{"id":1056,"date":"2015-06-12T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2015-06-11T11:28:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T10:28:40","slug":"song-of-the-week-macrosolutions-to-megaproblems-by-voivod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Macrosolutions to Megaproblems&#8221; by Voivod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Macrosolutions to Megaproblems&#8221; by Voivod:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q3uV_ZuPOcw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the real joys of the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona on the last weekend of May was seeing and hearing Canadian thrash-metal legends Voivod, who played an intense and fun set, and looked like they were having a ball doing it. They played hard, and fast, and the music was great, but they also presented themselves as a bunch of guys who can&#8217;t quite believe they get to play in the best band in the world.\u00a0 The secret to every great band is that it really is the best band in the world, to the people in it.\u00a0 With Voivod, that totally shone through.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve discovered since the festival that not as many people have heard of Voivod as I thought&#8211;even some metal fans I know.\u00a0 This surprised me, because Voivod is a band that I always read about and heard bands like Metallica and Slayer talking about when I was a kid.\u00a0 In their time, and their style, they were innovators, playing fast and tight with time signature shifts and &#8220;jazz&#8221; chords that made them seem a little bit prog, and set them apart from a lot of other bands.\u00a0 &#8220;Macrosolutions to Megaproblems&#8221; is from the 1988 album <em>Dimension Hatr\u00f6ss<\/em>, an album which, along with <em>Rrr\u00f6\u00f6\u00f6aaarrr<\/em> from 1986, represents a significant contribution to the superfluous umlaut canon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Macrosolutions%20to%20Megaproblems%22%20by%20Voivod\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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