ALBUM REVIEW :: FEIST - THE REMINDER

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Category: I WOULD SAY FESITY BUT IT WOULD BE A BAD JOKE.. Music

I can never decide whether hypocrisy is one of the greatest human attirbutes or one of the worst.

Whichever it is, it' certainly one that's extraordinarily prevalent in the music business.

Indeed, those of you have long suffered my crap these past 10 months (to the day) will know that I had a spell a while back trying to solicit answers as to why in the hell the multi million selling Barbie Girl track by Aqua was so universally panned by almost everyone in music, when it was in fact a piece of pop genius, that - had it have been made by The KLF - would have ben universally lauded as a gem and loaded with credability...

Yes boss, it's taken me less than a year to realise that the music business is loaded with so much nimbyism and nepotism it could give the mafia a run for it's money.

If you want to get on in this game you have to suck the right people and dismiss the wrong ones with a swift slap to the balls. You have to be such a social wizzard, your secrets and moves sell greater than Potters latest escapades..


Anyway, enough of stating the bleeding obvious. Thing is, I've been hearing a lot about this LP from an artist called Feist.

Feist is a chum of both Peaches (surely one of the most vacuosly overated and pointless alt.pop artists of recent times) and Gonzales (One of the most under rated)

And the more I read, the more I was begining to think Feist might be both important, interesting and overloaded with shreeeps and tizzbangs of modernity...

I even read an interview where she was talking about how she loved to get away from people and hideaway from humankind, and I believed her, and I loved her for it...

So, I downloaded this LP about a month ago and have now finally listened to it and I'm amazed to find this highly credible effort is in fact exactly the same as Dido.

I kid you not. It's the same weak, fragile voice and mellow tunes.

Yet unlike Dido, this LP is languishing in the chiq club of cool. It's being lauded as an alt.masterpiece. It has respect from all the headz on the scene - the same heads who would piss in your face with cackles if you told them you liked Dido...

I mean I'm not syaing it's a bad LP. In fact I don't reckon I mind it once in a while, (neither for that matter do I mind Dido once or twice a year)

But let's be clear, FEIST IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS DIDO!!!

Currently listening : The Reminder By Feist Release date: By 01 May, 2007

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	piratepods	piss on my face if i told them i liked dido or a dildo ? Posted by piratepods on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 07:53 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	How Rude!! Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 08:14 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	tiffany the lass @ piratepods.com	someone need to make the pirates bite the soap Posted by tiffany the lass @ piratepods.com on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 09:11 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	It sounds like you girls would fit in very well here in the UK. English girls like nothing more than to get drunk, fall about and wake up the next day with vague memories and inexplicable bruises.. Well Dido and other such classy girls don't, but the rest do... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 10:40 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Clinker	Sounds like Feist is gonna be fucking Huge then. A certain area of CD buyers love that kinda shit. Probably only buy 1 or 2 albums a year. It's harmless cack. I'm only going on your opinion of course, but i've no desire to seek it out and give it a go. Hypocracy is the way of the world. We're (generally) told how to think and speak. You can't just be yourself anymore. Everything gets sanitised. Thats why we get acts like Dildo...sorry Dido. Posted by Clinker on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 10:17 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	Well the thing I like about Dido and Feist is the vulnerability of the voice. Dido is a lot more 'polished vulnerable' than Feist, but they both do it very well.. I like a strong gutsy voice as well, but it's nice to hear vulnerability.. Oh, and has anyone noticed how Dance music party people often seem to have a favourite female with a goodish voice who's one of the girls and the one the boys always hope they wake up next to?? Previous Feists have included Beth Orton & Dot Allison... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 10:46 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Clinker	Not forgetting Sarah Cracknell. Dot was nice before the dodgy haircut. Posted by Clinker on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 16:20 [Remove] [Reply to this]

: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Yeah. I've had a thing for each and every one of the forementioned names at some point or another, partly because they all seem to be such tragic yet beautiful figures... I really love the way the really competant women operate around the techno geeks of the dance world. You know the girls who can handle and get the best out of the kind of boys, who, if push comes to shove would choose their synths over a woman any damn day of the week (sex aside)... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at 17:20 [Remove] [Reply to this]