© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-brian_lettsin Recent reviews written by member brian_lettsin en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_411702824580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Greetings! You and I have never met before. I am Brian Lettsin and this the last review I shall be writing for this illustrious website. It is time to disappear from this glorious and rather bland place where people slave for hours writing reviews... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~411702824580 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:43:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_411702824580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408756850308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - When this band of explosive Mancunian misfits tune in, power up and blast it out, the end result is always an unpleasant splatter of words, drums and guitar shards more pointed than a putdown from Osama Bin Laden. Their name was, and still remains&#133... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408756850308 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:10:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408756850308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408254320260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - There have been multiple musical obsessions that have besotted me over the years. I will refrain from naming those now in some crude list format. My time on this website is drawing a close and I would not wish to cross a line with but one of the kind... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408254320260 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:04:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408254320260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408085237380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - If this series of reviews has served to prove one thing (and it has), it’s that one should never attempt to dissect the entire canon of an artist unless one has both the time, the inclination and the stamina. I love Radiohead, but their... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408085237380 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:01:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408085237380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408084778628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - The Bends (pl. n.): A disorder characterised by severe pain in muscles and joints, cramp, and difficulty in breathing, caused by a sudden and sustained decrease in air pressure. See also aeroembolism, caisson disease, decompression... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408084778628 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:57:33 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408084778628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408027696772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - To begin at the beginning… OK Computer happened for me in 2002. At the time, I was riding low on an addiction to killing pixellated zombies and prone the odd moment of extreme social alienation. You know things have gone wrong when... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408027696772 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:07:48 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408027696772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_408026123908?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Often I used stop people in the streets, shake them frantically on the shoulders and slap them on the face, shouting again and again: “Is there a God? Is there a God? For God’s sake, just tell me if there’s a God!” You would be surprised at the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~408026123908 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:04:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_408026123908?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407963864708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Some cars, of course, come equipped without the airbag. Such vehicles include the Rover 800, the Ford Escort MKII and the Chevrolet Woofer Mk IV. I wish to name and shame. I recall one car ride when listening to this Radiohead B-sides... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407963864708 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:58:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407963864708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407963405956?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - For six years now, fans of dejected Oxfordshire scamps Radiohead have sought to uncover the identity of this elusive Kid A. At my school, Grotty Comprehensive in the town of Grump-on-Whine, Kid A was always David Aaron. With his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407963405956 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:54:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407963405956?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407948332676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - How do I love 2001? Let me count the ways… Well, it was in this very year that British tennis recidivist Tim Henman made his declaration that he would never win Wimbledon EVER; even with a special performance enhancing drug in his gullet. “It... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407948332676 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:09:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407948332676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407946628740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - I stopped attending live performances three months ago. “Why should this be, Brian that is called Brian?” I hear you ask. Well, I retort: “They aren’t half noisy.” What people love about watching their favourite rock acts in concert is the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407946628740 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:04:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407946628740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_407900032644?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - The likelihood of Oxford ogres Radiohead releasing a below-par record is low. In fact, it is about as likely as an award-winning comeback from Gary Glitter or a sudden career resurgence from Elkie Brooks. Still, I keep my fingers... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~407900032644 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:06:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_407900032644?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405965147780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - A precedent has been established for the latter-day career of cross-dressing glam rock Ubermensch David Bowie. We legions of devoted fans and obsessives expect exceptional, polished albums of space-age classicist rock recalling his seventies... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405965147780 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:03:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405965147780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405375716996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Oh&#133 what a vicious world it is we inhabit these days. I refer of course to the period in which this review was keyed (October 2007, in the middle of an August which looked a bit like summer). Before then things were just a bit &#147mwah.&#148 In... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405375716996 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:58:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405375716996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_405014679172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - As one of the most consistent rock and pop acts of the nineties and beyond, Supergrass have straddled both mainstream acceptance and alternative enthronement. Shall I take y&#146all back to those halcyon days of 1997 &#150 a whole decade ago... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~405014679172 Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:15:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_405014679172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404999212676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - What can be said about this magnificent alt-rock unit that has not been pre-blathered before in some of this reviewer&#146s short but sweet words of praise for either Kristin Hersh or Throwing Muses? Well&#133 nada really. I love them... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404999212676 Sun, 7 Oct 2007 12:29:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404999212676?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404951830148?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - In case my visits to this website, a paragon of online retail where budding writers are ensnared into becoming salespeople for paltry rewards, become infrequent &#150 I must devote this review once again to the celestial music of Nick Drake... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404951830148 Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:33:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404951830148?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404886425220?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - I must preface this review with a confession. There was a time when I found the everlasting folk music of proven angel Nick Drake to be far too twee and old-fashioned for my tastes. What a blind fool I was. However, this period of blindness... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404886425220 Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:33:50 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404886425220?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_404351913604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Lord up on high&#133 save me from the woeful sound of old people having sex. It was March 4th 1996 and the occasion was a brief stopover in a B&B during an enthralling coach trip from Dunbartonshire and Clydebank. Those are cities in Scotland, kind... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~404351913604 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:34:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_404351913604?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403616992900?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Who remembers the 1990s? What a decade of trash, cheapness, waste, decadence and depression it was. While fellow adolescents were siring children in the car parks of discotheques, tipping truckloads of cheap Dutch jungle juice into their ashtray lungs to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403616992900 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:31:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403616992900?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402802577028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Here is a secret y&#146all don&#146t know &#150 I have been secretly in love with the manic alt-rock of Throwing Muses for over two whole 365 day periods. Excited? No? Well, I shall turn my back on you this day, sir. I pray thee eat mud and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402802577028 Sun, 9 Sep 2007 16:13:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402802577028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402783047300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - In the presence of literary giants, it can be impossible to hold one&#146s own. Often this is because most of them are long gone, and few would have the time for piffling fools such as me anyway; brandishing their flaccid members and asking for a furtive... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402783047300 Sun, 9 Sep 2007 11:39:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402783047300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402650992260?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - With a clang-clang here and a thump-thump there, out spills The Fall – a Northern grin on the faces of all those members not named Mark E. Smith. I believe these to be the primary stages of another musical obsession. It started with... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402650992260 Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:02:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402650992260?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402650861188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - “The next day brought death and judgement, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair… he felt the death chill touch the extremities and creep onwards towards the heart, the film of death veiling the eyes…” (p85) And that’s just... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402650861188 Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:59:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402650861188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_402318265988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author brian_lettsin - Is it just me, or is this gent just a wee bit too forceful with his opinions? Before the sad loss of Hunter S. Thompson, human marihuana chimney and perpetual idol to each new batch of college students, the Colorado-based chronicler of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~402318265988 Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:02:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_402318265988?linkin_id=8003929