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Rating: Sly, cunning, perfect trend followers, yet extremely fascinating.
I'm talking about Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, of course, a Welshman raised in the myth of Jim Morrison and a deep connoisseur of Native American culture, and a guy from Manchester who hid a 70s rocker soul behind the dark gothic-punk appearances of the early eighties.
A strange creature, capable of uniting under one banner the dark boys recovering from the end of punk, and the dirty and rough street rockers that would emerge in the late 80s.
Always criticized for being unoriginal, but in fact forerunners and inspirers first of that gothic rock born from the ashes of darkwave (Mission who, among other things, opened for the Cult several times at the start of their career, Fields of Nephilim) and later of the street rock that was brought to worldwide prominence by Guns n' Roses with "Appetite for Destruction" (the Cult's drummer at the time of "Sonic Temple", Matt Sorum, joined the Guns in "Use Your Illusion I & II and is still the drummer for Slash's band, namely the Velvet Revolver).
After the unexpected success of the album "Love", which became the best-selling gothic rock record of all time (more than the Cure's trilogy, Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, and Bauhaus), Ian and Billy finally shed the gothic clothes and poses to don the outfits that suited them best, those of rockers.
Thus "Electric" was born, full of sonic references to 70s rock that the two Englishmen were in love with (Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Cream).
With this change of skin, Ian Astbury finally unleashed the stage animal energy he possessed and was able to best extend his warm and sensual voice, even though his demeanor was far too indebted to the lizard king, his youthful idol.
"Electric" is an excellent hard rock blues record. Just simply blood-pumping, energetic rock without frills. The kind that makes you hit the accelerator when you're in the car, or makes you jump and dance when you're in a club or at a concert.
Listening to the barely three minutes of "Lil Devil" will make you want to grab a guitar and slightly spread your knees in that typical cocky pose that Slash borrowed from Billy Duffy. And when you listen to "Wild Flower", you'll feel the instinct to climb onto the highest speaker and jump on stage following Astbury's example in the song's clip.
However, no track stands out compared to the others (except for the aforementioned "Lil Devil" which, due to its driving energy and also its short length, I put on more often than the others).
From the opener "Wild Flower" to "Aphrodisiac Jacket", passing through the Steppenwolf cover "Born to be Wild", "Love Removal Machine" and all the others, "Electric" you'll gulp it all down, like a double Jack Daniels at your trusted bar.
100% guaranteed rock.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Wild Flower (03:37)
Hey you
You're a wild honey child
I'm out of control
Every time you are near me
I'm a wolf child, baby
And I'm howlin' for you
My heart beats faster, hrrrr
Hey hey, and it's overpowered, wow
I'm a wolf child, girl
Howlin' for you
Wild flower
Star of my dreams
The most beautiful thing, yeah
Yeah you
Sweet sensation of a nation
Oh, my soul
You're a perfect creation
You're an angel, baby
And I'm cryin' for you
My heart beats faster, hrrrr
Yea hey, and I'm overpowered
I'm a wolf child, girl
Howlin' for you
Wild flower
Star of my dreams
The most beautiful thing
Wild flower
I love you every hour
Wild flower
Burning down the night
Set the world alight, yeah
Wild flower
I'm a wolf child, girl
Howlin' for you
Wild flower
You're the star of my dreams
Most beautiful thing
Wild flower
I love you every hour
Wild flower
I love you every hour
Crazy 'bout you, yeah
Crazy 'bout you, girl
Crazy 'bout you, yeah
Crazy 'bout
Crazy 'bout you, yeah
02 Peace Dog (03:34)
Oh, peace is a dirty word
She used to be a painted bird, yeah
And war, she's a whore
Don't you know we love her more and more?
Peace is a dirty word
She used to be a painted bird, yeah
War, she's a whore
Don't you know we love her more and more?
B52 baby, way up in the sky
Come droppin' your lovin' on me, child
B52 baby, way up in the sky
Drop your love on me tonight, yeah
Poor man, sad man, you should be a glad man
Stand up for your rights, peace, talkin' about peace
Good dog, bad dog, roll over and play dead
Do it again, baby, peace, peace dog, yeah
B52 baby, way up in the sky
Come droppin' your lovin' on me, child
A B52 baby, way up in the sky
Drop your love on me, ow
Oh, war, she's a loser
Peace dog user
(Peace dog)...
Babe, baby, baby...
Baby, way up in the sky
Come droppin' your lovin' on me child
A B52 baby
Drop your love
(Peace dog)...
Drop your love on me, me, me, me, me, me, yeah, ow
Come droppin' your lovin' on me, wow
B52 baby
Drop your love on me, yeah, ow
03 Lil' Devil (02:44)
Yeah
Livin' in a shack in a one-horse town
Trying to get to heaven 'fore the sun goin' down
Lizard in a bottle, yeah
Dizzy in a haze for 40 days
Hey there, little devil
Come on little devil
Be my little angel
Come on little devil
Be my, yeah, angel, ow
Oh, she came on with an alligator smile
Dynamite lover, scorpion child
Trying to get to heaven 'fore the sun goes down, yeah
She came on with a cyclone kiss
Hey there baby, you don't never miss
Lizard in a bottle, oh yeah
Come on little devil
Be my little angel
Come on little devil
Be my little angel, angel
Come on little devil
Be my little angel
Come on little devil
Be my, oh be my, angel
04 Aphrodisiac Jacket (04:11)
Ow, ow, ow
Sittin' on a mountain, looking at the sun
Plastic fantastic lobster telephone
Drive on baby, through the electric night
All the way sister, in the taxi of life
Cookin' in the kitchen, insects on the bone
Hazy, lazy, dream world drippin' on
Waitin' for a time bomb, yeah, tick tick tick away
Somethin' on the radio, yeah yeah, drip drip drip all day, yeah
Drive on baby, through the electric night
All the way sister, in the taxi of light
The sunshine glows, but nobody knows
The nighttime's gone, keep drivin' on, yeah
Aphrodisiac jacket
Napoleon machine gun
Livin' on a subway, yeah yeah
From dusk till dawn, yeah
Push baby, push, push, push, yeah...
