Epinions Recent Reviews for GregRadiohead

Tripping off the beat kinda/dripping off the meat grinder

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:16:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Sometimes we all get in a rut, and the best way to get out of it is to go out of our way to experience new things. Things that are beyond our familiar and comfortable areas of expertise. As such, I decided to finally check out this whole "underground"...

We are Sparta F.C.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:57:16 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Navigating The Fall's discography is a time consuming and headache inducing exercise in frustration. At the time of this writing, they have 28 official studio albums. You can probably imagine how many singles, EPs, and compilations are also out there...

You know you bound to wind up dead

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:11:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - My hope is that, as more time passes, the new people getting into the Grateful Dead will hear them without any of the baggage associated with them. When the band was still kicking around in the 80s and 90s, they were always seen as harmless and toothless...

The boy next door is me

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:16:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - The Feelies, you ask?? Who the hell are The Feelies?? Well, the Feelies had a hipster cache in the 80s, thanks to bands like REM and critics like Robert Christgau talking them up. But the original line up fell apart after their first album, Crazy...

I'm in love with your cheek

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:38 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - If this decade has, for the mainstream anyway, been the decline of the album--due to digital music stores, the ease of piracy, or the way we listen to music nowadays--then it has also seen the resurgence of the single as a viable artistic venue. Since...

His body will decay

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:57:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - I have the habit of thinking of bands as a linear progression or story, with a very clear evolution or path toward or away from something. While I probably have forced this structure where it doesn't belong, it seems like more often than not it...

My god that's not the way

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:25:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Friend may be referred to officially as an EP, but it's a dubious designation for two reasons. One, it clocks in at 43 minutes, which is longer than full albums by a lot of bands. The other reason is that three of the tracks are actually covers of...

Invisible Accidents

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:47:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Fans of Sufjan Stevens have been right to wonder what the hell he's been up to for the last four years. After 2005's amazing Illinois album, subsequent outtakes-and-leftovers The Avalanche, and a compilation of Christmas songs (Songs For...

But looking back you may go blind

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:31:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Listening to Logos over the past few days, I've realized that I don't consume media (or, if you will, art) like I think I should. See, I've always felt that I should go into everything with an open mind: even if I've read reviews of a movie...

It's like the cold if you were dead

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:21:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - The Cure are a band who, like the Grateful Dead, have a large-yet-cult-ish following of sometimes monomaniacal fans. Meanwhile, everyone else thinks they know what the band is, dismissing them out of hand without ever giving them a listen. Get...

I don't need a doctor to tear me all apart

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:00:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Damn you, Dr. Dog. I was all set to get home from work today and write a review of something cool, obscure, and/or original, like Miles Davis's sorta-hard-to-find Pangaea or the funk/dub instrumental album that the Beastie Boys released a year or...

Flower bloom beneath my room

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:35:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Sometime in 2007, there started to be a movement among some videogame critics to progress beyond the usual Consumer Reports-style reviews that ticked off the list of Music/Visuals/Controls/Gamepla
y.
Rather, they began to get more overtly subjective an...

But if wishful thinking is all I've got

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:22:59 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - You know, I can't really name any great double albums from this decade. Sure, the Flaming Lips are set to release one in a few days, but other than that, I feel like this was mostly the decade of bands either releasing really long single CDs or trimming...

Saw your nightmare bat go by my window

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:15:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - In the spirit of the double album nature of Embryonic, I've decided to break my review up into a three parts with an intermission after the second part. You know, kind of like a play only with better writing and no acting.Oh, and by the...

Are you up to something?

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:12:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Depending on how the rest of the new bands from this decade shake out, I'm thinking about coining a phrase for indie bands who come out of nowhere with a brilliant album, receive a ton of critical praise and blog hype, live on good faith for a year or...

You know I had my share of doubt

Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:59:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - I was surprised to see that Islands had a new album out, seeing as how it's only been a year and change since Arm's Way. Well, one of the original members has re-joined the band, so perhaps this--or the lukewarm reception of the aforementioned...

Astronauts report it feels good

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:27:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - I suddenly got the bug to check out all the electronic music I've been neglecting all these years, so the other night I was asking a friend his opinion of various artists. Somehow this developed into me realizing two things: 1) the big, popular singles...

I'm seeing double and triple

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:30:46 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Upon first listen, Popular Songs seems to pick up where Yo La Tengo left off three years ago: making another strong album in the vein of their essential I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Styles will shift from song to song--dream-pop...

Come on, let's leave our misery

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:03:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - As a band mostly known for the stylistic variety of their albums (codified on the essential I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One), it was a bit of a surprise when Yo La Tengo released And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out in early 2000...

Knew there I'd die alone

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:59:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Though even he has admitted that Sun Kil Moon is mostly a continuation of what he was doing in the Red House Painters, it must be interesting to be Mark Kozelek, who has helmed two underground fave bands on top of doing "solo" stuff under his own name...

Free of distortions

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:55:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Sometimes my perception of a band is forever tainted by the fact that the first album I heard of their's was a lesser work. This happened to me with Sigur Ros, who's Agaetis Byrjun is reportedly a masterpiece but I unfortunately settled for...

Is it all worth fighting for?

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:54:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - I rarely play games more than once, let alone start them over again as soon as I finish them. Yet that's exactly what I did the first time I played Resident Evil 4 on Gamecube...and all over again when it was ported to the Wii. It's easily one of my...

It all works somehow in the end

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 19:49:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - The Strokes may have squandered their potential legacy with progressively weaker albums and far-too-soon-for-this-sort-of-
thing
solo albums, but I think it's safe to say that Is This It? was one of those watershed rock albums. It may not be...

We seek out the taciturn

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 21:11:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - My current favorite writer is Charles Bukowski, a man who is perhaps best known for being an alcoholic and womanzier but should be known for how stripped down and yet still poignant his writing could be. In his own words: "a poet is a man who says a...

Rays of gold now rain on tin

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:55:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author GregRadiohead - Murray Street may have a naturalistic, innocent, and slightly surreal album cover--why are they under a net?? are they picking some kind of vegetables??--but if ever there's a Sonic Youth album that feels urban, it's this one. In fact, I'd go so...