I Can't Live, I Can't Breathe, Unless We Do It For the Glory of Love

Have you suffered the new single by Angels & Airwaves yet? This is the new band from Tom DeLonge, the whinier of the two Blink-182 singers.  God, but it's the funniest/most horrendous thing I've heard in a long time. For a laugh, check out the wikipedia page for these guys, in which the band claims:

It sounds like it has the conceptual depth of Pink Floyd, the anthemic architecture of U2 but with Tom from blink writing all the melodies.... The music sounds angelic. Every song gives you the chills and you feel like you want to cry but you're conquering the world at the same time. It sounds like stadium rock done by a band that's meant to be the absolute biggest band in the world.

Yeah, sure, Pink Floyd, okay. But on a recent drive to the beach, the song came on the radio and my ever-brilliantly astute wife made the far more accurate call:

What is this, fucking Peter Cetera?

You can go on and on about Bono and Roger Waters all you want, dudes, but I think you've been listening to "You're the Inspiration" a little too much.

Here's another great quote, from their bio on their website:

We would literally shut the blinds, dim all the lights, put Stanley Kubrick's 2001 on the flat-screen TV and take these Stephen Ambrose World War II books, with these two-page spreads of cities burning and people dying, and we'd paste them all over the wall. So on one end of the room, you'd have the endless hope of space, and on the other end you'd have the worst of humanity, and then in the middle, we'd write a love song.

Later, when asked to describe the last sequence of 2001, DeLonge said "You mean the part where Ralph Macchio tries to do the crane kick but his Japanese nemesis doesn't fall for it? Yeah, that was really gripping. There's a really great song that comes on just after that scene."

[thanks again to the Last Plane to Jakarta forums for pointing me to the press release]

Comments

[Sammy]

Re: I Can't Live, I Can't Breathe, Unless We Do It For the Glory of Love\

What a retard. I'll bet u anything this jerkoff can't play anything that resembles an instrument. Think about what it takes to even make an album, let alone form a band, u shit for brains. And he tries to woo us by interlacing the "my ever brilliantly astute wife"- That doesn't even make sense Spicoli. What a loser, let me guess, she's good lookin too...

[pgwp]

Yes, she is good lookin. Thanks!

[Jeremy]

I know his wife. She is pretty smart, and pretty good looking too. And I know the author and happen to know that he plays many things that not only resemble instruments, but actually ARE instruments. I know, crazy!!

[pgwp]

Yes, I play insturments, but Jeremy, don't discount all the instrument-like things I play as well. I am a pro on the guitad, the grums, and I play a mean salmon. Also, the didgeridon't! (thanks! I'll be here all week!)

In fact I'm rather prolific, and not a little experimental. Last night I was in my room, and I turned out all the lights. I put "You've Got Mail" on the flat screen on one side of the room, and I hung all these cute kitten posters on the other, and in between I wrote a power metal masterpiece. It's called "The Escapade." I would show u the lyrics, but I only like them when they're in my own handwriting. They look really kewl, the way they're written in my journal.