Epinions Recent Reviews for FilboidStudge

I Don't Care Because He Doesn't

Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:07:31 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Remember those school essays you used to dash off ten minutes before they were due to be collected? Well, here's a double album containing thirty of them, in song.

"Drukqs" has 'Will this do?' written all over it, and NO, it bloody won't. It's...

Bonny All The Way

Fri, 9 Nov 2001 00:55:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - (The CD reviewed here contains the albums "Anthems In Eden" from 1969, and also "Amaranth" from 1976. Although recorded separately by seven years, the marriage of the two albums is a wise and beneficial alliance.)

Born in...

Cops At The Door!

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:24:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - It's inconceivable that this album could have been made on a diet of anything less than mushrooms for breakfast, mushrooms for lunch and mushrooms for supper, all washed down with hash tea and a few blotters. And the drugs seem to have done...

Rock and Pop: Our Ancestors Also Grooved

Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:47:17 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - It was fun in Britain during the 1600s. We had a laugh avoiding the Black Death and perhaps we did get a bit crispy when London burnt down, but you should have heard what we were grooving to at the time.

Don't believe those olde-style MGM...

Moby: Does God Really Want Moby For A Sunbeam?

Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:31:45 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - FROM THE OFFICES OF THE SUPREME BEING

FOR THE ATTENTION OF:

ST. PETER

My Holy Child,

It has come to my attention that a member of the human race from a sector called America should now be barred from...

the fall are grate dansers

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 21:50:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - i realy luv the fall they are grate dansrs and when they come on stage and sing all there songs it is realy cool.

Mark has a briliant voice the way he stand upfront on the stage and look at the audiance like "i love you"

they...

Backstreet Boys: Backstreet Abortion Boys

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:47:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - The inexplicable popularity of the Backstreet Boys can be compared to the rise of fascism in Germany during the 30s.

Very seldom have so many been hoodwinked by so few. There are other similarities, too; Hitler is known to have only owned one...

Beatles (The): I Am The Accountant, Goo Goo G'Joob: The Beatles' "1"

Fri, 17 Nov 2000 21:11:34 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - When George Harrison was nearly murdered at the end of 1999, he claims he screamed "Hare Krishna!" at his attacker to try and confuse him. Interesting; a man who thought he was dying calling the name of his God, but not in the sense of 'God,...

Music Can't Be More Beautiful Than This

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:50:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - The music made by angels in Heaven sounds like Dogstar next to "Heaven Or Las Vegas." Considered widely to be the Cocteau Twins finest and most gorgeous hour, this 1990 album saw them take their whimsical, pure tones to new, polished heights of...

Rock and Pop: Misheard Lyrics part 143: Headlice and Pastry

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:43:46 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - The English news presenter Sue Lawley was crestfallen. She'd just been told The Police were actually singing "So Lonely" and she wouldn't be the meat in their huge heaving popstar sandwich after all. Bang goes all that tantric sex, cocaine and...

All Roads Lead to Chicago. Caution: Clever People Live Here.

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:56:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Another stunning missive from the band HIM, an incestuous broth of Chicago's prof-rock tendency, "Sworn Eyes" offers five brooding, glimmering instrumentals, deep with subterranean electronics which quietly fizz around your ears.

HIM...

Sublime Times For Chicago's Finest Minds

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:38:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - "Camofleur" by Gastr Del Sol is like a Who's Who of the Chicago music underground. Jim O'Rourke's mark is all over it, and accompanying him are David Grubbs, Markus Popp (of sound-sculptors Oval) and sundry other local heroes including Rob...

"An Archive of Aesthetic Asian Hardcore Wizardry"

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 18:35:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - The British eat more curries than any race outside the subcontinent. And it's this depressing connection most of them make with what they know of Indian and Pakistani music. For many, it's an aid to digestion, not something to actually listen to. For the...

Look! Hippies!!

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 23:12:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - The Incredible String Band grew out of the mid-60s Scottish folk scene. They played at Woodstock, but their fragile, intricate songs were drowned out by the rainstorm that swept the site. At their height, they lived together in a vast commune populated...

Belfast Gets Funky

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:08:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge -
Review Topic: Practical Information

Belfast, a city with a high proportion of young people, has blossomed into a very 'happening' place. With its large pedestrianised areas and street cafes, it feels more like Paris than London,...

Fantastically Cheesy Bloodsuckin' Freakout

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:18:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - This soundtrack to an obscure Italian sexploitation flick may perhaps be the very finest party album of all time.

Released in 1995 on the charmingly named Crippled Dick Hot Wax record label, "Sexadelic Dance Party" has 'instant...

Manchester's Finest Obscurists Kick Back Again

Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:41:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Mark E. Smith, singer with The Fall and legendarily drunken curmudgeon of pop, landed another blow against mainstream music with 1993's "The Infotainment Scan," taking his band's awesome album output into the high twenties.

In...

Nice Video - Shame About The Songs...

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 20:14:35 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Richard James has been a lazy boy. Once, he had it all. Critics and fans of otherworldly music alike saluted his sonic excursions with the superlatives they deserved. Yet after his last, self-titled album, all went quiet. And now we have the deeply...

Courtney Love Will Never Sound This Good

Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:34:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - "When shall we three meet again...?"

Kat, Lori and Maureen (aka. Babes In Toyland) stormed into earshot in the early 90s like pre-menstrual cousins of the three witches from "Macbeth." I first heard them on John Peel's show...

Humanity Stripped Bare

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 22:05:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - "Magnolia" may be the most bold, inventive, enthralling film of this century so far. It's full of people wallowing in their own private cesspools and as a cross-section of the human condition, it's an awesome achievement.

Paul Thomas...

It's All About The Visuals

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:23:28 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge -
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions

London buses are big red existential heroes. You never know when they'll come - they obey their own laws of time and space.

It's dark. You're waiting at a smashed-up bus stop,...

Qawwali-Davidson

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:55:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - If you are in awe of beautiful music, you quite simply have to hear this album.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died a few years ago, was the world's finest singer of qawwali, a spiritual, devotional trance-like music of Islam. While keeping quiet...

We Are Reasonable People: Open Your Ears

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:27:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Sheffield, UK: home of Pulp (grand), Def Leppard (execrable, with mullets) and cutlery factories. It's an odd setting for perhaps the finest, most consistent record label in the world.

To celebrate their first ten years, Warp Records put out...

Cosmic Adventures In Spliff-Rock

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:55:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Musicians throughout the ages have told tales of the legendary Lost Chord. The Verve hit it in the first second of "A Storm In Heaven."

Only one EP the year before had prepared us for this, their debut album, and its sheer majestic...

Flights of Angels Sing Thee To Shleep

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:11:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author FilboidStudge - Robert Wyatt threads his wonderful, soft man-child voice in and out of these 11 near-perfect songs sounding as if he hasn't a care in the world. By all accounts, he ekes out a very quiet existence, watching birds come and go from the small wooden beach...