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Posted: June 05 2003, 19:11 |
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All the positive press he's got for TB2003????????? There's not much press for TB2003 at all, positive or negative, not that I've seen, and I've scoured the magazines looking. I've seen two reviews for the album, one good, one very bad but it could be that because of it's release date being late in the month it's missed the current crop of magazines, maybe things will be different next month. There's been no newspaper articles at all that I'm aware of either which isn't a good sign, I think the truth is people are just bored of Mike releasing TB albums.
I know everyone has indivdual tastes and their own personal take on Mike's music but I do alway's find it weird and slightly, from Mike's artistic point of view, distressing when I hear fans saying they think the original TB is 'awfull'. Whilst it doesn't suprise me in the least when you've got a career as diverse and eratic as Mike's that fans who have discovered his music through his recent albums don't like his signature one it alway's makes me feel slightly sad. TB is in a way the personification of him as a musician, the fact that some newer fans don't like it is for me a sign of how far removed and detracted his latter music has become. To give another analogy, I bet there's not many Pink Floyd fans of any age who don't like Dark Side of the Moon and argue endlessly about how dated and badly played it sounds.
It has to be said I do actualy think Mike's own attitude to TB isn't very healthy as it seems to be one of complete non acceptance. For him TB2003 represents, for the time being at least, his perfect TB but for the rest of the world it will alway's be TB1973 that'll be seen as the definative and original version, certainly for generations of music lovers to come it will be. These recent interviews with him bring back memories of the comments he made when TB2 came out in 1992. Then as now he said the new version of TB had lots more power, direction, atmosphere, etc. And now as then my own personal thought was one of 'no you're utterly wrong', it's the original that has it all, its got everything, its a work of utterly sublime genius, and all the ingredients that make it such can't possibly be recreated in 1992 or 2003 or ever, why can't you, its creator, see it that way?
Maybe we're all taking this thing way to seriously. I mean the flip side of the coin is that at least there's a TB album for everyone's tastes. If you prefer TB2 then stick with it and if you prefer the new version then stick with it but just remember where they all came from.
ps Christopher. AOR = Adult Oriented Rock MOR = Male Oriented Rock
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