Shriekback - Oil And Gold

Shriekback

Oil And Gold

1985









Label: Arista
Catalog#: VG 60028 [GR]
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Greece
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Synth-pop
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Tracklist:
Side A'
Malaria
Everything That Rises Must Converge
Fish Below The Ice
This Big Hush
Faded Flowers
Side B'
Nemesis
Only Thing That Shines
Health And Knowledge And Wealth And Power
Hammerheads
Coelocanth

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Shriekback was originally formed in 1981 by Barry Andrews, and Dave Allen, expanding to a trio with the addition of Carl Marsh.They enjoyed some success on the dance chart on their original Y Records label, and had a string of hits on the UK Indie Chart, and their debut album, Care (1983) was picked up by Warners in the United States. They left Y for Arista Records for 1984's Jam Science, also recruiting drummer Martyn Baker.The album reached number 85 on the UK Albums Chart, and the single, "Hand on my Heart" charted in the Top 60 in the UK.
Finding little success, they switched to Island Records for the 1985 album Oil & Gold; Marsh left during the recording of the album, to be replaced by Mike Cozzi.After the follow-up, Big Night Music, Allen left to rejoin Gang of Four, and Shriekback remained a collaborative centred around Andrews. Allen would also go on to play in King Swamp and The Elastic Purejoy. Marsh was also in the band, Happyhead.
After a further album in 1988, Go Bang!, the band split up. Andrews continued working on other projects before re-forming Shriekback in 1992, although after the single "The Bastard Sons of Enoch" and album Sacred City, there would be no further releases until 2000's Naked Apes & Pond Life album.
Both Allen and Marsh returned to the studio to contribute to the recording of Shriekback's 2003 release, Having a Moment. Since Having a Moment Andrews has recorded two albums for Malicious Damage (Killing Joke's original label) under the Shriekback moniker. Film director Michael Mann, was a fan of Shriekback, and used several of their songs in his films Manhunter and Band of the Hand.
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Hammerheads

Our time has come
age of the hammerhead
This is our mission
to be the Daleks of god
Too late for silence
too late for anything
It's all too much for me
it's roots go down too deep for me

A punishing fire, an animal frenzy
These hammerhead people
know what danger is for
You let them in and now they're everywhere
If it's mineral or vegetable it's back a little up a little

Shout push hammerheads bold and resolute
Marching balancing in too far to go back
Yes yes hammerheads swimming kissing
We are big and clever and we don't know anything
Your vocation by immersion in our filthy demon seed
We know the only things you like are paranoid sex and childish greed
Our own worst enemies they hollowed us out of wood
Look at the beasts inside us gonna get us this time but good
Whether we pull it out or push it it in all ends up the same
You know a hammerhead is a hammerhead by any other name

Shout push hammerheads,
Bold and resolute,
Marching balancing in too far to go
Yes yes hammerheads!!
Swimming kissing we are big and clever and we don't know anything
Onwards hammerheads bright and dangerous
Jumping running in the field and factory
God save hammerheads keeping going
We are sleek and special and we're sure of something


(Chorus 2 - spoken)
Blessed are the airmen
Blessed are the shit kickers
Blessed are the jackhammers
Blessed is the big damage
Blessed are the faith healers
Blessed are the moon walkers
Blessed are the snake people
Blessed are the heat seekers

Correct lyrics verified by
Barry Andrews and Phil Hetherington
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Ένα από τα τελευταία άλμπουμς που είχα πάρει προτού να πάω να παρουσιαστώ , δεν ξέρω γιατί, αλλά μου θυμίζει χειμώνα. Το άκουγα τότε αρκετά και είναι ένα καλό άλμπουμ και τότε είχα κολλήσει με τα Nemesis και Hammerheads.
Αφημένο στην άκρη για καιρό , ξαναανακαλύφθηκε από τον Κωστάκη χρόνια μετά...
Αυτή η ανάρτηση είναι για τον φίλο μου τον Κωστάκη, να μας θυμίζει τις πρώτες μας απόπειρες να μεταφέρουμε τα βινύλια σε cd...

THIS BIG HUSH

Is there a fire in the sky?
Is there a moon up there?
Is anything alive now?
This darkness is what I hear

This is a breathless silence
A moment out of time
I see your face in the shadows
The tell-tale signs are in your eyes

More than I can hold in my hand
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river

All desire
The ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside
And the light from you

Is there a flame in the dark
Is there a bright heart star
There creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are

We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep wherever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all

Holding up an animal fear
Soaking up the waves underwater
Tuned to music no one can hear
Forever in this half-light

All desire
The ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside
And the light from you

All desire
The ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside
And the light from you

More than I can hold in my hand
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river