© 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-silktempest Recent reviews written by member silktempest en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_489597144708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - When things are institutionalized, it is hard to speak of originality. Path-dependency is a corollary of social institutionalization. The reiteration of acts, the recurrence of meaning and the repetition of choice converge to render the world identical... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~489597144708 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:41:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_489597144708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_487714950788?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS' Kaya, on surface, rides a relaxed groove and bears thematic similarity. But large portions of its content were harshly assembled from old tapes. Caught between MARLEY's 1977 assassination attempt by muggers, which... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~487714950788 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 12:30:52 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_487714950788?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_486322245252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Funk-O-Metal pioneers THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS built their reputation slowly and not always steadily - something surprising now, as their place among the most popular groups seems rock-solid and obvious. Their humble eponymous debut (1984)... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~486322245252 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:59:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_486322245252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_484672179844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - In another of its many pre-Henry Rollins formations, BLACK FLAG released the Jealous Again EP back in 1980, with its typically snotty sleeve and Chavo Pederast’s uncompromising delivery colliding with the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~484672179844 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:24:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_484672179844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_483088895620?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - I like side projects. Especially when I don't know the original thing.NEON HORSE seems a side project. Whose? Nobody knows for sure the bandmembers' names. They seem to arise from Christian Indie bands or something of the sort. I bet...Listen to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~483088895620 Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_483088895620?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_480598789764?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - After years of strife, Ritchie Blackmore finally left the band he helped found and consecrate, DEEP PURPLE.It was 1975. Blackmore then had been responsible for the departures of Rod Evans, Nick Simper, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover. Now it was his... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~480598789764 Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:57:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_480598789764?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479828348548?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - BLACK FLAG 1981`s Six Pack EP bears 3 tracks only.None with Henry Rollins onboard.Why should we give a damn?I don't care.The record is considered an early Hardcore masterpiece.Canonical Punk record?... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479828348548 Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:44:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479828348548?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_479633116804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - MEGADETH's 1999 record Risk falls under heavy criticism from fans and, hum, critics. It's easy to see why. MEGADETH is regarded as the quintessential Speed Metal band. Risk is the slowest record in their oeuvre. Large portions of its sonority are devoted... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479633116804 Sat, 1 Aug 2009 00:09:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479633116804?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_477174206084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - MOBY's latest record for Mute Records (home of DEPECHE MODE since 1981) is another genre exercise from the Midas of electronic genre exercises.An electronic virtuoso with all-encompassing eclecticism, MOBY has a shifting fanbase. Sometimes he is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~477174206084 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:04:13 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_477174206084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_473178934916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Like HANSON, JONAS BROTHERS are brothers and market themselves as vestal virgins. Unlike HANSON, no JONAS brother looks like a little girl nor could carve a decent tune. Unlike decent tunes, their releases are filled with little girls'... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~473178934916 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 00:07:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_473178934916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472929898116?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Ritchie Blackmore had a fairly extraordinary career back by 1981. During the 1960s he was one of the hottest studio guitars in England. From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s he made fame, fortune and history as a key member in DEEP PURPLE's. Ranked... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472929898116 Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:33:46 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472929898116?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_472076553860?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - STRATOVARIUS' great breakthrough in Japan, 1992's Twilight Time was the moment when the greatest Finn band ever consolidated their Melodic Metal chops, building on de debut (1989's Fright Night) promising European Metal approach.Still lacking a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~472076553860 Fri, 29 May 2009 09:36:42 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_472076553860?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_471131131524?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - For a band so umbilically attached to 1960s psychedelia, THE GRATEFUL DEAD had a surprisingly extended career, spawning the best part of four decades. In the early 1970s the cut-and-past complex epics of their sophomore effort Anthem of the Sun had been... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~471131131524 Wed, 20 May 2009 23:19:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_471131131524?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469525171844?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - IRON MAIDEN was ready to prove its relevance back in 2003. After the Bruce Dickinson/Adrian Smith reunion they had released Brave New World, heads and shoulders above the Blaze Bailey years but falling short of the classic status. Dance of Death... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469525171844 Wed, 6 May 2009 21:36:51 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469525171844?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467956174468?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Teenagers and vampires - on surface, a match made in Heaven (or Hell). They are bloody moody creatures. Night is their environment - vampires in a bread and butter way of sorts, teenagers in their fantasies. Teenagers would love to suck the blood out of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467956174468 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:03:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467956174468?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_467402526340?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - It's surprising to notice that, by 2009, the dominating sonority of 1976's BEE GEES' Children of the World record has become the soundtrack to steamy sex. 30 years ago, the epochal analysts believed it to be one of their ‘lightest' albums... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~467402526340 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:58:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_467402526340?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_465270836868?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - YEAH YEAH YEAHS' 3rd studio recording, It's Blitz, sounds as a Big Apple collage of peoples, contexts and moods. You can see the band struggling with the limits, spatial and aesthetic, they find in this never-ending urban landscape. You see... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~465270836868 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:34:36 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_465270836868?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_464444493444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Sophomore albums are hard tasks. Especially if your debut - as KISS' - was the stuff of legend. But more than following a legend, KISS had to follow what didn't follow from the legend.In spite of the excellence and the visionary aspects that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~464444493444 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:23:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_464444493444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_463994850948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Many THE CURE compositions were inspired by Robert Smith's dreams - dreary or endearing. Remember All Cats Are Grey. Or if you prefer, Lullaby. The liquidity and cinematic allure of dreams seem to fit this band's records as much as another Morphemic band... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~463994850948 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_463994850948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_462123667076?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - A Virgin Megastore is about to close in Broadway NY. LADY GAGA’s debut The Fame was all over the place (as I picked THE VELVET UNDERGROUND and PRINCE, to name a few discount households, before the inevitable). The image pretty much... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~462123667076 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:46:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_462123667076?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_460382375556?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - A nerd cult hero, BEN KWELLER was never one of my listening staples. Nevertheless, I took some spins on his latest release Changing Horses, due to its beautiful embossed sleeve, which means my first 2009 acquisition. Officially released the day... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~460382375556 Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:32:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_460382375556?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_458100018820?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Kai Hansen left HELLOWEEN past their classic series of Keeper of the 7 Keys albums. At the same time Germany reunited, as Cold War drew to a close. The zeitgeist helps explain why the man chose Heading for Tomorrow as the title for his solo debut... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~458100018820 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:28:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_458100018820?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_457636286084?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - In days of frantic recombination, an eclectic band like THE KILLERS fits well. Facing declining market gains, recording companies love even more bands like THE KILLERS, whose eclecticism is kept coherent by a strong image.2008's Day & Age is... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~457636286084 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:15:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_457636286084?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454785666692?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - After the chaotic Blackout, BRITNEY SPEARS bounced back to charts and MTV alike. Like stock markets after a depression, risen by virtue of inertia and blind faith. Like bankrupt insurance companies, nobody wants them to sink. MTV and fans gave her a vote... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454785666692 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:37:15 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454785666692?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_454216748676?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author silktempest - Eastern Europe was one of Heavy Metal's core regions back in 1988 with such renowned groups such as HELLOWEEN (at their peak), YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE, SCORPIONS, CELTIC FROST and MERCYFUL FATE fusing the stark imagery and the harsh riffing of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~454216748676 Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:44:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_454216748676?linkin_id=8003929