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I Told You Not To Listen Tonight Didn't I?

by Alter Der Ruine

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Seamus Bradd
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Seamus Bradd Don't be fooled by the fact these are just 'demos'. There are some damn fine songs in here. Covering a wide sonic palette - everything from electroclash to industrial rock to 70s sleaze is thrown in the mix and the results are heady, unpredictable and a ton of fun.
The perfect hold-over until ADR drop I Will Remember It All Differently soon! Favorite track: Sweaty Hands On A Cold Head.
James Jarvis
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James Jarvis What do you mean you didn't shine them up? These sound like fully formed and mastered tracks. They require no polishing. Hands down my favourite ADR release to date. Favorite track: Bad Man's Shoes.
Michael Black Feather
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Michael Black Feather Are you listening to "Invasion"? If not, you should be. Favorite track: Invasion.
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1.
A fine day for an accident. Bodies assemble behind a line. Her voice cracked and garbled, "Please call home". Whispers became like grains of blown sand, pricking the throat, leaving speeches better told with eyes. A brittle wonder on a dead lawn. Arm and arm they walk to an unmarked car, fingers like worms and they're twisting again. (chorus) Inside. Outside. Scratching upon the gravel. You saw what we smelled and your face, it changed forever more. What happened? I saw it. Did it change you? I can never live it away...please remove the image from my mind. Oh god here it comes again. Looping phrases in seedy intercourse. Consummating a tale too ugly to neglect. Spun rough on fragile focus. Spun low for a further fathom, grilled to shards to flake for history. Impulse through decline. (extended chorus) Inside. Outside. Scratching upon the gravel. You saw what we smelled and your face, it changed forever more. What happened? I saw it. Did it change you? I can never live it away...please remove the image from my mind. Oh god here it comes again. Sweaty hands on a cold head pulled from a barrel housing far too many friends. Pieces to put together. Why can't I leave? Because your feet won't listen to your brain. Fitting haze for a one time fluid now thicker than mud, can't shake can't grip can't change. Feathers stir as a murder settles in, calling to the container that now holds me.
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Love Song 02:24
Talk about "used tos" I shot out so many lights that the stars were afraid to shine But how the lady moves like a sun with arms stretched wide to ignite the world. Tight times ahead for such a coy threat, it's time to feed the wind, feed the blue. Through a glass thrown free we'll find the Mark laid up in a breakdown. We are more the same. Got honey on our paws. Want to share our gold. Scratch you with our claws. Song sung for lust from a frozen bed Signal the slide, it's time we meet again Pushing deeper now, make a mess of it all wet silence says we've further to fall. So we'll wait to hear if an angel sings if it does will we clip its wings and start another revolution or do you desire a full stop? Short of weightlessness there's a hole I'm drifting above, (too) parched for words to slip out. Doesn't matter now seeing as we've lost the bout. Mean lover, this is the way to beat us down. The meaning of sex falls apart as I'd hate to think of what brought us here. How I'd rather be lost in a rhythm, one that is surely here to distract instead let's talk about used tos. We shot out so many lights that the stars were afraid to shine. And how our bodies moved like a sun with arms stretched wide to ignite the world.
3.
From time to time things come alive and play out like waves in the shade where bare feet stand to keep from being burned. With all the sand and all the tar things should have been easier. But the waves keep on coming. They keep on coming. Coming down on the line I never knew, this would come Never knew it would be the breath of ghosts to send me away, bottom bound to sing with the sea. Children feed seagulls not knowing I watch them from under the waves. (chorus) When it's cold I'll wait for you When it's someone else it's always you This depth will never show! What I've seen you must know. What was maligned is now a ghost. Got a jagged robe of urchins I never chose. Bright night I'm here to stay Sitting with quiet creatures to pass the days. Thinking hard on the words I wish to say. To push to the surface for the wind to blow them away. Colder now, this year no good. No good for swimming, in a few months we'll see. We'll see. Got some things to shed, words and organs. Listen to the shells for a warm "hello".
4.
Invasion 04:00
Can you feel? It's in the house tonight. Figment or frame, it's all the same connoisseur. Calm your electric skin and listen to the halls. Like a snail on its death day, awaiting a salted fate we tuck our heads away to wait for that final shake From a bastard of the night knows no other mother than the one who spat them out without a kiss. (chorus) So you know I'm of the night Unseen by any truth left to the mind's eye And those shivers under the moon, are they just for you? I've felt what these hands can do. Guiltless fingers fan for discovery. Sparked upright Breath seeks to escape. Glass jaws will bray When a phantom slips away to destroy a morning-rise.
