Discographie et „Lyrics“ de Crime and the city solution 1985-1993
Merci a Leo Meijer et Maurice Maes de m’autoriser a „utiliser“ leur discographie de „Crime and the city solution“ !
Sydney 1977-1978. (Pas de sortie officielle de disques : le nom du groupe semble être : „The particles“ mais selon Simon Bonney, son premier groupe s’appelait déjà ‚Crime and the city solution‘.
- Simon Bonney – vocals
- Don McLennan – drums
- Harry Zanteni – guitar
- Phil Kitchener – bass
- Dave MacKinnon – soprano; tenor saxophone
Melbourne 1979. (Pas de sortie officielle de disques.). Je me répète, il s’agit de la 2e mouture des ‚Crime and the city solution‘.
- Simon Bonney – vocals
- Don McLennan – drums
- Dan Wallace-Crabbe – guitar
- Lindsay O’Meara – bass
- Chris Astley – keyboards
- Kim Beissel – alt saxophone
Berlin/Londre 1985. 3e mouture des ‚Crime…‘
- Simon Bonney – vocals
- Mick Harvey – guitar
- Rowland S. Howard – guitar
- Harry Howard – bass
- Epic Soundtracks – drums
Berlin, Juillet 1987-1991. 4e et dernière mouture des ‚Crime…‘
- Simon Bonney – vocals
- Mick Harvey – drums
- Bronwyn Adams – violin
- Chrislo Haas – synthesizer
- Alex Hacke – guitar
- Thomas Stern – bass
For some covers, click here !
12″ 1985 „The Dangling Man“ 
The Dangling Man
The Last Day
At The Crossroads
Shakin‘ Chill
lp 1985 „Just South Of Heaven“ (mini-lp)
Rose Blue
The Coal Train
Stolen & Stealing
Five Stone Walls
Trouble Come This Morning
The Wailing Wall
12″ 1986 „The Kentucky Click/Adventure„
Adventure
It Takes Two To Burn
The Kentucky Click
LP 1986 „Room Of Lights“ 
Right Man Wrong Man
No Money No Honey
Hey Sinkiller
Six Bells Chime
Adventure
Untouchable
The Brother Song
Her Room Of Lights
CD 1986 „Room Of Lights“ + extra tracks
Right Man Wrong Man
No Money No Honey
Six Bells Chime
Adventure
The Brother Song
Her Room Of Lights
Extra tracks from the maxi ‚Just South of Heaven‘
Rose Blue
The Coal Train
Five Stone Walls
The Wailing Wall
Trouble Come This Morning
Extra tracks from the maxi ‚The dangling man‘
The Dangling Man
12″ 1988 „On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)“
On every train (grain will bear grain)
All must be love (early version)
LP/CD 1988 „Shine“ 
All Must Be Love
Fray So Slow Angel
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
Hunter
Steal To The Sea
Home Is Far From Here
On CD : extra tracks ‚On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)‘ 12″ Version, ‚All Must Be Love (early version)‘
LP/CD 1988 „Wings Of Desire„, musique du film de Wim Wenders (réalisateur allemand des films comme „Paris-Texas“, „l’ami américain“, „So far so close‘, etc.). Dans le film (en français : ‚les ailes du désirs‘, les ‚Crime…‘ jouent la chanson „Six Bells Chime“ live. Sur l’album, on a droit à la version studio ! Titre allemand du film: „Der Himmel Uber Berlin“ = le ciel au-dessus de Berlin). Le cd/lp est intitulé „Les Ailes Du Désir“ chez Sepa-Milan
Vidéo 1989 „Kings Of Independence„, enregistrements live de ‚Crime and the City Solution‘, ‚Nick Cave‘ et les ‚The Swans‘. Live at Hamburg, 15 August 87.
