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Самый известный лонгплэй этого популярнейшего американского квартета. Группа исполняла (распалась в 2001 году после турне по Японии, где была особенно популярна) мелодик-рок, который нашел свое совершенное отражение, применительно к творчеству группы, именно в этом релизе. Красивые и благозвучные мелодии, незамысловатые и легко запоминающиеся тексты – вот канва данного творения музыкантов. Чувственный голос вокалиста Эрика Мартина, так подходящего к душещипательным балладам, соответствует материалу на все 110%, тандем бас-ударные (Билли Шихэн (Talas, Niacin) и Пэт Торпи) работает очень слаженно и выразительно. Ну и, конечно, супергерой гитары Пол Джилберт (Racer X) не позволяет усомниться как в технике своей игры (к слову сказать очень скоростной и виртуозной), так и гармоничности своих соло. Хотя, хотя…Прослушивая этот диск не единожды, я не раз замечал такие моменты, как-то: то Эрик Мартин забывает к микрофону подойти, то басист вообще иногда забывает струну дернуть или дергает невпопад. Эдакий рискованный рок на грани дисгармонии. В целом, весь материал высокой пробы, законченный и вызывающий от прослушивания только положительные эмоции и с течением времени совсем не надоедающий. Особенно выделю композиции "Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy" – бодрячковый рок’н’ролльчик, отдаленно смахивающий на "Kickstart My Heart" Мотли Крю, красивую балладу "Just Take My Heart", ритм-энд-блюзовую "A Little to Loose" и популярнейшую "To Be with You", выходившую синглом и покорившую многие хит-парады Америки и Азии. Жалко только то, что в дальнейшем группа лишь высекала искры(исключая диск "Bump a Head") по сравнению с пламенем того огня, которое горело в далеком 1991 году… |
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Didn't care if she was pretty
I got a little too loose
A little too loose
A little too loose, oh, oh, oh.
Keep little secrets far too long
Guess that I'll put them in a son
I got to let it go, no one will ever know
Baby, can I get you a taxi
She said, "That's OK, tonight I'm staying here"
All that little girl wanted yeah
Was a slippery souvenir
Alive And Kickin'
Black to blazin', hometown fadin'
Out of sight in the rear view mirror
Stevie Ray blasting on the radio
As I slam it into higher gear
My baby's by my side, tears in her eyes
Writing a Goodbye letter
Sayin' Johnny and me are runnin' wild and runnin' free
Just like you did Momma
Don't know where we're going'
But when we get there we'll know
We're gonna follow the code of the road
Jump into the fire
Keep our love alive and kickin'
Down the door, it's what we livin' for
Rockin' side by side
Keep your love alive and kickin'
We got everything we own in the trunk and on the roof
And she's got baby sitting money in her pocket
We're drivin' fast, ain't no looking back
We're flyin' through the desert like a rocket
White line windin' up interstate five
The road goes on forever
And it doesn't matter where it's gonna take us
As long as we're together
We're takin' our chances
Gonna do it our way
Pedal to the metal shooting down the highway
Jump into the fire
Keep you love alive and kickin'
Down the door, it's what we're livin' for
Rockin' side by side
Keep you love alive and kickin'
Jump into the fire
Keep you love alive and kickin'
Down the walls, that's when
Freedom calls
Rockin'side by side
Keep you love alive and kickin'
CDFF-Lucky This Time
Lost and alone in this city of darkness
Empty of lovers and full of lies
You build a wall between you dreams and the madness
I reach out my hand but you run and hide
I've watched you cry in the rain
I wanna bring back the joy again
Open you heart to mine
I believe, I believe you might
Be lucky this time
You might be lucky this time
No guarantees when you risk you emotion
So you surrender and it all went astray
Bitter and hopeless in your cold isolation
I wanna dry all your tears
You know there's nothin' to fear, baby
Chorus
And when the shadows start to fall
Let my love break down the walls
Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little boy (The Electric Drill Song)
If you're a red hot fire cracker
I will light you fuse
If you cry like a little girl
I'll dry your baby blues
When you need a man of action
I'm ready to make my move
Like a shotgun shot, Johnny on the spot
There's nothing I can't do
Everything you're looking for
You can find in me
I'll be anything you want
Anyone you need
I'll me your Daddy, your brother, your lover and your little boy
When your body needs salvation
I'll be you tender touch
I'll take all the love you give me
And give you twice as much
When we get undercover
And do the horizontal mile
I'm in the mood to answer to your call of the wild
Everything you're looking for
You can find in me
I'll be anything you want
Anyone you need
Everything you're looking for
Anything that you want and more
I'll be your Daddy, your brother, your lover and your little boy
Green-tinted Sixties Mind
She just woke up, but she's still tired
Is that the telephone ringing?
