On this day in 2021, Dave's third album with Soulsavers, Imposter, was released!
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Will you miss me
When I burn, and will you eye me
With a longing
It is longing that I feel
To be missed or to be real
When you have no one,
No one can hurt you
When you have no one,
No one can hurt you
'You Will Miss Me When I Burn'
(Broken, 2009) ~ Soulsavers, featuring Mark Lanegan
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"You just might be my only savior.
If you are then come and save me.
If that's true come back and save me.
You take me back there.
Take me back home, please.
No, I can't go in there.
Just take me back home, home
is where I wanna be."
-Take Me Back Home, Dave Gahan & Soulsavers
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Back Pages Book Review: Mark Lanegan - “I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings” (2017)
Reading song lyrics can be a chore.
It’s true even with an artist like Mark Lanegan - whose lyrics are generally always intriguing in song. Perusing them like poems on the page, and sans music, gets tedious, what with the repeated lines, multiple baby, babys and such.
But what makes Lanegan’s 2017 book, “I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings,” worth the slog are the brief introductions he penned before each chapter, where the songs of his solo and collaborative albums are laid out in their established running order. It is here readers get inside the mind of Lanegan while making Whiskey for the Holy Ghost, Bubblegum, Blues Funeral and other records.
These snippets are far too short; however, it’s the only place fans can learn about what motivated Lanegan to write a song as uncharacteristic as “Revival” for It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s the Way You Land, his 2007 LP with Soulsavers.
John Cale writes the preface and Moby tackles the forward. That these dichotomous artists are totally enamored with Lanegan says much about his unique writing, singing and arranging skills. The lyrics lose something outside of the song - and the book bogs down if read in the traditional one-page-in-order-at-a-time fashion. Yet Lanegan fans owe it to themselves to do the homework.
And “Wolf” is a handy reference guide for when the lyrics simply cannot be deciphered.
Grade card: Book Review: Mark Lanegan - “I Am the Wolf: Lyrics & Writings” - C+
5/21/23
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On this day in 2015, Dave released his second album with Soulsavers, Angels & Ghosts!
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"Untitled #9" by Soulsavers https://ift.tt/N79Vm5q
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