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Lush - Single Girl (The White Room 1996).mpg
Lush - Sweetness and Light.mpg
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Lush - 500.mpg (44.85 MB)
Lush - Covert (Live MTV).avi
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Lush - Hypocrite.mpg (53.58 MB)
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Lush - Ladykillers.mpg (68.52
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Lush - Nothing Natural.mpg
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Lush - Single Girl (The White
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Lush - Superblast.mpg (79.83 MB)
Lush - Sweetness and Light.mpg
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Lush -
For Love (VH1-92-01).mpg (64.4 MB)
Lush - 1992 - Seattle 1992-04-17 live
Lush - Reading Festival, England 1994-08-26
Lush - 9:30 Club, Washington 1996-08-30
Lush - John Peel Session Broadcast 1990-03-22
Lush - 1990 - Gala
Lush - 1994 - Split
Lush - 1992 - Spooky [zshare]
Spooky [megaupload]
spooky [gigasize]
Lush - 1996 - Topolino
Lush - 1989 - Scar (EP), Lush - 1994 - Cookie (EP), Lush -
1994 - Desire Lines (EP)
lush - 1996- Lovelife [gigasize]
Моя любимая группа (одна из) - пионеры shoegazing и bliss-dream pop, пара статей, дискография, много фоток, ссылки, тексты песен, можете для ознакомления скачать пару альбомов, смотрите также last.fm.
LUSH - "НОВЫЙ ПРИЗРАК 4AD"
Познакомимся. LUSH — это Miki Berenyi ( 18.3.1967, вокал, гитара ), Emma
Anderson ( 10.6.1964, вокал, гитара ), Christopher Acland ( 7.10.1966, ударные )
и Steve Rippon (бас). В 1992 году Стив ушел из группы, и новым басистом стал
бывший служащий "NME" Phil King ( 29.4.1960 ). Все песни сочиняли Мики и Эмма.
Из–за этого у многих сложилось представление о LUSH как о женском коллективе.
Ритм–секцию группы практически никто не знал в лицо. Парни немного переживали по
этому поводу, но ничего поделать не могли. Девушки относились с пониманием к
проблеме и никогда не эксплуатировали свою женственность, не выставляли ее
напоказ и не фотографировались в обнаженном виде, за исключением одной фото–сессии
в стиле "боди–арт" для "NME", в которой, кстати, мужская половина группы тоже
принимала участие.
Когда в январе 1980 свет yвидeли первые четыре сингла, открывающие деятельность
филиала "Beggars Banquet" - независимой фирмы "4AD", никто даже не подозревал,
что пройдет совсем немного времени, и она станет одним из флагманов британской
независимой сцены не только у себя на родине, но и во всем мире. Сегодня
посвященные в таинства "4AD" убеждены: мало еще кому удавалось с такой
утонченной музыкальной интуицией найти и открыть столько мировых атлантов. Ныне
сам факт дебюта на фирме Айво Уоттс-Рассела для неизвестного исполнителя
является своеобразным актом признана и гарантирует повышенное внимание и интерес
со стороны прессы, критиков и специалистов к его концертам и пластинкам.
Верность "твердой линии" и традициям "4AD" в открытии и популяризации всего
нового, нетривиального в искусстве, балансирующего на грани этно-фолк-музыки и
новаторских экспериментов в звуке исполнении, стилистике и дизайне, с середины
80-х объединяют вокруг фирмы таких разных и порой полярных в творчестве
исполнителей, как BAUHAUS, DEAD CAN DANCE, COCTEAU TWINS, PIXIES, THE TROWING
MUSES, WOLFGANG PRESS, BIRTHDAY PARTY, X-MAL DEUTCHLAND, PALE SAINTS и LUSH.
"Кажется, LUSH - великие люди, группа, которая нужна сейчас всем, они могут
делать действительно великую музыку", - подвел для своих читателей итог
многолетней дискуссии британской прессы "New Musical Express". Между тем, среди
двух огней оказались две талантливые молодые исполнительницы, "две королевы",
восприимчивые к словам и музыке, в чем-то похожие и в чем-то разные, любящие
футбол и пиво, "образ внеземной, поднявшийся над всеми" (по определению "Тор,
Tower Records", февраль).
"Достаточно мало женщин солисток в роке пишут о своем жизненном опыте, чтобы их
услышали - простые, чувственные выражения об отношениях с мужчинами, сексе и
просто отношениях, не унижаясь до порнографии, не пытаясь спрятать слова. "Она
притворялась, что это была любовь. И она сделает так, чтобы они расстались
красиво",- любовная лирика LUSH в жестком шквале звука позволили открыть
масс-медии превосходную группу, а менеджерам и продюсерам "4AD", захваченным
вокальной утонченностью и неподражаемостью в искусстве, увидеть в них версию
COCTEAU TWINS 90-х (сомнительно, но верно). Поговаривают также, что LUSH оживили
британскую indie-музыку, мечтающую дотянуться до своих "золотых 80-х". Так ли?
Способна ли "слабая половина" молодой формации фирмы, нынче уверенно покоряющая
разнокалиберные independent charts, разрыть засахаренную диско-бисквитом
танцевальной радости Манчестера, оскверненную могилу британского индепендента? И
"действительно ли это рок-н-ролл?", как справедливо вопрошает обозреватель Уилл
Джонсон.
"Вдохновение охватывает меня неожиданно, - говорит Мики.- Чувствую музыку и не
могу больше ничего с собой поделать. Но мы не мешаем друг другу, мы пишем
обособленно- каждая у себя дома. ЭТО всегда приходит одновременно..." Что же
такое этот "сочный", "буйный" LUSH ?
Иначе: жили-были в Лондоне две старые школьные подруги Мики Берени (Miki Berenyi)
и Эмма Андерсон (Emma Anderson). Вместе выпускали фэнзин "Alphabet Soup", ныне
известный как непристойная версия попсового "Smash Hits": любили выпить,
повздорить с парнями и цели создания собственной группы никогда не имели. Цель,
коренным образом изменившая их бурную насыщенную жизнь, возникла после
нескольких прослушиваний в сентябре 1988 г. Мики, к тому времени уже работавшая
с командой THE BUGS, стала петь, а Эмма взялась за гитару, а их двое приятелей
по северо-лондонскому политехникуму (курс английской литературы!) Крис Экланд
(Chris Acland) и Стив Риппон (Steve Rippon), соответственно, за ударные и бас.
На этом их сходство с АББОЙ... к счастью, начинается и заканчивается. Группа
получила название BABY MACHINE.
"LUSH мог быть другим, не будь в нем женщин",- говорит Стив. "Крис и Стив,
похоже, не стремились создать мужественной основы для поддержки хрупкой,
созданной девушками атмосферы - замечает "New Musical Express".- He хочется
строить предположений, что они недостаточно сильны; чтобы сопротивляться, но
если отодвинуть их немного от LUSH и приподнять завесу тумана, то можно легко
понять, кто же такие LUSH на самом деле".Выступать они начали тотчас, как только
поменяли название. Говорят, Мики напивалась для храбрости и концерты получались
довольно экспрессивными. Но о них пока знали лишь немногие...
Первая заметка в местной прессе -рецензия на концерт группы в клубе. "The Falkon"
- прозвучала в конце июля 1989. Помешательство музыкальной прессы от LUSH только
набирало обороты, когда Айва/"4AD" увидели то, что, увы, не смогли разглядеть в
молодых шумных новичках остальные граммогиганты Лондона (странно, как их не
заметила, скажем, "Creation"...), и подписали с ними контракт. Первые шесть
песен, написанные к тому времени Мики и Эммой, получили дебютное воплощение в
октябре 1989 на первой пластинке LUSH для "4AD", названной "Scar" ("пятно" или "шрам").
Продюсером записи выступил John Fryer (Робин Гатри предусмотрительно остался в
стороне) и диск, исполненный в стилистике групп THROWING MUSES и MY BLOODY
VALENTINE, привлек к себе внимание прессы. "Сверкающие", "превосходные", "сердитые",
"bloody", "ядовитые", "valentine" - такими отныне стали LUSH.
Энтузиазм заметно возрос, когда за "Scar" последовал первый большой тур по
стране, где группа предваряла выступления молодых, но заметно преуспевших
DARLING BUDS и LOOP. В конце года количество сплетен и суждений заметно возросло.
В феврале 1990 вышел второй мини-альбом LUSH "Mad Love" ("Сумасшедшая любовь") -
четырехдорожечный трек. Наконец-то в роли продюсера выступил Робин Гатри из
COCTEAU TWINS. На этот раз "захватывающие", "яркие", "хаотичные", "доводящие до
обморока", "безумные" и "желанные" - какими их хотел видеть музыкальный мир, -
LUSH включились в "тусовку" лучших команд "4AD", созванных руководством на
празднование десятой годовщины фирмы и тур по Франции, где в то время проходил
бенефис дизайнера компании Воэма Оливера, приуроченный к юбилею.
Их концерты записывает студия телекомпании "ВВС" - "Snab TV"; теледебют группы,
как позже заметила Мики, значительно помог дальнейшей карьере LUSH. В апреле они
проводят тур по ФРГ, по возвращении из которого следуют новые гастроли по
Британии в компании с THE PALE SAINTS, перезаписанная с дебютного альбома
собственная Версия "Scarlet" для двойной компиляции "Melody Maker" "Gigantic", а
также cover классики "баббл-гам" группы MIDDLE OF THE ROAD "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep
Cheep" для альбома, названного "Alvin Lives In Leeds"
В октябре верхние строчки indie-charts изданий "Sounds", "Melody Maker" и "New
Musical Express" оккупировала новая композиция группы - трехдорожечный трек,
спродюсированный сотрудничавшим ранее с TALK TALK Tim-Friese Green, "Sweetneess
And Light" ("Сладость и свет"), а уже в начале следующего года та же участь
постигает их компиляционный сборник "Gate" ("Торжество"), включивший в себя
cover-версию "Hey-Hey Helen" группы АВВА. Композиции, вошедшие в него, были
специально отобраны к предстоящим гастролям группы в Японии и Америке. "Золотые",
"первоклассные", "поразительные", и "восхитительные" LUSH с успехом выступают на
летнем фестивале в Глэстонбьюри, в качестве специально приглашенных гостей
участвуют в благотворительном вечере The Cure's Chrystal Palace Garden Party, и
в конце года с новым синглом взбираются на верхушку почитаемого прессой "Galiup
Top 50".
В апреле 1991 они возвращаются в Америку с группой RIDE, а в октябре выпускают
новую пластинку "Black Spring" ("Черная весна"), представляющую любовно
сделанные четыре трека и включенную в альбом версий "Falling In Love" Денниса
Уилсона из BEACH BOYS. "Поступившая в продажу пластинка охотно раскупается
поклонниками Моррисси, для которых меланхолия, интроверсия и невнятное мычание
нектар богов, чья идея рая заключена в глубокой депрессии и подавленности." -
иронично прокомментировал "New Musical Express". 26 октября диск возглавил indie-charts.
По прошествии очередного "тур-де-форс" LUSH с презентацией "Black' Spring", Стив
Риппон покидает группу и возвращается в Ирландию. Хотя его место вскоре занимает
Фил Кинг (Phil King), группа оказывается перед серьезной проблемой распада. "Мы
начинали то, что действительно хотел сделать он, но ничего не получается", -
заявил Крис Экланд. Предпринятый ответный шаг в конце года приводит музыкантов и
продолжающего их опекать незаменимого Гатри в студию, где в январе 1992 на свет
рождается 12-трековый альбом.
"Spooky" ("Призрак") поступил в продажу 24 января, а накануне - 24-26 -
планировался приезд группы на Украину для участия в фестивале "Мисс Рок"... По
каким-то причинам LUSH на фестивале не появились, что не помешало музыкантам
мечтать о новых приключениях: их несло в Монголию и южную Сибирь, Эмма надеялась
побывать на Ямайке и в Таиланде. Мики хотелось в Италию - к Новому году они
хотели быть везде, где их нет. "Это лучше, чем Германия, - заявила Мики,- самая
неприятная для меня раса, не говоря о поляках. Они всегда спрашивают: "Что
означает LUSH ? Почему вы не поете о полититке ?" и прочую чепуху подобного рода"
(интересно, что в таком случае они сказали бы о нас ?).
По выходу "Spooky", волну новых восторгов и восклицаний прессы пробили и первые
нотки недовольства и критики, главным образом направленные в адрес Робина Гатри
- за попытку повторить в звучании LUSH хорошо известную эстетику COCTEAU TWINS.
