fois qu’on écoute cette chanson depuis le début de l’album… Encore les mêmes guitares, encore la même batterie. Encore ces refrains en choeurs avec Ray qui intervient par dessus… Non, non et re-non… Summer Days commence comme du Genesis… Un peu de fraîcheur dans le disque. Enfin un refrain joli… “Is it me…” mais malheureusement, une minute après la batterie, la guitare et les choeurs reviennent… Le final avec ce synthé, le solo de guitare et la batterie de Nir qui daigne enfin changer un peu fait penser à du Calling All Stations… Ce morceau aurait été parfait pour finir l’album. Mais non… On repart pour la même chanson Hard Rock FM US qui tourne en boucle depuis le début de l’album… Dommage, dommage et re-dommage… Ce que je reproche en fait à ce disque c’est qu’il a un son et une production beaucoup plus US que UK en fait… On dirait du Linkin Park plus que souvent…

Tracklist

See straight, stay awake, live a troubled life
Certified useless
A lost cause, just a waste, stupid
A bit of heat for a cold girl, me
Satellite, satellite, yes
I’m looking out for a new way of life

Did you know ? Who you’re making trouble with, me
Me, me, me

Fly high
Dont let me near you
Fly high
I want to see you

Listen !
Blue eyes, paralyse
It’s a struggle girl, keep away from me
Bad taste, below the waist
I want to take you from behind, oh yeah
What a life, what a life
Living hard, getting harder

Did you know ? Who you’re making trouble with, me
Did you know ? What I wanna struggle with
Me, me, me

Fly high
Don’t let me near you
Fly high
I want to see you
Fly high
Put your hands over your eyes
See me in your mind
Fly high
I wanna fear you
Sentence me to life

Let me love again, help me breathe life
Watch me fall down on my knees
Sheltered from the rain, help you get dry
Wishing you’d become, mine

Let me love again, help me breathe life
Watch me fall down on my knees
Sheltered from the tain, help you get dry
Wishing youd become, mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

Fly high
Wishing you’d become mine

I’m taking time getting over it
Burying my head in the sand
Losing faith in reality
First hand

Staying calm through the crisis
Staring my fears in the face
Living life in overdrive, always
I’ll never change

Your words are so colourful
I’m black and blue
I’m falling into

Taking my time
Staying in control
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for
I’m caught in two minds
And lonely as hell
Losing all patience
I know it too well
If only I’d listened to my friends
I wish I oould just run away
This fall from grace is too much
I’m stranded alone
Carrying a weight
Talking to myself
Don’t know what’s worse
Been frozen out, it’s cold in hell
Yet here I am making peace with the devil

Blistered down to my fingers
Working my life to the bone
So stressed out, I can hardly sleep
Alone, I’m so alone


Your eyes of steel
Just make me feel
So cold inslde
You lied to me

I’m taking my time
Staying in control
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for…

I must be crazy in the head
To believe the thlngs you told me
I knew that they were lies
But convinced myseif that some how you and I
Could find a way

Taking my time (taking my tlme)
Staying in control (staying in control)
Trying hard to figure out
What it’s all for (what it’s all for)
I’m caught in two minds
And lonely as hell
Losing all patience
I know it too well (know it too well)
If only I’d listened to my friends
I wish I could just run away
This fall from grace is too much
I’m stranded alone (stranded alone)
Carrying a weight
Talking to myself
Don’t know what’s worse
Been frozen out, it’s cold in hell
And hear I am making peace with the devil (peace with the devil)

“Woe to you oh earth and sea, for the devil sends the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short, let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is 666” (Revelation Ch.X111 V.18)

You said you’re getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe i’m not over you and i have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
You’ll have to know l’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to
Be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

I feel alive
Feel alive, I don’t know
I feel a light, feel a light coming on
I feel alive, oh no

You said you were getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe I’m not over you and 1 have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
Have to know I’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to
Be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

She only feels for me
She only sees for me
She only feels for me
She only sees for me
She only breathes for me
She only lives for me

You said you’re getting over me
But I have to know
I have to know it’s over
Cause maybe I’m not over you and I have to go
I have to find another
And lady when I’m over you
Then you’ll have to know
Have to know I’m over you
Something I’ve been needing to, be alone with you
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no
Don’t tell me that it’s over, no

She
You said your getting over me (repeated)

Forget me !
That’s what you said
For me it was a summer that I’ll never forget
The best way
To believe in the fate
It brought us both together
And 1 know it will again
It’s more than just a moment in time
No question in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
There’s no use trying to hide your feelings

Forgive me
For telling you straight
I’m not about to turn around
And just walk way
The best things
Come to those who wait
I’ll hold on for dear life
No matter how long it takes
It’s only just a question of time
There’s no doubt in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
No use trying to hide your feelings

I carry a secret I’ve no one to tell
There’s something that I’ve needed to say farewell to
Follow your instincts
Listen to your soul
There’s no one else who knows
No one else who truly knows

Forget me that’s what you said
Forgive me but I can’t forget
It’s only just a matter of time
No question in my mind

The spirit never lies
However hard you try
I could see your tears
In the Lemon Yellow Sun
A picture of your face
Etched on my mind
No use trying to hide your feelings

So tell me if I’m wrong
And that l’m not the one
Who made you feel alive
In the lemon yellow sun
I know what you’re dreaming of
I know what you’re feeling
I don’t wanna stop myself believing
Believing

There are promises you could not keep
You didn’t even try
And that’s no way
To live your life
Somethings hidden in your past
Preacher pray for me
It’s gonna be black again some day
All of the lies you’re sending
How many times can you break me ?
Until I turn it around

Wake up your mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting time, what, are you looking for
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind

Empty moments that you shared with me
A worthless life
You’re leading me on
Watch the curtain finally falling down
Is your life a circus ?
Did you send me the clown ?

Wake up your mind…
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words
No, they mean nothing to me
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words
No, they mean nothing to me
Sleeping, 1 watch you sleeping
Wake up your mind

Wake up your mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting time, what, are you looking for
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind
Wake up you mind
Wake up your mind
You’re wasting my time
You’re wasting my time
You’re wasting my time

Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words no, they mean nothing to me
Love, Peace, War, Hate, Words no, they mean nothing to me

I used to think it would never end
Eternally, forever and a day, infinite, always
Nothing could be better than a life alone with you

The funny thing is a piece of me
The sceptic who is walting for the day to prove me wrong again
You’re wrong again !
Should have known better than to leave myself open
The fool is a victim
Sitting in the corner of a room somewhere with pictures in pieces
Scattered all around

The conversation is about life
How so many things come and go with no rhyme or reason
Seems the best ones, come to those who wait

I’m sick and tired of waiting
Wasting so much time when you dont want me to hold on
It’s messing up my mind
I’m not expired or broken
There’s still so much lnside
And yes I listened, you told me
Every word a lie

I really hope that it works out
I wouldn’t wish any harm to find you
Everything is destiny
Whether I like it or not – I don’t
I’ll find faith in my own way
Part of me will always wonder what you’re thinking
Who you dream of
Want and are in need of

I’m sick and tired of waiting…

Sick and tired
It’s all excuses
Every word you tell me
Seems to disappear without trace
I’m alive don’t you see it
Every word is nothing but a lie to me I know it so well

I don’t think that you could ever leave me
I know you’re rightfully the one for me
’cause evemhing is destiny !
The ride is fast but I hold tight
I raise my dukes and prepare for a new fight
Not what is right but what is wrong
I feel the winds of the storm but I carry on
While you’re torn, I’m born
You think in lies this is no fun
But look inside and you’ll see there’s a new sun !

