Epinions Recent Reviews for mayhawk

This movie might be better watched Widdershins

Fri, 2 Nov 2001 15:30:51 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I rented the DVD for Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 for a Halloween movie fest for a party that I went to and had to apologize for my choice. One of the guests there had seen it and tried to warn me, but I didn't listen because I learned that I like...

Pumped

Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:14:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - It's hard to think of Aerosmith as ever having had to come back, but back in 1987, they did. In the early 80s, the band released an album called "Rock in a Hard Place." It bombed. The band was strung out on drugs at this point so badly that they...

Romantic Opera Makes It to the Electric Age

Tue, 1 May 2001 23:54:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - Notions of the vast potential of artistic expression and its role in society have been debated for centuries. And, until Rush tackled this notion in "2112", it was no more expressed than in the Romantic Age (that of Byron, Shelley, Keats, and other...

First Genesis Is Revelation

Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:41:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - The tracks from the very first album of Genesis are far from polished. There is a lot of hiss in the recordings due to the low budget on which these tracks were recorded and compiled. The use of strings on some of the songs were not necessarily what...

Royal Genesis - Duke Rules

Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:02:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I am one of the Genesis fans who divides Genesis into a Gabriel identity and a Collins identity, largely because the sounds of the two incarnations are distinctly different. Though I have a preference for the Gabriel era incarnation of Genesis,...

Only Half the Picture: Aerosmith's Career Pt. 1

Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:08:49 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - When I first became musically aware as a consumer of rock music, I often got Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin confused. I thought that "Dream On" was Zep's, and "Stairway to Heaven" was Aerosmith's. It took some time to get it right, and...

My Sign is "STOP"

Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:15:09 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I am willing to give any style of music a chance, even if it isn't the screaming, wailing loudness of heavy metal. And I gave Ace of Base a chance, despite the ribbing I got for picking up the CD at a record store. But I was determined to collect...

Not Just Another Record

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:27:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - As the 1980s left the 1970s behind, punk and new wave started to make the great bands of the 70s look kind of silly. Just as grunge made metal look ridiculous in the early 90s. A lot of really good progressive rock bands were deeply affected by this...

Pythagoras Would Be Proud...

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:38:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - In the song, "Supper's Ready," from the way-back machine on the classic Genesis album Foxtrot, Genesis makes reference to Pythagoras:

"Pythagoras through the looking-glass reflects the full moon.

In blood, he's...

Rainbow Sabbath

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:34:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I really didn't discover Black Sabbath until the very late 80s, after the terrible feud between Ozzie and Black Sabbath, and after Dio was long gone from the band. Still, some of my earliest impressions of what Sabbath should have sounded like were...

Why Abba became international pop giants

Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:23:14 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - When Arrival arrived at the record stores around the world, it was Abba's most mature pop album to date. It features several of Abba's classic hit songs on it, from "Dancing Queen" to "Money Money Money." Overall, it is...

How to be a Top 40 Act

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:33:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - After not doing quite so well with their follow-up to Lexicon of Love, Beauty Stab, ABC shot back with this synthesized bit of post-disco dance tunes complete with love songs for the adolescent set ("Be Near Me"), standard dance...

The ABCs of Relationships Gone Bad

Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:29:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - Few people know this about Lexicon of Love, but it was a concept album with a central theme. Unlike most pop/top 40 groups of its time, ABC was a bit heady (intellectual). And unlike most intellectual groups, they disguised it well in music...

A Synthesized Farewell

Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:20:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - For the last album that Abba would ever produce together, The Visitors is probably one of the deepest and most emotional efforts that the band would ever make. It is more mature than anything they had done prior, and it has a much deeper, more...

When Pop Was Just Fun

Tue, 5 Sep 2000 15:17:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I was six years old when the classic debut album from Abba was released. I think I heard my first snippets of Abba music when K-Tel used to advertise their collections of various artists on LP. The song "Waterloo" was one of them.

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CD Ain't Nothing But Background Noise

Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:58:38 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I bought this album as a sampling of an artist I had never heard before. I don't know much about Aaliyah's discography or catalog, except that she cut this album when she was 15. That puts things in perspective for me, since I wasn't cutting CDs at 15,...

Melodies stand upright

Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:39:28 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - Most of the music in my CD collection is heavy metal and classic rock. I picked up this one when my friends started teasing me about the one-sided representation of artists in my collection (Genesis, Yes, Led Zeppelin). So I started a quest to pick up...

X-Clutter

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:45:02 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I was a huge X-Men fan growing up and knew all the principal characters and all their quirks to a tee for a long time. I actually heard rumblings about a motion picture based on the comic book series back in the early 90s, and I even saw a script...

"Are You Ready for a Good Time?"

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:09:15 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I love live music of bands that can play. Most of the live music that I have of the progressive rock bands sounds very different from the studio cuts because the sounds produced in the studio can't be reproduced for some reason on stage, usually due to...

AC/DC on the Cutting Edge

Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:43:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - 1 Thunderstruck

2 Fire Your Guns

3 Moneytalks

4 Razor's Edge, The

5 Mistress For Christmas

6 Rock Your Heart Out

7 Are You Ready

8 Got You By The Balls

9 Shot Of Love

10 Let's Make It

11 Goodbye...

Blow Up Your Maximum Overdrive

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:38:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - 1 Heatseeker

2 That's The Way I Wanna Rock N Roll

3 Meanstreak

4 Go Zone

5 Kissin' Dynamite

6 Nick Of Time

7 Some Sin For Nuthin'

8 Ruff Stuff

9 Two's Up

10 This Means War

If you happen to...

Microsoft FrontPage 2000: Web Editor Deathmatch - Microsoft vs. Netscape

Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:18:02 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - Microsoft has done it again. They have lured me in with an interface that makes sense to me and gave my computer the smackdown with what's really going on behind the scenes. It is infuriating that an application can work so seemlessly in the Web page...

Microsoft Windows 98 SE: I'm trapped in Microsoft's Windows!

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:30:48 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - Am I the only one who feels trapped by the Microsoft Empire because all the software I need for the system I already own is designed specifically for Windows?

When I bought my first computer, an IBM Aptiva 2168-A50, over three years ago, it...

Almost Maximum Overdrive

Mon, 7 Aug 2000 09:46:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - I usually don't go in for soundtracks, nor do I bother with compilations. If there is only one song on the album worth getting, I'll look for a packaging wherein I can get that one song. Since I collect studio albums of new material, that's all I am...

Five Great Little Songs

Wed, 2 Aug 2000 15:57:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mayhawk - In the beginning, AC/DC released two albums in Australia entitled High Voltage and TNT. After gaining a little recognition in Australia, the band released its third album internationally as its first album, drawing material from the first...