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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions( Lloyd Cole )【 15 albums 189 lyrics 】

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a British pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, the band scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in the UK. After breaking up in 1989, Cole embarked on a solo career but the band reformed briefly in 2004 to perform a 20th anniversary mini-tour of the UK and Ireland.

Band history

The band were formed whilst Cole (who was born in Derbyshire, England) was studying at the University of Glasgow. They signed to Polydor Records; their debut single 'Perfect Skin' reaching number 26 in the UK charts in Spring 1984, while the second single 'Forest Fire' reached 41. The first album, Rattlesnakes, was released in October 1984. Produced by Paul Hardiman and featuring string arrangements by Anne Dudley, the album peaked at No. 13 in the UK and was certified Gold for sales over 100,000 copies. NME included in its Top 100 Albums of All-Time list, and the title track was later covered by the American singer Tori Amos. The Welsh band Manic Street Preachers included the album amongst their top ten list.

Due to the insistence of their label[citation needed], the follow-up album, Easy Pieces, was produced by Clive Langer & Alan Winstanley (who had previously produced Madness, The Teardrop Explodes and Elvis Costello and the Attractions). Released in November 1985, the album was a much quicker commercial success than its predecessor (entering the UK album chart at No. 5 and certified gold within a month). The singles 'Brand New Friend' and 'Lost Weekend' were the band's first and only UK Top 20 hits (reaching No. 19 and No. 17 respectively).

Two years later, the band released their third and final album, Mainstream. Produced by Ian Stanley (former writer and keyboard-player of Tears for Fears), the album peaked at No. 9 in the UK and was also certified gold, but contained only one UK Top 40 single, 'Jennifer She Said' (No. 31). First single My Bag and later release From The Hip EP failed to make the Top 40.

In 1989, the band decided to split up and released a 'best of' compilation, 1984-1989, which was their fourth Top 20 album (UK No. 14) and fourth Gold certification. Following this, Cole embarked on a solo career with the release of his eponymous album in 1990.

On the first two Commotions albums, Cole was the band's main songwriter (though he co-wrote several songs with various bandmembers). The third album is credited to the band as a whole, though Cole remained the sole lyricist. Particularly notable were Cole's knowingly pretentious lyrics (he was studying philosophy at the University of Glasgow when the band started) and namedropping the likes of Norman Mailer, Leonard Cohen, Arthur Lee, Grace Kelly, Truman Capote, Simone de Beauvoir, Nancy Sinatra, and Eva Marie Saint as well as referring to Sean Penn (somewhat sympathetically) as 'Mr. Madonna'.

In 2006, Scottish band Camera Obscura released the song 'Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken' as an answer song to the Commotions' 1984 hit '(Are You) Ready to Be Heartbroken?'.
Band members

Lloyd Cole (born 31 January 1961) - vocals, guitar, lyricist
Blair Cowan (born 1960?) - keyboards
Lawrence Donegan (born 13 July 1961) - bass guitar
Neil Clark (born 3 July 1958) - guitar
Stephen Irvine (born 16 December 1959) - drums

The band's manager Derek McKillop is credited as a full band member in the credits of the group's third album, Mainstream.

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Album name Release Date 　Song 　　

Standards 2013
1.California Earthquakes (Provided)
2.Women's Studies
3.Period Piece
4.Myrtle and Rose
5.No Truck
6.Blue Like Mars7.Opposites Day
8.Silver Lake
9.It's Late
10.Kids Today
11.Diminished Ex

4 M B 2004
1.4 M B

Mainstream 1987
1.292.My Bag

Rattlesnakes 1984
1.2cv
2.Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
3.Charlotte Street
4.Down On Mission Street
5.Forest Fire6.Four Flights Up
7.Patience
8.Perfect Skin
9.Rattlesnakes

Rattlesnakes (Remastered)
1.Rattlesnakes (Remastered)
2.Forest Fire (Extended Version / Remastered)3.Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? (Remastered)

Radio City Music Hall
1.Radio City Music Hall

Mannish Girl
1.Mannish Girl

Lloyd Cole
1.Downtown

Live at The BBC, Vol. 2
1.Lost Weekend (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)
2.Perfect Blue (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)
3.Cut Me Down (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)
4.Speedboat (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)5.Forest Fire (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)
6.Rattlesnakes (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)
7.Perfect Skin (Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986)

Live at The BBC, Vol. 1
1.Glory (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84)
2.Patience (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84)3.Perfect Skin (Saturday Live - BBC Radio 1 Session 26/05/84)
4.Forest Fire (Richard Skinner Session - BBC Radio 1 05/07/84)

