The Avalanches Lyrics, Photos, Pictures, Paroles, Letras, Text for every songs

B i o g r a p h y
(by Andy Kellman)

Never mind digging in the crates — the Avalanches probably just buy them whole, sight unseen, and find a way to bounce off each platter. Eventually morphing into a gang of six merrymakers bent on filtering their all-encompassing record collections through original instrumentation and a great deal of sampling, the Avalanches came from one of the most unlikely places to generate mind-bending dance music — Australia. Perfectly fitting with the band's range, the roots of the crew are in punk. Robbie Chater and Darrin Seltmann were in a couple of short-lived outfits together, most notably the Swinging Monkey Cocks. Gordon McQuilten, Toni Diblasi, and Dexter Fabay eventually joined in on the mess, but they acquired turntables and set their sights on dance music of the sample-based variety, originally leaning on abstract hip hop and naming themselves the Avalanches. Trifekta Records released the Rock City single in 1997, which soon brought the interest of Australian label Modular. With a long-term deal freshly inked, they released the seven-track El Producto EP and polished their outlandish live show, including dates with the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy. Rex issued the Undersea Community EP in 1998, which culled from the band's demo trove. Somewhere along the way, keyboardist James De La Cruz was added to the lineup. An extensive patch of time was spent building Since I Left You, a 60-minute melting pot of the band's collective that sounds like a postcard to anyone who has ever made a record. Released in their native land in late 2000 and preceded by the appetite-whetting Frontier Psychiatrist EP, it received a response from critics and the public that reflected the album's glowing nature. The group even had the blessing of Madonna, who allowed them to sample the bass line to "Holiday" — the first time she okayed such a thing. Beggars Banquet-offshoot XL issued the album in the U.K. in May of 2001; Sire released it in the U.S. in November of the same year.

Since I Left You

Watch the steps
Get a drink, have a good time now
Welcome to paradise, paradise, paradise...

Since I left you
I found the world so new

I found the world so
I found the world so new

Stay Another Season

Thank you for coming out this evening,
Thank you for coming down on a Sunday
We have a good time with you
We want you to park with it
Come on down to the disco, right, right right right ...

???

Since I left you, I found the world so blue
Since I left you, I found the world so blue
Since I left I left left..
Since I left I left left..

Radio

Johnny, Johnny! Open up
Johnny, it's Frank! Open up
Look you've been in there for three weeks
Now come on, open up
Johnny, Johnny!
Out of my way, I'm watching television
Are you crazy? That's the test pattern
I like it!

Well, there are two things to be done
First of all, we put him in the hospital
And withdraw all television, I see
And then, we give him this... Radio

Radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio ...

Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals

Sometimes you do, understand.
DJ as good, understand.
Sometimes you do, understand.
DJ as good, understand.

Sometimes you do, understand.
DJ as good, understand.
Sometimes you do, understand.
DJ as good, understand.

Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals
Sending those signals, sending those signals, sending those signals, those digital signals

Oh, can't you hear it?
Can't you hear it?

Two Hearts In 3/4 Time

Can't you hear it?
Money
Can't you hear it?
Oh can't you hear it?
Money
Can't you hear it?
Money
Money
Money

Ooh yeah, ohh yeah, ooh yeah, ohh yeah
Ohh.. yeah, ooh.. ohh, ooh.. yeah, ooh.. ohh

La la, la la, la la, la la, la la, doo da da da (Repeat)

Avalanche Rock

Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It
Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It
Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It, Avalanche Rock It ...

Flightpaths, Flightpaths, Flightpaths, Flightpaths ...

Flight Tonight

Avalanche rock...
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica ...

The book of flight to Miami Beach
The book of flight to Miami Beach
The book of flight to Miami Beach
The book of flight to Miami Beach ...

Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica

The book of flight tonight
The book of flight tonight
The book of flight tonight
The book of flight tonight ...

Word up, here we go,
Yo.. ahh.. yo, yo, the DJ Dexter,
Here's the Saian Supa Crew, like from Paris

???
???

Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica ...

Close To You

Here we come, we got funk, (Repeat)
Somebody, somewhere, sex with me,
Here.. here we come, we got funk X2

Close to you... X6

The disco... the disco... the disco... that's gotta be right, X4
That's gotta be right, down to the midnight, to start
Down to the disco... the disco... the disco,
Down to the midnight, the start to the midnight, start to the midnight,
That's gotta be right

There's a tense young man that's goin' round, turnin' the joint, outside down, (Repeat)
Down to the disco...,
Start to the midnight, down to the disco...,
Down to the disco...

Diners Only

Next... Next...
Next time you're next to me... oh god that's too much.
that's too much...
tha-that's-that's too... that's too much...

