Lyrics
In need of now
Living while waiting for another day to come might not be so easy I think
People do it all the time someone said to me
Yes indeed I found this to be true
Tonight we’re here to have some beer
Pass some time
And be today and know the way
Of our lives
Thinking of the places they will never see they return to daily routine
People worry all the time someone said to me
Yes indeed I found this to be true
You can find me in these words I sing to you
And I find myself in need of now
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Forever me
I’ve become so lonely
If only I knew something to do
Watch out now
You think you know better
Maybe you’re right
Maybe you’re wrong
I know that life can be quite boring
Someone get me out
Take me away
Show me that place where I’ve been dancing
All through the night
Smiling inside I felt alright
Hungry now
Forever me
Deep in here
With only me
Deep in love
With only me
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Any other day
I survived a day today again
Nothing seemed real to me
I slid out of a dream last night
Running down the street alone
Floating backwards to the other night
I had you on my mind
I have seen the writings on the wall
Now the wall is torn down
Any other day you could succeed
Any other day you’d knock me out
Any other day I’d sell my soul
Any other day except today
I’m satisfied
You can’t touch me
I am bulletproof
I’m on top looking down
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA. 2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Been around
I’ve been around for days
I’ve turned around in many ways
You picked me up
And nearly made my day
But on the way
I lost your sight
I lost myself and
I awoke alone
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music.
All rights reserved.
Again
I will tell you how it all began
Once I was a boy now I’m a man
Now it’s time to be concerned
And get a steady job and all that stuff
Real rough
I never thought about these things
Now I am here and guess what
Sometimes my age hurts a lot
I disagree with time and I decide to grow young
Again
I had never thought of a career
I prefer the good times and a beer
All the girls I used to know
Have grown as well and want to have a child
Real wild
When I was a kid all things were tall
Now that I have grown I still feel small
I am here for no reason
I could as well be someone else instead
Or dead
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Locked
You are sitting behind locked doors just waiting
Waiting for someone to come but there
There never somebody will come to soften your pain
Your dreams are running wild like shadows in the night
You are sitting inside locked rooms just hoping
Hoping for something to ease your mind
Who should be the one to share this room of doubts with you
And what do you think he could do
All the words you said have gone
Somewhere
While you sit beside yourself
Everything around keeps on moving
As you lose yourself in time
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Recall
I grow old and you stay young
That ain’t fair but I don’t care
I will rise and I will fall
I can’t change a thing at all
I was always there for you
Why would you never be true
You took my money took my soul
You said „baby it’s just rock and roll“
I was yours and I was fine
But you never have been mine
Passing glory passing grief
I am left in disbelief
You always find the words you need
To conceil the your pain and greed
You looked cute and you were kind
You said I was always on your mind
Do you remember any of this at all
Do you remember how you let me fall
Do you still think it was me who was wrong
Do you deserve to be in this song
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Minor drugs
I was caught by the fuzz
I thought of how this all might fit in
I never meant anything to be real in the end
I drank too much
I got in touch with some minor drugs
I have been out just for some days
I had no choice but
To find you
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Thin ice
Close your eyes
All the stars
Will shine on
Purple skies
Back behind
Touch the crimson
Dreams may live
But my heart
Can’t pulsate
Like yours does
Velvet tears
Waste my years
Trample down my shadow
Let’s walk on thin ice
Let’s break through and let’s learn
How to swim in this
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Memory
Have you found someone to take care for and to share you bed
I think you found someone to share some time but not your life instead
You gotta admit you always been out hunting for eternal love
Except that love isn’t hunted for I think you could have known before
Has it occurred to you that you might get what you give in the end
And that this might not be as much as you thought for yourself to bend
You must agree a tree needs water to grow green and old
So does love that it may last instead of turning grey and cold
Full of memories full of time i’d sell my past for a buck and a dime
And now
I can see you walking, acting, talking, dancing for your life
Your inside’s out
Your heart’s a hole and love is rinning out
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Long ago
Long ago far away
We were traveling hand in hand
Through this world
King and Queen we had been
Long ago far away
We believed only we knew life
But sometimes
It had been life which knew us
You walked upon air through time
Shining golden for the two of us
We made no big deal about us hunting down stars
Long ago far away
We had failed to arrive at home
Unbroken
We got lost on the way
You walked upon air through time
Shining golden for the two of us
These days I wonder how I lost you
Long ago
In the end it did not matter how hard we tried
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Before
I been down
I’ve been down before
Down for love
Before
Everywhere
People talk the same
Do the talking game
And I recall
I heard you say this before
We should be friends or more
Oh why
I heard you say this before
Now we are friends and more
Oh my
She said yes
And she made it clear
Now we’re here
To be
In her eyes
I can see the sun
She’s the one
And I recall
I have gone this way before
Could not go furthermore
Before
Now I feel the love that’s grown
No longer feel alone
Oh I
Lyrics by Jan & Stephan Basters
Music by Jan Basters, Stephan Basters, Jörn Brucker
Published by Guilty Guitars Music / GEMA
2008 © Guilty Guitars Music
All rights reserved
Reviews
Legacy (Ausgabe #59, Feb/Mar 2009)
(von Arne Kupetz)
Mit ihrer unaufdringlichen und gleichzeitig anti-poppigen Indie-Seligkeit wissen die Hamburger Musiker von Guilty Guitars durchaus zu gefallen. Es paßt, daß die melancholisch bis introvertiert scheinenden Kompositionen des Trios bei genauerem Hinsehen weitaus mehr Melodie und Verträglichkeit mitführen, als es zunächst den Anschein hat.
