Wildhearts album Vinyl

[Ean]

They were both on the original tracklist...

1 The Sweetest Song
2 Slaughtered Autors
3 Oh Bonita
4 Inner City Overture
5 Rooting For The Bad Guy
6 Bi-Polar Baby
7 Borderline
8 Destroy All Monsters
9 She's All That
10 The Hard Way
11 The New Flesh
12 The Revolution Will Be Televised
13 Unbroken
14 Zen Requiem

Nothing else they've released has sounded anything like it - ok, that makes it sound like it's the most amazing, groundbreaking thing they've ever done, but, ah, you know what I mean...

[Sarc]

bearing in mind we havent heard Zen or Borderline Im probably gonna be courting controversy here but even though i like the running order on the self titled I quite fancy the running order of the above message the only change I'd have made was to keep Monsters as the final track.

[Ean]

bearing in mind we havent heard Zen or Borderline Im probably gonna be courting controversy here but even though i like the running order on the self titled I quite fancy the running order of the above message the only change I'd have made was to keep Monsters as the final track.

Having heard Zen... live, I wouldn't've ended an album with it either...

I suppose when they eventually turn up you can do it yourself.

[Sarc]

eventually? 'Ere boyo you know something we don't?

[Ean]

Nope, that's why I said eventually.

Perhaps I should have said 'IF they eventually turn up...'. They bunged the others on as B-sides though, so I'd imagine they've got the same thing planned for the other two.

I guess it all depends on what the single release plans are. Ginger said they're filming a video for Revolution... which I suppose could either mean two more singles, or a double A-side with ...Monsters.

[trevorkian]

You know, I've got a really good recording of Zen Requiem from the Wildhearts and Friends Japan tour. I'd gladly post/send it to people, but I'm not keen on getting in trouble with the band or management. Any idea if they'd care if I shared it?

[Velvet Presley]

I'm not sure if they'd mind but I certainly wouldn't..!

[trevorkian]

Haha, well, seeing as I don't rally have anywhere to post it, until I get a cease and desist order from Ginger or something, just private message me your e-mails and I'll pass an mp3 along to you. Do me a solid in return and check out my band's myspace, and everybody wins!

[Sir Euan]

Finally heard zen thanks to trevorkian.

Tis a bloody good recording of it, but the song itself is rather boring. There's not much in the way of hooks or memorable riffs, most of the song's riff is just like the basic dudududududududududu you have at the start of schitzophonic or headfuck live. Some good lyrics but in all honesty I'd rather have it off the album than on it, it wouldn't add anything to it. It has even less variety than beautiful me beautiful you.

As a Wildhearts song it is very weak.

[Andy]

Finally heard zen thanks to trevorkian.

Tis a bloody good recording of it, but the song itself is rather boring. There's not really any hooks or riffs, some good but not amazing lyrics but in all honesty I'd rather have it off the album than on it, it wouldn't add anything to it. It has even less variety than beautiful me beautiful you.

As a Wildhearts song it is very weak.

Is it the studio version or live version?

[Sir Euan]

live, I said I gor it from trev' remember? =P

[Andy]

live, I said I gor it from trev' remember? =P

Ok. Mind I would expect it to be a B side to the next single.

[Ean]

As a Wildhearts song it is very weak.

I like it a lot - but then I like Beautiful Me... a lot too.

Anyhoo, anyone care to have a bash at the lyrics in italics?


Zeen Requiem

When you talked about your suicide
I didn’t take it serious at all
Out of sight but never out of mind
I didn’t see no writing on the wall
You were the guy, the light that shined so bright
The man I wanted to be
If I could share one pint with you tonight
I gotta say there ain’t no place I’d rather be

Because I miss having you around
Now you’re six feet underground
When I was seventeen, you were all I wanted to be
I won’t be seeing you no more
I never realised before
That all the things you showed me were so important to me

I miss the twisted conversations
And drinking ‘til we couldn’t drink no more
If I could help by inspiration
Left piling the opinion in your hall
If I could turn back time and change your mind
I wouldn’t hesitate
Wasn’t it mean but personally ending your life
You’re altruistic, you never listened anyway

Because I miss having you around
Now you’re six feet underground
When I was seventeen, you were all I wanted to be
I won’t be seeing you no more
I never realised before
That all the things you showed me were so important to me

Day after day
Was there anything I forgot to say?
And I wish that I could say goodbye again

Because
I miss having you around
Now you’re six feet underground
I was seventeen; you were all I wanted to be
I won’t be seeing you no more
I never realised before
That all the things you showed me were so important to me

Yeah.

[Sir Euan]

I like beautiful me beautiful you too, and I don't totally hate this song I just think that it's hardly the best example of a wildhearts song, it's pretty basic.

[Velvet Presley]

Does anyone know who the song was written for, or is it just a good bit of storytelling?