The Modesty Blaise
by Modesty Blaise
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumYou like vinyl right? Well here it is, The Modesty Blaise, the third album, on black vinyl looking like a classic lacquer. And it is truly a special edition, the vinyl version of the album is slightly different to the cd/digital versions. Obviously if you get the vinyl then you get the digital version too so that you can compare and contrast.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Modesty Blaise via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 1000£15 GBP or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumGorgeously packaged in a lovely Digipak designed by Gregory, and emulating the vinyl release in all but the music. This is the digital version, the same as the download and is only available via Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Modesty Blaise via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 3 daysedition of 250£9 GBP or more
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card
£9 GBP or more
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Full Digital Discography
Get all 15 Modesty Blaise releases available on Bandcamp and save 40%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I'll Be Home For Xmas, The Modesty Blaise, Blue and Beautiful, Girls Just Wanna Dance (single), Natalie Vendredi, I Love You, Carol Mountain EP, Melancholia, and 7 more.
Purchasable with gift card£24.30 GBP or more (40% OFF)
1. |
I Love You
03:22
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Thinking of you and what you’re doing all day long
‘Cause I really love you
I Love You
You know I do
I’ve been around I’ve been picked up and put back down
Still I really love you
I Love You (You know I do)
You know I do
It’s love in all it’s glory
You stole my heart and that’s my story
Deep inside, deep down inside
I am waiting for the day
When you’re gonna say that you love me too
What’s that you say I have to find another way
To say I really love you?
I Love You
It’s tried and tested but it’s true
It’s love in all it’s glory
You stole my heart and that’s my story
Deep inside, deep down inside
I am waiting for the day
When you’re gonna say that you love me too.
You love me true
Did I hear you say I need to get a better way
To say I really love you?
I Love You (You know I do)
Have I given you a clue?
It’s love in all it’s glory
You stole my heart and that’s my story
Deep inside, deep down inside
I am waiting for the day
When you’re gonna say that you love me too.
You love me true, yes you do yes you do
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Catwalk Queens
04:43
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We fall in love for no reason
We’ve got another two seasons tops
At the acme of pop
Force-fed a diet of iron
We’re hard and you can rely on us
Never to stop
I was thinking of a time when love was all around
Give me just a moment and I’ll tell you what I found
Wrap your best ideas in a great big wall of sound
Turn it up and then it will last forever
But I’ve been seen in nightclubs with Catwalk Queens
In opium dens with men of dubious virtue
Cross their paths you know that they’ll hurt you
This is me, I am what I want to be
Nobody can change my mind except if I want to
Hey baby, did you forget me?
Come round let’s see what you’ll let me do
Do to you
You thought that you could replace me
I’ve laid that notion to waste it’s true
We always come through
I was thinking of a time when love was all around
For your consideration I shall tell you what I found
Wrap your best ideas in a massive wall of sound
Turn it up and then it will last forever
But I’ve been seen in nightclubs with Catwalk Queens
In opium dens with men of dubious virtue
Cross their paths you know that they’ll hurt you
This is me, I am what I want to be
Nobody can change my mind except if I want to
Oh I get cute in houses of ill-repute
Been stabbed in the back by hacks of limited talent
What they’re for rarely apparent
But this is me, I’m not what you want me to be, oh no
Nobody can change my mind except if I want to
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Come Lie Beside Me
02:34
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Come Lie Beside Me
Come share my ramshackle bed
And we’ll do anything
Everything in your pretty head
Or you could just hold me (hold me)
I’m yours to do with as you will
Forget the past and forget the future
For time is standing still
Come Lie Beside Me
Come be my lover tonight
And in the morning
I’ll be your true acolyte
For I am nothing (nothing)
If not attentive to your needs
Turn off the phone and
Lock the door for
Tonight it’s love indeed
For I am nothing (nothing)
If not attentive to your needs
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Sad Songs
02:55
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I’ve been listening to Sad Songs
I’ve been playing the Requiem
I’ve been sinking down so low
I relinquished my diadem
I’m a stranger to happiness
Wondering where you are and who you’re with
And not wanting to live
I’ve been taking the wrong things
I’ve been sleeping through daylight hours
I’ve been shutting out close friends
I’ve been cutting the heads off flowers
I’m a stranger to happiness
Wondering where you are and who you’re with
And not wanting him to live
I’m a stranger to happiness
Wondering where you are and who you’re with
And not wanting you to live
I’ve been listening to Sad Songs
I’ve been playing the Requiem
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Girls Just Wanna Dance
03:26
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Are we going into town and
Are we going to be getting down and
Will I have the chance to hold you?
