Proto-Punk, New Wave, Synth Pop의 시발점에서 가장 왕성하게 활동했던 LA출신의 아메리칸 록그룹 Sparks의 74년 앨범 [Kimono My House]의 보너스 트랙반! Russell Mael의 화려한 키보드 연주와 함께 60년대 bubblegum 록앤롤 정서를 접목시킨 초창기 뉴 웨이브 사운드를 완성했다. 특히 이들은 뮤지컬 음악의 귀재 Andrew Lloyd Webber를 만난 이후 뮤지컬 풍의 트랙 "Here In Heaven"을 제작했고 글램록을 차용한 "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us"와 펑크적 성향이 강한 "Amateur Hour"가 영국에서 인기를 얻었다. 추가적으로 이번 21st Century Editions에는 싱글 B Side트랙에 수록되었던 "Barbecutie"와 "Lost And Found" 그리고 "Amateur Hour"가 라이브 버전으로 수록되어있다. .... ....
The lawns grow plush in the hinterlands The perfect little setting for the one night stands. The drapes are drawn and the lights are out It's the time to put in practise what you've dreamed about. Well she can show you what you must do To be more like people better than you.
Amateur hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know she'll let you know
Amateur hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know she tells you so.
Girls grow tops to go topless in While we sit and count the hairs that blossom from our chins. Our voices change at a rapid pace I could start a song a tenor and then end as bass. So choose your partners everyone If you hesitate the good ones are gone. Amateur hour goes on and on . . .
Dance laugh wine dine and talk and sing But those cannot replace what is the real thing
It's a lot like playing the violin You cannot start off and be Yehudi Menuhin. So Amateur hour goes on and on . . .
Similar mother, similar father, similar dog, cat and fish And we'll make the same wish When the birthday candle's lit We'll both be older We won't get our wish Yes, I think that I'm falling in love with myself again
Chorus: Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again Yes, I think I'm falling Yes, I think I'm falling Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again
With her hand in my hand and my hand in hers Don't we look a blur Me and her and me and her Hey, kiss her, oh kiss her Our friends do concur Yes, I think that I'm falling in love with myself again
Chorus:
I can't see with you in front of the mirror staring, staring I can't hear myself think with all that music blaring, blaring
Yes, I'm falling Falling, falling Falling, falling yes, I'm falling Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again
I bring home the bacon and eat it myself Here's to my health Hope that I am feeling well I'm burning the candle at both ends, oh well Yes, I think that I'm falling in love with myself again
Chorus:
Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again Yes, I think I'm falling Yes, I think I'm falling Yes, I think I'm falling in love with myself again
Here, there are lots of things to do And a panoramic view Of the universe completely surrounding you
And here you cannot buy souvenirs You're never going back, never, never Basically, I guess it could be worse Yes, I do suppose it could be worse
Here, there are many, many sheep And the people only sleep And awake to tell how gory and gruesome was their end And I don't have many friends And it's really very clean and I'm thinking Juliet, you broke our little pact Juliet, I'm never coming back
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Up here in Heaven without you I'm here in Heaven without you Up here in Heaven without you It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here For years and years and years
Dear, do you often think of me As you overlook the sea Do I qualify as dearly departed or am I That sucker in the sky The fall guy for the first and the last time Juliet, I thought we had agreed Now I know why you let me take the lead
Chorus:
Up here in Heaven without you I'm here in Heaven without you Up here in Heaven without you It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here For years and years and years
Second thoughts, is that what you had? Second thoughts, first I broke my back Second thoughts, as I hit the sea Second thoughts, for eternity, for eternity, for eternity
Chorus:
Up here in Heaven without you I'm here in Heaven without you Up here in Heaven without you It is Hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here For years and years and years
I tried to tell you in the night That with a girl like you I could do without guided tours You tried to tell me in the day That your leading exports were textiles and iron ore
Chorus:
Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the only words that I knew for sure Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the three little words that I knew you'd adore
Leaving my syntax back at school I was thrown for a loss over gender and simple rules You mentioned Kant and I was shocked You know, where I come from, none of the girls have such foul tongues
Chorus:
Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the only words that I knew for sure Hasta Manana Monsieur I'm gonna do it now C'est la vie, c'est la mort, say no more, no no more It's all the same , whether here or there or anywhere There's them who have, and there are the others who have not
Kimono my house mon amour I am sure that this motion don't need no accompanying words Guess I was wrong because you've fled Leaving me with my Michelin Guide and half-empty foreign bed
