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Enrico Caruso - Rigoletto-La donna e mobile
Sep 07, 2011
This recording is online on Gallica the digital library of the French national library: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k128415b .
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Through The Looking Glass
Jan 04, 2011
Hey oh, what the fuck happened here ? After a string of impeccable remixes and rather splendid mixes this album is a bad joke turned sour.Granted, "We Can't Fly", was a bit of a hint of what was to be expected here, with its 10CC's "Dreadlock Holiday" not too subtle underlyings - dread, indeed ... But things even get worse from there. Don't get me wrong, I'm not averse to 80s pastiches, but most of the tracks included here are just failures of the highest order, with "I Don't Feel" and "Good Riddance" the worst of the lot due to really atrocious vocal performances - plus the tunes are poor to begin with. Only thing that might be redeeming this kitsch disaster is "Without Lies" a cutesy cover of the Marie Gillain's "Sans Mensonges" theme tune to the 1991 movie "Mon Père Ce Héros". I usually count myself as an amateur of Belgian sense of humour but, here, the whole joke is lost on me. Godferdom !
Klein & MBO* - 25th Anniversary
Feb 05, 2008
Beware of this release.
Yes it's by Klein & MBO. Yes it comes with a sticker claiming it contains the hit single "Dirty Talk" ... but this package doesn't include any of the glorious original versions. In stead of those you'll have to endure very 2007 so-called electro house remakes of the italo classic. Think David Guetta vs. Tocadisco or the remakes of Freaks' "The Creeps" - this is the crap you've just bought. Oh and the last track is a laughably poor downtempo piece of adult oriented eurodance crap. All in all, the aural equivalent of a trip down Ventimiglia market. Leaves you feeling both embarrassed and angry to have fallen for such an obvious con.
Tweet / A Tribe Called Quest - Boogie 2Nite / I C U (Doin' It) (Edits By Mr. K)
Sep 29, 2007
(edited about 1 year ago)
Forget about the garage house remixes and the rather cheap cover by the even cheaper Booty Luv, this is the version of Tweet's Boogie Tonight you've been looking for - It's damp - It's moist - It's pure sex basically - Makes you wanna bump & grind senselessly with love-handled mature men - Just make sure that phial of jungle juice is not too far from your nostrils and enjoy.
This truly is an atrocious re-make, using each and everyone of the summer of 2007 Ibiffa's production clichés. To its credit it does makes the average output of Eric Prydz and Fedde LeGrande sound like inspired, cutting edge dance music.How Solomon and Harris green lighted this to be released under the Freaks name is quite mind boggling, really.
This album was a major disappointment; achieving the quite paradoxical feat of sounding formulaic and mismatched at the same time. Some of the lyrics are really dire (try Troubled Man) and vocals uninspired (Tracey Thorn doing her usual rent-a-miserable-mood number). Only highlights are the last two tracks, Benedict, as it recycles the best elements of one of Tiefschwarz trademark remix (Kelis Trick Me) and Issst, that eventually sound as a second thought to this over-all below par collection. I guess that's what's likely to happen when talented producers spend too much time remixing everybody and their mother too when preparing their own second album.
One of the very rare cases of a cover version being way better than the original. Marc's delivery is so way over the top that it makes lines like "I live among the creatures of the night" (or something like that) sound like life-afirming statements. This, along with Punx Soundcheck's version of Visage's Damned Don't Cry, makes up for a truckload of unecessary so-called electroclash 80's cover versions: it's neither lazy nor easy, just plain genius.
found this by chance in the bargain bin in a thrift store.this actually left me quite dumbfounded as to how dated the production sounds: maybe the artwork should have been a hint (mr heard looking quite like an ex-boy band member on the cover his first serious release) cause it disturbingly sounds a lot like what you would expect from Take That or Gary Barlow or George Michael on lush downtempo mode... or some babyface type r&b from the early 90s weird to say the least, and surprisingly dated from a name who created timeless pieces of house music
Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss
Jun 03, 2003
Edelweiss is, to my knowledge, one of the only acts who actually succeeded in making the KLF Manual on how to have a number one hit single record come true: based on ABBA's S.O.S. this tacky euro trash gem replicates each and every steps to global chart domination as devised by the KLF and applied to Doctorin' The Tardisrespect, I guess. |
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