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mikemike:
Have you heard the illegal version of that album? It's got all the samples they were refused access to, like Bob Dylan. It's tres interesting.

Are there any plans for a new album?

Willis:
Illegal??? (thats right, bold and italics) version of the album!?!?
Wow.  I mean it is a fantastic album to begin with, I can only imagine what would be added with more.

There's a lot of, um, skepticisim when it comes to samples.  Especially samples of popular songs (exhibit A: Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean Combs) that are used as a base to make a "new" song popular.  The Avalanches taken sampling to a new level.  This album reminds me a lot of the Beasties Paul's Boutique.  PB is an album that, for all intensive purposes, was a commercial let down.  It has grown to cult significance in how they employed samples to create a work of art.  Since I Left You is another example of how samples can be used for the greater good.  I mean, as I noted earlier, they do sample Madonna.  But in the context off the song and themes of the album, it works.  

Thats another thing about the album.  Its like a symphony.  There are themes the permeate throughout the album.  Aside from Frontier Psychiatrist, its hard to listen to other songs out of the context of the album as a whole.  It is much more satisfying to sit and listen and enjoy the album straight through.

~~Willis

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