Showing posts with label Chinese Restaurant. Show all posts
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March 1, 2021

Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant lyrics

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1   Thank you   4:17        Cover from the Chrisma album: Chinese Restaurant lyrics


2
Black silk stocking
2:36


3
Lola
2:52


4
C-rock
5:29


5
What for
3:43


6
Wanderlust
2:14


7
Lycee
7:38


8
Mandoia
4:24


9
Thank you
4:19




 






Total playing time
37:53
























Black silk stocking lyrics

Sensitive her feeling, when she's Waking in the morning,
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
Put your hand inside it, and she'll tell you where to find it,
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking

And when she is not talking, be sure she wants some rockin'
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
If you're not into rockin' you're best to keep on walking
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
You think she's going to leave you, but she only wants to see you
in her, black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
Lutting instigation, her spell is captivating,
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
Provoking whip, lash lash, please stop smoking
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking

Ho baby, baby no-ones loving, your degeneration
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking
Oh baby, no-ones loving, your degeneration
Black silk stocking
Black silk stocking


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Lola lyrics

She lives alone
Lola,
But every night
she goes down,
to the Chinese where
she works very hard there,
sipping her cocktails.
expenses paid
Lola
She is performing
For a cause,
Her glances faking,
A deep fascination,
She wants information
She goes upstairs
Lola
Clinging on to
Another man,
She lays him down, down
Almond eyes on fire,
Seducing his mind
Behind the smoke and
Screenz-a,
Lola is a
Private eye,
She well disguises
Her lingering actions,
No-one suspecting

At the Chinese
Lola
Killed all those
Who did her wrong,
Her soul is blazing
Whith blood thirsty craving,
No-one, objecting


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C-rock lyrics

Let's rocking
Go back rocking
[etc.]


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What for lyrics

What for
She likes the way you bore,
What for
Her foot's inside the door,
What for
She'll push you to the floor,
what for
She loves the way you bore

What for
She likes the way you go
What for
Her answer's never no,
what for
She likes to take you so
what for
She loves you when you're low

What for
She likes to make you sigh,
what for
shee seems to get you high
what for
she's got to get some more
what for
she loves the way you bore,
what for
she never did before
What for
She likes the way you know
What for
She likes it very slow,
what for
Your mind's about to blow,
what for
And you're just going to owl
got it
got it
got it
what for
she likes the way you bore,
what for
She loves the way you bore
Take it,
take it, take it, take it, take it,
what for
We're getting to the core
What for, we like the way we bore


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Wanderlust lyrics

Got the wanderlust
you go te the airport
and see a plane take off,
go to England
or take a trip by sea
and get off, where you want to get off,
write to the boy
next door, who always wants
to do, what you're just about to do
tell him that
you like New York city
I'm sure he'll like it too
- you say you like your nation
- so let's take a long vacation

Tell your navigator
to wait downstairs
with his white gloves on,
tell him to
zip up your bag
with his white gloves on
take your diamond,
so if you've got the money left,
you can always sell it
here I come,
get ready
get set fire go, go, go, go, go
- you say you like your nation
- so let's take a long vacation

My transfer agent
sens me where I
Where I want to go
That's a fact
He thinks I'm great
'cos I treat him like dirt, like durt,
he does me favours
But I could do with
even better ones,
they call him sticky
'cos I treat him like dirt,
like dirt, like dirt
- you say you like your nation
- so let's take a long vacation
Your transit airman
is heating up the engine
clear your head,
go out and get it
instead of watching T.V.,
and stagnating in your bed,
by the window
thinking of the next record
that you're going to buy,
you like Maurice
with his safety pin
so it's gonna be a Punk one
- you say you like your nation
- so let's take a long vacation

Got the wanderlust
it's time to go
and do, what you've decided to do
Go to Milan
Or if not just you take a bike
to see a sight
I feel free
you feel free
and how about the boy next door,
tell him that
you like New York
I'm sure he'll like it too
- you say you like your nation
- so let's take a long vacation


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Lycee lyrics

I was looking through
Through the, the window pane
Tears of rain ran down,
And blurred a sight so bad,
Revolution now,
Somehow, I feel afraid

I, I heard her cry
out loud, echoes insane,
shee feel to the ground,
her hand reached out in vain

Young, Lycee was young,
but now, oh there she lay,
who will call her name,
Victim of blood red flame,
she, a living sun
will not come back again
I, I saw her face
Through the, the window pane,
I, still hear her cry
I feel, I want to die,

I, I saw her face
Through the, the window pane,
I, still hear her cry
I feel I want to die

