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Second single from the album "Tilt" - radio version. Remixed by Holger Lagerfeldt. Lyricist Mike Jones comment on the song: It’s a really tough call, the Simon Bolivar quote sums it up for me "Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement". - It’s about obsession; denying your own instincts because someone is so compelling; knowing it won’t last and yet never losing the sense of the brief moment of it ‘working’. Dancing with doom.
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Latin Quarter first burst onto the scene with their singles "Radio Africa" and "New Millionaires" – songs that stayed for months in the German single charts in the 80s, with the album "Modern Times" selling more than 300.000 copies worldwide. The band then went on to make 5 more albums before splitting up in 1998.
However, in 2011 five of the original musicians got together again. Unlike other bands they didn’t rely on previous fame but released an album with new songs, reflecting private and political life today. „Ocean Head“ was released in 2012 in Germany only, but the follow up album „Tilt“ is scheduled for the release in GSA in March 2014 and in the UK in May 2014.
In 2010 it was already obvious that the band would be reformed. Singer and Songwriter Steve Skaith had released an album with his own project “Steve Skaith Band”, where he presented former hits of the band Latin Quarter in a semi-acoustic version. It was an intimate album, the compositions stripped down to their melodic basis. Steve Skaith, member of a human rights organization and fan of Phil Ochs (idol of Bob Dylan and Eddie Vedder as well), set the focus on what has been a trade mark of Latin Quarter: political and timeless lyrics of lyricist Mike Jones, dealing with political and personal crisis and grievance. And of course, love.
This album gained a lot of response and respect and led to the reunification of the band Latin Quarter. The revived band is still composing around ingenious lyrics, full of wit and critical comments on contempoarary politics combined but with equal emphasis on melody and rhythm. Latin Quarter are celebrating their 30th anniversary with this new album, new compositions and wonderful lyrics, mostly written by Mike Jones.
lyrics
Nico
(Jeffries/Jones)
If chaos had a face it would have your endless eyes
I would never learn to swim them, never learn to fly
I would never find the way out, never learn the grid
The first time I saw them, I really should have hid.
But you looked like Nico
And I knew from the get-go
That I just couldn’t let go
Because you looked like Nico.
And I knew from the get-go
That I just couldn’t let go
The poppy is a red, a red it shares with blood
What we gather in a heartbeat, we let go in the flood
I thought that I had won her trust, I won the blues instead
This is where I stumbled, this is where I bled
But you looked like Nico
And I knew from the get-go
That I just couldn’t let go
Because you looked like Nico.
And I knew from the get-go…….
When we met why did it look like a movie
Or maybe an ad
Why were the first ten seconds
The best ten seconds we had?
But you looked like Nico
And I knew from the get-go
That I just couldn’t let go
Because you looked like Nico.
And I knew from the get-go
That I just couldn’t let go
credits
released May 23, 2014
Latin Quarter 2014 – line up
Greg Harewood: bass
Yona Dunsford : vocals
Steve Jeffries: keyboards and backing vocals
Steve Skaith : guitar and vocals
Martin Ditcham : drums and percussion
Mike Jones: lyrics
special guest on this track:
Ed Hogston electric guitar; Richard Wright: electric guitar
Label, Production- and Publishing Company, founded 1987, based in Cologne, Germany. Releases are CDs, Vinyls, DVDs, sheet
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