VÖ: 07.08.2015

Ein 93-minütiger Koloss, wahlweise als "Rockoper" oder "Konzeptalbum zum Thema Depression" bezeichnet, verteilt auf zwei CDs bzw. drei LPs (wie viele Wachswalzen sind das?). Das 2010er-Werk "The Monitor" (auch schon ein halbes Konzeptalbum zum Thema Sezessionskrieg) war meine Platte des Jahres (wobei die Ehre wohl im Nachhinein an "Contra" gehen sollte), mit dem Nachfolger "Local Business" konnte ich wenig anfangen, aber das hier klingt wieder sehr spannend.

Zum Reinschmecken:

Zitat von Der Lokus im Beitrag #5

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Digital als MP3 gibt es sie aber schon seit heute!

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Zitat

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Ich höre sie grad ... wenn sie mir gefällt, hol ich sie mir als Wachswalze. Die erscheint aber nur limitiert ... Ende Oktober

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Machen die Wachswalzenfabrikanten analog zu Ferrero Sommerpause aufgrund erhöhter Schmelzgefahr?

Ein Kumpel aus den USA (Ex-Bloc-Party-Forum-User), mit dem ich mich immer mal wieder über LOST und den Weltraum unterhalte (Kunststück, er arbeitet für NASA) hat gerade folgende Story in unsere Facebok-Gruppe gepostet :

Zitat

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SO CRAZY STORY TIME! I'll do my best to keep this short since it can be quite a long story. Skip to the bottom if you don't have the time.

Back in early 2013, I got to catch the band Titus Andronicus at an instore performance before their actual show that night. After their instore, I introduced myself. Their lead singer (who is quite the character if you know about the band) stopped and said "Wait...your name is Reagan Hunter??? That is the most punk rock name I've ever heard! BANG BANG BANG DIE YOU DIRTY OLD PRESIDENT!" After talking for awhile, I got guest passes to the show that night from them. Hung out before the show too, but during the actual show, I realized some of the lyrics were changed up to "BANG BANG REAGAN HUNTER!"

Late that night, I start getting random tweets from the band including "Just came up with some hooks for a new song I just created. It's called Reagan Hunter. ‪#‎ITSAPUNKSONG‬".

A few months later when they were back in Texas, I went to one of their shows. As I was walking up the bassist goes "Hey guys it's Reagan Hunter!" We all talked for a bit, but during the show, the lead singer goes "We have a very special guest in our audience tonight...here's a song about him!" They then proceeded to play a very early version of this "Reagan Hunter" song. (Crazy.)

The most recent time I saw the lead singer from the band was at a New Years show for another band in NYC this past December. Despite me thinking it was still them joking around, he assured me that the song was on the album, but it was just going to have a different title. He described its sound, placement on the album, etc.

Well the album came out Tuesday, and the song is actually on there haha. It's a song called "Into The Void ( Filler )". The singer uses a couple of different personas on the album, and my name is used for this one. The song includes lyrics like "CALL ME REAGAN HUNTER". I got my copy of the record in the mail and not only is my name in there amongst the song lyrics, but I was also in the Thank You's section haha. It's really odd though seeing reviews of this album trying to dissect the meaning of this "vengeful Reagan Hunter character." This is all just very very strange/crazy.

tl;dr After the band took a very random liking to my name, a song from the new Titus Andronicus album directly uses my name for its protagonist.

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Wie geil ist das denn bitte?!