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Dave A. Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter

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Label: Anxious Records
Released: 1994.12.10
Time:
 57:04
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Dave A. Stewart
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.davestewart.com
Appears with: Eurythmics
Purchase date: 2002.01.26
Price in €: 6,99



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[1] Heart of Stone (S.Nelson/D.Stewart) - 4:35
[2] Greetings from the Gutter (D.Stewart) - 4:12
[3] Crazy Sister (D.Stewart) - 3:50
[4] Chelsea Lovers (D.Stewart) - 5:39
[5] Jealousy (B.Collins/G.Cooper/D.Stewart) - 4:52
[6] St. Valentine's Day (D.Stewart) - 4:27
[7] Kinky Sweetheart (D.Stewart) - 5:57
[8] Damien Save Me (D.Stewart) - 5:23
[9] Tragedy Street (D.Stewart) - 4:07
[10] You Talk a Lot (D.Stewart) - 5:39
[11] Oh No, Not You Again (D.Stewart) - 8:23

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DAVE STEWART - Guitar, Vocals
BOOTSY COLLINS - Bass, Space Bass, Acoustic Guitar on [5], Drums on [5] and [9], Additional Background Vocals
BERNIE WORRELL - Keyboards
JEROME "Big Foot" BRAILEY - Drums

LAURIE ANDERSON - Electric Violin & Voclas on [7]
LOU REED - Guitar Solo on [10]
DAVID "Pacino" SANBORN - Saxophone on [10],[11], Sound Effects on [11]
CARLY SIMON - Sound Effects on [11]
OLLE ROMO - Drums on [4],[11], Programming, Assistant Producer, Engineer, Mixing
TERRY DISLEY - Additional Keyboards on [1],[8]-[10]
CHUCHO MERCHÁN - Bass on [7]
LENNY PICKETT - Saxophone on [8]
LARRY FRATANGELO - Percussion on [2]
HENRY BENEFIELD - Percussion on [5], Additional Background Vocals
PETER THOMS - Flute, Piccolo, Recorder on [4]
TEESE GOHL - String Arrangements

LADY MISS KIER - Background Vocals
ZHANA SANDERS - Background Vocals
KIRSTEN GRAY - Background Vocals
BARBARA TUCKER - Background Vocals

MICK JAGGER - Additional Background Vocals
NONA HENDRIX - Additional Background Vocals
SLEEPY STONE - Additional Background Vocals
SUE SHATTOCK - Additional Background Vocals
JOHN WINFIELD - Additional Background Vocals
DEBORAH BARSHA - Additional Background Vocals
ANTHONY COLE - Additional Background Vocals
GARY "Muddbone" COOPER - Additional Background Vocals
SIOBHAN FAHEY - Additional Background Vocals
CAROLYN SANDFORD - Additional Background Vocals

DARREN ALLISON - Engineer
DAVE WITTMAN - Engineer
JOE PIRRERA - Assistant Engineer
JOHN SEYMOUR - Assistant Engineer
BOB ROSA - Mixing
MICHAEL PARSONS - Photography

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1995 CD East West 61735
1995 CD East West 4509 7546
1995 CD East West 61735
1995 CS East West 61735



Following two anemic-selling albums with his post-Eurythmics outfit, the Spiritual Cowboys, Dave Stewart released his proper solo debut in Greetings From the Gutter. It curtails the more rock-leaning aspects of the prior albums for a funkier, dance approach with Parliament/Funkadelic alumni Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, and Jerome "Big Foot" Brailey backing Stewart. The sultry, almost campy, "Heart of Stone" is a funky, disco-styled song with infectious backing vocals performed by a female quartet including Lady Miss Kier, Nona Hendryx, and Siobahn Fahey. "Chelsea Lovers" is a deliciously bittersweet, glam ballad (with a nod to Bowie in the lyrics). "Jealous" is stripped down and soulful and "St. Valentine's Day" opens like a Tom Waits song before giving way to a Beatlesque, psychedelic melody. Laurie Anderson adds violin and vocals to the eerie, spacy "Kinky Sweetheart," featuring a wicked guitar solo from Stewart. "Damien Save Me" has a monstrous, hypnotic groove, a smoking sax solo from Lenny Pickett, and some Hendrix-like guitar. The playing is tight, the vibe is loose, and Greetings From The Gutter is some of Stewart's warmest, most compelling work.

