Strangely Perfect

The Groundhogs: Earth is Not Room Enough! Locked in a room, Strapped to a hollow chair, Faint musty smells, Odour of stale air, Sealed from the outside, In a cage that is six-foot square, Eyes that are fixed, In a glazed, disbelieving stare. Cyanide pills, Dropped in an acid bath, Froth forms a cloud, As [...]

Many moons ago, before Crawling Chaos first played, I heard a tune on the late night John Peel Show called “Wading Through a Ventilator” by “The Soft Boys“.  You can get it on the compilation at left. At only 3:20  it has the unique quality of extending time so it feels like about half an [...]

V2 Schneider – Bowie I don’t know why Bowie titled it so; maybe it’s a tribute to the Kraftwerk dude.  Whatever, it’s one of my all-time favourite intros and even though it’s lost some power compared to the “modern” sounds available now, it’s still a cracker and it could easily be re-done.  The sax at [...]

A bit ahead of their time, Crawling Chaos in the song “Newspapers” nearly got tonight’s news release right. Jobless to work ‘clearing litter’ ………trumpets Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell, neatly post-empting the angst-ridden rhetoric about Thatcher’s Britain and the cow-towing newspapers. Profitability is a sign of the times You’ve got to keep on working [...]

re: Scott Walker. If you were familiar with those pieces of his work, you would understand Just amazing lyrics, songwriting and the composition is amazing I carried out some subjective experiments with my mini studiomaster mixer the other night. After sending my line level out from Emu to mixer with all gains maxed on mixer [...]

A better translation of the classic Jaques Brel song, “Dans le Port d’Amsterdam” by Jillian Greenwood

  Angst in East Lancs Wasteland This was the banner headline in NME I think for the gig at the Leigh Festival in 1979. Either that or Sounds or Melody Maker, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sounds or MM. Two things stick in my mind about the gig (we played in the afternoon) apart [...]

Strangely Perfect from Crawling Chaos does Black!

original from 1987 Phil Collins ruins it! (I thought it was Fatso kicking in there) The lyrics are pulled straight from Black’s site. The chords I’ve stuck on as they sound best to me. There are quite a few versions out there so this is mine how I currently do it. Anyone who knows me [...]

I’ve added the final extra bits to the lyrics for “Urbane Encounter” that were in the original when Errol was the drummer. It’s the bit about the Norwegians at Christmas at the end. Also, I forgot to say that it used to finish with a la-la-la bit like Marc Bolan.

- lyrics source update And Yes! It really has started. This article shows the “scandal” erupting because he’s made art from having a weird bit of surgery done to himself. He’s had and ear grown from a bit of cartilage and then had it sewn onto his arm. Bizarrely, this is happening in Newcastle. Even [...]

This one has been in my head a lot recently – usually when walking down the canal. It’s the Beltane Beltane refrain. I think we made a very good job just there with this one; there; just there; on that very bit. The lyrics are here.

Jaques Brel sings his song “Amsterdam” live and Davis Bowie’s recording for comparison.
Lyrics (paroles) in French and English

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