Taken from "In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music By Nightwalker" 1999
Lyrics Unknown
I fight Nightwalker stuff hard to get into. Its scrappy, mostly tuneless, recorded terribly, fuzzy, freeform. To be honest this is one of the more focused songs on this album. The melody, if there is one, goes all over the place, whilst a guitar is strummed to death in the background. A song. Not one of my favourite Pollard offerings. Harsh but even Rock God Bob has off songs/albums.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Cyclops
Taken from "Devil Between My Toes" 1987
"Tom the happy pretender
One eye on the mend
One eye on his watch
His parents told him
Don't worry, Tom, there's plenty o' jobs in the big
city but with one eye only
It gets so hard
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception"
I wonder where Bob gets his musical ideas from? Did the Cyclops lead to the no depth perception just through riffing through his song? Or did he have a thought one day about Depth perception and wrote Cyclops? This song is from the very early days of GBV and has that brittle production sound but is quite a mature song. "Bom" as the packing singing goes.
"Tom the happy pretender
One eye on the mend
One eye on his watch
His parents told him
Don't worry, Tom, there's plenty o' jobs in the big
city but with one eye only
It gets so hard
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception
Cyclops
No depth perception"
I wonder where Bob gets his musical ideas from? Did the Cyclops lead to the no depth perception just through riffing through his song? Or did he have a thought one day about Depth perception and wrote Cyclops? This song is from the very early days of GBV and has that brittle production sound but is quite a mature song. "Bom" as the packing singing goes.
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Where I Come From
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"No sense in arguing
about something you believe in
Can't hope for knowledge, someones good advice
Don't have much money to lay around and grieve in
Better off just keep your mouth shut
Come on boys be nice
You can't hurt me now
I don't know how to cry
But I'm still young
I see the outstretched arms that beckon me
But I can't come
I hear the spoken words that make no sense
Where I come from
Keep everyone happy with county recreation
work 50 hours a week, take out frustrations on the field
put bars and churches on every other corner
nice the working conditions with much better yield
You can't hurt me now
I don't know how to cry
But I'm still young
I feel the stinging truth
The slaps me hard
And makes me numb
I eat the bitter fruit that grows on trees
Where I come from"
Love the gently military drumbeat that pervades that starts this song. This is very early GBV. Where they sounded like early REM. Very tuneful and wistful. This is a gem of a song and any fan of REM would love it. Whatever happened to REM? I remember their last album being crushingly dull and bland.
"No sense in arguing
about something you believe in
Can't hope for knowledge, someones good advice
Don't have much money to lay around and grieve in
Better off just keep your mouth shut
Come on boys be nice
You can't hurt me now
I don't know how to cry
But I'm still young
I see the outstretched arms that beckon me
But I can't come
I hear the spoken words that make no sense
Where I come from
Keep everyone happy with county recreation
work 50 hours a week, take out frustrations on the field
put bars and churches on every other corner
nice the working conditions with much better yield
You can't hurt me now
I don't know how to cry
But I'm still young
I feel the stinging truth
The slaps me hard
And makes me numb
I eat the bitter fruit that grows on trees
Where I come from"
Love the gently military drumbeat that pervades that starts this song. This is very early GBV. Where they sounded like early REM. Very tuneful and wistful. This is a gem of a song and any fan of REM would love it. Whatever happened to REM? I remember their last album being crushingly dull and bland.
Chance To Buy An Island
Taken from "Not In My Airforce" 1996
"Chance to buy an island - I'll sell it to you
It's not so bad
Check out the "For Sale" sign - It's for you
And hey, it's really nice
Can I offer you a find?
Can I oil your rusty mind?
If I tell you all I know
Can I pack it up and go?
And now you're ten years colder
At least you're alive
And that's not too bad
And you can't afford an island
Put it up for sale
And hey, don't think twice"
What mic does Bob use to get that sound? Like he is on the radio. It rocks. A quite slow moving but emotional sounding song from Mr Pollard here. The main riff reminds me of another more famous composition but I cant put my finger on it.
