MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
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Album Review
Release date: 02 July 2008
MGMT
Oracular Spectacular
It’s safe to say that, back in November, had anyone asked us which band’s album would be the first of the new year rush-released due to unprecedented demand, our answer would emphatically have been: “Not MGMT”. That’s not because the self-styled ’70s futurists seemed in any way undeserving of the current furore. It’s only because the last time an album was fast-tracked this...
- Feb 26, 2008
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- Time to Pretend
- Time To Pretend (Clean Version)
- Weekend Wars
- The Youth
- Electric Feel
- Kids
- 4th Dimensional Transition
- Pieces of What
- Of Moons, Birds & Monsters
- The Handshake
- Future Reflections
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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular: Wikipedia Album Entry
Oracular Spectacular is the first major label studio album by Brooklyn, New York psychedelic band MGMT, released digitally October 2, 2007 on Columbia Records, available in CD & LP formats from January 22, 2008. The album, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, was nominated for best international album in the 2009 BRIT Awards. It features new versions of both "Kids" and "Time to Pretend", songs from their previous release, Time to Pretend EP (2005), the opening track serving as a "mission statement" and theme continued through the proceeding tracks. Pitchfork Media compared MGMT to Muse and Mew, but weaving in an early 90s Britpop sound. Prefix Magazine said the album "sounds like a college-dorm experiment gone horribly right." It was named the best album of 2008 by NME. In 2009, Rolling Stone named it the 18th best album of the decade.
Rolling Stone (p.82) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "There are hints of Joy Division and Sixties nostalgia both acid-tinged and bluesy, but ORACULAR SPECTACULAR's playfulness and remarkable density are best displayed on 'Electric Feel'..."
Rolling Stone (p.92) - Ranked #31 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "It's acid rock for realists."
Spin (p.51) - Ranked #10 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[A] state-of-the-art party album."
Uncut (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "MGMT offer a series of rock pastiches so joyously over-egged that they become something new and celebratory. A sugary feast for the senses."
Alternative Press (p.115) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "ORACULAR is thick with countless layers of electronics, live instrumentation and vocal harmonies....It's brilliant."
Q (Magazine) (p.138) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] collection of ambitiously stitched-together genres, all massaged into punchy cohesion by Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann. It's a bold debut."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.66) - Ranked #36 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[With] wild reverbs, huge keyboards and slippery lyrics..."
Harp (magazine) (p.104) - "Filled with electro-processed recorders, mad Mellotrons, walls of fuzz and finely fingered acoustic guitars to go with MGMT's mystic mountain melodies..."
Clash (magazine) (p.67) - Ranked #13 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "t's raw talent that has kept MGMT afloat through 2008. Long may it do so."
The Word (magazine) (p.106) - "[MGMT] have clearly soaked up a lot of the sort of stuff that bands of their ilk exist for...but, rather charmingly in these dread-heavy times, they dress it all up in expansively positive pop songs that are, generally, high as kites.
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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Lyrics
MGMT - Time To Pretend Lyrics
I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life.
Let's make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.
MGMT - The Handshake Lyrics
I just shook the handshake
I just sealed the deal
I'll try not to let them take
Everything they can steal
MGMT - Of Moons, Birds & Monsters Lyrics
Why'd you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
Don't you know about the temperature change
In the cold black shadow?
Are you mad at your walls
MGMT - Pieces Of What Lyrics
When the world has turned
Paralyzed and wrong
Cold-blooded claws never offer
Anything at all
MGMT - 4th Dimensional Transition Lyrics
I feel your racing heart.
My liquid, silver arms extended.
These waves aren't far apart.
Black gold in clawfoot tarps, unchanging.
MGMT - Kids Lyrics
You were a child,
crawlin' on your knees toward it.
Makin' mama so proud,
but your voice was too loud.
MGMT - Electric Feel Lyrics
All along the western front
People line up to receive.
She got the power in her hand
To shock you like you won't believe.
MGMT - The Youth Lyrics
This is a call of arms to live and love and sleep together.
We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever.
Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout,
Wave your hands,
MGMT - Weekend Wars Lyrics
Evil is I, Yes to find a shore,
A beast that doesn't quiver anymore,
And we can crush some plants to paint my walls,
And I won't try to fight in the weekend wars
MGMT - Future Reflections Lyrics
And there were future reflections
On the face and the hands
On a green colored island
On a primitive man
