A.R.E.Weapons

A.R.E.Weapons
Rough Trade
General | May 2003

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2003-06-24
Electroclash, strange. Dirty electropop with industrial funk flavor. Great stuff with funky elements, male duo w/ hip hop vocal delivery often. Best songs aren’t FCC friendly though, unfortunately, as this could easily be described as “youth positive inspirational music with a message”. Honestly, these songs deliver messages like “you aren’t alone” and “its okay to be a fucked up kid” without some cheeseball gloss. Great stuff that needs to be heard.

1) FCCs, no no no
2) electroclash feel, slow beat w/ hip hop voc delivery
3) FCC upbeat funky industrial feel
4) punk electroclash
5) FCCs
6) slower gothy rap FCC
7) new wave feel
8) excellent dark approach
9) silly sorta, more low fi, Suicide feel somehow in vocs
10) FCCs toward end, too bad as this is epic anthem to kids these days, worth cleaning up really

Recent airplay

Black Mercedes
Black Mercedes
Stirling's ApproximationAug 29, 2003
Bad News
Fine Tuning UtopiaAug 27, 2003
Black Mercedes
Bite and HideAug 20, 2003
A.R.E.
sad and dangerousAug 14, 2003
Black Mercedes
sad and dangerousJul 31, 2003

Charting

2003-07-07 — 2003-09-08
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 31 2
Aug 24 1
Aug 17 1
Aug 3 2
Jul 27 1
Jul 20 4
Jul 13 5

Track listing

1. Don't Be Scared
2. Strange Dust
3. Chances
4. A.R.E.
5. Fuck You Pay Me
6. Headbanger Face
7. Bad News
8. Black Mercedes
9. Street Gang
10. Hey World