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Cut_: Millionairhead

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s

Artist: Cut_
Title: Millionairhead
Released: 1999
Label: Virgin Music
Time: 47:49
Producer(s): Ray Wilson
Appears with: Ray Wilson
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.01.03
Price in €: 14,99
Web address: www.cut.org.uk

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Jigsaw (Ray Wilson) - 3:45
[2] Sarah (Ray Wilson) - 3:52
[3] Another Day (Ray Wilson) - 3:48
[4] Hey, Hey (Ray Wilson) - 5:10
[5] Millionairhead (Ray Wilson) - 2:25
[6] Shoot The Moon (Steve Wilson) - 4:43
[7] Young Ones (Ray Wilson) - 4:43
[8] No Place For A Loser (Ray Wilson) - 3:33
[9] Space Oddity (David Bowie) - 4:28
[10] I Hear You Calling (Ray Wilson / Steve Wilson) - 3:35
[11] Gypsy (Ray Wilson) - 3:46
[12] Ghost (Ray Wilson) - 4:12

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Ray Wilson - Vocals/Guitar
Paul Holmes - Keyboards
Nir Zidkyahu - Drums
Steve Wilson - Guitar
John Haimes - Bass

Ian Huffam - Engineer
Nick Davies - Mixing
Bob Ludwig - Mastering

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1999 CD Virgin Music 538



Recorded at Jaggy Thorn Basement and Castle Sound.

If you were wondering when the album was released in your country here's a list of release dates:

Sweden 06.04.99
France mid April (date tbc)
Turkey 29.03.99
Czechoslovakia 08.03.99
Switzerland 08.03.99
Austria 08.03.99
Hungary 17.03.99
Benelux 08.03.99
Denmark 15.03.99
Norway 19.03.99
Greece 15.04.99
Poland 08.03.99
Israel 22.03.99
Finland end of April (date tbc)
Italy 13.04.99



Ray Wilson has been "the right man in the right place at the right time" more than once in his musical career. First as the ambitious singer and songwiter of Guaranteed Pure, then as a member of British rock band Stiltskin who landed an international chartbreaker hit with their debut single Inside. He then became the front man for rock legends Genesis. To consider him as just a member of these bands does not represent his true influence on them. Wilson's dark but warm voice has put his distinctive stamp on all of them. He managed to step out from behind Phil Collin's overpowering shadow and add a new and accepted flavour to Genesis. Now he has his new and exciting band Cut. Are all these impressive achievements pure chance, a rare mixture of lucky circumstances? Not so. It's actually the result of a profound mix of talent, determination, a strong musical feel and a unique quality as a composer and singer.

He emphatically states with regard to Millionairhead, Cut's debut, "This album was recorded by my band, it's not a solo-album and I want everybody to be aware." Why such a statement is so important to him is easily understood looking at the past history. Cut consists basically of the same musicians who formed the core of Guaranteed Pure. With Ray's (18 month older) brother Steve on guitar and backing vocals, Paul Holmes on keyboards. Guaranteed Pure released three albums in the early 90ies in Edinburgh. In January 1992, bass player John Haimes joined, but just two years later Ray Wilson decided to leave the band due to his personal financial problems. Shortly after he joined Stiltskin and right at the peak of "grunge", they had a European wide No.1 hit with "Inside", followed up by a top ten album "The Mind's Eye" coupled with extensive touring throughout Europe. But when the drummer and bass player left Stiltskin, this chapter also closed for Wilson.

Together with his old friends of Guaranteed Pure he formed Cut in the summer of 1995. "I've always liked the style of music we played with Stiltskin," he says, "but I wanted to play it with my own band. Besides, with Stiltskin, there was always this last spark of melody missing. With Cut a strong melody is the basis of every song." By the summer of 1996 the band had written more than 20 songs and with this material Cut went to Virgin Records, Germany where Wilson had always felt a friendly link. "The deal was already made, we just wanted to release the songs as fast as possible", however it was then Wilson got a call from Tony Smith, the manager of Genesis, who invited him to audition for them "It hit me like lightning out of the blue"!

Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks liked the Scotsman's expressive voice and its great diversity right away. Wilson also enjoyed working with them and decided to accept the offer and joined Genesis in 1997 with one small reservation "Just as Mike Rutherford has Mike & The Mechanics on the side, I insisted on being able to spend my free time with my plans for Cut. It has always been important for me to develop my own and independent songwriting with my own band". Genesis released the album Calling All Stations in spring 1997 and the three hit singles Congo, Shipwrecked and Wilson co-write Not About Us won Genesis a great number of new fans. After appearing at the Rock In The Park open air in Nurnberg, Germany, Wilson believed that the time had come to record Cut's debut Millionairhead. He had not only gathered many experiences but also took along drummer Nir Zidkyahu.

Zidkyahu, an Israeli living in the USA, is a much in demand drummer on the New York scene. In the early 90ies he played with the Dan Reed Network and the Bee Gees before he got his "calling" from Genesis. As a session and studio musician he is probably one of the best in the international music business. Together with bass player John Haimes he represents Cut's rhythmic foundation. Haimes started playing bass when he was 19 years old and his major influences include Cass Lewis of Skunk Anansie amd Marcus Miller. He started his career with London bands Big Blue Sea and Bite The Bullet. In 1990 he studied at the London bass Academy and two years later met Wilson, who asked him to join Guaranteed Pure, and after the band split he made his living touring clubs. Keyboard player Paul Holmes has been living in Norway for several years and works as a busy studio musician. As a young boy Paul used to play the organ in church and was a member of the choir. He performed publicly for the first time at 14 and in the following years played countless clubs throughout Europe. Guitarist Steve Wilson also started his musical career at the age of 14, firstly as a singer but after a short time he started playing the guitar and together with his brother Ray formed their first school band. The next band was called The End and after that he joined Guaranteed Pure. When Ray left to join Stiltskin in 1994 Steve returned to the clubs. Now with Cut, Ray and Steve (also who contributes his songwriting skills) have come together to complete the band's line-up.

The current material is truly refreshing and very much modern. The songs are melodic, powerful, extraordinarily clever and skillfully arranged "In the past four years I've learnt a lot" says Wilson, "my main influences are Pearl Jam , Live, Radiohead and Jeff Buckley and naturally, Genesis did a lot for me too. They taught me to think more specifically about the use of keyboards and orchestral parts. When I left Stiltskin, my focus was mainly on guitars. Genesis awakened my interest in keyboards, Wurlitzer piano and all these analog sounds". The result of this is obviously on "Millionairhead". All twelve songs are full of great melodies and sensitive arrangements. The rocking, driving title track describes in an ironic way the dispute between Ray, and Stiltskin's guitarist Peter Lawlor. "Another Day", the first Cut single, is also connected to Wilson's previous band. This song was originally written to be included on the second Stiltskin album and hasn't lost any of its edge. "Gypsy", a track with a calm start and a hard riff in the middle was inspired by U2's video to "All I Want Is You". Just like the video, "Gypsy" conveys a sentimental, melancholic feeling. The newest track on "Millionairhead" is "Ghost" and was written after Wilson joined Genesis. He sings "You have all I have to give" as a sign of his great musical commitment and he openly admits that the constant criticism to which he was exposed was sometimes difficult to understand "you break me into many pieces".

Alongside these gems, Wilson pays homage to his great hero David Bowie with a cover of "Space Oddity". "Bowie was the first musician I consciously listened to. He is the reason why I started to make music "Ziggy Stardust" or "Scary Monsters" are true classics of rock history".

The album was produced by Ray Wilson himself, engineered by Ian Huffman and mixed by Nick Davies.
 

 L y r i c s


JIGSAW 

No confusion in my mind
I should be with you
So many pieces
Too much frustration

No delusion in my mind
Need to be there too
All foreign places
No one to blame

Don't make a fool out of me
Don't have me wish my life away
Don't make a fool out of me
Don't have me wish my life away

No No No No No No No

No confusion in my mind
I should be with you
So many pieces
Too much frustration

Don't make a fool out of me
Don't have me wish my life away
Don't make a fool out of me
Don't have me wish my life away

Don't have me wish my life away
Don't have me wish my life away...


