Earthbound - 2007 Remastered Edition

by Rocket Scientists

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... caught my fancy. IF there's a bad song on here, it would be the weak "Welcome to the Machine" cover. 2nd and 3rd favourite songs are "Avalon" and "Carry Me Home".

RECOMMENDED-AND-A-HALF Favorite track: Minstrel Saviour - 2007 remaster.

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Remastered from the original 1993 recordings in 2007 for the Looking Backward box set. Includes the bonus track, "To the Edge of the World," recorded as part of the original album sessions in 1992 but not released until 2007.

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1.	Earthbound - 2007 remaster 04:57	lyrics	buy track
EARTHBOUND Music by Mark McCrite / Lyrics by Erik Norlander (c) 1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI Watch the sun set on my shoulder Oceans come and go flow through my eyes Mirror, mirror crack the earthbound river You can feel the time rushing by Ocean in the pouring rain Matter flowing through my veins Earth rolls on, earth rolls on Rain dance on a windy shore Earthbound forevermore Feel the weight of the world on your shoulders Listing, drifting through a piece of the big sky Days, like sand, slip through my hand Can't you feel the time rushing by? Shotgun on a desert train You bless the soul and pray for rain Earth rolls on, earth rolls on Searching for the open door You deserve so much more But time marches on Earth rolls on If you feel like a pawn in some greater game And if you feel the walls are closing in I am no messiah, I am no sorcerer - saint I am just a man bound to this land Take my hand So many days slip through my hand You can see a thousand worlds in my eyes Read the message in my teardrops Wonder how the time passed you by Ocean in the pouring rain Matter flowing through my veins Earth rolls on, earth rolls on Rain dance on a windy shore Earthbound forevermore
2.	Down Trodden - 2007 remaster 03:30	lyrics	buy track
DOWN TRODDEN Words and music by Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite ©1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI The word was with her As I came to her Across a crowded room I saw the light in her eyes Angels falling from the sky Witness from the earth below A hundred thousand angels Wish they weren't coming home Angels falling from the sky Down trodden like tears from God's eye So sad when angels Wish they'd never ever learned to fly I am a mountain I am the ocean I am the blue hot flame I am the air that you breathe Angels falling from the sky Witness from the earth below A hundred thousand angels Wish they weren't coming home Angels falling from the sky Down trodden like tears from God's eye So sad when angels Wish they'd never ever learned to fly
3.	Picture Show - 2007 remaster 04:58	lyrics	buy track
PICTURE SHOW Music by Mark McCrite, Lyrics by Erik Norlander (c) 1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music I was on the outside Far, far away And I didn't know what all I had And how it would change Now I'm on the inside Looking down, down, down On the ladders and ropes I climbed To the top of this town I wanna go where the rich and famous go Heaven knows they're living in a picture show I am just a sailor On a cruel, cruel sea Turning and returning one day Pieces of me Where have all my old friends gone? Gone far, far away Maybe they'll return someday Maybe they'll stay We wanna go where the rich and famous go Heaven knows they're living in a picture show Stars will fall like raindrops do And time may change my point of view But everything I dreamed is coming true We wanna go where the rich and famous go Heaven knows they're living in a picture show
4.	No More Lies - 2007 remaster 04:27	lyrics	buy track
NO MORE LIES by Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite (c) 1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music There's a place and time to lend your love It's not a crime There is time for letting go I wanna be the only one to light the spark of the midnight sun Can me meet on higher ground? Now there's time to breathe Time for you and me No more lies this time, this time We'll walk the road in peace To eternity No more lies this time, this time On an on we run like a tiger finds his place in the sun To the edge of modern time She went out on a westbound train I stood and stared in the pouring rain Now she's back and we'll start again Now there's time to breathe Time for you and me No more lies this time, this time We'll walk the road in peace On eternally No more lies this time, this time No more lies Tonight we touch the light Where love will never die No, no, no Now that you're back The sun's shining right through the rain I wanna be the only one to light the spark of the midnight sun Can me meet on higher ground? Now there's time to breathe Time for you and me No more lies this time, this time We'll walk the road in peace On eternally No more lies this time, this time
5.	Killing Joke - 2007 remaster 03:46	lyrics	buy track
KILLING JOKE by Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite (c)1993, 2006 Waking Dream Music, BMI Under a pale yellow lamplight 'cross a cobblestone street of dreams I heard footsteps marking time For love that used to be It seems just now I should be stronger than this Have all these years been an empty risk I've given my soul, surrendered my name Without love all that's left is pain After all you'll see that this was the killing joke All alone you're drowning while everyone stays afloat And in the end you'll see that this was the final stroke Many a love has died at the hand of the killing joke On top of an earthbound shadow dance 'round the corner of a dream I saw ropes on an iron box Lowering carefully But I've walked roads much stranger than this Up on streets drawn white with mist I've wandered alone in search of pure truth But all I've found is the death of youth And after all you'll see that this was the killing joke All alone you're drowning while everyone stays afloat And in the end you'll see that this was the final stroke Many a love has died at the hand of the killing joke
6.	Avalon - 2007 remaster 04:05	lyrics	buy track