I’m sick and tired of waiting
Waiting
Wasting so much time when you don’t want me to hold on
What is rlght for what ls wrong
It’s messlng up my mind
It’s messing up my mind
I’m not expired or broken
While you’re torn, I’m born
There’s still so much inside
And yes I listened, listening, you told me
Every word a lie
Hearing all your lies

I’ve been thinking a lot these days
And trying to make it work between us
I sense you slowly moving away
Not taking me with you
If aill the years amount to nothing
With the future so unclear
Is this what it was all for ?
Do you want me to leave here ?

I’m done with waking up alone
And tired of being cast aside
Still hurting from your promises
The ones you couldn’t keep and didn’t try to
And maybe I trusted you too much
I’d like to take it all back now
Start over again
Having learned from my mistake

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look I see your face
It’s painted on my mind
I’m still lonely
And constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

You’re all that I wanted
I’m not lying to myself
I’m entrusting somebody else
To make it ok
I want to be there with you
I want to hold onto you
Will you stay with me tonight ?

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look 1 see your face
It’s painted on my mind
I’m still lonely
And constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

I live ln fear, constantly
I never know why
I don’t even know me
I’m a shadow of myself
To be here, constantly
Following me
I’m gonna make it out

Constantly reminded of you
Everywhere I look I see your face
It’s painted on my mlnd
I’m still lonely
Constantly remlnded of you
I just had to let you know
Constantly reminded of you
You’re painted on my mind
Constantly reminded of you
I just had to let you know

A fading photograph
The one I thought was mine
You’re always there, always there
Are you there ?

It was all or nothing
This much I know
A chance I had to take
My instincts I followed
And if 1 do regret it
It’s just a lesson learned
Could you stay another day ?

It’s all a blessing
I should tell myself
It’s all for a reason
And only a cry for help
And maybe next tlme
I’ll find a different way
To stay another day

Just show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
How long, how long
Is there time enough to change it ?
How long, how long
Will I know when 1 have found it ?
Stay in my life
Teach me how to find my way
Stay here, all eyes
Are upon you hoping
Would you help me ?

Just show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way
Show me the way

I feel you close to me at night
I always know that you are there
There is a part of me that walks alone
Until 1 see you again

I’m not taking the easy way out
Taking the easy way out
I’m not taking the easy way out
Of here, of here, of here

Hello, my name ls Marta, 1 am 22 Years old, my hobbies are dancing and singing, my ambition ls to help people who are less fortunate than myself and to make a shit toad of cash

Nothing ever comes easy in this life
You never know what they’re really thinking
Try hard to pretend it’s ok
You get down and you just end up drinking
And so you look to the Gods for help
And try to make sense from it all
Just breathe easy and believe me
Nothing worthwhile ever comes easy
You’re in the machine now

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that lt’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Famz, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

You see all these talent less fuckers on TV
And a judge with suit from Armani
Sits back with his words of wisdom
As the TV ratings go through the ceiling
And all the people at home with their shallow lives
Looking to be part of something
Just entertain me nice and easy
Take my extremely dull life and free me
I’m living the dream

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

I know there’s no point in saying this
It’s maybe even a little bit dangerous
Be aware that the share holders own you
They can bounce you around if they want to
It’s good that they fight for survival
At least until there’s a Beatles revival
Looks like those days have gone
If the numbers don’t add up
It must be wrong

RIGHT ? QUITE RIGHT !

Oh my God thank you for making my dream a reality, thank you so much, thank you, I’m so happy

Fame, fame the people know your name
It isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be
I’ll say it again
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you
Fame, fame
Fame, fame
Fame, fame welcome to the machine
You got exactly what they wanted for you

I’m so happy, thank you, you guys are great

Can you erase such deep emotion ?
Should we extract the hand of peace ?
Hide in shelters with blank faces
Fill the hole and lay the wreath
Do we belong ln the same surroundings ?
Fuelled by guilt and hate and greed
Does anybody have the answer ?
Could someone please explain to me ?
Some of all my fears

I, sleep with one eye open
I, asking for forgiveness
Why, begging you for mercy
I, Oh just what are you afraid of

To be oppressed, destroyed or cast aside
Surely only makes it worse
Ridicule exposes weakness
And reads like some satanic verse
It’s easy just to show indifference
When deep down we all know it’s use
Strike a blow or strike a balance
Before they breed their Hitler youth
Call a meeting of our spirits and drive a stake through our beliefs
Or tell them we don’t care at all

I, stand up and be counted
I, stun me into silence
Why, sleep with one eye open
Oh just what are you afraid of

The sum of all my fears
Some of all my fears
Some of all my fears
Oh just what are you afraid of

I, sleep with one eye open
I, asking for forgiveness
Why, begging you for mercy
I, just what are you afraid of

Why, begging you for mercy
I, just what are you afraid of

Endless nights, summer days
Thoughts of you never fade
I see you still in my mind
Every day and through the night

What you told me, echoes still
It never leaves me, it never will
You can’t imagine
How I feel

Is it me holdlng on too long ?
Is it me who’s more than just a friend ?
Is it me expecting too much
Is it me ?

In my life you belong
I’ve made my mind up and you’re the one
I’ll be waiting from now on

And what you promised
It echoes still
I believed you and I still
Can remember how you feel
So real

Is it me holding on too long ?
Is lt me expecting too much
Is lt me chasing a dream ?
Is it me ?

I’d cry a million tears and they keep falling
I guess I was weak
I should have walked away
Calling out I’m calling out
Hear me, can you hear me

Is it me holding on too long ?
Is it me expecting too much
Is it me lying to myself ?
Is it me, is it me
It’s not my fault

A lonely ghost’s holding me
Let me out
Let me die slowly
I hide away totally alone
Don’t come around here to see what’s going on
I know, I’m a stranger
Everywhere I look
The pictures remaining the same
I’d crawl a high wire
Just to escape with
Bits and pleces of me
It’s no way to live, I’m wasted here

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re borlng the ass off me
Strong words from such a small mlnd
Just goes to show
Should be leavlng the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

Small town politics, lts all around
The best idea ls what I have in mind
Words with”mecining, from the soul
I sit around a lot and fool around too much
I’m glad I’m alive I wish I was sane
Whatever sane is ?
It’s 6 o’clock and l’m still bere
But not for long
It’s no way to live
I’m wasted here

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re boring the ass of me
Strong words from such a small mind
Just goes to show
Should be leaving the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

God alone knows God alone knows
Feel what 1 feel from my heod to my toes
God alone knows God alone knows
He knows you know

In this town everything stays the same
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In this life, you’re too predictable
You’re boring the ass of me
Strong words from such a small mind
Just goes to show
Should be leaving the past behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time

With this lie nobody takes the blame
Let’s get the fuck out of here
In my head you’re all I can ever hear
You’re draining my energy
Small words just to kill time
You never know if they’re working you from behind
In this town everything stays the same
Better luck next time
I wish you luck next time
Now get the fuck out of here

Infos générales

Ray Wilson : chant, guitare, basse (10)
Uwe Metzler : guitares
Alvin Mills : basse
Irvin Duguid : claviers
Nir Z : batterie
Scott Spence : guitare principale (2, 11)
Henrik Mueller : batterie (10)
Peter Hoff : programmation et claviers additionnels
Adonis, Rayla, Garcia (Maria) : choeurs

Cordes (Strinx Connexion) arrangées par Irvin Guguid.
Kllaus Marquardt, Andrea Langenbacher, Johannes Krampen : violons
Carolin Kriegbaum : alto
Felix Brade, Nane Kalb : violoncelles

Produit par Peter Hoff.

WhiteWinter

0/5

“Pas d’avis pour le moment.”

