Re: (TV) What is it with...

["andy fekete" <andy.fekete@gmail.com>]

In the late 70s when Pere Ubu's "Dub Housing" came out, a local Boston
paper published a review by an old school rock critic that went
something like "Most garage bands sound better than this -- hell, most
*garages* sound better than this".

I just knew I had to own that record.

-A

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM,  <andrewmfc@aol.com> wrote:
>  Very very funny.
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> My favorite review of all time is JD Considine's review of an album by the Steve Howe/Steve Hackett supergroup GTR.? It simply read "SHT."
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> From: Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Wed, 28 May 2008 1:51 pm
> Subject: Re: (TV) What is it with...
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> That is always a red herring for me. To play LIKE Tom Verlaine is to be NOT
> like Tom Verlaine, at all. It's a case of the guitarist being too close to Tom
> Verlaine he's an imitator, too far from him...a waste of my time.
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> It's better
> to say "Nipples explode when they play guitar." That will catch my attention.
> Reminds me of the Spin review of Last Exit's "Iron Path." That was the most
> over-the-top, hilarious review of their sound that I had that record within an
> hour. I have it here with me on my iPod after all this time...
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> Well,
> fuck. I found the review:
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> Chuck Eddy said this was the 268th best metal
> album of all time and this:
> In  Sand Dancer,  Sharrock, the most seismic
> axmonster on earth,
> Einsteins on the bitch, makes your head spin in hirstute
> swirls.  Eye
> for an Eye  is where Piggy from Voivod goes to church in
> dimension
> Hatross and the congregation s all mammoths with their fat butts
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> in the pews. They re getting their wool shaved off, Sonny s making wild
> electronic noise as if he s vacuuming up fur left over from the last
> Ice Age.
> The album ends with the drummer repeatedly booting you in the
> teeth with
> steel-tipped construction-worker shoes. This is  jazz,  by
> the way.
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> Original Message ----
> From: Russ <russvr@gmail.com>
> To: tv@obbard.com
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> Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:59:07 PM
> Subject: (TV) What is it with...
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> <ranting
> old man>
> various bloggers who say: so_and_so plays guitar/sings like Tom
> Verlaine.
> I'm ranting I guess - it just seems like comparing some unknown
> musician
> with Tom Verlaine,in some capacity, is the flavor of the week. And it
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> me off ;-)
> Anyone else out there tired of this phenomenon?
> </ranting old
> man>
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