Re: (idm) flanger and "singing about cars, cleaning the kitchen and putting on socks"

From Andrew Hime
Sent Wed, Jul 7th 1999, 19:52

> > > >WHY I DIDN'T LIKE THE DAMN FLANGER RECORD
> > >
> > > That could've been stated more simply as "this is a piss poor record."
> > > Except for track 6 or so, full on scientist or something that I kinda
> > > liked.  The rest is intensely dull.
> >
> > Guess I don't need to do a review now. Hate to bite that hand that fed me
> > a promo, but this was a pretty dull record. I'm going to try listening to
> > it again, but I don't expect to get much out of it.
> 
> well, im going to have to join the ranks of people that consider the flanger
> album to be the most boring piece of idm since bola thought he could put out
> a full length (sorry, i only thought that album was really good the first
> two times i had to sit through it, it's dated, and not too good).
>    the strange thing is that i fully agree with arthur on track 6, full on
> scientist, if the whole album sounded like that, it'd be very good.
> actually im going to keep the album just because of track 6.... other than

Curiously, I seem to recall track 6 being the only one I liked on this
album, as well. Or at least the track name "Full-On Scientist" feels
familiar.