Chansons interprétées :
All Must Be Love
Steal To The Sea Grain
Will Bear Grain
STUD!O K7-001
12″/ 1989 „The Shadow Of No Man„
- the shadow of no man
- the brideship
- three/four
CDs The Shadow Of No Man Three/Four The Bride Ship +CD+ On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
LP/CD 1989 „The Bride Ship“ CA 
The Shadow Of No Man
The Greater Head Stone
The Dangling Man Keepsake
The Bride Ship Free
World New World +CD+ Three/Four +CD+ The Bride Ship
12″/ 1990 „I Have The Gun“ 
CDs „I Have The Gun Motherless Child (Dance Mix)“
I Have The Gun (Woody Guthrie Mix) Mute 114
10″/ 1990 „The Dolphins & The Sharks“ 
CDs “ The Dolphins & The Sharks“
The Sun Before The Darkness (instrumental)
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain) (instrumental)
The Bride Ship (instrumental)
LP/CD 1990 „Paradise Discotheque“ CA 
I Have The Gun
The Sly Persuaders
The Dolphins & The Sharks
The Sun Before Darkness
Motherless Child
The Last Dictator I
The Last Dictator II
The Last Dictator III
The Last Dictator IV
LP/CD 1991 „Bis Ans Ende Der Welt„, musique du film de Wim Wenders. En anglais „Until The End Of The World“.
Contient une version de ‚The adversary‘ des ‚Crime…‘ WEA, 1991
2 CD 1992 „Gas Food Lodging„, cette musique de film contient la chanson “ Sun Before Dawn“ (instrumental) Mute, Ionic
9 LP/CD 1993 „The Adversary – Live„, enregistrement live de Paris, au New Morning 19/12/90, et le tout dernier concert au CBGB’s NYC on August 5 and 6, 1991.
The Adversary : ‚utilisé dans le film du réalisateur allemand, Wim Wenders : ‚Bis ans Ende der Welt‘
Keepsake
All Must Be Love
The Last Dictator Part 1
The Last Dictator Part 2
The Dangling Man
On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
Angel The Dolphins & The Sharks
The Bride Ship
The Free World
The Sun Before Darkness
10″ 1992 „Lullabies“ de Congo Norvell (appell& aussi Kid Congo Powers : ancien Cramps, ancien Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds…) contient une version d‘ „Angel“. Fiasco, fsc 106
Simon Bonney
Discographie : Deux albums
Un troisième en préparation !
Forever : 1992, Produced by Gareth Jones 
Ravenswood
Forever
A part of you
Like Caesar needs a brutus
Saw you falling
Someone loves you
There can only be one
Now that she gone
The sun don’t shine
Ravenswood (reprise)
Musiciens : J. D.Foster [from band „Green on red“]: acoustic and electric guitars, Mondolin, bass on ‚a part of you“, Jon-Dee Graham : lap steel, Dobro, Bottle-neck guitar; Bronwyn Adams : violin ; Reinhold Heil : organ and piano; Gregory Boaz : eletric and upright bass ; Hans Behrendi : percusion ; Archie Francis and Biff Barefoot Sanders : drums
STUMM 99 „Everyman“ : 1995, Produced by Gareth Jones.
Everyman : where was it begun
Don’t walk away from love
Travelin‘ on
Everyman : looking for a life I can’t explain
A white suit in Mempys
Ruby
Everyman : Orzorks Waltz
All god’s children
Everyman : but there is no place for everyman
Where trouble is easier to find
Good time charlie’s got the blues
Western the lights : Eve
Blue eyes crying in the rain
Everyman : This is what you made me
Musiciens : Simon BONNEY Vocals/voix / J. D. FOSTER Guitare, Guitare basse, Mandoline / Bronwyn ADAMS Violon, Piano, Harmonica / Jon Dee GRAHAM Guitare, Dobro, Lap steel guitar / Chuck PROPHET Guitare / Matt SMITH Guitare, Piano, Orgue / Skip EDWARDS Orgue, Guitare électrique / David HALLEY Guitare / Daren HESS Drums, Percussion / Joe SUBLETT Horns / Darrell LEONARD Saxophone / Frank KAMMERDEINER Violoncelle / John HAGEN Violoncelle / Freddy KRC Drums, Percussion
Soundtracks :
>Il y aurait un track de S. B. sur le soundtrack de la série TV „Northern exposure“ [1990-1995]; Il s’agit de „Someone Loves You“ on
MCA Records, Inc. MCAD-11077
>d’après LAWRENCE_D_JACKSON@DELL.COM , il y aurait une chanson de S. B. : „waters edge“ sur le soundtrack du film „Underworld“ (1997).
