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song: All Lined Up
artist: Shriekback
album: Priests and Kannibals: The Best Of …
released: 1994length: 3:55
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Tired of all this crawling around
Realising the joke was on us
Reaching out to the obvious
Starting with an answer not a question
Our most acceptable businesses
All aligned in just one direction
Organised on the same lines
With one face - one side

We got all lined up
We got all lined up
We got all lined up
All lined up
All lined up

Back at the all night party
We're getting clearer all the time
Refined to one shape - frozen like crystal
It has the symmetry of perfect design
One line leads to another
They cross at the corners run straight at the sides
It reads the same way in any direction
Two red circles and a thick black spine

We got all lined up
We got all lined up
We got all lined up
All lined up
All lined up

Let it fall into place we could tie it to a tree
We could point it at you we could make it a habit
We could leave it outside or we could give it our food
Understand it or we could ignore it

Holding all our past in the one hand
We showed those people in a way they understand
Shiny little eyes on a big red bus
The ones we point at work for us
One sharp point between distinction
Going this way for X amount of time
Frame - line - and convergence
From the first to the final
This intention is mine

We got all lined up
We got all lined up
We got all lined up
All lined up
All lined up

(repeat chorus)
Shriekback

Shriekback are an English rock band formed in 1981 in Kentish Town by Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC and the League of Gentlemen (keyboards/synthesizers/vocals), and Dave Allen, formerly of Gang of Four (bass guitar), with Carl Marsh, formerly of Out on Blue Six (guitars/vocals) soon added to the line-up. The band's early music was a funk-influenced version of new wave and post-punk, later moving towards art rock and always featuring "insidiously weird vocals".

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Comments ( 234 )
Posted 7 years ago by Gusdadringo:
Saw Shriekback in Vancouver in 86 at the Commodore and it was regarded as one of the top shows of the decade. And as far as the comments suggesting that the 80's was a decade of terrible music then you must have only been watching or listening to MTV and lousy radio because there was an explosion of bands putting out great and many times adventurous music including Simple Minds, Shriekback, XTC, Japan, Wire, Cocteau Twins, Talking Heads, Police, King Crimson, Prefab Sprout, Robin Hitchcock, The Clash, Lloyd Cole, Husker Du, The Replacements, The Stranglers, The The, Level 42, Talk Talk, Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, Sinead O'Connor and many others that I'm sure folks can add to the list. Lots of great writers. players and singers.  
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Posted 6 years ago by AhhtheMusic:
AhhtheMusic wrote:
Love the bass in this.

 
Wanted to write this... and then realized I already did.  
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Posted 5 years ago by DrMacDaddy:
DrMacDaddy wrote:
Oh, RP, how we love you!
 
I support RP not because I want to hear music like this, but because I want everyone to hear music like this!
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Posted 4 years ago by danmc:
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Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities:
joe-1 wrote:
Superb gritty bass line. Can't sit still on this one.
 
I believe that's Dave Allen - previously of Gang Of Four - playing bass on this track.
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Posted 7 years ago by DrMacDaddy:
Oh, RP, how we love you!
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Posted 4 years ago by Pjesnik:
Shimmer wrote:
Wants to be: Talking Heads
But is: Midnight Oil
 
Shriekback are in totally different vein from either TH or MO. 
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Posted 2 years ago by slugore:
So much chair dancing happening here! 
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Posted 3 years ago by giammin:
that bassline is pretty good
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Posted 6 years ago by Pjesnik:
Love Shriekback very much.  They have always been too sweaty for the intellectuals and too smart for sweaty floor dancers.   
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Posted 6 years ago by icuski2:
Gusdadringo wrote:
Saw Shriekback in Vancouver in 86 at the Commodore and it was regarded as one of the top shows of the decade. And as far as the comments suggesting that the 80's was a decade of terrible music then you must have only been watching or listening to MTV and lousy radio because there was an explosion of bands putting out great and many times adventurous music including Simple Minds, Shriekback, XTC, Japan, Wire, Cocteau Twins, Talking Heads, Police, King Crimson, Prefab Sprout, Robin Hitchcock, The Clash, Lloyd Cole, Husker Du, The Replacements, The Stranglers, The The, Level 42, Talk Talk, Kate Bush, Jane Siberry, Sinead O'Connor and many others that I'm sure folks can add to the list. Lots of great writers. players and singers.  
 

Devo
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Posted 5 years ago by markybx:
Gave this a 7, but then -> 8 cosa the Bass 
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Posted 2 years ago by xrdstv:
nice groove
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Posted 8 years ago by coloradojohn:
Solid, wild grooves in this cool rocking gem! Dave Allen is bassically insane! Makes me wanna dig out all my old Gang of Four records and ROCK THE FREAKIN' HOOD!
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Posted 2 years ago by tpd:
Love this band. Thanks for playing William & Company.

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Posted 2 years ago by jjbchansen159:
Have this in the original vinyl.  Great album.  
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Posted 2 years ago by everettwa:
 joejennings wrote:

Excellent! I never heard of them before! Thanx RP!



I find myself thinking that frequently every day. I guess that's why we listen.
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Posted 3 years ago by garrettb:
 danmc wrote:


Darn, I have forgotten what I was thinking just now....
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Posted 3 years ago by joejennings:
 eileenomurphy wrote:

Great tune!!! I like the bass line & kick drum sound!




I Agree!!
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Posted 3 years ago by joejennings:
Excellent! I never heard of them before! Thanx RP!
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