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'Sold for Tomorrow' offers wonderfully strange music today
Date published: 4/5/2007
BY SARAH KEITH
After hearing that The Moog came from Budapest, I just had to have their CD. I thought, "Hey, something kooky that none of my friends have ever heard before." Little did I know that I was in for a pleasurable auditory experience.
The Moog's newest album is titled "Sold for Tomorrow." Its first song, "Your Sweet Neck," proved to be less--ahem--savory than the other songs featured, with lyrics such as "I won't rest until I have/ Just a bite of your sweet neck." It made me think of my cannibalistic side.
The words that I enjoyed most were those on "I Don't Want You Now," which say things like: "I feel quite well/ But not enough to see your boring face again/ 'Cuz I don't want you now/ No I don't want you now."
The best-sounding song, though, in my opinion, is "Never Hide!" Starting off with a solid bass line, it adds interestingly odd sound effects, then builds with vocals in the first verse until it reaches the chorus, exploding with percussion and a faster tempo.
The one part that I didn't enjoy was halfway through the last song, the 71/2-minute "Xanax Youth," when the music degraded to odd mechanical sounds and weird sound effects, making one wonder if the studio had just been bombed and every air-conditioning unit in the building started breaking at once.
All in all, I would recommend this CD to Pink Floyd fans, as well as people who like other classic rock. This album has nothing to do with the latter, but I think fans would enjoy it, nonetheless.
Sarah Keith is an eighth-grader at Freedom Middle School.
Date published: 4/5/2007
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