Music created out of experimentation and pleasure will always come out differently than music created by people who want to be "big fucking rock stars." With that ambition out of the way, the pressure is off, imagination is unrestrained, and lyrics are able to drip with believable "whatevs." MGMT started as something fun to do and their debut full-length album Oracular Spectacular is very genuine and likeable because of this.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't amateur music and it's not like they couldn't end up "big fucking rock stars." It's just that the ego trip (and subsequent music that follows) isn't likely to happen here. How could it when their major label debut begins with these lyrics? "I'm feeling rough, I'm feeling raw, I'm in the prime of my life / let's make some music / make some money / find some models for wives / I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars / you man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars..."
MGMT channels Bowie with "Weekend Wars," issues "a call of arms to live and love and sleep together" in the Britpop influenced "The Youth," and then breaks out a funkified all-skate jam complete with Bee Gee's falsettos in "Electric Feel." Since your ass is already shaking, they follow it with "Kids" - a song irresistible to anyone who owns the dance floor on new wave/Britpop dance nights.
The second half is more psychedelic. "Pieces of What" is a great acoustic hidden track that just happens to be out in the open. "Future Reflections" could have been the soundtrack to the night I was on 'shrooms and sure garden gnomes were talking to me, and really, how often do modern day "big fucking rock stars" provide someone with that soundtrack?
James Dallow at Chief Tech asks "Why aren't we getting enterprise RSS yet?" Maybe it's because no one in the industry has clearly articulated the real business value of a managed RSS ecosystem. So here's Attensa's crack at getting the message through.
Let's start with a blinding flash of the obvious. Information Moves. It moves markets, innovation, time to market, price, profits and productivity. Enterprise RSS moves information. Enterprise 2.0 tools enable people to easily work together to share ideas, develop solutions, improve work processes and solve problems. Building a collaborative network can have a profound impact on your teams[base '] abilities to anticipate market trends and accelerate implementation. Effective collaboration expands the size and scope of projects and the number of projects that can be handled simultaneously. Use it well and you can get products and services to market faster and outpace competitors. A managed feed environment is at the heart of an effective collaborative network. It is a critical tool that automatically and intelligently gets the right information to the right people at the right time and can free organizations to move faster than ever before.
Think of it this way. RSS, ATOM and XML put the flow in Enterprise 2.0. Enterprise RSS is at the foundation of the collaborative infrastructure. It provides secure, clutter free communication channels that enable knowledge workers, partners and customers to more effectively receive, act on and collaborate around high-value and high-priority information. By automatically, instantly and intelligently delivering the most up to date information to everyone involved, team members can identify and act on opportunities and threats faster and decrease response time from minutes to seconds.
Is the backbone of a collaborative publish subscribe infrastructure
Receives and channels information from a variety of sources (open web content, subscription content, content management systems, business applications and messaging systems) to targeted users and groups
Connects to internal and external content and data sources
Provides information security
Connects to existing communication tools (email, IM, web browser, portals, mobile devices)
Provides secure, synchronized access anywhere on any device
Works with your existing related infrastructure to provide a complete end-to-end communications platform.
