Category: music reviews

The one aspect of the music on this album that’s an improvement over previous efforts is Geddy’s voice. Long gone are the high pitched shrieks of yore, now replaced by smooth, controlled vocals.
RUSH/Vapor Trails
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Forcing myself to listen to this album completely, without stopping once, was one of the hardest things I have ever done. The memory of listening to Untouchables will continue to haunt me to the day I die. I have now suffered for my sins.

Korn/Untouchables

Short Review : Don’t buy this CD. Don’t download it, don’t borrow a copy, don’t do anything with a connection to this CD. It is one of the worst CDs I have ever listened to.
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Everything about KMFDM revolves around themes, from the artwork, to the 5 letter titles, to the way they mix up the member roster for each album. For ATTAK, It sounds as if the band threw some songs together and called it an album… I guess if I had to give this album a theme, it would be “Tim Skold’s guitars.”
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…until Salier’s “She’s Saving Me”, an angelic aria delivered with real emotion and the bitter-sweet longing of her best stuff. When Ray’s harmony rises to caress the melody, the old magical alchemy melding these two opposing forces finally transmutes mercury into gold.

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Paul’s nothing but consistent in his PR spin: just like his revisions of Beatles history, what might have been a reasonably amusing and informative program becomes another installment in The Gospel According to St. Paul.

Ed note: docweasel has been accused of being overly worshipful of St. Paul (see his review of McCartney’s live Tampa concert) so in the interest of balance, here is another opinion of the pretty Beatle and his works. This is a vintage review from the pre-website, lovingly reproduced here and coated with glucose.

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This record is a dense, beautifully lush work of stunning depth and emotional anguish. I truly haven’t heard anything quite this beautiful since Ok Computer, and if you’ve heard that gem you’ll know that is quite a compliment.

SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE/How It Feels To Be Something On
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