Chords for Love & Rockets- Interview MTV 120 Minutes 1990

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_ _ [A#] _ We've decided to take [G] 12 months off as a band as far as writing is [A#] concerned, working together.
_ [C#] So [G]
each of us is sort of [A#] getting on with solo things, the old cliche, but you know, we've
sort of changed this.
We've been working [C#] together for [G] about 10 years in [A#] various bands, so [Gm] it's
time to actually have a break from each other.
So that's the _ _ [Dm] plan for the next 12 months as such.
_ _ [G] _ I'm not really embarrassed about the creative time.
Some of the things are pretty funny.
[B] _ I [G] think when we were good, [E] we were very good, and when we [G] weren't good, we [A] weren't very
good at all.
I think [G] there's [Em] _ _
something that you always notice through the time factor
that you notice years later, the bits where you were being very pretentious and the bits
where you weren't.
[A] I mean, when we were good, _ _ there's some things I'm [E] really proud of in
that band, [G] there's some things that definitely [A] could be kept in the shadows.
[G] I think we all
[E] feel the same about that.
_ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [G] Yeah, [A] _
it's very [Em] strange terms we've [E] gone through recording the [G] last album.
_ [A] _
_ The last [G] album is
quite heavy [E] on the subject matter of things, and [G] I really wanted [A] to, personally wanted
to [G] do things that were a [E] lot lighter, something that was more sort of [Em] eccentric. _ _
_ [A] This music
[Em] came out of that.
It's the sort of way I'd describe it, it's between Glenn [A] Miller [Em] and
the Andrews sisters.
[E] _ _ [G] It [A] sounds to me, there's lots of big [Em] saxophonists there, [E] instead of
say electric [G] guitar being on the [A] music guitar, it's mainly _ [Em] _ saxophones and brass sections.
_ _ [A] _ _
_ Yeah, and it's influences [E] from 1930s music up [G] to 50s rock and [A] roll, all those mixed in,
predominantly [G] 30s influences.
_ _ _ It's dance-orientated.
Yeah, I suppose so.
I mean, [E] it's wacky.
I mean, [G] it's [A]
right off the wall, right off centre.
[Em] _ A [E] lot of fun doing it, and a big [G] break for us, [A]
compared to when we were doing the other
[Em] _
heavier things.
You can get so far [A] down on that sort of thing, and [D] analyse everything
so much that you have to sort of snap out of it and do something just to clear the air,
which this is those four or five tracks that do that job.
Originally, [G] they were going to be on this record, but they didn't fit, they didn't complement
the stuff on the [E] album that's been [G] out, so because of that, we thought it was a creepy. _ _
I think every musician is interested in whether they know [G#m] it or _ [G]
not.
_ I think the best thing,
the best album of last year [G#] was [G] Jesus and Mary, James Freeman.
_ [C] _ To me, it's [G#] a work of art.
[G] I love the drum machines and everything.
I've [F#] been a sort of bit, _ [E] not really in love with
drum machines in the past.
Depending on [F#] how you use them, you think half of it, you use
them very well. _ _
Generally speaking, when people try to [G] make drum machines [F#] sound like real
drums, to me, it loses something.
_ It has that feel, [E] but on that particular album, I think
[F#] it's great, because it's very efficient [E] sounding, and it leaves room for all the [F#] guitars to
take over and go, to get the emotion into it.
It's one of those albums, [A#] I sort of judge
an [F#] album by, [B] do I like most of the tracks on this album, because I think with any album,
you can get one track [F#] that you're going to like, within [E] reason.
Whereas _
_ [F#] every track,
I think, is a classic.
_ Well done, kids.
Great record.
_ _ I like _ _ _ _ Happy Mondays.
I've got this cassette, Dave got it in America, and it's different,
because I bought the album over here, and this is a different [A] thing, it's an EP thing.
But [E] _ [A] it's brilliant.
[E]
Excellent.
I really like it.
That's got a certain [A] flavour to it, a
certain [G] attitude, I just like [A] the music, it just [D] connects completely to me.
As far as
the dance stuff goes, that's [E]
one [A] that I really like.
I [E] would consider that [D] dance [C#m] music.
_ [A] _ [G#]
I really would like to involve horror films, [G] doing soundtrack movie _ _ music [F#] to them, or being
in them.
I've always been obsessed with them, it's a bit of a cliche, but it's true. _ _
Right
through to the Tacky 70s stuff, right through to the movie part of that.
_ After, just good
horror films, just like getting that buzz down the spine. _ _
It's [G] always been in there.
There's some stuff I'm doing at the moment, which is some of the darkest stuff I think
I've ever recorded, it's one particular track.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
Very, very dark.
It's not necessarily evil,
it's not [C] macabre either, it's a different area.
It's just a romantic notion of darkness
really, [F#] which is very different to anything macabre, I'm not really into [G] that.
I just
[E] like the beauty of _ the darker side of things, you know, just dark [G] blue. _ _ _
[A] _ [D] _ _ [C] I'm very wary of being in any sort of connection with the [D] bullshit that happened in the 60s.
I [A] think the [G] original idea with the [C] peace and love thing in the 60s is [A] essentially good,
but it was [D] distorted.
_ [Dm]
There was so much [C] bullshit going around at that time as well, as far
as that [Dm] theme went, and basically I think the way I perceive that time is [C] _ _
people just
[Dm] taking too much acid, and I think that's the way it went.
[F] _ [C] But hopefully the good things
about the 60s is [Dm] a good chance that they could happen in the 90s without the [C] naivety of the 60s.
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