New Metric Stuff! Help, I'm Alive

[MetricGnome]

80s music is shit. Metric is nothing like that.

Check out the similarities betric the traditional METRIC logo and that of MEN AT WORK.

[Catatonic]

80s music is shit. Metric is nothing like that.

Check out the similarities betric the traditional METRIC logo and that of MEN AT WORK.

I had to look it up to know what you were talking about... I assume you mean this logo



They only used that logo for one album though it would seem, and it's the kind of font that you'd find stencilled on a crate - which corresponds with the album being called cargo. So I'd put any similarities of typeface down to coincidence, I don't think they were consciously copying anything there.

[Mojo]

80s music = shit
Metric != 80s music
Metric != shit
qed

[Travisx2112]

80s music = shit
Metric != 80s music
Metric != shit
qed

...What about the awesome 80s stuff like Aisa, Rush, The Who?

[Ralph]

CULTURE CLUBBB

[Catatonic]

...What about the awesome 80s stuff like Aisa, Rush, The Who?

The Who didn't start off in the 80s, they were around since the 60s so I don't think you can count them - They broke up in the early 80s anyway

[Mojo]

Nothing good came out of the 80s...except me.

[nuvahk]

The 80's had as much musical diversity as any other decade. Just because the pop and style was so overblown and cheesy, doesn't mean there was no quality music in the 80's. Metric is quite clearly influenced by post-punk and new wave, genres that came to popularity mostly in the 80's.

[Mojo]

The 80's had as much musical diversity as any other decade. Just because the pop and style was so overblown and cheesy, doesn't mean there was no quality music in the 80's. Metric is quite clearly influenced by post-punk and new wave, genres that came to popularity mostly in the 80's.

It's the cheesiness and overblowness that I object to.

[the-deftone]

Iv been checking for updates here every once a while and finaly! This song is ammmaaaaaaazzzzzzzing!

Metric just keep getting better, well to me anyway. This song is everything i love about them. That bit "if we are still alone, my regrets are few" does something to be.

I love the video version too, hope we get a version with just emily and piano.

Hurry up new album!

[parkthatcar]

I'm not that into the version of Help I'm Alive that was posted on youtube.
I think its because i expected the beat to drop out after the first line, like they did in the video on the site.
But then again, its just a radio edit.
I hope it grows on me.

What were you thinking!!
its so great.

so yeah its safe to say its grown on me.

[Mojo]

I've been playing Help, I'm Alive over and over and over again. I have a mildly addictive personality so I can start listening to something non-stop for weeks.

[Travisx2112]

...What about the awesome 80s stuff like Aisa, Rush, The Who?

The Who didn't start off in the 80s, they were around since the 60s so I don't think you can count them - They broke up in the early 80s anyway

Yeah, that's true. The who were terrible after '78. I thought for some reason that "Who are you" came out in the 80's

[nuvahk]

New Order
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Cure
Gang of Four
Sonic Youth
Talking Heads

You're brainwashed if you think the 80s was all bad hair, clothes and new wave.

[MetricGnome]

Seems to be getting 500+ "views" a day since it was uploaded, over 14,000. That's pretty good considering there's been little advertising and the time since their last relase of new material.