Tracklist

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Come away O human child
To the waters of the wild
With a fairy hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping
Than you can understand

Fly away you stolen child
Through a magic lantern slide
Singing in the acid rain
With all those who drink from
The waters of the wild

Far away my lost child
I see your breath and your smile
On the silver frosted lawns
In the dream that came alive
At the end of nowhere

Underneath a sailing moon
Lemon lime ginger soft glow
Scale the woodland around the dale
Rising falling through hedgerows
With her train the queen of night
(Her pale window)
(Calming your fear)
(With the Earth)
Slowly turning the tide (in the lowland)
From the long arms of the sea
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay

Windward of the sunken rock (blowing)
Faces set like gravestones (staring down)
Oarsmen pull to cleave the brine
Neath the blackcliffs their cross-bones
Under the waves and put to right
Toy armies too rusty to fight (in the lowland)
Cling to the wheel how deeply you breathe
Set your compass by your dream (falling)
Grazing sheep have lost their way
Fifty fathoms below the bay

Dear friend you’ve come at last
I wish to impart to you something of a deeply personal nature
Dare we venture off the map
And indeed between the cracks
To a private road of sorts
I presume you have a strong will
And the stomach to match the underbelly of our fair city

You’ll need this firm crowbar
Whilst I implore you to utilise no sense of smell
And to think people live down there
A rush of chill air heralds our clattering necropolis railway
Like a Transylvanian express plunging into rivers of fungi algae and eels
Ten million rats, one for each one of us
And to think people live down there

A race of wild hogs inhabit the sewers of Hampstead
A cesspool suburb superb supreme
Catacombs of Kensal Green
I know you’d like to slime away
Like those walled up under Whitechapel
But I’ve my own kind of Jubilee line out of sight and out of mind
And to think you’ll have to live down there

Strangled streams, smothered rivers, London always gives me the shivers

Forty abandoned stations and Churchill’s last bolthole
Impregnable as Hitler’s bunker
Can’t you see them dancing on the platform at Down Street

Read me a dream sighs Linda
Flying through nursery windows
Leaving a night light burning
Keep all my love beside you
Toys R Us for you dear
Chocolate Crocodile tears
Now look who’s talking
Jigsaw Junior High School
All overtime in play group

Under a railway footbridge
Primrose Hill by moonbeams
Buckle my shoe in springtime
Winter’s child grows restless
Pining for bread and roses
Somewhere she’s been before
Gazing at the farmyard
All those things adored
Only until she’s bored

Climbing the wall of China
Outside the old toy station
Wrapped in a garden glory
Read me a bedtime story
I know that you have to grow up
Leaving all this behind you
Farewell my lovely Linda
Sweet as a birdsong Linda
Once in a dream called Linda

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When the debs came down in their famous gowns
Jacqueline at once was the talk of the town
Launched and lunched on Society’s cream
Smiled and curtsied so gently

Toujours chercher pour quelle-que-chose
As the curtains are drawn to a close

When her Daddy’s bank sailed close to the wind
He traded it all for Gordon’s Gin
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Conquered elsewhere never called again

Said a discreet madam with your pedigree
A belle de jour if ever I’ve seen
The home service the French lesson round
So neatly attired costing one hundred pounds

Propped up in bed all alone at The Ritz
The Evening Star printed she razored both wrists
Dressed in her furs with her girdle and gloves
Surrounded by photos of all her old loves

(Nick Clabburn / John Hackett)

Heard you on the radio
(You) sounded very strange
Voices in the distance
Way beyond my range

Tried to call the station
Panicked and I ran
Tried to find the moment
When you and I began

Looking in the mirror
Cut off all my hair
Made myself a moment
When no one seemed to care

This room is getting smaller
My ego and my Id
Now I’m really sorry
For all the things I did


(Bob Dylan)


Crickets are chirping the water is high
There’s a soft cotton dress on the line hanging dry
Windows wide open African trees
Bent over backward from a hurricane breeze

Not a word of goodbye not even a note
She gone with the man in the long black coat

Somebody seen him hanging around
At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town
He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask
If she wanted to dance he had a face like a mask

Somebody said from The Bible he quote
There was dust on the man in the long black coat

Preacher was a talking there’s a sermon he gave
He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When its you who must keep it satisfied

It ain’t easy to swallow it sticks in the throat
To give her heart to the man in the long black coat

There are no mistakes in life some people say
And its true sometimes you can see it that way
Well people don’t live or die people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat

There’s smoke on the water it’s been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted neath the high crescent moon
With a pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Someone is out there beating on a dead horse

She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote
She gone with the man in the long black coat


I long to gaze at the Cedars of Lebanon
To breathe the air on the mountain of olives
To feast my eyes on Babylon’s gardens
To take you back to Sumeria’s glory
To set you free with a full man’s pardon

In a language as old as the whispering sands
Ever submerging the towers of silence

I long to show you one thousand golden Buddhas
I long

The street is crying its lost it’s name
Inscription washed away by the pouring rain
I long

Clapperboards sandwich hordes scavengers in paradise
Training their eyes under grey porridge skies
Magistrates Ivory gates opiates potentates
Kings of carrion badness in the blood

Its all wolfwork

Faxes from a wall of corpses
Gorging on each day in mourning
Father time squeezing the sun
For light relief they bare their teeth
And turn on their own
Rolling around on a fresh bed of nails

Come and see the show
Join in the ring
With your mouth open wide

Why must you treat me like a child
Why not join me on the prom
I’d go on singing forever
But cremation won’t be long

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History’s a vinyl record stuck in a groove
A hundred warring sects claiming to have the truth
Blessed robots with so much to prove
You could say so much to lose

The scorching air
The slumbering mass
Of forgotten things

Preening peacocks ignite the fuse
Trumpets and promises a turn of the screw
To have a human face we’ll have to start all over again
Back to the drawing board all the boys and men

When you lose your kite in the wind and fall on the trees
You’re sucked in bulletin blown out on T.V.
The glory of the past is really only a tomb
The thing from the crypt long ago nurtured you

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Alone in the crowd
Beside the big wheel
You’ve run out of luck
I know the way you feel
A dark night in toytown
Round the carousel
If you want to ride faster
It’s happiness I sell

If you can’t find heaven
I’ll show you a ghost train to hell

The pleasure principle
Is what I had in mind
I’ll make you feel invincible
Then you’ll be mine
A gorilla tranquiliser
Will help to slow you down
Monsters of the Id
Call from the underground

I know I seem sordid
Beneath you at first
I’ll pierce your defences
Take away your thirst
I hold you gently
You gasp out loud
Blood on your white cheek
The fairground closes down

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Infos générales

Sorti le 11 septembre 2006.

Steve Hackett : chant, guitares éléctriques et acoustiques, Optigan
Roger King : claviers
Rob Towsend : saxophones, flûte
Gary O’Toole : batterie, percussions
John Hackett : flûte
Nick Magnus : claviers

Avec l’Underworld Orchestra :

Christine Townsend : violon, alto
Lucy Wilkins : violon
Richard Stewart : violoncelle
Sarah Wilson : violoncelle
Dick Driver : contrebasse
Colin Clagne : trompette
Richard Kennedy : cor français

Produit par Steve Hackett.

WhiteWinter

5/5

Un double album de guitares, très très copieux.

A écouter plutôt par fragments, quart d’album par quart d’album par exemple.

Certains morceaux, notamment les pièces de douze cordes, semblent moins réussis que d’autres, à cause du fait qu’elles sont les moins évidentes.

En y allant progressivement et au fil des écoutes, l’album révèle petit à petit ses joyaux, à commencer par le morceau-titre, lumineux et joyeux (il peut rappeler “Carnival”).

On peut encore citer la très belle reprise du morceau “Traces” (de l’album honni “Invisible men”) renommée “Steps retraced”, l’hypnotique “White spider”, la magnifique suite à la Parlour guitare, ou les deux interludes au chiranga…

Un autre bon point à attribuer à l’album, une production de taille.

