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MP3 Jack's Collective - Negotiate The Groove
12 MP3 Songs in this album (49:17) !
Related styles: ROCK: Acoustic, ROCK: Soft Rock
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Details:
Lead vocals and all guitars by Jack. Bass, double bass, midi synth by Troy Kelly. Sax and keyboards by Simon Roper. Drums by John Martin and Darren Matthiassen. Backing vocals by Jacqui Fee and Jack.
Produced by Troy Kelly and exec produced by Jack.
All songs written and arranged by Jack, orchestration by Jack and Troy Kelly.
Meaning to the songs:
Bedlam Town - well, I have a younger (half)sister in the UK who I have never actually met and only ever spoke to via phone a handful of times, all since I emigrated to NZ. The song is about my desire to meet her in person, but it''s a desire tempered by my reluctance to involve her in my life at the time of writing the song because at that time my life was pretty shambolic in all senses, a real "Bedlam Town" of a place, and I didn''t want her to get dragged into that world.
Fools - I used to share a flat with a couple of fellow Welsh guys, although they are North Walians - I never held that against them ;-)- and one of the lads was/is a fellow singer/songwriter. To any of you who have heard of the recent hit Irish rock band the Spikes, it''s Gareth Lewis, the guitarist from that band. Gareth''s girlfriend of the time was the lovely Jasmine Lyhagen, redhaired Swedish and yet another singer/songwriter. You''ll see her Dublin-based band The Bottom Floor Band on my list of Friends here. Well Fools was written how I perceived flatting with us lot would have been like for Jas, and she actually sang it at a Xmas Eve gig I did back in late 2002. All about a benign hedonism, "mean no harm to what they break, 5 am and I''m still awake"...
Nothing To Me - I was having a bit of a hard time of things in my late teens, things I''ll not elaborate on, but I started playing the guitar one night in my bedroom and decided to tape myself and the entire song came out, literally word for word, and chord for chord. Unchanged since 1989! It''s just a two finger salute to the world for those times when you feel like they really ARE all out to get you
I Cry For You - This one came about after I was being a tad introspective one night while flatting with Gareth, Jas et al, and I started writing about how I viewed South Wales nowadays compared to when I was a child. Back then Wales was synonymous with industry, steel, coal ("they closed the last pit today, just told the boys to go home")etc. all of which was decimated under Thatcherism in the 1980s. I don''t care whether people admire that woman, she did nothing for my part of the UK except destroy the communities by taking away their livelihoods and appearing for all intents and purposes to not give a damn. Someone elected to represent the people should represent ALL the people, not just those in the south of England. That''s what this song is about
Misery - This number is one I wrote at a time when my head wasn''t too good. I went through a pretty low period wherein I was struggling financially and spiritually and considered "alternatives" several times. I needed to vent my spleen about my frustrations with myself and how my head was dragging me down, as it so felt, and I also had a few snipes at the colourful yet superficial lights and glitz of Downtown "tripping out on lotto jackpots getting me nowhere, I bet my high teeth no-one ever won, why am I so down on taking toys to get me high? Am I only sick or is everyone?"
Drinking Partner - I wrote this one at the age of eighteen, I was well into stuff like Motley Crue, Kiss, Aerosmith, Quireboys, Dogs D''Amour, and being a teen I was following the lifestyle they portrayed. Bottom line is I used a few illegal substances (the term "few" is used with tongue firmly implanted in cheek), got myself nicely hooked on Jack n Coke and smoked 30 Marlboro red a day. The song came out one early evening funnily enough, as I don''t normally find I can write at that time of day. I was preparing to head out and started writing words on how I was feeling about all the JD n coke, speed and cigarettes, and the abundance of rock bars that used to furnish the vision of this Hollywood-esque rock n roll glam rebel nightlife a la Vince, Nikki and Tommy from the Crue. The words came out way differently to how I expected to be honest, and I lay down a basic 3 chord strum and sang them and the song was born, and frankly helped me put it in perspective as to how superficial the booze, drugs and South Welsh wanna-be-glamrockers thing of the late 80''s was.
Traveller''s Prayer - Back in 2001 I was actually pretty much on my arse, had no fixed abode due to reasons I won''t go into here. I was walking one evening across a footbridge on Wellington waterfront and was daydreaming about how far away my old life in Wales and London was. The words came into my head in the precise tune that I recorded them in, and were from the picture in my mind''s eye of a welcoming family, waiting for the prodigal child to return from self-imposed exile. Was probably more biographical than I cared to admit at the time.
Forgotten Corners Cold - While in NZ, and I guess in London before that, my life went through a whole gamut of change. The basis was around a toy left in the corner of the cupboard, watching the world changing and being able to do nothing about it, watching people come and go and forget him as they leave. Pretty sad subject really, hahaha
You, Me, Reality - this one is trying to capture how one''s day to day life can be the same on the outside while inside your heart is breaking due to unrequited love. Awww
Wake Up Sarah - Sarah is actually a reference to the British people, picked because it was the most popular newborn girl''s name of the 1980''s. The wrong horse is my description of the cowboy in the white house, Gee Dubya Bush. White Line can refer to drug money or the white man''s doctrine, basically anything to do with existing USA international policy. It''s a country once the epitome of democracy and light but more people in this world now see it as a corrupt entity which has lost its way. Sarah "should be lookin on the sunshine"
You Showed Me The Way - from very young til she took sick, my Nan raised me. This was after my mother had passed on. I learned a lot from my Nan, this song is quite simply a tribute to her
Call Your Team Over - back in 03/04 myself and my two partners in crime Liz (from Lincoln in England) and Fran (from South Wales like me) were thick as thieves, down the pub, round one anothers flat, coffee time etc. and the girls decided we should have a song. The idea was, I believe, to write a little ditty for a laugh but I wrote a verse for me, then one for Liz as I met her first, then added one for Fran, all full of in-jokes for us three. The girls loved the words, so I kept it and decided to stick it on the CD
So there you go, explanations of all twelve tracks on Negotiate The Groove. "Negotiate The Groove" was part of a comment the guy on the CD cover, Michael Banks, said to me once. He was griping about his own bandmates and how the drummer and guitarist would go off at tangents if he, the bass player, wasn''t there to keep them in line. His laughing comment was that he had to "negotiate the groove" for the band. I liked it so kept it for the album title.
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