Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass (Later Archive 2004)

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Watch Bloc Party perform Like Eating Glass back in 2004

[@alfiehaigh8412]

People always say matt tong was bloc party, or certain element was etc. Everyone of those boys was on their fucking A-game that album. Kele wrote some beautiful melodies and lyrics, the guitar work from Kele and Russel is so beautifully layered, melancholic yet energetic. Gordon's bass tone, backing vocals and groovy hooks were something else, and obviously, matt was just matt. Silent alarm was the culmination of all those factors, give them all their fair shout

[@hugostigglitz9639]

You had to say it, Bloc Party was Tong and Moakes

[@kwizzeh]

Tong's drum work is fantastic but the reality is in a live setting he couldn't consistently keep time. But I will say this, it added another quality to their live shows that is missing in the current lineup. He was like a catalyst for their explosive burst of energy they were known for.

[@silversnail1413]

Kele's lyrics and vocals on this album are definitely his best. After this, he started trying to hard to be like Morrissey and the songs suffered as a result. Bloc Party were at their best writing punchy, catchy post-punk songs like this.

[@truelovewontwait]

@@hugostigglitz9639 amen to that

[@posesepulu3771]

@@silversnail1413 although I don’t think weekend in the city or intimacy was bad, they fell off around four and started to lose the connect with their fans. But then again I don’t think bands should be held back by one sound. I do miss the SA days though

[@j___g]

Still can’t get over how incredible silent alarm is.. a timeless masterpiece.

[@crm2507777]

Agreed,it’s going on in the car tomorrow 💡

[@yaboyMAP]

one of the greatest debut albums ever all 📠 no 🧢

[@DanFernandesBenficaSaint]

Lol for about 32 people in the world. In 100 years people will be talking about Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Bloc Party. Yes, I can see that already! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yaboyMAP]

@@DanFernandesBenficaSaint sales don’t equal quality, otherwise dj khaled is a musical genius.

[@andrewpike1993]

@@DanFernandesBenficaSaint not compared to those two obviously, but it is one of the best albums of the last 20 years

[@---gh0st---]

So good, Matt Tong has to be one of the most underrated drummers of all time

[@thiccorquit]

LIteralllyyyyyyyyy

[@JamesEatWorld7758]

He makes this song look effortless. It’s a fuckin marathon

[@daydream.music.station]

amazing drummer

[@Teen_Spirit_91]

To be honest he wasn't under rated he was loved and completely noticed

[@XavierColey]

Such a great drummer!!

[@capgorski]

This album is pure electricity even in 2024.

[@charlestoher1529]

The best British indie album ever imo. Still sounds huge.

[@rodeoclowngreg]

AWITC is even better! Amazing first 5 years for the band

[@luciano53688]

The First Arctic monkey albjm is better

[@charlestoher1529]

@@luciano53688 strongly disagree!

[@vondock]

@@luciano53688 only lyricaly i guess, but the sound scope of silent alarm is beautiful

[@metaldydvy]

im from korea, and i agree and one of the best indie album in the world when i heard this album i feel real humanity plays real instruments. i love so much

[@vicvinegar4540]

This takes me back to a much simpler time.

[@luciano53688]

the 2004-2006 era was sweet. We were eternal, aetheral teenagers. Today we are bitter adults with no hope whatsoever about the future.

[@vicvinegar4540]

@@luciano53688 Don't remind me 😞

[@lukerogers151]

@@luciano53688 I'll give up everything to go back to 2004 and 2006. My best years ❤️

[@Thrashman-ye4cf]

Playing halo/tony hawks pro skater all night while listening to this record...good times

[@luqmanHG]

yup,much more occupied times 😁

[@BBCMusicUK]

Matt tong is probably one of the best drummers I have ever heard in my life.

[@zuphie9680]

Yup. Up there with Mike Portnoy and Neil Peart. Different playing styles but all pros

[@gilph3]

Incredible drumming

[@devinthierault]

Stephen Morris and Neil Peart were always my favorites...now I'm adding Matt lol

[@stuartcampbell2107]

Good lord I miss Matt Tong in being in Bloc Party

[@pellelindbergh4455]

Great drummer!

[@hugostigglitz9639]

Hideo Kojima killed it in that album

[@XavierColey]

Their songs are so slow without him!

[@Medoka0]

@@hugostigglitz9639 isnt that the developer of elden ring game?

[@youreallihave001]

I remember I was playing in American Westland was there in some skatepark and I heard this track. It was something that stood out from everything else. I remember how this track consumed me and I played it over and over. Then I created a profile on a social network in 2008 and the second video I added was this live in terrible quality. Thanks to BBС for giving us this in the best quality

[@invisiblecurious856]

Me tonyhawk proving ground which I knew bloc party from.