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Infos générales

Sorti en octobre 2005.

Anthony Phillips : guitares classiques, acoustiques 6, 10 et 12 cordes, Parlour guitare, “citterne”, bouzouki, mandoline, chiranga.

Produit par Anthony Phillips

WhiteWinter

4/5

“Excellent disque de musique classique, superbe adaptation du mythe d’Orphée, descendu aux Enfers pour délivrer Eurydice.

Le mini-orchestre qui joue sur ce disque est par ailleurs judicieusement appelé “The Underworld Orchestra”.

La musique est très sombre, angoissante parfois (“Eurydice taken”/”Charon’s call”). Quelques autres perles lumineuses et romantiques viennent percer cette obscurité (“The dancing ground”, “That vast life”, “Lyra”…)

Au premier abord, il apparaît assez difficile d’accès et la deuxième partie peut sembler un peu moins cohérente, (personnelement au début je n’aimais pas trop “Cerberus at peace” et “Severance”), mais petit à petit on se laisse porter du début à la fin.

Très, très bel album de musique classique, de la même qualité que le “A midsummer night’s dream” de 1997.”

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Infos générales

Sorti le 28 mars 2005

Steve Hackett : guitare classique, arrangement orchestraux
Christine Townsend : violon principal, alto
Lucy Wilkins : violon
Richard Stewart : violoncelle
Sarah Wilson : violoncelle
Dick Driver : double basse
John Hackett : flûte, piccolo
Colin Clagne : trompette
Richard Kennedy : cor français
Roger King : arrangements orchestraux
Jerry Peal : arrangement orchestraux (5, 6, 8, 9, 10 & 15)

Produit par Steve Hackett

Seb

5/5

Grandiose ! Deuxième véritable album solo de Ray et ce dernier affirme de plus en plus sa personnalité musicale… Cet album est de toute beauté. Il est remarquablement produit, super bien joué, les compos sont excellentes, avec de l’énergie là où il faut, de l’émotion là où il faut… La reprise de Inside, tout premier tube de Ray avec Stiltskin peut sentir le coup foireux commercial à plein nez, mais j’y vois plus une volonté de s’approprier musicalement la chanson, sans que ce soit plus une reprise comme une autre dans son répertoire. D’ailleurs, le fait qu’il ne l’ait pas sortie en single va plutôt dans ce sens là. Sinon, il n’y a pas de véritable single dans ce disque et le choix de These are the changes, avec ces extraits de discours de présidents américains, est plutôt surprenant, même si la chanson est excellente. On croirait The Next Best Thing, la chanson titre, tout droit tirée d’un album de Genesis, mention spéciale à The Actor et Sometimes. Superbe utilisation de la trompette sur deux morceaux… Bref, un très grand disque qui n’est pas que du simple Rock, mais qui a quelque chose en plus, une petite magie qui vient surprendre lorsqu’on pense que c’est du déjà vu. Le seul petit reproche que je lui ferais est que certaines chansons aurait méritées d’être plus développées que ça…

Tracklist

These are the changes the day brings us
These are the changes the day brings
These are the changes the day brings us
These are the changes

Know me, see me, Try to understand me
Why you ask

Swing low in a dark glass hour, you turn and cower
See it turn to dust
Move on a stone dark night we take to flight
Snow fall turns to rust
Seam in a fusing mine like a nursing rhyme
Fat man starts to fall
Year in a hostile place
I hear your face
Start to call


And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded


Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside


Strong words in a Ganges sky
I have to lie
Shadows move in pairs
Ring out from a bruised post card
In the shooting yard
Looking through the tears
Out of the black slate time
We move in line
But never reach an end
Fall in a long stray town as the ice comes down
Rivers start to bend


And if you think that I’ve been losing my way
That’s because I’m slightly blinded
And if you think that I don’t make too much sense
That’s because I’m broken minded


Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside


(Keep it all Inside)
Don’t keep it, inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside
Don’t keep it all inside
If you believe it
Don’t keep it all inside

I can’t believe it, Inner feelings ever changing
This time it’s me slowly going insane
You can’t expect me to believe, not this time
Cause I’m going crazy
I’m going out of my mind


How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go


I had a dream, heavens gate came to me.
And I fell in to it
This never ending sleep
I had to try hard not to feel inside me
And it wasn’t easy to leave it all behind


How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go


You can’t expect me to believe
Cause I don’t believe it

How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go
How High
How High can you go

She was a loner type
Found it was easier that way
With no one to break the peace she gained
From learning to walk away


And he was without good reason
For changing her life the way he did
He took her for everything
Stripped her of dignity


It’s a lonely life
Never that easy these days
The money to pay the bills
It just don’t come easily
And he was a man that didn’t care anyway
He’d just play the clown and sit around all day


With an atmosphere
You could have cut it with a knife


It’s the fool in me
It wouldn’t be hard to see it
Others can hide themselves away
I have to live with it
Nobody wants left on a fence
Or spiritually die in ignorance
It’s all just a chance you take
Reality’s final break


With an atmosphere
You could have cut it with a knife

See the sign in my eyes. Mind escaping from me
On the crest of my wave too dark to see
And the soreness that I feel beneath the surface
Fear the worst is still to come


Threatening words come my way in some strange disguises
Flesh torn gestures in my face
Don’t take my place away
I could try to forgive, even though I don’t know what should be forgiven


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me?


Drift away touch upon the deepest emotion
As I watch you’ll become, someone else’s problem
Given time I’ll make waves in another ocean
I’m the chosen one.


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?


I adore you. I deplore you
All your actions I can see through
I can’t pretend I know what’s going on


Do I go crazy, before you take notice, until you can see it in me, why can’t you see it in me?

See me out, out the door, across the way
And let me walk for miles and miles and miles
Calm me down when I get scared
And hold my life in your hand


The living space inside my head is there for you
Like a long lost friend
Innocence and pride
Makes me vulnerable sometimes
Love ain’t enough


Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have


It’s the meaning of life
And no amount of time will change a thing
Why oh why
In Gods name do you lie?
All the time


Sometimes love just ain’t enough
Sometimes love ain’t enough
You give it time
Somehow time’s all you have

Autumn leaves are falling down again.
Last year seems like yesterday
What to do now that those days have gone
I have to start again.


Inspiration ain’t so hard to find
Words already on the page
I just have to write it down
In my own way
Say something worth saying


Time comes and goes
A life unnoticed
Cry out loud


Don’t let me wake from this dream
I won’t be a friend in need
No one escapes from this feeling
No no


I tell myself hold on
Everything is right, not wrong
Love is what I ask for tonight


Hold onto me
I can’t breath
Why am I alone


Blame them but don’t blame me
I know all the liars disagree
You can’t just escape from believing
No no

Life’s a magic train hell and back again
Rollercoaster for emotion
You think you’ve seen it all you think you know it but you don’t know


Life’s a magic train that we’re all travelling in
Each new day another station
She said she wanted me but it might take a little time
Make take a little time


Am I supposed to wait around for you?
I’m not opposed to waiting around
I just need to know cause it’s nice to be needed
It’s getting me down, doing it now


I hold on to love
It’s a better place for everyone to be
I alone can’t save the world
I’ll only save this little part for me
I lie here in my bed
Wishing it would all just blow away


Am I supposed to play the clown for you?
I’m not that use to fooling around
You say you need me now
Well I’d like to believe it
It’s getting me down and doing it now
Getting me down and doing it now
You’re going ruin my life

I smile at the misplaced faces
Trying to convince myself
All the answers lye with me


I look at my broken picture
Find it so hard to believe
As now the past comes back to haunt me


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me


Wish I hadn’t been so vain
Been and gone and thrown away
Regrets I keep
The blame I give to me


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me


Here’s the point I raise blame
And discipline the fool inside my head
Where nothings fair and no one there
To honour all mistakes I’ve made
And looking through my own debris
I see nothing but me and more of me
It’s so distressing all the blessing
Never seems to fall on me.


