Their official biography reads as follows: Our story begins – as many of these stories do – with a TDK 60 minute cassette. It's back in 1992 and Kurt Cobain with Smells Like Teen Spirit is playing himself into the nirvana of rock'n'roll and hitting us in the gut. Wow! At roughly the same time, Adrian packs in his drummer job with The Bash — freeing his hands to do the old Fender Strat thing and, in fact, record on to that TDK 60. He calls his one-man band "Lovebugs", enters the cassette for a Band Contest in Basle ... and ends up being invited to take part in the final round.
So he finds Sebastian on bass and Julie on drums – more for their charming personalities than for instrumental virtuosity. And then it all happens pretty dammed quick. First gig, the final, victory, thank you!
Adrian and Sebastian then record their first album Fluff in all of five days in league with 17-year-old temp drummer Simon who has been a permanent fixture since then, irreplaceable actually, because not only is he an amazing drummer but also an amazing cook. We play a few gigs and Adrian wants to pack it in again. Making music is OK, he says, but being the frontman is a pain. Well, we persuade him to stay on and, before long, we have played countless gigs in small clubs. And, between all that, recorded our second album: Tart.
The third album appears in 1996: Lovebugs. Recorded in London, produced by George Shilling and Tony Harris. We storm the Top 40 and our single Fantastic is what you might call our minor breakthrough on the Swiss music wallpaper scene. We sign major recording contacts in Germany, feel pretty fantastic, immortal at least. Just the right mood for getting on to the TourBus for a few months.
Thomas also gets on: live, we need extra guitar; he needs a good band. And the tours go on — with Marc Owen, Republica, Vivid and Ocean Color Scene. We become addicted to life on tour. We hang on to Thomas because, apart from making the right noises with the guitar, he's cool with studio buttons and, in the morning, he looks so grotty.
In 1999, BMG/RCA prescribe us a recording producer who – from the very start – we don't hit it off with. The proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back. After a really vicious battle with the record company (all that small-print crap) we record an album under the name of The Symbol. No, not really, we sign a deal with Warner Music Switzerland and, at long last, in 2000, bring out Transatlantic Flight. All that turbulence seems to have paid off. The album sells in 13 countries and represents now our ultimate breakthrough. The concerts are sold out. We shoot a video in LA and give loads of interviews from Moscow through Niederbipp to Helsinki …
While Sebastian publishes his glam rock project Fucking Beautiful, we work on our fifth studio album Awaydays. Wanting to go new places, we record the album in the rehearsal room (with Thomas as producer) and bring in a string orchestra. Adrian starts to think of packing it in again but eventually gives up smoking instead. At about the same time, Awaydays gets to the number one spot in the Swiss charts and Sebastian announces his departure from the band. We play one last tour with him and wonder about how things should continue.
Come autumn 2002, we retreat to the heel of the Italian boot – Apulia – to work on 13 Songs With A View. There are now five of us and we're searching for a new Lovebugs sound. Bass player Florian is more than a mere substitute for emigrant Sebastian: he brings a new earthy edge to the band and raises the average IQ by 35%. The same tidal wave also dumps Stefan on board MS Lovebugs. In an official capacity, that is. For almost three years, he's been pounding away on the keyboards for us — both on stage and in the studio. 13 Songs With A View is, in a word, a bitch, and gives us a really hard time. Yup, the search for our joint roots is difficult, taking 13 long months in the studio. An eternal labyrinth. But also a welding torch for the new line-up. The result is rawer and harder than previous albums. A true milestone, we reckon. Whereas the Swiss radio stations reckon that our sound is too noisy. TV gets cold feet as well and even drops us from a programme at literally the last second. They are worried that our music might hit the viewers in the gut (hmm, sounds familiar). Whatever. A short time later, to kick off our tour, we play Letzigrund Stadium with the legendary Stones to a crowd of 40,000 before, at long last, setting off on an extended club and festival tour again.
December 2003. We've done some 1,000 gigs (I think) and recorded seven albums. Tired? No way! But where can we now sail to without going round in circles? One thing is clear: we need a producer who will accompany us, give us feedback and be in on the songs as they emerge so that we don't drift into studio quicksands again. Someone who can stand up to the Lovebugs steamroller. Adrian has the shocking idea of having a go with that swine Chris von Rohr. In fact, the chemistry works at the very first meeting and soon we have a veritable swimming pool full of creativity — not to mention a genuine friendship.
