1) Still Life was a three pie… Read Full Bio ↴There are many bands named Still Life.
1) Still Life was a three piece emotional hardcore band out of Los Angeles, California, who were an influence on the entire mid to late nineties hardcore scene.
2) Still Life (Brzozów, Poland) alternative, metal, punk, H/C band from Poland (Subcarpathia region). The band founded in 1994. Still Life as an independent band released 5 albums (Still Life, Dwie drogi, Fabryka, Tam i z powrotem, Szczelina dla światła). Current members: Jurek Sawicki - vocal, Bartek Oleniacz - lead guitar, Tomek Skiba - drums, Tomek Sawicki - bass guitar.
Official sites of Still Life:
www.still.life.prv.pl
www.myspace.com/stilllife94
3) Still Life is a recording project that boasted Dennis Duck and Tom Recchion as members. Both had ties to the Los Angeles Free Music Society in the late 1970's. Duck went on to drum for The Dream Syndicate while Recchion has since worn many hats, including visual artist and solo recording artist. In 1982, Still Life self-released a two song 10" of repetitive and rhythmic semi-ambient music using both organic and electronic instrumentation.
4) Still Life is a Spanish hardcore band from Burgos.
5) Still Life was a British progressive rock band characterized by expert Hammond organ playing, intricate and original vocal harmonies, and an agile and precise rhythm section. The had one self-titled album that was originally released in 1971 and later re-released in 2003. The record was early organ-dominated progressive rock, its lyrical themes dwelling upon uneasy doubt and sadness, the melodies colored with the gothic classicism prevalent in much of the genre during the period. The album credits kept an aura of mystery about their membership. Martin Cure (Martin Cure And The Peeps), and Graham Amos (Rainbows (band)), Terry Howells and Alan Savage were believed to be involved.
6) Still Life were a rock band from Humberside in the United Kingdom. As well as a popular band in their home town they released several critically acclaimed singles and were one of the first UK bands to embrace the internet as a means of advertising and promoting their music.
still life were formed in 1996 by a group of five musicians from Kingston Upon Hull in the UK: Vocalist Paul Terry, drummer Phil Bean, vocalist and bass player James Paddison and guitarists Andy Clark and Mike Richmond. Richmond is credited as lyricist on all of the band's recorded tracks, music was credited to the entire band.
From lowly beginnings in local pubs and clubs, still life rapidly sailed to the top of the local music scene, eventually performing as support for several major acts including Atomic Kitten, Sash! and Fine Young Cannibals. The band finally split up in 2005, with an invite only performance at The Winter Gardens club in Cleethorpes supported by up and coming Hull-based singer songwriter Emma Rugg.
The band's alternative rock sound developed from an early influence of the britpop bands of the time (particularly The Smiths and Suede) into a more mature, experimental sound as the band became more proficient in studio techniques. The band's final release, At The Wheel is considered by many to be their most proficient, featuring the kind of production wizardy that led them to be favourably compared in both the local and national music press to R.E.M. and Queen!
A common misconception, given the band's influences is that they were named after the track Still Life from Suede's Dog Man Star album. In actual fact, the band name was taken by Richmond from another Suede song, "Breakdown" ("Back where the dogs bark, where still life bleeds the concrete white")
Following the break up of the band, guitarist Mike Richmond joined up and coming country rock band The Raindogs, and has recently rejoined former colleagues Clark, Paddison and Terry, along with drummer Mick Harding in new band Circus Envy.
It should be noted that, as in the band's logo, still life was preferred by the band to be written in lower case.
7) Still life are a hard rock/heavy metal band from Dublin, Ireland. Showing obvious influences from Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden, the band comprises of Jack Walsh on Vocals and Guitar, Ralph Murphy and Guitar and Backing Vocals, Dave McGrath on Bass Guitar and Paul Price on Drums and Backing Vocals. Their Silver Lining EP is currently available.
