Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Explains the derivation of the "emotional ballad" Weird: "We were talking about the fact that nobody had ever written a song about the word weird. It seemed strange to us. Think about how many times you say 'weird...
...Especially because my background, as far as making records, is sort of more in an electronic/dance realm and the Burma cover was a rock song...so it's those people who wouldn't otherwise be exposed to electronic dance music. But then again I make so many different types of music I think I'm a fairly confusing artist...
...like every song I ever wrote...
People who say that techno music is overly simple should go out and buy a classic rock songbook and you realize that almost every classic rock song has maybe four chords. People have been dismissing wonderful music by saying it's simple forever. Most people thought Billie Holiday [was] terribly simple and not worth listening to. Early rock and roll people said was too simple and wasn't music; early hip-hop same thing...
Richard Melville Hall, more commonly known as Moby, seems to have missed all of this. When his stripped-down band plunged into a cover of "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," it could have been Clint Conley and Mission of Burma playing the song in '83. Mission of Burma covers are nothing new, but when the band follows up one by ripping through a cover of the "James Bond Theme," sounding just as serious, something strange is going on. And when the performer is best known for producing euphoric house music, you know it's not an ordinary...