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TRACKS CONSIDERED ~ Track Reviews T-Z

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~ Total War ~ Shining Hour ~ Shiva Descending ~ ss 100x ~ Storm of Change ~ Waiting For A Miracle ~

~ What Else?! ~ Will You Stay Tonight ~ You're The Heroine ~ You Move Me ~ Zinger ~


Total War

VINYL SINGLE: Total War EP (UK 1980 7"); Independence Day (UK 1984 7" & 12")
VINYL ALBUM: Waiting For A Miracle (UK 1980)
CD ALBUM: Waiting For A Miracle (UK 1995); Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones - The BBC Sessions 1979-84 (UK 1992)
Gently ominous, but with a compelling beat and curious lyrics. 'Total war' is the kind where no prisoners are taken and nothing is pillaged; everything is destroyed.

We walk the streets together, with smiles on our faces
We talk nice to each other, and we listen when we have to
Maybe it's just over-rated, maybe I'm just isolated
We walk the streets together, we walk the streets together but
You don't like my friends
You don't like my clothes
You think that I'm crazy
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
Nothing ever comes between us, a no-man's land, a danger zone
Look at us prop up the pieces, we live together on our own
Maybe it's just over-rated, maybe I'm just isolated
We walk the streets together, we walk the streets together but
You don't like my friends
You don't like my clothes
You think that I'm crazy
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
This is total war, girl
This is total war, girl
This is total war, girl
This is total war, girl
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
Any other girl would just pass over
This is total war, girl ... Total war ...

Transport of Delight

CD ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
CASSETTE ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
Sun is gone
Moon is a halo
Candle stars flicker and fade
In the dark we're getting closer
Feel the world falling away  

Transport of delight
Drive me out of my mind
Transport of delight
Don't look back
Leave this world behind  

Branches reach up to the heavens
Shadows dance on your pale curves
I'm going down to the oasis
Start again when I return  

Transport of delight
Drive me out of my mind
Transport of delight
Don't look back
Leave this world behind  

Sun is gone
Moon is a halo
Candle stars flicker and fade
In the dark we're getting closer
Feel the world falling away  

Don't look back
Come on now
Hold on tight
Leave this world behind

Venus Hunter

CD ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
CASSETTE ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
When the day breaks and falls apart
That's my fanfare my calling card
A run of bad luck, darkness at noon
I don't need the password to get to you

 

I'm a Venus hunter
From another world
10,000 years
Since I've seen a girl  

Burning petrol in my brain
What I call love you call insane
Some try wishing upon a star
Some try running they don't get far  

I'm a Venus hunter
10,000 years
Since I've seen a girl

When the day breaks and falls apart
That's my fanfare my calling card
A run of bad luck, darkness at noon
I don't need the password to get to you  

I'm a Venus hunter
From another world
10,000 years
Since I've seen a girl

Waiting For A Miracle

VINYL ALBUM: Waiting For A Miracle (UK 1980); Made in Britain (compilation USA 1980)
CD ALBUM: Waiting For A Miracle (UK 1995); Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones - The BBC Sessions 1979-84 (UK 1992)
Another track with a surreal flavour to it, yet it also homes in on the misery of human reality. Andy morbidly sings the kind of thoughts provoked by despair and alienation; Steve takes us into the delayed chorus where hope has died. No-one ever said life was fair. All the lonely people...

Sun sets over domes and spires
Like a magic circle, it's over her head and under her tyres
It's incidental, but she only has time for essential dreams
So she's still waiting 'cause it seems like there's nothing in the heart of the beast
I hear her saying
What kind of life is this?
It's in suspension
What kind of life is this?
Nothing happens
It's party time at the top of the hill
The air is freezing and the grass is like wire inbetween the trees
The room is shaking and I wish that I had more faith than this
I see her dancing, and if I could dance would she dance with me?
But then she might say
What kind of dance is this?
It's in suspension
What kind of dance is this?
Nothing happens
Waiting for a miracle
Oh but nothing ever happens
Waiting for a miracle
Oh but nothing ever happens
Waiting for a miracle
Oh but nothing ever happens
Waiting for a miracle
Oh but nothing ever happens
Nothing ever happens
Nothing ever happens
Nothing ever happens
Nothing ever happens

What Else?!

