I think this song has some sort of drug in it. Holy crap.
Dec 22, 2024
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The Stones go psychadelic, had never really explored this one before recently. They didn’t really explore this stuff further after this album and the album was the panned as a rip off of those trends of the time and the what the Beatles had done, but still give this a listen, cool stuff. This is what digging into discographies and less popular stuff is all about, finding these fun one offs.
Mar 25, 2025
A grotesque, unsettling musical picture of chaos, massacre and lunacy. There were some years since it was released (1980) where I couldn’t listen to it at all.
It's maybe the most unlikely opening track of an album I've ever heard (despite Ian Curtis' repeated chorus: "This is the way, step inside"). It's based upon a 1970 J.G. Ballard collection of short stories of the same name, which imagines a name-changing protagonist who creates surrealistic fantasies about celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and President Ronald Reagan.
One of the first times in recorded music (long before bands like R.E.M. made a regular practice of this) where I can recall band members swapping instruments; guitarist Bernard Sumner plays bass on the track, bassist Peter Hook "plays" guitar (it's basically one long, wobbly noise scribble).
Super disturbing. I'm always amazed that the band could even pull off a live performance of it. Impossibly influential; you can hear the outline of the Cure's "Pornography," the Swans' catalogue, and much of whatever became to be called "tribal" in the DNA of this track.
Sep 22, 2024
Unironically incredible 70s art/prog imo. Surprisingly subversive. So gay. Jaw-dropping bass. The concept album is great too, but the OST gets it just right.
Apr 12, 2024
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I had never read it before this year despite loving a romance. My university did two screenings of the 2005 movie and it sent me down this crazy spiral of how perfect the story is so I decided to finally read it.
Dec 9, 2024
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I’ve been tapping back into Spanish music recently because my job had a DJ that mainly played Spanish music recently. It reminded me that sometimes Latin artists just make better songs to mooove to. This song is so good, I wish I could hear this at the club…
Dec 8, 2024
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John Stamos… hes got that I need to stay beautiful til I die vibe that’s a little unsettling.
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