Tom Demalon - All Music Guide
© 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



Auch jemand, der als Vorbild dient, ist von Bewunderung nicht frei: Ex-Eurythmiker Dave Stewart muß intensiv Bowie (Hunky Dory) gehört haben. Beim Solo nach Spiritual Cowboys und dem Duo Vegas halfen Bootsy Collins, Lou Reed, David Sanborn, Carly Simon, Mick Jagger im Background. Stewart hat's drauf: brüchige Songs, spannende Kontraste aus wilden Gitarren und hymnischen Chören. Oder ein sphärisches Mysterium wie Kinky Sweetheart, mit Laurie Anderson. Und Jealousy, groovy Pop samt Kinderlied, muß ihm erst mal einer nachmachen.

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On "Chelsea Lovers," a stately ballad on his fine new album, Greetings From the Gutter, Dave Stewart creates an image of "stardust lovers in a Ziggy cartoon." It's a whimsical play on words and a telling one. Stewart is perhaps best known for having been the guitarist and songwriter behind the scrumptious electropop of Annie Lennox and Eurythmics; he has, of course, also produced albums for the likes of Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty.

As a singer, though, this musician's musician seems most influenced by Ziggy Stardust's creator. Stewart's chalky baritone and sly, sometimes ominous delivery evoke David Bowie so strongly at points that it's almost uncanny. And the dreamy textures and often trippy lyrics on Greetings betray a nostalgia for the era in which Bowie first breathed life into his ill-fated leper messiah.

Not that any of the material on Greetings sounds dated or derivative. As Prince, Karl Wallinger and Stewart himself have already proved, there are artists who can employ retrophilia in the service of invention. Stewart has always had a flair for neopsychedelic arrangements that feel contemporary and fresh; on Greetings his instincts are supported by musicians – most notably bassist Bootsy Collins and keyboardist Bernie Worrell – who offer history, virtuosity and friskiness.

The musical results vary from the edgy "You Talk a Lot," with its dramatic flourishes of piano and organ, to "Jealousy," a slice of brisk funk on which Collins, a one-man rhythm team, supplements his bass wizardry with razor-sharp percussion. Stewart's guitar work, meanwhile, easily proves him worthy of such company, whether he's blasting sonic missiles through the hip-hop-laced "Damien Save Me" or creating the soulful atmosphere that suffuses the title track.

"Greetings From the Gutter" gets added juice, as do many of the songs on this album, from a chorus of backing vocalists (Deee-Lite's Lady Miss Kier prominent among them) who provide an animated foil to the more understated Stewart. On "Heart of Stone," while Stewart wryly muses about having an affair with a disco diva, the backup singers break into ebullient ooh-oohs straight out of Bowie's "Young Americans."

Ten tracks later, though, on "Oh No, Not You Again," the chorus echoes Stewart's agitation as he assails a lover, a woman who has fallen prey to "checkbook religion and Diet Coke friends." The song then culminates in a hilarious spoken argument between a whiny Carly Simon and yuppie sax god David Sanborn, fittingly cast as an annoying modern couple struggling to communicate with each other. Compared with such latter-day monsters of alienation, Ziggy Stardust would probably seem like a pretty down-to-earth guy.

ELYSA GARDNER - RS 704
© Copyright 2001 RollingStone.com



As the Eurythmics become an increasingly distant memory, and ex-partner Annie Lennox continues to carve out a surprisingly distinctive solo career, Stewart is looking more and more like the perfect target for a major bout of revisionism. Far from the mad pop genius who could pluck a song out of thin air in five minutes, he now seems more like an amiable eccentric who just happened to get lucky for a few years. His latest solo project reinforces that impression. Its 11 songs amble along in pedestrian fashion, mildly hummable but entirely devoid of surprise. Overall, Stewart sounds less like a degenerate communicating from the gutter than a comfortable retiree who can't quite bring himself to haul himself out of his favorite armchair.

