ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE...Motorbike Beat

 

I'm hypnotized by the motorbike beat

I've got the hots for a drive up the street

I got the heat

I got the beat

I got the motorbike beat

My favorite treat on the motorbike seat

Is me and Mr.CC

When i arrive you can hear the wheel squeal

I got the feel for some mean street appeal

The squeal appeal

The steel appeal

I got the motorbike beat

My favorite treat on the motorbike seat

Is me and Mr.CC

But shouldn't we slow down

We're heading for slow town

On the motorbike

Then i drive it away

Ride in the night and i sleep in the day

Take it away

I gotta say

I got the motorbike beat

My favorite treat on the motorbike seat

Is me and Mr.CC

A particular treat when we go down the street

Me and Mr.CC

Ah,prava poslastica!Ritam moto sna osamdesetih,sa predivnim horskim pevanjem,entuzijastičnog pop zvuka i sa svim prednostima studijske tehnologije

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Crash

 

Here You go way too fast

Don't slow down,you gonna crash

You should watch,watch your step

Don't lookout,gonna break your neck

So shut,shut your mouth

'Cos i'm not listenin' anyhow

I've had enough,enough of you

You know to last a lifetime through

So what do you want of me

Got no words of sympathy

And if i go around with you

You know that i'll get messed up too with you

Na nana nana na nana naaaaa

Here you go way too fast

Don't slow down,you gonna crash

You don't know,what's been goin' down

You've been runnin' all over town

So shut,shut your mouth...

So what do you want of me

Got no cure for misery

And if i go around with you

You know that i'll get messed up too with you,

With you

Na nana nana na nana naaaaa

We gonna crash...

Vrela,melodična,power-pop konfekcija.Razdragani vokal Tracy Tracy predivno klizi preko hipnotišućih gitara i zahuktalih bubnjeva.Refren podmuklo ulazi u uši i gotovo ga je nemoguće izbaciti iz glave.Blještava perfekcija popa.

4AD

 

     U januaru 1980,Ivo Watts-Russell i Peter Kent su udružili snage da bi realizovali Bauhaus singl,'Dark Entries' i 4AD je rodjen.Četrdeset godina kasnije,mislim da 4AD možemo komforno nazvati jednom od najuticajnijih nezavisnih kompanija ikada.

     Pod vodjstvom Watts-Russella,Londonska etiketa je odgovorna za mnogobrojne bitne goth,post-punk i dream pop albume u osamdesetim.I današnji imidž 4AD je čvrsto povezan sa ovakvim sumornim,mračnim ostvarenjima,mada je kompanija,uzimajući u svoje okrilje Breeders,Pixies i nekoliko ranih shoegaze bandova,bez ikakve sumnje,odigrala bitnu ulogu i u razvoju alternativnog rocka u devedesetim.

     Iako je Ivo Watts-Russell napustio 4AD još 1999,Kent je otišao i pre,kompanija nastavlja da objavljuje albume koji beleže duh vremena i u ovom veku.

Lonely Is An Eyesore  (4AD,1987)

Natures Mortes-Still Lives  (4AD,1997)

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Blaine L. Reininger

 

     Blaine L. Reininger je bio prvi član Tuxedomoon koji je snimio solo album ('Broken Fingers',1982).Napustivši band,početkom 1983,u saradnji sa gitaristom Michael Bellerom,snima album 'Night Air'.Ovaj polu-vokalni,polu-instrumentalni album je odmah po realizaciji proglašen remekdelom i od publike i od kritike.

     Nakon saradnje sa Mikel Rouseom i Vini Reillyem (Durutti Column),Blaine snima odličan live album 'Live In Brussels',1986,a zatim i seriju podjednako interesantnih studijskih albuma kao što su 'Byzantium','Book Of Hours','Songs From The Rain Palace' i 'The More I Learn,The Less I Know'.Uradio je i nekoliko soundtrackova za pozorište i film ('Radio Moscow','Elektra'...).

     Paralelno sa svojom solo karijerom nastavio je saradnju sa starim kolegom iz Tuxedomoon,Steven Brownom.Njihov zajednički katalog obuhvata uglavnom muziku za film,ali i izuzetni klavirsko-violinski recital,zabeležen na albumu 'Live In Lisbon'.

     Trenutno,Reininger je stanovnik Atine,gde je nastavio karijeru solo umetnika,glumca i člana Tuxedomoon.

