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Song for Elliott
03:05
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Yesterday
can't buy me love, misery!
you never give me your money,
eight days a week I'm a loser,
she's a woman, she loves you, get back...
Drive my car,
Back in the USSR,
while my guitar gently weeps, girl
I call your name: no reply
within you, without you, there's a place
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN
ASK ME WHY I FEEL FINE...
Hey bulldog,
It's only love, let it be...
why don't we do it in the road
you know my name, all my loving
step inside love because I'm so tired
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN
ASK ME WHY I FEEL FINE...
(Lucio's sax solo)
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?
I'LL FOLLOW THE SUN
ASK ME WHY I FEEL FINE...
(last chorus sung by Dominique)
GOOD NIGHT, HELLO GOODBYE,
GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE, WAIT!
YOU LIKE ME TOO MUCH
TELL ME WHY I NEED YOU...
(Lucio's second sax solo)
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Here's me hidden in the underground
And so far I don't mind
That's why a-ha you'll find
I'm never coming here
Buy me all the things I ask for
Nothing's too much for me
Here more often than not
A burst investigating main
Never before did it seem what it used to seem
Its right by night time
So find the right time
One day I'll be getting older
And so what happpens now on the big screen
Or should I leave it all behind
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did I know
A bigger chance to be congenial
I once had a go on my own
Oh no see who's getting nearer
All efforts wasted now
That's why I'm right believing
Everything I see
Whats new? "Bulldog Drummonds' peril"?
"The tragedy of a switchboard operator"?
Another "Weekend World"?
Never before did it seem what it used to seem
It's packaged right like Gina Lollabridgida
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did I know
A bigger chance to be congenial
Once had a go on my own
You laugh and I can never hear you
Never before did it seem what it used to seem...
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Maybe I'm a lioness
Modern tales of razor legs
Oh I, I am not so sure...
Holy elephants and fries
You can see the great shake's smile
Oh I, I am not so sure...
And, how could I break my heart in two
Je suis fool...
Wait, I am mistaking myself heavily
Once again...
Once again...
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This is a particular favorite of mine. The choruses somehow try to reimagine those kind of meters I loved in songs like "Fast Robert", "Don't you ail, flash to the steam" by Spratleys Japs, while the verses are more straight sixties funky oriented... the guitar intro was originally written in 2007, while the coda was improvised during recording, in a period during which I was listening to a lot of "Fractured"-era King Crimson... What it's wrong with my times?
This song has been heavily re-arranged live, and it's often played at almost half the speed, totally acoustic and with piano and flute galore...
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Otorinolaringoiatria
04:10
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Gay Cruise
03:34
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Big Daisy
03:34
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Check out the video on YouTube!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj7LzHFklWg
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Give us some pound
Living in fear of being found
Under a car where all we is and are
Climbing the pipes love automobile
Last in a line sing production we are
Ah we
Last in a line
Last in a line as must be ah
Shielded as wheel, not go round any more
Yeah and Ned Kelly was hung for less
Than hiding under a car
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Rollercoaster
02:58
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Too Many Mistakes
04:07
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James Iha meets Slowdive
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Flatworms (Eggs of Joy)
06:48
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Everybody knows that "Dirty boy" is the greatest song ever written, no doubt about it. I always loved this song since I first discovered Cardiacs in late 2006, some of you may also know the acoustic cover I did in 2010... (you can find it in the "loyal companion" of the wonderful Tim Smith tribute album "leader of the starry skies") But then my ego grew bigger and bigger, so I said to myself: "why not trying to write some kind of a musical sequel to it?" So, yes, I'm probably crazy, but this song it's me messing around with tons and tons of chords and chord changes - close to the original 237 - trying to replicate all the things I adored in that song, from the big choruses scaling up a semitone to all kind of assorted madness you could imagine... thanks Tim, you're a genius, and a great inspiration... this is for you!
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We cut all his eyes we did
Squeezed the lids and down the grog into hole
He skip with cow eyed smile to the blissful
Into craggy dress and WE WILL WE PRAISE HIM
WE WILL PRAISE HIM off his pins
Clear him of all sins
Oh my! We sang with strength to carry on
Encouraged him to sing along
We sang of all the world and praised him HOORAY!
Stay alive to live or without
And he is down all over and out
Watch us hang on shoulders as tall as gold as
Feely hand and finger around all we
And look to see if we care if he is heaven sent or
Hell bent but WE WILL PRAISE HIM
WE WILL PRAISE HIM ALL AWAY
Praise him all away
My arms chancing and you will no way
Live long enough to repay me
I praise you anyway always
Wipes last with brown and pale
Dirty Boy he gone all stale
And down the stair and hallway crawling
And pig and toast and kitchen brawling
Night-time days are all weekless
Alarm charm, he's all up and dressed
He dirty boy, he bathroom dances
And check his jam and breathe on glasses
Spiny grip brings all off 'Mr.Regal jelly' in hand
Warm feel and suck regal man suck bland
Suck bland away and he a sleepy cow-eyed dog
He treading soft sand
Kiss and stroke and praise him
STROKE AND PRAISE HIM
All is worth a kiss
Not how to cleanse
And fowl preserver of sick somehow don't worry now
Hold his mouth and stop him breathing
Over and out .........
(repeat ad libitum!)
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Sterbus Rome, Italy
Sterbus are from Rome, but their true musical spirit wanders much further afield, from the joyful power-pop of The Lemon
Twigs to the rainy Portland of Elliott Smith and certainly all the South of England's ground-soils Cardiacs and XTC.
"Solar Barbecue" marks their comeback with a new ALL-INSTRUMENTAL opus centered around funny chords, frantic paces and exhilarating arrangements.
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