Thermals - Body the Blood the Machine
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Artist: ThermalsBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
- Here's Your Future
- I Might Need For You To Kill
- An Ear For Baby
- A Pillar Of Salt
- Returning To The Fold
- Test Pattern
- St. Rosa & The Swallows
- Back To The Sea
- Power Doesn't Run On Nothing
- I Hold The Sound
Free Music Notes for Body the Blood the Machine
Free Music Review: A Profoundly Spiritual Work
Hit: 5 Stars
I expect little from most pop/punk/indie music except the usual: boo hoo I lost my girl friend or my friend takes drugs. The Thermals third album -- while almost as flaming as the other two -- adds layers and layers of symbolism and meaning.
You really have to buy the CD or find a source for the lyrics. You know something is up when you see a picture of Jesus on the cover with clouds, machine parts, and the earth in the background. The spirit of the album is essentially the search for meaning while in a mechanistic, military, and materialist culture.
Here is the song cycle:
1. here's your future -- Addresses the essential question of what is a just god and can we trust god to do more than make us fear.
2. I might need you to kill -- Addresses the same issues as The Clash's Clampdown -- the way institutional religion and economic structures dehumanize the individual and force us to lose our humane values.
3. An ear for baby -- Is the inner fear that we all will feel when we are dictated to or controlled -- very similar feel to the opening scene of Apple's original Super Bowl ad for the McIntosh -- but without the positive resolution.
4. a pillar of salt -- musically this is my favorite song. In the Bible Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt for her sins. Lyrically it an incredible assault on the idea of god as separate from the human realm and the nature of sin is caused simply by our being human. You can almost feel his baby slipping away and turning to salt.
5. returning to the fold -- Is about the fear of not being "saved" and the ambiguity we all feel about our inner being and its relationship to the senses. Reminds me a little bit of the Buddhist Heart Sutra -- no eyes, no ears, no tongue, no body, no mind...
6. test pattern -- Is about whether we have the ability to make the existentail choice to chose our own spiritual life or not.
7. st. rosa and the swallows -- Incredible. Holding St. Rosa (Portland's flower) is holding close to your true self, your love, your community of fellow beings.
8. Back to the sea -- Returning to the sea is the Jungian equivalent of returning to god. We crawl from the sea for our individuation and we crawl or fall back to the sea our primal self.
9. power doesn't run on nothing -- This is the heart of the machine that runs on blood and money -- the very reality that we fear the most -- dehumanized and far from the life of the spirit.
10. i hold the sound -- In many spiritual traditions -- the Word is God -- and the sound is the access point to the sprit even in death.
This is far beyond the usual pabulum passed off as pop music. The Thermals are worth studying as well as listening to the sound. I recommend reading The Rebel by Albert Camus to understand rebellion that runs this deep.
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With a wider, brighter, and wilder sound than anything they've done in the past, this record adds walls of guitars, organs, and even a few "ballads" (a.k.a. slightly pretty songs) to the mix, while still retaining the gritty post-pop-punk sound for which they're globally famous. Recorded in the band's hometown of Portland, OR by Fugazi's Brendan Canty.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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