The curtains can't hold back the light
That's reaching into her dreams
Down in her heart
If it had fingers, it'd be tearing it apart
You be looking' groovy
In a sixties movie
Maybe tell the press you died
Little legend baby
Try your very best to hide
A green-tinted sixties mind
She keeps some memories locked away
But they are always escaping
Neglect won't make them fade away
They're reaching into her creams
Down in her heart
Don't need finger to be tearing it apart
Gotta face the day
There is no other way
To clear the fog inside you mind
Fill it up with dreams
But all that she can seem to find
A green-tinted sixties mind
Hangin' out with Janis
Movin' to Atlantis
Could've made it if you tried
What's the point of force
It's easy as a horse to ride
A green-tinted sixties mind
You be looking groovy
In a sixties movie
Maybe tell the press you died
Little legend baby
Try your very best to hide
A green-tinted sixties mind
-U can't hide-
Just Take My Heart
It's late at night and neither one of us is sleeping
I can't imagine living my life after you're gone
Wondering why so many questions have no answers
I keep on searching for the reason why we went wrong
Where is our yesterday
You and I could use it right now
But if this is goodbye
Just take my heart when you go
I don't have the need for it anymore
I'll always love you, but you're too hard to hold
Just take my heart when you go
Here we are about to take the final step now
I just can't fool myself, I know there's no turning back
Face to face it's been an endless conversation
But when the love is gone you're left with nothing but talk
I'd give my everything
If only I could turn you around
But if this is goodbye
Just take my heart when you go
I don't have the need for it anymore
I'll always love you, but you're too hard to hold
Just take my heart when you go
Love Makes You Strong
I got what I wanted
It wasn't what I wanted
I got what I needed
It wasn't what I needed
Just found out
Love makes you strong
Love makes you heavy
Like a stranger in the night
Like a Tyson fight
Love makes you strong
Love makes you funky
Like you don't know where you are
Like a limousine car
I got what was comin'
I should've been runnin'
F-F-Fifty per cent
Just to pay her rent
Just found out
Love steers you wrong
Love costs you plenty
Save your nickels and dimes
These are desperate times
Love steers you wrong
Love spoils the party
I got something in my eye
Feel like I wanna die
I want my honey
I want my money
If I'm an angel this time
She'll be treatin' me fine
Just found out
Love makes you strong
But it makes you pay for it
Love steers you wrong
Sometimes if you ignore it
My Kinda Women
Way back in the early day
1946
She walked in with the look o' love
That girl had bedroom eyes
Fire engine lipstick lips
All heads turned ooh with a human desire
It set the world on fire
My kinda woman
Someone's yesteryear dreams
That's my kinda woman
I could tear down the silver screen
A fallen women femme fatale
Her body screamed heartbreak
Hotel...brains and beauty
Break down the walls, I fall
Down, to my knees,
When I see her picture in the
Movie magazines
All heads turned ooh for the lady in red
Bring up the house lights and say
My kinda woman
Bring back those yesteryear dreams
My kinda woman help me
Tear down the silver screen
Picture perfect
X marks the spot
There's just no way
To tell you how hot
My kinda women
If I could go back in time
To the right place eye to eye
Magic to burn ooh with a human desire
She set the world on fire
My kinda woman
Someone's yesteryear dreams
My kinda woman
I could tear down the silver screen
My kinda woman
Bring back those yesteryear dreams
And that's my kinda woman
Help me tear down the silver screen
Never Say Never
I wanna know was it love or money
Come clean tell the truth about what you've done
Why did you gibe your love to another man?
