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The New Understatement

by Basic Broadcast

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1.
Screwed 01:40
Screwed: I was the last / I'll be the first / and maybe I helped you / and maybe i search for you / for the new understatement today / just don't try / just don't try / I am the fright / I am the threatenéd /and maybe I shelved you / and truly I saved you / for the new understatement today / just don't fry / just don't fry / I am the light / I'll be the bright / and maybe I'm blendin' you / and maybe I send you / the new understatement today / by tomorrow or yesterday / oh boy who knows / nothing to do / 'bout the new understatement I say / not still today / not still today / maybe I send you / the new understatement today / by tomorrow or yesterday / nothing to do / 'bout the new understatement / say /
2.
The New Sun 02:03
The New Sun: there will be only the peace of the vast / nothing stays boring / see the melting past / burning and adoring / we keep the luminance in our emotions / but that's just all we keep / and that's just fine, indeed / I thought it was weight of the world coming down like a butterfly / when the bomb ignites / maybe just tonite / I belong to the blank generation / I can take it or leave it each time / yeah baby blank future / one dream one world glow' future / see these guys boil away / see the city evaporate / the stakes are high / but we give it a try / we pass the borders / we restrain all orders / there'll be no horros to run / take my hand and look into the new sun / I belong to the blank generation / I can take it or leave it each time / yeah baby blank future / one dream one world glow' future / it feels so magnificent / keep our minds wide open / and vanish into insignificance / with all dreams and hopes / I thought it was weight of the world coming down like a butterfly / when the bomb ignites / maybe just tonite / I belong to the blank generation / I can take it or leave it each time / yeah baby blank future / one dream one world glow' future /
3.
Gotta Time Doin' By: move slowly groove softly n'smooth / I lay down on the floor before I perish in my booth / pain in fact it's irrevocable like burnin'flames leavin'grains / my brains in chains to insane / nuttin's on the day i seem to vanish in the haze on my way / keep the same ol'feel n'reap the harvest that i seek for all the day / hey you, what you're doin'now my friend / I'm realley lookin'forward t'see you again / gotta nuttin' to do / gotta time doin'by / eatin'sleepin'n weepin' watch TV t'get high / play guitar for to more chords or just a song / I'll take myself along / nuttin's on the day i seem to vanish in the haze on my way / keep the same ol'feel n'reap the harvest that i seek for all the dye / gotta time doin'by / lost in thoughts and speculations 'bout my accusation about my reálation / no nuttin else can get me high just a time doin' bye /
4.
Proposal Sledge Hammer: you held it in your hand and I still hold it in my heart / and I just cannot understand the hows and whys of things to part / and all of this came to an end and all of this is just the start / and now I don't wanna miss it no I don't wanna miss it anymore / I've been fightin a lot to keep alive what we've got / now the tide ain'ta stop and it told me no it's not / and I like that clear spot that appeared on the top / and now I don't wanna have it no I don't wanna have it anymore / so now that's all I see and that's the very last to feel / and the whole world gonna hate me but for now I take it real / cause I got no chance to be without some mysery reveal / and now I don't wanna eat it no I don't wanna eat it anymore / you held it in your hand and I still hold it in my mind / and I just cannot understand the hows and whys we're left behind / now all of this is what it meant and all of this is what we'll find / and now I don't wanna take it no I don't wanna take it anymore / and I don't wanna miss it no I don't wanna miss it / and now I don't wanna have it no I don't wanna have it / and I don't wanna eat it no I don't wanna eat it / and I don't wanna take it no I don't wanna take it anymore / anymore /
5.
New Normal Extreme: resting in it live and I only beside it sat / now don't you make me a target / the meaning is being grind in the coffee mill / its goes deep and it is getting deeper still / boy you've never been here seen the crazy stuff / at the bottom of this well there it goes deep downstairs / the meaning is being grind like a coffee bean / now that I'm a target of the new normal extreme / now that I'm a target of the new normal extreme / nine in the mornin before doin laundry' / walking in the park just ascending from dark / round up at the station / no more waiting / the flash arrives / and no money in the pockets are firin' up the rockets / the cancled quadrillion is her home in a million / from these extremes I'm gettin the hives / and noticed some strange keeps us alive / bungee jumpin aley day / what now happens one can't say / the damned rope tears each way / we gonna be old someday / and'll shake our heads again / and'll shake our heads again / that we were targets of the new normal extreme /
