Tindersticks // Mistakes // Tindersticks // 1995

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Lyrics :

Erreurs
Je sais que je les porterai toute ma vie
Mes erreurs
Comme de celle
Tu sais laquelle
Quand on a coupé mes cordes
Je me suis envolée ailleurs
On a coupé mes cordes
Et je ne redescendais pas

Mistakes I've made
I know I'll live with them all my life
Mistakes I've made
Like the one
You know the one
And I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn't coming down

These days I'm only happy when I cannot move
These days I'm only happy when I'm tied down
Next to you
Not with my strings cut
When I'm flying around
Not with my strings cut
When I'm not coming down

Mistakes I've made
I know I'll live with them all my life
Mistakes I've made
Like the one
You know the one
And I had my strings cut
I went flying around
And I had my strings cut
I wasn't coming down

Bonus:

Tindersticks // Can we start again

Stuart Staples // 16 Summers 15 Falls (Concert à Emporter)

Trouble Everyday // Trailer

Trouble Everyday // Opening

Johnny Cash // I See A Darkness // American Recordings III : Solitary Man // 2000

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Well, you're my friend
And can you see
Many times we've been out drinking
Many times we've shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice, the kind of thoughts I got
Well you know I have a love, for everyone I know
And you know I have a drive, to live I won't let go
But can you see this opposition, comes rising up sometimes
That is dread full imposition, comes blacking in my mind


And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
And then I see a darkness
Did you know how much I love you
There's a hope that somehow you
Can save me from this darkness


Well I hope that someday buddy
We'll have peace in our lives
Together or apart
Alone or with our wives
And we can stop our whoring
And pull the smiles inside
And light it up forever
And never go to sleep
My best unbeaten brother
This isn't all I see


Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Oh no, I see your darkness
Did you know how much I love you
There's a hope that somehow you
You'll save me from this darkness

A propos : la chanson d'origine, signée Will Oldham (que l'on entend ici sur les couplets) figure sur l'album "I See A Darkness", et a également était reprise et adaptée par Michel Cloup (ex Diabologum) et son groupe Experience sur l'album "Positive Karaoke With A Gun". Lors de ses derniers enregistrements pour la série des American Recordings, Johnny Cash a repris beaucoup de chansons d'artistes différents, de Hank Williams à Depeche Mode, en passant par Nick Cave, Paul Simon ou encore Eagles. La chanson de son dernier clip, Hurt, est de Nine Inch Nails.

Bonus :

Experience // Sombre (I See A Darkness)

Johnny Cash // Hurt

Nine Inch Nails // Hurt

Galaxie 500 // Fourth of July // This Is Our Music // 1990

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Lyrics :

I wrote a poem on a dog biscuit
And your dog refused to look at it
So I got drunk and looked at the Empire State Building
It was no bigger than a nickel

And if it don't improve
Then I have to move
I never thought that I would end up here
Maybe I should just change my style
But I feel alright when you smile

I stayed at home on the Fourth of July
And I pulled the shades so I didn't have to see the sky
And I decided to have a Bed In
But I forgot to invite anybody

And when I fell asleep
The neighbors had a peep
I never thought that I would end up here
Maybe I should just change my style
But I feel alright when you smile

Note : il semblerait que de jeunes malotrus du Quebec se font également appeler Galaxie 500 ... méfiance donc...

Bonus :

Galaxie 500 // Fouth of July // videoclip

Galaxie 500 on RapidoTV

Galaxie 500 covering New Order's Ceremony

New Order // Ceremony // Live @ NYC 1981

This Mortal Coil // Mr. Somewhere // Blood // 1991

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Lyrics :

Day comes up sicker than a cat
Something's wrong and that is that
Mr. Somewhere's missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much
A boat from the river takes you out
Cross the other side of town
To get out to get out you take the tide
Any tide any tide Like there isn't gonna be any tide
la la
A word like tomorrow wears things out
It's hard enough to get what's yours for now
And the hardest words are spoken softly
Look! no hands upon no heart
la la
Now the milkman beats you to the door
That was once a home home no more
Mr. Somewhere's missing somewhere
Couldn't get the calendar to stop Missing somewhere
Never did figure just how much Missing somewhere
Never will admit just how much.