"Chance to buy an island - I'll sell it to you
It's not so bad
Check out the "For Sale" sign - It's for you
And hey, it's really nice
Can I offer you a find?
Can I oil your rusty mind?
If I tell you all I know
Can I pack it up and go?
And now you're ten years colder
At least you're alive
And that's not too bad
And you can't afford an island
Put it up for sale
And hey, don't think twice"
What mic does Bob use to get that sound? Like he is on the radio. It rocks. A quite slow moving but emotional sounding song from Mr Pollard here. The main riff reminds me of another more famous composition but I cant put my finger on it.
Sunday, 6 January 2008
Picture Me Big Time
Taken from "Do The Collapse" 1999
Picture me big time
Up along the range
With this woman of mine
Driving me insane
"Parasites baby....
Don't you know
I can't lie to you
There was a band from Beantown
They drove the now sound
With a girl at the top of her lungs now
Yeah, a girl at the top of her lungs
She'd tell the people baby
The world will settle down for no one
I will deliver to you
To one another in every place
Who speak like brothers
And leave no trace
Of a world still divided by tongues
Yeah, the world's still divided by tongues
You want to keep it closer now,
don't you
But there are words that speak to everyone
Which I will deliver to you
I will deliver to you
I will deliver to you"
Quite a standard rock song from Bob and the Boys here. Perhaps this is one of those songs on "Do The Collapse" that have done with less production and would have sounded more edgy being a bit scratchy. Still not a bad song but a bit rock by the numbers.
Picture me big time
Up along the range
With this woman of mine
Driving me insane
"Parasites baby....
Don't you know
I can't lie to you
There was a band from Beantown
They drove the now sound
With a girl at the top of her lungs now
Yeah, a girl at the top of her lungs
She'd tell the people baby
The world will settle down for no one
I will deliver to you
To one another in every place
Who speak like brothers
And leave no trace
Of a world still divided by tongues
Yeah, the world's still divided by tongues
You want to keep it closer now,
don't you
But there are words that speak to everyone
Which I will deliver to you
I will deliver to you
I will deliver to you"
Quite a standard rock song from Bob and the Boys here. Perhaps this is one of those songs on "Do The Collapse" that have done with less production and would have sounded more edgy being a bit scratchy. Still not a bad song but a bit rock by the numbers.
Saturday, 5 January 2008
Pattern Girl
Taken from "Sgt.Disco" 2007
Lyrics Unknown.
Circus Devils did an odd thing in 2007. They released a new album that wasn't permeated by dread and darkness. "Pattern Girl" is almost sweet song. Circus Devils Sweet, but still not as dark as many CD tracks. This is one of the stand out tracks from "Sgt.Disco" and good to see CD adding some light to their brooding skylines. Vocals go a bit weird at the end though.
Lyrics Unknown.
Circus Devils did an odd thing in 2007. They released a new album that wasn't permeated by dread and darkness. "Pattern Girl" is almost sweet song. Circus Devils Sweet, but still not as dark as many CD tracks. This is one of the stand out tracks from "Sgt.Disco" and good to see CD adding some light to their brooding skylines. Vocals go a bit weird at the end though.
Will You Show Me Your Gold?
Take from "Ask Them" 1999
"Outstretched and glazed
He politely insisted
An exact number of days
With no direct linkage
Will you show me your gold?
Are you in the direction?
Are you part of the salt?
Will you show me your gold?
No wonder boy
You fall through the floors
And you grow increasingly heavy
'Til you fall through the floors"
Some rate the Lexo and the Leapers album one of the best Pollard offshoot albums and it does has some fines tracks on it. Even the odd Classic. This is another slow and lumbering song with a powerful chorus. Good song.
"Outstretched and glazed
He politely insisted
An exact number of days
With no direct linkage
Will you show me your gold?
Are you in the direction?
Are you part of the salt?
Will you show me your gold?
