i don't get you Abdul-Rakhman.
as for this record i could care less.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
...it's difficult to take the whole conceptual backdrop of the album seriously.
I don't think taking the concept seriously is entirely the point. Sure it's a bit Spinal Tap, but that's also part of the enjoyment of the record. I mean, Mastodon has been writing songs about fighting ogres, Moby Dick and the elephant man throughout their career...I don't think they've ever been an entirely "serious" band when it comes to their lyrics. It's just plain fun.
For example, the post-chorus of "Quintessence," which converts the predictable chromatic and dissonant verses nicely into consonant major-key open-chord riffing, is an unexpected and refreshing melodicism in an otherwise lackluster song.
That sentence seems so forced and pretentious it hurts. Seriously, you're trying way to hard.This Message Edited On 03.25.09
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trying far too hard to personify intellect. you're not appealing to the majorty here. i agree with thor, sentences like that make you sound kind of like a jack ass.
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Album Rating: 4.0
This is an awesome review.
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disagreed
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Album Rating: 4.0
DFelon should review the new Ektomorf album if he thinks THIS is bad...
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Ya good review Greer.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
It's certainly well-structured, but I don't know how good of a review it really is. See Tyler's largest paragraph in his post above, it pretty much says everything that needs to be said.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I haven't heard the album in it's entirety as I stopped listening after a few tracks, but I don't think this is a very good review.
It's hard to follow due to the words and sentence construction you use. You almost seem to be looking for ways to bend and twist through the English language in order to make your thoughts less interpretable, and to a certain degree understandable, for others. Also, dinving into the music theory might be interesting to a very small minority, but I would think 99% either doesn't understand or doesn't want to understand it.
That said the bands you refer to have nothing to do with the sound that Mastodon is going for, so I don't see the need for them to be incorporated into the review.
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Album Rating: 3.0
for some reason the review makes me more interested than most other things I've read about the album.
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
and be downright condescending to the band's core audience is even more bizarre.
You'd know exactly what condescending is wouldn't you.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
taylormemer, don't interrupt tyler while he's putting greer in his place
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Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off
Coke likes to put everyone in their "place" regardless of whether it is necessary or not. All hail the site's sheriff.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
at least this time it's warranted
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yeah the review was just too greery
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Album Rating: 4.0
If I calculated a trimmed-mean of the album ratings, this rating would be thrown away as an outlier
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mine would probably be a 3 but I'd have to listen to the album or something i dunno
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maybe a 2.5 yeah a 2.5
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nick greer is wrong! bad 2! bad!
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
Review wasn't terrible by any means but it's not one of your best, Nick. You do have a tendency to compare completely disparate bands that have little to do with one another and connect them with rather flimsy arguments (i.e., Avenged? Come on man) at times. I can appreciate the technical know-how of the music but it does alienate people that aren't musicians.
I like the record. It's fun, and in the context of Mastodon's previous work, their least-heavy and most melodic album. It's certainly not the Earth-shaking work of genius most people are making it out to be - it's hard to justify giving this a 4 in the long run - but it doesn't warrant a 2.5 rating.
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