[@moosesnWoop]

ah yes the days of 144p and 240p

[@doctorwhat3683]

This song is a workout and a half on drums but bloody hell is it amazing. Easily one of the best album openers of the 2000s.

[@hugostigglitz9639]

That Tong most be some kind of an anime character

[@doctorwhat3683]

@@hugostigglitz9639 no doubt about it

[@livecarsonreaction]

Matt Tong was and will always be a monster on the drums.

[@PageandPlant4Life]

They peaked so early, but what a peak it was

[@maxarthurireland]

This is a great track but they followed it up with multiple great albums in my opinion. Weekend in the city? Four? Both have a lot to offer albeit it in a different style.

[@silversnail1413]

@@maxarthurireland I like Bloc Party's later albums but I don't think they ever topped Silent Alarm. It's incredibly tight, amazing performances and production, not a bum track on the whole album. Weekend In The City had some great tunes but a lot of the lyrics missed their mark for me and they were trying to hard to be conceptual instead of just being direct. Intimacy had some cool stuff on it but it was way too dancy and electronic, not enough of that old school Bloc Party sound. And Four was good as well but it felt very scattered, like they were trying a bunch of different genres and ideas that didn't quite fit.

[@Christopher-md7tf]

The curse of the brilliant debut album...

[@darrenlockenheart]

@@maxarthurireland Intimacy is their best album to me. Some of Kele’s songwriting ever on there, like Ion Square. Where Is Home and Sunday from A Weekend in the City are incredible too.

[@TC-lk2ev]

@@darrenlockenheart I completely agree. Intimacy is fucking amazing and better than heaven is the best song they ever wrote.Weekend in the city is fantastic too. Those first three albums are all brilliant.

[@wowthatsbs]

This song and album hits different at 2 am, with a mind full of regrets during this time, the 00’s

[@etgarequator2671]

Bloc party is truly such an underrated band, silent alarm & a weekend in the city are great albums

[@nathanchildress5596]

Also their Little Thoughts EP. I can listen to all 3 cover-to-cover

[@Sasquatch10]

@@nathanchildress5596 Their ep's/B-sides from that era are on a par with their first album. I strongly, STRONGLY recommend anyone to seek them out.

[@ThatFreikugel]

The original lineup was so incredible. I was OBSESSED with this band for many years. Shame how everything turned out.

[@joliecide]

Early to mid 2000s was the resurgence of garage rock. Loved the sound coming out of the US (Strokes, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Black Keys) and the UK (Libertines, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys) during this time.

[@tinnabhattan3467]

thats the great time really, to me second only to the 90s brit pop

[@nghiango1655]

Early to mid noughties. ..The last time indie rock was in the mainstream. Theres probably bands now who have a similar sound but i have no idea who they are

[@michaelreddington1234]

My formative years

[@DavosSeaworth]

Hearing Bloc Party takes me back to being 14 in 2004. Shout out to the fellow scholars.

[@dr3036]

Haha same here bud 🤣💪

I am 16 😂

I am 16 😂

[@jabbadabbajew6035]

This is top drawer. No discussion needed. Silent Alarm is one of the best albums made in the last 25 years.

[@rdb1076]

Do you realize how good this is? Of course you do...that's why you're here .

[@pentexsucks43]

The greatest opening track to the greatest Indie/Post Punk album ever made

[@lucasp.calheiros2755]

It’s a great intro but I have to give that prize to Untitled by Interpol

[@scatterthewinds3126]

@@lucasp.calheiros2755 that was a special album too

[@andreicalota6334]

@@lucasp.calheiros2755 nothing beats turn on the bright lights man

[@daydream.music.station]

agree

[@kennypowers7759]

It's still my favorite song by them. Shits like a time machine when I hear it. So grateful.

[@chrismorrison2805]

At 3:16 they really start to cook. Only one band comes to my mind. THE JAM.

[@alexashton5840]

What a song this is, what an album.

[@jarrodjob]

A band with something to prove. If I was an established artist having to perform after this, I don’t know if I could. Unreal. Focused aggression. Huge sound.

[@georgehand3761]

2:52 transition is matt at his best

[@M0jibake]

The stop/start section on drums leading up to that part (from 2:31) reminds me of Airbag by Radiohead on steroids.

[@kc-jj9vr]

Forgot how good Matt Tong is... what a tune

[@skaterboi4peace]

This reminds of a sad time were I thought cocaine could numb the pain of a 10 year relationship that ended . It’s like eating glass drinking poison

[@Abhishek.Basnyat]

Favorite song from their brilliant debut album.

