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Saturday, August 6, 2005
Song review guide!
I decided to review whatever music is in my MP3 playlist at the moment...
First a comparative piece on Ghost In The Shell music:
Ghost In The Shell, a fab anime film, beautiful music, out of the clumo of GITS music, two songs stood out to me, "Ghost In The Shell" by KMFDM and "Ghost In The Shell"(again) by Aphex Twin...
KMFDM's version is an up-tempo industrial classic with a conflicted chorus of "Give it to me!/I want fire../Take it from me!/I'm on fire..", the lyrical delivery is spot-on, and it's KMFDM, who have twoo awful songs out of a twent-year career("The Mortal Kombat theme" and the "Du Riechst So Gut" remix, more on those later)
While Aphex Twin gives us a composition beginning with a blast of feedback, then xylophone-wsque synth clicks, set to samples of the film's dialog and a pumping bass drum, this drags on for about five minutes(!) before a beautiful synth arangement closes out this EIGHT MINUTE FIFTY SECOND TRACK(!!)
The verdicts...
KMFDM: A quick, to the point industrial bang, five stars..
Aphex Twin: A beautiful, yet plodding song marred by it's simplicity, Richard, try harder! Three and a half stars
"A Drug Against War"-KMFDM:
Beginning with a sound that is either a dirt bike or a chainsaw is a tad odd an idea, but KMFDM does whatever the fuck they please, they're legends, GODDAMMIT!
(Excuse the outburst)
This is, of course, KMFDM's best song, beating out the hilarious "Sucks.." for the prestigious title("Our music is sampled/It's totally fake/Made by machines/'Coz they don't make mistakes!")
But that's beside the point, "A Drug Against War" doesn't really have a specific point, it's obviously anti-war, but doesn't make it blatantly obvious, and they say "KMFDM" a ton of times, sounds quite generic, but what makes this track shine is the satisfying instrumental track that sets up the relentless vocal delivery, the beats, being samples and loops for the most part, repeat(A LOT!) without variation at all, but sound fab!
Verdict: Despite the self-referencing and hard-to-grasp meaning, this drug warrants a five.
"Come To Daddy"-Aphex Twin
Simply put, Richard D. James is a smart-ass prick, He takes the beauty of classic compositions and beats the shit out of them with mere synth he made in his teens, he out-blaxploited the rap community with "Windowlicker", and here he takes The Prodigy's "scary euro-industrial" and makes it sound five-billion times better than they do it.
The lyrics, poking fun at The Prodigy's repetitive choruses, consist of "I want your soul/I'll eat your soul" intercut early on with the repetition of "Come to daddy!" are lackluster, but scary sounding, but the beats make everything work, the spastic drums blast off like gunfire
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