John Sakamoto
 

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HEART OF STONE

I bought your record in NYC
Discorama down on union square
I must have played it a million times over
I'd close my eyes imagine you were there
You know
I really dig the clothes you wear
I only wish you could be my baby
I want to read about it
Do you think we could have an affair

Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I'm just too blind to see
Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I’m just too blind to see

Two weeks in Electric Lady Land
Two weeks and that's all for me
I could be lucky and get off lightly
With a broken nose and the third degree
She said I really dig Disco music
And if you want to be my baby
We’d better talk about it
Maybe then we could have an affair

Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I’m just too blind to see
Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I’m just too blind too see

I want to drive East Coast to West Coast
Turn up my radio set myself free
Don't want to talk about it
You and me should have an affair

Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I’m just too blind to see
Maybe your heart is made of stone
Maybe I’m just too blind to see.


GREETINGS FROM THE GUTTER

That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
Greetings from the gutter
I've been here since yesterday
Sweet dreams in the gutter
All the skeletons come out to play
At times I feel so logical inside
So just give me the keys
And I'll drive myself back home
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
I stand in the mirror counting the scars I let you see
A little soft edged but bitter
You're a star you don't talk to me
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over
That's what you've got to do, when it's all over


CRAZY SISTER

Driving me home in your car watching you drive
Through obstacles and icicles, keeping my mind on its lead
Keeping it warm, with chemicals and therapy
Turn it on take me over crazy sister
Digging a hole in your heart
Watching you breathe, punishment and oxygen
Letting my mind off its lead
I watched it disappear, to somewhere dark and reassuring
Turn it on (can you believe it)
Take me over (it's psychomazingly true)
Turn it on crazy sister
And when I feel it (it's psychomazing it's you)
Staying at home. Plugging it in
Kissing the screen, being a god
Staying at home, screwing it in
Fucking the screen, being a god
Turn it on (can you feel it)
Crazy sister
Turn it on (can you believe it)
Crazy sister
Turn it on, take me over
Crazy sister
Crazy sister


CHELSEA LOVERS

When he found her
He stayed down there
With his velvet pills
And her purple hair
In a room so dark
They could barely crawl
With orange posters
On Victorian walls
It was Saturday night
And he felt like death
She just wanted to be loved
Like anybody else
Saturday night
And the clock never stopped
She felt like a loser
On top or the pops
The Chelsea lovers
With guillotine lips
Mascara egos
Doing a magazine strip
Chelsea lovers
In a vicious town
With lipstick futures
Like a couple of clowns
Strange creatures
In the eider down
Teenage oblivion
Waiting to be crowned
Holes in the mattress
Where these beasts have lain
Awake until morning
With ice in their veins
Facing each other
Their eyes never met
He just wanted to be straight
It never happened to him yet
Both of them laughing
But they can't understand
What it is about friendship
Makes you hold your own hand
The Chelsea lovers
Oh how they can talk
With their tongues connected
And their skin like chalk
Chelsea lovers
They're joined at the hip
With the power of madness
At their fingertips
Chelsea lovers
With their limbs entwined
Making moon sized promises
From their molecule minds
Stardust lovers
In a Ziggy cartoon
Two solemn lovers
In a Chelsea room.


JEALOUSY

Well I’ve had a lot of money
I had a good paying job
But all I want is for her to be happy
To do something she can be proud of
That's all I want
That's all I need
All I want is for her to keep loving me
And that eternal flame
Will remain we will sustain
And that jealousy
Ain't no part of me
Jealousy ain't a part of me
Jealousy ain't a part of me
Jealousy so she can keep loving me
Walking around with a
Chap on my back
(girls) this man don't care
I don't care rat a tat tat
All I want is just a little of your love
I want to give you something baby
That you can be real proud of
All I want that's all I need
All I want that's all I need
For you to keep loving me
Give you good loving
Make you proud of me
Give you good loving
Make you proud of me
Give you good loving
Make you proud of me
Give you good loving
Make you proud of me
(girls) give me good loving
Make you proud of me
Give me good loving
Make you proud of me
(girls) all I want and all I need
Is you to keep loving me
Just keep on loving me like the water to the sea
Let it flow let it be
Like the wind when it blows
You can't see it but somehow you know it's cold
All I need is for you to keep loving me
And that eternal flame will remain
We will sustain
Jealousy ain't a part of me
Jealousy no part of me
Jealousy no part of me
Then you can keep loving me
Jealousy


ST. VALENTINE'S DAY

I fell down on it Valentine's day
Dropped my flowers in the rain
And got carried away
The tide was coming in
I could have been sad
I could have been amused
But I was just in pieces
It was then that I knew
The tide was coming in
Aaahh this pattern on the back of my hand
It makes a joke of me and the veins are like
Rivers in sand running out to sea
Nobody slept on the night of the crash
We were all covered in devil grey ash
The tide was coming in
I could have been dead
I could have been underground
But somebody decided I should stick around
The tide was coming in
Aaahh I know I’m just killing time
But time is killing me
My eyes are witness to this crime and looking out to sea


