What do you do when your sixteen and in deep shit? You’re looking out at the world from the strip-mall and the detention hall, from the basement and the cul-de-sac and it just looks like there is a wall around you. Everybody tells you and your friends that you’re going nowhere, that your lives are already ruined. What the fuck do you do?
You hang around and smash stuff and get high and try to be a bad-ass, that’s what you do. You steal and drink and smash up the car your mom gave you and pull your pee-pee out in public. You work at sandwich shops and fast-food joints and try to screw private school girls because they think your tough and the girls at your school think your gay because you pretended to give your friend a blowjob at the junior prom. You fuck it all up as ugly and as dirty as you can because, why the fuck not?
Your parents and teachers and sandwich-shop supervisors look at you and think, “What happened to the kid? He has all the advantages in the world and he has chucked it all in the shitter. Doesn’t he believe in the inherent goodness of our enlightened society? Doesn’t he believe in any thing at all?”
It is this question, the question of belief, nay, the question of faith, that is the crux of the matter. It is this question that was asked of the Black Lips. And the Black Lips have answered it. They have answered it in their songs and in their actions. They have answered it for every shit-assed, burned-out brat that staggers out of the suburbs. They have answered it resoundingly and continue to answer it.
“Where is their answer?” you may ask. Do those psychedelic swamp guitar drones bear witness to a faith of some kind? Does the quasi-violent sexual comedy of their stage show underscore a deeply held belief system? Does their commingling of Deep South, big-tent revival rhetoric with hoary-throated, drug-haze mumble truly mean anything, to them or to anyone else?
You bet your ass it means something to them. How would they have persevered through all the drudgery and threats of doom if it didn’t mean a goddamn thing to them? Their adversaries have been formidable and numerous, and they have bested them all. Why, even in their earliest days, death itself reared its ugly head to attempt to halt their progress, and was dismissed directly. How, without faith, could the Black Lips have carried their message forth into the four corners of the earth?
And so, on the eve of the release of their fifth album, the faith abides stronger than ever. A host of influences have passed through their gullet and provided the sustenance to keep their faith alive. The dusts of a southern back road and the big-city gutter puke crackle in the grooves of this record as it did in the previous ones. The shouts and moans and static continue to bear witness.
“But faith in what?” the fathers, mayors and captains of industry might continue to ask. Well, if you’ve never been one of those shit-assed brats looking out into a world you were already excluded from, a world that sickened you, but for which there was no alternative, then you may not understand. But, through the eyes of one whom, like them, was a go-nowhere from the get-go, the Black Lips represent the faith that it takes to reject that world of sterile, futile, servile, silliness and forge your own world based on bravery and bad-ass-ness. They have carried to fruition the plan that has been hatched, and will continue to be hatched in the minds of dizzy, dumb and desperate youth the world over. Now they carry their message of faith to the world. FEAR NOT! BE BRAVE AND TAKE HEART! THE WORLD IS YOURS IF YOU ACCEPT THE POWER OF FAITH!!!
(As I record these words a purple and orange fog engulfs the bay below me. The gin gimlets glide down my throat and I ponder the freedom that I, myself, have wrenched from the ‘enlightened society’ that once oppressed me. It is good and right that we should live free. I know this, the Black Lips know this, and the gulls in the bay below know this. Take this knowledge and go in faith.)
Esto expresaron Baby Gusty, Accra y Ghana en Deciembre de 2008 antes de lanzar 200 Million Thousand , su quinto album , hoy, a punto de lanzar su sexto album de estudio Arabia Mountain el proximo 7 de Junio, tengo el gusto de compartir la discografia de los Black Lips , que para quienes no esten familiarizados con su obra , solo puedo describirlos como una de las mejores bandas para satisfacer con su Punk Flower descuidado y divertido , la nostalgia del Garage de los 60`s que aun destilamos algunos, algo que no ha sido un inconveniente para la banda, algo que mas bien se ha convertido en su razon de ser, espero lo disfruten, saludos…
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Title: Arabia Mountain
Format: LP/CD Cat#: tba Label: Vice Records Year: June 7th 2011 Producer: Black Lips/Mark Ronson/Lockett Pundt |
1.Family Tree
2. Modern Art 3. Spidey’s Curse 4. Mad Dog 5. Mr. Driver 6. Bicentennial Man 7. Go Out And Get It 8. Raw Meat 9. Bone Marrow 10. The Lie 11. Time 12. Dumpster Dive 13. New Direction 14. Noc-a-homa 15. Don’t Mess My Baby 16. You Keep On Running |
Tracks 2-5, 8-10, 13 & 15 produced by Mark Ronson.
Tracks 6 & 8 produced by Lockett Pundt The tracks with Mark Ronson were recorded during a 10-day stint at MetroSonic studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The remainder were recorded at The Living Room studio in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Title: 200 Million Thousand
Format: LP/CD Cat#: VICE 013CD Label: Vice Records Year: February 24th 2009 Producer: The Black Lips |
1. Take My Heart
2. Drugs 3. Starting Over (mp3) 4. Let It Grow 5. Trapped In A Basement 6. Short Fuse 7. I’ll Be With You 8. Big Black Baby Jesus of Today 9. Again & Again* 10. Old Man 11. The Drop I Hold 12. Body Combat 13. Elijah 14. I Saw God 15. Meltdown (Hidden Track) |
The cover art is a picture taken from the early 1900s of a Southeast Asian girl where it was a tribal rite to shave down her teeth.
