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Merci a Leo Meijer et Maurice Maes de m'autoriser a "utiliser" leur discographie de "Crime and the city solution" !

Sydney 1977-1978. (Pas de sortie officielle de disques : le nom du groupe semble être : "The particles" mais selon Simon Bonney, son premier groupe s'appelait déjà 'Crime and the city solution'.

• Simon Bonney - vocals
• Don McLennan - drums
• Harry Zanteni - guitar
• Phil Kitchener - bass
• Dave MacKinnon - soprano; tenor saxophone

Melbourne 1979. (Pas de sortie officielle de disques.). Je me répète, il s'agit de la 2^e mouture des 'Crime and the city solution'.

• Simon Bonney - vocals
• Don McLennan - drums
• Dan Wallace-Crabbe - guitar
• Lindsay O'Meara - bass
• Chris Astley - keyboards
• Kim Beissel - alt saxophone

Berlin/Londre 1985. 3^e mouture des 'Crime...'

• Simon Bonney - vocals
• Mick Harvey - guitar
• Rowland S. Howard - guitar
• Harry Howard - bass
• Epic Soundtracks - drums

Berlin, Juillet 1987-1991. 4^e et dernière mouture des 'Crime...'

• Simon Bonney - vocals
• Mick Harvey - drums
• Bronwyn Adams - violin
• Chrislo Haas - synthesizer
• Alex Hacke - guitar
• Thomas Stern - bass

For some covers, click here !

12" 1985 "The Dangling Man"

lp 1985 "Just South Of Heaven" (mini-lp)

12" 1986 "The Kentucky Click/Adventure"

LP 1986 "Room Of Lights"

CD 1986 "Room Of Lights" + extra tracks

12" 1988 "On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)"

On every train (grain will bear grain)

All must be love (early version)

LP/CD 1988 "Shine"

LP/CD 1988 "Wings Of Desire", musique du film de Wim Wenders (réalisateur allemand des films comme "Paris-Texas", "l'ami américain", "So far so close', etc.). Dans le film (en français : 'les ailes du désirs', les 'Crime...' jouent la chanson "Six Bells Chime" live. Sur l'album, on a droit à la version studio ! Titre allemand du film: "Der Himmel Uber Berlin" = le ciel au-dessus de Berlin). Le cd/lp est intitulé "Les Ailes Du Désir" chez Sepa-Milan

Vidéo 1989 "Kings Of Independence", enregistrements live de 'Crime and the City Solution', 'Nick Cave' et les 'The Swans'. Live at Hamburg, 15 August 87.

Chansons interprétées :

12"/ 1989 "The Shadow Of No Man"

• the shadow of no man
• the brideship
• three/four

CDs The Shadow Of No Man Three/Four The Bride Ship +CD+ On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain) 

 LP/CD 1989 "The Bride Ship" CA

12"/ 1990 "I Have The Gun"

CDs "I Have The Gun Motherless Child (Dance Mix)"

10"/ 1990 "The Dolphins & The Sharks"

CDs " The Dolphins & The Sharks"

LP/CD 1990 "Paradise Discotheque" CA

LP/CD 1991 "Bis Ans Ende Der Welt", musique du film de Wim Wenders. En anglais "Until The End Of The World".

Contient une version de 'The adversary' des 'Crime...' WEA, 1991

2 CD 1992 "Gas Food Lodging", cette musique de film contient la chanson " Sun Before Dawn" (instrumental) Mute, Ionic

9 LP/CD 1993 "The Adversary - Live", enregistrement live de Paris, au New Morning 19/12/90, et le tout dernier concert au CBGB's NYC on August 5 and 6, 1991.

10" 1992 "Lullabies" de Congo Norvell (appell& aussi Kid Congo Powers : ancien Cramps, ancien Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...) contient une version d' "Angel". Fiasco, fsc 106

Forever : 1992, Produced by Gareth Jones

Musiciens : J. D.Foster [from band "Green on red"]: acoustic and electric guitars, Mondolin, bass on 'a part of you", Jon-Dee Graham : lap steel, Dobro, Bottle-neck guitar; Bronwyn Adams : violin ; Reinhold Heil : organ and piano; Gregory Boaz : eletric and upright bass ; Hans Behrendi : percusion ; Archie Francis and Biff Barefoot Sanders : drums

• Lyrics of this album

STUMM 99 "Everyman" : 1995, Produced by Gareth Jones.

