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Totally
Religious Elektra (9 60859-2) Produced by Howard Gray and Robert Stevens Recorded and mixed at Sheffield Recording, Phoenix, Maryland. Pre-Production
at Miami Sound, Miami, Florida All songs written by Bill Carter |
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| 1: Four Engines
Burning (Over The USA) (3:55) 2: Mega City 1 (4:07) 3: Wall Of Shame (4:11) 4: Nitro (3:18) 5: Big Big Sky (5:13) 6: Watusi Wedding (2:41) 7: Here Comes Lucky (4:31) 8: Gunfight (3:01) 9: Martian (3:19) 10: All Gassed Up (3:00) |
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| 'Totally Religious' turned out to be the Screaming Blue Messiahs' final studio album. The overall tone of the songs is generally more serious than on 'Bikini Red', taking in such diverse themes as war, religion, westerns, Judge Dredd, martians and getting hitched with African tribesmen! Sadly Vic Maile had passed away, and rightly the album is dedicated to his memory. Howard Gray and Rob Stevens' production resulted in an immense wall of sound and there is an epic feel to Bill's ever impressive guitar work. No singles were released and by December 1989, without a record deal, the band finally broke up. | |||||||||||||||
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| Four
Engines Burning (Over The USA) I woke up this morning Bent on destruction In my ivory tower On the sunny side of the street I'm the last jet pilot With twenty twenty vision And mind bending power On a mission from God I am the destroyer Are you gonna make my day I got four engines burning over the USA I'm a silver dollar Defender of the universe Totally religious An invincible overlord I'm a walking nightmare I'm a chain reaction I'm a wounded animal I'm a young girl's dream CHORUS Is it a bird Is it a plane No it's the witchfinder general So come on down He's got four engines burning Over your town In the 21st Century There's a total stranger He's a repo man Got the ten commandments CHORUS CHORUS |
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City 1 Walk on glass, from dusk til dawn Looking for citizens breaking the law I'm the night controller I never sleep I'm on the graveyard shift and I'm looking for creeps I am the law there's no remission You wanna watch TV you need my permission Don't step off the sidewalk til I say go Don't answer me back don't give me no lip You'll get a heat seeking missile Straight from the hip I get justice done in Mega City One I'm the judge top gun You got nowhere to hide, nowhere to run Cos I am the law In Mega City One The way I like it is the way it is You'll get yours and he'll get his There's no such thing as an innocent man I can bring you in alive or dead With a demolition detonator Straight to the head I get justice done in Mega City One I'm the judge top gun having fun There's no escape if you're a law breaker There's no surrender if you're an offender You got nowhere to hide, nowhere to run Cos I am the law In Mega City One I get six kind of bullets and you'll get one I am the law you psycho scum |
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| Wall
Of Shame A wise man said it's strange but true Every little thing that you do Will forever remain with you But I don't have to worry any more I used to be the wind in the holocaust Blowing through the dust of the souls that were lost The betrayer of all trust The holder of a fatal charm I don't want my name on the wall of shame On the wall of shame I don't want my name on the wall of shame I used to be the killer on the lost highway I used to be the darkness before the day But I'd sooner have a hole in my head Than to be what I want to be CHORUS |
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| Nitro (Lawrence - the nitro!) Nitro baby satellite, nitro baby satellite Nitro baby satellite, nitro baby burning bright Burning up the stratosphere Like a Mowtown missile Burn it up, burn it up, burn it up I swear to God I love the smell of nitro in the morning Tie her down, start it up and don't look back Nitro baby satellite, nitro baby satellite Nitro baby nitro dream Streetwise drag queen She's shaking, and licensed to thrill Like a Mowtown missile Burn it up, burn it up I love the smell of nitro in the morning Tie her down, start her up Tie her down, start her up and don't look back Nitro baby satellite Shining in the pale moonlight She's gun metal blue She's a Mowtown missile Meltdown missile Burn it up, burn it up I swear to God I love the smell of nitro in the morning Tie her down, start her up Tie her down, start her up and die I swear to God, I swear to God, I swear to God Yes officer I've got a complaint, see that car over there She's black and evil with chrome all down the outside I swear to God, I swear to God Sometimes she's alive Nitro baby satellite Nitro baby satellite Nitro baby satellite |
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| Interestingly here, on one of his last songs with the Messiahs Bill harks back to one of his very earliest with Motor Boys Motor. On the MBM opening track 'Drive Friendly' we have the same refrain about the complaint to the officer regarding the 'evil car over there, I swear to God, I swear to God'. | |||||||||||||||
