Malick enjoyed a surprising career resurgence early in the 21st century after decades of obscurity, much of them spent outside the music business. His first taste of success came in his teens in the 1960s; he was 16 when his band Listening was signed to Vanguard Records. His youthful talent as a guitarist led to stints backing up such blues legends as John Lee Hooker, Otis Spann, Big Mama Thornton, and Muddy Waters. After serving as guitarist and musical director for the national touring company of the Broadway musical Hair in the early 1970s, he joined the James Montgomery Band and appeared on two of the group's albums, First Time Out (1973) and High Roller (1974).
Then came 20 years outside of music, during which Malick struggled with addiction and earned money primarily as a gambler and in the gaming business. But by 1994, he had cleaned up and returned to music. Based in Boston, he launched the Peter Malick Group and recorded the albums Wrong Side of My Life (1998) and Sons of the Jet Age (2000). In 2001, his work on the final Otis Spann album Last Call won him a W.C. Handy Award for historic album of the year.
Malick began to work with several young, up-and-coming female vocalists whom he heard while touring, writing and recording with them. One of them was Norah Jones, and after she rose to fame in 2002, Malick issued an EP of his recordings with her, New York City, that reached the top half of the Billboard 200. It was followed by a full-length album, Chance & Circumstance, that repeated the Jones' tracks and added work with four other singers, one of them Malick's daughter, Mercy Malick.
Strange Transmissions
The Peter Malick Group Lyrics
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Don't think, we'll stay
Drawn through the ebb
Lost in the flow
Beneath my breath, I confess
My world, loved less
The devil held the proof
I could only fight
For the longest while
But with the truth out, baby
I belong to you
I stoop to find
My place, entwined
I took it to the bottom
One more time
I could only fight
For the longest while
But with the truth out, baby
I belong to you
I could trip and I want you to know
That every time I think
That I think I should go
I receive strange transmissions
I could trip and I want you to know
That every time I think
That I think I should go
I receive strange transmissions
I could only fight
For the longest while
But with the truth out, baby
I belong to you
I could trip and I want you to know
That every time I think
That I think I should go
I receive strange transmissions
I could trip and I want you to know
Every time I think
That I think I should go
I receive strange transmissions
The lyrics of "Strange Transmissions" by The Peter Malick Group speak to the challenges and uncertainties of love and relationships. The opening lines suggest that the singer is struggling to trust their own instincts, with the phrase "Don't think, we'll stay" implying a desire to hold onto the relationship despite doubts. However, the lines "Beneath my breath, I confess/My world, loved less" reveal that the singer feels conflicted and not completely invested in the relationship. The mention of the devil holding proof implies that the singer has been confronted with some unpleasant truths about themselves or their partner.
Despite this internal struggle, the singer ultimately acknowledges their love for their partner: "But with the truth out, baby/I belong to you." The repetition of the line "I could trip and I want you to know/That every time I think/That I think I should go/I receive strange transmissions" represents the singer's ongoing ambivalence and confusion about the relationship. They're torn between the fear of leaving and the fear of staying, and they seem to be seeking some kind of guidance or reassurance through these "strange transmissions."
Overall, the song captures the complexities of love and the difficulty of making decisions in the face of uncertainty and doubt.
Line by Line Meaning
I believe, you say
I have faith in your words
Don't think, we'll stay
Don't worry, we'll remain together
Drawn through the ebb
Pulled along by the current
Lost in the flow
Confused by the situation
Beneath my breath, I confess
I secretly admit
My world, loved less
I value my world less
The devil held the proof
I know deep down that I'm not innocent
For me to know
I'm aware of this knowledge
I could only fight
I struggled with this problem
For the longest while
For an extended time period
But with the truth out, baby
But now that the truth is revealed, my love
I belong to you
I'm yours
I stoop to find
I lower myself
My place, entwined
My position is intertwined
I took it to the bottom
I reached the depths of my emotions
One more time
Again, for the last time
I could trip and I want you to know
Sometimes I feel the urge to leave and I need you to understand
That every time I think
Whenever I contemplate
That I think I should go
That I should leave
I receive strange transmissions
I experience peculiar sensations or messages
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I believe, you say
Don't think, we'll stay
Drawn through the ebb
Lost in the flow
Beneath my breath, I confess
My world, loveless
The devil held the proof for me to know
I could only fight for the longest while
But with the truth out baby
I belong to you
I stoop, to find
My place, entwined
I took it to the bottom one more time
I could only fight for the longest while
But with the truth out baby
I belong to you
I could trip and I want you to know
Every time I think that I think I should go
I receive strange transmissions
@mbarton410
Memories of the Nokia 6230. 10 years ago. Still a cool, chilled out song.
@TunjungUtomo
spot on.back then it was my mother's cellphone,I kept bothering her by borrowing the thing,just to play this song
@Mr123456789159753
I've just found this song on a SD card I had left after my 6230!!!
@fherzhodakid
Morgan Barton i was looking how to find rhe name of this song, exactly fornthe same reason 6 am alarm
@satriopramudito
best phone ever had.
@aldebaran_
Same... It makes me miss my freshman year of college
@mohaiminulhasan252
Can't decide whom I love the most, Norah Jones or Nokia 6230. :') If only I could go back in time.
@nanetterm
Jajjaaja tambien la tenia en mi Nokia, se la ponia a mi hijito cuando estaba en mi pancita y empezaba a moverse. Luego cuando nació le daba a mi celular y la abrazaba y se tranquilizaba. Hoy ya está pronto a tener 4 años, yo perdí ese movil cuando tenia 2, y encontré la canción aqui, él la reconoce todavía. Norah, fuiste mi comunicación con mi bebé cuando nadaba dentro de mi, y para él, como se llama tu canción, escuchaba estas extrañas transmisiones de amor.
@Ershad7
Takes me back to 10 fucking years ago..the first thing I found on my then out of the box nokia 6230 ^_^
@mohaiminulhasan252
+Ershad Khan same here :)