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Mandoia
lyrics

I'v gotta in Mandoia
An easy hackin in the haia
smoking laia
I see the hakin of the Maia
In Mandoia
I feel the iaia to mahoia
through my Lala
I see the hackin of Ma'haia

in Mandoia
An easy hackin in the haia
smoking laia
I see the hakin of the Maia
In Mandoia
I feel the iaia to mahoia
through my Lala
I see the hackin of Ma'haia

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

I'v gotta in Mandoia
An easy hackin in the haia
smoking laia
I see the hakin of the Maia
In Mandoia
I feel the iaia to mahoia
through my Lala
I see the hackin of Ma'haia

I'v gotta in Mandoia
An easy hackin in the haia
smoking laia

I see the hakin of the Maia
In Mandoia
I feel the iaia to mahoia
through my Lala
I see the hackin of Ma'haia

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...
so schön you can komm...

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Thank you lyrics

We would like to thank:
Mr. King: for the wonderful chinese food
Moira: for lending us coffee
Yiannis: for inviting us to pay for meals
The japs: for inventing the American finger tip orchestra
The traffic warden: for the 52 parking tickets
The Queen: for her Silver Jubilee...
Romeo Ongarello: for international telecommunications
The publishers: for allowing us to earn 50% OF OUR RIGHTS


We would like to thank:

Lonnie Donegan
Eddie Cochran
Fats Domino
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Bill Haley
Chuck Berry
Wanda Jackson
Charlie Watts
The Boys
Mick Jagger
The Saints
Bill wyman
Iggy Pop
Neu (Ney)
Fats and his Cats
Dave Anthony Mods
Les Paul
Sha-Na-Na
Roxy Music
Buddy Holly
Gene Vincent
Jimi Hendrix
Jonny Kid
Brian Jones
Jim Morrison
Elvis Presley
Marc Bolan
Louis Armstrong
Bing Crosby

and to everyone alse we have forgotten in words but not in thoughts
thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts
      
       
      
       
      
      
      
      
      
     
Viewfinder links:
     
Vangelis           
Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant           
     
YouTube link:
     
Chrisma     
     
     
     
     
     
Styrous® ~ Monday, march 1, 2021   



















Les Paul & Mary Ford articles/mentions

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Mary Ford articles/mentions

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Les Paul articles/mentions

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Chrisma articles/mentions

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February 5, 2021

Peter Baumann articles/mentions

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Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant     
      
     
     
      
     
     
      
     
Peter Baumann     
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November 28, 2020

Nick Cave articles/mentions


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photo by David Corio
      
     
      
     
      
     
      
     
      
     
      
     
      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

March 6, 2020

Iggy Pop articles/mentions

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David Bowie ~ Aladdin Sane
Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant      
GroWiser @ the Farmer's Market in Oakland     
             
     
        
             
          
     
        
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date & photographer unknown      
        
       












August 13, 2017

Elvis Presley articles/mentions

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Blue Hawaii      
Don't Be Cruel     
Don't Be Cruel lyrics       
Heartbreak Hotel: his first big hit      
           
        
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mentions:
Buchanan & Goodman ~ The Flying Saucer  
Perry Como ~ Catch A Falling Star            
Michael Damian ~ Rock On with 12"       
Barbara Eden ~ Bends It!             
Howdy Doody          
Engelbert Humperdinck
          

Stan Kenton ~ City of Glass           
Del Shannon ~ Runaway & Max Crook's Musitron          
Skatt Brothers ~ Don't Be Cruel (Disco Daze 4 - 1980)      
The Wild One ~ 1953                 
       
         















August 13, 2013

20,000 vinyl LPs 23: Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant

Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant
album cover photo
by Veronique Skavinska
photo of album cover by Styrous®

In 1978 Tom asked what I wanted for a present. Without a second of hesitation, I replied, "The most fantastic new wave music you can find." And that is exactly what I got.  

The album was Chinese Restaurant. Over the years it has become my all-time favorite new wave album; at the top of the list, numero uno. There was never anything like it before or since.

It was produced by an Italian punk-rock group with the name Chrisma (based on the organizers names, Christina Moser and husband Maurizio Arcieri). The name was later changed to Krisma.

Chinese Restaurant was recorded in the studios of Vangelis and produced by his brother, Niko Papathanassiou. Vangelis may have played on it himself but this has never been confirmed. Recorded in 1977, it was released that same year on Polydor.

(click on any photo to see slideshow)
Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant back cover
back cover photo by Veronique Skavinska
photo of album cover back by Styrous®


The music is an incredible range of styles. The opening instrumental piece, Thank You, starts with a drum kit, hi-hat, bass guitar, tambourine and synthesizer which are eventually joined by a theremin (an early electronic instrument invented by Lev Sergeyevich Termen, patented in 1928).

