The Early Tapes es un álbum de Level 42, publicado en 2000. El disco incluye 13 canciones, entre ellas «Sandstorm», «Love Meeting Love», «Theme to Margaret» y «Autumn (Paradise Is Free)».
Sobre el álbum
La compilación "The Early Tapes", del año 2000, es una fascinante pieza de arqueología musical en la discografía de Level 42. Este álbum, como su nombre indica, reúne las primeras maquetas y grabaciones de la banda, realizadas entre 1979 y 1980, antes de firmar su primer contrato discográfico. Es un documento de un valor incalculable para los fans.
El disco nos permite escuchar a una banda joven, cruda y llena de energía, forjando el sonido que los haría famosos. En estas primeras versiones de canciones como "Love Games" ya se puede apreciar el increíble virtuosismo de sus miembros y su original fusión de jazz y funk.
"The Early Tapes" es una ventana a los inicios de una leyenda, una oportunidad única de ser testigo del nacimiento de un sonido que cambiaría el panorama de la música británica. Es la prueba de que el talento y la originalidad de Level 42 estaban ahí desde el primer día.
Listado de Canciones
- Sandstorm
Letra
I've got a sandstorm blowin' in my head, I'm seein' many colours but the only one That's coming through is red, And it's stoppin' me dead tryin' to make some tracks But my feet are feeling like lead, Stop being blead, stop being blead Oh my things aren't the same, Anyone could see that if I stayed much longer, I'd be tamed We stopped playing games I'm not pointing fingers but I'm not gonna take the blame Playin' all your games, taking all your blames I said oh no, I don't even care, I guess I'll be seein' you, I guess I'll be leaving you today, We're just not a pair, I know you've been trying but I just can't bear to tell a lie' Stop tellin' me all your lies Stop tellin' me all your lies Let me take you by the hand, Try to understand, walk me to a land, Try to understand, But I ain't nothing but a man I've got a sandstorm blowin' in my head, I'm seein' many colours but the only one That's coming through Is red, You know how we feel, we can't go on pretending, And we've just got to fix the deal, Gotta make it real Gotta make it real - Love Meeting Love
Letra
Ooh summer nights - making love together we're as one - in love's light we have found our way - through another day so tonight we'll stay Drunk on loves sweet wine Heaven yours and mine Love meeting love sweet lady Take my soul And lead me to this place - in the night hold me in your arms - and take me in and we'll start again The flame to the fire - suffering our desire love meeting love yeah yeah [Interlude] And floating - lost in love Your body soft and warm - next to mine time is standing still - for you and me so silently talking with our eyes - knowing no goodbyes Love meeting love yeah yeah - Theme to Margaret
- Autumn (Paradise Is Free)
Letra
I just can't believe it's true lovers never loved as we two do take me up one love sweet dream rising, falling tell me call my name Paradise is free it's concied by you love me and know I'll always be here forever take what I can give for a love as given with all the love that we can live in together being here is all I feel passion striveing never seen so real using all to take a steer lying still now floating of the near Paradise is free it's concied by love love me and you know I'll always be here forever take what I can give for a love as given with all the love that we can live in together [Interlude] Paradise is free it's concied by love love me and you know I'll always be here forever take what I can give for a love as given with all the love that we can live in together No more games we've seen if true playing all now memory used to do summers made us gone away 'autumn raining' love U once again - Wings of Love
Letra
I was living in a daydream letting time a days my mind I didn't know what I was missing till you came into my life when I saw you pretty girl felt as going inside when I kissed you pretty girl felt you lighted up my mind Boy I'm crying I'm on the wings of love and I know that It comes from junior love all in hands we walk together nothing's gonna make us fast but our love will lives forever If the sun that's in our heart Making love is also sweet we're lost in each others eyes and I bought infinity that the one turnes to life Boy I'm flying I'm on the wings of love and I know that It comes from junior love Now I'm living in a lovedream time and days are passing by Now I really know what love is I can't help smiling all the time when you're with me pretty girl I feel your warmth by my side when you touch me pretty girl brings that joy often high Boy I'm flying I'm on the wings of love and I know that It comes from junior love (and I know that It comes from junior love) - Woman
- Mr. Pink
- 88
- Take a Look
Letra
I'm a ragged man with a ragged heart but I wear my soul with pride you can see me on the road see my carrying my home and perhaps it seems that I'm all alone but I'm happy here inside you can keep your fancy dress 'cause to me it don't impress when I look in your face that camera smile looks out of place on you by the look in your eyes I can see you realize so lend yourself to me I'll show you what could be well I've come so far down so many roads I've experienced your pain you know that that's a fact I can see the way you act but I learned to see what was wrong with me and I won't go back again I know I've made mistakes but I also made the break you surround yourself with secrets you are afraid to show to the world you convince yourself there's no other way to go don't you see the smile on my face does it look so out of place so lend yourself to me I'll show you what could be (yes I will) so many ways for you to spend the passing days loving and living or losing and using life is forgiving so use it well feeling revealing or wheeling and dealing life's not for stealing and time will tell take a look at your face take a look at your face you must surely know if man made heaven then man made hell so take a look at yourself what's this secret you can't tell me (when I look in your face I see that smile so out of place on you and by the look in your eyes I can see you realize, oh yeah) - Something About You