Everyman : where was it begun

Don't walk away from love

Travelin' on

Everyman :  looking for a life I can't explain

A white suit in Mempys 

Ruby

Everyman : Orzorks Waltz

All god's children

Everyman : but there is no place for everyman

Where trouble is easier to find

Good time charlie's got the blues

Western the lights : Eve

Blue eyes crying in the rain

Everyman : This is what you made me

Musiciens : Simon BONNEY Vocals/voix / J. D. FOSTER Guitare, Guitare basse, Mandoline / Bronwyn ADAMS Violon, Piano, Harmonica / Jon Dee GRAHAM Guitare, Dobro, Lap steel guitar / Chuck PROPHET Guitare / Matt SMITH Guitare, Piano, Orgue / Skip EDWARDS Orgue, Guitare électrique / David HALLEY Guitare / Daren HESS Drums, Percussion / Joe SUBLETT Horns / Darrell LEONARD Saxophone / Frank KAMMERDEINER Violoncelle / John HAGEN Violoncelle / Freddy KRC Drums, Percussion

>d'après LAWRENCE_D_JACKSON@DELL.COM , il y aurait une chanson de S. B. : "waters edge" sur le soundtrack du film "Underworld" (1997). 

>..... pour être honnête, S.B. a sûrement réalisé d'autres musiques de films car il a collaboré à plus d'un courts-métrages; mais comment connaître les titres des morceaux ?

>"Eyes of blue" :  Label ?

Nouvel album qui existe à l'état de démo et que Simon Bonney espère sortir à la fin de l'année. Thirdgear records, est un label basé à Détroit; il aurait pu sortir le nouvel album 'Eyes of blue' que Simon Bonney espérait sortir fin 2000,  courant 2001, à la fois aux States et en Europe. Nous sommes en 2003 et rien n'a abouti ! La plupart des chansons aurait été composées de 96 à 98 et enregistrées à Detroit avec certains des musiciens jouant sur les autres albums solo. A noter que le titre fait écho à une des chansons de l'album "Everyman" : Blues Eyes crying in the rain

Selon mon humble opinion, d'après la K7 que j'ai entendue, le nouvel album se rapproche plus de 'Forever', ce qui augure du meilleur.

