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This 1994 album by Veruca Salt is really great! We're in the era when alternative rock is booming!!!
13 tracks that are very varied and complex! From the lightheartedness of Seether to much more serious and poetic sounds and lyrics like "Sleeping Where I Want" (This is my favorite disease... I am sleeping in his dreams) and "Spiderman '79" (You're so nice, you tie me in a web and cradle me 'til dawn).
Musically speaking, the guitars, for the most part, loaded with very refined distortion and creators of spacey solos (just listen to Forsythia), take center stage in ballads that are anything but trivial, immersing the listener in reverberating echoes and uncertain sounds. The two guitarists, Louise Post and Nina Gordon (a collaborator with James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins on a track from his solo album) take turns in the vocals and writing usually abstract and enigmatic lyrics.
An excellent album, therefore, recommended for lovers of alternative rock and anyone who wants to hear something original (despite the release date), without giving up after the first listen, which could be slightly challenging!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Get Back (03:12)
I'm spinning out.
I can't control my car
It doesn't matter,
if you think you might be, you are.
I misplace it. I don't know where it's at.
And I could find it but I'd never get it back.
Don't get it back [x2]
The more you want it,
the less you're gonna get back.
I'm running out,
I don't know when to stop.
I thought I'd wait until
I saw the penny drop.
It started raining,
pennies falling in my lap.
And I could spend it
but I'd never get it back.
Don't get it back. [x2]
The more you want it
the less you're gonna get back.
Don't get it back. [x2]
The more you want it
the less you're gonna get back. [x3]
I'm spinning out.
I can't control my car
02 All Hail Me (03:05)
So sorry, lady.
So sorry now.
I've killed your baby.
I don't know how.
So sorry, so sorry now.
So sorry, so sorry now.
You-so sorry mister. (oh-oh, oh-oh)
But don't look now (oh-oh)
I've got your sister (oh-oh)
I shot her down.
So sorry, so sorry now.
So sorry, so sorry now.
Cuz I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
All hail me.
So sorry mother
I've let you down
I'm soaked in blood here
I can't get out.
So sorry, so sorry now.
So sorry, so sorry now.
So sorry, so sorry now.
Cuz I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
I'm a bad man, I do what I can.
All hail me.
Ha, ha, ha, all hail me.
(oh, I'm melting)
(melt your baby)
(that did not hurt so bad...)
03 Seether (03:16)
Seether is neither loose nor tight.
Seether is neither black nor white.
I tried to keep her on a short leash,
I tried to calm her down.
I tried to ram her into the ground, yeah.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth.
Seether is neither big nor small.
Seether is the center of it all.
I tried to rock her in my cradle,
I tried to knock her out.
I tried to cram her back in my mouth, yeah.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth.
Keep her down, boiling water.
Keep her down, what a lovely daughter.
Oh, she is not born like other girls,
But I know how to conceive her.
Oh, she may not look like other girls,
But she's a snarl-toothed seether, seether!
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
Can't fight the Seether.
I can't see her till I'm foaming at the mouth, yeah.
04 Spiderman '79 (05:16)
You're so nice, you tie me in a web,
And cradle me 'till dawn.
You're so deadly that I can see your breath
Beneath me when you're gone.
You're so windy, I'd like to pin you down
And tack you to the wall,
Spiderman, Spiderman.
Spider Sunday, you blaze up from the south
With oil on your hands.
I'm streaked in grease and grime and idle mouths.
You've spoiled all my plans,
Whoa, ho-oh
Spiderman, Spiderman, Spiderman.
I can't take more of that X4
Whoa, ho-oh, Whoa, ho-oh. Whoa, ho-oh. Ho-oh. X3
Tiny truckstop, you lay me in a towel,
And savor me like a lamb.
You smell of corduroy and lemon drops
And reds pulled from a can.
I dream in black and white,
I've long forgot exactly, who I am, am,
A Spiderman, Spiderman, Spiderman, Oh man, Spiderman.
Whoa, ho-oh, Whoa, ho-oh. Whoa, ho-ho. Ho-oh. Spiderman.
Whoa, ho-oh, Whoa, ho-oh. Whoa, ho-oh. Ho-oh. Spiderman.
Whoa, ho-oh, Whoa, ho-oh. Whoa, ho-oh. Ho-oh. Spiderman.
05 Forsythia (04:44)
Yellow baby, Yellow baby is a bad sign.
But i don't mind, I Don't mind
Ohhhhhhhohhhh Forsythia
Spidermonkey, spidermonkey is a good lie.