*Again & Again is the first original song recorded by Iggy Pop in 1964 with his band The Iguanas.
Black Lips.co.uk review here!
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Title: Good Bad Not Evil
Format: LP/CD Cat#: VICE 004 Label: Vice Records Year: 2007 |
1. I Saw A Ghost (Lean)
2. O Katrina! 3. Veni Vidi Vici 4. It Feels Alright 5. Navajo 6. Lock And Key 7. How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Has Died 8. Bad Kids 9. Step Right Up 10. Cold Hands 11. Off The Block 12. Slime And Oxygen 13. Transcedental Light |
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Title: Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
Format: LP/CD Cat#: DSH-022/7567-94662-2 Label: Vice Records/Die Slaughterhaus Records Year: 2007 |
1. M.I.A.
2. Boomerang 3. Sea Of Blasphemy 4. Stranger 5. Not A Problem 6. Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah 7. Boone 8. Everybody’s Doin’ It 9. Fairy Stories 10. Dirty Hands 11. Buried Alive 12. Juvenile 13. + hidden track |
Live album recorded in Tijuana, Mexico (Summer, 2006).
Black Lips debut record for new label Vice Records.
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Title: Let It Bloom
Format: LP/CD Cat#: ITR 129 Label: In The Red Records Year: 2005 |
1. Sea Of Blasphemy
2. Can’t Dance 3. Boomerang 4. Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah 5. Not A Problem 6. Gung Ho 7. Everybody’s Doin’ It 8. Feeling Gay 9. Take Me Home (Back To Boone) 10. Gentle Violence 11. She’s Gone 12. Fairy Stories 13. Dirty Hands 14. Workin’ 15. Punk Slime 16. Empassant |
All tracks were recorded at The Distillery sutdios in Costa Mesa, CA apart from Sea Of Blasphemy, Everybody’s Doin’ It and Dirty Hands which were recorded at Moon Studios in Berlin, Germany.
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Title: Live @ WFMU
Format: LP Cat#: BBR 01 Label: Dusty Medical Records Year: 2005 |
1. Me ‘N Dad
2. Buddy And The Goodtime Gang 3. Mayors Of Romance 4. When The Going Gets Tough 5. We Da’ Ones!! 6. Cold Nigga Shit 7. We Bad … We Good 8. Bong Rippin!! (Maybe Wrong) ?? 9. Goodtime Boys 10. Stoned Father + The Ass Factor 11. Rockin That Shit 2005ive 12. Dude Tyme 13. Real Live Jive 14. So Fresh, So Real 15. Powerballin’ 16. Mushroom Power 17. (Bonus Track + Lord Of Pain) |
Live album recorded on the Dave Spazz Show at WFMU radio in February 2003. WFMU are an independent freeform station (91.1 fm in NY/90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley).
Limited Edition of 500 copies
(first 50 covers spray painted by Black Lips – rollover the image to see!) This record is not available , i share here a 30 minute set on the ‘Music to Spazz By‘ show with Dave the Spazz. This is basically the Live at WFMU show.
Date Recorded: 20th February 2003
Setlist
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Title: We Did Not Know The Forest Spirit Made The Flowers Grow
Format: LP/CD Cat#: BLP 4087-1/BCD 4087-2 Label: Bomp! Records Year: 2004 |
1. M.I.A.
2. Time Of The Scab 3. Dawn Of The Age Of Tomorrow 4. Nothing At All / 100 New Fears 5. Stranger 6. Juvenile 7. Notown Blues 8. Ghetto Cross 9. Jumpin Around 10. Super X-13 11. Hope Jazz (Hidden Track) |
Released on coloured vinyl as a limited edition of 500 copies. This is the only release to feature Jack Hines on guitar.
Juvenile was recorded at Die Slaughterhaus and features Ben Eberbaugh. Bradford Cox plays drums on Notorn Blues, as well as designed the artwork.
Hope Jazz featured Ben Crumb (Tabitha)
The CD comes with the “Fad” video in Quicktime format.
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Title: Black Lips!
Format: LP/CD Cat#: BLP 4084-1/BCD 4084-2 Label: Bomp! Records Year: 2003 |
1. Throw It Away
2. Freakout 3. Ain’t No Deal 4. Stone Cold 5. I’ve Got A Knife 6. Down And Out 7. Steps 8. Fad 9. Sweet Kin 10. Crazy Girl (Mark Naumann & Cole) 11. Everybody Loves A Cocksucker 12. Can’t Bring Me Down 13. You’re Dumb 14. Say Hello To The Postman (LP-only) |
Stone Cold & Everybody Love A Cocksucker were recorded in November 2000 (Mobile Studio, Atlanta)
Freakout, I’ve Got A Knife, Steps, Fad & Sweet Kin were recorded in March 2002 (Radium Recordings, Athens, GA)
All remaining tracks were laid down during September/October 2002 at Zero Return studios in Atlanta.
The cover was designed by Bradford Cox of Deerhunter.
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Hey there, any chance you could fix the link for Los Valients Del Mundo Nuevo? Thanks!