Chris Rea’s soft rock was like a blob of custard in a sea of chili and ground glass. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. A good poet can write words that are not overly specific, so that they can mean something to everyone's life, maybe in slightly different ways, like the classic "Stairway to Heaven" lyrics do.
Chris Rea’s ”Road to Hell - Part 2” song lyrics interpretation This song is enjoyed by many people, and although it was released a few years ago it is still getting new listeners. I won’t listen to it again, ever.
Who can say. "And I'm underneath the streetlight The delight of joy I know, Scared beyond belief way down in the shadows" - the brainwash and the fear the media and society puts into you, the reason why you wont risk anything or change anything you do. Date: 3/5/2009 1:08:34 PM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 11584 times. I don’t remember that song at all. It told the story of his younger self – a boy with a Ferrari fixation. kronos adds: "the road to hell" the western society, where people think they are free but they are bound "And as the roads jam up with credit And there's nothing you can do It's all just pieces of paper flying away from you" - The path through life now includes mortgage, debt, jobs, purchases - all the things that people do as they conform the way society tells them to, - its out of your reach the debts mortgages car repayments and so on, on and on, you are now a part of the western way of life, which is as uncaring as the machine, you cannot bargain or reason with the system. The one entitled “Texas” has a life of its own in the US where it is played at American football games. Rea recalls that he had a lot of trouble with the album due to the record company, and "recorded the next album – Auberge – before, as an agreement with Warner Brothers. It is Rea's most successful studio album, topping the UK Albums Chart for three weeks,[2][3] and was certified 6x Platinum by BPI until 2004. Among the bones in my ossuary is the fact I sought, bought and listened to Chris Rea’s Road to Hell. The Road to Hell is the tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1989. At the website "Song Meanings.com", I was looking for some insight to these lyrics, to get some idea about the meaning. But I did stand me ground, and it went No.1".[5]. "And the perverted fear of violence Chokes the smile on every face And common sense is ringing out the bell " - Obviously he is saying that nobody smiles because we are all so full of fear. I don’t think there are words to describe just how toe-curlingly awful this song is. The Road to Hell is a magnificent achievement, and what's more, Rea followed it with more albums which were almost as good, like Auberge and Espresso Logic, becoming (in my view) one of the few 80s acts who got better in the nineties, rather than worse.
Even if you have good intentions, but never follow through with action, bad things will happen. Our aim is to have a distinctive voice and to publish a diversity of writing you won’t find anywhere else. This was long before the ironic acceptance of the Swedes as being naffly hip, and discovery of it might have made me a pariah among my friends.
I fervently hope I am never subjected to it again. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Reports of his conservatism have been denied but Rea is Eurosceptic. but I am not sure about "what comes down here" - is that a referance to the devil? I assumed at the time Chris Rea shared my environmental concerns but quite possibly his road to hell is the same as Friedrich Hayek’s road to serfdom and Rea has never voted left in his life. 2)", is also one of Rea's most famous songs. "Common sense" might mean two things - a "collective feeling" that our world is in trouble, and the "rational thinking" that says it is now time to hit the alarm because we have gone too far, we are doomed if we stay on this path. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Chris Rea is saying that the message is that "this is how you should live your life", but he says that the wise dont fall into this. Plus the Housemartins. Everyone has a skeleton of some form in their cupboard. These traumas have made me somewhat allergic to mainstream Country music. "It boils with every poison you can think of " - the negativity of the modern life which holds you down; all the pitfalls and traps such as debt and maintaining the status quo, materialism, stress, illness, and an unhappy marriage, for example. Chris wrote this before the "credit crisis" hit, it was allways true anyhow but now we see the evidence of the fleeting nature of our paper value. "This ain't no technological breakdown, Oh-no, this is the road to hell." In fact, I believe that we should expect of, and depend on, our gifted composer-musicians [who write lyrics] to help us see our lives for what they are, because they live a bit of a different life than most of us do, free of the need to be normal workers. It was said to be one of those "instant classics" that comes along once in awhile. Marriage, morgage, commitment and how you will never be able to be free once you commit to these things that society tells you. For the song from that album, see, "An Interview With The Straight-Talking, No-F**ks-Given Chris Rea", "Website of the artist, www.adrianchesterman.com", "Austrian album certifications – Chris Rea – The Road to Hell", "Canadian album certifications – Chris Rea – The Road to Hell", "InfoDisc : Les Certifications (Albums) du SNEP (Bilan par Artiste)", "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Chris Rea; 'The Road to Hell')", "The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Chris Rea; 'The Road to Hell')", "British album certifications – Chris Rea – The Road to Hell", The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes, Still So Far to Go: The Best of Chris Rea, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Road_to_Hell&oldid=967307983, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Certification Table Entry usages for Austria, Certification Table Entry usages for Canada, Certification Table Entry usages for Finland, Certification Table Entry usages for France, Certification Table Entry usages for Germany, Certification Table Entry usages for Switzerland, Certification Table Entry usages for United Kingdom, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, He Should Know Better (B-Side of Road To Hell single) - 4.38, That's What They Always Say (Rainbow Mix) - 6.41, 1975 (B-Side of That's What They Always Say single) - 4.47, The Road To Hell Parts 1 & 2 (Live At Wembley Arena March 1990) - 6.59, Working On It (Live At Wembley Arena March 1990) - 6.26, Let's Dance (Live At Wembley Arena March 1990) - 7.34, Daytona (Live At Birmingham NEC November 1991) - 6.36, You Must Be Evil (Live In Stuttgart 1991) - 4.36, Karen Boddington – additional backing vocals, The Leisure Process – artwork, sleeve design, This page was last edited on 12 July 2020, at 14:04. It is a very special song.
although I had to re-write what he wrote to fix spelling mistakes and to add some of my own thoughts, but basically I give kronos the credit for this insight/interpretation into these lyrics. View all posts by richard herriott. he did NOT say what GOES down here. ↳ Vote for Chris Rea ↳ News; The voice ... ↳ Lyrics ↳ Discography ↳ 2015 - La Passione ↳ 2011 - Santo Spirito Blues ↳ 2009 - Still So Far To Go (The very best of Chris Rea) ↳ 2008 - The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes ↳ 2006 - The road to hell and back ↳ 2005 - … Another track, "Daytona", is about the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 "Daytona", in which he sings about the car metaphorically, with the engine and tyre noise from the car ringing out toward the end of the song.
Still The World's Least Influential Motoring Site. It is a very special song. So if Road To Hell didn’t work – and they said it won't – we would jump straight away to Auberge and forget about it. *sales figures based on certification alone^shipments figures based on certification alone, This article is about the 1989 Chris Rea album.
I like anchovies. Chris Rea#s next record bore the name “Auberge” and features a Caterham Super 7 on the front. Rea uses the catchphrase "upwardly mobile" to ridicule those who sell out to the system, who would describe themselves as "upwardly mobile". I was once stuck on an interminable coach ride with an 8 track of Glenn Campbell’s Greatest Hits playing hour after hour and a lovesick work colleague once played a ‘Big’ Jim Reeves album to us all for a whole day. I don’t suppose it has been misunderstood like Bruce’s Born in the USA, which is a bad thing.
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