quoted 4 lines There are two groups called "Mum", right? One with the little accent over
>There are two groups called "Mum", right? One with the little accent over
>the "u", the other without the accent? These two reviews are not the same
>Mum,
>right?
I think the reviewer thinks they are one and the same but they are
definitely not. M?m (pronounced moom) is from Iceland and from what I can
tell MUM is a duo from Vienna...
quoted 20 lines On another note, I was selling a ton of my music at Other Music the other
>On another note, I was selling a ton of my music at Other Music the other
>day,
>and decided to use some of the cash they paid me to pick up the new Sigur
>Ros
>album. What a complete waste! I can't imagine anything more boring than
>"()"
>(or was it "(("? Or maybe "[|")
>
>Seriously, their previous album has its beautiful moments, but this one is
>just, like, "tinkle tinkle tinkle, drone drone drone, moan moan moan
>tinkle,"
>etc. etc. AAAAUUUGH!!! I don't know about everybody else, but they just
>took
>everything I liked about the first album and got rid of it, leaving only
>the
>boring bits, which only served to make me realize that I haven't listened
>to
>their first ablum in over a year because it's frankly not *that* amazing,
>so
>I'm selling them both.
sorry you were so disappointed, but I couldn't disagree more. Sigur R?s is
on my top 5 for the year. I think it's actually better than the previous
release, because it flows more as a complete album rather than a collection
of songs. I could see if your expectations were for more of the same, or for
concise pop songs, that it would be a disappointment but I think it more
than delivers as far as an accomplished album is concerned... certainly
darker in places as well. Ah, well, that's personal taste for you :-)
quoted 9 lines 2002 saw a few good things here and there, but overall it was full of
>2002 saw a few good things here and there, but overall it was full of
>disappointments and "blah" moments. Both musically and politically...
>Looking
>back at everyone's "best of 2002, the horror" responses, I saw more
>mentions of
>things I had forgotten in my own list, quite good stuff, like Proswell &
>Machine Drum & ML & Susumu Yokota, but really 2002 just disappointed
>overall.
>I guess it just makes me appreciate the good stuff all the more...
I honestly think 2002 was quite exciting for music. I think, however, a lot
of what excited me had little or nothing to do with traditional IDM fare. I
feel like techno continues to mutate and evolve in new and interesting ways,
that there are a variety of new rock-format bands that are recombining old
tricks with new approaches.... I posted a list last week, so I won't go into
that again, but I feel like more than ever there is a lot happening out
there...
m.mercer :: design + sound
sound:
http://www.mattmercer.com
design:
http://www.matthewmercer.com
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