Broken Fingers  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,1982)

Night Air  (Another Side,1984)

Byzantium  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,1987)

Book Of Hours  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,1989)

Songs From The Rain Palace  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,1990)

The More I Learn,The Less I Know  (FM,1999)

Glassolalia  (Off,2007)

Commissions  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,2014)

The Blue Sleep  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,2018)

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Peter Principle

 

     Peter Principle (1954-2017) je bio gitarista i basista u Tuxedomoon.Rodjen je u Queensu (NYC),i još lao tinejdžer se zainteresovao za muziku.Kao bubnjar,priključuje se psychedelic/garage bandu Zod,1968.Od 1970,Peter počinje da se zanima za studijsku tehnologiju,eksperimentišuće sa zvučnim kolažima u svojoj kući,koristeći gitaru i skrpljenu opremu.

     Sredinom sedamdesetih Peter se seli u San Francisco,gde,najpre svira bas u grupi the Doctors a nešto kasnije osniva the Masters Of Gnosis.1978,priključuje se Tuxedomoon.Tuxedomoon se premeštaju u Evropu 1981 i tu ostaju aktivni sledeće dekade,snimajući desetak albuma,gomilu singlova i solo radova.

     Osim u Tuxedomoon,Peter je saradjivao i sa drugim muzičarima (Winston Tong,Benjamin Lew...) a bavio se i produkcijom (Minimal Compact,Isolation Ward...).

     Peter Principle je snimao i solo albume a prva dva ('Sentimental Journey','Tone Poems') su objavljena za Crammed Discs.Usledila su još dva,'Conjuction'(1990) i 'Idyllatry'(2005).

     1991,vraća se u New York gde,iako i dalje član Tuxedomoon,nastupa i sa Zero Gravity Thinkers i Zemi 17.

     Posle kraće bolesti,tokom probe sa Tuxedomoon u Brusselsu,Peter je preminuo 17.07.2017.

Sentimental Journey  (Crammed Discs,1985)

Tone Poems  (Crammed Discs,1988)

Conjuction  (LTM,1990)

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ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Lucky Number

 

I never used to cry 'cause I was all alone
For me, myself and I is all I've ever known
I never felt the need to have a hand to hold
In everything I do I take complete control
That's where I'm coming from
My lucky number's one
I've everything I need to keep me satisfied
There's nothing you can do to make me change my mind
I'm having so much fun
My lucky number's one

I now detect an alien vibration here
There's something in the air besides the atmosphere
The object of the action is becoming clear
An imminent attack upon my heart I fear
The evidence is strong
My lucky number's wrong

Something tells me my lucky number's
Gonna be changing soon
Something tells me lucky number's
Gonna be two-ee-oo-ee-oo...

You certainly do have a strange effect on me
I never thought that I could feel the way I feel
There's something in your eyes gives me a wild idea
I never want to be apart from you my dear
I guess it must be true
My lucky number's two
This rearrangement suits me now I must confess
The number one was dull and number two is best
I wanna stay with you
My lucky number's two

Ludački zarazna,'štucajuća' pesma o usamljenosti i zaljubljenosti,u kojoj se srećni

broj Lene Lovich menja od 1 do 2 tokom refrena,ali veselje ne prestaje.

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Ever Fallen In Love...

 

You spurn my natural emotions

You make me feel i'm dirt and i'm hurt

And if i start a commotion

I run the risk of losing you and that's worse

Ever fallen in love with someone

Ever fallen in love,in love with someone

Ever fallen in love,in love with someone

You shouldn't have fallen in love with

I can't see much of a future

Unless we find out what's to blame,what a shame

And we won't be together much longer

Unless we realize that we are the same

Ever fallen in love...

You disturb my natural emotions

You make me feel i'm dirt and i'm hurt

And if i start a commotion

I'll only end up losing you and that's worse

Ever fallen in love...

Savršeno 'uhvaćeno' univerzalno osećanje neuzvraćene ljubavi u obliku oštre,zarazno melodične pop pesme.

Winston Tong

 

     Winston Tong je glumac,vizuelni umetnik,lutkar i kompozitor.Najpoznatiji je po svom radu sa Tuxedomoon,za koje je napisao jednu od najpoznatijih pesama grupe,'In A Manner Of Speaking'.