>….. pour être honnête, S.B. a sûrement réalisé d’autres musiques de films car il a collaboré à plus d’un courts-métrages; mais comment connaître les titres des morceaux ?
>“Eyes of blue“ : Label ?
Nouvel album qui existe à l’état de démo et que Simon Bonney espère sortir à la fin de l’année. Thirdgear records, est un label basé à Détroit; il aurait pu sortir le nouvel album ‚Eyes of blue‘ que Simon Bonney espérait sortir fin 2000, courant 2001, à la fois aux States et en Europe. Nous sommes en 2003 et rien n’a abouti ! La plupart des chansons aurait été composées de 96 à 98 et enregistrées à Detroit avec certains des musiciens jouant sur les autres albums solo. A noter que le titre fait écho à une des chansons de l’album „Everyman“ : Blues Eyes crying in the rain
Selon mon humble opinion, d’après la K7 que j’ai entendue, le nouvel album se rapproche plus de ‚Forever‚, ce qui augure du meilleur.
Lyrics
Just south of heaven, 1985
ROSE BLUE
Rose Blue
I aw the sky turn
Rose Blue
I opened up her locker
Found out what she was hiding
Saw that I had left a ditch inside er
er head is liker her room
It has no order
AndI felll away
I watched her jam a fork right up into her arm
And I saw her slip away
Slip away slip away
Th hollow that I partied on
Filled up that space inside her
Rose Blue
I saw the sky turn
Rose Blue
The curtains the walls the lock on the door
Locked us in together
Bu the things she said
When I fell asleep, went to bed
Well I was deaf to that tune
She started to wear those lon blue sleeves
Oh they saw her through me
When I planted that need
When I see that damaged place inside her
I opened that wound opened that wound
And her heart that inside her
I want to kill her
Kill that broken heart
Rose BLue
I saw the sky turn
Rose Blue
I wish I was her prize possession
She put it back together
Put it back together
It is her treasure
It had a black heart
It had a white body
And she cherished it with love
I believe her mother gave it to her
Well I threw it at the wall
Broke into one thousand pieces
Tiried to put it back together
Think I’ve sunk down deep
Down deep into my Rose’s Blues
STOLEN AND STEALING
Bad air brings it’s stable home
And shows it in your room
All the work is done
The workers have all gone
And the signs and the signal say
The signs and the signals say
Don’t you breath
Don’t you turn your face away
My blanket gone, my ceiling
Stolen and stealing
Stolen and stealing away
Oh my heart, a stolen bedhead
A stone bedhead
The floors aren’t safe now
No stairs left and all the stars
There were flowers too in my home
All away all away
And the signs and the sginals say
Don’t you breath
Don’t you turn your face away
The bg Jims feet have scaled all the doors away
It takes you away
THE COAL TRAIN
I hear her callingI think
I see her now
I think I hear her calling now
Hear her calling now
That lady of flowers
And her softs spell
Her sweet taste
Takes me far from his place
Oh and the love train
The love train is in the station now
In the station now
That old devil man
Deep down there
In his fire home
Rose up knee high
With his song of desire
Words of deceit
Dropped there at my feet
Now outside my door he stands
That old man of shadowAnd his shadow band
For downn the thorny road
Are we bound
Without light
Without soundAnd he’s knocking
On my door
He says
It’s time we were going boy
Donwn that old road of sorrow
And now he’s walking
There beside me
That old man of shadow
Now there’s this girl
He says you can’t forsake
This girl it’s said
You’re bound to take
He says
The Coal Train
Is due here soon
Is due here soon
It’ll come in time
Yes it’s coming soon
It’ll draw in close
Oh no I say
Not this one
Not this one for that coal train
Not this one
For your cold coal train
I had no love
For her skinny waist
