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Despite their relatively short lifespan compared to more famous contemporaries like Music/TheCure or Music/TalkingHeads, The Chameleons achieved a cult status among fans of the Manchester scene. This was largely due to their atmospheric guitar sound and lead singer Mark Burgess' haunting lyrics. The philosophical themes in his writing cover a range of dark topics including mental breakdown, violent crime, personal loss, apathy, and urban decay set against the dreary landscape of 1980s Manchester.
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Despite their relatively short lifespan compared to more famous contemporaries like Music/TheCure Music/{{The Cure|Band}} or Music/TalkingHeads, The Chameleons achieved a cult status among fans of the Manchester scene. This was largely due to their atmospheric guitar sound and lead singer Mark Burgess' haunting lyrics. The philosophical themes in his writing cover a range of dark topics including mental breakdown, violent crime, personal loss, apathy, and urban decay set against the dreary landscape of 1980s Manchester.
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* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: "Return of the Roughnecks" is a scathing anti-yuppie anthem. While Manchester was cracking at the seams, Mark Burgess was shaking his head at the blind optimism of the people around him.
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* NeverTrustATitle: "Swamp Thing" has nothing to do with the [[ComicBook/SwampThing comic book character]] or swamps for that matter, instead evoking the crushingly depressing reality of life in Thatcher's Britain.
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** "Here Today" from ''Script of the Bridge'' is from the perspective of a man as he dies after being shot to death. His mind repeatedly asks where his wife is. According to Burgess, that man was Music/JohnLennon.
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** "Here Today" from ''Script of the Bridge'' is from the perspective of a man as he dies after being shot to death.shot. His mind repeatedly asks where his wife is. According to Burgess, that man was Music/JohnLennon.
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** A deeper meaning for the song is not wasting your youth since the old man compared his situation to being buried alive.
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** A deeper meaning for the song is not wasting your youth since the old man compared his situation in the veterans home to being buried alive.
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The Chameleons were a British [[PostPunk post-punk]] band from Middleton, Greater Manchester. They were formed in 1981 and were active from that year until 1987 before splitting in the aftermath of the death of their manager. They were then active again from 2000 to 2003. In the course of their short career the band released four post-punk albums and two acoustic albums, as well as several live albums.
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The Chameleons were a British [[PostPunk post-punk]] post-punk]]/[[GothRock goth rock]] band from Middleton, Greater Manchester. They were formed in 1981 and were active from that year until 1987 before splitting in the aftermath of the death of their manager. They were then active again from 2000 to 2003. In the course of their short career the band released four post-punk albums and two acoustic albums, as well as several live albums.
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* MagnificentBastard: The song "Mad Jack" is possibly named after Mad Jack Churchill, a Scotsman who fought World War II using a sword and a bow and arrow. It could very well be about a raving, drugged up 'prophet'.
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* MagnificentBastard: The song "Mad Jack" is possibly named after Mad Jack Churchill, a Scotsman an Englishman of Scottish ancestry who fought World War II using a longbow, sword and a bow and arrow.bagpipes. It could very well be about a raving, drugged up 'prophet'.
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Following their breakup, Burgess continued playing alone as 'ChameleonsVox'.
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Following their breakup, Burgess continued playing alone as 'ChameleonsVox'.
Chameleons Vox.
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Following their breakup, Burgess continued playing alone as ChameleonsVox.
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Following their breakup, Burgess continued playing alone as ChameleonsVox.
'ChameleonsVox'.
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* GothRock: A better known example from a genre overfilled with obscure groups in the 80s.
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* PostPunk: One of the darker examples of this genre, practically comparable to Music/JoyDivision and Music/TheKillingJoke.
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* PostPunk: One of the darker examples of this genre, practically comparable to Music/JoyDivision and Music/TheKillingJoke.Music/KillingJoke.
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* PostPunk: One of the darker examples of this genre, practically comparable to Music/JoyDivision and Music/TheKillingJoke.
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* SmallTownBoredom: "Monkeyland" from ''Script of the Bridge'' is about Middleton, just outside of Manchester, which Burgess felt was [[CagedBirdMetaphor trapping him]]. It turned later that Monkeyland was used an insult toward the town's inhabitants.
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* SmallTownBoredom: "Monkeyland" from ''Script of the Bridge'' is about Middleton, just outside of Manchester, which Burgess felt was [[CagedBirdMetaphor trapping closing in on him]]. It turned later that Monkeyland was used an insult toward the town's inhabitants.
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