Together we work on the eighth CD. It's to be an unplugged album, recorded live and featuring the best from 11 years of Lovebugs. Old hits are re-arranged, stripped down to the bare essentials. We want it to be intimate and direct. After nine months of preparation, we perform Naked (!) on stage in Basle ... and, well, it's one of our best concerts ever. Included on the album version are five new songs, some really moving moments and acres of goose pimples.
For six months or so, the subsequent Naked Tour takes us though old theatre prosceniums and cinema halls. Backed by mood and guest musicians, we play unplugged into the summer. It's during the festival season of 2005 that – in parallel and in secret – we start plugging our cables in at the rehearsal room again. We hunger for electricity and sounds but first Adrian has to have on operation on his respiratory system while the rest of us send postcards from our holiday resorts. Each taking a creative breather, so to speak.
In autumn 2005 – by which time we're up to our knees in new material – a Taiwanese record company calls up suddenly and invites us to hold a series of interviews and concerts in Asia. We leave the freshly served Creative Soup on the counter and fly "naked" to the land of the permanent sushi enthusiasts where we (a) score something of a success and (b) get to know something about chopsticks, isolation and sleeping tablets. Then, in the middle of a snowstorm and an infinitely long winter, we eventually realise where we are going and who we wish to take along with us. Things are going to be epic and huge and also deep enough to drown in, a unified whole indeed. So, after a three-year absence from the studio, In Every Waking Moment will not be a stroll through the park, more like an intense midnight ramble J
To read the map and shine the torch, we hire Roman Camenzind. The man who never sleeps and who always has a good idea just when one is needed.
In February and March of 2006, we record In Every Waking Moment at locomotive speed and, only one week after Switzerland gets kicked out of the last 16 of the Football World Cup, a Lovebugs CD soars to Number One on the Swiss album charts … again.
Discography
IN EVERY WAKING MOMENT (2006)
NAKED (2005)
13 SONGS WITH A VIEW (2003)
AWAYDAYS (2001)
TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT (2000)
LIVE VIA SATELLITE (1999)
LOVEBUGS intl. version (1998)
LOVEBUGS (1996)
TART (1995)
FLUFF (1994)
Group Members
Adrian Sieber: vocals, guitar
Thomas Rechberger: guitar, vocals
Stefan Wagner: piano, synthesizers, vocals
Florian Senn: bass
Simon Ramseier: drums
Website
http://www.lovebugs.com
Hang On
Lovebugs Lyrics
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'cause I don't know don't know don't know what I'm feeling
All about you 'bout you 'bout you I don't really
Understand you stand you stand you if you only could
tell me tell me tell me how you're thinking
'cause I'm dying dying dying when I see you and I
Wonder wonder wonder why you never
why you can't never let it happen
Why you don't never say it's allright
Why you can't never let it happen
hang on hang on hang on just a minute and
Spare me spare me spare me with your stories cause I feel
Lonely lonely lonely more than ever and
Unhappy happy happy when I'm with you comon and
hate me hate me hate me like I hate you
Love me love me love me like I love you and I
Wonder wonder wonder why we just can't
Leave it leave it leave it for a little while
The song "Hang On" by Lovebugs is all about struggling to understand someone and feeling lonely and unhappy because of it. The lyrics express the singer's confusion and frustration with their inability to comprehend the person they are addressing, and their desire for communication and understanding. They plead with this person to tell them how they're doing and how they're thinking, hoping to gain some insight into their behavior.
Despite their efforts, the singer cannot seem to get through to the other person, and they are left feeling alone and unhappy. They urge the person to spare them with their stories, as they only contribute to their negative feelings. The singer even goes as far as suggesting that the other person hate them like they hate them, or love them like they love them, as they are unable to find a middle ground and understand each other.
Overall, the lyrics of "Hang On" convey a sense of frustration and confusion as the singer struggles to comprehend the behavior of another person. The song speaks to the universal experience of feeling disconnected and unable to connect with someone, despite our best efforts to communicate and understand.
