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- Date Released: February 24, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Vice Music / The Orchard
Black Lips keep their shambling winning streak alive on their sixth killer record
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We Say...
As garage-punk careerists — especially ones who, on their 2003 debut album and earlier singles, started out as primal as garage-punks come — Atlanta's Black Lips are a paradox. With 200 Million Thousand, they've now got six albums under their belt. But though they opted out of punk purism years ago, restlessly working in old-timey country and oldies-pop touches, they've also stayed remarkably consistent for guys whose rock'n'roll sounds tossed-off by nature; only 2007's ostensibly live Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo might not be worth seeking out.
Their latest lasts maybe a couple too many slow songs for its own good — by track twelve, the Lips feel like they're running out of gas — but mostly, it affirms their track record. They open with a Stooges groove, and before you know it you're reveling in their fuzzed-up fuckups, seeing weird Gods in the dirty backseat of their busted-down car surrounded by garden weeds: "Feel so lame/what a shame/smoke my frame/got no name." Tempos get a bit depressive at points, but even then appropriations from '60s signposts like "Love Is Strange" and "Needles And Pins" help retain punch and tune — hippie-punk blueprints might include the Seeds, early solo Roky Erickson, Redd Kross's 1987 Neurotica. Which is to say, the sort of ill-made messes that made this a schtick long before Black Lips were born. Shouldn't work for them, but somehow it does.
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| 01. |  |
Take My Heart |
2:44 |
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| 02. | |
Drugs |
2:29 |
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| 03. | |
Starting Over |
3:55 |
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| 04. | |
Let It Grow |
3:34 |
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| 05. | |
Trapped In A Basement |
2:31 |
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| 06. | |
Short Fuse |
3:25 |
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| 07. | |
I'll Be With You |
2:28 |
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| 08. | |
Big Black Baby Jesus Of Today |
2:53 |
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| 09. | |
Again & Again |
2:45 |
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| 10. | |
Old Man |
2:49 |
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| 11. | |
Drop I Hold |
3:13 |
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| 12. | |
Body Combat |
3:20 |
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| 13. | |
Elijah |
2:48 |
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| 14. | |
I Saw God |
4:23 |
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| 15. |
Meltdown |
4:25 |
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15 Total Tracks, 47:42 Total Length
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