I had no love
For her at all
Just a need
Just a need
When she stole me
Along by the roadside
And rattled the tin strings
Of my body blue
Oh I’m getting older now
I’m getting older
Walking down that road
With that old man of shadow
That old man of shadow
And it’s growing darker now
And night is ever near
Night is ever near
Oh here it comes again
Here it comes again
The Coal Train baby
That Coal Train tonight
The Coal Train baby
The cold coal train
FIVE STONE WALLS
Five stone walls
Made up m home
May never
Never leave
Going to hate those walls
Till the day I die
Seven long months
Spent in the ground
I lived in a hole
Behind them walls
Five walls made up my home
Fvie walls made out of stone
For seven months
It hollowed me out
Hollowed out my body
Like insects do the poppy
I did seven months on my knees
Pride was a luxury
Still I held onto you
And I had no pride
Without pride
I held out for you
I sratched a number
Off a whole lot of numbers
Passed my fingers
Across your face
Where your picture lay
I was the walking sleeping
There was no rest for me
I had to walk that one straight path
Oh back and forth and back and forth
I’ve been walking
Now for ten weeks
I don’t remember
I follow the line
I follow the line till the end
I don’t remember
Eighty-seven days
Eighty-seven days
And jsut a picture
This way my ride
There was no one else inside
This was my road
It took me back
It took me forward
Four hundred miles
Fourn hundred miles
The open whites gates
The set me free
But I will not be
I will not be
Until four hundred miles are behind me
Who’ll be there to meet me?
TROUBLE COME THIS MORNING
Footsore this morning
At the break of day
Not the curtains won’t part
Not the curtains won’t part
He left his fingersprints
Dull trails upon a heart
Yeah weary come this morning
Slid on his black boots
Settled and stayed
Stettled and stayed
Envy come to live with me
He looked into my head
Spoke my conversations
Come to sleep with me in my bed
Trouble, oh he came this morning
Called out my name
And covered me with shame
Oh trouble oh trouble
Weary walkin‘ over me
Softly he won’t tread
Broke into my centre
With his hard heart
Led me onto shelter
This shelter is my home
I borrow no light
I know no treasured sights
i see no-one
No-one sees me
Envy come to live with me, etc.
I know you
I know you
I know trouble
I know trouble
Footsore come this morning, etc.
Trouble come this morning
At the break of day
Now the company I’me keeping
Has change my name
THE WAILING WALL
Part her down the middle
A waiting girl
Behind a wailing wall
Oh hum a waiting girl
She separates the lovers
Hands and hearts
Separates the loving
Waiting hearts and hands
Two upon her left hand
Two upon her right
Says let’s get it right get it straight
And he, he will protect her
And she, will she reject her?
And three, three will be bound together
She lost a trusted mentor
Beloved girl hold up a broken centre
Who let a booted army enter
Tread the tender flesh and tender
Hope in the payment and faith in the lender
Three place cloth over her eyes
And four bolds her down
And five loosens the ties
Six takes pictures of her body as it lies
And she lies
She lies behing the wailing wall
Poison comes in words across the sea
Word from home, leave you alone
Just more baggage for you
Take off her red shoes and show her to me
Take off her blue skirt and show her to me
She led the way, made her own way
The balance restored, the payment received
The rain their course right through her
Rain in all directions, home in all directions
Oh and she thanks no one
And no one thanks her
He was was not her keeper
And she, sche could not reach her
She builts a wall that wailed
She builts a tall wall that failed
Mute records
1985
LYRICS
Room of lights“ : 1986, mute rec.
