What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (vinyl)



Fifth album by the Brit new wavers. The second album after Midge Ure had taken over vocal chores from John Foxx, who left the band for a solo career. The previous album, Vienna was their most successful to date, so the pressure was on. This one reached #4 in the U.K. with singles The Thin Wall and The Voice both cracking the top 20. Not so fast in the U.S. where the album peaked at #144 with no singles in sight. A couple of great tracks for me, the title track and the best being Stranger Within. An excessive number of duds though. But the good ones pulled it through.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - The Ascent

Best Track - Stranger Within

Light comes through a crack in the door
I tape up the windows once more
Tight like a cold hand of steel
Don't fear the stranger within

Hands that petrify in the air
Eyes catching things never there
Sweet tension caught on my breath
Don't fear the stranger within

Watch every shape that escapes
Scared to make the final mistake
Speak to hear the sound of your voice
Don't fear the stranger within

Sit in the corner with your back to the wall
Pray to your God with your head in your hands
Your mask of fear is shrinking fast
It's closing in more amour
You stand on borrowed time, your sweating palms and chilling brow
Your wide-eyed panic makes you laugh, you cry and laugh
Freeze until the noise decays, a shuffle from behind a door
Your throat is tight, it makes you choke and smoke and choke
Eyes will grow accustomed to the dark, a stifled scream that won't come out
There's nothing more to fear from the stranger within

Don't fear the stranger within
I feel the stranger within
I see the stranger within
Don't know the stranger within
I am the stranger within
I am the stranger within

1) The Voice - ** - live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTUoYDYcM0o
2) We Stand Alone - ** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsbUT-5swgI
3) Rage In Eden - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaN5JqUSTQw
4) I Remember (Death In The Afternoon) - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-SIJa2wB6Q
5) The Thin Wall - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYGx00779f8
6) Stranger Within - *** - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHXJeIJ26Pg
7) Accent On Youth - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJhfv4FYl4
8) The Ascent - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfZEVd2L9o0
9) Your Name (Has Slipped My Mind Again) - * - audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrxh9oXf0aU

Rating - 1.8