Léon Theremin (American spelling)
(1896-1993)
photographers unknown

Thank You is sinister, mostly because of its constant minor key modulations, and I vividly remember when I heard it for the first time, I expected the Frankenstein monster to come walking through the door. The theremin swirls around the synthesizer in a marvelous duet that slowly builds to a fantastic, eerie crescendo until it abruptly ends and sharply peters out, leaving you suspended breathlessly in mid-air. If you crash, your problem. I LUV it.

Then there is the fast, bouncy beat of Black Silk Stocking. A sensational song that demands you: 
    "Put your hand inside it, and she'll tell you where to find it,
            black silk stocking, black silk stocking". 
    "You think she's going to leave you,
            but she only wants to see you in her,
            black silk stocking, black silk stocking". 
A very provocative prelude to the next song, Lola.

Lola is a quietly boingy, springy (don't know other words to describe it) but beautifully sensual tango with a dreamy violin-synthesizer (?) and Spanish guitar accompanying the singer. Lola works in the Chinese Restaurant ("Sipping her cocktails"). She hates her clients and she kills them.

Lycee is a haunting, echoey and very slow, incredibly dramatic, dirge-like song that tells of the death of a young women lying in the street in the rain while a man watches through his window. "I, still hear her cry, I feel I want to die". True, a depressing theme but an incredible acoustical experience like nothing you've ever heard before. It winds down in a dissonant cacophony and ends with what sounds like a bouncing ball but I think it's a heartbeat (?).

Mandoia starts suddenly with an extremely fast but smooth beat with a staccato synthesizer surfing over it. It's like jumping onto a train while it's in mid-transit:
          "so schön* you can komm…",
          "so schön* you can komm…"
                      *schön (beautiful)

There are a couple of punk-like songs (Wanderlust, What For?, C-Rock) as well that are really fantastic with a new wave twist.

The album ends with a reprise of, Thank You, except this time it has words as if spoken over a telephone. It acknowledges the contribution of the people/groups that have made pop music what it is:

"We would like to thank:"

Lonnie Donegan
Eddie Cochran
Fats Domino
Jerry Lee Lewis
Little Richard
Bill Haley
Chuck Berry
Wanda Jackson
Charlie Watts
The Boys
Mick Jagger
The Saints
Bill Wyman
Iggy Pop
Neu (Ney)

There are many other acknowledgements as well (some humorous), such as:
   "The traffic warden: for the 52 parking tickets" and
  "The publishers: for allowing us to earn 50% OF OUR RIGHTS").

Album credits:

    Acoustic Guitar – Christina*1
    Arranged By, Producer – Niko Papathanassiou
    Artwork – Claudio Gobbi
    Drums – G. Durini
    Drums, Bass, Synthesizer, Keyboards, Timpani, Percussion 
                                                         – Niko Papathanassiou
    Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – E. Vevey
    Engineer – Dave Marinone, Keith Spencer-Allen
    Mixed By – Dave Marinone, Niko Papathanassiou
   Programmed By – Keith Spencer-Allen
    Synthesizer – Maurizio*2
    Written-By – J. Scott* (tracks: A2, A3, A5 to B2),
    Written-By – M. Arcieri*2, N. Papathanassiou*3
                                    (tracks: A1, A4 to B1, B3, B4)
    Photography By – Veronique Skavinska*4  


*1 Wife of Maurizio Arcieri
*2  Husband of Christina Moser
*3 Brother of Vangelis
*4 Wife of Vangelis

Thank You (instrumental version) can be heard on YouTube
Thank You (dialogue version) can be heard on YouTube
Black Silk Stocking can be heard on YouTube
Lola can be heard on YouTube
C-Rock can be heard on YouTube
What For? can be heard on YouTube

Chrisma website 
Vangelis website

to wind things up

The songs are sinister and depressing at times but musically and qualitatively the best I've ever heard in a pop music album. Not that there aren't groups who have done sinister and depressing (Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, etc.) but not like this. When I've sold my 20,000 vinyl LP collection, this is one album I'll save for the sentimental value.

It's a fantastic, one-of-a-kind album!

Chrisma ~ Chinese Restaurant gatefold interior
interior photo by Veronique Skavinska
photo of album interior by Styrous®


Thanks for giving me the album, Tom, I'm eternally grateful. And thanks, Chrisma, for mind-blowing music that even today is ahead of it's time, after 35 years. I love your music and I always will.   


Styrous© ~ Wednesday, August 13, 2013

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