Pretend You're Alive? [Import]

Product Description
Japanese pressing of 2004 release, scheduled to include one bonus track. Details TBA. Maximum.

Pretend You're Alive?,Lovedrug,Cutting Edge,Rock,Rock/Pop

Average customer rating: Lovedrug Matches up with Edward Scissorhands? side effects of the drug are pleasurable Hauntingly Perfect Tales Fascinating Simply soothing.

Pretend You're Alive Lovedrug Manufacturer: Militia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Reset Ghosts Beneath Medicine Tree In Motion Everything Starts Where It Ends ASIN: B0002IQJX2 Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

1. In Red
2. Black Out
3. Spiders
4. Rock N Roll
5. Pretend You're Alive
6. Pandamoranda
7. Down Towards The Healing
8. The Monster
9. Angels With Enemies
10. Radiology
11. Candy
12. It Won't Last
13. Paper Scars

Customer Reviews:

Lovedrug Matches up with Edward Scissorhands?.......2007-04-14

Hey,

I just wanted to give you the scoop that I was talking to some of the guys from the fairly popular indie rock band Lovedrug and they mentioned that their album is based on the tim burton movie Edward Scissorhands and that their music fits up to the movie perfectly. Here is the kicker though...it matches up best when the cd/ipod is on shuffle. They mentioned that you can even better the experience by turning on repeat so it plays for the whole movie. That's how perfect it is. I think the album is called everything starts where it ends. It's their new one.

I tried it and it did work, weirdly enough :)

Thought it was kind of cool so I wanted to share....

side effects of the drug are pleasurable.......2006-11-08

I love this bands sound. Great vocals, and they have a great sense of melody.
I am very glad to have found out about this band (actually two years after the release) they really are a fresh breath of air in the indie scene. Blackout really stands out for me, because of the haunting imagery and sound. I guess I'd place them in the indie-ambient-pop category.

Hauntingly Perfect Tales .......2006-09-08

How can you describe something that makes you feel so at ease, then want to kill everything in the world, then want to fall in love with an angel? This album is so intense with metaphors with the most amazing music to match.

Everyone should own this album. Plus the guys in the band are super nice, which makes it definately worth going to a show or two.

I have yet to share this cd with a friend and have them say they don't like it. So, i challenge you to listen, and try to feel nothing.

Fascinating.......2006-04-22

I saw these guys live in Maryville, Mo. The vocal delivery is simply unique, although it does remind me somewhat of Filter, a similarity that I also heard on many of the heavier songs (especially Pandamoranda, which felt it could be lifted straight off Filter's Short Bus) but Lovedrug dips down into soft, acoustic performances with an ease and beauty of few bands. A certain gothic sensibility pervades the whole thing, as it drips with this cool, strange blackness.

So, I like their sound, and the lyrics have a compelling, Radiohead like weirdness to them, but in actual technical abilities I can't rate them in the top ten. Also, for me they got a little bit old once the novelty wore off.

Simply soothing........2006-03-09

Quite possibly one of the better bands out there, and Pretend You're Alive certainly doesn't disappoint. One song after another will get you hooked (get it? Drug? Hooked. Awful pun.) and it is certainly one of the most talked about Indie albums out there in recent years, and with good reason.

So listen to it and be elitist with the rest of them too. You will have plenty of reasons to be "too good" for the rest of them if you own this album.

Average customer rating:

Pretend You're Alive Lovedrug Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BFNZDI Release Date: 2006-03-21

Tracks:

1. In Red
2. Blackout
3. Spiders
4. Rocknroll
5. Pretend You're Alive
6. Pandamoranda
7. Down Towards the Healing
8. Monster
9. Angels with Enemies
10. Radiology
11. Candy
12. It Won't Last
13. Paper Scars

Average customer rating: Just "Pretend"

Pretend You're Alive? Lovedrug Manufacturer: Cutting Edge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002L4DVE Release Date: 2004-10-04

Album Description

Japanese pressing of 2004 release, scheduled to include one bonus track. Details TBA. Maximum.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

Just "Pretend".......2005-04-16

Indie-rock, pure'n'simple. That's what comes to mind when you listen to Lovedrug's solid debut, "Pretend You're Alive." They sound like the love child of Spiritualized and Sunny Day Real Estate, but they have a classic-sounding rock rhythm and some truly exceptional songs. This is a band to watch.

"Out of love for the hunt/out of love for the catch," Michael Shepard sings mournfully at the start of "In Red." It's not the most alluring start, but it is a pretty good one. And the mix of angular rock and lament continues, in a series of serious songs that dip into the topics of abuse of women, alcohol, hopelessness and angels. It finishes off on a quiet piano song with wistful lyrics, "Paper Scars."

Two years is pretty young to be a band, let alone a breakout one. But Lovedrug has plenty of talent, and a sort of steady, enjoyable sound that most bands don't achieve in their entire lifetimes. Most surprisingly, they establish a key "sound," while avoiding monotony by having the songs not sound TOO alike. What's more, it has the polished, experienced sound of a band much older than two years.

The core of each song is a powerful, layered melody: Sheperd's trembling guitars and quiet piano serve as a good counterpart to Adam Ladd's versatile bass. Woo, that bass -- listen to it roar, buzz, and roil. And the drumming is also quite good, although it tends to be buried under the guitars and bass -- it's there, but it blends in well. The cymbals are the easiest part to locate.

Sheperd has a high, flexible voice that always sounds heartbroken -- at the start of "Paper Stars," he even sounds kind of like a woman. But that perpetually sad sound works out well, especially since the tone of "Pretend You're Alive" is pretty dang melancholy. Brilliant, but melancholy. "If God was on the radio/I know he'd say to thee/love is spiders on the edge/and we're hanging by a thread," or "You don't know how cool you are/to find the ways to love me/without shame..."

Lovedrug make an auspicious full-length debut, and they leave you merely wondering where they'll go and what they'll do after "Pretend You're Alive." A powerful, melancholy debut, and one to check out.

Average customer rating:

Pretend You're Alive? Lovedrug Manufacturer: Cutting Edge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002MONEU Release Date: 2005-01-03

Album Description

Japanese pressing of 2004 release, scheduled to include one bonus track. Details TBA. Maximum.

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

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