Epinions Recent Reviews for Rather_Ripped

157,000 miles and counting

Sun, 5 Feb 2006 02:49:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - Upon reading the other reviews of this car, I cannot say I disagree with any points therein. We purchased our 1990 wagon in 1994, and have been driving it ever since, across half a dozen states in every kind of weather. This car has literally been...

the future was then

Sat, 9 Jul 2005 03:05:10 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - i can't explain to you why i love this record - you kind of had to be there... actually, you kind of had to be eleven, with a cool big brother who had got you into their previous album two summers before. you kind of had to have been steeped in said...

SanDisk 256MB Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive (151511): the talisman of the geek

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:07:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - i finally had to break down and buy a thumb drive so that i could save the CSS i write in my computer class, which takes the place of notepad doodles. i was at a loss for which one to buy, other than figuring 128 wasn't enough storage capacity and 1...

ian curtis' tombstone

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:50:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - as requested, i have reposted the original piece i wrote about the CD version of this album in "General Reviews-Music". my apologies to all for going off topic. i bought the 2 record set of "STILL" on vinyl when it first came out in 1981. by that...

UPDATE: Why I Changed This Review To Zero Stars

Sat, 9 Apr 2005 20:19:52 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - UPDATE - Why I Changed This Review To Zero Stars Two Acronyms: BMG DRM. Boys - get a new label. * * * * * * * * * * * * I got into a ridiculous argument with another music know-it-all about my age at a party recently: Jet vs. Kings of...

The disappointment inherent in the technological mediation of experience

Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:50:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - I received this compact, though not very lightweight and rather chunky digital camera as a gift, and...

And perhaps at last the song you sing will have meaning.....

Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:27:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - From the super-cool fighter jet collage cover with lyric foldout to the no-BS production wizardry of Rob Schnapf (who knew a "real" producer could actually bottle up the magic that is Bob Pollard and sell it??!) this is a deeply satisfying 100% pure rock...

Steve Marriott Sings Lead Vocals on Long Lost Wire Album

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:19:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - It doesn't matter that every single instrument on this album (except for those glorious golden pipes of course) is out of tune; it doesn't matter that Uncle Bob couldn't think of very many lyrics for "White Gloves Come Off"; This record is so brutally...

Guided By Voices: The Club Is Open!

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:28:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - Guided by Voices are yet again one of those unique and precious rock and roll experiences that seem deeply personal, all your own, yet can automatically plug you in (should you desire it) to a sort of unholy fraternity of losers and misfits who go...

What the Kids Are Listening To These Days

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:57:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - At long last, after years of grumbling "Ya call that music? Sounds like noise to me! Now when I was yer age...", the recently-expired decade's milieu of reluctantly-labeled "alternative" musicians has produced a band that I can...

Hush Puppies, Tweed Topcoats, Etc.

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:18:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - This is the second in a series of reviews by me of the original Jam recordings. I am, I must confess, old enough to have been alive when these albums originally came out, and I was old enough at the time to tie my own shoes, walk to the Rasputin's on...

Dine On Some Charbroiled Nun With Me

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:28:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - This record belongs in that proverbial abandoned subway tunnel I fictionally posited some weeks ago, a metaphorical garret where the self-flagellating "perfect punk" resides in lieu of the more pedestrian "desert island".

First there's the...

Truth In Advertising

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 22:10:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - STOP READING THIS!! TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER!! GO OUTSIDE!! RUN TO THE RECORD STORE!! STEAL THIS RECORD!! Then listen to it over and over again for 30 days straight without sleeping. You have just died and gone to my heaven... Aside...

The Sad Little Christmas Tree That Is My Life

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:25:47 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - This may surprise those of you who think of me as a writer of "Top 10 Hardcore Punk Rock Albums" lists and stuff like that, but I do love Christmas, or whatever Winter Solstice Religious or Non-Religious Holiday you prefer to mark the season...

...And It Was (One Of) Mine

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:55:52 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - People I play this record for nowadays complain about all the digital reverb. I give up trying to explain dub to them. I can't figure out why their heads aren't completely taken off by this record. Then I remember that it wasn't one of the soundtrack...

In The City There's A Thousand Things I Wanna Say To You...

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:39:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - I'll get to IN THE CITY in a few paragraphs, but allow me to lay some narrative groundwork for you first, because my relationship to this remarkably historical piece of wax is a deeply personal and emotional one.

Yes, the Old Ones, the Ones...

Radiohead: Way Deep-A** Down Coal Miners of Classic Rock

Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:40:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - Well, kids, you may be sick to the very rising of your gorge with the rantings of ol' Grandpa Rather_Ripped by now...about how he remembers when records were made on big plastic frisbees and played with a needle...how cars used to run on gasoline...how...

What Therapy? Did For Me

Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:10:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - THERAPY? Ironic...where years of actual therapy failed me, one record by a band of the same name may have succeeded. INFERNAL LOVE... Because it is. You know it is. I saw these guys perform on tour with Girls Against Boys (now that...

You Will Buy, Borrow, or Steal This Album.

Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:20:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Rather_Ripped - Greetings fellow armchair revolutionaries. At last the time has come to admit my egregious lies--I do not live in an abandoned subway tunnel, nor do I steal electricity from Con Ed, nor do I forgo mending my ancient black fatigues in favor of...