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Rating: Let those three little bastards from Cincinnati go to hell! Who do they think they are? Maybe because they are Jack White and Brendan Benson's protégés and play with them in the Raconteurs?
A Greatest Hits after just a couple of albums and some EPs!!!
On their website they write: "Like their predecessors The Kinks, the Byrds, and the Yardbirds, the Greenhornes songs range from classic psychedelic sounds and soulful melodies to timeless rock anthems... Craig, Peter, and Jack have created a sound that is original yet influenced with great respect to those who have come before."
What originality and what kind of respect are they talking about?!? "Love in the sun" is blatantly Byrds, "Pattern Skills" and "Shadow of the grief" are outright thefts from the Yardbirds, "It's no real" has the same riff as "Touch" by the Dutch Outsiders of the great Wally Tax, "The End of the night" and "It Returns" are swiped from the Kinks, "Lies" is pure garage with the organ played like Jeff Monomann Connolly does in the Lyres, the bass intro of "Shelter of your arms" is directly copied from "Codine" on the first album by the Litter, "Stay Away" gives you a jolt because it's the missing song on a record by the Doors, for "Goodtimes" they should expect a visit from Rudi Protrudi who will give them hell for plagiarizing his Fuzztones, the three chords of "Satisfy my mind" were lifted from the Rolling Stones... should I go on?
In Martin Scorsese's beautiful documentary, No Direction Home, at one point Bob Dylan says: "Time... there are many things you can do that seem to stop time but, of course, you can't really do it."
It's all true, and not even the Greenhornes can do it, but then why has this album been spinning in my stereo for more than a year?
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 It's Not Real (03:32)
Twisted finger, you drag me down
You?re so strange well, traps my mind
It?s an evil from within
Alone in darkness, a terror begins
On the floor
I can?t move
I can?t see
I can?t breathe
It?s not real (x 4)
Swirling laughter stabs my ears
Lost forever on that tempting shore
It?s a darkness that grows inside
Fading picture that haunts my mind
On the floor
I can?t move
I can?t see
I can?t breathe
It?s not real (x 4)
Twisted finger, you drag me down
You?re so strange well, traps my mind
It?s an evil from within
Alone in darkness, a terror begins
On the floor
I can?t move
I can?t see
I can?t breathe
It?s not real (x 4)
05 Hold Me (03:50)
Come on and hold me now, baby
A little tighter now, oh yeah
Don't you say maybe
Put your arms around me now
Whisper to me, baby
A little softer now, oh yeah
Whisper to me one more time
Yeah
Come on and show me now, baby
A little kindness here, oh yeah
Don't you see me crying
Every night, I'm dying
Whisper to me, baby
A little softer now, oh yeah
Whisper to me, I said one more time
Yeah
Come on and kiss me now, baby
A little softer now, oh yeah
I said squeeze me now, baby
A little tighter now, oh yeah
Don't you say maybe
Put your arms around me now
Whisper to me one more time
Yeah
08 There Is an End (03:06)
(featuring: Holly Golightly)
(From Broken Flowers Soundtrack)
Words disappear,
Words weren't so clear,
Only echos passing through the night.
The lines on my face,
Your fingers once traced,
Fading reflection of what was.
Thoughts re-arrange,
Familar now strange,
All my skin is drifting on the wind.
Spring brings the rain,
With winter comes pain,
Every season has an end.
I try to see through the disguise,
But the clouds were there,
Blocking out the sun (the sun).
Thoughts re-arrange,
Familar now strange,
All my skin is drifting on the wind.
Spring brings the rain,
With winter comes pain,
Every season has an end.
There's an end,
There's an end,
There's an end,
There's an end,
There's an end.
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