| Bloc Party A Weekend in the City |
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 | Tracklist:
1. Song for Clay (Disappear Here)
2. Hunting for Witches
3. Waiting for the 7:18
4. The Prayer
5. Uniform
6. On
7. Where Is Home?
8. Kreuzberg
9. I Still Remember
10. Sunday
11. SRXT
12. We Were Lovers (Japanese Edition)
13. England (Japanese Edition)
14. Cain Said To Abel (iTunes US only)
15. Atonement (iTunes US pre-order only)
16. I Still Remember - Video (iTunes ownload only)
17. The Prayer (Does it Offend You, Yeah? remix) (iTunes UK only)
| Ranking: #171 for 2007 | |
| | other reviews | Ben Greenbank (4)
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So close, and yet so far.... |
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| Summary: Somewhere in the middle of London... |
1 of 6 thought this review was well written
Somewhere in the drizzly centre of London a young man travels to work. As he walks through the ticket barriers on the underground he passes a well-dressed Indian man being harassed by a couple of guards demanding to see inside his briefcase. As he waits for the train to appear he struggles to hold back a tear while he struggles to complete a Sudoku, his mind distracted. As he sits on the train he glances around him: a group of look-a-like teenagers, desperately trying to be different and bitching about their parents. Once again the world isn’t what he’d imagined growing up.
Somewhere in the pulsing centre of London the young man sits at a bar. He can hear music pulsing from the next room and can see an older man, probably in his forties, flailing around the dance floor, eyes closed in concentration. The young man takes a sip of beer and glances to his left where his best friend is sitting, but the friend is occupied making drunken fumblings at an obviously married woman. To his left a slurring stranger was ranting about the state of the infrastructure, claiming the only option is rebellion and anarchy…but of course he’ll never do anything – the man is in the same seat, making the same speech every night of the week. Sighing, the young man gets up and wanders towards the toilets, pulling a small white package from his pocket. On his way he notices a cute girl sitting alone and he stops to chat, after all, maybe she was the one.
Somewhere in the always bustling centre of London the young man lies awake next to the cute girl. He’d been wrong, she wasn’t the one. As he lies there he remembers his best friend from school – there’d always been something there. They hadn’t kept in contact, but the young man remembered he’d been happy then. Silently, without disturbing the girl, he got up and left.
Somewhere in the quiet, peaceful countryside the young man stops his car. He walks through a field he’d played in when he was a kid and stands on the patch of ground that had once been his house. Now, alone, he allows himself to cry. He tries to call his friend from years ago but the phone number is disconnected. Once his tears begin to dry he walks back to his car and sits in the passenger seat, reaching into the glove box and removing a small bottle of subscription pills. One by one, he empties the bottle.
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Album Rating: 4.5
I couldn't find a way to fit in Song for Clay or Sunday.
| | | Album Rating: 5
Where the fuck is the review?
Digging: Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions | | |
Ugh. Boring.
Digging: Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps, I/22
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Eh, it was a test to see what the reaction would be. I half-expected it to be negative, but gave it a shot anyway. It was a decent writing exercise for me anyway.
Besides, a review is really just what the author thinks or gets out of the album. I get this story.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Sorry Tom, it's over my head mate. And the rating is way over mine also!
Digging: Paloma Faith - Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? | | | Album Rating: 4.5
...Wait...you don't understand the review?
| | | Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
No No, probably wrong choice of wording. What I was trying to say (not very well) is that i don't get how this tells us why you have given the album such a high rating.
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Ahh. Well, I would have figured that I was inspired to write a short story based on the album kinda explains that I like it. And I had, probably foolishly, hoped I'd written a powerful little piece.
Aw fuck, I repeated 'pulsing' twice in as many sentences and I can't edit.This Message Edited On 01.29.09
| | | Album Rating: 5
This is not a review.
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It tells me nothing. I don't come to the site to read the latest word painting, I come to read a review. I respect what you were going for, that's great, but clearly the style of choice needs changing.
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Clearly people shouldn't be using the site for their own creative writing. Concept reviews are fine, but only as long as you work some actual substance into your writing, rather than a couple of paragraphs of fluff that is your own 'interpretation'.
Digging: Earth - Earth 2
| | | Album Rating: 5
To be honest, it feels like an opening paragraph of a good review stretched out to the point of complete anticlimax.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Opening paragraph works it just doesn't seem to have any substance. It's nice creative writing but not a good review.
Digging: Will Smith - Willenium | | |
this album is kinda boring, much much much prefer their debut
Digging: Smog - A River Ain't Too Much Too Love
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after all, maybe she was the one
she wasn’t the one
lmao this reminded me of Peep Show so much.
And although I agree with the sentiment that isn't really a review in that it tells me nothing, I thought it was a great bit of writing. I'm happy I spent a few minutes reading it tbh.
Digging: Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
| | | Album Rating: 2.5
So, how's the album, actually?
Digging: Dave Matthews Band - Crash | | | Album Rating: 2
Really crappy.
Digging: DatA - The Skywriter | | |
So, how's the album, actually?
Digging: Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Worst of the three, but definately a grower
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
I don't get it.
Digging: Maths - Descent | | | |
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