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Body the Blood the Machine

The ThermalsAudio CD
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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Over the course of seven years and four LP's, The Thermals have tackled a variety of subjects with no small amount of passion and fervor. Religion, politics, death, these are some heavy themes! Yet The Thermals have irreverently run roughshod over these topics with excesses of moxie and gusto, the likes of which the post/punk/pop/power/etc. community had never before seen! Now, for ... Read more in Amazon's The Thermals Store

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  • Audio CD (August 22, 2006)
  • Original Release Date: 2006
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sub Pop
  • ASIN: B000G1TOTG
  • Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Here's Your Future
2. I Might Need For You To Kill
3. An Ear For Baby
4. A Pillar Of Salt
5. Returning To The Fold
6. Test Pattern
7. St. Rosa & The Swallows
8. Back To The Sea
9. Power Doesn't Run On Nothing
10. I Hold The Sound

Editorial Reviews

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(it) still has that nervous, high energy, but it's a lot more focused and even, say, linear. - (Sujan Hong-Raphael) -- Venus

With artful power-pop-punk ballads, this hyper-intense trio explodes with a fury..the legitimacy of The Thermals is uncompromised. - (W.T. Wallace) -- Amplifier

Product Description

With a wider, brighter, and wilder sound than anything they've done in the past, this record adds walls of guitars, organs, and even a few "ballads" (a.k.a. slightly pretty songs) to the mix, while still retaining the gritty post-pop-punk sound for which they're globally famous. Recorded in the band's hometown of Portland, OR by Fugazi's Brendan Canty.

Customer Reviews

Energetic, good musicianship, excellent lyrics. T. Loftin  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
In a word...yes. Y. Feng  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
I recommend listening to this album from first to last track, completely. ChewyGranolaBar  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Profoundly Spiritual Work February 8, 2007
Format:Audio CD
I expect little from most pop/punk/indie music except the usual: boo hoo I lost my girl friend or my friend takes drugs. The Thermals third album -- while almost as flaming as the other two -- adds layers and layers of symbolism and meaning.

You really have to buy the CD or find a source for the lyrics. You know something is up when you see a picture of Jesus on the cover with clouds, machine parts, and the earth in the background. The spirit of the album is essentially the search for meaning while in a mechanistic, military, and materialist culture.

Here is the song cycle:

1. here's your future -- Addresses the essential question of what is a just god and can we trust god to do more than make us fear.

2. I might need you to kill -- Addresses the same issues as The Clash's Clampdown -- the way institutional religion and economic structures dehumanize the individual and force us to lose our humane values.

3. An ear for baby -- Is the inner fear that we all will feel when we are dictated to or controlled -- very similar feel to the opening scene of Apple's original Super Bowl ad for the McIntosh -- but without the positive resolution.

4. a pillar of salt -- musically this is my favorite song. In the Bible Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt for her sins. Lyrically it an incredible assault on the idea of god as separate from the human realm and the nature of sin is caused simply by our being human. You can almost feel his baby slipping away and turning to salt.

5. returning to the fold -- Is about the fear of not being "saved" and the ambiguity we all feel about our inner being and its relationship to the senses. Reminds me a little bit of the Buddhist Heart Sutra -- no eyes, no ears, no tongue, no body, no mind...

6. test pattern -- Is about whether we have the ability to make the existentail choice to chose our own spiritual life or not.

7. st. rosa and the swallows -- Incredible. Holding St. Rosa (Portland's flower) is holding close to your true self, your love, your community of fellow beings.

8. Back to the sea -- Returning to the sea is the Jungian equivalent of returning to god. We crawl from the sea for our individuation and we crawl or fall back to the sea our primal self.

9. power doesn't run on nothing -- This is the heart of the machine that runs on blood and money -- the very reality that we fear the most -- dehumanized and far from the life of the spirit.

10. i hold the sound -- In many spiritual traditions -- the Word is God -- and the sound is the access point to the sprit even in death.

