2014, Thank You for the Music!

I usually put this out at the end of the year, but I still had some music to import into my library and wanted to make sure I had everyone on the list!

2014 was a great year for music. It wasn’t as an amazing year as 2013 was for quantity, but what it lacked in quantity it certainly made up for with quality. A lot of great bands that I love put out new music in 2014.

I’m a huge fan of EBM, Futurepop, Industrial Dance, Synthpop, New Wave, etc. I’m always happy to see the scene continue to produce new bands and great music. And this year marked new albums by some bands a few of us older folks will recognize, like Billy Idol, Information Society, and Simple Minds!

Thanks to the following bands for putting out new stuff in 2014!

Billy Idol — Kings & Queens of the Underground
Birthday Massacre, The — Superstition
BlutEngel — Black Symphonies (An Orchestral Journey)
Bryan Ferry — Avonmore
Bush — Man on the Run
Clan of Xymox — Matters of Mind, Body and Soul
Client — Authority
Combichrist — We Love You
Cosmicity — Humans May Safely Graze
Cryo — Retropia
Diary of Dreams — Elegies in Darkness
Echo & The Bunnymen — Meteorites
Erasure — Reason EP
Erasure — Violet Flame, The
Faderhead — Atoms & Emptiness
Front Line Assembly — Echoes
Haerts — Haerts
Information Society — Hello World
Iris — Radiant
Laibach — Spectre
Live — Turn, The
Melotron — Werkschau
Mental Discipline — Butterfly EP
Mitch Murder — Interceptor
Morrissey — World Peace Is None of Your Business
New Division, The — Together We Shine
Nine Inch Nails — Recoiled
Perturbator — Dangerous Days
Peter Murphy — Lion
Phantogram — Voices
Seabound — Speak In Storms
Simple Minds — Big Music
Smashing Pumpkins — Monuments to an Elegy
St. Vincent — St. Vincent
Surveillance — Oceania
Thomas Bergersen — Sun
THYX — Super Vision
Trust, The — Joyland
Weezer — Everything Will Be Alright In the End
Whiteqube — Panic, Rage, Riot, Revolt! EP
Xenturion Prime — Mecha Rising

Live

“Selling The Drama” by Live.

Listen to this Song!

Words by Edward Kowalczyk, music by Kowalczyk/Taylor/Dahtheimer/Gracey. © 1994 Loco de Amor Music/Audible Sun Music (BMI).

And to love: a god
And to fear: a flame
And to burn a crowd that has a name

And to right or wrong
And to meek or strong
It is known, just scream it from the wall

I’ve willed, I’ve walked, I’ve read
I’ve talked, I know, I know
I’ve been there before
Hey, now we won’t be raped
Hey, now we won’t be scarred like that

It’s the sun that burns
It’s the wheel that turns
It’s the way we sing that makes them dream

And to Christ: a cross
And to me: a chair
I will sit and earn the ransom from up here

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“I Alone” by Live.

Listen to this Song!

Words by Edward Kowalczyk, music by Kowalczyk/Taylor/Dahtheimer/Gracey. © 1994 Loco de Amor Music/Audible Sun Music (BMI).

It’s easier not to be wise
And measure these things by your brain
I sank into Eden with you
Alone in the church by and by
I’ll read to you here, save your eyes
You’ll need them, your boat is at sea
Your anchor is up, you’ve been swept away
And the greatest of teachers won’t hesitate
To leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this

It’s easier not to be great
And measure these things by your eyes
We long to be here by his resolve
Alone in the church by and by
To cradle the baby in space
And leave you there by yourself chained to fate

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this

Oh, now, we took it back to far
Only love can save us now
All these riddles that you burn
All come swarming back to you
All these rhythms that you hide
Only solve can save us now
All these riddles that you burn
yeah, yeah, yeah

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this