Melody A.M.

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The Understanding is better
This is one of those CD's that are good for one song. "Remind Me" from the Geico Caveman commercial where he is in the airport and sees his poster on the wall. It is clear that Royksopp has done much better with their newest CD "The Understanding" it has at least 3 good songs. I like Royksopp when they actually create music instead of certain cacophonous filler material. "Remind Me", "Only This Moment", "What Else Is There?", and "49 Percent" are their best works, 3 of which are found on the CD "The Understanding". They are pretty good, but if they really want to impress, they should continue writing songs like "Only This Moment" and "What Else Is There?". "Remind Me" is cool, but I was disappointed with the rest of the boring stuff on the "Melody A.M." CD.

delayed discovery
If you are like me who wants to buy this CD because of the "Remind Me" track which was popularized to the U.S. mainstream crowd via the Geico caveman commercial (airport scene) and have no idea whether it's worth it to buy the whole album from Norwegians Torbjorn Brundtland and Svein Berge alias Royksopp and have no idea who they are :) then you might enjoy this if you are into electronica, techno-trance euro music. The music run along the likes of Moby or a little fatboy slim (if you recognize them). Lots of instrumental tracks which I like. The only thing I regret is that I got the Import one which contained 1 CD. There is an [Enhanced] version 2 discs with extended versions of 2 tracks i.e. Remind Me and Poor Leno. I am not a music buff so I really have no fancy words to describe it with. Apparently, the CD got rave reviews when it was released in 2002 in US (2001 in Europe). I'm 4 years too late in the discovery, am I? The Remind Me video won a European Music Awards. But barring all that, I liked the music, it is something that you could dance to or hear in a techno-house, electronica club, good for chilling out. Good pump-up music, just like the guy from IN said "Good for waking up, relaxing or getting ready for a night on the town."

Music for the Soul
"So Easy", "Eple", "Poor Leno" and the geico caveman song "Remind Me" really make this CD happen. I dunno how they did it, but they really got it right with Eple, The song just sounds incredible.

Ok
Only the booklet inside is difficult to fix in the cd box, everything else is OK.

Wonderful
I would highly recommend this album. Its difficult to describe, but the similar artists I like are Goldfrapp, K&D, Thievery Corporation, Tosca. I grow more fond of this with every listen.