Shade

About Shade

Shade is the fifth studio album by Murray Head. It was released in October 1982.

Shade is the fifth studio album by Murray Head. It was released in October 1982.

In 1996, it was reissued by Sony Records with three bonus tracks.

Contents

All songs composed by Murray Head unless noted.

"Peace of Mind" - 3:22

"Corporation Corridors" - 3:46

"All We Can Do Is Hold On" (Joe Sample) - 3:42

"Not Your Problem" - 3:41

"Joey's on Fire" (Murray Head, Peter Veitch) - 4:49

"Maman" - 4:01

"Grace" - 3:56

"Dragonfly" - 3:03

"Shades of the Prison House" - 5:55

“Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist.”
— Thomas M. Disch, The Shadow, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 2, p. 334 (Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December, 2001)
“There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.”
— in A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, Chapter Davos (II).
“The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”
— Edmund Burke, speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.
“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
— John Ruskin, Painting.
“No matter how satisfying the shade is, one must step out of it. Because if you keep staying in the shade like this, even your own shadow will abandon you.”
— Sanu Sharma, Differences
“Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ.”
— And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.

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