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Planned Obsolescence

by Red Reef

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1.
Planned Obsolescence 04:07
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Buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, my baby Your three year old TV is outdated Thomas Alva Edison was wrong Livermore’s light bulb it was utopian One thousand hours is so profitable The Malagasy children thank you so so so much To be happy you have to buy To be happy you have to buy ! Pay, pay, pay, pay, pay, oh baby You need more domestic appliances Lucky you receive all these catalogues Livermore’s light bulb it was utopian One thousand hours is so profitable The Malagasy children thank you so so so much Planned obsolescence You need it, they need your innocence All your life, all your senses Trained to consume, is the only way
2.
Our Hearts Collide 04:30
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I say black, you say white You speak calmly, I scream fight But it's alright I watch wrestling, you despise You eat ice cream, I like pie But I'm alright But I always need your lovin' Right here by my side You will always be my "everything" Open up your eyes You will always need my loving Let's swallow up our pride I will always believe we'll make it (Our hearts collide) I'm kind of heavy, you are light You're almost ready, I'm upright But you're alright I'm going up, you're going down You touch the sky, I hit the ground But we're alright But I always need your lovin' Right here by my side You will always be my "everything" Open up your eyes You will always need my loving Let's swallow up our pride I will always believe we'll make it (Our hearts collide) I lay awake while you sleep tight Fall asleep come morning light But all's alright We will try with all our might And love will make both of us abide And all's alright But I always need your lovin' Right here by my side You will always be my "everything" Open up your eyes You will always need my loving Let's swallow up our pride I will always believe we'll make it (Our hearts collide)
3.
The Sky Under My Feet 04:20
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Wait honey, wait now My pain fades away now The ceiling gets blurred I'm feeling good going To You The sky under my feet I can fly The trees have grown I’m the king you’re the crown Some memories at long last Life goes so fast So fast All my people breathing with me I can fly, everything seems clear now I’m the king you’re my crown, my crown Our kingdom, peace at last Peace at last The sky under my feet I can fly I can try
4.
Good Morning Mr Beale 04:03
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I'm really sorry Mr Beale But you've got to realize There are no more countries Just corporate franchises There's no more democracy Only business efficiency Mr Beale I'm truly sorry There's no more ideology Less and less humanity More and more technology You and I Mr Beale Are parts of this machinery Can you believe that we can't feel? Can you forgive us if we can't sympathize Can you believe that we can't cry? Can you forgive us if we don't realize Our state of mind We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it! Things have to change if we really wanna make it! Hey there! Mr Beale You've got to face the truth There's no more altruism Only forced consumerism There's no more empathy But self ambitious racketry Mr Beale can't you see The Medias responsability Can you believe that we can't feel? Can you forgive us if we can't sympathize Can you believe that we can't cry? Can you forgive us if we don't change Our ways Systematic, exocyclic, anorexic, alcoholic Analytic, psychopatic, transatlantic, ecumenic Democratic, patriotic, sadistic thru all statistics Cosmic, existentialistic, travel thru intergalactic Epicentric, economics, displacing the plate tectonics Sub-atomic, cryogenic, microscopics and eugenics Exothermic, full ballistics, religions and their fanatics Narcissistic, technologic, always driving in home in traffic!
5.
Our Sun 04:30
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When You walk away from the roads Between the wheat fields Your mind flying to the sun If Your life is only past People changing fast Your world is further away We can fly beyond the stars and the planets I guess We can run as fast as speed of light We share some problems and the same solutions I think We are so near Our sun Things (Uncalled telephone calls) Forgotten flowers Your life lived by the same And I Think all this is absurd The earth is not our ground Our sun We can fly beyond the stars and the planets I guess We can run as fast as speed of light We share some problems and the same solutions I think We are so near Our sun, our sun, our sun, our sun, no, no Our sun is salvation Our sun is the right way Our sun is illusion Our sun
6.
Phoebe And The Sea 04:02
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Twenty nine degrees in the afternoon Always this sad song on the radio The seagulls flying in circles, sailors in the sky Like immortal Icarus, floating in your eyes We ran together on the sand The seashore was our playground We always were the happiest children of the sun Some childhood memories misting my eyes Like Lovecraft’s stories haunting my nights The present and the past without the sea Phoebe seems so far, a beacon in the dark We ran together on the sand The seashore was our playground We always were the happiest children of the sun When the sirens will sing the song again We shall run on the seashore until the end And when the Kingdom shall destroy the pain Phoebe looks at the sea again Children of the sun When the sirens will sing the song again We shall run on the seashore until the end And when the Kingdom shall destroy the pain Phoebe looks at the sea again Children of the sun When the sirens will sing the song again We shall run on the seashore until the end And when the Kingdom shall destroy the pain Phoebe looks at the sea again Children of the sun
7.
On The Road 04:06
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Walking, running Always on the road Eyes in blue sky Not enough time to reload Climbing mountains Sitting on a plane Taking photos And keeping memories Still this obsession Can’t turn back on my own Never stop running along Again and again Again and again On the road Lonely souls No redemption On the road The silence and us A vision of the past You and I And the meaning of life On the road So far ’n’ so fast Landscapes passing by Your eyes and your mind Trying to escape from the past And you breath, and you need To see open spaces, all this changing places But at last, the time Always runs so fast Still this obsession Can’t turn back on my own Never stop running along Again and again Again and again On the road Lonely souls No redemption On the road The silence and us A vision of the past You and I And the meaning of life On the road
8.
Total System Failure (Electromagnetic Pulse Theory) 03:51
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More than reality One second is enough To paralyze the system The biggest, fastest blackout in the world There’s no morality When the devices are off Little by little The people of this city become (ghosts) And in the dark night You feel the cold in your face The end of the Human race? Empty souls in the emptiness Among fatalities! (There’s) no future, no love, Is this the end of all ? The human being against the nothingness And if your world starts crumbling Can you be alive? Among the ruins, Can you survive? Without changing? What will happen If a gamma-ray flash finally impact the Earth? And what will happen If a gamma-ray flash finally destroy the Earth? First the light will blind humanity And then the sound of silence Enters in your mind And when the fire will burn humanity We shall remain here in this field Looking at the sky Forever!
9.
Poor Little Miss 04:41
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Pretty, funny, gorgeous babe She’s so cute, so delicate Dress up your ego with the colours of the innocence Make up, you have shame You dream of playing in your garden You must win but you don’t understand the aim Oh, the dreams come true Ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan Oh, society needs you More pornography and self-perversion Very famous in the high-school All the cheerleaders look so cool ! But the love dolls Always seem so sad She asked for the moon Now she works in a greasy spoon Poor little miss ! Life is so unfair ! Oh, the dreams come true Ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan Oh, society needs you More pornography and self-perversion Thirty years later She’s tired, drunk and apathetic Her husband makes fun of her all the day She cries, she eats more and more She buys a gun in a drugstore And finally shoots herself in the mouth Oh, the dreams come true Ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan Oh, society needs you More pornography and self-perversion Oh, the dreams come true Ugly duckling, becomes a beautiful swan Society needs you, poor little miss More pornography and self-destruction

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released March 22, 2014

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RED REEF c’est power pop, rock pop. On y retrouve les nombreuses influences portées par les quatre musiciens, une énergie puisée dans le rock alternatif britannique, des riffs de bon
vieux rock, des refrains pop, un bout de WEEZER ici, un bout de NADA SURF là, un riff Madchester à la Stone Roses et des lignes mélodiques très Manic Street Preachers. ... more

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