Metric Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Lie Lie Lie
2. Fortunes
3. The Shade
4. Celebrate
5. Cascades
6. For Kicks
7. Too Bad So Sad
8. The Other Side
9. Blind Valentine
10. The Governess
11. The Face Pt. I
12. The Face Pt. II
13. Office Towers Escalate
Other Songs
All Comes Crashing
Anticipate
Art of Doubt
Artificial Nocturne
Blindness
Breathing Underwater
Calculation Theme
Clone
Collect Call
Combat Baby
Common Lives
Dark Saturday
Dead Disco
Die Happy
Doomscroller
Down
Dreams So Real
Dressed to Suppress
Eclipse
Eclipse / All Yours
Eclipse / All Yours
Empty
Empty (Dirt Road)
Ending Start
Enemies of the Ocean
False Dichotomy
Formentera
Front Row
Gimme Sympathy
Glass Ceiling
Gold Guns And Girls
Gold Guns Girls
Grow Up And Blow Away
Handshakes
Hard Body
Hardwire
Help Im Alive
Holding Out
Hope You Know
Hustle Rose
I Will Never Settle
I Will Remember You
IOU
List
Live It Out
London Halflife
Lost Kitten
Love Is A Place
Love You Back
Monster Hospital
No Lights on the Horizon
Nothing But Time
Now or Never Now
Oh Please
On A Slow Night
On The Sly
Other Side
Parkdale
Paths in the Sky
Patriarch On A Vespa
Poster Of A Girl
Raw Sugar
Risk
Rock Me Now
Satellite Mind
Seven Rules
Siamese Cities
Sick Muse
Soft Rock Star
Song With No Name
Speed The Collapse
Stadium Love
Succexy
Synthetica
The Face, Pt. 1
The Fatal Gift
The List
The Police And The Private
The Twist
The Void
The Wanderlust
Too Little Too Late
Torture Me
Twilight Galaxy
Underline the Black
Up!
Waves
Wet Blanket
What Feels Like Eternity
White Gold
Youth Without Youth
Metric are a Canadian rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band consists of Emily Haines,
James Shaw, Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott-Key. The band started in 1998 as a duo formed
by Haines and Shaw with the name "Mainstream".
-Wikipedia
Members:
Emily Haines lead vocals, synthesizers, guitar, tambourine, harmonica, piano
(1998present)
James Shaw lead and rhythm guitars, synthesizers, theremin, backing vocals
(1998present)
Joshua Winstead bass guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals
(2001present)
Joules Scott-Key drums, percussion
(2001present)
Name Origin:
Emily Haines explained:
"It came from a song that Jimmy [Shaw] and I were working on back in Toronto in the early days, like '97 or '98. Jimmy had a song that involved a sound he'd programmed into his keyboard and called 'Metric'. When we saw that word on the keyboard's LED screen it looked so electro. It had a no bullsh*t vibe. It was a little cold and standoffish and we're down with that. It works for us.
Some people think it has something to do with the fact that we're from Canada - which uses the metric system. That was coincidental, though at the time we were into arty electronic stuff that was coming out of European countries that also use the metric system. But if we'd wanted to use a name that evoked Canada, we would've called ourselves the Toques or something."
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s): Indie rock, new wave, synthpop
Active From: 1998present
Associated Acts: Broken Social Scene Lou Reed
Did You Know:
• Emily Haines was born in New Dehli, India and raised in Canada
• She is the daughter of poet Paul Haines (best known for his lyrical collaboration with Carla Bley in the 1971 jazz opera Escalator over the Hill)
Quotes:
But its crazylike ten percent a year increase of children taking @#$%& anti-depressants. Pre-schoolers are like, the most prescribed. That makes me so mad!
-Emily Haines
I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabitingjust like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?
-Emily Haines
We're taking some time off before we start touring again at the end of September. James and I are just here doing work with Broken Social Scene and some soundtrack stuff. Last year was constant touring. So I'm really excited for this to be sort of the last North American tour, we're going to do Canada and the U.S. And then we'll get down to making the new record in the new year, and probably go to Australia and Japan in the new year also.
-Emily Haines
Years before this incarnation of Metric, I was very much in the school of indie rock of asexuality -- the more like a guy you were, the more a real musician you were. But now, the direction I've taken it in terms of performance is acknowledging the part of me that is a girl which probably doesn't sound good in print. Not pretending that I'm a guy -- I'm a chick for sure.
-Emily Haines
I have an identity crisis which is not resolved because I'm a dual citizen. My whole family is American, and I was born in India but I was raised in Canada. But all my extended family is American, I've held an American passport and I've spent my whole adult life in between New York and LA. So I feel like an American and I also feel like a Canadian! I wish more people were dual citizens and then I wouldn't feel like such a freak.
-Emily Haines
The last record, and the way that James and I have worked traditionally is that I write sad, slow songs on the piano, and he would hear them another way, sort of adapt them to the sound of the band, and flesh them out, and then we'd play them with the rhythm section. But songs like "Dead Disco" he wrote the music to, and "Combat, Baby" we wrote together. It's a combination of ways that it happens. But a lot of it starts as just songs on the piano. I'm actually going to release some of that stuff. I don't want to say solo record because that sounds gross but just some songs that are in that form on the piano, I think I'm going to let them out in that form.
-Emily Haines
I know I could give a better interview, but I'd rather just have a conversation with you. I don't feel like being clever with it or something.
-Emily Haines