Альбом начинался со сверхъестественной линии баса, головокружительной темы
гитары, затопляемой эффектами и медленно текущими голосами Мики и Эммы. Основные
занимательные элементы в течение всего альбома не менялись, взмывая ввысь и
создавая звуковой фон, действительно схожий с COCTEAU. "Когда вы слушаете
"Spooky" впервые, это звучит как группа демонов, - разразился. "New Musical
Express". - Но когда наступает действительно серьезное прослушивание,
чувствуется мягкая душевность, оттепель, далекая от предрассудков. Это
заставляет вслушиваться еще внимательнее, но что-то ускользает из ваших рук и
перерастает в то, что сделал продюсер Гатри. Неужели они потеряли желание
бороться?"
Еще более жестко отозвалась о новой работе группы британская "библия независимых"
"Melody Maker": "Они - как бабочки, пойманные в банку, почти похороненные. Имеют
ли они право на собственный голос? Судя по пластинке, верится с трудом. У нее
нет будущего, ибо, к сожалению, нет различий между звуками - все это сильный
поток, водоворот гитарного звучания и голоса, и композиция "Nothing Natural" ("Ничего
естественного") образно объясняет неудачу альбома - все это приемлемо лишь в
студии - Большая часть ошибок здесь связана с Великим Гатри. который вне критики,
по словам прессы. Он осушил живую энергию, отобрал силу, лишил LUSH внеземного
парящего голоса. И все это, чтобы "сделать их непохожими на других".
Альбом мог бы освободиться от зависимости и давления, если бы Мики и Эмма
записали только одну из своих мелодий, как. скажем, печальную "Monochrome" Эммы
или гипнотическую "Covert" Мики. Однако большая часть песен здесь на одном
уровне, вполне однородном, и можно только удивляться, зачем понадобилась
приглашать двух певиц - не проще ли было подобрать каких-нибудь девиц с улицы?"
"Все так и будет, - подводит итог газета - пока LUSH зависимы от прессы, пока
ничего не произошло с Гатри. У них еще столько сил. Но они смогут ими
воспользоваться только тогда, когда откажутся от внимания людей. обладающих
властью над прессой, и компании, под крышей которой работают". Совет, вероятно,
серьезный и полезный для многих. Уместны ли данные упреки? "Мы счастливы с Гатри
- говорит Мики - Он работает по свойственным ему меркам: иногда только нужно
подталкивать его..."
"Зачем быть KRASS или SEX PISTOLS, когда эти команды не смогли разрушить
капитализм и сделать безопасным мир для китов, коров и ягнят", - констатируют
музыканты. (Одна из композиций группы в апреле 1992 присутствует в изданном к
Международному дню гуманного отношения к животным антививисекционном альбоме
британских поп-рок-групп "How Much Longer?" ("Сколько можно?"), разделив вместе
с EMF, CARTER, NOMEANSNO, CHAPTERHOUSE, FAMILY CAT печальную участь обреченной
обезьянки в рекламе пластинки.
В отличие от PALE SAINTS, другого новичка лэйбла "4AD", LUSH ныне являются
наиболее типичной для фирмы командой, фрагментарно включившей в свое звучание
эстетику всех исполнителей, в разное время сотрудничавших с фирмой, начиная с
дебютного "Пятна", возвращающей к памяти работы COCTEAU TWINS, PIXIES. THROWING
MUSES, и WOLFGANG PREESS. В песне "Covert" из последней пластинки Мики почти
шепчет:"Ты не смог понять меня, но я не могу ни чем помочь тебе; я продолжаю
мечтать о том дне, когда ты узнаешь, что я не та, о ком ты думаешь..." Будем
надеяться, что так оно и будет, что они вновь превратятся в бабочек, вырвавшихся
из своего тесного музыкального кокона. И действительно окажутся. великой
поп-группой, нужной всем и делающей действительно великую музыку. Сочную и
буйную.
В истории LUSH было совсем немного занимательных для сторонних наблюдателей
событий. Были радости и огорчения, большие надежды и ужасные разочарования. Эта
группа никогда не была культовой, хотя фэнов у нее предостаточно. Пресса
относила LUSH к тем группам, которые появились в конце 80–х под влиянием MY
BLOODY VALENTINE и COCTEAU TWINS и играли совершенно бестелесную, немного "сонную"
музыку, создавая при помощи своих гитар водовороты неземных звуков. LUSH стали,
пожалуй, самым известным из таких коллективов благодаря запоминающимся мелодиям
и изумительному, красивому вокалу Мики и Эммы. Журналисты окрестили музыку
группы "bliss–rock" (bliss — блаженство).
Мики и Эмма знают друг друга с 14 лет. Трудно сказать, что их детство было
счастливым. Они постоянно испытывали чувство отчуждения и незащищенности. Мать
Эммы готовила для дочери будущее в духе "Домостроя", а родители Мики просто
бросили ее в одиннадцатилетнем возрасте на произвол судьбы, и детство она
провела у своей безумной бабушки. Своей немного экзотической внешностью Мики
обязана своей маме–японке и отцу, который был венгр (у них получилось очень
красиво, не правда ли?). Кроме этого Мики может гордиться тем, что принимала
участие в эпопее об агенте 007. Ее мать сыграла эпизодическую роль в фильме "Доктор
Но", когда была беременна. Вы можете узнать ее там в японке, которая передает
Шону Коннери письмо.
С самого начала девушки мечтали о собственной группе. Они еще не умели играть,
но вовсю теоретизировали о том, как здорово они будут проводить время. И вот они
приобрели гитары и приступили к их освоению. В 1988 году в Лондонском Политехе
Мики познакомилась со Стивом и Крисом. Состав был укомплектован. Поскольку все
участники новой группы одинаково плохо владели инструментами, некоторое время
они не могли разобраться, кто на чем будет играть, но в конце концов пришли к
консенсусу.
LUSH стали потихоньку выступать и вскоре стали более–менее известны в основном
как "самая ужасная группа в Лондоне". Им еще явно не хватало мастерства. "О нас
стали говорить. Заинтересованные люди из звукозаписывающих компаний звонили нам
и приходили на концерт. Мы были просто ужасны, и они больше никогда не
перезванивали, —– вспоминает Мики. — Но нам было все равно. Мы просто продолжали
играть. Люди говорили: "О, они действительно плохи, но они прогрессируют". Я
думаю, уже тогда у нас были отличные песни. Просто мы еще не были настолько
компетентны, чтобы играть их".
Группа записала демо из двух песен, которое было разослано в звукозаписывающие
компании. Через некоторое время позвонил Ivo Watts–Russell (глава 4AD) и
поинтересовался, как идут дела у группы. Он разговаривал весьма осторожно,
поскольку был наслышан о том, что на концертах LUSH не очень хороши. Однако демо
ему понравилось, и в конце концов он пригласил девушек и парней в студию для
записи трех песен. "Если они мне понравятся, —– сказал он, — тогда посмотрим,
что делать дальше". LUSH записали "Baby Talk", "Thoughtforms" и "Scarlet".
После этого Айво сказал: "Почему бы вам не записать еще три?". "Нет проблем",
—– ответили они и сделали "Bitter", "Second Sight" и "Etherial". Эти шесть песен
и вошли в дебютный EP группы "Scar", который появился в 1989 году. Следом вышли
еще два EP, "Mad Love"(1990) и "Sweetness and Light"(1990), в каждом из которых,
правда, было меньше песен, чем в "Scar". В 91–м был выпущен сборник "Gala", в
который вошли все предыдущие записи группы, а также кавер ABBA "Hey Hey Helen".
Альбом был рассчитан в основном на американского слушателя, потому что это был
первый релиз LUSH в США. Для тех, кто не подозревал о существовании первых трех
EP, "Gala" стал дебютным альбомом группы.
В 1990 году продюсировать записи LUSH начал Робин Гатри (Robin Guthrie) из
COCTEAU TWINS, и благодаря ему песни Мики и Эммы становились все более
воздушными. LUSH всегда использовали множество студийных наворотов — реверов,
наложений, гитарных "примочек" и прочих эффектов. Однако это не совсем пошло на
пользу. Все было очень красиво, но немного не так, как хотелось бы самим
участникам коллектива.
На концертах LUSH всегда звучали иначе — более энергично и, пожалуй, весело.
Кстати, живых выступлений становилось все больше. Группа играла в разогреве у
RIDE во время их первого американского турне, а также с SISTERS OF MERCY. Кроме
этого LUSH открывали концерт CURE в "Crystal Palace" летом 1990 года.
Первый по–настоящему дебютный альбом появился в 1992 году и назывался "Spooky".
Робин Гатри оторвался там во всю и сделал звучание гитар Мики и Эммы совершенно
не от мира сего, а голоса утопил в далекой туманной трясине реверов. Короче
говоря, группа оказалась под явным влиянием COCTEAU TWINS.
Все это время популярность LUSH росла на волне всеобщего интереса к британским
поп–группам с женскими вокалами, такими как SLEEPER и ECHOBELLY. Их имена часто
мелькали в прессе, причем часто не из–за концертов и записей, а из–за того, что
они, особенно Мики и Эмма, всегда были на виду у публики. Они вели богемную
жизнь и без конца тусовались, где только возможно.
Все было хорошо. Новый сингл LUSH "Hypocrite"(1994) стал весьма успешным шагом в
сторону брит–попа. Однако их следующий альбом "Split" провалился в
Великобритании. Это странно, потому что альбом просто замечательный. Именно в
нем группа наконец стала обретать собственное звучание, приближенное к своим
концертным выступлениям. Однако он, видимо, просто пришелся не ко времени,
потому что через два года, уже после выхода "Lovelife", многие бросились в
музыкальные магазины разыскивать его предшественника.
Как бы то ни было, но после неудачи со "Split" участники группы находились в
полной прострации. Крис даже стал подумывать об уходе. "Наступил период, когда
мне начало казаться, что я совсем ничего не делаю в этой жизни, —– вспоминал он.
— Получалось так, что я просто жду, пока кто–то сделает что–то за меня, потому
что и я, и Фил не сочиняем песен. Из–за этого начинаешь чувствовать себя немного
бесполезным. Мне совсем не хотелось жить дальше, как студенту. Когда вам около
30, то уже хочется освободиться от всего этого, потому что это очень легко и вы
привыкаете плыть по течению. Быть в группе —– это не самое достойное занятие для
взрослого человека".
В общем, случился кризис. Мики и Эмма раздумывали над тем, насколько плохи их
песни, но приходили к выводу, что они все же хорошие и других они не напишут.
Фил, который уже переиграл в очень многих неудавшихся группах, просто болтался
без дела, впрочем, как и Крис, который мечтал заработать много денег и уехать из
Лондона куда–нибудь в сельскую местность.Два года ничего не было слышно о LUSH.
Однако Мики и Эмма взяли себя в руки и вновь обрели веру. В феврале 1996 года их
новый сингл "Single Girl" ворвался в чарты на 21–е место. Следом выстрелил "Ladykillers",
попавший в марте на 22–е. LUSH триумфально вернулись с новым альбомом "Lovelife".
Песни мало чем отличались от "Split", где говорилось о различных аспектах
романтических взаимоотношений. Однако было нечто, что сделало новый релиз группы
просто гениальным по сравнению с остальными хорошими. Больше никто не называл
LUSH бестелесными. Отказавшись от услуг Робина Гатри, они стали сочными и
осязаемыми, не утратив при этом своей красоты. Все песни были просты и хорошо
обдуманны, к тому же на записи они звучали именно так, как исполнялись на
концертах. Вокалы были выведены на первый план, а гитары сведены чисто и мощно.
В некоторых композициях были использованы струнные. В песенке "Ciao!" Мики пела
дуэтом с Джарвисом Кокером из PULP. Мелодии просто вязли на ушах.
Короче говоря, "Lovelife" — это самое зрелое и доступное из всего, что когда–либо
делали LUSH, а поскольку еще и такое же красивое, то с уверенностью можно
сказать, что лучшее. Вот как объясняет такой прогресс Мики: "Это странно, но мы
все делали задом наперед... "Spooky" был полностью студийным альбомом с огромным
количеством эффектов. Многие все делают по–другому. Сначала они записываются так,
как они на самом деле звучат, а уже в более поздних работах начинают
экспериментировать... На "Lovelife" мы попытались вернуться к нашему
оригинальному звучанию".
LUSH стали желанны очень многими, и их дела стали поправляться.
Однако случилось непоправимое. 17 октября 1996 года Криса нашли мертвым в доме
его родителей. Он свел счеты с жизнью. Незадолго до этого он говорил, что
собирается покинуть группу, и не желал ехать с остальными в турне. Ему было 30,
и скорее всего он просто потерялся в этом мире. У него не было собственного дома.
