Mri (lyrics, music video, techno, drum, indie)

[Guybrush]

Okay, it's becoming more and more appearant that this review probably was for promotional purposes. If that's the case, you should've been a bit more up-front and let us know that people in the band and people involved in the production are personal friends of yours. The fact you didn't makes me think you left that out on purpose so that those who read the review would think that the praise came from someone who was initially objective.

I thought, perhaps somewhat gullibly, that you were praising just an album, not the first album from a group of friends. I stood up for you earlier in the thread, but this cheapens the thing a little bit, you know. It looks like people are registering on the forum just to praise this album now which I think might be against the rules on top of everything else.

[ninaNirvana]

Originally Posted by toretorden

Okay, it's becoming more and more appearant that this review probably was for promotional purposes. If that's the case, you should've been a bit more up-front and let us know that people in the band and people involved in the production are personal friends of yours. The fact you didn't makes me think you left that out on purpose so that those who read the review would think that the praise came from someone who was initially objective.

I thought, perhaps somewhat gullibly, that you were praising just an album, not the first album from a group of friends. I stood up for you earlier in the thread, but this cheapens the thing a little bit, you know. It looks like people are registering on the forum just to praise this album now which I think might be against the rules on top of everything else.

OK then I formally apologize if you feel that way; but I did not want any of this and I am sorry that I feel enthusiastic about them...I simply have been a fan in the same way that one is a fan about Pink Floyd. I thought by including the interview it was clear that I was into giving the band as much exposure as possible. If you do not want me here in the forum anymore becasue I am a journalist, I completely understand and I thank you for being nice to me up to this point. I enjoyed participating in all the other threads except maybe this one. I didn't mean it to turn out like this..I simply sent the band this link after all the negativity....like I owed it to them. As of course they would want to see it as well as all the people invloved...they are just starting out and are as indie as a band can get...doing everything themselves not have a big label to help them out. I thought that people would be very intrigued by some new art. That's all.

Let me know if you want to ban me I would rather quietly leave with my dignity as a writer intact and wish nothing but good things for your forum, which I like a lot, as well as some of the talents I have met here as well.

Sincerely-

Nina

PS if I am allowed to stay I have decided my next review will be on The Spooky Kids ( who became Marilyn Manson ) I do know Brian from back when my sister played in a band called Jack Off Jill in Ft Laud in the 90s. and i think the story of MM is truly amazing.

[Guybrush]

Thanks for the apology, Nina. I won't comment on your future here since that's up to the moderators, but something you could do is ask someone else here if they would review the album. That way, there would be an undisputedly objective review here as well and that might help increase the validity of your own review .. Plus MRI gains another review for their debut. I don't feel up for the task, but there's a handful of other people here who review albums by request. There's of course a risk that the reviewer won't like it, but if they're as good as your own review implies, then maybe it's a risk worth taking?

I hope I'm not offending you with this suggestion. It's just an idea I got a minute ago while washing up and I thought maybe it could help sort things out.

[ninaNirvana]

Originally Posted by toretorden

Thanks for the apology, Nina. I won't comment on your future here since that's up to the moderators, but something you could do is ask someone else here if they would review the album. That way, there would be an undisputedly objective review here as well and that might help increase the validity of your own review .. Plus MRI gains another review for their debut. I don't feel up for the task, but there's a handful of other people here who review albums by request. There's of course a risk that the reviewer won't like it, but if they're as good as your own review implies, then maybe it's a risk worth taking?

I hope I'm not offending you with this suggestion. It's just an idea I got a minute ago while washing up.

Thank you for this. I will leave it up to the moderators. I have promised a few already with a download link(s) Their webmaster is supposed to get that to me soon. But all tracklisting files are also available for free download at lastFM. There is an EP too with mostly dance/trance/techno-ish and reggae/ska sounding songs, also a cover of "The End" by The Doors... I would love to see someone else review it/them and in that runs the risk of a negative review... but a well written negative review is worth the read in and of itself so I would enjoy to hear someone elses opinion. I agree...I have read a lot of really awesome reviews in the Editors picks and Journal boards and have been extremely impressed at the great style and music knowledge that many of the moderators seem to have. That is why I chose this forum as it seemed that a lot of people listened to a lot of different things, and that inspired me to write about MRI.


Thanks again for your kindness--

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

I'm not sure if anybody realized it but there was a spammer a while back named daren/MRI who tried to promote this band.

So while there is a slight chance this person actually is a music journalist I'm gonna call it a 99.99% chance this is complete fucking spam.

No allmusic. No wikipedia. And this "music journalist" comes here shoving this album by an obscure band up our anal crevices? Smells like a crock of shit.

It may be a crock of shit but it's a crock of shit thats not breaking any rules.

People are entitled to promote stuff here as long as they contribute in other areas of the forum , she has been so the thread was allowed.

I'm moving this thread into General Music because there's no reason this band cannot have a thread , however the review itself is completely worthless being it's comes from such a heavily biased source and like Toretorden said , Nina should have mentioned this in the initial post.

