Shangri-la
lançamento: 27 de setembro - 2004
Obs: Junto ao álbum virá um DVD bonus com ensaios, entrevistas e fotos feitas no estúdio Shangri-la. Também sairá (mas provavelmente só lá fora) em disco de vinil duplo, em SACD 5.1 stereo, e em fita cassete.
Faixas
1. 5.15 a.m. (5:54)
2. Boom, Like That (5:47)
3. Sucker Row (4:55)
4. The Trawlerman¹s Song (5:00)
5. Back To Tupelo (4:29)
6. Our Shangri-la (5:41)
7. Everybody Pays (5:23)
8. Song For Sonny Liston (5:07)
9. Whoop De Doo (3:49)
10. Postcards From Paraguay (4:05)
11. All That Matters (3:09)
12. Stand Up Guy (4:33)
13. Donegan¹s Gone (3:00)
14. Don¹t Crash The Ambulance (5:06)
Singles
1. Boom like That (album version)
2. Summe of Lover (inédita)
3. Who’s Your Baby Now, live from Massey Hall
Informações
Data de Lançamento: 27.09.2004
Gravação: Shangri-la Studios - Malibu, Los Angeles
Gravado e Mixado por Chuck Ainlay
Engenheiro adicional: Guy Fletcher
Engenheiro assistente: Rupert Coulson
Masterizado: Bob Ludwig at Gateway mastering and dvd, maine
Mixagem: British grove studios, chiswick, London
Produção: Chuck Ainlay / Mark Knopfler
All songs written by Mark Knopfler
Músicos
Mark Knopfler: vocals and guitars
Richard Bennett: guitars
Jim Cox: piano and organ
Guy Fletcher: keyboards
Glenn Worf: bass
Chad Cromwell: drums
paul franklin: pedal steel on ‘our shangri-la’ and ‘whoop de doo’
Letras
5.15 a.m.
snow laying all around
a collier cycles home
from his night shift underground
past the silent pub
primary school, workingmens club
on the road from the pithead
the churchyard packed
with mining dead
then beneath the bridge
he comes to a giant car
a shroud of snow upon the roof
a mark ten jaguar
he thought the man was fast asleep
silent, still and deep
both dead and cold
shot through
with bullet holes
the one armed bandit man
came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
e-type jags and flashy suits
put your money in
pull the levers
watch them spin
cash cows in all the pubs
but he preferred the new nightclubs
nineteen sixty-seven
bandit men in birdcage heaven
la dolce vita, sixty-nine
all new to people of the tyne
who knows who did what
somebody made a call
they said his hands
were in the pot
that he’d been skimming hauls
he picks up the swag
they gaily gave away
drives his giant jag
off to his big pay day
the bandit man
came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
e-type jags and flashy suits
the bandit man
came up the great north road
up to geordieland
to mine
the mother lode
seams blew up or cracked
black diamonds came hard won
generations toiled and hacked
for a pittance and black lung
crushed by tub or stone
together
and alone
how the young and old
paid the price of coal
eighteen sixty-seven
my angel’s gone to heaven
he’ll be happy there
sunlight and sweet clean air
they gather round the glass
tough hewers and crutters
child trappers and putters
the little foals and half-marrows
who pushed
and pulled the barrows
the hod boys
and the rolleywaymen
5.15 a.m.
BOOM LIKE THAT
I'm going to San Bernardino Ridididin
Milkshake mix is thus my thing now
These guys bought a heap of my stuff
And I gotta see a good thing shooting up now
Folks line up all down the street
now I am seeing this girl devour her meat now
and then I get it WHAM as clear as day
my pulse begins to hammer then I hear a voice say
These boys have got this down ought to be one of these in every town
These boys have got the touch It's clean as a whistle and it don't cost much
wham bam don't wait long, shake fries plenty of gum
how about that friendly name, heck, every little thing gotta stay the same
or my name is not Kroc, that's Kroc with a K
A crocodile is not spelt that way now
It's Dog eat dog, rat eat rat
Kroc style - boom like that
you gentlemen are to expand
you're gonna need a helping hand now
So gentlemen well what about me?
we'll make a little business history now
well we'll build it up and I'll buy him out
the man they made me grind it out now
they open up a new place flippin meat
so I do too, right across the street
I got the main I need town, sell em' in the end and it all shuts down
Sometimes you gotta be an S.O.B. you wanna make a dream reality
competition sent em south, they're gonna drown or we're hosing em' out
do not pass go go straight to hell
I smell a lotta meat .....da smell
or my name is not Kroc that's Kroc with a K
A crocodile is not spelt that way now
ohh it's Dog eat Dog, Rat eat Rat
Dog eat Dog, Rat eat Rat now
ohh it's Dog eat Dog, Rat eat Rat
Kroc style - boom like that