Sunday, November 16, 2014

Whiskey in a Jar...i Maenpaa

The snow started falling this weekend so, obviously, I broke out the Wintersun. I listened to the eponymous album, then I listened to Time I. Then I thought, hey, we're in the future, so Time II must be coming out. But some quick searching woefully led me to this: http://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=24138

It's fucking long. I read the whole thing so let me summarize certain key points. Jari is not satisfied with Time I, nor anything he's ever done. He states being underfunded by Nuclear Blast (the recording company) and hints at crowd funding, though he seems to refuse it. Shit, if i can afford it, I'll gladly contribute. I know Time I has it's issues but, since I got into it, I can't even listen to the first album anymore. It's that good to me. And it's 3 goddamn songs that were drowned in digital wankery! He justifies Time I sounding like a Pro Tools clusterfuck to the guitars sounding so shit that he had to hide them. In the end, he says that if he can't make albums his way (in his own studio), he won't make them at all. I don't care what it takes, I want to hear what is in this guy's head.

All this to say that I am torn. I get that this guy, at least in my esteem, really is a musical prodigy who seeks perfection at his own expense. But dammit, then I heard this:



It's a live rehearsal played over the album... and it's bloody perfect. Are those guitars shit? Really? Fuck you Jari, you magnificent bastard!

True genius is accidental.

10 comments:

Napoleon Bonerpants said...

The other 2 songs are there too. I'll see about getting an mp3 version of this

Napoleon Bonerpants said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZB6JVllJSg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBlwsHovECU&src_vid=HSiaJjqaFZE&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_949137709

Napoleon Bonerpants said...

The last one is nuts. somewhere between 3x and 100x better than the album version

Napoleon Bonerpants said...

If you want a slight taste of Time II:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoI_LBgasE

Dementor said...

This is the music that should have been sent beyond the Kuiper belt! Alas we are set to be forever represented throughout the galaxy by the lamentable utterings of the majority's ignorant parasites... This man is indeed a musical genius. And his plight is another exhibit of the total devolution thats been slowly but continuously gnawing at the fabric of our societies. Nobody pays for music anymore. You cant produce such masterpieces without proper financial support. And for this to happen, Jari should be touring every day of the year, which would leave him just enough time to create ordinary material. He's clearly a studio musician, and that is why is fate is doomed.

Dementor said...

And for mp3 versions, use this

Dementor said...

(and dont worry, I fully experience the irony of decrying the state of the music industry while at the same time promoting the very tools that have been used to annihilate it. You know me, contradiction is what I do best)

Napoleon Bonerpants said...

If the album in question doesn't exist, it's not exactly pirating if I transform videos into MP3's. If he remasters it, then I'll buy it.

Master of the Craw said...

You will buy it anyways, and probably go to the concert, and probably let him drink tequila out of your ass crack if he asked you to.
I wouldn't worry about downloading an MP3... but you are going to hell probably. I assume. I mean, you wouldn't download a car? WOULD YOU?

Barbarosa said...

Unlawful =! Unethical =! Immoral