VINYL SINGLE: After The Rain (UK 1982 7")
VINYL ALBUM: Fiction (UK 1982)
CD ALBUM: Fiction (UK 1996); Unravelled (Holland & UK 1996 acoustic remix - with congas!)
Here's something peculiar here's something strange...
Here's something which cannot be explained...
She waits around in the could for hours...
Won't let me say why I'm late...

Come inside let's talk it over- she walks away...
I had to laugh - what else can you do...
I had to laugh - wouldn't you...

I know you have some ambitious plans...
The bog bad world did not agree...
You feel caught in your circumstances...
Don't take it out on me...

You ought to laugh - it's not so hard to do...
You ought to laugh - shouldn't you...
It's not so important. it's nothing we can't solve...
They don't we get together, there's always something else

The wind is high the clouds are racing in the sky as we look out tonight
One by one the lights go out all around as we look out tonight

Whirlwind

CD ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
CASSETTE ALBUM: Fire On The Moon (as Dream Command, Holland & USA 1990)
I live for the stuff that matters
and I build on the things I know  

But she turns my world upside down
Get a paper hat for a crown
I'm a backward nowhere shanty town
In a whirlwind when she's around  

I don't trust any easy answer
And I take every chance I can  

 

But she turns my world upside down
Get a paper hat for a crown
I'm a backward nowhere shanty town
In a whirlwind when she's around
And I'm on the floor
Looking at the ceiling
And it makes me think
But I like the feeling  

I found what you all are after
And I know I'm a wanted man
But she turns
And she turns  

But she turns me world upside down
Get a paper hat for a crown
I'm a backward nowhere shanty town
In a whirlwind when she's around  

O-Oh Whirlwind
O-Oh Whirlwind

Will You Stay Tonight?

VINYL SINGLE: Will You Stay Tonight? (UK 1983 7" & 12") Day One (UK 1984 7" & 12" live)
VINYL ALBUM: Land (UK 1983)
"Pure pop thrills"! - TK. An enjoyable commercial track. The vulnerablity in Steve's voice is perfect for the subject matter of the song.

Talking round in circles trying to find the perfect words
But they don't come to mind, they don't want to come to mind
Staying away from the subject hoping you might say it first
There's a chance that you won't that I can't afford to take
Seconds turn to minutes and the minutes turn to hours
How the time slips away
We've covered everything under the sun and now there's nothing else to say
What do you say?
It's time to go but it's to late to leave so will you stay tonight?
Don't keep me in the dark why spend the after hours on your own
You might spend all your life looking for some ideal
Why not change something vague for something you can feel
And if you were to ask me which choice I would make
I would loose myself tonight, find myself some other day
Seconds turn to minutes and the minutes turn to hours
And the time slips away
We've covered everything under the sun and now there's nothing else to say
What do you say?
It's time to go but it's to late to leave so will you stay tonight?
Don't keep me in the dark why spend the after hours on your own

You're The Heroine

VINYL ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (UK 1985)
CASSETTE ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (UK 1985)
CD ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (Germany 1985)
A bright, rousing love song with a manically exciting guitar.

But the stars still shine on the darkest night
To me they seem so very bright

You Move Me

VINYL SINGLE: You Move Me (UK 1984 7" & 12")
VINYL ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (UK 1985)
CASSETTE ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (UK 1985)
CD ALBUM: 7-Day Weekend (Germany 1985); Time Considered As A Helix Of Semi-Precious Stones - The BBC Sessions 1979-84 (UK 1992)
A bright, rousing love song with a manically exciting guitar.

Out of the blue like a revelation
Into the light like an inspiration

Zinger

VINYL ALBUM: Fiction (UK 1982)
CD ALBUM: Fiction (UK 1996)

The carpet it bluer then usual and...
The rain hung in sheets from the sky...
She couldn't think where to go ...
So she took a drink from the radio...
O-zone O-zone...

You don't get everything from a 3" speaker...
Only the essentials...
All human life is there in a caricature and cartoon...
O-zone O-zone...
She took a drink from the radio...

A taste of electricity is sometimes a surprise...
A glimpse of the future is always a surprise...
The talking parts gave her a headache they made her frown...
But when the music returned she drank it down...
O-zone O-zone...
She took a drink from the radio.






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