LADYTRON ARE THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD

^ Agree with every word (except early Depeche Mode >>>>> early Ladytron, natch).

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Interview done, Reuben was a very personable and thoughtful fellow!

When/where is the interview being posted?

OC Weekly article in a couple of weeks, tying in with their tour with the Faint.

Please post here when it's ready. :-)

Should I go see them tonight?

Yes.

Man, they killed. Reminded me about what Chuck said (I paraphrase) about disco rocking harder than metal.

Yeah they are ridiculously great live these days -- I caught them two years back opening for NIN in London and that pretty much made me a full on believer instead of a casual fan.

They were great in Belfast a few months ago as well. Burnin' Up and Destroy Everything You Touch were godly.

The only things that would have made it better are both in this clip (coincidentally recorded in Houston in '06 either at the same venue or down the street @ tha Meridian)

A. Shocking Blue cover
B. The vocals a little higher in the mix

Okay, that long-promised Ladytron interview:

http://www.ocweekly.com/2009-04-23/music/ladytron/

when did trayce join ladytron

Well you know.

They started playing at 4AM here in São Paulo a couple of years ago

I think they are really tight but man sometimes they are so OTT.

Wanted to see their show in Austin last week, but was the same night as MBV goddamnittohell.

Killed it last night. The Faint followed them and while the crowd was more there for them they couldn't compare.

THIS IS GODHEAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRJd3cUB_8c

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/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewreSl-BZVw

Reuben left the band.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxhADZOFoF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Saw them live the other day and they were excellent. Sound was really beefed up, might have been the venue maybe, but they were really powerful.