LADYTRON ARE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

when i was at uni in liverpool, (circa '03-05) they had a club night called "evol" in this little basement club. the guy members would dj and they had loads of cool guest djs like ivan smagghe and mark moore. had this great secret after-hours party atmosphere.

and they'd always be up for the odd convo about music or whatever, real chill fellas.

i think Destroy Everything You Touch holds up fabulously as one of the best electro songs of the last 5 years or so. they kind of invented that sound and it's been ripped off so many times it's exhausting now but they never got much credit for it. innit always the way though?

i think Destroy Everything You Touch holds up fabulously as one of the best electro songs of the last 5 years or so

great track but idk it's not that far off the PSBs really

ladytron fanatics should seek out the moodysson movie 'mammoth' - i swear like half of the songs off of destroy everything u touch are featured

And the problem with being not that far off PSBs is?

Destroy is used brilliantly over the opening credits of The September Issue, like an implicit critique of Anna Wintour.

Best Of (deluxe edition) details:

Best Of 00-10 (Deluxe) (30/03/11) :
01. Destroy Everything You Touch
02. International Dateline
03. Seventeen
04. Discotraxx
05. Tomorrow
06. Soft Power
07. Ghosts
08. Fighting In Built Up Areas
09. Playgirl
10. Blue Jeans
11. Cracked LCD
12. Deep Blue
13. Light & Magic
14. Runaway
15. The Last One Standing
16. Little Black Angel
17. Ace Of Hz
18. The Reason Why
19. Whitelightgenerator
20. Mu-tron
21. Black Plastic
22. The Way That I Found You
23. True Mathematics
24. High Rise
25. Black Cat
26. Another Breakfast With You
27. USA vs. White Noise
28. Commodore Rock
29. Evil
30. Beauty*2
31. Season Of Illusions
32. Versus
33. All The Way…

Ebay won't let me link to the pic of the promo CD the fascists.

Anyway have this instead:
http://www.ladytron.com/gallery/1244767335.jpg

At least best band of the 00s. Maybe.

they're good but ehhh i wouldnt go that far

love this band to death - but never really enjoyed International Dateline.

i don't know ladytron well enough to know if there's any unreleased tracks or b-sides on that comp, but that's prob the only way i'd shell out for it. anyway...... the hidden gem in their catalog (and on that comp) is "another breakfast with you" -- fucking incredible track.

love this band to death - but never really enjoyed International Dateline.

That's the only track of theirs I love to death!

WAHT NO HE TOOK HER TO A MOVIE

"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.