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Rating: I admit: the disappointment is burning hot.
I say it right away to get this weight off my chest.
I discovered them by chance with the excellent Making Enemies Is Good from 2001, and then tracked their progression from the initial steps by finding the first, rougher, Total 13.
Of course, the expectation for this new step was high, and instead...
...Instead, what I have in my hands is a disc in which the authors seem to have largely lost their way.
Let me explain.
A good Rock'n Roll album in 2004 must have two fundamental things: good songs, and drive.
These two components need to appear simultaneously in every composition - preferably - otherwise, at the very least, the race isn't led anymore, but one falls back into the pack of chasers.
And this is what's happening to the BB today.
The album starts with the anthemic, and a little bit sly, Everybody's Ready.
Then it gets lost in tracks without a clear direction (One Sound) with sometimes even slightly annoying choruses (A Song For The Outcast), or simply bland (Say When, Year By Year, Be Myself And I).
Of course, the reunion in Friends, with the participation of friends and colleagues including the never too lamented Joey Ramone, is more of a curiosity than a song, nor does the effective Pigs For Swine manage to lift the fortunes of a work that feels too much like a missed opportunity.
Have they gotten a big head? Second chance with the next CD.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Earn the Crown (03:53)
Everytime I hit the streets I'm fast
Like a canonball of gold
Every day I'm travelin' from the past
To fulfill a restless soul
I've been ridin' more than you've been drivin'
It's like a "must go on wheel's"
Anyway it can no longer last
'Cos you know yeah you know
Take a look at us now, never do turn around
Turn around, take a look at us now, never
do turn around, turn around
- What's with your face? making us earn the crown, earn the crown.
Take a look at us now.
We never do turn
I can remember when I was not this way
Not as bright as I was told
Can't recall what I said yesterday
Something 'bout the perfect role
I've been gamblin' more than you've been playin'
But I keep head above my heels
I'm here, but I'm not here to stay
Take a look at us now, never do turn around
Turn around, take a look at us now, never
do turn around, turn around
- What's with your face? making us earn the crown, earn the crown.
Take a look at us now.
We never do turn
Every song gets better on the road
Rhythm moving with that sound
Everyone is getting in the mood
Makes no difference, town to town
I've been listening more than you've been hearin'
Just a little price to pay
Being lead astray but I'm not sold...
Take a look at us now, never do turn around
Turn around, take a look at us now, never
do turn around, turn around
- What's with your face? making us earn the crown, earn the crown.
Take a look at us now.
We never do turn
04 Minus Celsius (03:35)
I searched the world
around for you
In every corner
I see two
Ovations ought to
be for me
What makes anybody
wanna be
I'm sure you're lookin'
Sure got your hooks in
It's freezing, I'm so cold (you damn right)
Minus me, minus you
I think it's all because of
I think it's all because of you! x2
I care about, now what's his name?
Name? Moral speakin
Nor did I choose fame
What in the world
Took you so long?
The time is dripping,
all fluids getting strong
I'm sure you're lookin'
Sure got your hooks in
It's freezing, I'm so cold (you damn right)
Minus me, minus you
I think it's all because of
I think it's all because of you! x2
05 Pigs for Swine (03:06)
Sit back and put your
toys aside for a while
it ain't war if that's what you like
Somebody said I'm in for the fight
it ain't mine if that's alright
ain't trading pigs for swine x2
all the suits they stand in line
but all they do is fantasize
sicker than the first
got no hunger and no thirst
- It's not workin'
- It ain't working
Thick it's gonna burst medication
is the curse
- It's not working
Lookout, you're looking
Like the black in the dark
It ain't bright to live on the lie
Somebody said I'm losing my spark
It ain't so, but that's alright
ain't trading pigs for swine x2
all the suits they stand in line
but all they do is fantasize
sicker than the first
got no hunger and no thirst
- It's not workin'
- It ain't working
Thick it's gonna burst medication
is the curse
- It's not working
Only the pigs of the irony
Stealing swines from the enemy
Only the pigs
Only the pigs
all the suits they stand in line
but all they do is fantasize
sicker than the first
got no hunger and no thirst
- It's not workin'
- It ain't working
Thick it's gonna burst medication
is the curse
- It's not working x2
- it ain't working
- it's not working
- it ain't working
06 One Sound (03:33)
One sound, one love!
