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Rating: Another simple album. Heck, I like simplicity, and what about you? Speaking of which, I want to talk about Guster Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum.
Folk is based on simplicity, folk is genuine because it is simple Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum. I don't know how to explain it: do you know that sense of cleanliness, like the smell of something very clean? For instance: pillowcases washed, but not only washed, also ironed... Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum or right after you brush your teeth in the morning after a tough night; or rather when you brush your teeth while showering, spending those 10 minutes scrubbing everything away. That clean feeling that puts you at peace with yourself... well, that's the sensation of listening to this album. Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum
In Keep it together, there are 13 songs, each more beautiful than the last and each simpler than the last. They are very famous in the USA, a bit less in Europe; they are three, from Boston, young, and this is their fourth work. With these 13 songs, they play with music by choosing the more complicated path: simplicity. Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum
The voice of the singer Adam Gardner, NOW I'M SAYING IT HOLD ON TIGHT!!: reminds me of Battisti, at certain moments it's just the same with that sweet tone, and in its own way, simple and clear. But Guster also reminds me of Michael Stipe and R.E.M.'s harmonies. The choirs, the guitars, but above all the use of bongos accompany lyrics from another time. Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum
Just read the titles: Homecoming King (back to Massachuttes); Ramona; Diane; Keep it together, Jesus on the Radio. Among the songs, I also point out long way down, which is also the most sophisticated song. Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum
In the end, the result is a global folk that therefore becomes pop but a pop that smells of (global) culture and that evokes many beautiful things in your mind, making you travel slowly within the music but with a certain respect and reverence towards the past.
When we all finally washed ashore
It was clear there was no one else around
We declared a national holiday
A chance to build it from the ground
So far away from everyone
and everything starts today
Keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now
and everything starts today
Simple, right? Dum-du-Dum Dum-du-Dum
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Diane (03:46)
The secrets that we keep say them in our sleep
And wrestle down our souls if they would speak
I watched you board a train in the London rain
And waved bye-bye as you slipped out of view
Diane
Diane
We'll make it out together
We'll make it out
We'll make it out
In your dreams when the smile now comes
You're mumbling words with a lazy tongue
We lie together when we say it's love
Who were you just thinking of, Diane?
Diane
Diane I don't say it but I know you know
The theme returns so deep
And visits us in sleep
To define the you and I as we
So we pass the time and occupy our minds
And close our eyes and hope that we'll be fine
Diane
Diane
We'll make it out together
We'll make it out together
We'll make it out
We'll make it out
And I may leave in time you'll see
I'll come right back for you
And I may leave in time you'll see
I'll come right back for you, for you
02 Careful (03:42)
You walked out when I asked you to stay
As usual you'll get your way
You closed the door and stumbled down to the street
Where you wring your hands
And you drag your feet
Where the words can't find you
To crawl inside you
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Gonna try, try, try 'til the morning comes
But you can't hide standing under these stars
They know everything they know what you are
You're in your hair you're all turned around with it
And they're shining down their light to bring you back again
Back where I can find you
To crawl inside you
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell
Careful or you'll hurt yourself
Gonna try, try, try 'til the morning
All you want to see is make believe, it's nothing
But way down underneath
I'm ringing all the warning bells
Careful you don't hurt yourself
Others lie, lie, lie, they adore you
I'll be the one to tell
Careful, you'll hurt yourself
Gonna try, try, try 'til the morning comes
03 Amsterdam (03:37)
Threw away your greatest hits
You left them here the day you split
Your bass guitar and shag CD
Well, they don't mean that much to me
Right now I'm going through your things
These days, I'm changing all my strings
I'm gonna write you letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I want to see your reaction
I want to see how it looks
From way up on your cloud
Where you've been hiding out
Are you getting somewhere?
Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?
You won't get too far from me
Believing everything you read
You're wasted in the great unknown
And I am finally ready to dispose
Of all your vintage clothes
Your drugs and every secret code
I'm gonna write you letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I want to see your reaction
I want to see how it looks
From way up on your cloud
Where you've been hiding out
Are you getting somewhere?
Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?
From your red balloon, you were
A super high tech jet fighter
Floating over Planet Earth
Come back down here, I'll show you where it hurts
Take this bitter pill
Is it easy to swallow?
I'm gonna write you letter
I'm gonna write you a book
I want to see your reaction
I want to see how it looks
From way up on your cloud
Never coming down
And are you getting somewhere
Or did you get lost in Amsterdam, Amsterdam?
04 Backyard (02:55)
In the backyard
In the garden
You were always there
Digging down where roots would burrow underneath
Now the grass is always overgrown
And the weeds are choking out the sun
Pretty soon they'll come under the door
And you don't care
In the backyard
Since last summer
Almost nothing left
Just some pieces of the roots that once dug in
Now the grass is always overgrown
And the weeds are choking out the sun
Why do you still come home anymore
When you don't care?