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Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the only words that I knew for sure Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the three little words that I knew you'd adore
Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the only words that I knew for sure Hasta Manana Monsieur Were the three little words that I knew you'd adore
Albert is smart, he's a genius Watch Albert putter, an obvious genius Someday he will reassess the world And he'll still have time for lots of girls
When he grows up he'll remember us When he grows up we are sure that he'll remember us
We made sure that Albert wore his mac We kept all the strangers off his back
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(Go away) Everything's relative (Go away Albert's mother does say to me) We are his relatives and he don't need any non-relatives
Talent is an asset You've got to understand that Talent is an asset And little Albert has it Talent is an asset And Albert surely has it
One day he'll sever his apron strings All of the while he'll be scribbling things, genius things Look at Albert, isn't he a sight Growing, growing at the speed of light
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(Go away) Everything's relative (Go away Albert's mother does say to me) We are his relatives and he don't need any non-relatives
Talent is an asset And little Albert has it
Talent is relative That's hypothetical We are his relatives That's parenthetical Spare your superlatives There's the receptacle There's the receptacle
Leave Albert's study room Leave Albert's happy home Leave Albert's neighbourhood Leave Albert's city, too Leave Albert's country seat Leave Albert's coun-ter-y Leave Albert's continent Leave Albert's hemisphere Leave Albert's planet, too Leave Albert's universe
No one must see him now Only the medical No one must downgrade him Don't be to cynical Don't be to critical Cancel the magazines They're much to political Don't buy him any jeans They're much to casual Talent is relative That's hypothetical We are his relatives That's parenthetical
Nothing in the world is perfect Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear Complaints, it's my department Complaints, it's my department Everything you wear's too tight and clashes with the candlelight Just give it back, no questions asked
Nothing in the world is perfect Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear Complaints, stereophonic Complaints, it's ironic How they chatter, how they bore us like some avant- gardish chorus Just give it back, no questions asked
I'll dive off the mezzanine if one more points at crooked seams A sign of shoddy workmanship, of Asiatic hands that slipped Just give it back, no questions asked
Nothing in the world is perfect Grin and bear it silently or yell into my ear Complaints, there's too many hours Complaints, the bosses cower Two weeks free from all complaining, it was due to our complaining Take her to Spain, hear her complain
Now she says she is expecting That's my fault for not protecting Her from all the risks of passion She's complaining, she's old-fashioned
Just give it back, no questions asked
Complaints, it's my department Complaints, it's my department
I always felt that I had quite a gift as a judge of human character This is the day and the time and the place and I wonder, wonder where you are Surely, we set it for 3pm Surely, we said it was March the 10th
(Equator, Equator) You said you'd meet me there You must be just around the bend
All of the gifts are now melted or dead, and I'm, sorry, sorry in advance I'll make it up to you, that I can promise you, if I am given just half the chance God, you'll be laughing, I look a mess But you see I've been half way around this place (Equator, Equator) You said you'd meet me there (Equator, equator) You said you'd be right there (Equator, Equator) Oh, yeah
I've got to stop here and rest for a moment, I'm sure that you're not far away You always walked just as slow as you talked, letting me think I could have my way I wasn't fooled for a second, girl I knew it was you who controlled our world (Equator, Equator) You said you'd meet me there (Equator, Equator) You said you'd be right there (Equator, Equator)
The lawns grow plush in the hinterlands The perfect little setting for the one night stands. The drapes are drawn and the lights are out It's the time to put in practise what you've dreamed about. Well she can show you what you must do To be more like people better than you.
Amateur hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know she'll let you know
Amateur hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know she tells you so.
Girls grow tops to go topless in While we sit and count the hairs that blossom from our chins. Our voices change at a rapid pace I could start a song a tenor and then end as bass. So choose your partners everyone If you hesitate the good ones are gone. Amateur hour goes on and on . . .
Dance laugh wine dine and talk and sing But those cannot replace what is the real thing
It's a lot like playing the violin You cannot start off and be Yehudi Menuhin. So Amateur hour goes on and on . . .
US / 1974 /New wave- ★★★★★
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