Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers
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Artist: Modern LoversBrand: MODERN LOVERS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-28
Music Label: Castle Us
Soundtracks:
- Roadrunner
- Astral Plane
- Old World
- Pablo Picasso
- She Cracked
- Hospital
- Someone I Care About
- Girlfriend
- Modern World
- Dignified And Old
- I'm Straight
- Government Center
- I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms
- Dance With Me
- Someone I Care About
- Modern World
- Roadrunner
Music reviews of Modern Lovers
Music Review: Beaver Cleaver meets the Velvet Undergound; magnificent!
Rating: 5 Stars
This classic album, here in its definitve treatment, with incredible, comprehensive liners, is just a must for anybody who can relate to something Jonathan Richman once said: "I started a group because I was lonely and figured that way I'd make friends".
This beautifully chronicled group of stories, with a definite Velvets sound, is completely one of innocence. Love, sex and rock and roll being a rebellion against parents is a bald-faced lie. It's not always that way, and Elvis knew it even if Lou Reed didn't (see: "Rock and Roll"). Ricky Nelson knew it too. I LOVE the song Old World; it's a fantastic statement about refusing to give up loving his parents, he doesn't care what the hip people think; he loves what he loved as a child. Unlike alot of Richman's later stuff, this is not child-like, however; this a grown man, one growing into manhood here, refusing to give up what remains true to his heart.
The Modern Lovers were one of Boston's greatest ever bands, along with the Real Kids and The Remains.
Jonathan was always a dreamer,and LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE DREAMERS!
Astral Plane is one of those dreams; an alternative reality? Or an alternative TO the harsher reality? "I'll meet you tonight on the Astral Plane--or I'll go insane". Some serious passion here, belied by its delivery slightly. A brilliant song.
Someone I Care About is another heart-warming song; on this, he ain't looking to fool around, for some mere sex (did I just use the term "Mere" about sex?! wow, this album really is affecting me!)
This song is about not lying and playing the game just to get laid; it's about the real yearning inside most of us, someone to love. And it has a refusal for anything less! This guy, he had some real strong head-set beliefs!
I mean, this band played in '71 and played to bunch of hippies,and did the song "I'm Straight"?!! For anyone who has never heard that song, on here, trust me, THAT is confrontational! More than the Sex Pistols were! (oh yeah, that's one thing this is famous for: being the sole album that "Johnny Rotten" liked in the Pistols' heyday; BFD, it's great for much better 'reasons' than that).
Oh, that's one of the (ahem) 'bonus' tracks on here (that is, as far as the original 9-song LP goes; the Rhino CD had it on there, as well as another highlight, Dignified and Old; see, Jonathan didn't wanna die young; why the hell should he? Cause "rock 'n' roll says so"? To be nihilistic and fatalistic? If rock and roll is about defying the rules, then here is the classic example of an alien (to the mainstream) defying the rules, for real. The live version of this on "Precise Modern Lovers Order" is one of the true highlights on that CD, by the way.
What great lyrics: "I sit all alone in the desert, and no girl understands me, but I can see through this bleakness and grey and sadness, and, well, I won't die now, someday I'll be dignified and old".
Beautiful, he ends with a plea for kids not to die now, that one day they'll all be dignified and old together.
This, THIS is what it's all about. Jonathan Richman had some serious guts here, not say, Sid Vicious. Never. That guy was a joke. Be real. REAL. That's what is so PERFECT about this album, this collection of recordings that should've been an album a few times before they were finally released (most of them) in '76.
I'm Straight is a superb anti-drug song. It's not a simplistic sloganeering diatribe, in case you haven't heard this album; none of this is; it couldn't and contain the line "now's your chance to make me feel awkward and wish that I had never even called up this place".
He want to take "hippie Johnny"'s place in her heart. (apparently, it was a bit of a resentment against John Felice's lifestyle; for those unfamilair with that name, while he was briefly in the Modern Lovers, his greatness was in full place in The Real Kids, whose first album is a rock 'n' roll classic, but I digress-- he wasn't exactly "straight" apparently, as far as drugs were concerned; the Real Kids song "Just Like Darts", I was naive enough when I was younger to think that was about love; that Velvet-Underground-sounding song was about, well, think about it...)
I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms is a Stooges-sounding song about the obvious.
Pablo Picasso is an interesting song; it's really about frustration from lack of success with the opposite sex; it's a pretty humorous and clever song about what happened when he tried to meet a chick, and starting talking, and what they thought of him: "Pablo Picasso was never called an a--hole".
This whole album is kinda like a MORE innocent version of the frustration of The Stooges first album, about boredom and wanting love and...and...the whole nine yards. Love.
But what can save more lonely people's lives than anything? What saved Joey Ramone from a life worse than fate? What saved Jonathan Richman? The spirit of 1956? Gee, what could that be! The, one of the greatest tributes to rock and roll and rock and roll radio (when such a thing existed). Roadrunner (not to be confused with the Bo Diddley song) has been covered by, lets see...Joan Jett did a million versions, fine jobs, Sex Pistols did it (horrible! they put out one great-sounding album, but their version, yecch...); Greg Kihn Band did it (great version), but no version can touch the one that opens this CD, including the bonus version at the end, which I believe was a single at one time.
I'm in love with this album, it helps me from being alone late at night.
It will help you too.
Awesome, just totally awesome. If you've heard Jonathan Richman's later stuff and don't dig it, have no fear with this album; if you like his later stuff, this'll BLOW YOUR MIND!!!
RADIO ON!
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Description of Modern Lovers
2007 reissue of 1976 classic, that's unavailable domestically, features 17 tracks including 8 bonus tracks, 'Dignified & Old', 'I'm Straight', 'Government Center', 'I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms', 'Dance With Me', 'Someone I Care About' (Alternative Version), 'Modern World' (Alternative Version), & 'Roadrunner' (Alternative Version). Includes slipcase & foldout sleeve with extensive liner notes, photos & other memorabilia. Castle.Alternative Rock CDs
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