everyone who has touched a sampler or DAW has done this. it's one of the most basic production techniques. it's like painting a nursery room and thinking you're rothko or strumming an open tuned guitar and thinking you're tal farlow (with fallon clapping like a 4 year old the whole time).

I think this is a prime example of why pop music is a lot harder than you might think. It's very simplicity is what makes it so hard to pull off. It's not just marketing and promotion either (though that helps, of course). I could paint a picture that, to me, was indistinguishable from a Pollock or a Rothko, but it wouldn't be great art, and nobody would pay me thousands of dollars for it.

A lot of my professional musician friends who have spent years perfecting their art get real grumpy about the success of pop musicians. They tend to say things like 'I could do that, no problem' and yet they don't, and they certainly would if they really could.

Also, to clarify, I'm not necessarily talking about pop *stars* whose talent tends to be more along the lines of looking cool while singing passably, but the producers and song writers who make the actual music.

I've noticed that in the museum galleries, they always put the benches in front of the Rothkos.

I found it on youtube, hope this one works for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ8AIIAgYpg

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Maybe it's just the content server I'm stuck with here or something.. I hope to -heck- it's not region blocking.

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
^ it plays fine for me.

Maybe it's just the content server I'm stuck with here or something.. I hope to -heck- it's not region blocking.

In reply to this comment by mauz15:
^ it plays fine for me.

o_O is working for me. I had to move around the progress indicator though.

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
Broken now? Dang I need to get this series on dvd.

Satie is such an interesting guy. Such striking minimalist brilliance. I love the subtlety in the Gnossiennes and Gymnopedies more as I get older. Like if Debussy wrote themes for Rothko.