NMA @ Their Most Romantic?

[Willard]

for me it's a no-brainer:

Ballad 2

[Bill B]

For me the more recent songs, Lean Back and Fall, Between Dig and Wolf, and of course the Price

[Tony S]

Just thought of one, Carlisle Road.  Deffo a song about love for your family... I think it's interesting how the narrators wife or partner 'says nothing', which could mean she's supportive (and too upset for words) or hating for whatever happened, but the narrator still obviously loves his children...

Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
 News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clasped around her knee
 She looked up but said nothing
 I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
 Wondered how I could protect them
 Wondered how to protect them

I do like lyrics that invite you to hang on your own personal interpretation...

I always interpreted the narrator in this one as being a police officer on riot duty.

[Tony S]

Always love wipe out from Eight
'this is how love feels'

Yep, this definitely fits the bill with lyrics like;

"On the back-lanes down to the sea we pulled to the side of the road
Danced together in the headlights beam to the songs on the radio
Cheek to cheek "

[Tony S]

I'd add Bluebeat and Coming Up to the list too !

[Master Ray]

Just thought of one, Carlisle Road.  Deffo a song about love for your family... I think it's interesting how the narrators wife or partner 'says nothing', which could mean she's supportive (and too upset for words) or hating for whatever happened, but the narrator still obviously loves his children...

Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
 News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clasped around her knee
 She looked up but said nothing
 I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
 Wondered how I could protect them
 Wondered how to protect them

I do like lyrics that invite you to hang on your own personal interpretation...

I always interpreted the narrator in this one as being a police officer on riot duty.

Interesting, Tony, thanks for that, a nice new interpretation of this great song!

[Willard]

Just thought of one, Carlisle Road.  Deffo a song about love for your family... I think it's interesting how the narrators wife or partner 'says nothing', which could mean she's supportive (and too upset for words) or hating for whatever happened, but the narrator still obviously loves his children...

Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
 News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clasped around her knee
 She looked up but said nothing
 I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
 Wondered how I could protect them
 Wondered how to protect them

I do like lyrics that invite you to hang on your own personal interpretation...

I always interpreted the narrator in this one as being a police officer on riot duty.

Interesting, Tony, thanks for that, a nice new interpretation of this great song!

I'm pretty sure I remember this as being the story from the man himself.  Maybe in the song notes include in the Anthology?

[Tony S]

Just thought of one, Carlisle Road.  Deffo a song about love for your family... I think it's interesting how the narrators wife or partner 'says nothing', which could mean she's supportive (and too upset for words) or hating for whatever happened, but the narrator still obviously loves his children...

Came home four, four-thirty, Emma was waiting up for me
 News chanel drone on the TV, her arms clasped around her knee
 She looked up but said nothing
 I went up to the kids bedroom, touched their sleeping faces
 Wondered how I could protect them
 Wondered how to protect them

I do like lyrics that invite you to hang on your own personal interpretation...

I always interpreted the narrator in this one as being a police officer on riot duty.

Interesting, Tony, thanks for that, a nice new interpretation of this great song!

It's the first verse that leads me to interpret it like that;

"Pushing up on Carlisle Road into the seething shadows
Through the plastic visor - a hail of broken kerbstone
Fire-lit faces, all the noise - so much hatred
What I remember thinking - I can't believe this is happening
All I remember thinking..."

[Anna Woman von NRW]

I always interpreted the narrator in this one as being a police officer on riot duty.

Me too and somewhere in the far recess of my mind I seem to recall reading that in an interview

[MARKXE]

Carlisle Road

The song:
The song "describes the aftermath of the 2001 race riots in Bradford from the point of view of a riot cop coming home in the early hours, still unable to believe what he has witnessed, standing over his children's beds and wondering how he will ever be able to protect them from the world."
- Source: Cathi Unsworth in 3 am Magazine -

NMA at their most romantic is Live.
No amount of playing songs to someone whos not keen will work (in my humble opinion)
My wife was never a real fan despite me playing NMA songs almost daily.
Took her to a few gigs, she stood at the back or side of the venue, still never really got them.
Did a few more gigs and got her to stand at the front and told her to watch Justin, she turned to me last year at the end of the gig in Hannover smiled and said "I get it now"
And now shes loves them.

[Bill B]

Carlisle Road

The song:
The song "describes the aftermath of the 2001 race riots in Bradford from the point of view of a riot cop coming home in the early hours, still unable to believe what he has witnessed, standing over his children's beds and wondering how he will ever be able to protect them from the world."
- Source: Cathi Unsworth in 3 am Magazine -

NMA at their most romantic is Live.
No amount of playing songs to someone whos not keen will work (in my humble opinion)
My wife was never a real fan despite me playing NMA songs almost daily.
Took her to a few gigs, she stood at the back or side of the venue, still never really got them.
Did a few more gigs and got her to stand at the front and told her to watch Justin, she turned to me last year at the end of the gig in Hannover smiled and said "I get it now"
And now shes loves them.

If you could do 'likes' on here this would get one from me! Nice story :-)

[Guillaume]

Between Dog & Wolf - described by JS as a winter love song

Yes, if i am right he said last night in Paris that it was "born" in Ivry sur Seine, a Paris suburb...he said it already a few years ago in another Paris gig...

[monerl]

1. Ballad 2 (no question)
2. Space
3. Living in the rose
4. Afternoon song

[kabe]

for what it's worth, so late in the game....

romance...?  the closest i can come, myself and very, very personally-speaking, is Caslen....

there's a depth of beauty in that, for me, with and without lyrics, that makes it one of the most expressive song justin's yet written.

for me, that's a stop-and-put-my-head-down-and-feel-it moment.

youtube.com/watch?v=xU69c4kqOsU

romance, as a dance, as a moment in time.

[lotus]

Perhaps Caslen is the only solo song written by Nelson and later added lyrics by Justin official released ?

For me it is "Sooner or later" - bittersweet  romantic