"Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" is the first international single by Brazilian indie/electroclash band CSS, taken from their debut album Cansei de Ser Sexy. Since its use in promotions for the TV series Ugly Betty, it is to be re-released in the UK. Another example of the promotional use of this song would be its use on the Microsoft Zune music player. The music video was part of the Zune pre-loaded content.
The title is a reference to Canadian band Death from Above 1979, as evidenced in the song's video where band members are shown wearing elephant masks (a reference to the "elephant heads" on the cover of both Death From Above 1979's albums). The song's video was directed by Cat Solen and the track was later commercially released in several formats. It reached #39 on the UK Singles Chart after it was re-issued in May 2007. However, it failed to chart anywhere else in the world, in spite of it being a live fan favourite.
The B-side for "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" is the cut "Acho Um Pouco Bom" (roughly "I think it's a bit good", in Portuguese).
The song was rated as the sixth best track of the year 2006 by the magazine NME and named the 299th best song of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 94 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
It was also used in trailers for the BBC Three series Gavin & Stacey and for the TV ad of the Chloé Fragrance.
Famous quotes containing the words love, listen and/or death:
“I don’t want to live—I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)
“Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,
If you listen to popular rumour;
From morning to night he’s so joyous and bright,
And he bubbles with wit and good humour!”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master—so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil—so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)