The latest Silverchair album comes after a long gap. Was it worth the wait?
	Australian band, returning after a hiatus following "Neon Ballroom". Verdict on the album? A definite buy. It strikes you on first hearing and demands a replay, some tracks at once in fact which is what I did. I have not heard "Neon Ballroom" yet either!

The Silverchair website.

The Album is not yet released here in the UK. July Release 2002.

Apologies for delay. This site is now one of several dedicated to the memory of my mother Mabel who passed away on April 24th. I miss her greatly.

	Diorama Tracklist below. 1 Across The Night 2 The Greatest View 3 Without You 4 World Upon Your Shoulders 5 One Way Mule 6 Tuna In The Brine 7 Too Much Of Not Enough 8 Luv Your Life 9 The Lever 10 My Favourite Thing 11 After All These Years   Produced by David Bottrill Co-Produced by Daniel Johns. Mixed
Pic above from the enhanced CD
The songs on the album date from the note on the lyrics. The composition covers a considerable period of time!

The page below is the lyrics.

A point the band make in the sleeve note is that "pitch correction" software is NOT used on Diorama. This technology "corrects" notes that are sung or played out of tune and has become increasingly popular in recent years. Silverchair choose not to use this computer software on their albums as it's their personal belief that such artificial "perfection" (my quotes) diminishes music. In fact "off pitch" notes can be a deliberate and useful element!

Lyrics from the site link right. Another Silverchair Site To Review.

Some of the tracks are sectional and episodic, with unexpected "breaks" midway. This also features in recent tracks by the UK band MUSE, also reviewed on this site. They too have some "orchestral" leanings in evidence.

