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Length: 3:29
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Putting your body on the line for less
Didn't you know there was a choice?
It's never yours but someone else's voice
Selling your body to the street
Selling your girlfriend's to the night for cheap
Wearing a jacket made of meat
Sealing a letter made with this horse's feet
And now you've heard that
Waves turn to grey
Life in the shade
A violent crime
And that's the USA
Platinum's on the rise
Playboys in disguise
I'm just tryin' to find
A mountain I can climb
Putting your patience to the test
Putting your body on the line for less
Didn't you know there was a choice?
It's never yours in someone else's voice
And now you seen that
Blondes turn to grey
Life in the shade
A violent crime
And that's the USA
Porn's on the rise
Psycho's in disguise
I'm just tryin' to find
A mountain I can climb
Darling, ain't nobody gonna tell us
They're gonna be oh so jealous
We're gonna be oh so silent
They're gonna be stoned in silence
''I didn't want to ask you baby
I didn't want you to ask anybody baby
Is anyone asking maybe?
Can anyone even hear me?''
Why are you waiting beyond the door?
Life turns to dust
And rain turns to rust
Gossip is a truth
And money paid for the lies we trust
Your love is a surprise
Homeless saints are in disguise
I'm just tryin' to find
A nice place for you and I
The cover art makes me want to play Q*bert.
It reminds me, nostalgically, of my fave arcade game Marble Madness. Not a bad song, either :)
This is exactly what a privileged upbringing sounds like. Fake angry. Fake happy. Whatever. Founding members meet at their elite boarding school.
"Let's start a band."
"Yes, let's. Daddy will buy us everything. Including a recording studio and a record contract. It'll be so much fun!"
bc wrote:
No need to pretend - previous comment was not inaccurate. From Wikipedia:
"Lead singer-songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti started playing together as teenagers while attending Dwight School in Manhattan, and formed an informal band in 1997. They later added bassist Nikolai Fraiture to their ranks, a close childhood friend of Casablancas who had attended the Lycée Français de New York with him. At the end of 1998, the group invited guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. to play with them. He had just moved to New York City and reconnected with Casablancas, whom he knew from their brief stints at the private boarding school Institut Le Rosey, near Nyon, Switzerland. The two soon became roommates."
This is exactly what a privileged upbringing sounds like. Fake angry. Fake happy. Whatever. Founding members meet at their elite boarding school.
"Let's start a band."
"Yes, let's. Daddy will buy us everything. Including a recording studio and a record contract. It'll be so much fun!"
Sounding somewhat angry
This is exactly what a privileged upbringing sounds like. Fake angry. Fake happy. Whatever. Founding members meet at their elite boarding school.
"Let's start a band."
"Yes, let's. Daddy will buy us everything. Including a recording studio and a record contract. It'll be so much fun!"
Let's pretend for just a minute that you're correct about their origins.
It's still a damn good song.
Now what?
This is exactly what a privileged upbringing sounds like. Fake angry. Fake happy. Whatever. Founding members meet at their elite boarding school.
"Let's start a band."
"Yes, let's. Daddy will buy us everything. Including a recording studio and a record contract. It'll be so much fun!"
my,
don't you sound just a mild bit jealous.
"Let's start a band."
"Yes, let's. Daddy will buy us everything. Including a recording studio and a record contract. It'll be so much fun!"
Sounds like a mixture of Supergrass, Franz Ferdinand and Everything Everything
Very Franz Ferdinand, only better
-- IT SURE IS A FRICKIN' TRIP!
I think it's a good song but the production indeed sucks and ruins everything. Too dry, missing effects and mixing effort. Would have been great in the 90's with Blur's producer behind the desk.
only in your mind
I don't know, it's OK, catchy, fun, I'll give it a 7.
only in your mind
Where do you listen ska-influence here in this song?
What kind of ska did you hear before?
I was referring to the offset bass line phrases and the guitars and keyboards playing on the up-beat (2 and 4 beats) during the verses. I guess that's technically more "quasi-reggae" influence than ska. If you played a guitar or bass you would understand what I meant. Anyhow, I only said "ska-influenced", I didn't say it sounded like Prince Buster or Desmond Dekker.
They sound more cheerful and ska-influenced than The Stranglers did - not quite as dark, but there is some resemblance. This reminds me more of Franz Ferdinand.
Where do you listen ska-influence here in this song?
What kind of ska did you hear before?
They sound more cheerful and ska-influenced than The Stranglers did - not quite as dark, but there is some resemblance. This reminds me more of Franz Ferdinand.
You're right, good catch!
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Agree with Bill, nothing to do with Peruvian holy spots, mystical places or visionary blokes
Hey, everybody! Surf's up!
For REAL escape try to leave USA!
Westslope already did. Approximately 200 years ago. No more San Pedro cactus for you, Ray.
Not much original at all in this song. Rather forgettable. A song title relating to the lyric content in some way would be a start. My dog could compose a better metaphor. Arf!
Machu Picchu as a metaphor for escape.
Cool.
P.S. For true escape try San Pedro cactus. Not for amateurs.
For REAL escape try to leave USA!
edit: Now it says "plays in last 30 days: 4" How lucky I am to have heard them all.
Machu Picchu as a metaphor for escape.
Cool.
P.S. For true escape try San Pedro cactus. Not for amateurs.
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Agree with Bill, nothing to do with Peruvian holy spots, mystical places or visionary blokes
Selling your body to the street
Glad I saw this before I tried to type it out. That part is sweet.
reminds me of an MC Escher drawing I never saw.
you're both wrong: it's Q-bert.
reminds me of an MC Escher drawing I never saw.
Thinking more like Crystal Castles.... many hundreds, nay thousands of hours misspent youth in there!!!
Never could get used to the hysteresis of marble madness ;-)
I LOVED that game. I rented it once from our local video store and just never returned it. Luckily for me, it was bought out by a chain place a couple months later, so I got away with it. Of course, that was in the very early 90's I think.
I recently came upon an emulator and ROM of the game, so I can play it on my computer anytime I want. As a matter of fact... I may go play it now.
being musically illiterate I can't really tell you what they both are.
I never get sick of it!
That's a very challenging skateboard ramp.
but then remembered the huge pile of recycled block I got on the cheap. Saved a gym membership, moving those.
Nice song, indeed.
I'm just trying to find...a mountain I can climb.
Not bad, but nothing that STROKES me..
I gotta heap mighty praise upon RP for turning me onto the nice new Strokes effort, and I am thrilled they are rocking again! This thing has grown on me like moss on the north side of an old tree! I love that WICKED blistering guitar ripping out of the speakers, and I'm rockin' out to it here big-time at the old Mac-top!
I was fortunate enough to clamber all over that ancient Inca retreat for Royal elites a few years ago, and though, like Bill said, who can have any idea why they named it that? unless it refers to some amazing ROCK-work that seems deceptively simple but was definitely hewn and fitted like none other... but I'm able get back up there in my mind any time I hear this, and for that I'm grateful! Let's rock this bad boy often!
Good hooks...
Those meat jackets have been popular lately........ TV commercials for deodorant, Lady Gaga. I prefer mine medium rare.
You betcha.....................
Funny comment from DJ Bill about the lyrics not mentioning anything about the historic Incan site.
Like him, though, I agree — cool song.
Whatchu talkin' bout, Willis?
Heh, they kinda remind me of Ima Robot, one of the first really quirky groups I heard on RP.
Nice all the way through. 7