AVALON Music by Mark McCrite, Lyrics by Erik Norlander ©1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI I’ve been standin’ in line At Terminal 9 I’m leavin’ here today I’ll be rising above the land And I hope you’ll understand Why it had to end this way A wave of sadness washes me away Avalon, take me far across the bay . . . I wish there was time for watching the tide But I’ve been racing with the wind I’ve been put on the stage And the passing parade won’t stop to let me by A wave of sadness washes over me Avalon, there beyond the deep blue sea . . . All the people I’ve known These upholstered memories I’m leaving them behind But the stories to tell Of the bright stars that fell I’ll be joining them there A wave of sadness washes me away Avalon, take me far across the bay ...
7.	Welcome to the Machine - 2007 remaster 04:47		buy track
8.	Minstrel Saviour - 2007 remaster 06:09	lyrics	buy track
MINSTREL SAVIOUR by Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite (c)1993, 2006 Waking Dream Music, BMI Follow me, I'll ease the pain Blood and water flowing evermore Whisper softly, speak my name This time is just a sublime open door You called me saviour, speak to me in tongues Tell how the angels walked and now they run Minstrel saviour let me understand Am I the timeless fool Or am I a part of the plan? Turn the pages of my days In the court I stand a minstrel fool At center stage my days will pass Some gone forever and some going fast You called me saviour, take me far above These terran poisons, beating demon drums Minstrel saviour let the games begin Familiar stranger Time to sink or swim I see no storybook endings Just the blackness of empty space I see no justice balanced Just a jester's laughing face I see no brave utopia Just the bitter flux of time Drinking from the Tigris Drowning in the Rhine Listen softly falls the rain Blood like water flowing evermore And the tide is turning once again Let the tide keep turning forevermore You called me saviour, speak to me in tongues Tell how the angels walked and now they run Minstrel saviour let me understand Am I the timeless fool Or am I a part of the plan?
9.	When Sorrow Falls - 2007 remaster 03:45	lyrics	buy track
WHEN SORROW FALLS by Mark McCrite and Erik Norlander ©1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music They say a little rain must fall on every dream parade But I've been washed downstream And in sorrow's wake I've been passing the time All of the promises we made Don't mean a thing without you here I've been wandering and living in the past When sorrow falls A cold wind blows and the pictures start to fade The white washed walls Bitter are the memories that remain When sorrow falls Forgotten tales of yesterday I see your face in empty rooms all washed over No songs of love No rhythm, no rhyme Here on this snowbound winter day Will the sun refuse the shine? I've been wondering Fighting back the tears When sorrow falls A cold wind blows and the pictures start to fade The white washed walls Bitter are the memories that remain When sorrow falls
10.	Calm Before the Storm - 2007 remaster 04:27	lyrics	buy track
CALM BEFORE THE STORM by Mark McCrite and Erik Norlander © 1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI I see a black sail It's coming to me I would reject it all if that would set us free Cast these chain of ages onto the floor Light the fire Burn forevermore Time flies from here When the calm before the storm comes Take my hand and we'll take shelter With all odds against us now This will be our finest hour We are the lonely ones A people who would be free But I see a future man like and unlike me So let the first waves crash upon the shore Then light the fire Burn forevermore Time flies from here When the calm before the storm comes Take my hand and we'll take shelter With all odds against us now This will be our finest hour In the calm before the storm You can feel your heart beating All the odds against us now This will be our finest hour All the movers and the shakers All the strongmen fade away But the thinkers and good men They will have their day Time flies from here When the calm before the storm comes Take my hand and we'll take shelter With all odds against us now This will be our finest hour In the calm before the storm You can feel your heart beating All the odds against us now This will be our finest hour
11.	Pythagoras - 2007 remaster 00:56		buy track
12.	Temple of Pain - 2007 remaster 03:57	lyrics	buy track
TEMPLE OF PAIN by Mark McCrite and Erik Norlander (c)1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI Too little, too late Don't play my sympathies, the time has passed Like dominoes falling down Too late to catch me now The damage is done The priests are working day and night Building my temple of pain Too many golden rooms and hallowed halls Inside my temple of pain Somehow, some way The endless summer is a thing of the past And love has flown away Maybe forever Now the damage is done The priests are working day and night Building my temple of pain Too many golden rooms and hallowed halls Inside my temple of pain Don't wait for answers Get out while you can They're building bricks around you Chains to bind you Walls to hold you down The priests are working day and night Building my temple of pain Too many golden rooms and hallowed halls Inside my temple of pain
13.	Carry Me Home - 2007 remaster 04:12	lyrics	buy track
CARRY ME HOME by Erik Norlander and Mark McCrite ©1993, 2007 Waking Dream Music, BMI Seems like a thousand years have passed All of the seasons have been broken Can I break the chains of time Sailing on its river Cast away the reins Reaching out forever Wind, carry me home Through autumn rain and winter snow I've been gone for heaven knows I'm on my way back home To where the rivers flow The pattern in the stars remains The road ahead looks quite familiar I'll break the chains of time Sailing on its river Cast away the reins Reaching out forever Wind, carry me home Through autumn rain and winter snow I've been gone for heaven knows I'm on my way back home To where the rivers flow Seems like a thousand years have passed All of the seeds of faith are scattered Can I break the chains of time Sailing on its river Cast away the reins Reaching out forever Wind, carry me home Through autumn rain and winter snow I've been gone for heaven knows I'm on my way back home To where the rivers flow
14.	To the Edge of the World - bonus track 03:41	info	buy track