(1) Across The Night Lyrics here are repeated and shuffled! A complex track indeed! Across the night It was the moon that stole my slumber Across the night I fell in love with people sleeping (And hugged a man's arthritic shoulder) (omitted here) (1) I fell tired, asleep in a golden ocean Your eyes perspired, a spike in my fascination I don't mean to make you cry But this feeling will run right through the night And I'll only make you cry with these feelings Across the night It was the moon that stole my slumber Across the night I fell in love with people sleeping (Across the night-3) And hugged a man's arthritic shoulder (1.54) (2)Sleepless, untamed without a leash on the light around me I don't mean to make you cry But this feeling will run right through the night And I'll only make you cry with these feelings Across the night It was the moon that stole my slumber Across the night I fell in love with people sleeping (Across the night-3) And hugged a man's arthritic shoulder(2) (3.02) Instrumental break and tempo shift here. So let us be married and have another baby Coz I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna be alone Yeh let's just get married shouting baby, baby, babies "You'll never sleep at all" But I don't wanna be lonely Never seen the sunshine From higher points than sunrise I don't wanna be lonely I just wanna be alone Instrumental coda © D. Johns Jan 2001	(7) Too Much of Not Enough Variation here in what is printed and sung? 1) She tripped on a hole that I'd dug in the soil To be part of a human garden and I couldn't Stand in the straight postured sun But you stood in the mud which came unsoiled When I came along (r3) You never stop needing(r2) You see it's good for nothing, good for nothing A close look at something So close It's too much of not enough (r2) When all we need is just a taste 2) I strapped myself in for a safe saccharide Before it started I tried to be anything I saw fit And it all seemed to fit but you came undone When I came along (r3) You never stop needing(r2) A close look at something So close It's too much of not enough(r2) When all we need is just a taste Break. (3) Blind white lies and shallow truth Broken strings and stolen youth I've seen too much of not enough but You came much closer than they had before(r3) (too much of not enough) oo ooo oooo (wordless) You never stop needing (r3) And it's good for nothing. Blue = words not used.
(2) The Greatest View You're the analyst The fungus in my milk When you want no one And you got someone Through the wind You crawl And laugh at burning dunes When no one else will Ever see Now that you know why you feel like you do They're turning their head whilst they wait For no one And finally I know why you feel like letting go I'm watching you watch Over me and I've got The greatest view from here I'm watching you watch Over me and I've got The greatest view from here Mistakes don't mean a thing If you don't regret them So pack your tactic toes for the winter Chain a waterfall to burned and withered skin No-one else will ever see I'm - - - - from here Now that you know why you feel like you do They're turning their head whilst they wait For no one And finally I know why I feel like you're letting go I'm - - - - from here The greatest view from here The greatest view	(8) Luv Your Life You don't know the truth and I love your life (do do do) 1) Thrust the candle to the dark of your disease Burn the fishplate execute ill memories Labyrinth of sympathy in which I'm lost and can't leave And too much truth overshadows the lime lies And what lies beneath the clouds is an Altered perception and I'll pay for sanity But sanity don't come cheap You don't know the truth and I love your life (r3) do do da do ----- etc (r 4) You don't know the truth and I love your life(r3) 2) Flinch against the fire but this ain't winter And I'm all by myself the way I wanna be Where I'm content to be to be all by myself But frozen eyes are bound to melt do do da do ----- etc(r) You don't know the truth and I love your life (r) You don't know the truth (r) You don't know the truth and I love your life You don't know the truth
(3) Without You Each section has its own short "bridge passage".(Over heavy, pedal style intro) Miles away There's hopeless smiles brighter than mine And I need for you to come and go Without the truth falling out - (lighter backing here) Old incisions refusing to stay Like the sun through the trees on a cloudy day And you brighten my life like a polystyrene hat But it melts in the sun like a life without love And I've waited for you so i'll keep crying out Without you (2) Telephone Socially scared and impaired If the trees will bloom the wind can blow Without the fruit falling out Old --------- day And you ------ Without you (3) Feels like the wind blows Holding you with us She takes no other Falls light and ashes Blooming like winter Dry eyes and cracked lips Under the stone wall Withdrawn and wishless And you brighten my life like a polystyrene hat But it melts in the sun like a life without love And I've waited for you so i'll keep crying out Without you (x3) Inst Codas	(9) The Lever Living your life like a (you're) bull in the trade He doesn't know how it feels Under my thumb like a bone under nail She's in the know, how's it feel? Live your life under machine guns Canary down the mine Maybe I'm on the lever (x3) Spoiling my broth like a radio kid Programmed computerised mind Waving my luck under your nose Like I found a four leaf clover Live your life under machine guns Canary down the mine Maybe I'm on the lever (x3) Turn the mirrors face the wall Don't you feel a little weak? And I'd catch you when you fall But you're falling all the time Do you need it anymore? (Or) do you need a little more? (x2) Maybe I'm on the lever (x6) Turn the mirrors face the wall Don't you feel a little weak? And I'd catch you when you fall But you're falling all the time Do you need it anymore? Or do you need a little more? (x3) (Or) do you need a little --
(4) World Upon Your Shoulders This is a very serious thoughtful track indeed. All the bridges in the world Won't save you If there is no other side To cross to When you're world's not feeling ugly And the world's not too much Take the world upon your shoulders (x2) And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn Take the world upon your shoulders (1) Half full glasses Lost in empty houses When you're world's not feeling ugly And the world's not too much Take the world upon your shoulders (x2) And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn Take the world upon your shoulders (1)(modulates) Violent, big and violent Like a thing that's big, big And violent A world that's big and Violent When you're world's not feeling ugly And the world's not too much Take the world upon your shoulders(x2) And burn, burn, burn, burn, burn Take the world upon your shoulders(x3) Blue = words not used. Red = extra lyrics.	(10) My Favourite Thing Got my fever down, then weighed it up, and know the Sounds remaining won't strain all the silt from my eyes Bleach the green from the pastures, feast on the grey Of the night, straight from the vines refusal to shine You're my favourite thing - the one that I love You're the one so I'd die for your love Blind the deafened moon, stimulate the tombs of angels I'll open my heart won't fall apart Don't fall apart You're my favourite thing And I feel like letting go
(5) One Way Mule (4.15) Let my spirit ride on a one way mule Blistered skin in a cold hearted pool Distant emotion hides a concrete wall Naked and anchored I'll climb right back To you Love me for my mind, coz I'm a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back (to)for you Distant memories in a cage by my bed Viscid dreams stick to holes in my head But a patient career of sleep in a Sunday dress Rides my wake (And)Love me for my mind, coz I'm a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back (to)for you I'll stake out just to find The knife in a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back for you Distant memories in a cage by my bed Viscid dreams stick to holes in my head But a patient career of sleep in a Sunday dress Rides my wake (Heavy Instrumental break here) Love me for my mind, coz I'm a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back for you I'll stake out just to find The knife in a dangerous heart When I've got time to kill I'm coming back to you, (to you, yeah to you.)	(11) After All These Years Breathe in the night That crushed a tired sunrise Born again the day Brings you naivety A laptop souvenir is worth its weight In silver a golden son You'll be home again And I'll be home again Mend in my sleep I'm boxing under water Waddle on the wake Waking on a summer day After all these years Forget about all the troubled times Munificent, artless and ascetic Playing like a scared Enthusiastic pawn And every father's pain Casts a shadow over a broken son You'll be whole again And I'll be whole again All those years I was hurting to feel Something more than life All Lyrics © Daniel Johns 2001
(6) Tuna In The Brine I fondle keys to my heart when everyone's heart Seems so calm And you found the lock To my dorm and opened the doors to my trust Fund my vestry The light in my darkest hour is fear Denies me of anything good so Don't lose your heart you'll need it (too) And Don't lose your heart You'll have to take another pill and tell another lie And lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine(1.18) Take everything that you're not and don't be so Scared to tamper (temper) with (temper) "tampered with" evidence (tamper) Coz you'll come along for the sun if you come at all The light in the darkest hour is fear Denies me of anything good so Don't lose your heart you'll need it (And Don't lose your heart) You'll have to lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine And Don't lose your heart (--) Don't lose your heart To lose your heart you'll have to take, take and take, take 3.30)Painting a lie seeing the colours but you seem Closer to everything (x3) (4.12)Closer now than we ever have been We're closer now than we ever should (we) be Closer now than we've ever been before Closer to everything. Busking for change and changing everything Feeble fables aren't changing many things It's my time to shine like a tuna in the brine For my pregnant paws aren't changing anything To all of the animals who keep sipping the sweat From my back, You're making me ill And I can't get enough So take another pill and tell another lie And lie amongst your lies like tuna in the brine	Enhanced element (Quotes)
P.K.Murphy.

This page created 21st. April 2002 Updated 1st. January 2003.