Credits
Recorded in Urmston, Manchester between January 2000 and January 2001.
All tracks written by Andrew Chester / David Luke working as My Computer.
* Written by Rod Smith / Andrew Chester / David Luke.
Produced by My Computer.
Mixed and Mastered by David Luke.
Vulnerabilia started off as an experiment by two mates in January of the year 2000. By the end of the same year, it had developed into an album, so ahead of it’s time, it took another year of touting around record labels before it was granted release by David Holmes’s 13 amp imprint. The critic’s reaction to the record was astounding. An album of the year in 2002 in many nationwide music polls. However, it was deleted soon after its release. As debut albums go, this is true Mancunian buried treasure and it should be treasured, for it was recorded with love for the fuck ups we all are. An accomplishment.
Track List - Vulnerabilia
1. All I ever really wanted was a good time
2. More to life
3. Rope
4. Vulnerabilia
5. Fill my cup
6. Majic flat
7. There are ways
8. For somebody else
9. No more dealing
10. I don’t care how you treat me
11. If you dare
Track by track guide by Andrew Chester
1. All I ever really wanted was a good time
The Lyric – Is that too much to ask, I ask myself?
The Music – All I did was let my mate put my best Johnny Cash type song in a minor key and sit on a stool and sing it. I got my electric out with a faulty lead, whacked on some high or other and my mate piped some beats down into the live room. The next time I hear the song, three weeks later, it is a ten-minute epic of Mayan proportions.
2. More to life
The Lyric – There’s more to life than drugs.
The Music – Exquisite R&B beats and Spanish guitar. A brass band in ancient Greece backing Aaliyah singing to a heroin addict. A life support song.
3. Rope
The Lyric – About hanging on and dreaming of hanging Margaret Thatcher.
The Music – A Balearic synthonomy. Backwards orchestra dancing with Fender Rhodes and bass from space as I sing a song of hope, defiance and revenge. The closest I have ever got to sounding like Steely Dan.
4. Vulnerabilia
The Lyric – About finding drugs and losing your religion.
The Music – A melancholy, warming, acoustic ballad with an ethereal, breathless vocal that falls in love with the dancfloor.
5. Fill my cup*
The Lyric – About losing yourself in cannabis while your mind screams for something more, while your conscience screams enough.
The Music – Metallic beats with Santana soloing into a complete haze of more Steely Dan Fender Rhodes. Liquid audio backing vocals continue to glide through the sonic landscape. As dark as night and as wanton as a whore in hell.
6. Majic flat
The Lyric – About living in a gangster’s paradise.
The Music – A House anthem that turns into a haunted house of 2 Step, then morphs into Rachmaninov with a vocal melody I sing as I write, not knowing what is coming.
7. There are ways
The Lyric – Finding ways through sorrow.
The Music – Acoustics give way to ghostly beats and more liquid audio to drink down to the hope that all is not lost.
8. For somebody else
The Lyric – A bitter tale of love lost and love found.
The Music – An acoustic ballad that blends The Stone Roses with the theme from Prisoner Cell Block H, then rams the point home with some hard-boiled Techno.
9. No more dealing
The Lyric – Self-explanatory
The Music – A space ship crashes with intergalactic drug dealers in it. The survivors get out and sing an acoustic ballad of immense beauty.
10. I don’t care how you treat me
The Lyric – About not caring how badly your lover treats you, even though you’re losing your mind and doing something you despise for a living, for both of you.
The Music – A Spanish electric piano carries me off to the drum & bass disco and back again for the full orchestral drama of the situation I have found myself in.
11. If you dare
The Lyric – A Disney dream that didn’t come true.
The Music – A Disney dream.
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