This is far beyond the usual pabulum passed off as pop music. The Thermals are worth studying as well as listening to the sound. I recommend reading The Rebel by Albert Camus to understand rebellion that runs this deep.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best album of 2006? December 28, 2006
By Y. Feng
Format:Audio CD
In a word...yes.

The Body, the Blood, the Machine is not an album that grabs you from the get go, but once it gets its hooks into you, you'll be coming back to it over and over.

It's true, the lyrics have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, but then this music isn't meant to be subtle. It's a hard rockin', do-it-yourself indie masterpiece. Listeners of Rush Limbaugh stay away, the Thermals have just dropped an a-bomb of an album.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Our God's the Richest February 1, 2007
Format:Audio CD
An outstanding album from the first elongated organ cord, held for a moment before the guitar starts; The guitar is given a moment by itself to breath before the drums tumble in with Hutch, as he yells `Here's your future!' Bedlam and bitter, bitter sarcasm well up together, and overflow at 1:43 with that guitar line that sounds so good it might be impossible not to pump your fist at least a few times.

And there are many other superlative tracks (really there isn't a weak song here) allowing one the freedom to choose the three of four tracks that speak most powerfully to them, out of the 7 or 8 excellent songs on the album. Power Doesn't Run on Nothing is the dark, caustic heart of the album. From when The Beat first rolls over one minute and half in, until Hutch tells us its not fair and we don't care a little over a minute later; that has to be the purest minute and a half of rock produced in a long time.

I still enjoy the first two Thermals albums, and might have enjoyed them more if there been a bigger gap before discovering this album. It feels structured, lyrically dense, and complete in a way the earlier albums can't touch. One can't help but feel that `Body, Blood and Machine' sounds exactly like the band wanted it to sound. As good a rock album as our new century has seen.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Their best album!
If you like the thermals and haven't heard this album yet you are in for a treat. This is definitely my favorite album by them! Energetic, good musicianship, excellent lyrics. Read more
Published 1 month ago by T. Loftin
5.0 out of 5 stars "The Thermals look like a myspace picture from 2007"-The Onion
I can't fairly review this album because I was listening to it when I was having nothing but fun six years ago. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ben from San Diego
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best albums of the decade.
I stopped listening to Punk Rock years ago. I still like it, but as you can imagine I've fallen behind when it comes to what the new great punk bands are. Read more
Published on December 4, 2010 by Jose
5.0 out of 5 stars powerful musically and lyrically
There are many reviews posted already that describe why this is such a great record...so I won't go into too much detail. Read more
Published on February 16, 2009 by CooterMarie
5.0 out of 5 stars Punk Rock
Isn't there something great about bands that play guitars?

Sometimes I think not. Sometimes I just listen to hip-hop. Read more
Published on December 15, 2008 by J. Patterson
4.0 out of 5 stars The sound of a band coming into its own
A stunning album and a real surprise. The first two Thermals albums - especially "More Parts Per Million" - were both great, but the maturity of the songwriting on this album goes... Read more
Published on March 27, 2008 by Happy Harry
4.0 out of 5 stars Catchy hooks and solid melodies
Poppy hook rock, my kind of music. The Thermals weave a catchy web of punk influenced rock. If you crave sweet hooky guitars, this is your record.
Published on December 26, 2007 by V. Thomas Izzo III
4.0 out of 5 stars Really fantastic, Raw, powerful, infectious
Everybody hates comparisons but I think the Thermals are what Green Day could have been, raw, simple, driving, and very very very basic. Read more
Published on December 26, 2007 by robbieandrose
5.0 out of 5 stars The best album of 2006
THE BEST???. I dont say this lightly. In fact I have waited well into 2007 to make this call. But after sitting on 2 dozen albums of 2006, The Thermals take the throne with two... Read more
Published on November 11, 2007 by Herucles... Doh!
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Album
This was a great album. I'd heard a couple tracks from the Sub Pop website, and hearing the rest of them was no disappointment.
Published on July 18, 2007 by Miles Rausch
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