Customer Reviews

Unreasonable Behaviour

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

 

 

Imagine, that you're sitting in your favourite chair, after buying Unreasonable Behaviour to your record-collection. You push the play-button, and as "The Warning" is played, you think, that this isn't a normal record. Suddenly "City Sphere" is played, and as you raise yourself to push the stop-button on your stereo, something in you is saying, that you should give the record a try. One hour after you started the record, you press the repeat-button. Unreasonable Behavoiur is a fabulous record.
Garnier spent about 2 years planning and producing UB, and it was worth it. Garnier pushes it off on his synths and keys, and makes you another person for 69 minutes. "The Sound of the Big Babou" and "Cycles D'Oppositions" are the top spins on UB; you'll never realize, that these two records has ended, even if you hear something totally different. "The Man With The Red Face" is a 9-minute-long track, and though it can get a little boring, it's a brilliant track (same with "Dangerous Drive"). "Forgotten Thoughts" and "City Sphere" are filled with beauty, where Garnier does his best to make the tracks exactly, as he want them. Two tracks on the record are only 1 and a half minute long ("The Warning" and "Unreasonable Behaviour"), but somehow they sound good after you heard them some times. "Downfall", "Communications from the Lab" and "Last Tribute from the 20th Century" are great tracks, that concentrate in giving the most amazing view for the customer, that makes him think, that he is something.
UB can't be replaced by any other record. Buy it, you won't regret it.

Laurent Garnier isn't just "DJ-ing" anymore. He's considered himself a performer, a musician. In fact, he is quite an amazing artist--quite innovative, captivating. LG is also joined by 2 other musicians one on keyboard/synth and the other on various brass and electronic wind doobries. 'Unreasonable Behaviour' is in a genre of its own. I am not sure how to categorize this album. It's obvious that "UR" is different from your ordinary techno/dance album. It finds LG in an exploratory mood. Performing with groups of live musicians and playing at the Montreal Jazz festival has given some of the tracks an anti-dancefloor, jazzy feel. LG claims his preferred listening material, is currently Lenny Kravitz and Herbie Hancock, a rather surprising revelation from a man whose just won Best International Dance DJ award by the musical press. Check it out. If you want something different, something artistic and innovative, this is a good album. If you were thinking of getting some hi-nrg techno stuff try something else.

The first time I listened this CD I only liked a couple of numbers. But after listening more times I realised that every number on this CD is a very good and original number. The man with the red face is a number you will like after the first time you listen to it. Greed(part 1+part2), downfall and all the others after that. You can listen to this CD if you want to party and if you wanna chill and relex and that's why it is a CD you got to have in your collection!!

Laurent Garnier falls somewhere into the category of semi-intelligent electronic dance music-makers between people like Vibert and Schnauss. Framing often (but thankfully not always) around House beats and simplified melodies, many of these tracks do tend to overstay their welcome but the few that feel configured properly contribute to an overall successful effort.

Laurent Garnier has had a glittering career as a DJ and a top one at that too! This album is a little more introspective which sees all his influences melt together and bring this perfect collection electro listening. May not be for the dancefloors but that doesn't stop you from enjoying such delights as the sax led The Man With The Red Face which I always loved but never knew who it was until I got the CD ( pirate radio stations I tell you ). However this CD is a must for anybody with a preference for ice cool synths with a French twist to them

There are no words to describe how sublimely perfect "The Man With the Red Face" from this album is. The first time I heard it I was in the middle of a dancefloor and it felt like the world stopped for the 9 and a half minutes of the track. It became a must-have. After buying the album I can tell you that the rest is, while not equally as brilliant, pretty damned fantastic. Without "The Man With the Red Face" this would have been a relatively unremarkable album but that one song lifts it among the best of the year. Thankyou Laurent.

This album does a great job of creating the moods at which is attempts to produce: those of unreasonable behavior. This might be driving dangerously or perhaps being overly greedy. You can even get lost in the adventures of the album. It's hard for me to find a place for this album. I can't imagine playing it at a party or hearing it at a club. I think it's better suited as background instrumentals for scenes in movies or something. This album is not for a mainstream audience, but more for someone who enjoys concept music as an artform. I'd only rate it as 3 stars, but others may mind it more redeeming.

subdued and yet energy fueled, Garnier's new collection thrives on that eternal french minimalist sound and creates a genre hopping (although internally electronica), fun and dramatic album. if you are fan of Mirwais slower numbers and Mr. Oizo, you will enjoy this collection. A great background album, and just as fun as a crank up dance set.

good stuff.

Perhaps being a little jaded by other compilation albums that actually have scope, I popped this sucker into the cd player. Well. Alright, there are some stellar tracks that manage to combine interesting rhythms with squelchy synthetic basslines, taken as a singular track. Actually, theres 3 of those that succeed, and then there's 1 buildup track that worked rather well for me, and 2 straight house tracks. The rest of the tracks don't really work as songs in themselves (too little change) and most of them wouldn't really work as dancefloor material, with about 3 exceptions. And the impression of dementia is really only skin deep. Perhaps attempting to create a sense of continuity, Garnier threw a bunch of well produced, yet similar effects into most of the songs, which unfortunately lead to a continuous listen that reveals less and less as the cd goes on. Tasty outside, creamy filling inside. Do you like Twinkies? I don't.