More like "Neal Battles The Urge To Not Fall Asleep While Listening to this Album"!!!
I mean, seriously! C'mon! What's all this dippy crap with the same beat, crappy Eno wannabe production, and whispered Wayne Coyne vocals! I mean, yes, you could argue that "Yoshimi Battles pt. 2" isn't any of this - but it sucks! It sounds like some guys trying to play funk under a bunch of sound effects of bubbles. WHY? the only redeming part of this is Yoshimi from the Boredoms screaming during the track.
I remember the first time I listened to this album - it was late, I was in my dorm, and like I would be for the rest of the year, I was sans-roommate. So on nites like this, I would just let music play and not wear headphones. And I got through the first song and figured I'd go to bed. Then the second song came on and that little instrumental part at the end happened, and it felt like it went on for 3 hours. Really, its about 80 seconds, but what the hell?! I don't want to hear guitar strumming and sound effects from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" - I want to hear Wayne Coyne ripping off the Butthole Surfers, trying to sing about Jesus, Michael Ivins to be CLEAN SHAVEN and WEARING SUNGLASSES, and well, I'd prefer it Drozd stayed off the heroin, for his own life, wife and child. BUT MAKE BETTER MUSIC!
Not to say it's all terrible - "Fight Test", "Yoshimi pt. 1" and "Do You Realize??" are all great pop songs. But most of the album sounds like easy listening Lips. And why? I don't know! That's why I'm asking YOU! Why, Oriana Dunlop, does this album bore me? Why, Joelle Wagner, is this a great album to sleep to, only to awake in a friends pool of dead animals? Why, John Gargiulo begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting, don't we watch "Family Feud" together? We could be good at it!
And honestly, the teaming up of a drum set and drum machine has been done before - just ask Pat Byrne and Roland.
OVERALL RATING - overrated rat sandwich.
KEY TRACKS - "Do You Realize??", "Yoshimi Pt. 1", the last instrumental track, mainly for the trumpet. all brass, some class, mowin' the grass.
Bahahahaha! This album bored me too. Although, I really really really love the tracks "In the Morning of the Magicians" and "Are You A Hypnotist??" But aside from those, and... and I guess "Do You Realize??" this album is pretty...meh... "It's Summertime" has its' moments... but yeah. Meh? This album is ok, but TOTALLY overrated.
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