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Rating: For Billy Idol, "Rebel Yell" was the album of worldwide consecration. After all, we are faced with a practically perfect record in its genre. The tones range very uniformly from pop to rock, with Billy's sly and naughty voice making the weather rain or shine.
The album is fast, captivates you at the first listen, and doesn't present overly complex elements: therefore, it's very commercial, but in the most positive sense of the word. The album is also played divinely (and it couldn't be otherwise, considering that Steve Stevens is on guitars), and it has impeccable production. Sure, listening to it today, one might smile at some absolutely '80s sounds, but it's precisely in these details that lies the charm of an album that became a classic in no time.
Undoubtedly, "Rebel Yell" has a very cheeky soul (which Billy has never denied having, by the way), but I find it hard to imagine a more successful synthesis of chart-topping pop and down-to-earth street rock. Just take a look at some of the titles and you immediately realize you're in the presence of a collection of '90s hits: "Rebel Yell", "Eyes Without A Face", "Flesh For Fantasy", "Catch My Fall"... A little masterpiece then, very important in understanding the mainstream music scene in '84. And I've always had a soft spot for Billy and his brazen face, so I highly recommend the album: it rushes by like lightning and makes you want to have fun and fool around. What more could you ask from a Billy Idol album?
Frankly, I don't know...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Rebel Yell (04:50)
Last night a little dancer, came dancing to my door
Last night my little angel, came pumping on the floor
She said come on baby, I've got a license for love
And if it expires, pray help from above, because
In the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more
With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more
In the midnight hour babe more, more, more
With a rebel yell more, more, more, more, more, more, more
She don't like slavery, she won't sit and beg
But when I'm tired and lonely she sees me to bed
What set you free and brought you to me, babe
What set you free, I need you here by me, because
In the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more
With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more
In the midnight hour babe more, more, more
With a rebel yell more, more, more
He lives in his own heaven
Collects it to go from the seven eleven
Well, he's out all night to collect a fare
Just as long, just as long it don't mess up his hair
I walked the world, with you, babe
A thousand miles, with you
I dried your tears, of pain, babe
A million times, for you
I'd sell my soul, for you, babe
For money to burn, with you
I'd give you all, and have none, babe
Just to, just to, just to, to have you here by me, because
In the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more
With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more
In the midnight hour babe more, more, more
With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more, more, more, more
Oh yeah, my little baby
She want more, more, more, more, more, more
Oh yeah, my little angel
She want more, more, more, more, more, more
02 Daytime Drama (04:04)
Day by day
Hour by hour
What haunts my nighttime
Sharts my daylight
Even good friends
Have no answers
Beautiful stars
You don't want a hard patch
Just a few facts
It's use and abuse
You'd write your story
As work for playtime
Time for love
My beautiful stars
Beautiful stars
Don't touch her man
I want her over and over again
Don't touch her man
I want her over and over again
Beautiful stars
In my daytime drama
When I ask the questions
War and answers
See you dancing
Romancing what I want
My beautiful star
Beautiful star
Don't touch her man
I want her over and over again
Don't touch her man
I want her over and over and over and over
Beautiful star
Of my daytime drama
Yes it's in my hand now
You're my hope for a future
Beautiful star
Of my daytime drama
Love to win a boy
You're my hope for a future
Some are happy and some are amazed
Some are devoted
Some are saved
I was one, but I was saved
Again, again
Beautiful star of a daytime drama
03 Eyes Without a Face (04:59)
I'm all out of hope
One more bad break could bring a fall
When I'm far from home
Don't call me on the phone
To tell me you're alone
It's easy to deceive
It's easy to tease
But hard to get release
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
Your eyes without a face
I spend so much time
Believing all the lies
To keep the dream alive
Now it makes me sad
It makes me mad at truth
For loving what was you
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
Your eyes without a face
(guitar solo)
When you hear the music you make a dip
Into someone else's pocket then make a slip
Steal a car and go to Las Vegas oh, the gigolo cool
Hanging out by the State Line
Turning holy water into wine
Drinking it down, oh
I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip
Reading murder books tryin' to stay hip
I'm thinkin' of you you're out there so
Say your prayers
Say your prayers
Say your prayers
Now I close my eyes
And I wonder why
I don't despise
Now all I can do
Is love what was once
So alive and new
But it's gone from your eyes
I'd better realize
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Les yeux sans visage
Eyes without a face
Got no human grace
Your eyes without a face
Such a human waste
Your eyes without a face
(And now it's getting worse)
04 Blue Highway (05:07)
Whoawwwww!
