Music Banter - The Avalanches

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 723500)

I find a lot of that cut & paste type of stuff dates really badly.

They were entertaining for a few minutes in 2001 but that's about it.

but every now and again it's fun to dust off an old disc like that for a little run around memory lane.

That's why I enjoy listening to Since I left you...its so laid back relaxed, yet the vast array of sounds :/ recording / samples is simply mind bending...

I bought this album a few years ago (though I first heard tracks from it around the time it was released). Pretty good album I think.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 723500)

I find a lot of that cut & paste type of stuff dates really badly.

They were entertaining for a few minutes in 2001 but that's about it.

Since I Left You has all the ingredients of something I would like, but it did surprisingly little for me. I think I tired of it before the album came to an end, which has kept me from going back to it. If it were more condensed it might feel more solid and get repeat listens. I just felt like it was too long with too much of the same.

I agree with that. I do like the album, but I don't often listen to it in it's entirety.

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Originally Posted by trace87 (Post 723524)

whens the last time you gave them a listen?

About 3 weeks ago, My local radio station played Frontier Psychiatrist. To be honest I found myself cringing that i'd bought this record.
Thats nothing against the band i'd say the same for DJ Shadow, Lemon Jelly or any other band who did this kind of stuff too. I used to like it, but listening to it around a decade or so later I just find all that cut & paste stuff a bit cheap & naff these days.

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Originally Posted by mr dave (Post 723874)

but every now and again it's fun to dust off an old disc like that for a little run around memory lane.

Of course it is, I won't argue with you there.

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Originally Posted by sidewinder (Post 724335)

I think it's something very much of it's time. I thought that this album was the perfect description of bubblegum music. You chew on it a bit until it loses it's flavor, then you spit it out & move on to something else.
Which funnily enough is exactly what I did with this album.

Very good, though as far as cut and paste mix albums go i wouldn't say they're the main honchos for me, compared to DJ Shadow and right now J Dilla's Donuts album. Radio is a brilliant song though.

i prefer since i left you to endtroducing personally.

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 724347)

About 3 weeks ago, My local radio station played Frontier Psychiatrist. To be honest I found myself cringing that i'd bought this record. Thats nothing against the band i'd say the same for DJ Shadow, Lemon Jelly or any other band who did this kind of stuff too. I used to like it, but listening to it around a decade or so later I just find all that cut & paste stuff a bit cheap & naff these days.

fair enough. i find i have to be in the right mood for cut & paste discs. personally it's the big beat electronica of the 90s that makes me cringe more than the stuff you mention. the prodigy / crystal method / chemical brothers *shudders* hahaha

Yeah, but do you remember how incredibly cool and cutting edge it all was back in the 90's.... man, it feels weird to say that. I feel kinda.... old...