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Darren Mevissen
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Username: Mev70

Post Number: 11
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 04:29 pm:   

Does anyone know the title of the song that contains the repetitive phrase "Move to the perfect beat"?

Or the song title that contains these lyrics in the chorus:

I know what, I know what, I know what to do
Call myself a charlatan, better make love to you
I know what, I know what, I know what to do
Call myself a prophet, running on home to you
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fsh
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Username: Fsh

Post Number: 172
Registered: 05-2005
Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 07:05 pm:   

The first quote to which you refer: "Move to the perfect beat" is from Horsebreaker Star. The song is called "Do your own thing".

The second song to which you refer was never officially released. Grant hawked it around Europe in 1995. One performance was broadcast on Swedish radio - Roskilde Festival, Denmark 1st July 1995. He said the song was "written especially for this performance (??) and is called "Charlatan".

There were another couple of songs performed around this time that were never subsequently released: "The sign of the Unicorn", and "I don't want these days to change".
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Darren Mevissen
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Username: Mev70

Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 08:29 am:   

Thanks for the info. I knew I heard the songs before but just couldn't place them. I have the Roskilde 1995 recording, which explains why Charlatan was familiar. It also appears as the last song played on the live recordings that exist from Brussels, June 22, 1995 and Cologne, June 27, 1995.

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