Letra
Ooh... Ooh... How - how can it be that a love Carved out of caring fashioned by fate Could suffer so hard From the games played much too often But making mistakes is a part Of life's imperfections born of the years Is it so wrong to be human after all Drawn into the stream Of undefined illusion Those diamond dreams They can't disguise the truth That there is something about you Baby so right I wouldn't be without you baby tonight If ever our love was concealed No one can say that we didn't feel A million things And a perfect dream of life Gone, fragile but free We remain tender together If not so in love It's not so wrong We're only human after all These changing years They add to your confusion Oh and you need to hear the time That told the truth That there is something about you Baby so right Don't want to be without you Baby tonight Because there's something about you Baby so right I couldn't live without you Baby tonight Ooh... Ooh... And there's something about you I couldn't live without you Tonight - Running in the Family
Letra
Our dad would send us to our room He'd be the voice of doom He said that we would thank him later All day, he was solid as a rock But by eight o'clock We'd be crumbling One night, my brother Joe and me Climbed down the family tree That grew outside our bedroom window We ran, though we knew it couldn't last Running from the past From things that we were born to be Looking back, it's so bizarre It runs in the family All the things we are On the back seat of the car With Joseph and Emily We only see so far And we all have our daddy's eyes Looking back, it's so bizarre Dad rang the officer in charge A man so large He barely fit his circumstances He said two kids out on the street Were picked up on the beat And in the station So there's me, with Emily and Joe Daddy driving home All heading in the same direction He knew, no matter what the breaks We'd make the same mistakes Couldn't take his eyes of Joe and me Looking back, it's so bizarre It runs in the family All the things we are On the back seat of the car With Joseph and Emily We only see so far And we all have our daddy's eyes Looking back, it's so bizarre It runs in the family All the things we are Looking back, it's so bizarre Like a dream within a dream We're all somewhere in between Like a drummer plays his drum Like a father, like a son And your gonna have to face the music, oh yeah Face the music Hey hey, we keep it running in the family Hey hey, we keep it coming in the family Looking back, it's so bizarre It runs in the family All the things we are On the back seat of the car With Joseph and Emily We only see so far 'Cause we all have our daddy's eyes Looking back, it's so bizarre, whoa yeah Running in the family Running in the family And we all have our daddy's eyes Looking back, it's so bizarre, whoa yeah Running in the family - Lessons in Love
Letra
I'm not proud, I was wrong And the truth is hard to take I felt sure we had enough But our love went overboard Lifeboat lies lost at sea I've been trying to reach your shore Waves of doubt keep drowning me All the dreams that we were building We never fulfilled them Could be better, should be better For lessons in love For restless eyes, egos burn And the mold is hard to break Now we've waded in too deep And love is overboard Heavy hearts, token words All the hopes I ever had Fade like footprints in the sand All the homes that we were building We never lived in Could be better, should be better Lessons in love If we lose the time before us The future will ignore us We should use it, we could use it, yeah Lessons in love Lost without love Lessons in love When will you ever learn Lessons in love When there's nowhere left to turn Lessons in love Don't let your spirit burn Lessons in love I'll wait 'till you return All the dreams that we were building We never lived them We should use it, we could use it, yeah For lessons in love All the homes that we were building we never lived in Could be better, should be better Lessons in love If we lose the time before us The future will ignore us We should use it, we could use it, yeah Lessons in love - The Chinese Way
Letra
Take a journey back in time Leave the western world behind Cross the mountains to Peking Where the paper lanterns gently swing The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows My eyes wide open I feel a breeze Words softly spoken In Cantonese Standing at the master's side Then with patience he confides Secret knowledge, sacred ways Pearls of wisdom from the dragon days I could never lie For honor I would die Following the Chinese way So many years ago Heroes ruled the world (Some died for love in a cruel world) They were the only ones in a cruel world I could never lie For honor I would die Following the Chinese way From the mountains to Peking Where the paper lanterns gently swing The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows The Chinese way Who knows what they know The Chinese legend grows