Madison - Best In Show (1986) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goran Edman - Lead Vocals Anders Karlson - Guitars, Backing Vocals Mikael Myllynen - Guitars Conny Sundqvist - Bass, Backing Vocals Peter Frederickson - Drums, Backing Vocals Magnus Stromberg - Keyboards. Debbie Cameron, Mia Martinez - Backing Vocals on "Shine". Produced and Arranged by Anders Helmersson and Madison except "Drama" Arranged by Magnus Stromberg. Recorded and Mixed at Studio 39, Copenhagen by Jorgen 'Preben' Bo except "Carry On" Recorded and Mixed at Park Studio, Stockholm by Leif Paulsen and Anders Hansson. Art Direction: Katsufumi Mirakami. Cover Photographs: Masatsugu Takahashi. Cover Styling: Miki Aizawa. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Track Listing 1) Oh Rendez Vous (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 5:29 2) Carry On (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:13 3) Can't Take It (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:41 4) Drama (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 1:22 5) Shine (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 5:51 6) Look In Your Eyes (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:59 7) Give It Back (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 3:51 - Remixed version 8) Out Of The Bunker (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:50 9) World Wide Man (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 3:57 10) Hotel Party (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:10 11) Mental Masturbation (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Oh Rendez Vous (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 5:29 Waking up from the strangest dream I can feel, it's got a hold on me 'Cause your voice keeps calling me 'Don't turn away from what I show' 'Don't turn away the things you know' You were a blue-eyed beauty All framed with long white hair And just cut out for a fairytale You got me breathlessly watching The hidden world that you were showing me Yes I remember well that you said 'Don't turn away from what I show' 'Don't turn away the things you know' Waking up to find me dreaming Oh rendez vous My reflection in the mirror tells no lies All covered with mud and bruices standing guise A flashback reminds me Of how you stood there in a blue-pale light For real or just a vision at night 'Don't turn away from what I show' 'Don't turn away the things you know' Waking up to find me dreaming A world dressed in the morninglight In abundance and with wells of wine If I could choose I'd rather be back again Back to make you mine Now on the edge of time there's nothing more to say I know that tonight I must be on my way I hear your voice calling, I hear the cameras rolling I travel by dreams with intention to stay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2) Carry On (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:13 When you have reached the bottom The cross of your life To the point of no return You can't face reality And realize We have to live for the day You're left on your own You feel like a rolling stone On the edge of danger Broken wings can't fly Hold on, cold wind blowing The show has to carry on Can't find a hideaway The show has to carry on By the oneway through the garden of delight There grew blue- and straw-berrys But all your dreams for the future Are now wasted and dead You got no opportunities ahead ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Can't Take It (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:41 From nine to five I'm occupied I'm tied to the factory floor Running like a clockwork, counting out time In blood, sweat and tears I'm holding the line Can't run away, it's just waste of my time Can't run away, freedom is so hard to find One for all and all for one The trade-union leader's pointing his gun He's asking for money to a campaign he'll rise But the gunsmoke he's making Won't kill more than flies I can't take it anymore I can't take it, take it no more I was young and blue when I first met Sue She gave me a son when I was twenty-one Now time has changed the woman I had Into a love-taking wife In an awful disguise ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Drama (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 1:22 Instrumental ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Shine (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 5:51 Turn around old man, it's me the reaper The sands of your life has run down The hour of deliverance Strikes for you at last, I believe it won't be long No more pain or agony Let the final curtain fall Just take my hand and I'll show you the way To the promised land With nothing more to lose We are leaving with the midnight train Shine, may the memory of you shine Shine, never fade away On a screen behind closed eyes, his memories Keep marching in parade He's standing at the doorstep to paradise As the dawns begin to rise In a long distant wind he can hear the whistle blowing From the midnight train But to those I'm leaving behind I wasn't you all to know To say goodbye