5.
Sick Maker 05:00
I've slept so many nights in the dirt that I can call upon the earth to disguise It's a call that's fondly made You'll find me tomorrow but right now there's something I need to find. Oh how I saw you in the night You had your light on the porch I saw you through the night You raised your glass and smiled. (chorus) You hit me with a sick maker. I know you hit me with a sick maker. Ugh you're going outside I gotta go home Fawning through the witching hour at her Lo, gaze upon the stems from a slip that changed my weather Can't you see the sun has hidden? We've got shadows, we've got problems I've learned from that blackest bruises that a julep, like you, can stir illusion Might we lie for a while with the bugs and reptiles? In the deepest dark I got to know what shakes me down You've got to know you got a knife to my throat By setting a tumbler of bourbon that close a laugh could me anything.
6.
Grey Sisters 03:13
It was softer today Still those grey sisters never closed Stuck wide open in a bad vibration The trains will pass them by, bodies in motion. Neglecting designs of a terminal change (chorus) Red rivers poured out, flowed once to transform into spiders legs (oh they always held the weight) Nightside walk hope breakfast is waiting when the ghost blows through the door (oh, they travelled so far today) Vertical thief leaving detailed notes in the least suspect of places and like a blackbird to seed we're drawn to your words but can never read what you wrote. Swollen like an inner-tube the sun takes its toll, boils wires splits a whole it doesn't come as a friend, just comes in the end to inflate the balloon and send it off in the wind And the trains still pass them by the grass grows thicker those grey sisters didn't close, they just moved on. The city sleeps tonight. Tomorrow is another day.
7.
Glass Crash 04:02
Years back asleep when I was young A fever brought your face it loved, to turn up around town gives these bones a jump Morning awake go for a walk watch the cars pass and talk to the cracks in sidewalks never reply, just shows the way aim for years at a bus bench, to see you there, and you never are It’s always the same It’s always the same bus stop became city blocks found a dead dog, figured you were here beyond my mind making it real, but I’don’t know There’s always another road Paved with hair teeth and bone. (chorus) Here I go Blowing away From a mouth that never closes There you are There you are Tucked away in the shade of our oxbows You've been close, this close before left an imprint I couldn't ignore Wander the alleyways Cornerstones beat down without a break Traces of you are harder to find in a glass crash with no rhyme Shards pin all the reason sewn to these ever winding roads There’s always another road Paved with hair teeth and bone.
8.
Love the fall you’ve seen this villain all along When he comes Will he come in bad mans shoes Caught the movement in a reflection didn’t know what was gained fighting for that last breath in mask of cellophane (chorus) The kids won’t play here anymore, where have they gone Maybe they grew up and died, At least I got you, and your violent proof You got enough to keep me warm for ages Say you’ll never dull it down. Not a surprise when you choked a hero no one cried But I do wait for the hour you send them away I’d never turn away Last call, some call it’s curtains let’s call it a funeral got to throw some bodies out into the cold Put 'em down, it’s sad to see you leave this way, on another note Find an exit, find an exit, don’t linger too long, save the swan song for another night, for another calm face pretending everything will be alright.

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PLEASE READ! This album is not the typical sound you would expect from Alter der Ruine. After the release of Giants From Far Away we wanted to go out exploring and see what we could write. The results were all over the place.

This album is a collection of songs that didn't make it onto the other two releases spawned from those sessions. While some of the music isn't too far off from what we do, some of it really is.

Most nights we would get together around six or seven, get wasted and write and record until we were exhausted. This went on for a few years.
The two albums that managed to make it out were Son of a Bitch and its companion album There's Always One More Son of a Bitch.

Consider this a peek into how much we smashed our heads together during this time. These were loud and rough nights that were a lot of fun but also took a lot out of us. The end result here is a jagged and unpolished capsule from that time. To hear it this way is best. If we were to shine these up it'd be a diservice to the memories.
This is late night music filtered through booze and high emotions. Fun stuff in the end. Cheers!

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released February 1, 2013

Mike J, Jacob, Robert, Mike T

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