- LP: 1983 Charisma BFE-38515 (Cover paintings by Kim Poor,
lyrics and musician list on inner album sleeve)
1982 Hack1 811-209-1 (Contains an insert sheet with
lyrics and musician list, tracks are in different order
and Cell 151 is the short version)
- Cassette: 1983 HAKMC 1 (Contains musician list, tracks
as above)
- CD: 1985 Charisma, 1989 Virgin HACK-CD1 AAD (CD booklet
lacks lyrics and musician listing. Track order is
the same as 2nd album but Cell 151 is the long
version)
- Produced By Steve Hackett & John Acock
Liner: Recorded between February and November 1982.
Players
Steve Hackett: Ovation UK II, Les Paul Stratocaster,
Giffen, Marshall 100w & 50w Amps, Pete Cornish Pedal Board,
Echoplex, Energy Bow, Slide, Hohner Harmonica
Nick Magnus: Jupiter 8, Memory Moog, Steam Piano, Moog Source, Mini
Moog, Korg CX3, Vocoder Plus, Emulator, Linn LM1,
Rhodes, Harpsichord, Prophet 5
Nigel Warren-Green: Cello
Ian Mosley: Drums
Chris Lawrence: Contrabass
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Camino Royale (Steve Hackett/Nick Magnus)
Walking along the Camino Royale - The Mississippi sighs
- Soft in the night when the wind starts to rise
- And I'm lifted high around the corner
- So I spin
- Fast as a ride at the fair
- Like a snake that flies through the air
- When I cry enough i'm fired from a gun
- And thrown through the doors
Only the fool learns to get through- Only the fool learns to get through
Ahead I see candles floating in pails - Each placed upon a chair
- Into a tent where they turn round the bend
- Through a kitchen leading to a staircase
- Now I stop
- Seems that I've been led astray
- There are no new answers today
- This road is blocked
- Only the fool learns to get through
Only the fool learns to get through- Only the fool learns to get through
Only the fool learns to get through- Only the fool learns to get through
- Only the fool learns to get through
- Only the fool learns to get through
Cell 151 (Steve Hackett)
My lucky number is on a prison door - And it's found on everything I wear
- And I've got to get away
- From 151
- Cell 151
Sharing with me is a man who shot his wife - And I'm afraid to fall asleep at night
- And I've got to get away
- From 151
- Cell 151
And it makes me sad - Thinking about the past feeling bad
- I know I've been blind
- All I need is a space to unwind
- But I can't stay
- In 151
- Cell 151
Hear me when I cry - I can't see the sky
- Too much time I left the world behind
- And I've got to get away
- From 151
- Cell 151
And it makes me sad - Thinking about the past feeling bad
- I know I've been blind
- All I need is a space to unwind
- But I can't stay
- In 151
(151......)
Always Somewhere Else (Steve Hackett)- (Instrumental)
Walking Through Walls (Steve
Hackett)- (Written on daily jog past Holland
Park, London)
Time improves you or dilutes you - But there is no standing still
- If you don't scream nobody hears you
- If you won't fight then no-one will
When I'm walking - Walking through walls
- Walking through walls
You can breathe under water - You will find it hard at first
- Getting used to ritual slaughter
- Feeling like your head might burst
When I'm walking - Walking through walls
- Walking through walls
Bare your teeth and bang your drum - Get up on your legs and start to run
- No no no you can't sit down
- No-one's friend and no-one's clown
You can't argue with a mad man - Age of reason's sinking fast
- As your arms become steel girders
- Crashing through a sheet of glass
When I'm walking - Walking through walls
- Walking
- Walking through walls
Bare your teeth and bang your drum - Get up on your legs and start to run
- No no no you can't sit down
- No-one's friend and no-one's clown
Walking - Walking through walls....
Give It Away (Steve Hackett)
A broken heart's not easy to mend - Why must you break it again
- When you lose your prize possession
- Look around you're no exception
- Give it away
Your mind is all made up - When you lose your first love
- You'll never feel that way
- No-one can take her place
- When you lose your self-expression
- It's just time to change direction
- Give it away
When you start you're lovers and friends - But when you part you're strangers again
- Now the time just passes slowly
- Time to live for yourself only
- Give it away
You watch the years go by - And she's no longer there
- Then one day you will find
- That you no longer care
- When you lose your prize possession
- Look around you're no exception
- Give it away
When you lose your self-expression - It's just time to change direction
- There's no need for more protection
- Give it away
Weightless (Steve Hackett)- (From a personal hang-gliding experience
in fact, just another song about hang-gliding over Rio De Janeiro)
Far in the distance and way up high - Circling slowly beneath the sky
- Lone in the air and the world is turning
- Looking the eagle straight in the eye
What goes up must come down - And you circle all around
- On your own
- You're seeing things in a dream
- You learn to swing
- Over trees
- In the clouds
- It's a breeze
- Blowing around
Leaving the ground and you're feeling weightless - To the sea sparkling in the sun
- There's a beach and it's time for landing
- But it seems that you've just begun
What goes up must come down - And you circle all around
- On your own
- You're seeing things in a dream
- You learn to swing
- Over trees
- In the clouds
- It's a breeze
- Blowing around
On your own - You're seeing things in a dream
- You learn to swing
- Over trees
- In the clouds
- It's a breeze
- Blowing around
Group Therapy (Steve Hackett)- (Instrumental)
India Rubber Man (Steve Hackett)
India rubber man - How far can you bend?
- Way across the sea far and wide
- India rubber man
India rubber man
How long can you extend? - The more I stretch the more you ask
- Illusion has no end
India rubber man - How high can you ascend?
- Up and up and then disappear
- I'll show you with my magic rope
India rubber man - How far will you go?
- I really have no plans
- I work in a medicine show
Hackett To Pieces (Steve Hackett/Nick Magnus)
- (Instrumental)
My Thoughts...
After the project of the two-man band idea, Steve returns back with
a full band and they rock! I think that this album sounds the most dated,
it sounds old to me, but it's still good. Steve's singing is good especially
on the song "Cell 151". But I'm not sure whether if that's really
Steve as it was not stated in the CD booklet, but if it's him, he's graduated
from singing class.
I'm not very fond of the tracks with vocals here but I love the instrumentals
"Always Somewher Else" and "Group Therapy". I believe
that Steve's strength lies in being an instrumentalist and his instrumentals
are out of this world. Of course, this album produced the hit single "Cell
151" and I'm looking for the EP as it contains many unreleased tracks
which I really hope I can feature here. If you're reading this and have
it, I would love to have a cassette dubbed copy of it, if you would be
so kind, Or maybe you would be so kind as to write up a feature of it for
all Steve Hackett fans out there.
Well anyway, this album as the most jazz influences as you and hear
in the arrangement of the songs. They feel more loose, more swing into
them. Also here we see future Marillion drummer Ian Mosley joining Steve.
His signature lick on the hi-hat is already alive and kicking here and
we would later hear it on the later Marillion albums. Great drummer!
Any
comments, additions, flames, mail me okay?