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2010s Alternative Rock & Indie: Hits & Deep Cuts - part 4

I've been writing music most of my life. Songs have always been the place where I've sorted out the events of day. If you trace these songs back far enough they tell a story of where I've been and what I've seen along the way. That said, most people don't have the time to sort through the hundreds of songs that have collected in the wake of my 20 plus years behind a piano, and that's why I love "Cecilia and the Satellite". As a song it encapsulate so much living against the back drop of a new life. Cecilia was written with the knowledge that my wife and I would soon meet our first child. With the hope of avoiding territory this type of song often treads, I tried to create a road map of the life I had lived leading up to that moment. One my daughter might look back on some day. A strange life of constant motion, spent traveling in the pursuit of music. A life I’ve nearly lost on more than one occasion and one which I am thankful for, now more than ever. Deep down this song is about more than me and where I’ve been, it’s about more than my daughter and what I want for her. It’s about being proud of where you come from and wanting the most for the people you share your world with.

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LYRICS
I’ve locked myself in a hotel room
Then waited all night for the walls to move
I've loved some girls that I barely knew
I’ve made some friends, and I’ve lost some too
 
Crashed my car, I was seventeen
My mother in the seat riding next to me
The things I’ve learned from a broken mirror
How a face can change when a heart knows fear
 
For all the things my eyes have seen, the best by far is you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
Oh, Oh
 
I've café crawled through Amsterdam
Been around the world with a punk rock band
And I’ve seen London, and I’ve played Japan
I’ve been knocked down, I got up again
 
For all the places I have been, I’m no place without you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
Oh, Oh
I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
 
For all the things my hands have held, the best by far is you
 
If I could fly, then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I’d keep you safe, I’d keep you dry
Don’t be afraid, Cecilia, I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
And you’re the sky
I’m the satellite
And you’re the sky
And you’re the sky


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From The John Steel Singers' third album 'Midnight At The Plutonium'

Can You Feel The Future

I saw a UFO on a horse in Mexico
in the lonely night time, where my dog died
ET it called my name, I never heard that thing again
on the zombie mountain where the dead die

they don't eat people
they don't watch TV
or worship satan

strange days moving on
AI and the Higgs Boson 
and the looming deadline murder suicide
I pray for everyone as a godless sapien 
as the zoo impound us all

they don't eat people
they don't watch TV, no
or worship satan
or read astrology
they don't eat people
they don't watch TV, NO!
or worship satan

I saw a UFO, oh I don't see the sun no more
in eternal darkness, where the dark die
ET it called my name, I never heard that thing again
on the zombie mountain, where the dead die, NO



Utopia Defeated

Satan

Bigfoot

High School Lover

In 2016 the JaMC toured this record in Australia. They didn't however, come to Brisbane so I decided to have our own JaMC experience. 

I assembled 13 local bands to come into Tym studios in the shop and reinvent this landmark album. I didn't want 13 JaMC soundalikes. The thing is, this album has reached out to so many genres and forms of music that it is now imprinted on genres it never could have dreamed of influencing. 
13 bands were whittled down from over 100 applicants. That was no easy task but I stand by the choices I made. The album has been reassembled, in it's original track listing with 13 Brisbane bands interpreting how this album has influenced them. 

1.      "Just Like Honey" 	Don Kon Ten Shan
2.	"The Living End"  	The Sea Shall Not Have Them 
3.	"Taste the Floor"  	Figures 
4.	"The Hardest Walk"  	The Creases
5.	"Cut Dead"  	The Keepaways
6.	"In a Hole"  	Grieg 
7.	"Taste of Cindy"  	Ultra Material 
8.	"Never Understand"  	BUDD 
9.	"Inside Me"  	 
10.	"Sowing Seeds"  	Seaplane
11.	"My Little Underground"  	Pleasure Symbols 
12.	"You Trip Me Up"  	FOREVR
13.	"Something's Wrong"  	Hound 
14.	"It's So Hard"  Spirit Bunny

HUGE (huge) thanks to Greg Jard and Phil Wilson for engineering/mixing and mastering the songs. HUGE thanks to the bands who gave up their weekends to come and record. HUGE thanks to the Jesus and Mary Chain and Alan McGee for being so far ahead of everyone else in the world at the time. 

All words and music by William and Jim Reed. 
Album originally released by Blanco y Negro.

04 - The Hardest Walk - The Creases

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Mixed by Justin Hergett
Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge

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As part of the VOLUMES 2017 remix series, artists on the line up were invited to remix each others tracks and collaborate ahead of their performances at the event on August 19th in Sydney.
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