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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Metric - Live It Out


i've talked about this album before, and i'm not really sure why. its not amazing. its good, very good, but not amazing. i think i was just excited because it was the first time i was planning on going to a concert while away at school. anyway, i planned my next entry to be on Thunderbirds Are Now!, but since the Metric concert was this week, i'll talk about them now and get to the rest later.
Live It Out is not as enjoyably danceable or delightfully political as 2003's Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, but its still quite pleasant.
just as i predicted, the band opened their wednesday night show in Tampa with the album's opening track, the sweeping and endearing "Empty," a song which immediately grabbed me with its first lyric, the typically Emily Haines quip "When there's no way out, the only way out is to give in." The song begins with a distant keyboard tone which makes way for some simple guitar plucking. Emily's vocals come in and set up for the calm drums and hushed bass which croon gently until the 2:01 mark, when the self-pity expressed by the song seems to look up from its feet and remember that rock music is about rebellion, which is best embodied by the same chord smashing we've heard a thousand times before (not that its a bad thing, that's why its become such a staple of rock music). Finally, the band really lets loose at the 3:20 mark when the keyboard disappears altogether and Jimmy shreads away on his axe. All this fades away by 4:20 to restart the cycle back at the crystallis keys and plucked guitar line, only this time with a bit more emphasis as the audience has had a taste of the alternative. Its a lovely opener and translates very well to the live show.
Next of course, is the single, "Monster Hospital," which easily ranks among my top three favorite tracks on the disc. You've just got to love it when the first lyric of a song is "Bam-chica-bam-chica-boom, boom, boom!" I talked about this song in the previous entry (see above) so I won't really say much more aside from its a grade-A rocker, bringing my most inspired dancing at the concert aside from maybe "Succexy," and again i am smitten with the chorus "I fought the war but the war but the war won't stop for the love of God. I fought the war, but the war won!"

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Monster Hospital MP3

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