Lyrics

Just south of heaven, 1985

ROSE BLUE

Rose Blue

I aw the sky turn

Rose Blue

I opened up her locker

Found out what she was hiding

Saw that I had left a ditch inside er

er head is liker her room

It  has no order

AndI felll away

I watched her jam a fork right up into her arm

And I saw her slip away

Slip away slip away

Th hollow that I partied on

Filled up that space inside her

Rose Blue

I saw the sky turn

Rose Blue

The curtains the walls the lock on the door

Locked us in together

Bu the things she said

When I fell asleep, went to bed

Well I was deaf to that tune

She started to wear those lon blue sleeves

Oh they saw her through me

When I planted that need

When I see that damaged place inside her

I opened that wound opened that wound

And her heart that inside her

I want to kill her

Kill that broken heart

Rose BLue

I saw the sky turn

Rose Blue

I wish I was her prize possession

She put it back together

Put it back together

It is her treasure

It had a black heart

It had a white body

And she cherished it with love

I believe her mother gave it to her

Well I threw it at the wall

Broke into one thousand pieces

Tiried to put it back together

Think I've sunk down deep

Down deep into my Rose's Blues

STOLEN AND STEALING

Bad air brings it's stable home

And shows it in your room

All the work is done

The workers have all gone

And the signs and the signal say

The signs and the signals say

Don't you breath 

Don't you turn your face away

My blanket gone, my ceiling

Stolen and stealing

Stolen and stealing away

Oh my heart, a stolen bedhead

A stone bedhead

The floors aren't safe now

No stairs left and all the stars

There were flowers too in my home

All away all away

And the signs and the sginals say

Don't you breath

Don't you turn your face away

The bg Jims feet have scaled all the doors away

It takes you away

THE COAL TRAIN

I hear her callingI think

 I see her now

I think I hear her calling now

Hear her calling now

That lady of flowers

And her softs spell

Her sweet taste

Takes me far from his place

Oh and the love train

The love train is in the station now

In the station now

That old devil man

Deep down there

In his fire home

Rose up knee high

With his song of desire

Words of deceit

Dropped there at my feet

Now outside my door he stands

That old man of shadowAnd his shadow band

For downn the thorny road

Are we bound

Without light

Without soundAnd he's knocking

On my door

He says

It's time we were going boy

Donwn that old road of sorrow

And now he's walking

There beside me

That old man of shadow

Now there's this girl

He says you can't forsake

This girl it's said

You're bound to take

He says

The Coal Train

Is due here soon

Is due here soon

It'll come in time

Yes it's coming soon

It'll draw in close

Oh no I say

Not this one

Not this one for that coal train

Not this one

For your cold coal train

I had no love

For her skinny waist

I had no love

For her at all

Just a need

Just a need

When she stole me

Along by the roadside

And rattled the tin strings

Of my body blue

Oh I'm getting older now

I'm getting older

Walking down that road

With that old man of shadow

That old man of shadow

And it's growing darker now

And night is ever near

Night is ever near

Oh here it comes again

Here it comes again

The Coal Train baby

That Coal Train tonight

The Coal Train baby

The cold coal train

FIVE STONE WALLS

Five stone walls

Made up m home

May never

Never leave

Going to hate those walls

Till the day I die

Seven long months

Spent in the ground

I lived in a hole

Behind them walls

Five walls made up my home

Fvie walls made out of stone

For seven months

It hollowed me out

Hollowed out my body

Like insects do the poppy

I did seven months on my knees

Pride was a luxury

Still I held onto you

And I had no pride

Without pride 

I held out for you

I sratched a number

Off a whole lot of numbers

Passed my fingers

Across your face

Where your picture lay

I was the walking sleeping

There was no rest for me

I had to walk that one straight path

Oh back and forth and back and forth

I've been walking

Now for ten weeks

I don't remember

I follow the line

I follow the line till the end

I don't remember

Eighty-seven days

Eighty-seven days

And jsut a picture

This way my ride

There was no one else inside

This was my road

It took me back

It took me forward

Four hundred miles

Fourn hundred miles

The open whites gates

The set me free

But I will not be

I will not be

Until four hundred miles are behind me

Who'll be there to meet me?

TROUBLE COME THIS MORNING

Footsore this morning

At the break of day

Not the curtains won't part

Not the curtains won't part

He left his fingersprints

Dull trails upon a heart

Yeah weary come this morning

Slid on his black boots

Settled and stayed

Stettled and stayed

Envy come to live with me

He looked into my head

Spoke my conversations

Come to sleep with me in my bed

Trouble, oh he came this morning

Called out my name

And covered me with shame

Oh trouble oh trouble

Weary walkin' over me

Softly he won't tread

Broke into my centre

With his hard heart

Led me onto shelter

This shelter is my home

I borrow no light

I know no treasured sights

i see no-one

No-one sees me

Envy come to live with me, etc.

I know you 

I know you

I know trouble

I know trouble

Footsore come this morning, etc.

Trouble come this morning

At the break of day

Now the company I'me keeping

Has change my name

THE WAILING WALL

Part her down the middle

A waiting girl

Behind a wailing wall

Oh hum a waiting girl

She separates the lovers

Hands and hearts

Separates the loving

Waiting hearts and hands

Two upon her left hand

Two upon her right

Says let's get it right get it straight

And he, he will protect her

And she, will she reject her?

