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I don’t know if it was the entertainment company I was working for at the time or the fact that Christmas was upon us (probably both) but the happy-clappy joyous juggernaut of forced fun needed an antidote. In four weeks I wrote a black comedy of eleven pop songs.
The band of course, brought the energy and atmosphere from our live shows to the studio and producer Jamie Masters worked with us to tighten up the arrangements. The recording and mixing took eight weeks in Echo Studios with Jamie working his magic at the desk. It was also expertly mastered by Jon Astley at Close To The Edge.
Edge Of Town
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
It’s not the money
It’s where I am
It sucked my spirit
Then spit me down
Leave me here on the edge of town
Where the money lives
Where they’re on the scrounge
Gonna find me a big cheese
No middle ground
My time has come
A bitter vengeance won’t make me rich
It’s not neurosis
It’s just a bitch
I read the book
Then I tore it up
They still believe it
They’ll get a cut
But I want much more
A bitter vengeance won’t make me rich
It’s not psychosis
It’s just a bitch
It’s not the way it should be
Can’t see anything more than I need
Gimme more
Inflicting pain with my greed
But I can see from the outside
The way they make us bleed
It’s not the money
It’s who I am
I’m sucking spirit
Now I own the town
Don’t leave me here
A bitter vengeance won’t make me rich
It’s not psychosis
It’s just a bitch
Beautifully Naive
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
You feel you don’t belong
Black and white and never wrong
So easy you turn it on
But these times don’t last that long
When it’s easy to believe
Faith in all and beautifully naive
And it’s good to be afraid
Lasting longer than the stuff that you take
You get nothing in your way
When what matters changes day by day by day
Chasing dreams around the world
Faith in all and beautifully naive
The mad ideas fill your head
it’s a hunger that can’t be fed
So easily mislead
While we wait for someone else instead
Do it now
You’ll be fine
Change the world before closing time
How Can I Sleep?
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
You talk without thinking
I listen in much the same way
Politness hell
We go through the motions again
I walk away
Feeling warmer with every step
The things you said to me
They turn in my head as the sun sets
How can I sleep Your words recoil
How can I sleep Silent turmoil
How can I sleep While my blood boils
How can I sleep
Trapped in the darkness
A cell which I share with your ghost
The things I want to say are pointless
Because they won’t stop you
How can I sleep Your words recoil
How can I sleep Silent turmoil
How can I sleep While my blood boils
How can I sleep
I can’t stop you
I can’t stop myself
Over and over, can’t stop
Building confusion
Blurring the lines I hear
You are my demon
The one that I chose to bring my fear
How can I sleep Your words recoil
How can I sleep Silent turmoil
How can I sleep While my blood boils
How can I sleep
Out OF Focus
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
I can’t believe this
I can’t believe this
I can’t believe what you sing
With your golden things and your diamond rings
You’re taking the soul out of those who believe in your lies
What you trying to hide?
You’re out of focus and dry
It means nothing to me
Your fantasy
Insanity
You don’t believe me
Don’t try to hear me
Don’t try to see what I see
You’re too blinkered to feed on my conspiracy
The bitterness drives what I say
I can’t keep it inside
What you trying to hide?
You’re out of focus and dry
It means nothing to me
Your fantasy
Insanity
You beat a trodden path
The story you tell won’t last
They’ll stop you from changing the rules
They’ll hurt you for thinking them fools
3 Minute Hug
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
Light breaks into the room
For a while, fate remains outside
Don’t want to move and I don’t need to
This is all I need to feel alive
This is your 3 minute warning I don’t want to go
This is your 3 minute warning It’s all you need to know
This is your 3 minute warning No time to be afraid
This is your 3 minute warning My love will never fade
Hear you breathing, feel your heartbeat
And the warm touch of your skin
This is the memory I take with me
For now I close my eyes and I try to pull you further in
This is your 3 minute warning A siren in my head
This is your 3 minute warning To tear me from this bed
This is your 3 minute warning There’s nothing left to say
This is your 3 minute warning It’s all there is today
It’s all there is, it’s all there is today
It’s all there is, it’s all there is today
It’s all there is, it’s all there is today
It’s all there is, my love will never fade
Idiot Room
Music - Loz Jones
Lyrics - Loz Jones and Lucy Jones
I know you’ve been there
Sometimes you kinda like it
A place to hide
Away from yourself and from the world outside
While you argue
You’re ticking down the hours
Creating nothing
Fingers in pies and a lust for power
Switch off, just walk into the Idiot Room
Don’t think, just talk in the Idiot Room
Grown ups at play we’re in the Idiot Room
If you want to stay you’re an Idiot too
You’re pacified
Remember, you said you’d rather die
A room with no views
Look at you gazing at your new shoes
Your random clicks
Playing with the coloured bricks
Switches twitching