But i don't know why.
Ohhhhhhohhhh Forsythia ooohhhhhhhhh
I don't mind sitting in the way way back
I don't mind ..lying to my friends
One thing about Forsythia
she comes around and i get lost
against her yellow, I'm no longer meeee
Yellow daisy, a dandelion or a pussywillow, it's a different thing
oooooohhhh forsythia, forsythia, forsythiaaa
one thing about forsythia,
she comes around and i get lost
Against her yellow i'm no longer me
one thing about forsythia
there's one thing about forsythiaa
06 Wolf (04:19)
That was a time for falling, I knew you well
There was no time for calling me when you fell
This is a time to take cover in a wishing well
Summer was blowing all over me when you fell
Sailors can take all the breathing out of the sail
I took a trip when you needed me
When you fell
Waters were driving me to a deep place
I close my eyes to see your sweet face
A coke can beside me
I slept in hell
Angels can be so deceiving when they love you well
Did you think you would be leaving me?
These are some lavender flowers in a broken shell (I was broken)
They comfort me ever since the day when you fell
When you fell
Waters were dancing in a dark place (me to sleep)
I close my eyes to see your determined face
My secret inside me
I slept in hell
This is a time for believing in fairytales
One in which you are brought back to me
Wolf
I cried wolf
07 Celebrate You (04:20)
i wear my patent leather shoes
and my golden fleeces.
A feather in my hair for you,
and then i fall to pieces
at your celebration,
celebration, celebration,
celebrate you.
we're quiet as two mannequins
feasting on silences.
we wait for christmas to begin
to see the cracking faces
i tip my glass and toast to you.
the blood spills on the carpet
at your celebration
celebration, celebration
celebrate you.
and in the dream you held a gun.
you killed off all who hurt you,
and left me there, the only one
who would not dare desert you.
i'm safe here growing in the shade,
away from all your brightness.
i lost my innocence today
when i learned how to write this.
tonight my nightgown is in knots.
i toss and turn in your honor
i'll never know just what i've got
as long as you're my father.
and i'll keep searching here for you.
i'll clean up, every corner.
it's not my fault
it's not my fault (celebrate you)
it's not my fault (celebrate you)
it's not my fault (celebrate you)
it's not my fault.
10 Victrola (02:19)
You're so wonderful, I adore you,
I adore you, I adore you
Victrola.
You're so audio, don't remove me,
To a movie, I am grooving
Victrola.
Ahhh... Happy New Year
Ahhh... Happy New Year
Ahhh... Happy New Year
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh...
Ahhh... Happy New Year
Ahhh...
You're my winter love,
I can lie here
With you so near
We both live here
Happy New Year,
You're my sweet dear
Victrola
Victrola-ahhh-ahhh.
11 Twinstar (03:16)
Flying, when all I want to do is die.
Feels like you're flyin'
Oh God, I wish that I could fly.
You want to lift me up,
But you don't know, and you don't see
I'm stuck in my ways, stuck in my ways, oh.
Breathing, when all I want to do is drown.
You keep on breathing and I keep on sinking down, oh, oh.
You want to lift me up,
But you don't know, and you don't see
I'm stuck in my ways, stuck in my ways.
I'm stuck in my ways, oh.
You want to lift me up,
But you don't know, and you don't see
I'm stuck in my ways, stuck in my ways.
I'm stuck in my ways.
I'm stuck in my ways, oh.
12 25 (07:57)
I'm afraid I will never change
It's okay I am not ashamed
I can say that my bed is made
You can bend me, shape me any way You can bend me, shape me any way you want me
I maintain, I am not in pain
How I try, not to place the blame
I came late to an early game
You can bend me, shape me any way
You can bend me, shape me any way
You can bend me, shape me any way
You can bend me, shape me any way you want me
When I was five, I took a dive
When I was ten, I walked again
When I was fifteen, I kept my motor clean
When I was twenty, I got plenty
When I was twenty-five...
When I was twenty-five...
13 Sleeping Where I Want (03:19)
This is my favorite disease,
I am sleeping in his dreams
And the TV is on ,
It is seeping into me,
It is guiding my dreams,
It is only three
So it's jeopardy
You can go and burst my tiny bubble
Blow me off without a care
But I am sleeping where I want to.
This is my favorite time
I can sleep until the phone rings
And I doubt that it will.
You can go and burst my tiny bubble
Blow me off without a care
But I am sleeping where I want to.
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