Masterful parody of PURE MOODS from the 10-year-old ? /L7AJcjClwOĪnd this is why you shop at your local record store. Originally advertised on television and then released to stores, Pure Moods could be subtitled 'New Ages Greatest Hits.
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He even went so far as to make a parody of the compilation called Cringe Moods: 8152 ) in independent sentences 263, 264, 265, 269 in pure final clauses ( rare ). The PURE MOODS compilation series is the place where ambient music, new age, and what can only be called 'contemporary instrumental' intersect. We started reciting some of the lines around the house. He got really into it, especially the infomercial. I thought it would be hilarious to play my 10-year-old the album after pizza night.
“Plural! There is no one mood, but they’re all Pure.” “But what mood?” Meg asked me after I played her a few tracks. The model, deemed “a huge buzz” after selling more than 2 million copies prior to its formal drop, would be replicated five times over with a tetralogy of sequels in the releases of Pure Moods II-IV. Their clunky but satisfying cohesion can be attributed to the cataloguing done by the Virgin heads, who arranged the piece on a lark, “stumbling into the project” as an experiment to determine if an album could be successfully telemarketed and sold far before its release date. It is work that is genuinely, and for better or worse, peddling you a vague miracle. These were tracks and artists never designed to be played alongside one another, tracks and artists, for all intents and purposes, mostly foreign to one another except in essence. Pure Moods aimed to sell the awe and wonder of music’s ability to change you. Luckily, Mina Tavakoli wrote a great review for Pitchfork a few years ago that delves into its weird history: I wanted to know more about this crazy artifact from 1994.
I didn’t even bother looking at the tracklist until I got home - sure, there was Enya and Kenny G, but also Morricone, Vangelis, Badalamenti and Brian Eno?!? This thing is wild: The minute I saw the cover, I remembered that “Return to Innocence” song blasting during the infomercials:
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“Imagine…a world…where time drifts slowly…”įor laughs, I pulled this copy of Pure Moods out of the free box while record shopping at End of an Ear.
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