And three, three will be bound together

She lost a trusted mentor

Beloved girl hold up a broken centre

Who let a booted army enter

Tread the tender flesh and tender

Hope in the payment and faith in the lender

Three place cloth over her eyes

And four bolds her down

And five loosens the ties

Six takes pictures of her body as it lies

And she lies

She lies behing the wailing wall

Poison comes in words across the sea

Word from home, leave you alone

Just more baggage for you

Take off her red shoes and show her to me

Take off her blue skirt and show her to me

She led the way, made her own way

The balance restored, the payment received

The rain their course right through her

Rain in all directions, home in all directions

Oh and she thanks no one

And no one thanks her

He was was not her keeper

And she, sche could not reach her

She builts a wall that wailed

She builts a tall wall that failed

Mute records

1985

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LYRICS

Room of lights" : 1986, mute rec.

Right man : wrong man

I'm calling from underground

sit in a horsechair resteless chair

and put on my wost clothes

I roll myself up in the ash and the dirt

on my floor buried inside

the soft centre of my hearts desire

I'll finish my food and I'll be stray

the soft shots through me have passed away

I trust it up with one hand

yeah and I pulled it down

well I built it up I pulled it down

left hand, right hand

right man - wrong man

I held you crossly

put a finger in your blue eyes

my faraway beloved one

with her starry faith, she keeps me afloat

yean and she could sink with just one stroke

my love she's a prue heartred girl

I'm just a young boy in her mind

You're just a neck to ankle dress

and sexlessness

put a finger in your blue eyes

I built it up with one hand

yeah and I pulled it down

well I built it up  I pulled it down

left hand, right hand

right man - wrong man

the girls under heel

and she plays her sad music

a lit match beneath my heel

says lay down the past

and shed taht skin

and we'll have no history

and you'll still hold your mystery

lay back now beloved one

you swing around in a wing

you open up and sing

your horsehour restless jacket

leaves you senseless

he sut his eyes

lets the silence do the rest

well I built it up with one hand

yeah and I pulled it down

I built it up  I pulled it down

left hand, right hand

right man - wrong man

No money, no honey

She went to the market

ther were men and women there

he said come one honey lets go upstairs

on a red velvet blancket she lays hout her wares

take off you shoes, Jim

you want time and honey

hey I got them right here

you want real meat

go no further

I got my own teeth I got my own hair

hey you want my sister  I give you the pair

You want - I give

candy - no candy

You want - I give

no money - no honey, Jim

no money - no honey, Jim

gutter, stash, rhino-cash

I tell you this is good stuff

this is the stuff the Jimes lived and died on

there are sad the have nothing

were are glad we have everything

I - got - black - heels - for your face

split lip - I got salt and I make

Jim's drums in the morning

Jim's drums at night

Jim's drums bring order

to our lives

no money no honey

no money no honey

go no further

no mony no honey Jim

- no time -

Hey sinkiller

What will you give ?

what will you give ?

made it round and circled it

stamped my form into the ground

beneath it I lit a fire sinkiller

where is it ?

it's at your feet

where will we meet ?

ohh not in the pit where the fire is lit

hot foot it

hot foot it up above...

what will I find there?

What will I find there?

