Epinions Recent Reviews for Aram

Back on the Chain Gang

Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:26:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - The neat thing about creative people is that they will always excel if they put the right limitations on themselves. You know, it's the old saying about the important part of art being not what is there in the painting or song or whatever, but what bits h...

The Best Band to Name Themselves After a Morrissey Song

Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:21:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Once upon a time there was this band called Pretty Girls Make Graves, and they were the most punk rockinest band on Touch & Go Records. They had a guy AND a girl singer and everyone else would join in on the shouting too. Then, one day the band got...

The Band What is Called Elefant

Wed, 8 Oct 2003 17:18:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - In the beginning, I was desperately afraid that Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid was going to suck. I had heard the title track online and it was so amazingly, wonderfully good I was sure that the rest of the album would typically be uninspired and borin...

Writing This Review Nearly Gave Me an Anxiety Attack

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:53:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - I've been fortunate enough to have heard some good bands this year. I guess. What I mean to say is I...

Love Love Love Me Tender

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:48:02 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - I like old buildings. Not just old though, but decrepit and preferably abandoned as well. I like to walk in and around them, just looking. There is something endlessly fascinating about anything that looks as if it might fall apart at any moment.
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Rage Against Nothing In Particular

Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:40:25 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - A short disclaimer: I am inherently suspicious of any band whose songs seem primarily to be fueled b...

Hey, Your Electro Got in My Hip-Hop! No, Your Hip-Hop Got in My Electro!

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:36:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - The wonderful thing about music is that it never holds still. It is forever in flux, alive. S...

Blip Hop Hooray!

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:21:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - So one night I was at my girlfriend's house, and we were so drunk. I mean, we were wasted...

A Musical Masterpiece on CD and DVD

Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:12:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Sigur Ros are a band you either like or you don't. They are an excellent example of one of those rar...

That Lovable Bunch of Hillbillies With Drum Machines

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:03:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Find a picture of Jason Lytle, frontman for the musical group Grandaddy and give it a cursory examin...

What the Hell Happened Here?

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:58:20 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Depending on who you ask, Radiohead hit their peak either with the claustrophobic electronic rock op...

Still Into Punky Brewster? So Is This Band.

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:49:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - I may as well start with the obvious: Maja Ivarsson, lead singer for the Sounds looks a lot like Deb...

Beauty's Got a Hold on Me

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:54:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Do you miss Portishead? Do you long for the sultry sound of Beth Gibbons voice in your ear, quaverin...

What if AC/DC had a sense of humor?

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:50:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - What if AC/DC had a sense of humor? Seriously! What if they were aware of the fact that they were ma...

Perverse, Abrasive and Other Good Things

Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:43:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - New York City's latest phenomenon the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have received at least as much press for their...

Still More Good Music

Sat, 10 May 2003 03:07:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Thanks to critically acclaimed releases by El-P, Rjd2 and Mr Lif, 2002 was the year New York's Definitive Jux (formerly Def Jux, until Russell Simmons threw a fit) really came into its own. Now the DJX crew have decided to spread the love and represent...

The Band From Michigan That Isn't the White Stripes

Sat, 10 May 2003 02:55:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - In late 2002 I had the opportunity to see the White Stripes play a show in San Francisco. There were two opening bands, one being far more entertaining than the other. This band consisted of three frail looking mop-haired kids no older than myself. One...

Often Imitated, Never Duplicated

Mon, 7 Apr 2003 03:16:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Remember when the White Stripes were just another garage rock band from Detroit who had never come 500 feet of a major label, happily releasing one gorgeous punk/blues record after another? Neither does most of America. For better or worse, MTV has...

The Return of the Man In Black

Mon, 7 Apr 2003 03:10:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Music journalists throw words like "legendary" and "unrivaled" around as if they were meaningless, but I dare anyone to say that those exact words don't apply to Johnny Cash. The man is literally a legend in his own time. The ups and downs of his...

Imagine 'Cats' With an All-Gay Cast and You Still Won't Be Close

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:17:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - OK, I'll say this right away, if you don't know who Fischerspooner are, go and read some other album review. I refuse to re-hash everything that has already been said about them over the last two years.

With the much-delayed national release...

That Band With the Irritating Name

Mon, 10 Mar 2003 02:00:45 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Hailing from Leeds, England is The Music, the latest band to receive a Strokes / Interpol / Rapture level of hype from the press. Are they deserving of it? Listening to their self-titled EP I realized that all of my problems with it weren't with music...

Why This Cat Should Make You Curious

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:42:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - I don't know how many people have heard it, but there is a version of the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in which the chorus has been omitted entirely, and the rest of the song is played with so much passion and yet so much restraint...

Don't Hate Me Because I Look Like A Nerd

Thu, 20 Feb 2003 01:33:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Erlend Oye, the weirder-looking half of Norwegian minimalist pop duo Kings of Convenience has teamed up with a variety of electronic music producers from around the world to bring forth his solo debut Unrest.

The vaguely melancholy...

How to F-ck The Pain Away and Other Important Lessons

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:26:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - Listening to The Teaches of Peaches, the debut album from er, Peaches is like listening to Rage Against the Machine, Squarepusher, or Siouxsie & the Banshees in that the recorded music can never come close to actually being there and experiencing...

"Do You Know Frank Sinatra? He's Dead."

Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:18:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Aram - How best to describe First Album by Miss Kittin & the Hacker? Try to imagine a Depeche Mode song stripped down to its basic skeletal structure and really really German. Yes, imagine "People are People" played minimalist style and sung in a...