     Tong je pristupio Tuxedomoon 1977,ali nije učestvovao u snimanju albuma 'Half Mute',1980.Tongov status unutar grupe nije jasno definisan jer on samo povremeno snima i nastupa uživo sa Tuxedomoon.Snima i solo materijal a najpoznatiji album mu je 'Theoretically Chinese' iz 1985,na kome gostuju Stephen Morris (New Order),Dave Formula i Jah Wobble.

     2005,Tong je ponovo nastupio kao član Tuxedomoon,na dva koncerta u San Francisku i to je bio njihov prvi live nastup u (takoreći) originalnoj postavi posle dvadeset godina.

Like The Others  (Les Disques De Crepuscule,1983)

Theoretically Chinese  (Les Disques De Crepuscule,1985)

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Steven Brown

 

     Uz Blaine L.Reiningera,Steven Brown je bio kreativni nukleus Tuxedomoon.Posle dva albuma za Ralph Records,grupa (u kojoj su tada već bili i Winsent Tong i Peter Principle) se seli u Evropu.

     Steven Brown je započeo solo karijeru 1983,prvim od dva albuma koje je snimio sa Benjamin Lewom za Crammed Discs.Prvi pravi solo album,'Music For Solo Piano' objavljuje 1984 za Belgijsku kompaniju Another Side.To je možda i njegov najbolji album do danas.Započet kao kolaboracija sa Blaine L.Reiningerom,album sadrži kompozicije za klavir,klarinet i violinu.Dobar deo albuma je blizak stilu u 'Music#2',piano/violinslom duetu koji su Reininger i Brown snimili kao Tuxedomoon.

     Njegov sledeći projekat je soundtrack za komad Edwarda Albeea,'The Zoo Story',a potom sledi i drugi 'pravi' solo album,'Searching For Contact',koji nudi mnogo više elektronike nego ranije.

     1988 Reininger se ponovo priključuje Tuxedomoon (napustio band 1983) mada su on i Brown nastavili i dalje da rade kao duo.Zajedno su snimili muziku za film 'De Doute Et De Grace',muziku za moderni balet 'Croatian Variations' i živi album 'Live In Lisbon'.

     'Half Out' je objavio 1991.Steven Brown je radio i sa grupom Ninerain.1993 se preselio u Mexico i nastavio sa svojim solo izdanjima kao i rad sa Tuxedomoon.

Zoo Story  (Soundwork,1984)

Music For Solo Piano  (Another Side,1984)

A Propos D'Un Paysage  (Crammed Discs,1985)

Searching For Contact  (PIAS,1987)

Half Out  (Les Disques Du Crepuscule,1991)

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Quintron

 

     Quintron (poznat i kao Mr. Quintron) je eksscentričan tip koji svira sve instrumente (često istovremeno),pravi one-man band i to radi sa mahnitim,divljim intenzitetom.Takodje je i tvorac sopstvenih,originalnih instrumenata čijim zvukom dopunjava svoje bujne lo-fi simfonije.

     Njegova muziku čine improvizacije,uz dodatak dramskih elemenata i stilskih nijansi,ali,uglavnom,Quintron pravi dance/party muziku,mada na specifičan,bizaran način.

     Quintron često nastupa sa svojom suprugom,Miss Pussycat i,ukratko,može se reći da je hibrid Zappinog štićenika Wild Man Fischera,no-wave majstora Mars,lo-fi rockera Half Japanese i synth inovatora Robert Mooga,uz malecni dodatak Flying Lizards (kada obradjuje rock standarde).

Internal Feedback 001-011  (Bulb,1994)

The Amazing Spellcaster  (Bulb,1996)

Satan Is Dead  (Bulb,1998)

These Hands Of Mine  (Rhinestone,1999)

Unmasked Organ Light Year Of Infinity Man  (Bulb,2000)

Are You Ready For An Organ Solo?  (Three One G,2003)

The Frog Tape  (Skin Graft,2004)

Swamp Tech  (Tigerbeat6,2005)

Sucre Du Sauvage  (Goner,2011)

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ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Whole Wide World

 

When I was a young boy
My mama said to me
"There's only one girl in the world for you
And she probably lives in Tahiti."

