This is one of the most amazing ballads ever written . It's sort of like if Radiohead and Neil Young got together. The haunting refrain, "I can't tell anybody what happened to me," gives me shivers whenever I hear it. "God came down from heaven yesterday, gave me something everyone else threw away."
Another astounding little masterpiece off of Abraham Cloud's , "The Children of the Milkman." This is an amazing little lyrical trip. "I've got every disease known to man, waiting patiently inside me, to surprise me when I least expect it."
Pink Floyd once wrote, " Quiet desperation is the English way." Abraham Cloud's version says,"Softly you call out to no one there at all, slowly you fade into nothing." A little bit like the Beatles "For No One" , All The Nice People," is a stark, riveting ballad that slices into the loneliness and isolation of any market-based economy.
Remember wishing it would just go away ? How in the world could life get anymore miserable or complex than a teenager with an outbreak of acne. When the approval of others is crucial and you live and die on a thousand little judgements passed by peer groups every day, teenage acne is deadly. In the words of Abraham Cloud, "It takes a twelve pack of beer just to look in the mirror."You get the feeling that the singer has taken a lifetime , "trying to get over a very bad case of Teenage Acne."
With all the slow groove hand claps of a London Squat party, Abraham Cloud re-creates a mood and era with the exacting precision of a master sculptor. If you've ever heard Eric Burdon's , "Spill the Wine," you will probably enjoy this Sixties style Rap song. There's no urgency , or major social issues , just a slow rolling groove about better days. It's War, Malo, Lou Reed and Sinead O'Conner all rolled into one . It's a very stoned cab ride through a rainy Soho morning. It's one of the last r...
Thanks to Angelina Mitzen for this lyrical video of Mr. Cloud's 1974. Check out the heavy Lennon psychedelic influence. Makes me wanna take off in a VW Buss and join a commune. The song seems to be about an end to the world which happened in 1974, and the fact that we are all continuing in some kind of a dream world where we imagine what we once had and it re-appears. "I guess every tree , lives on in memory, and memories never die they just get better
Suddenly our hero finds himself in a precarious position somewhere between a sea of sexy young girls in bikinis and another loathsome cubicle day. Smack dab between the joys of youth and the terror of aging. Tempted by the endless summer, tanned skin and ice cold beer but beckoned to the bland normality of "keeping it together." Ultimately he boils it down to a struggle of Life and Death and decides that he has , "A little living left to do."Here in the ultimate mid-life crisis drinking song ,...
Abraham Cloud,imagines a town gathering where it is revealed to all the townsfolk that they were spawned from the same anonymous "Milkman," Watch what happens when family history becomes comical and random ?
This is off of the classic, "Voyage To Afghanistan," album Its basically what everybody thinks most of the time ,Everybody's Doing It but me. Everybody Hurts. Everybody Knows.. and Everybody's got to learn sometime
We've all been there , some of us have lived there , that cozy little neighborhood bar where you could just unwind, relax and drink the night away, A place where you could sing along with the jukebox, get way too drunk to walk, embarrass yourself repeatedly and just keep coming back for more. For Abraham Cloud this was the Cigarette Bar. A place of escape , adventure , re-birth and the re-telling of glory day stories. There's fifty-one reasons why you can't do what you want You counted 'em up ...