driving, infectious, subversive, vigorous

METRIC ~ Gold Guns Girls [2⊘1⊘]

Money, power, and sex. The near-perfect 21st-century trifecta and three words that explain so much of our world. They are the figurative carrots society uses to encourage compliance and creativity to its benefit. Not a perfect system, but one that has managed to usher in an untold technological revolution in a critically short period of time. And not without cost, as greed is a powerful motivator if an insatiable master — ask any … Continue reading METRIC ~ Gold Guns Girls [2⊘1⊘]

disturbedByVoicesSeptember 13, 2023September 14, 20236 Comments

Art entitled "iceboxed" of woman with ice-cold staring eyes and blue paint

catchy, dancey, driving, eerie

ACTORS ~ Cold Eyes [2⊘21]

If band ACTORS had been around in the eighties, without question they would have been bigger. With their crafty tunes loaded with earwormy goodness enough to dazzle and daze, track after track on … Continue reading ACTORS ~ Cold Eyes [2⊘21]

disturbedByVoicesSeptember 9, 2023September 14, 20233 Comments

artistic rendition of bjork still-image taken from her hyperballad video

affecting, bittersweet, empowering, quirky

Bjork ~ Hyperballad [1996]

With a ballad being defined as “a popular song, especially of a romantic or sentimental nature” and hyper as “emotionally stimulated or overexcited,” it could be said a hyper-ballad is a stirring romantic tune, or perhaps a musically portrayed agitated state. Does this mean this song’s protagonist has eaten too much sugar (debunked) or, as a female is hysterical, a loaded sexual misdiagnosis that used … Continue reading Bjork ~ Hyperballad [1996]

disturbedByVoicesAugust 27, 2023August 28, 20234 Comments

Close-up of Marilyn Manson's face with a tech eyepatch darkly muted

driving, industrial, influential, subversive

Marilyn Manson ~ The Beautiful People [1999]

“I write phrases constantly and I have about 15 different notebooks going at the same time. I’ll write lots of different things in each book. I have to lay them all out in the same place and pull things from each of them to write a song. I was on tour and I remember recording it on my four-track with Twiggy [Ramirez, bass] and my drummer Ginger [Fish] in a hotel … Continue reading Marilyn Manson ~ The Beautiful People [1999]

disturbedByVoicesAugust 22, 2023August 23, 20232 Comments

arty, empowering, gothic, industrial

Kerli – Diamond Hard [2⊘16]

At a diminutive five-foot-zero Kerli may be short in stature, but she is elevated of inner strength, still requiring the occasional spiritual recharging blessedly provided by her mother country Estonia’s enchanting forest. In fact, she was able to acquire timely access to a little-known, unoccupied simple home there, where with only the barest of essentials, a few sets … Continue reading Kerli – Diamond Hard [2⊘16]