Girl, I believed you were the one
I shoulda known I'd be caught in the middle
No way out-no alibis
I've tried my best but I don't understand
What's so good about long goodbyes-ya
Never say never
Cuz now we're together
We'll keep holdin' on 'till the end
One look in your eyes and I knew I'd decided
To never say never again-never again
Gonna win one way or another
No holds barred-It's just a matter of time
Second time around I've got it covered
I'm ready if ya wanna give me one more try-ya
Never say never
Cuz I still remember
How we thought that lover never ends
Through good times and bad times
It's always a fine line
I'll never say never again
So far so good
You showed me how love is misunderstood
Whatever it takes
I've made some mistakes
But never again
Never say never
Cuz now we're together
We'll keep holdin' on till the end
One look in you eyes and I knew I'd decided
To never say never again-never again
Road To Ruin
Good Lord, I tried
To push her memory to the back o' my mind
"Mustang Sally" from her head to her toe
My life was in shambles
When she shot down that road
That was then, this is now
I'd I learned my lesson, I forgot it somehow
Headlights in the driveway,
A knock at the door,
I hear that voice, and I know what's in store...
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
I looked in those angel eyes
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
The devil was in disguise, year
She took me,
Down the road to ruin
(Yeah baby) my head was spinnin' round
Don't know what I'm doin'
Back on the road to ruin...
(Listen)
Hip Hips
Sexy legs_
Ain't no surprise I got on my knees and begged
Forked tongue, and pointed tail
If we make it this time, it's a cold day in hell
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
She said she'd be sweet this time yeah
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
One kiss and it all seemed so right
She took me,
Down the road to ruin
(Yeah baby)my head was spinnin' round
Don't know what I'm doin'
Back on the road to ruin...
Guitar solo-
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
She said she'd be sweet this time
Whoa Oh Whoa Oh
The devil was I n disguise
Chorus out-
To Be With You
Hold on little girl
Show me what he's done to you
Stand up little girl
A broken heart can't be that bad
When it's through, it's through
Fate will twist the both of you
So come on baby come on over
Let me be the one to show you
I'm the one who wants to be with you
Deep inside I hope you feel it too
Waited on a line of greens and blues
Just to be the next to be with you
Build up your confidence
So you can be on top for once
Wake up who cares about
Little boys that talk too much
I seen it all go down
Your game of love was all rained out
So come on baby, come on over
Let me be the one to hold you
Chorus
Why be alone when we can be together baby
You can make my life worthwhile
And I can make you start to smile
Voodoo Kiss
I've got the full moon fever
A black cat cut across my path
Put a little spell on me mademoiselle
I want somebody to lobe me back
I need somebody to love me bad
Dig deep in the Mojo
Bad luck running through my veins
Cook up some Bontemps medicine
To drove this curse away
To drive this curse away, yeah yeah, yeah
A touch of sweet and nasty
A blind man couldn't miss
A Creole sister man you can't resist her
When she's soft against you lips-Voodoo kiss
Kiss me on the lips
Can heaven be like this-Voodoo kiss
Down by the river at midnight
You hear the rattle and roll of those chicken bones
A white haired women and a one eyed Jack
Mix me up a batch of that love flambeaux
I want a batch of that love flambeaux
I gave her half my money
She wanted just a little more
If you pay the price then tonight's you night
You get what you pay for
You'll get what you pray for
Oh yeah I want a
A touch of sweet and nasty
A blind man couldn't miss
A Creole sister man you can's resist her
When she's soft against you lips-Voodoo kiss
Can heaven be like this-Voodoo kiss
Big adlibs: Fox's got that Mojo workin'
Mr. Big easy!...
A hot blooded angel