The name of the band consisting of Peter Hayes (guitar, bass, vocals), Robert Turner (guitar, bass, vocals) and Nick Jago (drums) is taken from the 1954 film by Laslo Benedek featuring Marlon Brando, "The Wild One".
Brando's biker gang was called "Black Rebels Motorcycle Club".

B.R.M.C. dropped the "s" and named themselves. They formed in San Francisco in 1998, and this is their first album (B.R.M.C) ...what a load of crap... so far so good...

This is the most useless album I've ever had the misfortune to listen to.
B.R.M.C. are a photocopy made with expired toner of the Jesus And Mary Chain. They copy the sounds, in the videos they copy the aesthetics of "Psychocandy", they copy the haircuts, the singing style.

B.R.M.C. are at best a "tribute band", but not the "big thing" heralded by the (colluding) press.
But they don't want to be a "tribute band" (the No Way Sis, an excellent "tribute band" to the Oasis, come to mind), in interviews, they claim that the Mary Chain didn’t inspire them, they hadn't heard them, but rather the Ride.

When evaluated as a "tribute band," the second single, the first track on the LP, "Love Burns," = Mary Chain with swoosch effect guitars might be enjoyable; "Whatever Happened to My Rock'N'Roll (Punk Song)" remains unclassifiable, the title is awful, and it's completely awful overall, "Rifles" is tolerable.
Alternatively, one could go for a walk.

The rest is just so.An album to throw in the trash. My copy was taken back to the store, I said it was a gift, but I don't like it. I exchanged it for "Hatful of Hollow" by The Smiths, which I didn't have on CD.

Ah, I almost forgot, they don't just copy the "Mary Chain", but in the last track of the album, they also copy Spacemen 3, in the "spiritual" "Salvation", not even coming close to the magnificence of Spacemen 3. A total waste of time.

Tracklist Lyrics and Videos

01   Love Burns (04:05)

02   Red Eyes and Tears (04:00)

03   Whatever Happened to My Rock 'n' Roll (Punk Song) (04:38)

04   Awake (06:12)

Wanna feel what I touch
Wanna find what was lost
Wanna be kind

As you see every curse
And in a dream it'll work
Now you'll feel tied

Wanna praise with this life
And conceal without lies
I just need time

Wanna fight every need
Every push every string
Will you stand by?

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held the ground now I'm gaining soul
I bit my tongue through the cold realizations
I've been accused but I've only begun

Wanna speak what I've seen
Wanna reach what I've dreamed
Wanna be kind

Wanna seal what I've cut
Wanna hear without rush
Wanna ease time

With your hand on your loss
Our scene truly cost
No one told you

And we grew from the day
Into night I'm ashamed
I will join you

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held my ground now I'm gaining soul
I bit my tongue through the cold realizations
I've been accused, but I've only begun
Take me on, take me on
I've been awake, shaking to a rage
I've been awake, shaking to a rage

In the end only once
All you need is a touch
Wanna see love

Every thought you'll be shown
Every act will be known
I defend you

We'll awake every sound
Every chance I'll be found
I'll be with you

To the end now you come
Show your hands to the ones
To behold you

I've been awake through the wrong decisions
I've held my ground now I'm gaining soul
I've held my tongue through the cold realisations
I've been accused, but I've only begun
Take me on, take me on
I've been awake, shaking to a rage
(Take me on, take me on)
I've been awake, shaking to a rage

05   White Palms (04:55)

06   As Sure as the Sun (07:27)

07   Rifles (05:29)

Rifles

I see the rifles coming over the hill
And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill
But if you think like me
You'll be as dead as he

I see the lion crawling over your bed
And if you stay he'll make you walk in your bed
To what you're gonna be
It never lets you be

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

I won't let you take him away
And I won't give to you the fires of hate
So I will never see
What you've done to me

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

I see the rifles coming over the hill
And if you shout maybe they stop and won't kill
But if you think like me
You'll be as dead as he
Some day

I see the colour in your eyes
I see the images I own
I see more colour in your eyes
Than the reflections from purple skies

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

Now
You come alive
With the world at your side

08   Too Real (04:55)

Don't want to see what all these people see
They all seem lost with what they've found
Don't want to hear what all these people hear
It seems to tell them there's no sound
Don't want to fight who all these people fight
It's only truth that's been denied

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Don't want to waste away my life-savings
Too many feelings left to save
No need to talk about the other side
We learn to live our happy lives
It's so good, you see- just another day
Learn to savour all the same

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?
Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?
Do you turn out the lights so you don't have to see yourself?

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Does it feel too real
When everything you've learnt to love seems to change?
Does it feel too real
When everything you love to fear seems the same?

Does it feel too real?

09   Spread Your Love (03:45)

10   Head Up High (05:35)

You feel, no one listens, before saying you're through
You fear, nothing takes you as far as you'll go

This song is not about you
The life that stands without you
Your body and blood
Your body and blood
You're leaving us all

I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations

You feel, nothing ever stays the same as it was
You'll take, no more remedies to force yourself true
You say, every motion and fall fail you too

This song is not about you
The life that stands without you
Your body and blood
Your body and blood
You're leaving us all

I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations
I keep my head up high to ease my mind
Of all these true sensations

11   Salvation (06:05)

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