The Modern Lovers-The Modern Lovers-Remastered-CD-FLAC-2007-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | The Modern Lovers
     Title   | The Modern Lovers
     Genre   | Psychedelic Rock                     Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 62:07
     Label   | Sanctuary Records                    Store   | 2007
     Catalog | 02182-36294-2                        Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 923 kbps                             Size    | 428.56 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Roadrunner                                                  4:06
     02. Astral Plane                                                3:00
     03. Old World                                                   4:00
     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
 Notes  
     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. Here's the
     2007 remastered edition from Sanctuary including exclusive bonus tracks.

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