Peace on Earth is no easy option,
Time to decide what is really important
Do not be afraid.
Have the courage of your convictions,
Before you are consigned to oblivion
Never feel ashamed of love again.
Peace on Earth is no easy option,
Time to decide what’s really important
It’s only psychosomatic pain
Forget all the lies you’ve ever heard
Do not let hate have the last word
Never feel ashamed of love again.
Williams, 2006. Our spontaneous Christmas single for 2006. Free to download and stream at LastFM.
Realising that we were going to have nothing new released this year, I decide we should record a Christmas single on Wednesday. Thursday I decided on a brief of the Pachelbel Canon in the style of the Flaming Lips. By Friday I’d come up with some lyrics, an intro riff and cribbed some J.S. Bach to lend the project suitable gravitas, and Leo and I had recorded the drums. Saturday we added guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards and (naturally) sleigh bells. We only had one thirty quid mic and the fourtrack at our disposal, so hi-fi it aint, but here it is; that rare thing, a quality Christmas song. I tried to avoid schmaltz or romance and any spiritual grappling sounds toe-curlingly pompous, so I just said what I felt, and played filthy fuzz guitar over the top (no change there, then).
The “B-side” is a live version of “Buried Alive” recorded at the Lost Sunday club at the Brixton Windmill, 5th February 2006. It will be 11 years in January since the original 4-track recording of “Buried Alive” became the first Psychotic Reaction song.
This single is a FREE download. The best place to stream and download it is LastFM.
High Voltage have given God Is In The CD an excellent review, and they even said some nice things about us.
Another review of God Is In The CD, this time by John Lenin at Trakmarx, who didn’t seem to like or understand any of it. What made him think that Penny Broadhurst and Stacey Sailplane are posh??? But we liked his comments about us so much we just had to quote them.
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