1. Features former Duran Duran… Read Full Bio ↴There are four bands with this name:
1. Features former Duran Duran members Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy. Cont. below
2. UK hardcore noise band comprised of ex-members of Stalingrad, Hard To Swallow, Doom and Extreme Noise Terror who split in January 2005.
3. A six piece Korean psychedelic soul group who released four albums between 1971 and 1977. Not much has been written in English about them, but they were an original and prolific act during the Korean psychedelic movement of the 1970s.
4. FROM NAPLES,ITALY COMES THAT EARBLEEDING MINIMALISTIC BLASPHEMIC GUITAR WALL BLUES ROCKABILLY NOISE TRASH
1. The Devils is the name of an odd electronic pop project formed by Nick Rhodes and Stephen Duffy.
The first incarnation of the band Duran Duran in 1978 included Rhodes as keyboardist and Duffy as songwriter/vocalist (along with John Taylor and Simon Colley). The band performed live for almost a year before Duffy left the band, moving on to a solo career and The Lilac Time. Duran Duran went on to super stardom, fame, and fortune with singer Simon Le Bon in the 1980s.
In the year 2000, Duffy came across an old tape recording of a live Duran Duran concert from those late 1970s shows. Shortly afterwards, Rhodes and Duffy met by chance at a fashion show, and began talking about the old music. They decided it might be fun to re-record some of those original, dark, art-school, pre-Le Bon Duran Duran songs.
A few months later they took to the studio, using vintage analog instruments but modern production techniques to recreate the early Duran Duran sound. The lyrics remained unchanged.
The resulting album, Dark Circles is an odd blend of past and future. The lyrics are dark and arty, often inspired by Duffy's esoteric reading habits; the music is quirky and futuristic, but it is the electronic, robotic-tinged future of 1979, breathed back into life more than twenty years later.
The band played live only a few times before both members returned to their normal careers in 2001.
4. LINE UP
Erica Toraldo : vocals and drums
Gianni Vessella : vocals and guitar
The Devils named themself after Ken Russel's super B-Movie 'the devils' from 1971, inspired by listening to Blues and Punk and many other Undergrund Bands (The Cramps, Hound Dog Taylor, The Gories, Jon Spencer, Fugazi, Hasil Adkins, The Oblivians etc) they formed their own band in 2015 in Neaples Italy, the Deep South of Italy. Gianni Vessella plays the Guitar and Sings and Erica Toraldo hits the Drums and Screams in the Microphone. In the Beginning they did Countless Shows in Italy DIY and France where they meet up with Jim Diamond from the Dirtbombs who recorded their first Full Lenght album, the same Day Reverend Beat-Man from Voodoo Rhythm records was in the same town and got their recordings and signed them up on the Label. This is a Huge Wall of Guitar Fuzz and Noise and Vocals as Stupid and Minimalistic as it gets, this is No Bob Dylan poetry thats pure Evil and Lots of Fun !! Chainsaw Massacre Hysteric Earbleeding Vocals and the Drumer probably Eats Speed and Power Food for Breakfast, they are Dressed up as Preacher and Nun and Destroy every Stage that they can play on, they Are Hot and Wild and Very Loud !!!!!
Signals in Smoke
The Devils Lyrics
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The signs on the screen tell me
You won't stay What we can't see
Will never change & the bells of your costume
Have rung there last change
We had so much & nothing to loose
Signals in smoke tell me
The Devil's song "Signals in Smoke" is a melancholic recollection of a relationship that has fallen apart. The titular phrase "Signals in smoke" is a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of relationships; they are transient and vulnerable to being broken down at any time. The line "The signs on the screen tell me you won't stay" suggests that the singer is trying to hold onto a relationship that is slipping away from them. The use of the screen imagery adds a layer of distance and detachment to the lyrics, as if the relationship itself was always mediated by technology.
The following lines "What we can't see will never change & the bells of your costume have rung their last change" further underline the sense of loss and finality. Despite whatever love and hope the singer has invested in the relationship, it has failed to yield a lasting connection. The use of the phrase "bells of your costume" is also intriguing, suggesting that the relationship was just a facade, a performance in which the singer was a willing participant but ultimately was left to fade away. The final line "Signals in smoke tell me we all lose" suggests a universal truth, that all relationships are doomed to fail and that we are all just watching the signals fade away.
Line by Line Meaning
Signals in smoke fade away
The hints we receive are fleeting and temporary, and will eventually disappear.
The signs on the screen tell me
I am relying on electronic cues to convey information to me.
You won't stay What we can't see
I know you won't be with me for the long-term, and there are things about the future that can never be predicted.
Will never change & the bells of your costume
Certain aspects of life are unalterable, and the outward appearances people put on can be deceiving.
Have rung there last change
The opportunity for change has passed, and nothing else can be done.
We had so much & nothing to loose
There was a lot at stake, but no matter what happened, there wouldn't be any significant loss.
Signals in smoke tell me
The clues I'm receiving suggest that something unpleasant is about to occur.
We all loose
In the end, we are all defeated.
Contributed by Caleb G. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
walriley48
Love this track. Love the album.
Peter Alston
Ah, great song, and a great video, I reckon they would have done something very similar - must do a cover version, maybe my laptop but I thought a really deep bass kicked quite early