I look around and see this face What the hell have I lost my taste

Στις 29 Μαρτίου του 1982, οι Scorpions κυκλοφόρησαν το Blackout...
Κατά την διάρκεια των ηχογραφήσεων αυτού του όγδοου κατα σειρά δίσκου τους, ο τραγουδιστής, Klaus Meine, έχασε την φωνή του, και αναγκάστηκε να κάνει χειρουργική επέμβαση...
Αμέσως καλέσανε τον Don Dokken για να τον αντικαταστήσει, αλλά τελικά το πείσμα του Meine για να συνεχίσει -παρόλο που η κατάστασή του δεν ήταν και η καλύτερη-

Μια άλλη λεπτομέρεια, είναι ότι στο China White υπάρχει διαφορετικό solo στην Ευρωπαική έκδοση απο αυτή που κυκλοφόρησε στην Αμερική...

Ο δίσκος έφτασε μέχρι το No10 του Billboard200 και έγινε πλατινένιος

To track list είναι το εξής:

1. Blackout
2. Can't Live Without You
3. No One Like You
4. You Give Me All I Need
5. Now!
6. Dynamite
7. Arizona
8. China White
9. When the Smoke Is Going Down

Τώρα αν κάποιος/α δεν ξέρει την παρέα των Klaus Meine -φωνή- Mattias Jabs -κιθάρα, φωνή- Rudolf Schenker - κιθάρα- Francis Buchholz -μπάσο- και Herman Rarebell -τύμπανα- θα ρωτήσω με ποια πτήση ήρθε απο τον Άρη -όχι την ομάδα Kanthare, τον πλανήτη εννοώ... και ναι, είστε τόσο μεγάλη ομάδα, που έχετε και δικό σας πλανήτη ;) -

Για αυτούς που ακούν την κιθάρα με παραμόρφωση με ενα up tempo ρυθμό και παθαίνουν μια παράκρουση, -ναι AnD εσένα λέω...- ας μην ακούσουν το Blackout, Now, Dynamite ... τα υπόλοιπα... άνετα...

ΥΓ Για τους πολυπληθής που ρωτάνε με αγωνία ποια είναι τα αγαπημένα μου, θα τους απαντήσω πως εκτός τα China White και Arisona όλα τα άλλα είναι υπέροχα... αλλά το When the smoke is going down, με κράτησε πολλά βράδια συντροφιά όταν ήμουν νιάτο ακόμα και ερωτευόμουν κάθε τρεις και λίγο...οπότε, το ξεχωρίζω λίγο περισσότερο απο τα άλλα...

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I realize I missed a day
But I'm too wrecked to care anyway
I look around and see this face
What the hell have I lost my taste
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

My head explodes, my ears ring
I can't remember just where I've been
The last thing that I recall
I got lost in a deep black hole
Don't want to find out
Just want to cut out

Blackout
I really had a blackout

I grab my things and make my run
On the way out, another one
Would like to know before I stop
Did I make it or did I flop
Don't want to find out
Just want to get out

Don't want to find out
Just want to get out



You stand in front of the band
With all those scarves in your hands
I see you play imaginary Guitars
You people shaking your heads
Right till the end of the set
You really turn me on wherever we are

Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you
Can't live, can't live without you

Put your hands in the air
So I can see you are there
I wanna see all your lights shining on
Want you to stand up and dance
Gonna leave you no chance
To take a breath between each single song

Stand up and shout
We're ready to rock, we're ready to roll
Stand up and shout
Are you ready, are you ready
Come on and get it!



Girl, it's been a long time that we've been apart
Much too long for a man who needs love
I miss you since I've been away
Babe, it wasn't easy to leave you alone
It's getting harder each time that I go
If I had the choice, I would stay

There's no one like you
I can't wait for the nights with you
I imagine the things we'll do
I just wanna be loved by you

Girl, there are really no words strong enough
To describe all my longing for love
I don't want my feelings restrained
Ooh, babe, I just need you like never before
Just imagine you'd come through this door
You'd take all my sorrow away



New love is blind
Why don't you see
You hurt me inside, you're killing me
It makes me sad all the time
To see you around with all these guys
My heart's in pain
I need you so
My love's the same
So please don't go

You give me all I need
You give me all I need
You give me all I need
You give me all I need

Let's try again
There's still romance
We'll start a new life, take a chance
There are so many ways
Please don't forget it anyday
My heart's in pain
I need you so
My love's the same
So please don't go



Like it played loud
Powerhouse sounds
My body wants to rock and let it out
Really high born
Morning till dawn
I'm going all the way just on and on
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!

Teach me to fly
Wanna stay high
I have to live it up before I die
Nightlife and booze
Girls to choose
Are you ready, baby, come on let's cruise
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!