Eat Your Greens
1.Eat Your Greens

Dont Get Weird On Me Babe
1.Butterfly
2.Half Of Everything
3.Man Enough
4.Margo's Waltz
5.Pay For It
6.She's A Girl And I'm A Man7.Tell Your Sister
8.The One You Never Had
9.There For Her
10.To The Lions
11.Weeping Wine
12.What He Doesn't Know

Cleaning The Ashtray
1.'L' Word (Provided)
2.Mannish Girl
3.Witching Hour
4.Wild Orphan
5.Don't Look Back
6.No Blue Skies
7.Blame Mary Jane
8.Everyone's Complaining (Provided)
9.Shelly I Do
10.Somewhere Out In The East (Provided)
11.Chelsea Hotel No 2 (Provided)
12.Pay For It
13.Weeping Wine
14.Weird On Me
15.Children Of The Revolution (Provided)
16.She's a Girl and I'm a Man
17.Butterfly
18.4 MB
19.Love You So What
20.Morning Is Broken
21.Too Much Of A Good Thing
22.For The Pleasure Of Your Company
23.Radio City Music Hall
24.Eat Your Greens
25.Vicious
26.Mystic Lady
27.The Slider
28.I Will Not Leave You Alone29.Most Of The Time
30.Baby
31.Traffic
32.Millionaire
33.Happy for you
34.Sentimental fool
35.Like lovers do
36.Sold
37.Brand New Baby Blues
38.Missing
39.Rain On The Parade
40.Steady Slowing Down Of The Heart
41.It'll Never Happen Again (Provided)
42.Clairefontaine (Provided)
43.I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Provided)
44.Artificial Tears (Provided)
45.If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Provided)
46.Tie Me Down (Provided)
47.Fool You Are
48.That Boy
49.Si Tu Dos Partir (Provided)
50.Santa Cruz (Provided)
51.Late Night, Early Town
52.My Alibi
53.For The Good Times (Provided)
54.Coattails (Provided)
55.Romany Soup (Provided)
56.Clairfontaine (Provided)

Bad Vibes
1.Mister Wrong

Miscellaneous
1.So You'd Like To Save The World
2.Ice Cream Girl
3.Wild Mushrooms
4.What Do You Know About Love?
5.A Long Way Down
6.So Youd Like To Save The World
7.Waterline
8.Fall Together
9.Unhappy song
10.Trigger happy
11.I didn't know that you cared
12.Let's get lost
13.Perfect Skin
14.For crying out loud
15.Be there
16.Love ruins everything
17.Antidepressant
18.I Am Not Willing
19.My Way To You
20.Seen The Future
21.Undressed
22.I Hate to See You Baby Doing That Stuff
23.One You Never Had
24.You Will Never Be No Good
25.Speedboat
26.Half of Everything
27.Forest fire
28.Past Imperfect
29.To the Church
30.Mercy Killing
31.NYC Sunshine
32.Sweetheart
33.Fool You Are (Demo)
34.Everysong
35.Cut Me Down
36.Grace
37.Brand New Friend
38.Can't Get Arrested
39.Another Lover
40.Pretty Gone41.Minor Character
42.Holier Than Thou
43.The Young Idealists
44.Woman In A Bar
45.How Wrong Can You Be?
46.Lost Weekend
47.I Didn't See It Coming
48.Rolodex Incident
49.Traveling Light
50.4 M. B.
51.Perfect Blue
52.Slip Away
53.Why I Love Country Music
54.What's Wrong With This Picture?
55.Sweetness
56.Glory
57.Loveless
58.Forest Fire (Extended Remix)
59.She's a Girl & I'm a Man
60.Memphis
61.Glory - Live At Nightmoves (15/06/84)
62.Beautiful City - Live At The Marquee (05/11/84)
63.Charlotte Street - Live At The Marquee (05/11/84)
64.Sweetness - Live At The Barrowlands (09/09/85)
65.Mystery Train - Live At The World, New York / 1986
66.Grace - Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986
67.Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken? - Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986
68.Brand New Friend - Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986
69.Mr. Malcontent - Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986
70.Pretty Gone - Live At Glastonbury Festival 15/11/1986
71.Los Weekend
72.James (Remastered)
73.Forest Fire (BBC Session 1984)
74.My Bag (Dancing Remix)
75.Jennifer She Said (Demo)
76.Charlotte Street (Remastered)
77.Jennifer She Said
78.Andy's Babies
79.The Sea and the Sand