Epinions Recent Reviews for Steve_NC

Rockabilly Meets Punk

Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:16:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - There have been three great periods in rock music, in my opinion: 1955-1959, 1964-1969, and the 1980s. In the first, rock 'n' roll exploded onto the scene and upset the pop music applecart. In the second, inaugurated by the British Invasion, rock both...

SOLID ... And A Great Source of 'Poultry Digest'

Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:00:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Is there really a difference between Milk-Bones and other brands of dog biscuits? For this review I decided to conduct a "taste off" pitting Original Milk-Bone Brand dog biscuits against Trail Blazer Dog Biscuits (made by the Windy Hill Pet...

More Vonda, Less Calista

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 04:11:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - I have only one gripe about this CD, and it's a big one to me. But first I will grudgingly acknowledge the reality of the situation:

1. Although she had had some successes previously, Vonda Shepard's career really soared after she was...

Make Your Own!

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:36:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Review of Kahlua, the real thing

No one can really duplicate Kahlua, of course. There are other coffee liqueurs available but Kahlua is in a class by itself. Dark, sweet, sticky, and more chocolatey than "coffee-ey," Kahlua is...

Starring: Me!

Thu, 9 Nov 2000 03:38:15 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - This movie is dreadful, with the exception of a dramatic "head nodding" scene by yours truly in my big-screen debut.

I've heard that after it opened in Birmingham, where it was made, it played for a week in a theater in Canada and...

Blazing Guitars

Mon, 6 Nov 2000 02:24:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - In the early '60s' the guitar instrumentalists were the heavy metalists of the day. Unable to fall back on catchy lyrics or their voices, they knew that they would stand or fall on how well they could play their instruments. Some of them got good, very...

Tu Solo Tu, Linda

Sun, 5 Nov 2000 23:43:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Linda Ronstadt is an incredibly fortunate singer.

She is blessed with a voice that can carry any style of music with the same seeming effortlessness. She has fans who will gladly follow wherever her musical interests take her, knowing that...

Gunfighter + Pop Historian

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:30:17 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Marty Robbins/Johnny Horton: "Best of 2 Super Artists on 1 Great Compact Disc."

It's an interesting pairing and it even makes a kind of sense. Robbins and Horton were turning out their most memorable hits at roughly the same...

Listen to the King of the Surf Guitar

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:41:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - I caught a TV special on Dick Dale once. The clip I remember showed Dale standing on the beach outside his house, at night, facing the Pacific Ocean as he played a surf-music run on his Fender guitar. It was a mythic moment. He seemed to be speaking to...

Good Golly Mr. Penniman!

Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:46:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Little Richard invented rock 'n' roll -- he would tell you so himself. Of course, the genre didn't have a single inventor, but if I had to nominate an individual who comes closest it would be the man born Richard Wayne Penniman in 1932 in Macon, Georgia...

Power to the Listener!

Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:59:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - I remember the first time I heard Barry McGuire singing "Eve of Destruction." It was 1965, at the height of the Civil Rights movement, and radio stations in the South were refusing to play the song because of a line in at that took a swipe at...

Weirdness at the Middle of the World

Thu, 2 Nov 2000 18:56:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC -
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions

Review Topic: Sights & AttractionsSTRANGE PHENOMENA REPORTED FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD!

Outbreaks of Spastic Dancing, Kissing Orgies Blamed on...

1950s' Underappreciated Madonna?

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 15:27:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - If you want to know Julie London's appeal, you only have to listen to one song, her 1950s hit, "Cry Me A River." Managing to be smooth, cool and sultry all at the same time, this nightclub singer, former movie actress and future TV actress...

The Case of the Perfect Coffee Maker

Sun, 29 Oct 2000 06:00:25 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - It was a Monday. I was sitting in my office, pondering the bad taste in my mouth. Was it life itself that had lost its flavor? Or was it just the coffee, boiled down to a sludge as thick and bitter as most men's souls? I started to get up to go wash...

Show me the Money! (UPDATED)

Sat, 28 Oct 2000 16:42:23 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - Have I found a bug in Quicken 2001? One that eats your stock prices?

NOTE (30 OCT 2000): SEE UPDATE AT END OF THIS ARTICLE!

Quicken has been my favorite software program for years, the only one I use every day and the...

Finding Satan in Alabama

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:53:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - If you wanted to find the Devil, you probably wouldn't think to look in Alabama. Sure, it's hot there. But it's also part of the Bible Belt, and a large majority of the people spend a great deal of their time thinking about the condition of their...

Louie, Louie: TOO Personal

Wed, 25 Oct 2000 01:34:05 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - The Kingsmen were the premier garage-sound group of the 1960s. Garage can be described as fuzzed-up, echo-y, raw-around-the-edges rock-n-roll that sounds as if it had been, well, recorded in a garage. Many of the groups of that era literally...

Atmosphere, Food -- and Parking!

Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:59:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - My family and I just returned to the East Coast from a visit to San Francisco, where we ate at (among other places) the Great Eastern. What you will get here is a tourist perspective of this fine restaurant.

We were staying at a hotel near...

But Will I Like You As Earthlink?

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:58:44 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - I've been with MindSpring since 1996 and though I've been tempted by some of the "free" and reduced-cost ISPs, I'm sticking with MS for the foreseeable future. Their service has always been reliable and their tech help friendly, knowledgeable...

Music to Scream By

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:14:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - OK, this CD is not exactly scary, certainly not when compared to all those Halloween sound effect CDs and audio tapes out there. Rather, it simply provides a lot of musical fun while sticking, more or less, with a Halloween theme. I've played it in the...

Test Your Manhood!

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 19:01:03 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - I would like to visit Ireland one day and see if the women in the pubs there actually drink Guinness Stout. The American women that I know all disdain it, some before they've even tried it. My wife says it tastes like coal tar (no, I've never found out...

The Fleetwoods: Soft and Romantic

Sun, 22 Oct 2000 04:36:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Steve_NC - My wife and I have quite divergent musical tastes. "Come Softly to Me; The Very Best of The Fleetwoods" is one CD where our tastes mesh, and I'm proud that I was the one who introduced to her this 1950s' trio and their beautiful harmonies.
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