The pictures framed to form an edge
The truth it lies within the heart
It’s funny how we live this life and
Never seem to live enough
I won’t be true
Cause I can’t seem to
It’s only just a state of mind that
Time and time and time and time again


It changes, I swallow
What I want to say
I’m broken up I cannot breath
I cannot be I need I need to
All in all and every time I follow you
I see it out; see it out of blind eyes


It’s alright I’m alright
I just need to believe
I’m not afraid anymore
I will feel my way back
Lay your hands on me

Upon my life love of an honest day
The memory of you will slowly fade
Within I hold
Hold it all alone
The fire in my soul begins to burn


Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone


(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life


Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said
Better to be alone
Better be alone
It has to be said


(I believe in me)
No sense in holding on
No eyes to see clear
Pretend to gain control
Of my life

So what’s it all about
Does anybody know?
It’s hard to figure out
To be patient
The time is nearly now


The walls are closing in
And time is running out
I’m getting out


These changes wash over me
In my head


The fear is taking over
And left me so alone
It leaves me feeling angry
With myself


These changes wash over me
In my head
These changes wash over me
In my head in my head


What’s it all about what’s it all about
Does anybody know?
How can I explain to you?
When how do I, I don’t know I won’t go
What’s it all about where’s the feeling gone
I can’t explain it
It’s in my mind
Burning like a fire that won’t go out it won’t go out.


These changes wash over me
In my head


So what’s it all about
Does anybody care?
Can you feel the fear?
Washing over everybody, everybody’s head


These changes wash over me
In my head
These changes wash over me
In my head in my head
In my head in my head
In my head

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Infos générales

Sorti le 28 juin 2004

Ray Wilson (chant, guitares, basse, “mouth organ”, guitare slide)
Amanda Lyon (choeurs)
Irvin Duguid (piano, strings, orgue hammond, moog, harpsichord)
Nir Z. (batterie)
Scott Spence (guitare)
Ashley Macmillan (batterie)
Colin Steele (Trompette)
Brian McAlpine (piano, orgue, accordéon)

Single : The Next Best Thing : sortie le 28 juin 2004

Seb

0/5

Bon, je vais pas y aller pas quatre chemins… personnellement mon verdict est sans appel : c’est une merde. Définitivement pour moi Beggar est le dernier album de M’n Ms. M6 n’a vu le jour qu’à cause du chantage de Carrack, qui a d’ailleurs partiellement conduit à la disparition de Genesis avec Ray, et celui là n’aurait jamais du voir le jour également, par respect pour un Paul Young à qui il n’est fait aucune allusion dans la pochette (le best of précédent lui est dédié… super). Musicalement parlant, soit c’est de la daube infâme comme One left Standing ou la chanson titre, soit c’est de la pop mielleuse sans AUCUNE inventivité, qui pourrait être sympa à la rigueur mais qui n’a tellement rien d’exceptionnel que je préfère passer mon chemin… C’est du sur réchauffé et sur re-servi… Il n’y a rien dans ce disque qui me donne envie d’y revenir… I don’t want it all et Underscore passent à la rigueur, mais qu’on est loin d’un Silent Running, All I Need Is A Miracle ou Beggar on a Beach of Gold… déçu déçu déçu déçu. Je souhaite vraiment que ce soit le dernier et que Mike se ressaisisse…

Tracklist

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You’ve got to hold on tonight
Do you think that it’s easy trying to take me for a ride?
Signs…. time that you recognised them
Doesn’t work anymore. it’s gone and you can’t make it right

Please just read my lips. get the message now baby
I been tangled enough. don’t get me caught up again
Time I’ve lost count of times I’ve been had do you blame me
But enough of this madness. no more to say it’s been said

All this time I’ve ben holding it together
If you walked a mile in my shoes you know what
I’d been going through
How many times can we go back
Make the same mistakes, it’s written all over your face

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I’m drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

Back right where I started again
But it’s hard to forget. everything’s sodifferent then
I would have moved mountains if you’d asked me to
That’s a lifetime ago. You’ve got to face up to the truth

Forgetting all of our mistakes
I just keep on falling right back in again

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I’m drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
You and I were a river flowing
Now the tide has turned and all of my tears have run dry
How come I am the one left standing?
Now I’m drowning inside all of my tears have run dry

(Carrack/Robertson/Rutherford)

If I were you
I wouldn’t hurt the ones you love the way you do
I wouldn’t make them cry

If I were you
I would learn to see the other point of view
You don’t even try

Let’s say that you were me
You’d do thing differently
And cut out all the fears and lies

Then maybe you could see
The possibility
To compromise

If I were you
I would look at all the quarrelling we do
Cause that’s no help at all

If I were you
I would give a little credit when it’s due
That would be my call

Let’s say that you were me
You’d do thing differently
And cut out all the hurt and pain

Then maybe you could see
The possibility
To love again


If I had the choice
You would make yourself heard
Without raising your voice

In my master plan
You could get your way
Without raising your hand

I don’t want to be the one getting it
wrong time after time
I no longer want to play game for
any reason or rhyme
Nobody’s asking you to do something
you don’t want to do

If I were you
I wouldn’t hurt the ones you love the way you do
I wouldn’t make them cry

If I were you
I would learn to see the other point of view
You don’t even try

If I were you

(Carrack/Robertson/Rutherford)

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

They say when we have children
It changes how we live
Changes our direction
From take to give

It changes our perspective
Of how the world should be
Our hopes and aspirations
Of what we want to see

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

See her kind of pretty
See her neat and smart
See her like her mother
With a golden heart

See him tall and handsome
See he has resolve
Believe he’s like is father
But without his father’s faults

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

I know these dreams are fragile
Never work out as you planned
I pray that God will hold them
In the hollow of his hand

I want a perfect child
To live a perfect life in this world
And though my heart tells me this could never be
I see it all so perfectly

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(Carrack/Rutherford)

I been keeping it to myself
I been thinking about it all day long
I got nobody I can blame
They say what goes around surely comes around

I wouldn’t dream of trying to complicate your life
You don’t need to change anything you do

Because
I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I read my paper and get depressed
No point in hanging around waiting for a call
I don’t expect you to read my mind
This time I’m going to tell you exactly how I feel

I need the thought of stealing a moment with you
So I can just jeep holding on

Because
I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

Do you think you want to be free this time?
I’ll do anything to make you mine
I’ll do anything

I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I been keeping it to myself
Thinking about it all day long
I just need some time
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good
I just need some time

I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

I don’t want it all
I just need some time a piece of love that I can hold onto
I don’t want it all
I just need to feel something good is happening in my life

(Carrack/Rutherford)

How can I tell you and sound like I mean what I say
You turned a light on in me and it shines to this day
Once it was easy to open my heart up to you
Now you know the way that I’m feeling better than I do

Why can’t I just say what I mean?
Words don’t come easy to me

I think you sometimes forget how I feel about you
You come alive every time that the message gets through

Why can’t I just say what I mean?
Words don’t come easy to me

You and I we’ve got something going on
That I know you don’t find every day
You and I we belong together
That’s the way that I want it to stay

Sooner or later the penny will drop and you’ll see
That I don’t want anyone else and you only need me


Why can’t I just say what I mean?
Words don’t come easy to me

You and I we’ve got something going on
That I know you don’t find every day
You and I we belong together
That’s the way that I want it to stay

How can I tell you and make you believe what I say?

