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Harsh review in norwegian magazine Spirit
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 8:55 pm
by rabagast
In 1985 two men went to a recording studio in London. During a forthnight one of them sang the vocals to 716 self-penned songs, while the other one hung around. The recordings where locked in a vault and buried beneath a pet shop.
Therefore, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe still sound like themselves 22 years ago. The time acpsule did not, sadly, have room for Chris Lowe's music arrangements, always founded on occasionally genius popdisco, but more often sagging ballads.
The latter dominate Fundamental, and things are not bettered by producer Trevor Horn, who makes soundscapes sounding like many decades ago. "Integral" and "Minimal", it has to be said, is pop that no other band can match, and some of the other heard-it-thousand-times-before songs can maybe pass on a sunny day.
Fundamentalism never leads to anything good
And the verdict: Would you believe it? 3 out of 6
http://www.spirit.no/plater/artikkel.php?id=3192
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 8:57 pm
by wow
They probably haven't even heard the album 'cause the album is awsome!
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 9:02 pm
by fluffmoln
Sounds like he came up with that review idea a long time ago and didn't bother to listen to the album that much. Good for him.
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 9:11 pm
by rabagast
fluffmoln wrote:Sounds like he came up with that review idea a long time ago and didn't bother to listen to the album that much. Good for him.
Agree. I enjoy a good PSB-bashing in the press if it's well written, but this one's just plain stupid
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 9:12 pm
by !
I wouldn't have thought Fundamentalsim would have got mentioned in a review seeing as it's a special edition and the actual album that many people will be buying...
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 9:17 pm
by Pani
Thanx for the article and the translation. Amusing ...
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 9:33 pm
by Dog
Who the hell marks things out of six????
Posted: Thu 04 May 2006, 10:37 pm
by One of the crowd
Dog wrote:Who the hell marks things out of six????
Maybe they threw a Dice?
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 3:02 am
by glennjridge
everyone seems to assume if its a slow track chris had nothing to do with it, but just going by literally he wrote casanova in hell on neils piano,only the wind,jealousy,you choose,to speak is a sin, and thats just off the top of my head,
these are the songs that they came up with. trevor didnt hold chris back or anything.
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 3:30 am
by amhilde
Can I just say its ironic that a Norwegian magazine would be called "Spirit"? Anyone else find that ironic? Just me?
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 6:00 am
by Dreamcatcher2003
If I am not wrong, this is the second time a Norwegian magazine bashes the album (or is it the translation of the first one?)
What is it with the Nordics nowadays?
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 6:19 am
by leesmapman
One of the crowd wrote:Dog wrote:Who the hell marks things out of six????
Maybe they threw a Dice?
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 8:36 am
by rabagast
Dreamcatcher2003 wrote: What is it with the Nordics nowadays?
I have to add: This isn't a high end magazine. It's a free magazine distributed via clothes shops, cinemas etc. and the journalism is not always on par. That said, they gave a glorius full page review of the reissues, and they even liked Release
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 8:42 am
by fluffmoln
rabagast wrote:and they even liked Release
That just makes this review even more abysmal..
Posted: Fri 05 May 2006, 9:34 am
by 13thJoerg
Sometimes things seem pretty easy, as long as a band does not sound like they should and have before, it's no good. And when they do sound like they did before it's even worse.
Good for bands like placebo, that do not really change their style...