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Rating: The Welsh trio Feeder released a new work in 2001 titled "Echo Park". Following "Yesterday Went Too Soon", their first album to enter directly into the UK top ten, the new album starts to partially deviate from the typical sound expressed by the Welshmen up to that point.
Gil Norton, a producer known for working with the Foo Fighters and, most notably, the Pixies (of whom Feeder are huge fans, often playing the classic "Where Is My Mind?" live), co-produces the album with the band.
The album is surprising right from its opening moments: "Standing On The Edge", the opener, is a bewildering track, based on ethereal electronic sounds interrupted here and there by significant noise outbursts. Grant's voice is affected and monotone in the verse, but suddenly shifts to falsetto in the chorus. The group's classic, "Buck Rogers", brings everyone back to earth, unveiling biting guitars like never before; it will become the band's signature hit.
Another big surprise is the reflective "Piece By Piece" which, on a stumbling rhythmic carpet but embellished by acoustic guitar arpeggios, shows us the band's most intimate and delicate side.
With "Seven Days In The Sun", the band resumes hitting hard, but this time the melody is sunny and very summery, as are the lyrics ("I've got a friend, her name is Laura/We took a holiday, seven sweet days in Majorca/ We took a plane through to southern Spain/To see the ocean wave's blue"), and continues with a punchy yet steady "We Can't Rewind". "Turn" is a classic, straightforward Britrock track dominated by pleasant "blended" guitars, as is "Oxygen", albeit slower. Thus, after grunge outbursts in the vein of Nirvana ("Choke", "Tell All Your Friends") and college rock à la Weezer ("Under The Weather"), the album concludes with the fierce "Bug", hallucinatory and violent.
So, the classic guitar assaults of the Welsh combo remain, but in many cases, they are "softened" by fairly catchy and pleasant melodies; there's no new "Stereo World", so to speak.
A great album that already hinted at Grant Nicholas's great songwriting abilities and revealed Feeder's talent across Europe.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Standing on the Edge (03:13)
There's a message on my bed anew engraving in my overloading head
Feel the walls are caving in as the wire cuts into my butter skin
Overload love's the antidote we need love's the antidote we really need
When you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in
I thought I shot my conscience dead
But he's come back again to break my china head
Blown a hole right through my dream
Brought me back to earth in a rocket made for one
Overload love's the antidote we need it's the antidote we really need
When you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in
Cause when you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in don't fall back in
02 Buck Rogers (03:13)
He's got a brand new car
Looks like a jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
We'll start over again
Grow ourselves new skin
Get a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
He's got a brand new car
He's got a brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
03 Piece by Piece (03:49)
Sitting on a corner street
Children playing at my feet
See the smiles on ice cream faces
Feel myself begin to sink
As the wind blows through my skin
Leaves me open to temptation
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
Killing me now it's so hard to breathe
Sucking back a cigarette
Thinking about new regrets
Trying to be someone you'd like to be
Passing faces on the road
Where the hell can we still go
Leaves us open to temptation
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
Killing me now it's so hard to breathe
It's so hard to breathe
But it's worth fighting for, it's still worth fighting for
It's worth fighting for
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together, Here
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
It's killing me now it's so hard to breathe
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
It's killing me now it's so hard to breathe
05 We Can't Rewind (03:51)
You're just a face in the crowd
A tiny hole in the cloud
You're trying to find your way in
To let your soul shine back out
We're just a twist in a seam
A splash of paint on a screen
We're making all kinds of shapes
Somehow we can straighten out the bends
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
Our place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
We can't rewind
Do you think we can change?
A different color and shade
I guess a new kind of thing
Somehow we can straighten out the bends
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, and we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, we can do it anyway
Oh yes, we can do it our way then
Stop taking me for a fool now
Yeah, I've got this feeling inside me
But I guess you knew
We can work it out
We can find some place new
We can't rewind
We can't rewind
You're just a face in the crowd
A tiny hole in a cloud
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, and we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, we can do it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
06 Turn (04:30)
Seeing things going places
Living out of suitcases
Every day's like a dream
I find myself talking to shadows
Taking the train of youth back home again
Cause I don't want to be a hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
Seeing things going places
Meeting all kinds of faces
Every day's like a scene
I find myself going through phases
Trying to find somewhere that I can be me
Cause I don't want to be your hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
So come on, give in, there's no beauty in this pain
So come on, connect, we've got to find ourselves again
Cause I don't want to be your hero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
And I don't...
07 Choke (03:20)
She likes big boats big yachts designer throws
She likes big blokes body oil sex that chokes
Her mother left her when she was fifteen out of the nest into the vacuum flow
She got a job working shifts at Sainsbury's packed her bags and left for Monaco
Choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Cause you're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
She likes Belgo fashion heads,Saville Row
She likes the cheap sex private jets the Paris glow
Her mother left her when she was fifteen out of the nest into the vacuum flow
Choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Cause you're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the waters flow
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Snow snow snow choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
You're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
Cause you're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
You're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
08 Oxygen (04:20)
We all ferment
A face can change
But souls stay young
We're all connected
So take a journey with someone
Learn to be as one
Still living, sinking, falling, twisting,
But I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Oxygen, Oxygen
We all ferment
A taste can change
From days so young
You feel rejected
Just hold your head up to the sun
Learn to be as one
Still living, sinking, falling, we're still living, drifting
I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Still living, sinking, feeding, twisting, I'm living
I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Disconnecting
Oxygen, Oxygen, Oxygen
Still living, sinking, falling, twisting
We're still living, I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Still living, sinking, falling, drifting
We're living, I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
I'm breathing you in, breathing you
09 Tell All Your Friends (02:55)
Staring out to reach a star contemplating life on mars
Life's a cover magazine I'm an eggshell under feet
Till I see this house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
New intentions all around put the brakes on slow it down
Trying to find a new release find a space that you can breath
But I've seen a house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
But don't come around pulling me down telling the world how I let you down
Just tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
So tell all your friends and neighbors too CNN BBC world news
Tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
Tell all your friends tell all your friends tell all your friends
I don't wanna sit here catching flies
Cause I have seen this house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
But don't come around pulling me down telling the world how I let you down
Just tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
So tell all your friends and neighbors too CNN BBC world news
Tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
Tell all your friends
10 Under the Weather (03:33)
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I wish that I was still fifteen
Debbie Harry or Steve McQueen
I found the angel in my dream sucked her dry
And cut her wing
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up give me nurofen plus
Shut up, it hurts feel I been hit by a bus
Get up, shut up, you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
From the womb into school
Changing faces breaking rules
Circumstances make you bleed
Sew the wounds so you will heal
Cause there's no substitute for pain
Histrionics broken frames
Build a fire to thaw my brain
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up give me nurofen plus
Shut up, it hurts feel I been hit by a bus
Get up, shut up, you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
I don't know why I do this, time and time again
Cause all my drowning sorrows became my friends
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up
Give me nurofen plus
Shut up it hurts feel I've been hit by a bus
Get up shut up you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
11 Bug (03:42)
Mother Earth can you feed us now feed me now feed me now
Mother Earth can you see us now hold me down hold me down
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
Mother Earth can you feed us now burst the bug be forever loved
Hold me down you can't hold me down break the bones throw your stones
Revolution revolution revolution revolution revolution revolution
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
Feed me now see me now
Mother Earth can you see us now throw the stones throw the stones
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
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By presoblu
"Echo Park is an excellent album that alternates between more intense tracks and more relaxed ones, filled with that typically English melody."
"The album kicks off with 'Standing On The Edge', an intense piece with a laid-back chorus that creates a nice contrast."