And this is not what our Review forum is here for.

[ninaNirvana]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

It may be a crock of shit but it's a crock of shit thats not breaking any rules.

People are entitled to promote stuff here as long as they contribute in other areas of the forum , she has been so the thread was allowed.

I'm moving this thread into General Music because there's no reason this band cannot have a thread , however the review itself is completely worthless being it's comes from such a heavily biased source and like Toretorden said , Nina should have mentioned this in the initial post.

And this is not what our Review forum is here for.

Thank you for moving this thread Mr. Urban Hatemonger. Maybe if anyone wants to write a review for MRI they can PM me and I will send them download links. We are expecting a re-mastered single Aside/Bside release from Eric Greedy so I can make that available to anyone.

What is still think is funny is that I first found MB following a link on MRI's home page MRI: BAND INFO, MUSIC, MP3, ORDER CD, DOWNLOAD LYRICS, iTUNES FRIENDLY DIGITAL DOWNLOADS OF MRI SONGS, RINGTONES, SAMPLES, MP3s, Download 8 minute epic 'The New Oxygen' MP3 footer links. So the band is freely promoting a website that the band members themselves are banned from...that's pretty funny I think & something for me to write about for sure :-) will make part of a great book one day. You see, I want to write a book about the Florida music sceen starting with The Spooky Kids going up to the present..so that now includes the death of the music industry and corporate record labels and the bands that are part of the web 2.0 generation in Cyberia.

But this is great that MRI has its own thread in its proper place now on the boards here. Thank you very much again all your points are well taken and I will obey all rules from now on. I really do love this forum a lot despite the rocky start Ha Ha HA :-) Cheers on that for having a few good writers at least on board. There is a lot of great reading here and reading is my life ( well, when not listening to music Ha HA )

See you all on the boards-

Sincerely,

Nina

[CAPTAIN CAVEMAN]

Originally Posted by ninaNirvana

I asked MRI about the album title in my interview and both Daren and Alan gave lengthy explanations that sounded more like a meta-physical discussion, even philosophical, as Daren started talking about Sartre's "Being And Nothingness". Daren was a schoolteacher ( like Sting ) before MRI/Noir, and is a self-admitted math freak.

Originally Posted by Daren

Dear world:the original album title was "The horizon is where parallel lines meet."said by my high school art teacher once while teaching us how to draw two point perspective drawings. we needed a name for the album and didn't spend more than ten seconds thinking about it.one day we messed up the layout printing CDs and clipped off the subject of the sentence, and the name stuck.it doesn't mean a thing really unless you stand on train tracks.

oops

[ninaNirvana]

Originally Posted by stereolunch

What's the deal with all the German stuff/band? Do you know why there are two bands listed under the same name? I am not a huge fan of techno or house music...I mean...no offense. They should settle the matter by having a MRI America vs. MRI Germany battle of the bands ;p

Mr. Stereo Lunch:

I am sorry I never replied to this but the thread got er...sidetracked. Ha Ha

The answer is that at some OMDs, there is no separate indexing for artists with the same names since the bots and smart listeners like Audioscrobbler index by artist name. There was ( now defunct ) German house music digital music - sample duo called "MRI" from about 6 years ago but their stuff is still on the web. MRI being a new band, has to share their LastFM page, and at present the German band has a higher playrank since they have been around for a while but all the albums and mp3s are interspersed and indexed together. The American MRI band albums are "Where Parallel Lines Meet" and "Now And Xyen" EP which has dance-techno and ska-reggae tracks mostly along with some experimental music.

I hope this makes things clear. You can PM me if you want more details-

Thanks-

Nina

Originally Posted by CAPTAIN CAVEMAN

oops

Yes I feel dumb & I PM'd you that you got me. I was hoping no one would notice :-) But you did. Addmitted I feel kinda like a dumb girl at the moment. Little did I know what he was going to write.

[lucifer_sam]

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

It may be a crock of shit but it's a crock of shit thats not breaking any rules.

People are entitled to promote stuff here as long as they contribute in other areas of the forum , she has been so the thread was allowed.

I'm moving this thread into General Music because there's no reason this band cannot have a thread , however the review itself is completely worthless being it's comes from such a heavily biased source and like Toretorden said , Nina should have mentioned this in the initial post.

And this is not what our Review forum is here for.

Fair catch.

[ninaNirvana]

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Fair catch.

Agreed. Hopefully we can all start over now.
Thank You :-)

-Nina

BTW in case anyone is interested here is a free download ( cd quality ) of MRI's 1st single "Helicopter Head" that was just put up on the MRI website:
MRI Free CD audio quality WAV Downloads - SINGLE: Helicopter Head (side a) The Beautiful And Dangerous (side b) © 2009 Xyen Records - MRI is Alan Cruz - Drums, Daren Thomas Turner - Guitars/Vox/Piano, Daniel Denial - Bass Free to love it or abhor it LOL. There is a "B" side too that is pretty raw and untamed sounding.