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Or does he say ***WON'T*** DEVOUR US ALL???

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't fall! Don't fall!

Alone in a room I've been in once before
Shapes in the hall
I'm running for the door
I'm out on the edge
But I'm not defeated yet
I hear my name above everything else
Mark! Mark!
Above everything else
Don't fall!

It's a freak out
Nothing's familiar
Nothing seems to fit into the scheme of things
Seeing faces where there shouldn't be faces
No-one's ever certain what tomorrow brings
So don't fall my friend
All nightmares have an end.

Hiding inside
A room that's running red
The place to be
Exists only in your head
And the focus of fear
In the creases of a dress
A female dress
How did I come to be drowning in this mess
This fuckin' mess
Don't fall

It's a freak out
Nothing's familiar
Nothing seems to fit into the scheme of things
Seeing faces where there shouldn't be faces
No-one's ever certain what tomorrow brings
Don't fall

I know your back's against the wall
But this roaring silence
Won't devour us all
Don't fall
Alternative Lyrics from Marks songbook (Dearest dead days):

Don't fall! Don't fall!

Alone in a room I've been in once before
Shapes in the hall
I'm running for the door
I'm out on the edge
But I'm not defeated yet
I hear my name above everything else

Mark! Mark!
Above everything else
Don't fall!

It's a freak-out
Nothing's familiar
Nothing seems to fit into the scheme of things
Seeing faces where there shouldn't be faces
No-one's ever certain what tomorrow brings

So don't fall my friend
All nightmares have an end
Hiding inside
A room that's running red
The place to be
Exists only in your head
And the focus of fear
In the creases of a dress
A female dress
How did I come to be drowning in this mess
This fucking mess
Don't fall

It's a freak-out
Nothing's familiar
Nothing seems to fit into the scheme of things
Seeing faces where there shouldn't be faces
No-one's ever certain what tomorrow brings
Don't fall

I know your back's against the wall
But this roaring silence
Won't devour us all
Don't fall

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

somehow it never really registered that he's singing his own name in that song

where's tha luv for "thursday's child"?

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd like to find updates on the band. The band's website is woefully out of date, so any tips on comps, etc., would be welcome. One of my favourite bands which I constantly go back to. And "Thursday's Child" is fab. Still.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark's doing a semi-sporadic solo American tour soon and the band is still dead. If you didn't catch the reunion I think you're SOL.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah, yes, I knew this. Meant to say what material of theirs might be showing up. Some place to find reissues, etc. And the band seemed to explode in acrimony, no? Gory details welcome. I tried to follow the reunion tour/lp news through their site, but that seemed a bit messy at the time.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck it

xpost

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Mark Burgess has a MySpace page if it helps yer quest for knowledge:
www.myspace.com/chameleonsvox

― NickB (NickB), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/chameleonsvox

― NickB (NickB), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

It's all your fucking faults!!! I'm going to put on the rare EP on CD now....

"Soldier, soldier won't you marry me with your muskets..."

What fucing son gi ist hta?

HAHAHAHAHHA I have a rare Chameleons EP even if I'm drunk, that's right.

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I've still got hte Tony Fletcher EP because Chameleons rule doooooods

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"Is It Any Wonder" = "Caution" doppelganger
"The Healer" = "Mad Jack" doppelganger

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"Sisters of Normality/Collapsing in convulsions and laughter:"

Oh I hope I never come down/Is it any wonder that I never close my eyes?

oh my god oh mnyg od

chameleons the forbidden EP "TONY FLETCHER WALKED ON WATER" DO YOU KNOW WHY I KEPT IT BECAUSE I KNEW I WOULD NEVER FIND IT AGAIN


AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE MANCHESTER IS THE KING OF MUSIC WORLD.

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

IS IT ANY WONDER

STILL HAVE THE CD EP BECAUSE I KNEW IF I SOLD IT I'D NEVER FIND IT AGAIN

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought "the healer" was a "swamp thing" doppelganger? (i haven't heard it in ages)

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe! I dunno, the chorus sounds like "Mad Jack."

"His violent eeeeyyyyyes, Mad Jack's eyes"
"It's all riiiiiiiiight, you're not the only one"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh my god im still drunk enough to realize I still have the Strange Times CD oh my god WATCH OUT

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

dude Birdy totally goes Numa Numa halfway through "Denims and Curls"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"innocence is bliss..."

rock and roll because god loves you if you love the Chameleons.

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ALMOST AS GOOD AS ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN'S " THORN OF CROWNS:"

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

LONG TIME JACK! WELCOME BACK! MAD JACK!!!!

