Chrome largely abandoned conventional rock compositions, instead employing cut up and collage techniques and heavily processed sound to create a kind of sci-fi punk sound. They made use of tape loops, samples, noisescapes, synthesizers and strange guitar sounds.
Following Alien Soundtracks, John Lambdin left Chrome, and Gary Spain gradually played less of an active role in the band, leaving a core of Helios Creed and Damon Edge to explore their own experiments with new members. The Creed/Edge collaboration lead to a number of more albums, including Half Machine Lip Moves (making best album lists by Wire Magazine and Julian Cope), Read Only Memory, Red Exposure, Blood On the Moon, 3rd from the Sun and No Humans Allowed.
In 1983 Edge moved to Paris with his wife, where he formed a new lineup of Chrome, releasing a number of albums without Helios Creed, starting with Into the Eyes of the Zombie King, until Edge's death in 1995. Helios Creed formed a new version of Chrome with both new and previous members, shortly after Edge's passing. The Helios-lead Chrome releasing their first album, Retro Transmission, in 1997, and have never officially broken up. They also toured from 1997 to 2001. The last released Chrome album was 2002's Angel of the Clouds, which was pieced together from unused tapes featuring Damon Edge.
Both Damon Edge and Helios Creed have a number of solo, non-Chrome titled albums.
There are other artists with the same name:
2. Chrome is a rapper from North Memphis, Tennessee's Frayser area, the same neighborhood of fellow H.C.P member, Frayser Boy. Chrome is signed to the Hypnotize Minds record label, which is owned by Three 6 Mafia.
Chrome released his first album in the winter of 2005, called Straight To The Pros. The singles off of that album were "So Fresh" and "I Learned".
3. Chrome is a thrash metal band from Kangasniemi, Eastern Finland.
4. Chrome is also a Swedish viking rock band.
5. Chrome is a hip hop artist from Norwich, England.
6. Chrome is an Austrian minimal techno duo. It's a project of Camo and Krooked who are better known for their drum and bass music.
T.V. As Eyes
Chrome Lyrics
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I've got to find a way
Something you feel inside
Something I feel inside
Waiting at the back door of my mind
Back at the wheel again
Something you feel, desire
Back at the wheel again
Waiting at the back door of my mind
In Chrome's song TV as Eyes, the lyrics convey a sense of restlessness and a need for action. The singer doesn't know why they should wait, and instead feels a strong urge to find a way to do something. There is a palpable energy and drive that is communicated through the repeated use of the phrase "back at the wheel again" and the references to something that both the singer and another person feel inside. The lyrics create a sense of urgency, as if there is something important that needs to be done and no time to waste.
The line "waiting at the back door of my mind" also adds to the sense of unease and ambiguity that pervades the song. It suggests that there is an unconscious or subconscious desire that the singer is struggling to articulate or understand. The use of the word "desire" underscores this sense of longing or yearning for something that is not fully within reach.
Overall, the lyrics of TV as Eyes communicate a restless and urgent desire for action and for connection with something deeper and more meaningful. The use of repetition and ambiguous phrases creates a sense of tension and unease, drawing the listener into the singer's experience of uncertainty and longing.
Line by Line Meaning
I don't know why I should wait
I can't understand why I should be patient
I've got to find a way
I must discover a solution
Something you feel inside
An emotion that you sense internally
Something I feel inside
An emotion that I sense internally
Waiting at the back door of my mind
Something unresolved gnawing at my subconscious
Back at the wheel again
In control and functioning as before
Something you feel, desire
An urge that you sense and covet
Back at the wheel again
In control and functioning as before
Something you feel inside
An emotion that you sense internally
Waiting at the back door of my mind
Something unresolved gnawing at my subconscious
Writer(s): Helios Creed, Damon Edge
Contributed by Evan S. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@teenagejesus666
This song and album changed my life
@BarrelShape
Love the ragged-sounding production, sloppy riffs, nasal singing and sci-fi samples. Chrome were one of a kind.
@hiicantthinkofaname
Love the drum sound.
@erkkipoortimo9182
i still have this LP at home since 1979
@markewings7525
So do I
@BenedictHeaney
this is exactly what I needed to hear right now. wow
@vimanaflight
my Chrome-favorite album--This music changed my state of mind and live.
@RayZappa
Bought the album after John Peel played it. He said it made Pere Ubu sound like the Brotherhood of Man! I know its great music because it makes my eyes blink really fast as I'm trying to listen to this stuff that the brain just isn't designed to cope with. Beefheart's 'Pena' is only thing that comes close for me. No-one will ever get close again I think. Those of us who were there just have to be grateful.
@nmprof
One of the best from one of the best.
@chuckabbate6650
its like fridge falling down a flight of stairs