Living Things are an American rock band based in St. Louis, Missouri featuring brothers Lawrence, Yves and Josh Berlin and their friend Cory Becker.
Lineup
- Lillian Berlin: Vocals, guitar
- Eve Berlin: Bass
- Bosh Berlin: Drums
- Cory Becker: Guitar
Biography
The Living Things hail from a st.louis, mo...The band consist of provocatuer singer/songwriter/guitarist Lillian Berlin and his two sibilings Eve Berlin (bass guitar) and Bosh Berlin (drums) along with childhood friend Cory Becker on guitar..Their songs are politically driven lyriically ..Their sound is loud and in your face but heart felt..Singer Lillian Berlin is extremly outspoken about what he refers to as the " the Blackout Generation"..the generation of young people who are hooked on mind altering prescrption pills, (prozac, ritalin etc..) he has written about it in songs A.D.D and Keep Till You Fold
he's also outspoken about young american soldiers dying in the iraq war..in the songs like "Bombs Below" "Bom Bom Bom and "March In Daylight"..Bombs Below conatins the memorable line "where do all the deadboys go, no solutions just bombs below"
In 2004 singer Lillian Berlin was shot at outside the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas,Texas..as a result of stage banter over his political beliefs..in 2001 Berlin was also attacked and stabbed after a concert in kansas city ,mo after a heated debate with the crowd over the events of 911 ...in fall 2004 while performing at a concert in new york's roseland ballroom opeing for veteran rockers Velvet Revolver..Lillian Berlin brought two fetish dressed women onstage, one wearing a Gerorge Bush mask another wearing a Dick Cheney mask, and had them stimulate anal sex via the stage ...Geffen records promptly dropped the band before releasing the album "Ahead Of the Lions" after this event citing that the band had taken their political beleifs too far...the label also attempted to censor the album lyrics to the song's "Bombs Below" and "I Owe", claiming the lyrics where to direct on Berlin's feeling on war and peace...
The Living Things released three albums as a trio. "Black Skies in Broad Daylight" 2004, "The Blackout Generation" 2003 "Resight Your Rights"2001 ..In 2005, they added Cory Becker to the band and released the album Ahead of the Lions on Jive Records. The first single, "Bom Bom Bom," was used in advertising for an iTunes compatible Cingular phone and was released as a free download from the iTunes Music Store, helping the song's success.
The band is currently in the studio at work on their third album. titled "Missouri Aches"