팀 게인과 레티샤 사디에가 이끌고 있는 포스트 록 밴드 스테레오랩은 록의 정형화를 거부하고 '뉴 록'의 개념을 제시한 그룹이다. 기존의 록 사운드를 거부하고 새로운 양식과 장르를 받아들여 록의 저편에 있는 무언가를 제시한 공로를 인정 받는다. 본작은 그들이 2005년 발표한 앨범으로 그간 내놓았던 싱글들과 EP의 수록곡들, 그리고 B-Side 넘버들을 한데 모은 완벽한 컴필레이션이다. 자연스레 스테레오랩이 걸어온 음악 소사를 제대로 파악할 수 있는 역사적 자료로서 모자람이 없는 구성을 자랑하고 있다. .... ....
Allures You ask and not Remain forever In a state of infertility No, you ask and not Remain forever In a state of Infertility No, they sure will have to come out (They sure will have to come out) One day in the big world, the big world (One day into the big world)
L: All this violence is puzzling Maybe the law should intervene. M: All this violence is threatening Hate is in need of censoring.
L+M: Ban hate and violence for our convenience (x2) (Repeat once)
L: Don't we all know the dangers Of two conflicting viewpoints? M: An active troublemaker (?) Banning the flame of dissent L+M: So much aggravation! L: To all haters: We'll create some laws to stop you. M: You're the danger; you really shouldn't be allowed to...
L: They piss on morality! M: They detest humanity! L: Those savages should be banned! M: They're so deeply offensive! L+M: Somebody shut them up!
(Throughout the following section Mary (I think) sings something like: "once you catch them, kill them, kill them")
L: War can't help it They'll still be full of hate and shit M: But it's handy, We'll blame it on human nature. (Repeat from "They piss on... to "Somebody shut them up!)
L: We'll censor the hell out of you... M: We'll coerce evil out of you... L: We'll cut you're tongue if we have to... M: You're the baddies and we hate you... (Repeat once)
I've got a spine So I can move around It's so supple It gets me really high It all stretches Keeping the man (?) alive I've got a spine So I can modulate Also.....helps me to concentrate A spinal column, a flexible tool It is harmless but fairly powerful I've got a spine So I can move around I've got a spine Keeping me....
I've got a spine So I can move around It's so supple It gets me really high It all stretches Keeping the man (?) alive A spinal column, a flexible tool It is harmless but fairly powerful
Life on earth is a bloody As in the city the public wears... I think the brilliant cast for insane realities to come and that's a decisive battle that we....haven't we lost
I don't care if the fascists have to win I don't care democracy's being sucked I don't care socialism's full of sin (Or: I don't care socialism's collapsing) The unbeatable system engenders rot That what is exciting Is a challenge as the new nation but the tensions have to be creative with some time
The innocent suffer from the transformation in the (their)country They balance asylum...down and they run you Obviously once more it could be culture... I bet a lot oh don't you get to...
I don't care if the facists have to win I don't care democracy's being sucked I don't care socialism's collapsing The indubitable* the system is so corrupt (* this sounds like immutable on the album version) That what is exciting Is a challenge as the new nation But the tensions happy but (That the tensions happy but creative are so tight)
PLUS: from the album version
Life on earth is a bloody.... In place of the... The horrors of the war are keeping me free to... It was like taking candy from a baby.
They are one of the same, Two inevitables, Two inevitables, We can't avoid dying, Bursting through our barriers, They are one of the same, Two inevitables.
i hate to see your broken face this world would give you anything as long as you will want to as long as you will want to i hate your state of hopelessness and that vain articulateness your loser type wreck wanna be not a pretty sight really in another world it'd be funny
i hate to see your broken face a lazy life of fatal waste of fashionable cynicism the poison they want you to drink oh no man that's too easy oh no man that's too easy we weren't talking bout happiness apply your leading potential to be useful to this planet the world would give you anything as long as you will want to as long as you will want to
Wher it had been left hundreds of years ago extract from the depth is but a setting sun paradise is scace in this light that won't shine what is our earthly task but a worthy design?
some held it in sight for scattered it may have been they're ready to fight in a priceless inkling the request is here ready to resurrect what else can we do but recover the project
our earthly design can be so detached what crushes our desire not to be trapped when the higher spheres tell us to and not to everyone agrees demanding more veto our earthly design can we be so detached what crushes our desire not to be trapped?
you go in that team i go on this team divide everything a flag or a number make 'em opposites so there's a reason stigmatisation ok now we can fight divide everything just put it all flat justification ok now you can fight
it's alright 'cause the historical pattern has shown how the economical cycle tends to revolve in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
you see the recovery always comes 'round again there's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves it's alright recovery always comes 'round again there's nothing to worry if things can only get better
there's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents there's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it's alright 'cause the historical pattern has shown how the economical cycle tends to revolve in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more
bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery
don't worry be happy things will get better naturally don't worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
Envie de boire et de fumer, Envie de boire, envie d'aimer.
Brigitte, Brigitte j'ai envie, de vous copier Brigitte, Brigitte, Brigitte, Brigitte vous m'epatez, Indispensable Brigitte, vous sentez les choses, toutes faites de col?e, toutes faites de contr?e,
Mysterieux et intime savoir, que le meilleur reste encore ?ㄲ? venir
Indispensable Brigitte, vous sentez les choses, Vous pouvez faire mal, comme vous savez donner.
nous ne pourrons jamais combler qu'une infime partie de la vie des gens nous ne pourrons jamais combler qu'une infime on a beau dire, tout est question de reflet folle vous le paraissez tr? certainement aux c?? des honn?es gens
nous ne pourrons jamais combler qu'une infime partie de la vie des gens nous ne pourrons jamais combler qu'une infime partie de la vie des gens on a beau dire, tout est question de reflet folle vous le paraissez tr? certainement aux c?? des honn?es gens
Sur la bo?te cartonn?e un trompe-l'oeil Avoue volontiers qu'il est trompe-l'oeil. Sur la bo?te cartonn?e un trompe-l'oeil Avoue volontiers qu'il est trompe-l'oeil, Donne l'id?e du jeu et du myst?re, Un spectacle intime donne l'id?e du jeu et de l'humour, Spectacle qui rime, qui suscite dans les yeux un ?clair, Une d?couverte, une id?e qui peut jouer des tours, Une muse, certes, donne l'id?e du jeu et du myst?re, Un spectacle intime. Sur la bo?te cartonn?e un trompe-l'oeil Avoue volontiers qu'il est trompe-l'oeil. Sur la bo?te cartonn?e un trompe-l'oeil Avoue volontiers qu'il est trompe-l'oeil. gives the idea of the game and the mystery an intimate show gives the idea of the game and humour show that rhymes which provokes in the eyes a flash a discovery an idea that can play tricks a muse indeed gives the idea of the game and the mystery an intimate show On the cardboard box a trompe-l'oeil willingly admits to being a trompe-l'oeil On the cardboard box a trompe-l'oeil willingly admits to being a trompe-l'oeil