Info
- Artist:: Black Box
- Album:: Dreamland
- Year:: 1990
- Label:: Deconstruction
- Catalog:: 2221-2-R
Track Ratings
| # | Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everybody Everybody | ★★ |
| 2 | I Don’t Know Anybody Else | ★★ |
| 3 | Open Your Eyes | |
| 4 | Fantasy | |
| 5 | Dreamland | |
| 6 | Ride on Time | ★★ |
| 7 | Hold On | |
| 8 | Ghost Box | ★ |
| 9 | Strike It Up |
Log
2017-11-28
i listened to this a lot in college, then deleted it, and had it on the todo list until now.
so like last listen 2014?
★★ everybody everybody. i like how they got martha wash to sing it and then brought in a model for the video and cover art (though i think that’s someone else).
but i don’t think anybody cared in the nineties.
“NOTE: The Lady in the video is not the actual Singer, she is lipsynching” thanks, official black box.
★★ i don’t know anybody else. this is one of the weaker dance tracks on this, but i don’t care. my love for 90s dance cheese will be my downfall, though in reality it should’ve been my salvation.
really i could probably credit edm and mctrance for giving me a heart.
and then i got bored so i started writing about ride on time.
(although, the model’s blue eyes in the fantasy music video are really striking.)
★ and why would you open an album side like this with dreamland? it’s a bizarre choice, but one i can get behind for exactly that reason.
★★ ride on time! i adore this track, partially for the homophone typo, but also because i love how decontextualizing the vocals from the original loleatta holloway track completely changes the tone. she sounds incredibly sarcastic in her delivery. i think the repetition of the clips is what causes that effect, along with the fact that the vocals make no sense so there’s no way to piece together a larger context.
also the cutting and pitching of the samples here is so charming. you can hear the offset pop on the “walk-walk-walk right in”! i don’t think they cared, and with enough e, i don’t think i would care either.
and then some more midtempo songs.
★ though ghost box is nice
★ strike it up is ok too, though right after ghost box? maybe i’m just conventional with my perceptions of album flow, even though the 90s was never about convention.