Silent Alarm-one of the best albums of this decade
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Seems like its an album that could be one of the best albums released in the 2000's. Good from top to bottom.
Its very zeitgeisty as well. I think Kele and the guys perfectly captured a moment in time, both of what it means and what it feels like to be growing up in the UK, but also what it means to be alive in this moment in history, in modern society.
This Modern Love is pretty incredible, just the chorus alone is amazing.
Or Plans, or even Compliments. Both songs express this idea that we are wasting our lives away. That modern society drives us to this. That despite having high speed internet, and 500 channels on tv, and cell phones and iPods and the like, that all that is pretty meaningless stuff. That apathy and feeling lost and hopeless is something that alot of people feel.
Maybe thats what the album and band is about. That they want to express those feelings of living in modern society, and how alienating it can be, but they hope that through a 3 minute song, that in those 3 minutes you are free of negative feelings and pain.
The atmospherics of it all, the way Kele's voice blends with the guitars, drums and bass.
Its very zeitgeisty as well. I think Kele and the guys perfectly captured a moment in time, both of what it means and what it feels like to be growing up in the UK, but also what it means to be alive in this moment in history, in modern society.
This Modern Love is pretty incredible, just the chorus alone is amazing.
Or Plans, or even Compliments. Both songs express this idea that we are wasting our lives away. That modern society drives us to this. That despite having high speed internet, and 500 channels on tv, and cell phones and iPods and the like, that all that is pretty meaningless stuff. That apathy and feeling lost and hopeless is something that alot of people feel.
Maybe thats what the album and band is about. That they want to express those feelings of living in modern society, and how alienating it can be, but they hope that through a 3 minute song, that in those 3 minutes you are free of negative feelings and pain.
The atmospherics of it all, the way Kele's voice blends with the guitars, drums and bass.
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just listened to moder love..thanks for the reminder.
acoustic is too good
I tend to like remix albums
there is a "Silent Alarm Remixed" album (black cover) that has this song ...
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sq ... frxqlsld0e
These guys are fantastic in concert, Kele is so full of energy and is one of the few musicians I find to actually be happy and enjoying himself on stage all the time .... even as the albums tend to move in a different direction, the songs come off great live.
Their Coachella set in 2004 was unreal.
Silent alarm (and the other songs of the first EP) are still fantastic ...
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
I don't think people should just dismiss their other albums, though. A Weekend in the City may not jump out at the listener as much but I think it contains some great songs...and the same with Intimacy.
I totally agree. All 3 of their albums are great. They have been evolving instead of releasing Silent alarm 2 and 3.
I love Silent Alarm but its very close between it and A Weekend in the City.