Squeezed in between all the boredom bitching
Switch off, just walk into the Idiot Room
Don’t think, just talk in the Idiot Room
Grown ups at play we’re in the Idiot Room
If you want to stay you’re an Idiot too
You joined the sham
For a while though, you’re the man
A stolen story
Shout it out loud and claim all the glory
You’re always in there
You can’t afford not to like it
So scared you hide
Away from yourself and from the world outside
Switch off, just walk into the Idiot Room
Don’t think, just talk in the Idiot Room
Grown ups at play we’re in the Idiot Room
If you want to stay you’re an Idiot too
Watching You Think
Music - Loz Jones
Lyrics - Loz Jones and Lucy Jones
A camera lens like a sniper gun
Take the hit and pay for another one
It never lies, it just records
A dry eyed witness with no reality pause
Step outside and you’re on the run
Stay inside and see the terror spun
Controlling all the things you do
Chasing down what you’re dreaming too
From behind a screen, re-inventing sin
Thought police shifting law
Drink your ‘victory gin’
Out of reach they can justify
But money decides if you fit the crime, if you live or die
Step outside and you’re on the run
Stay inside and see the terror spun
Controlling all the things you do
Chasing down what you’re dreaming too
Watching you think, following you
Paying the price for what you’re going to do
Watching you think, following you
Paying the price for what you’re going to do
She Glows In The Dark
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
She’s out at night, taken in by the sound
Dressed up and sparkles from her hat to the ground
She’s the life and soul, everybody's her friend
She’s loving the now and she don’t need to pretend
There’s a place where she goes, where she likes to hang out
Where nobody knows what she’s all about
She likes to move on, but she stays for a while
Then the next joint beckons and she’s gone with a smile
It’s like she’s on the run
On the run, on the run, forever
From the reflecting sun
On the run, on the run, forever
She’ not the only one
On the run, on the run, forever
Never stop having fun, never come undone
Tell me who’s that girl? - Nobody knows
She glows in the dark - Where does she get those clothes?
She won’t talk to me - She don’t care who you are
She’s dating herself, she’s an urban superstar
It’s what she is and it’s what she does
It’s how she lives coz it’s what she loves
She’s jumping all night coz she’s made of the stuff
But then she cries in the morning coz it’s never enough
It’s like she’s on the run
On the run, on the run, forever
From the reflecting sun
On the run, on the run, forever
She’ not the only one
On the run, on the run, forever
Never stop having fun, never come undone
It’s Time
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
Get Angry
A white knuckled fist
Gotta get mad yeah
Can’t just exist
I’m seeing red
Deep enough to drown
They irritate me (so much)
Gotta bring ’em down
Oh, it’s not enough
Tear it up
Don’t take what’s on the page
Oh, now it’s time
Take a side
Unshackle your inner rage
Negative touch
Controlling how you feel
Emotion under lies
Confusing what is real
I wanna hit out
At everything I’ve seen
Gonna split my shirt and grow big muscles yeah
Turn an ugly shade of green
Oh, it’s not enough
Tear it up
Don’t take what’s on the page
Oh, now it’s time
Take a side
Unshackle your inner rage
It’s not enough
Build it up
Lock me in a cage
It’s not enough
Build it up
Unstoppable rage
Heckle
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
They continue to laugh
They don’t know the half
Of what you
Have done to me
I’ve been here so many times
I can’t work out why
Today
The line isn’t throw away
You keep attacking me
Slowly cracking me
What have I done to you
Trapped on a stage
Invisible rage
Why did you heckle me?
I stand beneath the lights
They hear all I say
But made your way
Words are more powerful
Your twisted mind is set
But I will not regret
The things I say
They won’t go away
You keep attacking me
Slowly cracking me
What have I done to you
Trapped on a stage
Invisible rage
Why did you heckle me?
Now all I see is nothing else but you and me
Now all I see is what you want
You refuse to regret
How it started
Our dangerous duet
You keep attacking me
Slowly cracking me
What have I done to you
Trapped on a stage
Invisible rage
Why did you heckle me?
Awaking Times
Music & Lyrics - Loz Jones
I left myself today
This is what I saw
From the outside in
Never seen before
We work, work together
Man made world, Made to measure
We accuse ourselves of destruction too often
It’s in our nature to build
I see cold, I see love
I see beauty, I see the ugly things too
Today I saw the beauty where ugliness lies
We all need these awaking times
We can talk and we can listen
Switching off unconscious automation
Not enough time within one life to remember what’s been done
Hear the music in a thunderstorm
I feel that I belong
Today I saw the beauty where ugliness lies
We all need these awaking times
We can talk and we can listen
Switching off unconscious automation
Not enough time within one life to achieve what can be done
Hear the music when the rain hits the ground
And I know i can’t be wrong
We all need these awaking times
Listen to
Spoiling It For Everyone
“How, how on earth can that just be an unknown track on MySpace rather than something that's all over the playlists of the country? It's classic, laconic English pop songwriting from Loz Jones!”