Он жил то у друзей, то у родителей. Возможно, ему не хватало денег, возможно,
внимания, но теперь это уже неважно. Крис не был незаменимым. Он, как уже
говорилось, не писал песен. Однако с его смертью умерла и группа. Фил, Мики и
Эмма не смогли продолжать без него.
Больше года LUSH находились в состоянии торможения, и вот наконец они официально
разведены. Никаких претензий друг к другу они не имеют. Фил подыгрывает на
концертах JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, Мики готовит материал для сольного альбома, а
Эмма, которая некоторое время подпевала у Тани Доннелли, собрала новую группу,
которая называется SING SING, и скоро выпустит сингл.
LUSH среди всех британских групп с женскими вокалами делали самую красивую
музыку, самую красочную и впечатляющую. Никто не знает, что будет с ними дальше.
Возможно, альбомы Мики и Эммы будут очень хороши. Однако они никогда не смогут
забыть своих песен, сочиненных для LUSH, впрочем, как и поклонники этой
замечательной группы, которой просто не повезло дожить до нового века, хотя она
это вполне заслужила.
Scar 1989
01.Baby Talk (Berenyi) - 2:21
02.Thoughtforms (Anderson) - 2:45
03.Scarlet (Anderson/Berenyi) - 3:28
04.Bitter (Berenyi) - 2:04
05.Second Sight (Berenyi) - 2:42
06.Etheriel (Anderson/Berenyi) - 3:25
Gala 1990
01.Sweetness and Light (Anderson)
02.Sunbathing (Anderson)
03.Breeze (Anderson/Berenyi)
04.De-Luxe (Anderson)
05.Leaves Me Cold (Berenyi)
06.Downer (Anderson)
07.Thoughtforms (Anderson)
08.Baby Talk (Berenyi)
09.Thoughtforms (Anderson)
10.Scarlet (Anderson/Berenyi)
11.Bitter (Berenyi)
12.Second Sight (Berenyi)
13.Etheriel (Anderson/Berenyi)
14.Hey Hey Helen (Anderson/Ulvaeus)
Spooky 1992
01.Stray (Berenyi) - 2:07
02.Nothing Natural (Anderson) - 5:54
03.Tiny Smiles (Anderson/Berenyi) - 4:26
04.Covert (Berenyi) - 3:34
05.Ocean (Berenyi) - 4:49
06.For Love (Berenyi) - 3:29
07.Superblast! (Anderson) - 4:07
08.Untogether (Berenyi) - 3:33
09.Fantasy (Anderson) - 4:27
10.Take (Berenyi) - 3:28
11.Laura (Anderson) - 3:22
12.Monochrome (Anderson) - 5:05
Split 1994
01.Light From a Dead Star (Berenyi) - 3:15
02.Kiss Chase (Berenyi) - 3:17
03.Blackout (Anderson) - 3:06
04.Hypocrite (Berenyi) - 2:53
05.Lovelife (Anderson) - 3:56
06.Desire Lines (Anderson) - 7:37
07.The Invisible Man (Anderson) - 2:14
08.Undertow (Berenyi) - 4:57
09.Never-Never (Anderson) - 8:04
10.Lit Up (Anderson) - 4:00
11.Starlust (Anderson/Berenyi) - 4:30
12.When I Die (Anderson) - 4:17
15.Scarlet (Anderson/Berenyi)
Topolino 1996 japan
01.500 (Shake Baby Shake)
02.I Have the Moon
03.Ex
04.I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
05.Matador
06.Piledriver
07.I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
08.Carmen
09.Plums and Oranges
Topolino 1996 canada
01.500 (Shake Baby Shake) (Anderson)
02.I Have the Moon (Merritt)
03.Ex (Berenyi)
04.I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend (Dunbar/Gargwer)
05.Matador (King)
06.Outside World (Anderson)
07.I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
08.Carmen (Anderson/Berenyi)
09.Shut Up (Anderson)
10.Cul de Sac (King)
11.Demystification (Lake)
12.Tinkerbell (Berenyi)
Lovelife 1996
01.Ladykillers (Berenyi)
02.Heavenly Nobodies (Berenyi)
03.500 (Shake Baby Shake) (Anderson)
04.I've Been Here Before (Anderson)
05.Papasan (Berenyi)
06.Single Girl (Anderson)
07.Ciao! (Berenyi)
08.Tralala (Anderson)
09.Last Night (Anderson)
10.Runaway (Berenyi)
11.The Childcatcher (Berenyi)
12.Olympia (Anderson)
Chao! 2001
01.Ladykillers (Berenyi) - 3:13
02.Single Girl (Anderson) - 2:35
03.Ciao! (Berenyi) - 3:31
04.500 (Shake Baby Shake) (Anderson) - 3:21
05.Light from a Dead Star (Berenyi) - 3:16
06.Love at First Sight (Moxham) - 5:12
07.Hypocrite (Berenyi) - 2:53
08.Desire Lines (Anderson) - 7:39
09.Lovelife (Anderson) - 3:56
10.When I Die (Anderson) - 4:18
11.Nothing Natural (Anderson) - 5:54
12.Untogether (Berenyi) - 3:34
13.For Love (Berenyi) - 3:29
14.Monochrome (Anderson) - 5:06
15.De-Luxe (Anderson) - 3:27
16.Sweetness and Light (Anderson) - 5:17
17.Thoughtforms (Anderson) - 2:43
18.Etheriel (Anderson/Berenyi) - 3:24
Lyrics
GALA
Here are the lyrics for Gala, Lush's first release. Although Gala was Lush's
first release, Spooky is considered to be the first album. This is because Gala
was simply a contemplation of songs from soundtracks and other varies rarities,
much like Topolino.
Gala track list:
Sweetness And Light
Sunbathing
Breeze
De-Luxe
Leaves Me Cold
Downer
Thoughtforms*
Baby Talk
Thoughtforms*
Scarlet*
Bitter
Second Sight
Etheriel
Hey Hey Helen
Scarlet*
Sweetness And Light
(Anderson)
See my life (I've been so tired)
See my self (I've been uptight)
See my life (I've been so tired)
See my sight (I could disappear)
See with you memories fading fast
And with you it's never going to last
You are the sweetness in my eyes
You are an apple in disguise
See with you
I never seemed to look the other way
Only to stay, only to breathe
Only to see
That space and light is what I really need
I never wanted to tell lies
You are the sweetness in my eyes
You are the juice I need for life
You are the sweetness in my eyes
Sunbathing
(Anderson)
Sunbathing, and she came down from above
Close my eyes and I feel like I'm in love
Wrapped in silk, how I got here I don't know
Tastes like milk and there's nowhere else to go
Soft red lips, slowly open wide
Honey drips and I long to feel inside
Deep and warm, the only to place to be
Sleep til dawn, then she does the same for me
Drawn fine line, heal my bad spine
Close together, now its all mine
Wake in sunlight, sunlight bleak white
Realise she's gone
Breeze
(Anderson / Berenyi)
Pink cloud sits sky high
Skips to the starlight
Rains tinsel whispers
Breeze blows away
I crawl inside me
My eyes to heaven
Pink cloud sits sky high
Breeze blows away
Silver air everywhere, doesn't care
But silver winds cut my skin everywhere
Breathe in green velvet
My lips taste warm earth
Pink cloud sits sky high
Breeze blows away
Summer sun, so much fun, colours run
Hot summers kiss, cloudless bliss burns my tongue
De-Luxe
(Anderson)
I've been waiting on the slide
Suggest I open wide
No incentive to hide
Happy coursing through my veins
Don't even know my name
When I'm up you're coming down
Inside of me, some sight to see
Some sight to feel our earthy bed
When we're wrapped in polythene
What's that supposed to mean
Paper flowers bring me luck
No birds in sight I fear
Stick sticks in you my dear
When I'm up you're coming down
Some say I'm vague
And I'd easily fade
Foolish parade of fantasy
Drink in your eyes
Drink in you sighs
Grass in my thighs my aching legs
Leaves Me Cold
(Berenyi)
Dreams deep heat teasing my mind
Sleep peels sweet stealing my sighs
She breathes deep when he's inside
Dreams deep heat poisons my mind
Inside me there's a separate world
It's winning and I'm losing control
I'm coming but my eyes are closed
I'm coming but it leaves me cold
Night's bright lights dim in the day
Blind eyes smile at you today
I find I'm falling away
My eyesights never the same
Inside me there's a separate girl
She's winning and I'm losing control
She coming but my eyes are closed
She's coming but I wake up and it leaves me cold
Downer
(Anderson)
In me you'll see
Dirt flows freely
But you may find
That my thoughts are unkind
Pure life needs knife
Cuts off my life
But as you see
Hurting you you bless me
I always wanted to cry
After the act close my eyes
I always longed for the deep
Then I just wanted to sleep
Blood stream cruel dream
Never make clean
Down by my side I feel safe when I hide
So you can see that my thought are for me
Thoughtforms
(Anderson)
Come on little man now all's said and done
All tht I'm asking is you show me some fun
I need purple veins and scenic greens
They can make me soar and touch extremes
I just fell down from whitest skies
And now I start to realise
And all the colours talk to me
And if I had wings then I could take you in
I'd stay on the ground and I could teach you things
The grass is strewn with blades of gold
These sights and songs I have been told
All hopes desires that seem to sing
Come on little man now you're times nearly through
Colours are dripping down red and blue
I'm standing in the middle of a great glass ball
I'm told that I've nothing but I'm having it all
I just rose up from blackest seas
My eyes were opened so widely
And its a shame to end this way
Baby Talk
(Berenyi)
Swallowed her down, she's inside me
She's struggling now, she can't break free
And my eyes are closed, my lips are sealed
She can't escape but I can feel
Kicks in me
Climbing my spine, she's inside me
Wants to escape, wants to breathe
And I wish I could tell you what she feels
And I wish I could hear when she speaks
In my sleep
In my dreams
Scarlet
(Anderson / Berenyi)
Nothing can eclipse
Tender fingertips
Youthful girlish hips
Crimson pouting lips
But what d'you say when nothing's meant
What d'you do when all is spent
Faithless faceless night
Drenched in empty light
Scarlet starlet's bright
Vanity's delight
Cream of life you'll find in her
First to come she's first to serve
Turned away you're out of luck
Spurned again
No one to fall in love
Bitter
(Berenyi)
Just don't imagine that I'll still remember you
Don't even think I'll try
I'll take my memories and drown them in my glass
And then I'll drink a toast of bitterness and wash you from my heart
I count the blessings that took you away from me
I laugh to think I cried
I don't need what you got I don't miss what you do
'Cause I can raise my glass and drink a toast of bitterness to you
And now my mind recalls no memory of you
And so I raise a smile and drink a toast of bitterness to you
Just don't imagine that I still remember you
Don't even think I care
You took your love elsewhere and I drank mine away
With bitter thoughts of you that washed my memories of you away
Second Sight
(Berenyi)
Peel back empty night
Grey dawn breaks into white
Sun climbing the sky
Your eyes reflecting the light
Clouds out of sight
But when the day is through
Will I see you again
Keep your eyes on me
Don't let go of my hand
Running together
We go together so well
I can tell
Run where I run
Play what I play
Do what I do
But when this day's through
Will I see you again
Etheriel
(Anderson / Berenyi)
I know it hurts to see
That in the end they sympathized with me
And though it hurts to say
It couldn't happen any other way
I remember when you were free
No one else then you came to me
Cursed you then that it couldn't last
All the laughs we had in the past
And if it hurts you too
I hope you know that I'm still fond of you
And if its still unfair
Remember that I thought you never cared
Sing to me, comfort me, turned away
Someone else takes my place
And so you made your choice
When I needed most to hear your voice
But you were never there
And that was when I thought you never cared
Hey Hey Helen
(ABBA)
So at last you're free
It's the way you wanted it to be
It's the price you pay
To be called a woman of today
Is it worth the pain to see the children cry
Does it hurt when they ask for Daddy
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
So you're free at last
And beginning to forget the past
Does it make you sad
When you think about the life you've ha-ha-had
But you're right, you had to take a second chance
So you fight for your freedom
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen
What's the matter with you
Hey hey Helen
Don't you know what to do
Ahah, yes you do yes you do
Ahah, yes you do yes you do
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen
What's the matter with you
Hey hey Helen
Don't you know what to do
Hey hey Helen
Also, "De-Luxe" was Lush's first video. It has a little less plot than some of
their newer videos, but its pretty cool to watch, especially if you're stoned.
:)
Spooky
Spooky lyrics! Not only is it fun to say, it also contains Lush's first single
to get some actual American radio-play, "For Love". Its a classic, ya know?
Spooky stuff:
Stray
Nothing Natural
Tiny Smiles
Covert
Ocean
For Love
Superblast!
