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March 23, 2004
Black on Black Album @10:46 AM
just listening now to the next installment in the recent craze that is the 'black album remix.' I think the first thing I said when I heard about DJ Dangermouse's Grey Album was that he should've used Metallica's black album which is the best album ever to be named after the color black (next to Spinal Tap (how much blacker could it be)--with Jay-Z's black album coming in nowhere near the top -- think of all the other great albums with black in the title: fear of a black planet, black and white night (roy orbison), and let's not forget Back in Black --> the best AreCeDarCe album after the unfortunate booze related death of Bon Scott. Really, I think Jay Z might only list above the backstreet boys - black and blue. (I had to look that one up)). Anyway, back to the point --> the remix is ok, but what I realized when I listened to this, or the few parts of the Grey Album that I liked, is that it's basically the ruling-ness of the original albums: metallica's black album, the beatles white album. And really, all these remixes do is make me want to listen to the originals. So I'm going to go on record to say that these remixes aren't an incredibly creative (albeit still creative) use of the original source material, but a step in the right direction about educating the general public about the need to redefine the current copyright system, which doesn't allow stuff like this to be legally out there. I may not like these mixes that much, but that doesn't mean that at some point, someone won't create something great from bits and pieces of other records (cough, john oswald, cough).
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