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Il suono dei Shiny Toy Guns è un mix di elettronica, rock, pop, indie. La band si formò a Los Angeles nel 2002, grazie all'incontro tra Jeremy Dawson e Gregori Chad Petree.
I due hanno lavorato insieme per diversi anni, successivamente Carah Charnow e Mikey Martin si unirono alla band, nel 2004. Nel 2005 pubblicano "We Are Pilots".
L'album inizia con "Don't Cry Out", questa canzone dal ritmo dolce è molto orecchiabile, grazie anche alla bellissima voce di Carah Charnow, l'unica ragazza della band. "Rainy Monday" è un'ottimo pezzo cantato dal primo vocalista della band, Gregori Petree, ed è caratterizzata da una buona base musicale e molto elettronica. "Le Disko" è decisamente più dolce rispetto ai pezzi precedenti. Cantata solo da Carah, è un pò deludente ma comunque orecchiabile.
Dopo la title track "We Are Pilots", troviamo "You Are The One", a mio avviso, questa canzone scalerà le classifiche internazionali. Ritornello bellissimo, grande lavoro del duo Gregori-Carah, che con la loro voce, emoziona chi li ascolta. Ottima la base, la migliore dell'album. Dopo questo bel pezzo, l'album perde di qualità, il suono diventa un pò monotono e a mio avviso 15 canzoni sono un pò troppo. Nel finale si perde quel brio che aveva caratterizzato l'inizio del CD.
We Are Pilots comunque è un'album interessante, pezzi come "Don't Cry Out", "You Are The One" sono da ascoltare. Canzoni come "The Wather Girl" e "Waiting" invece sono da evitare, con suoni che ricordano molto, fin troppo gli Aqua.
Comunque, gli Shiny Toy Guns hanno portato una ventata di aria fresca nel mondo dell'elettronica. Si parlerà molto di loro nel 2007.
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01 Le Disko (03:24)
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Hello little boys, little toys
We're the dreams you're believing
Crawling up the walls
Running down your face
Razor sharp, razor clean
Feel the weapon's sensation
On your back...
With loaded guns
Now hold onto me pretty baby
If you want to fly
I'm gonna melt the fever sugar
Rolling back your eyes
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
So what's it gonna take?
Silver shadow believer....
Spock rocker with your dirty eyes
It's a chance gonna move
Gonna fuck up your ego
Silly boy gonna make you cry
Now hold onto me pretty baby
If you want to fly
I'm gonna melt the fever sugar
Rolling back your eyes
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
If what they say is true...
You're a boy - and I'm a girl
I will never fall in love with you
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
03 When They Came For Us (04:26)
Why are the Robots so sad?
We're not in trouble anymore... anyway
And no more
Synthetic fighting
They stopped the lightning
After today...
When they took the beach that day
They stole the children
Took them away
And I miss everyone...
But most of all the little ones
And their shiny toy guns...
Each and every one of us still pray
Hoping for evidence
..Looking for clues
All the robotic families
Searching the circuitry
For what remains
I remember mother that day
When her tears woke us so quietly
From our dreams
She told us
That fathers sleeping
And he is watching
From far away...
07 Waiting (04:22)
It's not what you think
If you're thinking I'm a liar
Like falling from grace –
I could do that
And I'll be waiting all day
And I'll be waiting all day
Summer grey...
It's only
And I'll be waiting all day
It's only
And I'll be waiting all day
08 Rainy Monday (04:01)
I don't mind
You’re someone that ain't mine
But someone that I'll get
And you don't know how
Hard I've tried
To convince myself that I
Can easily forget
But you left this feeling
Here inside me
One that never fails to find me
On a rainy Monday
A feeling inside me
Like the days of summer
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside me
In the hopes of one day
I won't lie
I still can't say that I
Admit we went too far
And you won't see me change my mind
But I really wish that I
Could forget the way you are
But you left this feeling here inside me
The battle in my mind still fights me
On a rainy Monday
A feeling inside me
Like the days of summer
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside me
In the hopes of one day
Now that I can see that
You're not beside me
But I still feel you
Shine inside of me
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside me
Like the days of summer
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside me
In the hopes of one day
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside of me
Like the days of summer
On a rainy Monday
I feel it inside me
In the hopes of one day
09 Jackie Will Save Me (04:00)
Early morning
Summer soul and solace
The world is watching..
Yeah
Vicious circle
Washing virgin halo
You're in agreement..
You can understand
Enter static
A gray mistake
So you both come crashing over ground
New machines have born their notion
What can I say...you're crazy
Jackie, what's the problem?
You're a lady
You can stop them
Where's your baby?
He's alone...
Kennedy
Your Kennedy
All the constant
Super color motion
Burning senses
Yeah
I think you're slipping
American coca-cola
Sugar sweetness
1963..
Jackie, what's the problem?
You're a lady
You can stop them
Where's your baby?
He's alone...
Kennedy
Your Kennedy
You're a lady
You can stop them
Where's your baby?
He's alone...
Kennedy
Your Kennedy
10 Shaken (03:44)
Running in circles
Chasing pain
Of yesterday
Shaken... fearful
Because I've come
Back for what is trouble
Still...
I will wait it out
I will wait it out
I will wait it out
I will not be shaken
Strange calls to meet those
Who feel and know
How to give up
The stage lights
And heroes
Razor pain
Rubbed it all away, love
Still...
Didn't notice it right away
Didn't notice it until it was too late
I'm gonna change my desire
For your all consuming fire
Didn't wanna cry out at night
Didn't wanna stop at mid flight
I didn't plan for the fall
When I was running from it all...
Have I no evil
Citizen Cain
Slowed — my desperate running
Still...
11 We Are Pilots (04:16)
Holding close my secrets
Naked broken pieces
From the madness in what you do
The fingers point right back at you
What about my problems?
The people try to solve them
I guess I'm under the weather
Since no one else belongs here, with me
Hello mother, some news for you
I'm really not that crazy
Hello father, I'm curious
Why you think there's something wrong with me
Sunday I cried all night
And it hurt so bad
But if you try to understand
This is who I am.
Color coated sweetness
Swords beneath my clean dress
I'm making sense of shattered dreams
Because I want you to be proud of me
What about my problems?
The people try to solve them
I guess I'm under the weather
Since no one else belongs here with me
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