© 1999-2008 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-shilmafone Recent reviews written by member shilmafone en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_421101604484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - I've come to accept the fact that, of late, it seems to take more to impress me. It's easier for me to listen to an album, find the flaws, find the strengths, maybe write something about it, and call it a day. I might never listen to the album again... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~421101604484 Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:24:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_421101604484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_356599500420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - I'm 27 now. Trent Reznor's 42. 42! Shit, I remember when my dad was 42. I also remember when an incoming new Nine Inch Nails release was a near-religious experience. I'm not going to lie -- I hopped on the bandwagon when The Downward... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~356599500420 Thu, 3 May 2007 01:17:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_356599500420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_328458997380?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Think about the word "ambient" for a second, and the way it relates to music. When you think of ambient music, maybe you think of Brian Eno, he of Music for Airports and Another Green World, he of extended synth tones and found sound,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~328458997380 Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:55:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_328458997380?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_258209320580?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Oh, the hunger. My time listening to hip-hop music is still relatively short compared to most of the decent hip-hop writers here on this site, or anywhere, for that matter. As such, I'm still looking for what it is that I find appealing, what it is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~258209320580 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:29:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_258209320580?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_295697682052?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - I liked ninjas as a kid. Hell, I still like ninjas. I like those "Ask a Ninja" videos on YouTube, I like random ninja sightings (i.e. the secret secret santa skit on Conan O'Brien the other night), I like seeing lots of little ninjas on Halloween... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~295697682052 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:34:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_295697682052?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_293744250500?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - There was a time when I'd buy remix singles on a whim, dropping ten bucks on a random import with a couple of bonus remixes like I actually had that kind of money. I like remixes, I like seeing the different takes an artist can have on his or her own... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~293744250500 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:10:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_293744250500?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_292353773188?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Ever wake up angry, and for no good discernible reason other than you feel like being angry? Maybe your left big toe is a bit sore, or you noticed a little mildew between the tiles in your shower, or someone fell out of bed in the apartment above... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~292353773188 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:41:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_292353773188?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_290835435140?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - In high school, it was Valhalla, the Promised Land. In college it was a way of life, a place where I could bond with my brother over rarities and B-sides, known and unknown commodities, and the idea that if I just let my heating bill go for one more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~290835435140 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:39:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_290835435140?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_289207717508?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - In high school, it was Valhalla, the Promised Land. In college it was a way of life, a place where I could bond with my brother over rarities and B-sides, known and unknown commodities, and the idea that if I just let my heating bill go for one more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~289207717508 Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:15:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_289207717508?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_288690114180?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - In high school, it was Valhalla, the Promised Land. In college it was a way of life, a place where I could bond with my brother over rarities and B-sides, known and unknown commodities, and the idea that if I just let my heating bill go for one more... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~288690114180 Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:38:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_288690114180?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_279545548420?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It gets to the point with certain bands that buying their music just feels like a force of habit. Whether I was excited or disillusioned by these bands' previous release, buying the new... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~279545548420 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:29:22 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_279545548420?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_274058350212?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It's a bit hard to believe at this point, but Ministry wasn't always a metal band. No no, it's true! Sure, Ministry has released three albums in the last four years that are unequivocally metal albums. Still, the few listeners who have become... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~274058350212 Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:23:27 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_274058350212?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_260452159108?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Maybe I'm delirious. Let me explain -- it's been a long week. A long three weeks, even. I haven't had a full day off from work since Sunday, September 10th, all that time preparing for the culmination of two months of work on one project... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~260452159108 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:20:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_260452159108?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_262266850948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It's official -- my beloved Beck is too innovative for the British. Apparently, no matter how many people go ahead and buy a copy of Beck's new album The Information, it'll never show up on the album chart over there -- apparently, the "cover... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~262266850948 Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:46:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_262266850948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_255693131396?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Michael Jackson's Dangerous has always been one of the black sheep of my record collection -- It's that album that I always keep around, because, well, I never know when I'm going to want to listen to it, but it never quite fit in with the rest of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~255693131396 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:28:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_255693131396?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_254236921476?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Oh no he didn't. (Yes, he done did, my friends.) JT and I have been boys (we're like this, seriously) since he was wondering If I wasn't a celebrity, would you be so nice to me?. NSync's Celebrity was the first pop... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~254236921476 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:40:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_254236921476?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_249603329668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - Artists are allowed to evolve, right? Sure. Everybody gets mad when they don't, unless they're The Ramones, in which case they're expected to not, and if they do, they suck. Thankfully, they never really did. The real question is exactly what gets to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~249603329668 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:54:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_249603329668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_248029679236?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - I believe... I believe the love you talk about with me Billy Corgan restarted his love affair with modern rock radio with those words in late 2002, and they were the perfect words to hear out of him at the time. Corgan had, to that point,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~248029679236 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:20:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_248029679236?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_238837534340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It shouldn't have been too hard to see it coming -- all we had to do is look at the first single. Pearl Jam hasn't released a first single that completely rocked out in over ten years. Sure, "Given to Fly" wasn't a ballad exactly, but it... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~238837534340 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:20:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_238837534340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_229046193796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - There's a reason I'm wary of concept albums. You see, the fact that an album is a "concept album" doesn't necessarily mean that there's a story attached. Sometimes, the album is true to its label, and it is held together via a "concept", a common thread... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~229046193796 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:57:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_229046193796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235940384388?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - So often, it seems, bands ask that their fans evolve along with them. Perhaps they're due for a slight change in style, perhaps they feel the need to put out an acoustic record, perhaps they switch genres altogether, but in all cases, it seems the hope... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235940384388 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:29:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235940384388?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_235758980740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It's true, I have reviewed this already, for the lovely popmatters.com. The thing is, for that site, I do try to maintain some vestige of objectivity, even as my fanboy-ish tendencies do occasionally overtake common sense. Here on Epinions, I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~235758980740 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:28:07 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_235758980740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_229382262404?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - My, how prolific we have become. Ministry got its groove back with 2003's Animositisomina, an album that saw the band remembering how much they liked to thrash, and thrash hard. As excellent an album as Animositisomina was, however, it wasn't... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~229382262404 Thu, 4 May 2006 13:21:05 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_229382262404?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_228518628996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - I came in at the end of the industrial boom, when guitars were ruining everything for everybody. Back in the '80s, so-called "industrial music" was becoming the fashion of the underground as bands like Skinny Puppy, Leæther Strip, Front Line Assmebly,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~228518628996 Mon, 1 May 2006 22:59:54 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_228518628996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_227003305604?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author shilmafone - It was just last night that I was espousing the virtues of Throwing Copper to my wife. You see, it's taking its turn in my car's 10-disc changer this week, and in the process getting about 50% of the playing time when I'm actually in the car (for... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~227003305604 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:51:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_227003305604?linkin_id=8003929