Boy, there are just some times when you wonder what in the hell
\npeople were thinking.<\/p>\n
I can just hear the idea guys on this one. “Hey, let’s take some
\nof the most soporific air-pudding music around and make it even
\nMORE soporific! We’ll have people falling into comas as they
\nlisten! What a great freakin’ idea!”<\/p>\n
To be fair, Taliesin Orchestra is occasionally interesting. (I
\nhave another of their discs around the Office O’ Doom somewhere,
\nand they do a damned fine cover of Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World”.)
\nFor those who don’t know, they’re just what they sound like; a
\nstudio symphony orchestra who does covers of popular music. Kind of
\nMuzak\u2122 for the more musically inclined, but occasionally
\npleasant. In the case of
\nThread Of Time<\/i>, though, it’s two mediocre things that
\nsynergize into something unspeakable.<\/p>\n
I admit it; I’m not a huge Enya fan. About the only time I dig
\nout my couple of Enya CDs is as pre-ritual music in my Wiccan
\nreligious practice, and even then I’m likely to prefer my
\nmeditative and spiritual state of mind be induced by old Alan
\nParsons CDs or something. Enya is just too damn ethereal for me; I
\nprefer my music either have grit or grandeur, and Enya rarely
\nachieves either.<\/p>\n
Now, take this aural Prozac and let a studio orchestra at it. It
\ndoubles the snore factor, cloaks it in even more homogenized
\nprettiness, and slips it into your drink like a horny frat guy with
\nthe same tendency towards unconsciousness. I won’t say that I
\nimmediately dozed off, but I will say that I’ve heard more exciting
\nmusic shopping at K-Mart. I’ve been more excited and uplifted by
\nBarbra Streisand, and I’ll chew off my own leg rather than be
\nforced to listen to the Human Nose. This is, in a word, boring.
\nBoring, boring, boring. It’s not even badly done, really, though
\nthe production is flat at best, muddy at worst, but it commits the
\ncardinal musical sin; it’s dull.<\/p>\n
There’s only so many ways I can say this, so let me sum up and
\nmove on to something with a pulse:
\nThread Of Time<\/i> bad.
\nThread Of Time<\/i> dull as an Al Gore campaign rally. Avoid
\nThread Of Time<\/i> unless you have chronic insomnia. Excuse me,
\nI need to go turn this off and put on some SR-71 or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":26135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6725],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-37350","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-taliesin-orchestra","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}