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Put your hands on the remote! browse music »Technicolor Thieves by Ted Mccloskey
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14 tracks | 44 minutes
Released Jul 2007
on Voodoo Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:37 Out With the Old Queens lyrics FREE 03:37 Out With the Old Queens lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:37 Out With the Old Queens
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 The Lowest Common Grain of Salt lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 The Lowest Common Grain of Salt lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 The Lowest Common Grain of Salt
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:08 Get Situated lyrics BUY MP3 03:08 Get Situated lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:08 Get Situated
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:52 The Last Independent Record Store lyrics BUY MP3 02:52 The Last Independent Record Store lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:52 The Last Independent Record Store
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:16 Mermaid in a Bar lyrics BUY MP3 03:16 Mermaid in a Bar lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:16 Mermaid in a Bar
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:32 Drinking in Tonight lyrics BUY MP3 03:32 Drinking in Tonight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:32 Drinking in Tonight
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:22 Wait, Wait lyrics BUY MP3 02:22 Wait, Wait lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:22 Wait, Wait
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Maybe Just Maybe lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Maybe Just Maybe lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Maybe Just Maybe
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:10 Passing in Stereo lyrics BUY MP3 03:10 Passing in Stereo lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:10 Passing in Stereo
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:39 Being Still lyrics BUY MP3 02:39 Being Still lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:39 Being Still
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:51 Zombie For Rent lyrics BUY MP3 02:51 Zombie For Rent lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:51 Zombie For Rent
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 And You Just Got Me Stoned lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 And You Just Got Me Stoned lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 And You Just Got Me Stoned
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:56 Edges and Ledges lyrics BUY MP3 02:56 Edges and Ledges lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:56 Edges and Ledges
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:12 My Only Concern lyrics BUY MP3 03:12 My Only Concern lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:12 My Only Concern
Roots-rock rhythms layered with Brit-pop sensibilities that reads like a night long soundtrack to a daydream.
Bio / Background
Ted McCloskey’s 4th album, Technicolor Thieves, is a superior distillation of all of his previously recorded output into one expertly lobbed, angry, blast of angst, anxiousness, and loud guitars.
The album is a potent slice of not-so-thinly veiled disgust about pop culture, politics and the toll it takes on an observer who happens to write fantastic pop songs. As McCloskey himself explains in the very insightful liner notes;
“Technicolor Thieves is about imprisonment. It’s about abandonment and isolationism. It’s about recognizing a problem and not having the faintest idea how to improve the situation. It loiters between resentment and retreat.”
McCloskey’s writing has always been full of this sort of tug-and-pull anguish, but over the span of his last album, Who’s Gonna Listen Anyway and now Technicolor Thieves, The writing has gotten more specific, more pointed, and more undeniably pissed off.
↓ more ↓Whether he’s tackling the current political malaise on “Out With the Old Queens,” Drinking In Tonight,” or “Wait, Wait,” or the state of one’s own drowsy acceptance in “Zombie For Rent” or the insanely catchy, Maybe Just Maybe, it’s all clearly driven by the familiar clever quirkiness of McCloskey’s writing and his “bordering on pop encyclopedia level” sensibilities.
Technicolor Thieves ranks as McCloskey’s most consistent CD, AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING given the extreme high quality, savvy pop-smarts of his past productions. The guitars bite and snarl as always, and they are layered and in-your-face, while some of the quieter songs have the newly found intricacies that suggest, but don’t ape, the great songwriter/guitarists that have influenced him. Truly, on Technicolor Thieves, this musical growth has enabled McCloskey to truly assimilate all of his influences (stones, dylan, replacements, smiths, beatles, xtc, faces, clash, kinks, velvet underground, rem) into his own unique sound and style.
Perhaps McCloskey says it best and most simply in the liner note description for the beautiful “Being Still:”
“For some people, remaining still is the hardest thing to do.”
For Ted McCloskey, being still and staying in the same place, musically, is not an option.
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