Epinions Recent Reviews for TheAnimalChin

Fiery the Angels Fell...

Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:56:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - In the excellent book, “Please Kill Me,” Jerry Nolan, former drummer for the New York Dolls, notes that the thing he remembers most about seeing Elvis Presley in concert was that the king had a rather large hole in one of his shoes. Sure Nolan admits...

Misfits. True.

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:37:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - Lemme see if I can distill my opinion of the Misfits into a single sentence. Got it: they single-handedly rekindled my love for punk rock. Sadly, I discovered them rather late in the game, only a year ago in fact. I was on Superchunk’s website,...

Minimalist maximum rock and roll

Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:12:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - "If a man can't say what he wants in twelve lines or less, then he probably shouldn't say it at all..." --Ezra Pound

The aural equivalent of Mr. Pound's oft-quoted phrase, I think, would probably include an exhortation to use the...

Tsunami Non Servium

Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:54:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - A pity really.

Like the great masters before them (i.e., Sex Pistols, Big Black, Slint), Tsunami chose to quietly exit the music industry after completing this, their greatest album. Formally dissolving not only their musical relationship,...

Anarchists or Archies?

Tue, 16 May 2000 12:38:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - In the immortal movie "Summer School," one of Freddy Shoop's students turns out to be a male stripper. When the Shoop truck finally confronts the young lad, Larry, threatening to tell his parents, Larry responds with a question. "What if...

How Robert Smith rescued me from Stevie B

Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:31:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - So lissen, lil' chillren, and lemme tell you how ole' Grandpa first got into this whole music thang that pollutes his soul to this very day...yep, it was a long time ago, a long, long time ago...not a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away but you get...

I got dem old liberal arts blues...

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:10:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - I'll be the first admit, this movie, "Kicking and Screaming," is a period piece, a film about a group of recent college graduates who seem unable to take that first step into the real world. That said, your feelings for this movie are...

Surely you're joking...5 stars?

Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:15:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - Quite simply, "Cannonball Run 2" is the best movie I've ever seen. However, before you dismiss me as some crack-addled fiend, unable to discern a good movie from my own rectum, allow me to defend my rather bold statement. First, a little...

So far ahead, they're standing behind you

Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:38:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author TheAnimalChin - As the title of this review suggests, Slint, the now defunct Louisville, Kentucky band formed out of the ashes of the Husker Du-influenced Squirrel Bait, are about as innovative as they come, almost single-handedly inventing an entire genre of post-punk...