Sittin' on a mountain, we're looking at the sun
Plastic fantastic lobster telephone, yeah
Drive on baby, through the electric night
All the way sister, in the taxi of light
The sunshine glows, but nobody knows
The nighttime's gone, keep drivin' on
05 Electric Ocean (02:49)
Oh yeah
Ah-ah
Oh yeah
Standin' at the shore
A hurricane calls my name
Beyond all I dream
The electric ocean
Oh yeah
Ah-ah
Oh yeah
The spirit is free
Where the wild things roam
Next to the sea
The electric ocean
Ocean of love (ocean of love)
I'm thinkin' of (I'm thinkin' of)
The place to be (the place to be)
Electric sea
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Ocean of love (ocean of love)
I'm thinkin' of (I'm thinkin' of)
The place to be (the place to be)
Electric, electric sea, ow, yeah
Standin' at the shore
A velvet song calls my name
Beyond all I feel
The electric ocean
Ocean of love
I'm thinkin' of
The place to be
The electric sea
Ocean of love, yeah baby (ocean of love)
I'm thinkin' of (I'm thinkin' of)
The place to be (the place to be)
The electric, the electric sea
06 Bad Fun (03:37)
Bad fun sister, time to go
Life's too short, on with the show
I said, get your kicks on the razor's edge
Atomic bomb overhead
Set controls for the sun
Bad fun baby just begun
Rhythm like a rumblin' train
Hit those skins, explode my brain
Spirit like a rumblin' train
Spirit of the thunderin' rain
Vibrations got you on the run
Electric child on bad fun
Mayhem children take no lip
Rev your engine from the hip
Yeah nighttime, she's callin' you
Ghetto star you'll go far
Dress up in your fancy clothes
Set good times to overload
Rhythm like a rumblin' train
Hit those skins, explode my brain
Spirit like a rumblin' train
Spirit of the thunderin' rain
Vibrations got you on the run
Electric child on bad fun
Spirit like a rumblin' train
Spirit of the thunderin' rain
Vibration got you on the run
Electric child on bad fun, get up
Spirit like a rumblin' train
Spirit of the thunderin' rain
Vibrations got you on the run
Electric child on bad fun
Spirit like a rumblin' train
Spirit of the thunderin' rain
Vibration got you on the run
Electric child on bad fun
Yeah
Ow
Ow
Yeah
08 Love Removal Machine (04:17)
Check this one
Fell to the red room because she was there, uh-huh-huh-huh
A scarlet woman, she got me in fear, yeah, yeah, yeah
She said, do all those things that you do to me
You know what I mean, boy
Do all those things that you do to me, yeah
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love, soul shaker
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, I fell from the sky
Yesterday, you blew my mind, oh yeah
Having trouble with my direction
Upside-down, psychotic reaction, oh
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover
(Talkin' bout love)
Love removal machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love, soul stealer
(Talkin' bout love)
Love removal machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love, fun remover
(Talkin' bout love)
Love removal machine
Yeah
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love, fun remover
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love
(Talkin' bout love)
Love remover machine
(Talkin' bout love)
Gimme love, soul shaker
(Talkin' bout love)
Love removal machine
Ooh yeah
Look out, here she comes
Look out, here she comes
I said, look out, here she comes
Look out, here she comes, yeah
Shake it, don't break it, baby
Shake it, don't break it, baby
Shake it, don't break it, baby
Shake it, don't break it
Baby
Ow, ow, ow
Ow, ow, ow
Ah, yeah
10 Outlaw (02:52)
Terrorize, prophesize
Small town any place
Prodigal son, hey loyal to none
He had it all to say
Renegade from another world
Child, he was the wild one
Outlaw
From the badlands baby, badlands baby
Outlaw
Tomorrow will never come
Jimi was a boogie man
Took a shotgun in his hand
Turned on dude candy-man
He walked into the wrong town
Deputy dog man wait inside
Jimi thought he'd better hide
Suddenly changed his mind
Shot 'em all on sight, yeah
Outlaw
From the badlands baby, badlands baby
Outlaw
Dizzy in the head and feelin' bad
Bandito
Fallen angel, out of time
Outlaw
Tomorrow will never come
Renegade from another world
Child, he was the wild one
Outlaw
From the badlands baby, badlands baby
Outlaw
Dizzy in the head and feelin' bad
Bandito
Fallen angel, out of time
Outlaw
Tomorrow will never come
11 Memphis Hip Shake (03:59)
You got a perfect way
All the things that you play
Cut clearly like a knife to the bone
Mama's calling you
You'll never get back home
Never get back home
Never get back home
Cool operator with a rattlesnake kiss
Angelic poses that never miss, yeah
Reverberation shuffle to the bone, yeah
Shake the world to the ground
Memphis hip swinging to the guitar sound
All the time, baby
All the time, yeah
Baby, get it while it's real good, yeah
All around the world
Sure do need guitar, yeah
Ah-ha-ha, yeah
Ah-ha, ah-ha, yeah
You'll never get back home, no, no, no
You'll never get back home, yeah
Cool operator with a rattlesnake kiss, yeah
Angelic poses that never miss, no they don't
Reverberation shuffle to the bone, yeah
Shake the world to the ground
Memphis hip swinging to the guitar sound, yeah
Shake...
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