Chemical Brothers - Left Right (Feat Anwar Superstar)

Russ

Russ

Jedi Master
I thought the lyrics of this song were good, but also the instrumentals aren't bad either :)

"Left, Right" in background
All my soldiers march
All my people march
All my soldiers march
All my soldiers march with me x 4

He laid on his back,
His firearms by his side
Hearin no sound
Just watchin the fireworks in the sky
I walk by
Look down he still smiling
Cause he's done fightin
A fallen soldier
Now his war's over
Don't matter which side is wrong or right
Some innocent lives will be lost on the battlefield tonight
So hungry to kill
Only his death can curb his appetite
Live ammo hit the flesh
And it feels so right
I've embellished my life
Now God please tell me is this what death's like?
His death in a sense
...kept his innocence
Heavy hearted spouse
Clingin on to anything intimate
She can find around the house
What's the difference between Bush and Saddam?
Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Osama Bin Laden
Or Idi Amin
...Fidel Castro
It seems to me they on the same team
Their hate can only lead to innocent blood streams
If it's so important
For US to fight for mankind
WHY I don't see none of they kinfolk
Out there on the front line.

LIKE I'm a soldier
Right HAND HELD HIGH - hip-hop - with my guns by my side
Ready to ride till I die
I'm a soldier
And you can see it in my eyes
Even when the man dies
They say a soldier never cries
And I'm a soldier
Until the day they take my life
All my soldiers march with me
Left, Right
All my soldiers match with me
Left, Right
I thought I told ya
This is the story of a soldier
Stand up x 3
Stand up x3
US stand up
UK stand up
France stand up
Spain and Portugal, Germany stand up
Slovakia stand up
China stand up
Palestine, Kosovo, Ghetto World stand up
This is a live nigga PSA
From the one and only ghetto bullhorn
Come to warn you
There's a war goin on outside
And you can't run
You can't hide
"Left, Right" in background
All my soldiers march
All my people march

Ghetto FOLK march

Whole world march!
All my soldiers march
All my people march
 
the chemical brothers always felt a bit 'wrong' to me, somehow. a bit soulless. I don't really know why that is. It's not because the music is harsh or agressive, because I don't feel the same about the prodigy for example. having said that, I haven't heard this song, so maybe I should reserve judgement!

Still, it's interesting how there is a lot of war-related music around, which generally seems to allow people's real feelings of horror to come out and be expressed, as contrasted with the sanitised/bastardised mass-media news portrayal of these things.
 
They're definately darker and more serious than the prodigy. Hmm, I don't think I would call it soulless, but I find their music can be abrasive at first, it doesn't flow easily. It tends to use a repetitve beat, and its changes are subtle, so it can sometimes sound like its just throwing in random noise with the same repeating pattern underneath. What I find works well for music like that, especially when there are no lyrics, is to imagine all of the sounds coming from one instument (in a way, they are if theyre coming through speakers). I find this can sometimes turn what I think is a soulless song into something more interesting.
 
Brilliant music video and song imo:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=590870327891012056

This one is cool too (but I don't think its as good as the first one):
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6251120876835401587
 
Dig your own hole is one of my favorite records.
They're getting less dark has the years go by imho.

I don't think it's soulless either, it takes time to sometimes feel/connect with a different genre of music.

The video "Let forever be" was directed by Michel Gondry who is always using these kind of old-school video fx.
He is the guy who made "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind", brilliant movie.

You can check this site for an idea of the countless videos he made (It's in French though)

http://www.michelgondry.com
 
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