your naked sprite

your dried up spit - your eyes gone blind

your faithfull mind

beneath god's heel it's one long grind

beneath god's heel it's one long grind

up above that's my trick

hot foot it

hot foot it

hot foot it up above, hey sinkiller up above

Six bells chime

This is where it starded

the trucks, the trees and her six bells

now babys going to loock back home

I'm wearing my clean clothes

yeah I still got the ones you gave me

you've been treading some unsafe  ground

and baby looks tired tonight

out amongs the pikes and narrow streets

you go around

I hear the six bells they're ringing

yeah the six bells they chime

lay down your head now

you will sleep sound

I will hold onto you

through lifes time

you're seventeen

you're are seventeen at this time

I wear your silver rings

with your hand on my heart

left your there with your grey eyes

pack up their suitcase and leave

raise my hand up to the sky

now don't you touch me

don't you cry

an age ago you would'nt touched e

on the last day

we will always be fighting

a promise

a year of luxury

perfect

perfect kiss

how long  my long lost

will the last day be

I'm innocent of you there

and you of me

and you will sleep sound

I will hold onto you

in lifes time

you're are seventeen

you're are seventeen at this time

I met you when you were a young girl

years and years six bells back

six bells passed above the two

on a pier in another time

well I drew your body close to mine

you held your head up high then

you reached inside then

I would give you everything

at this time

my pretty one

my fearless one

from this time

my fearless-one

my young pretty one

the six bells - I made them ring

lay down your head now

you will sleep sound

I will hold onton you

until deaths time

you're seventeen at this time

you're seventeen at this time

Adventure

Untouchables

your a feral child

make your home in the wild

and she's got eyes

and they're animal eyes

they mett holes in the ice

eyes burning brights as planet...

you placed the pillow under my head

when I was sick and full of greed

I love her kind

and her kind is in me

she is my night light

she hurts my eyes

she steals my steep

she lives up above the top of the heap

she sixes up above the stock and frict

and she hurts me in my pride

takes away the hatchet knife

that I've kept with me throughout my life

she's untouchable

she's 6's up

and 6's down

yeah 6 stairs up

and 6 steps down

and my heart is full

I like this life

is that OK to you !

The brother song

She looks at him and smiles

Opens up her foreign eyes

Spired cities mountain,

Distant hill and vale

Child's trail

To a mud hut

Canyon, muddy pools and ruts

Now the switch is broken

Her eyes are shut...

Her room of light : for lisa

hey hey hey

here come the brights lights

here come the good times

I got on my suit of lights

I got on my suit of lights

they'll be dancing and good times in those rafters

well you took off your rings

your make up at this time

here's no debts to pay we'll save the lion

there comes your gold

there comes your star

stay in your room of lights

with your ornaments

stay in your room of lights

in these honeyed times

stay in your room of lights

stay in your room of lights

stay in your room of lights

in your room of lights

in your room of lights

make it right

in your room of lights

sew the button back on my jacket

lay down in the room of ligths

pick her blue dress up off the floor

she draws animals up on the wall

the she reached down, reached down the well

take your pictures down of the wall

put your rings into the draw

pick your crayons up off the floor

tread the carpet, roll the carpet down the hall

our friend she can't be here with us today

she's gone away

she's gone away

oh she's the diamonds that built the castle

she's the rocks that built the shack

she's the diamonds that built the castle

our friend she can't be here with us today

she's gone away

she's gone away

she's gone away

make it winter time

in-in-in her room of lights

in-in-in her room of lights

oh back and forth in winter-time

oh back and forth in winter-time

in her room of lights

in her room of lights

1986,

Mute Records

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FOREVER

ALL GOD'S CHILDREN 

The prisoner says I've nothing left to see,
I no longer even dream I'm free.
Jilly Anne says there is no sky above
For her to live beneath and dream of love
When there is no sky above
We are still God's children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We're all God's children
All God's children

The refugee says it's very hard to be free
When it's you and not me I want to be
The rich man says it's very hard to see
With all these posessions I can't separate from me
When it's very hard to see
We are still God's children
Still God's children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We're all God's children
All God's children

And all God's children
Are born free
Even if it's bondage that they see
All born free

For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We're all God's children
All God's Children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We're still God's children
We're still God's children
We're all God's children

TRAVELLIN' ON 

There's a strangeness
in the skies above Arizona
and the people down there
they just can't get no sleep
well I ran from those skies
to the Georgia boarder
just looking for a place
to rest my family

If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on
If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on

Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I'm travellin'
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin'
I might find heaven

I've seen fire
in the sugar fields of Alabama
and the harvest lights with people gathered there
looking for work
I wear the same face as the many
I'm just trying to feed my family

If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on
If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on

Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I'm travellin'
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin'
I might find heaven

And I'm looking
in every town
for a sign
maybe
going to be
this time
but the trucks
keep on rollin'
rollin' along
and the trucks
just keep rollin'
rollin' along

If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on
If I'm travellin'
if I keep travellin' on

Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I'm travellin'
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin'
I might find heaven

I might find home.

1992,

Mute Records

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