FORGET MY ARSE

MUST HAVE BRIT UK MUSIC LIKE THE SMACK

CHAMELEONS IS A GOOD PlACE TO STRAT

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


SONG IS oh my god chameleons

"Song in Isolation">>>>

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

THIS IS NOT MY HOME NO - EVERYONE"s BAUGHT AND SOLD

ONE BY ONE WE DISAPPEAR DAy after DAy and year after year nobody hears becaseu nobody cares

PUT A DAGGER IN MY HEART IF THEY WEREN't THE MOST AMAZING THING IN 1985

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

BROWN SUGAR, ICE IN OUR VEINS, NO PRESSURE NO PAIN

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

JUST FORGET IT WITH CHAMELEONS BLASTING OUT OF MY STEREO FORGET IT YANKS@!!!

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

SOUL IN ISOLATION

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I'M ALIVE IN HERE

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS

GOD IF MANCHESTER WASN'T THE BEST THING TO HAPPEN TO MUSIC EVER

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

NOW SWAMP THING FILLS MY VEINS IT"S TOO LATE

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway just forget it, Im a
chameleons whore


And I know Ned will call me to task. Too bad.

I told you, Im a Chameleons junkie.

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"not too many hours from this hour

so long

the storm comes or is it just another shower

is it any wonder?

Primal scream and the TV screen close your eyes

Or I lose my mind completely
please leave, just go now


Not too many hours from this hour so long...
the storm comes or is it just another shower

― Lick The Strobelight Lollipops (Bimble...), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Not sure if they'll ever do a full reunion, but I did see Mark, Reg and John do a run through of 'Splitting in Two' (with Tony Serkis on guitar) back in December at a benefit concert in Middleton. Probably the closest I'll get to the real thing (sniffs).

― Peter Pedro Pierre (Peteski), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
Got this via the Chams list today -- not sure why they're not youtube links but anyway:

http://rapidshare.com/files/20742974/uvs070312-004.MPG.html
Don't Fall, German TV, 1983


http://rapidshare.com/files/20753474/uvs070312-005.MPG.html
Second Skin, Portuguese TV, 1984

http://rapidshare.com/files/20812829/uvs070312-006.MPG.html
A Person Isn't Safe, Portuguese TV, 1984


http://rapidshare.com/files/20768431/uvs070313-002.MPG.html
As High As You Can Go, French TV, 1983


http://rapidshare.com/files/20821893/uvs070313-004.MPG.html
Up The Down Escalator, French TV, 1983

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link

argh fucking download limit

Thanks, Ned!

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought they were OK. The bloke from the Chameleons was the first 'famous' person I remember posting on the internet, who posted a bit on a.m.a or r.m.m. years ago.

― Keith, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

What an odd day for this thread to have been revived.

Ned will be pleased to know I am now really liking this band also, I have only just discovered them. Hurray. I have had "Swamp Thing" in my head all WEEK.

Blame Curt1s.

― Trayce, Thursday, 15 March 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I was listening to "Here Today" the night before I visited NYC and I didn't realise I was listening to it until quarter-way. Then I was like, "oic".

― King Boy Pato, Thursday, 15 March 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm seeing Mark Burgess in Austin tomorrow afternoon...and expecting to hear at least three Chameleons songs.

― stephen, Thursday, 15 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Watching Second Skin, the drumming stood out to me. Largely because everything else was too muddy in the recording, but the brief mentioning of Lever's drumming at the top of this thread also made me listen more attentively. I can see how someone might feel it's lagging - to me it feels like it pushes the song instead of pulling it. The standard for drumming seems to be to establish a beat and have everyone rush after it. It seems like his hits are milliseconds late instead of early, which does create this impression of sitting. I find that's an appropriate technique for their delay-washed sound. In a way, the lag even accentuates the groove.

― Faisal Shennib, Thursday, 15 March 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

so I happened to see a great show from Mark Burgess et al. in Austin today...in short, we all got to hear "Looking Inwardly," "Perfume Garden," and "Second Skin" in addition to a bunch of new stuff, which was fantastic in its own way :)

― stephen, Friday, 16 March 2007 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

IS IT ANY WONDER?

― Bimble, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:17 (seventeen years ago) link

DIAMONDS AND PEARLS

― Bimble, Saturday, 24 March 2007 04:29 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

I am having a Chameleons day today. "Script of the Bridge" is such a beautiful album. Perfect indoors winter music.

― Trayce, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:16 (sixteen years ago) link

And it has "Second Skin" and "Pleasure and Pain", two of my favourite songs.

― Trayce, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link

I always forget at first that June = winter where you are.

It works well for summer too, fwiw.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link

I need to get some more Chams, really, I'm totally loving them so much.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link

Good, good...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link

Get the Peel Sessions and Radio One sessions for great alternative versions.

― Mr. Odd, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link

Somehow I knew Ned would be in the corner nodding approvingly =)

― Trayce, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 01:15 (sixteen years ago) link

YOU GUYS I FOUND SCRIPT OF THE BRIDGE ON VINYL IT'S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER BOUGHT

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link

The full twelve song version, I hope.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link

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