05 Homecoming King (03:37)
on your way to the best years of your life
everyone's banging on their gongs
the sooner you leave the sooner you're home
back in massachusetts
to your golden age where they tuck you in at night
you didn't see it coming
now who you gonna wave to?
this time you're not homecoming king
did you hear that? have you heard that sound before?
do you even know where it is coming from?
it's getting too loud it keeps on pushing you out
into the arms of 1994
you didn't see it coming
now who you gonna wave to?
you're not homecoming king
you stand on your own
wasn't what you hoped at all
do you still recall it
giving dead-arms in the hall?
stay right where you are
you'll be half of who you were
when you always would win
so count the days 'til you give in
back to massachusetts
to your golden age where your crown is shining bright
you didn't see it coming
now who you gonna wave to?
this time you're not homecoming king
did you see it coming
now who you gonna wave to?
this time you're not homecoming king
06 Ramona (03:06)
Ramona where have you been?
I couldn't go to sleep 'til you came in
Ramona you're Miss Oklahoma and you
Miss Oklahoma
I'll get you what you want
Cause there were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
Just like your favorite singer
Why'd you have to be so nice?
A wink and a girlie smile
And why'd you have to punch my eye?
That was something
But did you want me to stay?
When I was younger and thought of myself
I never dreamed I'd become like this
A snap of your fingers an end to the arguments
Anything for you, love
Cause there were days when a refrain
Would brighten our corner of Hickory Lane
When you would sing that song for me
The only one you know
But I know now, not at the start
We're going to pieces we're falling apart
So come and sing that song for me
Just like your favorite singer?
07 Jesus on the Radio (02:17)
5a.m. March 16
Jesus on the radio
You took a photograph of me
On your yellow bucket seat
It's too high it's too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through to go around
So don't look back
There ain't nothing there to see
Was once like you
Can't say I recognize that face
In that picture that you keep
It's too high it's too wide
You're so low you don't know
To get through to go around
To get through to go around
08 Keep It Together (03:43)
When we all had finally washed ashore
It was clear there was no one else around
We declared a national holiday
A chance to build it from the ground
So far away from everyone and everything starts today
Let's keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now and everything starts today
Can we rise
Can we get along all right
Can we miss the storm that sucked the whole world in
And the boats went out at night
And the choppers in the sky
They searched, but they could find no trace of us
So far away from everyone and everything starts today
Let's keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now and everything starts today
The thunder struck the clouds appear
Our fearless crew was not prepared
And pretty soon the boats came for us half a million strong
We gathered arms and fire shells
We built a wall around ourselves
And pretty soon the spirit was a lot like it what it used to be back home
So far away from everyone and everything starts today
Let's keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now and everything starts today
Let's keep it together
Can we keep it together
We're singing a new song now and everything starts today
09 Come Downstairs and Say Hello (05:16)
Dorothy moves
To click her ruby shoes
Right in tune
With Dark Side of the Moon
Someone someone could tell me
Where I belong
Be calm
Be brave
It'll be ok
No more messing around
And living underground
Or New Year's resolutions
By this time next year I won't be here
I turn on
Turn on MTV
The volume's down
Lips move
They say
It'll be ok
To tell you truth I've said it before tomorrow I start in a new
direction
One last time these words from me I'm never saying them again
And I shut the light
And listen as my watch unwinds
To tell you truth I've said it before tomorrow I start in a new
direction
I know I've been half asleep I'm never doing that again
I look straight at what's coming ahead and soon it's gonna change in a
new direction
Every night as I'm falling asleep these words repeated in my head
Voices calling from a yellow road
To come downstairs and say hello
Don't be shy just say hello
To tell you truth I've said it before tomorrow I start in a new
direction
I know I've been half asleep I'm never doing that again
I look straight at what's coming ahead and soon it's gonna change in a
new direction
Every night as I'm falling asleep those words repeated in my head
10 Red Oyster Cult (03:27)
doesn't it bring you down
so many lights and sounds
call your mom on the telephone
tell her you're coming home
tell her there's not a chance
you're ever going to change the world
if you want to be free take a sip of this tea
join the red oyster cult
if you drink the whole cup you will never grow up
you will never grow old
remember when you were 14
you'd paint ever picture so green
call your mom on the telephone
tell her your muse is gone
tell her there's not a chance
you're ever going to change the world
just a few drops away you'll never want to
change the world
if you want to be free take a sip of this tea
join the red oyster cult
if you drink the whole cup you will never grow up
you will never grow old
call your mom on the telphone
tell her you're coming home
tell her there's not a chance you're ever
going to change
the world
just a few drops away
you'll never have to change
12 I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today (03:22)
I'm awake, you're still sleeping
The sun will rise like yesterday
Everything that we are now
Is everything we can't let go
Or it's gone forever, far away
I hope tomorrow is like today
Like today
Don't you go away tomorrow
I don't think I could handle that
You're probably dreaming
that you're flying on
Then you start to fall
But then you rise
and shine forever
Don't go away
I hope tomorrow is like today
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