Eto šta može jedan Vlastin post da uradi od čoveka! Posle čitanja istog, počeo sam da preturam po svojim starim pločama. Nisam morao da se trudim previše, već kod treće ploče emocije su počele da rade. I tako evo, već danima vrtim ovu pesmu:
I sve se nekako vratilo, sve te emocije, sećanja. Osamdesete...
This mortal coil mi je bila jedna od najomiljenijih grupa (i danas su). Doduše, više su bili projekat nego grupa, ali to ne umanjuje njihovu veličinu. Jer to su oni zaista i bili - veliki. Jedinstveni.
Iza ovog projekta stoji osnivač muzičke kuće 4AD - Ivo Vats-Rasel, kao i dve genijalne, takođe moje omiljene grupe, Cocteau twins i Dead can dance, u saradnji sa još nekim zanimljivim muzičarima. Ideja im je bila da snime album koji će im omogućiti umetničku slobodu, da mogu da snimaju nešto drugo od onoga što se od njih očekuje.
I počeli su zaista spektakularno, obradom pesme "Songs to the Siren" Tima Baklija. Pošto se čuli obradu, evo da vas upoznam i sa originalom:
Debtantski album ove "super grupe" je izašao u oktobru 1984. goddine pod nazivom "It ll end in tears" (koliko su samo bili u pravu). Na albumu su još svirali i Colourbox, Modern English, Xmal Deutchland i Wolfgang Press.
"Kangaroo" (Big Star cover) – 3:30
"Song To The Siren" (Tim Buckley cover) – 3:30
"Holocaust" (Big Star cover) – 3:38
"Fyt" – 4:23
"Fond Affections" (Rema-Rema cover) – 3:50
"The Last Ray" – 4:08
"Another Day" (Roy Harper cover) – 2:54
"Waves Become Wings" – 4:25
"Barramundi" – 3:56
"Dreams Made Flesh" – 3:48
"Not Me" (Colin Newman cover) – 3:44
"A Single Wish" – 2:26
Ohrabreni dobrim prijemom kod publike, ubrzo je počeo i rad na novom albumu. Naslov drugog albuma "Fliligree and Shadow" je u stvari naslov pesme benda Fever Tree iz šezdesetih godina.
Od samog početka je postojala ideja da ovo bude dvostruki album na kome će se nalaziti obrade Tima Baklija, Džina Klarka, Toma Repa, Džudi Colins i Koiina Njumana. Album se pojavio u septembru 1986. godine.
"Velvet Belly"
"The Jeweller" (cover of Pearls Before Swine)
"Ivy and Neet"
"Meniscus"
"Tears"
"Tarantula" (cover of Colourbox)
"My Father" (cover of Judy Collins)
"Come Here My Love" (cover of Van Morrison)
"At First, and Then"
"Strength of Strings" (cover of Gene Clark)
"Morning Glory" (cover of Tim Buckley)
"Inch Blue"
"I Want to Live" (cover of Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb)
"Mama K"(1)
"Filigree & Shadow"
"Firebrothers" (cover of Quicksilver Messenger Service)
"Thaïs"(1)
"I Must Have Been Blind" (cover of Tim Buckley)
"A Heart of Glass"
"Alone" (cover of Colin Newman)
"Mama K"(2)
"The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb"
"Drugs" (cover of Talking Heads)
"Red Rain"
"Thaïs"(2)
Album "Blood" (1991) je i bio predviđen kao veliko finale, završni deo trilogije. I bio je.
The Lacemaker
Mr. Somewhere (The Apartments cover)
Andialu
With Tomorrow (Gene Clark cover)
Loose Joints
You and Your Sister (Chris Bell cover)
Nature's Way (Spirit cover)
I Come and Stand at Every Door (Byrds cover)
Bitter
Baby Ray Baby
Several Times (Pieter Nooten cover)
The Lacemaker II
Late Night (Syd Barrett cover)
Ruddy and Wretched
Help Me Lift You Up (Mary Margaret O'Hara cover)
Carolyn's Song (Rain Parade cover)
D.D. and E
Till I Gain Control Again (Emmylou Harris cover)
Dreams Are Like Water
I Am the Cosmos (Chris Bell cover)
(Nothing But) Blood
I za kraj, naziv grupe je preuzet iz Šekspirovog "Hamleta"
To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life,
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch[1] and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.[2]