daumco's Full Review: The Continuing Story of Radar Love by Golden Earri...
For those of you who have read my previous installments of "My Musical Fixations" I apologize but for those who haven't a brief explanation is in order
I plan to write a series of reviews, not on certain full albums but upon those songs within that I obsessed on for a period of time, songs that no matter how many times I played them I never got tired of them. I'm sure you've had similar circumstances where certain songs got under your skin. You know, those songs that really grabbed you for two weeks or two months or more. The songs that you just couldn't get enough of and you had to play over and over and over and over .......... and still you never got sick of them. The ones you had on vinyl but you went back and bought again on CD if it was available and probably never played much - it was dated - just to know you had the best copy of it that you could get. And the funny thing is most of the time the song wasn't even by one of your favorite artists. This is the 4th installment about one of those songs. The Band is Golden Earing and my fixation was "Twilight Zone"
This one of those songs I mentioned where, while obsessed with this song, I never liked anything else they made, even "Radar Love", their other big hit. Oh the music was OK, it just never grabbed me. Maybe it wasn't my style but "Twilight Zone" sure was.
This review is about one album of no particular consequence that contains a super classic song. The song "Twilight Zone" appears on no less than 34 albums and singles. Just think if they only sold a thousand copies of each album they had a mild hit. But they sold many many more as "Twilight Zone" hit number ten on the Billboard chart in 1983.
Albums with a song "Twilight Zone"
Performer / Composer / Album
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans '80s Hits Back, Vol. 3 [97]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans 2001: Space Party [00]
Golden Earring Kooymans 40 Hits: 1980-1984 [99]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans 70's & 80's, Vol. 35 [98]
Golden Earring Kooymans Acoustic Live [91]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Awesome 80's, Vol. 5 [99]
Golden Earring Kooymans Best of Rock This Way [98]
Golden Earring Kooymans Big Hits, 1980-2000: Rock [01]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Billboard Top Album Rock Hits 1983 [97]
Golden Earring Hooymans Complete Naked Truth [98]
Golden Earring Kooymans Continuing Story of Radar Love [89]
Golden Earring Kooymans Cut [82]
Golden Earring Kooymans Devil Made Us Do It: 35 Years [01]
Golden Earring Kooymans Fully Naked [01]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Golden Earring Video EP [84]
Golden Earring Guitar Rock [Time-Life Box Set] [99]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Guitar Rock: Guitar Power [99]
Golden Earring Kooymans Instant Party: Irresistible 80's [01]
Golden Earring Kooymans Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the 80's, Vol. 6 [94]
Golden Earring Kooymans Last Blast of the Century [01]
Golden Earring Kooymans Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) [02]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Monsters, Ghouls, Goblins, and Demons [99]
Golden Earring Kooymans MTV Class of 1983 [95]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Naked Truth
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Pure 80's Rocks [02]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Rock of the 80's [CEMA] [88]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Rock of the 80's [Universal Special Products] [98]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Rock the 80's
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Rockin' from the Grave [99]
Golden Earring Kooymans/Kooymans Something Heavy Going Down [84]
Golden Earring Kooymans Then: Totally Oldies '80s, Vol. 5 [03]
Golden Earring Ultimate Jukebox Hits of the '80s, Vols. 4 & 5 [01]
Golden Earring Kooymans Wild Boys [00]
Golden Earring Hay/Kooymans Year in Your Life: 1983, Vol. 1 [01]
Golden Earring Kooymans You Will Be Rocked! [01]
The Continuing Story of Radar Love is a 12-song hits collection from rock band Golden Earring, containing both the 70s rock staple "Radar Love" and the full eight-minute version of "Twilight Zone." These two songs are the most notable on this compilation and both cracked the Top 20, with "Radar Love" hitting number 13 in 1974 and "Twilight Zone" peaking at number ten nine years later. The other ten songs on the album consist of long, heavy guitar-filled runs that surround obscure lyrics, the best of which are "The Vanilla Queen" and "Mad Love's Comin'".
SONG / TRACK LIST
1. Radar Love (Hay/Kooymans) - 6:22
2. The Vanilla Queen (Hay/Kooymans) - 9:15
3. Candy's Going Bad (Hay/Kooymans) - 6:12
4. She Flies on Strange Wings (Kooymans) - 7:22
5. Ce Soir (Fenton/Hay/Kooymans) - 6:16
6. Mad Love's Comin' (Hay/Kooymans) - 7:45
7. Leather (Hay/Kooymans) - 5:00
8. Clear Night Moonlight (Hay/Kooymans) - 3:33
9. Lost and Found (Gerritsen/Hay) - 3:55
10. The Devil Made Me Do It (Hay/Kooymans) - 3:20
11. Quiet Eyes (Hay/Kooymans) - 4:12
12. Twilight Zone (Kooymans) - 7:55
TWILIGHT ZONEMany American music fans had forgotten about Golden Earring after "Radar Love," but the Dutch group hung around and remained popular around the world as it performed its mix of hard rock with other sounds and subsequently created many albums worth noting. Their consistent hard work paid off when the group released the major hit "Twilight Zone," a rocker that paired edgy lyrics to a hard-hitting, slick rock sound, not unlike the much newer song "Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down. I guess you could say these guys had thirty minutes of fame, having had two big hits nine years apart. "Twilight Zone" seems to be a story about paranoia, desperation and betrayal. It paints a lonely portrait of "a double-crossed agent, all alone" who is trying to carry out a mission only to find himself betrayed at every turn: "Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone/This is a madhouse/Feels like being cloned/My beacon's been moved under moon and star/Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?" The music replicates the angry tone of the lyrics by mixing certain melodies that build from a meditative mood to an angry boil with a swirling chorus that consistently shifts direction conveying the frenzied confusion of the agent. Golden Earring's recording of "Twilight Zone" is equal parts hard rock and heavy metal. Anchoring the song is George Kooymans' angry, somewhat bluesy guitar work in conjunction with pulsating synthesizer lines that add a futuristic mood to the recording. Drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk adds plenty of exciting percussive frills, providing a major contribution to the song's scorching instrumental break. Singer Barry Hay provides an exceptionally emotive performance with a gruff vocal that enhances the song's mixture of anger and paranoia. This is a thrilling rocker that became an major U.S. and international hit.
Lyrics to "Twilight Zone
Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize
That his eternal fate has turned his back on him
It's 2 A.M., The fear has gone. I'm sitting here waiting the gun still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of taking chances. Yeah, there's a storm On the loose, sirenes in my head wrapped up in silence all circuits are dead
Cannot decode my whole life spins into a frenzy
Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone place is a madhouse /
feels like being cloned. My beacon's been moved under moon and star Where am I to go now that I've gone too far yeah Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone place is a madhouse / feels like being cloned my
beacon's been moved under moon and star / Where am I to go new that I've gone too far Soon you'll come to know When the bullet hits the bone Soon you'll come to know When the bullet hits the bone
I'm falling down a spiral destination unknown
Double crossed messenger all alone
Can't get no connection, can't get through where are you
Well the night weights heavy in his guilty mind
This far from the border line and when the hitman comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated and he says:
Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone place is a madhouse
feels like being cloned My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go now that I've gone too far yeah Help, I'm stepping into the twilight zone / place is a madhouse feels like being cloned my
beacon's been moved under moon and star /Where am I to go new that I've gone too far /Soon you'll come to know. When the bullet hits the
bone / Soon you'll come to know When the bullet hits the bone
"Kryptonite" does remind you of this song doesn't it?
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