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Rating: Discotheques, music lovers, singers, various musicians, beautiful, ugly, straight, gay, anarchists, communists, fascists, centrists, unaffiliated, with or without a clean record, here you have the Imagination! Proponents of the successful Disco music of the '70s, transported into the less welcoming '80s, excellent musicians, masterful singer, songs that resemble giant magnets placed in front of people who have more in common with iron than with flesh. Imagination is this and much more. Try organizing an '80s party and don’t play a track of this band, and you can say goodbye to your limbs for good. Imagination is history: no questions asked. They are fundamental, both for Disco and for Pop. They can be rightly considered the locomotive of the '80s Disco music sound. Falsetto voices, slow, dragged but very loaded drums, a background of synthesizers and electronic keyboards overlapping and intertwined in a complex puzzle, the main melody from a piano or also keyboard, very low bass line, both acoustic and electronic, rare and supporting guitars. These are the ingredients of Imagination, plus (obviously) the secret element of any band or singer worth their salt.
The origin of Imagination came to light when chorister Lee John and musician Ashley Ingram found themselves working together as support choristers for some major groups. That's when the idea was born, alongside drummer Errol Kennedy, to create the group. Imagination (remember, an English band: NOT AMERICAN) shattered every record, with a single like "Body talk" (1981) in the top list of the hit parade across Europe (including the USA this time). "Body talk" is part of the "timeless" series of Disco music in history. A track somewhat lacking in ideas and lengthy, "Body talk" nonetheless had quite a few strong points. A captivating and hypnotic groove, piano bass line (also with arpeggios overlapped with the melody), male falsetto voices rising from the shady jungle of artificial, synthesized yet 100% soulful sounds, basses capable of moving you, musical lightness hiding occult forces. "Body talk" is the dance of the night: when all bodies move, drenched in sweat, immersed among the trees of the forest, illuminated by the faint and flickering light of oil lamps and incited by the rituals of the shaman who calls the spirits of the underworld to live another night with mortals, there’s only one language that counts, which is universal: that of the body. This is what "Body talk" sums up.
The following year (1982) Imagination surpassed themselves: they unleashed two more fundamental tracks like "Music and lights" and "Just an illusion". The first characterized by a greater danceability, the second by the deceptive presence of calm and well-being when it instead hides the same hypnotic and legendary groove of "Body talk". "Music and lights" takes the listener on a journey inside the discotheque. It shows them the wonders, the dark and hidden spots, the polished dimensions, and lysergic fantasies chained inside. Whoever doesn’t understand the discotheque is because they have never listened to "Music and lights". "Just an illusion", on the other hand, you know what it does? Nothing. What it implies isn't true, what it foreshadows isn't real. Everything is just an illusion. The musical instruments used appear real: they are not, because they are synthesized. The same voice isn’t the real one because the singing is in falsetto. The groove used isn’t new at all because it is the same as "Body talk". With this track, extremely danceable (or maybe not), you will realize that the only real thing inside it is the band, Imagination, whose name explains everything (In Italian = Imagination, and who didn’t know that??).
In their incredible career, Imagination managed to chart their tracks in 28 different countries between 1981 and 1983, achieving several platinum, gold, and silver records in European sales. Now more than ever, I felt like reminding everyone of the incredible career of these boys, although ambiguous (all gay). And what are you waiting for? Include this fantastic band in your collection as soon as possible!!!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Flashback (04:27)
We're startin'up now we're on our way
Leaving all our yesterdays behind
Something special that we wanna say
Happiness is just a state of mind
Flashback
To the days when the nights were young
Flashback
When we could do no wrong
Flashback
We used to dance to the light of dawn
Flashback
When our hearts were so strong
Yeah
Flashback
To the days when the nights were young
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
When we could do no wrong
Flashback
We used to dance to the light of dawn
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
To when our hearts were so strong
Living in the shadow of our yesterday
Memories of children in the sun
Everybody's looking back but that don't pay
Can't you see you've only just begun
Flashback
To the days when the nights were young
Flashback
When we could do no wrong
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
We used to dance to the light of dawn
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
When our hearts were so strong
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
To the days when the nights were young
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
When we could do no wrong
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
We used to dance to the light of dawn
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
To when our hearts were so strong
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
To the days when the nights were young
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
When we could do no wrong
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
We used to dance to the light of dawn
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
To when our hearts were so strong
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah ah]
Flashback [Ah ah ah]
02 Just an Illusion (06:26)
Searching for a destiny that's mine there's another place another time.
Touching many hearts along the way
yeah
hoping that I'll never have to say
It's just an illusion - illusion - illusion.
Follow your emotions anywhere
is it really magic in the air?
Never let your feelings get you down. Open up your eyes and look around
It's just an illusion - illusion - illusion.
Could it be that it's just an illusion putting me back in all this confusion?
Could it be that it's just an illusion now?
Could it be that it's just an illusion putting me back in all this confusion?
Could it be that it's just an illusion now?
Could it be a picture in my mind? Never sure exactly what I'll find.
