These are two raw songs clearly coming from the dazed confused heart of two great song writers who open up their hearts and tortured souls to us. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Thieves Like Us is a five-piece band based in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France. Thieves Like Us song by New Order now on JioSaavn. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon. Its in my top 10. The band was prolific for the next few years, with tours and a smattering of releases, including many singles and 2010's full-length Again & Again. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. I believe it goes beautifully with Kyoto Song from the Cure. Uninspired by the city's techno-oriented club scene, they took matters into their own hands by DJ'ing together, and eventually starting to produce their own electronic music. ~ K. Ross Hoffman. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Non-lyrical content copyright 1999-2020 SongMeanings, Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display. View Thieves Like Us song lyrics by popularity along with songs featured in, albums, videos and song meanings. × Thieves Like Us By The Walkabouts. Swedes Pontus Berghe (drums) and Björn Berglund (keyboards) met American Andy Grier (vocals) in Berlin's Mauer Park in 2002, and the trio began hitting the nightlife together, a gang of unregistered expats struggling with the language and culture of a foreign metropolis. Check out Thieves Like Us on Amazon Music. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Thieves Like Us, a song by The Walkabouts on Spotify. Their timely, '80s-indebted approach has garnered comparisons to numerous dance-pop acts of the late 2000s, including Hot Chip and Crystal Castles, but their mix of gloom and glitter may be most closely aesthetically aligned with the seedy electro-disco revisionists of the Italians Do It Better axis (Glass Candy, the Chromatics), groups who employ the tools and techniques of dance music but seem more interested in evoking hazily decadent atmospheres than inspiring actual dancing. Log in now to tell us what you think this song means. Shortly after the album's spring 2012 release, both Berghe and Berglund left the band, leaving Grier to populate the touring version with a series of session players. Don’t have an account? "Thieves Like Us [Bonus Track]" as written by Peter Hook Gillian Lesley Gilbert, Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing. Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. The delay was due in part to the bandmembers living in different international cities for different periods of time, but by 2009 they had all landed together in Paris. Play on Spotify. That same year the trio self-issued an ambient/instrumental album, recorded in Berlin and titled Berlin Alex, but it wasn't until late 2008 that their proper debut full-length, the moody Play Music, appeared on Austria's Seayou Records, with a North American release on Shelflife in April 2009. Copyright © 2020 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Their first recording, the ambivalently hedonistic, Daft Punk-influenced filter-disco calling card "Drugs in My Body," made the rounds for several years, seeing 12" releases on two Swedish labels in 2005 and 2006 before cropping up on Paris' tastemaking Kitsuné Music in 2007. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. New label Captured Tracks re-released Berlin Alex in 2011 as Thieves Like Us shifted membership somewhat and worked on their fourth full-length and first for their new label. The darkly stylish electronic/post-punk threesome Thieves Like Us are named for the 1984 New Order song (as opposed to the 1974 Robert Altman film), and they take more than just their moniker from Manchester's darkly stylish electronic/post-punk pioneers. No results were found for that selection. The group added vocalists Martine Duverglas and Anna De Marco as well as drummer Dani Imhoff for the recording of Bleed Bleed Bleed, a darker album less touched by the rampant electronica of earlier efforts. Download song or listen online free, only on JioSaavn. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. The darkly stylish electronic/post-punk threesome Thieves Like Us are named for the 1984 New Order song (as opposed to the 1974 Robert Altman film), and they take more than just their moniker from Manchester's darkly stylish electronic/post-punk pioneers. In Thieves Like Us its about young urban English love, referencing gay lovers. We have 0 albums and 2 song lyrics in our database. 2001 • 1 song, 5:14. Somewhat ironically, considering that their tastes tended toward the Teutonic -- including vintage Krautrock and David Bowie and Iggy Pop (particularly, one imagines, the arty glam-punk of their Berlin periods), in addition to hip-hop, Factory Records post-punk, and French touch house -- they failed to find favor with German clubgoers, and they eventually relocated to New York City. Thieves Like Us is a multinational post-punk band led by vocalist and guitarist Andy Grier, with a fluid lineup of members ranging from Berlin to the UK and Scandinavia.