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THE HOT AND NOT
LIST as of September 24th 2000
Le Mec:
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- Smashing
Pumpkins embrasing the Internet. The The have decided to do it and the Pumpkins are now
following suit by offering their last album before splitting for free via the Internet.
The only shame is that people won't be able to get an actual release with cover art etc.
and in many ways I think a band like Smashing Pumpkins deserve a better end to their
career...You can download the album in its entirety (25 tracks) here.
- In these times ruled by electronic
music, I can only encourage people to draw some attention to some of the founders of the
genre and bands that dug the first holes to build the foundation of this genre of the
future. I'm talking about Ultravox
and Visage from the early 1980's.
- Kylie
Minogue. She's back and I think that deserves a mention. One can disguss
her musical qualities but she's been here for an amazing 14 years and by now has her own
special place on the pop scene. She's now back with the lighter stuff (the album's called
"Light Years") she began with but I recommend her self-entitled album from 1997
where Kylie went indie. That was quite good...
- Finally, I want to draw your attention
to the film "Fall" (the Danish
title is "Tusind Røde Roser"). This is another example of how you can use a
great soundtrack to really create and support the story in a film. The soundtrack has
artists like Aimee Mann and Korn on the list and really makes this film an intense and
passionate affair. It' a film about life, love, longing and leaving and the music really
helps set the mood. Check it out!
Notlist
- Radiohead:
"Kid A". No matter how much I
love this band, I still have to say that I'm very disappointed with their new album. It
only contains fractions of the grand atmospheric anthems they're know for and is primarily
filled with experimental mood pieces which sometimes barely make up a song. They've always
been a very original band and probably needed this album to make something for themselves,
but when all the loyal fans have bought it I don't think it will attract that much more
attention. Luckily, the band is already back in the studio to record a more commercial
album (probably with the kind of songs we know them for...) to be released in the spring.
So let's just give "Kid A" the attention it deserves and then wait for the real
follow-up to "OK Computer"...
- Lousy
cover versions of older hits from the '80's. It's become very popular (as
always) to take older hits and add drumbeats and a boy- og girlband to the microphone and
that way create an easy hit. But right now we're experiencing some of the worst examples
of how wrong this musical rape can go: Mariah Carey and N'Sync are completely destroying
Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" and a band I don't even know the name of has
done even worse trying to steal A-ha's "Take On Me". It's so bad it's almost
funny...but somehow I find it very frightening. Because people are actually buying these
records - often without knwoing the originals. Damn!
- The pop/dance
scene of today is filled with throw-aways. It probably fits the times very
well with everything else becoming more and more superficial, but looking at the charts
today is a sad experience. I mean, how many of these artists will be remembered in just a
couple of years. Very few, I say! At least in the ´80's and early ´90's there was
popular music with some staying power. After all, we still remember bands like Depeche
Mode, Duran Duran, Kylie Minogue (for that matter) and Tears For Fears. Or....coming to
think of it, do teenagers of today even know these bands....?
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