Right man : wrong man
I’m calling from underground
sit in a horsechair resteless chair
and put on my wost clothes
I roll myself up in the ash and the dirt
on my floor buried inside
the soft centre of my hearts desire
I’ll finish my food and I’ll be stray
the soft shots through me have passed away
I trust it up with one hand
yeah and I pulled it down
well I built it up I pulled it down
left hand, right hand
right man – wrong man
I held you crossly
put a finger in your blue eyes
my faraway beloved one
with her starry faith, she keeps me afloat
yean and she could sink with just one stroke
my love she’s a prue heartred girl
I’m just a young boy in her mind
You’re just a neck to ankle dress
and sexlessness
put a finger in your blue eyes
I built it up with one hand
yeah and I pulled it down
well I built it up I pulled it down
left hand, right hand
right man – wrong man
the girls under heel
and she plays her sad music
a lit match beneath my heel
says lay down the past
and shed taht skin
and we’ll have no history
and you’ll still hold your mystery
lay back now beloved one
you swing around in a wing
you open up and sing
your horsehour restless jacket
leaves you senseless
he sut his eyes
lets the silence do the rest
well I built it up with one hand
yeah and I pulled it down
I built it up I pulled it down
left hand, right hand
right man – wrong man
No money, no honey
She went to the market
ther were men and women there
he said come one honey lets go upstairs
on a red velvet blancket she lays hout her wares
take off you shoes, Jim
you want time and honey
hey I got them right here
you want real meat
go no further
I got my own teeth I got my own hair
hey you want my sister I give you the pair
You want – I give
candy – no candy
You want – I give
no money – no honey, Jim
no money – no honey, Jim
gutter, stash, rhino-cash
I tell you this is good stuff
this is the stuff the Jimes lived and died on
there are sad the have nothing
were are glad we have everything
I – got – black – heels – for your face
split lip – I got salt and I make
Jim’s drums in the morning
Jim’s drums at night
Jim’s drums bring order
to our lives
no money no honey
no money no honey
go no further
no mony no honey Jim
– no time –
Hey sinkiller
What will you give ?
what will you give ?
made it round and circled it
stamped my form into the ground
beneath it I lit a fire sinkiller
where is it ?
it’s at your feet
where will we meet ?
ohh not in the pit where the fire is lit
hot foot it
hot foot it up above…
what will I find there?
What will I find there?
your naked sprite
your dried up spit – your eyes gone blind
your faithfull mind
beneath god’s heel it’s one long grind
beneath god’s heel it’s one long grind
up above that’s my trick
hot foot it
hot foot it
hot foot it up above, hey sinkiller up above
Six bells chime
This is where it starded
the trucks, the trees and her six bells
now babys going to loock back home
I’m wearing my clean clothes
yeah I still got the ones you gave me
you’ve been treading some unsafe ground
and baby looks tired tonight
out amongs the pikes and narrow streets
you go around
I hear the six bells they’re ringing
yeah the six bells they chime
lay down your head now
you will sleep sound
I will hold onto you
through lifes time
you’re seventeen
you’re are seventeen at this time
I wear your silver rings
with your hand on my heart
left your there with your grey eyes
pack up their suitcase and leave
raise my hand up to the sky
now don’t you touch me
don’t you cry
an age ago you would’nt touched e
on the last day
we will always be fighting
a promise
a year of luxury
perfect
perfect kiss
how long my long lost
will the last day be
I’m innocent of you there
and you of me
and you will sleep sound
I will hold onto you
in lifes time
you’re are seventeen
you’re are seventeen at this time
I met you when you were a young girl
years and years six bells back
six bells passed above the two
on a pier in another time
well I drew your body close to mine
you held your head up high then
you reached inside then
I would give you everything
at this time
my pretty one
my fearless one
from this time
my fearless-one
my young pretty one
the six bells – I made them ring
lay down your head now
you will sleep sound
I will hold onton you
until deaths time
you’re seventeen at this time
you’re seventeen at this time
Adventure
Untouchables
your a feral child
make your home in the wild
and she’s got eyes
and they’re animal eyes
they mett holes in the ice
eyes burning brights as planet…
you placed the pillow under my head
when I was sick and full of greed
I love her kind
and her kind is in me
she is my night light
she hurts my eyes
she steals my steep
she lives up above the top of the heap
she sixes up above the stock and frict
and she hurts me in my pride
takes away the hatchet knife
that I’ve kept with me throughout my life
she’s untouchable
she’s 6’s up
and 6’s down
yeah 6 stairs up
and 6 steps down
and my heart is full
I like this life
is that OK to you !
