Customer Reviews

Interpretaciones Del Oso

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

It goes w/o saying that this shouldn't be your first MTB album. Menos is the masterpiece. At the same time, you have to understand this album for what it is. it is a remix album. So you can't expect it to be the new MTB release. With all that being said, this is a meh pick up. The remixes where they actually use the words from the original songs and resemble the originals (isn't that by definition what a remix is???) are great. 1,2, and 8 are amazing. Then you have the rest. I have no idea what some of these DJs were thinking. Some didn't use any of the words from the originals and their remixes dont even remotely resemble the originals. the middle of the disk (tracks 3-6) is complete garbage. if i wanted to hear some stupid DJ "spin" his own stuff then I would have bought their crappy cd. The Pig War is probably my favorite MTB song but the remix doesn't have any words to it. I was really disappointed. I would recommend buying tracks 1,2, and 8 off Itunes. I would have been much happier paying 3 bucks instead of 14 for this CD.

This CD of remixes from the incredible "Menos El Oso" isn't really what I'd call an album. In fact, it isn't, so don't confuse it with one. I guess Minus The Bear was just experimenting by getting DJs and whatnot to reinterpret their songs. And you know, some are very cool! I actually LOVE remixes, such as "Updates" by The American Analog Set. On that EP, songs from their album "Know By Heart" were remixed electronically with incredible results! But the key, as another pointed out, is resembling the original song, at least a little. Some remixers for this album clearly weren't told that, and went off on their own little beep-bop night-on-the-town way to make songs sound nothing like the original. Not what I'd call a remix. Maybe a "super remix". If MTB made this a limited edition 5 song EP with only the best remixes of the best songs off the album, then this would be a welcomed edition in the MTB catalog. However, it's mostly filler. But I'll conclude by saying I'd rather this to have been released than not. Sometimes you just got to make mistakes, and there are some good electronic beats that leave me satisfied.

I think this album has got a significant amount of lower ratings due to it being quite different from previous minus the bear albums. IMO it's one of the albums I have been able to listen to over and over again. It is very experimental and therefor like other experimental music i think it's really hit and miss but if you like electro-pop or digital music this album is amazing.

The other reviewer has a stick up the persons behind.. 2 stars? This album is so awesome in its own right. Sure, lots of the songs barely resemble the original but still, ITS A REMIX ALBUM.... DURRR... I recommend this album because the songs are so all over-the-place and in a good way.

Best songs --
*Hooray
*The Fix
*Michio's death drive
*Pichuca sunrise
*Drilling

The album "Menos el Oso" was a beautiful, mellow work of art for Minus the Bear. The lyrics, musicianship...everything about it far surpassed my expectations, and naturally I didn't build up an album of "remixes" too much because there was simply no way such a disc could surpass the original. In the vein of "Re-animation" by Linkin Park (bad example, I know, but work with me, here), though, I at least expected this album to be fun, or at least engaging, but no, this album is all over the place. I think your average scenester-fan-myspacer could have come up with better renditions of these songs. Some of the tracks "bear" absolutely no resemblance to the originals at all and are basically just four-minutes of random sounds and noise that only occasionally seem to match some sort of beat. It's terrible. Only the "Pachuca Sunrise" remix and possibly the "Hooray" remix are worth listening to more than once, although the latter has virtually no coherent resemblance to the original (but it still sounds kind of cool). Overall, 2 stars is generous, but I'm so in love with the original disc that I was in a pretty giving mood. Don't buy this album. Buy "Menos el Oso" and "Highly Refined Pirates" and go see them live.

This album makes me want to listen to Menos el Oso. it reminds you how good the songs really are.