(Carrack/Rutherford/Woolf)

She lied to me
I don’t get it. I’m not letting it go.
I can’t get through anymore. Not this time

She cheated me
Of all my senses up against it this time
I can’t fight anymore. Not this time

Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don’t make no sense

And I’m
Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nobody left
Calling. I’m calling
Somebody stop me falling off the edge of this life

What does it take?
Someone hear me. listen clearly I’m done
She broke my heart in her hand and was gone

Can’t get it through, tell me
I’m in freefall down
And I can’t stop now it’s not right
She turned my soul and left me undone

Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don’t make any sense now

Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nobody left
Calling. I’m calling
Somebody stop me falling in and out of this life

Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nothing out there
All that I believe in
Spinning around me. It don’t make any sense now

Falling. I’m falling
Sooner or later there will be nobody left
Calling. I’m calling
Somebody stop me falling in and out of this life

(Carrack/Roberston/Rutherford)

Somewhere along the line
We convince ourselves
Accept the ordinary

Refuse to read the signs
We just can’t see
The extraordinary

Somewhere along the way
Dreams become a burden
I don’t want to hear you say
That you’re not certain of our love

Somewhere behind the sun
All the simple things
Appear as complicated

We substitute the fun
In a complex game
We call sophisticated

Somewhere along th way
Hopes turn to illusion
I don’t want to hear you say
It’s the conclusion of our love


Somewhere along the way
We lose imagination
It’s new just to hear you say
In celebration of our love

Somewhere along the line
We convince ourselves
Somewhere along the live

Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line… somewhere

(Instrumental)

Infos générales

Sorti le 31 mai 2004

Single :

One Left Standing – juin 2004
Perfect Child – août 2004

Seb

5/5

À la première écoute, j’ai été déçu. À la deuxième j’ai été interpellé. À la troisième écoute, j’ai été impressionné. À la quatrième écoute, j’ai été conquis. Je pensais ranger ce disque très vite au placard, mais il a fallu que je m’y habitue et je l’écoute maintenant avec beaucoup de plaisir, énormément même. Des morceaux comme Goodbye Baby Blue, Change ou Another Day sont des ultras classiques de Ray, mais vraiment rien n’est à jeter. Et puis il y a quelques joyaux qui demandent plus d’écoutes encore, comme She Fades Away ou Believe. Attention, ce n’est pas le disque du siècle, mais c’est un très bon disque, qui passe très très bien et qu’on écoute avec beaucoup de plaisir.

Tracklist

(Ray Wilson)

(Instrumental)

(Wilson)

She arrived so unexpectedly, with a thousand untold truths
Hidden in behind a smile, you couldn’t see through
And all those frown lines on her forehead
Disappeared before my eyes
She told me I’d arrived, just in time

And you could see it in her face
There was more than meets the eye
Something hidden all those years and hidden deep inside

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
I spent so long thinking of you

She would lie awake, every night I’d hear her cry
Her mind in slow decay, I guess she couldn’t take goodbye

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

So Goodbye Baby Blue
Goodbye Baby Blue
It’s been so long, I’m thinking of you

I’m thinking of you

(Wilson)

Making the most of it
Turning a light up and
Breaking the back of a
Killing the negative
Finding the faith isn’t
As much as I’d like it to be
Follow the path set by
Somebody else’s hand
Craving addiction and
Living in fear of me

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

Bent on destruction I
Have no intention
Black into day into
Dark into Night I go
Blaming myself like I
I’m in control of it
I Turn it around for a
Just for the fun of it
Back to the start I go
I Wish I had learned from you

But I don’t think that I can change
I’ve been feeling this way for so long now
And this feeling inside still remains
I aint gonna change
Aint gonna change

(Steve Wilson)

Yes I found heaven and I can take you there
And I found a reason but you don’t care
So turn your back don’t look round close your eyes make no sound are you leaving?
Close the door like before turn around are you sure that you mean it?
And you can take another step along the way

Just keep your eyes on the road
That lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit and just keep crossing that bridge

Take it or leave it
The decision is yours now
Is it time to get even or time to just go now?

But as you’re breaking free you mean nothing to me just a memory
And the memories will fade just like tides drift away to the sea

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
And just keep crossing that bridge.

Keep your eyes on the road that lies before you
Take advice from a fool
Who chose to ignore you
And choose the side of the fence that you sit
Just believe in it now
And walk away from the world you don’t fit
But just keep crossing that bridge

Yes I found Heaven

(Wilson)

Don’t talk to me
It’s time to walk away and make it easy
Cause I can’t see clear
And the further away you go, the more I want you near

I Wish It Was Yesterday
How I wish it was yesterday

I can’t erase, I’ve been thinking about you every day
Place faith in me
I just find this all so hard to believe

I wish it was yesterday. Cause you’d be in my life again
I just wish it was yesterday, putting wrongs to right again
I wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

We watched the sun go down
Stayed out in the rain
We’d talk all night
And dream all day

And why I wish it was yesterday? Cause you’d be in my life again
I just wish it was yesterday putting wrongs to right again
I wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

That’s why I wish it was yesterday, Cause you’d be in my life again
I wish it was yesterday, so the sun would shine again
I just wish it was yesterday
Today is only just another day without

Another Day Without

(Wilson)

Lets all go down to the beach
Breathe in the air, take in the sun

Lie there trying not to notice
What goes on around you
Buried and unseen

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view

Lets all stroll into the sea
Washing away the memories

Try to stop yourself from drowning all the fears surrounding
Everyone you meet
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

I know it wasn’t done on purpose
It rests beneath the surface
Hidden from your view
They know
They don’t know I think so
Heaven waits an answer
Prayers are seldom heard

(Wilson)

Just when I was getting over you
You appeared from out of nowhere
A little older and wiser
But I’m at pains to believe in you

I can’t imagine you’d remember me
You never did spend much time thinking about me
And time will not erase
Oh that memory
It won’t erase the memory

Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

You seem a little heavy round the eyes
Another line or two on that ageing forehead of yours
But you know just what to do
To reel me in
You always throw me back again

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

I blame me
I should have known much better than this
Cause inside I believe
Only for you

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to

Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to

You can cry if you want to and don’t cry if you don’t want to
Cry if you want to don’t cry if you don’t want to cry

(Wilson)

It was faith that brought me here
Conversation of the year
You talked so much but nothing said
Empty words just fill my head

I can’t lie
But I could try

You’re beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child

Little by little you fade away
I’m just living for the next day
With that in mind, I say goodbye

To beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful child

So as I’m trying to understand
Just move on to the next man

I can’t lie
But I could try

You’re Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child

Nan Na Na na na na na

You’re Beautiful
Beautiful
Beautiful
A beautiful child
Nan Na Na na na na na

Shut Up

(Steve Wilson)

She says the feelings won’t slip away, Yeah
And he says, she never felt them anyway

She stares out of the window the world just walks on by
The faces she won’t meet, she won’t even try
And she fades away
She fades away, just fades away
Like a smile upon her face, disappears without a trace
She fades away

She lies there in the darkness
The moon lights up her face, yeah
Her breath steams up the window, her smile seems out of place
Strange how she feels just fine, can’t feel the pain this time
She lets the moment pass
And it seems so far away but the memory’s here to stay
In the bottom of her glass and she fades away
She fades away, just fades away
Like a smile upon her face disappears without a trace
She fades away

She says she’s hoping that her time will never come
Turn and face it or to turn around and run
She lies there thinking has the moment passed her by
But never thinks to ask the reason why
And she fades away

She fades away
Just fades away
Like a smile upon her face
Disappears without a trace
She fades away
She fades away
Just fades away

(Steve Wilson)

I look for you there
I look for you there
This dream won’t let me in
This dream won’t let me in

(Wilson)

She said I like the way you smile at me
Always makes me feel so young
And that’s the difference between you and all the other ones

She kept a note of all the things he said
In a diary hidden under her bed
And every now and then she’d sleep with it held in her hand
Pretend he was there

And that’s all that she believes in
Lives her life pretending one day
He’ll come home again
Don’t think she’ll ever lose that feeling
Until the day

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

She said I like the way you smile at me
I just know that I should hold on
And that’s the difference between
Me and all the other ones

And that’s all that she believes in
Lives her life pretending one day
He’ll come home again
Don’t think she’ll ever lose that feeling
Until the day

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

Until there’s nothing left in front of you
Until there’s nothing left that you can do
Until regret remains the parting view
Forget it

(Wilson)

Some things disappear inside, should I try to run away
If I could I would escape you
I won’t argue anymore, I have lost the will to be
Hope you don’t think I’m ungrateful?
Why, why are you laughing?
Is it something that I said?