The brother song
She looks at him and smiles
Opens up her foreign eyes
Spired cities mountain,
Distant hill and vale
Child’s trail
To a mud hut
Canyon, muddy pools and ruts
Now the switch is broken
Her eyes are shut…
Her room of light : for lisa
hey hey hey
here come the brights lights
here come the good times
I got on my suit of lights
I got on my suit of lights
they’ll be dancing and good times in those rafters
well you took off your rings
your make up at this time
here’s no debts to pay we’ll save the lion
there comes your gold
there comes your star
stay in your room of lights
with your ornaments
stay in your room of lights
in these honeyed times
stay in your room of lights
stay in your room of lights
stay in your room of lights
in your room of lights
in your room of lights
make it right
in your room of lights
sew the button back on my jacket
lay down in the room of ligths
pick her blue dress up off the floor
she draws animals up on the wall
the she reached down, reached down the well
take your pictures down of the wall
put your rings into the draw
pick your crayons up off the floor
tread the carpet, roll the carpet down the hall
our friend she can’t be here with us today
she’s gone away
she’s gone away
oh she’s the diamonds that built the castle
she’s the rocks that built the shack
she’s the diamonds that built the castle
our friend she can’t be here with us today
she’s gone away
she’s gone away
she’s gone away
make it winter time
in-in-in her room of lights
in-in-in her room of lights
oh back and forth in winter-time
oh back and forth in winter-time
in her room of lights
in her room of lights
1986,
Mute Records
FOREVER
ALL GOD’S CHILDREN
The prisoner says I’ve nothing left to see,
I no longer even dream I’m free.
Jilly Anne says there is no sky above
For her to live beneath and dream of love
When there is no sky above
We are still God’s children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We’re all God’s children
All God’s children
The refugee says it’s very hard to be free
When it’s you and not me I want to be
The rich man says it’s very hard to see
With all these posessions I can’t separate from me
When it’s very hard to see
We are still God’s children
Still God’s children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We’re all God’s children
All God’s children
And all God’s children
Are born free
Even if it’s bondage that they see
All born free
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We’re all God’s children
All God’s Children
For the lonely and the hard to get along
For the angry and the someone done me wrong
We’re still God’s children
We’re still God’s children
We’re all God’s children
TRAVELLIN‘ ON
There’s a strangeness
in the skies above Arizona
and the people down there
they just can’t get no sleep
well I ran from those skies
to the Georgia boarder
just looking for a place
to rest my family
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I’m travellin‘
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin‘
I might find heaven
I’ve seen fire
in the sugar fields of Alabama
and the harvest lights with people gathered there
looking for work
I wear the same face as the many
I’m just trying to feed my family
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I’m travellin‘
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin‘
I might find heaven
And I’m looking
in every town
for a sign
maybe
going to be
this time
but the trucks
keep on rollin‘
rollin‘ along
and the trucks
just keep rollin‘
rollin‘ along
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
If I’m travellin‘
if I keep travellin‘ on
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I’m travellin‘
Ah,ah,ah,ah, if I keep travllin‘
I might find heaven
I might find home.
1992,
Mute Records
Simon bonney 