sorry for that last one!! i hit send before i typed
anything--oops!!
-t
--- 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.
the purpose of doing jazz standards is not to play in
the style of someone else, but to put your own spin on
something that everyone knows. for example, listen to
(our favorite tune of the last 2 weeks) "autumn
leaves" by miles/cannonball (on *something else*) and
then listen to what wynton marsalis does with it on
*standard time vol.1* wynton is a really big fan of
miles--you can hear it in his tone--but he doesn't try
to sound just like him at every opportunity (although
there are times where he bites miles pretty heavily).
> 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.
in the new "...chaser" dego seems to indicate there
will be no tour for this album. i think that you're
right about us thinking thru this a lot more than
4hero did, but we're supposed to--we're the audience!!
> 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."
as another dj, i would agree that there is a
difference between "i don't like that" and "i wouldn't
spin it." but for me, if i don't like it, i won't
spin it.
i was very, very disappointed by this cover, and the
remixes which turned out to be for "9x9"--which is an
old gospel tune (i'm a little surpised no-one seems to
have picked up on this) that i don't think i ever
liked. i was really hoping they would freak "le
fleur" in some way--maybe a dub?
everything else i hear from the album seems to be
really good, though...
-t
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