Untogether
Fantasy
Take
Laura
Monochrome
Stray
(Berenyi)
In your green field sleep
Chasing through the trees
Do you still see me?
Do you still hear me?
Do you still meet me?
Nothing natural
(Anderson)
Before I met you I was blind
Pills and liquid filled my mind
Beneath your outline I was new
Overflowing with your tune
And don't you know you're beautiful
Next month I missed you like a child
Couldn't see past you though I tried
And don't you know you're beautiful
Now I think of every hour
When you still retained your power
And the precious nights we'd share
When we'd breathe in common air
The feeling now you're gone
This wretched life goes on
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key
The sunlight always comes too soon
My body asks me what to do
I was so small and vulnerable
And you were only beautiful
The seasons shining in your hair
And it was more than I could bear
But I can see you in my smile
And you are only beautiful
Tiny smiles
(Berenyi)
I'd like to do
Something for you
You want me to
She's just the same
She likes to play
I'll hide kisses in your hair
Don't feel ashamed
You're not to blame
It's just a game
But just the same
What would they say
Baby angel on my knee
Our lips are sealed
Come sit with me
Slide on my knee
Sing just for me
And for a while
I'll make you smile
Baby angel on my knee
I know what you want from me
I'll make you smile
Outside she's listening
To laughter and whispering
But she won't say nothing to him, see
She's just the same
Covert
(Berenyi)
I'm hiding inside me
Eye sees through my smile
As I shine
For the eyes of another
Let him inscribe
What he admires
Let him inspire
So many lies
I can provide
Any disguise
Night folds me beside you
I hide from your eyes
For I know
This illusion is kinder
Than what you'll find
Inside
If I reveal
My crime
My deception
My invention
My obsession
You may despise
What you may find
Hiding behind
All of the lies
Let me provide
One more disguise
You won't understand me
I can't let you try
Still I dream
Of the day you discover
I am the spy
Ocean
(Berenyi)
Come with me
Into a cool blue stream
Bleed into oceans green
Lips open wide
Drinking the tide
Reach for me
Here where the ocean sea
Melts and you sink with me
Deeper inside
I'll make you mine
Take me down
Down where their voices drown
Down where the only sound
Echoes for me
Floating away
Under the waves
Kiss me again
You'll tell me when
Salt on my lips
Cool fingertips
Under the sea
Stay here with me
For Love
(Berenyi)
Pretty little girl, she shines
Knowing she is young, she smiles
Happy just to be a prize
Happy just to see his smile
Silly little girl, she tries
Thinking she is good, and wise
Doesn't recognise the lies
Pouring from her lips, she sighs:
This is so real,
It's what I feel,
I look in your eyes and lose myself
Silly little girl denies
Every understanding why
Her face is full of sad surprise
Every time she hears him cry:
What do you feel
When you're with me?
I look in your eyes and see myself
But there's no connection,
Just his own reflection
Isn't this the way you wanted me?
(what do you mean?)
In love with you
(what do I feel?)
Do anything
(what do you mean?)
For you
She looked in his eyes to lose herself
And when it falls apart, she cries
Doesn't think to look inside
She just covers up her eyes
Doesn't see her own disguise
And though she feels this sorrow,
It will fade tomorrow
She'll pretend that this was really love
(what do you mean?)
She'll make their fall
(what did I feel?)
Seem beautiful
(what do you mean?)
She won't remember this at all
(what do you mean?)
She won't recall
(what did I feel?)
The truth at all
(what do you mean?)
She wants to fall
(what did I feel?)
Again
(what do you mean?)
Superblast!
(Anderson)
Me in the world
Losing tears, shedding fears
Strain for the sun
Make you run, make you come
You don't know
You don't know
I'm in my home
All the time, on my own
Low finger fine
Take what's mine, from behind
You don't know
You don't know
It's not there
You don't care
You're still inside of me
Beneath the cotton core
My pictures smile at me
And soon they'll rise and soar
Fill up my space
Turn around, fade and trace
Be absolute
Blue and white, fatal fruit
She nylon smile
Full of lies, shining eyes
Cover my grin
Take a chance, maybe win
It's not there
It's not fair
You don't know
You don't care
Untogether
(Berenyi)
It's not easy
But try to picture this: do
You remember
That we were once together?
Isn't it strange
Isn't it?
I'm sorry it's come to this but
Why are we here,
Bothering?
What was it we talked about? so
Just remind me
Of why I'm wasting so much
Time pretending
That there is something more than
Only this
Only
This pointless accusation
Tell me again,
Why are we here?
I'm not offended by the
Things that you say
'cause it's such a predictable
Way to behave
Talk and insult me 'til you're
Blue in the face
You were right, I was wrong, now does
That make you happy?
I'm quite aware of all the
Bad things I did
You don't have to remind me of
Why you dislike me
There's no solution to the
Mess that we're in,
It's so sad and so boring
I wish you'd just leave me alone
But I understand the games you play
I'm ashamed of all the things I did to you
Fantasy
(Anderson)
When I'm home I listen hoping for a clue
And you know they can't tell us what to do
When you're gone, out of sight not out of mind
But you know this feeling took me years to find
And your eyes, they always know where it hurts
And your lips kiss me 'til I'm fit to burst
Each day you watch me with your static gaze
And smile, naked at my silly ways
Planets spin around your head
Milk and sugar in my bed
Even when you're far away
I can hear you every day
Wise hands grasping the delicate prize
I just wait for the time of our lives
My desires can't be bought in black and white
Only you make me feel secure inside
For I know you really love no one but me
And I smile because they think it's fantasy
No one knows what's going on
They don't know where we belong
Let you swim around my face
Live inside my special place
It's only you that holds the key
Don't know what you do to me
In our little secret world
I can be your little girl
My desires can't be bought in black and white
Only you make me feel secure inside
For I know you really love no one but me
And I smile because they think it's fantasy
Take
(Berenyi)
He's perfect
At least within his dreams
He's perfect
To satisfy my scheme
He doesn't know my game
I don't recall his name
And though it's true
My flesh is new
Believe me dear
My mind is clear
He's smiling
(smiling at me)
He thinks he's won the night
I'm laughing
(laughing at him)
Imagine what you like
I know he's seen
Inside I'm green
But still he's blind
To what goes on inside my mind
He's smiling
(smiling at me)
He thinks he's won the night
I'm thinking
(thinking of me)
Imagine what you like
He claimed his prize
I had my price
I know it's cruel
But I refuse
To be the only one to lose
Laura
(Anderson)
Mirror maid, tummy ache
Make-up run
Lipstick girl, black stick curl
In the new york sun
Inside out, you know about my
Silly game
Even though, you don't know
About my name
Where I've been
What I dream
What I've seen
Clumsy eyes realise how to
Write the word
Basically, you sing for me
When I am hurt
Stoned and blind, never mind
Luckie's song
Press the keys, I can be
Where you belong
I'm a fan
Of your hand
Ooh
And
I'm in love
Cry above
Ooh
And
I'm a fan
Of your hand
Every man
Ooh
Monochrome
(Anderson)
Wake with the sun
What's going on, when you're gone
Fall asleep when you're near
What's going on, when you're here
And sometimes I think if I stand by the phone it may ring
And sometimes I worry and fear what tomorrow may bring
And you sing
And you sing
Breathe with your sigh
Makes me high, don't know why
Touching your skin
Wishing you were within
Your eyes are like saucers but mine are just clouded in gray
I've so much to tell but I can't and you just go away
Anyway
Won't you stay
Wake with the sun
What's going on, when you're gone
And when I lost control
I was cold, and I felt old
The ground is beneath me but slowly it's falling away
You say we're like children so why won't you come out and play?
And sometimes I think if I look at the phone it may ring
And sometimes I worry and fear what tomorrow may bring
When you sing
When you sing
Also, Spooky is the last time you'll ever hear Steve Rippon play bass for Lush.
He was soon after replaced, but by who? Strangely I've never seen him in any
photos of the group, personally I doubt if he ever existed..
Split
Yup, guess it finally had to happen. Split is the album with the 4 lemons on the
cover (subliminal messages? I hope so!). If I had to choose my favorite Lush
album, it'd have to be this one. Split is very different from the other Lush
albums, because instead of the usual upbeat, cheerful type songs, nearly every
song on Split is dark and scary in one way or another. Many of these songs are
the kind that I can relate to, which is why they seem scary to me. Plus, a
couple of the songs have real long instrumentals segments which are beautiful to
say the least. If you haven't heard this album yet, go buy it now.
Split :
Light From a Dead Star
Kiss Chase
Blackout
Hypocrite
Lovelife
Desire Lines
Invisible Man
Undertow
Never Never
Lit Up
Starlust*
When I Die
Light From a Dead Star
(Berenyi)
He lives his life in a world full of women
And he takes what he wants
from their love
And he throws the rest away
I cling to him and pray
But still he slips away
And now it's just too late
To wish him back again
She won't put up with this life
so she leaves him
And she finds someone else,
falls in love
And she travels far away
I say that it's ok
And swallow all my pain
And now it's just too late
To wish her back again
They left me here on my own
in a nightmare
And I just can't forgive anymore
So I smile and turn away
Don't listen when they say
They wish I could stay
And now it's just too late
To wish me back again
Kiss Chase
(Berenyi)
Tiny children on their own, they learn so fast
How to make new friends, how to play their new games
I remember a man he had shiny hair
Always hanging around when you went away
Little eight year old, she knows too many secrets
Much too young to understand what it means
I remember a woman with silver hair
And the smell and the taste of the bed we shared
And that's how I behaved
Every time that you went away
And now, though I'm older nothing's changed
(playing the same games)
And I knew every day
Came a chance that you'd leave me
So I found what I could to take your place
Told me not to cry
Said that I'd survive
As he waved goodbye
And I want to try
Not to make you cry
Want us to survive
Never say goodbye
But that's how I behave when you go away
Because though I'm older nothing's changed
(playing the same games)
And I know every day
There's a chance that you'll leave me
So I find what I can to take your place
Blackout
(Anderson)
I'm not interested in what you have to say
You're just a vacant space
Other people's lives upon which you prey
It's a permanent disgrace
Why do you think you know what's best for me
What I should and shouldn't do
Why do you judge my history
And tell me to improve
In the confines of your mind
You think we're all the same
I've left them all behind
Though you wish I hadn't
In finding fault in others I can't see
What you have to gain
I know that you get pleasure from
Other people's pain
You're not so perfect and I realise the scene
That you're all coming from
When you say you care I know what you mean
You're really lying
All the people around here
Love to hear about a fall
They all surface and disappear
In an instant
In the confines of your mind
You think we're all the same
I've left them all behind
Through you wish I hadn't
Hypocrite
(Berenyi)
A silly girl I run around and never know my reasons
And though you're laughing with me I know what you say about me
I can't explain, it's not your business anyway
So don't say you understand
And don't pretend you're on my side
And I remember when you hated her for sleeping next to him
I see your smiling face but I know you've done worse to me
You hypocrite,
don't talk to me
'Cause you're not fit to know me
So don't pretend
That you could've ever been a friend
And still I'm sure you think it's ok
What you've done to me
'Cause I'm so bad to him
Don't even try to hide behind that stupid lie
I know your kind and I know where your loyalties lie
The silly girls we run around and never know our reasons
And though I understand I guess I'll say that you betrayed me
I'm a hypocrite,
I dish it out but I can't take it
I know you think it's wrong
And maybe you're right but this is my song
And still I'm sure you think it's ok
What she did to me
'cause I'm so bad to him
Don't even try to hide behind that stupid smile
I know our kind and I know where our loyalties lie
Lovelife
(Anderson)
You are the one
In your concrete arms I adore you
Dirty and dear
Block out the sun
In your twists and turns I invade
You show me no fear
We blow around like tiny leaves in a big storm
Finding there's nothing left to breathe or to keep warm
You ebb and flow and your rhythm beats my head
Leave me alone while you swallow up your dead
You are the one
You cradle me and kill
Caressing my face
Leave me undone
You suffocate and have me
This is the place
Every door conceals a dream and a nightmare
Nothing is ever really pure in the stale air
And when it's dark everything becomes more clear
Lie in the park when I want to have you near
You are the one
In your concrete arms I adore you
Dusty and dear
Block out the sun
In your twists and turns I invade
You show me no fear
Left it unsung
I shall leave but I'll return
Poison my lungs, my blood is full of lead
Things unsaid
My love for you still burns
Desire Lines
(Anderson)
It's raining in this room
And it's so hot outside this room
I don't know no one here
I don't want to be here
In this room
We hold parties in our sleep
We fill ourselves up in our sleep
And I'll heal you when you're ill
Though it's hard keeping still
In our sleep
Pries the hair out of her mouth
Whilst the circus is heading south
While we search in the sand
Don't ask them to understand
Why they cover up their hands
And their mouths
The Invisible Man
(Anderson)
Oooh
Outside you are waiting for me, hiding
You catch me when I am
Needing a friend to hold
You can soothe me, lie above me
Press hard
Then you strike
And I think that I'll die
'Cause I can't breathe, can't breathe
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Oooh
Please let me start screaming
Eyes are open seeing nothing
Hands are tied and I can't function
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Please let me start screaming
Undertow
(Berenyi)
So you want to be alone
Run and hide inside your home
Watch you fall away from me
Sinking into misery
Taste your smile and hold my hand
Make you laugh and make you dance
I remember this
Everything was in our kiss
Sink my hands into the sea
Reach your fingers up to me
Trust me one more time
I can only try
Throw yourself to me
And I'll try to pull you free
Let me try to pull you free
Let me try to pull you free...
