does annyone really get it?

anagram wrote:Nah I think you're taking it too literally. The way I understand it, it's about destroying egos, not buildings or lives. The band has this apathetic, misanthropic quality to them, but they're overall not aggressive.

shock_the_monkey wrote:i'm a very literal person, as are most aspies.

anagram wrote:

Sh3ld0n wrote:Why do guys so often have Avatars of women?
My avatar, on the other hand, is very representative of the real me...

I don't know about others, but me, I identify with [who I'm attracted to], more than I identify with my image in the mirror.

Sh3ld0n wrote:No apologies from me for going off topic today...

However, many guys like choosing female soft porn avatars...

anagram wrote:

shock_the_monkey wrote:i'm a very literal person, as are most aspies.

I know you are, but the authors of the lyrics are not

Most of their lyrics are pure nonsense if you take them literally. Stuff that a schizophrenic would say. This one just happens to have a possible literal interpretation, but it would be out of context.

Some of their lyrics are actually in Bulgarian, even though the band is based in England and their audience is mostly of English speakers...

shock_the_monkey wrote:give the above, i'm not sure this'll be up your street but as far as female artists go i'm very into all about eve. here's my top three tracks in order of preference too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THUUSpYK8TQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUR77_phjno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAWyJXBJRqQ

anagram wrote:For some reason I just can't bring myself to like "old" stuff. Only 6.5% of all my music library was released in the nineties. 0% of it before the nineties.

anagram wrote:

shock_the_monkey wrote:i must admit, i think the lyrics of 'destroy everything you touch' are darker. granted the music is more melodic. but in a way that makes the contrast greater. perhaps what chills me about these lyrics is they bear more than a passing resemblance to the mindset of those that shoot up schools, shopping malls and movie theatres. i'm not saying it isn't a likable song. but it's certainly in the genre of peter gabriel's 'family snapshot'.

Nah I think you're taking it too literally. The way I understand it, it's about destroying egos, not buildings or lives. The band has this apathetic, misanthropic quality to them, but they're overall not aggressive.

Despite a three-year wait, Ladytron sounds fresher and more vital than ever on their triumphant third album, Witching Hour. While the label problems that sidelined the album's release must have been frustrating, in some ways the delay works in the band's favor: though they were momentarily (and somewhat opportunistically) lumped in with the electroclash movement, Ladytron always had a stronger sense of melody and pop songcraft than most of the other artists associated with that style, and with electroclash all but dead, the band's identity comes through even more clearly. Much darker and less overtly synth pop than any of their earlier work, Witching Hour is almost unrelentingly gloomy, covering topics like the fleeting nature of relationships, destruction, and war. However, the album wears it well, conjuring a glamorous dystopia with songs like "High Rise" and "Soft Power" -- it's not often that bleakness sounds this pretty. It also helps that Witching Hour boasts some of Ladytron's finest songwriting to date, including the brilliantly melodramatic, ever-so-slightly gothy "Destroy Everything You Touch" and "International Dateline," which shows the band hasn't lost its touch when it comes to writing affecting breakup songs. By stripping away some of the synth pop veneer of 604 and Light & Magic, the shoegaze/dream pop influences that bubbled underneath the surface of Ladytron's music come to the fore on this album. My Bloody Valentine's brilliant "Soon" was the first track of the band's Softcore Jukebox mix album, and that song's fusion of guitar haze and dance beats forms a large part of this album's musical DNA. "Sugar"'s trippy blur of buzzsaw guitars and mechanical rhythms take this sound in a noisy, poppy direction, while "WhiteLightGenerator" and the wintry "All the Way" end Witching Hour with a trancelike serenity. While the album loses some of the impressive focus of its first half as it unfurls, the layered, intricate production on tracks like "Beauty*2" and "CMYK" -- one of Ladytron's best instrumental interludes -- remains interesting. While Helena Marnie's ghostly vocals are as lovely and effective as ever, Mira Aroyo's small presence on Witching Hour is one of the album's few disappointments, although she shines on "Fighting in Built Up Areas." Nitpicking aside, Witching Hour is the album that Ladytron always seemed capable of, and its dark, dreamy-yet-catchy spell makes it the band's most sophisticated, and best, work to date. ~ Heather Phares

shock_the_monkey wrote:i found this review on e-bay (of all places) ...

anagram wrote:

shock_the_monkey wrote:i found this review on e-bay (of all places) ...

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