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Rating: The Rapture were facing an important test after their intriguing (though not without flaws) 'Echoes', and after 3 years, there was a curiosity to discover what direction their music would take. Well, this is the stripped-down, boneless, softened, watered-down version of The Rapture's music.
The Rapture takes a plunge into the mainstream and emerges voided, the MTV-ized Rapture. If there was one quality that distinguished them, it was the aggressiveness, the enthusiasm, the youthful exuberance of those who want to conquer the world. With this 'Pieces of the People We Love', they have directly transitioned from youthful enthusiasm to the album of senility: because if this collection of inanities is supposed to be the mature version of The Rapture, they're not there at all: this is the nursing home version, fit for a sanatorium or for a dandy who, while sipping his Martini, doesn’t want his ears disturbed by any ideas. No problem because there are truly few ideas here: the rhythms seem to be the muffled, syncopated version of the ones from the past, a sad reflection, the melodies are totally absent, the songs drag on wearily without apparent purpose, after about 1 minute of each song it's already clear.
To close the circle, a flat, blandly Disco production takes care of it, where the guitars disappear in the mix, reduced to an unnecessary chatter. Good heavens, perhaps amid the fumes of alcohol, if one suppresses every capacity for analysis, one might even find themselves moving to the rhythm of the new single’s constipated pop "Get Myself Into It" before returning to their senses and realizing it’s a bland piece, of horrifying mediocrity, ultimately just bad. It's not even worth analyzing song by song; it would be better to gloss over the michaeljacksonesque shrieks of "The Devil", the senselessness of "Calling Me". Only the horribly titled "Whoo Alright Yeah.. Uh Uh" (where a damn fits well!) and "The Sound" are saved, which attempts to revive the glory of past furious assaults. It's just that listening to an old track like "Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks" is enough to see how much (filthy) water has passed under the bridge.
The impression is that this 'Pieces of the People We Love' is the classic product that will overcrowd second-hand CD stores (if CD stores remain at all). Useless and often irritating.
Try again, perhaps without listening to the advice of those who want you to be cool at any cost.
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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