(As for being "dated," though, I dunno, I tend not to acknowledge that adjective. If music is good, it stays good. If it sucks, ditto.)
In related news: Hey, what ABOUT that "bootleg" fad, huh? Where the hell did THAT go??? (No worries; in seven years it'll be back again, and people will claim like always that it never happened before.)
― chuck, Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link
The Avalanches' appeal to me isn't the "wow lookit all the samples" approach as it is the general "every genre can be pop" feel to it. It's just a great-flowing album where so many disparate pieces just seem to fit perfectly. And "serious" is the last word I would ever, ever consider when thinking about "Frontier Psychiatrist" or "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time".
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
Dan, "Frontier Psychiatrist" is like the everything-goes-haywire moment where every convention of the album gets ratcheted up to obsessively bombastic levels -- Since I Left You's "House of Blue Leaves" sequence. The rest of it's a lot subtler.
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
I totally adore "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time."
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 December 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
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