Only in my dreams I turn you on. Here for just a moment then you're gone.
It's just an illusion - illusion - illusion.
Could it be that it's just an illusion putting me back in all this confusion?
Could it be that it's just an illusion now?
Could it be that it's just an illusion putting me back in all this confusion?
Could it be that it's just an illusion now? . . .
04 Music and Lights (05:18)
Music and lights
Forget your sorrow
let it all fade away.
Forget tomorrow
let's start living for today.
Let me take you through a night of ecstasy
I like to hear the sound of a mystic melody.
In the spotlight with the music playing loud
No distraction together we have found.
Let me show you all the glamour and the gold
Secret fantasies in a show biz world.
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all night
Sequins and pearls and lots of pretty girls
You got to have rhythm.
When ever you're dancing and you glide across the floor
Your heart is singing and they're calling out for more
Let me take you through a night of ecstasy
I like to hear the sound of a mystic melody.
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all night
. . .
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all night
Sequins and pearls and lots of pretty girls.
Give me rhythm.
Forget your sorrow
let it all fade away.
Forget tomorrow
let's start living for today
Let me show you all the glamour and the gold
Secret fantasies in a show biz world.
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all night
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all 'ght
Sequins and pearls and lots of pretty girls.
Give me rhythm. - Give me -
Music and lights - I'll sing and dance for you all night
. . .
Music And Lights
06 New Dimension (04:22)
Everywhere I go I just see faces touched by the crying winter wind.
All kinda trouble only traces
circles of life we're moving in.
Here am I lost in a world without a chance.
Your prisoner - just snap your fingers and I'll dance.
The patterns in your eyes when you come alive
They never can disguise the way I feel inside.
Caught in the middle of a new dimension
Walking
talking
one direction
Can't be such a revelation
captivates a generation.
You tease and play with my emotions
you want to take control of me.
You'll never capture my devotion
I'm here forever finally.
The more I show the more I'm fighting
That's how I know that it's the right thing.
Caught in the middle of a new dimensio
Caught in the middle of a new dimension
...
The patterns in your eyes when you come alive
. . .
Caught in the middle of a new dimension
. . .
Caught in the middle of a new dimension
. . .
Caught in the middle of a new dimension. . . .
07 Body Talk (05:57)
Body Talk, Body Talk
I to you, you to me
Morning afternoon and night
We lay together side by side
Searching for lust, searching for breath
Searching for the touch of life
No words are spoken, the only sound we hear is
Body talk
Body talk
The heat of passion is such a beautiful thing
As it overflows pleasure grows
All the dreams it can bring
Your lust in my eyes a gentle size
Body talk (uh, it's just a love thing)
Body talk (yeah, make it real baby)
For play on tray we never gonna make it wack
We play I say show you that hte loving's back
Just like I showed from the start we're gonna play it right
Throw up your hands and make it wild cause it's outta sight
We're dropping bombs in the mix can you hear me right
Get up and pick up a rhyme cause you know the honey's fine
Wait up date up it's time to get this faith up
Brothers knocking boots and the ladies playing stay up
So keep it real and make it known
That love will always glide
I got to take it to the top this is the reason why
Free expression not agression
We have become-one
Now that we got you straight tripping
It's time to make a move
We gots you groove running smooth flex without you boo
Ex-it sets it you know we're gonna play it
Back drop flex it time to shake and fake it huh
We got you dropping mad styles take the bomb alive
Who said my love flies wide you got to get up and dive
So keep it real and feel what you're looking for
Just like I told you when you love you gots' to make it raw
Chorus (Repeat)
08 In the Heat of the Night (05:12)
In a cold hard world when you're out on your own
Oh
there's a cruel harsh word you'll get to know.
No one understands what it's like in misery
All the great demands your love has made on me
In the heat
in the heat of the night.
In the heat
in the heat of the night.
As their faces turn everywhere that you go
It's the eyes that burn right through to your sole.
Feel the rhythm of the street
A distant scream from who knows where -
Now the picture is complete
Through the dark and running scared.
In the heat
in the heat of the night.
In the heat
in the heat of the night.
In the heat
in the heat
No one understands in the heat of the night.
No one understands in the heat of the night. . . .
12 Changes (05:45)
Changes
I know you think you've got me where you want me
Tied up in the chains you know I can't shake free.
Caught up in the trap you call affection.
Now I've seen it all just take your hands off me
Changes
Changes
Someday somehow there's gonna be some changes
You can scream and shout but you don't have the right to tell me.
Here and now there's gonna be you're gonna see some changes
Changes
changes.
You just don't have the right
you won't hurt me tonight.
Trustling you it all adds up to nothing
Dealing with the lies it's all a part of you.
Promises that should have come to something
But I don't need your empty-headed attitude - changes
changes.
Someday somehow there's gonna be some changes
. . .
Someday somehow there's gonna be some changes
. . .
Someday somehow there's gonna be some changes
. . .
You just don't have the right
you won't hurt me tonight.
Changes
changes.
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