I'd go the whole wide world
Go the whole wide world just to find her

Or maybe she's in the Bahamas
Where the Caribean Sea is blue
Weeping in the tropical moonlit night
Because nobody's talking about you

I'd go the whole wide world
Go the whole wide world just to find her
I'd go the whole wide world
                                                            Go the whole wide world
                                                            To find out where they hide her
                                                            I'd go the whole wide world
                                                            Go the whole wide world just to find her

                                                            Why am I hanging around in the rain right here
                                                            Trying to pick up a girl
                                                            Why are my eyes
                                                            Filling up with these lonely tears
                                                            When there's girls all over the world

                                                             Is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere
                                                            Underneath a tropical sun
                                                            Pining a way in a heat wave there
                                                            Hoping that I won't be long
                                                            I should be lying on that sun swept beach with her
                                                            Caressing her warm, brown skin
                                                            And then in a year or maybe not quite
                                                            We'll be sharing the same next of kin

                                                            I'd go the whole wide world
                                                           Go the whole wide world just to find her.
                                                           I'd go the whole wide world
                                                           Go the whole wide world
                                                           To find out where they hide her

                                                           I'd go the whole wide world
                                                          Go the whole wide world just to find her
                                                           I'd go the whole wide world
                                                          Go the whole wide world
                                                          To find out where they hide her

Pesma je napisana 1974 a objavljena kao singl za Stiff Records 1977.'Whole Wide World' je punk/pub rock klasik,prava,čista pop pesma u svakom smislu te reči.

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : I Only Want To Be With You

 

I dont know what it is that makes me love you so
I only know I never want to let you go
Cause youve started something
Oh, cant you see?
That ever since we met
Youve had a hold on me
It happens to be true
I only want to be with you

It doesnt matter where you go or what you do
I want to spend each moment of the day with you
Oh, look what has happened with just one kiss
I never knew that I could be in love like this
Its crazy but its true
I only want to be with you

You stopped and smiled at me
And asked if Id care to dance
I fell into your open arms
And I didnt stand a chance
Now listen honey
I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as were together, honey, I dont care
Cause youve started something
Oh, cant you see?
That ever since we met
Youve had a hold on me
No matter what you do
I only want to be with you

Oh, oh, you stopped and you smiled at me
And asked if Id care to dance
I fell into your open arms
And I didnt stand a chance
Now hear me tell you
I just want to be beside you everywhere
As long as were together, honey, I dont care
Cause youve started something
Oh, cant you see?
That ever since we met
Youve had a hold on me
No matter what you do
I only want to be with you
I said no matter, no matter what you do
I only want to be with you

      Moderniji aranžman Dusty Springfield hita,koji nije uništio duh šezdesetih.

                                                    

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Teacher,Teacher

 

Young love,teacher's pet

Cheeks flushed,apple red

Ringing you every day

Begging for a word of praise

I've put aside my foolish games

I run and hide and call names

School's out,the bells'll ring

Now's the time to teach me everything

Teacher,teacher teach me love

I can't learn it fast enough

Teacher,teacher teach me more

I've got to learn to love for sure

Lesson one,just begun

Growing up.ain't much fun

Grown up,out of school

Out of luck and out of rules

No one there to tell me how

A different world,teacher,teacher,teach me now

Teacher,teacher,teach me love...

Lesson two,nothing new

I can't love,just passing through

the books i read don't understand

What it means to be a man

I need a woman just like you

Teacher,teacher teach me what to do

Teacher,Teacher,teach me love...

   Ludački zarazna pesma sa predivnim gitarskim radom Billy Bremnera na zvečećem Rickenbackeru ispod Edmundsove oštre solaže.

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : White Room

 

In a white room with black curtains near the station

Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired stylings

Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes

No one smiling as you're leaving my contentment

I wait in this place where the sun never shines

Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves

You said no strings could secure you at the station

Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows

I walked into such a sad time at the station

As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning

I'll wait in the queue when the train comes back

Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves

At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd

Consolation from the old wounds now forgotten

Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes

She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired stylings

I sleep in this place with the lonely crowds

Cry in the dark where the shadows run from themselves

   Hugh Cornwell uz pomoć Robert Williamsa,bubnjara Captain Beefheartovog Magic Banda,je solo debitovao ovim singlom.Ovu pesmu su u originalu izvodili Cream.Cornwellova verzija je teška,nabijena eksplozivnim basom,ne-klasično 'čitanje' klasike.