6.
Rugmastered 01:04
Rugmastered: where's the rugmasteréd once again / when the inky creatures get the chance to gain / the golden honey from my pockets then / what would you do / I'm a slavery man / earning golden honey from the moarnin' on / 't get's my doedaiy-baby not till sundy dawn / and receiving half honor like a dummy prawn / what would you do / I'm a slavery man! / and I'm down down down at the bottom, well / my ceiling is a window in my braincell / that nopthing is alright that does it tell / what would you do / I'm a slavery man / and again black faders sear my heat / and again these inky creatures get me off my feet / golden scissors are cutting like knives / and the fishboned grace disappears at last /
7.
Be My Machinae: be my machinae to seperate sorcery from cantinae / eat my belief's intrigue to timidate longer legs league's court / I exceed the time being as you're short / and every individual is my collectible portfolio and does my fund / is my machinae / feel grey shivers entrancing white suits from below / no other step for to grow / I'm king to allow 90° degrees be a corner but I want you them to cut / I am your owner the others push you into / what can you do / be my machinae to intimidate pals disappearing / seeds of interrogation searing to incend left behind morals old since the time being / and your head is already sold /
8.
Different Kind Of Chaos: someone gave me a sign / I didn't want to know / my chains have been so fine / there is no place to go / she's the different kind of chaos and she attracts my disorder and refracts my old border / I left the backdoor open for yer arrived too late / but secure you're comin' sober to mah date / she's the different kind of chaos and she attracts my disorder and refracts my old border / type of postrain melodramatic come in first place / but vertical streams remain static / plastic suits emberrass my face / and then the sure behind a roof comes lookin' out / for some trouble shout or some of that poor kind / she's the different kind of chaos and she attracts my disorder and refracts my old border / roses on the bedside growin' sting my frowning face / warm warm warm sweet sounds blowin' leavin' a cold bitter trace / she's the different kind of chaos and she attracts my disorder and refracts my old border and restrains not to bother / she's the different kind of chaos and she attracts my disorder and refracts my old border and restrains not to bother / she's the different kind of chaos /
9.
Ulcera Ratio 02:03
Ulcera Ratio: beneath the clouds sunk deep in frouds / wishes to your words are knick-knacks in your thoughts / the dark forms a ship to horizon without recall / tell me the reason why when I'm nearby / let me know that day when you'll be away / the dark forms a ship to horizon without recall / let me know that day when you'll be away / shut your senses try to cry out loud to the sky / repeat your treason delete their stay away / under goes some difference so hard I won't tell / let me know that day when you'll be away /
10.
Feeling From Outer Space: this is the place where we used to be when it got dark on that fateful night / and this is the place the bleached blondes did meet when the gmex had turned down the light / this is the place the generator did form sometime in nineteen sixty seven / a new horizon after a cloudy storm float on a tidal wave to heaven / these were the days pound and pence go for one when decadence replaced the decent / and this here's a song of another bleached blond modified for this weekends event / but don't tell columbus he's never been to this place / drifting into from outer space / and this is the sound of the unfairground loaded and freaked it goes round and round / the queen is dead the smiths once did chest her / finished with wishes from manchester / now I'm in the place where I lay my head thus when I go to bed these two nights / and I say oh oh oh oh what a feeling / and I say oooh oooh oooh oooh what a feeling /
11.
Dedicated Tobacco: take a blow down your throat / suck in breathe out smoke / in a box in your coat / so envelope in a miasma of smoke / tobacco smell burning tip /inhale fast clear and thin / bodily the nicoteen in / have a smoke tastes so good /let it go makes your mood / what a fun today at breakfast / had a box and rested / take a blow down your throat / suck in breathe out smoke / in a box in your coat / so envelope in a miasma of smoke / do some tricks with light and steam /have some ultras lights or medium / roll your own ones give it a try / when you're smokin' times are high / take a blow down your throat / suck in breathe out smoke / in a box in your coat / so envelope in a miasma of smoke /
12.
