Music to Mauzner By

Entertainment Weekly
Imagine a hybrid of Trent Reznor, Beck, and Prince, and you can eye Spy, the nom de pop of Joshua Ralph.

Music to Mauzner By,J. Ralph,Various,Atlantic / Wea,Alternative Pop/Rock,Club/Dance,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop

Music to Mauzner By

Average customer rating:

Hard to Categorize
One of the greatest modern albums of all time
A decent effort that lacks polish and refinement...
Ehh, not bad
!!

Music to Mauzner By
J. Ralph , and Various
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00000I3ZW
Release Date: 1999-02-23

Tracks:

One Million Miles (The Theme From The Volkswagon Ad - Hidden Track)
Baby
31 Seconds
Won't You Come Down
Wonderer
Leave Me Alone
Desert Suit Conspiracy
Mauzner Detroit
Fire It Up
Bulletproof
Goonies
Stay Away
Leonard's Lounge
Untitled 17

Customer Reviews:

Hard to Categorize.......2005-05-13

I love capitalizm. But one problem with it and the music industry is this... if a record company can't figure out how to market a record, you won't ever hear about it, no matter how good it is. When an artist doesn't neatly fit into a category, the record company is at a loss of how to sell it, because they don't even know what it is. This is a GREAT CD, with no throw away songs even though they have tremendous variation in style. I just got it, and I think its one of the best albums I've heard in the last year. I can't believe it was done 6 years ago. Go out and find a used copy.

One of the greatest modern albums of all time.......2003-10-17

Yes ... an extremely boastful title. First off, know this: I've been listening to music almost as a philosophical extension of myself for six straight year, owning well over 400 albums (bought, might I add), and while I've heard some extremely good stuff and some extremely bad stuff, few albums truly bubble to the surface and make their lasting impression.

Few albums truly meet that category: The Avalanches' flawless "Since I Left You"; Aesop Rock's "Labor Days"; Basement Jaxx's "Rooty", Beck's "Sea Change", and albums by DJ Shadow, Mr. Lif, The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, and others coming up.

Yet, Spy's "Music to Mauzner By" is the best.

Period.

The albums is flawless for many reasons. The first is simple track-placement: the energy goes from high to low but the quality maintains throughout. The opener (and single) "Baby" is a piece of 80's heavy-metal fit for a 90's dance floor. The energy is relentless. Yet, the closing number, "Untitled 17" is very slow (and will be mentioned in a bit).

Yet, the fact that Spy (J.Ralph) covers almost EVERY GENRE in modern music. While he doesn't exactly bust a rhyme, hip-hop beats are heavy influences to his music. He does classical (the aforementioned "Untitled 17"), disco ("Mauzner Detroit"), dance-rock ("31 Seconds"), a spy-movie instrumental ("The Desert Suit Conspiracy"), jazz ("Goonies"), gospel ("Stay Away"), full-out pop ("Won't You Come Down"), shares a bit of country (the two-minute electric violin solo in "Fire It Up"), and even mariachi ("Leonard's Lounge"). And, oddly, he does all perfectly ("Leonard's Lounge" isn't a pop song with mariachi influences ... it's a mariachi song). It's amazing. Additionally, simply his layering is phenomenal (in "Desert Suit Conspriacy" - he uses four different sections that are completely different, then, at the end, plays them all over each other ... and it works fine).

While some parts may not be as appealing as others (the 70's rock-inspired "Wanderer"), the whole scope is epic. Again, the beautiful "Untitled 17" is absolutely beautiful, fit enough to pull tears from a film's climatic moment. It's heart-renderingly beautiful.

There are few albums as truly wonderful, touching, and flat-out perfect as this one. It's worth every cent, and stands as one of my favorite albums of all time, hands down. I just might be yours too :-)

(P.S. Now at the iTunes store, J.Ralph released his second album "The Illusionary Movements of Geraldine & Nazu". It's all classical-based (including "Untitled 17" and "One Million Miles Away") including a new opera he wrote ("M"), and other moving works. Well worth $8. Go J-man go.)

A decent effort that lacks polish and refinement..........2003-10-06

Unfortunantly, I only have the promo copy that doesn't have the VW song, which, according to the rest of the reviewers here, seems to be the pinnacle of the album. I am always glad to have free stuff though, so it doesn't really matter.

The opener, 'Baby' gets "Music To Mauzner By" off to a fantastic start, but it's down hill from there for most of the way. When all hope seems lost the final track, 'Untitled 17'suddenly appears out of no where like a beacon of light and saves this album from total disaster.

Besides the afformentioned songs, the rest just sound like real filler material. There are small glimers of hope throughout, but mostly it all sounds rather bland. Mr. Ralph can't seem to decide where he is going and as a result he is left in the mediocre middle ground where so many other artists currently reside.

"Music to Mauzner By" definantly displays that Spy has a lot of potential and ideas, but they couldn't just be put together succesfully. Maturity is the only cure for Mr. Ralph and I hope he does just that.

Ehh, not bad.......2003-03-08

The first track "One Million Miles Away" is amazing, and was featured in a Volkswagen commercial. The rest of the CD is really kind of mediocre, going from a beautiful instrumental song (One Million Miles Away) to a fabricated sounding dance song "Baby." J Ralph has talent, there's no doubt about it, but I think he needs to spend more time weaving beautiful instrumentals like "One Million Miles Away," and "Untitled 17," ("Goonies" isnt a bad track, either.) Overall it's a pretty decent album, but nothing to go crazy for.

!!.......2003-02-14

it seems that every song is really well done. every song makes you feel like you want to dance, or sit and sulk, or do something like drive!! but you find your hand reaching for the control to skip around on the cd alot. i was definatly happy i bought it, and would probably buy it agian, however, i just wish more of the songs could be like the ones made famouse by the vw commercials "one million miles and squares". alas they always pick the best ones for tv!!

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