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Rating: I conclude my three days of full immersion in DeBaser and return to work. I thank DeBaser for publishing all my reviews (I still have hopes for the publication of the John Peel session of the Ruts). I also had a couple of annoyances, but I've already forgotten them. In short, I'm unplugging for a bit, but I will do my best to become a "diver" myself (damned currency).
I want to remind you of this great album by the "Swervedriver," a collection of the best of their production plus the best EPs and some excellent unreleased tracks. They are the best Shoegaze band I know (but it’s not like I've listened to absolutely everything that’s listenable) and they're centered around the Franklin brothers from Oxford, with deep similarities to the more famous brothers from "Jesus and Mary Chain." The Shoegaze of the Swervedriver has always intrigued me more than many other Shoe bands because it's permeated with "sixties" echoes (listen to "The Birds"). Here, even the tracks from the albums sound better thanks to the remixing.
The 33 songs are all of high quality. And I also think that of all the shoegaze, this is the one that will withstand the test of time the best. In fact, I no longer listen to Jesus and Mary Chain (and to think I wore out "Automatic" by playing it so much), and Bloody Valentine, not even worth mentioning, too dated. But this collection by Swervedriver released in 2005 still sounds great. What rating do you give a CD that you listen to a dozen times? 4? 5? You decide.
Salut. Alex
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Son of Mustang Ford (04:19)
Yeah Mustang take me
Mustang Ford take me far away
Been driving for days now
Been driving to take the pain away
Gotta get some love now
Love back in my veins, gotta kill this pain
Drove down to the shoreline
Hey shoreline take me far away
There was a sign by the roadside
Back by the road is where my body's layin'
Hallucinogen headlamps
My sane scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
Drive
Hallucinogen headlamps
My sane scape's disrupted in a pickup truck
(The radio still plays
Among the mangled metal frays
Petroleum spirit daze)
Been drivin' for days now Oh Yeah
There was a sign by the roadside Oh Yeah
Gotta get some love now
Love back in my veins, gotta quit this pain
Do you satisfy my soul (yeah, such a shame)
I got clean out of control (soul ride train train)
Held ransom, Rock 'n Roll
03 The Birds (03:44)
In a moment of weakness I embodied the sickness
And when everyone winds me up I just can't wind down
And the April rain soaks my jokes to a pulp
The sun makes my eyes burn
And it must be my turn
To fly with the birds this time
Saturday's nation is rife with anticipation
Of the ticket that buys you out of the real world
But I don't mind the rain
'Cause I was born on an aeroplane
Balloon ride over landslides
It's April, I'm 18
And flying with the birds in a dream
Make an electric connection as lightning strikes
Angels' wings not once but twice
Point blank refusal, the earth moves I turn her head
Plant life gone wild over British monuments
Something is burning
Somebody's learning
To fly with the birds tonight
Solomon flies tonight
Cape to coast, wings in full flight
He's flying home with the birds tonight
In a moment of weakness I embodied the sickness
And I just can't wind down
04 Duel (04:39)
You've been away for so long
You can't ask why
You've been away
You can't ask why
You can't ask why
A million stars out tonight
Could spark neon from candlelight
One million stars
Could spark neon from candlelight
Could spark neon from candlelight
I'm goin' down, down to the market place
Goin' to learn to give
I'm goin' down, down by the sea market side
Goin' to learn to live
The tightropes wound around
Just one slip and you tumble down
The ropes wrapped around
Just one slip and you tumble down
One slip and you tumble down
I'm goin' down, down to the market place
Goin' to learn to give
I'm goin' down, down by the sea market side
Goin' to learn to live
07 Rave Down (05:08)
Rave down, hit the ground
Before the pistol crack spins me out sideways
Like the sharp hard hit of a car crash in a dream
There's kids on the corner wanna
Beat-box my brains to bits
You can't cut creed clean
Things ain't black or white like they seem
Rave down, hit the ground
4 AM all night hell gas station
Before we cruise off to the beach
Where the breeze blows easy and slow
We hung tight all night and no gig to go to
There could be something happenin' here
But there's just no place to go
Your town ain't lively up no more
Rave Down
Deep hot sun burns through the city
Yeah, they're havin' to peel
The pedestrians off the walls
Ex-cop 'round the block
Rockin' chair, suckin' beer
He blasts flies with his gun
Because swatting's no fun
Your town ain't hypin' up no more
Rave down
Rave down, hit the ground
09 Blowin' Cool (03:55)
White hot morning
The blinding light of day holds sway
Barefoot yawning wipe the night out from my eyes
It's slowly dawning
This summer town's a merry-go-round
The stakes get risen daily
In every way there's more to pay
And I'm not searching for these changes
They just slip by me everyday
And everything needs rearranging
And you're the one to make it stay
Glass clear morning
It's blowin' cool outside today
Without warning the crowds all meet across the street
Payphone calling, down the square the people stare
This daily planet's beauty lies behind untutored eyes
And I'm not searching for these changes
They just slip by me everyday
And everything needs rearranging
And you're the one to make it stay
Cool morning
Cool morning
White hot morning
The blinding light of day holds sway
Barefoot yawning, wipe the night out from my eyes
It's slowly dawning
This summer town's a merry-go-round
Without a watch you get to know
The time is right for crime
And I'm not searching for these changes
They just slip by me everyday
And everything needs rearranging
And you're the one to make it stay
Cool morning
Cool morning
10 The Other Jesus (03:11)
You rise and fall before me I close my eyes
When all these schemes devour me I'll apologize
You send the truth straight by me I fall right in
These sins you've laid before me are seeping in
I saw the other Jesus walk down my street
Sit tight they try to teach us
The twain shall never meet
But I saw the other Jesus
Walk down my street
In dreams I've tried to twist it
But I never bleed
And something way more sinister
Is plain to see
I saw the other Jesus walk down my street
You rise and fall before me I close my eyes
When all these schemes devour me I'll apologize
You send the truth straight by me I fall right in
These sins you've laid before me are seeping in
I saw the other Jesus walk down my street
12 For Seeking Heat (03:38)
You seem to circle miles above me
Never hearing any word that I say
Eyes reeling from deadly pleasure
The last second don't count anyway
Without the safety net you're freed
To find serene pleasure of speed
A blur of beauty, intoxicating
Existence outstripped, outshined
Head clear cold chassis shaking
Encounter of body and mind
Erupting violent machine
Precise exultance so serene
Poised between risk and calculation
In a kind of wide-awake alert daze
Pretty pirouette accelerating
Beyond living in so many ways
Without the safety net you're freed
To find serene pleasure of speed
Erupting violent machine
Precise exultance so serene
13 These Times (03:21)
We live through these times
And never change the way we are
We've seen through their lies
So don't ever say it's one too far
We've been to these heights
With open arms and ways to fly
We live through these times
And never change
Your time was not mine
I traced you down to an untwinned town
We'd laugh all the while
Playing games with names of passer-by
We drank all your wine
With the Stooges high and a Bunnymen-style
We live through these times
That forever change
These times
These times
We live through these times
Where are the strong and who I trusted?
The harder they chime
Our wish fulfilled but wanting still
This sounds so sublime
Say what you will I just don't care
These times
These times
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