LADYTRON ARE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

"He Took Her To A Movie" came out in '99 and would have ruined their "Best Of 00-10" title

(yeah, I think it should be on there too, madness etc)

I'd have thrown in Oops (Oh My) and the Felix Da Housecat remix of Playgirl. I thought the whole point of deluxe editions was to round up remixes and B-sides like that.

I'd have thrown in Oops (Oh My)

YES ^^

no Weekend = no credibility

ok, so not really, but if you're going to include three-quarters of Witching Hour, why leave that off?

Can i just...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrkEPv-TWs

I wanted to like Ladytron, and I went to see them at the Leeds festival. Unfortunately, I had taken an anonymous pill I bought for £5 from a stranger, and spent the entire set hiding behind a pillar, convinced that if the band caught sight of me they would command the audience to tear me limb from limb, and quite possibly shoot lasers from their eyes. I have not summoned up the courage to listen to them since.

hahaha holy shit

how were the other bands?

These fuckers did a cover version of a Death In June song "Little Black Angel" on the above best of comp and did not credit DIJ.

really?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElbViA41_L4

that would DEFINITELY be deliberate skullduggery on the part of the band and not a fuck-up by someone in the production dept at the label

Maybe they didn't want royalties to go to alleged fascists? Of course it might've been easier not to cover them if that was the case.

the montage pisces posted has succeeded in making me crush on helen way more than i ever did in the previous 10 years i've been listening to ladytron

Well I guess Ladytron are only doing to Douglas P what he did to Oscar Brown jr, who didn't get credit when Doug pinched, via Jim Jones' People Temple Choir, the lyrics from his song "Brown Baby", recorded by Nina Simone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBfO4-PVQwA

Brown Baby - Oscar brown jr

Brown baby
Brown baby
As you grow up
I want you to drink from the plenty cup
I want you to stand up
Tall and proud
I want you to speak up
Speak up clear and cloud

Brown baby
Brown baby
As years roll by
Walk with your head held high
I want you to live by
Live by the justice code
I want you to walk down
Walk down the freedom road

Brown baby
Brown baby
Now baby
Lie away
Lie away sleeping
Lie away here in my arms
While your mommy and daddy protect you
And keep you save from harm

Brown baby
Brown baby
It makes me so glad
That you will have things
I've never had
When out of men's hearts
All the hate is hurled
You're gonna live
You're gonna live in a better world

New single:
http://pitchfork.com/news/42526-new-ladytron-white-elephants/

^like

yeah i'm kinda surprised how much the relaxed vibe also seems to work for them.

Also this is sweet:

http://themusic-rx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ladytron-Gravity-The-Seducer-500x499.jpg

still have mad love for these guys <3

so i had a bit of a sabbatical from ladytron that ended today when i heard them in the coffee shop by my place.

"Burning Up" is fucking blowing my mind right now.

Sad to say fell off the Ladytron bandwagon but am now back on after listening to this http://open.spotify.com/album/2JMPfwD9sExl3gzIZd9Bpk

Yeah new album sounds great.

Only a few songs in, but the new one sounds like it's copping a Blanck Mass feel?

Not a huge fan, but I kind of like how floaty this one sounds.

Not a huge fan of Ladytron, I mean.

Helen Marnie is doing an online fundraiser for a solo album.

The perks get interesting around 300 GBP (or $487). I guess "worn by me" premiums are officially a thing now, and not just something Nataly Dawn does/did.

She could surely charge twice that if she promised not to launder. (._.)

Wow, she's a day in and already at 58% of the goal WITHOUT any of the big ticket stuff getting claimed yet.

She could surely charge twice that if she promised not to launder. (._.)

For some reason I was thinking about this, and I realized that since she was in the water for presumably most of the shoot, the pool chemicals would probably override her natural, er, "essences", which would be reason enough to get it cleaned.

UPDATE:

@ 67% and....

http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif?w=600the Swimsuit has been claimed.http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-animated-siren-gif-drudge-report.gif?w=600

does she chew on each garment before mailing?

I like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqJQEf9q6go

Nice !

destroy everything you touch. toooodaaay

this thread took a weird turn

pretending that didn't happen

I think Reuben Wu is still wandering around doing photography, not sure if more Ladytron stuff is coming but I had a good morning listening to their albums

Electroclash seems to belong to this weird other-time in my mind. Like it was forgotten as a post-traumatic memory of 9/11.

Seventeen is still a great song.

when i heard the song that riffs on the "are you being served" theme, i knew these were my people

I don't even really consider ladytron electroclash -- the stuff pre-witching hour might as well not exist to me

Light & Magic isn't a bad album. Still sounds fresh today, with all the minimal wave, cold wave, druggy stuff going on lately. It's weird that after nearly 20 years, the 80s retro thing hasn't died out yet.

604!

I really Ladytron but out of their five albums, I only really rate two of them. Witching Hour is close to being a perfect record and 604 is very strong, apart from those they're frustratingly patchy on record.

Witching Hour is close to being a perfect record

put this album on 34 mins ago cos of this thread revival, not heard it in years - and even then i only listened to it a couple of times.
it's the only album of ladytrons i have.
will be playing it a lot more often from hereon.
hits a lot of my sweet spots

velocifero and gravity the seducer are also underrated

I agree, I listened to Gravity The Seducer the other night and think there's plenty of good stuff on it... 'Moon Palace' probably one of my favourite Ladytron tracks! I like the first two albums, but it's hard to argue with the idea that they came into their own and started realising their potential on Witching Hour

We are proud to announce our first new music since 2011. 
Find out all about it, and how you can be involved. 
This will be an exciting year. Love, Ladytron XXXXhttps://t.co/DM2GT0ZImQ

— Ladytron (@LadytronMusic) February 28, 2018

(jfc I forgot about the earlier thread)

Yes! About fucking time ... what did people think of the two Marnie solo records that came out during the hiatus?

I liked them, the first better than the second. that said, I can't listen to the record anymore -- I got a lot of angry email about what I thought was a positive review, and every time one of the songs comes up on shuffle I'm reminded of it and have to turn it off

Nice to have them back although, come on, this sounds exactly like Broadcast!