What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (digital)



The third album from Mr. Gray, and another artist I have missed the boat on. Been around since 1993 and this is the first I have heard. May have heard something in passing on the local college station but didn't know who it was. Although the breakthrough album in the U.K. would be the next one after this, this one did it for me. If it wasn't the music that grabbed me, it was the lyrics. If not the lyrics, the phrasing. At times, all coming together. Unbelievable this guy has yet to make a mark in the states. Once again proving why I have been a fan of the England music scene since the 60's. Well, except for the House stuff which it seems they'll never come out of. This album just makes my love ranking, meaning another one I have to explore. I'll never catch up. One other note. First few listens I couldn't peg who this voice reminded me of. I finally nailed it. And so does he. Early Leo Sayer, spot on. Not after he fell into that disco craze.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Folk Song

Best Track - Gutters Full of Rain

A gutter full of rain
An empty picture frame
A house out at the edges of the city
Never noticing the war
Til it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody

I was seeking to possess
Now another girl's caress
Is on your flesh
The bitterness is tasted
There's nobody in your chair
No hand to touch my hair
The sun even the air seems wasted

Let it go now
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain

Were these twenty years a dream
Was it ever as it seemed
Get to wonder if it really existed
Cause the thief who stole my life
Has taken too my faith
I can see now how the world gets
Twisted

Let it go now
Let it all slip away
And we'll start it all over again
Me like a million others before
Trying to make sense of the rain

In spite of all the shame
Sometimes I hear your name
I think of us when we were younger
Then I'm shutting out the noise
And I'm trying to hear the voice
That used to tell me love was
Stronger

Light another cigarette
But the one I got's still lit
I can't seem to keep my fingers
Steady
Never noticing the war
Til it's right there at your door
And suddenly your hands are bloody

1) Faster, Sooner, Now - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h3XqpiIqHY
2) Late Night Radio - *** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjYrMr7b_KI
3) Sell, Sell, Sell - ***
4) Hold On To Nothing - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHJ65x4nks
5) Everytime - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0QM1XHS_yU
6) Magdalena - **
7) Smile - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsfA7vb_lLg
8) Only The Lonely - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9qgzB54VCc
9) What Am I Doing Wrong? - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMhMZXJPO9M
10) Gutters Full Of Rain - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TtBs8gZiM
11) Forever Is Tomorrow Is Today - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dpTqjrQ1i0
12) Folk Song - **

Average Rating - 2.4