Getting out of control
There's nothing that can bring me down
Nothing I'll leave out tonight
I'm feeling good, I'm living now!

Like it real hot
Never can't stop
I'm running down the line to the top
Never stay low
I'm on the go
No one holds me back
It's gonna be wild, it's gonna be wild
It's gonna be wild
Now!



Kick your ass to heaven
With rock'n roll tonight
I'll make this night a special one
Make you feel alright
Shoot my heat into your body
Give ya all my size
I'm gonna beat the beat tonight
It's time to break the ice

Dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite

Hit the top together
Get ya with my spell
I'm gonna make my shot tonight
Take you down to hell
Eat your meat until you're breathless
Twirl your hips around
I'm gonna break my neck tonight
I'll get you off the ground

Dynamite
You're dynamite
Dynamite
Dynamite

Get it now or never
Let's get it really tight
We'll make this night a special one
Make us feel alright
Put your heat into my body
Give ya all my size
We gonna beat the beat tonight
Come on let's break the ice



Just when you make your way back home
I find some time to be alone
I go to see the place once more
Just like a thousand nights before
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down

This is the place where I belong
I really love to turn you on
I've got your sound still in my ear
While your traces disappear
I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down

I climb the stage again this night
'Cause the place seems still alive
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down
When the smoke is going down

All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Κυρίες....

Κύριοι....

Σας παρουσιάζω τον -όχι- έναν -αλλά σίγουρα- μοναδικό -δέκατο τέταρτο- δίσκο των τιτανοτεράστιων Pink Floyd, το Division Bell -σαν σήμερα το 1994-

Ο -δυστυχώς- τελευταίος έως σήμερα δίσκος των Pink Floyd ασχολείται κυρίως με την επικοινωνία αλλά και με άλλα θέματα όπως το A Great Day For Freedom για την πτώση του τείχους του Βερολίνου, την Εθνοκάθαρση στην Γιουκοσλαβία και για την ευφορία που έφερε η πτώση του Ανατολικού μπλοκ και το Take It Back αναφέρεται για την "ασέβεια" του ανθρώπου προς το περιβάλλον...

Στο Keep Talking ακούμε αποσπάσματα ομιλίας του Stephen Hawking (πάλι αυτός;)

Χρειάζεται να πω ότι ο δίσκος πήγε στο Νο 1 του Billboard200 και πως έγινε στην Αγγλία διπλά και στην Αμερική τριπλά πλατινένιος;

Ξέρετε ότι για το ΕΚΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟ Marooned κερδίσανε το Grammy το 1995;

Αξιοσημείωτο είναι πως ο Richard Wright (δυστυχώς έφυγε απο την ζωή 15 Σεπτεμβρίου του 2008 απο καρκίνο) ενώ συνήθως έκανε δεύτερες φωνές, στο Wearing The Inside Out τραγουδάει σαν πρώτη φωνή...για πρώτη φορά!

To track list είναι το εξής:

1. Cluster One -Instrumental-
2. What Do You Want From Me
3. Poles Apart
4. Marooned
5. A Great Day For Freedom
6. Wearing The Inside Out
7. Take it back
8. Coming Back To Life
9. Keep Talking
10. Lost For Words
11. High Hopes

Οκ... δεν μπορώ να ξεχωρίσω αγαπημένα... γιατί ΟΛΑ μα ΟΛΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΑΓΑΠΗΜΕΝΑ...

Όλα έχουν να πουν κάτι... μυημένοι ή μη... ακούστε τα ΟΛΑ...

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As you look around this room tonight
Settle in your seat and dim the lights
Do you want my blood, do you want my tears
What do you want
What do you want from me
Should I sing until I can't sing any more
Play these strings till my fingers are raw
You're so hard to please
What do you want from me

Do you think that I know something you don't know
What do you want from me
If I don't promise you the answers would you go
What do you want from me
Should I stand out in the rain
Do you want me to make a daisy chain for you
I'm not the one that you need
What do you want from me

You can have anything you want
You can drift, you can dream, even walk on water
Anything you want

You can own everything you see
Sell your soul for complete control
Is that really what you need

You can lose your selfish mind
See inside there is nothing to hide
Turn and face the light

What do you want from me



Did you know...it was all going to go so wrong for you
And did you see it was all going to be so right for me
Why did we tell you then
You were always the golden boy then
And that you'd never lose that light in your eyes

Hey you...did you ever realise what you'd become
And did you see that it wasn't only me you were running from
Did you know all the time but it never bothered you anyway
Leading the blind while I stared out the steel in your eyes

The rain fell slow, down on all the roofs of uncertainty
I thought of you and the years and all the sadness fell away from me
And did you know...

