{"id":6325,"date":"1994-02-10T02:56:09","date_gmt":"1994-02-10T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2019-12-16T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T16:44:58","slug":"from-usenet-21094-0256","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1994\/02\/10\/from-usenet-21094-0256\/","title":{"rendered":"[From Usenet: 2.10.94 0256]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17183,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/group\\\/alt.music.alternative\\\/browse_thread\\\/thread\\\/ed526963f7ffd9b7?hl=en&amp;q=author:asrdr%40aurora.alaska.edu&amp;safe=images#7e035f897180393e&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/groups.google.com\\\/g\\\/alt.music.alternative\\\/c\\\/7VJpY_f_2bc?hl=en&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>[Note: This was originally a post to the <code>alt.music.alternative<\/code> Usenet newsgroup. I\u2019m including it here for completeness. Originally archived <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.music.alternative\/browse_thread\/thread\/ed526963f7ffd9b7?hl=en&amp;q=author:asrdr%40aurora.alaska.edu&amp;safe=images#7e035f897180393e\" title=\"Google Groups: alt.music.alternative: Enigma 'Cross of Changes'\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>In article <code>&amp;lt;1994Feb9.181628.39...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu&amp;gt;<\/code>, <code>mbcon...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu<\/code> (Mark Conklin) wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I don&#8217;t know why yet, but I like it. Sure -it is not as ground breaking as the first one, but at least it doesn&#8217;t sound like a rehash of the first disc.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have to agree here&#8230;in the midst of all the Enigma-bashing that&#8217;s popped up, I like the new disc a lot&#8230;especially track three, Return to Innocence. Don&#8217;t really mind the male vocals on other tracks that much, either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Besides, without a <em>major<\/em> change in style and content, there isn&#8217;t much Enigma could do to create another groundbreaking album, and still remain Enigma&#8230;much of their &#8220;sound&#8221; is that floaty, dreamy style, and I really don&#8217;t mind that they chose to go with mideastern chanting instead of Gregorian on this release. A simple rehash of the first album, while it might still have sounded good, would be boring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have to agree here&#8230;in the midst of all the Enigma-bashing that&#8217;s popped up, I like the new disc a lot&#8230;especially track three, Return to Innocence.  Don&#8217;t really mind the male vocals on other tracks that much, either&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2033,2035],"tags":[3590,1328,2772,1786,80,1787,255],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-the-blog","category-music","tag-alt-music-alternative","tag-enigma","tag-from-usenet","tag-imported","tag-music","tag-preblog","tag-usenet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}