I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed and B-Sides

Lali Puna

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 28, 2005)
• Original Release Date: June 28, 2005
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Morr Music / M.M.
• ASIN: B0009E26UY
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,971 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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It's funny how odds and sods collections by electronic artists often add up to their best releases, from Enon's Lost Marbles to Fennesz's Field Recordings compilation. I Thought I Was Over That: Rare, Remixed And B-Sides has the advantage of spanning multiple years, from Lali Puna's early electronic pop to their later, more guitar-oriented stuff. It also has many remixes commissioned by and for the band, deeply broadening the sonic palette. Formed with members of the Tied and Tickled Trio and the Notwist, Lali Puna is something of a minor supergroup. The music is melodic, mellow, and inventive stuff that blurs the line between pop and mildly out-there sounds with politically barbed lyrics sung breathily by Valerie Trebeljahr. As such, it's perfect for fans of Lamb, Stereolab, and Laika. A few songs are experiments that should have stayed in the studio; "Left-Handed Dub" is dreadful and the remixes by Flowchart and Two Lone Swordsmen are a bit dated--too ‘90s-sounding. But that's still only one tenth of the album, the rest of which is a pleasure. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars buy it for disc one, August 28, 2005

By	Anon. (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

Disc Two consists of remixes of many of the groups best recent tracks ("Small Things", "Nin-Com-Pop", "Faking the Books") by the likes of To Roccoco Rot and Two Lone Swordsmen and is JUST OK. None of the remixes come near the perfection of the originals. Whatever charm these remixes possess is transitory at best. One would think that the hushed ambience that characterizes Lali Puna's sound would allow for all kinds of marvelous interventions/expansions/diminutions, but most of the results prove otherwise.
On the other hand, Lali Puna themselves are excellent at inhabiting the space of others, whether by remixing (Two Lone Swordsmen's "It's not the worst I've looked", Dntel's "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan") or via remakes: Slowdive's "40 Days" and, best of all, the long forgotten (but not by me!) collaboration between Giorgio Moroder and Phil "Human League" Oakley, "Together in Electric Dreams." All these tracks are on Disc One, and here the Amazon reviewer is spot on: Disc One is just about the best Lali Puna album ever. Besides all these gems, there is the thunderous beauty of "Clear Cut", their brilliant collaboration with Bomb the Bass.
If you buy this CD for disc one, treating disc two as a kind of bonus disc, you can't go wrong.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unmissable!, August 24, 2005

By	homogénica "lolaremixe" (Chile) - See all my reviews

Lali Puna is like nothing you've heard ever before. They grow on you faster than you wink. In this compilation, they gather songs that are covers, new tunes, remixes they did for alike musicians like Boom Bip or DNTEL, and remixes that other people like To Rococo Rot, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Alias did of their songs. The remixes are fresh and sort of give the tracks a twist, and they still sound wonderful. This is pure downtempo, sometimes with a touch of glitch. Valerie, who sings, has a very lovely voice and I think you can't go wrong when buying a Lali Puna record. These 2 albums include the beautiful songs "The Daily Match", "Together In Electric Dreams", "40 Days" and "Past Machine". You don't necessarily have to know all of the songs to enjoy the mixes. They are cool per se. If you like the pop-electronica, you should definitively go for it. A must-have selection of joyful tunes from the geniuses of Lali Puna.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars CD 2 isn't THAT bad, February 25, 2006

By	Lina Tao "lins" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews

After my first listen of the entire two CDs, I've decided that CD 2 isn't as bad as everyone makes it out to be. The remix of 'Alienation' is mindblowing, and so far is the reason for the relatively high rating.