As many people on ILM and elsewhere have said before MMM is actually quite listenable if your ears followed a little bit what happened in the last 29 years in experimentalish rock music. Sonic Youth, the Boredoms, Merzbow, Black Dice etc. are unthinkable without MMM. It's all pretty shrill but not boring at all. There is a lot happening. Often I can hear fire brigade or police sirens, sounds of computer games, even some animal voices like whinnying horses or shrieking birds. All this gives MMM a trippish quality. Obviously it is not a trip to the promised land more like a trip into the dark future of mankind. I am only at the beginning with this piece of music which reminds me of a symphony somehow. It will probably become my favourite symphony. Which isn't hard as I don't listen to classical symphonies anymore.

Something would definitely qualify it for the car stereo. Falling asleep to MMM is something I can hardly imagine. Even less waking up when it is still going (maybe during the locked groove which has got a shattering beat, the breakdown of planet earth repeated ad infintum). This does not seem to be the most desired new experience I need to have in my life.

P.S. mp3 download of the whole thing (via swen)

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