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Big Sky Underneath the big big sky Me and my baby big wide eyes Solarcaine and key lime pie Feels good inside, feels good inside Little children by my side They looking up big wide eyes Little children 1-2-3 What'll they be, what'll they be All I do is live and die Underneath the big big sky I live and die, and I don't know why Sister you'd better be afraid (Planets and oceans) Time is winding up (Perpetual motions) Brother you'd better be afraid (Waiting for time to pass by) Time is winding up Mother you'd better be afraid (Across all the nations) Time is winding up (Radio stations) Father you'd better be afraid (Under the big big sky) Time is winding up In sixty five we took a honeymoon Three mile island twenty dollar room Making babies boom boom boom Feels good inside, feels good inside You and the devil and the deep blue me Kids upstairs watching TV Look out the window and what do we see It's Maryland just like God planned All we do is live and die Underneath the big big sky Live and die and we don't know why CHORUS Twenty years later we're old and grey Sitting on the deckchair looking at the bay You look at me and look in my eyes And we get ready to say goodbye All we do is live and die Underneath the big big sky I live and die and I don't know why CHORUS Time, time is winding up Underneath the big big sky Time is winding up I live and die and I don't know why Underneath the big big sky |
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| Watusi
Wedding The bride turned 'round and said I don't wanna die G-man said you need an alibi Like the silver surfer in the neon sky So hang ten baby til your mouth goes dry Welcome to the wedding (Watusi wedding) It's a different kind of wedding (Watusi wedding) You don't need a preacher (Watusi wedding) All you have to do is reach her (Watusi wedding) All he ever wanted was a dream come true Back to the future to the place he never knew Twenty-eight channels and a satellite dish So they both closed their eyes, then they made a wish CHORUS Love is a sin, love is a sin You don't know the shape I'm in Everybody's happy when the baby cries Wedding bells, wedding bells, wedding bells It's the only way to lie CHORUS You just gotta reach her You just gotta reach her like Watusi, Watusi, Watusi Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded wife |
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Comes Lucky Moonbeams shining on the river Stardust is falling like the rain Sometimes I look around and remember Things will never be the same again A long time ago in the desert sand A baby was born in a foreign land And three wise men came into town And said how the baby should wear a crown Here comes Lucky He gave life with his magic hands He gave reason to people who don't understand He gave logic to people with no minds He gave eyesight to the blind Here comes Lucky Tomorrow's children in the promised land They hold the future in the palm of their hands And a thousand dollars will buy you a vow Happy ever after in the here and now Here comes Lucky Jesus used to walk on the desert sand And now it looks like Disneyland Here comes Lucky |
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| Gunfight Well the vigilante And the moonshine runner You got redneck justice And a railroad track And a little old lady In a AAR Cuda Saw the riccochet Go riding by Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight at the OK Corral Well the local cops Made the scene of the crime When the shooting stopped They were just in time And they talked to the witness From the liquor store About all the criminals Who broke the law Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight at the Psycho Tropical At the High Chaparral So the man in the moon Takes a look into town And the shooting stars Are lying on the ground And all the bad guys Are lying on the floor And they weren't bad guys Anymore Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight Gunfight at the OK Corral At the Psycho Tropical At the High Chaparral |
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| AAR Cuda - sans little old lady |
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| Martian Dolphins, porpoise, Eskimo Big Jack Daniels and Tokyo Joe Fishes in the sea swimming low, swimming low And I'm running down the alley in the afterglow It's a lonely nation but I don't know why It's a lonely nation but I don't know why Will the real Martians please stand up Talking dreams and vertigo Watching TV in a mobile home Searching through the wreckage trying to find a phone I've got twenty-one days to pay off my loan CHORUS Swim ,swim, swim like the birds They were the ideal woman and the perfect man You should have seen the look on their face When the bartender said what'll it be They looked real lost like monkeys in space CHORUS Dolphins, porpoise, Eskimo Big Jack Daniels and Tokyo Joe Fishes in the sea swimming low, swimming low And I'm running through the alley in the afterglow CHORUS |
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Gassed Up I walked into town in the cocktail hour It's 3am and it's all shut down Looking to get myself a drink It don't go down in this dumb town I'm all gassed up, I'm all gassed up, I'm all gassed up I'm all gassed up I got no place to go B girls walking all over town The place looks like a twister touched down They can walk on water all night long They take any kind of money CHORUS I took a little drive down the Miracle Mile Cop looked at me with the cutest smile Said get on the floor, pancake style I'm gonna take you downtown to cool off for a while CHORUS I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life I'm gonna be here for the rest of my life CHORUS |
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| Miracle Mile, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles | |||||||||||||||