It was so mind-boggling to hear this in late 1991 mere weeks after first hearing Insignificance and trying to reconcile the two works as being by the same person. The very definition of a Renaissance man. And this is his best electronic work, imo.
I’d throw the Mark Hollis solo album in there as the unofficial 4th part of that trilogy. No one in the history of music added more by subtraction than Mark Hollis
My least favorite thing about 1991 was the shear inescapability of this cold soup of a song. It assaulted you all day long for months and months from literally everywhere: MTV; pop, rock AND adult contemporary radio; every retail store and movie theater; and everyone’s parents’ stereo. The only redeeming thing about it is it’s not quite as bad as the next tepid oatmeal movie song he would put out a couple of years later.
Face the Music had a lot of great ideas but piss poor bargain basement execution, from the writing on down. But on the upside Reeves and Winters are still great together and I now know how to pronounce Kid Cudi.
I really didn’t think anything would ever get me excited about The Beatles or Peter Jackson ever again, but here we are. I’m actually sad it’s only 6 hours long. I wish there was footage of the making of every one of their albums/recording sessions.
This is my first (known) experience with Jim O’Rourke and I’ve been hooked ever since. This is the closest my generation has had to its own Steely Dan both in spirit and execution (if not in genre or budget).
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