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Artist | The Modern Lovers
Title | The Modern Lovers
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA (Remastered) Time | 62:08
Label | Sanctuary Records Store | 2007
Catalog | 02182-36294-2 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 256 kbps Size | 119.03 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Roadrunner 4:06
02. Astral Plane 3:00
03. Old World 4:01
04. Pablo Picasso 4:21
05. She Cracked 2:55
06. Hospital 5:31
07. Someone I Care About 3:39
08. Girlfriend 3:55
09. Modern World 3:44
10. Dignified & Old (Bonus Track) 2:28
11. I'm Straight (Bonus Track) 4:18
12. Government Center (Bonus Track) 2:03
13. I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms (Bonus Track) 2:32
14. Dance With Me (Bonus Track) 4:26
15. Someone I Care About (Alternative Version) (Bonus Track) 2:58
16. Modern World (Alternative Version) (Bonus Track) 3:16
17. Roadrunner (Alternative Version) (Bonus Track) 4:55
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Singer/songwriter Jonathan Richman is sufficiently well-established as a
solo artist, and it's easy to overlook the fact that the moniker sometimes
used for his backing band, the Modern Lovers, was once connected to a
coherent group of which Richman was a member. The Boston-based group the
Modern Lovers is of such significance to American underground rock that
they deserve separate consideration from Richman's own body of work,
although many of the songs they recorded carried over into Richman's solo
career and were used as the flagstones on which it was built.
Compiled of demos the band recorded with John Cale in 1973, "The Modern
Lovers" is one of the great proto-punk albums of all time, capturing an
angst-ridden adolescent geekiness which is married to a stripped-down,
minimalistic rock & roll derived from the art punk of the Velvet
Underground. While the sound is in debt to the primal three-chord pounding
of early Velvet Underground, the attitude of Jonathan Richman and the
Modern Lovers is a million miles away from Lou Reed's jaded urban
nightmares. As he says in the classic two-chord anthem "Roadrunner",
Richman is in love with the modern world and rock & roll. He's still a
teenager at heart, which means he's not only in love with girls he can't
have, but also radios, suburbs, and fast food, and it also means he'll
crack jokes like 'Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole... not like
you'".
"Pablo Picasso" is the classic sneer, but "She Cracked" and "I'm Straight"
are just as nasty, made all the more edgy by the Modern Lovers' amateurish,
minimalist drive. But beneath his adolescent posturing, Richman is also
nakedly emotional, pleading for a lover on "Someone I Care About" and "Girl
Friend", or romanticizing the future on "Dignified and Old". That
combination of musical simplicity, driving rock & roll, and gawky emotional
confessions makes The Modern Lovers one of the most startling proto-punk
records - it strips rock & roll to its core and establishes the rock
tradition of the geeky, awkward social outcast venting his frustrations.
More importantly, the music is just as raw and exciting now as when it was
recorded in 1973, or when it was belatedly released in 1976.
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