Ludo - You're Awful I Love You
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Artist: LudoBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-02-26
Model: 00602517401723
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Love Me Dead
- Drunken Lament
- Please
- Topeka
- Lake Pontchartrain
- Such As It Ends
- Mutiny Below
- Streetlights
- Go-Getter Greg
- The Horror Of Our Love
- Scream, Scream, Scream
- In Space
Music reviews of You're Awful I Love You
Music Review: Two Bands in One?
Rating: 3 Stars
I hate when people always rate cd's with 5 stars - there is no way that these cd's can be ranked alongside Sgt. Pepper or Dark Side of the Moon - those are worth of 5 stars.
Anyway, this cd (and band) screams potential, with the opening "Love me Dead" being a very quirky, clever My Chemical Romance ripoff. But it works; and they do a great job of following it up with "Drunken Lament", a Weezer ripoff that has a very catchy chorus and lots of spunk. But then things go sour.
The next two songs sound like they were better fit on a 90's pop rock album - that sort of energy and creativity is completely vanquished. Poof! Gone. By the time you get through "Topeka" you're exhausted and not in the good Las Vegas way. But then alas! Hope!
"Lake Pontchartrain" is so dark and silly and catchy that you think the past two songs were just hiccups. The song has great lyrics and a very swanky cool feel to it. So then, your hope restored, you think "Hey, this could all turn out ok!" Wrong.
The next three songs are so cookie-cutter that it's almost sickening. Their choruses shine like a freshly-waxed Lexus but it's a strong departure from the gritty qualities of "Lake" and "Love me Dead". Even "Mutiny Below" feels cut and paste as the chorus sounds so horribly out of place I'd think it was ripped from another song. But then...
"Go-Getter Greg" has a standard beat and another catchy chorus - but the lyrics save it. They are so funny and so casual that the story of this perv Greg is really a treat to listen to. They're also sung in such a cool way that songs like this would drive a band to pop-stardom - but still be cool afterwards.
Then the cd has what should be its closer anthem - "The Horror of Our Love". This song is so bold it is frightening. The lyrics and instruments are all so subdued - even the chorus seems to hold back when it should go bombastic - and it works so wonderfully. Then - oh the best part - like No Country For Old Men, just when you think the big chase is going to come and a gunfight will ensue - the song just ends. Just like that. You step back and go "whoa". THIS is the way a cd should end, you say.
But then two more songs come. And they both suck. They lack any power or originality. And what, a hidden track? Come on. So cliche. Just add another track to the cd. I just skipped this over and never looked back.
So this cd, in my opinion, deserves to be cut down to an ep. These five songs should be saved: Love Me Dead, Drunken Lament, Lake Pontchartrain, Go-Getter Greg, Horror of our Love. If you made that an EP I would listen to it constantly - like Hellogoodbye's ep, which is also fantastic. As a full album though, with the rest of the songs intact, only 5 of the 12 songs are worth listening to. The other ones should disband and form their own group; one that drains the life of smart music listeners everywhere.
Come on Ludo. Fight the good fight. Stay original. Drop this melodramatic bullcrap and be bold. It fits you incredibly well. Don't let us down.
Description of You're Awful I Love You
Ludo's new album "You're Awful, I Love You" came out better than any of us could have hoped for. As a record, it combines the pop sensibilities of our first album with the darkness and adventurous storytelling of Broken Bride, and takes the combination thereof far beyond the scope of either, into a veritable uber-world of extremorock, where time is naught and babies burp themselves. When people hear this album for the first time, they will most likely be so moved that they defecate out a perfect, sentient, life-size clone of themselves, feel compelled to murder it, hide the body, and then never speak of it again. So watch out.Alternative Rock CDs
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