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EARTHBOUND is the debut CD from the Los Angeles - based ROCKET SCIENTISTS, originally released in 1993. The album is also the debut production from keyboardist Erik Norlander who has gone on to produce 25 + albums for his Think Tank Media record label.

EARTHBOUND was the brainchild of vocalist / guitarist Mark McCrite and keyboardist Erik Norlander who had played together since high school. After playing live gigs around the Los Angeles area for several years with various incarnations of Rocket Scientists (3 piece to 6 piece!), McCrite and Norlander set out to record a master quality demo that they would use to search for the holy grail, the sacred cow, the all - mighty and equally elusive "record deal".

Rocket Scientists received several offers for recording contracts and many more invitations to change the band's sound -- sometimes in conflicting ways. McCrite and Norlander grew up listening to 70s progressive rock, and even though that genre was particularly frowned upon in the late 80s and early 90s, the two did their best to stay true to their roots while producing recordings that were commercially viable.

EARTHBOUND was pressed up on Norlander's fledgling Think Tank Media label, then just a production company moniker, as a dual - purpose demo to larger labels and saleable product. What surprised both Norlander and McCrite was how a seemingly underground progressive community embraced the album. While on the one side, business people were telling Rocket Scientists to be more commercial, write shorter songs and be less indulgent, the fans and shops that were buying the CDs told them exactly the opposite -- stretch out, be more experimental, write longer pieces, don't be in such a hurry to get to a chorus, etc.

As Rocket Scientists weighed their options and mulled over directional shifts, the first pressing of EARTHBOUND sold out. Another was made, then another, and another. In 1995 the band was offered a licensing deal by Kinesis Records in the United States and the Marquee Corporation in Japan for their second album, BRUTAL ARCHITECTURE, which was decidedly more adventurous, more artistic, more "progressive". In 1997, Rocket Scientists toured for the first time in Europe, recording their live CD, EARTH BELOW AND SKY ABOVE. In 1999, the band exceeded already high expectations with their third studio effort, OBLIVION DAYS, displaying more evolution and sophistication than ever before. They followed up with the epic 2CD release, REVOLUTION ROAD, in 2006 and toured extensively from 2007 through early 2009 in North America and Europe participating in multiple festivals in addition to club and theater dates.

After exhausting several pressings, EARTHBOUND had been out of print since 2001. A remastered reissue CD was released in 2007 as part of the LOOKING BACKWARD box set. The remastered version of EARTHBOUND is also available for legal download here at Bandcamp!

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released January 10, 1993

Mark McCrite - vocals, guitars
Erik Norlander - keyboards, vocals
Don Schiff - Chapman Stick, bass guitar

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Tommy Amato - drums
Tim Gehrt - drums
Curtis Balmer - additional guitars
Lana Lane - harmony vocals

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Rocket Scientists El Dorado Hills, California

Formed in the late 1980s by keyboardist Erik Norlander and vocalist / guitarist Mark McCrite, the two released their first CD in 1993 joined by bassist Don Schiff who soon became a part of the band. RS has played many festivals and concert dates across North America and Europe and continue to release new music. Memorable songwriting and innovative instrumentation are Rocket Scientists hallmarks ... more

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