Big Mascara - Shadowplay (Joy Division Cover)

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From '' La Insoportable Levedad Del Surf ''
Label: COMA – COMACD 005
Format: CD, Album
Country: Mexico
Released: Mar 2011

Tracklist
1. The Unbearable Lightness Of Surf
2. Planet Of The Apehangers
Band – The Bomboras
3. Knuckle Dragger
Band – The Bomboras
4. Shit Sandwitch
Band – Satan's Pilgrims
5. Sloth In Molasses
Band – The Phantom Surfers
6. Shadowplay
Written-By – Joy Division
7. […](Interferencia)

Guitar – Alan (track: 2), Big Mascara
Bass – Amaral Sequeira (track: 2), Rov
Drums – Four
Saxophone – Deals Olan (track: 5)

© 2008 COMA
℗ 2008 Big Máscara

Notes
Grabado del 10 de enero al 8 de febrero del 2011, en COMA LAB, Mexico D.F.

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"Shadowplay" is a song by the band Joy Division.
It appeared on the 1979 album Unknown Pleasures.
The song was covered by The Killers in 2007, Carpathian in 2010, and Kevin Max in 2012.

Lyrics

Early recordings of the lyrics on the Warsaw album show the first line of the song as saying "To the centre of the city where all roads meet looking for you". In later recordings the word looking is replaced with waiting.

Cover versions

The Killers recorded a version of "Shadowplay" for the 2007 film Control; it plays during the film's credits and was included on the soundtrack album.
It became a live staple for the band's 2006-2007 Sam's Town Tour.
Their recording was also included on the group's b-sides and rarities album, Sawdust. Rolling Stone magazine said the recording "should have stayed in the vaults".
On April 2013, The Killers were joined onstage by Joy Division/New Order guitarist Bernard Sumner for the first time to performe this song live at Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogotá, Colombia.
They did it once again at their 2013 Lollapalooza appearance.

It was released as a digital download single on October 9, 2007 and peaked at no.68 on the Billboard Hot 100.
A music video, directed by Spencer Kaplan and Jonathan V. Sela, was released on November 21, 2007, featuring the band interspersed with clips from Control.

Carpathian covered the song for their 2010 "Wanderlust" 7" EP.

Kevin Max recorded a version for his 2012 EP Fiefdom of Angels-Side One.

Charts

Chart (2007) - Peak position

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 - 68
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 - 43
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks - 19
Canadian Hot 100 - 49
UK Singles Chart - 115

[onionshablayers]

1:23 has me head banging so hard, Ian was truly in a league of his own

[Silvio-van-ludovic]

To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you,
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you,
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you,
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth.

In the shadowplay, acting out your own death, knowing no more,
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor,
And with cold steel, odor on their bodies mad a move to connect,
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left.

I did everything, everything I wanted to,
I let them use you for their own ends,
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you.
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you.