ANYTIME,ANYPLACE,ANYWHERE : Bela Lugosi's Dead

 

White on white translucent black capes

back on the rack

Bela Lugosi's dead

The bats have left the bell tower

The victims have been bled

Red velvet lines the black box

Bela Lugosi's Dead

Undead,undead,undead

The virginal brides file past his tomb

Strewn with time's dead flowers

Bereft in deathly bloom

Alone in a darkened room

The count

Bela Lugosi's dead

Undead,undead,undead

Oh Bela

Bela's undead

Oh Bela

Bela's undead

Undead

Mračna bas linija koja se ponavlja skoro celih desetak minuta,koliko pesma traje,uz bubnjarski obrazac i moćne eho efekte (očigledno inspirisane dub reggaeom),pokriveni abstraktnom gitarskom bukom.Da nije teksta i vokala Peter Murphya,bio bi to samo još jedan komad post-punk eksperimenta.Ovako sa sve Drakulinom sahranom,šišmišima i devicama,ima neodoljiv teatarski šarm,koji je inspirisao gomilu bandova i označio početak goth rocka.

Minimal Compact

 

     Od samog svog nastanka 1981,pa do raspada,sedam godina kasnije,Minimal Compact su igrali bitnu ulogu na Evropskoj rock sceni.Malka Spigel (bass,vocal),Samy Birnbach (vocal) i Berry Sakharof (guitar,keyboards,vocal) su 1981 napustili Tel Aviv i preselili se u Amsterdam,duboko razočarani 'provincijazimom' rodnog grada u kome je bilo skoro nemoguće baviti se rock muzikom.Od njih troje,samo je Sakharof bio 'pravi' muzičar.Malka je učila da svira bas a Birnbach je bio poznatiji kao DJ i usput je pokušavao da piše poeziju.Sa sobom su poneli demo snimak (2 numere) i postali jedni od prvih umetnika koji su pristupili Belgijskoj Crammed etiketi.

     Tokom rada na,eventualnom,debi singlu,postalo je jasno da band ima itekako šta da ponudi,pa se singl razvio u,istoimeni,mini album.Njihov stil je bio Blisko-istočno obojen post new wave zasnovan na motoričkim ritmovima,nemarnim gitarama i specifičnom ne-Anglo/Američkom stilu pevanja.Na debiju se nalazi numera 'Statik Dancin'',koja je tokom cele karijere banda bila koncertni favorit.

     'One By One',je snimljen u Londonu 1982 i na njemu su Minimal Compact postali pravi band,dodajući u postavu bubnjara Max Frankena.Sa njim u postavi mogli su reprezentovati svoj materijal na koncertima i to je postao bitan element njihove muzike.

     'Deadly Weapons' iz 1984 se smatra njihovim najeksperimentalnijim albumom.Na njemu su radili kao petorka,sa Rami Fortison,starim prijateljem iz Tel Aviva,na gitari.'Raging Souls'(1985) je producirao Colin Newman (Wire) i to je njihov najpopularniji album.Do tada su se Minimal Compact ustoličili kao centar internacionalne indie scene u Brusselsu,kojoj su pripadali i Tuxedo Moon (pojedinačno i kolektivno),Bel Canto,Colin Newman,Benjamin Lew,Sonoko...

     'The Figure One Cuts' iz 1987 je njihov poslednji album i producirao ga je John Fryer (Cocteau Twins,Depeche Mode).1987 su izdali i instrumentalni album 'Lowlands Flight' u okviru Crammedove serije 'Made To Measure'.Turneje su se nastavile ali nažalost bez svirki u USA,jer su Američke imigracione vlasti odbile da im izdaju vizu.

     'Minimal Compact Live' je snimljen u Rennesu,Francuska i to je poslednje izdanje banda jer su se 1988 razišli.

     Sakharof i Fortis su se vratili u Izrael,gde su postigli veliki uspeh i kao solisti i radeći zajedno.Malka je sa Colin Newmanom osnivač Swim etikete.Snimila je nekoliko solo albuma a redovno saradjuje sa Newmanom na njegovim brojnim projektima.Birnbach je stanovnik Brusselsa gde je poznat kao DJ Morpheus a sa Malkom i Newmanom saradjuje u okviru banda Oracle.Max Franken i dalje živi u Amsterdamu gde se bavi muzikom i fudbalom.

Minimal Compact  (Crammed Discs,1981)

One By One  (Crammed Discs,1982)

Deadly Weapons  (Crammed Discs,1984)

Raging Souls  (Crammed Discs,1985)

The Figure One Cuts  (Crammed Discs,1987)

Lowlands Flight/MTM 10  (Crammed Discs,1987)

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