o/' Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend... o/'

One of my favorite lines from Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke! Freddie Mercury's lyrics in that song are so fun - do yourself a favor and go listen to it right now. If you have the song, of course... if you don't, then... um... go read the lyrics. :)

Well, I've been neglecting this poor blog - I just haven't had anything to say recently! I still don't, but that's not the point. ;)

I was in a mock cover-making mood and came up with eight (!) new covers on my Sarah Brightman site - I must say, I'm quite happy with them, and I think they're much better than most of the Sarah Brightman covers I've made before. :)

Ooh! I haven't rambled on about it here before, but I've been on a quest to find the Trouser Enthusiasts' remix of Sarah Brightman's version of Who Wants To Live Forever (Who Wants To Live Forever [Trouser Enthusiasts Cybernetic Odalique Mix]), and - hallelujah! - I found it online and downloaded it! To me, that remix was sort of the holy grail of remixes: not only is it Who Wants To Live Forever, which we all know is just gorgeous, but it's sung by Sarah Brightman, AND it's remixed by the remixing gods known as the Trouser Enthusiasts. Excuse my while I dance a happy dance...

*happy dance*

OK! So, I'll review it here. Oh, stop groaning, it won't be that boring.

I have one other Trouser Enthusiast remix of a Sarah Brightman song (Starship Troopers - Trouser Enthusiasts Iris Unicularis Mix), and I love it to bits. It boggles my mind how they were able to take the campiest of camp 70s songs and mix it into an epic, 9:58min *experience*. Really. Anyways, I also have several more of their remixes for Dannii Minogue, Kylie Minogue, and Ofra Haza, and have never been disappointed. I've come to find that even if a remixer has done the best remix you've ever heard, that's not a guarantee that their whole body of work will be just as good - but with the Trouser Enthusiasts, everything I've heard is just perfect. So on with my review of Who Wants To Live Forever [Trouser Enthusiasts Cybernetic Odalique Mix].

Who Wants To Live Forever [Trouser Enthusiasts Cybernetic Odalique Mix] is, in a word, beautiful. For one thing, it actually uses melodies from the song itself, which is great - in fact, it starts out with either a synthesized or distorted sample of the instrumental bit in the original song where Sarah sings "Who, ooh ooh..." (or something like that, you get the idea :) ). The Trouser Enthusiasts win big points with that. :) Then, as the Enthusiasts so brilliantly do in their other remixes, they start up the little snippets of vocals, then go into a dramatic synthesized bassline, and then some more nifty synths. So a few minutes of that goes by, then they build up into a crescendo that culminates with a gorgeously synthesized melody from the song itself, and Sarah pipes up with "Now touch my tears with your lips" several times, then the song resumes with that great synth melody playing throughout. The vocal snippets start again, but with the added "Who wants to live forever?" vocal. More points earned for the Enthusiasts! :)

So the remix continues with variations on what I've already described, with "Who waits forever anyway?" tossed in for good measure every so often. :) It clocks in at 9:15min. It's a dub, really, as all of the vocals aren't used - only snippets and phrases (similar to the Ofra Haza Show Me [Trouser Enthusiasts' Kaleidoscope Perversion Mix], which doesn't actually use all of the vocals) - the dub remixes of some remixers I've heard usually aren't anything special, but the Trouser Enthusiasts make it into something glorious. It would've been neat if all the vocals had been used, but it's fine just as it is. So, out of 10, I'd give it a 9 1/2, taking off half of a point because more vocals weren't used. :)

Hmm. I'm sure that wasn't entertaining to anyone except for me, but I hope it made some sense. ;)

Cheery bye, Scarlett




//Listening to:
Starship Troopers - Trouser Enthusiasts Iris Unicularis Mix
//Currently amused by this quote:
"No." "No?" "No." (from Clue - but of course, you must say it like this: "Ner." "Ner?" "Ner.")