Thanks for appreciating my vision for the John Dark
remix. Obviously, it's a different style of remixing,
but I was trying to create an entirely new song built
around the simple beauty of Michael Grace's lyrics and
melody. (Thanks to Peter Green for the opportunity.)

And, indeed, I share your intense adoration for My
Favorite as well!

Nathan a.k.a. Leisure Enthusiast


--- Michael <mikeh1966@...> wrote:
> Hey,
> This is my first post and I just wanted to say how
> much I love My
> Favorite. I've been interested in the group since I
> first heard The
> Informers in the late 90s on a CMJ Compilation and
> have tediously
> tracked down the first CD and all the EPs and really
> grown to love
> them a lot.
> Is anyone else totally enamored of this group
> besides me? Shouldn't
> they be bigger than the Beatles? Ok..maybe not that
> big, but bigger
> than No Doubt? Definitely. Anyway, I just wanted to
> post a message
> here because since I joined there have only been a
> couple of posts
> and I really want to hear other people's thoughts on
> the band. I've
> tried turning a couple of my friends onto the band,
> and have gotten
> lots of indifference (from musical morons of course)
> and a few 'hey
> this band is really cool' comments (from the kids in
> the know).
> The meat of my post, is that I love the way that
> the remixes on the
> new compilation totally made me re-evaluate some of
> the songs. The
> best of the bunch, for me, is the Leisure
> Enthusiat's remix of "John
> Dark". I guess the reason I love this version so
> much, is because the
> EP version was something of a dissapointment for me
> originally. I
> thought it was kind of slow, plodding and boring. On
> the remix,
> however, I recognized how wonderful the lyrics
> were..not to mention
> the vocals. And put into a pop electro context! (I'm
> a sucker for a
> synth).
> I hope someone else out there loves My Favorite as
> much as I do.
> Now I just need to find a way to convince them that
> they need to come
> to New Orleans!
>
> Michael
>
> PS..A couple of the songs on the first disc sound
> remixed from the
> original EPs..Is this the case?
>
>
>


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