Die Gruppe ist bereits seit einigen Jahren aktiv und veröffentlicht mit „In Need Of Now“ ihren dritten Longplayer. Klassischen Rock mit einem erdigen und reduzierten Ansatz kombiniert man darauf mit schrägem Charme und 90er-US-Indie. Etwas Grunge und Noise dürfen ebenso wenig fehlen, denn mit diesen Sounds scheinen die Hanseaten aufgewachsen zu sein. Die Guilty Guitars sind keine Freunde der lauten oder ausladenden Klänge. Die Produktion von „In Need Of Now“ klingt unerwartet unaktuell und bezieht gerade aus diesem Umstand ihren Reiz. Das Trio um die Brüder Jan und Stephan Basters ist weder trendy, noch verkörpert es irgendein Image. Den Musikern geht es schlicht und ergreifend darum, zeitlose Musik zu spielenund sich unter Zuhilfenahme von Instrumenten in der kleinsten denkbaren Rock-Besetzung mit Fragen rund um die Zeit auseinander zu setzen.
„In Need Of Now“ ist ein reduziertes Konzeptalbum, das sich in klaren Strukturen entwickelt und lieber melancholisch bis verletzlich klingt als forsch oder fröhlich. Guilty Guitars bremsen ihre Hörer aus und fordern sie dazu auf, sich die nötige Zeit zur Auseinandersetzung oder einfach dem Verweilen mit den Songs zu nehmen. Das hat etwas.
www.tinnitus-mag.de (Nov. 2008)
(von Simon Birgel)
Hinter Guilty Guitars verbirgt sich ein Hamburger Trio um die Brüder Jan und Stephan Basters. Schon seit einiger Zeit ist die Band untergrundaktiv, bei „In Need Of Now“ handelt es sich um das bereits dritte Studioalbum, wobei sich angenehmerweise sagen lässt, dass die Band gepflegt auf jedweden momentan angesagten Indie-Trend verzichtet. Keine Röhrenhosen-Rumhipsterei, kein aufgesetztes Cockney-lall-englisch, keine tanzbaren Beats – mehr öberflächliche Stereotypen bitte hier __________ einsetzen, ja noch nicht einmal eine Spur von Retro-Chic, nur das rootige Rockinstrumentarium mit Gitarre, Schlagzeug und Bass. So klingt ihr Singer/Songwriter Rock klassisch, altmodisch-rein, auf das nötigste bedacht.
Keine Angst, junge Menschen, das ist jetzt nicht gleich der frühe Tom Petty oder so, aber Vergleiche und einige Reminiszenzen an die 70er bis hin zu frühem 90er Jahre-Indierock (aber the american way) sind durchaus angebracht.
Das Wichtige bei Guilty Guitars sind nunmal die Songs an sich, die wahrlich einen kleinen Qualitätssprung hinter sich haben und ausgereifter wirken als auf den beiden Vorgängern. Da kommen schonmal mehr als annehmbare, ja richtig wohlige Melodien bei rum, vor allem im ersten Albumdrittel mit dem starken Eröffnungsdoppel „In Need Of Now“ und „Forever Me“, bei dem Sänger Jan Basters vielleicht etwas zu sehr in Liam Gallagher-Manier nölend die Vokale langzieht, aber das ist natürlich noch zu verzeihen.
Die Songs sind insgesamt eher von der ruhigen denn stürmischen Seite, mit einer netten melancholischen Schlagseite und einigem Popappeal, jedoch geht zum Ende des Albums allmählich die songschreiberische Puste aus und das Ganze wird ein wenig beliebig und austauschbar. Denn innovativ ist „In Need Of Now“ natürlich zu keiner Sekunde und im eng gesteckten Rahmen ist es schwer den Hörer über eine Albumlänge von knapp 60 Minuten zu fesseln. Da bräuchte es dann doch noch ein wenig mehr Kompositionsgenie. Dennoch kann man wirklich gute Ansätze erkennen und die Jungs vorsichtshalber mal im Auge behalten, zumindest diejenigen unter uns, für die es Not tut, mal wieder reduzierte, puristische Gitarrenmusik zu hören.
In need of now
Guilty Guitars are
Stephan Basters – Bass
Jörn Brucker – Drums
Jan Basters – Guitars, Vocals
Recorded at Alien Network Studio, Hamburg by Ronnie Henseler
Vocals recorded at 0db-Studio, Hamburg by Dirk Simmig
Mixed & Mastered at Sonic Studio, Kerpen by Oliver Heuer
Words & Music by Guilty Guitars
Published by Guilty Guitars Music
Marketing: Radar Music
GGR LC 14628 / GEMA