Epinions Recent Reviews for dustygold

What the Yotz is this Frelling Dren?

Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:57:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - By the goddess, I have found it. Farscape, the best show ever. This is a sci-fi show, made in Australia in part by the Jim Henson Company, which ran for four seasons ending in 2002. Its cancellation was a heartbreaking travesty whose protests were...

Back to the Trench Coat Convention

Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:36:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - My excuse for renting The Fugitive was that I had never seen it on DVD, but really I didn't care about that and just wanted to see it again. It's one of my favorite movies in the whole wide world and I had to curl up and watch it for the 18,347th time bec...

Christine Come Home

Wed, 21 May 2003 22:08:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - So I've been waiting for this album for six years. I wish I could be more excited about it. Fleetwood Mac has released Say You Will and it is not all that it should be.

Christine McVie is gone. She was an essential part of this band,...

I Will Play You Like a Shark (Rewrite WO)

Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:02:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - My eyes lit up when I discovered that sleeper54 was having a rewrite write-off. How appropriate. Thank you Mr. Sleeper, sir.

I knew which review I wanted to do over. It's springtime, and that means that Crowded House's Together...

Eat Me

Wed, 15 Jan 2003 13:30:28 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - I hesitantly but almost proudly still call Siouxsie and the Banshees my official favorite band, and I will stand by that for now. However, their decision to release a best-of album calls for a good sarcastic rolling of the eyes. I do not see a single...

Kaboom! (The Chicks Rock Write-Off)

Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:33:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Today I have my second anniversary here at Epinions. My gorgeous friend kristinafh has hers as well. I've known KFH for almost the entire two years we've been here. I met her under some very, very odd circumstances (let's not go there!),...

For the Last Innocent Summer

Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:35:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - I have to be in a pretty nutty mood to get serious enjoyment out of this album. Luckily, I'm in that mood almost all the time. I've never been able to bring myself to write about the Cocteau Twins because I really don't know how to describe them. They...

Looking Up At Skies On Fire

Fri, 25 May 2001 13:40:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Tomorrow many hundreds of women, and almost as many men, will be decking out in their most flamboyant chiffon to celebrate Stevie Nicks' 53rd birthday. While I will probably refrain from dressing up, I will take a few minutes to defend the argument that...

Spinning in a Dizzy Haze

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:57:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - "A Kiss in the Dreamhouse" is Siouxsie and the Banshees' most erotic album, in a creepy, fretful, disjointed kind of way. It's probably not their best work, but it includes some of their most important and memorable material. It is sort of like their...

The Heartless Challenge: An Encyclopedic Treatise on Rumours

Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:42:13 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - I used to hate this album. Oh how I hated it. But not for long.

The truth is, "Rumours" is so overpraised that I'd love to bash it heartily. I'd love to tear it all up. But I can't, because it's one of the best things I've ever heard and I...

Haughty Twit Monthly

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:14:11 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Sometimes I lose all faith in human society. And it's usually because of San Diego Magazine.

My grandmother, a San Diego native, keeps the last few issues of this rag on her coffee table. She knows some of the people listed in the...

In Which Dusty Contemplates Her Place in the Universe

Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:46:21 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Today I went to the ocean. I don't have the ocean up at my "other" home up north. A ship canal and several marshes, yes, but not the ocean. I missed it, so I ended up there today.

Cabrillo National Monument is on Point Loma, which is a...

Velvet Violence, Demonic Dazzlers With Questionable Morals?!

Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:18:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Maybe Fleetwood Mac never officially broke up, but they fell apart. The general favorite lineup had been the one that created "Rumours," and when that lineup was no more, Fleetwood Mac was as good as dead. Ten years later, in 1997, they had...

Arrrr... Makes Me Purr

Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:49:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - It has been a long and dreary adventure for my poor right arm these past five weeks. The cast comes off this Friday, so the torment will soon end.

This little sack of gel has stood by me the whole way- my little buddy, the Ace Hot & Cold...

Puppies, Ribbons, Candy, "O Baby," and Other Cute Stuff

Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:31:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - I admit it. I've been a Banshee freak for a few years now, and it was this blasted song that started it. I'll just come out and say it: "O Baby" is Siouxsie and the Banshees' stupidest song. But it's cute. And I am not bothered by cute...

They Eat Your Kind of Meat

Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:45:57 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Feelin' freaky? Me too. Let's sit back and take in a bit of goth.

There are tons of compilations out there for those who can't sit through an entire album by just one gothic band. 1998's "Gothspotting" is certainly not the best of...

Go There, For All I Care

Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:11:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - OK, so I never thought I'd ever be caught reviewing this album... but when one of my favorite Epinionators, sslabs, assigned me the task, I was all for it. Anytime I'm told by a trustworthy source that I MUST take a few more listens to an album I...

Shatter Control From The Warlords!

Fri, 10 Nov 2000 03:14:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - "Another fairy tale with a twisted end..."

The Creatures are two, Siouxsie Sioux and her husband and musical soul mate, Budgie, the drummer from the now-defunct Banshees. Yes, the Banshees are but sweet history, but we do still have the...

It's My Choice To Save My Life

Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:50:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - The Wild Colonials' "This Can't Be Life" is not just a collection of songs, it's clearly an album. It's like ten chapters in one big song. It's easy to hear the 'different' sound of their music and then label them as 'folk,' but they can't be...

Prime Unadulterated Suckage

Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:21:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - I wish I had never heard The Badlees' "River Songs." I wish I could pitch it far, far away from me. Perhaps I will. The only good thing about this album, in my eyes, is that I got it for $0.48.

The Badlees sound like Lynyrd Skynyrd...

Or, Kick Me In The Face. Your Choice.

Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:55:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Dusty the Destroyer does not wear her Bauer HH5000 hockey helmet without the Bauer FM3000 face cage attached! I'm very anti-eye-violence. In a heated game of roller hockey (or ice hockey), there is always something flying toward you at high speeds, and...

Please Feel Free To Kick Me In The Skull

Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:00:22 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - When Dusty the Destroyer feels the need to go initiate mass slaughter out on the roller hockey rink, she never goes near it without her trusty helmet. You see, I'm rather protective of my brain tissue and all associated structures. I don't risk my head...

Come Bite On This Rag Doll, Baby

Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:41:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - They just kill me. They kill me to death!

What would I do without Siouxsie and the Banshees? This is "Peepshow," the album of preference for quite a few Siouxsie freaks. It's possibly their best.

Dark and Halloween-ish it is,...

I Dreamed About Killing You Again Last Night

Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:16:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - Ah come on, everybody likes Wilco! Everybody can, anyway. From this band, which sprouted from the ruins of Uncle Tupelo, comes an amazing third album. "Summer Teeth" is celebrated for good reason. It can't get much better.

This is...

Standing In Grey Lantern Light

Fri, 29 Sep 2000 13:43:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dustygold - It's time to test your egg-ability. It's "Attack of the Grey Lantern," the 1997 album by the British group Mansun. This record was placed on quite a few 'Top Albums of 1997' lists, and while it's a pretty slick piece of entertainment, it takes...