04-02-2011, 12:59
pop/alt/electronic, take your pick
tired of cluttering up the alt, and sometimes I don't know electronic from my ass, so I pick pop
whatever it is too dance oriented for me
some decent lyrics in some tracks but not the included one
Grade - 1.2
released Feb 1st, 2011
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from the album - Off Our Backs - 1.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGF94Q9J-Pk
from all music
Bio
The Brooklyn, NY-based feminist art/music collective MEN began in 2007 as a DJ/remix project of J.D. Samson and Johanna Fateman while their band Le Tigre was on hiatus. During that time, Samson also began working on songs with her project Hirsute, which featured Ginger Brooks Takahashi of LTTR and the Ballet and the Ladybug Transistor's Michael OâNeill. Eventually, Takahashi and OâNeill became core members of MEN along with Samson, while Fateman and writer Emily Roysdon became consultants. The bandâs sound evolved into a sharp-edged fusion of dance-punk and electro-pop, while their lyrics expressed the desires and troubles of feminists and the LGBT community. MEN released a few singles over the years, including Off Our Backs and Credit Card Babies, and toured with Peaches and the Gossip before IAMSOUND issued their debut album, Talk About Body, in 2011.
Album Review
MEN, the art/music collective formed by Le Tigre's J.D. Samson, formed in 2007 but didnât release their debut album, Talk About Body, until four years later. However, itâs clear that the band -- which also features Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Samson's Le Tigre bandmate Johanna Fateman as a collaborator -- spent that time well, honing its sound and message into something equally appealing and radical. Given MEN's pedigree, itâs not surprising that the bandâs kinetic fusion of disco, punk, indie rock, and synth punk echoes not only Le Tigre, but also Peaches (with whom Samson toured as part of her live band), the Gossip, and Chicks on Speed -- all groups of women and men who donât conform to prescribed gender roles or expectations. However, Talk About Body has a much more polished sound than most of those other actsâ output, all the better to balance MEN's often blunt lyrics. âMy life! My crime! My gift to you is a mercy ****!,â Samson wails on the albumâs opening salvo, âLifeâs Half Price.â On the fiery âBoom Boom Boom,â which recalls a more approachable version of Chicks on Speed's attacks on the status quo, she demands government-sponsored sewing machines instead of another war, and capitalism, cold hard cash, and the disturbing ease with which people are turned into commodities are frequent targets on Talk About Body. Yet the album is much more than a womenâs studies course pack set to music. Even the title attempts to bridge the gap between the mental and the physical, between thinking and dancing. âTake Your Shirt Offâ pairs a booty-shaking beat with ambivalent words, while âOff Our Backsâ flips the title of lesbian erotica magazine On Our Backs and channels some of Le Tigre's joyfully subversive spirit. And just when Talk About Body threatens to become strident, MEN show their vulnerable and sentimental sides with songs like the anthemic âSimultaneouslyâ and shout-outs to influences and loved ones like âMy Familyâ and âRip Off,â which name-checks Gang of Four and Orange Juice. A firebrand debut album, Talk About Body celebrates the struggle and freedom in defying easy classification.
Track Listing
1 Life's Half Price MEN , Roysdon 5:26
2 Off Our Backs MEN 4:38
3 Credit Card Babies MEN 3:51
4 Boom Boom Boom MEN , Roysdon 4:06
5 Take Your Shirt Off MEN 4:23
6 Who Am I to Feel So Free Fateman, MEN , Roysdon 3:19
7 Make It Reverse Fateman, MEN , Samson 3:20
8 Simultaneously MEN 6:29
9 If You Want Something MEN 4:35
10 Rip Off MEN 4:14
11 My Family MEN , Nestor 3:30
12 Be Like This MEN 5:19
tired of cluttering up the alt, and sometimes I don't know electronic from my ass, so I pick pop
whatever it is too dance oriented for me
some decent lyrics in some tracks but not the included one
Grade - 1.2
released Feb 1st, 2011
from the album - Off Our Backs - 1.0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGF94Q9J-Pk
from all music
Bio
The Brooklyn, NY-based feminist art/music collective MEN began in 2007 as a DJ/remix project of J.D. Samson and Johanna Fateman while their band Le Tigre was on hiatus. During that time, Samson also began working on songs with her project Hirsute, which featured Ginger Brooks Takahashi of LTTR and the Ballet and the Ladybug Transistor's Michael OâNeill. Eventually, Takahashi and OâNeill became core members of MEN along with Samson, while Fateman and writer Emily Roysdon became consultants. The bandâs sound evolved into a sharp-edged fusion of dance-punk and electro-pop, while their lyrics expressed the desires and troubles of feminists and the LGBT community. MEN released a few singles over the years, including Off Our Backs and Credit Card Babies, and toured with Peaches and the Gossip before IAMSOUND issued their debut album, Talk About Body, in 2011.
Album Review
MEN, the art/music collective formed by Le Tigre's J.D. Samson, formed in 2007 but didnât release their debut album, Talk About Body, until four years later. However, itâs clear that the band -- which also features Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Samson's Le Tigre bandmate Johanna Fateman as a collaborator -- spent that time well, honing its sound and message into something equally appealing and radical. Given MEN's pedigree, itâs not surprising that the bandâs kinetic fusion of disco, punk, indie rock, and synth punk echoes not only Le Tigre, but also Peaches (with whom Samson toured as part of her live band), the Gossip, and Chicks on Speed -- all groups of women and men who donât conform to prescribed gender roles or expectations. However, Talk About Body has a much more polished sound than most of those other actsâ output, all the better to balance MEN's often blunt lyrics. âMy life! My crime! My gift to you is a mercy ****!,â Samson wails on the albumâs opening salvo, âLifeâs Half Price.â On the fiery âBoom Boom Boom,â which recalls a more approachable version of Chicks on Speed's attacks on the status quo, she demands government-sponsored sewing machines instead of another war, and capitalism, cold hard cash, and the disturbing ease with which people are turned into commodities are frequent targets on Talk About Body. Yet the album is much more than a womenâs studies course pack set to music. Even the title attempts to bridge the gap between the mental and the physical, between thinking and dancing. âTake Your Shirt Offâ pairs a booty-shaking beat with ambivalent words, while âOff Our Backsâ flips the title of lesbian erotica magazine On Our Backs and channels some of Le Tigre's joyfully subversive spirit. And just when Talk About Body threatens to become strident, MEN show their vulnerable and sentimental sides with songs like the anthemic âSimultaneouslyâ and shout-outs to influences and loved ones like âMy Familyâ and âRip Off,â which name-checks Gang of Four and Orange Juice. A firebrand debut album, Talk About Body celebrates the struggle and freedom in defying easy classification.
Track Listing
1 Life's Half Price MEN , Roysdon 5:26
2 Off Our Backs MEN 4:38
3 Credit Card Babies MEN 3:51
4 Boom Boom Boom MEN , Roysdon 4:06
5 Take Your Shirt Off MEN 4:23
6 Who Am I to Feel So Free Fateman, MEN , Roysdon 3:19
7 Make It Reverse Fateman, MEN , Samson 3:20
8 Simultaneously MEN 6:29
9 If You Want Something MEN 4:35
10 Rip Off MEN 4:14
11 My Family MEN , Nestor 3:30
12 Be Like This MEN 5:19
