Post by The Sound (Admin) on May 18, 2015 2:07:55 GMT
Mad Season....
An amazing supergroup which could have easily been a creative success in its own right as a band.
I thought we would never get to hear the incomplete and previously unreleased second Mad Season album, or more correctly Disinformations first album... so when we got these bonus reworked tracks I was pretty happy! There has been talk and rumours of Mike using the remaining material with various vocalists. I'm sure we will hear them one day... but maybe scattered across various side projects. I would be very happy to hear the instrumental demos and imagine what they may have once become.
'Slip Away' bonus track featuring Mark Lanegan on vocals - from the Deluxe edition re-issue.
I love this song, the vocals, lyrics and the guitar solo. Mark Lanegan's vocals are perfect for this song and Mike really captures the pain in the weeping guitar solo with a very heavy Pink Floyd vibe.
Mike McCready had the following to say about the song:
"Slip Away,' which I wrote, was kind of my feeling at the time how [Mad Season] was slipping away. The guitar solo at the end of that, you can hear the pain that's in that. That's my pain of how this whole thing was all falling apart when Baker and Layne were dying... Mark [Lanegan] put lyrics to that and they mean something different now... but I'm getting a little deep in to what the lead is. You'll listen to it and you'll hear pain."
My interpretation of the lyrics:
born of the water
born of the flame
this life is a monster
don't you know it's name
the house it is wooden
the house it is stone
the proud broken hearted
and close to the bone
once you had a nightmare
and then it came to pass
crazy sky in the morning
green as the grass
covering a (? grave ?)
just (a) slip away
just (a) slip away
mmhmm mmm
just (a slip away
down to the water
drawn to the flame
this life will leave you crippled
don't you know the game
once you woke up choking
but then you held it down
dry as the sand in the desert
black as the clouds covering the sun
(Mike's guitar solo/weeping)
______________________________
Locomotive:
Black Book of Fear:
An amazing supergroup which could have easily been a creative success in its own right as a band.
I thought we would never get to hear the incomplete and previously unreleased second Mad Season album, or more correctly Disinformations first album... so when we got these bonus reworked tracks I was pretty happy! There has been talk and rumours of Mike using the remaining material with various vocalists. I'm sure we will hear them one day... but maybe scattered across various side projects. I would be very happy to hear the instrumental demos and imagine what they may have once become.
'Slip Away' bonus track featuring Mark Lanegan on vocals - from the Deluxe edition re-issue.
I love this song, the vocals, lyrics and the guitar solo. Mark Lanegan's vocals are perfect for this song and Mike really captures the pain in the weeping guitar solo with a very heavy Pink Floyd vibe.
Mike McCready had the following to say about the song:
"Slip Away,' which I wrote, was kind of my feeling at the time how [Mad Season] was slipping away. The guitar solo at the end of that, you can hear the pain that's in that. That's my pain of how this whole thing was all falling apart when Baker and Layne were dying... Mark [Lanegan] put lyrics to that and they mean something different now... but I'm getting a little deep in to what the lead is. You'll listen to it and you'll hear pain."
My interpretation of the lyrics:
born of the water
born of the flame
this life is a monster
don't you know it's name
the house it is wooden
the house it is stone
the proud broken hearted
and close to the bone
once you had a nightmare
and then it came to pass
crazy sky in the morning
green as the grass
covering a (? grave ?)
just (a) slip away
just (a) slip away
mmhmm mmm
just (a slip away
down to the water
drawn to the flame
this life will leave you crippled
don't you know the game
once you woke up choking
but then you held it down
dry as the sand in the desert
black as the clouds covering the sun
(Mike's guitar solo/weeping)
______________________________
Locomotive:
Black Book of Fear: