Epinions Recent Reviews for fartzarellah

I'm Only Writing This For The Income Share

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:27:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - On the surface, Frank Zappa was a bastard. He didn't like the hippies, he didn't like the establishment, he seems to have hated women, and he made his bandmates play in 7/8. But look a bit deeper and you will see the true nature of his bitterness: he...

The Cat is Dead

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:49:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Damn it, damn it, damn it! I did not want to buy this thing. I held off for nearly, uh, two months or something. But then, one day, a good friend told me that the remastered version of Vol. IV "kicks @ss!!" And I was like "waahhhh!!...

Cup O' Joe

Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:29:34 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - According to the liner notes for Virtuoso, it was released in 1974 and "announced to the world that Joe Pass was a Freaking Genius!!!" (or something like that). I bought it because my brother told me that "Joe Pass kicks @ss!" and then he played...

A Warm Day In Hell

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:11:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - It is time for me to come out of the closet. I have been writing epinions for well over a year without penning a single Kiss review and that just has to change. I was a huge Kiss fan when I was three and from ages eight to twelve (or somewhere th...

1987 Honda Civic Wagon: All hail the Vanogan!

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:13:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Note: This is a review of my cute little 1987 Honda Civic Wagovan, but I couldn't find that exact car on this site. So be it. I had not owned a car for almost two years before I bought this one, so I was bound to love the thing. It gets me ar...

John Barleycorn Just Won't Die

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:31:04 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - I bought this CD for two reasons. One, because I remember being mystified by the title track as a tyke and two, because I was talking to a friend who said that this is one of his favorite albums. He is a very cool dude, you would like him. He's all int...

Great Moogly Boogly!

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 04:01:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Apostrophe made me into a happy little pumpkin boy when I was around sixteen and smelled like patchouli. I know, Zappa was strongly opposed to that sort of thing, but this album seems to have been made expressly for puffing the herb. All of the s...

Yo! Jethro!

Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:59:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Axe-wielding, bearded lunatics must have been much more common in 1973, when A Passion Play,...

Emershlakenbalmer!

Wed, 9 Jul 2003 22:45:36 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - If you say Emerson, Lake & Palmer ten times fast, it ends up sounding something like "Emershlakenbal...

Space Is The Place With The Helpful Sun Ra Man

Wed, 14 May 2003 18:41:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - When I think of psychedelia, I envision a group of bell-bottomed, natty haired, middle class, white-bread flower children tripping on acid and listening to the Doors. The odd thing about that hallucination is that all of the kids dress the same, talk...

The Decomposition of Alice Cooper

Sat, 10 May 2003 20:15:25 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Statement of Biases

Once upon a time, there was a very sexy band called the Alice Cooper Group. And They did rock the world in all of Their glory, and They did nearly scare thousands of little children to death along the way...

I Will NOT Remain Calm!

Sat, 3 May 2003 15:46:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Note: This review is for the scores of epinionators who have thought "We all know that Lambchops loves Morcheeba, but have been waiting to see what Fartzarellah has to say before we go out and buy it"

I found Morcheeba's Big Calm...

I hope they keep the Blarney Stone clean

Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:07:16 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Irish music bothers the hell out of me. My mom used to dance around the kitchen to it and I hate it when my mom dances around the kitchen. I do realize that most people don't have such issues though so I won't say anything more on the topic. Time for...

It's not Eric Clapton! But it does rhyme with Cream!

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:08:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Warning: As one would expect from a recording made in 1965, tape hiss is clearly audible throughout The Baroque Guitar. Turning up your stereo doesn't help (I just tried it). However, tape hiss can easily be forgotten if you allow yourself to...

Let Blow By Blow Blow You Away!

Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:05:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Once upon a time, (during the 1970s to be exact) the rock and roll universe was governed by long haired giants commonly known as guitar gods. The mere mention of their names would cause mere mortals to shake in their boots. One of these gods was Jeff...

Eating Crumb Cake by the pound

Tue, 28 Jan 2003 19:03:01 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - There is something about the early Genesis records that will haunt me until the end of my days. No matter how much I pick on the band and their mystic visions, there is a section in the corner of my mind (or maybe it's a large chunk in the middle) where...

Touch The Giant! Hear The Giant!

Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:18:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Eclectic, bombastic, original, complex, melodious, quirky, hurky-jurky, every sound but the hurdy-gurdy, awe-inspiring, kinda catchy, genre defying, quiltwork patchy. You can call Gentle Giant's debut album all of these things, just don't call it late...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Psychopath

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:47:52 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - The Plot

Tracks 1-5 (Looking For Someone, White Mountain, Visions of Angels, Stagnation, and Dusk)

Light blue, pale green, deep depression, deeper hope, religious fervor, mythic tales,...

Savoy Brown Rolls Another Joint

Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:13:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Getting to The Point was Savoy Brown's second LP and the first to feature the unique vocal talents of Chris Youlden. I thought he was black when I first heard this album way back when (1981 or 82). Nope. Just an English white boy with a deep,...

Beethoven Takes Enormous Strides Up A Glorious Mountain, Thus Exposing His @ss

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:09:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - On Orchestral Music In General

Looking back with my 21st century schizoid ears, all orchestral music sounds a little "uppity" to say the least. My brother Ray once surmised that if Beethoven were alive today he would use distorted...

Find A Job With The Outer Space Employment Agency

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:46:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - Sun Ra was one crrrrazy cat, that's about all I can say. Well, I suppose I can think of something else...uh...he was born to four and twenty Saturnians, his arms, legs, and other body parts all spit forth at once and then sewn together by Fritzmomometer...

Eight Bottles Of Blue Cheer And Eight Cans Of Cheap Beer

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:30:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - What had seemed to be an endless summer has somehow been reined in by the cruel hand of fate. The school year and all of those incompletes I had told myself I would finish will soon be disapprovingly shaking their heads at me. Feeling a bit down in the...

Rostropovich Brings Bach To Life

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:39:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - There is an ongoing debate in the classical music world over how Bach should be played. The traditional view is that there should be no dynamic swells (getting louder or softer) and an almost machine-like approach should be taken to the rhythms,...

Dark and Desolate

Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:46:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - While it was common for late-1960s British Blues singers to imitate Muddy Waters(Ian Anderson, Robert Plant, and Ozzy Osbourne all tried their hand at it on their early albums), nobody got it right except Chris Youlden of Savoy Brown. The band became...

The Thin White Duke (Or Is That Frankenstein On The Cover?)

Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:49:03 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author fartzarellah - David Live was recorded in 1974. Live. That is about all I know about the background....wait a minute...it reached #2 in the UK and #8 in the US

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Albums/DL/Title.html

and it has apparently been...