Broadcaster and music icon TOM ROBINSON reviews 'Idiot Room' on BBC 6 Music
“LOZ JONES debut is a delightful slice of laid-back indie-pop. Loaded with crisp melodies and radio-friendly hooks, Spoiling It For Everyone is aimed squarely at the Robbie Williams crowd. A well realised piece of work that echoes Williams's debut, it's a fine start from the Bedfordshire sextet.”
Rock'n'Reel magazine
“Idiot Room is classic Pop song writing drawing in on all of the things that make a great catchy Pop track.
The b-side is ‘Awaking Times’ and is a gentle tune that contrasts everything in ‘Idiot Room’, but showcases the depth that the band have. Despite the fact that this band are unsigned, they may be on the verge of something good here. This is a nice and tasty sample of some musical meal that I’d love to get my teeth into.”
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Jim Ody
ROOM THIRTEEN.com
“A fucking virtue peddler”
Anonymous poster
Tuna The Day
This is my favourite review ever!
“A rare Indie sound that is sweetly tinged with innovative pop sounds, it is a world away from anything currently in the music scene. Their new single 'Idiot Room' is a buzzing track full of intoxicating synths and pulsing beats with insanely catchy breakdowns and choruses.”
Cherry Pullinger
Ampedreviews.net
Hats off for the most garish labels I've seen on a CD. Idiot Room is a catchy piece of radio friendly pop. But the b-side Awakening Times, shows there's more to the band than a novelty single.
Single of the week
Pete Whalley – Singles Bar
Get Ready To Rock.com
“Very tasty stuff, very impressive and pretty damn cool. No-way does 'Spoiling It For Everyone' sound like a debut work; it's solid, modernistic and extremely professional. This outfit sound really together, supremely tight and totally focussed on their main event - making good music that's not just following others 'Spoiling It For Everyone' by Loz Jones is scarily good for a debut album and that title might just prove to be right on the money - watch out for this lot, they might just be coming into your home very soon!”
Peter J Brown
ToxicPete.co.uk
“Loz Jones are midway between classic sounding British Rock, Electronica and something as yet undefined but one thing for sure is these guys have the potential to take their music onto a bigger audience. Idiot Room/Awaking Times is a two track mini epic that has me itching to get listening to more”
4.5 - 5
Patrick McKiernan
ALL GIGS.co.uk
“Deceptively disarming is I think the best way of describing this twin set release from Luton based six piece combo Loz Jones. ‘Idiot Room’ is such a slyly enticing treat and ’Awaking Times’ - what can I say - just melts. A beautifully hazily glazed star lit gem orbiting lonesome and bruised and dispatched with a longing that frankly leaves you captivated, subdued and ultimately seduced. Need I say more. Good. Go buy.”
Mark Barton
LosingToday.com
“Spoiling It For Everyone is a guitar and synth based pop album that while being easy on the ear and aimed squarely to the mainstream, does have some really good moments. I loved 3 minute Hug, that would make a brilliant single, Edge Of Town is a slightly darker opening track and Beautifully Naive is about putting the world to rights in the pub which is something most blokes can associate with. A fun and well produced album that finishes with a real twist in the tail as we get a female vocal leading the epic closer Awaking Times.”
Kev
The Beat Surrender.co.uk
“While other bands struggle for niche and genre, obsessing over whether a riff might 'sound a bit too flowery' or be 'lacking a raw edge', Loz and his talented ensemble prefer to dive straight into the lyrics and melody, crafting engaging and in some ways unique tunes that have won admirers across the South-East and beyond. Songwriting craft and the rhythm that underlies it, is a talent not seen nearly enough in popular music terms, but around the local live circuit and within the grooves of the band's debut album 'Spoiling It For Everyone' it's prevalent, it's alive, and it's humming!”
James Evans
Luton At Large
“Loz Jones - Luton's Finest
An instantly likeable bunch, a top drawer act you really ought to see. Expect catchy tunes and musicianship sharp enough to pick your teeth with. I snaffled a preview copy of 'Spoiling It For Everyone' after the gig. It’s in my car. It’s jolly good”
Neil Skinner
Watford Observer
Ealing Times
“There is something about Loz Jones. A unique style to the bands music, lyrics and approach to their work. Listening to their album 'Spoiling It For Everyone’, they could be a band to watch out for. It seems that Loz Jones are headed for a bright future”
Luton at Large
“Recording with Loz Jones was a very enjoyable experience. They're a great band who are very committed to what they do, and this clearly shows in the focused and exciting album they've made. The first week of recording was the best part for me - working on arrangements with everybody and seeing how we could shape the songs. I'm very happy with the end result, a clash of big guitars and electro pop synths battling it out over great drum and bass grooves.”
Jamie Masters
Producer - Echo Studios
“Awaking Times is the final song from 'Spoiling It For Everyone'. Natalie sings a song that marvels at the achievements of the human race and looks positively ahead at what is yet to come.”
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