"The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams"

Whaddayathink?

There's a lot to digest, but so far, I'm pretty thrilled with it.


Some lyrics from the first full track, The Sloganeer (Paradise):


Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now
I hate
All you beautiful people

Open up your legs
Soothe my
My dissatisfaction
Dissatisfaction
My frustrated destructive reaction
To my life, to my life
The voices, they scorn and they mock me
This world is just cold and lonely
Soothe my
My dissatisfaction

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now
I hate
All you beautiful people
All you beautiful people
Why don't you
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now

They want me to believe that god
Is a product of my imagination
You prefer I believe in leaders, democracy, and fame
They just a multi-sensation
To know me, to know i love
With my imagination
Can you imagine utter nothingness?

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Right straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you just
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now
Cause I hate
All you beautiful people
Kill yourself now, kill yourself now

Get a bang out of life
Suicide
Straight to paradise
If you're the chosen
Why don't you
Kill yourself now
Cause i hate
All you beautiful people

Soothe my
My dissatisfaction

"I'm just a soul on the planet, trying to do good, be good, feel good."

Its good..she's good..But, I seem to grow tired of it in a way that I didnt back in the days with albums like peace beyond passion.

The best of the handful of new albums I've heard this year.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Love that one! My fave is still "Lovely, Lovely", really diggin' "Soul Spaceship", "Shine" (I think it's called, the one for her son), the one about "I received a message from God in the form of a rainbow"... I don't know all the titles yet but it's only been out of the player for a day & went right back in. GREAT album

prettymansson said:

Interesting. I haven't had time to see how it ages.

CalhounSq said:

Lovely Lovely is great.

we had some really lengthy threads discussing this album recently. i don't want folks to think this album is being slept on cause i'd say this and radiohead's new work seem to be the most heralded on the org...at the moment.

I’m so sorry I haven’t been able to participate in any of Meshell’s new album threads but I promised not to buy another album until 2008.

sosgemini said:

Dammit! Searched and couldn't find 'em.

JackieBlue said:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

i was trying to find them to post them here but couldn't either...oh well, a new meshell thread means one less mj, madonna and janet thread clogging up the first page.

sosgemini said:

I’m trying to hold out but it’s killing me.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

My favorite song of the year, by far.

Hopefully, i'll get a chance to hear this material live next week in Chi. I'll for sho' see her at the show in brew city.


BUTT.
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I've been listening 2 this everyday since I purchased it. My fav cd this year.

JackieBlue said:

that's unfortunate mr Blue...

i don't know why or who you made that promise to (i know i couldn't have kept it for sure) but you are honorable for keeping it. In the mean time here's some live meshell to tide you over until you are able to pruchase the studio release...


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IN2DGVGO


(mods don't worry, I'm not posting anything bad here, this is a public radio podcast thats already available for free to the public on iTunes so it's all good ...actually it's all GREAT!

support public radio!
support artists who still create great, challenging, unpredictable music!
enjoy folks!
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