Never-Never
(Anderson)
Only children sometimes comprehend
Loneliness can often be a friend
Have to shut yourself in
Don't know how to begin
Telling it to someone
Who doesn't fit in
I am sunken in biology
I cannot control that part of me
I don't want to hurt you
But I know I will do
Maybe we could find out
What are we to do
I don't have long fingernails to use
Would we care if we were black and blue?
We're both sick but still you hold my hand
We're together but I understand
Walk along the seaside
This is not a joyride
Tell me in the meantime
It's ok
Lit Up
(Anderson)
You feel like I do
Like the whole world's forgotten you
And your life is so dull and predictable
Your room seems like a cell
And you don't sleep very well
And your friends only talk to point and to mock
And to ridicule
One day things won't seem the same way, I know
Morning in the mirror
Things will suddenly seem much clearer I promise, it's alright
His words don't flatter me
And they're printed for all to see
I don't care, he's not there
It's all history
The future's yours to hold
And you're really not very old
And your life is so white, so clean and so bright
And holds mystery
Morning in the mirror
Things will suddenly seem much clearer I promise it's alright
One day things won't seem the same way, I know
One day things won't seem the same way, I know
One day things won't seem the same way, I know
Starlust
(Anderson/Berenyi)
Walking at midnight
In the darkness, alone
Standing in the shadows
And I'm watching your glow
Standing in the red light
And I'm smiling at you
Dreaming of the starlight
Just waiting for you
I'll do anything to
Make you mine, make me shine
Take me if you want me
I don't care, I don't mind
I want your starlight
Make it mine, make me shine
Touch me with your light
And I'll burn like a star
When I Die
(Anderson)
If you walked in now
I wouldn't start I wouldn't frown
And if you just appeared
I woudn't cry or think it weird
'Cause you are still around
You're in the air, you're in the ground
And you can't go away
I am afraid you're here to stay
Friends don't understand
They close the door, they raise their hands
She says she heard your voice
Of course she does, she has no choice
I was hours ahead
When they removed you from your bed
They drank all the while
Until you said goodbye
Why are we sitting here in ourselves?
Why are we sitting here in ourselves?
Why are we sitting here in ourselves?
I don't look up, I don't look down
I look ahead and make no sound
My love was there,
I only stare
Healty in my dreams
Is what you are, is what is seems
What does it all mean?
You're only hiding behind a screen
Curse the English day
For what it forces us to say
Banish all the pain
'Cause when I die, die
I'll see you again.
Also, Split is the debut of Lush's new bassist Peter King! (he's that guy thats
always in black and I've yet to see smile) This is the album with "Starlust" (if
you don't know who Starlust is I'm gonna get pissed). And, here you get to see
that they've finally gotten rid of that horrid logo and have gotten a little
style, although this logo was soon replaced too.
Lovelife
Lush's new album lovelife is cool. And it seems to be an end of their shoegazer
era, but I'm not complaining, I like anyways. This album also got on MTV's top
20 indie albums list (they aren't an indie band though). Lovelife got the most
publicity of all their albums, so obviously it sold the most. Songs like "Ladykillers",
"Last Night" and "500" are where a lot of the current fans first heard Lush, so
if you're one of those fans, go to your record store and get the other albums,
NOW. I guarantee it'll be worth your cash. If you don't think so, then you suck.
Lovelife tracks:
Ladykillers
Heavenly Nobodies
500
I've Been Here Before
Papasan
Single Girl
Ciao!
Tralala
Last Night
Runaway
The Childcatcher
Olympia
Ladykillers
(Berenyi)
Here we go, I'm hanging out in Camden
Drink with my girlfriends on a Saturday night
This guy says, "come and meet my girlfriend"
She's sitting in the corner looking rather uptight
So I say "hello" and I try to be nice
But I see he's feeling itchy
Trying to play us off each other,
"Girls, girls, please don't fight" (you get the picture)
Hey you, the muscles and the long hair
Telling me that women are superior to men
Most guys just don't appreciate this
You just convincing me you're better than them
So he talks for hours about his sensitive soul
And his favorite subject is sex
I don't think he even wanted it
But, Christ this guy's too much (I wanna tell him)
I'm as human as the next girl,
I like a bit of flattery
But I don't need your practised lines, your school of charm mentality so
Save your breath for someone else and credit me with something more
When it comes to men like you,
I know the score,
I've heard it all before
(Here comes the next one)
Blondie was with me for a summer
He flirted like a maniac but I wouldn't bite
I'm weak and he was so persistent
He only had to have me 'cause I put up a fight
Oh God, the boy had such an ego
He liked to talk about himself all day and all night
You think you're such a ladykiller
But you were nothing special 'til you turned out the light
When he's nice to me he's just nice to himself
And he's watching his reflection
I'm a five foot mirror for adoring himself
Here's seven years bad luck (I wanna tell him)
When you say you love me you're just flattering your vanity
But I don't need your practised lines your, your school of charm mentality so
Save your breath for someone else and credit me with something more
When it comes to men like you,
I know the score,
I've heard it all before
Ooh, you're such a ladykiller, always on a winner, thinking that you're in there
Oh boy, you're such a ladykiller, super sexy mister, call it what you will, oh
You think you're such a lady killer, I just bet you're still there, posing in
the mirror
Hey girls, he's such a ladykiller, but we know where he's coming from and we
know the score.
Heavenly Nobodies
(Berenyi)
Just because they seem to understand the way you feel
It doesn't mean they'll feel the same way too
Just because they seem to hold a mirror to your life
It doesn't follow that they'll be just like you
Take no heroes,
Its no good
They don't stand up to you
Just take the bit you think they can use
I remember when I was younger
I thought the answers were locked in people
So I admired the ones whose lives were a source of envy to people like me
But do you really want to meet
The ones who write your dreams
Believe me, it's a fantasy
You won't like the reality
If you want heroes keep them safe
They don't stand up to life
So lock them in your soul and lose the key
(I love you, I don't want to meet you)
When I see you it makes me feel
There's someone else out there like me
You touch my soul with what you do
It all makes sense when I hear you
You understand the way I feel
I know exactly what you mean
It's like I've known you all my life
I think of you I feel alright
But in the flesh how would it be
If you could really see
The weaknesses you never knew
Alive and staring back at you
If you want to heroes keep them safe
They don't stand up to life
So lock them in your soul and lose the key
500
(Anderson)
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all you're charms
I've never been inside you but you're so alluring
They call you "little mouse" by name in Rome and Turin
Looking now at your famous shape
They don't make them like anymore
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
When things are looking good there's always complications
I can't be with you so I'm at the railway station
Let's run away and be so alive
Escape the drudgery of this nine to five
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
Shake, baby, shake, you know I worship from afar
Brake, baby, brake, how I wish you were my car
I've been here before
(Anderson)
I've tried to be strong, I've tried to be tough
But I think that this time I've had more than enough
I've seen too much of your games and your immature stuff
You're a waste of time
All the people I've known thoughout all the years
Too many vodkas and too many beers
And I've learnt a few lessons from all of the tears
You're way out of line
I feel so lucky sometimes
I sit down and look at all my friends
They mean more than the stupid fools that pass my way
I used to prefer those who weren't good for me
Somehow the attraction beat reality
Now all the rubbish they spill, it means nothing to me
I'm just much more wise
Some people grow up and some only pretend
They're all over the place, these children dressed up as men
They can't imagine how a woman can be only a friend
And they deal in lies
I feel so lucky sometimes
I sit down and I listen to my friends
They say more than the empty words that pass my way
And I feel so lucky sometimes
I've got a feeling I've been here before
I can see the world for what it really is
You think that I'm jealous, well don't be so vain
I can tell in your voice you think I want you again
Well, if I did you know I think I'd be a little insane
You just leave me cold
Ooh, you and her in your sad little world
You can only exist with the help of a girl
Well, I'm glad it's not me, I've got my life to unfurl
You're just way too old
I feel so lucky sometimes
I sit down and I look at all my friends
They mean more than the stupid fools that pass my way
And I feel so lucky sometimes
I've got a feeling I've been here before
I've been here before
Papasan
(Berenyi)
Maybe I should make you stay away
So you can really concentrate on where you are today when you phone,
I sit and think alone
And wonder if your life with her is really as you say
Then again, you're still a friend
I'll be loyal to you 'til the end
Come to me with wounds you want to heal
I'll listen and I'll try to understand the way you feel
Never fear that I'll be gone from here
I'll always be around for you to talk to me, my dear
We can try to justify reasons for and reasons why
Some are true and some are only lies
With fingers crossed you close your eyes
And hope that things will turn out fine
There's not a lot that I can do
If you're too weak to face the truth
'Cause if the things you tell me are
The way you really claim they are
Then I can only pity you for being such a fool
Single Girl
(Anderson)
Single girl, I don't want to be a single girl
Single girl, I don't want to be a single girl
Don't want to be on my own again tonight
Don't want to put out the light
Single girl, I don't want to be a single girl
Single girl, who would want to be a single girl
Don't want to talk to myself again tonight don't want to put out the light
When you abandoned me
Well, it was heaven sent
When I abandoned you
It was what you meant
Well, it was me that knew it
And it was you that went
Haven't changed our minds it was meant to be
Don't want to clean up your mess again tonight
Don't want to be in a fight
And I can do what I want again tonight
With who I choose, it's alright
Single girl, I just want to be a single girl
Ciao!
(Berenyi)
I've been so happy since I walked away
I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today
'Cause you were nothing but a big mistake
And life is wonderful, now that I'm rid of you
Oh I must've been crazy to have stayed with you
I can't believe I thought I was in love with you
But now the scales have fallen I can really see
And I say go to hell, 'cause thats where you took me
Well, I've felt better since I slammed that door
You always cramped my style, I never noticed before
It's been a non-stop party since I flew the coop
I can't believe I fell for such a loser like you
And is it any wonder that I felt so blue
When I was always having to put up with you
Oh, here we go again, just lay the blame on me
Don't say another word, 'cause sweetheart, you're history
I know that you miss me really, bet you wish that you still had me
You'll never find someone like me but I've got no regrets at all
'Cause I've met this girl and she's so good to me
She's really beautiful, fantastic company
Oh, when I'm with her I realise what love can be
'Cause she's fifty times the person you will ever be
Good luck, mister, do you think I care?
Since you've been gone the offers have been everywhere
I've got a million guys just lining up for me
I've turned a corner, boy, my life is ecstasy
Well, I've been in heaven since I walk away
I never thought that I could feel as great as I do today
'Cause you were nothing but a waste of space
And life is wonderful now that I'm over you
Tralala
(Anderson)
In this world I live in, I care for number one
Hell is round the corner, never trust no one
Funny how the people came to gather round
Oh, so many people when I was on the ground
I've never known what love is, there's no Mr.Right
If they want to treat me good, then that's their sorry plight
Funny how the people came to give their voice
Are they really people or just silly little boys?
Say what you want, I don't mind, I don't mind
Say what you need, I don't mind, I don't mind
I want all the people to notice who I am
Gotta show them what you've got or they won't give a damn
Say what you want, I don't mind, I don't mind
Say what you need, I don't mind, I don't mind
Last Night
(Anderson)
And even in your darkest hour
The recipe I cook for you
Can release its latent power
And make your body feel brand new
Can't you hear the music play
Being center of what you want
Try to leave the past behind
Memories don't appeal
All the things we said
All the things we did
All the things that passed
Were satisfied....
Runaway
(Berenyi)
Come on boy, I wanna dance now
Line by line we talk all night, yeah
Hold me down, I think I'm flying
Everybody's eyes are shining
Runaway to where the world is fine
Hold on boy, you're falling fast now
Line by line you go no where, yeah
Drag me down I feel I'm sinking
Can't relate to what you're thinking
Runaway to where the sun don't shine
Hello, hello, are you still there?
