Sunday, April 13, 2003
So, My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117 and tATu's '200 KM/h in the Wrong Lane'...
The first has a quite nice Radiohead style cover and is, depending on your opinion of Chris Morris and the place it comes from, very funny. But it's twelve minutes, and looks exactly like a piece that was cut from Jam for time reasons. So there is the question of why did he bother? Paddy Considne, playing 'him' is very good, as is Morris as the dog, and there's that slightly off-kilter monged feeling we got from Jam, but really the last laugh is on idiots like me buying this because they want to have as much of Chris's stuff without breaking into his house and cutting his elbows off.
tATu. Nice to see my low expectations for this were reached (I work in a library, so it's not like I have to pay to take this stuff out). Lots of perv/teen-dyke pleasing photo's of the girls and the songs follow the general policy of the two singles by shouting very shrilly whenever possible. And, unless I'm missing something, 'Malchik Gay' is two straight girls pretending to be two lesbians pretending to be two straight girls singing a love song to a gay bloke about how they wish he was straight so they could get jiggy wit' him. Which is frankly fantastic and the best thing by miles on the album, though I also liked their version of 'How Soon is Now' purely because it seems to irritate a lot of Smiths fans. Haha! The rest is pretty run-of-the-mill pap. The original Russian versions of a few of the songs sound better than the originals Maybe they could get Peaches to do one of her terrifying remixes of 'All The Things She Said'?
The first has a quite nice Radiohead style cover and is, depending on your opinion of Chris Morris and the place it comes from, very funny. But it's twelve minutes, and looks exactly like a piece that was cut from Jam for time reasons. So there is the question of why did he bother? Paddy Considne, playing 'him' is very good, as is Morris as the dog, and there's that slightly off-kilter monged feeling we got from Jam, but really the last laugh is on idiots like me buying this because they want to have as much of Chris's stuff without breaking into his house and cutting his elbows off.
tATu. Nice to see my low expectations for this were reached (I work in a library, so it's not like I have to pay to take this stuff out). Lots of perv/teen-dyke pleasing photo's of the girls and the songs follow the general policy of the two singles by shouting very shrilly whenever possible. And, unless I'm missing something, 'Malchik Gay' is two straight girls pretending to be two lesbians pretending to be two straight girls singing a love song to a gay bloke about how they wish he was straight so they could get jiggy wit' him. Which is frankly fantastic and the best thing by miles on the album, though I also liked their version of 'How Soon is Now' purely because it seems to irritate a lot of Smiths fans. Haha! The rest is pretty run-of-the-mill pap. The original Russian versions of a few of the songs sound better than the originals Maybe they could get Peaches to do one of her terrifying remixes of 'All The Things She Said'?
