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Rating: Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues
Play.
First rev, second rev, the engine roars menacingly, we're ready, go!
A billion watts hit us, the bass and the two guitars are distorted in an extremely and tremendously delightful way, Blue Snow is like a punch right to the face, dirty, rough, and cursed.
They are the Orange Goblin, five English lads, rowdy and wicked enough, determined not to take any prisoners. Their style is very energetic Stoner Rock, heavily Heavy-Metal oriented (unlike the more psychedelic style, for example, of their cousins Kyuss), instantly appreciated for its sonic immediacy, aimed at wild headbanging and collective mayhem.
Sabbathian riffs in the spotlight, Chris Turner behind the drums pounding like a man possessed, and Ben Ward's vocals as sharp as a dagger. These are the winning components of this full-length by the Orange Goblin.
The highlights are countless, the album is a continuous succession of violent songs, drenched in the smoky, all-whiskey-and-basements atmosphere typical of Stoner; you're catapulted into a desert filled with bikers and beautiful women, under a scorching sun and constant sandstorms. A hallucinatory and stunning trip through the human mind, not refined but absolutely effective and explosive.
A few sound thefts here and there (yes, we all know that Snail Hook in the progression halfway through the song is identical to Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath) do not decrease the overall quality of this truly wonderful CD.
Particular mention for the classic Stoner ballad, Shine, which fully represents that song you play with pleasure when, stoned and happy, your friends ask you for something "to travel": distorted guitars, dreamy lyrics, and liquid riffs ready to spice up the collective tour.
There would be much more to say, but I don't want to give too much away. An album to listen to, re-listen to, and love forever! A band at the beginning of their career, but not at all unripe and with clear ideas in mind.
"We own the sun, we own the sky
We own tomorrow and we wanna fly..."
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 Shine (06:56)
Dream on, dream on baby, let it go
Dream on baby, let it go
Fly so high, fly so high baby, let it go
Fly so high baby, let it go
You light my soul, you light my soul baby, let it go
You light my soul baby, let it go
I will shine, you will shine baby, let it go
We will shine baby, let it go
When the revelation comes, beyond the frozen sun
We must hide inside each other's moonlight, baby
Then when it's time to shine, it's written in your eyes
And we can live inside each other's daydreams maybe
Yeah!
You wanna ride with me now, you wanna fly so high
With eyes like holes in the sun, you're gonna touch the sky
Touch the sky
You wanna walk in the stars and tie yourself to the moon
You know your future is comin' and it's comin' soon
It's comin' soon
You want the druids to take you in their magic hands
And send your soul far beyond the walls of never lands
Never lands
And when we wake on the shores that bring the dawn of time
You know the light in your eyes, it will forever shine
Forever shine
Oh yeah!
Alright!
Shine on!
I am the sun that will shine forever in your heart
I am the stars that will shine for you when we're apart
When we're apart
And when we wake on the shores that bring the dawn of time
You know the light in your eyes, it will forever shine
Forever shine
Oh yeah!
Alright!
Shine on everyone!
we'll shine... we'll shine!...
Shine on!
Shine on, everyone!
C'mon!
C'mon!
C'mon and shine!
Shine!
Shine!
C'mon and shine!
Shine!
Shine!
C'mon and shine!
07 Nuclear Guru (06:16)
Father figure of invention
Universal soul within the planet's core
Read your tarot cards, Shangoma
Bring the Voodoo Child's creation to the fore
Supersonic information
Spiritual computer in your brainwashed mind
Send your evil ways throughout us
Cast your magic spell to end all of mankind
I know, oh I said I know
Operation radiation, interplanetary commotion
Blackest magical illusion, futuristic lord of this world
It's in effect from when you throw your magic bones
Littered galaxy with nuclo-phonic clones
Blind religious cult will always fail to see
Time creator and destroyer now supreme
Alright let's go
Now the world is your possession
Can you walk me through the orbital remains
Planets drifting, slowly melting
Radiation burns the lunar sonic plains
Astro-palace, fourth dimension
Neutrons gathered in a cosmagnetic shell
He's Satan's scientific offspring
Nuclear Guru of interplanetary hell
I know, oh I said I know
Mama said she's come to take us home
Leave this broken planet all alone
Find a world where love is here to stay
Peace and happiness in every day, it's gonna be okay
It's gonna be okay...
08 Lunarville 7, Airlock 3 (04:31)
At Lunarville 7, down at Airlock 3
There lives the old magician called Infinity
Sweet father of illusion, child of the stone
The Astral Wizard Master in a cosmic home
The Dragon Lord of Jupiter and Spaceblock One
The crimson void inertia and the seventh sun
Rider of the starchild unicorn, he saves
Children of eternity in astral graves
At Lunarville 7, down at Airlock 3
There dwells the evil spacewitch called Eternity
The Equinox of Saturn, Queen of Fire and Ice
Princess nocturnal demon, mistress of the night
She sails upon a meteoric butterfly
Through poison clouds of acid in a nitrate sky
Her quest for domination of the galaxy
She rids the universe of all infinity
Heaven in a nitrate sky
Beyond imagination's eye
Take my hand, with me you'll fly
Man you've never been this high
It's heaven in a nitrate sky
Beyond imagination's eye
Take my hand, with me you'll fly
Man you've never been this high
At Lunarville 7, down at Airlock 3
There's mountains made of crystal and a sonic sea
A psychedelic sunrise at the dawn of time
Electric moons that hum the tunes that blow your mind
Infinity the Wizard rides the starchild skies
And gathers rainbow diamonds for the Star Queen's eyes
Eternity the Spacewitch on her butterfly
Spreads dark and evil magic where the wizard rides
Heaven in a nitrate sky
Beyond imagination's eye
Take my hand, with me you'll fly
Man you've never been this high
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By Hellring
Songs like "Blue Snow," "Solarisphere," "Shine," and "Lunarville 7, Airlock 3" demonstrate the relentlessly uncompromising energy of the London band.
"Their albums are anthems to the filthiest rock, the kind whose sole purpose is to provoke headbanging and adrenaline."
