http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:17:55 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/23/095520.php#comment-544919 This article has been promoted to Digg, Reddit, and Netscape. If you enjoyed it, vote for it by clicking on the above links. 544919@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:17:55 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/23/095520.php#comment-544678 While I loved My Brightest Diamond's <em>Bring Me The Workhorse</em> (it ranked among my very favorite albums of last year, in fact,) this remix album, if these two tracks are any example, sounds very bland and by-the-numbers. I was hoping for some really inventive reimaginings, instead we get the typical dance-floor remixes - stutter vocal effects, heavy beats and cymbals, etc. It's all very 1995 sounding - absolutely not fresh, unlike the album the original songs came from. It's kind of a shame Shara did this, actually - this might turn people off of the originals because it is so bland. 544678@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:16:00 EST