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between_time_and_42(okay, I just broke it up with a U2 post, but never mind)
This song:
Is better than it has any right to be, but that's not what I came here to say. I came here to say that it is a TRAVESTY that this song was written specifically as the theme for a movie, and then in the movie, it only plays for five seconds at the very end. There is NO REASON why they couldn't have played the entire thing over the end credits. It would have been great exposure for Wondermints, and hey, there still would have been enough time to play the song that does play over the credits, too. Also, the fact that songwriter Darian Sahanaja's name is misspelled in the credits as "Darien Shanaja" personally offends me.
anyway, I listened to Wondermints' album Bali today, for which I had heard high praise, and I liked it (even better than their album Mind If We Make Love To You), but I feel like both albums have the problem of being too long. After a while, it all sounds a bit samey. Bali is much more diverse though, so that's why I preferred it. I also found it tedious to sit through seven minutes to get to the first hidden track, and then six more minutes to get to the next. But I certainly liked it- much better than Pitchfork did, their negative review of it still sticks in my head. But then again, I just read yesterday that they had reviewed Lou Reed's metal Machine Music (an album consisting entirely of guitar feedback) as 8.5 out of 10, so if they're THAT pretentious I can't expect them to be appreciative of anything good. (Though I thought it was funny that they reviewed Bali as "too clever for its own good" when like, I'd say praising an album of guitar feedback is just another way of saying "I'm an intellectual and you're not," so...)
This song:
Is better than it has any right to be, but that's not what I came here to say. I came here to say that it is a TRAVESTY that this song was written specifically as the theme for a movie, and then in the movie, it only plays for five seconds at the very end. There is NO REASON why they couldn't have played the entire thing over the end credits. It would have been great exposure for Wondermints, and hey, there still would have been enough time to play the song that does play over the credits, too. Also, the fact that songwriter Darian Sahanaja's name is misspelled in the credits as "Darien Shanaja" personally offends me.
anyway, I listened to Wondermints' album Bali today, for which I had heard high praise, and I liked it (even better than their album Mind If We Make Love To You), but I feel like both albums have the problem of being too long. After a while, it all sounds a bit samey. Bali is much more diverse though, so that's why I preferred it. I also found it tedious to sit through seven minutes to get to the first hidden track, and then six more minutes to get to the next. But I certainly liked it- much better than Pitchfork did, their negative review of it still sticks in my head. But then again, I just read yesterday that they had reviewed Lou Reed's metal Machine Music (an album consisting entirely of guitar feedback) as 8.5 out of 10, so if they're THAT pretentious I can't expect them to be appreciative of anything good. (Though I thought it was funny that they reviewed Bali as "too clever for its own good" when like, I'd say praising an album of guitar feedback is just another way of saying "I'm an intellectual and you're not," so...)
