Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:38:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sung J. Woo" <sw17@cornell.edu>
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Reply-To: "Sung J. Woo" <sw17@cornell.edu>
To: ceremony@monkey.org
Subject: (Fac33) Off-Topic: DM, Radiohead, Orbital; Semi-on-Topic: DM
Off-Topic 1: I just got the DM 86-98 double-CD album. The first
CD, which goes from Strangelove to World in My Eyes (Is that
Music for the Masses to Violator?), is good. The second CD,
which culls from Songs of Faith and Devotion to Ultra, is just
awful, awful, AWFUL! Actually, the couple of tunes from SoFaD
aren't too bad -- I actually sort of liked I Feel You when it
came out, but I hadn't heard any songs off of Ultra until now,
and my goodness, I just couldn't get into them. All sounded very
monotone and just plain old bad. Am I alone?
Semi-on-topic: Whenever I see people lumping DM and NO together,
it irks me to no end. Does it irk you? I never thought DM was
half the band NO was -- I put DM, Erasure, and the Pet Shop Boys
together because by and large, they are electropop bands. NO,
I've always thought, was far more a "real" (a.k.a., masters of
both electronic and acoustic) band. Of course, that's not to say
that a band like Orbital, which is 100% electronic, is any more
or less than NO (I think Orbital is every bit the Mozart of our
time), but then again, you don't really compare NO and Orbital on
the same level...am I make any sense here?
Off-Topic 2: I saw Radiohead on Saturday Night Live this past
Saturday -- did anybody else catch it? It's the first time I saw
them live, and man, that Thom Yorke is just a total freakazoid.
I mean he looked like he was having an epileptic fit out there
(no offense to Ian and JD). And I thought Michael Stipe's
"dancing" on the Losing My Religion video was whacked -- Yorke
makes Stipe look Wally-Cleaver normal.
I can't recall the first song they played (it might have been Kid
A), but the second song was Idioteque, and I must say, that's the
first song on that album that has actually managed to somewhat
claw itself into me. Hopefully more will do the same in
subsequent listens. Though I must also say -- if I want to be
moved by an all-electronic band, I'd plop Orbital's In Sides into
my CD player any day. What a fantastic, magical album. It's
their most magnificent work.
- SJW
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