Re: The State of Things?

From: miroslav. (ambient66@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 21:26:53 CEST

  • Next message: milkweed: "jason sugars"

    I second this one...I really thought (and think) that
    they had something very special to share back in the
    days of emergency on Planet Earth, Return of the Space
    Cowboy, Travelling without Moving...since then, I
    haven't picked up a single thing from them. Its just
    one of those things where they stopped evolving. It
    happens...

    > I just picked up the new Jamiroquai. So, it's just
    > Jay
    > Kay sans band now? If so, what a shame. Perhaps his
    > ego exploded. They were tight-knit as a group, with
    > incredible musicianship and great songwriting
    > (although with some pretty flighty lyrics). I
    > thought
    > the sound and quality was dropping off somewhat on
    > Synkronized, but it seems to have dropped dead on
    > Odyssey. Sounds pretty generic if you ask me. It's a
    > sad thing when the very thing that brought success
    > (the band as a whole), gets dumped in favor of
    > individual pride). Can you imagine the Solsonics or
    > Brand New Heavies back in the day without the
    > musical
    > element? Sure, sampling and canned beats are great,
    > but nothing compares to the live band sound. Go see
    > a
    > live hip-hop band other than the Roots and you'll
    > get
    > the point.

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