Marillion - Memory Of Water

Από το ακουστικό Less Is More που κυκλοφόρησε στις 2 Οκτωβρίου από τους Marillion, που είχαν πρόσφατα κυκλοφορήσει και το live Recital of the Script. Το Recital of the Script περιλαμβάνει ζωντανή ηχογράφηση της συναυλίας του συγκροτήματος στο Hammersmith Odeon στις 18 Απριλίου1983.


I wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
And filled me full of thirsty love
And the memory of water?

‘Wonder if a king still fishes there
His back toward the burned out air
His laughing catches singing loud
The memory of water

Your taste is blood and ecstasy
But I must drink you all alone
You’re freckled like a speckled egg
A dove… but this bird has flown

O stay with me sweet memory
O stay with me

Wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree
By the standing pool where you drank me
As pain flows through me like champagne
Of the memory of water

Air - Heaven's Light

Από το πρόσφατο άλμπουμ των Air, Love 2 που κυκλοφορεί από τις 30 Σεπτεμβρίου.





On the Way to the Heaven's Light
Where the Time doesn't matter
You're so fine
Take my Hand
Put Me on the Top of the World

On the Way to the Heaven's Light
You were hiding behind the Moon
You're so fine
You walk in my Mind
Put Me on the Top of the World

On the Way to the Heaven's Light
Things go up, Things go down
Our Love stays around
Put Me on the Top of the World

On the Way to the Heaven's Light
On the Way to the Heaven's Light

Από το βιβλίο του Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler εμπνεύστηκε το όνομα για το ομώνυμο (If on a Winter's Night) νέο του άλμπουμ ο Sting που περιλαμβάνει στην πλειοψηφία τους διασκευές παραδοσιακών τραγουδιών με κοινό παρονομαστή το χειμώνα και έντονα θρησκευτικό στοιχεία.

A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
God bless the master of this house, and the mistress also.
And all the little children that round your table grow.
The cattle in your stable and the dog by your front door.
And all that dwell within your gates
we wish you ten times more.
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.

One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.
Go down into the cellar and see what you can find.
If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind.
We hope you will be kind with your apple and strawber’
For we’ll come no more a ’soalin’ till Xmas time next year.
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.
I have a little pocket to put a penny in.
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’ penny will do.
If you haven’t got a ha’ penny then God bless you.
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
any good thing to make us all merry,
A soul, a soul cake, please good missus a soul cake.
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all

Kill Hannah - Acid Rain

Από το Wake Up The Sleepers των Kill Hannah που κυκλοφόρησε στις 29 Σεπτεμβρίου.

Saw you in the rain,
Semi-torn apart,
With those alice cooper eyes watching the storm,
And you were so strange in that hurricane,
That I knew that I was just too late,

I will run with you,
In a silent film under the acid rain,
No one sees us cry under the acid rain,
So let it rain, just let it rain,

I still miss you now when it's pouring down,
I just hope that you remember,
When the fires raged for all night and day,
In our movie that was never made,

I will run to you,
Never let you go under the acid rain,
No one sees us cry under the acid rain,
So let it rain

Joss Stone - Free Me

Το πρώτο σινγκλ από το νέο άλμπουμ της Joss Stone, Colour Me Free που έπειτα από δύο αναβολές κυκλοφόρησε τελικά στις 20 Οκτωβρίου

Ain't I got you on my back foot
And you know I got to feeling good
Cause there’s something deep inside of me
I got to be

And if you find it hard to follow me
If I loose you in my creative stream
Than you only got to raise your eyes
And see me fly

Don’t tell me that I won’t
I will
Don’t tell me that I’m not
I am
Don’t tell me that my master plan
Ain't coming through

Don’t tell me that I won’t
I will
Don’t tell me how to think
I fell
Don’t tell me cause I know what’s real
What I can do

Something that you don’t see every day
A little girl who has found her way
In world that tries to take away
All of your dreams

I think there’s one thing I will say to you
That there is nothing that you can’t do
Cause it’s all about your attitude
Don’t let them get to you

Don’t tell me that I won’t
I will
Don’t tell me that I’m not
I am
Don’t tell me that my master plan
Ain't coming through

Don’t tell me that I won’t
I will
Don’t tell me how to think
I fell
Don’t tell me cause I know what’s real
What I can do

And when we’re singing it out our voice
We can make that choice to be free

Said the Whale - Camilo (The Magician)

Στις 6 Οκτωβρίου κυκλοφόρησε το δεύτερο άλμπουμ των Said the Whale που έχουν έδρα το Βανκούβερ με τίτλο Islands Disappear.

Honestly, I know you like to keep a mystery
But there’s this girl I know who’s sad you see
And I’d like to show her life ain’t always real

Camilo that’s where you come in my friend
Show me your secrets show me all of them
I promise I won’t say a word again
And as long as I’m alive I’ll be the best that I can be

Ca-Ca-Ca-Camilo
I need to see where you make that card go
‘Cus I got some questions about the world I know
And about the difference between real and show
Camilo

Watch my eyes, put a coin in your hand now and squeeze real tight
I’ll make both sides and so will you decide
You’ll have complete control of your whole life

Camilo that’s where you come in
Be my assistant be my right hand man
We’ll find a place between fact and fiction
And as long as they don’t know we’ll be the masters of pretend

Ca-Ca-Ca-Camilo
I need to see where you make that card go
‘Cus I got some questions about the world I know
And about the difference between real and show
Camilo

Caroline, I saw your disbelief you’re mystified
Understandably, and so am I
Let’s make like enemies and disappear

Camilo
I need to see where you make that card go
‘Cus I got some questions about the world I know
And about the difference between real and show
Camilo, Camilo

Sufjan Stevens & Osso String Quartet - Year Of The Dragon

Δεύτερη κυκλοφορία μέσα σε λίγες μέρες από τον Sufjan Stevens που σε συνεργασία με τους Osso String Quartet έβγαλε στις 6 Οκτωβρίου το Run Rabbit Run, που αποτελεί απόδοση με έγχορδα του Enjoy Your Rabbit.