Something you should think of
We press charge
you press find
Find out my piece of mind
I love this game
Don't need a headstart anymore
We shove, became,
the breakout, talkabout meteor
- So check your head!
We got no distance to the score, man
One sound one love!
Seismographic fucked up
It's state of art, my state of mind, just
lick my lips and grind
I love this game
Don't need a headstart anymore
We shove, became,
the breakout, talkabout meteor
- So check your head!
We got no distance to the score, man
Once you're in you can't get out
The infinite roundabout
- I dare you all
Gimme me one sound, one love
Gimme all it takes
Communication, keep the faith
Blood in vein love in wine
Bite my lip
- One Sound!
I love this game
Don't need a headstart anymore
We shove, became,
the breakout, talkabout meteor
I love this game
Don't need a headstart anymore
We shove, became
One sound, one love x2
08 Year by Year (03:54)
All my dreams are haunting me
Nothing seems to be for real
Can people change this world around
Can people change my life to come
It's been too many nights of fear
It's been too many days not clear
Can you believe a word they say
Can you control the righteous way
I even out my life
I even try to fight my
- War and peace
- Goin' round and round
- Year by year, am I the only one?!
So you think I'm doin' fine
Stealing things
That are not mine
Be careful what you do wish for
You end up losing even more
I even out my life
I even try to fight my
- War and peace
- Goin' round and round
- Year by year, am I the only one?!
- War and peace
- Goin' round and round
- Year by year, am I the only one?!
Feel bad for you, so sad for you
I'm so done with you, overcome all the
overnight sensations and my patience
creates my ghost, yeah my patience creates my
Many men have travelled far
To try it all over from the start
Who you are is what you get
There is nothing that you can reset
I even out my life
I even try to fight
You boys just can't resist
Resist what girls won't miss
- War and peace
- Goin' round and round
- Year by year, am I the only one?!
Well I fight my
- War and peace
- Goin' round and round
- Year by year, am I the only one?!
09 Friends (02:49)
(Mike Monroe, Hanoi Rocks)
I know a man
back in Japan
Backyard Babies
is his favorite band
(Joey Ramone, Ramones)
I got a friend
His name is Ben
He's gone to hell
but they won't let him in
- Cause there is nothing
that touches me the way they do
and all the lies, you've been hearin' baby
they're all true
- Cause there is nothin'
that touches me they way they do
Nothing touches me the way these people do
(Danko Jones)
I got a friend
Her name is Grace
When we broke up
it put a smile on my face
(Tyla, Dogs D'Amour)
And there's a girl
that I love
Sadly she resides in
heaven up above
- Cause there is nothing
that touches me the way they do
and all the lies, you've been hearin' baby
they're all true
- Cause there is nothin'
that touches me they way they do
Nothing touches me the way these people do
Look at all these lonely people
They're born to lose
But they can not die
(Nina Persson, Cardigans)
I love my friend
My only friend
He doesn't know me
But his word is my command
(Kory Clarke)
We meet our friends
Down at the bar
Celebrity intoxicated stars
13 Shut the Fuck Up (02:44)
I buy when you're selling out
But the price has never been this high
I don't say what you wanna hear
And my words never been this loud
A white boy with a blackened eye
And a knuckle ride up, underground
I don't die cause I don't have time
And my mouth keeps saying
Songshit
The song's a hit
And we all know what to do
Wrong bit
The wrong will fit
And the final countdown too
- Shut the fuck up! x2
What makes me want to?
Shut the fuck up! x2
I will defeat you too
On your right side there was
nothing left, and on the left side
there was nothing right
Your head's bigger than your cowboy hat
I'll pick your teeth with my baseball-bat
A slingshot and a band grenade
You trying target
practise in the dark
You only brag about your dirty deeds
but your storm's not coming
Songshit
The song's a hit
And we all know what to do
Wrong bit
The wrong will fit
And the final countdown too
- Shut the fuck up! x2
What makes me want to?
Shut the fuck up! x2
I will defeat you too
I won't mistreat you
I will delete you
Pick any way you want
- Shut the fuck up! x2
What makes me want to?
Shut the fuck up! x2
I will defeat you too
- Shut the fuck up! x2
What makes me want to?
Shut the fuck up! x2
I will defeat you too
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