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Lovelife

by The Julies

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Christian Mumford
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Christian Mumford i am still kinda 17 at 51... healthy youthful etc... great indie psychedelic band... found the Julies recently the kind of shoegaze transplant to USA by 1996... enjoyable! Favorite track: Wake Up, Christine.
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paperback_writer This is an extraordinary album that , somehow, captures a special essence of eighties’ and nineties’ music. It is special, and I am so pleased to have discovered it in the 2020’s. It touches the stars with the colour of the decades that it was. Favorite track: Boy Wonder.
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80s Ladies This is one the albums that really shaped my youth and influenced my musical outlook at a pivotal time. I always thought it needed a good remaster, so this is beyond fantastic <3 Favorite track: Wake Up, Christine.
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1.
Drive Me Mad 03:29
if the world’s supposed to stop for me then how come you won’t talk to me i know you keep it all inside inside tongue tied it would have all come out as lies you never had the time for me anyway can’t you see can’t you tell heaven knows it’s my first time to hell take the time and show me around i’ll take all the time you’ve got for me i want to hate you but it’s too late to i guess i love you all but it’s enough to drive me mad just kiss me where i say it hurts and say those words that always work but please don’t tell me how you really feel tell me sell me the part of you that held me and pretended not to notice that we would only go this far can’t you see can’t you tell heaven knows it’s my first time to hell take the time and show me around i’ll take all the time you’ve got for me i want you all too much again your sleepy voice and painted skin you’ve got me all dressed up in a stare dressed up messed up and who said “hold your head up” i’m face down in a memory of you with my nerves all tangled up my pride’s all mangled up can you teach me how to smile like that my nerves all tanged up my pride’s all mangled up can you teach me oh can you teach me now
2.
wake up, christine i think there’s something wrong with me and you don’t know i just can’t get to sleep i’m so scared of what you might be dreaming wake up, christine there’s something that’s been bothering me and you don’t know i’m scared of what i’ll find in the back of your mind if i’m lucky enough to ever get inside wake up, christine i think there’s something wrong with me and you don’t know my fears get in the way of everything i want to say i’m speechless and hopeless wake up, christine there’s something that’s been boothering me and you don’t know i’m scared of what i’ll find in the back of your mind if i’m lucky enough to ever get inside christine, i know but it’s hard for me to let it show and i keep thinking how they went all the days we never spent
3.
Boy Wonder 04:17
watch me hurt myself again this movie never ends it just keeps playing on and on everyone’s a star when they close their eyes well how come i keep mine open all the time i don’t want to know and i don’t want to be a love story my soul’s on fire so you light a cigarette i thought you’d be through with me but it isn’t over yet UPSET, MOVIE SET, READY SET GO don’t try, don’t wonder why i can’t look you in the eye maybe i’m looking for myself you said it happened only once one time, well maybe sometimes but now it happens all the time and now my soul’s on fire so you light a cigarette i thought you’d be through with me but it isn’t over yet UPSET, MOVIE SET, READY SET GO here’s my daredevil stunt scene the one where i’m thinking of someone other than myself you said it happened only once one time, well maybe sometimes but now it happens all the time and now my soul’s on fire so you light a cigarette i thought you’d be through with me but it isn’t over yet UPSET, MOVIE SET, READY SET GO (it happens all the time)
4.
Blue 04:58
she’s the fading figure just beyond the canvas she holds her head up high in shame and stretches her skin so the light can get in but he’ll paint her just the same again her eyes are raindrops he’s frozen still she smiles and he says he thinks he will he says “i think i’ll paint you bright to liven up the saddest night” but she dreams a voice like trumpets begs and says she’d love it “if you’d only paint me blue” she says “you can paint me blue” outside the night is drunk and all the stars are stumbling but she stands so still forgetting a wish and if she drops her eyes she knows he’ll pick them up in a brilliant streak of blue high above the lips he says that she’s a masterpiece a freckle on the face of god and it’s true so she’s painted blue she’s closer to perfect than me or you she says “you can paint me blue” and her eyes are floating and her soul is sinking but her lips keep striking poses so he lets her go this one girl show he understands and now she knows it she begs hang me hang me high on the greyest wall you find it’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to what’s inside he drops to his knees declares this is art i painted her blue to match her heart
5.
so here we are, movie star put your love in my camera so you don’t forget the time we spent i watched you over and over rainy day, another matinee you know i just had to see you i’ll wait for you in a darkened room you’ll never need quite like i need you do you really love the silver screen or should i paint it black for you i think my heart just stole the scene since i’ve been acting up for you i keep pretending that this happy ending was made between the two of us need it, can’t have it i’m too melodramatic and hollywood is through with us put you in a dream and practiced love scenes it was your finest performance ’til the sun told my eyes i’ve been featuring lies a typical monday morning so here we are, movie star put your love in my camera so you don’t forget the time we spent i watched you over and over put you in a dream and practiced love scenes it was your finest performance ’til the sun told my eyes i’ve been featuring lies a typical monday morning this is as real as it gets
6.
if this was heaven you’d all be angels still here we are just men with haloes and i know you’re paying for this glow yeah, i know the names i know the games i talk to god and i asked him the way keep me safe from the way i feel inside keep me safe from that look in your eyes it’s not the way that you can’t it’s not the way that you won’t it’s not the way you say you’re lonely when you’re only alone you’re only alone if this was heaven i’d kill myself just to see if i could make it again would you help? forgive me, please but you can never forget me i wanna go so far i wanna be so good i wanna hate myself when i’m misunderstood if this was heaven i’d say it hurts like hell i’m just upset and it’s just as well

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In 1996, The Julies released their beloved EP Lovelife to the world. Six tracks of musical bliss, with sonic similarities to artists like The Cure, Catherine Wheel and The Smiths. It’s now 2020 and Lost in Ohio is excited to bring this EP to the world in the format it has always belonged on. Featuring a fresh master from TW Walsh and liner notes from J. Edward Keyes, this Lovelife sounds better than ever!

Courtesy of Entertainment One U.S. LP

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released April 3, 2020

john bada
greg hohman
chris newkirk
alex yost
patrick zbyszewski

all songs written by the julies
published by mr. agreeable music (bmi)

produced by the julies and william campbell
engineered by william campbell
mixed by william campbell and the julies
except tracks 1, 2 and 5 mixed by dave barbe
mastered by tw walsh

release coordinator: bill spry
associate producers: david coyle, scott hatch, quintin nadig, drew newkirk, bill spry jr.
band photos: scott mcclain, cristina garcia
layout and design: bill spry

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The Julies Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Julies were — and somehow are again — an American alternative/indie guitar band that mixes influences from ’80s post- punk and new wave with ’90s shoegaze, indie rock and britpop to create music that was, in the case of 1996’s Lovelife EP at least, singularly magical. ... more

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