I never thought that you'd lose that light in your eyes





On the day the wall came down
They threw the locks onto the ground
And with glasses high we raised a cry for freedom had arrived

On the day the wall came down
The Ship of Fools had finally run aground
Promises lit up the night like paper doves in flight

I dreamed you had left my side
No warmth, not even pride remained
And even though you needed me
It was clear that I could not do a thing for you

Now life devalues day by day
As friends and neighbours turn away
And there's a change that, even with regret, cannot be undone

Now frontiers shift like desert sands
While nations wash their bloodied hands
Of loyalty, of history, in shades of gray

I woke to the sound of drums
The music played, the morning sun streamed in
I turned and I looked at you
And all but the bitter residue slipped away...slipped away



From morning to night I stayed out of sight
Didn't recognise I'd become
No more than alive I'd barely survive
In a word...overrun

Won't hear a sound
He's curled into the corner
From my mouth
But still the screen is flickering
I've spent too long
With an endless stream of garbage to
On the inside out
...curse the place
My skin is cold
In a sea of random images
To the human touch
The self-destructing animal
This bleeding heart's
Waiting for the waves to break
Not beating much

I murmured a vow of silence and now
I don't even hear when I think aloud
Extinguished by light I turn on the night
Wear its darkness with an empty smile

I'm creeping back to life
My nervous system all awry
I'm wearing the inside out

Look at him now
He's paler somehow
But he's coming around
He's starting to choke
It's been so long since he spoke
Well he can have the words right from my mouth

And with these words I can see
Clear through the clouds that covered me
Just give it time then speak my name
Now we can hear ourselves again

I'm holding out
He's standing on the threshold
For the day
Caught in fiery anger
When all the clouds
And hurled into the furnace
Have blown away
...to curse the place
I'm with you now
He's torn in all directions
Can speak your name
And still the screen is flickering
Now we can hear
Waiting for the flames to break
Ourselves again



Her love rains down on me easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her, burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness; the earth was on fire

She could take it back, she might take it back some day

So I spy on her, I lie to her, I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me, I take all that I can take
I push her to the limit to see if she will break

She might take it back, she could take it back some day

Now I have seen the warnings, screaming from all sides
It's easy to ignore them God knows I've tried
All of this temptation, you know it turned my faith to lies
Til I couldn't see the danger or hear the rising tide

She Can take it back, she will take it back some day



Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Lost in thought and lost in time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but irresistible pastime

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life

I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And I headed straight..into the shining sun.



For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk

There's a silence surrounding me
I can't seem to think straight
I'll sit in the corner
No one can bother me
I think I should speak now ___________ Why won't you talk to me
I can't seem to speak now ____________ You never talk to me
My words won't come out right ________ What are you thinking
I feel like I'm drowning _____________ What are you feeling
I'm feeling weak now _________________ Why won't you talk to me
But I can't show my weakness _________ You never talk to me
I sometimes wonder ___________________ What are you thinking
Where do we go from here _____________ What are you feeling

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Why won't you talk to me _____________ I feel like I'm drowning
You never talk to me _________________ You know I can't breathe now
What are you thinking ________________ We're going nowhere
What are you feeling _________________ We're going nowhere

Why won't you talk to me
You never talk to me
What are you thinking
Where do we go from here

It doesn't have to be like this
All we need to do is make sure we keep talking



I was spending my time in the doldrums
I was caught in a cauldron of hate
I felt persecuted and paralysed
I thought that everything else would just wait

While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night

To martyr yourself to caution
Is not going to help at all
because there'll be no safety in numbers
When the right one walks out of the door

Can you see your days blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While the ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win



Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down to the causeway
Do they still LIVE there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed up world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river


Forever and ever

ΥΓ Απίστευτος ο σκηνοθέτης του High Hopes, Storm Thorgerson...-σαν λάτρης του σουρεαλισμού του βγάζω το καπέλο...-

Arriving somewhere but not here

Μάρτιος...

Τι υπέροχος μήνας για να κυκλοφορήσει κανείς δίσκο!

Ε ναι...