KINKY SWEETHEAT

Staying at home
Plugging it in
Kissing the screen
Being a god
I thought about it in the Galleria
Liquid crystal like a man ray tear
A shiny surface, velveteen queer
Bailey contrast, a Lucas idea
I've seen your set up and it's perfect in form
Let's call somebody to connect both our arms
You bring the orange I’ll bring the clock
We'll pay the dream police to circle the block
Staying al home
Plugging it in
Kissing the screen
And being a god
Slaying at home
Plugging it in
Lucking the screen
And being a god


DAMIEN SAVE ME

Damien save me
And be my guide
Sooner or later
We're all gonna die
When we were walking
Through the streets
Everything you said was bittersweet
And I wish that we could be in a
Bottle of time just you and me
Let's talk about the ways and means
The body shape
The love supreme
And drink drink until we disappear
Damien save me
And be my god
Sooner or later
I'm gonna die like a dog
Cut me in half
And I’ll let you see
What this whole wide world
Has done to me
I'll be you sacrificial cow
Just tell me when and I’ll
Show you how
Let's talk about
The sacrifice
The body limbs
That rest on ice and drink drink until
We disappear
I know you'll never let me down
Down down down
So let's take it and push it
And kick it and break it
And turn it all around.
Damien save me
And be my guy
Sooner or later
We're all gonna die
When we were walking
Through the streets
Everything you said was bittersweet
And I wish that we could be
In a bottle of time
Just you and me
When we were walking through the streets
...walking through the streets
...walking through the streets.


TRAGEDY STREET

You've been feeling so bad
Like you've been
Kicked in the head
You've been feeling like murder lately
You should have spent the week in bed
Where you don't have to face yourself
Angie (Angie) Angie (Angie)
How come you're always
In the middle of a tragedy
How come you're always
Walking down Tragedy Street
She's the goddess of war
One kiss and she'll
Blow your mind
She's been sleeping with
An army of souls
And leaving their bones behind
Cos she just loves to live in pain
Angie Angie
I want you to know
I love you
Why oh why
Tell me why oh why
You're always walking down
Tragedy street
And it does you no favours
To prophesise your vision of doom
I've seen you crawling up the walls for hours
And talking to empty rooms
But you don't have to explain
Angie Angie Angie baby
How come you're always
In the middle of a tragedy
How come you're always
Walking down Tragedy Street
How come you're always
Angie baby
In the middle of a tragedy
How come you're always
Walking down Tragedy Street
I can see it in your eyes
I can see it in your face
And when I kiss your lips
It's the aftertaste
Angie baby.


YOU TALK A LOT

You talk a lot
You laugh a lot
Yes you talk a lot
You never stop
No you never stop
But you never talk about
The way you feel
The way we make each other feel
You celebrate
And cut a cake
Yes you couldn't wait
No you couldn't wait
But you never thought about the way I’d feel
The way you made somebody feel
Do you believe in all you hear
Your husband's sick
Your sister's queer
Your mouth is full of shaky teeth
From dreams that make you disbelieve
That all I’ve ever said and done was
Wish you well and have some fun
Have some fun


OH NO, NOT YOU AGAIN

Oh no, not you again
I paid you already
Too much times ten
Oh no, not you again
I don't know how it started
But this is the end
There's a gap in your teeth
The words fall through
They spread a virus
And they stick like glue
There's a pain in my neck
And a stone in my shoe
There's a lump in my throat
It was more than I could chew
Oh no, not you again
With your cheque book religion
And your diet coke friends
Oh no, not you again
There's a hole in your foot
You shot it yourself
Pulled the silver trigger
And damaged your health
I've been dying from exposure
Since I shook your hand
I see California gave you more than a tan
Oh no, not you again
With your world in a bubble
And your gossamer smile
Oh no, not you again
So nice to hear from you
Once in a while
You stuck a knife
In my back
And my blood ran cold
I think you mistook
Me for a bag of gold
But there's justice in
The valley and they
Say it's divine
I've heard all about
Your problems
Now here's some of mine.

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