Avalon - Holy

Ξαναγεννημένοι οι Avalon σύμφωνα με τον τίτλο του 9ου τους στούντιο άλμπουμ Reborn.

If you want to feel all alone
Walk away
Try to find a home for your own
Walk away
And I'm not keeping score
But I've seen it so many times before
Put your bags down this time around

Chorus:
Stay with me
I have all you need
You've tried everything, yes everything
Now just stay
All your searching for
Can be found an so much more
No more running away
Stay

If you need healing aside,
I'm the way
To know your have purpose in life,
I'm the way
You can rest assured,
You will find all you've been looking for
Sit yourself down so I can be found

Chorus

I know you feel
That what you find here
Is less than the world has to give
But when did the world ever lay it's life down
So that you might live

Stay with me,
Dont you ever leave,
You've tried everything
Now just stay

Chorus

No More Running away (Stay)
No More Running away (Stay)
No More Running away
Stay

Creed - Overcome

Δικαιώνουν τις προσδοκίες που καλλιέργησε η είδηση της επιστροφής τους στη δισκογραφία οι Creed με το Full Circle που κυκλοφόρησε στις 27 Οκτωβρίου.

Don’t cry victim to me
Everything we are and used to be
is buried and gone
Now it’s my turn to speak
It’s my turn to expose and release
What’s been killing me
I’ll be damned fighting you
It´s impossible
Impossible
Say goodbye
With no sympathy

I’m entitled to overcome
Completely stunned, I´m numb
Knock me down, throw me to the floor
There’s no pain, I can feel no more
I’m entitled to overcome

Overcome

Finally see what’s beneath
Everything I am and hope to be
Cannot be lost
I’ll be damned fighting you
You´re impossible
Impossible
Say goodbye
With no sympathy

I’m entitled to overcome
Completely stunned, I´m numb
Knock me down, throw me to the floor
There’s no pain, I can feel no more
I’m entitled to overcome

Overcome

Overcome

You’ll never know what I was thinking before you came ‘round
Take a step, take a breath, put your guard down
I cannot worry anymore of what you think of me
I may be crazy, but I’m buried in your memory

I’m entitled to overcome
completely stunned i´m numb
knock me down throw me to the floor
there’s no pain i can’t feel no more
I’m entitled to overcome
overcome!
(repeat)

I may be crazy, but I’m buried in your memory

Leonard Cohen - The Future

Ζωντανή εκτέλεση του The Future που περιέχεται στο άλμπουμ του Leonard Cohen, Live in London


Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

Brett Anderson - Frozen Roads / Ashes Of Us / The Hunted

Ο Brett Anderson παρουσιάζει τρία από τα κομμάτια του Slow Attack που κυκλοφορεί αύριο 2 Νοεμβρίου.

Frozen Roads

And the snow in February falls, painting Winter hollow
And the fields they are an empty site, and the hills are like sorrow
And the hills are like sorrow

And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And your moon will fall

And I found the answer sitting there, with more than money
In the tangle of your angel hair, in your lips honey

And we were born muddled, but it was meant to be
And we were born muddled, but it was meant to be
It was meant to be

And your sun will rise again, and your moon will fall
And our sun will rise again, and our moon will fall
And our moon will fall

And the snow in February falls, painting Winter colours
And the fields they are an empty site, and the hills are like sorrow

Through the endless rage, on the frozen roads
On the frozen roads

Ashes Of Us

When the sky is clear, and the clouds are torn,
And the strange ones play, and the insects swarm

Falling like feathers, drifting like petals, pieces of paper
The ashes of us
Break like bone china, faces in mirrors, piece us together
The ashes of us

And the orchid grows, in a sunny place,
Where I sip my tea, with a scarecrows face

Falling like feathers, drifting like petals, pieces of paper
The ashes of us
Break like bone china, faces in mirrors, piece us together
The ashes of us

Woah woah woah (repeat)

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The Hunted

Moving south she is here,
Circling round she is here,
She is the hunter, ah ha, you are the hunted,
She is the hunter, oh oh, you are the hunted,
You are the hunted,

Catching men in her net,
A bird of prey, collecting specimens,
She is the hunter, ah ha, you are the hunted
She is the hunter, oh oh, you are the hunted
You are the hunted,
You are the hunted,
You are the hunted,

Moving in for the kill,
Thin as sin, she is here
She is the hunter, oh oh, she is the hunter,
Ah oh, ah ah

You are the hunted

Grant - Lee Phillips - Little Moon

O Grant-Lee Phillips παρουσιάζει το έκτο προσωπικό του άλμπουμ Little Moon που κυκλοφόρησε στις 13 Οκτωβρίου. Η ηχογράφηση του Little Moon έγινε ζωντανά στο στούντιο.

Τα κομμάτια:

Good Morning Happiness
Strangest Thing
Little Moon
It Ain't The Same Old Cold War Harry
Seal It With A Kiss
Nightbirds
Violet
Buried Treasure
Blind Tom
One Morning
Older Now
The Sun Shines On Jupiter