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January 25th, 2003
06:52 pm - Look what I found: A review:)
FatBoy Slim - halfway between the gutter and the stars
My opinion is:
I wanted more. I wanted it to be more... new.
I do not understand why they keep saying it's not big beat any more.
But it's more complex and the quality is kind of better,
it's less pop anyway. And the album cover is a real masterpiece.
I heard that in the USA they got the cover censured. Wonder what
it looks like there.
The music:
Had to play it once before really listening to it.
Seemed too complicated for the first listening.
The cut from 'talking bout my baby' to 'star 69' was the first thing
to move me. The same as Jack Kerouack said that bop was some kind of
crazy mistake in jazz at first, here we have some crazy mistake in
DJing. That "what the fuck?!" sample really describes what I've felt.
'Sunset (Bird of Pray)' is what makes people call his music pop.
But that cowbell sound changed my opinion about cowbells in general.
Always hated them before. Great song anyway.
And even Norman Cook would not make me like Macy Gray. "I wanna F. U."
Does not that drumloop in the right headphone that starts almost from
the vrey beginning of "ya mama" sound like that of Propellerheads 'Spybreak' ?
Where does that "you don't stop" sample in 'mad flava' come from ?
And what is the methodolodical difference in the lyrics of 'weapon
of choice' and that 'the world's made up of this and that' by
Deeds Plus Thoughts that he remixed ? "you might be doing/blowing this,
you might be doing that..."
Into the big bright yellow sun...
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