SARAH 

Sarah, sweet Sarah
Hold me so close to you
Reach out
No reason needed
You're the one for me, Sarah
You're the one for me

Like a dream come true
So beautiful
I will be with you forever
And if the nights grow cold
I'll be there for you
Please don't make me wait

People surround me
Offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone

Sarah, sweet Sarah
Hold me so close to you

Take in all I say
Listen carefully
Words I want you to remember

And if the nights grow cold
I'll be there for you
Please don't make me wait

People surround me
Offers of sympathy
I just want to be left alone

Sarah, I'll miss you
I don't regret all that we shared together
Everything I need,
Given to me


ANOTHER DAY 

Some things disappear inside 
Should I try to run away? 
If I could I would escape you 

I won't argue anymore 
I have lost the will to be 
Hope you don't think I'm ungrateful 

Why, why are you laughing? 
Is it something that I said? 

I don't like this place at all 
Makes me wonder what I'm here for 
Someone take this pain away 
Dying to see another day 

Close the curtains lock the door 
Left my note upon the stair 
In the hope you wouldn't read it 

Fake emotions in my head 
Everything I've seen and read 
Can't begin to find a reason 

Why, why are you laughing? 
Is it something that I said? 

I don't like this place at all 
Makes me wonder what I'm here for
Someone take this pain away 
Dying to see another day 

And I don't want to be a friend 
Or pretend I can fit in, too 
I'm in sensed I'm blown away 
Dying to see another day


HEY, HEY 

Hey, hey the pain won't go away
It looks like your worst nightmare's here and here to stay
Uh huh, yeah, yeah

O god the son you were so proud of
Waste away until there's nothing left to think of
Uh huh, yeah, yeah

Cannot trust in you,
Cannot hold on to you now

Crying out don't you touch me,
I wish you would go
I'm fine now don't you touch me,
I need to be alone

So  cold young man feeling old
Look me in the eye
I'm losing all control
Uh huh, yeah, yeah

Cannot trust in you,
Cannot hold on to you now

Crying out don't you touch me,
I wish you would go
I'm fine now don't you touch me,
I need to be alone

I'm dying now don't you touch me,
I don't need you here
For Christsake don't you touch me,
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I can't sleep
I've fallen in too deep
Time to think about the drug
that tastes so sweet
I lay low,
It's the best if they don't know
Pretending nothing's there just watch your garden grow

You a friend don't make me laugh,
What we had was in the past
I can't live for yesterday

When I needed you the most
Flesh and blood became the ghost
Give so much to take away

Reaching out to touch your soul
Don't feel young and look so old
Just a number on the wall,
Lowest number of them all

Every day seems like the last
Finding strength to touch your thoughts
Need to feel may every word

Going on and on and on
On and on and on


MILLIONAIRHEAD 

From inside there was nothing
And from the outside looking in
It was worse
Words that meant nothing to no-one
Echoed across

And the light never shines on the real thing
And the hope is that nothing has changed

For a moment I almost believed him
For a moment I almost believed him

Money! couldn't buy it
Your Money! didn't make it work
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!

It was always a short-term thing,
The foundations to be built on were flawed
But it doesn't really matter
Not to us

And the light never shines on the real thing
And the hope is that nothing has changed
 

For a moment I almost believed him
For a moment I almost believed him

Money! couldn't buy it
Your Money! didn't make it work
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
I almost believed you

Money! couldn't buy it
Your Money! didn't make it work
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!
Millionairhead!


SHOOT THE MOON 

It's you to blame again
It seems like anger is your only friend
And as the darkness falls in tonight
You watch the shadows crawl across
The window to your door
It doesn't open anymore
Like some indictment on your life
You're never wrong
But never right

Do you know what you fear
Will the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you're walking away
Will anybody listen to a word

As you lie looking at the ceiling
It's that old sentimental feeling
Starting over again
Starting over again

Just like travelling the wrong way
On a one way street
You'll never be quite sure
Whose promises you'll meet
Falling up the wrong road,
Falling up the wrong road

Do you know what you feel,
Will the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you're walking away
Will anybody listen to a word

Shoot the moon,
Shoot the moon

This must be part of someone else's plan
Someone show me the answer
Just take me off of this winding road,
Winding road

Shoot the moon, shoot the moon, shoot the moon

Do you know what you feel
Will the morning make it clear
Does it make you feel better when you're walking away
Will anybody listen to a word


YOUNG ONES 

No time to break the fall
We run before we crawl
No pill will ease your mind

Just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much
Does it take
To make sense of it
Before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye

They've taken down the wall
So the young ones can taste freedom
And the others have a reason to live
You kill me with your lies

