Album Rating: 3.5

that Nickleback

I hope

sort of

Digging: Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

Album Rating: 1.5

lol i don't know which nickelback
havey pointed it out a few pages earlier and i thought it was hilarious

Digging: Anchor & Braille - Felt

Album Rating: 3.5

No, jokesters. I mean which album.

Album Rating: 3.5

i mean i could see someone really not diggin this for sure, or swans at all tbh

Digging: Black Boned Angel - Verdun

Album Rating: 1.5

ok glad we moved past that idiocy

Album Rating: 3.5

You mean lunacy

Album Rating: 1.5

well if you took the effort to code in the italics
sure

Album Rating: 3.5

I am probably the only person who does for the reason I do.

Gira is everything people accuse Draiman, Mustaine, Ulrich, Sixx, etc of being, but he gets some sort of free pass because he is some sort of indie incubus god who allegedly grew up on the streets or something.

Album Rating: 3.5

doesnt compare to the effort in your red or death cab for cutie soundoffs

Album Rating: 1.5

ok i'll write a long soundoff for nickelback then just 4 u

Album Rating: 3.5

Gira is everything people accuse Draiman, Mustaine, Ulrich, Sixx, etc of being, but he gets some sort of free pass because he is some sort of indie incubus god who allegedly grew up on the streets or something.

Album Rating: 3.5

lol doing that only espouses the collective suspicion that you are a pseudo-intellectual butt pirate

Album Rating: 1.5

i thought pseudo-intellectual butt pirates didn't listen to red and death cab and nickelback?????

Album Rating: 3.5

on the contrary

Album Rating: 3.5

I actually like most stuff on here except for the title track and 93 Ave. A Piece Of The Sky could also be a bit shorter.

Digging: Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics...

Album Rating: 1.5

fuck yea pseudo-intelligent i can rock that label, i mean isn't that enough to make you staff around these parts

Album Rating: 3.5

From an interview during the Seer press cycle:

"BR: How do you feel about bands still being influenced by you?

MG: Well, usually they're pretty awful so I'm not flattered, I'm kind of indifferent. But, yeah...that's how I feel about it, ha ha. I just heard this tremendous cover of a song from 'My Father...' called 'Reeling The Liars In' by this tremendously talented soul singer from Canada, a black woman. She goes under the name Cold Specks. Look it up on YouTube, she did a really beautiful version of it, and it's the first Swans cover I'd ever heard that I liked (you can watch this at the bottom of the page). The song had sort of a gospel melody, and she took that and really made it gospel and coupled with the words, it was really powerful. That's the kind of thing I appreciate, when someone takes something and puts it in a new context in the world; that shows creativity."

http://beardrock.com/interviews/michael-gira

Album Rating: 3.5

its overloaded for sure, yes, but in it's highest moments its really exceptional. Hopefully eventually I find a way to give this a 3.5 because it really deserves it most of the time, but spends too much muddled and dicking around too

and yea toxin thats pretty accurate actually look at channing its a 5 freeman

Album Rating: 1.5

"Well, usually they're pretty awful so I'm not flattered"
fucking lol these dudes deserve a rating bump just for him saying that

Album Rating: 3.5

Well, that is where you and I differ. To me, comments like that make him a reprehensible piece of
shit.