Ακόμα ένας αγαπημένος δίσκος κυκλοφόρησε αυτόν τον μήνα, και συγκεκριμένα σαν σήμερα πριν απο 6 χρόνια οι Porcupine Tree κυκλοφόρησαν τον όγδοο δίσκο τους με τίτλο "Deadwing"

Ο δίσκος βασίζεται σε μια ιστορία φαντασμάτων...-η οποία οι Steven Wilson -ιθύνων νους του συγκροτήματος- και ο Mike Bennion θέλουν να την κάνουν ταινία..-

Είναι ο δεύτερος -πλέον- μοσχοπουλημένος δίσκος του συγκροτήματος -στην Ελλάδα έφτασε μέχρι και στο νούμερο 19-

Δεν υπάρχει κάποια περίεργη ιστορία πίσω απο την δημιουργεί του άλμπουμ, παρα μόνο να αναφέρω ότι σαν guest artist είναι o Andrian Belew κιθαρίστας των King Crimson που σολάρει στα Deadwing και Halo και ο Mikael Akerfeldt των Opeth με τα δεύτερα φωνητικά του στα Deadwing, Lazarus και Arriving Somewhere Not Here στο οποίο σολάρει κιόλας...

Το track list είναι το εξής:

1. Deadwing
2. Shallow
3. Lazarus
4. Halo
5. Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
6. Mellotron Scratch
7. Open Car
8. The Start Of Something Beautiful
9. Glass Arms Shattering

Όλα είναι υπέροχα τραγούδια -όπως όλα σχεδόν της δισκογραφίας τους- αλλά το Arriving Somewhere But Not Here είναι μίλια μακρυά απο όλα τα άλλα...

Για τους μη-μυημένους προτείνω τα Lazarus, The Start of Something Beautiful και Arriving...

Οι Porcupine Tree είναι οι Steven Wilson -φωνή κιθάρα πλήκτρα/πιάνο- Richard Barbieri -πλήκτρα (όταν δεν παίζει ο Wilson) Colin Edwin -μπάσο- και Gavin Harrison -τύμπανα-

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And something warm and soft just passed through here
It took the precious things that I hold dearer
It rifled through the grey and disappeared
The creeping darkness makes the small hours clearer

Like a cancer scare In the dentist's chair
Sucking in the air
Wire across the stair
Kicking down the door
At your local store
With the world at war
Voices through the floor
Unexpected news
Wearing high heeled shoes
Blowing out the fuse
Paying all your dues
Deadwing lullaby
Like a fracture tied
It's a worthless lie
To the public eye

I don't take waifs and strays back home with me
My bleeding heart does not extend to charity

Yes I'd have to say
I like my privacy
And did you know you're on closed circuit TV?
So smile at me

And a dream you had
Of your mum and dad
On a beach somewhere
And the poison air
With the cancer threat
In a cigarette
Deadwing lullaby
Find a place to hide

And from the yellow windows of the last train
A spectre from the next life breathes his fog on the pane
I look with you into the speeding black rain
Afraid to touch someone, afraid to ask her for her name

And in the morning when I find I have lost you
I throw a window open wide and step through



I don't remember
Did something in my past create a hole?
Don't use your gender
To drive a stake right through my soul

I live to function
On my own is all I know
No friends to mention
No distraction, nowhere to go

Shallow, shallow
Give it to me, give it to me
Scissors cutting out your anger
Shallow, shallow
No good to me, not if you bleed
Bite your tongue, ignore the splinter

This city drains me
Well maybe it's the smell of gasoline
The millions pain me
It's easier to talk to my PC



As the cheerless towns pass my window
I can see a washed out moon through the fog
And then a voice inside my head breaks the analogue
And says

"Follow me down to the valley below
You know
Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul"

I survived against the will of my twisted folk
But in the deafness of my world the silence broke
And said

"My David don't you worry
This cold world is not for you
So rest your head upon me
I have strength to carry you"

(Ghosts of the twenties rising Golden summers just holding you)



God is in my fingers
God is in my head
God is in the trigger
God is in the lead

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain

You can be right like me
With God in the hole you're a righteous soul
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I'm not the same as you
Cos I've seen the light and I'm gaining in height now
I got a halo round me, I got a halo round me
I got a halo round my head

God is on the cellphone
God is on the net
God is in the warning
God is in the threat



Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing through your ears

Arriving somewhere but not here

Did you imagine the final sound as a gun?
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out was a song?

Arriving somewhere but not here

All my designs simplified
And all of my plans compromised
All of my dreams sacrificed

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Ever thought from here on in your life begins and all you knew was wrong?

Did you see the red mist block your path?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the envy for the sons of mothers tearing you apart?

Arriving somewhere but not here



Always in my thoughts you are
Always in my dreams you are
I got your voice on tape
I got your spirit in a photograph
Always out of reach you are

Cold inside my arms you are
Simple like a child you are
I remember when you took my hand and led me through the rain
Down inside my soul you are

The more I show the way
I feel the less I find you give a damn
The more I get to know the less find that I understand
Innocent, the time we spent, forgot to mention we're good friends
You thought it was the start of something beautiful?
Well think again.

Mother lost her looks for you
Father never wanted you
I trust to love and then I find you never really felt the same
There's something in your heart so cruel