From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 30th 1999, 11:29
From Tom Millar Sent Tue, Mar 30th 1999, 11:29
When I first heard this, I was going to post a negative review as many others have. Then I had a few beers and listened to it with a friend of mine in the room while we conversed on a variety of different topics, not excluding the opposite sex and "gettin' some". After that, I have become enlightened. Wow. This track is still AFX, traditional fuck-you demented melodic and rhythmic games with the listener and all, but it's practically romantic. This is what it sounds like when our favorite Cornish crackhead makes out, methinks. Ooh. Uurh. Grunt. Mmm. Aah! Ooh. etc... The beat doesn't grab one as well as AFX's history would have us expect, but that's not the point of this song. This song is romantic as hell, in the RDJ universe anyway. At first I was more enamored of the other two songs on the single, as many others seem to be, but now I just listen to Windowlicker over and over. Mmm...girlies... The beat here just throbs, it doesn't sling your neck back and forth or throw you into convulsions. The gentle/cheesy synth line doesn't make you braindance, it makes your tongue go in and out. The voices, at first annoying, now reveal themselves as just another weird AFX take on pop convention. My initial disappointment with this song was tempered by two things: One, that I got the single as a promo copy, for free, and Two, I have never been the type to instantly like whatever new direction an artist takes. It took me a year and a half to appreciate FSOL's ISDN, several months to get into Orbital's In Sides, and so forth... This is especially true with RDJ, since he flies off in all manner of directions every time he releases something new nowadays. I am glad that I was able to come around and appreciate this single,l especially within such a short time. So, to summarize: Not bad! In fact, it's excellent. Don't window-pitch the Windowlicker just because it isn't exactly what you were hoping for. Hell, it took me a week, you should give it at least a week as well. Try listening to it when extremely tired or partially inebriated. Trust me, it doesn't suck. Tom