Re:4Hero's 'Les Fleur'

From: t bird (djt_bird@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 00:47:36 CET

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    --- chris widman <chriswidman@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > I think it's also important to examine their
    > intentions in doing "Les
    > Fleur." It was obviously not exploitive, simply
    > their interpretation
    > of the song. It's obviously not a situation like
    > Orgy doing a cover
    > of New Order: a nobody group does a horrible cover
    > of a great,
    > popular song to reach fame and fortune. Perhaps we
    > should think of it
    > in terms of a jazz standard or a symphony.
    >
    > I also don't think they probably thought about it
    > nearly as much as
    > we have...perhaps it was just for the sheer joy of
    > making it and the
    > thought of being able to play it in concert. It may
    > not have been
    > their decision on releasing it as the single.
    >
    > But its also OK to not like it anyway. Being a DJ,
    > sometimes I have
    > to step back and try to seperate "I don't like that"
    > from "I wouldn't
    > play that in a set."
    >
    > Personally, my favorite on the album is
    > "Twothesame."
    > Two Pages is still the classic...Paranormal in 4
    > form is still tha jam...
    >
    > While we're on the subject of covers/bad covers,
    > what's up with that
    > horrible verison of "Hit the road Jack" on the new
    > Mo' Horizons
    > record....ugh...
    >
    > peace
    > chris widman
    > abstract science
    > WLUW-Chicago

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