Life Of Agony/Keith Caputo
 

Are any of you lovely people fans of Life Of Agony or Keith Caputo's solo work? In my opinion, Caputo should be massive. He is one of the best vocalists I have ever heard, both in his heavier work with Life Of Agony and his solo stuff. The guy is quite tormented...he lost both this parents to heroin and his lyrics are very personal and heartfelt. He is such an emotive vocalist - you can feel his pain in his lyrics. And as an interesting tidbit, Caputo has just announced that he is transgender and will be living life as a woman. I don't care either way...he (or she) is the greatest vocalist I have ever heard. Check it...would be interested to hear your views:

Life Of Agony:
My Mind Is Dangerous: Weeds: Desire: Love To Let You Down: Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds cover: This Time: Through And Through:
Keith Caputo solo:
Selfish: Mother: Why (Annie Lennox cover): In December: Got Monsters: Crawling: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper Cover):
Enjoy!

Thanks for posting this. I've seen the name but never bothered to listen to their music and just listened, really like it!

I'm glad you like it. You know those artists that you love so much that you wish everyone knew about them because they are so damn awesome? That's what Caputo/Life Of Agony are to me.

I,ll have a look at these later in the week, JT,s playing up tonight so i,d never get back on if I switch to YT. All I know by KC is the duet with Within Temptation (What Have You Done) and its a great song imo so look forward to listening to your recommendations thanks.

Yeah, the Within Temptation track is killer. I will be interested to hear your thoughts on LOA/Caputo once you have had a chance to listen.

Here is an article about Caputo and him now living life as a woman.
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=160718

LIFE OF AGONY Singer: 'I'm Not Living Life As A Man Anymore'

LIFE OF AGONY's Keith Caputo has revealed that he is "transitioning" into life as a woman and has begun to refer to himself as "her" on his official web site, KeithCaputo.com. The singer, who has adopted the name "Keith Mina Caputo", wrote on his Twitter account, "Male to female transsexuals like me are the women who give up male privilege for femininity! Threaten the patriarchy!" He also responded to a question from a fan about the demise of LIFE OF AGONY by writing, "LIFE OF AGONY has already gone into isolation and it's got nothing to do with me transitioning [to a woman]."

In a June 5, 2011 interview with "DeadDave's Internet Radio Show" (stream audio below), Caputo stated, "I live a completely, totally different lifestyle. I'm a completely different human being, as you guys probably know. I have a very different path in life. I'm not living life as a man anymore and stuff. So, yeah, my life is completely different, but music will always be… music is definitely my driving force."

Caputo previously used cross-dressing images of himself in the artwork for his 2008 album "A Fondness For Hometown Scars" and dedicated the CD to androgynous people.

In a July 11 tweet, Caputo said, "my cuzins even get on me for being transgender, callin me the dumbest names, but it's all in good fun they'll really kill 4 me." The vocalist also re-tweeted a story from Metal Insider claiming the singer was due to get a sex change. He replied with the message, "Thx for being sweet & respectful..Deeply appreciate it. FYI, I'm keeping my penis!"

During his appearance on "DeadDave's Internet Radio Show", Caputo spoke about LIFE OF AGONY's future plans, stating, "We realize that LIFE OF AGONY has become an extremely nostalgic act and the music that used to not be dated, in our eyes, is dated, and the whole situation is dated. It's a nostalgia, and we don't want to take advantage of that nostalgia anymore, nor do we wanna take advantage of the fans. We've got three shows this year and it's probably gonna be the last shows that we do for a very long time. In fact, we just may call it quits. Because we feel like we set out to do what we needed to collectively. We're very honest people, we love each other dearly, but we just can't get it on; we can't turn each other on in the studio. We hit a brick wall together, and it ain't cool. So there's probably not gonna be a new [LIFE OF AGONY] album, nor a new single… So people better start getting used to [the 2005 album] 'Broken Valley', because that's probably the last piece of music that they'll hear from the band."

I had the album Ugly (i think it was called) it came in a ltd edition tin.

But I lost it. Ill check his solo work out on Spotify today.

Ugly is an awesome, awesome album. I'm sure you'll dig his solo stuff and the other LOA records if you haven't checked them already.

BIG two thumbs up from here! As a music journalist, I would have picked their Soul Searching Sun as my album of the year if Keith hadn't left!

P.S. Where's Lost At 22?

I was shattered when Caputo left...Soul Searching Sun should have made them huuuge.
I didn't want to overload the tracks above, but yeah,
Lost At 22...classic.