Eldritch has become Billy Bragg

[paint it black]

The Sisters are here, there every f**king where. He's taking the p*ss out of his audience. At least in my head

[H. Blackrose]

> intellectual brain genius who uses phrases like "go though the dialectical process and end up synthesising an Aristotelian 'Eldritchism'"
> doesn't understand the lyrics to "Here"

Okay, I'll try to lead you through this. Read the lyrics to the song; then add the information that "Lametta and Vendetta" is from a German reality TV show. Concentrate on lines like

we beat your body to the rack
so observe
while we reach for our unravel
we get to teach you what you know
you need reminding though

... and *then* try to defend the argument that Eldritch's lyrics these days are earnest, boring "Billy Bragg" stuff without wickedness or fun.

[Esoterica]

There’s something Romantic about Gothic/Dark Wave music—a kind of lyrical, poetic style that saves it from being just simply outright depressing. These days, though, it seems that Eldritch has moved to a more Brutalist space—something more Heavy Metal and less “niche.” That’s not to say that the Romanticism of the ‘80s is entirely gone; it isn’t. It’s just off in a corner weeping. Didn’t he say that the songs would become more savage? As for politics, Eldritch was always on the Left, that’s at least according to his more recent interviews. He certainly has no sympathy for what he termed the “orange s**t show”—a reference to Trump. It’s interesting how closely he watches American media and politics. I wouldn’t have pegged him for someone who’d watch ten seconds of anything on Fox News, for example.

[Ocean Moves]

To be honest apart from saying that they were left wing I have seen no evidence that they are left wing.

Any pointers in the lyrics... anyone?

(OK Vision Thing but thats just anti american - and AE was OK with the war in Iraq so there...)

off the top of my head - Eyes of Caligula is a direct critique of Thatcher

[Ocean Moves]

There’s something Romantic about Gothic/Dark Wave music—a kind of lyrical, poetic style that saves it from being just simply outright depressing. These days, though, it seems that Eldritch has moved to a more Brutalist space—something more Heavy Metal and less “niche.” That’s not to say that the Romanticism of the ‘80s is entirely gone; it isn’t. It’s just off in a corner weeping. Didn’t he say that the songs would become more savage? As for politics, Eldritch was always on the Left, that’s at least according to his more recent interviews. He certainly has no sympathy for what he termed the “orange s**t show”—a reference to Trump. It’s interesting how closely he watches American media and politics. I wouldn’t have pegged him for someone who’d watch ten seconds of anything on Fox News, for example.

For me its gone from wearing a motor head t shirt symbolically and playing the early sisters catalogue, to not wearing the t shirt and just trying to sound like motorhead as often as possible; more heavy metal, if you like.