Here have some...
Here you go, cheers.
Susie he's looking at you.
Susie... He's looking at you.
Susie... He's looking at you.

Good evening gentlemen.
Good evening to you.
Would either of you like a drink before we take off?
Yes, we would like one of your finest champagnes

Got the bubbly, pumpin' through me.
Got the bubbly, pumpin' through me.

Sparkily...bubbly, pumpin' through me.
Got the bubbly, pumpin' through me.

Got the bubbly, pumpin' through me.
Got the bubbly, pumpin' through me.

Sparkily...bubbly, pumpin' through me.
Sparkily...(x4) [all channel-crossfaded]
Bubbly... (x4)
Sparkily... (x4)
Bubbly... (x4)
Sparkily... (x4)
Bubbly... (x4)
Sparkily... (x4)
Next to me.... hah!... (x2)
Woo hoo hoo!... Hah!... next to me! (random loops)

He.. here we come with the funk
He... here we come with the funk"

Got the bubbly, pour it on me.
Got the bubbly, pour it down me.

Sparkily...bubbly, pour it on me.
Got the bubbly, pour it down me.
Got the bubbly, pour it on me.
Got the bubbly, pour it down me.

Sparkily...bubbly, pour it on me.
Sparkily...

*** Thanx a lot to Tronster & Matt for this one ***

A Different Feeling

Tammy, Tammy, Tammy ..
Tammy's in love... If I find you again ...

*** Thanx a lot to Alice for this one ***

Electricity

I... Rap,
I... I can see, electricity ...

Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life

Tonight may have to last me all my life,
Tonight, tonight, tonight ...

Frontier Psychiatrist

Is Dexter ill, Is Dexter ill, Is Dexter ill
Is Dexter ill today, Mr. Kirk, Dexter's in school!
I'm afraid he's not, Miss Fishpaw.
Dexter's truancy problem is way out of hand!
The Baltimore County school board has decided to expel
Dexter from the entire public school system!

Oh Mr. Kirk, I'm as upset as you to learn of Dexter's truancy,
But surely, expulsion is not the answer!
I'm afraid expulsion is the only answer!
It's the opinion of the entire staff that Dexter is criminally insane!

That boy needs therapy, psychosomatic,
That boy needs therapy, purely psychosomatic,
That boy needs therapy.
Lie down on the couch. What does that mean?
You're a nut! (You’re a nut!) You're crazy in the coconut!
What does that mean? That boy needs therapy.
I'm gonna kill you! That boy needs therapy.
Grab a kazoo, let's have a duel !
Now when I count three…
That, that, that, that, that boy…boy needs therapy.
He was white as a sheet.
And he also made false teeth.

Avalanches is above, business continues below,
Did I ever tell you the story about
Cowboys! Mid, Mid, Midgets, and the Indians, and, Fron, Frontier Psychiatrist.
I... I felt strangely hypnotized.
I was in another world, a world of twenty, twenty thousand girls!
And milk! Rectangles, to an optometrist, the man with the golden eyeball!
And tighten your buttocks, pour juice on your chin!
I promise my girlfriend I'd pick up the violin, violin, violin ...

Frontier Psychiatrist
Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier
Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier
Frontier, frontier, frontier, frontier

That boy needs therapy, psychosomatic,
That boy needs therapy, purely psychosomatic,
That boy needs therapy.
Lie down on the couch. What does that mean?
You're a nut! (You’re a nut!) You're crazy in the coconut!
What does that mean? That boy needs therapy.
I'm gonna kill you! That boy needs therapy.
Grab a kazoo, let's have a duel !
Now when I count three…
That, that, that, that, that boy…boy needs therapy.
He was white as a sheet.
And he also made false teeth.

Frontier Psychiatrist

Can you think of anything else that talks, other than a person?
Um umm...um umm, a bird! Yeah!
Sometimes a parrot talks!
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Yes, some birds are funny when they talk.
Can you think of anything else?
A record, record, record !

Etoh

Massachusetts (Massachusetts) Institute of Technology
Home of complicated Computers who speak in a mechanical language of their own

Little Journey

Well, I would say "Bon Voyage!"
Take a little journey, journey x 5

Take a little journey (echoes in background slightly throughout)

Live At Dominoes

Flight 22 is off to Honolulu
Flight 22 is off to Honolulu
Flight 22 is off to Honolulu
Flight 22 is off to Honolulu

Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound

Ooh... la da da da.. Ooh... la ....

Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound

Summer is the cycle of the summer song sound
Summer song record in the Holiness Of Sound

Since the day I left you

(But I just can't get you
Since the day I left you) x 9