TubularBelle
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Posted: Oct. 11 2005, 20:32 |
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I can't believe you are still waiting you poor thing. I got mine on Friday and have listened to it about 4 times all the way through now but still do not feel ready to write a review yet. I feel very conflicted about this album, I don't see the listening enjoyment of it as any different really from previous albums although there has been an obvious steady change in Mikes style, which is a good thing, not a bad thing, regardless of whether you like it or not. But at the same time I have not read one comment, no matter how derogatory, that hasn't rung some truth. The 'offical' for want of a better word review from the Norwegian Times esp struck a chord with me because it was the first really BAD review of L&S in the media that I have read and is way over the top in it's criticism but also says practically the same thing I tried to say in a much nicer way in a post of my own. I love dance music too and I suppose if it was my favourite form of music then Mike would certainly not be my first choice of artist to listen to it, I think most people would agree to that. Even Mike would agree it's not his best work or that is all he would be doing. But I love Shade, it's fun, it's exciting and it's easy to listen to once you open yourself up to it. It is a compliment if people can go as far back as QE2 to make comparisons, and in fact proves that the old Mike is still in there and has not lost the plot at all. As I have said, if it wasn't for the internet pre-exposing us to practically the whole album, and if Mike had released Tres Lunas and Light as a 2cd set before Tres Lunas 2 surfaced (by somebody quite naturally assuming that Mike would not be rehashing old tunes 3 years later), and if Shade had been released as a solo album about 5 years ago, then everyone would be HAPPY. I think Mikes timing is off, he's running behind the eight ball now, which obviously acrues to laziness. Music is a very NOW thing, even moreso when you delve into the dance genre and Mike with his attempt to catch up has actually shown how far behind the finishing line he actually is. He in his 50's, it's perfectly inderstandable. But I think you will love at least one if not both cds.
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