Epinions Recent Reviews for Guildenstern

Why you little money grabbing leprechauns...

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:44:37 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - The world is an upside-down place nowadays. Bono (messianic complex or not) goes around the world trying to stamp out the root of all evil while the Gallagher’s trash various places in various states of inebriation. That’s as it should be,...

What Rhymes With X&Y?

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 16:14:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I hate to be the one to indulge in some petty Coldplay bashing, mostly because I think they’re smashing! However, I must confess I became increasingly irate, and decided I just had to berate. I should also begin with a big howdy (to all three...

Best to shop, eat and procreate

Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:00:12 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Today, I had the great pleasure of meeting a fellow Bright Eyes fan. We both coincided under the B section in Virgin Megastore, London, as she began to flip through the available titles, eventually drawing out a copy of Fevers and Mirrors...

It's not really Indie rock & roll for them

Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:20:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - When the 80s passed on, we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. Well, older people did, I was ten and really getting into Rick Astley. But that is neither here nor there. However… No one would have believed in the last years of...

Try to Hold On

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:28:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - The other day, one of those little tests of daily life that most of us have to go through happened to me. A very short and well-turned out lady strolled up to me as I waited for my train, quietly minding my own business. I was listening to something...

I'm OK, thanks for asking.

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:47:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I spend what seems like an inordinate amount of time seeking art that uplifts through misery. Fortunately, I am not alone. Radiohead, that Oxford quintet that we have all heard of by now, have spent a lifetime in pursuit of some...

It's been a bad year...

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:07:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - As 2004 draws to an inevitable close, I thought it was probably worth giving a few words on what was undoubtedly the Album of the Year. Fortunately, this isn’t a case of rampant immodest self-glorification. No sir, this is a concept album...

Wailing & Gnashing of the Teeth

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:07:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - What's the point in anything? No really, I mean, why bother? Why f***ing bother? I hate the world, I hate everyone. I look around me, I just see everything that's wrong with the world. It's obsessive. I can't help but see the underlying...

Let the Marble Night Withdraw...

Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:31:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Although I'm ordinarily not the most reliably objective reviewer when it comes to Bright Eyes, it's actually rather hard to resort to excited superlatives when it comes to the new Take it easy (love nothing) single. Thing is, it's not the...

Warning! This review contains material of a sexually explicit nature

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:35:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I notice my toes are tapping. I stare at them fixedly, then glance around the room. I close my eyes, listen intently. Nothing. Not the slightest hint of music. But there go my toes, tapping away. That’s because somewhere, in the back of my mind,...

So simple in the moonlight…

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:47:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Conor Oberst has done it again. I hate sounding trite, almost as much as I hate sounding like an incoherent babbling fanboy. But at the risk of sounding like I've just wet myself, he’s done it again. Lua is an achingly beautiful song, played...

Joining up the Dots - Comma

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:13:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - When I heard that not only had The Cure failed dismally at disbanding, but that a new album was on its way, I was justifiably excited. Let’s ignore the objective reasons and the massive influence of The Cure on modern alternative rock,...

From the Shadowlands, with love

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:57:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - For a while, I was merely amused that a singer named Ryan Adams existed. I cynically believed he was using the name in the hopes that poor bemused 80’s survivors would stumble into the shops and buy his cd’s thinking it in fact was the by now...

Indispensable Indie Vol. VII - Just relax

Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:42:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I don’t know what it is about our Highland chums, but they seem able to churn out classic Indie bands like there’s no tomorrow. Founders of Chemikal Underground Records (the label that launched Arab Strap), Scotland's The Delgados...

Supporting my Local Poet and Kindred Spirit: SYLP Foxy_Shy W/O

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:06:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Plainsong A grey overcast day. Early morning. An open windswept square in a shopping centre. Grey paving stones, uniform grey-fronted buildings, a 60’s development. Crawley, Sussex. Splashes of colour provided by the clean, new plastic...

Things Being Generally Uninteresting

Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:36:42 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - The remix is a precise and demanding art. In fact, its genesis and purpose are shrouded in a veil of mystery, no-one really knows where the remix comes from, or how artists arrive at it. Most importantly, very few people know why they recorded them in...

SOAR ASH!

Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:28:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I spent a very long time looking down my nose at ASH (and I have a long nose to look down with). To be fair, my one and only point of contact with them was the video Burn, Baby, Burn, and to my snobbish Indie eyes, it was puerile,...

This is the Land of Broken Dreams

Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:19:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Some bands seemed destined to be eternally undiscovered. For Richmond Fontaine, four apparently excellent albums, all nearly impossible to find in the UK, was clearly not enough to turn any heads. It just goes to prove that old adage ‘it’s not...

Indispensable Indie Vol.VI - KABOOM

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:30:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - John Reis seems to have no notion of what the word side-project means. I forget how it happened, but I decided to give Drive Like Jehu a listen. I was suitably knocked off my feet, and decided to follow up with Reis’ newer project, Hot...

Indispensable Indie Vol.V - We all need to be the cause

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:29:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - What is it about Canadian Indie collectives? There were two reasons why I decided to give Broken Social Scene a chance. First of all, references to the band as a Canadian musical collective inspired hopes in me of some kind of second...

Where is my Mind?

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:37:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - I just saw the Brit Kelly Holmes win the women’s 800m in the Olympics. She settled into the last position of the group, and then slowly worked her way to a final neck and neck. And she won it, well done Kelly! Yay for Britain! Peter Gabriel is one...

Call Me Up

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:35:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Epinions is a website all about sharing opinions. Obviously. We all gather here in our little corner of cyberspace, and some of us write about music, suggest stuff we’d like to each other, occasionally send out mix recordings. But sometimes even your...

Not so Indispensable Indie

Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:19:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - My whole being yearns, nay, craves to love Sparta. I want to love their music, I want to cry out with every ounce of my being that they are the greatest band in the world, and that we should all listen to them. But I can’t. Because they’re not...

You Feelin’ Lucky?

Sun, 8 Aug 2004 15:52:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - Sta
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For me, to review No Code - or, for that matter, any other Pearl Jam album - is to fret about not doing justice to it… But as a collection of songs No Code is as near-faultless an album as Pearl Jam...

Joining Up The Dots - Full Stop. New Paragraph.

Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:55:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Guildenstern - The first song I ever heard by The Cure was Burn. It tingled slightly. First one friend played it to me. Then another. Then I bought the soundtrack it was housed on, The Crow. And so a love story unfolded. I won’t pretend...