I got this a few days ago and I still don't get it. Coming from the
standpoint of someone who has really gotten into these guys in the past
but hasn't bothered to seek out any rare or non-cd material, I am pretty
disappointed in the whole thing. Not only am I disappointed, but also
confused. Some questions. Pardon my tone but I am quite angry as I write
this. It *is* a flame, so fair warning.
- By what standard are the Reload tracks Reload and the Link tracks Link,
etc. It used to be you could listen to one of their songs and know what
name they'd released it under without looking. I'll grant that some of
this stuff is kind of old, but it still seems to render the name
differentiations meaningless.
- When did Reload become just Pritchard? When did Middleton become E621?
So was Middleton on _Short Stories_ or not? Is Link Pritchard? Is
Middleton Chameleon? Is there a logic to this or do they expect us to give
a shit for the sake of giving a shit?
I must admit to not caring at all until I got this record. I care now
because I hate it. Used to be: You put them on and they blew you away,
and who cared in what context. But what the hell is this? The material
itself, much of it is old and I have no problem with that they made it
at all, but the manner in which they it compiled, and the choice of WHAT
to compile...well....
- Why did they put so much corny shit on here and leave of so many
essentials that you can still only get on comps, etc?
- Is this the full length Link album that was promised? When I wrote to
them bitching about the oh-so-Dedicated _Maiden Voyage_ and said what I
said about what this was to be, I was KIDDING, okay? I didn't expect them
to take me seriously. I am so sorry, everyone.
Why put out what is essentially a greatest hits album, and pock it with a
few songs by other people? Does anyone else here find that to be quite as
irritating as I do?
- Electro revival bitching aside: Assuming we all want an electro
revival, is Jedi Knights a serious attempt?
Maiden Voyage was bad; The Theory of Evolution has more good material
than those wretched little singles, but not much, and defintely not on
balance. Taken as a whole, it is probably the worst thing to come out on
Warp that I can think of--and that's counting Spanners. What in the hell
happened, and why? And why did no one attempt to stop them before it was
too late?
All things considered, Sexomatic is a pretty stylish track. Ah well,
another day, another fallen angel, another convoluted aesthetic
collapsing under its own weightlessness. Screw it.
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