is not easy I'll miss you when I go Miss you when I go ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Look In Your Eyes (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:59 Take a look at yourself You got so many faces Can you tell me which one of them is you What's behind that mysterious smile Have you anything to hide I'm scratching the surface Your silence breaks like a missile into my heart Don't you forget what I say Don't reject it away The look in your eyes seems so mystical I can't understand it A glint on the focus line Can't you see I have to realize I can't understand it I can't get you back again I don't want no mark of gratitude from your lips But I was the one who made you a lady You line your perse at my expense Taking me for money, not for love ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Give It Back (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 3:51 - Remixed version Give it back Nervously, holding my breath Standing by the phone Is your number changed again I won't get through The last coin is slopping down, a monotonous tone But all my efforts are in vain I feel so lonely, isolation coming through How can I come in touch with you Cold wind blows in my hair A fullthrottle drive Driving down the valley in my cabriolette Stop by your house and knock Still there's no reply Wanna tell you girl that I really want to stay Waking up in the dead of night, in a pool of my sweat And I think, there must be a way Turning the problem down, just thinking about the way That I can make you stay Give it, give it back Back to me, to me baby Living from day to day, time just slips away You're gone but your memory will stay Wish I could look ahead And see what's coming up What tomorrow's got in store for me My intuition says I'm closer to you now Gonna tell you girl to stay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8) Out Of The Bunker (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:50 Where have all your prophets gone Dear Jerusalem From a time out of mind An echo lingers on Blinded by your own creations Walking on the moon Heaven and hell out of fashion In the shadow of the doom I can hear them calling He's the payed piper Walls of Jericho You gotta let us out Out of this bunker Out We wanna see the light There's so much around us That we can't explain There are so much around us That is insane You gotta let us out Out of this bunker Out of this bunker ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9) World Wide Man (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 3:57 I'm a one night stand with a gun in my hand You're pulling the trigger of a world wide man I'm the prodigal son, the chosen one A hybrid shaped under an acid sun I'm one of my kind Oh gonna lose my mind I'm all alone, the work is done Tomorrow I'll be lost and gone I'm a world wide man I'm flying so high in the neon sky I'm a world wide man Yeah, that's what I am Lady Luck so wise lost our game of dice She consulted dionysos for a suitable prize I should fool the fate, don't live on second rate But never stand in front of heavens gate I'm flying so high in the neon sky In order to continue, living out this lie I'm a gambling fool, who obey no rule A profane devil moulded into a gambling fool A race with the devil Oh yeah A race with the devil behind the wheel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10) Hotel Party (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:10 We'll be drinking all night To get the things right, oh Putting hard feelings away Surrounded by girls you figure You must be dreaming They're like, served on a silvertray A simple phrase and you can set the pace 'I want you, I need you Baby don't you leave me' A lotta cliches don't make no loveaffair But more you can not bare You mustn't care The scornful devils whispered in my ear 'Get on your knees now' A glass too much again Which left her brokenhearted, but keep on drinking Hotel party Kick up your heels and do what you feel like Keep rockin', keep rollin', it's a new religion Payin' off the hotelhost and furniture repairs It's all tomorrow's mares, no one cares But now the angels whisper in my ears 'Get on your knees now' I couldn't treat you bad Since then we've never parted No never again Hotel party - Spinning 'round and 'round Hotel party - Who made this awful sound ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11) Mental Masturbation (Edman, Karlson, Myllynen, Sundqvist, Frederickson) 4:11 The power's on, I can hardly wait It comes down strong, not a minute too late The level's high and your speakers are screaming My oh my, I must be dreaming Good vibration is flowing All over me Look and hult the door and your windows too Cause a neighbourmob has got a contract on you They won't give up until your stereo's dead But who gives a fuck, turn up the level instead Have a mental masturbation The music's making everything Upsidedown My whole world's spinning 'round 'Round and 'round I can't stop move to that sound, no no no I think my head is about to blow ------------------------------------------------------------------------