You don't answer me 'cause you just don't care
Act so young but you look so old
And you're too far gone to find your own way home
Life's so hard for you to handle
You can't live without your devil
Boy, you think that you're so special
Well, life is hard for everyone, believe me
Hello, hello, do you still care?
You don't answer me 'cause there's no one there
Run away from your own sweet soul
And you're too far gone to find your own way home
The Childcatcher
(Berenyi)
"Baby," he says, "You are like the clean white page and I the pen.
The innocence I find between your girlish thighs is like the fountain of youth
to my old bones."
And she replies, "Daddy's little girl's a precocious child
I love to please, I'll do anything that you ask of me
Eager to fulfill all of Daddy's needs."
"Baby," he says, "I can never love older girls like I love you.
You're easier to please and you never give me grief
'Cause you accept everything I say and do."
And she replies, "I'm in no position to make demands.
I have no past, no one else has done to me what you do.
I've got no one else to compare you to."
"And as you grow older, try to stay sixteen all your life,
Old women grow bitter, don't let that happen to you."
"And why is it charming pretending I'm younger than my years?
Why can't I grow up with dignity, set me free?"
"Baby," he says, "Now that you're older I feel our love has died.
Once upon a time you never criticised me.
Oh, I much preferred you as a child."
And I reply, "Everything you said to me was a lie.
I know your kind, you just want a daughter without a wife.
You don't need a girlfriend you need a life."
Olympia
(Anderson)
Will I ever be Olympia?
Will I ever be a girl like her?
Will I ever have to say the word
And instantly I'll be adored?
Could I ever deign to have the look
Instead of have to read a book?
Will I ever be Olympia?
Will I ever be a girl like her?
And if ever there's a will
There's a place in Notting Hill
You can go and visit still
And if ever there's a way
To find a hopeful ray
Will I find it all today?
Will I ever be Olympia?
Could I ever have a cat like her?
Could I ever lie around all day eating chocolate and marmalade?
Now it's time to find the perfect world
Dress myself up like the perfect girl
Could I ever be Olympia?
Could I ever be in love like her?
In chaos of our lives
Can we ever find the time
To cherish feeling fine
And in the aftermath of pain
Can the balance be regained?
Can we ever be the same?
And now, time to switch off
Sit down, turn the lights off
Lie back, treat this sofa like your own
Look out, here comes trouble
Look out, we're in a muddle
Keep running 'til you find you've reached your home
Could I ever be Olympia?
In the chaos of our lives
Can we ever find the time
To cherish feeling fine
And in the aftermath of pain
Can the balance be regained?
Can we ever be the same?
And now, time to switch off.
"Ciao!" is a duet of Miki & guest vocalist Jarvis Cocker from Pulp. It was
originally written for Miki & Chris, because Chris wanted to sing, but for some
reason he declined and Jarvis took over. 500 is about a car in case you didn't
know (it took me a while to figure it out :). And, the newest logo come with
this album, it's the best one so far (in my opinion) because it's really easy to
draw on school books!
Topolino
Lush's latest release: Topolino is a comtemplation of the other songs on the
Lovelife singles, it was somewhat hard for me to find, but it was worth the
effort. Unfortunatly, there are two versions (so hard-core fans like me have
gotta shell out a few extra bucks to hear every song), both versions are
domestics to their countries, making importing a little tougher than normal. The
Canadian version has 12 tracks, and the Japanese version has 9 tracks, the
japanese comes with a flyer that may include lyrics, but I know absolutely no
Japanese whatsoever.
Help me with the ??? Do you know what these words are? I've gotten a little help
with lyrics from some people, and tried to figure some out by myself, but as you
can see I am far from having all the songs, so if you have any lyrics to any of
the other songs e-mail me.
Topolino includes the following tracks on these versions:
Japanese:
500 (Shake Baby Shake)
I Have The Moon
Ex
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Matador
Piledriver*
I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
Carmen
Plums & Oranges*
Canadian:
500 (Shake Baby Shake)
I Have The Moon
Ex
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
Matador
Outside World*
I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
Carmen
Shut Up*
Cul De Sac*
Demystification*
Tinkerbell*
* : Only on the version listed
500
(Anderson)
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all you're charms
I've never been inside you but you're so alluring
They call you "little mouse" by name in Rome and Turin
Looking now at your famous shape
They don't make them like anymore
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
When things are looking good there's always complications
I can't be with you so I'm at the railway station
Let's run away and be so alive
Escape the drudgery of this nine to five
Shake, baby, shake, you know I can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
Shake, baby, shake, you know I worship from afar
Brake, baby, brake, how I wish you were my car
I Have the Moon
(S. Merritt)
We have walked in ancient times
And we've been burned for many crimes
We have ended many lives
But we never really died
You have the sun, I have the moon
You have to fly around the world all day
To keep the sun upon your face
I'd like to come and comfort you
But I'd be blinded by the blue
You have the sun, I have the moon
You're going to die under the sun
And I'll be doomed to carry on
You have become like other men
But let me kiss you once again
You have the sun, I have the moon
Ex
(Berenyi)
Once upon a time I knew how to make you happy or make you blue
Guess I'll be the same again, but it's not that easy to just be a friend
Look at where we are today with our pointless efforts to lay the blame
Maybe things can never work after so much betrayal and so much hurt
We're in the same position but a million miles apart
Maybe things will work eventually, but I just don't know where to start
When love has gone away
Something takes it's place
Does it really have to be hate?
So, what's it gonna be?
It's up to you and me
I just hope it isn't too late
Things you say to me, to love and hate you. (???)
For all the pain, all it does is get us nowhere
Yes, maybe in the end, we can be good friends want to but it isn't easy
Woah! (7x)
So, love has been and gone, how do we go on?
Is there something still worth saving?
Well, what's it gonna be, we can wait and see
Tell me, do you think we'll make it?
Let's stop the silly games, dishing out the blame
I know that we feel the same way
This doesn't have to be such a tragedy
Everything will work out some day
Well, maybe in the end, we can just be friends, I want to but it isn't easy
Yes, maybe in the end, we will be good friends, this is how it really should be
I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
(Dunbar/Gargwer)
See that we're so close together (???)
So far we're just friends, but I've been wonder whether...
I am just imagining you
Do you really have a thing for me?
Like I think I see when I see you smile and the smile's for me
I've gotta tell ya...
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Trying to say I wanna be your number one
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me 'fore I'm done
Late at night when I, when I go sleep
Picture in my mind, I see you and me
I am telling you what I wanna be
You, you say you are in love with me
Even though this'll (???)
that I know in life it's just got to be(???)
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Trying to say I wanna be your number one
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me 'fore I'm done.
I'm gonna make you love me
Yeah I'm gonna make you love me
Yeah I'm gonna make you love me from now on
I am just imagining you
Do you really have a thing for me?
Like I think I see when I see you smile and the smile's for me
I've gotta tell ya
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Trying to say I wanna be your number one
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me 'fore I'm...
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Hey you! I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me 'fore I'm done.
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me 'fore I'm done.
Matador
(King)
Ba ba da pa ba da
Ba da da da da da daaa
Ba dum dum ba da da dum......
(The entire song is basically like this and I'm not even going to attempt it)
Piledriver
(Aclund)
Is this the last time, I don't know?
Feeling so tired
My patience wearing thin
Oh what to do?
Waters can run deep
We used to have a good time,
But I don't know 'bout now
It's real but so lame
It's real but so lame
Tinkling, soothing, come deeper in to seep
You're so much harder when you weren't so cheap
I'm such a drag
I'm such a brat
Can i just be someone
Or can i be ignored?
It's real but so lame
It's real but so lame
Just one day, to get away
Would be so right
Just one time, would be so right
To just be told, it all seems so ordinary
So inconsequencial anyway
Is this the last time? I don't know?
Is this the last time, I don't know?
We used to have a good time
But i don't know 'bout now
It's real but so lame
It's real but so lame
Outside World
(Anderson)
Lately, I don't feel quite as I should
Lately, I don't feel quite as I could
I've been tired, lonely, sick of all this talk
It's been heading downward since we left New York
Lately, I've been feeling really down
Sorry, but my mind's in London town
Is it me or are these hotels really bad?
I want some decent TV, not this endless ad
Don't worry, you're a long, long way from home
People speak to me but I feel so alone
Don't worry, you're a long, long way from home
People speak to me but I feel so alone
Can't you understand my body's changing fast
It's not up to me how long I'm going to last
I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind
(Unknown)
I'd like to walk around in your mind some day
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me
You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone
You see the end before the beginning is ever begun
I would disturb your lazy tranquility
I'd turn away the sad impossibility of your smile
I'd sit there hearing the sound of the things I like about you
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware
And I'd just wander away trailing palm leaves behind me
So you don't even know that I've been there
Carmen
(Anderson/Berenyi)
Carmen tells me what she's done
Says she's having fun
Wants to be a mom
Copper hair and golden smile
Sparkles all the while
But life can be a trial
Carmen's in a world of pain
Don't cry now for yesterday
Babys' gone but she's okay
Carmen tells me where she's been
Nightmares that she's seen
Makes me want to scream
Hear the things that she's been through
Grey and black and blue
Life can be so cruel
Sit down here and take a drink
Tell me about everything
And he shrugs and then he winks again
Chocolate box and photograph
Life is hard and life is tough
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again
It's time we started heading home now
I've made mistakes along the way
It makes no sense but I'm okay now
Its happened again
I guess I'll live another day
Sit down here and take a drink
Tell me about everything
And he shrugs and then he winks again
Chocolate box and photograph
Life is hard and life is tough
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again
Plums & Oranges
(Anderson)
Its a lonely day in this house
Gray and insular in this house
I'm so bored and jaded
I'm so tired of feeling blue
Its a sunny day in your house
I can see no clouds in your house
This is where I'm staying
I just want to be with you
Please believe me when I say
All is what it seems
I've packed them up and thrown them away
You know what I mean
From the inside
To the outside
Over again
Please believe me when I say
All is what it seems
The fish next door are shining today
You know what I mean
Its a different day in this house
Plums and oranges in this house
This is where I'm staying
This is where I want to be
Shut Up
(Anderson)
I can't seem to find the time to ponder
I only think when I go for a wander
Life is too short
I feel that I'm caught
I can't go on
Feeling like this
I close my mind to boring stuff that you say
I'm cold and numb to things that you put my way
Its gone on too long
I have to be strong
My interest has gone long ago
I can't bear it when you start to moan
'Cause night and day you're always on the phone
Unaffect my houses not my home
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Life is too short
I feel that I'm caught
I can't go on
Feeling like this
I can't bear it when you start to moan
'Cause night and day you're always on the phone
Unaffect my houses not my home
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Demystification
(Berenyi)
I look out the window and I wonder at it all
Starin' at the symbols that decorate the wall
And everybody's callin' to come and join them all
And I can't go with no one 'til I understand the call
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
My electronic shaver won't plug into the wall
Now I can't go to the party the electrician didn't call
And I hear they're counting numbers in a store down in Whitehall
So much information, what can they do with it all?
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Some they can talk of Shiva and some they talk of God
Some talk of politicians and some may talk of love
Demystify the heroes with the chances we could take
I'm not looking for escapism, I just wanna escape
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I...
Don't come 'round for me unless you got what I want
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
I want some demystification
And I know what's going on
Tinkerbell
(Berenyi)
Everybody knows a woman like me
Insecurity is my philosophy
I see other women as the competition
I'm always nice to men and so they're nice to me
But other girls always seem to be bitchin' about me
I say they must be jealous
I say that its because their boyfriends all fancy me
Close my eyes and fantisize
Of all men envying me
So much fun to be number one
What good are sisters to me?
I just can't relate to some men
Unless I use my sexuality
Normal conversation always leave me insecure
Men are so much more approachable
Clever, kind and intellectual
And I never feel uncomfortable in their company
Male appreciation is my one ambition
Its a competition I must win
When I talk to girls its just monotonous shit
Because I don't want their friendship just their jealousy
Also, "Piledriver" was the only song ever written by the late Chris Acland :( .
And, if you were wondering, "topolino" is Italian for "little mouse"
24 non-album tracks:
All this useless beauty
Astronaut
Carmen
Cat's chorus
Dear me
Demystification
Ex
Girl's world
God's gift
Half and half
Hey hey helen
I have the moon
I wanna be your girlfriend
I'd like to walk around in your mind
Love at first sight
Mannequin
Outdoor miner
Outside world
Piledriver
Plums and oranges
Pudding
Shut up
Tinkerbell
White wood
All this useless beauty
( on elvis costello ep )
It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit
If she wasn't so ladylike
She imagines how she might have lived back when legends and history collide
So she looks to her prince finding he's so charmingly slumped at her side
Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
And she's waiting for passion or humour to strike
What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
'Til he almost began to negotiate
She held his head like a baby and said 'It's okay if you cry'
Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
He desires to impress his associates
But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
Chorus
She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
That were later defaced, disgraced celluloid
It don't even make sense but you can bet
If she isn't a sweetheart, a plaything or pet
The film turns her into an unveiled threat
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
Our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
They still think they're the gods of antiquity
If something you missed didn't even exist
It was just an ideal
Is that such a surprise?
