Nah, they don’t make ‘em like these anymore. Enough of my stupid words, get this cd if you have never heard it. Only Mark could write such words, of course along with his soul mate Adrian Borland. Lyrics about daily life, defining situations that make you aware that you’re nothing but a fly…knowing that life is almost a synonym for emotional hell.
Ten songs that are the ultimate proof of great melancholy.
At contrary, more than ever I crawl back to his music and this album is one of them. There was already a crack in there (mind you), but once the gig was over, I simply knew that life could never be the same again. When seeing him in a Brussels restaurant (I kid you not!) during one of his first Chameleons Vox Burgess cracked my mind. Seeing so many bands in my life, I don’t think that an artist carved such a deep scar in my soul as Burgess did. Some say they were the first Britpopband, I say it’s simply the 4 th album by The Chameleons that was never supposed to come out. It had a cut out, as they did back then with all American releases that were sold over here. In fact I found my copy back then in a large heap of unwanted records. This band was supposed to be a new future, they were even signed on Geffen Records which was in 1998 one of the biggest alternative major labels that even signed Sonic Youth.īut nothing happened. The band is formed by Mark Burgess (bass and vocals) ,John Lever (drums) and later joined by Andy Clegg and Andy Whitaker (guitars, keyboards) which is indeed The Chameleons. Who knows what he was thinking when The Sun & The Moon were another big failure, at least money wise. He likes U2 himself and he never thought about it. When asking once Mark Burgess if he doesn’t regret that his band could have been as big as U2, simply because they invented that sound, the man just shrugged his shoulders. In fact this band already rose out of the ashes fromthe most underrated band ever: The Chameleons. A fine example of this are The Sun & The Moon.
Of course as usual it’s for all the wrong reasons. One of the main reasons why we invented our classics-series is because we’re aware of the fact that some of the best records are actually totally unknown.
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