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KharBevNor:
Downloading. Is their name an Illuminatus! reference?
EDIT: They were once called 'The Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu' according to Wikipedia, so that's probably a yes. Kick out the JAMs!
Jedit:
--- Quote from: amok ---The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix)
Strange 90's techno/pop ftw.
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Typical - I came in to make a review, and it's something I already have.
It also says a lot about the average age on these forums that there's someone who hasn't heard this one, because the KLF achieved near-total media saturation with it.
KharBevNor:
Well, I've never willingly listened to any music radio in my life apart from the odd spurt of classic FM whilst studying, so it's unsurprising.
The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix)
Starts off very low and eerie, with some jazzy sort of vocal things, and then some guy starts singing about the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu. Then it samples MC5 and turns into total dark techno track. Then rapping starts, which is a shame, because it brings the track down in my view. The sireny techno bits are pretty sweet and whatnot, but the rapper annoys me. Some nice variation and fake crowd moments and whatnot as it goes on though. But that rapper should just shut up.
I'll give it 6/10.
Now for some awesome extreme old-school apocalyptic folk.
Changes - Fire of Life (Unreleased Version)
Jedit:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---The KLF - What Time Is Love (LP Mix)
Starts off very low and eerie, with some jazzy sort of vocal things, and then some guy starts singing about the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu. Then it samples MC5 and turns into total dark techno track. Then rapping starts, which is a shame, because it brings the track down in my view. The sireny techno bits are pretty sweet and whatnot, but the rapper annoys me. Some nice variation and fake crowd moments and whatnot as it goes on though. But that rapper should just shut up.
I'll give it 6/10.
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Ah, well - maybe you'd like this a bit more - same band, but more of the jazzy stuff and no rap.
Meanwhile, back at the review:
Changes - Fire of Life (unreleased version)
And I can see why it wasn't released. The rhythm keeps dropping in and out, the tune is boring and the singer is a perfect example of the old joke about how to tell the difference between a folk singer and the audience - the singer is the guy who only has a finger in one ear. Someone needs to beat this droning bastard to death with his own guitar, before he performs again. 1/10, and that's for not being chart crap.
While I go to give my ears an enema, please ponder on this:
Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man - Resolve
La Creme:
Changes - Fire For Life
So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly. So goddam jangly.
Now that I've done that:
This song was pretty simple. Two steelstring guitars and throaty, dramatic vocals. Very dischordant and ambiguous in time. The end of this one was really really good: it shifts into this alternate chord pattern and eventually rises into a jangly cacophony and ends. Fun stuff.
7/10
MORE REVIEWING:
Gibbons, Beth & Rustin Man - Resolve
MORE FOLK. Good simple guitar line and high, airy vocals. Pretty stereotypical, straightforward one-acoustic-guitar-folk (except, you know, there's a bass {?} too). Decent lyrics.
5/10, just for lack of originality, and cause I'm not in the goddam mood.
Somethin easy, classic, and damn sure good.
The Flaming Lips - In The Morning Of The Magicians
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