Epinions Recent Reviews for yhwman

When the lights go down and old slow hand plays so softly

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:07:10 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Eric Clapton really shouldn’t need any introduction from the likes of me. Starting off as guitarist in The Yarbirds before forming one of the first super groups ‘Cream’ before moving onto form Derek and the Dominoes where he wrote what is possibly his...

Raw emotion and spiky guitars

Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:27:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Just before I start, I’d like to point out that when I say ‘spiky guitars’ I mean it in terms of the sound, not the look – i.e. BC Rich. I’m sure all the guitarists out there would agree with me, that would just be silly. Now back to your regularly...

Beenz.com: Fibre for the web

Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:10:41 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Beenz beenz good for your heart. Beenz beenz make you, uh, you know the rest. Anyway, predictable childish moment out of the way lets get mildly serious.

Think of a rewards scheme – any will do. Sainsbury’s reward card or Electronic Boutique’s...

Fragile (Version)

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:01:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Nine Inch Nails, the band who brought tunes to industrial music make a slight return after the stunning double album ‘The Fragile’ with an album mainly consisting of reworked songs from The Fragile. The music is the normal varied Nine Inch Nails mix of...

Second best

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:04:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Faith No More's first album without Jim Martin is one of their best. The tracks range from out and out rock of Get Out to something approximating Jazz with Evidence to the (mainly) acoustic title track. Mike Patton is on top form on vocals, as you would...

InoculateIT PE: Inoculate THIS

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:58:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Inoculate IT Personal Edition

One of the things that has always bugged me about virus killers is the way they always advertise they’re presence on your computer. Splash screens and tray icons all taking up my valuable screen real estate...

Hard to fault

Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:39:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - This is one fine, fine piece of kit. I got it a couple of years ago in a sale for £150 and it’s been faultless. I did a sound engineering course at night school during my A-Levels (Thats the bit just before uni folks) and this device was a huge help. At...

Everpop

Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:00:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Lookout everybody, it’s not one, but TWO concept albums. Former punk/grunge/rockers, Everclear (Think along the lines of the Foo Fighters and later Metallica) take an album off the distortion to go ‘pop’ for twelve songs before returning to rock for a...

Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator: Hot speed

Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:00:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - I was given one of these, yup – given! It replaced a (fully working) TNT2 Ultra that was incompatible with my motherboard (I got a new motherboard as well, this was just compensation) and I’m very pleased with it. In 3D games my PIII-450 is faster than...

To CD or not to CD

Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:48:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - When it comes to removable storage it’s really about CD-R/RW versus Zip. And there is no clear winner, as it all comes down to do you know anyone with a CD/Zip drive. Obviously lots of people have CD drives and so can read CD-R/RW discs but far less have...

Rock returns but is it as good?

Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:30:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - This completes Art Alexakis’s concept of trying to give a CD ‘sides’. Songs From An American Movie - Volume one (Learning How To Smile) was the nice and relaxed side. Mainly acousticish songs and this, Volume two (Good Time For A Bad Attitude) is the...

They never bettered it

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:33:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Faith No More’s mix of Rap, Funk, Metal and a certain lead singers hair cut (Or rather, hair not cut) lead to comparisons with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and while fans of Faith No More do tend to be fans of the Chili’s and fans of the Chili’s tend to be...

The end of the thrash era

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:54:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Metallica were the band that invented thrash metal and then got bored with it, all those dodgy angst ridden teenage thrash bands that you see in pubs from time to time. You can place a fairly large proportion of the blame at Metallica’s feet. Indeed, buy...

The greatest display

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:39:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - The image quality of this monitor is simply stunning. It beats Sony’s top of the range 19” monitor for crying out loud! It has a visible range of 15.9” which is lower than most 17” monitors, if not by much. But what it does have is the ability to run in...

Ash's best

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:33:55 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Ash arrived on the music scene in the middle of the 90’s during the Brit Pop boom and they’re music reflects this. They’re very much rooted in the indy-rock style which was so very ‘OK’ to like. Think of it as punk crossed with the standard Brit Pop...

Gangster Lounge

Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:15:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - 100% Columbian is the second album from America’s smoothest rockers, Fun Lovin’ Criminals. FLC music consists of a mix of rock, blues, rap and lounge. You’ll have to trust me on this one, but that combination sounds much better than you’d expect. The Fun...

Moving on

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:18:40 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Coal Chamber return with their follow up from their self titled and somewhat patchy debut release with a slightly less self titled and less patchy album known as Chamber Music. The range of styles on this album is much more varied than the first albums...

A great debut

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:14:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - When John Lee Hooker listened to this album it moved him to declare “I can’t find no serious defects” high praise from the big man of blues. Blues is probably the best genre to lump Gomez in, though they are to some extent a genre spanning band, though...

Bungle descend further into strangeness

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:33:16 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - The only thing Mr Bungle do that’s expected of them is do thing’s that are not expected by them. And that’s precisely what they did with this album. Gone are the Ska and cheerful (Or should that be manic?) elements of their first album and their place is...

Almost a classic

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:21:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Metallica’s second album starts with a deceptively gentle acoustic introduction to the blisteringly fast “Fight Fire With Fire” (An idea the used again at the start of Master of Puppets), still played live by Metallica as part of the Killride medley. For...

Metallica's Finest

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:16:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Load is my favourite Metallica album, it was also the first one I bought. Put simply, I simply love it. A lot of people slagged the band off for having their hair cut and going ‘alternative’ but you can’t expect a band that has been going for 15 years to...

Zone Alarm: Yellow Bodyguard

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:06:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Zone Alarm

Zone Alarm is an amazing, free and very yellow piece of software. While it’s not a virus killer in the true sense of the word (It doesn’t remove any viruses from your system) it can prevent some of the nastier ones from being a...

All Change from Grey Lantern...

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:38:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - If you like music nice, straight forward and easy to listen to erase all thought of this album from your head and go buy a Boyzone album. Six is an album of interwoven themes, complicated arrangements, eight minute songs, opera, and the Dance of the...

The best album of all time

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:33:57 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Hello everybody, and welcome to the wild and wacky world of Mr. Bungle. Mr. Bungle’s claim to fame, and indeed the way most people discover the band is their connection with Faith No More. When Faith No More got fed up of their abrasive singer Chuck...

The finest debut ever?

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:11:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author yhwman - Attack of the Grey Lantern is the first of three albums from Mansun. Consisting mainly of sweeping strings, twanging guitars, lush production and quirky lyrics it bears little resemblance to the audio terrorism that makes up the bands second album, Six...