A propos :

La chanson originale se trouve sur l'album "Evening visits...and stays for years" de The Apartments. Le texte est signé Peter Milton Walsh. Celle-ci est une reprise plutôt minimaliste, par This Mortal Coil, supergroupe fondé par Ivo Watts Russel, également fondateur du label 4AD. Plusieurs artistes du label ont collaboré au trois albums de This Mortal Coil, principalement faits de reprises. L'une des plus connues est celle du morceau "Song to the Siren", chanté à l'origine par Tim Buckley sur l'album Starsailor (1970), et interprété pour l'occasion par Liz Fraser, des Cocteau Twins. Cette version a été utilisé à toute les sauces, pour le meilleur (une sublime séquence du film de David Lynch, Lost Highway) ou pour le pire (pub pour un parfum entre autre). Elle a aussi été plusieurs fois reprise de façon plus ou moins heureuse par divers artistes, de Robert Plant à Georges Mickael (dans une version dégoulinante de mièvreries), en passant par exemple par David Gray ou Damon and Naomi, de loin ma préférée... Sur l'album "Exit Planet Dust" des Chemical Brothers, on trouve également un morceau qui s'appelle "Song To The Siren", dont il reste peu de choses de la version de This Mortal Coil

Bonus :

Damon & Naomi // Song To The Siren

Lost Highway // Love Scene // Song To The Siren

This Mortal Coil // Song To The Siren

The Apartments // All The Birthdays // The Evening Visits... and Stays For Years // 1985

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Lyrics :

O it's madtime bedtime and full of possibilities
All the birthdays come at once
Been swamped by vaudeville?
Can't defeat your innocence
Though it's good for only little tears from Kitten
I'm slow with small talk, we used to get on famously
Now there's nothing to perfect
Got sold on big talk it just doesn't matter anymore
It's cold, you'd better come on inside

So you get restless don't it get the same for everyone?
Convinced by only one time in their lives
And been full of gifts - you have no one to give them to
When all the birthdays come at once.
Keep your distance the game's not worth the candle of confusing
vanity with power
You say I seem so distant lost all sense of consequences
But I try to keep this world alight

Vanished days only mean so much by vanishing
All the birthdays are best forgotten
So I shrug my shoulders and slip into another tongue
Knowing nothing can be perfect
Took that curse - there's nothing left could do us any harm
Spare me the rituals of sorrow

Bonus :
"You might be pleased to know that The Apartments will be playing 2 shows in Australia in late June and possibly a third in July. Hopefully more, and hopefully France" John Wilsteed, sur le forum officiel

Download The Apartments'first release : The Apartments // Return of the Hypnotist : Télécharger le premier EP de The Apartments

Lambchop // The Man Who Loved Beer // How I Quit Smoking // 1996

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Lyrics :

to whom can i speak today
the brothers they are evil
and the old friends of today
they have become unlovable
to whom can i speak today
the gentleness has perished
and the violent man has come down on everyone
to whom can i speak today
the wrong which roams the earth
there can be no end to it
it is just unstoppable
death is in my sights today
and when a man desires
to see home after many years in jail
february through december
we have such a tragic hue
as separate as the fingers
or suddenly as one as the hand
and the violent man comes down on everyone

Bonus: Lambchop // Is A Woman

Lullaby for the Working Class// Hypnotist (song for Daniel H.) // I Never Even Asked For Light // 1997

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I dreamt I was an astronaut
safely orbiting the womb
I came across my wife and baby
already clinging to this singularity
dear wife, please forgive me
if I sometimes forget what
blessings I should be rejoicing
the prophet is a shipwrecked son
keeps waking up here
the kingdom still is a hoax
gotta build your own, son
I dreamt I was a firefighter
but the flames were never real
I dreamt I was an engineer
and I designed it, dear
the world's perfect treadmill
I dreamt I was a hypnotist
a farmer and an architect
a poet and an acrobat
I dreamt the flames were real
the prophet is a shipwrecked son
keeps waking up here
the kingdom still is a hoax
gotta build your own, son
I dreamt I was an astronaut.

Bonus : Working Class Hero

John Lennon // Working Class Hero

Noir Désir // Working Class Hero // Live GISTI 1999

Piano Magic // Your Ghost // Disaffected // 2005

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Lyrics :

Your ghost, a white candle in this night - smile broken, though eyes bright as carnival rides. You wander these streets, punch-drunk on the stars as the lights are stubbed out in the neighbourhood bars. Your voice, thin as smoke, barely exits your mouth. There’s blood in your hair and a fire to the south. Your skeleton moves in a waltz with the stairs and the well of your heart, full of no-one who cares. Your words, a white wreath at the cusp of the hill, to mark off the kill, where the blood was spilled. You’re the back of the mirror, you’re the ghost of the tide and I would die twice, if you stayed tonight (Don’t stay tonight).

Bonus :

Piano Magic // I Didn't Get Where I Am Today

Kristin Hersh // Your Ghost