Music, in the past, used to always be compared with art. Many of the early composers were making large pieces of audio expressions, much like how the painter expressed himself with visual expressions. Sadly, this age seemed to die once people learned their was a profit to be made by recording and selling this audible expression. So with the installation of the record industry, commercial radio, and much later on, music television music became a product, but no longer an art form.

This album is a piece of art. And not all art is something you'd like to experience, but if it gets the message across, it is successful. Sir Millard Mulch successfully gets his point, or lack there of, across and in a quite entertaining manner. The music sounds, for the majority, like someone in the music department of the original Nintendo 8-bit game machine went just a tad bit too heavy on the computer dusters in their work place and started composing. Fast paced, high pitched, fun music, that can easily become the background soundtrack to your daily life, as it can become the center piece of your audible surroundings.
It isn't for every one, but it will open anyone's eyes to the fact that there is more music out there then that of which the commercial outlets will allow you to see ... and it's art, baby.

You know, we get a lot of CDs here at the offices of The Night Owl. However, I don't recall ever getting one like this one by Sir Millard Mulch. Like the title says above, this CD contains 50 tracks (actually, there are 53)--"a mish mash of impossible computer-sequenced virtuoso music, progressive rock instrumentals, pathetic love songs, and spoken word mini-lectures"--practically guaranteed to annoy anyone who comes within 50 yards of it. Most of the `songs' are instrumentals, played on a computer (an Atari 1040--the liner notes list all the specs for all the techno dweebs out there).

Most of the tracks reminded me of Frank Zappa, during his synclavier phase. At the Zoo actually contains a solo lifted almost note for note from "Peaches En Regalia." The thing that makes the disc interesting (at least it looks interesting) are the cover tunes that appear on it. Intertwined with tracks like "I Bought My Love a Bungee Cord," "15 Interesting Things to do with Tiny Chairs," and "Battle Hymn of the Horticulturalist" and covers of hits by the likes of Spice Girls, Winger, and Metallica.

So, you're probably wondering, is the CD good? I'm not quite sure. It's definitely interesting, though...