Unforgettable, Whether You Like It or Not (Remember Tomorrow - Attic)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Remember Tomorrow - Attic
Date:	01/02/08 (29 review reads)
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Advantages: First song will make some people happy for a few minutes.

Disadvantages: Remixes are bad, boring and pointless.

Just in case you planned on Forgetting Tomorrow, Swedish pop house music artists Eric Amarillo and Michael Feiner ensure that it's sufficiently drilled in with the over-repetitive chorus of this single's title track, before proceeding to serve up four additional remixes of the same song. As if this wasn't bad enough, they aren't even particularly notable remixes, primarily because the artists chosen to offer their outside perspective on the song are in fact the two members of the Attic themselves, playing around with their own song and never managing to stretch its very limited potential into anything truly satisfying.

Taken on its own merits, 'Remember Tomorrow' is an inoffensive and incredibly bland light dance track, one that I wouldn't even consider to be genuinely "house," but what do I know. The chorus is the driving force, against a background of light synthesised melodies and a soft rhythm, all of which increases in energy towards the end. It's by no means a great song, or even a good song strictly speaking, but the main problem here comes in the worthless remixes. Michael Feiner's version is presented twice, first in a more concise radio edit and secondly in a longer, six-minute performance that only adds to the tedium. Feiner's approach is to limit the chorus significantly, which is the one decision I agree with wholeheartedly as it isn't something the listener needs to sit through ad nauseam yet again, but the only alteration he makes to the background is to replace it with a similarly slow but slightly more prominent rhythm and electronic whines, the longer version beginning with some really quite bad and distinctly eighties dance melodies before the regular tune returns.

Eric Amarillo's version is once again more or less the same, considering he too was half responsible for the original, and it ends up sounding like a slightly more ambient, extended version, with the vocals reduced to more of a whisper to avoid them becoming too grating. The final song is a mixed blessing, mainly awful but only retaining some credibility by being so bad that it at least manages to single itself out, and it's yet another remix by Feiner. This time, he goes overboard on the synthesisers, sticks in a retro bassline that wouldn't be out of place in early eighties Michael Jackson, and it all soon descends into a mix between basic house and irritating computer game music. It's undeservedly the longest song here, but really there's no reason whatsoever to play past the first, if you can even be bothered to get that far. There are far too many ways that this single could have been improved.

1. Remember Tomorrow (Album version)
2. Remember Tomorrow (Michael Feiner remix - radio edit)
3. Remember Tomorrow (Michael Feiner remix)
4. Remember Tomorrow (Eric Amarillo remix)
5. Remember Tomorrow (Michael Feiner bonus remix)

Summary: First single from The Attic (2007).