The Echoing Green - The Story of Our Lives
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Artist: The Echoing GreenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-10
Music Label: A Different Drum
Soundtracks:
- The Story of Our Lives (Epic)
- Winter (Sequencia Mix)
- The Story of Our Lives (Echo Image Mix)
- Seaside
- The Story of Our Lives (Syrian Mix)
- Blind (What Just Happened?)
- The Story of Our Lives (Virtual Server Mix)
- The Sparrows and the Nightingales (with Sheltershed)
- The Story of Our Lives (Technoman SF Mix)
- Fall Awake (Random Access Memory Mix)
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Free Music Review: By the time this was released, the single ended up becoming an EP
Hit: 3 Stars
This review was originally written by my husband, Daniel Aeschliman, who has given me permission to post it here:
The long-delayed single for "The Story Of Our Lives" turned into a quite excellent EP by the time it finally was unleased on the world. The disc contains five mixes of the title track, plus remixes of three other songs from the album The Winter Of Our Discontent ("Winter," "Blind," and "Fall Awake") and two bonus tracks ("Seaside" and a cover of Wolfsheim's "The Sparrows & The Nightingales"). The standout track for us would have to be "The Story Of Our Lives [Epic]," which adds a fantastic piano-based intro and outro (played by Leiahdorus' Jason Smith) to an expanded version of the song with some interesting changes to the layering of the electronics. This is an 80's style extended mix, the way that they're supposed to be made and that I've missed. On the other side of the coin, Variant's mix of "Blind" was a tremendous disappointment. It felt more like an exercise in "how much effort can we go to in remixing the song to retain as little of what made people like the original track as possible, while just keeping enough around to make it undeniable that it's a remix of that song" than it was an actual remix of "Blind"; this is the same problem I've had with many Nine Inch Nails remixes over the last ten years, and it's disappointing to hear that on an Echoing Green release. The remaining mixes were relatively flat - not enough interesting things to make them exciting, yet not really bad mixes at the same time. "Seaside" shows a different side of The Echoing Green, having a bit more of a rock approach to it than we're used to hearing from them; guitars take the forefront on this track in a way they rarely have before for the band, and it's a good thing.
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The song "The Story of Our Lives" became somewhat of an anthem in the synthpop underground, and certainly a favorite off of The Echoing Green's popular album "The Winter of Our Discontent". This 10-track EP/CD features several new versions of the song, plus some tasty extras. The first remix is an extended version which keeps much of the same flavor as the original, but starts and ends with a beautiful piano solo. The other versions aim squarely at the dance floor with high-energy beats.Bonus tracks include the all-new song "Seaside", plus a great cover version of the popular Wolfsheim song "The Sparrows and the Nightingales", plus additional remixes of other popular songs, "Winter", "Fall Awake" and "Blind".
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