Chorus
Astronaut
I recall how we used to meet
Running through the windy streets
Faces touched with body heat
I know
I can see us breathing from above
Lives are changing with our useless love
Is that enough ?
To feel her pain
To be with him, the same
To see you in vain
I rely on a moment's thought
Floating like an astronaut
Hiding is the last resort
I know
Carmen
( ladykillers ep )
Carmen tells me what she's done,
Says she's having fun,
Wants to be a mum.
Sparkles all the while,
Life can be a trial.
Carmen said..
Don't cry now for yesterday,
Baby's gone but she's okay.
Carmen tells me where she's been,
Nightmares that she's seen,
Makes me want to scream.
Clever(?) things that she's been through,
Grey and black and blue,
Life can so cruel.
Sit down here and take a drink,
Tell me about everything,
Andy shrugs and then he winks again.
Chocolate box and photograph,
Life is hard and life is tough,
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again.
It's time we started heading home now,
I've made mistakes along the way,
It makes no sense but I'm okay now,
It's happened again,
I guess I'll live another day.
Sit down here and take a drink,
Tell me about everything,
Andy shrugs and then he winks again.
Chocolate box and photograph,
Life is hard and life is tough,
Carmen smiles and then she laughs again.
Cat's chorus
( hypocrite ep )
Drinking
Sitting in a corner smiling to the others
Arriving here we are again.
Talking
Telling all out stories laughing at the thins
That we've all been though over all the years
And as the hours pass 'til midnight
We'll sing together in the moonlight
And looking back to when we first met
We seemed so different so many years passed so much time
And we're still here whatever times may come don't ever change
Oh we'll be laughing in the moonlight singing songs 'til midnight bunny,
kate, & emma, maxine and melissa laughing in the moonlight.
Dear me
( ladykillers ep )
Look at this page which I wrote yesterday
Just a selfish expression of beer and depression and
My insecurity so much a part of me
Swells up the pages of numerous diaries
Humiliations both real and imagined
All lie on this page and stare back at me mocking me
I run away from them push them away from
Soon and again they return to embarrass me.
Lie in my bed and stare up at the ceiling
We live in events of a previous evening
My poor little ego that bruises so easily
Fighting my conscience to justify reasons
Look in your soul tell me what do you see?
Can you honestly say you're completely at ease?
Do you believe that your conscience is clean?
Well I say you're a liar.
Demystification
( cover of zounds )
I look out the window and I wonder at it all
Staring at the circles that decorate the wall
Everybody's going to come and join them all
But I can't go with no one till I understand the call
Don't come round for me unless you got what I
Don't come round for me unless you got what I
Don't come round for me unless you got what I want
I want some Demystification
I want some Demystification
I want some Demystification about what's going on
My electronic shaver won't plug into the wall
Now I can't go to the party, the electrician didn't call
Now I hear they're counting numbers to store them in Whitehall
There's so much information, what can they do with it all
Chorus
Some people talk of Sheba, some they talk of God
Some talk of Politicians, some they talk of love
They mystify the heroes, offer chances we could take
I'm not looking for escapism, I just wanna escape
Chorus
Ex
Once upon a time I knew,
How to make you happy or make you blue,
Guess I'll be the same again,
But it's not that easy to just be friends.
Look at where we are today,
With our pointless efforts to lay the blame,
Maybe things can never work,
After so much betrayal and so much hurt.
We're in the same position,
But a million miles apart,
Maybe things will work eventually,
But I just don't know where to start.
When love has gone away,
Something takes its place,
Does it really have to be hate?
So what's it's gonna be?
It's up to you and me,
I just hope it isn't too late.
Things we say to..
.. all the pain,
All it does is get us nowhere,
Yes, maybe in the end,
We can be good friends,
I want to but it isn't easy.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
So, love has been and gone,
How do we go on?
Is there something still worth saving?
Well, what's it gonna be?
We can wait and see,
Tell me do you think we'll make it?
Let's stop the silly games,
Dishing out the blame,
I know that you feel the same way,
This doesn't have to be,
Such a tragedy,
Everything will work out someday.
Well, maybe in the end,
We can just be friends,
I want to but isn't easy,
Yes, maybe in the end,
We will be good friends,
This is how it really should be.
Girl's world
( desire lines ep )
You can be someone but you can't be me
And I know that somehow i will never be free
Years ago in the darklands i was dressed like a toy
Now this doll has her own hands and she wishes you felt joy
When there might be another it makes you shiver in the cold
That is why i don't bother involving you in my world
Smashing glasses and breaking bases you lied to me
Over and over you never listened to me
There was too much affection you treated me as if i were clay
Home became like a prison in my mind i kept running away
God's gift
What's your passion ?
I think I see
You just can't bear to let things be
What's your weakness ?
I think I know
You just can't bear to let things go
Finger in every pie
Can't let a chance pass you by
Green with envy
Your greedy eyes
Have picked the flesh from all our lives
You want others
To act the same
To flatter you with their jealously
Life is a race to be won
You've got to beat everyone
You've got to be number one
Popular and beautiful
Adored by men and women too
Perfect in every way
At least that's what you say
You've lived and loved and suffered too
No-one's a patch on you
A saint, a star, a goddess and a brain
But, the truth now
Are you happy with your lies ?
You know, nothing's perfect
Aren't you lonely with your lies
Finger in every pie
Can't let a chance pass you by
Make up your life with the lies
But don't you think that what we see
Belies the things you claim to be
A saint, a star, a goddess and a brain
Half and half
( from volume )
So much happened and I couldn't deny
That I broke your feelings with the way that I lied
So I do understand the reason you became so weak.
Oh baby you're not half the person that you used to be.
Brag your exploits down the telephone
While you scatter her images around our home
And it's strange how where you feel pride I felt only shame.
I guess it's not unusual that I took all the blame.
Did you feel as guilty when you whispered out my name?
They say it takes a while
To really mean goodbye
You say you feel confused
But I'm just feeling used.
A year of misery
Has left its mark on me
I should've left you when
I wanted to but then.
It's never fair
It's never fair
It's never fair
It's never fair
I wish I could remove
The things I put you through
There's nothing I could change
If we began again.
But you don't have to take
Any more
Any more
Any more
Any more
I guess I'm only half the person that you thought I'd be
I'm thinking of the time when you first said that you loved me
I'm feeling like I'm half the person that I ought to be.
Hey hey helen
( from gala ; written by abba )
So at last you're free
It's the way you wanted it to be
It's the price you paid
To become a woman of today
Is it worth the pain to see the children cry
Does it hurt when they ask for Daddy
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Though you're free at last
And beginning to forget the past
Does it make you sad
When you think about the life you had
But you're right, you had to take a second chance
So you fight to find your freedom
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen
What's the matter with you
Hey hey Helen
Don't you know what to do
Ahah, yes you do yes you do
Ahah, yes you do yes you do
Hey hey Helen
Now you live on your own
Hey hey Helen
Can you make it alone
Hey hey Helen
What's the matter with you
Hey hey Helen
Don't you know what to do
I have the moon
( nowhere soundtrack / single girl ep )
We have walked in ancient times,
And we've been burnt for many crimes,
We have envied many lives,
But we never eally died,
You have the sun I have the moon.
You have to fly around the world all day,
To keep the sun upon your face,
I'd like to come and comfort you,
But i'd be blind if I were blue,
You have the sun I have the moon.
You've come to die under the sun,
And i'll be doomed to carry on,
You have become like other men,
But yet you kiss me once again,
You have the sun I have the moon.
I wanna be your girlfriend
( ladykillers 7' )
Sitting here so close together
So far we're just friends, but I'm wond'ring whether
I--am I just imagining
You--do you really have a thing for me
Like I think I see when I see you smile
And your smile's for me
I gotta tell you
CHORUS:
Hey! (hey!) You! (you!)
I wanna be your girlfriend
Trying to say I wanna be your number one
Hey! (hey!) You! (you!)
I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me 'fore I'm done
Late at night when I--when I can't sleep
Picture in my mind I see you and me
I'll tell you what I wanna be
You to say that you're in love with me
You know feels so good in a dream
That I know in life we just got to be
I gotta tell you
Chorus
Gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me
From now on
Chorus
Hey! (hey!) You! (you!)
I wanna be your girlfriend
Hey! (hey!) You! (you!)
I wanna be your girlfriend
Hey! (hey!) You! (you!)
I wanna be your girlfriend
Gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me
Yeah, I'm gonna make you love me before I'm done
I'd like to walk around in your mind
( 500 ep )
I'd like to walk around in your mind someday,
I'd like to walk all over the things you say to me,
I'd like to run and jump on your solitude,
I'd like to rearrange your attitude to me.
You say you just want peace and you'd never hurt anyone,
You see the end before the beginning is even begun,
I would disturb your easy tranquility,
I'd turn away the sudden possibility of your smile.
I'd sit there humming the sound of the things I like about you,
I'd sing my songs and find out just what they mean to you,
But most of all I'd like you to be unaware,
And I'd just wander away trailing palm leaves behind me,
So you don't even know that I've been there.
Love at first sight
( written by stuart moxham / hypocrite ep)
I was waiting at the station,
When your train came in,
Wasn't you I was tiptoeing for,
But you gave me a grin,
Felt my heart in my throat,
Felt my soul going out to you,
Could this be love at first sight?
I just didn't know.
I was waiting at the station,
When your train came in,
Wasn't you I was tiptoeing for,
But you gave me a grin,
Felt my heart in my throat,
Felt my soul going out to you,
Could this be love at first sight?
I just didn't know.
I didn't know,
I didn't know,
I didn't know,
I didn't know.
Don't you feel insecure,
All about your love for me?
There's nothing I adore,
More than a fake ugly day.
Mannequin
( from whore, a wire tribute record; written by wire )
You're a waste of space
No natural grace
You're so bloody thin
You don't even begin
To interest me
Not even curiosity
It's not animosity
It's just you don't
Interest me
You're an energy void
A black hole to avoid
No style
No heart
You don't even start
To interest me
Not even curiosity
It's not animosity
It's just you don't
Interest me
Outdoor miner
( originally by wire; written by lewis/newman )
No blind spots in the leopard's eyes
Could ever hope to jeopardize
The lives of lambs
The shepherd cries
An afterlife for a silverfish
Eternal dust, less ticklish
Than a clean room
A houseguest's wish
(chorus)
He lies on his side
Is he trying to hide
In fact it's the earth
Which he's known since birth
Face worker, a serpentine miner
A roof falls, an underliner
Of leaf structure
The egg timer
Outside world
( single girl ep )
Lately, I don't feel quite as I should
Lately, I don't feel quite as I could
I've been tired, lonely, sick of all this talk
It's been heading downward since we left New York
Lately, I've been feeling really down
Sorry, but my mind's in London town
Is it me or are these hotels really bad
I want some decent TV not this endless act
Don't worry you're a long long way from home
People speak to me but I feel so alone
Whoa whoa whoa Whoa whoa whoa
Don't worry you're a long long way from home
People speak to me but I feel so alone
Can't you understand my body's changing fast
It's not up to me how long I'm going to last
Whoa whoa whoa Whoa whoa whoa
Piledriver
( 500 ep )
Is this the last time?
I don't know.
Feel so tired,
Patience wearing thin.
What to do?
Waters can run deep,
We used to have a good time,
Don't remember how.
Do you still want me?
Do you still want me?
.. sleep,
You were so much harder when you weren't so cheap.
Oh such a drag,
Oh such a bore,
Can I just be someone?
Can I be ignored?
Its..
you still want me?
Just one date,
Could be so red,
Just one time,
To .. and be straight.
Don't ask me..
Is this the last time?
I don't know.
Is this the last time?
I don't know.
We used to have a good time,
Don't remember how.
chorus
chorus
[Spoken: Alright, I'll leave it out, I'll leave it out]
Plums and oranges
( ladykillers ep )
It's a lonely day in this house
We are ?disecure? in this house
I'm so bored and Jaded
I'm so tired of feeling blue
It's a sober day in this house
I can't seem to flow in this house
This is where i'm staying
I just wanna be with you
Please believe me when I say all is right it seems
I've packed them all and thrown them away
You know I need you
from the inside to the outside
Please believe me when I say all is right it seems
It's a different day in this house
Plums and oranges in this house
This is where I'm staying
This is where I want to be
Pudding
( single girl ep )
Who wants pudding?