Line by Line Meaning
Tell me tell me tell me how you doing
The singer is asking their love interest about their well-being
'cause I don't know don't know don't know what I'm feeling
The singer is unsure about their own emotions towards their love interest
All about you 'bout you 'bout you I don't really
The singer doesn't fully understand their love interest
Understand you stand you stand you if you only could
The artist wishes they could understand their love interest better
tell me tell me tell me how you're thinking
The artist wants to know their love interest's thoughts
'cause I'm dying dying dying when I see you and I
The singer is deeply affected by their love interest's presence
Wonder wonder wonder why you never
The singer is curious about their love interest's behavior
Really really really can show me
The artist wants their love interest to show their true feelings
why you can't never let it happen
The artist is asking why their love interest can't move forward with the relationship
Why you don't never say it's allright
The artist wants their love interest to give them reassurance
hang on hang on hang on just a minute and
The singer wants their love interest to pause and wait
Spare me spare me spare me with your stories cause I feel
The artist doesn't want to hear excuses and is feeling a certain way
Lonely lonely lonely more than ever and
The singer is feeling lonely despite being with their love interest
Unhappy happy happy when I'm with you comon and
The singer is feeling conflicted emotions when around their love interest
hate me hate me hate me like I hate you
The singer is feeling mutual hatred between them and their love interest
Love me love me love me like I love you and I
The artist wants their love interest to reciprocate their strong feelings
Wonder wonder wonder why we just can't
The artist is questioning why they can't make things work
Leave it leave it leave it for a little while
The singer suggests taking a break from the relationship
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: ADRIAN SIEBER, SEBASTIAN HAUSMANN, SIMON RAMSEIER
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@suziephillips2320
A friend of mine flew into West Palm Beach in the beginning of May of 2017.
She lives in San Diego and people on the plane were Floridian's going home.
They started telling her about the love bugs.
She just assumed that they were kidding around.
She had to go to West Palm Beach for business.
She said she was going to drive up to see me and she got an Airbnb in Tampa.
I told her that it was "Love Bug" season. So before she drives from WPB to Tampa, go to any store and grab a gallon bottle or 2, that removes love bugs.
She said oh it's a rental car so they can remove the bugs when I turn it in.
I said, um, no, you will be driving 70-80 MPH and if you run into a swarm of them and have no wiper fluid, you won't be able to see where you are driving.
If you like to see where you are driving, grab a bottle or 2.
It will say it removes love bugs, cause the regular washer fluid just seems to smear them.
She said oh it has a full thing of wiper fluid.
I said that won't be enough.
So the morning she was leaving from WPB to come here, she jumped on the highway and in less than a mile, SPLAT, SPLAT, SPLAT!
She turned on the wipers, which makes it impossible to see because whatever is in the love bugs is now smeared all over your windshield!!
She started pressing the windshield cleaner button, and now had sort of a love bug juicy soup all over the windshield.
Within a few miles the washer fluid was empty.
She had no paper towels and the sun was baking the love bug bodies onto the windshield and she was having problems seeing where she was going.
She put the 4-way flashers on and got in the pull off lane.
She got to the exit and saw a bunch of gas station/convenience stores and all had signs up that said, "WE HAVE LOVE BUG REMOVER WINDSHIELD CLEANER! TWO GALLONS FOR $3!!"
The store had an employee in the parking lot and he was filling the cars with the remover and then getting the deceased bodies off of the glass.
She said it instantly removed the bodies & guts of the love bugs that were baked on the windshield.
She said he could have charged $20 a gallon and she would have paid it because she would have hit something, she couldn't see anything.
I think after this she will avoid Florida the first weeks of May & then the first weeks of September.
The offspring being made right now will be born & grown by September and they will then be making baby love bugs for next May!
@Dougland214
Lovebugs driving away new Floridians one pair at a time😅
@amydegan
I love um till they end up covering the whole front of my car😳😁
@kevingrandyify
We could only wish
@milissasilks2174
😂😂😂
Lovebugs, man. Not 2 headed bugs. They're stuck together because the love each other.
@daisyrossdo2083
They the worst when your on motorcycle 🏍️ just don't open your mouth 😂😂😂😂😂
@stateofdisorder1
😂😂😂 that’s why you wear a gator mask and keep your shield down
@daisyrossdo2083
@@stateofdisorder1 omg yes you can't wear that little helmet with glasses only them bugs hurt when you get his by them n the small pebbles too lol.
@stateofdisorder1
@@daisyrossdo2083 girl! The ones that really hurt are the June beetles and they are out full force in my area. Don’t ride after the sun sets 😂😂😂
@stateofdisorder1
@@TerriCaton awe I’m so sorry hun. They don’t get me as bad as some folks
@jarredmattingly5369
Dumb and Dumber... When they riding on the scooter and catching bugs in the face! Hahaha
You hungry? Nah I swallowed a big June bug a while back."