Musik Poste: "Lethal and Young - A Mister Lyle Mix"

Apr 03, 2007 00:11

Me: "I'm bored, what should I do today?"
bantha_fodder: "Totes make a Lyle fanmix!"
Me: "OKAI."





LETHAL AND YOUNG | THE MISTER LYLE MIX

Crash another car
Smoke another cigarette




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{01}
THE BEATLES / Tomorrow Never Knows
Or play the game
Existence to the end
Round, and around goes Mister Lyle's existence - the track was inspired in part by Timothy Leary and co's theories about Ego Death, which is a perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment, something that Lyle must battle with on a daily basis. That, and he's one trippy camper, just like the menacing tape loops that make up the majority of this song.

{02}
COLLECTIVE SOUL / Smashing Young Man
Success is so tragic
Pain is your gadget
Smooth, calm and collected - with a crackling underbelly that puts Lyle firmly into the grasp of crazy. Once, probably, so filled with hope and promise and this and that - then he had to kill his best friend and frame his father in order to get his claws into the empire that really belonged to him. Such a nice boy.

{03}
FARIN URLAUB / Dusche
Sie ist der einzige Freund
Den ich noch habe auf der Welt
Not to say Lyle's possessions are planning to kill him (although you never know, or subsitute "possessions" for "everyone who ever met him"); but really, the poor bloke really doesn't have a friend in the world bar his shower, does he? Afterall, what's a man to do if he can't look perfectly groomed in the face of danger?

{04}
BLACK LAB / Can't Keep The Rain
All the demons around my bed
Call your name like they want you dead
Just because someone's your sister, doesn't mean they're not the one thing in the world you want to control and to have. Obsession's a bitch, right Lyle?

{05}
THE MONKEES / Salesman
You always wear a smile
You love 'em fast and you live wild
One smile for you, another pair of teeth for the others. The Centre's one true used car salesman, with a face to match. There is nothing he wouldn't do to make sure he's the top dog - even losing a thumb won't deter him. Much.

{06}
THE FAINT / The Conductor
You step the stage
And take control
Nasty, malevolent and Machiavellian; like a puppet master who's not entirely sure how to pull the strings. Even in the darkest days of bandaged hands and kidnapping Pretenders, Lyle still had the idea he was the controller of his own destiny - even if, even when things were looking up, he never was.

{07}
THE KILLERS / When You Were Young
They say the Devil's water
It ain't that sweet
Once upon a time, a boy named Bobby turned into a man named Lyle; painting pictures of a future where he was the master of his own domain, where he was understood and welcomed for the screw-loose brain he seemed to inherited from Dad. Too bad that all turned pear-shaped, and Daddy turned out to be just as fucked up as he was.

{08}
DIE ÄRZTE / Männer sind Schweine
Männer sind Säue
Glaube ihnen nicht ein Wort
Poor, poor Che Ling. And the others. If only they'd listened, and worked out that men? Are nothing but pigs; and Lyle is the craziest of them all. Oh, but, gosh - he had fun with them while it lasted, and this track - with it's manic, overbearing happiness - shows that to a tee.

{09}
AC/DC / Back in Black
Forget the hearse
'Coz I never die
Things with nine lives: cats and crazy Centre operatives in sweet thousand dollar suits. Things without thumbs: see previous.

{10}
BEN FOLDS / Bitches Ain't Shit
Guess what?
Got gaffled by one time
Oh, come on - like Lyle doesn't think he's a playa, and he doesn't exactly respect them hos, does he? With another white boy covering Dr. Dre's ode to street rules, it's like poetry in motion.

{11}
THE DELGADOS / All You Need is Hate
Indifference,
Overblown with confidence and ignorance
When the world is blood red and everyone's crying, that's when Mister Lyle stands up and sings, laughs, claps and shines. Like a whirwind of sound, this track is Lyle's nasty glee in aural form.

{12}
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN / Lethal and Young
We were only told how to burn it down
And then skip town
You have to wonder if once, just once, Lyle was that normal teenage boy who drove too fast, drank too much and had too many nights with faceless women. Then you have to wonder if that boy turned into a man, or just skipped straight to "crazed, blood-thirsty bastard".

{13}
BILLY THORPE AND THE AZTECS / Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)
For most of my life
I lived a delusion, yes
And finally - can we stand for the playing of Mister Lyle's personal anthem, please?

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With thanks and prodding by bantha_fodder, for I am her bitch. Brushes I found on the computer, so you'd have to ask lizbee where they came from. Pictures of James Denton from http://www.jamesdenton.net and http://www.pretenderhaven.sandyd.net/. Dude, before Desperate Housewives he was Mr. Lyle - and forever he shall be in my mind. ♥

Ah. A mix as schitzophrenic as the man that inspired it.

pretender, music, fanmix

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