No wonder boy
You fall through the floors
And you grow increasingly heavy
'Til you fall through the floors"
Some rate the Lexo and the Leapers album one of the best Pollard offshoot albums and it does has some fines tracks on it. Even the odd Classic. This is another slow and lumbering song with a powerful chorus. Good song.
Good For A Few Laughs
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"Driving northwards
Well-mapped cautious
All that we knew and ???
All night parties
Drinks and deliveries
Suddenly vanished
No more the explorer
Consider this
There was a dark side
Perhaps the real self
Never emerged
Gouge changed that (?)
All those powerful lines
Swim in a bottle
Now let's pay our last respects"
A delicate tap of cymbals begins this song in a mysterious manner before the guitar chimes in and Bob mumbles some hung over sounding and weary vocals. A song about the day after some drinking perhaps?
"Driving northwards
Well-mapped cautious
All that we knew and ???
All night parties
Drinks and deliveries
Suddenly vanished
No more the explorer
Consider this
There was a dark side
Perhaps the real self
Never emerged
Gouge changed that (?)
All those powerful lines
Swim in a bottle
Now let's pay our last respects"
A delicate tap of cymbals begins this song in a mysterious manner before the guitar chimes in and Bob mumbles some hung over sounding and weary vocals. A song about the day after some drinking perhaps?
Girl From The Sun
Taken from "Tonics And Twisted Chasers" 1997
"Girl from the sun
The color red
She melted my gun
She melted my head
She's got me
Talking to myself
I sit in restaurants
Forever and talk to myself
She's a girl from the sun
And she sings like a parrot
I'm a very nice fellow
She's right for me
And the full-colored kingdom
Of trickery and chaos
I like her tremendously
And to turn those objections
Into (beer without directions?)
I'll fight for the free
And people who live in glass houses should get stoned
Like the girl from the sun and me"
A song of two tempos. Quite dull sounding but has quite a cool riff to it. Very Rolling Stones.
"Girl from the sun
The color red
She melted my gun
She melted my head
She's got me
Talking to myself
I sit in restaurants
Forever and talk to myself
She's a girl from the sun
And she sings like a parrot
I'm a very nice fellow
She's right for me
And the full-colored kingdom
Of trickery and chaos
I like her tremendously
And to turn those objections
Into (beer without directions?)
I'll fight for the free
And people who live in glass houses should get stoned
Like the girl from the sun and me"
A song of two tempos. Quite dull sounding but has quite a cool riff to it. Very Rolling Stones.
Cruise
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"It runs throughout
The place of fate
She can keep you up to date
And her ???? to intervene
Coming closer in between you now
Between you now
And so the plan is up to you
But no one tells you what to do
And if they do you'll make a scene
Nothing will get in between you now
Between you now"
The bass at the start of this sort of sits halfway between Joy Division and some Jazz improv. Quite a slow throbbing song but not too bad. Has the classic GBV sound to it and overall is quite good.
"It runs throughout
The place of fate
She can keep you up to date
And her ???? to intervene
Coming closer in between you now
Between you now
And so the plan is up to you
But no one tells you what to do
And if they do you'll make a scene
Nothing will get in between you now
Between you now"
The bass at the start of this sort of sits halfway between Joy Division and some Jazz improv. Quite a slow throbbing song but not too bad. Has the classic GBV sound to it and overall is quite good.
Saturday, 29 December 2007
George Took A Shovel
Taken from "Sgt, Disco" 2007
Lyrics Unknown
Bob does his best Eddie Vedder impression here. Great talky section that sounds like some sort of Sci-Fi story. Quite a playful song here and not as bleakly dark as a lot of Circus Devil material.
Lyrics Unknown
Bob does his best Eddie Vedder impression here. Great talky section that sounds like some sort of Sci-Fi story. Quite a playful song here and not as bleakly dark as a lot of Circus Devil material.