I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day

Close the curtains lock the door, left my note upon the stair
In the hope you wouldn’t read it
Fake emotions in my head, everything I’ve seen and read
Can’t begin to find a reason

I don’t like this place at all, makes me wonder what I’m here for
Someone take this pain away
Dying to see another day
And I don’t want to be your friend, or pretend I can fit into
I’m incensed, I’m blown away
Dying to see another day

(Wilson)

(Instrumental)

(Wilson)

Sister I’m depending on your strength to help me through it all
And foresight to make sure I find my way
Colours paint the photograph the picture isn’t always black
For deep within I know I’m flying high

Oh li la li la li

Substance is what makes me strong and blind faith helps me carry on
Without it I can only ever dream
Bewildered now I find myself though clearly I can see a wealth
Of wisdom that lives deep within my soul

The sun shines down into the garden
It helps the seeds to grow
Rain in June, makes it much harder
When rain turns into snow

And I’m bored to hell
With all this negative
It makes me want to shout it out

Don’t forget, don’t even try to
Help the feelings grow
I feel alive the passion never dies
There never can be failure
Which only goes to show

Gouranga

The sun shines down into the garden
It helps the seeds to grow
I’m still alive the passion never dies
There never can be failure
Which only goes to show.

(Steve Wilson)

Where were you when I needed you?
The fear that I would call out to despite
You

Lying staring at my feelings across some sacred crowd
An endless search for anger
This silence is too loud
Do I have no strength?

Oh Oh
There’s a long way to go
Oh Oh
A long way

From the black of night
My darkness fades to grey
Like the ramblings of a fool
There was nothing I could say

My spirit it was broken
My body it was weak
The truth comes from a liar, whose promises I keep
I promise to keep them

Oh Oh
There’s a long way to go
Oh Oh
There’s a long way

There’s a lonely place I fear, I can taste it it’s so near
I feel it surround me
I think that’s its here,
I think that it’s here,
I know that it’s here

Like an endless search for truth, nothing left to hold on to
Here alone it gets so dark, so dark
Oh Oh

She came to me like a hurricane crashing through the trees
Lifted me like a fires dancing embers in the night
My spirit it was broken my body it was weak
Do I have no strength ?

(Wilson)

Must I be forced to remember?
You aren’t meant for me
Oh how I tried, but it wasn’t to be
I’m so alone
Fate to me is recognised
The nights are spent alone

Cool Cool Water
Cool Cool Cool Water

It takes me back
I thought it was gone
You teased me
You held me close

The pain in my life goes unrecognised
Nights are spent alone

Cool cool Water
Cool cruel cruel water
Cruel cruel Water
Cool cruel water

Stay
The dawn of time
Close
Love
Hold
Me
Love
Me
Watch the garden catch the sun

Cool Cruel Cruel water
Cool Cool Cool Water
Cruel Cruel Cruel Water
Cruel Cruel Cruel Water

Infos générales

Produit par Ray Wilson
Ingénieur du son, programmation et mixage : Uncle Jack
Enregistré à Jaggy Thorn Studio, Edinburgh et Brooklyn Broadcast, New York
Mastering par Mark Finlay et David Taylor

Ray Wilson : chant, guitare, basse, orgue “bouche”, piano, cordes
Steve Wilson : guitare et coeurs
Amanda Lyon : chant
Nir Z : batterie et percussion
Brian Mc Alpine : accordeon
Andy Hess : basse
Irvine Duguid : orgue hammond, wurlitzer et cordes
Taj Wyzgowski : guitare, guitare slide, mandoline
Paul Holmes : claviers et cordes
John Haimes : basse
Adam Holtzman : wurlitzer
James Mckintosh : percussion
Jenny Gardner : violon
David Paton : basse
Ornette Clennon : Clarinette

Sorti en avril 2003

Single :
Mars 2003 – Change/Gouranga
Septembre 2003 – Goodbye baby blue

Seb

1/5

En 69 Genesis n’est pas encore Genesis et ça s’entend ! Ce disque n’a rien a voir avec tout ce qu’a pu faire Genesis après. En fait, c’est surtout la production qui pèche. Cet album a été enregistré en un jour, puis a été mixé par Jonathan King. C’est lui qui a rajouté tous les violons etc… Il y a cependant de bonnes chansons dessus, mais franchement il vaut mieux écouter les versions du quatrième disque des archives 67-75 dépoussiérées et déchargées de violon. Je pense que ce disque est a considérer comme le numéro zéro de la discographie de Genesis, à réserver uniquement aux fans. A noter qu’il existe un nombre incroyable de version de ce disque vu que King le ressort quasiment chaque année sous un emballage diffèrent histoire d’essayer de faire un peu plus d’argent (En effet c’est le seul disque dont Genesis ne détient pas les droits)… Sans commentaire.

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Infos générales

Tony Banks : piano, choeurs
Peter Gabriel : chant, flûte
Anthony Phillips : guitar, choeurs
Mike Rutherford : basse, guitares, choeurs
John Silver : batterie, choeurs
David Thomas : choeurs

Producteur : Jonathan King
Ingénieurs du son : Brian Roberts & Tom Allom
Arrangements des cordes : Arthur Greenslade
Enregistré au Regent Studio B, Londres, Août 1968

Sorti en Mars 1969

Singles:
Fevrier 68 – The Silent Sun/That’s me
Mai 68 – A Winter’s Tale/One Eyed Hound
Juin 69 – Where The Sour Turns To Sweet/In hiding

WhiteWinter

0/5

Compilation essentiellement basée sur les “Private Parts & Pieces” et qui donne un plus grand aperçu de la carrière d’Ant au niveau chronologique par rapport à “Anthology”.

On trouve bien sûr les habituels et excellents “The Women Were Watching” et “The Anthem From Tarka”, sans oublier l’intro de “Slow dance”, mais aussi plus de guitare acoustique et piano, plus de relaxation avec des morceaux de “Time And Tide” à la fin…

Tracklist

Infos générales

Sorti en avril 2003

WhiteWinter

3/5

En concert seul en studio, comme pour “The Living Room Concert”, mais datant de l’après-sortie de “Wise After The Event”.

Ant jouait déjà des morceaux qui iront composer le premier “Private Parts & Pieces” de 1979 (“Reaper”, “Flamingo”) mais aussi “Back To The Pavilion” (le court mais très joli “Postlude : End Of Season”)

Tracklist

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Sorti en juin 2003

Anthony Phillips : guitares, chant

Produit par Anthony Phillips

octopus92

5/5

“Un retour à une inspiration sans fin : on ne s’ennuie pas une seconde et il faudra de très nombreuses écoutes afin de goûter toutes les subtilités de cet album.

La présence d’un groupe excellent (le meilleur batteur qu’il ait eu depuis le début de sa carrière solo et Rob Townsend) derrière Steve semble être un vrai pourvoyeur de mélodies de qualités et d’inspirations.

