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A Perfect Circle
3 Libras (Massive Attack Remix)
Album: Mer De Noms
Genres: Alternative
Got seven minutes to waste? This pointless Massive Attack remix will be more than happy to oblige! |
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It's always a roll of the dice when you send your song out to be remixed -- sometimes the new version is a revelation, and sometimes it just comes back as a hunk o' junk. Once one of the hippest names in the remix world, England's Massive Attack seem convinced that every one of their knob-twiddles is sheer genius. How else can you explain this numbing elongation of a track from A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms? On the album, "3 Libras" clocks in at three-and-a-half minutes, but Massive Attack stretches it out to over seven by looping vocal fragments ad nauseam, then pumping up the bass whenever they get bored. As a result, the song's original meaning and dynamics are completely wiped out, with nothing remotely substantive to take their place. The best part of the track is the first twenty seconds, which sounds like a monkey playing a moog over a scratchy copy of Brian Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets. I was ready to check out by the two-minute mark, and only stuck with it because I was being paid to do so. Trust me: it never gets any better.
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Dan Epstein |
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Dan Epstein is a Los Angeles-based journalist and pop-culture historian whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, BAM, Raygun, Guitar World and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His first book, Twentieth Century Pop Culture, was published in 1999 by Carlton Books.
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A Perfect Circle rulz and anyone that can't hear that, can't really hear music
cookie
I LOVE PERFECT CIRCLE and when I am down in the dumps I turn on my PERFECT CIRCLE c.d. and then I feel better! My best friend ERIN WALTON loves you too! And she is the reason I listen to you GUYS!
Christian Iams
Well, it does sound like Massive Attack ... wasn't that the point? You know, give it some "Street Cred" so they can sell records to a crowd that wouldn't normally give a shit! Tell ya what ... just lose the vocals and all will be well!
alien8
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