Brit pop-rockers James (that’s the name of the band) are perhaps most famous for their song “Laid,” but we’ve always preferred “Born of Frustration.” Released in 1992, it sounds like it should have been in a John Hughes movie …
This version of the song was recorded live during James’ “farewell” appearance in 2001 in their hometown of Manchester.
After a six-year hiatus, however, James reformed in 2007.
Enjoy …
All this frustration
I can’t meet all my desires
Strange conversation
My self-control has just expired
You’re all an illusion
You’re only in my head
You don’t exist
Who am I fooling?
I don’t need a shrink but an exorcist
Lalalala
Lalalala
Lalalala
La
Show me the movie of who you are and where you’re from
Born of frustration
Caught upon these webs we’ve spun
Where’s the confusion
A vision of what life is like
Show the lifetime that doesn’t deal in black and white
Talk talk talkin ’bout who’s to blame
When all that counts is how to change
Stop stop talkin ’bout who’s to blame
When all that counts is how to change
Lalalala
Lalalala
Lalalala
La
All this frustration
All this frustration
Who put brown owl eyes on a butterfly’s wings
All this frustration
All this frustration
Who gave the leopard spots and taught the birds to sing
We’re born of frustration
Born of frustration
I’m living in the weirdest dream where nothing is the way it seems
Where no one seems that real to me
Where nothing means that much to me
‘Bout time we built our lives upon
no solid ground nor walls of stone
The world is spinnin’ endlessly
We’re clinging to our old beliefs
Born of frustration
Born of frustration
Previously …
Beck – “Loser”
Ben Folds Five – “Rockin’ The Suburbs”
Billy Ward & The Dominoes – “Sixty Minute Man”
The Black Crowes – “Wiser Time”
B.O.B. – “Nothing On You”
Coolio – “Fantastic Voyage”
Cypress Hill – “Rock Superstar”
Eminem (ft. Rihanna) – “Love The Way You Lie”
Filter – “One (Cover)”
Foo Fighters – “Times Like These”
Lady Ga Ga/ Beyonce – “Telephone”
Led Zeppelin – “Your Time Is Gonna Come/ Black Mountain Side”
Led Zeppelin – “Misty Mountain Hop”
LL Cool J – “Mama Said Knock You Out”
Midnight Oil – “Dreamworld”
Monster Magnet – “Negasonic Teenage Warhead”
Naughty By Nature – “O.P.P.”
Nine Inch Nails – “Piggy”
Owl City – “Hot Air Balloon”
The Outfield – “I Don’t Need Her”
Panic At The Disco! – “Karma Police” (Cover)
Pavement – “Range Life”
Pearl Jam – “Alive”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Geek, U.S.A.”
The Spin Doctors – “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”
Stevie Wonder – “I Believe (When I Fall In Love This Time It Will Last Forever)”
Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
Tom Petty – “The Waiting”
U2 – “Until The End Of The World”
U2 – “Where The Streets Have No Name”
The Waitresses – “I Know What Boys Like”
Weezer – “Put Me Back Together”
Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp”
