{"id":302,"date":"2004-10-19T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2023-06-24T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T07:55:09","slug":"zog-welinskis-day-off-the-first-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanspeck.com\/blog\/zog-welinskis-day-off-the-first-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Zog Welinski’s Day Off – “The First Day Off”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zog Welinski’s Day Off<\/span><\/h4>\n

Category<\/span>: IDM
\nAlbum<\/span>: The First Day Off<\/em><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t remember listening to anything more boring in my life. \u201cHe\u2019s insane,\u201d you\u2019re surely saying. \u201cThere\u2019s got to be a million things more boring than that!\u201d Well, that may be, but I\u2019ve never heard them. Plus, those things are probably better. Because if the music is worse, it can at least be funny. And if the music is better, then it wouldn\u2019t be boring. No, the sheer mediocrity, combined with its tremendous length, makes The First Day Of<\/em>f the most boring CD ever.<\/p>\n

Imagine: 7 songs taking 63 minutes to listen to\u2026 Hell, the track \u201cEnd\u201d is eight and a half minutes by itself! That\u2019s not really an \u201cend,\u201d now is it? \u201cEnd\u201d implies that something reaches the point where it no longer continues and stops. Not so on this album. The \u201cEnd\u201d seems like it goes on just as long as the rest of it.<\/p>\n

I imagine that the CD (and band) got the name in some way relating to the fact that it takes you an entire day off just to get through this piece of shit.<\/p>\n

Okay, okay\u2026 It\u2019s not that bad. But the fact that you\u2019ve got 7 tracks of what is, essentially, music from a video game droning on, endlessly, for roughly 8 to 10 minutes per track\u2026 It\u2019s pretty numbing. I would be on the computer and look away for several minutes from the CD player. Then I would turn back, sure that the track had changed. But the counter would be there, mocking me\u2026 \u201cNo, friend, you\u2019re only 7 minutes into this masterpiece. You\u2019ve got 5 more minutes to go!\u201d<\/p>\n

So, this CD can only be recommended for the most devout electronic chill-out music addicts and terminal masochists. Just be sure to turn your brain off before you turn the CD on.<\/p>\n

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from ReGen Magazine (~10\/2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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