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36 Crazyfists - The Tide and it’s Takers 2008-07-06 09:10:49 Warbling screaming rock at it’s best.
Although nothing that 36CF have brought out since Bitterness the star has been as good as that début album, they have been a solid supply of good metal, but this album steps it up a notch. This album has a good selection of really heavy riffs and screaming fun along [...]
Looooong time, no see 2008-07-06 08:39:20 Hey guys.
After a long hiatus for work and festival time and just being plain lazy, I’m back and ready to tell you how rubbish music has been since last we spoke.
I’m going to do a quick round up of what’s been going on since I left.
Melvins - Nude with boots 2008-07-14 09:26:24 Like having sewage poured down your throat.
I say that, not because the album is bad, but because its so drity and grimy and sludgy that there is no other comparason for it.
Typing the name of the album into google, I get some interesting results, and became somewhat distracted while trying to listen to the album. [...]
Tricky - Knowle West Boy 2008-07-14 07:56:21 Whispered trip hop
Tricky
apparently loathes the term trip-hop to describe his music, but I would say it’s the best way to describe the music. It is more rounded and full than most trip-hop encompassing quite a lot of singing and guitar, in with the whispered rapping style and low-fi segments of the album.
There are some [...]
Blaze Bayley - The man who would not die 2008-07-12 06:05:05 Understated excellence.
While this album is quite superb, it seems like the band aren’t even trying that hard and it feels like they still have 50% left in the tank and that they could release this at any point. But they don’t.
This album complete’s all it’s objectives and can claim success with every element of this [...] Read more:Blaze
Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony 2008-07-12 05:27:56 Boring catcy punky poo.
This album has all of the elements of skate punk, eccept for it has all of the good bits taken out. It’s far too slow, it’s far too flat and it just insults me.
The only previous work that I can clearly recall by Alkaline Trio, is their first two singles, ‘Stupid Kid’ [...] Read more:Irony
The Streets - Everything is Borrowed 2008-09-17 06:11:55 Words Words Words!
I’ve not really paid much attention to The Streets since Original Pirate Material and so when I’m told that this album is more like the music we heard on that album, I really just have to take their word for it.
Whenever I listen to The Streets in the background and don’t really listen [...] Read more:Everything
Slipknot - All hope is gone 2008-09-16 17:13:48 A return to the top for the ‘knot.
Slipknot
’s third album caused a great number of fans (myself included) to lose a lot of faith with the band and saw a lot of similarities between Slipknot and Corey Taylor’s other band Stonesour. This caused a lot of us to think that Croey was taking over Slipknot [...]
Metallica - Death Magnetic 2008-09-16 09:28:56 After St. Anger, a lot of people lost faith in Metallica
.
We all know what happened, we all got very annoyed at the way they blamed us for their less than adequate album selling precisely -1 copy (I stole it from the shop and then returned it) and this has really damaged the reputation of Metallica, [...]
Travis - Ode to J.Smith 2008-10-02 16:56:30 Perfect for the background.
This is an album that fades away while I’m doing other things, but as soon as I actually start to pay attention to the music, it starts to annoy me. I found it very easy to potter about and do other things while this album was on, but none of the tracks [...] Read more:Travis
, Smith
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson 2008-10-01 13:39:38 Some American Idol chick.
I don’t watch/or care about any of these talent show programmes, so I’m going to totally ignore this fact for this review, as it should not effect anyone’s opinion of an album. If it does, you’re a snob and a cock.
I’ve also been informed that she acted in some films aimed at [...] Read more:Hudson
, Jennifer Hudson
Trivium - Shogun 2008-09-30 07:58:14 An unhappy medium.
Their first (major) album, full of screamcore and shoutmax. They tour with Machine head.
Their next album, full of thrash and Metallica copies. They tour with Metallica
This album, a mix of the 2 styles, with the singing less Metallica. They’re touring with All That Remains and 36 Crazyfists.
This band really is an skeleton key [...]
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling 2008-09-29 13:47:08 Rock without words…well I never!
The first thing that annoyed me about this band was a quote I saw on Wikipedia:
“I think most people are not used to having no lyrics to focus on. Lyrics are a real comfort to some people. I guess they like to sing along and when they can’t do that with [...] Read more:Mogwai
Kings of Leon - Only by the night 2008-09-29 12:29:53 Southern fried Leon.
“Screech, Screech…” sings lead singer Caleb Followill, as the soft rock guitar chugs behind him.
This album is not only whiny and high pitched, it’s also whiny and high pitched. Is there anything you need to know about the album? Has this description not already caused you to throw up your arms in disgust [...]
TV on the Radio - Dear Science 2008-09-28 13:26:16 Made by people who are very ill.
Each song sounds like the artists were dragged from their beds, while they lay there suffering from the flu, and forced to perform their music. They sound like they really aren’t enjoying most of the music that they are performing. This is one of the things that I love [...] Read more:Radio
, Science
Comment competition 2008-09-28 12:36:47 I’ve been doing this for a while now and while I do get some comments, I am greedy for more.
So, here’s a competition
all over your arse,
The best commenter between now and Oct 2nd (Monday closest to the 1st of the month - Sunday closest to the first of next month) will win an album [...] Read more:Comment
McFly - Radio:ACTIVE 2008-09-26 12:55:39 Pre-pubescent and fun.
Pop punk is a genre that stops you ageing. Offspring, who should be 80 years old now, are still 21. So a band that came out before they had hair on their balls are doomed to be so for the rest of their life, or until they grow up and become boring (like [...] Read more:Radio
, McFly
The Maybes? - Promise 2008-09-26 12:22:26 Promise not to make me listen to this again.
This album is just annoying. The whining of the singer, the guitar sounding as if they’ve let a three year old get hold of the guitar and the drumming sounds like they’re using dead babies as drumsticks. This album just plain sucks.
It’s like they’ve played 2 Rolling [...]
New Kids on the Block - The Block 2008-09-20 12:44:45 New kids on the block had a bunch of hits, non of which are on this album.
I must admit, I’ve never been a boy band fan, but this album is one of the worst boy band albums I’ve ever heard.
1.It’s far too smushy, I don’t care about your personal life. Stop spouting off about it.
2. [...]
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 2008-10-08 08:16:49 Delightfully sung.
One of the most poncey albums of the year comes to you with compliments from Eno and Byrne
. It’s a little bit airy fairy for my liking, but all the while, I find very little to insult in this album. I don’t know if it’s hypnotising me while I’m listening to it, but I [...] Read more:Brian
, David
, Everything
, Today
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul 2008-10-08 07:34:31 Are these guys never happy?
More music from people who never seem to be happy about anything. Oasis are starting to become the kid at school who are always moaning about something, and to begin with you are interested about their heartfelt dismay, but after a while you begin to tire of it and wish the [...]
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