Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
August 1976, Beserkly
1. "Roadrunner" - 4:04
2. "Astral Plane" - 3:00
3. "Old World" - 4:00
4. "Pablo Picasso" - 4:15
5. "She Cracked" - 2:53
6. "Hospital" - 5:31
7. "Someone I Care About" - 3:37
8. "Girlfriend" - 3:51
9. "Modern World" - 3:40
RESULTS
Rate: 9.5/10
Best Song: She Cracked
Worst Song: Someone I Care About
Comments
Never heard of these guys, super glad I did.
Again, some more Proto-Punk. This is like The Talking Heads mixed with a darker version of Gang of Four. It's super good. The lyrics are just so thrown out there, like:
"Well, some people try to pick up girls
And they get called Assholes
This never happened to Pablo Picasso"
Like what the fuck are you talking about, Jon?
Frankly, I don't know, and I don't care. Albums like these show that music isn't about how well you can sing, and whether or not you have a bucket of money to try and "Fix" your piece of shit track, layering it over and over unironically with autotune and electronics. It's about the effort you put into it, the attitude, how you see what you made. Modern Lovers is a unique example of some band scrapply put together in some dude's garage on $1000, and they went; "Let's be like Lou Reed, man. Let's just put together an Album that'll be forgotten in a year's time." And it worked. This is like a work of art hidden beneath the shadows of time.
It's art, man.
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