And who wants honey?
And who wants bananas and cream?
Who wants processions
With various obsessions?
Which God will remove if you scream.
Nothing much has changed.
My body's a-creakin'
My mind keeps awakin'/a-weaknin',
My feet are all dirty and grey.
I live in my nightgown,
From sun-up to sundown,
I'm watching my sweet tooth decay.
Nothing much has changed.
Lines, spots,
Join the dots,
Colour in Barbie and Ken,
Scab on your knee,
Biscuits for tea,
I live in my cupboard with friends, Ben(?)
Nothing much has changed.
Nothing much has changed.
Nothing much has changed.
Shut up
( single girl ep )
I can't seem to find the time to ponder,
I only think when I go for a wander,
Life is too short,
I feel that I'm caught,
I can't go on feeling like this.
Close my mind to boring stuff that you say,
I'm cold and numb to things that you look my way,
It's gone on too long,
I have to be strong,
My interest is gone long ago.
I can't bear it when you start to moan,
'Cos night and day you're always on the phone,
I'm not fucked, my house is not my home,
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Life is too short,
I feel that I'm caught,
I can't go on feeling like this,
I can't bear it when you start to moan,
'Cos night and day you're always on the phone,
I'm not fucked, my house is not my home,
Why can't you just leave me alone?
Tinkerbell
( single girl ep )
Everybody knows a woman like me
Gender traitor of the highest degree
I see other women as the competition
I'm always nice to men
And so they're nice to me
But other girls always seem to be bitching about me
I guess they must be jealous
It's not my fault that men just can't resist loving me
Close my eyes and fantasize a world of men and only me
So much fun to be number one what good are sisters to me
I just can't relate to somebody unless i use my sexuality
So i never feel that confident when i talk to girls
Men are so much more approachable clever kind and intellectual
And i never feel uncomfortable in their company
Because i don't want their friendship just their jealousy
White wood
( desire lines ep )
Just hold my hand and stroke my hair
And ask them not to stand
And stare my mind is scattered everywhere
And all around i see despair my heart was broken long ago
I've come so far and sunk so low the truth's
A man without a soul i find him everywhere i go
All is fair in love they say liars liars i found only misery
Love is cruel i can close my eyes and see something better
Fairy tales and fantasy let me sleep let me dream
Just hold my hand and stroke my hair
And tell me everything's ok
I'm waiting for my millionaire just lie to me
And say he's there
They say the truth is beautiful
Liars liars what do they know of the truth anyway
I can close my eyes and see something better fairy tales
And fantasy that's the world for me
Discography :
Here it is......
1.
Scar-October 1989.Mini LP.
JAD 911-12".
JAD 911 C-Cassette.
JAD 911 CD-CD.
a) Baby Talk.
b) Thoughtforms.
c) Scarlet. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
d) Bitter.
e) Second Sight.
f) Etheriel. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
2.
Mad Love-February 1990.EP.Peak UK chart position-55.
BAD 0003-12".
BAD 0003 C-Cassette.
BAD 0003 CD-CD.
a) De-Luxe.
b) Leaves Me Cold.
c) Downer.
d) Thoughtforms-New recording.
3.
Sweetness and Light-October 1990.EP.Peak UK chart position-47.
BAD 0013-12".
ADC 0013-Cassette.
AD 0013-7".
BAD 0013-CD.
a) Sweetness and Light.
b) Sunbathing. (CD and 12" only.)
c) Breeze. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
The 7" version contains a shortened version of Sweetness and Light.
4.
Gala-November 1991.LP.
CAD 0017-LP.
CAD 0017 C-Cassette.
CAD 0017 CD-CD.
4AD Japan: COCY-6925-CD.
Reprise(USA): 9 26463-1-LP.
Reprise: 9 26463-2-CD.
Reprise: 9 26463-4-Cassette.
a) Sweetness and Light.
b) Sunbathing.
c) Breeze. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
d) De-Luxe.
e) Leaves Me Cold.
f) Downer.
g) Thoughtforms.
h) Baby Talk.
i) Thoughtforms.
j) Scarlet. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
k) Bitter.
l) Second Sight.
m) Etheriel. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
n) Hey Hey Helen. (ABBA cover.)
o) Scarlet. (Gigantic 2 version.) (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
This album is a compilation of all tracks previously released, together with the
ABBA cover, and the Robin Guthrie rerecording of Scarlet.
5.
Black Spring-October 1991.EP.Peak UK chart position-43.
AD 1016-7".
BAD 1016-12".
ADC 1016-Cassette.
BAD 1016 CD-CD.
a) Nothing Natural. (This is a different mix to that on the album.)
b) Fallin' In Love. (Dennis Wilson cover. CD and 12" only.)
c) God's Gift. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
d) Monochrome. (CD and 12" only.)
6.
Nothing Natural-October 1991.EP. (America.)
Reprise: 9 40231-2-CD Digipak.
a) Nothing Natural. (This is a different mix to that on the album.)
b) God's Gift. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
c) Monochrome.
d) Nothing Natural. (Different version.) (Album version?)
7.
For Love-January 1992.EP.Peak UK chart position-35.
BAD 2001-12".
BAD 2001 CD- Limited Gatefold CD Digipak.
BAD D 2001-Limited 10".
PIAS: 170.2001.22-Slimline CD.
a) For Love.
b) Starlust.
c) Outdoor Miner. (Wire cover.)
d) Astronaut.
8.
Spooky-4/2/92.LP.Peak UK chart position-7.
CAD 2002-LP.
CAD D 2002-2 limited 10"'s in a gatefold sleeve with different artwork.
CAD C 2002-Cassette.
CAD 2002 CD-CD.
CAD D 2002 CD-Limited CD Digipak with different sleeve artwork.
Reprise: 9 26798-2-CD.
Shock Records: SHOCK 1017 CD-Australian release of CD and Digipak.
a) Stray.
b) Nothing Natural.
c) Tiny Smiles. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi.)
d) Covert.
e) Ocean.
f) For Love.
g) Superblast!
h) Untogether.
i) Fantasy.
j) Take.
k) Laura.
l) Monochrome.
The first legitimate studio album. On the Japanes version there are 2 extra
tracks - Fallin' In Love and God's Gift, both from the Nothing natural single.
9.
Superblast!-1993.EP.
4AD Japan: COCY-5185 -CD.
a) Superblast! (Remix.)
b) Outdoor Miner.
c) Fallin' In Love. (Dennis Wilson cover.)
There are now at least two known cases with Starlust as the last track. Contact
me if you know more.
10.
Hypocrite-30/5/94.EP.Peak UK chart position-52.
BAD 4008 CD-CD.
BAD 4008-12".
AD 4008-7".
a) Hypocrite.
b) Love at First Sight. (The Gist cover.)
c) Cat's Chorus.
d) Undertow. (Spooky mix. Not on 7".)
11.
Desire Lines-30/5/94.EP.Peak UK chart position-60. (Released on same day as
Hypocrite.)
BAD 4010 CD-CD.
BAD 4010-12".
AD 4010-7".
a) Desire Lines.
b) Girl's World.
c) White Wood. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi)
d) Lovelife.(Suga Bullit mix. Not on 7".)
12.
Split-13/6/94.LP.Peak UK chart position-19.
CAD 4011 CD-CD.
Reprise: 0936 45578 1-LP.
Reprise: 0936 45578 4-Cassette.
Reprise: 0936 45578 2-CD.
PIAS: 170.4011.20.
Rough Trade: 1 RTD120 1905 2 12 CD-CD. (Germany.)
a) Light From a Dead Star.
b) Kiss Chase.
c) Blackout.
d) Hypocrite.
e) Lovelife.
f) Desire Lines.
g) The Invisible Man.
h) Undertow.
i) Never-Never.
j) Lit Up.
k) Starlust. (Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson.)
l) When I Die.
The Rough Trade and PIAS versions came with a bonus disk which contained the
three B-sides from the Desire Lines single.
13.
Cookie-December 1994.Mini LP.
Columbia Japan: COCY 78365 \2000-CD.
a) White Wood. (Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi)
b) Girl's World.
c) Lovelife. (Suga bullit mix.)
d) Love at First Sight.
e) Cat's Chorus.
f) Undertow.
This is a compilation of all the B-sides from the Split singles, Hypocrite and
Desire Lines.
14.
Single Girl-6/1/96.EP.Peak UK chart position-21.
BAD 6001 CD-CD 1.
BAD D 6001 CD-CD 2.
AD 6001- Limited 7".
CD 1:
a) Single Girl.
b) Tinkerbell.
c) Outside World.
d) Cul De Sac. (Phil King.)
CD 2:
a) Single Girl.
b) Pudding.
c) Demystification. (Cover of Zounds.)
d) Shut Up.
7":
a) Single Girl.
b) Sweetie. (Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi.)
15.
Ladykillers-26/2/96.EP.Peak UK chart position-22.
BAD 6002 CD-CD 1.
BAD D 6002 CD-CD 2.
AD 6002- Limited 7".
CD 1:
a) Ladykillers.
b) Matador. (Phil King.)
c) Ex.
d) Dear Me.
CD 2:
a) Ladykillers.
b) Heavenly.
c) Carmen. (Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson.)
d) Plums and Oranges.
7":
a) Ladykillers.
b) I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend. (Cover of The Rubinoo's.)
16.
Lovelife-18/3/96-UK.5/3/96-USA.LP.Peak UK chart position-8.
CAD 6004-CD.
CAD C 6004-Cassette.
CAD 6004-Limited LP.
Reprise: 9 46170 2.
Japan: Sony: COZY->27->28-Double CD.
a) Ladykillers.
b) Heavenly Nobodies.
c) 500.
d) I've Been Here Before.
e) Papasan.
f) Single Girl.
g) Ciao! (Featuring Jarvis Cocker of Pulp.)
h) Tralala.
i) Last Night.
j) Runaway.
k) The Childcatcher.
l) Olympia.
The Japanese version comes with a 6 track 3 inch CD with all the Single Girl
B-sides on it.
17.
500 (Shake Baby Shake.)-15/7/96.EP.Peak UK chart position-21.
BAD 6009 CD-CD 1.
BAD D 6009 CD-CD 2.
AD 6009- Limited 7".
CD 1:
a) 500.
b) I Have The Moon. ( Cover of Magnetic Fields.)
c) Piledriver. (Chris Acland.)
d) Olympia. (Acoustic version.)
CD 2:
a) 500.
b) I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind. (Written by unknown.)
c) Kiss Chase. (Acoustic version.)
d) Last Night. (Hexadecimal Dub Mix.)
7":
a) 500.
b) I Have The Moon. (Cover of Magnetic Fields.)
The single release of 500 was subtitled (Shake Baby Shake.)
18. Topolino-1996.LP.
Japan: COCY-80351-CD.Release: 31/8/96.
Canada: 76974 2110-2-CD.Release: 20/11/96.
1. 500.
2. I Have The Moon. (Cover of Magnetic Fields.)
3. Ex.
4. I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend. (Cover of The Rubinoo's.)
5. Matador. (Phil King.)
6. I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind. (Written by unknown.)
7. Carmen. (Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson.)
Extra tracks on Japanese album:
1. Piledriver. (Chris Acland.)
2. Plums and Oranges.
Extra tracks on Canadian album:
1. Outside World.
2. Shut Up.
3. Cul de Sac. (Phil King.)
4. Demystification. (Cover of Zounds.)
5. Tinkerbell.
Topolino is a compilation of Lovelife b-sides. And very good they are too.
19.
Sing-Sing:
Feels Like Summer - 5/10/98. CD.7". Peak UK chart position: Number 10 on CWNN
indie chart.
Bella Union Records: BELLACD8.
For Us Records/Bella Union: FU 004/BELLA V8.
1. Feels Like Summer.
2. Hit And Run. (Lisa O'Neill and Mark van Hoen.)
3. Command. (Lisa O'Neill.)
The debut release from Emma's new band, on the Cocteau Twins new label as
well....
The 7" is limited to 500 copies. Hit and Run has also been dropped from the 7".
20.
Sing-Sing:
I Can See You/Linoleum: Your Back Again - 25/1/99. CD. 7". Peak UK chart
position: Number 10 on CWNN indie chart.
7": NING-NING 66.
CD: NING-NING 66CD.
1. I Can See You. (Lisa O'Neill and Mark Van Hoen.)
Split single with Linoleum. Their song is 'Your Back Again.'
All songs on this discograpy were written by either Miki Berenyi or Emma
Anderson unless otherwise noted.
Browning in a sea of Britpop....
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