Stormwatchers: with their feet deep in sand / the dunes pan to their backs and high waves stream lands weave up to their aches / what once was spoken gold now breaks it's mould / stirs up free / hears the zee / with their eyes stuck to the banks / the rain turned to sand and the freezing cold wrenchs their faces and their hands / what once broke it's mould is now seemlessly bold / stirs up free / hears the zee / on their lids pile up sandmountains looting for their bounty / and the bitter text doesn't continue so i won't do continue too / but now nuttins stops it / i carefully utter a minute / what strirs up free / you've come to zee / and the day is done were still on the run / what stirs up once now has begun / cause we are the watchers of the storm and are patient till the morn' / cause we are the watchers of the storm and are patient till the morn' /
13.
Make An Appearance: you'll be my epiphany / one future day I clearly see / still an army of a million trees / is impeding me to achieve / into the forest where we'll meet / tell me where you appear I wait / don't say its too late it's never too late / I'm quite sure I'll still find my place / the time delay might be my fate / to me you know that's all okay / I hold out months in my snail-shell / I looked out once no-one could tell / the fathomless depths towards I fell / down to the bottom of this very well / the all-singin and dancin crap of hell / finished before it even began / I must admit I just wangle it then / to repeat it until it seems spick and span / again and again and again and again / it just shouldn't may happen / you were my epiphany I bet / one future day I surley see I said / an army of a million trees ahead /was impeding me to achieve it yet / the forest where we should have met / this ain't no happy end / it just shouldnt have happened / don't stay transparent / if only there would be a last chance / make an appearance /
14.
Refugeed 01:46
Refugeed: where was the place we met in these old days and now we look through sunglass speaking of that good times and fun rides / we rocked together and now we quote the other trying so hard keeping up our mind / we fade ourselves i miss the shelter now where we didn't find anything / I'd tell you anything what could've happened maybe / maybe / but we just rocked together now we quote the other trying so hard keeping up the mind / under some conditions we find the other side interesting and boring / give me a call at home and maybe i quit my roam / maybe / maybe / we could rock together and see the other and did try too hard missed the point of art / give me a call at home and maybe i quit my roam / maybe / maybe / we rocked together and now we quote the other trying so hard keeping up our mind / but we just rocked together now we quote the other trying so hard keeping up the mind / give me a call at home and maybe i quit my roam / maybe / maybe /
15.
reminder Flan Daily I practice gloomy hours collect nifty rounds long ways, longer stay which arduously follow if once sun seem my heart eQual with luck united pausing you in dert am I to your mislean far sit even you not with, not with me on end of workday I fly fly you and me for your contact alone stand I dreaming into so long the day on which effort in strength disappear may the longing finally, must wait until the end of day with remainder Flan comes closer by our door and snuggle me happy into your proximity make me as soon as I see you it goes the run the day for me into the sun that I recover me to bun which course-carry will mun from the day you'll tell again again again that are everything harmoniously and gladly nevertheless if for each day day out just as then will come profanely the longing remain did not fulfill desire will escape us then becomes constantly the work copy, paste
16.
Now Don't You: I've been out on my own / walked the city all alone / cried for notice on the phone / and you know I know I had to just to let you know / I won't / just walk along this side aside I know I don't / I sat there right down on my knees / recalled again for million years / I'll hold you deep down in my dreams / and you know I know I die for that's why we're all here / my dear / it leaves you Empty deep inside / recieves a feel that you don't like / believe me I won't stand the fight / I breathe for peace all through the night / for you and I turned off the light / just no more reasons keep a hide / I turned the key of my front door / I locked it through it on the floor / I just don't get what it's all for / now don't you love me anymore / and I know you know you just don't love me anymore / for sure / it left me emptier behind / I meant to went out of my mind / it left my ampathy behind / it left me emptier behind /
17.
Matchless 01:11
Matchless: breathless my lunging / wedgeless my longing / hedgeless my warning / fledgeless my yawning / badgeless my forming / edgeless my storming / dodgeless my walking / senseless my stalking / worthless my talking / ruthless my shocking / unscrapadous scratch on my browning / unwrappadous match to my zoning
18.
Bored 02:07
