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Ambient Hurricanes View Drop Down

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Posted: August 31 2012 at 00:08

Triceratopsoil wrote:

I love dogs, I've always loved dogs

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Posted: August 31 2012 at 20:50

This one is a pleasure to read.

Percussion, sir!

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Posted: November 18 2013 at 15:17

silverpot wrote:

Kurt Loder, of The Rolling Stone mag, wrote a pretty funny, but savage, review for Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking in 1984. I wasn't able to find the whole thing, only this quotation:

It is on the WayBackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20080604134507/www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/322060/review/5940693?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview

But it must be said, Loder is a bit of a dick when it comes to Waters and Floyd ... he gave The Wall an "unrated" review, saying "Even Floydstarved devotees may not be sucked into The Wall's relatively flat aural ambiance on first hearing. But when they finally are — and then get a good look at that forbidding lyrical landscape — they may wonder which way is out real fast."

Review of The Wall: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/the-wall-19800207

Edited by Chaosdruid - November 18 2013 at 15:23

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Posted: November 21 2013 at 17:05

This RYM user might suffice. While not over-the-top at all, something about his eviscerations of mediocre metal LPs just strikes me as sardonically hilarious. If you want more over-the-top hateful bile delivered in increasingly creative ways, this gentleman off the same site is worth reading. (since he's an avowed Marxist he might be aspiring to become the next Theodor Adorno) Unfortunately, he doesn't post new reviews anywhere as often as he used to.

"The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook

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Posted: November 21 2013 at 18:06

Only just seen this thread.

Alitare wrote:

My Iron Maiden Final Frontier review was something like that. I lost my Prog Reviewer status over it.

Actually, he didn't lose his PR status over that review, but if that's what he believes then I'm not going to burst his bubble.

Luna wrote:

Shi* Sandwich?

A three-track EP was once reviewed in Kerrang!! as - "like a sh_t sandwich, but with the sh_t on the outside."

What?

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Posted: November 21 2013 at 19:11

That's just nitpicking, innit.