[@thehurrytheharm]

2004 so this was even before the album dropped?

[@benjaminstearns7104]

Man I remember when this album came out back in highschool. I’d be out partying drinking and doing drugs and I’d come home at 3:30 coming down and crashing hard and I would always listen to this album to chill out and fall asleep. One of my favorite albums of all time. Very nostalgic to listen to it all these years later. These guys are special

[@kareemstarr5419]

Bro this song is my highschool .. i played football and would party with the homies.. this album would be my go to and no one knew ❤❤❤❤

[@AlejandroPereda21]

I think this version is one of the best live performances of Bloc Party, the energy, the precision, everything, and that Smiths reference by Kele is simple amazing.

[@Qkdkdq]

Totally, mix is good vocals on point everything sounds tight.

[@sharky99]

This album is my youth. It's Just still the best album~

[@alexjupp1337]

Mine too. Just watched it again for the first time in a while and actually felt like it did back then for four minutes

[@latschonebudo8235]

The best debut album of all time! #Silent_Alarm ❤

[@pellelindbergh4455]

one the best bands in the early 2000, never got big here in the U.S.A how sad we don't know whats good here

[@nathanchildress5596]

Well, I think it was just a great era. I loved Bloc Party right away, but they got lost behind bands like The Strokes, Interpol, The Killers, etc. It was an incredible time to become an grown man.

[@btothet3377]

The night i had my mental breakdown was strangely after Silent Alarm in Brighton - biggest night of my life - so pleased it happened after this - all fine now - best record of all time

[@johnnytaylor9784]

Silent Alarm is a criminally underrated album.

[@Qkdkdq]

Wym it’s considered their best and held in high regard

[@12345KNB]

By who?

[@rat9199]

Gotta love that tele sound.

[@MpanzuSolos]

Need to buy one, kele’s is beautiful

[@marcustillman8962]

I don't believe the audience realized what they just witnessed, nor would I have perhaps. They just accomplished in that performance and with this track what every indie/alternative band before them attempted to do. And nothing has matched it since, IMO.

[@Jakebousfield]

The goat of indie music

[@MattyBohemia]

What, an, album.

[@michaelharris7030]

this is insanely well shot and edited

[@LUFC-yl2cd]

jools Holland for you bro, best music programme ngl

[@hellomickey18]

Inject this into my veins, mainline it

[@Sasquatch10]

Injecting: 💉💦💉💦

[@marius3347]

TONG is the beat! So much energy!

[@herchal]

It's so cold in this house Open mouth swallowing us The children sent home from school Will not stop crying And I know that you're busy Do I know that you care You got your finger on the pulse You got your eyes everywhere And it hurts all the time When you don't return my calls And you haven't got the time To remember how it was It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this house I can't eat, I can't sleep I can't sleep, I can't dream An aversion to light Got a fear of the ocean Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this house It's so cold in this bed Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating glass Like drinking poison, like eating Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah show me How, how it was We've got crosses on our eyes Been walking into the walls again We've got crosses on our eyes Been walking into the furniture We've got crosses on our eyes For richer, for poorer, for better, for worse We've got crosses on our eyes We've been walking into the furniture

[@erikamccormick274]

❤

[@michaelazariah73]

Just love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ bloc party my favorite 😍 ❤️ 😋 💕

[@sammay600]

This is probably one of the best songs ever written.

[@quetzalkyra183]

\_________/ __O____O__ Los tiempos de skate con esta música

[@paul-michaelgobitas3574]

Bloody damn bass line!!

[@aaronmcaleer7030]

Silent Alarm is a generational masterpiece. So fortunate to see them live tonight on their anniversary tour. What a show ❤

[@tobyridley9273]

Russel Lissack looks like Jonny greenwood

[@danielespinosa7440]

There is an alarm that never goes out

[@noonmoom9615]

Jonny Greenwood played for Bloc Party

[@Bokuma01]

Great bassline in this

[@DomHowardsFluoPants]

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. Good times

[@nolanwolf1828]

It blows my mind that they're playing faster live than they recorded on the album and they're still this tight. So glad I got to see em before they split and reformed.

[@MrTurtleOfDoom]

Matt f$&king Tong 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@charizardmaster13]

One of the greatest indie rock/post punk songs of all time

[@MrTmartm]

Nothing was better than listening to silent alarm driving around town with nowhere to go

[@tinnabhattan3467]

A lot of great songs in this album, but this one is my most fav

[@dh7314]

Silent Alarm was an absolute masterpiece

[@OnkarSingh-vd6ds]

Under rated band, should have been a lot bigger than they are

[@devinsheaven]

Tony Hawks American Wasteland anyone?

