Garbage: Witness To Your Love – négyszámos EP egy Siouxsie And The Banshees-feldolgozással

A brit punk/gothicszíntéren legendássá lett Siouxsie Sioux (született: Susan Janet Ballion, 1957) nagy példaképe Shirley-nek, aki a 2016-os Strange Little Birds nagylemez szövegei kapcsán is külön kiemelte az angol énekesnő hatását, és most egy átdolgozással is tiszteleg bálványa előtt: a tavaly óta új albumon dolgozó Garbage egy 1985-ös Siouxsie And The Banshees-slágerből, a vulkáni hamu alá temetett Pompeii pusztulását megéneklő Cities In Dustból készített egy elektro-rockos verziót Billy Bush producerrel (Shirley férjével), a klipet pedig a a chilei festő-animátorJavi MiAmortól rendelték hozzá. Shirley a feldolgozás végén 4:10-től még egy elsuttogott „I love you, Siouxsie”-val is nyomatékosítja rajongását.

a Tim Pope által klipesített eredeti 1985-ös Siouxsie And The Banshees-kislemezdal, mely 1986-ban a Tinderbox albumon és az Out Of Bounds (későbbi magyar tévécímén: Egy táska heroin) mozifilmben, illetve annak nagy sikerű filmzenelemezén is szerepelt:

Water was running, children were running
You were running out of time
Under the mountain, a golden fountain
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?

Ohh, oh your city lies in dust
Ohh, oh your city lies in dust
My friend

We found you hiding, we found you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands

But ohh, oh your city lies in dust
Ohh, oh your city lies in dust
My friend

Water was running, children were running
We found you hiding, we found you lying

Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Molten bodies, blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes, and ohh

Ohh, oh your city lies in dust
My friend

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az új EP címadó nyitódala, a 2008-ban egy jótékonysági válogatáson megjelent, majd 2022-ben új keverést kapó Witness To Your Love, melyhez a videót Bryan M. Ferguson rendezte még tavaly:

Was we ever so young?
We went tripping into town
Right there where Canongate meets up
With a dirty little side street
I can’t remember much though I
Know we did like to shoplift
We knew our lives stretched up to the stars
And we were the masters of the universe

Were we ever really that smart?
How did we come this far?
We would go skipping over the heart
Of the city that shaped us
We would go leaping into the arms
Of anything that scared us
So long before we learned the law
Fearless and stupid and reckless and…

Free
We were free
So free
We were free

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
I was a witness to your love
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
I was a witness to your love
To your love

Free
We were free
So free
We were free

We were so free
A witness to your love
We were so free
A witness to your love

You’re on patrol for me
I’m on patrol for you

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a négyszámos Witness To Your Love EP-re Blue Betty és Adam And Eve címmel két olyan kiadatlan dal is került, melyek a legutóbbi No Gods No Masters albumhoz íródtak, de arról végül lemaradtak:

Blue Betty takes herself down
To the shadiest part of town
Where the thieves and killers run
Along with daughters and forgotten sons

Upon the bridge and there’s no one around
Blue Betty’s gonna figure it out

She shakes and moves
She shakes and moves
Until she’s done

Upon the wire where the blue birds fly
Blue Betty starts to climb
She sees the world in space and time
Our Betty had a colourful mind

You know daddy said it best
Nobody else is gonna clean up your mess

She shakes and moves
She shakes and moves
Until she’s done

No more longing, no more games
No wicked feelings and nothing to stress about
No conversations, no one gets hurt
No more sadness and nothing to stress about
No more parties and no more hurt
No anxious nice words and nothing to stress about
Nothing to stress about

I wanna be with you all of the time
At your place or my place
I can just make do with whatever time you’ve got
I just wanna talk to you and be together
I hate to say it ’cause it’s so cliché
But c’mon over whenever
C’mon over and wear my favourite shirt
We can read the papers together

And I feel it all the time
Like it’s natural
But they act like it’s a crime
Like it’s unnatural
Before Adam, before Eve
In the garden
Before
When we were children

I feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Is it natural?

All of my friends think I have lost my mind
But I can’t remember ever feeling better
I come on over, we watch our favourite show
You ask if I consider staying over
We climb up to the roof, watch the cars below
So many are the people, but here we are together

And I feel it all the time
But they act like it’s a crime
Before Adam, before Eve
Before
When we were children

I feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Is it natural?

I was young and hungry, I was blue
The year I cut my hair so short I’ve lost myself and lost my hope
I tied a silver penknife to my shoe
I knew I’d soon get tired of you ’cause you were kind and I could break you

I feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Feel it all the time
Is it natural?

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ráadásként itt a 2021-es legutóbbi No Gods No Masters sorlemez deluxe verziója, melyre a 2013-2018 közti kislemezkiadványok összegyűjtött anyaga is felkerült bónuszként:

The Men Who Rule The World
The Creeps
Uncomfortably Me
Wolves
Waiting For God
Godhead
Anonymous XXX
A Woman Destroyed
Flippingtz The Bird
No Gods No Masters
This City Will Kill You

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No Horses
Starman
Girls Talk (feat. Brody Dalle)
Because The Night (feat. Screaming Females)
On Fire
The Chemicals (feat. Brian Aubert)
Destroying Angels (feat. John Doe & Exene Cervenka)
Time Will Destroy Everything