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Rating: There are some albums that even before they are released are destined to be slapped around by critics from all over the world, both professional and not.
Regardless of their value, they will become scapegoats to mark the end of the alleged music scene of the moment, moral flaying posts on which to heap comments ranging from sardonic mockery to worse words.
"Pieces Of The People We Love" is one of those albums.
Many other albums share the same fate, such as Warlocks' "Surgery" or Air's "1000Hz Legend", but there are countless examples.
It often happens that after a chart-busting album, which draws the interest of both a small and large audience and becomes the flagship of a "new scene" (in almost ALL cases, this process is orchestrated and bears little resemblance to reality, but let's take it at face value), the following one, especially if it comes after three years of silence, will be considered 90% trash. The reasons are sometimes objectively musical, other times they depend on the health of the "new scene" of which the band was a flagbearer.
Since the so-called punk funk scene no longer appeals to many magazines and is waning (but beware, these are the moments when the best records come out), it is obvious that the second album by The Rapture is being massacred. In short, if God requires your son Isaac, providing a goat will do just as well, so why give up on the announced and ritual lynching of The Rapture?
Being atheist in this case helps.
I don't want to claim that "Pieces…" is some masterpiece, but if you're not very accustomed to the slightly disco(ring), suburban dancehall sounds of the '80s, or if you consider them corpses to be left in peace, the album has the merit of mixing them sometimes so well as to make them more than digestible.
This is the case with "Gotta Get Myself Into It", a monstrously catchy track destined to flood "alternative" dance halls. Forget the sharp guitars of "Echoes", semi-hung in favor of an almost entirely danceable approach and production style akin to Madonna's "Confessions".
Surely a cheeky choice, but in some instances, it works. Like in the tribal-DFA rhythm of the title track or in the semi-plagiarism of Gang Of Four with the funky guitar of "The Devil" or the deep bass of "Don Gon Do It". Strangely enough, the tracks with the highest guitar rate are the worst, between the pathetic ballad "Live In Sunshine" and the robot-rock of "The Sound", it's hard to choose which pain to die from.
In short, Saint Download, save us!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Don Gon Do It (04:35)
High... High ask they sky.
Low... low as it goes.
Purple dragons fly into your eyes.
Milkshake shimmy cry and cry and cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
High... High as the sky.
Low... low as it goes.
Words that cut, slash, rip and hypnotize...
why'd you say those things, why'd you lie?
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
Hiiiiiigh.... Hiiiiiigh.
Knobs, knobs to turn.
Love, love that burns.
Paint over this broken hearted life.
You are so fucked up... I wish you'd die.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna don gon do it.
You're gonna make me fly.
You're gonna gon don do it.
You're gonna make me cry.
You're gonna gon don do it
You're gonna make me fly.
Hiiiiigh.... Hiiiiiigh
03 Get Myself Into It (04:42)
Holiday, Get away.
I feel Funny.
Children's money
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Don't be late.. at Gods gate.
Don't talk shit... out with it!
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime
On the train feel insane.
What the fuck? Just bad luck
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Gonna get myself into it.
Why not help me do it?
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime.
It's the chance of a lifetime
Don't you tell me that I'm fine
Cause I'll show you that you're blind.
Don't you tell me that I'm fine
Cause I'll show you that you're blind.
04 First Gear (06:23)
First gear OW!
First gear OH!
First gear don't you get me down, nuh-uh.
I'm overlord in a my-m-my-m M-Mustang Ford OW!
Can I ask you a question?
Can I bear the reply?
First gear... second chance...
it's the third time's charm for new romance, oh...
I wanna brake it with you.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good--good to you?
OH... First gear... I feel alright, I say all my friends gonna right tonight.
Headlights... can't you see that it's all green lights for you and me?
I'm fired up... the engine is ruinning.
All my charm and all my cunning GIRL... I wanna brake it with you.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good... good to you?
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my M-M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my M-M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my M-Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
My my my my Mustang Ford.
Hey, does it feel alright now?
Hey, does it look good too?
Hey, does it feel alright and does it look good... good to you?
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes.
I've got to shake shake shake.
I've got to get down whatever it takes
07 Calling Me (03:46)
Whatever's dangerous to you
You plunge yourself into
Never stop to realise
Sometimes a man can't know his pain
Til someone probes the wound
And satisfies his mind
And when you make up your own rules
With no regard for what you lose
You make mistakes of youth
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
You're not a prince
You are a son
You're not the only one
You see before your eyes
And when you take up too much space
Put a frown upon my face
Don't believe your own lies
My anger left without a trace
Leaving me with bitter taste
I had lost so much time
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
I hear her calling me
08 Down for So Long (03:47)
Because a cynic told me
The best is yet to come
The day we all die on our backs
Out in the sun
And now the dawn time shadows haunt my every thought
I've been lost in blind drunk photo phobia
I've been searching so long...
Then an analyst said, "why fret finality?"
Cos looking up, ain't nothing looking down on me
and if the man upstairs don't care what's going on
Then we can find out for ourselves what's right and wrong
I've been searching so long...
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I'm coming around
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
Cos we can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
We can do it for ourselves
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
I've been searching so long
10 Live in Sunshine (03:59)
love and hope and trust today
is what i think i'd like to say
can you see me standing here?
can you help me with my fears?
is there a way to come to you?
live forever, just we two
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
don't ever give up your dreams
and all good things will come to thee
don't give up your ever hope
life is laughing
can you cope?
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
if you're lost and you can't live
alone inside your tiny head
if you call and no-one comes
look to me
i'm in the sun
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be there
songs i long lost gave to you
in your heart
and in your shoes
left a passion
pent up pain
songs in motion
songs in vain
this i cannot give to you
all together, all with glue
valentines and shopping malls
when you left me, i was small
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
live in sunshine
i'll be there
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be waiting
i'll be there
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By northernsky
This is the stripped-down, boneless, softened, watered-down version of The Rapture’s music.
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