[@mynameismark25]

so annoying how your brain remembers music so easily. wish i could listen to stuff for the first time again.

[@pablomerida8065]

The best álbum debut indie

[@livmershon6236]

it’s insane how tight they were

[@ltay5005]

#Love. Reminds me , of being in love. I dream now . Remembering you.

[@connieescobar4023]

ay Dios pero que es esto? Porqué apenas lo conozco!

[@andytraill]

For me, this is peak. Without question.

[@TheRockBros100]

If you like Matt Tong, you all should check the band Algiers! He is the drummer there.

[@invisiblecurious856]

Yep I know, but this better.

[@gregkut1]

Lots of great rock music in the 00’s. The drummer really has a crazy right foot on the kick drum.

[@SGWinstar8844]

❤

[@matthewbeach2952]

Non guitarist here, how does the lead guitarist do that descending note thing for the intro? Looks like he’s using a pedal to achieve that?

[@kellyv78]

a tone pedal / pitch shifter you can see him using it at the point on his pedal board

[@Eskorbuto-xk5hd]

Gran canción 🎵 aquí seguimos 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@copaluge]

What an incredible energy !!

[@ryhardman1520]

Do bloc party realise how good this album was? One of the best

[@jordanowens3760]

Who ever did the mix did the drummer DIRTY

[@cowboys2626]

Matty Tong was Bloc Party imo

[@tomb407]

A brilliant band, at their peak, playing their best song

[@hyvemynd605]

this was my favorite album in middle school by far/ back in 06-08, know every word, every moment of this masterpiece....then recently the girl I was falling for sent me a song from the album saying she just found it and i should check it out....still trying to keep my cool about it all.

[@mastersnake42]

Almost 20 years later, still bangin’.

[@crazyjoe1540]

Incredible bass playing. If I'd not seen this and just heard it I'd assume he was using a pick. Insanely powerful and clean playing.

[@chrisjames6327]

Tong is a monster😂 Just has this effortless precision/groove - like an indie rock version of Remi. And this album was electric. They got shit as soon as Tong left. All the fire and energy left with him

[@signoguns8501]

God, this brings back a lot of good memories. Really miss being young sometimes. Such a great time to grow up.

[@andreb.9886]

This was 20 years ago. Jesus, time is running fast 😮

[@timnesmith5055]

this song is one of the best rock songs of all time

[@iidghjxnsmd3803]

I’ve listened to this song a million times but I am always blown away by them

[@gazg1467]

ooofffff, that bass tone

[@intrapersonaI]

i dont even think bloc party is bad after silent alarm, i just think it was such a great great staple album that it's just genuinely almost impossible to follow that up with the same standard of it

[@stonedrecluse2833]

wake me up when guitarists stop cosplaying Jonny Greenwood

[@litete2512]

People just dressed like that in the 90s fr

[@Christopher-md7tf]

Man do I miss this band

[@MechDickel]

Yeah... some visceral feeling...

[@KickenItOldSchool]

This band expended all their greatness into one album... unfortunately it went downhill after that

[@theointhebeanie7008]

For me it went down after weekend in the city

[@mattsimpson6493]

Imagine being able to do it even once though. Brilliant band

[@KickenItOldSchool]

@@mattsimpson6493 Silent Alarm is all killer no filler, but damn its sad to see a bands quality drop that hard

[@Sasquatch10]

If you or anyone hasn't heard their b-sides or rarities it's a must. So many exceptional songs on par with their first album. I'm gonna list them because any bloc fans who haven't heard them deserves too: Little Thoughts, Skeleton, Tulips, Staying Fat, The Answer, The Marshals are Dead, Always New Depths, The Present, Hero, Storm & Stress, Two More Years.

[@darrenlockenheart]

I think people just stopped giving their latter stuff a chance and continuously boxed them into a paradigm of what a Bloc Party record should always sound like. Intimacy is their best record to me.

[@musiikkiblogisti6464]

Amazingly recreated intro.

[@benmuzz]

Matt Tong activating beast mode

[@michaelgraham9774]

A band to believe in

[@nomg9619]

The drumming is other-worldly

[@dockerdave]

Incredible. How can this be real?

[@PartyFears2]

A perfect opener to a great album.

[@bullishmike7851]

Still one of the best songs in Tony Hawk till this day!

[@tommylaa9498]

Scarily talented musicians

[@yungjoemighty879]

technicality on another level

[@markedmondson8767]

this recording absolute slaps