In the late 90’s Ned Branchi founded "SPOON", a Post-Punk, Grunge rock band forged in the sweaty pubs of Newcastle. The self titled album contains 7 original songs delivered in a classic rock format and are a heady mix of Post-punk pop, grunge, gutterfunk and folk melodies.
SONGS
1.Pound Of Flesh.
2.The Possessed
3.Nuit
4.Strange Fruit
5.Her In Here
6.Pleasureland
7.Unconscious
MUSICIANS
Ned Branchi, Music, Lyrics, vocals
Stuart Grieg: Guitar, backing vocals
Mark Hunstone; Guitar, backing vocals
Terry Lonsdale; Bass Guitar
Scott McGrath; Drums
Sophie Michalitsianos; Cello on 'The Possessed'.
Kym Taylor; Backing Vocals on 'The Possessed'.& 'Unconscious'.
CREDITS
Produced by Wayne Connolly & Ned Branchi
Engineered by Wayne Connolly
Assistant Engineer; Pete Jones.
Recorded at Charing Cross Studios, Sydney, Australia. 1997
Artwork & Design by Peter Bradica
Photography by Simone DePeak
All rights reserved Ned Branchi© 1997
LYRICS
POUND O' FLESH
Pound O' flesh, a bird in the pie
Pick dem bones in a dog's eye
Eat that concrete surf the cone
Waddya gonna get when you get home
A pound O' bird no wings to flies
Pick the skin til the bone's are dry
Waddya gonna get when you get home
Mamma cook me some O yo throbbing gristle
All I see is nothing, yeah nothing, nothing like me
All I see is nothing, yeah nothing, I'd rather eat concrete
Oh yeah its serious, its serious for a smegatarian!
THE POSSESSED
Left the door open, you just walk in
This is where the story begins
Possess my soul and drink my life in
Darken the heart
Aspire to happiness delivered from pain
I fall in the same hole again and again
There's an emptiness I can never fill
Nothing ever will
Wether guided by virtue or harrowed by sin
Its the same lot befalls you can never win
There are no keys to this jail that your in
Just another bound to die
I'm pages of flesh a book bound with skin
God only knows what lies within
God only knows the trouble I'm in
When it ends
I set ablze everything that I own
and I heard my savants scream as they burned
When it ends there's only one lesson to learn
You're a part of me and I'm a part of you
You're apart from me, and I'm a PART.
NUT
Night sky her dress, bright constellation
Lighting up the darkness, her incandescent body
The world slowly turns, gravity holds me
In orbit, in love, dancing
Oh yeah, Oh Lord.
To look upon her, bright suns devoured
the face of time itself will disappear
Worlds slowly turn gravity holds me
In orbit, in love, dancing
Oh yeah, Oh Lord
Slave to eternity, beyond the void
in a sky of blue flames, I turn and burn, turning
Worlds slowly turn gravity hold me
In orbit, in love, dancing
Oh yeah, Oh lord.
STRANGE FRUIT
Well you climbed up the monkey tree
Yeah you gave up the land
For a tree of knowledge, strange fruit on its bows
When you fall, you fall right off the world
To a strange warm place somewhere out in the universe
Where no gravity holds this space between us
When you fall, you fall into her arms
You fall right off the world
On the wings of madness Ahhrgh
The powder you stole
Bought you a ticket to exile
you're a vagrant soul when you fall
You fall right off the world
To a strange warm place somewhere out in the universe
Where no gravity holds this space between us
When you fall, you fall into her arms
You fall right off the world
Her In Here
Dirty sunrise, fish hooks in our souls
And starvation, slowly takes its toll
If you bleed that's ok I'll bleed then too
If you die here, I will die here too
I'll walk around, I'll walk around
I'll carry her, her in here
And now she's burning, she feels so cold
I stole some money,bought some drugs and alchohol
If you bleed that's ok I'll bleed then too
If you die here, I will die here too
I'll walk around, I'll walk around
I'll carry her, her in here
PLEASURELAND
I'm so happy that you're here
Thank God I found you there
You know the truth is eye
Love the way you see through amazing skies
I just fall into your arms
Like Venus you shine, your magic charms
In Pleasureland, sandlewood burns
Pleasureland I found you
UNCONSCIOUS
Pavement headline, sick rhyme, petty crime
Jaws of life, they close round your grave
Starve the child, defiled, innocence turned wild
Never to be here again
Never alone, never at home,
Never once in your life, I see no point
Its just change running through the days
I press the unconscious
Change running through the days
My heart beating backwards