| Hmmm / I Only Want Love |
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| Album: | I Only Want Love | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Hmmm | Added: | Feb 2005 | |
| Label: | None | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-03-27 | Pull Date: | 2005-05-29 |
| Week Ending: | May 1 | Apr 24 | Apr 10 | Apr 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select Trained Monkey | 4. | Nov 11, 2007: | Rorschach's Dance Trained Monkey | |
| 2. | Jan 09, 2009: | Memory Select Boxpeople | 5. | Apr 28, 2006: | The Top Shelf (sub for Natalie) Boxpeople | |
| 3. | Dec 07, 2007: | Memory Select Loop | 6. | Apr 27, 2005: | Strange Attractor Boxpeople |
| Album Review |
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| Micha S Reviewed 2005-03-23 | ||
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Experimental pop (in the words of one member of this male duo), surreal and theatrical. Wacky. Most tracks have complex styles. Socio-aware lyrics. Combines guitars, electronic sound effects and other instruments, with talking or singing, sometimes with relatively catchy melodies. A collaboration with Amy X. Neuburg (who sings in tracks 3,9). Featuring short bridging tracks with only sound effects (2,5, 7,10). Try tracks 4,8,9,11. No FCC violations. 1) Wacky. Distorted guitars/sound effects/male voice giving a speech. 3) Acoustic guitar/male singing, then some noises, people voices, and some more melody with a female voice. *4) electronic effects accompanying a male voice giving directions in what sounds like a TV show, then a tune begins (actually a nice one). 6) Male voice samplings -> distorted guitar and sound effects as background for a male voice whispering. **8) A cynical theatrical song about working in cubicles(Life's a loop). A simple electric guitar repetitive line as a background for a male voice. *9) Slow Kongos, joined by a bass, lead to a dark tune. Cynical lyrics about soldiers. *11) A choir that sings a dark tune with crazed up male voices on top, turns into a jazzy bit which changes again to something that sounds like it came from a rock opera. At the end the track returns to the first motif. 12) Bits of a song. Short bits at first, which become longer, until a song line is intelligible and then it ends. 13) A simple melody accompanied with guitars and drums. Ends with sound effects and an endless loop. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Machine | 7. | BRIDGE3 | |||
| 2. | BRIDGE1 | 8. | Loop | |||
| 3. | Trained Monkey | 9. | Army | |||
| 4. | Boxpeople | 10. | BRIDGE4 | |||
| 5. | BRIDGE2 | 11. | Justice | |||
| 6. | I Only Want Love | 12. | Pray | |||
| 13. | Peas and Carrots | |||||