So my good friends,
Your super drug airheads.
I'm out to the stratosphere.
Rain for a day glow.
Holy Water for your soul.
And I wake up, in the U.S.A.
You know we're gonna ride,
On the blue highway.
Walk with the legs you're blind,
On the blue highway.
Wave hello to christ,
On my highway.
Yes I almost died,
On the blue highway.
Here someone from Mars,
On a stolen guitar.
He's out to ride the night. Uh!
Oh, sister's so hip too.
I hear you and I miss you.
Co-starring in the U.S.A.
You know we're gonna ride,
On the blue highway.
Walk with the legs you're blind,
On the blue highway.
Way hollow to crash,
On my highway.
Yes I almost died,
On the blue highway. Oww!
Why do I miss you?
Why did I kiss you?
Because.
You know we're gonna ride,
On the blue highway.
Walk with the legs you're blind,
On the blue highway.
Way hollow to crash,
On my highway.
Yes I almost died,
On the blue highway.
So glad that you're living now,
I'm glad that you're here.
I'm glad that you wanna stay.
Because.
You know we're gonna ride,
On the blue highway.
Walk with the legs you're blind,
On the blue highway.
Way hollow to crash,
On my highway.
Yes I almost died,
On the blue highway.
On the blue highway!
Uh! Save me now!
Wings and high winds, right above.
Yes there's a time, a time for love.
Then you kissed me,
On the blue highway!
Why do I miss you?
How do I kiss you?
05 Flesh for Fantasy (04:39)
There's a change in pace
For fantasy and taste
Do you like the music?
Do you like to dance?
Oh yeah
Hanging out for a body shop at night
Ain't it strange what they do to feel all right
Oh yeah
So...
When will you call?
I am experienced
Oh yeah
Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack
Sing it
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
It's after midnight
Oh are you feeling all right?
Oh yeah
Turn on the light babe
Is there someone else tonight?
Neighbour to neighbour
Door to door
Don't ask questions
Time for it all
Oh yeah
Face to face
And back to back
You see and feel
My sex attack
Sing it
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
We cry
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
(guitar and bass solo)
I sing for culture...
Fathers love his sons
Mothers daughters too...
It's an old old story
Cries the new world too
Flesh...flesh..flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
We want
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
You cry
Flesh...flesh for fantasy
There's a change in pase
For fantasy and taste
Turn out the light babe
You could miss your chance
Neighbour to neighbour
Door to door
Enjoy the crime
You do your time
Never been nothing before
06 Catch My Fall (03:43)
I have the time so I will sing, yeah
I'm just a boy but I will win, yeah
Lost song of lovers fellow travelers, yeah
Leave me sad and hollow out of words
It could happen to you
So think for youreself:
If I should stumble
Catch my fall, yeah
If I should stumble
Catch my fall
Catch my fall
If I should stumble
Catch my fall
If I should stumble
I've traveled and unwound my own truth, yeah
I've laid my head on the rock of youth, yeah
I've trusted and then broken my own word
Just to keep me free in this mad, mad world
It could happen to you
So think for youreself:
If I should stumble
Catch my fall ,yeah
If I should stumble
Catch my fall
Catch my fall
It could happen to you
So think for youreself:
If I should stumble won't you catch my fall yeah
If I should stumble catch my fall yeah
If I should stumble would you catch my fall
If I should stumble catch my fall
Catch my fall ,yeah
If I should stumble
Catch my fall
09 The Dead Next Door (03:41)
Watch the sky
For a reason why
I'm safe here
Sunday it was part
Monday it was none
Monday was none
For the dead next door
One pair of silent terror reins
And we're the dead next door
The heat of the day fades away
Fades into the night
The heat of the day
Offering a wedding
Suffering away
For the dead next door
You see
One error, silent terror
And we're the dead next door
In animal land
And dark is in command
One thing you should know
Don't hear that knocking
Don't eat out of their hand
Don't stumble, die
You say
Don't stumble, cry
They see you and me
You and me
With the dead next door
You and me
With the dead next door
You and me
With the dead next door
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