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Rating: After the beautiful "Street Fighting Years," Simple Minds faced (perhaps rightly) negative opinions on all subsequent albums, probably losing a good part of their audience.
In 2002, the band, reduced to the core with Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill, had to seek revenge, knowing they couldn't afford any more mistakes.
This "Cry," recorded between Glasgow and Taormina, managed to give many fans a sigh of relief. Of course, we are not dealing with "New Gold Dream" or "Sparkle in the Rain," but there are many interesting elements indeed. The album opens with the fantastic "Cry," a track with a remarkable melody supported by electronic elements that don't detract. Throughout the first part of the album, you savor fragmented sounds, driving rhythms, melodic openings worthy of the name, and killer singles ("New Sunshine Morning"), with tributes to Italian music and tradition ("Face in the Sun"). "Disconnected" seems to transport you to another dimension, perhaps one of nonsense where everything is futile. You indeed feel "disconnected," carried away.
In short, the first half-hour flows away, leaving a sweet taste that fades shortly after: in fact, with forgettable tracks like "Sleeping Girl" and "Sugar" Cry becomes a regular album, a good album but not one of the best. Not to mention the terrible idea of including a hardcore dance track at the end of the album, certainly out of place in a record that is electronic, but not club house.
Worth noting is the good work by Planet Funk on "One Step Closer" and the excellent arrangements curated by Kerr himself, in my opinion, in great shape and with a timbre even more mature than before.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Cry (03:55)
It's difficult to love you when you do the things you do
Time and time again.
And when I try to turn it off, you turn from smooth, you play it rough,
Once again.
Pride that pulls me into this ocean subsides again
So high and so dry with these bitter emotional lies again.
You make me CRY, You make me CRY again,
You make me CRY, And the tears roll by again.
Saturday’s the same old story, Sunday mornings wounded glory,
Repeats again.
And everyday a dream that’s born is countered by a love that’s torn
Deep again.
Pride that pulls me into this ocean subsides again
So high and so dry with these bitter emotional lies again.
You make me CRY, You make me CRY again,
And You make me CRY, And the tears roll by again.
You make me cry
you make me cry again
You make me cry
and you make me cry
You make me cry again
and you make me cry
The tears roll by again
And you make me cry
You make me cry again
And you make me cry
And the tears roll by again
You make me cry you make me cry
You make me cry you make me cry
You make me cry
02 Spaceface (03:53)
she don't need no rocket ship (rocket ship rocket ship)
just close her eyes and takes a trip
baby's big on aviation (aviation aviation)
baby loves a levitation (levitation)
yes shes a spaceface going round
shes never coming down (coming down coming down)
my little spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (coming down)
never coming down
never coming down (coming down coming down)
baby's talking to the stars
aint got time for idle wars (space space space)
and i don't worry anyway
as long as i know shes ok (shes ok)
yes shes a spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (coming down)
my little spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (coming down coming down)
shes a spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (coming down)
my little spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (coming down coming down)
never coming down (coming down)
dont know what you see
i'll be there if you wait for me
i will soon be home
i'll be there if you're not alone
ah spaceface
my little spaceface
ah spaceface
never falling down
never falling down
yeah, shes a spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (never coming down)
my little spaceface floating round
shes never coming down (never coming down)
never coming down
never coming down
never coming down
she never coming down
never coming down
06 Disconnected (03:37)
sometime i can see the world
by staring through your dark and misty eyes
i dont want to hear the words
or anything you know you cant deny
everytime i feel myself rejected
disconnected, from everything thats real
everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
only in my dreams i feel protected
this is reflected in all that I believe
Everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
i dont want to hear the sound
of your wide world when it comes crashing down
i can only help you if you're sure
you want to keep me hangin' round
i will only hear the sound
of your wide world when it comes crashing down
i can only help you
if you're sure you want to keep me hangin' round
only in my dreams i feel protected
this is reflected in all that I believe
everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
everytime i feel myself rejected
disconnected, from everythings that real
everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
only in my dreams i feel protected
this is reflected in all that I believe
everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
everytime i feel myself rejected
disconnected, from everythings that real
everybody needs to feel respected
not disconnected
08 Sugar (03:13)
shout, shout aloud
i still can't get enough
lover, i got sugar on the brain
these sun sets so fine, drink the heavy wine
lover never did the sugar thing
so shout it out
tell me it now
i need to know you wanna do those things
hope you can stay on
hope you lead me on
hope we can produce that special thing
take me away from this place
take me up into the space
moonshine, sunshine
brother i got sugar on the brain
shout, shout aloud
i still can't get enough
i wonder what relieves me from this pain
shine, shine your love
i hope you lead me on
lover, we got sugar on the brain
the sun sets so fine,
if you drink your heavy wine
lover never did the sugar thing
take me away from this place
take me up into the space
sugar
it tastes like sugar
moonshine, sunshine
any place you want count me in
moonshine, anytime
lover i got you, come here
it tastes like sugar
it tastes like sugar
it tastes like sugar
it tastes like sugar
it tastes like sugar
anytime, anyplace
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