Bored: several smoking and some don't / fuzzy logic brained and boned / I see them everyday / now we're in to stay / here for a while / everybody shacks his own skills / waxes hairs or shares his thrills / look at sunny but watch the floor / work for country but not for more / it's already mine /let us wait that time / here for a while / and settings done beyond me / the questions are wrong here / don't look at me when there's an us / why staying here stuckin' middle-class / I see them everytime / but you stay your life / in that clime /
19.
Raise 01:09
Raise: redeem monstrosity / like dirt from a white collar / by steam / like crime from the dollar / by dream / steam exposes it / take a minute / intrude reality / with thoughts by wish / you think / with fluids for flesh / you drink / steam exposes it / take a minute / inhabit fantasy / live the moments of luck / don't evade / like the drowning of a duck / exaggerate / steam exposes it / take a minute /
20.
African Heat 02:22
African Heat: get me to a feelin / a one i surely know / take me to teh reelin / when i barely go / when the time's exceedin / know one has to show / what my words are dealin / where has gone my flow / attica aticca africa / nowhere else to go / attica aticcaa africa / nowhere else to go / drip ramp rose a heartbreak / from my inner guts / flipped back to the neat days / when the flower cuts / ruggéd and expellin / hear my body growl / suck you in a coma / stuck in a white towel / attica aticca africa / nowhere elso to go / attica aticca africa / nowhere elso to go / uuuh uhh uh / black sodom diarhoe / go tommorah die / dear dynamic bunghole / place a rhythmic sigh / sign up for some muzac / loofin shiny loud / rip off all your t-shirts / zeigen sie was haut / attica aticca africa / nowhere elso to go / attica aticca africa / nowhere elso to go / / hawr haaar haaar haar / woo hooo hoo hoo /
21.
You And I 01:28
You And I: you and I ain'ta fit / you make me cry with lettershit / though all I want to meet you in the morning / sun me in the beauty of the dawn-in / and all you girls I could have eat'em / surely to see what you're made of / I could have need'em 'n heat'em 'n cheat'em 'n beat'em and lead'em for a special price / you and I it could have been so nice / just you and I in the sunrise / but I send you once / I send you twice / I have it back for bureaucratically lies / see the scene and hear my advice / I'll send you three with turpentine / your advertise and magazine / will let you know my vice is a letter box with scatter bombs / you and I / I cry for you / you and I / I cry for you / I cry for you / I cry for you /
22.
Die Suckers Die: everything burns / everything dies / tongues of flames lick my eyes / natures brute force ruptures the ground / all my wishes are now hellbound / do you hear that hummin' sound of thousand kilopound / of thousand bombs comin' down / hear that hummin' sound / open your eyes and glare at a billion degrees hot air / with a velocity of sound redeemed by a divine amount / the sun is on earth to burn / to kill everything to death / melting stones / men and wrath /there's no hidin' way back / don't give yourself a headache / do you hear that hummin' sound of thousand kilopound / of thousand bombs comin' down / hear that hummin' sound / the global furnance is your grave / you can't be immortal / can't be brave / find your elysium hereneath / the casting rain of pain relieves / believe / do you hear that hummin' sound of thousand kilopound / / by another thousand bombs around / we're doomed / we're hellbound / die suckers die fucking die / die suckers die fucking die / hang beg starve die in the streets / die suckers die fucking die /
23.
Permanent Marker: ooze your body to that blues / break your scars carefully sewed / pop out an eardrum for mood / perm your eyebrows with sood / woot wooooOOOooot / intel that uh sorrow grewed / reply what kindly brewed / have your skeleton tattoed / and your eyes shut and glued / woot wooooOOOooot / wear a leather coated boot / so kick with deadly right foot / ergenza droog in a sirum stoop / ingent your wisdom in a siren loop / woot wooooOOOooot / rectify passion hoola hoop / play the murder session of your woot / permanent mark take a gun shoot / collect the items of my loot / woot wooooOOOooot / reave my thoughts like I'm nude / pretend it's yours but crude / hug me then that's cute / hate my guts to the root / woot wooooOOOooot / similiar words stay mute / then nobody argued

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released December 1, 2008

recorded at the basic basement in 2008
written & arranged by basic broadcast

thanks for special inspiration to richard hell, britt daniel, lou reed, robert smith, ritchie blackmore, al stewart, peter hammill, graham parker, martin gore and the captain, y'know!

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Basic Broadcast Cologne, Germany

Tapping the pulse of the age this diacritc symbiosis of a complex lyrical emphasizing and highly progressed musical structuring though influenced by differenced ascendencies breaks down a duo infernale. With no comparison at time this conceptual working, creative and emotional performing and rocking the crowd brings you to a gravity of sound and a background at a wide-range level. ... more

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