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| Studio album by The Creatures | ||||
| Released | 6 November 1989 | |||
| Recorded | May 1989 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, experimental | |||
| Label | Polydor/PolyGram Records (UK) Geffen/Warner Bros. Records (US) GHS 24275 |
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| Producer | Mike Hedges The Creatures |
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| The Creatures chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Boomerang | ||||
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Boomerang is the second album to be released by British duo The Creatures aka singer Siouxsie Sioux and musician Budgie. The album was recorded in Andalusia, Spain. One of the bluesy songs of this album, "Killing Time", was covered live by Jeff Buckley a few years later.[1][2]
At its release, the album was hailed by the British press. NME qualified it as "a rich and unsettling landscape of exotica"[3] and Melody Maker stated that "Boomerang abounds with scarcely anticipated brilliance".[4]
[edit] Lyrics
Budgie explains the song "Manchild" here: "It's a story based in Colombia before the drugs cartel, it's about a small child caught up in a feud, this vendetta between his village and another rival village. In a minor way it is all about drug trafficking, but ends with the stronger village wiping out the whole male population of the other village until there was just one boy left called Nelsito. It was understood that he would live till he was at least 18 before he was assassinated, but he was shot on the way to school."
And his comments on "Willow": "It's kind of about how my mother died as it was a black area and I hadn't realised what had happened until I saw my brother. He told me what went on with the family and I never really knew until a year afterwards, and I wrote it down directly after that".
[edit] Track listing
- "Standing There" – 3:06
- "Manchild" – 3:50
- "You!" – 4:03
- "Pity" – 3:39
- "Killing Time" – 3:26
- "Willow" – 2:06
- "Pluto Drive" – 4:40
- "Solar Choir" – 2:52
- "Speeding" – 4:12
- "Fury Eyes" – 2:10
- "Fruitman" – 2:46
- "Untiedundone" – 3:41
- "Simoom" – 3:43
- "Strolling Wolf" – 4:27
- "Venus Sands" – 5:03
- "Morriña" – 2:49
[edit] References
- ^ Untiedundone.com archives Jeff Buckley covered "Killing Time" at the radio WFMU Studios, East Orange, NJ, 10.11.92. "Killing Time" is a Siouxsie's song from The Creatures's Boomerang album. Buckley also performed it for his first major gig in London at The Astoria in January 1995.
- ^ Jeffbuckley-fr.net list of songs covered by jeff buckley
- ^ Morton, Roger. "Peek-A-Boom" [Boomerang review]. NME. 11 November 1989
- ^ Reynolds, Simon. Boomerang review. Melody Maker. 11 November 1989.
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