Comments on: Lyrics to Battles – “Atlas”

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:55:41 +0000

I always heard town as forever, but everything else seems about right.

By: Battler

Battler — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:41:50 +0000

I always heard it as:

Sing this hook (all I know)
Sing this hook (all I know)
Sing this hook (all I know)
Sing this hook (all I know)
Teaching his book (all I know)
Sisters and lovers (all I know)
Sing this hook (all I know)
The chorus, full of actors

But I’m most likely wrong. It’s interesting to hear different interpretations of it though, and they all sound right.

By: Battler

Battler — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:41:13 +0000

I always heard it as:

By: pplz

pplz — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:18:09 +0000

hi i lurv this song y u ahve no paramore????? grrrr:(:(:(:(:( u shud get themm bibib

By: cucumber head

cucumber head — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:16:58 +0000

hiya wowo heya

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By: aoife mc

aoife mc — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:07:16 +0000

I still prefer “The singer is drunk…ohwayoh”

By: badtiming » Blog Archive » Atlas

badtiming » Blog Archive » Atlas — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:22:22 +0000

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By: Ronan

Ronan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:13:40 +0000

there are a slew of tunes with that schaffel beat, though they aren’t really as experimental or square as that quoted text suggests. Kompakt is more like camp or dramatic pop rather than square techno (of which I can think of better examples!), especially when in schaffel mode.

there was a time around the 2003 or so when they were literally churning out these schaffel tracks and it became kind of boring and burnt out, though occasionally now you’ll hear a producer doing it.

I’m trying to think of a sort of top 10 but my memory is failing me, Superpitcher in particular had a ton of schaffel tracks like this.

By: Niall

Niall — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:59:18 +0000

yeh it was inspired by all that german techno in general

The crystallization of Battles’ sound was “Atlas,” the first single from “Mirrored” and one of the most startling rock songs of the year: big, brash, rhythmically irresistible and funny as hell. “That song sprang from an idea,” Williams explains. The band was listening to a lot of music from Kompakt Records, the influential German techno label. “There was a trend among DJs in the 1990s to do shuffle beats — they would take a classic ’70s rock beat, like Gary Glitter or Slade, and turn it into a 15-minute drone. It was oddly square, very German, but it had a groove, so we thought it would be cool to bring it full circle, take a techno version of a shuffle and return it to a rock format.”

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fm20070907a1.html

By: planet

planet — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:42:32 +0000

wow!!

i could have sworn he was singing ‘SING THIS HOOK’
rather than ‘THE SINGER IS A CROOK’.,.,.,

interesting pub trivia nonetheless,.,

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:31:49 +0000

nialler was this tune really inspired by that monstertruckdriver tune? or were u just shite talkin that time? kingley amis wouldn’t believe me anyways….

By: Le Catch

Le Catch — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:14:08 +0000

Eh…yeah. Of course thats what we were singing all the time wasn’t it?

*cough*