Ludo - You're Awful, I Love You
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Free Music Review: Ludo, So NOT Awful
Hit: 5 Stars
I just happened upon this CD on a search for some new fun music. WOW...did I discover a GREAT CD! No lie, it gets better with every listen! You can't help but smile (and giggle) when you listen to this music! Free Music Review: You're awful, I love you
Hit: 4 Stars
Like many listening to this album for the first time, I was compelled to purchased it simply due to the fact that "Love Me Dead" hooked me (...the cheap price helped, too). With this hysterical diatribe against a girl who wronged him and yet still has her claws in his heart, Ludo made me laugh, smile and fall in love. It's one of the wittiest songs I've heard recently, with lyrics that twist expectations.
What follows this first diatribe is a collection of punk/pop-focused songs, most of which seem focused on love in its various forms. None of these ideas are really new or unique. You have the song about the guy who's trying to fend off a former love who spurned him, but his lower area is betraying him ("Mutiny Below") to the guy whose attention and obsession borders on stalking ("Go-Getter Greg") to drinking away the pain with "Drunken Lament," to name a few.
Then there are the songs that hearken back to their last album The Broken Bride. "Lake Pontchartrain" is a terrific song that showcases their zany story-telling qualities, with a dark yet funny story centered around this famous lake. Then there's the most unique song of the bunch, "The Horror of Our Love." This song is one that really tickled my funny bone since this serenly calm and beautiful song is is told from the point of view of a typical horror film serial killer and is filled with lyrics that have to be made with tongue firmly in cheek:
"I'm a killer
Cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper
I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
Left you love notes on their headstones
I'll fill the graveyards
Until I have you"
That song pretty much sums up Ludo: Dark, theatrical, over-the-top and funny, with an alternative look at the way love messes with you. Overall, You're Awful, I Love You, is pretty standard. The reason it deserves an above average rating is that the catchy melodies are complemented by witty lyrics that reward a closer listening. Very enjoyable and humorous, I hope we hear more from these guys in the future.
Free Music Review: Creepy, Beautiful, Crazy, Brutal
Hit: 4 Stars
Ludo is a band that is from my neck of the woods and I've seen them around at shows here and there and I was never thrust into giving them a huge listening to. Yes, "Good Will Hunting" is an amazing song but I never took the chance and gave them a listen. And then I picked up, "You're Awful, I Love You." Wow, I didn't know what I was missing.
All of their songs on this album bite with a certain force that can't be denied and are almost abrasive at first. "Love Me Dead" "Lake Ponchatrain" "Go-Getter Greg" and "The Horror of Our Love" are some of the most disturbing songs I've heard in quite sometime. But I find myself going back to them again and again.
"....I'll rip you open and live inside you, but love I'd never hurt you..."
"....I haven't seen you at the pool since the Bar-B-Que, not that I've been checking..."
"...And when her edges soften, her body is my coffin..."
"...the voices were coming up from under the lake..."
And while there are some disturbing images excellently pulled off by brilliant writing. There is a sense of beauty in "Topeka" and "Streetlights". And even honest moments of human weakness in "Drunken Lament" and "Mutiny Below".
The last two songs just seem sub-par with the rest of the CD. They are good in their own right but ending the CD with two tracks completely toned differently than ANYTHING else on the CD was a strange move. But nevertheless an interesting, worthwhile buy.
Free Music Review: One of the best Bands Ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the best bands ever! If you like witty lyrics then this is the band for you!Free Music Review: Two Bands in One?
Hit: 3 Stars
I hate when people always rate cd's with 5 stars - there is no way that these cd's can be ranked alongside Sgt. Pepper or Dark Side of the Moon - those are worth of 5 stars.
Anyway, this cd (and band) screams potential, with the opening "Love me Dead" being a very quirky, clever My Chemical Romance ripoff. But it works; and they do a great job of following it up with "Drunken Lament", a Weezer ripoff that has a very catchy chorus and lots of spunk. But then things go sour.
The next two songs sound like they were better fit on a 90's pop rock album - that sort of energy and creativity is completely vanquished. Poof! Gone. By the time you get through "Topeka" you're exhausted and not in the good Las Vegas way. But then alas! Hope!
"Lake Pontchartrain" is so dark and silly and catchy that you think the past two songs were just hiccups. The song has great lyrics and a very swanky cool feel to it. So then, your hope restored, you think "Hey, this could all turn out ok!" Wrong.
The next three songs are so cookie-cutter that it's almost sickening. Their choruses shine like a freshly-waxed Lexus but it's a strong departure from the gritty qualities of "Lake" and "Love me Dead". Even "Mutiny Below" feels cut and paste as the chorus sounds so horribly out of place I'd think it was ripped from another song. But then...
"Go-Getter Greg" has a standard beat and another catchy chorus - but the lyrics save it. They are so funny and so casual that the story of this perv Greg is really a treat to listen to. They're also sung in such a cool way that songs like this would drive a band to pop-stardom - but still be cool afterwards.
Then the cd has what should be its closer anthem - "The Horror of Our Love". This song is so bold it is frightening. The lyrics and instruments are all so subdued - even the chorus seems to hold back when it should go bombastic - and it works so wonderfully. Then - oh the best part - like No Country For Old Men, just when you think the big chase is going to come and a gunfight will ensue - the song just ends. Just like that. You step back and go "whoa". THIS is the way a cd should end, you say.
But then two more songs come. And they both suck. They lack any power or originality. And what, a hidden track? Come on. So cliche. Just add another track to the cd. I just skipped this over and never looked back.
So this cd, in my opinion, deserves to be cut down to an ep. These five songs should be saved: Love Me Dead, Drunken Lament, Lake Pontchartrain, Go-Getter Greg, Horror of our Love. If you made that an EP I would listen to it constantly - like Hellogoodbye's ep, which is also fantastic. As a full album though, with the rest of the songs intact, only 5 of the 12 songs are worth listening to. The other ones should disband and form their own group; one that drains the life of smart music listeners everywhere.
Come on Ludo. Fight the good fight. Stay original. Drop this melodramatic bullcrap and be bold. It fits you incredibly well. Don't let us down.