SC Gems - Alternative/Rock

Ready Welcome

Ready Welcome (B-Side)

Lucky Jim (Jeffrey Lee Pierce)
This track was recorded @ home in January 2002 for a Gun Club tribute album, but it didn’t make the cut.
Unlike most, I prefer the later Gun Club albums and consider “Lucky Jim” to be a masterpiece, but to each his own, I suppose.
This is not part of the Golden Rat repertoire but could have easily been, that's why it's lumped in here.
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Mr. RATBOY - Lucky Jim (The Gun Club)

The concluding track of our brand new album: Redundant Scruples. You can hear all 14 tracks on any streaming services.

Redundant Scruples

Slowly Running out of Warnings

Slowly Running Out of Warnings

3. Again

3 Minutes

This is a fun tune by the Smiths from their 1986 classic album The Queen Is Dead. I thought the nylon string worked well on this one because the Smiths always had a lovely crisp clean sound. Hope you enjoy Morrissey's funny lyrics!

Cemetry Gates (by the Smiths)

"The Un" is for all those who have always felt out of place. Those who had to go out and figure out what was meant for them. Those who are masking out of necessity, pretending to amble like everyone else – until they can simply be.

A fusion of acoustic elements, breakbeat, and electric noise, "The Un" is a dramatic track that features frèrelumière's signature narrative sounds to convey a story. The beats and bass sounds are a mix of harp recordings and electronic percussion, with Sandro Corbat's guitar sounds ranging from twangy structures to fuzzy space.
Luca Glausen's production amplifies the organic feel without losing the driving force of electronics that laid the song's groundwork.

The final, sudden drop into the chanson-esque outro hints at further elements of frèrelumière's musical lore. Elements, that might be revisited in future productions. Stay tuned!
credits
releases March 9, 2024
Song by frèrelumière – Frank Wenzel, Sandro Corbat, Andrea Brunner
Lyrics/Vox – Frank Wenzel
Guitar/Effects – Sandro Corbat
Harp/Effects – Andrea Brunner

Produced by Luca Glausen
Recorded by the band and Jonas Prina
Vocals recorded by Jonas Prina
Mixed and mastered by Jonas Prina

Picture credits: photograph © by Frank Wenzel content
Design by Robert Keller and Frank Wenzel

The Un

A Forest Needs The Rain

A little ditty partly inspired by the events of this past summer here in the UK but mostly just about polarised society, the constant stream of misinformation we're all bombarded with and the state of permanent anger that everyone seems to live in these days.

Verse 1

So this is modern life.
Sitting on a train, staring at a screen,
Getting really angry, listen to a stranger, tell you about something that they haven't even seen.

So this is modern life.
Head up in the cloud, don't believe a thing,
You're probably being lied to, by that angry stranger,
Motivation's murky making money from your dreams.

Well this ain't the future I remember being sold...
I must be getting old.

Chorus

Buy, subscribe, listen, watch,
Worry, panic, sleepless, lost,
Clicks, likes, follows, the game,
Lonely, withdrawn, quiet, pain.

Eat, sleep, stream, repeat,
Alone, cutoff, self-defeat,
Consume, collect, gamble, spend,
Hollow, empty, collapse, the end.

Verse 2

So this is modern life.
Must be right or left, hate the other side,
Blind to other viewpoints, listen to the leader,
Blame a group of others for the problems in your tribe.

So this is modern life.
Sitting in a truck, heading off to war,
Not sure why you're fighting, something that the leader
said in some long boring speech you listened to before.

Now your future has been sold...
And you won't be getting old.

Chorus

Buy, subscribe, listen, watch,
Worry, panic, sleepless, lost,
Clicks, likes, follows, the game,
Lonely, withdrawn, quiet, pain.

Eat, sleep, stream, repeat,
Alone, cutoff, self-defeat,
Consume, collect, gamble, spend,
Hollow, empty, collapse, the end.

Modern Life

Astral Pain (nice acoustic)

Grace For My Eyes - Remasterd

Post Vintage - from the new EP Turning Point. Check out the whole EP on www.youtube.com/@molitgerimusic

Post Vintage

Heal me with a wounded heart
Animate my failed resolve
Pull these wires from my skin
They'll tear the flesh, but I'll be whole within

And begin to live
Like a human being

'Cause I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Now I've a noose for every limb
They suffocate rebellion
So rend the sinew from the bone
Displace the ones I've let upon your throne

For who you serve
Comes back in turn

I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Please realign all my desires
'Cause I've lost control and I'm growing tired
Can't trust myself 'cause I'm a liar
I'm losing hope and I need to know
What is the key to being whole?

Fracture

my baby shot me down

pocket change

This is a song about treading new paths, and the footwear required :-)

"New Ways" written by KL
Recorder (Blockflöte) by SL (my 8 year old daughter)
Guitar by MJW (a good friend of mine)
Vocals, Bass guitar, Drums and Synthesizer by KL

Feel free to turn up the volume :-)

Chorus:
Can´t find...can´t find new ways…
can´t find new ways in worn-out shoes…
Can´t break...can´t break new ground…
can´t break new ground in worn-out shoes...

New Ways

Like a disease
follow the rules to get through this life
always straight to the point cuts like a knife
idealized people to bury their flaws
pass through their actions to forget what i saw
Every time with auto-mode I move on
now that you're gone
there is something i've been quietly understand
things you've done
you've never really wanna catch my hand
the truth is
you've only lived in my head
You’ve only lived in my head
you don't follow the leaders to write you're own story
you keep you frozen heart it's easier to be nasty
day after day you share what you can
and you forget those you called, yesterday, your friends
Every time with auto-mode You move on
now that you're gone
there is something i've been quietly understand
things you've done
you've never really wanna catch my hand
the truth is
you've only lived in my head
You’ve only lived in my head
now that we're done
the dream we've lived doesn't really exist
erased by lies and fears we've shared like a disease
the truth is
you've only lived in my head
You’ve only lived in my head

Like a Disease

i dont want to be awake

“Deadwoods” tells the tale of a seemingly immortal man laughing in the face of constant assailants, all set to an urgent and expansive electro blues landscape and layered soaring chorus.

SC Gems - Alternative/Rock

Coral