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03/30/2005 01:31:04 PM · #1 |
I had a really long day of work yesterday. Really long. So, after a crappy day of “The boss is going through a ‘We need to re-vitalize the business’ rant”, (which is hell for me because I’m a sales manager) I decide to pick up some new music at Best Buy when the work-day was finally over. Even though recently, photography has become more than a hobby to me, music is a serious deal in my life. Above everything else that I do, music is first, and it keeps me really busy. In order to do that, I need inspiration…constant inspiration…new ideas that keep me in the realm of “cutting edge”. Otherwise I would end up making music that sounds like 10 years ago, and believe me, music 10 years ago was a hell of a lot easier to make. Anyway, I get my inspiration from those who break boundaries. There are some in the industry that set the marks, and everyone plays catch up. The better one gets, the less catch up one will do until one sets the mark him/herself, or her/himself for all the womyn. It’s all about boundaries, and pushing the limits.
“What makes your musical brain tick, Mike?” you ask. Good ass beats. The kind Daft Punk has given me for the last 7 years. (and others too. I’m not obsessed with them but…) Homework…a phenomenal album. Discovery…another phenomenal album, and sure to be revered as a classic in digital audio production and electronic music history for years to come. I have played those albums out, around just about every friend and acquaintance I have, to which there are many. “No Mike, please…put something else in the CD player!” they shout. (in unison sometimes)
So, I’m walking around Best Buy, and what do I see? Daft Pink – “Human after all”. Holy *^&%! I immediately called my best friend, who is older than me, and I’m 28, so for me to do the total teenager “I need to call someone over this!!!” type of thing, you know it has to be good. I left a message stating what I found and that I haven’t even bought it yet, but had to call. Well, he called me back in about 30 seconds, “What? Daft Punk has a new album!? Yup, and I can’t wait to hear it. You know what he said next? Come over and bring it with you! Now!!! He was out too, so the come over immediately thing would have involved him dropping what he was doing. I wanted to pick up some DVD’s, too but went straight to the checkout because I couldn’t wait to get this thing in my CD player. For a few seconds, it was like the whole world stopped, and all that was…was me and this new album, that I have waited for 4 long years to see released. Even the lights in Best Buy dimmed momentarily except for the spotlight over me holding this damn CD as high as my arms would reach, and the CD gleamed. Oh, how brightly it gleamed, and the sound of heavenly Ahhhhhs from a choir could be heard lightly in the background.
Oh man, those sweet tweaky solo parts, thick vocoded vocals, interesting lyrics, heavy bass lines, knockin’ beats, sharp…oh so sharp lead-synth sounds, cut up audio rhythms, and well, the list goes on. Not with the latest release. I waited 4 years for this??? WTF??? This latest release is a piss poor effort. P.I.S.S. P.O.O.R.!!! Sure the sound quality is cutting edge, as far as all of the sounds, quote unquote. “doing something”, as my former electronic music synthesis professor in college would say, over and over and over again. Sure the sounds are doing something, but the album is really good sounding crap…crapola…crapadoodoo…crapa-lap-a-ding-dong. The structure of these songs goes nowhere, and worst of all……No lead parts!!!.
Now, I….I…make really good sounding crap! I’m nobody. This is Daft Punk here. Legends. Groundbreaking electronic music producers. Excellent musicians. Two creative individuals who have been singled-out as being cut from a different mold, yet two people who re-create the mold for future producers all over the world. They set the mark for a lot of people in the electronic music industry. It was said since the release of their first album that everyone would have to work up to their status, and by the time they do, Daft Punk will make another release that will turn everyone’s heads and make them all start all over. Three years later they did, and the magazines and critics repeated themselves once more. For the last 4 years, I have been waiting for it to happen again. Not this time. C’mon, seriously, for the guys that first made auto-tuned vocoded vocals actually sound good, I expected a lot more.
Oh, and most of my work is not crap, I was just ranting. And… you must have no life if you read this whole thing, but it makes me feel better that you did. Now go buy “Discovery” and get caught up.
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03/30/2005 02:13:49 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by phreakon:
And… you must have no life if you read this whole thing |
Bugger, I've been found out!
Ah well, every act has to have the bad album, let's just hope it takes less than 4 years for them to realise and cover their asses with another good one.
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03/31/2005 02:01:35 PM · #3 |
| I felt the same way when I heard Metallica's "Load" and "ReLoad" |
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