Just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much
Does it take
To make sense of it
Before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye
All wave goodbye

There's no where to run to
I can't get inside
Your tortured mind
Is wasting away

Just a little bit would make a difference
No words can describe just how much
Does it take
To make sense of it
Before the young ones grow old
And all wave goodbye
All wave goodbye
All wave goodbye

Goodbye, goodbye,
Goodbye, goodbye

All wave goodbye
Goodbye


NO PLACE FOR LOSER 

You walk out on me
Don't expect me to come running
I won't disagree
If you'd like to take the blame

I won't be there for you
I just don't feel the need
You leave me empty

Stay young, live for a reason
There's no place for a loser here

Your naked remark mans nothing to me now
All faith in yourself
Seems it's gone to find a friend

I won't be there for you
I just don't feel the need
You leave me empty

Stay young, live for a reason
There's no place for a loser here

The same song
Sung with no feeling at all

And all the losers gather round
Watch the world come crashing down around them
There's no place for the chosen few
Who know it all but rarely do astound me,
Surround me 
(back vocals: Did you know that I hate you, did you know?)
They see things in different ways
Watch them spend their final days surrounded, astounded
(Did you know that I love you, did you know?)

Did you know that I hate you, did you know?
Did you know that I love you, did you know?...


SPACE ODDITY 

Ground Control to Major Tom,
Ground Control to Major Tom,
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on.
Ten
Ground Control to Major Tom Nine,Eight,Seven
Commencing countdown, engines on Six,Five Four
Check igition and may God's love be with you Three,Two,One
Liftoff

This is Ground Control to Major Tom,
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.

"This is Major Tom to Ground Control"
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today.

For here
Am I sitting in my tin can
Far across the world,
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do.

Though I'm crossed one hundred thousand miles,
I'm feeling very still,
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows."

Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuits dead, something's wrong.
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear...

"Am I floating on my tin can,
Far above the Moon,
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."


I HEAR YOU CALLING 

Watch your friends all pass you by
You've got 25 reasons to live,
Every on is a lie

Now you're looking everywhere for comfort
The worse it gets,
The harder you try

I hear you calling me again,
It's alright,
It's alright
Like a brother or a friend,
You're depending on
As you're screaming in your sleep,
Is the needle in too deep
It's alright,
It's not alright

You're a stranger in your home
A good for nothing,
Know it all
Don't you know we've seen it all before
The sadness of it all,
You are the cure

I hear you calling me again,
It's alright,
It's alright
Like a brother or a friend,
You're depending on
As you're screaming in your sleep,
Is the needle in too deep
It's alright,
It's not alright

Now you're looking everywhere for comfort
The worse it gets,
The harder you try

I hear you calling me again,
It's alright,
It's alright
Like a brother or a friend,
You're depending on
As you're screaming in your sleep,
Is the needle in too deep
It's alright,
It's alright,
It's not alright


GYPSY 

God is my witness I can feel you
There! before my very eyes, a vision to me
Don't put out this fire
It's burning for
Burning for me, burning for you.

Stand within the sunlight, press against me
Takes me back to other times, different days
Love I do surrender, it belongs to
Belongs to me, belongs to me.

Lay down on me naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter.

There is nothing I can't see in my mind
A picture of you painted, so vividly
Blood runs through my fingers
And in through
Through my light, through my darkness.

Lay down on me naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter.

Wish I could. Wish I could see you.

Lay down on me naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter.

Lay down on me naked gypsy
Watching you bathe in water
False childhood lies, fear in your eyes
Give me a son and daughter.

Son and daughter.


GHOST 

I'm young man on the edge
With his head held in his hands
A look of desperation 
Touching the fingers he hides behind

I lost my head and made a mess
Showing signs of faithlessness
Having other people laughing at you
Is hard to take

You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget

In my mind I've tried
can't make much sense of what it is
Wishing one day you could understand
Everything takes time

The thoughts I have
Won't leave me
You say you've heard it all before
You sit there like a wall I have to break through
Some drug I didn't take to
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget

Should I feel anger,
Should I be patient
Do I belong here,
Do you have the answers
How long can I hold on
Do I belong
Where do I belong

You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget

Don't laugh
Don't make me
I was just begging to forget
You have all I have to give
You break me into many pieces
I was just beginning to forget...

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