Catch Without Arms

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Catch Without Arms
Studio album by dredg

Publication
(s)

2005

Label (s) Interscope Records / Universal Music Group

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Alternative rock , progressive rock

Title (number)

12 + 1

running time

55:10

occupation Vocals / slide guitar  : Gavin Hayes

Lead Guitar  : Mark Engles
Drums / Piano : Dino Campanella
Bass : Drew Roulette

production

Terry Date

Studio (s)

Skywalker Ranch / Longview Farm

chronology
El Cielo Catch Without Arms The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

Catch Without Arms is a music album by dredg released on June 21, 2005 .

Basic concept

Like the other dredg albums, Catch Without Arms is a concept album . The theme of the album are contrasts or opposites . This can be seen on the one hand in the music that oscillates between hard and soft and on the other hand in the lyrics, which are printed for the first time on an album by dredg. So the entire album is divided into two halves ( Perspective One and Perspective Two ), which, according to the singer Gavin Hayes, balance each other out in order to get a balance again in the end . When asked how the lyrics were approached, he replied, “The entire underlying basis of the lyrics and the music are opposites, contrasts… I had written a few lyrics that were about conversation and argument, so we came up with one two contrasting halves of the album. The entire basis of the album could be based on objections to ideas and contrasts. ” (Original: “ The whole underlying basis of the lyrics and the music is opposites, contrasts… I'd written some lyrics that are based around conversations or arguments, so we thought about a record with two halves that contrast each other. The whole basis of the record could be about objection to ideas, and contrast. " )

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Catch Without Arms
  DE 56 07/11/2005 (1 week)
Perspective One
 
 
 
 
 
 
Perspective Two
 
 
 
 
Bonus track
  1. Ode to the Sun
  2. Bug eyes
  3. Catch Without Arms
  4. Not that simple
  5. Zebra skin
  6. The Tanbark is Hot Lava
  7. Sang real
  8. Planting Seeds
  9. Spitshine
  10. Jamais Vu
  11. Hungover on a Tuesday
  12. Matroshka (The Ornament)
  13. Uplifting News

Track information

Perspective One

Ode to the Sun

Light / angel against gray / demons

The lyrics deal with a sarcastic discussion between worshipers and adored ones. Parts of the text are based on a car accident that Hayes witnessed.

Bug eyes

Rebirth versus death

The song is about a journey through Hayes' life. As if through the compound eyes of a beetle , the narrator sees his life from birth to death from many different perspectives.

Catch Without Arms

being rich and famous against endangering art and intactness as well
catch something against armless

Catch Without Arms is about the way Hayes sees himself and the band through an artistic prism . Part of the inspiration to write texts like “sing about love, sing about lust… so they will care… that's what happens when you compromise your art” was, according to him, “the expectation of what I think what I need so that people can interested in a song instead of just writing what makes me happy. One always has this underlying concern in mind - will people enjoy that? We want to make ourselves happy, but it's not just about writing a good song, it's about the ability to connect with other people in some way. This song was probably the most truthful thing I have written in a long time. ” (Original: “ The expectation, what I feel I need to do to make people care about a song, rather than just writing for what makes me happy. You always have this underlying worry in your head - are people going to enjoy this? We want to make ourselves happy, but it's not only about writing a good song, it's being able to connect with people in some manner. That one was probably the most literal thing I've written in a long time. ” )

Not that simple

broken versus unbreakable

It's about the turmoil of life, love and everything that surrounds us.

Zebra skin

white stripes against black stripes as well
Sobriety versus addiction / addiction as well
Love versus obsession

The text deals with alcohol addiction and the price one has to pay for it, primarily in the social field.

According to Hayes, this song is not only about addictions to alcohol, but also about addictions in relationships . One should “question the point at which a relationship turns from a real, emotional connection to a security blanket (Original: “questions the point where a relationship turns from a true emotional connection to a security blanket.” )

The Tanbark Is Hot Lava

new against old

The tree bark used for tanning is called Tanbark ( German : Gerberlohe ) .

"The tanbark is hot lava" is a game often played by children, in which you walk on a sidewalk and try not to step on the cracks in the stone slabs.

The song is about the ups and downs in a relationship. The "back and forth", positive and negative, changes and retention, etc.

Sang real

Sobriety versus addiction as well
many friends against loneliness as well
Depth versus surface

Sang Real is another name for the Holy Grail ( SangrealSaint GraalHoly Grail ), the vessel from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper and into which his blood flowed when Jesus was crucified . In the Middle Ages, the knights of the Round Table went in search of the Grail, as it apparently creates harmony (especially between men and women) and ultimately leads to God by achieving harmony .

Another theme of the song is depth, i.e. H. what one keeps hidden deep within oneself (thoughts, dreams, etc.) versus what one shows on the surface (actions, what is said, etc.).

Perspective Two

Planting Seeds

Beauty versus destruction as well
Shells against cartridge cases

The two stanzas of the song tell the same situation, but from the point of view of two different people. The refrain acts as a link between the two perspectives. The line of text “A sea shell in a sea of ​​shells” describes something ugly (the sea of ​​cartridge cases) or something beautiful (the shell in the middle of the cartridge cases), depending on the perspective.

Spitshine

gain in prestige versus lose prestige

Spitshine describes (in the military sector) the polishing of rifles and shoes in order to achieve a more beautiful appearance.

Jamais Vu

Jamais Vu versus déjà vu
Life versus death
Light against dark

Hayes described the content as “ it's about dying, so don't die. Or die. It is natural. I think death is wonderful. There is a tribe in Africa that laughs at death. When someone dies, they sit around the corpse and laugh. "(Original:" That's about dying, so don't die. Or do so, It's a natural thing, right. I think death is beautiful. There is a tribe in Africa that laughs at death. When someone dies they sit around the body and all laugh at it. ")

Hungover on a Tuesday

being happy versus being addicted and feeling bad

It's about ending and the pain of giving up something, in this case an addiction. Although the addiction makes you feel good, you have to end the situation. In this case, the addiction can come from drugs, but also from love or hate.

The song is an argument between the addict and the addiction.

Matroshka (The Ornament)

one large doll against many small dolls
being inside a protective shell versus being outside a protective shell
the whole against a single object

The song is about the Russian dolls called Matryoshka . Hayes said of the song, “ I thought this was a good visual representation of the universe, the proportions of things, and how you perceive them. "(Original:" I thought that was a great visual for our whole universe, the scale of things and how you perceive scale. ")

Bonus Track: Uplifting News

The song Uplifting News is a B-side that dredg originally wanted to publish elsewhere, but not on the regular album or on a single. The German record company, however, added the song to the album, which dredg really disliked, as it destroyed the concept devised by the band in terms of content and did not fit into the album musically either. After the gentle matroshka, the rocky Uplifting News seems out of place .

Music videos

  • Bug eyes

Awards

  • Catch Without Arms ranked sixth on Visions magazine's 2006 year-end charts .

Individual evidence

  1. Charts DE
  2. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whiskey-soda.de
  3. Poplist.de ; Accessed December 18, 2007

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