Friday 24 April 2009

200 Million Thousand.

So I never did keep up with the whole Album of the month thing. Thought i'm still keeping to saying Black Lips is album of February.
And since then, I cant recall any albums from the months since, and there's only been two!

Anyway. So, id say 200 Million Thousand is probably their third best album. Man, they've gotten lazy for sure.
As much as I love Joe Bradley, he aint the best writer in the world which I'm thinking he has written a few of these. But even still they have a faint innocent charm about them with the lyrics an all.

And, you know, on the songs I'll be with you and Old Man. I think its some intentional shit they were pulling with the blatant rehashing of previous song melodies. And, it kinda works. Its "ghetto" is stealing anyway, as Jared would say. And how more ghetto can you get than stealing from yourself?!

And about I'll be with you. Its just my personal take on it, but I reckon its about Jared's best buddy Bobby Ubangi? Bobby has some incurable fatal disease, so it kinda makes sense. Also, in some footage of a show they did in France, during the song, Jared starts going mad, shouting he has aids and how hes gonna die. And another thing that got me thinking. The song rips from Dirty Hands in which some lyrics are "Me and Bobby went to the beach this summer..". Who knows.
Oh and I saw God is fucking amazing.

You know, despite me saying that its their third best, it still has some real strong songs on it. There's just around 3 that, if they'd have been missed out, It could have been perfection.