Rôdées par des interprétations scèniques, les compositions sont enjouées, variées et surprenantes (“Brand new” aux multiples rebondissements et son refrain racolleur, “This world” et son exotisme). Son chant a pris de l’assurance et semble parfaitement collé à la musique.

La version standard de l’album est pour moi parfaite, les morceaux supplémentaires de l’édition spéciale n’apportant rien à la cohérence des titres (dans les 4 morceaux supplémentaires, on trouve un morceau de “blues”, une pièce acoustique, une pièce improvisée et un titre-pastiche !)”

Tracklist

Leaving Strutton Ground
through Mermaid Street
to the World’s End
Through the Avenue of the 18th day
by an August moon
Richmond Bridge
and Ebury Street by the sea
Over the Broadway and run
to the end of the Pier
From Kent to Cornwall they’re
submerged by the swelling tide
A small tree house walk model
railway and the butterfly house
The Guinness Clock and rocket
ride all falling down
You’ll hear the screams as
the waltzers go round and round
From the oil wells to
Santa Monica Boulevard
From a zircon ring with the
ELO and a Hollywood choir
Fisherman’s Wharf and
a one man band sousaphone
The Lighthouse Road and
Jobsons Cove down below

As the roaring day towards
the night forms
Look at us like a double decker bus
Climbing to the top of St. Paul’s
to watch the storms

Stand clear of the doors there’s
Handel in the Strand
You’ll find a better class of
ventriloquist on the radio
Calling you back to a time
that’s never been

In the Circus of Becoming
It all starts with a spark
Once below a time
Set fire to the stars

Over the Eternal City
somewhere between
The hills and the columns
and the carcass of Rome
Alone but close to spirit
Sitting Bull says there is more

A poet walks amongst the Gods
But jealous men have pulled me down
Now exiled in a foreign land
I coax my demons into life
While people cross themselves and say
The Devil is an Englishman

Beelzebub in human form
I mingle with the noblemen
Young girls fall pleading at my feet
As I defile them one by one
Devouring half of London Town
The Devil is an Englishman

A nest of tiny scorpions
Are breeding in my cranium
Poet Laureate of hell
The Devil is an Englishman

In yet a hundred years from now
As leeches suck upon the flesh
For those who trek beyond the grave
This dark demented soul lives on
The Devil is an Englishman

Frozen statues
Bursting into life
Restless statues
Unable to fly
Anthropologists on Mars
Confused by what they see
Worlds within Worlds
Of Human history
Unquiet minds with frozen limbs
Touched with fire they wait patiently
For someone to free them
Just like you and me

Dance into the meat grinder
Ethnic cleansing sharp reminder
You’re no better than the other side
Just can’t hide the Mechanical Bride

Electric chair burned hair
Framed fried you could be there
Wedded to remaining dumb
You just can’t hide the Mechanical Bride

Fox hunt bullfight animals’ curse
Born again with the roles reversed
Enter the arena under-rehearsed
You just can’t hide the Mechanical Bride

(instrumental)

Winter’s coming
Through the fall
The year is ending
I see it all

All the things I lack
The sunshine’s coming back
Turn my grey sky blue
You make me feel brand new

The moon in silver
A shrine to love
Never ending
From above

I watched you walk out
Into the world
More like a woman
And less like a girl
All the words
In my ear
Everything you said
Everywhere you tread

They say every day
Brings about a change
Childhood’s over
But some things remain
Like the way you cried in bed
Never lose your smile
Never lose your head

Please don’t take this world from me
Why can’t we love
Why can’t we give

Manderley was a dream of
Full moon and empty sky
Lost lands and sunken cities
Wave of silk from a perfect smile

Though the gates are held fast
Once again you’re inside
There the key to the past
Is buried by her side
Rebecca

Shattered Cupid stowed away
You behaved like a parlour maid
Tongue tied newly wed bride
Back in all your yesterdays

Dressed to kill at the ball
Eager to show what you wear
Never to excel
In a house that she still shares
Rebecca

Day by day she’s your reality
Day by day a stronger personality

If by fire she could reclaim
The very walls that scream her name
Ashes aglow on the breeze above
Her house of plenty but not of love

Drowning just as in life
The manicured lawns are gone
Fleeting as her kiss
Lonely as her song
Rebecca

(instrumental)

(instrumental)

The river called and cried
Across the twisted steel
Blues on fire island
Had a magic to heal
Souls full of anger
Sadness and despair
A harbour in my heart
Where love was there

Well the Hotel was raised to the ground
But the spirits still visit there
They rebuilt it stone by stone
I sometimes stand and stare
I see a red light like a flame
And a beast that can’t be tamed
Anchored to a place
Where love was there

Hell was never hotter
When Butter had his day
Like the loaves and fishes
A miracle at play
A thin crowd became a multitude
Pounding on the door
A sound to wake the dead
Tearing through the floor

Everything’s washed away
By the tides of time
But every now and then
It all comes back again
I’m captive in a place
Both a palace and a dive
I’ve a picture in my mind
Where love was there

d’accordéon

Marijuana, assassin of youth
And so look now here’s the truth
As we wish you all a Perry Sherry Christmas
With a Partridge Family or two

And when you go to church
You’ll remember with a smirk
All the crazy little things you used to do

“…Let’s have a truly Mexican welcome
For Ronnie and the Romeos…”

I asked my girlfriend to marry me
Yes I thought how happy we’d be
I knew she’d be thrilled at least be pleased
But these were the words she said to me

You need a haircut and then a degree
Don’t you want to start a family
Take a stand and make some real cash
Sell your guitar and throw away your stash

I had a headache lasted five days
I knew that somehow there must be a way
Cleaned the car and emptied the trash
Before she got home I had to get smashed

I moved out on my own formed a new band
We played every Goddamn dive in the land

Like a sea of troubles
Under a perfect moon
I know you don’t get out much
But that’s changing soon
I need to drive you deep
In the forest green
And then watch you dancing
At the wedding feast
I’d like to steal your heart
At the country fair
And braid wild flowers
In your hair

Oh when you come away

I’ll win back something lost
For your hands to hold
From an unknown wood
And tipped with gold
Yes a magic wand
To set you free
Then I’ll place this world
At your feet

Oh when you come away

Set the Captain’s Table
At the Four Ways Inn
You can throw all caution
To the wind
I’ll make no sudden moves
When I’m next to you
But just be patient
And my love I’ll prove

Oh when you come away

(instrumental)

As the rainfall
Drums it’s own tune
On the roof of the bandstand
Keep off the grass sign
By the lakeside
Where it leaves you Autumn

In the meanwhile
The hours seem to fly
With busy days and nights
Take it in your stride
As worrying is interest paid on trouble
Long before it’s due
Passing through

Silver snowstorm
Music without words
Blowing through the airwaves
Head in sunshine
Under fire now
Even when you’re dreaming

Crystal fountains
Peter Pan stares
Over the landscape
Without motion
On pencil grey days
To a Door Marked Summer

(instrumental)

Infos générales

Sorti en 2003

Steve Hackett : chant, guitares, Optigan, harmonica, koto, bâton de pluie, carillions, “quattro”
Roger King : piano, orgue, synthetiseur, vocoder, programmation
Rob Townsend : cuivres, instruments à bois, sifflements
Terry Gregory : chant, basses, pédales et tonnerre
Gary O’Toole : chant, batteries acoustiques et electriques, percussions (avec battements réguliers et furieux !)
John Hackett : solo de flûte (“Serpentine song”)
Ian Mc Donald : saxophone (“Brand New”)
Jeanne Downs : choeurs
Sarah Wilson : violoncelle
Howart Gott : violon

Produit par Steve Hackett