Maximilian Hecker - Classic or Dud?/RFI

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I'm listening to the new album (Rose) now and I'm teetering on the fence... it is either very lovely indeed or the most horribly sugared thing I've heard in years.

Although the Erasure pastiche about six songs in is swaying me towards 'horribly sugared', it must be said.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Quite liked the last album. For about a week. Your words do not particularly make me feel like putting cash down for this one.

More Erasure, though=a good thing.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Erasure good (Dan Perry's complaints about them bad!).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: maximilian vs. florian vs. tim vs. misskittinandthe

― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE!

Why? Because I've just had a moment of clarity, and realised that Keane seem to have nicked their schtick almost wholesale from our Maxi.

It's interesting, in a pop culture where so much stock is put into looks, that a band like Keane whose singer - for all his vocal oomph - looks like a pudgy choirboy munching on a curly-wurly, can sell gajillions, while the musically similar Hecker - who's a male model and undeniably swoonsome, languishes in relative obscurity.

Maxi Hecker:
http://www.newspapertaxi.net/images/nt_artists/MaximilianHecker.jpg

Keane's Tom Chaplin:
http://www.carlinglive.com/img/reviews/img_big_keane.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

looks dont equal talent

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Nono that's not my point - my point is, talent *plus* looks *might* be expected to be more successful than talent alone, in this particular case. Maybe. I'm just musing aloud really, and making a vague case that I think Maxi deserves more props, especially for the Infinite Love Songs album.

Carry on...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you can download his new single from his website for free. Reminded me of Sigur Rós.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Lady Sleep finally leaked to slsk yesterday (maybe earlier? dunno. the searching has been for shit). A little more melodramatic than either of the previous albums, but melodramatic is something Max does well.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

i bought rose for £2 thinking it was by the techno artist of a similar surname. at first i thought "what is this shit?" but something about it stuck and it's actually very good.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

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