Like I said, like I always told you
I need to talk to a girl to persuade her
I need to whisper softly in her ear
But Girls Just Wanna Dance
To the modern sound
Handbags on the floor
Spinning round and round
Girls Just Wanna Dance
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Let’s sit down and talk (we just wanna dance)
How about a drink (we just wanna dance)
Dance the night away
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Got a friend who likes to tease me
Says that getting girls is easy
All you need’s a sense of rhythm
And you’ll be in a taxi with ‘em
I’ve gotta drag my body down to the disco
And learn to dance before I lose my girl
But Girls Just Wanna Dance
To the modern sound
Handbags on the floor
Spinning round and round
Girls Just Wanna Dance
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Let’s sit down and talk (we just wanna dance)
How about a drink (we just wanna dance)
Dance the night away
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Dance the night away, dance the night away
I’m sitting in the corner thinking what to say
Dance the night away
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Dance the night away, dance the night away
It happens to me every Saturday
Dance the night away
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Girls Just Wanna Dance
To the modern sound
Handbags on the floor
Spinning round and round
Girls Just Wanna Dance
Girls Just Wanna Dance the night away
Let’s sit down and talk (we just wanna dance)
How about a walk (we just wanna dance)
Let’s go for a ride (we just wanna dance)
Jaguar outside (we just wanna dance)
Come and see my flat (we just wanna dance)
Hey, I’ve got a cat (we just wanna dance)
If you’ve got the time (we just wanna dance)
I’ve a diamond mine (we just wanna dance)
Monte for the race (we just wanna dance)
Kittens at my place (we just wanna dance)
(we just wanna dance)(we just wanna dance)
So dance to this so dance to this so dance to this
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Rollerdisco
05:00
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‘Cause you’re the Queen of New York City
Let’s go out to a place we know
The mirrorball up there revolving
And everybody’s dancing in a row
I wanna get back to that feeling
The one we had at Studio 54
Ten thousand racists burned their records
While you and I were burning up the floor
Let’s Rollerdisco
It’s Rollerdisco time
Take my hand and let’s join the line
It’s Rollerdisco time
Baby, baby it’s yours and mine yeah yeah yeah
Put on your high-heels platform sneakers
You always looked so debonair
A million people out there dancing
And you and I forgetting all our cares
Let’s Rollerdisco
It’s Rollerdisco time
Saturday isn’t saturnine
It’s Rollerdisco time
Baby, baby it’s yours and mine yeah yeah yeah
Let’s Rollerdisco
It’s Rollerdisco time
Baby, baby it’s yours and mine
It’s Rollerdisco time
Saturday isn’t saturnine yeah yeah yeah
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Out Tonight
02:35
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Do your hair and let’s go Out Tonight
Your looking good and feeling fine
Everyone in town will know your mine
‘Cause I wanna be seen with you
Want the whole world to know that it’s true
Yes I do do do
Do your nails and I’ll do mine as well
Let’s go raising hell or raising Cain
Hell, I could raise the Mary Rose again
And I wanna be seen with you
Want to the world to know that it’s true
Yes I do do do
Loneliness has taken flight since you became my lover
Creeping out the back door with it’s tail between it’s legs
Mixing metaphors be wary
Rarely is it necessary
Do you think we might go Out Tonight?
I’ve been staying home
Drinking port and gin
Lord knows the state my liver’s in
And I wanna be seen with you
Want the whole world to know that it’s true
Yes I do do do
Yes I do do do
Yes I do do do
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Natalie Vendredi
02:58
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Natalie Vendredi pride of coastal Normandie
Can we spend some time together
Could we make it last forever Natalie Vendredi seen at the Boulangerie
Please attend the film club screening
I think it’s Alphaville this evening
Natalie oh Natalie I’ve studied some anatomy
I’d say as far as I can see
That you’re the perfect girl for me
Natalie Vendredi
Can you keep le weekend free?
Cote d’Azure by half past seven
Back the next day by eleven
Natalie Vendredi Je t’adore eternally
Apologies for such emotion
I’m trying to express devotion
Natalie Oh Natalie professor of philately
A discipline which latterly
Has lost its sheen for all but me
Natalie my Natalie your beings my philosophy
My nothingness is inessential
For me and Sartre it’s existential
Natalie Vendredi meet me at the registry
Time to get our vows recorded
Then my new French passport sorted
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Oh! Redmond
05:33
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Oh! Redmond
I thought you said that you were going straight home
That you were on the ‘bus already when I phoned
That by now you would be tucked up with a weighty tome
Oh! Redmond
You know your body just can’t do the things you do
One day it will rebel and you’ll be through
And you simply can’t replace it with a body that’s new
Body that’s new, that’s something you could never do
Oh! Redmond
You know I’m not exactly thrilled to see you here
You should stick to too much wine and too much beer
And I’ve lost a good few friends in the passing years
Oh! Redmond
Just because my advice will steer you through
You may stay with the many not the few
But you must do what I say and not what I do
Not what I do, don’t do the things that I do
Redmond Oh! Redmond
Do what I say, not what I do
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And when the thought of my love comes to you
You will know what to do
Just gather all your strength and follow through
Then time is yours and space is too
And then we’ll fly among the stars
In our atomic powered cars
To drink a Pink Champagne on Mars
Our love is countless light years wide
A source of ever-growing pride
A love that’s not to be denied
And if you think that we’re too far away
Glide across the Milky Way
Remember all the things you meant to say
And live to love another day
And then we’ll fly among the stars
In our uranium powered cars
To drink a Pink Champagne on Mars
Our love is countless light years wide
A source of ever-growing pride
A love that’s not to be denied
And then we’ll fly among the stars
In our plutonium powered cars
To drink a Pink Champagne on Mars
Our love is countless light years wide
A source of ever-growing pride
A love that’s not to be denied
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And The Lights Went Out All Over Town
So we turned our amplifiers down
The computers crashed like it’s Y2K
And the techies say they might stay that way
And the fridges stopped and there freezers broke
‘Cause the generators couldn’t cope
And the streets went dark as the rooms turned cold
And it’s like our legacy was sold
The plutonium cannot be enriched
But it’s just a temporary hitch
And The Lights Went Out All Over Town
So we turned our amplifiers down
And the air-con failed at the height of day
Now it’s just like noon in old Bombay
Incubators stopped and the babies cried
All around us batteries slowly died
It appears there’s no electricity
But you cannot pin the blame on me
No you cannot pin the blame on me
This time you cannot pin the blame on me
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about
The third album proper, released on From Lo-Fi to Disco!
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released March 26, 2021
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Jun 1997
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