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The Black Lips fifth album, and first studio album for VICE, is titled "Good Bad Not Evil."
The title "Good Bad Not Evil" is inspired by the Shangri-Las song "Walk Right Up To Him (Give Him A Great Big Kiss).
The album was produced by the band in their hometown of Atlanta at The Living Room studios with the assistance of the band's friend Ed Rawls, a bartender at the nearby Drunken Unicorn, just around the corner from where fellow Atlantans Outkast work.
The Black Lips formed as teenagers, when the two after school friends Cole Alexander (guitar / vocals) and Jared Swilley (bass / vocals) signed up Joe Bradley (drums / vocals) and Ben Eberbaugh (guitar).
They swiftly became one of the Atlanta underground's most talked about bands, thanks in large part to the kind of legendary, wild live shows that got them banned from numerous venues. The group then released albums and seven inches on different underground garage labels like Bomp and In The Red. Tragically, Eberbaugh was killed in a freak traffic accident, but the band carried on with New Orleans-born Ian St Pe. These events would go on to influence the song "How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Had Died", a stand out track on "Good Bad Not Evil."
The album ranges from dirty psychedelic blues songs about Holy World War 3 like "Veni Vidi Vicci" to outright pop hits like "Katrina" (written the night the band found out that the hurricane of the same name had devastated New Orleans) and "Bad Kids" (based around certain band members' experiences with juvenile detention centers). There's also the bruised, tender album closer "Transcendental Light", a song written by Ian about discovering his mother's body.
Cole Alexander told us: "On this album we were really inspired b ourselves, especially our first two albums. They really changed the way the whole game was played. I think our work really transcends all genres and continues to influence us all on a daily basis."
For us, the album's a fresh, exciting take on the wildest records of bands like 1960s Peruvian punk band Los Saicos, the Stones, 13th Floor Elevators and the raw pop exuberance of Cavern-era Beatles. It's probably the most out-there, fun album you're going to hear all year. Don't sleep on it.
The title "Good Bad Not Evil" is inspired by the Shangri-Las song "Walk Right Up To Him (Give Him A Great Big Kiss).
The album was produced by the band in their hometown of Atlanta at The Living Room studios with the assistance of the band's friend Ed Rawls, a bartender at the nearby Drunken Unicorn, just around the corner from where fellow Atlantans Outkast work.
The Black Lips formed as teenagers, when the two after school friends Cole Alexander (guitar / vocals) and Jared Swilley (bass / vocals) signed up Joe Bradley (drums / vocals) and Ben Eberbaugh (guitar).
They swiftly became one of the Atlanta underground's most talked about bands, thanks in large part to the kind of legendary, wild live shows that got them banned from numerous venues. The group then released albums and seven inches on different underground garage labels like Bomp and In The Red. Tragically, Eberbaugh was killed in a freak traffic accident, but the band carried on with New Orleans-born Ian St Pe. These events would go on to influence the song "How Do You Tell A Child That Someone Had Died", a stand out track on "Good Bad Not Evil."
The album ranges from dirty psychedelic blues songs about Holy World War 3 like "Veni Vidi Vicci" to outright pop hits like "Katrina" (written the night the band found out that the hurricane of the same name had devastated New Orleans) and "Bad Kids" (based around certain band members' experiences with juvenile detention centers). There's also the bruised, tender album closer "Transcendental Light", a song written by Ian about discovering his mother's body.
Cole Alexander told us: "On this album we were really inspired b ourselves, especially our first two albums. They really changed the way the whole game was played. I think our work really transcends all genres and continues to influence us all on a daily basis."
For us, the album's a fresh, exciting take on the wildest records of bands like 1960s Peruvian punk band Los Saicos, the Stones, 13th Floor Elevators and the raw pop exuberance of Cavern-era Beatles. It's probably the most out-there, fun album you're going to hear all year. Don't sleep on it.
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