Sunday, 23 December 2007
Twilight Campfighter
Taken from "Isoliation Drills" 2001
"Twilight campfighter
You build your fire into an open wound
You want us to feel better
On these darker trails
With light revealing holy grails
To hike through dangerous weather
You need twilight eyes
Sunspot solider, you come from another day
Accept no pay
You want us to feel better
All for longing causes
Racing minds and lengthy pauses
All who must soon shed their veils
And wipe their eyes
As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
And can dance contented to the sound of money
Could I have seen a sight
Much greater than your twilight eyes
That penetrate your silent lives (lies)
Twilight campfighter
We do congratulate
It's not too late
To make us all feel better
Under darker skies
With your twilight eyes"
This is my first "Isolation Drills" song that cropped up on "A Pollard A Day" and what song to start with. Amazingly powerful song. This is a very moving song. A stone cold Classic.
"Twilight campfighter
You build your fire into an open wound
You want us to feel better
On these darker trails
With light revealing holy grails
To hike through dangerous weather
You need twilight eyes
Sunspot solider, you come from another day
Accept no pay
You want us to feel better
All for longing causes
Racing minds and lengthy pauses
All who must soon shed their veils
And wipe their eyes
As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
And can dance contented to the sound of money
Could I have seen a sight
Much greater than your twilight eyes
That penetrate your silent lives (lies)
Twilight campfighter
We do congratulate
It's not too late
To make us all feel better
Under darker skies
With your twilight eyes"
This is my first "Isolation Drills" song that cropped up on "A Pollard A Day" and what song to start with. Amazingly powerful song. This is a very moving song. A stone cold Classic.
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Still Worth Nothing
Taken from "Delicious Pie And Thank You For Calling" 2003
"Senseless child
See you now
Still worth nothing
Never stop, until it stops
Rise and shine
Fall in line
Still worth nothing
That we know seems to show
See him walking around
It's a known fact that
The only thing he knows is this
Hear him talking so loud
It's a rough world
And he can find out for himself, he'll see
Speed up, slow down, go all around
In the end
Came to see
Conveniently
Still worth nothing
After all, some must fall
See him walking around
It's a known fact that
The only thing he knows is this
Hear him talking so loud
It's a rough world
And he can find out for himself, he'll see
Speed up, slow down, go all around
In the end"
Why do hear suspicious minds at the start of this song? Then it jumps into Northside (remember them? Shall I take a trip?). Strange musical touchstones here. Then we are into pure GBV. As usual, catchy tune and 60s sounding. Not a bad little song here that could have easily stood nicely on any early GBV album.
"Senseless child
See you now
Still worth nothing
Never stop, until it stops
Rise and shine
Fall in line
Still worth nothing
That we know seems to show
See him walking around
It's a known fact that
The only thing he knows is this
Hear him talking so loud
It's a rough world
And he can find out for himself, he'll see
Speed up, slow down, go all around
In the end
Came to see
Conveniently
Still worth nothing
After all, some must fall
See him walking around
It's a known fact that
The only thing he knows is this
Hear him talking so loud
It's a rough world
And he can find out for himself, he'll see
Speed up, slow down, go all around
In the end"
Why do hear suspicious minds at the start of this song? Then it jumps into Northside (remember them? Shall I take a trip?). Strange musical touchstones here. Then we are into pure GBV. As usual, catchy tune and 60s sounding. Not a bad little song here that could have easily stood nicely on any early GBV album.
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Penumbra
Taken from "Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love" 2007
Lyrics Unknown
I really like this tuneful and quirky number from the amazing "Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love" album. There an old 60s or 70s song that Im reminded of but I cant put my finger on it but its a bit like "In the Jungle" oddly enough. Its great when the backing vocals and guitar kick in half way. Quirky, Fun and good song.
Lyrics Unknown
I really like this tuneful and quirky number from the amazing "Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love" album. There an old 60s or 70s song that Im reminded of but I cant put my finger on it but its a bit like "In the Jungle" oddly enough. Its great when the backing vocals and guitar kick in half way. Quirky, Fun and good song.
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