© 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-ilash Recent reviews written by member ilash en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_232541752964?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - I think it says something that after the hopelessly inadequate Bridges to Babylon, the Rolling Stones would release an album that is, to my ears at least, their most disappointing album ever. Don’t get me wrong, A Bigger Bang is far from a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~232541752964 Mon, 22 May 2006 21:38:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_232541752964?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_228871474820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - For so inconsequential an album, The Rolling Stones&#146 five hundred and sixty third (slight exaggeration) live release, Stripped, is astonishingly good. An MTV Unplugged album in everything but name and royalties, Stripped is a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~228871474820 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:23:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_228871474820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_194472283780?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Surrounded by nothing but the most abysmal, sickeningly safe and sterile pap that Paul McCartney ever put out, Tug of War is a beacon of hope in the sea of musical sewage that we call McCartney&#146s eighties catalogue. Even now, it&#146s hard to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~194472283780 Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:27:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_194472283780?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_193963134596?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Tattoo You was an album that was absolutely doomed to be one of the Stones&#146 worst ever embarrassments. Not only did it have unenviable job of following up an album that is generally regarded to be their worst effort yet, it was never really intended... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~193963134596 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:58:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_193963134596?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161791905412?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - To my ears at least, Paul McCartney&#146s post-Beatles seventies body of work remains a startlingly underrated and under-appreciated collection of top notch pop/rock music - as I&#146ve made fairly clear with my reviews of all of his seventies albums... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161791905412 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:48:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161791905412?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161790791300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - The Rolling Stones are often confused for a basic, ultra-simplistic rock and roll band by pretty much everyone, from the critics to their detractors to some of their fans. But, as anyone who has heard more than four of their songs should be able to tell... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161790791300 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:22:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161790791300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_158661381764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Paul McCartney’s solo work is generally criticized for being sentimental, romanticized, sanitized pop music that is about as “edgy” as your run of the mill nursery rhyme. Aside for the fact that this gross oversimplification comes dangerously close to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~158661381764 Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:30:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_158661381764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_158075752068?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - After a string of successful albums and sold-out touring, Wings found itself stripped down to its core once again. The last time that happened, the result was one of Macca’s best albums, Band on the Run and even if things didn’t turn out quite so well... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~158075752068 Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:15:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_158075752068?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156900888196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - I really probably shouldn’t enjoy this album even half as much as I do. Aside for being shamelessly unoriginal, none of the music here is exactly what I would call particularly interesting – especially as far as the non-vocal melodies go – and it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156900888196 Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:48:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156900888196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156821524100?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - The dissolution for the Beatles in 1970 meant different things for the four lads from Liverpool whom together forever changed the face of pop music. For one it meant a freedom to explore more personal and political areas with his music while another used... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156821524100 Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:45:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156821524100?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156410089092?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Wings At the Speed of Sound is a nice album. The thing is though that that&#146s not really a compliment because though most of the songs on here are perfectly likable only four songs are really notable and even then only three of which are... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156410089092 Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:16:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156410089092?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_156327644804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Following up something like Band on the Run must have proved to be quite the challenge for Paul McCartney but even if its follow up, Venus and Mars, never managed to reach the same level on consistency, it lives up to its predecessor both by rocking... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~156327644804 Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:25:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_156327644804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155959594628?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - From my admittedly limited exposure to the band, I&#146ve come to the conclusion that Led Zeppelin suffers from one simple but fairly problematic flaw: their songwriting is, at best, seriously below par. Sure, they make up for this somewhat by being... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155959594628 Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:06:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155959594628?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155910966916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Voodoo Lounge is known as one of either three things: yet another hopeless album from a band who stopped being relevant two decades before it; the Stones’ second good album after a comeback with Steel Wheels in 1989 or their first good album since at... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155910966916 Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:49:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155910966916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155701513860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - There is a general belief among most critics that Band on the Run is the only good thing to come out of a sea of mediocre albums that Paul McCartney released in the seventies. This is nonsense. As anyone who actually bothered to listen to Paul&#146s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155701513860 Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:54:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155701513860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155106184836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Sometime back in the year 1971 the unthinkable happened: The Kinks, Britains most decidedly British band put out an album of real, honest to goodness American music. After a string of albums that all but defined British-pop music,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155106184836 Sun, 12 Sep 2004 19:50:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155106184836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154874515076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - For a long time Revolver was my absolute favourite album ever. Admittedly, this was at a time when I was listening exclusively to the Beatles but don’t let that throw you. Even after all this time, Revolver is still one of my top ten, perhaps even... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154874515076 Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:14:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154874515076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154785123972?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - After the basically enjoyable but somewhat disappointing Wild Life, Paul McCartney’s next album was something of a change of direction for his music. Red Rose Speedway was the most polished album that McCartney had released up to that point. The nine... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154785123972 Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:27:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154785123972?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154586943108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - And so with this, Paul McCartney’s third post-Beatles album, the group Wings was formed – but, alas, they were never much of a band. No, I am not in fact doing the fashionable thing and slamming “Wings’” musical output because “they” released some truly... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154586943108 Mon, 6 Sep 2004 20:37:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154586943108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154478874244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - After a period of wildly successful pop experimentation (as far as I am concerned anyway) during the mid-sixties, the Rolling Stones finally decided to return to their more rocking roots with Beggars Banquet. This, I’m quite sure, delighted the Stones “... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154478874244 Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:06:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154478874244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_154213518980?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - The lyrics for most of these songs are very, very silly. There, now that we got all of this album’s problems out of the way, onto my praising it into the ground. Paul McCartney’s second solo album was a marked improvement over the first. For all... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~154213518980 Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:48:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_154213518980?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153950391940?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - After the unmatched success of the Beatles’ swan song, Abbey Road you might have expected Paul McCartney to continue in the same vain for his first proper solo album after the Beatles split. This album, simply called McCartney was a complete change in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153950391940 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:59:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153950391940?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153821548164?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Goats Head Soup must have shocked everybody- and I do mean everybody- when it was released back in 1973. The Rolling Stones had just completed a string of four critically acclaimed and publicly adored roots-rock albums starting with 1969&#146s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153821548164 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:10:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153821548164?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153814929028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - I&#146ve found that when reviewing music &#150 or any art for that matter &#150 it is good to keep at least some sort of objectivity. It&#146s not good enough to merely say things like &#147this album&#146s cool because I like it&#148 because even if... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153814929028 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:35:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153814929028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_153707187844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author ilash - Alice Cooper is one band/artist that I never expected to like, let alone like enough to write a positive review about. I never really could see past that - let’s be quite honest here – ridiculous image that was built up around him/them. It was the kind... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~153707187844 Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:03:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_153707187844?linkin_id=8003929