8) Still Life are a jazz fusion group from Fairfield, Connecticut. The group is comprised of six young and talented jazz musicians from around the area, including Jarryd Torff, the son of jazz bassist and educator Brian Torff (who is known to have played with Frank Sinatra, among many others). Other members include Chris Mcclanahan (trumpet), Billy Ruegger (guitars), Scott Packham (piano, organ, synthesizer), Dennis Caravakis (bass), and Kurt Leon (drums, percussion). The group gathered a substantial following in their hometown in 2006, and has since performed alongside those such as Dave Samuels of The Caribbean Jazz Project.
9) Still Life was the early band name of 10,000 Maniacs in 1981.
10) Still Life is a mixtape DJ with a diverse taste in music
11) Still Life is an Opeth cover band.
12) Italian new wave band.
Wishful Thinking
Still Life Lyrics
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The lyrics in "Wishful Thinking" by Still Life speak to the experience of being attracted to someone who comes in and out of your life without warning or explanation. The opening lines depict the person making "great impressions" and carving "your name into the wall," which suggests that they are not just any passing acquaintance but someone who leaves a lasting impression on the singer. However, this person "just come[s] and go[es] at your discretion," meaning that they enter and leave the singer's life without any clear pattern or apparent reason. Despite this, the singer is "holding on" to the hope that the person will return, and is therefore stuck in a state of "wishful thinking" and not able to move on.
The stanza that follows conveys the sense of despair and exhaustion that comes from being caught in this cycle. The singer is "sick of waking up just to fall asleep again" and "tired of standing just to fall." The repetition of the verb "fall" emphasizes the sense of helplessness and futility. The second half of the stanza switches to a more defensive tone, with the singer telling the person that they don't owe them anything but also proclaiming that they are "holding on" and "letting go" at the same time. The final lines of the song introduce a more universal theme of loneliness and isolation, with the singer feeling like a "stranger" to the world and the person who has left them behind.
Line by Line Meaning
Come around making great impressions.
You come and go leaving a lasting feeling of greatness on everything and everyone you touch.
Carve your name into the wall.
You leave your mark wherever you go so that you will always be remembered.
Just come and go at your discretion. Until you won't come around at all.
You have the freedom to come and go as you please, but eventually, you will stop coming around altogether.
I wait dazed and wishful thinking, like I ain't got no sense at all.
I wait for you, lost in my dreams and hopeful thoughts, without any real direction or purpose.
I'm sick of waking up just to fall asleep again. I'm tired of standing just to fall.
I am exhausted from the cycle of hope and disappointment that I go through each day, always falling short of my expectations.
You don't know me, you don't owe me anything.
You have no obligation to me since you don't really know who I am and what I've been through.
I'm holding on I'm letting go. Moving on and into anything.
I am trying to hold on to what I can while also letting go of what is not meant for me, and moving forward towards anything that can bring me happiness.
You got the best of me, and this is all that's left of me. Explosions and tragedy. Wishful thinking, and all apologies.
You took all that you could from me, and now I'm left damaged and broken. It all feels like an explosion of sorrow and regret, and all I can do now is wish for things to be different and ask for forgiveness.
There's nothing here to see. Ain't you got someplace to be.
There's nothing interesting or worth seeing in my life, so why don't you go find something else more worthwhile to do?
It got the best of me, and this is all that's left of me. Explosions and tragedy. Wishful thinking, and all apologies that won't mean a thing, if on deaf ears they fall.
It all became too much for me, and now I am nothing but a shell of who I used to be. All that's left are memories of disaster and disappointment, and my apologies won't make a difference if you refuse to hear them.
Doesn't mean anything, all the wishful thinking if you are there I am here alone.
All my hopeful thoughts and dreams don't mean anything if you're not here with me, leaving me feeling lonely and isolated.
It's not saying anything, you don't owe me anything at all. I am the stranger you are the distant memory.
There's nothing left to say between us, and you don't owe me anything anymore. We are strangers now, and you are just a distant memory.
I am the refugee sailing vast and lonely seas. Slowly si
I am like a refugee adrift on a vast and empty sea, moving slowly towards an uncertain future.
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Mike Hoffman
Still amazing. Thank you!
John C
thanks for the upload <3