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"They missed out Muse" Good on them.
Thank you for giving me something so fitting to watch while listening to that trainwreck.
EW also released a list of the top 100 novels of all time. Here's a spoiler: they snubbed Steinbeck. 'Nuff said.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea? Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
Jugband Blues? :( (or is that considered to be more of a Syd Barrett piece?)
I agree with you about the use of autotune on Yeezus. For a record that predominantly packs a harsher and more raw aesthetic, its inclusion of squeaky-clean vox effects gives some of the tracks a less intimate and immediate effect than they maybe ought to have.
The lead singer sounds like the unholy child of Alanis Morisette and Billy Corgan.
That video's not the best impression of the new band. Here's a better video (and not to mention a better song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Lm-BZiSs0Ic
Interesting how this cover art is more fascinating and thought-provoking than some of the most Storm Thorgerson-esque albums covers out there. Smart design.
I think that "Pity Sex" is an awesome band name. And perhaps this virgin is a little naive but how exactly would the term be offensive, let alone misogynistic? BTW, sweet song. I love how folks like Pity Sex, Mac DeMarco, Cloud Nothings and others are bringing back the sound of 90s alt-rock. It is about time for a revival.
"Black Skinhead" is cool but I wonder how much cooler it would be if MC Ride were to have done the opening screams.
We can all probably agree that the marketing campaign was fun at the time but a bit of a misstep in retrospect. It makes you wonder how different the reception would have been if Daft Punk pulled a My Bloody Valentine on us and announced the album only a short time before its actual release. The Creator's Project videos could have then followed to give the album a little more context and not to hype up the record as if it was going to be the next modern masterpiece. It seems as if a lot of dissenters are let down by how little this album actually progresses dance music (contrary to what was said during some of the CP's interviews) but that is actually a flattering criticism but it isn't often that people think less of an album because it didn't reinvent an entire genre. Listening to the it for the third time, RAM strikes me as being a solid piece of immaculately produced French lounge that doesn't break barriers as much as it sticks to what can make party soundtracks fun and timeless. It stops short of hitting that special nerve and sending me into musical euphoria but then again, so does 90+% of all the world's decent music.
The cheese is part of what makes this LP appealing. There is definitely some campy humour to be found in tracks like "Within" (lol @ those chimes) and - yes - "Touched", because how could a throw-back to a particular era of music have wide appeal if it takes its retro style and aesthetic too seriously?
I agree with most of your criticism (especially about "Doin' It Right" sounding too busy with the robot vox) but lol, why the comparison to Eiffel 65? Does RAM really come across as derivative eurotrash to you?
Almost done the album but to offer some first impressions... This may not be a popular opinion but while I find the first half was a little on the choppy side, the second half is a wonderful trip. Many of the low points of the album for me result from attempts at creating an ear-worm with some of the most inane hooks ("Lose Yourself to Dance"; "Fragments of Time") and the high points of the album are when Daft Punk either take big risks with song-structure and composition ("Giorgio By Moroder"; "Touch"; "Contact") or revisit classic musical conventions and apply their own spin on kitsch genres like disco, early electronica, and the like ("Beyond"; "Motherboard"; and again, "Touch"). This is a big and plentiful album that requires a few more play-throughs but as a casual fan of the group, I am not disappointed but not as blown-away as I maybe could have been. Then again, I said the same thing about Discovery upon first listen so who knows how much of a grower this album could be...
The 16 y.o. in me is crying of joy.
Does this video remind anybody else of that Futurama episode where Fry and his girlfriend are captured by pipsqueak ruffians in LA?
Hate to give another "reminds me of..." but damn, I do sense a lot of similarities between this and "Laura Palmer's Theme" from Angelo Badalamenti's score for Twin Peaks. Some of the chord changes are even the same, I think.